Are you feeling a bit guilty inside for our United States of America’s stunning move away from capitalism, liberty, a free-market economy…away from responsible ladies and gentlemen with traditional American family values?

I am. I feel that WE THE GOOD PEOPLE did not do enough.

I feel that WE THE GOOD PEOPLE stayed silent.

I feel that WE THE GOOD PEOPLE went along to get along.

I feel that WE THE GOOD PEOPLE were TOO good.

I feel that WE THE GOOD PEOPLE looked the other way too often.

I feel that WE THE GOOD PEOPLE shrunk from our responsibilities.

I feel that WE THE GOOD PEOPLE allowed radical liberalism to reign while we did not speak up for “God and Country”.

I feel that WE THE GOOD PEOPLE allowed ”political correctness” to dumb our families down, and dumb our culture down.

I feel that WE THE GOOD PEOPLE fell for the cultural lies and the political lies of the Daley political family. 

On November 2nd we can redeem ourselves by voting liberal anti-American career politicians OUT of OUR public offices, such as John Daley who strongly endorsed radical liberal socialist Barack Obama.

We only have weeks left, and then it will be over on Nov 3rd. Cook County Commissioners and others will have another entire 4 years in YOUR public office.

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KEEPING for their friends.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-08-05/news/ct-edit-tif-20100805_1_tif-dollars-valuable-redevelopment-tool-tax-increment-financing

It’s very simply a slushfund.

It is killing free enterprise; it’s destroying our nation.

It makes government (the Daleys) the Real Estate agent.

It kills our mom&pop stores.

Don’t forget :

Look how many people know Rich Daley is a clown.
Look where Daley is “elected” to?
Look at how we accept his brother John to run a $3.1 billion budget which includes our never-ending increases in taxes. (This is Al Capone–Capone without a gun , and also Capone was acknowledged as a gangster while John Daley is accepted as a public servant)
Look at how we fools accept a corrupt and stealth deal-maker (John Daley) to run Chicago politics behind the scenes for his corrupt brother.
Look how we stay quiet while we allow the Daleys to thrust Obama on the world stage, and as potus.
Look how they violate our family’s values and traditions.
Look how they demoralize us.
From Bridgeport to Beverly to Midway

Again
It’s not the Daley’s fault; it is our (collective) fault.

It’s getting late. It’s 2 minutes to midnight!

Where do you draw the line? When do you draw the line?

DO YOU EVEN DRAW A LINE…..AT ALL…EVER ?

Why is it that everyone “hates” the Daleys but almost nobody says so publicly? Don’t we know that group-think is bad, and that individual thought is good? Don’t we know that individual thought is freedom? Why is it that everybody hates Daley/Obama politics, and they may criticize Obama as the despicable antithesis of what America is, but refuse to raise a peep of the Organized Daley Crime Family which made him our president?!

We are in denial about Chicago’s Daley Political Liberal mafia. We refuse to acknowledge that the Daley’s sold 1) OUR Church and 2)OUR nation, down the drain for money and power.  We are “all” guilty.

We keep our mouths shut, as if that is a good thing?

  –   Why?!   –

The Daley Liberal Political mob supports Sanctuary Cities along with Luis Guttierez et al, to protect Illegal Aliens and give them MONIES that would otherwise go to veterans, children,etc…..that is, AMERICAN veterans , and AMERICAN children.

…After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most … It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. … The American Republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
• From bondage to spiritual faith;
• From spiritual faith to great courage;
• From courage to liberty;
• From liberty to abundance;
• From abundance to complacency;
• From complacency to apathy;
• From apathy to dependence;
• From dependence back into bondage.
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BRIBING PEOPLE WITH THEIR OWN MONEY

The Daleys know how to bribe people with THEIR OWN MONEY.

– Carl Segvich

CONSERVATIVE PHILOSOPHY  vs  LIBERAL PHILOSOPHY

My name is Carl Segvich and I am a conservative candidate running for OUR public office, namely a commissioner. Running against me is a liberal career incumbent. It just so happens that John Daley is “born of privilege” and now carries an infamous last name, as “Daley” is synonymous with modern extreme public corruption = abuse of public trust in and all around Chicago = Official Misconduct. Being cognizant that he has “no way out” , and trapped in a life of total, utter, undeniable and complete political fraud, he refuses to debate us. To redeem himself politically and publicly, he has only one thing to do: Publicly confess that his entire political life has been fraud perpetuated upon the masses.

