{"id":1290,"date":"2008-12-22T22:34:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T02:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2009-12-14T22:35:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T02:35:21","slug":"america-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/america-on-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"America on the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Commentary Worth Thinking About &#8211; What May Lie in the Future<\/p>\n<p>Paul Walter was born in socialist Yugoslavia in 1945. He and his family emigrated to America in 1959. He served 3 years in the U.S. Armed Forces and became a U.S. citizen in 1963.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Paul Walter<br \/>\nNewsWithViews.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PREDICTIONS<\/p>\n<p>Political Correctness and Freedom of Speech<\/p>\n<p>The first thing that Socialists do when they gain power is try to silence free speech. Conservative Talk radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Laura Ingram, Lou Dobbs, etc. are already being criticized by \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cProgressives\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac in Congress. There is a serious effort underway right now to bring back a failed law, the oxymoronic &#8220;Fairness Doctrine,&#8221; in a bold, open attempt to silence opposing political views. Internet news sites such as WorldNetDaily.com, NewsWithViews.com, DrudgeReport.com, InfoWars.com and many others will be silenced along with talk radio. In order for darkness (lies) to prevail, light (truth) has to be snuffed out.<\/p>\n<p>Public scrutiny and criticism of elected officials will be forbidden. Any person exposing political corruption will be labeled anti-government. If they persist in attempting to correct that political corruption, they will be called a terrorist! All police departments around the country will be required to have terrorist units.<\/p>\n<p>[In a communist country of my birth I remember that one could criticize any capitalist country one wishes as long as it wasn&#8217;t yours or another communist country. Criticism of any official brought police in black uniform to your door usually at night when everyone was asleep.]<\/p>\n<p>Religious Persecution and Sharia Law<\/p>\n<p>Traditional churches will be attacked by Socialists, Feminists and Homosexuals. Christians will increasingly be ridiculed and called bigots because of their religious beliefs. Church services will be regularly disrupted. Under pressure, many church leaders will give-in, capitulating for the sake of peace. They will give up their moral principles, or face the anti-discrimination laws that will be passed to force churches, organizations and people to comply with the immoral doctrines of the socialist, secular humanists.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswithviews.com\/Walter\/paul100.htm\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Click here to read this entire commentary.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Commentary Worth Thinking About&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-signs-of-the-times","wpcat-45-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>America on the Brink  - 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