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It is difficult to value something when its worth is unknown. This truth
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bike, one given the bike, the other made to earn the bike. Invariably, the
child who was given the bike was more prone to neglecting it, not
understanding its worth, while the child who was made to earn the bike, who
understood its worth, maintained it. This basic truth applies to our
American Heritage and the continued welfare of our nation. Without a solid
understanding of the basic principles used by our Founding Fathers in
establishing our Constitutional Republic it is sometimes difficult for Americans to recognize
the worth of the American ideal. When the full value of freedom and liberty are not realized it becomes easy to incrementally relinquish
rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
Today, our country faces both a threat from abroad and a threat, in the form
of ideological conflict, from within. While some among us choose to
accentuate the imperfections of our nation, others condemn our culture or
literally champion our nation’s defeat and demise. We at BasicsProject.org understand that there is a direct
correlation between understanding the principles, ideology, history and
meaning behind our founding documents – the Charters of Freedom – and the
proclivity to value and, therefore, advance our American Heritage to the next generation
and beyond.
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Many Americans know the preamble to the United States Constitution and
the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. They also may
be able to recite at least some of the enumerated Bill of Rights. But
few know these documents are considered our Founding Documents,
documents that carry equal importance in the creation and execution of
our government. Even fewer understand the principles, history and
philosophy surrounding the creation of these remarkable documents. To be
an American is to understand and to have a reasonable commitment to the
ideas in America's founding documents.
It is the mission of Basics Project to make sure that every American is
afforded the opportunity of understanding these remarkable documents,
the covenant between citizen and the uniquely American form of
government. We believe that through a greater understanding of the
principles on which our government was built our citizenry will better
understand that e pluribus unum, the idea that we are out of
many, one.
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¨Reading:Keeping a Republic
by
Nancy Salvato
This book by Nancy Salvato,
the Director of Constitutional Studies for BasicsProject.org, examines
the issue of American sovereignty and how it relates to the continued
well-being of our Republic. From the deliberations undertaken during the
framing of the US Constitution to the challenge of maintaining national
sovereignty in a time of Progressive globalization, Keeping a
Republic examines the philosophy and ideology that served the
Framers in creating the United States of America, ideals valid to this
very day.
¹Viewing:Understanding Our Government
Many people in the United States -- and around the world -- believe that the
United States is a Democracy. It is not, and for good reason. Our Framers
and Founders bequeathed to the citizens a Constitutional Republic, doing so
for some very good reasons, chief among them was to avoid the tyranny of the
majority, or mob rule.
There can be little doubt that terrorist
organizations have arrived on the shores of the
United States of America. The thousands of lives
lost on September 11, 2001 stand as testimony to
this undeniable fact. But the truth of the matter is
that terrorists have been migrating to the United
States, establishing their organizational cells,
infiltrating and fading into our communities for
decades; laying in wait for the correct moments to
strike. These are precisely the events that preceded
the flights that delivered the nineteen 9/11
hijackers and thousands of innocent people to their
destinies.
Today, 72 terrorist organizations with thousands of
operatives exist and operate within the borders of
the United States.
Many counterterrorism experts, including former CIA
Director James Woolsey and founding member of the
CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, Dr. Bruce Tefft,
agree, it is not a question of “if” there will be
another attack on American soil, it is a question of
“when.” The only questions left unanswered about
this future attack are how lethal it will be, where
it will take place and whether we will have had
enough foresight to have acquired the information
needed to literally help save our own lives.
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8CD:
The Beginning of
the End:
The American Hiroshima
The beginning of the end of
Planet Earth occurred on September 27, 1991, when President George H.W. Bush
announced that the United States would withdraw its nuclear weapons from
NATO sites throughout the western world if the Soviet Union would follow
suit. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev agreed and a deadline was set. The
task was to be completed by May 1992. Withdrawing the tactical nuclear
weapons in order to place them in secured places seemed to be a great idea
that no one in his right mind could oppose. But truth be told, it was a
horrendous mistake...
¨Reading:
A God Who Hates by Dr. Wafa Sultan
For the
first time, Dr. Wafa Sultan tells her story and what she learned, first-hand, about
radical Islam in A God Who Hates, a passionate memoir by an outspoken
Arabic woman that is also a cautionary tale for the West. She grew up in
Syria in a culture ruled by a god who hates women. She believes
that the god who hates is waging a battle between modernity and barbarism,
not a battle between religions. She also knows that it’s a battle radical
Islam will lose.