For me? Until he debates me publicly, I can share our (conservatives) thoughts on public policy. Below is a simply magnanimous letter on education & High School and public policy written with clear thoughtfulness by Dennis Prager. I concur with this American philosophy. Daley does not. John, as most if not all liberals, divides us by sex, sexual orientation, race and many other divisions that they come up with including ethnicity.

Me? Us? We are just Americans trying to promote morality. That is, what is fair for the greatest good of all. Please read Mr. Prager:

http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2010/07/13/a_speech_every_american_high_school_principal_should_give/page/full

For years I’ve been publicly exposing the utter and shameless cowardice of many who dare call themselves “leaders” in OUR Catholic Church. For example these spineless “leaders” fail to call into public question, the scandalization of OUR Church brought upon us by the corrupt Daley brothers of the infamous Chicago Political mafia. The Daleys promote abortion and homosexuality with impunity.

The same spineless “leader” types of OUR Church haven’t come to the defense of Professor Ken Howell for teaching that homosexuality is immoral.

The world is upside down. The reason in large part is because we capitulate to culture instead of  teaching culture and truth. It is because we refuse to be leaders.

We have become, collectively speaking, a world of cowards.

Please read more below; it’s a letter by Mr. Tom Roeser.

http://http://blog.tomroeser.com/2010/07/personal-aside-peoria-diocese-continues.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tomroeser+%28TomRoeser.com+%3A%3A%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

Tom Roeser.com

Personal Aside: Peoria Diocese Continues Mum on Catholic Professor’s Speech-Religion Oppression.Posted: 19 Jul 2010 06:09 AM PDT

Feast of St. Vincent de Paul*

All of a sudden in this bluest of blue liberal Democratic states, the poster boy for…(a) academic freedom (b) diversity of intellectual thought (c) freedom of religious expression (d) freedom from secular multi-versity oppression and (e) the need for a more militant ecclesial defense of Catholic thought … is a mild-mannered authenticist lay professor named Ken Howell.

He hasn’t become a celebrity yet because the professional liberal goo-goo’s in the media…Carol Marin, aka Apassionata van Leftward (who has three news outlets and is concerned only with speech repression of liberals, not conservatives)…WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” with Cardboard Man (Phil Ponce) and Nurse Ratched (Elizabeth Brackett)…the Sun-Times’ Neil Steinberg, Richard Roeper, Mark Brown and Mary Mitchell (second thought: Mitchell wouldn’t be writing about Howell anyhow since he isn’t black)…and Tribune’s Clarence Page (same reason to ignore the story as does Mitchell: Howell is a white guy and…ugh…conservative)…have not the slightest interest in sparing a conservative from throttled speech and exercise of religion.   Billy Ayres, the unrepentant terrorist, is a “distinguished fellow” at the U of I-Chicago teaching “social justice” without contradiction from any other source than the Left. But he thrills Marin, Ponce, Brackett, Mitchell, Steinberg, Roeper and Page et al.  Rather than defend Howell, they choose to ignore his case.

Sunday the Tribune’s so-called “religion” columnist, Manya A. Brachear the so-called “seeker” wrote a piece Sunday which left no doubt as to her belief that in the issue of religious teaching on a state campus, the state trumps all on “academic freedom.”  Meaning you teach what the state wants even if you class is devoted to Catholic studies.   Quoting secularist professor Nicholas Burbules, a member of the Faculty Senate’s General University Policy Committee she reported his words without contradiction from another source: “I have very strong inclinations that this is where things went wrong in the first place” [the view that the “separation of church and state threatens academic integrity].  No mention whatsoever of the right of a professor to state the Catholic position without interference from the state.  That’s good old Manya the “Seeker.”

While ignored by most of the liberals, still Howell has become a conservative cause celebre as he fights for true academic freedom at the University of Illinois where until June 30 he was teaching a course dedicated to exposition of Catholic thought.

I know him well; have had him speak at Chicago Legatus and Catholic Citizens of Illinois; like him immensely  and can testify he is the world’s most unlikely guy to trigger a statewide furor and which possibly may detonate a national one for religious freedom. In his presentations, he is as precise but as clearly unequivocal as the late theologian Fr. John Hardon SJ.

