Welcome to The Endangered Republic

So, here it is - my first attempt at a blog. I've flirted with blogging on a couple of different occasions, but I guess I really didn't have much to say before (whether I do now is certainly a topic that's open for debate as well!). Let me say in advance, thank you to all of you who take the time to read what I have to say, and, more importantly, use the information here as a stepping stone on your own path.

But first, a quote from the nation's  26th president, Theodore Roosevelt:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

I guess what finally motivated me to "step into the arena", if you will, was waking up to the realities of the world we live in and finding myself unable to sit idle any longer. This blog is called "The Endangered Republic", because I firmly believe that the republic I live in, a.k.a. The United States of America, truly IS in danger; in danger of being replaced by a tyrannical police state, owned and operated by finance oligarchs (thank you, Webster Griffin Tarpley).

• Where "we the people" are reduced to little more than debt slaves serving the interests of a parasitic class of global bankers and the super-wealthy elite.
• Where our children are indoctrinated from birth to conform and submit without question.
• Where massively deadly and expensive wars are waged in the name of freedom, but only benefit the few. 
• Where our God-given rights are replaced by state-granted privileges that can be revoked at any time and for any reason.
• Where human life has been devalued to such a degree that a majority of people believe that, rather than mankind being an awesome, intricately complex, indescribably achingly beautiful DIVINE CREATION, human beings are simply hairless monkeys with opposable thumbs and a large brain pan.
• Where pharmaceutical companies, physicians, psychiatrists, and so many others all get their turn (like a group of 8 year olds with an ant farm) to practice government-sponsored eugenics on us in the name of saving the environment (which is so backwards as to be laughable, were it not for the fact that here in the good ole' US of A tens of thousands were forcibly sterilized. And why does it seem that when unspeakable evil is afoot, there's always a Rockefeller lurking around? Hmmmm....).   

And on, and on, and on, ad infinitum.

And so, in closing this first post, I once again thank you, dear reader, for bearing with my expansive prose, bluntly-rendered descriptions, and unwavering cynicism towards the hallowed institutions that so many hold sacred. I challenge you to examine these items for yourselves and engage in debate with myself and others on these and the many topics to follow. If you enjoy what you're reading, pass it along. When I make mistakes in fact or representation, drop me a line and excoriate me in the way that only an anonymous internet user can do.

Let's use information and the truth to liberate our republic and ourselves!