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Obama views America’s role as a superpower with contempt. He sees our military might as a burden. Look at what he said during the closing session of a two-day nuclear security summit: “It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower …”77

Pause right there. Whether we like it or not?

What are we to make of that comment?

What kind of Commander in Chief and leader of the free world would say such a thing? Would Obama be happier if America wasn’t a dominant superpower? Evidently that is his position. With regard to the downside of intervening in conflicts around the world, Obama went on to say, “… and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them and that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure.”78

Since when is President Obama concerned about the cost of anything?

In his first eighteen months in office, he raised our national debt higher than President Bush did after an eight-year spending spree.79 Obama’s federal budget has spilled more red ink than any president in modern history. Every economist knows Obama’s reckless spending is unsustainable. No, his fretting over military actions that will end up “costing us significantly” in “treasure” isn’t about trimming the budget. Nor can he be sincere about the loss of “blood” by our soldiers. If he were, he’d scrap the politically correct rules of engagement, which are killing our troops.

The fact is that President Obama hasn’t the first clue why America must remain strong. By contrast, in 1984, his predecessor, President Ronald Reagan, said, “There are some who’ve forgotten why we have a military. It’s not to promote war; it’s to be prepared for peace.”80 Reagan knew the value and responsibilities associated with being the world’s last remaining superpower. Reagan never apologized for the role America plays to protect our national security interests both at home and abroad. Thanks to Reagan’s commitment to a strong military and his hard line “peace through strength” leadership in world affairs, we watched the Berlin Wall crumble and an end to the Cold War.

While I disagree with John McCain on many things, he had the right response to Obama’s lunacy: “That’s one of the more incredible statements I’ve ever heard a president of the United States make in modern times,” said McCain. “We are the dominant superpower, and we’re the greatest force for good in the history of this country, and I thank God every day that we are a dominant superpower.”81

John McCain’s outrage is echoed in this “open letter” written by an ex-Navy survivor of World War II, the now ninety-five-year-old Harold B. Estes. This senior patriot, incensed over the disgraceful behavior of the Commander in Chief, addressed his letter to President Barack Obama, Representative F. Allen Boyd, Senator Bill Nelson, and Senator George LeMieux. See if his words don’t resonate with you:

Dear President Obama,

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos’n Mate. Now I live in a “rest home” located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.

One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man. So here goes.

I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.

Pause there for a moment. Wouldn’t America be a different country if our leaders spoke with such candor? Wouldn’t it be a refreshing change of pace if our congressmen and women had, like Harold, the guts to stand up to this president, speak the truth, and let the chips fall where they may? He continues:

I can’t figure out what country you are the president of. You fly around the world telling our friends & enemies despicable lies like:

“We’re no longer a Christian nation.” “America is arrogant.” (Your wife even announced to the world, “America is mean-spirited.” Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)

I’d say shame on the both of you, but I don’t think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.

After 9/11 you said, “America hasn’t lived up to her ideals.”

Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn’t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.

You can almost feel the heat and passion leap off of the page as Harold exoriates this president. But this ex-Navy man isn’t finished speaking his mind. There’s much more fire where that came from. Harold writes: Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.

Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don’t, I’ll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue. You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don’t want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts, who was

putting up a fight? You don’t mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don’t want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.

Of course, one of the reasons why Obama is soft on terrorism is because he never had to serve in the military. He never faced the barrel of a gun or the heat of battle. He never put his life on the line to defend America. Harold has a few choice words for Obama on that score. He writes:

You’re the Commander in Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you’re not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you’re thinking of.

You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president. You’re not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That’s not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now. And I sure as hell don’t want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.

Sincerely,

Harold B. Estes82

America needs more leaders with his spunk, courage, and patriotism.

In a way, these actions of Obama are just history repeating itself.

The leaders of Great Britain in the 1920s and 1930s did the same thing. They bowed to Hitler and Mussolini. They signed documents such as the Locarno Treaty and the Munich Agreement, signed by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. They gave Nazi Germany more and more power at the same time that England was cutting back on military expenditures. By the time Hitler was ready to strike, England was so anemic, it was barely able to survive the Nazi onslaught. Chamberlain, like Obama, was so afraid of the terrors of war that he forgot that a strong arsenal is the best way to prevent a war.

In 1940, the British were defeated by the Germans in Norway. Finally, the British Parliament, even the far left Labour Party and its leader Clement Atlee, realized that the pacifist Prime Minister Chamberlain had to go. They scrambled to hold a two-day debate and, at the end of it, Chamberlain was given a vote of “No Confidence.” He was thrown out of power and Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of England.