Here are the circumstances of Ken Howell’s being fired for expressing clearly and without reservation the traditional Catholic view on homosexuality at a public university that illustrates its scorn for of academic freedom and freedom of religious exercise—as well as the Peoria diocese’s abject cowardice, fleeing controversy by neglecting defense of the Faith one would expect it to protect.

Convert from Presbyterian Ministry.

In his mid-50s, Ken Howell has been a Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and has been director of the John Henry Newman Institute of Catholic Thought as well as adjunct associate professor of religious studies at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He has a doctorate in linguistics from Indiana University and a second doctorate in the history of Christianity and Science from the University of Lancaster, England.   He was a Presbyterian minister for 18 years and a professor of theology for seven at a Protestant seminary.

He was confirmed and received into the Catholic church in 1996.  He and his wife have three children and live in Champaign, Illinois where the U of I is headquartered.  He’s the author of several well-received books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science [Notre Dame Press:2002]; Mary of Nazareth, a scriptural study of Marian doctrine, published by Catholic Answers and The Eucharist for Beginners: Sacrament, Sacrifice and Communion also published by Catholic Answers.

There is some question as to how Howell is paid because the operation is an amalgam between the U of I and the Church.  The general consensus is that he is paid by U of I funds in accordance with the Newman Institute of Catholic Thought. But if he’s paid by the Church, all the more justification for the archdiocese to be put on the pan for his firing.

The Newman Institute is expected to fairly teach Catholic thought in a rigorous academic setting with funds approved by both University and the Church. The Center is in control of the curriculum but the funding comes from the state university system. The mission of the Newman Institute is to provide authentic Catholic teaching supposedly untrammeled or uninfluenced by secular dogma.  Representing the Peoria diocese in which the U of I main branch is located is Msgr. Gregory Ketchum.

Diocese and Newman Center Mum.

Howell’s firing came from a protest against his teaching authentic Catholic doctrine; yet it has received no public protest from the Newman Center or the Peoria diocese. But blogger and public heat was churned on which made the diocese stir uneasily.

What triggered Howell’s firing as teacher of a course entitled “Catholicism and Modern Culture” was an email he sent to his students explaining Catholic theology on the nature of homosexuality which led one student to protest that Howell was purveying “hate speech.” I’ll reproduce much of the Howell email later on in this article but rest assured nothing…absolutely nothing…he has written as deviated from Catholic doctrine in the slightest: and in fact has echoed Catholic teaching down through the ages with immaculate clarity and matchless erudition.  I’m not surprised that criticism should come from a student who in his protest represents gay activism despite his denial as such —but I am dismayed that from Msgr. Ketchum and the Peoria diocese initially there was not been a peep of protest, their silence serving as seeming acquiescence to Ken Howell’s firing.

If the diocese of Peoria had raised a public question about Howell’s firing it is a certainty that the matter would have been put on hold and Howell continued to be retained during an investigation.   But the fact that the firing was allowed to proceed without initial public questioning from the Peoria diocese has produced the furor among many Catholics today.

Perhaps Peoria’s silence and timidity and possible quavering before the secular state can be readily understood by the fact that the bishop since 2002 has been Daniel R. Jenky, CSC who had been superior of his religious community at the University of Notre Dame, the so-called mother university of Catholicism which has not been notable for its militant defense of Catholicism on campus.

Bishop Jenky is 63, Chicago born, Notre Dame-educated, a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross since 1975, appointed auxiliary bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend (1997)  and 8^th bishop of Peoria by Pope John Paul II.  Evidently the experience as auxiliary to South Bend’s Bishop John M. D’Arcy, noted for strenuously opposing the invitation of Barack Obama to speak at Notre Dame didn’t take (but then Jenky was in Peoria when Bishop D’Arcy took his stand).

Only after Howell’s firing produced a cyclonic protest—heavy attacks from hundreds of bloggers, a law suit against the U of I by the Alliance Defense Fund and a surprisingly hot editorial in his defense from the ultra-liberal Chicago Sun-Times—did the diocese of Peoria bestir itself.  My own blog tomroeser.comand my internet newspaper The Chicago Daily Observer at cdobs.com have protested among many others including some secular media.

Thus dragged into the spotlight by public outcry, a meeting was scheduled last week between the diocese and the U of I. Still, by Jenky, a model of accommodation in the style of Fr.  John I. Jenkins, CSC, Notre Dame president who sat still for Barack Obama’s honorary degree from his university, has been unavailable for public comment.

