My apology for being away as I have had to help my son who was wounded in Iraq, suffering from head traumas and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which I can identify with, and since I run a small farm I have to fertilize my fields. I am a cripple, not being politically correct, and I tend to do things at one speed, SLOW!

     I am an advocate for term limits and have been well over 25 years, especially since I got a first hand look at politicians when I ran for the US Congress in 1992 and 1994. Many who will read this will proclaim that the election is the best source for term limits, but if this statement was true, then why it is we have corruption in Washington. Many will say that by having term limits we will lose the best and the brightest in Washington. Is there any evidence that we have the brightest in Washington, where congress will pass legislation without reading it?

     Most new politicians who leave their states have the best intentions in their hearts. The problem is after a few terms; they have been influenced by the political machines, the special interest and are driven by their ability to collect money for re-election outside their own state, and the promise of employment as lobbyist.

     Our forefather’s who agreed to a Constitution allowed for the election of Senators to be done by the legislature, whom by most accounts had the will of the people in mind, yet, we now have an election more of a machine than the will of people and for six years before being elected again. Most of our forefathers were farmers, where they would consider it a privilege to serve in Congress and then return home, finding hands working in the dirt were more honorable than the dirty hands in politics.

     Many people vote for their party! Hmm he or she is a Republican or Democrat and therefore must represent my views since they could not be in the party unless they did! Well, we had all the democrats and 85 republicans vote for the pork inflated Obama bill, which stick it to the children of future generations; would you consider this your views?

     So what does Term Limits achieve? They stop political action committees (PAC) from controlling elections causing them to spend more with fewer results; it stops career corruption and returns those to its states, unless they get a contract to pursue lobbying for special interest, which should be outlawed; it gives us fresh blood with new ideas and honesty with more representation for the will of his constituents. With term limits the people need to stop these insane life time pay checks given to members of congress. Prior to becoming a recluse on my farm, away from people and politics and the madness of the world, navigating prosthetics through mud, and snow, many times falling on my royal posterior, I was a political scientist.

     I have studied the politics of the world, socialism, communism, fascism, democracies and republics. In my sincere judgment and opinion, based on my research over the years, I have come to the conclusion that no house member should serve more than three two year terms, and no senator should serve more than one six year term. By these standards the People regain the power of its government. Those who are corruptible are least likely to become corrupt.

     I have heard what if we get a righteous representative and him or she has to leave office under term limits. If such a character exists, then he or she can run again after one election cycle has passed, and if this person is loved and respected by his or her people, then they will be elected.

    Now for my last insult! Corruption also comes from the people, the electorate, who have more interest in themselves, being selfish and looking out for themselves only add to the corruption in Washington where the people are holding their hands out asking: “WHERE”S MINE?

     The destruction of the Constitution has not just started over the last sixty years as many believe; it began eroding when Lincoln used his power to deny states rights. I am opposed to any man owning any man as chattel, and to protect one person’s rights, is to oppress another, and had we consistently listen to God, no man, regardless of color would have been in bondage. "We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution." -Abraham Lincoln   Hypocrisy?

         It is easy to have the elected strip away the rights of the individuals or states. An elected legislature can and will eventually strip away freedoms of American’s just as easy as a monarch can, as they believe they are under a mandate or under the care and control of globalize corporations.

     If you are not taught the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence by teachers and parents, or, you are a sluggard and fail to see the importance of an education, then how will you know what rights you have in the law, if you do not know the law. How will you know what those in power will take from you, if you have no inventory of what has been given you by the founding fathers? Ignorance is no excuse, to excuse the ignorant.

     As a child way over fifty years ago, my family was dyed-dead-in-the-wool southern conservative democrats. Democrats to them were the working man’s party, and the republicans’ well they were the rich, trying to suck the bread from the poor, according to my dad.

     If you told my Dad who has recently passed away, today the democrat party stands for Heterophobics (homosexuality), abortion, more government and less private rights with increase in taxes, he would say: “that’s only republican propaganda”. I use the term Heterophobics because the homosexual community calls those of us who are straight homophobe’s in an attempt to label us as hate mongers. I read there is a documentary coming out called “Outrage” where Heterophobics are using such film to expose Republican closet gays and using such information showing where closet gay republicans denounced homosexuality while practicing it.

