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Summary: Patriot's Guide to Life
Review: I decided to read this book on a whim, just to see if there were any rational ideas contained within. I was sadly mistaken. This book is nothing more then a tired collection of platitudes about the "good ol days" and how "we" can take America back-wards that is . Yeah sure, let's all march backward, and believe in Farah's God, and that is going to solve all our problems. Sorry, but this country was NOT founded as a theocracy, regardless of what Farah or anyone else has to say. As for the title, who in perdition is America being taken back from? Immigrants? Freemasons? Secular Humanists? Do yourselves a break and save money on this tripe.
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Summary: Will not be tolerated at all
Review: I decided to read this book on a whim, just to see if there were any rational ideas contained within. I was sadly mistaken. This book is nothing more then a tired collection of platitudes about the "good ol days" and how "we" can take America back-wards that is . Yeah sure, let's all march backward, and believe in Farah's God, and that is going to solve all our problems. Sorry, but this country was NOT founded as a theocracy, regardless of what Farah or anyone else has to say. As for the title, who in perdition is America being taken back from? Immigrants? Freemasons? Secular Humanists? Do yourselves a break and save money on this tripe.
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Summary: Interesting read and mostly on the mark.
Review: I found Mr. Farah's book interesting, energetic, provocative and entertaining. I am sure he will get the usual counter culture attacks like most conservatives do. I agree with many of his ideals and his concerns, however I did not buy all of his viewpoints. As it should be. Yet he does, as have so many others before him, illuminated the slide towards self-destruction we are on. The slide that most great civilizations have taken in ages past. We humans just never seem to get it right, even when we do have a written history to go by. Seems like the intellectuals and elitist...the same ones who murdered Christ...are once again dead set on destroying our social character as well. We are no different than Rome, Greece, Egypt or any other great civlization, all of them became mobbish, decadent and without faith, to one extent or another and we are headed that way. When a candidate for President of the United States of America indicates that the population should refrain from talking about God, Guns, and Gays, as if they have no place in our voting philosophies, in other words illicite sexaul behavior, immorality and no change for self-defense are the order of the day, we are in big trouble. When the destruction of the insitutions of marriage become the goal of courts, politicians, social service providers and religious orders then no one can fault Mr. Farah for his tirades against the modern culture. When pornography, vulgar language and lyrics becomes protected speech by courts, out of control, and the abuse of children in school who are trying to believe in God become the norm people like Mr. Farah are our only recourse. I applaud his efforts and this book that once again lays it on the line for all to see the great hypocrisies of the left and their foot soldiers. Hopefully America will awaken to a new realization that by following the insanity that is hard core progressive thought and the madness of the far left, they have been pulled into the service of a dark lord...hmm, perhaps Middle Earth and a great quest to vanguish him or her...is not so far away after all! Go Frodo, go! Jim
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Summary: Good ideas flawed by mediocre writing and presentation
Review: I have mixed feelings about this book. I am almost tempted to give the WND founder four-stars, but the book is hindered by a bad writing style and presentation. I agree and acquiesce with much of what Farah says, but the book is not very well written. Moreover, too many things are just taken for granted as good ideas and are not substantiated. Sure he may be preaching to choir, but how about giving the choir some ammunition. Also, as an avid WND reader, I could not help but to notice that quite a bit of this book is a patchwork of separate articles minced together into a book. While his reform platform has an aurora of libertarian appeal to it, Farah avows he is not a libertarian. He sees a flaw undermining libertarianism, chiefly its insistence on a cosmopolitian, borderless world. Like it or not libertarians, this view sums up the Left Coast Libertarians who read 'Reason Magazine' in a nutshell. (Perhaps, some venom could be saved for the cosmo-conservatives in orbit around the Beltway that see the world the same way many libertarians do: culture means nothing and mammon is the measure of all things.) Nonetheless, Farah characterizes himself as a revolutionary, NOT a conservative. This is one of my chief misgivings with Farah is his peculiar semantic reading of 'conservative' and 'conservatism.' Farah hints he is NOT a conservative, because basically there is nothing left to conserve. This peculiar interpretation and reductionist rendering of the word undermines what conservatism is about. Such non-sense gives creedence to those who act as if a hardline communist in the former Soviet Union is a conservative. The essence of conservatism- is conserving those things that give many to life: the intangibles: faith, family and nation. Moreover, for all of Farah's jawboning that he is a "revolutionary," perhaps he should consider himself a "counterrevolutionary" in the spirit of Edmund Burke. Notwithstanding my criticism, he conveys some great political truth, which is certain to resonate with Middle America. Did you know America is a republic, not a democracy? Our founders seldom had good things to say about the later anyway. Farah delves into the unconstitutional exploits of the 20th century and offers a blueprint for undoing the damage. He tackles issues of a morality and culture in crisis and sees a restoration of Christian values and revitalizing the family as important. He puts principle over political expediency and dares to propose what many see as politically untenable, namely the repeal of the 16th Amendment and the Federal Reserve system. He does a good job at analyzing our defense dillema and gives a clarion call for bringing our troops home from globalist peacekeeping missions, strengthening our military and implementing a civil defense program. His chapter on Individual Rights or Group Rights is interesting, albeit flawed since he relies chiefly on invoking MLK, Jr. as our model. When one delves deeper, one sees through King's writings and speeches, that King would not have a problem with the communal or group rights mentality. King was a closet Marxist and pushing for a so called Poor People's Campaign, which called for massive wealth redistribution and social welfare shortly before his assassination. This is one of the darker sides of the 1960s Civil Rights movement and Barry Goldwater was astute in seeing the direction it was headed towards. All things considered, Farah captures a rising political sentiment amongst Middle America that Beltway elites in power ignore. He articulates a populist conservatism. Its pillars include: killing the Welfare State; strengthening the family; a strong 'defense' based on strategic independence; retreating from internationalism in favor of America First nationalism; and restoring the concept of republican self-government.
