WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED This is the true memoir of one US Air Force navigator’s journey from the schoolhouses of Air Training Command to the nuclear alerts of the Cold War to combat in a 35-year-old anachronism called the B-52. It is a first-hand account of life during the last days of Strategic Air Command, the early days of Air Combat Command and the ensuing military drawdown of the 1990s. From peacetime training exercises across the globe to combat operations in Desert Storm, Jim Clonts takes the reader inside the cockpit where life and death are seconds apart. Often comical, sometimes heart-pounding, other times tragic, WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED takes you into the world of military aviation, a crucible where warriors learn the true nature of character, conscience and mortality.

Friends of Liberty VOL 8
by Jim Clonts, 2009

05/24/2009

As of late the Federal Government has been successfully executing a power grab of unprecedented proportions, at least the largest since the Great Depression. I've watched my Government seize the automobile industry, the banking and finance industry, the housing and mortage industries. For the most part they already control primary and secondary education and last week Joe Biden said he and the President will see to it that anyone who wants to go to college will be able to. (Tell me the Government won't control college curriculum if they are financing it.) There are plans in the works to control the healthcare, energy and transportation sectors as well. Taken individually these things cause me concern, but taken together they signal something much larger happening to the political structure of the country.

Let's assume for the moment President Obama and his liberal friends have the best intentions for this country. Let's assume every industry or institution that Government takes control of is done for the noblest of reasons, that Obama actually believes all of this Government control is necessary and in our best interest.

That being said, when he leaves office he will leave behind a very centralized, authoritarian government structure, in theory with a Court System in place to validate it. By that time the people will rely heavily on Government for very basic needs, which in turn means the Government will be much better able to control the masses.

Obama may be a good man with good intentions, but what about the next Administration? or the one after that? This Administration is laying the foundation for a fascist to one day walk into the Oval Office with the awesome "new" powers of the Executive Branch at his or her disposal. This has happened to other countries and we'd be naive to believe we are immune to this phenomena.

Thomas Jefferson once wrote:

When the People fear the Government it's called Tyranny. When Government fears the People it's called Liberty.

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