"First they arrested the Communists -- but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing.
Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing.
Then they arrested the trade unionists -- and I did nothing because I was not one.
And then they came for the Jews and the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing.
At last they came and arrested me -- and there was no one left to do anything about it." [Rev Martin Niemoller (Nazi Prison Survivor)]

In the late 1800's, the issue was slavery. In the early 1900's, it was women's suffrage. However, the definative fight (since the end of the European monarchs) for freedom was World War II, which lasted from 1930 to 1945, The threat came in the form of Nazi fascism - the end result of socialism. This was the first truly global war, fought in the name of freedom and the ideals of American Democracy. However, we weren't fighting monarchs, but socialism - a type of democracy. A type of democracy that produces fascism and dictators like Hitler and the Nazis' (The National Socialists) or Satlin and the Social Democrats (Communist Socialists). National Socialist are on the right side of the political scale and Communist Socialists (or just socialists) are on the left. While, socialism starts as a movement of the people, it ends with absolute government control - with a dictator at it's head. Prior to World War II, the socialists on the right used the poverty and chaos caused by the socialists on the left to generate popular support. Once the support was won, and Hitler elected, the first right to go was freedom of speech! However, this threat was not seen by America until 1941 - four years before it ended. Ended with the atomic bomb.

From the Right to the Left - the Threat to Freedom Continues

However, the war was not over - just changed. Changed, because conventional wars could no longer be fought with the existence of the atomic bomb. The war shifted from the right to the left in 1945 and lasted until 1990. Just as socialism on the right produced Hitler, socialism on the left produced Stalin and the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Although, the USSR was commonly called communist, in reality they were socialists (on the left). Once again, the free speech that the liberals and the social left talked about was eliminated. The socialist ideal of living for the betterment of their society to precedent over individual rights and freedoms. Anyone expressing alternate views to the socialists were arrested. Failures of the state were covered up and no allowed to speak of them. The all-knowing government determined every aspect of life.

The Fight to be American - The Black Civil Rights Movement

While this cold war raged, the United States, moved toward greater civil rights for its citizens. In the United States freedom was given by the government, but fought for by the people - and in 1950, the black civil rights movement began. Individuals, not intellectuals or government, moved to gain their independence as guaranteed in the American Constitution. In America - any individual - has rights beyond the government. In America, any individual is the government. In America, anyone can fight for their constitutional rights - and blacks did. Blacks aren't Africans, but Americans of a different color skin - and they fought to be Americans with all rights in the constitution. While not a global fight, this fight would become global. Bringing the concept of individual freedom and equality to everyone. It began, however, in the south (of the United States) where people (in polite southern society) "knew their place" and weren't allowed to leave it. Rich stayed rich, poor stayed poor and slaves stayed slaves. It was royal gentry at its best and anti-American. However, world war II changed that. It was realized that freedom belonged to all, but had to be fought for - So a few brave souls stood up and challenged the royal gentry of the south. This was the beginning of the civil rights movement. The fight for Black Americans to have the rights of white Americans. This Black American Freedom Movement is the next hallmark in the American fight for freedom. As with all fights for freedom, in the beginning there would be tremendous sacrifices made - and paid in blood. Just as in world war II. A fight that would be underscored by a new limited war ("police action") in Korea. A war (the first of many battles) fought between America and Socialism.

The Costs and Risks of War - to Freedom

While the Korean war was short, by comparison to the cold war, it was none the less an important battle in the war against socialism. However, the costs were high - in lives and freedom. This was the period know as McCarthyism. So named due to Senator Joseph McCarthy;

The hunt for subversives started during the war itself, and was furthered by congressional committees that often abused their powers of investigation to harass people with whom they differed politically. Then in February 1950, an undistinguished, first-term Republican senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, burst into national prominence when, in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, he held up a piece of paper that he claimed was a list of 205 known communists currently working in the State Department. McCarthy never produced documentation for a single one of his charges, but for the next four years he exploited an issue that he realized had touched a nerve in the American public.

He and his aides, Roy Cohn and David Schine, made wild accusations, browbeat witnesses, destroyed reputations and threw mud at men like George Marshall, Adlai Stevenson, and others whom McCarthy charged were part of an effete "eastern establishment." For several years, McCarthy terrorized American public life, and even Dwight Eisenhower, who detested McCarthy, was afraid to stand up to him. Finally, however, the senator from Wisconsin over-reached himself.

In January 1954, in what were to be the first televised hearings in American history, McCarthy obliquely attacked President Eisenhower and directly assaulted Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens. Day after day the public watched McCarthy in action -- bullying, harassing, never producing any hard evidence, and his support among people who thought he was "right" on communism began to evaporate. Americans regained their senses, and the Red Scare finally began to wane. By the end of the year, the Senate decided that its own honor could no longer put up with McCarthy's abuse of his legislative powers, and it censured him in December by a vote of 65 to 22.

