The Great Deception

In this modern age, the time of email, social media, cell phones, the Cloud, instant messaging, skype, tweets, twitchy and new forms of information sharing to come-we are continually buried under more and more information, data, news, images, over run with sensory input to the point where even a modestly reasonable person can barely think straight.

Run on sentences be dammed, the above is true. Are your ears not deafened by the cacophony of sound? Are your eyes not blinded by myriad images? Is your attention not splintered into a dozen threads of thought? Do you not feel your voice is lost among the sheer volume of electronic noise?

Yes, of course.

Not only is it sometimes difficult to gather our own thoughts into coherent order, it is even more difficult to sort out the threads of truth, lost among the advertisements, the opinion pages masquerading as hard news, the constant squawking of the media machine with no volume control, and with precious little time to one's self, it is nearly impossible not to be overwhelmed by it all. Personally, I find respite at home, in the quiet times at work, on a drive here or there. I value the quiet-no radio, no TV, no internet, no cell phone....I make a point to carve out some time, every single day. I am pretty sure many of us do this, without realizing it. It goes without saying that there are plenty of those who thrive on the chaos, including the latest generation born into the "computer age".

If you are finding it difficult to suss out the truth these days, you are not alone. It does, indeed, appear as though there is complicit behavior on the part of the main stream media, to "obfuscate the facts". Ahem. The most recent example, that has nearly everyone buzzing, is the uproar over a man's opinion, an opinion that is not treated as "mainstream" these days, but is labeled as "vile and reprehensible". Ah yes, politically correct labels run amok, headlong into a man's belief and voila'! He is both a villian and a good example to many. My apologies to Mr. Robertson aside, here is something to ponder upon, if you can find space, or quiet, or time:

Who cherry picked his statement? And why? And why now?

After all, it was one of a number of comments included in his near verbatim quote from the Bible. The interview took place weeks ago, did you read that? Just who reported this "affront" in such outrage? And why? GLAAD did not do it, and neither did any group advocating alternative lifestyles. If I remember correctly, this was a snippet picked up by the Huffington Post, wasn't it? Now why would they basically pluck this one partial comment? And that still leaves us with "why now" unanswered.

I'll make an educated guess for you. The main stream media, who were once revered for their dogged pursuit of the truth, however far it lead, has become nothing but the public relations mouth piece for the President. With the distraction blowing up into a fierce debate, they managed to not only pit those with Christian, conservative views against the more liberal, progressive ideals-and in doing so, neatly distracted almost everyone from some rather inconvenient truths:

The number rose to nearly 200, of the top military officers in our armed forces, ousted for one reason or another in the past three years. Think it through-almost 200 of our best, most capable commanders no longer serve our country. You might check into just who is replacing them-and it may lead you to a rather unnerving conclusion. It will permanently disabuse you of any notion that politics has no function in the military branches.

Congress quietly passed the 2014 NDAA bill. It's a sure bet it will be signed-and you, we, I, we let it happen. We ignorantly allowed Congress to continue to steal our freedoms, in the name of "security".

The President also, again, broke the law by ordering the Obamacare sign up date to be moved back one day. Hey, guess what? We are *not* a dictatorship. He cannot do this. It is an impeachable offense, every time he chooses to "change the law" or "make law" without Congressional approval. The mechanics of how he can do this, I have not been able to discern, but I do know this: He does as he likes, with no regard for the law or the Constitution, period. This, people, is called tyranny. Look it up.

So the distraction has served its purpose quite well. In a week or two, something else will come along, and incite everyone into an uproar.....allowing yet more illegal acts to be foisted upon us, the duped citizens of these once, great, deceived..... United States of America.