With roots emanating from the ideology of the Marxist/Leninist Era,
the American Fifth Column presents a menace from within; a threat to
the longevity of our uniquely American way of life. These roots,
nurtured and further developed during the counter-culture revolution
of the of the 1960s and 1970s, and now taught in classrooms across
America as “tolerance,” "multiculturalism" and "diversity", have
evolved into a unique yet visionless ideology, which holds that our
most basic constitutional tenets are the central cause for many of
the social ills here in the United States and around the world.
The Secular Progressive, Democratic Socialist and/or neo-Marxist
American Fifth Column ideology embraces the philosophies of Karl
Marx and Vladimir Lenin. It is a product of the Frankfort School of
pre-World War II Germany and employs the democratic process to
promote moral relativism, multiculturalism and political
correctness, in an effort to silence fundamental American ideals and
pursue an American form of socialism in their place.
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¹Viewing:The The Cloward-Piven Strategy First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists
Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the "Cloward-Piven
Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the
government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus
pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
²Podcasts:
Is Eric Holder Practicing
Affirmative Action Justice?
The events surrounding the abandonment of the voter intimidation case
against three members of the New Black Panther Party for actions taken at a
Philadelphia polling place during the 2008 General Election have left many
puzzled as to why the most egregious violation of the Voter Rights Act since
the days of the KKK was dropped by Eric Holder's Justice Department.
Spotlight
Elena Kagan
Nominee to the US Supreme Court A week after Ronald
Reagan’s presidential victory in November 1980, Kagan, who was
then a student at Princeton University, contributed a piece to
the Daily Princetonian, wherein she gave voice to her angst over
the apparent demise of the left. She wrote that her immediate
“gut response” to Reagan's election had been to conclude “that
the world had gone mad, that liberalism was dead, and that there
was no longer any place for the ideals we held or the beliefs we
espoused.” Soon thereafter Kagan predicted, with a hopeful
spirit, that “the next few years will be marked by American
disillusionment with conservative programs and solutions, and
that a new, revitalized, perhaps more leftist left will once
again come to the fore.”
The following year, Kagan
penned her senior thesis—titled “To the Final Conflict:
Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933”—wherein she specifically
thanked her brother Marc, “whose involvement in radical causes
led me to explore the history of American radicalism in the hope
of clarifying my own political ideas.” In the body of that work,
Kagan lamented that “a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to
be found in the United States”; that “Americans are more likely
to speak of...capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s
greatness”; that “the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the
urge to alter”; that “in a society by no means perfect,” no
“radical party” had yet “attained the status of a major
political force”; that “the socialist movement [had] never
become an alternative to the nation’s established parties”; and
that the Socialist Party had “exhausted itself forever and
further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of
marginality and insignificance.” Kagan called these developments
“sad” and “chastening” for “those who, more than half a century
after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America.”
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Al-Shabaab
Sunni Jihadist Group
The Harakat Shabaab
al-Mujahidin (al-Shabaab)— also known as al-Shabaab, Shabaab,
the Youth, Mujahidin al-Shabaab Movement, Mujahideen Youth
Movement, Mujahidin Youth Movement, and other names and
variations—was the militant wing of the Somalia Council of
Islamic Courts that took over most of southern Somalia in the
second half of 2006. Although the Somali government and
Ethiopian forces routed the group in a two-week war between
December 2006 and January 2007, al-Shabaab has continued its
violent insurgency in southern and central Somalia. The group
has gained control of many parts of southern and central Somalia
by using guerrilla warfare and terrorist tactics against the
Transitional Federal Government of Somalia and its allies,
African Union peacekeepers, and nongovernmental aid
organizations.
On 29 February
2008, the US Government designated al-Shabaab as a Foreign
Terrorist Organization under Section 219 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist
under Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224. Al-Shabaab’s
rank-and-file members come from disparate clans, and the group
is continually susceptible to clan politics, internal divisions,
and shifting alliances. While most of its fighters are
predominantly interested in the nationalistic battle against the
TFG and not supportive of global jihad, al-Shabaab’s senior
leadership is affiliated with al-Qa‘ida, and certain extremists
aligned with al-Shabaab are believed to have trained and fought
in Afghanistan. Al-Shabaab has issued statements praising Usama
Bin Ladin and linking Somalia to al-Qa‘ida’s global operations.
The group has claimed responsibility for many bombings—including
various types of suicide attacks—in Mogadishu and in central and
northern Somalia, typically targeting Somali government
officials and perceived allies of the TFG.
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