The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 8

Posted on April 19, 2017 by revealed4you

The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 8

From the booklet: The Sea-Earth Globe and its Monstrous Hypothetical Motions: or Modern Theoretical Astronomy

1918

Note: Punctuation and grammar is as in the original.

The motion of the planets, as described in this series of article from an old flat earth booklet, how the moon, for example, would have to behave IF it was traveling round the earth WHILE the earth itself is travelling round the sun. This is accompanied by illustrations demonstrating the impossibility of such motions.

SUBTLE SINUOSITIES

In Fig. 18 we have shewn that the moon’s monthly motions would be exceedingly erratic if the moon had to revolve all round a rapidly moving earth, for sometimes it would have to get right in front of the globe, otherwise it could not travel all round that body.

Yet the moon’s daily motion of about twelve or thirteen degrees is always “direct” through the zodiacal signs; and it never varies more than two or three degrees. But if the sun, by some astounding “pulling” powers, and without any physical fastenings or connections, can drag after it, in its vast and unknown journey into boundless space, all the planets, the globe and the moon; then these bodies, and especially the latter, should always be found in the rear.

In this case the moon would never really travel round the earth at all, neither in a circle, nor in a spiral, nor an ellipse; but its movements would manifest a series of serpent-like sinuosities as found above in Fig. 19. thus again we find that the lunar orbit, under this extravagant theory, would be most unnatural and erratic. Its form may intimate its origin!

Yet the moon’s actual movements, as given in a practical almanac like the Nautical Almanac, are fairly regular and uniform, again proving the discrepancy which exists between practical astronomy as used by navigators, and theoretical astronomy as taught to landsmen in the schools and colleges.

With natural and practical astronomy we not only have no quarrel, but we have had great pleasure in its study for more than fifty years; but with the ever-changing unnatural and infidel speculations of the schools true Bible Christians will wage undying warfare.

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The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 7

Posted on April 19, 2017 by revealed4you

The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 7

From the booklet: The Sea-Earth Globe and its Monstrous Hypothetical Motions: or Modern Theoretical Astronomy

1918

Note: Punctuation and grammar is as in the original.

CYCLOIDAL CURVES

And what about the altered orbit of the globe? Instead of an ellipse it is “now” a cycloidal curve (as represented by the thick line in figure 18), and a curve shewing that the globe must have reversed motion at each end of the cycle, as it travels from left to right.

Let the monthly positions of the globe be represented in Fig. 18 by the heavier dots, and it will be seen that, in relation to the sun’s corresponding positions, that orb would sometimes appear to be “stationary” in the zodiac, and at other times even “retrograde!” This of itself is sufficient utterly to discredit the new and latest theory of globular motion; for the sun’s “apparent motion” through the twelve signs of the zodiac in uniformly “direct,” as any good ephemeris of the Nautical Almanac will show.

As to the path of the moon, it is more tortuous than ever, as indicated by the dotted cycloids in the above diagram. But it would require further, and larger, diagrams to expose in detail this monstrous motion and movements; and our space is limited. Suffice it here to say that diagram 18 represents the moon getting in advanced of the globe, once every month; which would compel it to move at such an awful rate, that the magnitude and duration of lunar eclipses would be enormously altered and lessened. Yet such eclipses were correctly calculated long before the time of Herschell and Co.

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The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 6

Posted on April 17, 2017 by revealed4you

The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 6


From the booklet: The Sea-Earth Globe and its Monstrous Hypothetical Motions: or Modern Theoretical Astronomy

1918

Note: Punctuation and grammar is as in the original.

A GREAT GASH IN THE ELLIPSE

fig. 18

After belauding Kepler for his elliptical orbits and giving him “immortal glor,” Sir Robert Ball shews, in his romance called the Story of the Heavens, that another astronomer, and a greater than Kepler, soon after came along and ruthlessly ripped open the Keplerian skin bottle, thus spilling the gravitation wine which was supposed to be stored therein! Sic transit gloria mundi!