When will the establishment of America realize that Obama is demilitarizing America and move to remove him from office? Mark my words. A point in time will come when rational liberal Democrats of the current power structure will realize that their ability to stay in power and America’s national survival are being threatened by Obama’s weakness on the world stage. And when that time comes, Obama will be removed from office. President Obama is worse than Neville Chamberlain and he will be remembered by history as a president worse than Jimmy Carter.*

More and more, each day as I look around it’s as though a hostile foreign power has taken over the nation. Let me ask you something. If China had actually taken over the United States of America and put a Chinese leader in power with a blue hat and a red star, who spoke nicely and didn’t yell, and he said and did the same things that Obama has said and done by stages—which is Fabian socialism; a gradual, stage-by-stage creeping socialist revolution—could they have done anything more rapidly than what Obama is doing to disarm us?

Answer: No.

Barack Hussein Obama is following the protocols of the radical Left. He is implementing the zany theories and propaganda espoused by every pot-head and crackpot college professor he’s chatted with. His assurances that Russia and China and the other nuclear nations are going to play faaaair with us is plain nuts. So, forgive me for my skepticism about his intentions here. Forgive me for expressing my concern about his dismantling, disarming, and demoralizing our military.

The outcome here is the takeover of America just as if we had been taken over by an invading army. When you have a pacifist liberal elite running throughout the halls of Congress and in the White House, they don’t have to be open traitors—they’re doing the same work as traitors, that’s all.

I grew up in a different generation where I understood the dangers of the world. Unfortunately, so many of the American sheeple do not understand the dangers of their world. They, like our president, live in a dream world. They have no idea of the perilous times in which they live. They’re like a delicate garden plant; a plant that’s comfortable living with sunlight and fresh water but oblivious to the threat that surrounds them.

Although weeds are creeping into the garden, taking over their neighbors one-by-one on a daily basis, they sit there smiling up at the sun waiting for the raindrops to fall not knowing that soon, very soon, the weeds will overtake them and they, too, will cease to exist. America is that garden. The American people need a gardener who will defend them, who will uproot the enemies of freedom and till the soil of peace.

The last thing America needs is Obama the Destroyer.

*Just before this book went to press, the FBI arrested 11 alleged Russian agents on our soil who had been put into place to infiltrate the policy-making circles of power in Washington. It has been established that Obama knew of the FBI operation before he met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Some have questioned the timing. Some believe there might be a shadow government within the government—a vestige of patriots within the justice depart—who felt compelled to act to keep in check the warming of relations with Russia.

Given the radical nature of the Obama Administration, another probability is that the administration itself decided to pull the trigger on the investigation at this time to throw dust in the eyes of the American people who may be concerned about the Obama Administration’s tilt toward Russia and communist China. That is, by outing the Russian spies, people might be led to believe that Obama cares about our national security and that we have nothing to fear about letting our guard down.

The Savage Manifesto: Borders, Language, Culture, and Economics

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

—Albert Einstein

The future of America hangs in the balance like a loose tooth.

The more you look at America’s problems, the more it looks like Lady Liberty is suffering from terminal cancer. Patriots like you and me are oncologists. Every limb of the body politic that we explore, we see that the cancer has spread. Is that an overstatement? Far from it. Name one organ of government that isn’t infected with this mad progressivism, mad-Marxism, and mad-passivism that I’ve dissected in this opus.

Now, more than at any time in our history, we’re in danger of losing our freedom and our national identity to the gang of Marxist thugs who have taken over our government. This administration will stop at nothing to exert total control over every aspect of our lives: It promises to sentence all of us to life without parole in the cradle-to-grave prison that is Marxism.

Yes, Lady Liberty has been poisoned with the cancerous toxins of liberalism. Left unchecked, her voice will be silenced and her shining beacon of hope and freedom will be forever extinguished. And, while the country that our forefathers fought and died for may be hanging in the balance, that doesn’t necessarily mean America is destined to go out with a whimper.

Can America be saved?

I believe it can. Not easily, mind you.

If we seize this moment and do the hard thing, I believe our best and brightest days are ahead of us. Why? Because American exceptionalism is hardwired into our Constitution and I believe in the resilience of our people. However, for America to survive the infestation of radical liberalism, we must turn the stethoscope on ourselves and admit that we’ve been apathetic when we should have been outraged.

We’ve been indifferent when we should have been alarmed.

We’ve been sluggish when vigilance was called for.

