Civil Society: The Mower Gang in Detroit

Saint Augustine said “God judged it better to bring good out of evil, than to suffer no evil to exist.”  As our government is destroyed through countless acts of commission by Barack Hussein Obama, and even more acts of omission by Congress, including many Republicans, Americans may rediscover true civil society and what Alexis de Tocqueville observed in our national character - private citizens working together for the betterment of their communities.  The time is here when we must all "do what we can, where we are, with what we have," like these American patriots in the hell that is Detroit.

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TV Documentary Shows Socialist Ideas Devastated Detroit

Demonstrates Why Failed Ideology Is Clear and Present Danger for America -- Airs May 23 Nationwide

As America sprints toward socialism, the city of Detroit provides a compelling look at what lies ahead and reveals why a course correction is needed. Socialism: A Clear and Present Danger, a TV documentary that airs nationwide Sunday, May 23, looks at the Motor City, where experts say excessive government regulation, social welfare policies, entitlement programs, and more have devastated what was once a vibrant American metropolis. A preview of the program is here.

Rev. Levon Yuille, a Detroit-area pastor for 42 years, says it is heartbreaking to see the city's transformation from one of America's most prosperous cities in the 1950s to one with a surplus of squalor, vacant lots, abandoned houses, dilapidated buildings, and blight.

"The city has lost half of its population and it has a skyrocketing crime rate," Yuille said. He blames the city's devastation on social welfare programs employed more than 30 years ago. That's when the Marxist philosophy of Coleman Young, Detroit's mayor from 1974 to 1993, began to take root, Yuille explained.

Socialism: A Clear and Present Danger also features footage from Venezuela and testimonies from Venezuelans who live under the socialist regime of Hugo Chavez. Interviews conducted in Latin America, and across America, and an analysis of socialism's tragic and blood-stained record in the 20th century show that a free market economic system produces the best results for citizens.

"The last century offers overwhelming evidence that socialism may promise paradise, but in the end, it produces poverty, tyranny and death," said Dr. Jerry Newcombe, co-producer of the TV documentary. "Socialism not only violates the principles of God's Word, but it has brought misery to millions. That's why America must not go down its path."