Recent actions by the Obama administration have raised numerous comparisons between the people running our county and Nazi Germany or worldwide Communism. Some, on hearing this, pooh pooh the idea this it is just the product of an overactive imagination or a simple antipathy to the White House resident… or possibly both. Progressives, of course, fall back on their old standby: racism.
Others see these similarities based on the inspirations to Obama and those he surrounds himself with. Some have been quoted as admiring Chairman Mao. Many are disciples of Saul Alinsky. Then, we have the family and friends who raised Barry Soetoro, aka Barack Hussein Obama: everyone, Marxist to the core with a dislike and distrust of our home, the United States of America.
Recent controversies have been associated with the selection of “Forward” as the campaign slogan. This word has been used frequently in the title of socialist and nazi publications. More recently the symbol of ObamaCare recognized as being strikingly similar to one used by one of the most evil personages of the last century, Adolph Hitler.
Let me start with a story. A man who had survived the great Johnstown flood died and went to Heaven. And not long after, all of the inhabitants of Heaven were allowed to take center stage and tell everyone about the most significant event that had happened to them while on Earth. The man couldn’t wait to tell everyone about his surviving the great Johnstown flood. After a long wait in line, it was finally his turn. The man was so excited to tell everyone his story. But just as he was climbing the stairs to the platform, an angel leaned over to him and whispered, “Don’t forget; Noah is in the audience.”
I am reminded of that story when I read the Scriptural passage in Hebrews 12: “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.” The witnesses the Apostle speaks of are the great champions who have gone on before us, which are mentioned in chapter eleven. Included by implication in the great “Hall of Faith” of Hebrews 11 are the three young Hebrews: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (verse 34, “Quenched the violence of fire.”)
So, what was it that got these three young men included in this list that along with the likes of Abraham, Moses, and David? You’ll find their story in Daniel chapter three. In a nutshell, they refused to bow down to the image of the king. In other words, THEY DISOBEYED A CIVIL GOVERNMENT THAT HAD BECOME TYRANNICAL. And for refusing to submit to the king, they were thrown into a burning fiery furnace.
Some wisdom from one of our Catholic brothers, Father Frank Pavone. It puts things in perspective as we did nothing to warrant the love of God. He loves us because of who He is. It kind of sets the example for a mothers love.
Barack Hussein Obama has finally publicly endorsed the idea of marriage between members of the same sex. This move should come as no surprise to anyone who as been paying attention, and many, including former presidential candidate Rick Santorum see the move as the end of a “charade” rather than the touted “evolution” of a position.
It is a necessary “evolution” for Obama as homosexuals are one of his key constituent groups. This happens because the Democrat Party, for all their rhetoric about standing up for the “common man”, really only sees constituency groups. They think of people as part of groups based electoral preferences. Are they union members? Do they work for the government? What is their race? We are told they are fighting racism by treating people differently and regarding them as worthy of assistance with taxpayer dollars because of their race.
In this case, though, they are segmented by sexual preference. The homosexual community had not been quite so free with their money or enthusiasm this time around as they were awaiting the announcement we heard today. Many were happy with the press conference… the hastily prepared press conference. They had pushed for the removal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” from the military. The got it, and wanted more.
Can/Should we do the Lord’s work through our political involvement?
If the person holding the position of authority operates in obedience to God’s Word, he or she will make decisions which God will honor whether or not those decision were made of own volition based upon their personal relationship with God’s son, Jesus Christ or because of Godly advice received from an adviser who garnered his advice from study with God’s word as his counsel.
John 14:13. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Such a person will not poll you to see whether or not you agree. Because all too often in our society, we apply the WAM concept that asks the question: What About Me — a selfish interest.
We concern ourselves with our category: middle class, ethnic or racial group, prior circumstances, friendships and relationships and political Party identifications. These issues may replace God’s principles, and cause us to deviate from his will.
Can/Should we do the Lord’s work through our political involvement?
1. By Christian, I refer to a person who has accepted Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior and who, in so in so doing, has committed to a life of worship and obedience of Him.
Such a person is one who is “saved” from an eternity in hell (a real place designed for the devil and his angels where both the body and soul of those who have not accepted Jesus will burn forever (Mt. 10:28) in an inexhaustible fire).
Such a person is one who will understand that he or she is “saved” by God’s grace through faith and not by works lest he or she should boast.
