For the Record 

As previously stated I’m not a professional or expert writer; nor a self-righteous “goody-two-shoes”, holier-than-thou individual, or a “super-saint” with a “know it all” attitude; just an average hard working, “blue collar” class citizen, probably just like you and tens of millions of other Americans. So why take the time and effort to write a book as previously described, one that will assuredly be thoroughly edited by an expert and professional manuscript editor?  

From my perspective, and maybe yours, America has become like an old time sailing ship whose captain has been thrown overboard by certain individuals in an act of mutiny (Constitutionally – treason). It is like a ship without a rudder from whose direction is established; a sailing ship now being blown about by the ill winds of politics and religion due to that missing rudder, an analogy of Someone and something lost in our present day sea of government. 

The second part of the preceding question, about editing, is the unknown factor. Such editing is just part of the present day system in attempting to get any manuscript ready and “polished” for publication by some interested individual and/or publishing company. Hundreds of thousands of books and documents have already been edited, previous to being published, by “the system”. Will the time and effort exerted by this writer be worth it? Only time will answer that question.      

However, even after this manuscript (book) is professionally read and edited, there is no guarantee it will even be considered for publication - including alleged “Christian” publishers. Then there’s this question, “Will it ever be read by anyone if it is published”? Stated another way, there was, and still is, a risk involved undertaking this extremely time consuming project. There was also a great risk involved with the writing and signing of “The Declaration of Independence”. With that signing there would also come tremendous sacrifice, as the quest for America’s independence formally began.  

The framers and writers of the U.S. Constitution also realized there would be an element of risk and sacrifice involved by “We the People” to maintain the “founder’s” vision and ideals. Those two documents were edited, published, and have been around for well over two hundred years. Have you ever glanced at, or even bothered to read, those extremely important published documents? The most likely answer is, “No I haven’t”.  

Here’s another point; the Bible has been edited too. “Religiously speaking” some may call that particular type of editing “censorship”. “So what’s the difference”, one might ask? That question is a political one; political not governmental. There’s an easy way for anyone to find out the answer to “What’s the difference”. However, I don’t want to put the “cart before the horse” regarding the answer. 

To answer the question in depth, “Why take the time to write this book”, would require another book. Therefore I’ll only touch on the turning points, segments of time past and present, that caused me to personally reflect and think about my life and lifestyle, and why those personal turning points prompted me to write this book. For me, thinking and reflecting on the past was only a part of the process; finding answers was another part. Still another part was how, and if, my found answers could, or would have worked.  I’ve often thought, “Perhaps I should, or could have done things differently”.

This “hopeful” book is a result of my years of reflection and “real life” experiences. Some readers might be able to relate to that process on their own individual and family level. My personal challenge and goal was to research and to write this book, even if for varied reasons it ultimately benefited just one individual, me.  

If my project never makes it into “commercial” print, I have still gained valuable insight and knowledge, albeit late in my life. Who ever else may benefit from this project content is pretty much out of my hands; that will be left in the hands of a publisher and any potential reader, all of whom are a part of the previously mentioned “system”. This is not a book about me, but one for and about us referred to as “We the People”, the system found within the U.S. Constitution. You and I are part of that political and religious “We system”. Sinclair Lewis once stated: "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag, and carrying a cross"! 

            Like the vast majority of Americans, attending church provided a fundamental basis for what was considered right and wrong. Church going was a part of my early lifestyle, and I thought that made me a Christian. A part-time job, graduation from high school, a full-time job, marriage, an apartment, a couple of children, and in-between the two young-ins, a house of our own (and the bank’s of course).  

That era was the late 50’s and early 60s. Life was happy then, and for all practical purposes virtually carefree; but it wasn’t going to stay that way, mostly due to ignorance on my part. One problem during that point in my life was this: I didn’t realize, and perhaps didn’t even care, how ignorant I was. Some ten years later or so, I discovered I wasn’t naturally ignorant, just “Spiritually” ignorant, even though I had attended and been a part of a church for many years; some call that “church membership”.  

