About a year ago, we did some research into Brian Deese, the 31-year-old kid who the Obama administration put in charge of re-shaping the US auto industry, in particular Chrysler & GM. At the time we said “Brian Deese was not picked for his competence; he was picked for his political world view. And he was picked for his knowledge on how to use market forces to achieve political goals.” He is a Strategist. He is a Believer in The Cause. He is an Apostle to The Religion, the Religion of One World Governance, where the United Nations is god, and United States plays the role of the devil. And Elena Kagan is simply another Apostle.

The tenets of The Religion are simple:

• Government is always good; individual freedoms and liberties are selfish and sinful
• All success, all prosperity, should be forcibly shared for the greater good
• At all times, and in all situations, the Government knows what’s best… for the greater good

They are the principles behind communism. And they are the opposite of what the United States has always been about. This is why members of The Religion want to bring the United States down, and the whole world with it, so they can rebuild it in their utopian image. Karl Marx’s first phase toward achieving his communist utopia stressed the need for total destruction of the existing system so the second phase — the rise of an elite leading class — can spring forth to exert total control over the common citizen’s personal choices, (including education, religion, and employment) and institute the collectivization of property and wealth.

Elena Kagan, like Brian Deese before her, is another Apostle: someone who is a believer in The Religion; someone who will advance the causes of The Religion through governmental policy; someone who is an unknown blank slate publicly but who’s belief in The Religion are known in private.

Apostles of The Religion are often outside of the mainstream of the United States, so they must keep their true identities secret, especially when they are not yet in a position of power. While they are campaigning for office or during Senate confirmation hearings, they pretend they are who they’re not. They deny their true selves to appear like they fit in, more mainstream. They say what you want to hear, not what they really believe.

We’ve collected the following articles about Ms. Kagan. Read them, and we think you’ll agree with our assessment.

• Kagan’s Abortion Distortion
• Kagan Declines To Say Gov’t Has No Power to Tell Americans What To Eat
• Kagan’s Own Words: It’s Fine If The Law Bans Books Because Government Won’t Really Enforce It
• New GOP argument against Kagan: She could ban books
• No Friend to Gun Owners: Kagan compares the NRA to the KKK
• Kagan Said She Was `Not Sympathetic’ Toward Gun-Rights Claim
• No Friend of Freedom: Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee, Elena Kagan
• Documents Show Kagan’s Liberal Opinion on Social Issues
• Kagan says she doesn’t know what the term “legal progressive” means
• Only 35% of Americans approve of Kagan’s confirmation

We took our time waiting for the events of the oil spill to unfold. After all, plugging a leak at 5000 feet under the ocean is no easy task, and we didn’t want to blame Obama too much for his lack of response before we had enough facts to make an educated assessment of his handling of the situation. Oh sure, we posted a video timeline about the spill that showed how many times he went golfing and partying, but that was about it. But now that the facts are trickling in, we’re ready to render our assessment: he’s not bungling the cleanup effort… he’s intentionally foiling it. That’s right: Obama wants, nay, needs there to be oil-soaked beaches and dead oil-covered animals. Rush Limbaugh said that earlier this week, and we initially were a bit skeptical, but Rush was right yet again.

How do we know? Well, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal asked almost a month ago for federal permission to build barrier sandbars off the coast of Louisiana to help prevent the oil from reaching shore. The federal government (meaning Obama) did nothing toward approving his request. Fed up with their inaction, he went ahead and ordered the Louisiana National Guard to go ahead and build the man-made reef, Obama be damned. On Thursday, the Coast Guard moved in and told sixteen oil-sucking barges to stop operations off the Louisiana coast. That’s right: the Coast Guard told them to stop cleaning up the oil spill.

Why? Well, let’s look at the facts: The barges were ordered there on June 11th by Governor Jindal. The barges were doing a good job in cleaning up the oil slick mess. The Coast Guard is under command of the Secretary of Homeland Security (Janet Napolitano) who takes orders from the President (Barack Hussein Obama). Governor Jindal, tired of waiting for the bureaucratic mess to be ironed out regarding the barrier sandbars, took charge and went ahead and did what needed to be done without waiting for permission from the nannies in the federal government.

To us, this looks pretty clear-cut. The federal government under Obama’s direction is sending a message: you either do it our way, or there will be consequences.

As to why they would want to curtail the cleanup effort? They need a crisis — a big crisis — for Obama to come in and appear presidential, while at the same time moving forward with their agenda. (For more on who “they” is, see our piece on Tacticians and Strategists. For proof we’re right about Tacticians and Strategists, after reading that piece we wrote, read this article in the Wall Street Journal.)

This marks a growing trend happening across the United States: the rise of the states. We’ve been watching this develop, and we’ve been working on an in-depth article about it for a few months now. Watch for it soon.

It’s not about cookouts, though that’s what we do.

It’s not about parties, though that’s what people have.

It’s not about trips to visit friends and relatives, though that’s what many people take.

It’s not about a day off of work, though many people aren’t working today.

It is about honoring those who have perished serving their nation. It is about honor. Courage. Sacrifice. It is about commitment to country, and to comrades-in-arms.

While Barack Obama skips the annual ceremony at Arlington National Cemetary and sends Vice President Biden instead so he can go home to Chicago for a long weekend to go a cookout and take the day off of work, do what Obama isn’t doing this day: remember those who have fallen in service to this great nation. Remember the true meaning of Memorial Day.