Our friend Robert, quite unabashed, tells us in his heavenly “story” that Sir William Herschell was the fist to solve “the noble problem” as to whether the sun was really at rest in the middle of the solar system, or “whether the whole system, sun planets and all, is not moving on bodily through space?”

So that after all Kepler’s invention did not settle this “noble problem,” which was left for another to grapple with; and this one has, for the time being, “settled it,” that the sun is rushing us all through space, at a terrible rate, towards a distant star, millions and millions and millions of miles away, to Lambda Hercules! A romance worthy of that classical giant whose “twelve labours,” though great, were nothing compared to the labours “now” imposed on the sun-god through the twelve signs of the zodiac. For in the words of our great story teller, we are assured that

“The sun and his system are NOW hastening towards a point of the heavens near the star Delta Lyae. The velocity with which the motion is performed corresponds to the magnitude of the system. Quicker than the swiftest rifle bullet that was ever fired the SUN, bearing with it the Earth and all the other planets, is NOW speeding onwards…Every half-hour we are about 10,000 miles nearer the constellation of Lyrae. (Italics, etc., mine.) – Story of the Heavens, p. 429.

In common parlance we may say that this is “a stretcher!” But what about Kepler’s elliptical orbit? There is “now” a great gash in it, 175,000,000 of miles wide equal to the sun’s present annual journey. Such a gash is surely fatal!

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The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 5

Posted on April 17, 2017 by revealed4you

The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 5

From the booklet: The Sea-Earth Globe and its Monstrous Hypothetical Motions: or Modern Theoretical Astronomy

1918

Note: Punctuation and grammar is as in the original.

The motion of the planets, as described in this series of article from an old flat earth booklet, how the moon, for example, would have to behave IF it was traveling round the earth WHILE the earth itself is travelling round the sun. This is accompanied by illustrations demonstrating the impossibility of such motions.

The earth’s Supposed Elliptical Orbit

The form of an ellipse is taken from the circumference of a conic section cut obliquely, by a plane passing through both sides of the cone, and not parallel to the circular base. If cut parallel to the base it makes, of course, circle, which decreases in size as it approaches the top point of the cone.

The ellipse is something like a circle which as been more or less flattened on opposite sides; but it is not like the circle in having only one centre, for it has two points or foci in the longer diameter, from which it can be constructed. Each of these points is at an equal distance from the centre of the figure. We are not told how the circle got flattened!

Fig. 17

The ellipse since Kepler’s time has long been supposed to represent the earth’s annual orbit round the sun; and though the latest “new astronomy” has broken open Kepler’s closed ellipse, yet astronomers keep up the fiction of “elliptical orbits,” rather than openly confess the great change which has taken place in their views of planetary motion. The great German astronomer Kepler was born in the year 1571 A.D., and he invented and formulated his Laws of Motion between 1609 A.D. And 1618 A.D. He taught that the earth’s orbit was an ellipse, with the sun in “one of the foci, and a little over twelve millions of miles from the earth. The other focus was left empty, and it has been “to let” ever since” modern astronomers have lengthened the sun’s distance by nearly a hundred millions of miles, which has necessarily increased the earth’s supposed orbit more than three hundred millions of mile! But this ugly fact is not acknowledged nor permitted to detract from the great name of Kepler, lest it might also reflect upon the “science” of astronomy; for in this “exact science” the alteration of millions of miles is “a meter detail!”

Sir Robert Ball, in his Stry of the Heavens – and a big story it is too! – says of this problems that Kepler “to his immortal glory succeeded in solving and proving it to demonstration”! The select “Royal Astronomical Society” is evidently a Mutual Admiration Society, if nothing else!

Further on Sir Robert says that “Kepler’s discovery (invention?) of the true shape of the planetary orbits stands out as one of the most conspicuous events in the history of astronomy” So say all of us!

Great astronomers are not always good logicians, so Sir Robert further eulogises Kepler in these words: –

“Kepler found that the movement (movements?) of the planets could be explained by SUPPOSING that the path in which each one moved (moves?) was (is?) all ellipse. This (supposition) in itself was a discovery of the most commanding importance.” (Italics mine, and parenthesis.) – Story of the Heavens, p. 110.

