enlightened

It is the sole duty and responsibility of those who have reached the enlightened status of human beings, over the material spiritual degradation of the human animal: To protect, care for, and educate the ignorant.  Brian Thomas Armstrong

Republicans and Democrats are in Agreement on Only One Thing: Let the Poor Eat Cake!

When I hear that American men, women, and children are starving and living in poverty in our own country; I do not reply with “Let them Eat Cake Then” as our governmental bureaucracy says by inaction. I reply,” Let us all share what we have so everyone can Eat Steak!” – Brian Thomas Armstrong

Mafia Style Reconstruction

150 billion has been spent so far on reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan. Not the countries of course but the wealth and power of Bush era cronies through Mafia style contracting scams that not only robbed both the Iraqi and Afghan people of a chance of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, but the American Tax Payer as well. So the next time conservatives tell you there is not enough money for social programs like education, the environment, green energy, and health care, or they want to cut food programs for the poor. Tell them they owe us the 150 billion they stole and to use that money to pay for it!

Socialist Ideals!

Violence is No Longer the Means, the Ends, Nor the Catalyst to Modern Socialist Revolution! Society Is!

The Public Fabric

A Great Socialist Has Fallen

Apathy

Apathy

Shall social inaction be the dictator of fools?

Though seldom do fools have the mental tools

That politicians quickly abuse in righteousness

When it justifies their selfish means

As the limits to freedom they impose incite our perseverance

And the present times demand our conscience

The number of their crimes commands the mind

To seek honest answers from the leaders of our kind

In taxing tribute we pay the greedy

Who contribute little to the needy

In these desperate days we search for deliverance

From those who would keep us from our own independence

For a savoir we must look among the masses

Who will become once more consciously aware and tear down all the walls of social classes

Brian Thomas Armstrong

Metamorphosis

The fact that the Worlds governments act like spoiled ill–behaved children sometimes makes me angry. Then afterwards I feel foolish for expecting anything more or less from them. They represent all the branches of human kind in this world and are thus bound by the unavoidable self-interests of the Human Nature of the Society they represent. When you can accept and get accustomed to these flaws of the Human Animal - It motivates you to transform yourself spiritually into a Human Being! (BTA)

American Ideology in Danger!

     From WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, to internet tragedy Aaron Swartz and the growing political and social controversy over gun control, our founding fathers of the great United States of America seemed to have failed to clarify what other unalienable human rights are we really allowed by our government?

American concepts of war being a beast unleashed as a last resort and objectives of achieving world peace have been transformed into a perpetual political debate on who to go to war with in the future. These are the dangerous crossroads that we all now face. One wrong turn at this point and our symbolic dreams will become the World's nightmare; whether they are a country, a state, or an individual.

–        Brian Thomas Armstrong

American Ideology in Danger!

American Ideologies are being split in two over several aspects of the founding fathers of our countries true definitions of what rights should be afforded the general population of American society.  When and how far to take those rights before risking harm to that society is the dilemma we are all facing today.

Several modern political debates of these said rights have been appearing in issues such as gun control, governmental prosecutorial overreach, web and copyright laws to torture and drone attacks overseas. What constitutes an ‘Enemy of the State’ and what rights should we afford our so called “enemies overseas,” and to what extent we are willing to go to in order to protect and uphold the rights of our also so called “allies,” remains a prominent subject for heated debate in our country.

The Declaration of Independence states that,” We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

Unfortunately the Declaration of Independence failed to clarify just what all those other unalienable rights were that the pursuit was among. As usual with American political ideological debate these questions pose even more questions than they provide answers to.

This lack of clarity on the documents part has created a division of ideologies right down the middle, causing democracy to fall out of balance even though it is split equally. 

This has been seen in the latest social debates on whistle-blowers and what punishment should fit the crimes of both the offending parties, and as is lately often the case, the legal liabilities of the whistle blower.

Do those unalienable rights extend to all people as to how much whistle blowing in federal government shall be allowed without endangering national security? If these rights are restricted are we still practicing democracy in the true form it was meant to be practiced in?

From the modern controversies of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange releasing received classified documents on the World Wide Web, to the tragic death of RSS and Reddit genius Aaron Swartz. We are made more aware everyday of the need to reassess who the real enemies are. When this promising and intelligent computer wiz was found hanging dead in his home from apparent suicide after legal troubles with the federal government, and his illegal downloading charges that could have sent him away to federal prison for thirty – five years, obviously and adversely tossed even poor Aaron Swartz for a loop, many Americans, not to mention watchers of the world felt the strong influence of potential governmental American prosecutorial overreach in Swartz’s death.

