In sports, hiding the ball is an underhanded tactic to gain game advantage or even to win.
But we’re not playing a game here. This is real life, with real lives in the balance. For real. It’s utterly amazing how big muckie-mucks are so very out of touch with our realities that they can play games with real lives. It’s frightening, and it’s a major force in our future.
New Orleans is no longer merely a world class city, she has now become an internationally watched proving ground for leftist ideas and experimentation, including big interests. The left there will push and push to see how much the people take, and as long as they take it, the rest of the country will be in the crosshairs of the left’s political, directed energy weapons to come.
Louisiana Governor Blanco’s latest move on the disrespect for the sovereignty of the people of Louisiana is to bring in the troops of the National Guard to walk the streets armed.
What must you think of the People, Governor?
Another of the most vexing of governance issues is the contempt and disrespect officials have for constituents – that penchant for walking all over people on the self-assured, self-deluded premise that officials know better.
You’ll recall that a fast track law was enacted in Blanco’s state that forbids drones from taking weapons in time of emergency. Well, the emergency is still ongoing, as disasters are wont to do, and officials can’t legally go that way anymore perhaps, but they can move another piece on the political chessboard and harass, humiliate and, of course, put down the people another way.
Blanco brings in the National Guard. She can’t do that except under certain circumstances, and it may be legal to do it this way. If it isn’t, well, Liberals always push and push and put off stopping it all until they get a ruling from a court; until then, who’s to say what’s legal? This kind of ambiguity is another tactic; pushing until one gets a ruling. Pretty lousy way to do business. In this way, the left gains a little, loses a little, but gains, nevertheless, with total indifference to the liberty and rights of the people.
The push to humiliate, control and de-spirit the people is on, by proceeding under color of disaster, but is actually a move to disarm and to aggravate things. Has anybody noticed that?
What’s it all for? Why aggravate conditions people have to live with today?
In the short-term, my surmise is this: on the subject of personal independence, the Left hides the ball.
What ball?
The Left in Louisiana (and elsewhere in America, including the United Nations) doesn’t want to give the people the chance to be independent because it will be conclusive, rational and socially scientific proof – not to mention a humiliating defeat – that independence works better than any other system, especially official oversight.
Independence is proof of competence in the people, a competence superior to that of agencies, including the Blue Helmets.
It is also the law of the land. Put another way, American values hold that we don’t need a United Nations and we don’t need oversight.
That irks liberals. Liberals just hate the very idea that they’re not needed. So, they intrude and insist – with force sometimes, even to the point of altering conditions to deteriorate – so that they can then run things to the exclusion of the constituent who is forever denied the chance to operate without oversight.
Independence would forever prove individual competence and responsibility. Liberals can’t have that. Member nations of the U.N. can’t have that.
Officials points to violence, desolation and police being overwhelmed, and conveniently forget about the original rights of the people and the powerful likelihood they can handle crime legally and competently come what may.
How embarrassing for the Left that the People they loathe should be capable and even better at it than bureaucracy.
It’s all just a variation of the leftist tactic of silencing opposition. That’s you.
Well, if the people can handle it – and they can if you don’t take their weapons and hide the ball – then you can cross police being overwhelmed off the list. (Don’t forget that law enforcement derives its very authority from the people, who can revoke it, by the way.)
If the people are honest and peaceful, interested in protecting their property, their community and if they’re able to handle their own affairs without stupid oversight, you can cross violence off the list next. Pre-emptive actions such as the Governor’s are insulting, unnecessary and perhaps illegal.
This is why New Orleans is a proving ground for leftist agenda. they can blame it all on the weather, someone’s neglect of the levees, and much more, but it bubbles down to one thing: their solutions are not only wrong, but planned.
Let me explain another example of Hiding the Ball.
In 2005, a Pew Research Center study found that Conservatives are happier than Liberals, and another study elsewhere about that same time found that so-called conservative values are actually mainstream values. These are not surprising.
Another way to hide the ball is in the debate over Justices of the Supreme Court in silencing so-called conservative justices, denying them appointment and other disingenuous tactics.
You see, those on the left who object perceive the concept of values to be conservative, and dishonestly – dishonestly to themselves – refuse to accept that values for all are mainstream. Values such as honesty, good faith, home and family, and personal integrity are somehow right wing?? Weird? Extremist? Not at all. Just dishonest.
To frustrate appointments of conservative justices is to hide the fact – to hide the ball – that personal integrity and all the rest are not right or left – that is, until the left politicized them by understanding them as a threat to their political positions.
Got news for you: Values are a threat to the Left. And they say so a hundred ways, compounding the felony, so to speak, by rejecting honor, integrity, truth and the rest as something to oppose because it is perceived as adversarial.
Translation: Republican. Right Wing. Translation of translation: proof that the left is not necessary.
Other examples of hiding the ball include restricting political speech close to an election and limiting donations. Gun control is an example of what positive things could happen if the people and weapons were undemonized. No-fault divorce and other socially engineered mores to pre-emptively intervene are further examples of silencing the opposing view and denying people the chance to prove themselves as independent.
Hiding the ball – bashing values as right-wing and frustrating the people from being independent where their very lives are concerned – is a dishonest, underhanded and yes, un-American political tactic to gain advantage at a terrible price.
Where these values are disrespected so – and these legal and community values are being utterly walked on in Louisiana – then we have a problem in our national governance, too, as New Orleans is the proving ground for it all.
This is the importance of watching New Orleans worldwide.
Especially, with the United Nations now making a big push this month to disarm the United States citizen through our own foolish participation.
These trials – these trial balloons in Louisiana – will serve as micro-predictors of how the rest of the nation will react to confiscations, martial law and patently illegal (as found by a court) we-say-so politics which have no conscience about backing up with [illegal] brute force.
Not respecting the people’s sovereignty and pre-emptively denying the people the chance to act in their own interests is to hide the ball in order to point to justification for forceful, probably illegal, official actions. It’s harassing, it’s intimidating and it’s immoral.
It’s un-American.
Because the independence of the neighborhood would prove beyond a doubt that the people know best, that Louisianans – and the rest of us – are perfectly capable of doing without oversight, and that we can revoke their authority if we wish. (I like that part. People really ought to look into that one.)
We hire executives to work for us so we can be free to go about our affairs, not because we’re incapable. When did that start?
Presuming that constituents can’t handle their own matters is not only insulting, but it is an attack on their sovereignty, our sovereignty.
Mischaracterizing American Values as right wing is un-American, too.
Hiding the ball so constituents don’t get the chance to be independent is not good for the country.
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