For further reading: Richard Rovere, Senator Joe McCarthy (1959); Stanley Kutler, The American Inquisition (1982); Thomas C. Reeves, The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy (1982).

[reference: http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/60.htm

The Costs and Risks of War - to Freedom - Vietnam: The unJust War

Lead falsely into war with the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the most costly war in American history would begin. This war would not only cost lives, and it would not be a fight for freedom - but a fight for French Colonialism. A fight to continue French enslavement of non-europeans. During the period between the Korean War and the Vietnam War, American would lose it's way in the fight for freedom. Globally, it crushed (or tried to crush) democratic revolts, in fear that the soviets would occupy these new democracies (like Cuba and Vietnam). The end result was a self-fulling prophecy in which new democracies - cut off from support from American support, they turned to the Soviet Union. While it failed in Cuba, in Vietnam it succeeded in splitting the country in two (north and south). In the North, the socialist had taken over and fought for socialism and in the south the Americans fought for a dictator. In the middle - and seen on TV - were the people, abused from both sides. The pictures of burning homes and dead babies on the daily news prompted the American people into action. This was at the same time as the black civil rights marches and the result was that black civil rights were linked to (and became linked to) the growing anti-war protests.

A Reminder of the Quest for Freedom at Home - The Great Society vs "That Bitch of a War"

While the costs of Vietnam was still unfolding, A reminder of the fight for freedom burned bright at home. Really starting in 1965, the war for freedom was raging at home despite the fact that Lyndon Johnson's presidency signed into law more than 200 bills to improve civil rights in his bid to create what he called the Great Society. He created massive government programs that he expected the people to be grateful for. Yet in 1967, just three years after the historic signing of the civil rights act of 1964, the United States erupted in race riots. Riots that would last well into the 1970's. These riots of poverty and race merged with massive (and growing) anti-war protests in the street. Despite the Johnson administration's promise of a better and equal America via the "Great Society", a raging war for freedom erupted in the streets. This was the beginning of a new America, where there was a lie of freedom - a lie that all were equal. Yet, the poor were lock out of university (and the good jobs that came with a university education). Further, the poor - with out access to upper-levels of educations - where drafted to fight the increasingly unpopular war in Asia.

The Relatively Short Life of the Hippie Socialist Utopia -1970's

Out of this chaos, came a new social movement in America - the Hippie. The Hippie dreamed of a socialist utopia based on their ideas of love and none violence. The motto of their time and society was - "Just Say Yes". It was a culture of tolerance. They said yes to everything - well mostly to drugs and sex. It was their idea that sexual freedom was the ultimate form of love and would bring peace. This wasn't to be - with drugs came mental illness and the hell of drug addiction - with sex came disease and death. Further, with sex came jealously and violence and with drug addiction came poverty and violent crime to pay for the addiction. The irony would be that both the hippie and the warrior (the poor draftee) would fill the streets of American with a new visible poverty. Although the hippie dream would die, it died a slow death that lasted the decade of the 1970's. The symbol of this painfully slow death was the Carter Administration and yet another attempt of socialism to root itself in America. However, shows like "Good Times" showed the reality of "The Great Society". It should how the large socialist government bureaucracy was so corrupt it made poverty worse - not better. The result was the continuation of riots, and neighborhood after neighborhood of burnt out buildings and ghettos of government housing.

The Socialist Hippies Sell Out & Cold War Fatigue - 1980's

Seeing the hell that was occurring, many of the hippies that began the counter-culture, returned to the business and money of their parents. It was here that the hippie became the yuppie. The VW bug and microbus were traded in for the "beemer". The ideas of hippie life sold for the wealth of capital. It was Reaganomics and supply-side economics that would be the new standard.

Reagan's 1981 Program for Economic Recovery had four major policy objectives: (1) reduce the growth of government spending, (2) reduce the marginal tax rates on income from both labor and capital, (3) reduce regulation, and (4) reduce inflation by controlling the growth of the money supply. [William A. Niskanen, http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Reaganomics.html

However, socialism would find a new target (since the death of hippie society) - that would grow out of the anti-war movement that had nothing left to do. Not wanting to get a job, many began the no-nukes movement. Here, the fangs of the socialist beast would begin to show - as they painted a picture of Reagan as a warmonger and the embodiment evil. Reagan supporters and the Republican party were portrayed in movies and tv shows as rich, greedy fascists. Socialists were open tolerant, peaceful and loving human beings. Socialists were good and Republicans were evil. This formed the dichotomy of the 1980's - the fight of socialism to "end" the cold war and Reaganomics.