Two of my major discoveries can be summed up in this manner, “Attending church does not make one a ‘Christian’; conversely not attending church does not make one a heathen”. Additionally, the cliché “What you see is what you get” isn’t the complete and total picture of “life”, nor the sum total of such. Eventually I discovered “we” function in two basic, variable, realms. Most individuals don’t even realize that. 

In the late 1960’s my marriage, life and lifestyle started coming apart at the seams. Living in a house next to ours to us was another family. The wife was, to use a word that some can relate to, “preachy”; somewhat pushy too. However there was something, an intangible quality that the couple and family had. To make a long story short, and use a phrase so often heard, I asked “Christ into my heart” one afternoon.  

That was actually a desperation move on my part, for everything else I had tried did not work; so I tried the “preachy” one’s suggestion.  In a matter of moments, I physically felt as if a tremendous weight had been lifted from my shoulders. I didn’t understand how or why such happened, but that’s what it physically, actually felt like.            

            That desperation move on my part was the starting point of my own personal “Spiritual” voyage. Shortly thereafter, and much to my surprise, I noticed a change in my attitude (soul). My life and lifestyle started to improve, along with the marriage. Wish I could end here, and give this chapter a happy ending, but such is not the case.   

            Something else happened in the 60’s as well, something that I thought didn’t affect me directly. Nonetheless, that particular decision rendered in 1963 would have a profound affect on my future thinking and lifestyle. It would also affect the unborn, i.e. my children’s children, as well all other parents children and grandchildren.  

At that point in time however, I had enough things to think about and problems to solve. It took almost forty years of trial and error, observation, investigation, research, and numerous conversations with various types of individuals, to sort out the pieces and then put all those pieces together on “paper”, with the hope and intention of charting out a course for others to understand and possibly follow.   

In the early 1970s I changed jobs once again by my own choosing, and began one that required driving a truck, oft times being out of town for days or even weeks. Once again my lifestyle and marriage began to unravel. I thought to myself, “This shouldn’t be happening; why is God allowing this?” How many times have you asked yourself that very same question, or have heard someone else ask it?  I didn’t have the foggiest idea regarding the answer for that question. I did however have one slight clue. 

Now it was the mid to late 70’s, the same time the alleged fuel shortages started and Vietnam was a major problem in the realm of politics, thus initiating more questions for me (and undoubtedly other folks as well) with no seemingly apparent and satisfactory answers. After 19 years my (our) marriage ended, in what many churchgoers think and react to as the “unpardonable sin”, divorce. The late 70’s, became the early 80’s. 

One haunting question lingered in my thoughts, “Why, what happened”? My quest for “real” answers, not some pie-in-the-sky spiritual mumbo-jumbo without actual ties to the “real world”, began in earnest. For example, how could anyone ask Christ into their “heart”, when the heart is a muscular organ that circulates blood in the human body? “That has got to be the dumbest question and/or statement”, was my thinking.    

Yet I did that very thing and I knew something had happened. Nevertheless my life and lifestyle were once again like a major truck wreck, with pieces of wreckage scattered all over the highway of life I had already traveled. I also realized more of life’s highway still lay ahead for me, to use the cliché “The good Lord willing”.  

I wanted (and needed) to understand what made that previously mentioned religious (heart) statement work in my life. Over time, I did, just as I eventually learned through the years what made the truck engines work in the “big rigs” I drove. I began to realize some pieces had to be missing from what I was taught and accepted as a churchgoer. A something, or perhaps even some one, to provide the power to keep that “dumb” statement “running” my life’s “engine”. I decided it was time for me to move from the theory of “things” into the actual reality of such. 

If there wasn’t something missing, how come my first marriage didn’t stay together? If a truck engine threw a rod, or blew a piston, or the turbo-charger malfunctioned, the engine would lose power and it wouldn’t operate as designed. I reasoned the Bible had to be the same way; after all it was God’s “Operating Manual” for humanity, or so another truck driver once told me. For me, it was time to find out whether or not that trucker was full of “donkey dust.” Was the Bible fact or fiction; perhaps a combination of both? Were there important pieces missing in my “life’s engine”, and if so what were they? More importantly, why were those pieces missing?  