The above confession refutes itself; but we may point out that the idea, belauded by Mr. Ball, is based on four suppositions or hypotheses: – (1) That the sea-earth is globular; (2) that the sea-earth ball is a planet, or wandering star, amongst “other” heavenly bodies; (3) that the sun is stationary in “one of the foci”; and (4) that the orbit of the earth annually round the sun makes a closed ellipse!

Assumption after assumption; and the fourth one spoiled and quietly discarded by later astronomers, as D.V. We shall show later on! But let us here refer to the above diagram (fig. 17).

The thick line A D B E represents an ellipse all closed in; and S the place of the sun in one of the foci of the longer diameter. The heavier dots on the ellipse may whew the earth’s hypothetical positions for the different months of the year. Now astronomers admit that the moon travels round the earth once a month,while the globe is going round the sun. what then should be the path of the moon? Neither a circle nor an ellipse; but a series of cycloidal curves, a sinuosity like the track of the serpent! But my limited space demands brevity.

Look at the curve and study it, and you will find out some curious phenomena which the moon ought to manifest if there theories were true; but which she, in spite of her supposed fickleness, refuses to manifest. Trace out the path of the moon though the various signs of the zodiac, in relation to the sun’s fixed position. The moon would sometimes very slow – sometimes actually appearing retrograde!

Yet the daily speed of the moon never varies more than two or three degrees, and the moon’s motion is always “direct” through the twelve signs – justifying the inspired statement of the Psalmist that the moon is “the faithful witness in the sky” (Psa. Lxxxix. 37).

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The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 4

Posted on April 16, 2017 by revealed4you

The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 4

From the booklet: The Sea-Earth Globe and its Monstrous Hypothetical Motions: or Modern Theoretical Astronomy

1918

Note: Punctuation and grammar is as in the original.

CIRCUMNAVIGATION

Many people foolishly imagine that ships can sail in a straight line due E. or W.; but if a line be drawn all round a sphere, it would make a circle, a chalk mark round a football for instance. A circle is not a straight line, as I once had reason to remind an educated gentleman in a public debate. He was known, too, as “the Leicester astronomer!”

In the above figure the magnetic north “pole” is represented at N; and if a ship, sailing round the outer circumference, keeps the point of the compass always towards N and steers at right-angles to it the course described will be a circle.

A small flat island could be circumnavigated in the same way, with a powerful magnet in the middle of the island; the ship thus describing a circle. But if a vessel took a straight line course from A, it would sail in the south-westerly direction towards S.W.

On a globe it would be impossible for the horizontal needle always to point to the north magnetic “pole” from different parts of a spherical sea, as anyone many prove by laying a needle at various points as a tangent to a large ball. But on a flat surface the needle always points to the centre while the ship describes a circle – which doubt fact not only again explodes the globular theory, but establishes the truth of a plane earth and sea!

We have years ago many times pointed out this fact in our literature, and as a result one professor has had the honesty to make the following confession: –

“The earth has been circumnavigated a great many times…We can (we could?) journey round the globe, sometimes travelling on land, and sometimes on the sea…This would appear to be a certain proof that the earth’s surface is curved. Nevertheless it has been pointed out that circumnavigation would be possible if the earth had A FLAT SURFACE with the north magnetic pole at its centre. A compass needle the, would always point to the centre of the surface, and so a ship might sail due east and west, as indicated by the compass, and eventually return to the same point by describing a circle.” (Caps mine.) – Prof. R. A. Gregory, F.R.A.S., Elementary Physiography.

Yet, thoughtless teachers still refer to the schoolboy proof that circumnavigation proves the earth a globe!

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The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 3

Posted on April 16, 2017 by revealed4you

The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 3

From the booklet: The Sea-Earth Globe and its Monstrous Hypothetical Motions: or Modern Theoretical Astronomy

1918

Note: Punctuation and grammar is as in the original.

