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Show The Ogden Valley News Page 12 Volume XXX Issue VIII December 1, 2023 Snowcrest Students Honor Veterans Snowcrest Jr. High Veteran’s Day assembly. On November 9, Snowcrest Jr. High held a Veteran’s Day assembly. Students viewed a video that explained why we have Veteran’s Day in the United States, and the school band and choir presented an Armed Forces medley. While there were no guest speakers this year, Kjirstin Mich’l of Huntsville gave a presentation on “Stars for Our Troops,” and chal- NATION cont. from page 3 find their identities, and assert their self-respect. Censorship advocates believe that free speech inhibits their liberation, both preventing these identities from coming into being, and harming them once they do…. Society, in the censors’ view, must be devoted to preventing oppressed groups from feelings of contempt—even if such feelings arise from rational, fact-based criticism. Only celebration of these groups can guarantee full inclusion,” thus some rights, or “values” can be repressed. Free speech can also be compromised by making certain thoughts, ideas, or assumptions so unpopular that one begins to feel socially shamed, inferior, stigmatized, or even politically or economically threatened by holding what have become unpopular thoughts, ideas, or assumptions. Open and unrestrained free speech, as history clearly demonstrates, is not just a value, but a right that must be vigorously protected in order for this right, and all others found in a healthy republic, to remain unrestricted and free of being usurped. 6. Arrogate media power, making primary news sources a propaganda machine versus a neutral conveyer of state and world happenings. In other words, use media to “spin” information to the point that it becomes a one-sided, biased, hate-or-fear-the-other-partyand-their-candidate mechanism. By appropriating control over various media sources, you can commandeer the beliefs of the populace, especially the young and impressionable who lack experience and an elongated view of world history to the point that you can cajole them into believing almost anything… literally—even the majority of the population and other world leaders that Hitler, Lenin, and even Mao were demigods who were sent to save the people and their nation, even while they were killing millions of their own people. Chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, Joseph Goebbels stated, “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.” 7. Create an unlevel playing field when it comes to elections. There is a long-standing litmus test that respectable democracies must pass when it comes to fair and credible elections. They must hold multi-party elections where candidates can fairly compete. So, if you want your nation, to fail, or to become a “banana republic,” work to get the courts and biased judges to take away the right of an opponent to run for office. You might even entangle them in legal battles, or try to smear their reputation through twisted propaganda tactics—anything to keep them off the ballot, especially when you fear that the people may actually vote them into office. You may also try to change the rules regarding elections to make it more difficult for a competitor to compete... or even be on the ballot. In addition, you can whip of emotionally charged rallying points, constantly keeping the populace worked up, even rioting, looting, and relevant book, The Great U.S.-China Tech War, “American companies look like they are firmly in China’s court. They are, points out D.C.based trade analyst Alan Tonelson, ‘voluntarily transferring defense-related cutting-edge knowhow to entities unmistakably controlled by Beijing, investing in Chinese tech start-ups and so-called venture capital funds, and building up their R&D [research and development] and manufacturing capabilities in China despite intellectual property theft.’ America, he argues, ‘needs much more sweeping restrictions on American business operations in China.’” In addition, a nation must continue to finance a strong military and cutting-edge R&D, and keep her citizenry healthy mentally, physically, socially, and intellectually in order to stay globally competent and secure. 4. Seize or limit personal means of defense. America’s founding fathers were insistent that the people—as in “We the People”— would always be able to defend themselves. As constitutional law professor at Yale University and adjunct professor of law at Columbia University, Akhil Reed Amar notes in his book America’s Constitution: A Biography, the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution’s “core idea concerned the necessary link between democracy and the military: We, the People, must rule and must assure ourselves that our military will do our bidding rather than its own. According to the amendment, the best way to achieve this goal would be via a military that would represent and embody us—the people, the voters, the democratic rulers of a ‘free State.’ … a sound republic should rely on its own armed citizens, a ‘Militia’ of ‘the people.’” Amar further explains, “Reading the amendment’s words in the light of their own lived experience, they deemphasized militias and states’ right while accentuating an individual right of all citizens—women as well as men, nonvoters as well as voters, civilians as well as militiamen—to keep guns in private homes for personal self-protection.” As history shows, an unarmed citizenry may be easily controlled and brought into submission by an overzealous military and organized mobs that are only beholden to an unchecked authority figure and not the citizenry at large. 5. Revoke the right of free speech. Today, there are many who now teach and preach that free speech isn’t an inalienable right but a “value.” And like other values, it must be balanced with others such as safety, fairness, and equality. Arthur Milikh writes, “Equality once meant that all human beings have the same rights as all other citizens—like voting rights, property rights, or speech rights. Today, by contrast, many restriction advocates understand equality to mean psychological equality or equal self-respect. Since the so-called dominant groups in American society already have enough self-respect or ‘white privilege,’ the allegedly oppressed minority groups must be enabled to liberate themselves from oppression, Property Maintenance Handyman Services 385-487-9366 *Licensed & Insured* lenged students to give one of the stars away on Veteran’s Day. Members of the school’s National Junior Honor Society and student body officers assembled the star tokens. There were three Veterans in attendance. Kjirstin Mich’l, whose son Trygg is a ninth-grade student body officer, stated, “Our family became “star makers” with stars for our troops in 2019. We wanted to find a project that we could do to honor our troops and veterans. (More information can be found at starsforourtroops.org). Each star has a zip code on it so, as it travels the world, others will know where the star came from. Initially, the stars come from American flags that need to be retired. Each star is cut and made into a star keepsake. It says, ‘I am part of our American flag that has flown over the USA. I can no longer fly. The sun and winds have caused me to become tattered and torn. Please carry me as a reminder that you are not forgotten.’ “The rest of the flags “I am part of our American are retired properly at a flag that has flown over the USA. I can no longer fly. flag burning The sun and winds caused ceremony at me to become tattered and the Huntsville torn. Please carry me as a VFW on reminder that Veteran’s Day. You are not forgotten.” However, the stars are able 84317 to live on as StarsForOur Troops.org a symbol of respect and burning cities, blaming the problems on the views and politics of your opponent or opponents. The technique is often termed, “divide and rule.” It is a well-used tactic used to sway views, change the status quo, and win elections—to demonize the opponent and their political legitimacy based on appeals to emotion. For instance, labeling an opponent as an evil to be combated in order to save society. 8. Fail to contain the illegal flow of addictive drugs into the country. Today, almost everyone has heard about America’s opioid epidemic, which spans the country, affecting Americans of all ages and races, socio-economic classes, educational levels, and urban as well as rural dwellers. The costs and impacts on the population and the country as a whole have been devastating, and continue to grow, threatening to destabilize this great nation. Opioid abuse brought an entire empire to its knees after Britain introduced the drug to the Chinese in the 19th century. During the Ming dynasty, China had gunpowder, the spinning wheel, paper (including toilet paper!) the compass, and triple-masted ocean-going ships. British expansion under its era of industrialization led England to new regions of the world in an effort to find new trade markets. Turning to China, the British were anxious to find an equitable export in exchange for tea and other goods they imported from China. But the primarily agricultural and self-supporting lifestyle of the Chinese left the Asians wanting little in the way of imports. As the British trade deficit mounted, tons of opium grown in India was then shipped to Canton China through the East India Company in exchange for tea and other manufactured goods through a planned strategy of supplying an addictive substance to ensure a growing export market for England to this eastern supplier of goods. The effect was devastating; the country became filled with drug addicts as opium parlors thrived throughout the country. After 1836, opium trafficking became illegal but continued as the British provided generous bribes to Canton officials. The flood of addictive drugs into our country, such as fentanyl, primarily through the movement of it illegally across our southern border, is now hijacking America’s security and prosperity, and the welfare of this great nation and her people, much as it did in China about 200 years ago. Today the United States of America is home to only about 4.2% of the world’s 8 billion people—or almost 336 million people, according to census.gov/popclock/. However, while America only makes up 4.2% of the world’s population, 30% of the world’s opiate use is generated here, according to Pain News Network. Literally, you can kill a nation by flooding it with deadly addictive substances. Today, these substances are killing thousands who make up the heart of America. