BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES

THE IGNORANCE OF ARROGANCE

When I came back from Vietnam I took my father’s advice and went to college.  Talk about a real shock.

For the most part, the “teachers” I had were pathetic impostors who spewed nothing but hate and vitriol toward everything the United States stood for. On numerous occasions, once I was singled out as a “fucking Vietnam veteran,” I was the target of the whole class.  It was some of the best training I ever got with relation to dealing with total and complete imbeciles.

Academics was not the point of a college education in those days – indoctrination was the actual Modus Operandi – as it continues to this very day.  (See the first video below).

Modus Operandi
(mō’dəs ŏp’ə-răn’dē, -dī’)
n., pl., mo·di operandi (mō’dē, -dī). (Abbr. MO)

1. A method of operating or functioning.
2. A person’s manner of working.

I had to battle with bullying professors, ignorant students and just plain dumb people that had no idea of what was going on – either in America or the outside world.

Speak to other Vietnam veterans – and they will vouch for everything I am saying.

Am I “ranting?”  No, just telling the truth.

You see how our mind works nowadays?

If a person starts to tell the truth, and “Liberals” or “Conservatives” do not like it, then you are “angry” or an “angry white man,” or a “right-wing fascist nut-job” or just plain “crazy.”

Somewhere, during the constant harassing and belittlement, I decided to learn as much as I could – from BOTH sides – and that is when I threw off the ignorant shackles of both “Liberalism” and “Conservatism”  and became a BARRY GOLDWATER/RON PAUL, True Conservative.

Then I got it from all sides.

But I was OK with that – because I finally had a base from which to operate.

Both the Republicans and Democrats were so far out to lunch that I was in total opposition to both parties.

So, when I ran for Congress in 2004, as a New Republican, the ingrained vitriol of the Ignorant Class that ran the GOP in Washington state, (and still does), came at me with a vengeance I had not anticipated.

The Evangelical Element was furious with me for advocating that the Government did not belong in a person’s bedroom – nor in the womb of a woman.

If homosexuals wanted to do their “thing” well, so be it.  I really did not care.

If women wanted to abort their own child, so be it.  I really did not care.

Do I agree with either of these positions?  Certainly not.  But that is not the point.  These two “issues” simply were NONE of my business.

I felt it was not up to the GOVERNMENT to tell people who thought like this what to do.

I also felt that the GOVERNMENT should not interfere with how businesses ran their corporations.  Because corporations really are people.

Take away the people – from the corporations – and all you have left are empty BUILDINGS.

Yes, this is pure Ayn Rand type of thinking.  And if you have never read THE FOUNTAINHEAD, then shame on you.

The idea is to be totally free in your concepts and thinking patterns – so as to be able to make informed decisions.

The idea of ideological dogma is the infection – the disease – of the “party thinker” and should be avoided at all costs.

Thus, my time in both junior college and university was a daily battle against all those “corporate thinkers” that are so well depicted in both THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED.

I always find it amazing how, when people are sitting and watching (or reading) either of these great pieces of art – they COMPLETELY identify with the protagonist.

But, in real life, they fall right into line with their own ideological trend of thinking.

Kind of like the puritanical nutto who chastises a person for saying the word fuck, and then scurries home to watch the latest version of the SOPRANOS on television.

It simply does not make any sense at all.

But to them, they are perfectly logical in their illogical take on life.

I majored in Education, got an MA degree in the field – and received over a 3.5 GPA – in the age of NON-inflationary grading.

It was some of the hardest work – academically – that I have ever done.

Why?  Because I was a MINORITY.

Come again?

Yes, all Vietnam veterans were considered second-class citizens.  They had some of the highest dropout rates in college.

Yet, it was some of the best times in my life.  Because I had to work TWICE as hard, to prove myself in class, both in debate/discussions – and on EVERY Blue Book Essay Test that I had to write.  It was truly great training.

No True/False, Multiple Guess tests in those days.  Everything had to be written.

Through it all I actually taught myself how to READ BOTH SIDES OF THE EQUATION.

Churchill once said:

“When a man is 20 years old, if he is not a Liberal, he has no heart.  And when a man is 40 years old, if he is not a Conservative, he has no brain.”

Some of my best classes in Argumentation and Debate, when I was teaching in Japan, was when I would let the students pick which side of an argument they would like to defend.

Everybody went home, studied for a week, then came back to class – fully prepared to fight for their prescribed positions.

The room would always erupt in HOWELS of protest – when I would SWITCH the rolls of the debaters – and then tell them to have their debate – defending exactly the OPPOSITE position that they had prepared for.

After EVERY class debate, the students would come up to me – in wide-eyed amazement – and say, “That was the best debate I have ever had.”

Why?  Because it taught them to THINK outside of their own personal universe.

In other words – for the first time in their little, self-centered lives – they were actually thinking BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES.

Why am I saying all this today?

Because one of the few thinkers of our times, and an avid reader of THE AMERICAN TELEGRAPH, just sent me three videos that I think you might want to check out – if you are so inclined to “extend” you parameters of logical comprehension.

They are all short – and to the point.

The first video shows the complete – and utter stupidity – of the “Liberal” thinkers of today, when it comes to their “logical thinking” regarding profits and corporations.  It is amazing to see people who actually think – and say – the things that you will witness on this video.

Milton Friedman hit the nail on the head regarding these two points.

The second video just proves what I had to go through with relation to the stupidity – and the vulgarity – of the GOP, and how it is still run to this very day.

The third video speaks for itself – and uses some harsh language.  My apologies for all those who have never heard this type of language before.

Let it be stated – before any readers get their “dander up” – that BOTH parties act in the exact same manner.

All you had to do was witness the ugly voting on the delegate floor of the “Democratic” convention yesterday, to see how dictatorial they really are.  If you did not watch it, as it unfolded, you missed a real lesson in how things are handled by the Status Quo of the Democrats.

This is not a political thing.  It is a FREEDOM thing.

And, if you do not start to think, from a position of FREEDOM, then you are destined to be the slave to those who are determined to do your thinking for you.

My hat is off to Richard Bachert, for sending me these videos.  They truly speak for themselves.

As always, I am indebted to my readers for helping me write THE AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.

Without all of you out there – who still care – this newsletter would not be possible.

View these videos at your own discretion.

CORPORATIONS AND PROFITS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07fTsF5BiSM

GOP RULERS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQvszfnOSY8

 

AND THIS LAST MINUTE ADDITION:  (FOR THE SENSITIVE – BAD LANGUAGE)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16K6m3Ua2nw&feature=related

Keep thinking positive – and remember – the Silent Majority is lurking among all of us.

Until next time,

Lawrence Klepinger
Editor/Publisher
THE AMERICAN TELEGRAPH