With so many questions being opened up these days for society to ponder about what all people’s inalienable rights around the world should be, and how our American Ideologies effect the modern world, we must start to wonder if our society still understands what our forefathers interpretations of those inalienable human rights are, and how they should be administered in our modern social political world.

The modern American internal debate about how the public's constitutional rights at home should be distributed democratically, has put into perspective the urgency of the situation to clarify these concepts of “Creator Given” rights and human freedoms of choice.

Before these vague modern interpretations turn even further into more public apathy, and then unfortunately to dictatorship by public inaction, our clearly set standard of patriotic ideals obviously has failed to be good enough.

The Declaration of Independence also states that if these rights should be grossly overlooked by their governing bodies, and said valid grievances be totally overlooked by the peoples government, and that government does so to the extent that it is destructive to the people it is supposed to represent, the people have the unalienable right to abolish said government and organize a new government based on principles and ideals that will most likely lead to societies return to safety and happiness.

This interpretation of the Declaration of Independence was somewhat paraphrased but was put into slightly more modern terms as well. The biggest mystery in this debate of rights and original American ideologies is what constitutes sufficient grounds for revolting against your government, and more importantly what level of rights should be safely afforded the public without interfering or endangering national security.

To try to define democratic ideology as one single entity of sustainable self-rule is like trying to define human nature as one single set aspect of humanity; both are limitless with possibilities. If you pick up a standard college textbook such as “Political Ideologies and Democratic Ideal” Their interpretation of “Ideology” defines it as “a fairly coherent and comprehensive set of ideals that explains and evaluates social conditions, helps people understand their place in society, and provides a program for social and political action.” This promising ideology cannot be accomplished by a numb and apathetic modern democratic American Society, this ideological dream can only be accomplished by an educated and informed society with clear ideals formed by innovative progressive public debate and action on the most important and sometimes neglected and under-appreciated unalienable human rights; the rights our forefathers promised us.

The Dangerous Crossroads of American Capitalism

American concepts of war being a beast unleashed as a last resort and objectives of achieving world peace have been transformed into a perpetual political debate on who to go to war with in the future. These are the dangerous crossroads that we all now face. One wrong turn at this point and our symbolic dreams will become the World's nightmare; whether they are a country, a state, or an individual.
 – Brian Thomas Armstrong

A shift to true balanced socialist ideals is the pathfinder that will lead us down the middle road of putting American citizens and everyday people around the globe first, ahead of American Political Capitalistic interests. That is the way back to our dreams of world peace and mutual understanding. 

A Centuries Old Corporate Lie

The greed and ego of financial power is fueled by money with no spiritual or intellectual purpose. This selfish ideology is always protected and enacted by its corporate soldiers who are trained in the art of instilling fear into the average financially struggling citizen. They tell the masses that the poor will have even less if socialism is allowed to empower the powerless. This tactic is age old but transparent to those with nothing left to lose, or nothing left that hasn’t been slowly stolen from them by governmental  or corporation interests already.

The time for selfish pandering of the rich who have disenfranchised themselves from the common citizen is over. The time for true beneficial social change has just begun.

Presidential Political Stigma: Being Branded a Socialist

President Obama started taking real heat about his socialist based ideals with the passing of “Obama Care,” but he isn’t the only president in history to take a political hit with conservatives over their pet social programs during an election year.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt was also plagued by accusations of having socialist values  in the Presidential Election of 1936 ,  because he was perceived as leaning towards European style socialism do to his part in, and belief of, the need for Social Security; socialist in nature by its very name. President Roosevelt also ironically inherited the great depression, and also faced hard questions politically on how well things were improving for the average American citizen.

We will see if on this upcoming Presidential Election day, Obama has as good of luck as Roosevelt had when he was re-elected to a second term in 1936, both in public support during tough financial times, and in our countries economic turnaround.

Merriam-Webster’s Definition of Socialism: 1 - any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. 2 - A: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property. B: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state. 3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

My Definition of a Socialist: A socialist is someone who holds the hopes, needs, and dreams of the many as more important than the materialistic political schemes of the greedy few.  A socialist feels naturally responsible for feeding, housing, educating, and medically treating all those in their society who are in need of it; regardless of whether or not they can afford it.

A socialist does these things because he values humanity, community and social unity.