THE THREE POLE TRICK

We have been authoritatively assued that the curvature of water can be proved by three poles, and a notable incident is referred to on the Bedford Canal, Cambridgeshire.

“If three poles of exactly the same height e placed in a line, the middle one always appears higher than the other two outer ones….if a telescope be sited along the first to the third pole, the top of the middle pole will appear above the line joining the tops of the outer two.” Elm. Phys., by R.A. Gregory, F.R.A.S.

The above paragraph is vague and specious. What is meant by sighting the telescope “along” the first pole to the third? Is it here the trick comes in? The third pole, being farthest off, will appear perspectively smaller; and the first will not be seen at all if the glass be laid “along” the top of it. The telescope should be placed at some distance away from the first pole, when the line of sight would be found running along the level tops of each pole. Refer to figures 14 and 15. the line of sight from A to C is ot parallel to a line of tangential at A; but it ought to be if there be no trick of collimation in the telescope.

But suppose pole B seems higher than C. shift the glass “along” B, and add a fourth pole at D, equally high and distant. Now pole C “will always” appear higher than pole B; so that C is both lower and higher than B! Which is absurd, as Eculid says.

When the noted wager was tried on the Bedford Canal, the lens should have been turned half-way round to test whether there was any “trick” in the telescope; but J. Hampden was not sufficiently sharp. Sire A. R. Wallace was doubtless honest, but the glass may have tricked him! Through a friend I sent him a challenge to shew in print HOW the bet was won, promising to reply courteously; but to me he never replied. Hence of that incident we may write R.I.P. But I retain copies of the official photographs taken at the time, in case any other globite cares to pick up my glove.

My friend “Parallax” (Dr. Rowbottam) had tried many experiments on that canal between 1838 and 1862; and after the bet affair he again went and carefully tested the water for six miles, with various powerful telescopes. He found the surface perfectly level, as before; and his experiments have several times been published, but never refuted. Yet the canal is still there!

For proof “How they cook science,” see the London Daily Chronicle, Jan. 14th, 1893.

The above figure 15B illustrates the supposed curvature when, as is often the case in clear weather, a great extent of sea surface is visible looking in opposite directions, say 25 miles each way. This should give a dip of 420 feet on each side. If the sea were globular, the curvature of its surface ought to be plainly visible, especially from a balloon, for a sweep of 50 miles, looking both ways; but no such curvature has ever been seen, even for longer stretches, but only one vast and uniform level, rising perspectively to the eye-line. See figure 15B and compare it with any good sea-scape. Fig. 15A shews what ought to be seen from a balloon (E) if the sea were globular.

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The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 2

Posted on April 14, 2017 by revealed4you

The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model, part 2

Ships Climbing Both Ways

From the booklet: The Sea-Earth Globe and its Monstrous Hypothetical Motions: or Modern Theoretical Astronomy

1918

Note: Punctuation and grammar is as in the original.

fig. 12

In figure 11 we have shown an illustratio used to support the false perspective, and flase teaching, of the schools; but while some of the higher class astronomical books do not disgrace their pages with such a palpable monstronsity, their teachings are in agreement therewith, and some of their diagrams equally faulty.

Let an observer be placed on some small island in mid-ocean, as represented in figure 12, where he can watch ships sail away from him in opposite directions: now if figure 11 be a true picture of the surface shape of the sea, and the observer on turning round sees a similar rise of the water on opposite sides, then the surface of the ocean would consist of a series of bulges, continued ad infinitum, as indicated by figure 12!

STILL MOUNTING UPWARDS

fig.  13

Now let there be a series of observers, as implied in figure 13: the first observer on the right sees the vessel mount hill number one. At this point let there be another observer watching the same ship going in the same direction; he should see it mount up hill number two. And a third observer, similarly placed, should see the vessel still mounting up hill number three; and so on, up towards the moon! This would agree with the theory that the moon temporarily attracts the waters of the ocean – but who would trust himself to that theory to make the voyage?

