The Day We Lose the Will to Fight is the Day We Will Lose Our Freedom.

Today is October 30th, which is only four days prior to the U.S. general election.

I am truly fearful for the direction our country is taking. It is a genuine concern that applies to both major political properties, to both candidates for President, to all those Senators and House Representatives that are up for re-election this year.

Should we elect a Democratic party supermajority in the U.S. Senate, here's some things that I believe will ABSOLUTELY happen in the next four years.

1. We will abandon our mission in Iraq, and leave the Iraqi government and people in a state that will find them inadequately ready to resist the violent fundamentalism and sectarian violence that will threaten to return them to a state of tyranny and subjugation. And yet, Breitbart.com posted an article indicating that "If Iraqis could vote it would be for McCain". Those people, who clearly have recently spent more than two generations under a tyrant, know the importance of vigilance and more importantly, the price that must be paid for freedom. If we back out, Iran will fill the power vacuum and the Sunni people in Iraq will be destroyed, and Iraq will become a client state of Iran and convert to fundamentalist Islamic rule.
2. The government will EXPAND it's powers over private citizens and private concerns. The government is ALREADY making moves towards ownership and nationalization of the financial sector. The Democrats want to increase taxes on one class of people in order to "share the wealth", clearly a socialist policy.
   
3. Currently, the right-wing of political thought and expression really only dominates one aspect of our media, which is "talk-radio". Nearly all other forms of broadcast or print media (Broadcast TV, Cable/Satellite TV, Major newspaper syndicates and weekly/monthly magazines and the Internet) have a clearly "liberal" or "progressive" bias. This is so well documented that I will not bother with citations here. Just Google it if you don't believe me. The interesting dichotomy is that so-called "right-wing talkers" on radio make no claims of neutrality, but most of the liberal (dare I say "controlled"?) "main-street media" profess neutrality. A claim I clearly dispute. In fact, recently, even Democratic campaign staffers recently stated that the attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP VP candidate were "over the top". Yet the only media that a Democratic Congress (Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA; Senator Harry Reid, D-NV) supports imposing a new version of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" is on talk radio. How interesting that they only want to impose this doctrine on the only media that has a conservative dominance. How "fair" is that? This means that conservatives will have no easily accessible "forum" to voice and hear issues from their point of view, while liberals will continue to enjoy the vast dominance of all other forums. In other words, the Democrats will stifle the conservative voice in our political dialouge. If you don't believe this can happen, just look at Australia. Read this article for details, but essentially they will implement "Chinese style" restrictions on Internet access. As usual, it starts with a universally distateful (and yet highly profitable) child-porn industry. But it will end, like China, with restriction on access to dissenting political speech.
4. There will be a definite assault on the American right to firearms. I do not need to elaborate on this one. Suffice it to say that a people that cannot resist tyranny are not free.
5. Provide public healthcare to those who currently don't have healthcare (including those that have OPTED OUT) at the expense of many who have paid for healthcare all of their adult lives.
   

All of these issues are associated with a panicky scared populace who are looking to the government to bail them out. The problem in this situation is that government CREATED the mess to begin with. We the PEOPLE need to ride this one through, instead of asking for more of "mommy's hand". Every great endeavor created in this country was done in spite of government, not by it.

Those who trade liberty for security will have neither.