The time frame was now the mid to late 80’s, another short lived marriage and once again another divorce, this time for totally different reasons than the first. In that time frame however, the answers to a great many of my questions, along with those missing pieces I searched for, were discovered and revealed to me in numerous and various ways; but not without a cost. I also discovered “oil and water don’t mix” in life’s engine, just as that same combination is devastating in any internal combustion engine.  

By numerous denominational church standards I was now a terrible “outcast”, perhaps an unforgivable heathen (sinner) in that institution’s “eyes”. I had committed the “unpardonable sin” of divorce - not once, but twice. God forbid, and He does! However, He also forgives! “No more marriages for me”, was my plan for the future. “Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice, shame on you”, or so the saying goes. Marriage was below the “bottom of the list” in my lifestyles notepad of things to do!     

As I undertake putting this project together and on paper, the year is 2003, with 2004 rapidly nearing the “doorstep”. My present wife and I celebrated our 17^th wedding anniversary in November 2003, and if the years are not correct, she will edit them. The fact is my “bride” is a loving, thoughtful, caring and giving individual (I think too much so at times) and another “unforgivable sinner”, at least by some “church” standards; she has also been divorced. But this time we will be together “till death do us part”. “Yeah, sure, this is your third marriage, how do you know you’ll be together till death do you part”? That could be you’re thinking, so let me answer in this manner. 

Before we met each other, each of us had discovered there is a priority list. That “list” actually works, if one puts it into practice. However the realization, application, and practice of such, can be extremely difficult at times. Thanks to experience and our continued desire to seek, learn, and understand the Truth, individually and collectively, the probability of us remaining together is 95%. Besides, both of us have decided we’re too old to start over again.

Remember this fact; no thing or person is perfect on this earth. Then too the only thing that has a real, actual, “lifetime guarantee” is death. Additionally, both of us have become more learned and less ignorant in the application and use of precepts and principles found in the “Operating Manual”. 

Is this the “fairy tale” ending? Not really, at least not in so-called reality. We still have problems to solve and obstacles to overcome. There are still bills to pay, and at times disagreements to resolve between ourselves; and still not enough hours in a day to do it all. Sound familiar? The difference for us now is the application and use of principles and precepts, found within the Bible, that we (try to) use in order to solve and resolve the various issues and problems that come about on a daily basis.  

            To some it will appear, as one continues to read, this writer despises the institutions of the church and government; such is not the case at all. It has been said, “The best way to get someone’s attention is to hit him (or her) in the head, or get into their pocketbook”. This book, and my writing approach and style, is an attempt to do the aforementioned, but just in the literary sense. Perhaps the best words to describe myself would be “practical realist”. If the reader thinks I have all the answers, you’ll be wrong; but I do know how and where to find the answers to any questions that might arise. 

Another reason for my writing this book concerns realism, and practical application when it comes to institutional church teaching and “its” practical application of what is written on the pages of the Operating Manual, commonly referred to as the Bible. Perhaps I missed the “realistic teaching” during my church attendance. After reading some of the chapters in this book, some theologians might believe this writer will also miss the “heavenly chariot”, usually referred to as the “rapture”.  

However, look at the situations in America, such as kids bring guns to school and shooting their fellow classmates; law breakers having more “rights” than law abiding citizens, and victims too. Issues such as a woman’s alleged “right” to an abortion and this nation’s Biblical God being evicted from public life, schools, and government are all further evidence of a moral decline. Consider as well the institution of some alleged, main-line “Christian” churches that ignore simple, basic Biblical “values”, such as allowing and sanctioning same sex marriages.   

