Email from OCPAC Wade Burleson answers a Democrat Published Monday, May 26, 2025 SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. BOB LINN MY COLORADO WEEKEND Jane and I are back in Oklahoma today. We flew to Colorado Springs to attend our firstborn grandson's high school graduation this weekend. It was a fantastic get-way for us with Wade Burleson writing this week's article. In it, he answers the accusations of a leftist who entered our meeting with the hopes of interrupting our organization's capacity to function. Wade answers the insurgent below. CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING The OCPAC Foundation’s Communist Intruder On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, the OCPAC Foundation, our Oklahoma 501c3 non-profit educational institution, hosted my friend, author Tim Price, as the program speaker. Tim's skills as both author and editor has resulted in the publication of several best-selling scholarly books. Tim spoke to the OCPAC Foundation that day in April on The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart, a book written by Jon Amos Comenius (1592-1670). The United Nation’s calls Comenius The Father of Modern Education In 2021, I helped Tim update and revise, with a new English translation, Comenius’ classic work which inspired John Bunyan to write Pilgrim’s Progress. Before Tim spoke to us, I went around the room at OCPAC Foundation, greeting people. I was introduced to a young man “who was visiting OCPAC Foundation for the first time.” I would later learn that the man was lying about his identity. He was a left-wing communist secretly recording all private conversations. However, I did that day what I always do. I sought to make this young man feel welcome at OCPAC Foundation. After introducing myself, he asked me about that day’s speaker and explained, I am interested in conservative politics. Believing him to be sincere, I went to Tim’s book table and bought for him (out of my own pocket) a copy of The Coming Caesars by Amaury de Riencourt (1918-2005). I helped Tim Price republish an updated version of Reincourt’s scholarly book several years ago. Riencourt’s The Coming Caesars (1957) is a provocative analysis of America’s political evolution, drawing parallels between the United States and ancient Rome. Amaury de Riencourt (June 12, 1918 – January 13, 2005) was a French historian, writer, and scholar known for his wide-ranging expertise in American history. De Riencourt argues that the Republic of the United State has fallen into so-called “American democracy,” embarking the country toward Caesarism, where charismatic and autocratic leaders rule by fiat (Executive Orders). He contends in his book that the United States mirrors Rome’s trajectory through growing centralized power, imperial ambitions, and a growing reliance on strong presidential figures. Unlike dictatorship, Caesarism is a gradual, unconscious process where a free people voluntarily surrender to autocracy. This shift, de Riencourt believes, stems from increasing social equality, which paradoxically diminishes liberty and concentrates authority in one leader. De Riencourt warns that the presidency’s expanding power, fueled by America’s global dominance and domestic egalitarianism, threatens republican institutions. However, he believes the descent of Caesarism can be reversed through a cultural rebirth that fosters dynamic ideas, non-conformist leaders, and the intentional preservation of Constitutional (Republican) values. The Coming Caesars remains a compelling cautionary tale about political power and cultural decline. I handed Tim Price’s updated version of The Coming Caesars to our guest. I said to our new guest: Here’s a book I think you’ll like. As a Constitutional conservative, I despise Presidential Executive Orders. These fiat orders confirm what de Riencourt says in his book. When Republics (like the U.S. and Rome) devolve into ‘democracies,’, (a form of government our Founding Fathers feared), the country will soon turn to Caesarism and autocratic control. The United States is already there. However, unlike President’s Obama or Biden (dictators in their own right), I love Donald Trump. He's a good dictator, a wonderful king with a good heart. In context, you’ll see that I disagree with Trump signing Executive Orders, but I am grateful that he is able to overturn the dictatorial and unconstitutional Executive Orders of Obama and Biden. CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING Did you know that the swastika is an ancient symbol with roots in various Native American cultures? The swastika held sacred significance for many Native American tribes, particularly in the Southwestern United States. For tribes like the Navajo, Hopi, and Apache, the swastika represented good luck, prosperity, and the four directions of the earth, often appearing in art, weavings, and rituals as a symbol of harmony and balance. The swastika’s positive connotations made it a fitting choice for the 45th Infantry Division, an Oklahoma National Guard unit formed in 1923, which included many Native American soldiers from Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. The division adopted a yellow swastika on a red diamond patch in 1924, honoring the region’s Native American heritage and the Spanish influence of the Southwest. Cities throughout Oklahoma, including Bartlesville, implemented the swastika in the art of public buildings and parks. The symbol was seen by all Oklahomans as “prosperity in the four directions of the Great Plains.” However, the symbol’s meaning shifted dramatically in the 1930s when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party adopted a black, tilted swastika as their emblem, associating it with antisemitism and oppression. By 1933, the Nazi connection made the 45th’s patch untenable, leading to its abandonment. Native American communities, aware of the symbol’s perversion, largely supported its discontinuation in public use. In 1940, leaders from several tribes, including the Navajo and Hopi, signed a proclamation banning the swastika in their crafts due to its Nazi stigma, though some continued using it privately to preserve cultural traditions. The 45th adopted then adopted the Thunderbird, a Native American symbol of sacred power, as its new insignia in 1939, maintaining cultural pride without controversy. Nobody would dare wear or use the swastika in Oklahoma today. CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING My statement, recorded surreptitiously by a leftist activist, that Donald Trump is a good dictator – or a good king - needs to be taken into its context. When a Republic falls into the dangerous throes of democracy (e.g. “mob rule”), it becomes a government based on the un-Constitutional principles of equity and inclusion rather than meritorious abilities. The culture will demand begin demanding a charismatic political and authoritarian President to guide the nation out of the destructive leftist policies that have consumed our economy, educational systems, and culture. Yes, Donald Trump gives off characteristics of a dictator. Yes, Donald Trump leads with an authoritarian air. Yes, I do not like Executive Orders for principled reasons. However, Barak Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and the anonymous communist who infiltrated the OCPAC Foundation meeting on April 2, 2025, and surreptitiously recorded my private conversation with him, all advocate Executive Orders when their ideologue is in power. A leftist who resorts to disguising his identity may never be able to comprehend the erudite scholarship of Amaury De Riencourt. Yet, I will always do my part to educate people like him. SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. MAY 21 MEETING: GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT Kevin Stitt's Full Presentation here Full Meeting here ________ THE ARIA SINGERS Sing God Bless America ARIA here Full Meeting here ________ JESSE LEON RODGERS CITY ELDERS Jesse Rodgers here Full Meeting here _______ WADE BURLESON  MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE BOB LINN SABBATICAL Wade Burleson: Oklahoma and WWII here Wade Burleson: Summer Sabbatical for Bob Linn here Full Meeting here ________ FOR THE FIRST TIME . . . 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