BOB WOODWARD SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN THREATENED TAKE ENCOURAGEMENT FROM JEFFERSON FOR YOUR WORK "Since truth and reason have maintained their ground against false opinions in league with false facts, the press confined to truth needs no other legal restraint. The public judgment will correct false reasonings and opinions on a full hearing of all parties, and no other definite line can be drawn between the inestimable liberty of the press and its demoralizing licentiousness. If there be still improprieties which this rule would not restrain, its supplement must be sought in the censorship of public opinion." --Thomas Jefferson: 2nd Inaugural Address, 1805. ME 3:381

IS BILL O REILLY CORRECT WHEN HE STATES “WE ELECT POLITICIANS WHO ARE INCREASINGLY SCREWING UP THE COUNTRY” Whether you agree or differ with Bill O Reilly’s thoughts on a given subject one that’s honest has to admit to his intelligence and insight. Are we getting the finest servants in leadership looking at strictly the political class to serve the needs, aspirations and constitutional liberties of this great nation? Is it time to revalue the intelligence and honesty of our common people? AMERICA 2016, WHO WILL BE THE NEXT TRUE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE? There have always been surprises resulting from ranking and speculating about the person who will be a future presidential nominee. One would expect most of the names mentioned, would surface from a background of prior political service, becoming nominees in 2016. Yet, in recent weeks, in fact the last several years we have focused our attention on some leaders who were not only politically incompetent, but lived unethical, devious and dishonest lives. A few examples include former senator John Edwards, South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, senator Ingle, former Illinois governor Blagojevich, discredited president Bill Clinton, and many others have awakened us to the fact that prior political service is no guarantee of fidelity, honesty, morality and ultimate representation of the American people. This next election cycle I believe is witnessing an anti-incumbency modality hitherto not seen in recent years. We are told there are no perfect candidates, I disagree there are many outstanding Americans. Where should Americans search for qualified, honest, caring, moral, public servants? Obviously, the original founders looked among themselves for future servants of the people. The original fifty-five framers of our Constitution included; shippers, scientists, farmers, investors, retirees, lawyers, one minister, a college administrator, and most founders were citizens of good reputation. They were, “give me liberty or give me death” representatives of the people. Only nine of the fifty five actually worked for government compensation. Where will Americans discover the candidate who will work as their servant, committed totally to creating jobs, reducing taxes, promoting a strong economy based on free enterprise, constitutional liberties and our form of government? Will this future nominee be faithful to both civil (presidential) and all solemn oaths (like marriage) will the candidate’s wife and children be an asset to society? Will the nominee stand rock solid against radicals, lobbyists, special interest groups, rogue nations, terrorists and ultimately commit to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States so help him God, if elected? How will the nation decide on a true grassroots nominee who will serve for a dollar a year, in the tradition of the late John F. Kennedy? What path will lead us to this future President living and teaching traditional values, protecting small business, corporate growth, creating millions of new jobs at home? Will this person come to us through public relations imaging, political position, pseudo campaigns and photo opportunities? No, this servant will be identified while walking, working, living among the people, stating personal, national and personal constitutional convictions and listening to the advice and suggestions of the American public. His substance will be deep and committed for too often as a nation we have chosen celebrities and corrupt politicians over serious leaders. This nominee when chosen president will give 24/7 to protect and proudly lead this great country. This selected public servant by the people will give the nation pride and vision once again, in its history, and achievements. This candidate of the people will stand boldly in the global assembly of nations and proudly extol American individualism and achievement. As president, this individual will never apologize for America or bow a knee to foreign heads of state. This public servant will serve the nation exhibiting great force of will and personal compassion while unifying citizens in a common pursuit of excellence. The candidate chosen will ultimately be identified in the schools, homes, churches, schools, neighborhoods and hearts of citizens through their election process. That is how it will happen and when it does America will have given the nation an authentic intelligent public servant to face a time of great challenges. Dr. Alan Phillips, Sr.

