The Good, The Bad, and the Culty

Circus of Irony

Is it just me or was it painful to watch Congress grill Akio Toyoda? While there is no question that there were serious problems within the Toyota Corporation and are still problems within the US Department of Transportation, I cannot help thinking that Mr. Toyoda has more honor in his pinkie finger than one could find in the array of self-serving, thieving, and entirely corrupt politicians sitting in judgment against him. Coming from a culture that prides itself on its code of honor, we can barely imagine the great amount of self-recrimination and loss of public prestige required of Mr. Toyoda to appear before the legislative body of another nation and apologize for his company's shortcomings. If Mr. Toyoda is aware of the state of American politics then it must have come as a double blow to him to have to apologize to the House of Reprehensibles; a body composed of men and women who, faced with a similar situation, would most likely lie, obfuscate, and blame others for their own sins. Worse yet, how can this body sit in fair judgment of Mr. Toyoda or any CEO of any other car company so long as they have a vested interest in an American car company. They might as well have forced Mr. Toyoda to face judgment from the board of GM...oh wait, they did.

More Propaganda Please!

One aspect of watching the Olympics on NBC is that we 'get' to see a lot of advertisements from its parent company: GE - General Evil. I know that sounds rude and I don't want to diminish the good that GE does or ignore inventions that they have created which benefit all of us. With the ascension of "Senator Palpatine" Immelt to GE's CEO though the patriarch of American innovation has taken a potentially sinister turn.

I can see the benefit of having all of your medical information available to any doctor in the nation at the touch of a few keystrokes. As someone who travels a lot, it would be quite comforting in an emergency to know that the local doctor can call up other medical needs if I and anyone traveling with me was unable to tell him/her. But think of the tremendous potential for abuse having an online library of every American's medical history available creates. Doctor/patient confidentiality would become a thing of the past. Unscrupulous hackers could sell information to potential employers who then use it to make hiring/layoff decisions. Or they could use it to blackmail you. This pales in comparison to how the government would abuse it were they to institute nationalized healthcare. Do you think a chronically ill blue-collar worker is going to get priority over a policeman or fireman if care is rationed? Will a rural deputy be put on the liver transplant list above a Congressman?

Then there is GE's smart grid. This technology claims to be for optimizing power distribution across the electrical grid. It sounds like a good idea. But the technology already exists to use the smart grid to regulate how much power you get (all that remains is to place the infrastructure). If GE and then Emperor Immelt decide you have too many lights on, they could dim them or even shut off power to the ones they don't think you should have on. This is far worse than your father following you around the house turning off lights every time you leave a room. The spectre of government interference looms over this as well. As elections grow more contentious do you want to risk living in a losing party state or county when vindictive political hacks can shut off the power? Will you have true freedom to speak out against government policy if your house can be targeted because you are against Card Check?

In a previous blog I've already pointed this out but it needs repeating. Whenever you see a GE commercial, remember that they were instrumental in lobbying against the incandescent light bulb which will be illegal in a few years (2012 I believe). They have the lion's share of the market on the much more expensive and mercury laden CFLs. In addition, GE recently closed an incandescent bulb factory in the US putting its workers on the street then opening a CFL factory in RED China to reduce production costs. This isn't about saving energy. It is about GE lowering costs, increasing profits with silent monopolies, and funding the Democrat party. And you think oil companies and the insurance industry are evil...

Scott Brown loses Tea Party Mojo?

A lot of Republicans and Tea Party types are upset by the recent votes from Scott Brown on the $15 Billion pork/stimulus/'jobs' bill that recently went through the Senate. I am not. As I've said before, Senator Brown is not a conservative; he is a Massachusetts Republican which makes him moderate or slightly liberal when compared to the vast majority of the rest of the country. Their indignation at Brown not being quite what they expected mirrors the complete meltdown on the left as the cult of Obama begins to fly apart. The left has always been suckered in by personality cults. They still worship at the image of JFK in spite of his reality. They voted in Bill Clinton because he could 'feel their pain' even though he was and is an obvious chauvinist - borderline abuser. Obama offered them 'hope and change' which they bought into with almost sexual ecstasy (cold shudder through the body) but only a year later he is revealed to them as sound and fury without substance.

Cults of personality are dangerous at any level but especially so when politics are involved. Demagogues and power mongers rely on personality cults to attain that power over others. This is how men like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, and other ruthless dictators of little or no personal achievement enslaved so many. Obama is not a Hitler or Stalin (at least that we can tell) but he is a demagogue. He has reached this nation's highest office with little personal accomplishment to commend himself to the position other than his ability to give a good speech - which, if you haven't noticed, seems to have disappeared completely.

Those who are angry or disappointed by Senator Brown and/or President Obama have only themselves to blame. When you place you faith only in men (and by that I mean all members of humankind not just those with the XY chromosome combination) they will fail you at some point because they are flawed beings themselves. This is part of the reason why over seventy percent of us still claim to believe in God. This is also what prompted George Washington to remind us that we are 'a nation of laws not of men'. Faith in the principles of the Founders and the laws of nature's God will keep us off the path of self-destruction. Faith in men can only lead to perdition and the rise of men who enslave us 'for our own good'.

The readiness of people to follow a Barrack Obama or Scott Brown without knowing anything about them signals a dangerous trend to me. The rise of Obama indicates that many people are looking outside of themselves for solutions to their problems. The rapid rise of Scott Brown and suggestions that he run for president in 2012 show how fast idols can rise or fall and how much people are looking for someone to lead them. People who are willing to be led are not free. In the Old Testament, God gave the 12 tribes of Israel the world's first representative republic and freedom. Within a generation they begged and demanded he give them a king. He gave them what they wanted but took their freedom from them in exchange. Many in America appear to be begging for a leader/king to solve their problems. I don't know about you but I'm not ready to exchange my freedom.