We may well leave the theory of a globular sea to the reprobation of all honest thinkers. Yet Sir Robert Ball, in comon with some other astronomers, maintains that an observer on the seashore, in watching a receding vessel, actually views it mounting a hill, or a “protruberant” part of the ocaen, until it reaches the horizon, when it begins to descent! If the sea-earth were a globe, the observer should always be placed on the top, near the sea-level; and the receding ship should at once begin to descent. But as perspective requires objects below the eye-line to appear to rise in the distance, the globularist is thus unconsciously constrained to yield this testimony as a concession to truth!

CURVATURE OR DIP

fig.  14

In calculating the amount of curvature, or dip below the eye-line of the observer, we have a smile rule, ignoring some small decimal points, namely: – Square the number of miles given as the distane, and multiply the product by eight inches, and divide by twelve, which will give in feet the depth of the dip from the obserer’s line of sight. This is true for a globe of 25,000 miles circumference; thus in six miles there would be a dip of 24 feet, and in twelve miles a dip of 96 feet.

But in calculating the depth of the dip, zetetics often have made an unnecessary concession to the globularist, by deducting from the distance the object the place of the point where the eye-line is supposed to move downwards to touch the earth, or the level of the water. This is a concession to the false views of perspective given in school books, such as we have illustrated in our fig. 11, and to which the student can turn. Yet in spite of this unnecessary concession, zetetics have shown that distant objects are often visible when they ought to be out of sight, and a long way below the horizon, if the sea be globular!

If we turn to the laws of true perspective, as already given, we shall see that this deduction is not only unnecessary, but that, moreover, the height of the observer should be in strictness be added to the amount of dip.

Let us turn to fig 14 to illustrate the fact. Let the point E represent the position of the observer on the sea-level; his line of sight would be tangent to the sphere at the place of observation, as shewn by line E H, and the dip of an object at J would be represented by the line H J. now raise the observer to the height of the telescope at F; and parallel to E H, therefore the dip from G to J is manifestly greater than that from H to J. and this is true whether we reckon the dip towards the centre of the globe in the direction of G L, or at right-angles from the line of sight G M.

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Wernher von Braun and Space Suits

Posted on April 12, 2017 by revealed4you

Wernher von Braun and Space Suits

In this short video are two great topics on the flat earth. The first part is about Wernher von Braun and why he had the Bible verse on his grave stone that he had. The second part is what happens to a space suite IF it was really in the vacuum of space.

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All Governments Of The World Know

We all know that the earth is flat and we know that NASA knows this, too. Which also means the whole establishment knows about this. Now, when we supposedly went to the moon in 1969, the Soviet Union knew that there was a firmament and that the earth was flat. We were told that Communism was a diametrically opposite of democracy in the West. So, why didn’t they blow the whistle that the earth was flat? They didn’t; they played along with the U.S. Now, nearly 50 years later, do we hear Putin saying that the world if flat? Do we hear Communist China say this? Why not – IF they are opposed to what the “democracies” are doing? The fact is, that Russia and China knows that there is a dome over the earth, they know that the world is flat and they – by implication – know that there is no such things as evolution. They also know that there is a God above. Yet, they all keep silent, or should I say, they all keep telling the same lies.

It would have been so easy for the Russian Communists to say that America faked the moon landing but they didn’t. Perhaps they didn’t back then because they would have been called “flat earth nutters” or something like that. And since the Communist couldn’t control the newspapers back then, no matter what they wrote would not have been published (there was no internet back then). With the internet, do you hear anything from Communist China or from present day Russia? No, as the game has to be kept going; this is all part of the control of the people and milking them for billions of dollars for “space exploration.”

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The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model

Posted on April 12, 2017 by revealed4you

The Importance of Perspective In Understanding the Flat Earth Model

From the booklet: The Sea-Earth Globe and its Monstrous Hypothetical Motions: or Modern Theoretical Astronomy

1918

Note: Punctuation and grammar is as in the original.

Perspective, True and False

Some of the Laws of Perspective are given in the given in the first part of this book, so that we need not here enlarge upon them; but as they are very important, we briefly recapitulate them.