Such a person is one who believes in Christ’s deity (He is God), his virgin birth, his sinless life while here on earth, his death on the cross for the sins of all mankind, his resurrection from the grave, his ascension into heaven where he resides today at the right hand of God the Father and intercedes for those who have accepted him, and his future return like a thief in the night to claim those who were given to him by God the Father and who never can be taken from him.
Such a person, in his obedience, will be known by his works (for faith without works is dead).
However, such a person will not be one who will “hide his light under a bushel basket.” Rather, such a person will be one who will allow his light to shine and illuminate the world so others may be drawn to the source of his light — that source being Jesus Christ as pointed to by God’s Holy Spirit.
Why me, Lord?
What have I ever done,
To deserve even one,
Of the pleasures I’ve known…
Have you ever felt that way? I guess we all do if we really think about it and take our eyes off our immediate situation. It’s good to back away from life’s struggles and look at the blessings that have come into our lives. We have been give so much more than we deserve, and the best way to keep those blessings coming is to thank the Lord and let Him know you appreciate them.
[Editors note: this story illustrates the importance of even local elections in selecting the people who hold responsible positions at all levels. Cases like this bring to our consideration of what a law abiding citizen is and how far we can go in following our leaders and what we must do when faced with situations like this.]
Hutchinson, KS – The battle for our religious rights and moral values is now being fought in Hutchinson, Kansas. On May 15, the city council of the small town, just northwest of Wichita, will vote on whether to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the list of other protected classes, such as race, age, and disability. If passed, this new law will destroy the “free exercise of religion” in Hutchinson:
First Baptist Church on Main Street will be required to rent their facilities for drag-queen parties and homosexual “commitment ceremonies.”
Abundant Life Childcare, northeast of town, will be forced to hire cross-dressers to supervise children.
There is been a lot of discussion about the wasteful spending done by our government in the name of John Maynard Keynes. He preached the hair brained ideas that any kind of government spending was good for the economy. It put money in the hands of people who would spend it and stimulate businesses and help the economy. The reality is that it only takes from the hands from the productive people who earned it and could use it productively, and places it in the hands of people who only use it to increase the size and scope of governmental control.
One of the unexpected consequences, to the public at least, is additional wasteful spending in the private sector. A few days ago I received a letter from my mortgage company telling me all about the privacy rights I had and didn’t have. It went into great detail about how I could opt out of some information sharing, but how I had no say about other uses they made of my personal information.
My life is neither better nor worse for having received this correspondence. Yet this irritation was done by one of the fastest growing departments in any business – Compliance. Regulations force businesses into all sorts of non-productive efforts that rarely solve the real or imagined problems Washington believes plague the unwashed masses. None of the hoops companies have to jump through to please Big Brother come without cost. This presents another drag on the economy as money spent to comply with the maze of foolish and sometimes contradictory regulations could usually be spent on more productive pursuits like developing new products and hiring more workers.
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and New York Times liberal-progressive polemicist Paul Krugman disagree about the Fed’s monetary policy.
Krugman continues to expound the view that, if the Fed accelerates its rate of creating phony dollars, consumers will go on a spending splurge and businessmen will put their excess cash reserves into expanding their operations and hiring more people. Earlier he advocated multi-trillion dollar increases in government stimulus spending, i.e., fiscal policy, for that purpose. To answer the fact that such policies have never worked, Krugman and his fellow Keynesian economists always say that, however huge government spending may have been, it wasn’t big enough.
There may be a short-term flare up of business activity, as with Obama’s cash-for-clunkers or subsidies for home purchases, but such stimulus spending merely pulls already-intended purchases into the immediate term. As soon as the stimulus spending or subsidy ends, purchases drop below their earlier rate.
Almost every day we see more infringements on the rights given us by our creator and recognized in our constitution. That is they are outlined more specifically the first ten amendments that many insisted upon as a condition of ratifying the document.
We see the national government institutionalizing the end run around the Tenth Amendment with their overly broad and self-serving interpretation of the “commerce clause”. Of course everyone is familiar with the attempts to thwart the intent of the Second Amendment with all sorts of regulations, perhaps even treaties. These people, being smarter than we often give them credit for, understand that this amendment is not about protecting deer hunting.
Then there is the Fourth Amendment which is supposed to protect us from unreasonable searches and seizures. In reality it would, if we had and administration and local authorities that respected the restrictions.