What Howell Said that Infuriated.

Here are some portions of Howell’s email to his students that offended one member.  His name has been redacted but he has written in behalf of a student friend whose name is also hidden. The friend said both are Catholic but the student was shocked at the anti-homosexual vitriol.  Read it and judge for yourself.  From my standpoint of having taught at institutions for many years, including Harvard, it is absolutely free of vitriol but brimming with Catholic philosophic insight.

Howell: “Since there is a question on the final exam about utilitarianism, I thought I would help with an example…It turns out that our discussion of homosexuality brings up the issue of utilitarianism…[B]y what criterion should we judge whether sexual acts are right or wrong?…Utilitarianism in the popular sense is fundamentally a moral theory that judges right or wrong by its practical outcomes.  It is somewhat akin to a cost/benefit analysis.

“So when a woman is deciding whether it’s right to have an abortion, the utilitarian says it’s right or wrong based on what the best outcome is.  Similarly a man who is trying to decide whether he should cheat on his wife, if he’s a utilitarian ,will weigh the various consequences. If the cheating side of the ledger is better, he will conclude it’s okay to cheat. If the faithful side is better, he will refrain from cheating.”

Howell continues:

“I think it’s fair to say that many, maybe most Americans, employ some type of utilitarianism in their moral decision-making. But there are at least two problems.  One is that to judge the best outcome can be very subjective.  What may be judged good for the pregnant woman may not be good for the baby.  What may be judged good for the about-to-cheat husband may not be good for his wife or his children…

“Utilitarianism counsels that moral decisions should NOT be based on the inherent meaning of acts. Acts are only good or bad relative to outcomes. The Natural Law theory that I expounded in class assumes that human acts have an inherent meaning.”

Now we get to the first portion that got Howell in trouble (in bold italics).

“…If two men consent to engage in sexual acts, according to utilitarianism, such an act would be morally okay.  But notice too that if a 10-year-old agrees to a sexual act with a 40-year-old such an act would also be moral [under utilitarianism] even if it is illegal under the current law…But another problem would be where to draw the line between moral and immoral acts using only informed consent.  For example, if a dog consents to engage in a sexual act with its master, such an act would also be moral according to the consent criterion [of utilitarianism].  If this impresses you as far-fetched, the point is not whether it might occur but by what criterion we could say that it is wrong. I don’t think that it would be wrong according to the present [utilitarian] criterion…”

Continuing (with concepts adjudged offensive to gays in bold type): “…Men and women are complementary in their anatomy, physiology and psychology. Men and women are not interchangeable. So a moral sexual act has to be between persons who are fitted for that act. Consent is important but there is more than consent needed. One example applicable to homosexual acts illustrates the problem. To the best of my knowledge, in a sexual relationship between two men one of them tends to act as the `woman’ while the other acts as the `man.’ …I don’t want to be too graphic so I won’t go into details but a physician has told me that these acts are deleterious to the health of one or possibly both of the men. Yet if the morality of the act is judged only by mutual consent, then there are clearly homosexual acts which are injurious to their health but which are consented to. Why are they injurious? Because they violate the meaning, structure and (sometimes) health of the human body…”

Again:

“…Now recall that I mentioned in class the importance of gaining wisdom from the past.  One part of wisdom we gain from such knowledge is how people today came to think of their bodies. I won’t go into details here but a survey of the last few centuries reveals that we have gradually been separating our sexual desires (reality) from our moral decisions. Thus, people tend to think that we can use our bodies sexually in whatever ways we choose without regard to their actual structure and meaning. This is also what lies behind the idea of sex change operations…

“…If what I just said is true, then this disassociation of morality and sexual reality did not begin with homosexuality.  It began a long time ago. But it took a huge leap forward in the widespread use of artificial contraceptives.  What this use allowed was for people to disassociate procreation and children from sexual activity. So for people who have grown up only in a time when there is no inherent connection between procreation and sex—notice not natural but manipulated by humans—it follows `logically’ that sex can mean anything we want it to mean.”

Now he summarizes:

“Natural moral theory says that if we are to have healthy sex lives we must return to a connection between procreation and sex. Why?  Because that is what is REAL.  It is based on human sexual anatomy and physiology.  Human sexuality is inherently unitive and procreative. If we encourage sexual relations that violate this basic meaning, we will end up denying something essential about our humanity, about our feminine and masculine nature…All I ask as your teacher is that you approach these questions as a thinking adult. That implies questioning what you have heard around you. Unless you have done extensive research into homosexuality and are cognizant of the history of moral thought you are not ready to make judgments about moral truth in this matter.”

