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Nancy Salvato, Senior Editor
Undermining Our Sovereignty from Without
& Within
January 9, 2009
The first amendment to the United States
Constitution expressly prohibits the United States Congress from
making laws that infringe on the freedom of the press. While it should
be expected that those elected to the legislature have at least a basic
understanding of the Bill of Rights, this is not necessarily the case.
“Those who have held elective office earn an average score of 44% on the
civic literacy test, which is five percentage points lower than the
average score of 49% for those who have never been elected.” Neither
score bodes well for the state of our nation.
If we are to continue to be a sovereign country, we must understand the
rule of law and why each and every word of the founding documents are so
important to the defense of our nation and to the continuation of our
freedoms.
While copies of the founding documents (Declaration of Independence, US
Constitution, Bill of Rights) can be found freely on the internet, the
basic understanding of the meaning behind the Founders’ and Framers’
words appears lost on a great many Americans. Perhaps this is why
Google, a private corporation, has been allowed to get away with
systematically censoring a great many authors and publications that call
for a critical examination of radical Islam, take issue with the
unfounded theory of global warming, and more recently, displayed
criticism of extreme progressive left political candidates and
principles. One can surmise that Google figures that since less than 50%
of the people are not going to employ any intelligence in making sense
of the founding documents or in trying to understand their relevance in
today’s world, they don’t pose a threat to the utopian world order they
are promoting at the expense of the rule of law that has guided our
nation for over 200 years.
Sadly, the lack of outrage over this censorship by a private search
engine such as Google, which has virtually monopolized access to any
information made available over the internet, has not only made it much
more difficult to construct a well researched opinion about what is
happening around the world and how these events may affect our way of
life but it is literally revising our history as it is happening right
before our eyes.
This global ideology, which introduced
Political Correctness (uniformity of thought) and has
infiltrated our schools, our media, and our legal system and is
threatening the future of our culture, is advanced by the fifth column
and appears to be winning the hearts and minds of those who believe the
propaganda associated with it. Adherents of this Marxist ideology
embrace moral relativism and do not take the time to understand the
importance of the Judeo/Christian influences on the fundamental values
that guide our civilization.
At the same time, our country is
fighting a war against those who embrace a radical ideology whose goal
is to impose Islamic rule over Infidels, those who doubt or reject the
tenets of Islam. There have been three declarations of war against our
country since 1996, when
Osama Bin Laden declared war against the United States of America,
followed by
Al Qaeda’s 1998 “Fatwah” of Jihad against America
(Fatwahs can only be issued by
an Islamic religious figure) and most recently Iran’s President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad’s letter, “widely interpreted as a peaceful overture”
yet “is in fact a declaration of war” as evidenced by the closing
salutation, “Peace only unto those who follow the true path."
History reveals that the prophet Mohammad’s letters to the Byzantine
emperor and the Sassanid emperor “telling them to convert to the true
faith of Islam or be conquered” included the same phrase that President
Ahmadinejad used to conclude his letter to [President] Bush.
These terrorist groups or sponsors of
terrorist groups likely already possess the means to create a nuclear
explosion high above the United States that would produce an
electromagnetic pulse in our atmosphere strong enough to severely damage
all the civilian electrical power sources and electrical equipment on
which our society relies.
According to, The Report of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD
Proliferation and Terrorism, "Were one to map terrorism and
weapons of mass destruction today, all roads would intersect in
Pakistan."
An explosion of this magnitude could set our civilization back hundreds
of years. The comforts to which we’re accustomed would be gone. It’s
nearly impossible to conceive what this would do to our present way of
life. And that is the idea...
The
colonists had begun to settle this country one hundred years before they
acquired the wherewithal to declare our independence. Should our country
fall to nefarious forces, if our civilization witnesses a nuclear
holocaust, we may never again experience life as we know it. The
sovereignty of our country depends on the ability to protect our
freedoms from without and from within. The continued public apathy and
indifference to the encroachment on our protected rights will ultimately
erase our liberties with nary a shot being fired.
About Nancy Salvato
Nancy Salvato is the President and Director of Education and the
Constitutional Literacy Program for
BasicsProject.org, a
non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) research and educational
project whose mission is to re-introduce the American public to
the basic elements of our constitutional heritage while
providing non-partisan, fact-based information on relevant
socio-political issues important to our country, specifically
the threats of aggressive Islamofascism and the American Fifth
Column. She serves as a Senior Editor for The New Media Journal.
She received her BA in history from Loyola University and her
M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education from National-Louis
University. She is certified to teach in grades K-9 and 6-12
and as a teacher has worked with students in preschool, 1st,
5th, 6th, 7th, 8th,
9th, 11th, and 12th grades. She
has also worked as an adjunct instructor at the graduate school
level. She continues to augment her education and areas of
expertise by taking college courses and participating in a
variety of workshops.
