Posted by
peripheral on Monday, August 03, 2009 8:49:50 AM
From My Perspective - - -
There are two fatal flaws that can become part of one’s psyche and
culture: Ignorance and Apathy. It degenerates to – “I don’t know and I
don’t care.” This is the beginning stage of being overwhelmed. The word
means: “to surge over and submerge; engulf; to defeat completely and
decisively; to affect deeply in mind or emotion; to present with an
excessive amount – overwhelm.”
The HinzSight Report on June 14th, 2009 asks in a column: “Overwhelmed and Feeling Like Giving Up?”
In that column, David Hinz writes: “TARP! Federal Government takeover
of the banking industry! Cap-and-Trade! Stimulus Spending Bill!
Automobile Company bailout and takeover by the federal government!
Employee Free Choice Act! ACORN criminal activity! Fairness Doctrine!
Omnibus Spending Bill! Universal Nationalized Health Care! Federal
government regulation of the internet! Defense spending cuts! Worldwide
apologize for America tour! Mainstream media adoration for President
Obama! Dozens of Czars approved by the President! As your head reels
from one federal government sucker punch to another, do you ever reach
a point where you find yourself ready to give up? To just…let them do
whatever they want, I am just too sick of hearing about it anymore to
fight it?" This is maximum Overwhelmed Overload!
A major influence upon liberal thinkers and proponents of “change” was Saul Alinsky in his book (1971), RULES FOR RADICALS.
Some of the 13 Rules are: 1. Power is not only what you have, but what
the enemy thinks you have. 2. Never go outside the expertise of your
people…3. Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.
Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. 4. Make
the enemy live up to its own book of rules. 5. Ridicule is man's most
potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. 6. A
good tactic is one your people enjoy. 8. Keep the pressure on, with
different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for
your purpose. 9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing
itself. 13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize
it…” Other comments include: “What we are finding today is every group
finding itself eligible for government benefits -- rich, poor, weak and
strong. All business is finding itself suddenly engulfed by
government.” The American Thinker
outlines how ACORN has been instrumental in bringing about the current
crisis through its housing demands, and how President Obama was a part
of that. “In the 1980s, groups such as the activists at ACORN began
pushing charges of ‘red-lining’-claims that banks discriminated against
minorities in mortgage lending. In 1989, sympathetic members of
Congress got the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act amended to force banks to
collect racial data on mortgage applicants; this allowed various
studies to be ginned up that seemed to validate the original
accusation…” Some conclusions reached by Hinz: “Having orchestrated the
mortgage house-of-cards collapse that brought about the financial
house-of-cards collapse, which caused the credit house-of-cards
collapse, which lead to the automobile house-of-cards collapse, all of
which has contributed to the staggering unemployment house-of-cards
collapse -- President Obama has now rewarded ACORN with billions of
dollars in new 'stimulus' money, with which to carry on its valuable
work. And the public, bombarded on all sides with media calling for the
very solutions that caused the crisis -- supporting the perpetrators
who initiated the crisis -- throw up their hands in disgust and give
up…” Some of it is similar to the techniques used by Tokyo Rose and
Axis Sally to demoralize Allied Troops during World War II. This is a
different kind of war – but – war nevertheless.
EZEKIEL 3:14-15
states: “The Spirit lifted me up and took me away…I went in bitterness
and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the Lord upon
me. I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Abib near the Kebar River.
And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven
days--overwhelmed.” Why was he overwhelmed? It was not just the Vision
he saw but the Words that he heard. It was about how the people
appeared to God: rebels, transgressors, impudent, stubborn, refusing to
listen. It will result in their exile to Babylon… He could not persuade
them otherwise and the reality that no one cared enough to repent and
change their behavior caused him to be overwhelmed. Sound familiar?
Consider these things with me!