1 All parallel lines, like those of a railway, seem to approach, and finally to meet in the distance.

2 Straight lines above the eye of the spectator appear to descend to the eye-line.

3 The horizontal, or eye-line, is a straight line on a level with the eye, at whatever elevation the spectator may be.

4 Lines, or objects, below the eye-line, remaining at the same level, seem to rise as they recede, until they vanish in the eye-line.

5 Similarly, lines or objects above the height of the spectator, and maintaining a constant altitude, appear to descent until they are lost in the eye-line.

6 Objects, or lines, do not all vanish at the same point in the horizontal line, but the nearer they are to that line the sooner they vanish in it, because of the smaller angle they make with it.

7 The distant horizon being always on alevel with the eye, whatever be the altitude of the observer, it seems to rise, or to fall, with the observer; but he never has occasion to depress his vision to look downwards towards it, nor upwards!

Now let us apply these rules, which are the Laws of true Perspective, to the disappearance of ships at sea, as illustrated in zetetic diagrams, and validate in those of the globularist. First take Fig. 10 on the title page of Part II. The intelligent reader will soon see that this zetetic diagram harmonises with, and illustrates, the first six rules above given. The hull of the vessel, being nearer the eye-line, vanishes according to rule 6, before the flags and upper sails, which are farther from it, because the lower angle is the lesser. Besides, the hull rides on a dark background of water, while the upper masts and sails are often against a bright sky! But the ship never goes over, and then down on the further side of a bulge, or a hill of water; for in clear weather a good telescope, which magnifies the distant angle of vision, brings again the ship’s hull in sight. Had the ship gone over and beyond the supposed dip, or curvature, no telescope could fetch it back again; and when the crest of the supposed hill of water the hull itself should become visible against the background of a clear sky! But in harmony with rule 4, ships never so disappear, because there is no real rise or protuberance in calm sea, which, as we have abundantly shewn is everywhere level or horizontal.

FALSE PERSPECTIVE OF THE SCHOOLS

Let us now turn to the false perspective sometimes given in globite diagrams, and books on geography.

Our figure 11 is taken from a high-class school book; and in Scott’s Astronomy there is another on the same principle, or, rather, on the same lack of principle. This diagram violates every law of true perspective. The observer at A is made to look down to his distant horizon, and so is the one at B, though in the diagram he appears to look up. This is a double violation of rule 7 as given above. And, further, the reader will notice how the feet of the observers are not pointing towards the centre, as they should be if the earth be globular. The diagram is a “scientific” fraud; whether intentional, or unintentional, we need not here discuss.

Suppose the observer at A were to turn round and to look downwards in the opposite direction towards G, what would he see? An awful chasm at which the stoutest heart would quail! The thing, and the ideas it represents, are a disgrace to modern education! Is it any wonder, therefore, that a famous writer like Goethe should say, “I cures this modern theory of Cosmogony, and hope that perchance there may appear some strong scientist of genius who will take up the courage to upset this universally disseminated delirium of lunatics.” – See The Scientific American, April 27th, 1878

To see See The Scientific American, April 27th, 1878, CLICK HERE. It is fascinating reading of what technology was back then. There are many article in the past in The Scientific American that never came on the market because of special money interest groups.

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What American Foreign Policy Should Be

Posted on April 12, 2017 by revealed4you

What American Foreign Policy Should Be


Note: This is from an article that I wrote many years ago (1999). So, you will see names and events that are presented in the present tense. Also, notice that Donald Trump advocated tariffs. Well, he did not discover this, this was used by the United States when it was founded as a nation and it has been advocated by many – including yours truly – way before Trump made his campaign promises (that are yet to be fulfilled).

As you know, the United States has been involved in many foreign wars in the last century. Reading Pat Buchanan’s book, A Republic Not An Empire, he clearly outlines that this was not the purpose of the Founding Fathers nor of our leaders after them. It was only with the start of the Spanish American War that our policy had started to change.