The destruction of the First Amendment is in a category all by itself. Laws restricting the free exercise of religion are prohibited and this is generally respected, unless the religion is Christianity. In certain progressive quarters there is a deep seated hostility toward followers of Christ because they know we cannot serve two masters. We can follow our Creator or the state, which puts the real church, the “confessing church” as it was known in Bonhoeffer’s time, on a collision course with those who would be our secular masters.
If anything, Paul Krugman and his fellow liberal-progressive Keynesian economic worshippers should castigate the GSA for spending far too little. After all, it’s a fundamental principle of Keynesian economics that saving (what used to be called prudent regard for the future wellbeing of our heirs) causes economic recessions.
According to Lord Keynes, when workers spend less than what they are paid, each bit of saving reduces aggregate consumption and drags the economy down. Keynes recommended that government spend as much as possible in order to counter the theoretical drag of saving on the economy. The nature of government spending, in Keynes’ theory, is immaterial. Government could employ people to dig holes one day and fill them on another, endlessly repeating this useless activity.
The GSA’s party was in this grand tradition of Keynesian theory.
Abe Lincoln said it best, “What is morally wrong cannot be politically correct.” Yet the exponential pornification of our culture is contributing both directly and indirectly to the epidemic of child sexual abuse, and unfortunately, certain segments of our government are turning a blind eye.
The U.S. spends trillions in military engagements overseas to prevent, protect and defend, and yet, research indicates that in our own country, 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually victimized before adulthood (the majority are victimized by family members or someone whom they know and trust). Illegal adult pornography (i.e. obscenity) remains unprosecuted, and every child with unrestricted Internet access is just one click away from viewing this material. In a recent study, 53% of boys and 28% of girls, ages 12-15, reported using hard-core, adult illegal pornography. Additionally, law enforcement is grossly underfunded to prosecute predators, and the $3 billion child pornography industry remains one of the fastest growing businesses online. Over 200,000 rape kits remain unprocessed, and over 100,000 registered sex offenders are “lost in the system”, allowing rapists and child molesters to repeatedly abuse and expand their wake of exploitation.
A new movie called “Trust”, Directed by David Schwimmer, should serve as a wakeup call to our nation to open its eyes to the very real problem of child sexual abuse in this country. “Trust” documents the raw physical, social and emotional toll on 14-year-old Annie Cameron (Liana Liberato) as she is groomed online and later victimized during an offline meeting with “Charlie”, whom she initially believes to be a 16-year-old boy.
Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch has a problem with the citizens of his state wanting more responsive representation in Washington. He has called the echo chamber of Washington home since he was first elected to the upper house in 1976. That’s thirty six years ago, time enough for this good man to have lost touch with the folks back in the western state and find a new frame of reference for right and wrong among the government elites who run our country today.
Of course we all see people who will go beyond our real or imagined limits as over zealous or radical, never considering that we may be falling short. He says of those looking for a more conservative approach to running our country, “They’re radical libertarians and I’m doggone offended by it.”
It’s easy to tell those who have been around government too long when you start hearing why common sense solutions cannot be implemented and we have to deal with “political reality”. This generally means they have given up on principles to some extent and accepted the status quo as the normal that we have to work with. To Patrick Henry’s query, “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?” They have answered, “Yes”, and they are making choices for us.
The Alleged Danger From the Powers of the Union to the State Governments Considered
For the Independent Journal.
Author: James Madison
[As we read the words of James Madison, it is difficult not to consider how far we have strayed from the concepts our founder hand down to us.]
To the People of the State of New York:
HAVING shown that no one of the powers transferred to the federal government is unnecessary or improper, the next question to be considered is, whether the whole mass of them will be dangerous to the portion of authority left in the several States. The adversaries to the plan of the convention, instead of considering in the first place what degree of power was absolutely necessary for the purposes of the federal government, have exhausted themselves in a secondary inquiry into the possible consequences of the proposed degree of power to the governments of the particular States. But if the Union, as has been shown, be essential to the security of the people of America against foreign danger; if it be essential to their security against contentions and wars among the different States; if it be essential to guard them against those violent and oppressive factions which embitter the blessings of liberty, and against those military establishments which must gradually poison its very fountain; if, in a word, the Union be essential to the happiness of the people of America, is it not preposterous, to urge as an objection to a government, without which the objects of the Union cannot be attained, that such a government may derogate from the importance of the governments of the individual States? Was, then, the American Revolution effected, was the American Confederacy formed, was the precious blood of thousands spilt, and the hard-earned substance of millions lavished, not that the people of America should enjoy peace, liberty, and safety, but that the government of the individual States, that particular municipal establishments, might enjoy a certain extent of power, and be arrayed with certain dignities and attributes of sovereignty? We have heard of the impious doctrine in the Old World, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people. Is the same doctrine to be revived in the New, in another shape that the solid happiness of the people is to be sacrificed to the views of political institutions of a different form? It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object. Were the plan of the convention adverse to the public happiness, my voice would be, Reject the plan. Were the Union itself inconsistent with the public happiness, it would be, Abolish the Union. In like manner, as far as the sovereignty of the States cannot be reconciled to the happiness of the people, the voice of every good citizen must be,
In addition, Will Grigg states that another major component of the indictment that is worrisome is the charge that Hutaree is guilty of “seditious conspiracy.” As Grigg writes, “Whatever is eventually learned about Hutaree, as things presently stand the indictment against it could provide a template for ‘seditious conspiracy’ prosecutions involving practically any group that endorses the use of defensive force to protect citizens against government aggression.
