The McDowell Memo

I wanted to bring this quick 5 minute essay on how our rights and opinions have been changed in the last decades to eliminate personal, states, and business rights. What the Judge does is simply ask the questions that almost all of us have asked but in one flow of thought. The clarity that this brings to what we have allowed to occur in this country is shocking. Now I am not a Libertarian or a Tea Party supporter, I have been called a moderate Republican  and even a liberal by some, But I believe in individual rights and the sanctitude of the Constitution. If we want to change or alter it we have to do this following the methods developed for that. It is not appropriate to just end run the constitution. That is what lawyers want to do, but not what we the people want. We want our government to listen and respond to us. I hope each of you sees that the issue is not with Republicans or Democrats individually but with bureaucrats and a government that is a monstrous entity of it's o

A great many of the people now making decisions are from the " Millennial"generation , those born after 2000 . These folks and those born from 1990 on have no real memory of 9/11 and the hit America took. So as they move into leadership positions, they like we did after WWII and Pearl Harbor lack that personal feeling of loss from the sneak attack of 9/11. Many of the reasons 9/11 occurred was because of our feeling of internationalism, we felt the whole world was one body and that we had to think of other countries every time we did something. I think George H.W. Bush strengthened this by building a world wide cooperative war effort in Kuwait. Many then felt we needed the UN or worlds permission to act to defend American interests around the world. This negatively impacted our business power and our power to influence world cultural views. So as we were attacked many in our government felt that we needed to build a coalition. Thankfully George W. Bush acted immediately and m