I came to a realization by researching the founding documents of this nation; for example the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, I really didn’t miss any “realistic teaching” in the “church”. How is anything missed in “reality”, if such was never there to begin with? Hopefully the contents of this book will illustrate those and other points in a practical, realistic, reasonable, and very unique manner.  

Yet another two-fold reason for writing this book. First, perhaps it will help someone to recognize and hopefully avoid the abundant potholes found on the highway of life this individual plummeted into. Second, perhaps this book will help others to also avoid the “school of hard knocks”; the tuition for that school can be rather costly in more ways than one.

Additionally most individuals, especially those who have made it to the “top of the heap”, be it in business, sports, education, and entertainment - citing some examples - have forgotten from whence they came and how they got there. I’m convinced, and now very thoroughly, an urgent wake up call needs to be sent to “We the People”. Once they hopefully wake up, the government officials will, who allegedly represent the legal citizens of this nation. The politicians in government need a wake-up alarm, a loud, long and persistent “bell-ringing”, from all of “We the People”.   

Another urgent wake up alarm needs to be sent to the majority of this nation’s religious leader’s, and the people that attend the institution of the alleged “Christian church”.  This book will hopefully be the “alarm clock” that will sound the alarm and send a wake-up message to all of “WE THE PEOPLE of the United States…”    

            Perhaps the most persuasive reason for this project was more personal in nature, a “reality check” of sorts. Shortly after my present wife and I were married, my dad was diagnosed with a type of cancer. As his condition worsened, I realized he wouldn’t be with us, that meaning family and friends, too much longer. One afternoon when I went to visit him at the hospital, he asked me this question. “Why does God allow such pain and suffering if He is such a loving God?” That was an extremely piercing question!           

I’m certain that that very same question has been asked hundreds of thousands of times over, perhaps even by you, some loved one, or even a friend. Much to my regret, I didn’t have an answer for my dad. That bothered me, and bothered me a lot! I’m quite certain my dad asked the pastor of the church he and my mom attended that very same question. I surmised that he never received a satisfactory answer, for if he had he wouldn’t have asked me. You see for many, many, years in my dad’s mind, I wasn’t the brightest light bulb in the socket; I didn’t meet his expectations during that time frame. 

I had asked that very same question of pastors of various denominations, but never received a real, practical, down to earth answer; just the same ole pie-in-the sky “spiritual” rhetoric. I expanded my search to include other individuals, professionals and amateurs alike, for an answer; the results were the same. I purposed to find an earthly answer to that question on my own (or so I thought), one that was “real”, one that made sense; an answer(s) that could be understood fairly easy by the “common folk” (like myself) who are the usually honest, hard working, (and generally underpaid) law abiding, “life and breath” lawful citizens of America.  

However, my dad had passed on before I could answer that question, and explain the rather complex and intricate reasons to him. Nevertheless, found within each chapter of this book will be some building blocks for the foundation concerning the answer to that particular question my dad, and countless others, have asked. 

I realize many things are “turn offs” to people, such as politics and religion, along with individuals considered to be preachy Bible thumpers. To be honest with the reader “thumpers” are turn offs to me as well. Therefore I will do my utmost not to be “preachy” and a “thumper”. Today however, my personal “turn off” reasons are quite different than some twenty plus years ago. One of those reasons is part of what this book is all about. For example, those “expert” individuals that think and/or believe they know exactly what the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bible mean. 

 This book will challenge, and I mean truly, actually challenge, what and how you presently think and believe about the Bible (religion) and those two documents (politics), all of which are the foundation for the nation we call “home”, the good ole U.S. of A. The words you will continue to hopefully read, and are printed on the pages of this hopeful book, are not necessarily new. Yet the application of such words and their usage will, and in all probability, be a radical and revolutionary premise to most readers.  

I’ve never read Dale Carnegie’s 1936 “best seller book” “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. You’ve probably figured that out by now however, and if you haven’t, you will if you keep on reading. If this book doesn’t sell one copy after (if) being published by someone, perhaps I will have to read Carnegie’s book!  