     I agree that they should expose these hypocrites but saying that people who speak out against homosexuality are just hiding that they are gay is over the top, would that also include God who said homosexuality is an abomination? Using the term “gay bashing” is labeled on straights who oppose homosexuality, where a person like me does not hate the sinner, but only the sin, which I find as a cancer. Many of us have known that there has been an infiltration of Heterophobics entering into the Republican party like Tammy Bruce (lesbian and fox news contributor), and pro-gay marriage Culture Vulcher Warrior of the O’Reilly Factor Margaret Hoover and of course the Log Cabin Republicans who believe Lincoln was a closet homosexual, only to divide and conquer.

     When the democrat party shifted to the left, I of course being of sound mind, well some would debate that last statement, went to the right into the Republican Party. I stood for less government, less taxes, pro-Constitution, pro-family, and very pro-life and basically anti-Heterophobics (homosexuals).

     I am from Idaho and supported my candidates, getting out the vote only to find out that one of my Senators were playing footsies, going after tootsie’s in a men’s bathroom in Minnesota. In my county democrats have camouflaged themselves as republicans and have taken over the party, where our conservative planks have shifted to center as we are being out-voted. This too is happened in every county across America and into the national party. The grand ole party is now ready for burial, as I cannot tell the difference between the republican or democrat party. My conservative moral and fiscal principles are no longer represented and many of my conservative Christian friends are compromising their faiths to stay in a party.

     Here is my thesis! You want to know the best way to catch a pigeon? You line little bread crumbs (special interest) in a straight line and at the end of the line put a cage with a spring door. The pigeon is so hypnotized by his or her crumbs and filling the belly he walks right into the cage where it snaps close. This too is happening to us as Americans where we are following our own special crumb trails of special interest only and have nothing but tunnel vision. The cage for us is the loss of liberty, loss of capitalism, loss of our own sovereignty. Like the pigeon that was always free as we are, he now looks at his freedom gone because he failed to look around him, keeping only one thing in mind, the crumbs. His life is now controlled and at the hands of his captor, where his freedom is no longer.

     Ever see blinders put on a horse where he can only see straight ahead and his side views are blocked? This is to shield his peripheral view so as not to be spooked. We, the American people, are wearing blinders and if we ever take them off we will be in shock, but will it be too late.

     Mob rule now has the floor where one class of person’s is pitted against another. A new generation of brown shirt fascist is on the rise (ACORN) , using crumbs to perpetuate the goals of those in silence. When individuals follow the crumbs, they give up free will; give up the ability to obtain knowledge and wisdom. Without knowledge and wisdom, fear, panic will ensue, and YOU will follow anyone who seems logical, feeds you, satisfies your appetite, remember the crumbs, your cage awaits you America!

How much more do veteran’s and future veteran’s have to shed blood, sweat and tears for the this country where people are free on the backs of individuals who have served and protected this nation for many generations, only to be humiliated?

     During the Vietnam War, many were exposed to Agent Orange, developed Posttraumatic Stress and spent years afterward fighting for help as many brother vets committed suicide out of depression and desperation, many died of cancers, leaving wives and children penniless. I survived cancer, still have the PTSD, live in the country away from everyone except cows. In the mid-eighties Department of Veterans’ Affairs started service connecting for PTSD, but did not start service connecting Vietnam Veterans  for Agent Orange until the early nineties.

     I will disclose that during my youth I was a bit of a rascal on pro-veteran issues, which included POW’s Agent Orange Compensation, better medical and compensation for children of Vietnam Veterans exposed to Agent Orange. I worked hard along with Admiral Zumwalt who was not only my commander, but also a good friend, and a true warrior and I think of him always telling my children about a wonderful leader. What I did back in those days is another story and will take short stories to complete, but now I must address again the atrocities going on, we veterans are facing.

