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SARAH PALIN and My Progression to Conservatism

I am retired Navy. I am a Wife and Mother.  I was also a single parent for ten years.  I only mention these things because they play a part in my political affiliations and my gradual shift to more conservative values.  I have always strongly supported equal rights...how could I not?  I spent twenty-two years in the Navy as a woman and much of that was as a single parent.   
 
I started to become more conservative as my daughter got older because it seemed to me that womens issues were headed down the wrong path.  It was all about abortion and the rights of lesbians....where was the concern for childcare? Where was the concern for helping the hardest job in the world...stay at home Mom?  Ultimately, I was questioning my pro-choice viewpoint.  It didn't feel right in the pit of my soul. 

Even though I was a Democrat, I always admired Senator McCain’s patriotism and willingness to buck his party for issues he believed even if I did not agree with his opinion. I was thrilled when he selected Governor Palin as a running mate.  A Republican Woman that I identified with?  I couldn't believe it!  I had been a strong Hillary Clinton supporter. I felt that I needed to do some research.  I really didn't like what I was hearing about Candidate Obama and his ties to William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.  They seemed to be the anthithesis of everything that I believed.
 
Ultimatley Sarah Palin was one of the main reasons I voted Republican last year after contributing the the Hillary Clinton campaign during the primaries.  Governor Palin rallied the Republican base and as a former Hillary voter, she inspired me. Wow, is that possible?  Not acording to the mainstream media anyway.  However, against everything the pundits told me to believe, she made me rethink my pro-choice opinion. She brought her son out on stage every bit the strong leader and proud mother.  I truly had tears streaming down my face when I saw her on stage.  After I did research into the abortion rates for Down Syndrome Children, these tears turned into gut wracking sobs.
 
This is the real reason that the liberal media and others have attacked the Sarah Palin in such a rabid manner. She made us question choices that we have made or supported in the past. She made us question what has always been the baseline for feminism. Should pro-choice really be the basis for feminism? Can we still support equal rights, equal pay and other “everywoman” issues such as childcare, healthcare, and maternity leave? Will we be taken seriously if we put emphasis and focus on the later? Or will we be seen as weak?  We had to face our decisions in Trig's face every time he was mentioned.  This was not a pleasant feeling.  No one wants to look into the face of a child and know that they themselves had made theoretical arguments in support of death for children like him.  I truly could not sleep that night
 
Sarah Palin did not hang her head in shame over her daughters choices. Instead, she did a very difficult thing...She supported her daughter and showed the world that she did not want her daughter to hang her head in shame or hide away. She continues to want her to take responsibility for her actions and choices. She wants her to embrace life. She did what every good leader and parent in America does...adapt, improvise and OVERCOME!!
 
That is real life. Real life happens. Our job as parents and leaders is teach our young to keep rolling with the punches and still succeed. Life does not have a perfect play book. We learn from choices that were perhaps not the best planned. In fact, while they can and often do make life more difficult, they can also ultimately bring the most joy!
 
Sarah Palin emboidies leadership, motherhood and feminism in a way that is very often difficult to master. Trust me this is difficult...try maintaining a sense of your female self, control your nuturing instinct and train young men (and women) to go into battle. It is not easy to compartmentalize. Yet Sarah Palin does this compartmentalizaton, and still retains her feminity. Which is what essentially angers so many Americans.
 
Men do not like to be led by a woman that they are also attracted too...that is a simple fact. Women are jealous of strong female leaders that still retain their feminity, also a simple fact. She makes us rethink our own sense of self-worth.  We are forced to rethink what we have been told our whole lives. We are told that we can have it all but we get angry at those who actually do.  Not because we didn't want others to succed but most of us have had to compromise some part of our life's goals in order to succeed...Sarah Palin did not. She is an example of how you can be strong, in charge and still have a family. Something that many career women who have made other choices secretly resent.
 
With all this being said, I am now a reigistered independent who will vote for Sarah Palin in 2012. Thank you Sarah for helping me to go rouge and step away from my lifelong affiliation to the democratic party.  But according to the "lamesteam" media she really isn't a threat now is she?  It would be just AWFUL if there were many others like me...wouldn't it?  GO SARAH!
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SOCIALIST CONTROL OF THE PEOPLE

"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing." --Ronald Reagan
 
DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?   What is the Obama Administration trying to do with the media?  Aren't they trying to say that FOX isn't a news organization...they bring a certain perspective to the news.  Haven't they said that they "controlled" the media during the campaign?  Don't we have rules against government funded psyop (part of information warfare) against U.S. Citizens?
 
DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?  Information warfare is the use and management of information in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent. Information warfare may involve collection of tactical information, assurance(s) that one's own information is valid, spreading of propaganda or disinformation to demoralize the enemy and the public, undermining the quality of opposing force information and denial of information-collection opportunities to opposing forces. Information warfare is closely linked to psychological warfare.

Disinformation
is false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately. It is synonymous with and sometimes called Black propaganda. It may include the distribution of forged documents, manuscripts, and photographs, or spreading malicious rumors and fabricated intelligence. Disinformation should not be confused with misinformation, information that is unintentionally false.

