[HARDCORE]

Although painful to consider, the real possibility exists that our magnificent Nation will not survive into the next century! Now I know for a fact that those are fighting words, but I ask you to consider the following.

Russia is again re-emerging as a global super power, by virtue of it’s new-found oil wealth. Now add to this the fact that this very nation that we had to save from the brink of starvation, but a few short years ago, has attested to their desire to resurface as a military juggernaut! Can the re-conquest of their lost territories be far behind, and who will stop them - the rash of political Chamberlains that now infest the planet?

And what about China, a nation of billions of souls that is currently flooding our markets with tainted junk that is injuring our own kids! And never let us forget Chavez, Kim Jong Il, the North Vietnamese and the Middle East, along with the potential for yet another Hundred Year War fighting terrorism!

Those are harsh words says you! Well maybe so, but when one couples all of this with an indigent United Nations, as well as our own government that is opening up the flood gates to illegal immigration, just as it did to foreign enterprise (NAFTA etc), then only a fool would have no concern!

“And what about our political system itself?” With the two major political parties working hard to destroy the other, and We The People caught within the vice that separates them, is politics naught but a game of absolute power, or don’t the people count any more? I mean, we are there to fight wars, pay taxes, shoulder the pain, and little more these days, or so it seems?

And any legislation that benefits our people, our sovereignty, or honor, or even our survival, runs into a vested blizzard of opposition from those well-situated fat cats to whom truth and honesty mean next to nothing, or so it seems!

Now to add insult to pure misery, we are locked in a time-consuming debate over whether global warming, our international enemies, new diseases, or our own arrogance and stupidity will destroy us first?

“Our Founding Fathers Have Got To Be Spinning In Their Graves, For Even They Too, Could Now Be Considered Persona Non Grata To Many Who Wield Power In That Land Of Mystery And Misery That Lies Just To The East Of The Potomac!” But What The Heck, As A Noted Politician Once Informed Me [With A Straight Face I Might Add] “ITS NOT LYING AND ITS NOT CHEATING, ITS JUST ALL POLITICS!”

VERITAS (Truth)

Rick