Socialism takes Root in America - return to the Hippie Commune via Corporate Culture - 1990

The politics of the 1990's would not come out of politics of the 1980's, but out of the drug addiction socialism of the 1970's. The beginning of the 1990's saw the end of the cold war, but not by the work of the socialist - but by Reaganomics and George Bush Sr. . However, the ultimate con was just about to occur - the Democrat Clinton Administration. Bill Clinton, a socialist Democrat, painted himself as a "new Democrat" and pushed for change. His sales pitch worked, George Bush was defeated in 1992 - and socialism would take root in America. Socialism planted itself in the very core of the American presidential administration - because Bill Clinton's sales pitch was just that - a sales pitch.

However, during the 1990's, we were told that, we are free! nothing left to fight for. Yet, "for our own safety" (and protection), our rights - constitutionally guarrented- have been slowly, but steadily, eroded (via regulation). They told us, that they fought for free speech and thought, but, now speech and though were "intellectual property", and restricted to those who owned it and the government. Where reality and truth, is packed and sold as P.R. (Public Relations); a commodity. Participants in this "corporate culture" are, our politicians (our civil "servants" - the socialist Democrats), who have sold the constitutional freedoms and Americans down the river, into slavery - bringing back debtor's prison, and slave (tax) revolts. Using PR, and campaign hype, they create a sense of fear, upon which they appear as our saviors. Grand-standing - professing to tell us what the "truth" is. To finance their exploits, they have sold the freedom of the public (whom they profess to protect) to capital-socialist fascists - people interested in building empires with us as slaves and servants. Their fraud, and criminal double standards, have become the norm, creating a neo-fascist state. To this effect, they began arresting poor street people, in a "safe streets" campaign, and then point the finger at the mentally ill ... and this was the Democrat Clinton administration (not a supposedly evil republican administration). Christians became viewed as fascists, as fraud on a massive scale would be created. Fraud in the form of the Dot Boom (which would bust in a few short years), Enron, Worldcom and the AOL, Time-Warner take-over. The ultimate irony would be Bill Clinton's creation of war to protect himself from impeachment. In the Clinton policy of "slash and burn" politics, the American political climate would change - and the beast of socialism would become a reality.

America at War Again - 2000

This reality would be seen in the bitter election of 2000, in which the Democrats lost to the new George Bush - George Bush Jr. . The bitterness was so deep that the Democrats fought the election all the way to the Supreme Court. Where they lost yet again, but claimed that the election was stolen by the evil George Bush. On the internet, email groups and chat rooms, the hatred of the evil Bush grew until the talk of assignation was routine. This was war, socialism vs Bush and Reaganomics - a war waged unseen by the Republicans. Then on what should have been a bright, sunny, september day in 2001, came the day the will forever been known as 9/11 and the "free world" enters into a new war - an undefined war. A war, in which, it was assumed the culprit was known - but was not seen was a message on the internet from a socialist group in American - Dated Sept.11.2001, Subject:"We Have Gone Too Far!!!"

2000 & Beyond - Defining the Fight For Freedom

The above paragraph sounds alarmist, but there are some serious concerns here. (Not that the situation is hopeless - far from it.) Alarmists often use half-truths to frighten people into believing that a situation is dire - and that their solution is the only solution to the problem. The situation (at hand) is the tug of war between the left and right. The left are popularly termed socialists, while the right have become known as capitalists. Each has the goal of seeing their version of society become the dominant global society.

The irony is that neither will ever achieve their goal. The problem is that, each has fundamental errors - that will result in their destruction. In short - they cannibalize themselves. As a result, the further society swings - to either the left or right - the greater the danger that society will destroy itself. However, the political spectrum is not just split left or right. There are two more groups - who try to oppose the authorities of both the left and the right. One group are collectively known as - "Anarchists" and the other are "Theists". Anarchists are against any type of organized society and calls for a society with no rules or laws. However, history shows that anarchy always devolves into a dictatorship. The other group - the Theists, are center on a belief in preparing the world for the rule of God.

The problem is that the term "democracy" is very loosely defined. Democracy is simply defined as - the rule of the people. This means that any government that is not a monarchy can define themselves as a democracy - and historically - this has been the case. This even includes Hitler and Stalin, who viewed their ideology, as the best for the "people" of the world. Although each were diametrically opposed to one another, the end result was the same - along with their origins! Both dictatorships are (on the left and right of the political spectrum) devolved from the anarchy that existed prior (this is also true for the "Theists", who call for order among the chaos of anarchy - in God's name). As well, under both socialist utopias, the end result was destruction. Beginning with purges (socialist cannibalism) each system destroys itself.

However, the consequences of socialist systems (in a nuclear world) are frightening, because it means no more chances. This is it! We either get it right or go extinct. If survival and self-preservation is the one thing that we all have in common - then it stands to reason that a centered/balanced democracy is the only choice. This is

Democratic Earth
The only global society that will not lead to extinction!
A global society built on the concepts held in the American Constitution!
A global society for the global American!