“Indeed, the definition of ‘conspiracy’ used in the Hutaree indictment could make a criminal out of anyone who reads Federalist Paper 46 in public, thereby sharing James Madison’s commendably seditious admonition that the people preserve ‘the advantage of being armed’ in the event that insurrection against the central government proves necessary in order to preserve liberty.”
Let’s look a little closer at Federalist 46, written by Founding Father, author of the US Constitution, and America’s fourth President, James Madison. In dispelling the fears of colonists toward a standing federal army, Madison said in Federalist 46, “Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger. The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence. It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops.”
Much to the chagrin of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a federal judge has cleared the members of a Michigan militia who were accused by federal law enforcement agents of conspiracy to commit sedition. Since you didn’t hear much about this ruling from the national press corps, here is one online version of the report:
“Seven members of a Michigan militia have been cleared of plotting to overthrow the U.S. government as a judge dismissed the most serious charges against them.
“In a shock defeat for federal authorities, District Judge Victoria Roberts said the group’s expressed hatred of law enforcement did not amount to a conspiracy.
“The FBI secretly planted an informant and an agent inside the Hutaree militia in 2008 to collect hours of anti-government audio and video that became the cornerstone of the case.
A few days back, the White House resident had strong words for reporters covering him and his policies. This was in spite of the fact that they almost invariably support him and cover for his flubs and his failures. This was in spite of the obvious selective reporting by the formerly main stream media that emphasizes sometimes unimportant events that make the President look good and totally ignore the truth of his destruction of the American dream and the values that made our country great.
He told the reporters, “This bears on your reporting, I think that there is often times the impulse to suggest that if the two parties are disagreeing then they’re equally at fault and the truth lies somewhere in the middle. And an equivalence is presented which I think reinforces peoples’ cynicism about Washington in general. This is not one of those situations where there’s an equivalency.”
He followed up with, “As all of you are doing your reporting, I think it’s important to remember that the positions that I am taking now on the budget and a host of other issues. if we had been having this discussion 20 years ago or even 15 years ago … would’ve been considered squarely centrist positions.”
It’s Good Friday and Easter is on the way. For those intent on just making a buck off the holiday or laughing at the silly Christians, we have a message. Easter is about more than bunnies. Many celebrate Christmas, and often forget that the time of year we call Easter is really the point of Christmas, and of the whole flow of history.
It is an entire weekend event. From the brutal execution to the triumphant resurrection we see the entire process of God’s love for his crowing creation, mankind, and the lengths he went to for us all. The cruelty in the video is something we need to see – remember. To say only that Christ died for your sins does not nearly convey the horror of the events that day, and most of us don’t have the appreciation we should have.
Just remember, what was unnecessary for Him was totally necessary for us.
After reading Obama’s remarks concerning the case of Obamacare before the Supreme Court, I can’t let his comments go unanswered. His rhetoric should be a shinning, classic example for the text books on how a demagogue works so that people can spot one when they speak.
Obama said, “Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”
There are three things wrong (or should I say false) with this statement. First of all, it is not unprecedented for a Supreme Court to overturn a law passed by Congress. If that were the case there would be no need for the Supreme Court. To cite just one example, the California’s Supreme Court has consistently overturned laws passed by a referendum vote of the people – such as proposition 8 – that passed by a large percentage. Yet the Democrats hailed that decision because they were against what the voters wanted. To say that it is unprecedented for the Supreme Court to overturn a law passed by Congress is not only historically false but is Constitutionally false as well. That is exactly the role of the Supreme Court if they think a law is unconstitutional.
