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Many Americans know the preamble to the United States Constitution and
the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. They also may
be able to recite at least some of the enumerated Bill of Rights. But
few know these documents are considered our Founding Documents,
documents that carry equal importance in the creation and execution of
our government. Even fewer understand the principles, history and
philosophy surrounding the creation of these remarkable documents. To be
an American is to understand and to have a reasonable commitment to the
ideas in America's founding documents.
It is the mission of Basics Project to make sure that every American is
afforded the opportunity of understanding these remarkable documents,
the covenant between citizen and the uniquely American form of
government. We believe that through a greater understanding of the
principles on which our government was built our citizenry will better
understand that e pluribus unum, the idea that we are out of
many, one.
Read more...
¨Reading:
Keeping a Republic
by
Nancy Salvato
This book by Nancy Salvato,
the Director of Constitutional Studies for BasicsProject.org, examines
the issue of American sovereignty and how it relates to the continued
well-being of our Republic. From the deliberations undertaken during the
framing of the US Constitution to the challenge of maintaining national
sovereignty in a time of Progressive globalization, Keeping a
Republic examines the philosophy and ideology that served the
Framers in creating the United States of America, ideals valid to this
very day.
¹Viewing:
Understanding Our Government
Many people in the United States -- and around the world -- believe that the
United States is a Democracy. It is not, and for good reason. Our Framers
and Founders bequeathed to the citizens a Constitutional Republic, doing so
for some very good reasons, chief among them was to avoid the tyranny of the
majority, or mob rule.
²Podcasts:
The United States Is Not a Democracy
A produced downloadable podcast segment from our
upcoming educational CD series on our system of government and
sovereignty. |
There can be little doubt that terrorist
organizations have arrived on the shores of the
United States of America. The thousands of lives
lost on September 11, 2001 stand as testimony to
this undeniable fact. But the truth of the matter is
that terrorists have been migrating to the United
States, establishing their organizational cells,
infiltrating and fading into our communities for
decades; laying in wait for the correct moments to
strike. These are precisely the events that preceded
the flights that delivered the nineteen 9/11
hijackers and thousands of innocent people to their
destinies.
Today, 72 terrorist organizations with thousands of
operatives exist and operate within the borders of
the United States.
Many counterterrorism experts, including former CIA
Director James Woolsey and founding member of the
CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, Dr. Bruce Tefft,
agree, it is not a question of “if” there will be
another attack on American soil, it is a question of
“when.” The only questions left unanswered about
this future attack are how lethal it will be, where
it will take place and whether we will have had
enough foresight to have acquired the information
needed to literally help save our own lives.
Read more...
¹Viewing:
Declassified: The
Taliban
Since the
September 11, 2001 attacks, a war against Al Qaeda
and the Taliban has been ongoing. This is the
declassified story of how the pieces turned on the
players and how jihad came to the world.
¨Reading:
A God Who Hates
by Dr. Wafa Sultan
For the
first time, Dr. Wafa Sultan tells her story and what she learned, first-hand, about
radical Islam in A God Who Hates, a passionate memoir by an outspoken
Arabic woman that is also a cautionary tale for the West. She grew up in
Syria in a culture ruled by a god who hates women. She believes
that the god who hates is waging a battle between modernity and barbarism,
not a battle between religions. She also knows that it’s a battle radical
Islam will lose.
¨Study:
Homegrown Terrorists in the US
& UK:
An Empirical Examination
This study addresses the present gap
through an empirical examination of behavioral
manifestations of the radicalization process in 117
homegrown “jihadist” terrorists from the United
States and United Kingdom. |
With roots emanating from the ideology of the Marxist/Leninist Era,
the American Fifth Column presents a menace from within, a threat to
the longevity of our uniquely American way of life. These roots,
nurtured and further developed during the counter-culture revolution
of the of the 1960s and 1970s and now taught in classrooms across
America as “tolerance,” "multiculturalism" and "diversity" have
evolved into a unique yet visionless ideology, which holds that our
most basic constitutional tenets are the central cause for many of
the social ills here in the United States and around the world.
The Secular Progressive, Democratic Socialist and/or neo-Marxist
American Fifth Column ideology embraces the philosophies of Karl
Marx and Vladimir Lenin. It is a product of the Frankfort School of
pre-World War II Germany and employs the democratic process to
promote moral relativism, multiculturalism and political
correctness, in an effort to silence fundamental American ideals and
pursue an American form of socialism in their place.
This system of beliefs serves not only to grotesquely blur the lines
between good and evil, bad behavior and civic responsibility, it
goes to great lengths to negate the concepts all together.
Read more...
¹Viewing:
The
The Cloward-Piven Strategy
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists
Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the "Cloward-Piven
Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the
government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus
pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
²Podcasts:
Tiananmen Square &
The
Progressive Left
Congressman Thad McCotter (R-MI) comments
on the anniversary of
the slaughter of pro-democracy protestors by the Chinese military in
Tiananmen Square. |