Unfortunately in today’s society most individuals are told what they want to hear and see and not what they need to hear and see, especially from politicians followed closely by preachers. A few reasons for that are: 1) they don’t want to hurt people’s feelings. 2) People are ignorant and have accepted lies for truth. 3) Politicians need the voter’s support to get elected or re-elected to office. Oh yea, it’s also a real good way to win “friends” and influence people. 

Those few reasons could fall into another category best stated in this manner, “People really don’t want to know or accept the truth”. Here’s one reason; once someone knows the truth, and the “real” facts, it might necessitate some type of attitude adjustment or change in thinking; even worse a personal commitment and involvement.  

 Now for some insight into an area that affects everyone, a problem that sometimes occurs between my wife and me. One must realize, that as general rule, men and women think differently. Surprised? Men tend to be more logical when looking at problems. On the other hand, women tend to look at problems with their emotions (feelings). With that stated, my wife tells me I’m a negative person, a pessimist, whereas by comparison, she is a positive individual, an optimist. “You always look at the negative” is her observation and (usual) comment to me.   

My response is, “No I’m not; I can’t help it if the facts are negative”. Maybe that’s why we get along, she’s positive and I’m negative, or so it would appear to most observers. Like (real) love and marriage, “Ya can’t have one without the other”. Appearances can sometimes be deceiving however. Sometimes “facts” are not really facts, but actually issues.  

Sometimes individuals or groups use issues, for example the phrase “separation of church and state”, to disguise and conceal the actual and truthful facts. Thus the question is now asked, “Is there any common ground upon which the thinking and reasoning of individuals can agree about and then use”? Consider the following solution, using a clear glass and some water. 

Observation (looking) will determine if the aforementioned glass (a container) contains water. Looking at the glass, (also an object) one has to determine if the glass has water in it. The container and the water are objects to observe, but also to consider. Stated another way, the glass is an object and a container. The water however is not a container only an object to observe. What would happen if someone wanted to pour themselves a glass of water and missed the glass? Miss the glass (a container) and the water will go anywhere.  

Whether the glass is half full or half empty is “subjective” (i.e. self) observation, that being how an individual views (thinks) and then determines (considers) just how much water is in the glass, i.e. the container. In other words, “Is the glass container half-full or half-empty of water”?   

Far too often however, one’s subjective observation and thinking (perspective) can obscure objective observation and the actual “facts” (a container of sorts), thereby changing the objective fact(s) into subjective issues; stated in another manner, an appearance of something. In this particular example the amount of water in the glass is often determined by an individual’s thinking process and/or what they believe. Such changing of facts to issues is an extremely effective and favorite tactic of politicians, lawyers, judges and the unseen enemy. 

The word “observation” is a “two-sided coin”; one side is objective thinking and determination, the other side is subjective thinking and determination. How much water is in the glass is not an objective determination of the fact, but rather a subjective determination of the issue, “Is the glass half full of water or is the glass half empty of water”? The true and real fact is the glass is not full of water; the true and real fact is the glass is not void of water. The glass has water in it; that is the one single fact that can be easily and readily determined.  

How MUCH (subjective determination) water is in the glass is not a matter of fact, (using objective determination) but rather an issue of an individual’s subjective thinking of, “how much water”. That determination is observed and decided by an individual’s thought process, beliefs, and one’s perspective, that being subjective or objective determination. The principles of objective and subjective observation should be learned, understood, and then used when examining facts, issues, dealing with problems, and discovering solutions to such.  

For example, is the phrase “separation of church and state” (the water) actually found within the U. S. Constitution? Has anyone ever considered the U.S. Constitution as a type of container? Is the phrase “separation of church and state” a fact or an issue? For that matter, has or is an individual being a Christian a fact and/or an issue? Give those questions some serious consideration. 