Those of us who believe in constitutional government, the Bill of Rights, personal liberty, and State autonomy are beginning to taste what German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and pastor Martin Niemoller experienced back in 1930’s Germany. These two great lovers of God and freedom were ostracized and eventually persecuted by both Germany’s political and social societies and by “German Christians.” History does have a way of repeating itself, doesn’t it?
Anyone who does not recognize that America is rapidly being transformed into a fascist state is as dumb as Balaam’s ass. No, dumber! At least the ass had the sense to stop when it realized it was heading smack into God’s wrath.
For all intents and purposes, the US Constitution is dead; the Bill of Rights is dead; the vision of the Founding Fathers is dead; and federalism and republicanism are also dead. What we have left is a blend of socialism, welfarism, fascism, statism, and warfarism, with fascism becoming the dominant “ism” of the bunch.
View this video, then view it again… and think about what is really going as leaders of the United States and Russia conspire against the American people. The US president is telling the Russian leader that they should be patient. He is telling him that after he is re-elected he would be more flexible in working with our traditional enemy and selling out our God-given rights and traditional allies.
This is something we need to consider, and many see this as just one more indication that Obama is not suited to sit in the oval office any more than he was suited to sit in the Senate. Those of us who care about the security of our nation and the safety of our citizens, as well as the safety of our friends who have stood with us over the years should be outraged at such betrayal. Many of us see the danger and are speaking up and doing what we can to see that the re-election he seeks is denied him by the American people.
The Fed’s near-zero short-term interest rate policy distorts the market, with many ill effects and none of its proclaimed benefits.
In a speech today before the spring conference of the National Association for Business Economics, Federal Reserve Commissar Ben Bernanke, now an Obama re-election campaign mouthpiece, reaffirmed the Fed’s intention to continue imposing artificially low interest rates for short-term Treasury securities. According to the Washington Post’s report, he admitted that the economy and employment remain weak. But, he maintains, “the Federal Reserve’s existing policies will help boost economic growth.”
If that is true, one is entitled to ask why after nearly three years of this policy the economy remains in the doldrums. Unemployment, taking the most favorable measure used by the government, remains north of 8%. Using comprehensive measures from the government, measures that include people who have given up looking for jobs and have dropped out of the labor market, unemployment is running around 17%.
Nonetheless, the stock market again roared ahead today on Commissar Bernanke’s affirmation that the Fed will continue pumping excessive amounts of fiat money into the economy to keep interest rates low. Meanwhile businesses remain cautious about expanding, and consumer spending, as in the housing bubble that burst in 2007, is being floated on increasing debt and declining savings.
Even though regular gasoline cost around $1.80 when Barack Hussein Obama replaced George W. Bush in the White House, Energy Secretary Steven Chu thinks he is doing a pretty good job as current prices soar past the $3.85 mark. In California, it is even worse with prices well over $4.00.
Those of us paying for our own gas see things a little differently. We are pouring more dollars into our gas tanks and less into other necessities and niceties of life. Most of us have a relatively static amount to spend each month and if we spend more in one area, we can’t spend it in on other items. We are not in the same position as the national government where we can just borrow more from the Chinese, or have the Federal Reserve “print” more money to buy our securities. We just have cut back somewhere.
This is particularly troublesome when we look at the economy as a whole with fewer people working, other prices rising, and many who are still working are unsure of the stability of their jobs. But, is this taken into consideration when Secretary Chu evaluates the work he is doing? Does Mr. Chu’s boss agree with his assessment of the Energy Department’s performance?
Words are funny things; they seem to follow the speaker around long after they escape from the speaker’s mouth. Throughout our lives, we rethink the things we have said to others, and the impression those words left behind. I’m sure virtually all of us have had that “traffic moment” when certain words escaped from our mouths before we had a chance to engage our brains instead of our emotions; believe me, I’ve had my share. Being a Christian, I often fight the “battle of the tongue”. I try to live by the precepts of my Christian Faith; my allegiance must always align with God’s Word first, and His Book.
The last three verses in the Book of Revelation say “If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book. He who testifies to these things says, “Yes I am coming quickly,” Amen. Come Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.”
The Bible is very clear about what the Bible is to the believer, the Christian; it is the enlightened word of God, not to be edited or deleted. It is God’s truth from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible is for the ages, and is applicable to every era man has lived through, but you must read it as a complete work to understand both the Old and New Testament, or it will be distorted by deceptive interpretation. Believers cannot “pick and chose” which passages of the Bible they want to follow, and they must understand the role of Jesus in the interpretation of both Testaments.