WE THE PEOPLE We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America It is time to apply the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution to all future candidates that seek the presidency of the United States of America. A belief and personal commitment to the Preamble may be as important as the presidential oath of office. A servant must be sought in the future to fill this great honor of electoral process for the sake of guaranteeing the constitutional freedoms for all that have been defended by so many that have given the maximum in service to their country. WE THE PEOPLE, living, voting, working, children, young and retired Americans who believe in a nation of promise growing in job creation, opportunity, and promise of a brighter day. WE THE PEOPLE as opposed to those who advocate WE THE PAID LOBBYISTS-are the real people of the republic’s freedoms and constitutional guarantees. IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION moving ahead in a positive way leading to justice in the lives of all Americans. Whether rich or poor all must experience the benefits of justice and equality from the law. Included in the preamble is the promise of domestic tranquility, encouraging all citizens to work together for the good of all, not emphasizing division class and argument. The introduction to the constitution provides for the common defense of all Americans and avoids budget and personnel cuts that jeopardize the people’s safety. The general welfare of all citizens is also a standing priority of the constitution and a correctly functioning government. Children, the elderly, infirmed and the defenseless among us should realize all the benefits of the general welfare. Yet, perhaps the most important emphasis is to be found at the conclusion of The Preamble to our constitution. SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY. The blessings of liberty have been purchased by the founders of this country through the spilling of blood on national and international fields of service. The lives given throughout the years have made a major difference in the purchase and defense of liberties enjoyed by Americans on a daily basis. Any President must dedicate his total energies to protecting these freedoms even from overzealous governmental bureaucrats if they are to endure. The measure for determining the success of this great nation can be measured by the fulfillment or lack thereof of the success of our preamble. It’s time as Americans to reassert our freedoms. Dr. Alan G. Phillips, Sr.

Alan G Phillips FROM THE ASIAN NEWSPAPER THE ASAHI SHIMBUN JPW, US has had secret flights to NORTH KOREA 2011-2012, MY RESPONSE, AP Alan G Phillips · Top Commenter · University of Arkansas Are we sending mixed signals to North Korea's leadership and in doing so appearing weaker in the process? It seems our credibility with Japan is tarnished unnecessarily by this action. Experimentation is not effective in furthering the interests of the United States there is no substitute for standing for freedom and an end to North Korea's bullying. Victory is the answer to achieving success. Dr. Alan G Phillips, Sr.

NORTH KOREA AND ITS PARIAH ROLE THREATENING MILLIONS I recently witnessed the televised exchange on Asian Voices February 16 between Gordon Flake Executive Director of the Mansfield Foundation and Associate Professor Yongtiao of Peking University as they discussed North Korea’s recent nuclear test. Flake pointed to present U.S. treaty commitments to Japan and South Korea and emphasized North Korea’s action will result in further alienation of its government and people from the rest of the world. Flake reviewed the last twenty years of sanction failure in turning the direction of North Korea away from nuclear pursuits. Although Flake admitted heightened U.S.-China intelligence collaboration he accused the Chinese of acting as a shield for the North Koreans the last four years. He highlighted U.N. resolution 2082 against nuclear testing in the North and its failure to dissuade the North Koreans as well. Professor Yongtiao enunciated that China will work closely with the U.S. and cease relying on persuasion alone. Yongtiao felt the North will continue to pursue nuclear development and accelerate missile development. He indicated China’s pressure on the North would be at best gradual. He advocated more sanctions and his government’s desire for a stable Korean peninsula. This was a pathetically weak airing of U.S. foreign policy and Chinese resolve. Missing were any threats of reactive military force from the U.S. or China as well as no red lines or even mutually shared destruction proposals. It’s obvious that we are pursuing a failed policy that may well lead to deaths of millions of innocent civilians if ignored by our government. We must take this isolated brutal regime seriously and develop a plan that features massive force in retaliation if necessary. Dr. Alan G. Phillips, Sr.

NORTH KOREA, THE PARIAH OF THE WORLD. HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING FROM HISTORY? One has only to revisit Winston Churchill’s analysis of Neville Chamberlain’s meetings with Adolph Hitler on German soil to uncover the dangers of appeasement. Nazi military leader Keitel answered to Czech interrogation at Nuremberg that the Germans would have retreated from Czechoslovakia quickly had westerners called their bluff. Do we honestly assume peace from the North Koreans predicated on visits from a choir of intellectual midgets like Madeline Albright, Jimmy Carter and Bill Richardson. Is it now time for the administration to make it abundantly clear that further talk and nuclear/rocket tests by one of the world’s largest totalitarian army and closed societies will provoke a massive armed response from this nation. Are we not manufacturing another Munich and will we survive if we are unwilling to use our powers against tyrants and their militaristic ambitions? North Korean rashness must now be confronted. If we stop North Korea there is a lesson to be learned by Iran. Dr. Alan G. Phillips Sr.

FROM THE ECONOMIST, FEBRUARY 12, 2013 Tonight the President of the United States will address the nation at the SOTU. North Korean nuclear threats must be confronted and encountered with this nation's military might. They began this news cycle with a simulated video of their missiles attacking New York City. Today we have been braggingly lectured by them that they have tested a miniaturized weapon that can be launched at the continental United States. It's past time that the President give them a glimpse of realism relative to the consequences they can plan on if they cross the line. Basically in a moment their puppet army and nation will cease to exist. This result of their threatenings must be conveyed to them immediately. No holds barred through diplomatic pusseyfooting. Dr. Alan G. Phillips, Sr.