By this point in the book I’ve probably broken many literary criteria rules and regulations. However, what the editor and publisher will eventually do to correct such is unknown by me at this point in time. I can safely state: “This is not the completed project yet”. The completed project will be a result of the editor’s and publisher’s determination of how many “literary criteria rules and regulations” this writer has broken and/or not even used. Hopefully the editor will ignore the majority of such literary “laws”, and restore my non-expert, non-professional writing style. (It’s okay to fix the punctuation and spelling however.)   Here’s my reasoning for such an absurd request.  

First, we oft time take ourselves way too seriously, thereby in some instances causing many individuals to think more highly of themselves than what they ought. That creates an “I’m better than you” attitude, many times disguised as “expert professionalism”. (Our physical bodies are also “containers”.) 

Next, solely based upon “verbal” evidence, I believe the average, rapidly disappearing working middle-class individual, struggling to make ends meet, struggling to survive in a topsy-turvy society that is drowning in a sea of double, triple and even quadruple standards, have had their fill of the “professional experts” and their various commentaries, analysis, opinions, and decisions. If they’re such “experts” and so smart, why are “things” actually getting worse instead of better in America?  

I also have concluded America’s citizens, for the most part, are fed up with political and religious systems that are filled with deceit, indifference, and yes, even criminals. Add to that an escalating loss of personal freedom. Let’s not forget various “churches” that claims to believe the Bible, yet disregard its most basic principles in the premise and name of “love”. And finally, as but one example, throw in a government whose spending exceeds its income. Now that’s something the average, working middle class family can’t do without suffering dire consequences and repercussions. All of those “things” create frustration and apathy, a “what’s the use” attitude.

Another conclusion of mine is this: the American public is not as ignorant as the “professionals and experts”, in their respective fields, would want us and lead us to think, believe and eventually accept. The vast majority of the American public may be “ignorant”, but they’re not dumb or stupid; frustrated, yes - apathetic, probably. How about complacent too? Possibly, all because the real facts and truth of politics and religion have been cleverly camouflaged, deceptively disguised, and than transformed into issues, using fancy political, theological, and legal terms with words that are not often used in our common, everyday “real world” conversation.   

Contrary to the opinions and analysis of the experts, America continues to be divided into a “have and have not” society at a rapidly increasing pace. Even that term is a relative one depending on an individual’s perception of the “real life” facts and issues. The majority of citizens realize something is, and has been going amuck in America for many, many decades. The obvious question should be: “Why has it”?  

The next question should be, “Are there any solutions”? Once the “middle class citizens” realize why and how the various political and religious “systems” were designed to work, not how they are actually working nowadays, then some solutions should become “realistically” obvious. That is only a starting point however. The foundation that America’s society was built upon needs rediscovery and truthful retelling.  

Think of America as “our” gigantic house, one in which we citizens live in. Consider the foundation for “our house” as being the Bible. The floor of our house is the Declaration of Independence. The walls of our house are the words “We the People”. Consider this nation’s geographic borders the windows of the house. The doors to the house our nation’s Constitution; the God of the Bible, considered as being the roof of our house. Remember however, for any house to remain stable it needs a solid and stable foundation. Historically, factually, and truthfully our Biblical foundation has been continuously jack hammered away at in a subtle, methodically designed manner.  

Destroy the solid foundation and eventually any house will begin to sag. Windows and doors will not operate as designed. Soon the floor and walls will begin to buckle and collapse, eventually bringing the roof down as well (God’s judgment?). The house will become useless, unusable, and unlivable. That ultimate collapse could have been prevented by periodic inspection and proper maintenance of “our” house; one could consider this book an inspection manual of sorts for our house called America.    

            For the record as a “trucker”, I’ve had the opportunity to travel coast-to-coast and border-to-border for a number of years. I’ve seen and heard at “real” ground level America’s physically and mentally changing landscape. I’ve had the opportunity and privilege to be on the “inside” of law enforcement, government, and politics as well. I’ve also attended various churches of all “faiths”. All that, plus much, much, more can be summed up with a few words, “practical, real life experience”. Some of those experiences were good, some bad. Both types however contributed to my learning and knowledge.  