One Student’s Complaint: Enough for Fire Howell.

After receiving the email a complaint was sent to the University administration from a student who wished to remain anonymous. Again I have put his most serious objection in bold-face italics. Here is what it said in part:

“This past semester, a friend of mine took RLST 127: Introduction to Catholicism.  Throughout the semester he would consistently tell me how the teacher [Ken Howell] who I believe is a priest at the Newman Center [sic] would preach (not teach) his ideology to the class.  Many times my friend (whom I wish to remain anonymous) said the instructor would say things that were inflammatory and downright insensitive to those who were not of the Catholic faith.  It should be noted that my friend and I were both brought up Catholic.

“Anyways [sic], my friend informed me that things got especially provocative when discussing homosexuality. He sent me the following email which I believe you will agree is downright absurd once you read it. [He encloses the Howell email previously described].

“I am in no way a gay activist  but allowing this hate speech [sic] in a public university is entirely unacceptable.  It sickens me to know that hard-working Illinoisans are funding the salary of a man who does nothing but try to indoctrinate students and perpetuate stereotypes. Once again, this is a public university and should thus have no religious affiliation. Teaching a student about the tenets of a religion is one thing. Declaring that homosexual acts violate the natural rights of man is another.  The courses at this institution should be geared to contribute to the public discourse and promote independent thought, not limit one’s worldview and ostracize people of a certain sexual orientation.

“I can only imagine how ashamed and uncomfortable a gay student would feel if he/she were to take this course. I am a heterosexual male [sic] and I found this completely appalling. Also my friend told me that the teacher allowed little room for any opposition to Catholic dogma. I have cc’d Leslie Morrow, director of the LGBT Resource Center [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender], former features editor at the Daily Illini (I’m sure they’d like to hear about this) and Siobhan Somerville, a former teacher of mine and the founder of the Queer Studies major…(Name redacted).”

Decide for yourself whether Ken Howell’s course is an exercise in hate.  To my mind the letter is one of intimidation, designed to silence and remove from the faculty one of the most articulate expositors of Catholic philosophy and theology under the technique of liberal thought-control.  How the University of Illinois, the  Newman Center, a Catholic monsignor and the bishop of the Peoria diocese could be cowed by such a letter to accept Howell’s firing is beyond belief.Looking at Jenky’s timidity I am edified at how the Church has survived 2000 years: but as Bob Novak reminded me–it must be divine to withstand the Jello-like spineless accommodationism passing for “leadership”  it has had all these years including the 20 prelates who abandoned Rome and bowed to Henry VIII leaving only one, Saint John Fisher to face the gallows for his beliefs. Parading around with crosier and miter is heady stuff: that they do with relish, including plopping down on the big gilded thrones at the cathedral daises…but stand up for the faith?  Naw.  That’s why the pro-abort, pro-gay rights facilitators  of The Squid…the Daleys, Dickie Durbin, the AG Lisa Madigan…can trot up to the communion rail without fear of being turned away from receiving the body and blood of Christ unworthily—bestowed from the ecclesial-ringed hands of bishopric toadies.

But the good news is that a combination of bloggers and newspaper coverage has at last alerted the University President…a new man…Michael J. Hogan…to form an academic committee to investigate the issue. Lethargically, the Peoria diocese has conceded that it will move ahead to at least question if not protest Howell’s removal.

Blogger pressure and even the slow entry of the Sun-Times editorial board constitute the good news.  The bad?  Well, the chairman of the University of Illinois trustees is Christopher Kennedy, son of the late Bobby. Kennedy whom I know well is somewhat different from his ultra-liberal siblings…but…well just how different and how courageous we’ll find out..

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The contrast of the organization, fortitude and persistence of the homosexual mafia to the cowardice of OUR Church “leaders” is startling.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,…… ”

It is time to leave enmasse, the democrat party. Our rights do not come from the democrat party. The democrat party is enslaving us and demoralizing us. This political party is stealing our dignity.

It’s time to dissolve political bands with the democrat party.

Our rights come from God. Our rights do not come from Richy, Barack or John Daley

How much longer can we stay silent, as the LIBERAL Daley policies demoralize us?

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