In espionage or military intelligence, disinformation is the deliberate spreading of false information to mislead an enemy as to one's position or course of action. In politics, disinformation is the deliberate attempt to deflect voter support of an opponent, disseminating false statements of innuendo based on the candidates vulnerabilities as revealed by opposition research. In both cases, it also includes the distortion of true information in such a way as to render it useless.

Disinformation techniques may also be found in commerce and government, used to try to undermine the position of a competitor. It is an act of deception and blatant false statements to convince someone of an untruth.  Unlike traditional propaganda and Big Lie techniques designed to engage emotional support, disinformation is designed to manipulate the audience at the rational level by either discrediting conflicting information or supporting false conclusions.

Another technique of concealing facts, or censorship, is also used if the group can effect such control. When channels of information cannot be completely closed, they can be rendered useless by filling them with disinformation, effectively lowering their signal-to-noise ratio and discrediting the opposition by association with a lot of easily-disproved false claims.

A common disinformation tactic is to mix some truth and observation with false conclusions and lies, or to reveal part of the truth while presenting it as the whole (a limited hangout).
 
AGAIN,  IS OUR GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTING TO CENSOR WHAT INFORMATION WE RECEIVE? ARE THEY TARGETING FOX NEWS BY FILLING THE OTHER CHANNELS WITH DISINFORMATION? ARE THEY ATTEMPTING TO CONTROL THE ECONOMY?  ARE WE AT THE FORCE AND COERCION STAGE?  What is happening with our internet, healthcare and the fairness doctrine ?  I am going to refer back to my opening quote (thank you Gunny G).
 
"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing." --Ronald Reagan 
 
Kind of makes you think - huh?
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INFORMATION OPERATIONS AND POLITICS TODAY

Is anyone else concerned about what apppears to be a PSYOP Campaign which is a subset of Information Operations against United States Citizens?
 
This concerns me because it is illegal to conduct psychological operations against a US citizen. The current administration IS NOT using US Military Forces for their campaign.  However, they are using government representatives and feeding the US media with ultimately the same results.
 
All information/defintions in this blog are taken from Wikipedia.
 
" Psychological operations are a subset of information operations, defined as:  Planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of psychological operations is to induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the originator’s objectives. Also called PSYOP."
 
" PSYOP is a subset of information operations: The integrated employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security, in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own. Also called IO."
 
" Under US law, PSYOP is part of Special Operations forces or activities. The detailed military policy, which implements a declassified Presidential directive,is itself classified. These policies forbid U.S. PSYOP forces to target (i.e., attempt to change their opinions) U.S. citizens at any time, in any location globally, or under any circumstances."
 
"However, commanders may use PSYOP forces to provide public information to U.S. audiences during times of disaster or crisis. The use of PSYOP forces to deliver necessary public information to a U.S. audience was established in relief activities after Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Tactical Psychological Operations teams (TPTs) were employed to disseminate information by loudspeaker on locations of relief shelters and facilities. Information support to a noncombatant evacuation operation (NEO) by PSYOP forces to provide evacuation information to U.S. and third-country nationals would also adhere to the order. "
 
" As an example of the use of PSYOP in a humanitarian relief operation Major General Anthony Zinni, Director of Operations for Unified Task Force Somalia, said Psychological operations were a key Battlefield Operating System used extensively to support Unified Task Force (UNITAF) Somalia operations. In order to maximize the PSYOP impact, we established a Joint PSYOP Task Force under the supervision of the Director of Operations, integrated PSYOP into all plans and operations, and limited the PSYOP focus to the operational and tactical levels. Psychological operations do not accomplish missions alone. They work best when they are combined with and integrated in an overall theater campaign plan. "
 
Now my question is...do the actions of THIS ADMINISTRATION AND PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS IRT to managing the message (once in office not while on the campaign trail) and the recent planned use of the National Endowment of the Arts, coordinated effort by Hollywood Activists  as well as the public media for a planned, coordinated message about public service and any other Presidential objectives match the definiton of Information Operations? Would members of his cabinent meet the definition of "US Government Forces"?  Or for for legal purposes is this strictly military forces? Even if not illegal, it is questionable to use what appear to be military tactics by civilian personnel to avoid legal prosecution for a combined psychological operation against the US public, isn't it? If it isn't, shouldn't it be?  Does this sound remineniscent of McCarthy era politics?
 
The reason that this concerns me is that this is not the first time that this has come to light. " In the 1990s it came to light that soldiers from the 4th Psychological Operations Group had been interning at the American news networks Cable News Network (CNN) and National Public Radio (NPR). The program was claimed by the Army to be an attempt to provide its PSYOP personnel with the expertise developed by the private sector under its "Training with Industry" program. The program caused concern about the influence these soldiers might have on American news and the programs were terminated."
 
"National Public Radio reported on April 10, 2000: The U.S. Army's Psychological Operations unit placed interns at CNN and NPR in 1998 and 1999. The placements at CNN were reported in the European press in February of this year and the program was terminated."
 
Makes you wonder...huh? 
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