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Very excellent. Quite a while ago I read a news letter written by the Black Avenger, Ken Hamblin, the Black Rush Limbaugh. So you know it goes bak aways. The title of the artical was Stop Austrilia From Going Under, featuring quotes from Samuel Barret Pettingill. In 2014 this was an article about Mr. Hamblin for Black Hystory Month. While I have the hand typed article lost somwher in my computer I can't find it. But well worth the read Stop Austrila From Going Under, which would fit what we are seeing today. Rembering The Black Avenger. https://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2014/02/23/remembering-the-black-avenger-n1799194

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Thank you Gail. And thank you for telling me about Ken Hamblin. I read the Town Hall link. Ken certainly didn't pull any punches or leave you guessing what his thought on something was! People are good or evil, industrious or lazy, etc. Color is not a factor.

One thing that absolutely infuriates me is the public school system. How unfair it is especially to minority kids in inner cities. Because of the pathetic teachers they graduate high school not even able to read which definitely dooms them to a life of misery! Is that part of the plan?

Minority kids don't learn as well as white kids because they are poor. So being poor makes you stupid? Can you get anymore racist than that? And NOW the excuse is "white privilege"???

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Sep 27, 2022·edited Sep 27, 2022Liked by David Wolosik

This is my take. Friedrich A. Hayek, Road to Serfdom

https://gailhonadle.substack.com/

You are welcome to add yours to it. I write for free. I may not be wealthy, just set out to be comfortable in my Golden Years, which is about to be Destroyed by a DEMONIC ELITE SET OF DICTATORS, IN MY REPUBLIC. But think older people like me have a wealth of knowledge and wisdom to impart.

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Vo-Tech educations HS lets you blend both. Hub spent 20 yrs in USN Avioinics, was already in the Navy when his Draft notice showed up. Got out used his GI Bill for a Education degree, Jr. Tech Prof. Electronics, Math, and Computers. 20 yrs, retired as Dept. Chair. His Memphis city kids had to do remedial math, most dropped out, supposed grade given A/B students. His County smaller schools, foreigners were qualified. What a difference a school system can make. Many went on to higher ed as lawyers, doctors, buisness. The drop outs, crime, low wage jobs, drunks, junkies.

Ben Carson was one of those kids, the difference was his illerate mom pushed him to succeed.

And that is why Hamblin had a massive night audience. We had Rush in the day and Ken at night,

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Well said!

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This was from one of his news letters, I'd love to find it again. Stop Austrilia From Going Under, featuring quotes from Samuel Barret Pettingill.

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It is a old enough article it is in microsoft office as 1 of their docx I hand typed in.

Instead of reading Stop Australia Going Under, it should read Stop AMERICA FROM GOING UNDER.

Stop Australia Going Under

Reprinted from political ad in the Western Australian Sunday Times, December 3, 1995

In 1944, Democratic U.S. Congressman Samuel Pettengill warned America that socialists would endeavor to have the U.S. spend itself into bankruptcy, with a view to making citizens totally dependent on a centralized government.

Pettengill detailed TEN POINTS of the socialist manifesto that would destroy free government. Almost 50 years later, down under in Australia, it is disturbing to reflect on Pettengill 10 points.

1) People must be made to feel their utter helplessness and their inability to solve their own problems. While in this state of mind, there is held up before them a benign and all-wise leader to whom they MUST look to the cure for all their ills.

2) The principle of local self-government must be WIPED OUT, so that this leader or group in control can have all the political power readily at hand.

3) Constitutional guarantees must be swept aside. This accomplished in part by RIDICULING them as outmoded and an obstruction to progress.

4) Public faith in the legal profession and respect for the courts must be undermined. The law making body must be intimidated and from time to time rebuked, so as to prevent the development of public confidence in it.

5) Economically, the people must be ground down by high taxes, which under one pretext or another they are called upon to pay. Thus they are brought to a common level and all income above a meager living is taken from them. In this manner, economic independence is kept to a minimum. Public may not begin to rely on its own resources.

8) Government bureaus are set up to control practically every phase of the citizen’s lives.

9) The education of the youth of the nation is taken under CONTROL so that all may be indoctrinated at an early age with a spirit of submission to the system.

10) To supplement and fortify all the foregoing, there is kept up a steady stream of GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA designed to extol all who bow the knee and to vilify those who dare raise a voice of dissent.

6) A great public debt must be built so the citizens can never escape its burden, making government the virtual receiver for the entire nation.

7) A general distrust of private business and industry must be kept alive so the

Samuel Barrett Pettengill U. S. Congressman 1886-1974 Reprinted from an article in Ken Hamlin ‘Talks with America’ News letter Feb. 19. 1996 P.O.. Box 562 Castle Rock, CO 80104

PETTENGILL, Samuel Barrett, (nephew of William Horace Clagett), a Representative from Indiana; born in Portland, Oreg., January 19, 1886; in 1892 moved to Vermont with his father, who settled on a farm in Grafton, Windham County; attended the common schools; was graduated from Vermont Academy at Saxtons River in 1904, from Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., in 1908, and from the law department of Yale University in 1911; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in South Bend, Ind.; member of the board of education of South Bend, 1926-1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1939); was not a candidate for renomination in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; newspaper columnist 1939-1948; vice president and general counsel of the Transportation Association of America, 1943-1945; national radio commentator, 1946-1948; attorney for the Pure Oil Co., Chicago, Ill., 1949-1956; consultant, the Coe Foundation, 1956-1965; resided at his boyhood farm near Grafton, Vt.; died in Springfield, Vt., March 20, 1974; interment in Grafton Village Cemetery, Grafton, Vt.

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Thank you Gail. I will put it on the side for one of my references for future articles.

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Thank you for using it. It fits well with what we are going through. Send me a link when you do.

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Dave, you seem to be a great companion to Fred Smith’s essays. Great work.

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Thank you. Great minds?🤔

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Sep 25, 2022Liked by David Wolosik

Those 'You'll be Happy' memes have been so mockingly popular, I did not know that the FEW removed them and also deny doing so; it's all an experiment to them, I suppose, testing the waters, (poisoning the waters as well- re gov in Brit Colum poisoning waterways, search). Best from Oregon

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We are many. They are few. We just have to keep that in mind.

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