Integrity.  Dignity.  Community. 

Integrity is a commitment to truth, in what you say, how you live, and how you treat others.

Dignity flows from respect, for ourselves, for each other, and for the world we live in.

Community is what binds us together, to each other, and gives our lives purpose and meaning.

Saint Augustine, the doctor of the Roman Catholic Church, famously said "The truth is like a Lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself."

Harry Truman, a warrior against war profiteering cabals, famously said "I just tell the truth, and they think it's hell".

I was born in Palo Alto, raised in Goleta California, but when I return to my birth state I hardly recognize it.  What has happened to the open, freedom loving society of my youth?  Why has free speech become vilified, and why does the Los Angeles Times feel the need to label people Nazis without any evidence?  Do they forget that the Nazis came to power as a left-wing party, and that the hallmark of their rise was aggressive use of censorship, propaganda, and Mass Formation Psychosis to control people?