Today’s message is what I think is probably the most important topic next to becoming a student of life. You’ve likely heard it said, “home of the free and land of the brave” especially if you’re over forty-ish. This was something special about this place when I was growing up. One of the reasons I was willing to join the Marine Corps, stand up for this country and contribute!

I think it was best said this way, “all gave some and some gave all”. For those who gave some like myself or even that guy who gave a leg or an arm, gave far less than those who gave all for the sake of the rest of us. The cost of freedom is not free by a long stretch and for those of you who gave nothing for it ought to be that much more appreciative of what was bought! So often I hear the one who gave nothing talking about what someone else ought not to have or do. You shouldn’t drive ninety miles an hour because you’ll hurt someone or you don’t need a gun so there’s no reason for you to have it or fossil fuels are bad for the environment so you should be put out of work to save it.

These are just a few of the things I hear from those who gave nothing, who get together and bully others into submission. Reason has gone out the window and the mob rule is taking over. The mantra is, get yourself a mob and start taking control of what you can. Get a cause and rally those with no vested interest and commandeer others lives. To hell with his freedom, give me what I want or we’ll throw a fit!

Let’s see if we can introduce a bit of reason to this equation, let’s see if we can get a few people to listen and think about what made the opportunity for them to be this way and see if we can get them to appreciate the opportunity that is presented and do something more constructive.

Let me first paint a picture of your rights. They are inalienable. Which means they are not able to be separated from YOU. The Constitution and all of our foundational documents and their amendments do not provide rights to you, they simply spell out what they are so that we each have an understanding, contract with each other. The basis of all Law, a contract! This is perverted constantly by those who would seek to lord over you. If another person has better understanding of the system than you, he can use the system against you in your ignorance or simply by you allowing it to happen. If someone does something to you and you allow it, legal or not it does exist. This is how our system functions daily.

Your Rights are yours and it is up to you to defend them, no one else will! It’s all about you allowing it or being clueless! To make my point I am going to be extreme in my example of what it means to be truly FREE. If you want to smoke crack in your basement and it has no direct impact on another person (meaning it harms them in no way) then that is your business not mine nor anyone else’s! If it kills you that is your business. If you lack the discipline for moderation that’s your problem. “Well” some would say, no someone has to pull the body, transport and dispose. That comes at a cost and we should stop that from happening. Those people got together and said let’s make crack illegal to stop people from dealing, selling and using. Let’s make a police force to go around knocking busting doors and knocking heads to force people to stop doing it. This is what we do today at a far greater cost than the acts themselves. And now we have people who have been doing this so long that they believe what they do is in your best interest and necessary for your well being.

Freedom is not Free. People must die to pay for it! Whether it is by the blood of tyrants, war or a needle. People need to see that being free is expensive at the least but most certainly valuable enough to want to live a grand life knowing the costs! Be free, help others to be free and realize that the blood of those who died defines the value of life and that if all life is preserved it has no value. Who lives and dies is not up to us together but each of us individually. It’s my life to live, let me live it! You….go live yours!

Have a great day and be a great person to someone else,

Greg

Hello, America! I hope this finds you doing well! As I sit here to write, thinking of what message I want get across to you, I first think of why we’re here doing and organizing POPs. But, what I think is even more appropriate is how I got here in the first place. A long, long time ago, in a place far far away…. no, seriously; even though I can say that in the grand scheme of things if was probably on 25 years ago, not sure anymore but that’s close enough. I was a lot younger and an older gentleman who I respected said, ” if you are going to do well, you MUST become a student of life”.

Well, that struck me as profound. What was “life”? A student, I hated primary school! One thing that was true about me was that I relish learning. Autodidactic was my original name, but then my mother changed it to Greg, which is much more congenial. (I’ll let you look that up if the meaning escapes you, I did) In any case, I’ve always been this way, I built this website just to learn how to do it. I read for entertainment about every five years when a friend recommends a good book and usually only if it is historical in nature. Otherwise I read to learn, I’ve taken the student of life bit literally. I’m a voracious researcher looking for as much understanding as I can find. The internet was made for me. This time was made for me. So as I write this today, I’m telling you that this puppy is going to grow up a student of life and run over some big dogs who need it. I don’t know how exactly, but one foot in front of the other and soon I’ll be walkin’ out the door. That’s usually how it all gets started.

My first step is this: I commit to you that here on this website, through the network, or any other place you engage me I will do my damnedest to be open, honest, forthright and truthful with care, regard, respect, understanding, facts and truthfulness. Way back in the dark ages before the internet we had a thing called the encyclopedia, a humongous set of very large books. A set of about 30 each the size of a ream of printer paper with the thinnest of pages. If you wanted to know something about almost anything you went and looked it up in one of these books. In that writing of that topic, a critical thing that was always done was to cite credit for the information. Basically, a testimony about where you could go and find the same information if you were of a mind. Of course some of it was bad science or information but that’s how it goes when you get people involved. But, these people were dedicated to honest factual presentation of the data. That’s who we seek to be here! The encyclopedia people. Not just some emotionally ranting bobble head, but calm rational people presenting sound facts and ideas for mature discussion. Join me, let’s make a loud voice of reason that we may preserve the greatest civilization that has ever existed in the entire human history! Go to our Connect page click on the Vision link and see what is out there to be a part of our great journey to grow this underdog puppy into the biggest, baddest, benevolent dog on the block!

Have a great day and live your life to its fullest!

Greg