On one hand, these poor souls are fortunate that they have someone to feed, clothe and watch out for them. On the other hand, is this the retirement many have worked all their lives to enjoy? To be sure, most are no longer capable of living with any kind of autonomy. They could not survive on their own in the outside world. What none of them understands is that each one has a target clearly painted on his (or her) back, a large target.

The utilitarian mindset of the proposed keepers of our health care prevents them from seeing these people as human beings with intrinsic value simply because they exist. We are told that the government is capable of being the arbiter, endowed with the ability to decide who has sufficient “quality of life” to be worthy of a share of the limited resources available to preserve life.

While I would not trade place with any one in the facility, and, if the time came, I would almost prefer that my wife shoot me before committing me to such an awful place, I would not “pull the plug” on any of them. To be honest, I don’t believe our medical system would actively terminate their lives at this point. However, we have been warned that, due to increasing demands on available health care resources, little would be allocated to preserve such lives. Some one is in line to make these decisions… and they laughed with Sarah Palin spoke of death panels. Of course they won’t be called that, but they will decide who gets treatment and who does not… which means, who lives and who dies.

The whole utilitarian concept is based on the Darwinian theory that we are all just accidents of nature and have no real value save what we can contribute to the “greater good”. We are seen as slaves to our fellow human beings in general and to those who would be our masters, in particular. This is the end the academic and political figures have in mind when they march in lockstep to discredit any hint of a discussion of intelligent design, and the accompanying concept of individual value.

If each of us has unique and individual value, then it becomes the function of our government to look out for and protect the individual, rather than control him… and away goes the power the elites are so desperately seeking. It means there is a higher authority that our “leaders” must recognize and be accountable to. It means they must actually become the public servants their pose implies.

It also means that the unalienable rights our Declaration of Independence partially lists must be respected and protected. It means that representatives must actually represent rather than run roughshod over the will of their constituents. And, it means that they are, but stewards of the authority they have been granted – and they must use it wisely, for the good of all, not for personal gain.

So, while we will probably always need places to warehouse those who are unable to care for themselves, it needs to be done in a manner that respects who these people once were… and still are.

Showing the exclusively race based tunnel vision, the organization set their sites on repudiating “the racism of the Tea Parties”. The leadership of this formerly useful institution, in pushing the same disastrous programs that all but destroyed the black families, had to resort to playing the race card and engaging in character assassination. Generally this is the last play of one who is unable to refute logical arguments.

We know that the government intervention has never, and will never, lift people out of poverty. Abraham Lincoln said, “You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich, you cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong, you cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down, you cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.” Yet, holding out the promise of benefits paid for by someone else is what placed these leaders in their exalted positions and what they expect to keep them in power. Therefore, the tea parties who recognize the failure of the NAACP’s traditional approach and had the audacity to point it out… much like the child who noticed the emperor had no clothes, have to go.

These people are fighting to maintain the impression of relevance, so they are calling the tea partiers, which means they are calling most of us, what they believe to be worst name in the world, which is “racist”, and this is, somehow, to make us go away. While racism is evil and disgusting, calling someone a racist doesn’t make him one… just like their calling Barack Hussein Obama a great president, doesn’t make him one. However, they have to keep up the image of taking on the functioning part of America to keep their membership fired up and paying dues.

If they were truly effective and getting the job done for the constituents, they would not be fighting the same fights and using the same rhetoric for the last fifty years. The fact is, most of our country has moved far beyond evaluating people based on the color of their skin. Unfortunately, the NAACP is stuck in the 60s and only sees things through the lens of racial conflict. In spite of the charges of racial prejudice among the tea partiers; something that has never been proven, they need to understand that we have bigger fish to fry than keeping our black brothers “in their place”.

In fact, to anyone who believes that our creator made everyone in his own image, and endowed everyone certain unalienable rights, these ideas are preposterous and offensive. However, my reading of our constitution doesn’t include a right to go through life without hurt feelings. We are not only fighting for our own families, but all families to have a more free and more prosperous life.

We, and I include myself in the tea party crowd, have been called all sorts of vile names by protectors and agents of the status quo. This is just one more attempt to discredit a movement that threatens to bring sanity back to our world. We have two choices in how we deal with this attack. The first, and the one our enemies hope we take is to hide our heads and quietly slink on back home, having been exposed by the great moral arbiters of our society. If we really believe in what we are doing this is not an option.

The second option is to just keep on keeping on. Our example went about doing good. Some people loved him, just like they do the tea partiers. