Watergate, the break-in and cover-up of the Democratic Headquarters while trying to get the “dirt” on the opposition during Nixon’s re-election campaign, had such little impact on our country as compared to our current administration’s behaviors. In Watergate no one died and our country was not overrun with undocumented illegals. In the end of the Watergate investigations, 43 people, many of them senior officials, were either indicted, tried or went to prison because of Watergate. Those tried included Nixon's onetime attorney general, his chief of staff and his domestic policy chief.   

Now look at our present day administration and all the illegal activities it has been involved in.  No one has been indicted, no one has been fired, no one is in prison; but all the illegal actions did result in deaths and continue to endanger Americans.  There are so many serious scandals (Extortion 17, Benghazi, IRS targeting conservatives, Fast & Furious, breaking of our laws on immigration, releasing 5 terrorists for a deserter and many more) but I’ll focus on 2 of the careless (and I feel intentional) murders of innocent Americans:  Extortion 17 and Benghazi.

“The desperation by Obama, Clinton, and their political teams must have been potent.  It was so potent that they – rather than admitting that they caused an Islamist conflagration in Libya by ousting and killing Gadhafi – preferred to ignore pleas for increased security from Ambassador Stevens; to abandon him and his colleagues to rampaging terrorists; refused to follow up with force against those who attacked us; and to lie to the American people about the nature of the attack.  Rather than admit that it was a planned attack by a terrorist group in league with al Qaeda, the Obama/Clinton machine knowingly put out the lie that the killings were the result of a spontaneous demonstration in response to an obscure Internet video supposedly offensive to radical Islamists.  The message: don’t blame us – blame those who offend Islamists (conservatives, Republicans, etc.).  Indeed, rather than sending our military to eliminate the enemy in Libya, the Obama administration arrested the poor sap who made the offending video.” ~ Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch

Like Nixon, Obama and Clinton were also involved in illegal and unethical activities in order to retain their power.  If Americans knew about their terrible handling (mishandling) of the Benghazi tragedy before, during, and after, it would mean the end of their political aspirations so they didn’t protect American citizens (right down to watching the murders and not sending in help) and they lied about it after.  They lied to the families of the murdered Americans!  They lied to the world.  They have not one ounce of integrity.

“Extortion 17 could be a bigger scandal and betrayal of Americans than Benghazi. While Benghazi resulted in four American deaths, Extortion 17 resulted in 38 deaths, including nearly two dozen Navy SEALs. Many of these SEALs were made famous, credited with the killing of Osama bin Laden. The Chinook helicopter they were aboard was shot down by Taliban forces, which written testimony confirms knew the elite forces were coming into the area. Families are going after the Obama administration for what they believe were leaks that led to their family members' deaths.”  Tim Brown

Not much has come out about Extortion 17 and the Obama gang has been able to keep much of this scandal from the American public.  If you do the research and I would suggest you read the book Betrayed, the Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 by Billy Vaughn, one of the Navy SEAL fathers, you will find unbelievable actions taken by this administration which led to the deaths of 38 people, including 17 members of SEAL Team 6, the team from the Osama Bin Laden mission. There is another book by a Navy JAG officer Don Brown, Call Sign Extortion 17:  the Shoot Down of SEAL Team Six, which is being released this month.

How is it that so many went to jail from Nixon’s administration and Nixon had to leave office for a break-in (no deaths) yet Obama, Clinton, Holder, and their whole gang  just keep going on breaking our laws and allowing murders of Americans with absolutely no regrets or feelings of self-disgust.  They just keep on the same old path and lie and cover up with no concern that they will be held accountable.  WHY?  What is wrong with Americans that they are not constantly and loudly protesting?  How can they get away with these terrible actions?  In the years since Watergate, has America gone so far down the path of destruction that these acts of murder, lies, and cover-ups can be totally ignored and allowed to continue?  I’m praying every day for our country to wake up and stand up for what is right and honest.  If the election in 2016 results in more people of little substance and little integrity, I’m not sure there is anywhere else in the world to move to but I will be on the lookout between now and November, 2016.

 

 

 

 

 

This is from a piece by Erica Ritz summarizing a speech by Richard Paul Evans that I thought especially applies to what is going on in the news today. It seems that many people are caught in the second cage he describes--victimhood--and there are also people who are perpetuating this cage of victimhood for their own gain.  Unfortunately, this is destroying America.

Jul. 5, 2013, by Erica Ritz:

Bestselling author Richard Paul Evans, who just finished the third installation of his wildly popular “Michael Vey” series, spoke Friday as part of the events organized for Glenn Beck’s “Man in the Moon.”

The speech had both funny moments, and those that brought tears to the eyes of many.

Above all, Evans wished to convey that nothing can happen if you don’t dream it first, and that there are three “cages” in which we trap ourselves that prevent us from achieving those dreams.

He described the first cage, the “cage of paradigm,” as “the most insidious.”  In it, you’re content to have “what everyone else is having,” limiting yourself to the so-called norm.

The second cage, “victimhood,” is more controversial, he said.

“We live in a culture of victimhood,” Evans asserted, and there are many categories of victimization. There are those who have been abused, those who have medical issues, those who have suffered terrible accidents, and “because we don’t want to re-victimize the victim we let them go, and they stay in their chains and go nowhere in their life.”

“We see them all the time; they cling to these chains,” he continued.  “They cling to resentment and resist forgiveness.”

“[But] the ship releases the anchor not because the anchor is worth anything — but because the ship is.”

And living with a victim mentality ignores a “fundamental truth,” Evans concluded, “that the greatest blessings we achieve usually come from adversity.”

Evans said people have challenged him on what adversity he has possibly faced.  He told the heartbreaking story of how his mother tried to kill herself over and over as he was growing up, sharpening knives when she became agitated.  As a twelve-year-old boy, he remembers pleading with her not to leave them, hiding the knife sharpener under the sink so she couldn’t slit her wrists once more.

But horrifying as those experiences are, they are what allowed him to write books like “The Christmas Box” that saved the lives of countless others in equally unbearable situations.  He could live his entire life clinging to the chains of his childhood, he said, but he doesn’t.  Instead, he grew from the adversity.

The third cage, according to the bestselling author, is “fear.”

“The greatest shackles you will wear in your life are forged of your own fears,” Evans declared.  “What are we afraid of?”

In most cases, he said, we’re afraid of failure.  But while “ships are safe in harbors, that’s not why we build ships!”

He spoke about when he was first trying to make it as an author, attending an event with a panel of “bestsellers” up front.  There was an empty seat among them and, though the potential for embarrassment was enormous and the temptation to fall into a victim mentality great — “the deck is stacked against me…it’s impossible to break into this field” — he walked over and joined the likes of John Grisham and Mary Higgins Clark as a “bestseller.”

A year later, he had actually achieved the goal.

“These are the three cages: paradigm, victimhood, and fear,” he concluded.  “Live beyond that. You’ll never live the dreams that you don’t first dream. Go ahead and dream. That’s what liberty is about.”