     I thought that in 1991 when the Clinton’s wanted to reduce or eliminate the prosthetics budget, for Hillary’s breast cancer research, a noble cause, as an amputee that was as low as one could get trying to squeeze service connected vets out of benefits that were promised and lost limbs in military service. In desperation, I took one of my old prosthetic legs, had 28 disabled veterans from WWII, Korea and Vietnam sign it and sent it with a note to President Clinton, which read: “Here Mr. President, you need this prosthetic more than I do, because sir, you do not have a leg to stand on”. Now I am not sure the President saw the leg, it was returned to me, but I do know the outcry of the people stopped that action, and tears of pride ran down my cheeks.

     This week, I again heard of a proposed attack on the veterans of this country where President Obama wanted the service connected soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen if they had private insurance, VA would bill the insurance carrier, relieving the VA of responsibility and saving the government 530 million per year. Mr. President we are not high paid CEO’s of banks, most of us are dirt poor, and no one will insure us because of our injuries and diseases. Why is it we fight for a nation, and then have to come home and fight congress, both political parties and the presidency for our benefits? Mr. President you want to save 530 million dollars out of a 5 billion dollar expense on veterans, and yet, the retired federal workers budget is close to 59 billion. At night Mr. President, just like many of my brothers and sister vets, I sit beside my bed and I start to disassemble my metal and plastic body parts so I can sleep, God help me if a fire breaks out and I have to get out in a hurry. I wear several prosthetics and pronged to sores from break-downs, my joints hurt because my gait is out of line, and I am arthritic in every joint. I fall many times through-out the year but I do not complain, except when you try and take away what we were promised.

     Mr. President, I had cancer from Agent Orange, by the grace of God I survived, and never in my family history had cancer. My daughter came down with non-Hodgkin, she was very beautiful, like your little ones Mr. President and two years later she passed away. The day of her funeral sir, my mother went to lie down and died, but you did not hear me complain, even though my heart felt that it had been ripped from my chest, but I knew that one day I would see them both again.

     Mr. President we now have another crisis, where good honest and decent veterans who served this country 3,260 in Miami and another 6,378 in Tennessee have possibly been exposed to infectious body fluids contaminated with HIV.

     I feel that I have returned mentally to the early 1970’s where I was spit on more than once, had people throw bottles at me before there was plastic, and called us baby killers. There was no respect for those of us who served from the American people, and now Mr. President, there seems to be no respect for us who have served through incompetent medical care, claims are not being processed.

     Veteran’s are of all colors, faiths and from all walks of life. Some of us are without limbs or eyes or other body parts. Some still have not found their way homes mentally and some are fully intact. We all still belong to a brotherhood, and we are proud.  This country made a promise to us, we are not a group represented by unions, nor are we political as that right was signed away before I became a veteran.

     As veterans’ we ask you and the American people to keep your word, be our support group as we return from those front lines. This is not a democrat issue or a republican issue it’s an American issue where all should remember that freedom is not free, it come from the sacrifices made by those who paid the ultimate, and returning warriors.

     Both democrat and republicans should co-sponsor bills that allow for constant finance for all veterans and should be hands-off, like politicians stay away from social security. It is time that those who did not serve speak up, speak loud and stand by those who served this great country.  There are certain times that people in this country put aside partisan politics and stand together for what is descent and right, and I hope taking care of America's veterans is one of them.

     Below is a poem I wrote for all who have served I hope the American public will think about its meaning.

I Am the American Soldier

Each day I arise tried, tested and true,

Starting each day saluting the Red, White and Blue,

To defend this country daily with my life,

leaving behind my children, parents, girl friend or a wife.

I am the American Soldier

I will defend the Constitution I love best,

with sailors, marines and airmen we never rest,

to defend this nation with our hearts and soul,

remembering those who came before us who have now grown old.

I am the American Soldier

I am the American Soldier who stands to defend   

this great country of ours to the very end.

Freedom and democracy is our battle cry,

knowing that many of those who fight, will most likely die,

I am the American Soldier.

Freedoms you people enjoy do not come free,

it is preserved by soldiers who served, or serving like me,

we live in fox holes, jungles, sand, and in a mud pit,

but our dedication is indestructible and we will never quit,

I am the American Soldier.

