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It has been exactly two years since I started this website. At this most festive time of year I extend my most heartfelt well wishes to all my subscribers and visitors no matter what holiday they are celebrating or if none at all. To all those who have visited and shared with others any benefit you have received and to all who have helped to encourage me with your comments and told others about this site I say with the deepest humility thank you so very much. There are two very good reasons why this site only averages one essay per month. I am the only writer is the first reason. The second reason is I spend countless hours thinkiing about what to write about and just as many hours thinking about what to say and how to say it. I want to be absolutely sure that no matter how much time passes I can stand one hundred percent behind every word I write. That is my pledge to everyone. Any writer worthy of his profession is ultimately responsble for every word that he publishes. I welcome comments whether critical or affirmative. If I should ever discover after further review or reflection that I have been mistaken I am not too proud to correct a mistake but, my opinions and analyses will never be based on polls or what is popular or generally perceived as true. Truth can and must be determined objectively. My search for truth is a quest and will never end. My goal is to share truth and understanding with everyone whose mind is open and to those whose minds are not open I hope I may be an instrument for good and help open those minds. I undertook this goal two years ago in starting this site for the sake of the present and future of the freedom and prosperity of this unique country, the United States of America( E Pluribus Unum) out of many one. The United States, the only country started based on a universal idea not on tribal association. That idea being that all people have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property and government’s only legitimate function is to protect those rights. Over the years there developed a disconnect from this principle. The solution to the problems so dominant in the media is to return to this core principle of good government and good citizenship. Fly high and be free. Your freedom eagle, John H.

Government is an instrument of proection of the inalienable rights of those who hire them. Therfore government is a servant, not a master. Government has no rights of its own. It only has responsbilities to protect and the necessary authority to perform it’s duties. Government’s only rights are those delegated to it by the people they are sworn to protect. Citizens can only delegate to government their right of self defense. Government’s only legitimate function is protecting people’s rights to life, liberty, and property. When government goes beyond it’s only Legitimate function it is usurpation and oppression. It then becomes a net detriment to the society that employs it and creates a net decrease in prosperity. Fly high and be free. Your freedom eagle John H.

The search for truth is a never ending quest. Some truths are self evident. Others are elusive and require much ambition and determination to be found. Reach out and embrace truth without fear or prejudice for in the end obtaining truth is worth the effort for truth is reality. Anything less is but fantasy and not fit for human consumption. Fly high and be free. Your freedom eagle, John H.

Occupiers is a good label for the motley melange of malcontent destructive- minded disruptive rabble that has invaded NYC and taken unlawful possession of a piece of ground called a POPS(privately owned public space). Interestingly enough the plaza or park used to be called Liberty Park. During the time this essay has been slowly materializing as most of my essays do I have watched this “occupy” movement spread to other cities across our beleaguered land like the spores of a poison mushroom. I even recently had the experience of being accosted as I was leaving an appearance by Herman Cain here in Montgomery, AL by a lone “occupier” supporter shouting a familiar chant of their’s “we are the 99 per cent”. I assume my audience knows that the occupiers think there’s something wrong with one per cent owning a disproportionate amount of wealth. I just don’t get it. I am also part of the same 99 per cent and it doesn’t bother me one bit. It is morally corrupt to covet what another person owns even if they are millionaires or billionaires. If anyone becomes wealthy by honest means then they are guiltless and it is a shame and disgrace for politicians and private citizens to encourage envy and outright hostility to the most productive and successful minority in this land of opportunity. This wealthy minority that is being demonized by the hooligan- minded occupiers deserve to be respected for their accomplishments for their success has elevated the standard of living of millions of people. These occupiers have bought in to the perverted thinking that is propagated by the spread of Marxist socialist Keynesian philosophy. They obsinately and viciously attack the productive class when they should be protesting pervasive overreaching government that does not produce wealth but instead transfers it at its whim to its cronies. The net effect of this wealth transfer is a net decrease in prosperity and opportunites for individuals to provide for themseves and pursue their happiness. The occupiers are like spoiled children and have been praised and coddled by liberal minded politicians and media to the point of being repugnant and nauseating. The way they have been allowed to destroy private and public property, interfere with other citizens to go about their legitimate daily activities, and defy legitimate laws regulating public demonstrations is truly disgusting. Freedom of speech has no relation to what the “occupiers” across the nation are doing. It is way past time for this rabble to be reigned in and confronted with the legitimate laws that the rest of us are expected to comply with. Fly high and be free. Your freedom eagle, John H