I would like to add to this, doing so in as few words as possible. In the computer age, where people want things in ‘sound bites,’ they don’t have the time or the interest in listening to a long detailed account. With this article, I hope to present enough of a case to make people think about how wrong our foreign policy is.

Presidents, like George Bush and Clinton says that our ‘national interest’ is at stake. Let’s see if this is true. With the Gulf War, we were told that American interests were at stake. By getting involved in foreign wars, we had actually made it worse for Americans at home and abroad. How? The fact that we did get involve, it makes the country that we fought against anti-American.

We often hear about terrorists in our country; bombing of some building, someone getting caught with explosives who is tied to some terrorist group. Why do we have this happening now more so than in the past. BECAUSE we have got ourselves involved in the affairs of other nations.

Our purpose as a nation was not to get into foreign conflicts. Even if this was our purpose and if it was spelled out in our Constitution—which it wasn’t—it would be wrong. So, I’m not saying this because we were founded on principles of not getting in involved in European affairs, or other affairs for that matter, but from a point of view of what is better for our nation.

To drive home the point more, let’s look at nations who haven’t been ‘the policemen of the world,’ as the US has.

There are many nations who have not been involved in foreign wars. Has their freedom been effected? NO! Look at the many small nations in Europe and other parts of the world—their freedom has not been effect regardless of which side won. If we look at the US, there are many wars going on all over the world that we have not been involved in, and this has not effect our freedom. The only reason we have not been involved in these other wars is because their was no economic interest for big business to benefit. Or, if there was, our military was tied up in some other on-going conflict. We may have a large military complex, but not enough to get involved in all conflicts.

Looking back in history before a time when there was a ‘policemen of the world,’ our nation and others were not involved in some far off conflict. Did it affect their freedom or economic interest? Again, the answer is a resounding NO!

Many times we are told that it’s to safeguard our access to raw materials that we must get involved. On this principle, it is wrong for us to get involved for this reason, as peoples’ lives are more important than some material interest—meaning the lives of our soldiers.

Natural Resources

Again, let’s take a look at the Gulf War conflict, for those who say that this would safeguard our oil interest. Such was plainly not the case. To look at the surface of this argument, regardless if Iraq won the war against Kuwait or not—and they easily would had not other nations been involved—the oil would have continued to be shipped to our shores. We were on friendly terms with this nation before the war, and after they war, they would have continued to sell to us. But by getting involved—and on the wrong side at that—it actually disrupted the flow of oil. Even after the war, we put an economic boycott on Iraq, which includes oil. As for getting oil from Kuwait, this was disrupted by the bombing of the oil refineries, which took two years to get back on line.

So, why was this war fought? For two reasons: One, that it was fought to destroy Israeli’s enemy—the main reason. Second, that it got the excess oil of the world markets, as Iraq’s sale was depressing international oil price.

Now, we’ll take a look at this from the general point of view. Regardless of what natural resources other nations have, we will still have access to it. For whoever wins the war, we will still have the opportunity to buy what they produce. If a nation wins that doesn’t produce the natural resources, they would control the other nation and sell to us. If a nation wins that does process these resources, they will continue to sell to us. By our involvement, and other nations—under the umbrella of the United Nations—we actually prolong the war, not to mention the destruction of their infrastructure. If we get involved in a war where the nation that has the natural resources loses, but still have control of their material resources, they will not want to sell to us, which is natural. By remaining neutral, both sides would have appreciate it and would continue to sell to us.

Nation That Doesn’t Want to Sell

We are supposed to be a nation who believes in self-determination. If this is so, then it is the right of each nation to sell what they want at what price they want. How would you like to be told that you have to sell to such-and-such a person at a certain price? You wouldn’t like that would you. Nor do other nations like that, too. Sadly, the right to sell to whom we want is denied to Americans, so it is only natural that we are taking away this freedom from other nations. For decades now, we are told that we have to rent to blacks, Mexicans, or whomever, regardless of our past experience with these people. This applies to selling homes, serving food, etc.