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 109,680 drug deaths in 2022. 9. Capture the will and views of the nation’s young people, convincing them of the need to build an “ideal,” “equal,” and “just” society, one free of the oppressive bourgeoisie (middle class), even by unjust means. Yes, the end justifies the means. Through China’s Tik Tok platform and other social networks that cater, especially, to America’s youth, our nation is taking a beating as it is portrayed as a terrible country with a terrible, oppressive history. Other nations, such as Nazi Germany, Maoist China, and Stalinist Russia “re-educated” their youth, too, convincing them of the need to pull down and destroy “bad” traditional institutions, beliefs, thanks. “We were able to do a service project at Snowcrest Jr. High with their National Jr. Honor Society members and student body officers during their advisory period. In 29 minutes, we made 512 stars to share! “I challenged the kids to take a star and find a veteran to give it to on Veteran’s Day. Then, to look them in the eye, shake their hand, and thank them for their service.” If you have an American flag that needs to be retired that you are willing to donate, you can drop it off at Snowcrest Junior High in Eden or the American Legion VFW in Huntsville. An embroidered 3x5 flag is the perfect size, but flags of any size will be properly retired. Mich’l added, “I do it because I love our country and think veterans need to be thanked and respected for their sacrifices. And the American flag also deserves respect and a proper retirement. If anyone would like stars to share, they may contact me.” and culture in order rebuild a more just society. They instilled in their young people a vision of a utopian society built on social justice—a fair, communal (communist) way. These powerful youth groups included Nazi-organized youth movements—the Hitler Youth. Mao called his mass, student-led, paramilitary mobilized youth social movement the Red Guards. And Stalin’s destructive youth group was known as the Young Pioneers, who were to be “properly” educated according to their new, just political philosophy. Young Pioneer Palaces were built, serving as community centers and youth camps that were paid for by government and trade unions. “The pioneers were promoted as models of a true socialist future generation of youth determined to help bring the Soviet Union towards the total victory of communism at home in all sectors of society.” In reality, each of these portrayed “socially just” societies, became havens of the powerful who subjected their people to some of the harshest and deadliest atrocities known to the modern world. As Lord Acton noted, centralized “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In the United States today, our secondlargest demographic age group is made up of 20- to 24-year-olds—the most impressionable, idealistic, untethered, mobile, and uninvested-in-traditional-America age group of all. Every authoritarian regime made good use of this demographic to destroy then rebuild their “great societies.” In America, these are the youth who have grown up on social media, many bereft of strong, two-parent families; a belief in God and Judeo-Christian ethics (dignity of human life, the traditional family, a national work ethic, common decency, personal accountability to God, etc.) that built this great nation; discipline; patriotism; and the stoic value of delayed gratification. Demographically, what a great time for players who are intent on destroying a nation and her status quo, to step up and employ this powerful group of youth to come forth and “rebuild” a new “just” nation on the ashes of the old. 10. Incite social unrest and chaos and, in the process, fail to punish those who are destructive to private property. In fact, the goal is to destroy private property and its accumulation by the middle class. If you want to destroy a nation, you should do all you can to rid yourself of the obnoxious middle class who have so much invested in the status quo—stable rules, laws, and regulations—a stable society which is requisite for sound and stable societies to build and expand, where people have no need to rely on government and rising taxes for food, housing, health care, a higher education, or much of anything. They are independent and capable. They are the glue that holds a nation together. To destroy a nation, everything that can be done to upend the stability of a thriving middle class should be undertaken. Undermine their ability to own homes and build equity, save, and invest in their future, raise healthy families with healthy children who can grow up and perpetuate the stability indispensable to all productive societies. 11. Malign, discredit, hijack, and destroy the fundamental institutions that hold every cohesive nation state together: family, church, schools of learning (not propaganda), and law enforcement agencies the protect the private property rights of the nation’s citizens. God bless America…. UTVs l Motorcycles Boats l Personal Watercraft Kayaks l Canoes l SUPs Snowmobiles On Site Rentals & Tours Eden (801) Pineview Reservoir/Marina Monte Cristo Trailhead l 745-3038 www.ClubRecUtah.com |