I engage in battle with the enemy day by day,

so the people back home can live the American way,

severed body parts of my brothers I am forced to see,

so you back home can have freedom and democracy,

I am the American Soldier.

I am old now from many battles of the past,

my limbs are missing and I may not last,

but with pride I served with proficiency,

so others may live and continue to be free,

I will always be the American Soldier.

Taps is played over my head,

in the ground they lay me and I am now dead,

but sacrifices I made were worth it to me,

so my family and our nation could enjoy freedom and democracy

Remember me always as the American Soldier.

     I want to address a question that I have constantly asked individuals; “what is a conservative to you, and, which party do you believe holds true the conservative values”? In full disclosure, I am or was a Republican ran for the US Congress twice and no, I am not a sore loser. I’m first without reservation a 100% true American non-hyphenated and to some maybe considered a Heinz 57 variety, not of blue blood but of the mutt variety.

     When you study the question of the aforementioned paragraph, try to step outside your partisan belief and become an objective thinker, as my Dad who had an eighth grade education would say: “do not believe anything you hear and only half of what you see”.

The term conservative has a broad meaning. You can be a fiscal conservative, yet be  moral liberals, like Tammy Bruce or Margaret Hoover, or hold true to your hearts both fiscal and moral conservatives. I am the latter, because I do not believe God compromises what He has written or had written in the Bible. The Culture Vulcher segment on the O’Reilly factor, Margaret Hoover refers to people like me as old time generation and those of the moral progressives will change the Republican Party. If this is true, then I have to ask myself, what is the difference between the republican and democrat parties? I use to think that one of our U.S. Senators was a dual conservative both moral and fiscal, until he got caught doing footsie’s in the men’s public bathroom in Minnesota.

     Webster’s dictionary says a conservative is: “resistant to change”. So if I want to preserve the Constitution and believe our liberties are from God as stated in the Declaration of Independence and do not want it changed then I’m resistant and therefore a conservative. If I believe that Congress violated section 9, ‘bill of attainder” “a Bill of Attainder is meant to mean a bill that has a negative effect on a single person or group, where over 85 Republican voted with 243 Demcrats to use IRS as a secret police, which I am resistent too, then I must be a conservative.

     If I am resistent to government conducting Cap & Trade on energy because I know it will trickle down to even the poorest of individuals as companies past the cost down to the consumer, and congress wants people to believe it will only effect those who make $200,000.00 or more, then I must be a conservative.

     If I believe that the Supreme Court is wrong in its opinion of what constitutes separation of church and state, misrepresenting Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist, making it impossible for children to pray on public grounds, or having a statue with the ten commandments, which I am resistent (disagree) to their opinion, then I must be a conservative. I do remember when the Supreme Court’s opinion supported slavery in the Dred Scott case 1857 slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permitting slavery in all of the country's territories. I would have had I been born opposed to that decision, but I believe I would have been a liberal during that time.

     If I believe that a mother does not have the option to terminate a life in her womb, because I find no difference of being in a womb or in a crib, the responsibility of care belongs to the mother, then I am resistant to conventional thinking of Roe vs. Wade and therefore must be a conservative.

     If I believe that marriage is between a man and woman only, and homosexuality is a choice not a birthright, I am resistant to the progressive left and therefore would be considered a conservative.

     I could go on and on of what I am resistant to, but who are you and what are you resistant too and how do you classify yourself? Do you research the candidates who are supported by a political party to find out who they are, or do you just vote blindly because of the partisan letter by their names? I am and will always be a true conservative, but I am going a little farther, I am now what I have named “BECKOMANIAC” who believes in his 9 principles and 12 values http://www.the912project.com that my so-called-conservative representatives have sadly forgotten. How can I know who is telling me the truth, and I need more substance and proof other than an R beside his or her name?

     In summation of my argument on what is a conservative in my opinion, is a person or persons, who believe the foundation of this country began in the Declaration of Independence, and that we are a nation of laws, and that justice is blind; where all are held under the laws equally, and the Constitution of the United States is and will always be the Supreme Law of the Land!

I look forward to your comment, or our anger!