Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Friday, September 7, 2007, 4 pm PST
This Week's Show
Connie Ruffley is the present president of United Republicans of California. She remembers Ronald Reagan; he was no conservative. UROC warned us in 1974, it is time to unmask all the NeoCon operatives we trusted and loved.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” - Mohandas K. Gandhi.
The gloves are off, and it is about time.
In the debate this evening in Durham, New Hampshire, Congressman Ron Paul again spoke the truth that all Americans, but especially Republicans, need to hear. No longer gasping at the single-hearted courage that propels Paul to speak truth despite the continued efforts of the NeoCon corporate field to maintain the myths promulgated by the Bush Administration, the corporate CFR candidates, lead by Huckabee, attacked the only real Republican on the stage. The audience applauded loudly. Many of us cheered.
The Ron Paul Campaign is reshaping politics in America by raising the inconvenient facts that underly the whole of American government. We have a Constitution; we need to return to it and to the original framing intended by the Founders.
That means an end to the Federal government as we know it today. Left and right, Americans from all political viewpoints are beginning to see the propaganda campaign to which they have been subjected and to understand just how far from freedom the ugly alliance of government and corporations have taken us.
When the debate ended Fox was left holding polling results that showed Paul the clear winner.
Final Results:
Ron Paul 33%
Huckabee- 18%
Giuliani- 15%
McCain- 14%
Romney- 12%
Hunter- 2%
Tancredo- 2%
Brownback- 1%
Naturally, the media will ignore the results, claiming that Paul supporters 'spammed' the poll. But they know perfectly well that is not the case. If it were so the present technologies make proving that a simple matter. The IP addresses do not lie. But lies are thick upon the ground, in every direction.
How this happened is a long story. Telling it debunks more Icons than you would imagine. Ronald Reagan, William Buckley, Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson, the list is seemingly endless. To control us they needed to build out lines of argument that would support their larcenous intentions. All of the above, and more, helped with the process; each was well compensated. You need to know because each of those involved is still desperately working to hold in place the shackles that bind Americans to a new century of serfdom.
On the Spiritual Politician this week we will hear from Connie Ruffley, the co-president of United Republicans of California, the group that launched the Goldwater Revolution, getting him the nomination in 1964. UROC tried to warn us in 1974 that Ronald Reagan was not fit to be president; he had never been a conservative. Ronnie and the other well compensated operatives employed by the NeoCons need to be outed so that this time we understand how they operate and see those operatives still in place for what they are. We now understand that William Buckley's job was to go after the authentic voice of dissent coming from Conservatives in the 1960s and hijack the Movement Goldwater started. We heard Jim Capo on that a couple of weeks ago. But we need the whole story especially because so many of them are still alive and twitching. We should also have listened to Smedley Butler.
We learn slow, but we do eventually get it. This time, the Revolution will not be canceled. We owe it to ourselves and to Ron Paul to make sure we understand what happened. Ron Paul has signed on to handle the Federal Problem. We need to handle our communities and rebuild the economy. Thank God for Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is compelling the respect of ordinary Americans, the kind of people who had given up on politics. He is creating a movement more profound, deeper, and more expressive of the real spirit of America than we have ever seen.
By comparison, Goldwater's campaign was nothing. In fact, America has seen nothing like the Paul Campaign since 1775. What was true then, is true today.
The truth is a heady drink.
A Revolution has begun, a continuation of the one we did not finish in 1776.
Through the colonial period Puritans, Quakers, Chesapeakes and Scots-Irish explored the ideas of freedom that resulted in the adoption of the principles of Natural Law as enunciated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.
This time the Ron Paul Revolution will finish what a stubborn people, determined to govern themselves, started.
Those ideas explored the idea that God endowed each individual with an immediate and personal relationship with Him. Remote from England the ideas that were born from the most ancient ideas of Christianity found resonance with new ideas then finding light in the works of John Locke and other writers on the ideas of Natural Rights.
The ideas of individual freedom had moved into the realm of politics through a process that had been going on for six generations. Getting things straight can take time. The ideas of liberty and the decentralized ability to take action were defused within the whole population of New England.
