One thing I didn’t like under GW was his expansions of executive police power. That is against all core conservative values. Now that the boy king is in power I hope that is more clear to more of us. When you consider a new law think of it being exercised by the bully in school who becomes a cop or the Kenyan that becomes president.

Why would any of us want Obama to have the Lone Wolf provision. That enables him to lawfully monitor and track people who belive in the constitution.

I’ll take door number two.

everything else, the efficacy of such measures will remain limited.

The Army knew for months that this character Nidal Malik Hasan was an extremist Muslim raving on about suicide bombers, infidels and the like, yet he was still promoted to Major. Nobody needed a Patriot Act or any kind of advanced surveillance powers to detect this gut was a deranged nut — just a serviceable pair of eyes and ears…

As long as we continue to play PC with people’s lives, they will continue to lose them…Remember:

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH

my wife was a state prosecuter of child abuse and neglect cases. She spent most of her time arguing with defense attorneys (and social workers) and trying to convince judges that she was not imposing her “middle-class” values on parents when she suggested that defendants’ children should wear shoes in the winter time and maybe eat more than one meal a day.

I myself went to an HBC for my graduate counseling degree. Naturally, being a rock-ribbed conservative, I spent three years keeping my head down and my mouth shut. I even had to drop out of the more lucrative income-producing school of social work because I couldn’t stand hour after hour of “racist white men,” “sexist Christianity,” “patriarchial power structure,” “evil homophobes” and on and on. (Isn’t it unlawful to preach ideology on the public dime?)

Believe me, I know from whence you speak. At state counselor conferences they “know” of my politics, although I haven’t discussed those issues with anyone in the field. (Being a middle-aged white man, of course, makes me a racist brute!) I endure getting “pecked to death” by snarky academic types and strident ideologues convinced of their own righteousness and unwilling to consider an opposing view.

As a practicing counselor, I cannot be “judgemental” as you mean it if I am going to help anyone. I think that simple counseling principle has been erroneously transmuted by rank and file practitioners into the political, moral and religious arenas where it becomes a liability rather than a professional necessity.

I also must say I’ve met several genuinely moral, reasonable and caring people in the field. It’s just a matter of which end you see. The bureaucratic, gubmint admin side tends to attract slackers and gum poppers (although not always.) But I share your frustration.

At one time or another, we’ve all had to deal with one of those “I’m just here ’til five” types who don’t give a rat about you or anything else because they know they can’t be fired. One reason I oppose public employee unions is this very thing. I believe any kind of employees should be treated fairly and receive a fair wage. But nobody HAS to work for the gubmint for crying out loud.

I think many counselors forget that we spend all our time trying to get people to change, to take responsibility for their lives and to stop being dependent on others. For some odd reason, when they enter the voting booth, their minds turn 180 degrees and they pull the lever for the latest peddeler of “gimmie” dependence and wealth spreading schemes. And of course, all that propaganda from the academy fosters abandonment of critical thinking by the individual, regardless of discipline. Law schools and med schools have also become havens of left-wing clap-trap.

Full disclosure: I sometimes only see three clients a day, but it’s not by choice. If I can schedule and see seven a day I will — by all means! (BTW, I’m so old and poor now though, if offered a sinecure at the local gubmint installation, I could probably be bought off. Does that make me a sell out?!)