OF JOHN LENNON, THOMAS JEFFERSON AND BUSTER DOUGLAS

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

We all know these words. Most people embrace them as a better idea than the current system, which feels to all of us to be based on greed.

Remember the credo of the eighties-“Greed Is Good.”

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will live as one

I think we all dream of making the world a better place, right?

I was talking to a co-worker the other day about how unnecessarily complicated our income tax system is, and how much more efficient it would be to make it a flat percent of income. Still unconstitutional, mind you, but more efficient.

She commented how she thought that lower income people should pay less (or nothing), and wealthier people should pay more.

Don’t you think it’s safe to say, that today most Americans echo that sentiment-that we "share the wealth."

Let’s say it another way:

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”

It seems to me that when I listen to many Americans, all they want is for those with more to share it with those with less.

That would be the Christian thing to do, right?

That seems to be the direction Obama is going.

Sounds good, right?

Now I have another question for you.

If I said you espoused Communism, would you take offense?

Most Americans would.

Yet most Americans find those John Lennon lyrics and the quote to be not only acceptable, but a philosophy we should embrace.

And both of them contain the benchmarks of the Communist Manifesto.

Go read the document, Comrade.

Think about it.

Think about why you believe that our way of life is “good” and Communism is “bad.”

For me, one idea comes immediately to mind.

Under Communism, there is a deliberate effort to replace the concept of “God” with the State.

The same would go for Allah, or Yahweh, or Jehova, or Buddha, or whatever you choose to call the higher power you pray to.

Guess what?

This country was founded by Christians who wanted to worship as they saw fit

They would be rolling over in their graves if they saw how we have let a Federal government dictate the way faith is practiced after they shed so much blood to gain that freedom.

But what has the Federal government succeeded in doing? They have convinced the American people that there is a Constitutional concept of “separation of church and state” and then proceeded to use that concept to proceed down the path of replacing “God” with Washington.

Think I’m crazy? I’ll give you one million dollars if you can show me where in the Constitution or the Bill Of Rights the phrase “separation of church and state” is.

You can’t do it.

Because it isn’t there.

The term actually comes from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut:

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.

Clearly, what Jefferson feared was a Federal government telling him how to practice his faith.

What the First Amendment says is that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

Yet, by abolishing prayer in schools (and let’s not even start talking about where in the Constitution the authority is granted for the Feds to oversee schools), hasn’t the Federal government done just that-made a law prohibiting the free exercise of religion?

Folks, that amendment was put in there to protect YOU from THEM.

Instead, they have counted on their ability to pull a fast one while we’re all worrying about who gets voted off the island in Survivor and now if you say "Jesus" in public they take you away in handcuffs.

They take away your freedoms.

A little at a time.

And you let them do it.

And you'll never get them back.

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

Other concepts we take for granted that go away if you adopt the John Lennon philosophy would include private property, the right to benefit from your work, and the sovereignty of a nation. These will make their way into future posts, as this one has gotten long enough.

So while you are praising Obama for the hope and the change, just remember to think a little critically of what he is moving us towards, and call it what it is. Communism.

Sorry, all you Beatlemaniacs reading-I’m not saying you have to burn your butcher-block cover of “Yesterday And Today” (although if you want to send it to me, that would be nice), but just because you loved their music does not mean everything John wrote should be considered gospel.

A better lyric may have been:

Imagine all the people

Living life as sheep

We saw some pretty solid proof twenty years ago that Communism does not work.

That’s right, when Buster Douglas beat Mike Tyson!

For the record, I was one of those people who did not know that Lennon (Lenin?) had rewritten the Communist Manifesto and set to music. Thanks to that wacky conspiracy guy for opening my eyes. This one's for him.

For the record, part two-the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 signalling the end of the Soviet empire and the failure of Communism as a way of life. Buster didn't actually upset Tyson until 1990. The Soviet Union didn't officially fail until 1991 when Boris Yetlsin seized power.

Finally, do not drink the Kool-Aid-Obama is pushing Marxism and a new world order and these policies are going to affect YOU!