In case you might be wondering, no I’m not in a full time paid “ministry”. I never have been a historian, teacher, lawyer, politician, or theologian; no letters of higher education from “man’s system” of such after my name either. Five, and sometimes six days a week (at the time of this writing) I smack that ole alarm clock by the bed, just as tens of millions of other Americans do each morning. My “natural” expertise is no greater or no less than the “average”, hard working, law abiding American. This book’s design is one of and for that average, hard working, law abiding, blue collar, and frustrated citizen.   

My own personal observations, research, learning, and experiences (sometimes referred to as knowledge), are the major factors which resulted in my writing this book. That “Knowledge” coupled with plain, good old common sense, and deductive reasoning will hopefully make for some interesting and provocative reading.  

 Nevertheless, it will be for the reader to actually decide if what is printed on the pages of this book is fact or fiction, reality or fantasy, truth or lies. You can also decide if any of your own personal experiences relate to the subjects and issues printed on the pages of this book.  

It would be virtually impossible and impractical to cover in a single book all the problems and issues that we face on a daily basis. The best-case scenario would be to start off with the “basics” and then “throw in” some seemingly foolish questions. Add to that a heaping dose of plain ole common sense. Sprinkle in some “reality”; then add some deductive reasoning to the “mix”. The results of using that type of mix might surprise, perhaps even alarm the reader. 

It has also been said, “Ignorance is bliss”. Hopefully what is contained on the following pages will cause one to figure out if that preceding statement is “a statement of truth” and/or “a true statement”. (Say what you ask?)  Perhaps you’ve already decided this book is too “religious” for you just by reading the first few pages. If so, which definition of religion, as previously defined, did you use to make that determination? It may seem like a silly question to ask, at least for now. 

Have often have you heard this? “The vast majority of individuals in this nation have become the silent majority”. I’ve heard it said, “If you can’t beat them, join them”. The other side of that particular saying is this, “If you can’t join them, beat them”, hence these words from The Declaration of Independence; “That when any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Forms, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”  

             By becoming part of the “silent majority” individuals automatically, by default, join the vocal minority, and the “squeaky wheel gets the most grease”. In other words legislation is enacted and enforced for the vocal minority, and the “elite” while the silent majority gets trampled, remain silent and ignorant, willing and brainwashed participants within the vocal minority, whom they oft times abhor. How long that will continue, or be allowed to continue, is a question for you the reader of this project as well as America’s silent majority to decide. 

            For the record, any decision that an individual may make, for all practical purposes, is of no affect unless some type of action follows that decision. This manuscript is one type of action, a result of my own personal conclusion as to how and why America is being raped as a nation. If an editor and a publisher agree with my conclusion, (and that will probably be a big if) then this manuscript will have been transformed into the book you are now reading. How many books are to be printed will be determined by the “publishing system” (supplier); second by requests for this book by the public (demand). Welcome to another theoretical world, that of supply and demand.    

The experts in economics will tell everyone that “supply and demand” is not a theoretical world, but one of reality. Consider the possibility that “the law of supply and demand” is one of facts and issues. I now welcome the reader to a door that opens into the “worlds” of two realms. One world being the difference between facts and issues; those two words are the determining factors for another world, motivation, the second world.  

Believe it or not, and as strange as it might appear in print, supply and demand is actually a by-product of motivation (eyes/attitude/spirit) which is a result of “love”; think about that statement and the results thereof. [Cf. Math. 6:22-23 and 2^nd Cor.11:14-15] Recall one of my opening statements: “This book will also take your mind, thoughts, eyes, and beliefs to places where no man or woman has dared go before.” Perhaps I should add, “at least not in print”?  

Or maybe, just maybe, some very basic precepts and principles have been put into print 200+ years ago but there has been an increasing number of “eyes that see but do not perceive”. The reader will have the opportunity to decide that.                                                                                

                                                             “Come now, and let us reason together…”

                                                                                                            Isaiah 1:18 

                                                             “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”.                                         

                                                                                                   Thomas Jefferson

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