In a truly free society this choice should be left to the individual. There will be many others who will sell, rent or provide services to others who are turned down.

If during a conflict of a war, which was kept local, we still have other choices to get out raw material, or manufactured ones for that matter. In most cases, there are other nations that we can buy the raw material for finished products from. Then, there is the stockpile or reserves that we can use during this time.

A nation should use the same common sense that the head of a family should use. A husband would not leave his car tank on empty when he knows that his family would have needed to drive somewhere. He would not leave the oil heater nearly empty, the pantry empty, or spend all the money he has saved. Thus, a nation should have reserves of all natural resources, especially if it’s a material that only one or two nations of the world produce. This is just common sense, which, unfortunately, most people and nations lack.

Manufacturing is the Key

The United States has many natural resources, though in an age where there are many different materials needed to produce the things that we use, we do not need to have the resources to do so. Take a look at nations like Germany and Japan. They have little in the way of natural resources, but they can get whatever they need to produce things like cars, TVs, computers, etc. They can get the raw materials they need from every corner of the world. The nations that have little in the way of manufactured goods, but much in natural resources, can sell what they have for things that they need. Thus, all nations prosper.

Though there are many chemicals and minerals that the United States does not produce, we can virtually manufacture all that is need in this age of modern technology. There is no machinery that we don’t have or can’t buy; no talent that we need to make the things of modern science. Thus, we can trade what we make for that which we need. The second and third world nations that don’t have the money to buy the equipment needed or the talent to make such things a computer and cars, but can sell what they have for what they need. Thus, all nations benefit.

In the past decades, many of our factories closed down because of cheap imported goods, or have relocated overseas to take advantage of cheap labor. This is the result of bad government. However, this can be corrected, by giving companies tax incentives to come back. By having tariffs that increase the price of these cheap goods, the US government can make it more attractive to produce these same products within our nation.

The Need for Tariffs

Many people are against tariffs, even patriotic Americans. However, if tariffs are used right, it would be a great benefit for American workers. First, let’s take a look at some facts.

Neither the United States, nor any other nation can control what other governments and businesses do, nor should they. Although they try, it’s a dismal failure. If another government wants to subsidize their business, it’s their business. If companies in other countries want to pay their employees less, there’s nothing we can do. When we do try to dictate to other countries, it costs us billions of dollars in sending over our military, not to say the cost of lives in wars fought. This is very costly, yet it produces no products that people can use. It also produces no peace. So, it’s definitely a ‘lose, lose’ situation.

Another thing to consider is, that people should have freedom of choice in what they buy. So, how do we solve a situation where people may purchase things made in other countries but also have work so they can buy things? The answer is tariffs on imported goods.

If tariffs are put on goods that can be sold in our country cheaper than what we can produce, a tax should be put on it so when it’s sold in the market it would have the same price as those ‘Made in the USA.’ What would this produce? It would keep businesses opened in the US, employ our people, keep our economy strong, and give the people the choice to buy from other countries IF they so chose.

Some people may say that this can’t be done. Anything can be done if it’s the law of the land. Look at how many bad laws that we have; yet most people obey them even if they don’t like it. With a law that benefits businesses and workers, creates peace and prosperity, people would be happy. Businesses would still be free to locate in other countries, but they won’t have the freedom to put Americans out of work, neither would foreign companies. If they want to sell to other countries that don’t have a tariff, or one that is as high as the US, they can do so. For people who say that this will cause trade wars, so be it. However, they will only be denying their own people products from our country. If it comes to this, the American economy is huge and will produce enough money to satisfy businesses at home. Businesses in other countries who want to sell to our huge economy, will either have to settle for having their products on par with American made products or leave. They can sell to other countries including their own.

If a nation needs our products, they’ll buy from us. Most nations don’t manufacture high technological things, so they would have to come to us.

Think of the uselessness for one nation to ship goods to another that nation makes the same goods; then the other nation shipping their own kind of products back. This is a waste of time, money and fuel. This results in a lose-lose situation all the way around.

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