Who Is Barrack Obama?

Who are progressive liberals and what are they about? They are a quite different response to tradition in social and economic issues, and various more radical streams of socialism and anarchism. Barrack Obama is the progressive liberal's pick, a highly organized group backed by the news media. Many traditional Americans voted for the progressive liberal's pick. We can wonder if they knew who was behind Barrack Obama, who says he is mainstream America. I would hate to think that mainstream America is progressive liberal. Who Barrack Obama is remains to be seen.

The agenda of the powers that be is not in tune with ordinary folks, the kind who just go about their tasks and don't make waves, the ideal citizen. I'm not the ideal citizen. I'm the kind who tweaks the noses of authorities, the kind who makes them servants of the people.

Going back to my life to the year 1962, I bought 25 acres of rolling wooded land 25 miles northwest of Dallas. In 1965, I built my home on my acreage in Flower Mound, Texas, an incorporated area of 38 square miles. My then wife volunteered her services, without pay, as city secretary. Down the road a mile from my acreage was the 700 acre ranch of Edward Marcus, Chairman of the Board of Nieman Marcus.

Marcus had a dream of making Flower Mound a New Town, a carefully planned community of homes, commercial and industrial industries, independent of other communities, from the ground up, the idea of which was to bring people of all classes and income levels together in a pleasing and convenient environment. Marcus and a group of businessmen spent millions in planning and buying land for the proposed New Town. Not all rich people are greedy. Not all poor and needy people are worthy of help.

Marcus paid to fly the city government and spouses to Washington, D.C., my wife and I included. We visited Columbia, Maryland and Reston, Virginia, both New Towns. This was an exciting time in my life.

There were those who were against Flower Mound New Town. One was an elderly woman living alone in a shack in a weed patch. She was not about to sell her property to the Marcus people. One of the Marcus people went to the bank with a large grocery bag and filled it with cash. He paid the elderly woman a visit, telling her he came with a bag of groceries to give her. He took the bag in the house, set it on the table, and told her to take a look at the contents of the bag. It was more money than she had ever seen. He pulled a sales contract out of his pocket and laid it beside the bag of cash. If she signed the contract, the cash was hers. With no hesitation, she signed. Another Flower Mound resident against the New Town was a septic tank cleaner. HUD was going to finance a modern sewage disposal plant.

A highly vocal group of, shall we say, less than prosperous people, long time residents of Flower Mound, calling themselves "the old settlers," got themselves in the news. They were against the New Town because they didn't think they ought to be run off their land by a group of big city opportunists out to make a killing for themselves at their great cost. Little wonder that those folks were not prosperous. Flower Mound was bound to become populated. Better in an organized way.

Thanks to the leftist news media's play on words, the "old settlers" had the sympathy of the people. The media people came to me. They took my words out of context to make me sound stupid and selfish.

Flower Mound was in Denton County, the known home of "good ole boy" government. Texas law enforcement was investigating secret storage areas in Denton County for stolen earth moving equipment. An investigation was underway of confiscated drugs held by Denton County's sheriff, which was being peddled to North Texas University students. An investigation of other stolen property, held by the sheriff, and being sold by local residents was underway.

The Flower Mound septic tank cleaner and cronies held a meeting, with the nod of Denton County's fathers. They appointed the septic tank cleaner mayor of Flower Mound. He replaced the elected mayor of Flower Mound and shut down Flower Mound New Town. No county judge would hear the case. Marcus died of a heart attack. The incidence was not seen by state and federal authorities as worthy of their concern. As a result of corrupt government, Flower Mound, Texas is now a sizable bedroom community of the Dallas metroplex.

When all of this took place, ironically, Texas was about to celebrate her bicentennial of independence from Mexico with a constitutional convention. Citizens of the state were invited to participate. I tried to get a group together to go to Austin, Texas and appear before the state judiciary's committee. We had a worthy cause. Our democratically elected government was unconstitutionally replaced. Nobody volunteered to go with me. I went alone on what was considered a wild goose chase.

The hearing was held in the old supreme court hearing room in the capital building. It was filled with journalists, TV camera's, students, and other interested citizens. I was the last to be heard. The room was vacant, except for me and the state judiciary committee. One of the members protested to the chair that they were not there to hear the personal problem of a citizen with county government. The chair questioned me and told me to go ahead with my ideas of a solution to the problem. I received the following words of gratitude from State Senator L. DeWitt Hale, Chairman:

"On behalf of the Judiciary Committee of Texas Constitutional Convention 1974, I wish to express deep appreciation for your appearance before the Committee and for your thoughtful and timely remarks concerning the Texas judiciary."

"You have made a distinct contribution to the work of the Committee and to the improvement of the Texas judiciary, for which the people of Texas are in your debt."

Of course, the citizens of Texas knew nothing of this.  My stand against county corruption was not newsworthy.  My then wife was divorcing me and spreading untruths about me  to anyone who would listen. According to Flower Mound's Chief of Police, the "old settlers" were talking about doing away with me.  Senator Hale placed me on a committee of lay people and professionals to investigate and report on county governments in Texas. He informed me that Denton County had enough population to warrant a District Attorney.  None of this I write was newsworthy.

An election was held. My divorce attorney became District Attorney. Nobody knew why, but that was the end of Denton's "good ole boy" government.  It was the end of my time in Flower Mound.  I departed Texas for good. For all the citizens of Flower Mound knew, I ran away from my family responsibilities.  To listen to the news media, whose circulation is falling like a rock, you don't get the truth from me here on the Internet.

I went to sea for two years on a 37 foot sloop I named Bold Venture. At sea, it was just me, the elements, and the higher power in me. I've mentioned a couple of miracles at sea that didn't get the media's attention. I returned and continued my fight with the IRS. It ended with a front page newspaper story, the IRS eating its humble pie. Not one word from anyone did I receive. Who wants the Nazi IRS on their backs? Nobody knows why, but ever since my bigger than life calling and departure, I've lived a charmed life. Believe me, my reward has been great.

Let's talk now about progressive liberals, those fair heads the news media supports.  They are for big government, redistribution of wealth, government involved in individual and economic matters. Barrack Obama was speaking to these people, though the media, his cradle to grave security message. These are the same folks who demand freedom to do their thing.  We read about them riding bicyles in the nude in Portland, protected by ttheir right to protest.  Obama was speaking to people not big on the work ethic. He was speaking to the young and inexperienced, the poor and low in spirit, people of color, and being a Harvard Law School graduate, speaking to those who feel they know more than ordinary mortals about what people need in the way they are governed. Obama, the Harvard Law School hero, wants all the terrorists at Guantanamo turned loose, an end of torture, whatever that is, and prior notice that they are going to be investigated.

Who Obama is depends on who you are. Someone once said the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.