Yes, America’s patriots have been complacent when we should have been on the offensive. How else can you explain that a naked Marxist sits in the Oval Office and his czars, like termites, are gnawing away at the foundations upon which this country was built? As I wrote in my bestseller Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder, we will not have a nation unless the sheeple awaken to the reality that America has become pacified; America has become feminized; and America is being compromised from without and within. Yes, it’s time we fought back.

What’s the solution?

We need a revolution at the ballot box. That’s number one.

That’s why the elections of 2010 and 2012 are of paramount importance. We must throw out these Marxist-Leninist betrayers as fast as possible before there’s nothing left of the country. While I’m not the only voice calling for that change in political leadership, I’m the only one in talk radio who freely admits we don’t need just a change of party—as some counterfeit conservatives have said. The last thing we want are the phony Republican Bush-ites who got us into this trouble to begin with.

No, we need a conservative revolution at the ballot box.

The question is, where will it come from?

It has to be the leaders within the Tea Party movement. They are the ones who should run for office. Likewise, when conservatives seek to represent us, they must hold fast to an agenda that limits the size and role of the government, protects America’s borders, language, and culture, and remains true to the vision first cast by our Founding Fathers as elucidated in the Constitution.

The Tea Party knows that, to reverse trickle up poverty, we cannot afford to lose sight of the fact that the government works for us, not the other way around.

President Calvin Coolidge put it this way:

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.1

While I’ve pointed out a number of problems in this book, every one of them is solvable. An individual still has the freedom and power to address his grievances. Don’t give up just because the checked-pants Republicans aren’t motivated to lead the charge. You, as an American citizen, can do much to change the future of America. And, when we band together, as the Tea Party has done, we galvanize our individual voices into a deafening roar. I commend everyone who is part of the Tea Party’s effort to hold Congress accountable with its 10-point “Contract From America”:

1. Protect the Constitution: Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does.

2. Reject Cap and Trade: Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumers prices, and weaken the nation’s global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

3. Demand a Balanced Budget: Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax hike.

4. Enact Fundamental Tax Reform: Adopt a simple and fair single-rate tax system by scrapping the internal revenue code and replacing it with one that is no longer than 4,543 words—the length of the original Constitution.

5. Restore Fiscal Responsibility and Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington: Create a Blue Ribbon task force that engages in a

complete audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities, or ripe for wholesale reform or elimination due to our efforts to restore limited government consistent with the U.S. Constitution’s meaning.

6. End Runaway Government Spending: Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth.

7. De-Fund, Repeal, and Replace Government-Run Health Care: De-fund, repeal, and replace the recently passed government-run health care with a system that actually makes health care and insurance more affordable by enabling a competitive, open, and transparent free-market health care and health insurance system that isn’t restricted by state boundaries.

8. Pass an “All-of-the-Above” Energy Policy: Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy creation, lowering prices and creating competition and jobs.

9. Stop the Pork: Place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a two-thirds majority to pass any earmark.

10. Stop the Tax Hikes: Permanently repeal all tax hikes, including those to the income, capital gains and death taxes, currently scheduled to begin in 2011.2

This list is a good place start. Every one of these initiatives is something we can and should get behind. But it’s incomplete. In a moment, I’ll offer a number of other solutions and steps that must be taken to reverse trickle up poverty and save the middle class from Obama’s tyranny. Before I do, let me say that the Tea Party’s call to preserve the Constitution resonates strongly with me. President Obama demonstrates a shameless disregard for that precious document and the procedures of governing that it outlines.

Speaking of a shameless disregard for the Constitution, there’s no clearer example than what this member of Team Obama expressed. Regarding the passage of ObamaCare, Representative Phil Hare (D-IL) said, “I don’t worry about the Constitution.”3 And you wonder why America is in trouble?

This is why I believe all candidates for public office must pledge not only to uphold the Constitution, but to demonstrate that they know what’s in it!

Are you starting to get the picture?

Every time this president can’t have his way through the legitimate, prescribed, constitutional process of passing laws, he bypasses it. He is not an emperor who can do whatever the hell he wants—in spite of his delusions of grandeur. Barack Obama’s Marxist-Leninist view of America, his hard-left march toward socialism, his spread-the-wealth-around nonsense, and his disregard for our Constitution must be stopped. How can we keep America from becoming financially, morally, and ethically bankrupt? How do we retain our place as a shining light to the world? Conservative patriots must return America to the core principles that made this country great using both the Contract From America coupled with these sensible, doable solutions found in The Savage Manifesto:

1. English Only: Make English the official language of the United States. Require all who immigrate to our country to begin immediately to learn English as part of the requirement to qualify for the privilege of American citizenship. Likewise, require voting ballots to be written in English only.