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Summary: Buy It!! Read It!! Think for the first time!!
Review: I've never reviewed a book before for Amazon.com as most are not as enlighting or potentially life path changing but I must tell any and all persons that are looking at this book...BUY IT!!! You may not agree with everything Mr. Farah brings forth but you will be forced into at least thinking differently and hashing things out in your own mind. Most of us feel in some way or another things do need to change; if not for us, for our children, our legacy on this earth. It is very much time to think "out of the box", get involved and stop following all the time. At some moment, we all must look in the mirror and say "Have I done all I can"....
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Summary: Pendulum Swings
Review: In the last 40 years the United States has been in moral decline. This book is a blueprint of returning us to a nation of people who can hold their heads up at the end of their lives. If you have children this book is even more important for their future, your future, and the future of our country.
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Summary: "Mein Kampf" for the 21st Century
Review: Incredible. That's the one word that best describes this hate-spewing tome of antiquated far-fringe nonsense. Also, I am amazed that Farrah was able to locate a publisher who was willing to champion his garbled, oversimplified vision of "Taking America Back" to the dark days of the cozy theocracies of colonial America, where anyone who dared to step outside the overly rigid bounds of the fundamentalist, dogmatic social order would be routinely tortured and murdered, all in the name of Farrah's "god," I might add. Make no mistake, I'm certainly not suggesting that Farrah or anyone else should be deprived of their First Amendment right to free speech. The Constitution (which Farrah has so little understanding of, as is evidenced by this book), guarantees them that right. I noted that Farrah stops just short of calling for the outright, systematic extermination of homosexuals, abortion providers, non-christians, and, of course, liberals. Perhaps if Farrah and other like-minded neo fascists are successful in their efforts to remake our world into the one described in this book, we would have a holocaust for the 21st century as well. The ideas presented in this book are becoming more and more widely accepted in this country every single day. Its sole redeeming quality is that it serves as a harrowing wake-up call to all complacent, apathetic, socially irresponsible people: This COULD happen, and more than likely WILL happen unless we are willing to turn off our television sets and playstations and commit ourselves to doing whatever it takes to prevent the sort of anti-intellectual Constitutional revisionism espoused in this book from becoming the new order in this post September 11th world.
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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: Joseph Farah has outdone himself in his latest book. He ties a lot of loose ends together for me personally. While most of the material will not be new to the Patriots amoung us, he does a superb job of logical progression in easy to understand language. Unlike some of his critits and even Mr. Farah himself, I do not find any of his advice (i.e. pulling your kids out of public school and not voting) radical in the least. To vote or leave your kids in public schools may be the more radical action. Buy a few extra copies to hand out! Give them to Goodwill and your church and make a tax deduction out of them. :-)
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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: Joseph Farah has outdone himself in his latest book. He ties a lot of loose ends together for me personally. While most of the material will not be new to the Patriots amoung us, he does a superb job of logical progression in easy to understand language. Unlike some of his critits and even Mr. Farah himself, I do not find any of his advice (i.e. pulling your kids out of public school and not voting) radical in the least. To vote or leave your kids in public schools may be the more radical action. Buy a few extra copies to hand out! Give them to Goodwill and your church and make a tax deduction out of them. :-)
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Summary: Somebody's Got to Say It.
Review: Joseph Farah is on the mark!! His solutions to American cultural problems are sensible and workable. Buy this book today!
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