ANOTHER LOOK AT WOODROW WILSON A President’s words often define aspects of his life. I present the words of Wilson unedited as he committed our troops to war. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts-for democracy, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other. May all of America’s future Presidents remember President Wilson’s words. Adopted on April 6, 1917. Dr. Alan G. Phillips, Sr.

SERIOUS REFLECTIONS FROM THE OLD LION – WINSTON S. CHURCHILL In Churchill’s book, The Aftermath, he took the liberty to enumerate some of his impressions of the war, between the Armistice and changes in British Government. However his most prolific and incisive thoughts related to his premonitions of a dangerous future. I present them to all future foreign policy leaders that may need to discern a dangerous global pathway to the future. Churchill felt it was not until the dawn of the twentieth century of the Christian era that war began to enter its kingdom as the potential destroyer of the human race. It has been an ongoing revelation since Churchill’s reflections that Science has unfolded her knowledge and mysteries to the demands of men and placed in their grasp devices decisive in their character. Reflecting in the late twenties Churchill became concerned and disturbed about future possibilities of catastrophe. Certain serious facts emerge on Churchill’s figurative mountains in the mist as he examined the mortal threat to mankind. He is convinced that in the future entire populations will take part in war, all doing their best, all subjected to the fury of their enemy. It is already established that nations believing their life is at risk will not be restrained from using any means to secure their continued existence. It is probable that among the means which will next time be at a nation’s disposal will be agencies of destruction once launched will be uncontrollable. Humankind has never been in this position of terror in prior decades. Churchill believed without doubt weapons could accomplish civilization’s extermination. This question of the threat of societal termination is where the efforts of all humankind has led many to the present. Churchill thought people in national foreign policy leadership would find it helpful to pause and contemplate seriously their new responsibilities and the demands of leadership. The old lion concluded metaphorically that death stood at attention, obedient, expectant, anxious to perform and shear away civilizations in great numbers, ready if called upon to pulverize, without hope of rebirth, what is left of population. War awaits only a direction or command to act. Death awaits the order to strike from a frail, bewildered being, long his victim, now for one occasion only-his Master. In the allies’ loss of direction, in the abandonment of principles they had advocated, they allowed conditions to build up that ultimately led to war. Churchill felt their national peers and fellow global societies have only to repeat the same short sighted destructive behavior towards the 2lst century challenges to bring about a third event from which none may survive to tell the tale. Like Churchill I am convinced that foreign policy strategy and implementation is not for knee jerk impulsive neophytes who ignore salient lessons of history. Dr. Alan G. Phillips, Sr.

WORDS FROM FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT To be stricken with infantile paralysis in adult life was a tragedy in the life of the man from New York. Among limitations was the need to be carried from place to place wearing braces weighing some ten pounds. Even well managed photographs and carefully scheduled speeches were unable to overcome the visual effects of his malady. Yet within Roosevelt’s mind were to be discovered extraordinary talents and management skills that would save a nation from economic stress and war. I choose to reflect on a few of his economic observations in view of the times we are experiencing as a nation. We must not worry over the concept of fear. The nomenclature of fear by its very nature feeds off the psyche and humanizes personal threat. Hypotheticals are no more than wasted worries over outcomes that most times will not materialize. Let’s place needless fretting in the waste basket of false despair. In Roosevelt’s comments to Congress in the mid-thirties he took time to confront the matter of welfare. He told all Americans that continual dependence upon relief programs creates spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. He determined that any program that doles out relief in this way is administering a narcotic a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. Roosevelt’s only answer to this level of want was to provide work for all people able to work. He is quoted as having said that “We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed from destitution but also personal self-respect, self-reliance, courage and determination. Roosevelt believed that the nation’s task of reconstruction did not require the creation of new and strange values but instead adherence to those ideals previously known and cherished. He felt there were people in other lands who had once fought for freedom, but who appeared now too weary to continue the fight, who perhaps had sold their soul for the illusion of living. Roosevelt believed that America’s success could stir and increase their ancient hope. In Roosevelt’s own words, “they begin to know that here in America we are waging a great and successful war. It is not alone a war against want, destitution and economic demoralization. It is more than that: it is a war for the survival of democracy. We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.” May his words live once more. Dr. Alan G. Phillips, Sr.