2. Close the Borders: Use illegal aliens to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. Hire Sheriff Joe Arpaio to oversee the project. Pay the illegals for their labor in the form of a one-time worker fee. Upon finishing, repatriate them.

3. Defend the Borders: Pull the troops out of Germany and South Korea where they’re doing nothing and put them on our southern border where there’s a real threat to our citizens. Defending South Korea can be done with our ships and subs with their tactical nuclear weapons.

4. De-Fund and Repeal ObamaCare: Remember how the Schecter Brothers overturned FDR’s socialism? Sue on the grounds of religious freedom. Use Schecter Brothers strategy from chapter five.

5. Reduce the Size and Scope of Government: The Federal Government is bloated. With the exception of the military and defense, reduce all departments in size by 4 percent each year, for a total reduction of size by 16 percent over four years. Require government employees to speak English and to have achieved at least a high school diploma.

6. Liquidate TARP: It’s time to abandon and repeal the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a government bailout program used to stabilize the financial sector. Use repaid TARP funds and funds that haven’t been spent to reduce the federal debt.

7. Oil for Illegals: Mexico has what we want (oil), and we have something they don’t want (their unemployed citizens). To offset this alien invasion, Mexico should pay one barrel of oil per month per illegal alien that sneaks into our country. Americans are also owed tens of billions of dollars in reparations from Mexico for the generous free health care, welfare, and ACLU-care they’ve received for five decades.

8. Strike Down Anchor Babies Law: Eliminate the loophole in our law that encourages illegal immigrants to enter this country for the purpose of having “anchor babies” who are U.S. citizens simply because they happened to have been born in our hospitals.

9. Export Jailed Illegal Aliens: Our federal, state, and local jails are overcrowded with 2,396,002 inmates as of 2008.4 Of that number, 29 percent are illegal aliens! They don’t even belong here, yet we’re paying an average of $29,000 per year to house, feed, clothe, and entertain them.5 Send them back to their country of origin.

10. Fire Janet Napolitano: Pressure Janet Napolitano to be removed from office. She has demonstrated her incompetence in Homeland Security, she’s failing to uphold the illegal immigration laws already on the books, and she has suspended the construction of a fence along the border—despite the fact that federal law mandates it.

11. Use Profiling to Prevent Terror Attacks: The attempted terrorist plots on our own soil follow a definite pattern. All these acts were carried out by radical Muslims. Shrewd police work requires common sense. If acts of terror repeatedly come from people who practice a certain religion, and, if all these acts are in accord with some twisted notion of their holy book, prudent police work would dictate that we immediately employ national—if not religious—profiling to stop the next terrorist before he or she succeeds.

12. Name the Enemy: Identify radical Islam as the enemy. Demand that Attorney General Eric Holder stops scrubbing federal policies and communications of truly descriptive words such as “terrorist” and “jihad” and

“Islam” and start telling it like it is. Furthermore, don’t extend the rights guaranteed to American citizens to enemy combatants. Don’t prosecute them in civilian courts.

13. Rewrite the Rules of Engagement: The ROE should match the real world that our troops face on the ground rather than the politically correct virtual world the bureaucrats live in with their computer models and fake war-game scenarios.

14. Save the Seals: Stop prosecuting our Navy SEALs and other military personnel for doing what needs to be done to subdue our radical Islamist enemies. You can’t fight a war in ballet slippers. We must stop requiring that our soldiers do a plié before they ask the enemy if he’d consent to being handcuffed and taken away.

15. Re-Enforce the Military Infrastructure: Our brave service men and women should have the benefit of the best training and equipment not seminars on how to fight a politically correct war. Furthermore, Obama’s disarmament and meeker-than-thou defense policy must stop. We need to continually renew our military infrastructure by spending the necessary dollars to upgrade and modernize equipment. We must fund the F-22 fighter jets Obama has cut from the budget and increase the number of ships, subs, and missiles.

16. Pay Raise for the Military Personnel: The support of our military must expand to include increasing pay for active duty combat troops by 10 percent.

17. Silence the Hitler of Iran: Allow no more hate speech rants on U.S. soil from Ahmadinejad; deny this junior dictator permission to enter our country. Implement strong sanctions against this rogue nation, using our military to enforce embargoes and to mine and blockade Iran’s harbors so that nothing goes in and nothing comes out. Meanwhile, ship to Israel the necessary munitions, including “bunker buster” bombs that will enable them to mount a military strike on Iran if necessary.