It's awesome to see the Tea Party movement continue to grow! "We the people" have finally said enough is enough, deciding it's time for new beginning in Washington.
A new beginning ... in which politicians are to be "bound by the chains of the Constitution."
"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." - Thomas Jefferson
Today, the Internet has grown into a tool that is nothing short of amazing! Tea Parties and other protests have been organized by individuals via blogs, forums, and countless other methods. It's much easier for greater numbers of people to come together than it ever was before. And the amount of high-quality resources available to everyone too, free!, makes us realize how blessed we truly are.
The following list consists of 5 books you can read in full, helping you better understand the issues at hand, the strategies used against you, and how you can overcome them and win!
1. CONSERVATIVE DEBATE HANDBOOK
This "handbook" is intended to instruct young Conservatives in the art of political debate: Not from the standpoint of participation in an Oxonian debating society, but from how best to demonstrate a clear advantage before a public gathering seeking direction rather than amusement. While the techniques of analysis and presentation, to be explored, would be efficacious for any form of public disputation; here, the interested student will learn a focused methodology particularly suited to the specialized confrontation between the American tradition and Collectivist "Liberalism" in any of its forms. Here, the intelligent, mentally organized, High School graduate can learn all that he or she will ever need to dismantle the intellectual pretensions of any Collectivist "Liberal," anywhere, any time.
One needs first to understand the natural advantage to the Conservative position, as opposed to the alternatives; an advantage derived from the very nature of human society and from the Conservative motivation. While there have been periods in the history of almost every folk or nation, where a generation or two went astray--as in America since 1930--it is only logical that the general course of any human social development will reflect the nature of those developing. Anything else defies reason. Conservatives are those who by instinct appreciate what is valuable in the historic struggle and achievements of their society. We are thus the heirs to a vast amount of mental effort, soul searching, trial and error over many generations, by those intent to find the best course, based upon all past experience, on which to navigate the future. We are the heirs to the layers of foundations and the builders of civilizations.
2. Propaganda by Edward Bernays
[The] American business community was also very impressed with the propaganda effort. They had a problem at that time. The country was becoming formally more democratic. A lot more people were able to vote and that sort of thing. The country was becoming wealthier and more people could participate and a lot of new immigrants were coming in, and so on.
So what do you do? It's going to be harder to run things as a private club. Therefore, obviously, you have to control what people think. There had been public relation specialists but there was never a public relations industry. There was a guy hired to make Rockefeller's image look prettier and that sort of thing. But this huge public relations industry, which is a U.S. invention and a monstrous industry, came out of the first World War. The leading figures were people in the Creel Commission. In fact, the main one, Edward Bernays, comes right out of the Creel Commission. He has a book that came out right afterwards called Propaganda. The term "propaganda," incidentally, did not have negative connotations in those days. It was during the second World War that the term became taboo because it was connected with Germany, and all those bad things. But in this period, the term propaganda just meant information or something like that. So he wrote a book called Propaganda around 1925, and it starts off by saying he is applying the lessons of the first World War. The propaganda system of the first World War and this commission that he was part of showed, he says, it is possible to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments their bodies." These new techniques of regimentation of minds, he said, had to be used by the intelligent minorities in order to make sure that the slobs stay on the right course. We can do it now because we have these new techniques.
This is the main manual of the public relations industry. Bernays is kind of the guru. He was an authentic Roosevelt/Kennedy liberal. He also engineered the public relations effort behind the U.S.-backed coup which overthrew the democratic government of Guatemala.
3. KEYNES AT HARVARD: Economic Deception as a Political Credo
In 1957 a Harvard alumni group asked this writer to initiate a study of leftist infiltration at Harvard University. Previous efforts to find a qualified Harvard alumnus for the task had proved unfruitful.
This was a period when America was still in shock over scandals involving traitorous government officials in the service of the Stalinist terror apparatus. Disloyal Ivy leaguers had used the wealth and resources of the United States to undermine their own country. Incredibly, at the same time, they were able to betray over 600 million people into communist hands in countries laid prostrate by World War II. The names of the accused included Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, John Abt, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. All were Harvard trained and some had been Faculty members.
Even a cursory glance at leftism in Harvard indicated that just to chronicle all socialistic penetrations would require a large staff and years of investigation. It soon became obvious that non-leftist members of the Harvard faculty feared that sanctions would be imposed by the University administration against those who cooperated with anti-communists. Under the covering slogan of “academic freedom” the leftist host at Harvard evolved a complex of sponge-like barriers to smother attacks and then quietly to quarantine crusaders for individual liberty. Those brave enough to challenge the leftists faced the penalty of being isolated and then gerrymandered out of influential positions. Crafty strategems were devised slowly to nudge resisters out of university life. As one faculty member sardonically put it, “they used to ease you out—now they ooze you out.”
By far the most secret and least accountable operation of the federal government is not, as one might expect, the CIA, DIA, or some other super-secret intelligence agency. The CIA and other intelligence operations are under control of the Congress. They are accountable: a Congressional committee supervises these operations, controls their budgets, and is informed of their covert activities. It is true that the committee hearings and activities are closed to the public; but at least the people's representatives in Congress insure some accountability for these secret agencies.
It is little known, however, that there is a federal agency that tops the others in secrecy by a country mile. The Federal Reserve System is accountable to no one; it has no budget; it is subject to no audit; and no Congressional committee knows of, or can truly supervise, its operations. The Federal Reserve, virtually in total control of the nation's vital monetary system, is accountable to nobody — and this strange situation, if acknowledged at all, is invariably trumpeted as a virtue.
5. Animal Farm
Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.
As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals. It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way. Old Major (so he was always called, though the name under which he had been exhibited was Willingdon Beauty) was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour's sleep in order to hear what he had to say.
These free books are a great place to start (or dig-in) as we look to change our political landscape for the better. They'll provide you with the proper techniques to make your point, get your message across, and give you additional insight about "the other side" too.
"And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." - Thomas Jefferson
You'll gain a better understanding of our banking system, why our federal government's deficits are so huge, and how to bring it all back under control. You'll be armed with freshly re-enforced historical and philosophical underpinnings too.
A lot of people went out of their way to makes these books free and available to you. So please make sure to take advantage of these gifts, and learn!
"We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness." - Thomas Jefferson