Washington, D.C. – Monday, the Republican Policy Committee (RPC) of the United States Senate issued a report chronicling President Obama’s unconstitutional actions. This comes on the heels of a report released last week by nine attorneys general that, likewise, details numerous instances in which the Obama Administration has trampled individual liberty, stripped policing powers from local authorities and has otherwise usurped the powers of the states.
The RPC lists the evasion of constitutional checks on presidential powers, like the president’s complete disregard for the Advice and Consent Clause through arbitrary creation of a “bureau” (the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) with zero congressional oversight; the Administration’s creation of czars; the Administration’s regulatory-overreach which is crippling the job market by hobbling businesses with burdensome EPA and FCC regulations; the Administration’s implementation of the health care mandate that forces consumers into the marketplace to purchase subpar health plans that pay for “services” with which they have a moral and religious objection, and much more.
The attorneys general’s list contains almost twenty violations, some of which are also listed by the RPC. The attorneys general tied the unconstitutional actions to the states whose residents are directly and negatively affected by the Obama Administration’s refusal to recognize that James Madison and the other framers of the Constitution intended the federal government’s powers to be “few and defined.”
For many of us illegal immigration is a theoretical problem, or, at best, a distant economic issue. Others of our number have lost jobs to illegitimate intruders, or worse yet, have been victims of their violent crimes. Professor Terry J. Lovell of Yavapi College in Prescott, AZ has close up view of the situation and describes it with a great deal more honesty than we normally hear from a member of the academic community.
Barack Hussein Obama and his Attorney General, Eric Holder, and even some complicit Republicans would have us believe that the open borders they seek to impose on our country are the only fair way to deal with the poor and downtrodden of other lands, as the inscription on the Statue of Liberty pleads. Yet, as Prof. Lovell points out it is the drug cartels that are moving back and forth between the US and Mexico with impunity. They are killing honest policemen in their own country and threatening to do the same in ours… and our government is doing nothing about it, other than providing hormone treatments for the “transgendered” of these intruders once they are caught… at our expense.
A while back, I did something unusual for me, I watched the local television news. This is a great source of information about the robberies, rapes and murders in my home town… and it’s kind of depressing since there is not a lot that I can do about most of these personal tragedies. What upset me most, though, was the news feed about the “Christian militia” arrests that had recently taken place. There was an almost gleeful tone to the story about how the federal officers took down these religious zealots intent on overthrowing the government. Folks, this is just the beginning.
To put the story into perspective, all we know is what the formerly main stream media has told us… and all they know is what they’ve gotten from the authorities involved. It may be that these nine or so people in custody presented a real threat to life as we know it, however our government, over many administrations has lied to us so often that it’s difficult to know truth from fiction – and our media watchdogs have turned into lapdogs so we can’t look to them for help in ferreting out the straight story. It may even be that the real threat to our way of life came from the government itself.
Even Rupert Murdoch’s “fair and balanced” FoxNews ran an uncritical story about arrests of “Christian” militia members, so what can we really expect from the likes of CNN and MSNBC. Not knowing these people, I have no idea of what brand of theology they adhere to, so it is impossible to decide if they are persecuted brothers or nut case heretics. I mean, this is the same media that calls Jeremiah Wright and Jim Wallis Christian, and I certainly am not willing to claim any spiritual kinship to them.
Living just outside the capital of Virginia in the days leading up to Super Tuesday, one would have expected to be bombarded with ads from the free spending Romney campaign along with a valiant representation of the other candidates. One would also have expected to see highways lined with political signs and polls swarming with advocates of the various contenders. But… such was not the case. There was so little coverage by the media that almost had to be a bonafide political junky to even know voting was taking place. The only signs to be seen anywhere were in the yards of Ron Paul supporters, and they had been in place for weeks, or even months.
After witnessing the gyrations of the Republican Party of Virginia in certifying only establishment favorite Mitt Romney and the choice of the libertarian wing of the party, Ron Paul to appear on the ballot, one has to wonder if the entire process was designed to remove the mere citizens from the candidate selection. By Republican establishment, we are looking at not only the national manipulators setting the agenda. We are looking at a state wide party with the governor lusting over the vice presidential nomination and the lieutenant governor actively advocating this run, there is just no way anyone but the Republican answer to John Edwards hair would be in the running.
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