Everyday our liberties and freedom come under fire. The American Republic once protected its citizens from arbitrary abuse, extortion, and deliberate social engineering. Now the very same public servants who were meant to work for us connive daily on how to control our lives. The Republic is gone and we are left to fend for ourselves, to put up resistance to every encroachment on individual self-determination. The Freedom Under Fire Report provides daily coverage of the most important issues, so that you remain informed and ready to defend yourself. Read on and pass this around to everyone you think could benefit:

Stimulus Bill Passes, Obama says it’s only the first step. President obama will sign the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Tuesday after the Senate approved the bill with the slimmest possible margin, a 60-38 vote. This $787 billion bohemoth will certainly bring about change. It is yet to be determined if wildly spending outside of budget, borrowing and printing to make up the difference, and increasing government control of the economy is a good thing.

Even Europeans Dislike the Economic “Stimulus” Package. In a bit of irony, Italian finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, chastised America for trying to fix a problem caused by more debt by issuing yet more debt. (Italy’s national debt exceeds their GDP). Other ministers, angry over “Buy American” clauses in the spending bill, “emphasize the importance of keeping the American economy free of protectionism.” When European socialists reprimand us for borrowing and spending too much, it’s time to rethink our assumptions.

Obama Schedules “Fiscal Responsibility Summit”. With the 2009 budget deficit climbing sharply towards $2 trillion, and lots of talk about increased government involvement in all aspects of American life, President Obama has called for a “fiscal responsibility summit” on Feb. 23rd. Is this a farce or real effort to curb government spending?

Buying a Judge can be more Profitable than Buying a Politician. The United States Supreme Court is evaluating a case in which a Judge overturned a $50 million verdict against one of his largest campaign contributors. Don Blankenship spent $3 million on an advertising campaign against Justice Brent Benjamin’s opponent in their 2004 judiciary campaign. Subsequently, after securing the election, Benjamin turned around and tipped the scales in a 3-2 reversal of a previous verdict against Blankenship. The Supreme Court is determining whether or not Benjamin should have excluded himself from the case due to the lobbying relationship. The outcome of this case will determine whether or not judges can be bought like politicians.

Obama’s Rhetoric is the Real Catastrophe. President Obama has been spreading non-stop fear about the economy, saying the current recession is the worst since the Great Depression. Economics professor, Bradley Schiller, debunks these claims. Comparing GDP and unemployment, Schiller shows that our current situation is nothing like the Depression; rather, it resembles the 1981-82 recession quite well. “This fearmongering may be good politics, but it is bad history and bad economics.”

Newsweek says: We Are All Socialists Now. In a commentary on how both Republicans and Democrats have converged upon the notion that big government is necessary, Newsweek claims that “the America of 2009 is moving toward a modern European state.” The article reminds us that it was “under a conservative GOP administration that we enacted the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years: prescription drugs for the elderly.”

The purpose of the article is to indoctrinate America to accept the concept of Socialism as justifiable and necessary. The author attemps to trick the reader to believe that since both Republicans and Democrats have behaved like Socialists in Congress, we should accept it and jump on the bandwagon. “The sooner we understand where we truly stand, the sooner we can think more clearly about how to use government in today’s world.”

Beware of the media’s indoctrination campaign. Be prepared to be fed unrelenting disinformation in the attempt to garnish public support for growing the central government. Americans should keep their eyes open to this nonsense and stand like a stone wall against the encroachment of the bureuacratic machine. In response to the articles title: No, we are not all Socialists!

Rise in Jobless Poses Threat to Stability. worldwide unemployment could soar to 50 million by the end of 2009, according to the United Nations. Already there are protests and discontent around the world. “High unemployment rates, especially among young workers, have led to protests in countries as varied as Latvia, Chile, Greece, Bulgaria and Iceland and contributed to strikes in Britain and France.” Astonishingly, U.S. director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, told Congress that “instability caused by the global economic crisis had become the biggest security threat facing the United States, outpacing terrorism.”

Global Warming “Underestimated”. Ecologist Chris Field claims that future temperatures “will be beyond anything predicted.” He says that a report he published in 2007, in which he predicted global average temperature increases between 1.1C and 6.4C over the next century, drastically underestimated what he now thinks will be the case. As evidence to support his claim he cites that carbon dioxide emissions increased between 2000 and 2007 more than he initially estimated.

Before writing humanity off just yet, let’s consider a few points:

1. Chris Field is an ecologist and biologist, not a climatologist. He is an expert at flora and fauna, not climatological modeling. There is a big difference.
2. Field merely noted that CO2 emissions increased, not that they have had appreciable affect on the climate. One may not lead to the other, or may at least not have the causal relationship predicted by low fidelity models.
3. Despite emotional arguments by radicals, the debate on human-induced global warming has not been concluded. There are myriad scientists on each side of the argument, so let’s stay calm and refrain from irrational decisions.

Admittedly, I am not a climatologist. I do not have answers to global warming. But one thing that is clear is that radical leftists have hijacked the climate debate, are attempting to silence opposition, and disinform the public. Just note that almost no one with an opinion on global warming is qualified to have one! Isn’t it scary that so many people are so emotionally charged on a subject for which they have little understanding?

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