The Commander of the British troops, General Gage, understood what he was up against. He wrote copious letters to his own commanders in England explaining that he could not seize the leaders of the Rebellion because in their place others would simply take action. Organizing action in New England had become decentralized, with individuals using their ample initiative. In this way the Sons of Liberty came together as a secret society and the Committees of Correspondence began meeting to build consensus.
America would be characterized by the initiative of its people until the present monarchy arose, asserting through changed practice that sovereignty was again held by government instead of by individuals who hired government to handle some things for them. Again, the initiative of a free people has responded to refute that assertion.
Bush Co. is wrong if they think they will be allowed to simply leave office with their ill-gotten gains. They are deluded if they think they can get away with establishing martial law. Americans have all the grit needed to confront what comes; Impeachment is too easy; what Bush Co. needs is indictments.
The Ron Paul Revolution brings in its wake the proof that the people can do it themselves. The spontaneous order and zeal of the Ron Paul Campaign, especially its unofficial grass roots, is tangible, viral, and it establishes a platform for action that will remain, come what may.
No practiced orator, Ron Paul is the thing that Bush Co. fears most; an honest man on whom they hold no paper; the kind of man who lives his conscience, knows the truth an uses it.
Expect more attacks from the Council on Foreign Relations types, the political wannabes trying out for the lead in the next corporate-government production of virtual reality intended to numb us into quiescence.
What are the chances that Ron could be elected President? Ask Las Vegas. The odds have been dropping. They dropped to 8 to 1 after the Iowa Straw Poll. Since then his visibility has continued to do nothing but grow. We can win.
You don't have to agree with Paul on everything. His promise is simply to leave us alone and make government do the same. That is what he wants for his grandchildren and all Americans, a world where we use persuasion, do the right thing, and come together in fellowship across the seemingly impossible chasms of hate government and corporations have created to divide us.
That is what all decent people want.
Build Community. Get off the Grids. Reach out for Coalition
What the Show is about and being a Spiritual Politician
Bringing government into alignment with the Lessons of Jesus:
The focus of our show is how to bring government into alignment with truth of our spiritual nature. So America started with the idea we are all, inherently free. We are free to choose, free to live, to breath, and to live our lives as we see fit. Government does not own us; government is just a contractor, providing service.
That framework is in alignment with the spiritual truth that each of us connects to God directly, needing no agency as an intermediary. To be free is to be free in the spirit and so in the flesh that temporarily holds the spirit.
When Thomas Jefferson said we were all possessed of inherent rights, existing before government he was extending a spiritual truth into a civic form. It is that Mission Statement from the Declaration of Independence we need to keep in mind.
Because we are free and reject, as did Christ, the use of deceit, manipulation or violence we need to be conscious about our relationships with others and find ways to grow into the sense of connection and community that makes us One in Him.
This is especially true for Christians but it is true for everyone else as well.
Nearly every major spiritual viewpoint enunciates the idea that we are connected to each other and should be good to each other. Christians just have an even more exacting mission. Christians are to love every one, treating them as they would Jesus.
Jesus was very clear about how we were to treat others. He did not say that it was alright to be abusive, deceitful, and violent if we used government as our tool and agent. There was no exception, He wanted all of our hearts, minds and souls. Christ did not lay out any plan of government, but left it to the conscience of the individual, the same way He connects to each of us.
We are Americans but we are also members of a human family that connects us to something truly wonderful and immense.
So our job here at the Spiritual Politician is to look at Government as a human tool we use every day. We need to consider if government is working in a way that speaks that common understanding about our connections to each other and, if it is not, we need to change it.
Americans have had many successes over the last 231 years since our founding and, learning from both mistakes and successes we can consider that question. So here at the Spiritual Politician we look at the truth behind of rhetoric.
Given what is going on today in Government what we may decide to do it reboot the whole system.
To provide the examples of what has gone right and what has gone very wrong we here at the Spiritual Politician have put together several different kinds of segments you will hear on our show from time to time.
Founder and president of the Arthur C. Pillsbury Foundation
Books by Melinda: Links to Melinda's sites:
How the NeoCons Stole Freedom
Shards of Verse Melinda's Poetry
Greed: The NeoConning of America
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