Published: September 25, 2007
Op-Ed Contributor
Stop Politicking, Globalizing and Start Securing, Protecting Our Country
By: Presidential Candidate, Daniel Gilbert
Ben Franklin, upon leaving the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, was asked by a curious bystander, "What have you wrought?" "A Republic if you can keep it," Franklin replied.
There is a feeling among America's citizens that a crack has begun in the very foundation of our country and our leaders are choosing to ignore it. Concerned citizens feel like "Chicken Little's" because they see the sky falling, but no one will look up because they are too busy with their political chores.
America, I am looking up and I see the illegal immigration, the Satanic spirit of Islamo-fascism, the budget deficit, the spending, the corrupt politicians, the crisis of energy dependence, the onslaught of lawlessness and its effects on our citizens and I see the horrific and continually emergent results of removing God from the public square.
Why am I running for President? Because I am determined to help Chicken Little's voice be heard until our government stops politicking and globalizing, and gets down to the serious business of securing and protecting our country.
There are so many issues that are important to the American people, but if we don't take care of the immediate and fundamental threats to the safety, sovereignty and survival needs of our country, we could suffer not only the loss of our sovereign nation of liberty, but also our very means of survival.
It is my belief that the following 7 points are crucial to the survival of our nation:
Border control and illegal immigration: It is pointless to discuss job creation, illegal drugs and national security when our borders serve as a gateway to drug traffickers, gangs, terrorists and those that wish to live off the dole of American taxpayers. Not only do porous US borders provide a safe haven for these criminals, US taxpayers support them. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, one-third of US federal prison inmates are illegal aliens. If not incarcerated, taxpayers foot the bill for the 1.4 million households headed by an illegal that depend on at least one major welfare program.
If we do not tighten control of our borders, severely punish companies that employ illegals and immediately deport any illegal involved in criminal activity, we can expect crime, drug use and abuse of the welfare system to continue to run rampant - or even worse, increase our vulnerability for another terrorist attack.
The State Department needs to be completely overhauled to secure our nation. Since 9/11, it is nonsensical that this administration worked to secure our airports while leaving our borders wide open, which represents a dereliction of duty to protect the citizens of the United States of America. We are sitting ducks because our global-minded administration is more concerned with "spreading democracy" than protecting its own citizens. President Bush would term this type of speech as "isolationism". My response to President Bush is that spreading democracy and protecting our citizens are not mutually exclusive. You can secure our country, route out all who are here illegally, and spread democracy at the same time. This nonsense of leaving our citizens vulnerable because of political and global agendas has to stop. If I became President, I would immediately close and place our military on all US borders to protect our country and our people from harm. More…..
War against Islamo-fascism: Current US leaders are infamously tepid when discussing freedom of speech and religion, often tiptoeing on the issue and more concerned with offending the Muslim population than defending the Judeo-Christian values upon which this country was founded.
For fear of being heralded as a "maverick" by the mainstream media, US leaders refuse to realize that we are at war, not only in Iraq, Afghanistan and also within the borders of the US, but also with a world-wide terrorist group that demands we "convert to Islam or die." Our tireless and yet noble tolerance is being used against us at our own grave expense.
Should groups like CAIR, pacified by members in Congress, continue to capitalize on our "melting pot" mentality, the United States will be brought to its knees and become the "paper tiger" that Osama Bin Laden once labeled this nation before 9/11. We are desperately close to becoming a nation that is perceived as weak and unwilling to stomach the fight against the War on Terror. If we lose the war against Islamo-fascisim, we will jeopardize our security and sovereignty, as our nation further risks succumbing to Islamic Shira law.
Rebuild our industrial base: Free trade is meant to be fair trade. It does not mean countries such as China can elude our restrictions that protect us from dangerous products. It also does not mean that foreign companies can flippantly disregard US labor laws and standards to simply build a cheaper mousetrap.
Americans are the most productive workers in the world, yet red tape, union bosses, high taxation and incessant regulation prevent US companies from succeeding, forcing our companies to relocate overseas. Countries, such as China, often engage in unfair trade practices, such as manipulation of currency, dumping and counterfeiting. According to the National Association of Manufacturing, the excess costs of taxes, litigation, regulation, healthcare and energy on US companies add as much as 22.4 percent of labor costs, contributing to large trade deficits with other countries, such as China.
Our government is one of the greatest governments in the world, however, to the trade and manufacturing industries, our government has been their worst enemy. Our government has made it much more profitable for other countries to thrive as our own industrial base becomes extinct.
It is imperative that the trade laws be changed to bring our industrial base back to America, to put our legal American industrial workers back to work and to regain our competitive edge. It is also imperative for America to discontinue the outsourcing of our jobs to other countries in order to bring our jobs back home.
In addition, because of the lack of industry in America, it would be impossible for us to defend ourselves when we are dependent on these nations for our very existence.
Protect our national sovereignty: Through NAFTA, the Law of the Sea Treaty, the North American Union, and the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, US sovereignty is slowly being chipped away with the permission of our own administration.
The United Nations has proven to be full of corruption and lacking in integrity and credibility. The United States furnishes one quarter of the UN's operating budget, and yet we have allowed the UN to be a proverbial soapbox for third-rate dictators who compare the US and our President to satan; the same "satan" that has spent billions of dollars in humanitarian aid to countries abroad.
I believe that diplomacy can be obtained without entering the arena of a corrupt and ineffective organization in which to do our bidding through.
Obtain Energy Security: There is no doubt that the Middle East controls the vast majority of a coveted and essential resource - oil. We are beholden to countries that do not share our concept of freedom and democracy for the sake of the almighty gas dollar, but we can change that.
Despite opposition against drilling in the oil-rich Gulf Coast and ANWAR, past experience has shown that oil drilling in certain areas has not only enabled local wildlife to flourish (in the case of the caribou in Alaska), it has made us one-step closer to energy independence. In addition to drilling in oil-rich areas, it is imperative that we build new refineries (the last ones built in 1976) and fund research into alternative fuels. The more we can sever the oil-laden ties to the Middle East, the higher the probability that we can broker peace in the region.
Crime and rule of law: 2005 saw the greatest increase in violent crime in 15 years. The first half of 2006 saw another increase. American families are not only afraid to take their kids to local parks (which have become a haven for homosexual trysts), they have seen their homes invaded by virtual predators lurking in the back alleys of the internet.
The internet has afforded pedophiles a new venue to lure our most innocent while politicians and activist judges have continually sympathized with dangerous pedophiles, affording light sentences while putting our kids at risk. Sites such as MySpace and Facebook often serve as breeding grounds for pedophiles. Pedophiles can locate a child's location merely from their profile within 30 minutes, yet police are hamstrung by red tape to nab a pedophile because of his "rights."
American justice has become a revolving door for career criminals and a catalyst for an epidemic in society. We must demand stiffer sentences for criminals and higher expectations of justice for those appointed to the bench. The rule of law in the US has to be restored for the protection of its citizens.
Cultural decay: How can we talk about family values when outside the home and all the way to Congress, morality is in utter decay in our society? A recent Gallop poll showed that 80 percent of Americans believed the morality of the US was getting worse.
In the public sector, where individuals once were considered role models to our youth, our elected officials have fared even worse. Scandal and corruption have left a real discontent among voters. A recent poll showed 44 percent of Americans believed Congress exhibited "poor" morals and 39 percent "fair" morals. This is hardly an endorsement of the morality of our current elected officials.
This is why I am running on the "We The People" platform to encourage true conservatives to run for public office to replace the corrupt politicians within our government and to unapologetically bring conservative values and principals back to the Republican Party.
Ben Franklin's simple statement sounds a warning to all of us today that preservation and perpetuation of this great exercise in freedom requires an involved, knowledgeable, and active effort to protect the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. Without committed vigilance we will find freedom unguarded and will soon see freedom lost.
Conservative Principles Heartland Values legislature and the executive branches that real change would occur in our government. I thought that the principles that we all thought the Republicans stood for would guide the Republicans to do what is best for the country. I thought I would see a new higher moral standard. What we got was corruption, bribes, moral decline, hearings with no action, tax breaks for big business, McCain Feingold and last year 15,000 earmarks. We get a Republican majority in the Senate and a President who think that the best way to handle the illegal alien problem is to give them amnesty. And just last month we had a great break through with the North Koreans where they agreed to not do what they agreed to not do under Clinton. How much will it cost the American citizens this time?
There has to be a change in Presidential and Congressional leadership to affect change in this country. There has to be a way to get the politicians out and the statesmen in. Those politicians who vote only for the sake of the party, the lobbyist or big business have to be removed. To bring about substantial changes in the government these new statesmen must control the House, Senate and the White House.
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