Soap Box

Regardless of the spin machine at the White House and the sycophants who call themselves journalists who defend Obama's every step, any thinking person can see through the saccharine veil with enough clarity to know that a major part of today's problems can be laid at his doorstep.

His amateurish, pie in the sky, America needs to come down a notch, approach to leading the nation has brought on debt, loss of international prestige and decay of trust among our allies that will take decades, if ever, to repair. 

He has weakened our military and our dollar and racial division, class envy and dissension among haves and have-nots has grown exponentially on his watch. His totally political approach to fighting a war, his propensity for going against sage advice and listening to inexperienced bureaucrats and academics have thrust us right back into a war that will, regardless of the vehemence of Obama's heated promises, necessitate putting American troops back on the ground.

Yes, Barack Obama has made a true mess during his six years in office but one very dire and dangerous problem facing our nation today is not of his making. Even though Obama has proliferated and exacerbated the problem at our Southern border it has been around long before he arrived in Washington and it seems that no president, neither Democrat nor Republican has had the wisdom and political courage to curb the flow of illegals who have flooded across our borders to the extent that we don't even have an accurate count of how many there are and worse, who they are.

I don't claim to be wise enough or savvy enough to discern all the reasons for the ongoing laxity of presidential attention to the problem on our border with Mexico and I'm certainly not privy to any inside information, but I'm fairly certain about a couple of things and very suspicious about a few more.

For instance, it as clear as mountain spring water that one of the reasons for the unabated flow of illegals is purely political, a reliable base of new voters.

And of course the greed factor comes into play, the flooding of the labor pool to drive down competition and insure a constant flow of cheap labor, that's also evident.

What is not evident or even visible is who is calling these, and other, shots and why. Who is powerful enough to control the immigration policies of presidents of both parties, who has the juice to pull the strings of the most powerful men in the world regardless of professed ideology, political leanings or party affiliation?

Is there some shadowy cadre of International power brokers who operate below the radar, making decisions, dictating policy, pulling invisible strings, passing down edicts, deciding who will and who won't run for office, bolstering some, destroying others with tentacles that reach into practically every seat of power in the world, operating through proxies, enabling war mongers and mad men, forcing their collective will on an unsuspecting public at large?

There are centuries old rumors of such organizations, ghostly whispers of a powerful group of global movers and shakers with roots reaching back to the days of the Knights Templar and a little known group known as the Illuminati, and as the modern day rumor mill has it, reaching into the ranks of secretive organizations like the Council On Foreign Relations and even certain college fraternities where recruitment takes place.

I really don't know what parties or organizations are involved and I don�t even know for sure if such a worldwide confederation exists, but I do feel there are powers at work that influence the decisions of presidents, powerful congressional members and world leaders.

Whether it's an organization or individuals, I believe there are those who stand in the shadow of the throne and whisper in the ear of world leaders, dangling carrots and exacting their pound of flesh at opportune times and things like our immigration problems could be the tip of an all but intractable iceberg that has been in place for a long time.

I didn't arrive at these conclusions in a cursory fashion or listening to conspiracy theorists. I arrived at them after years of denial, then curiosity, then facing irrefutable facts.

Something is going on and has been going on and will be going on in the future.

Exactly what, I don't know, but I'll bet you can't prove that I'm wrong.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels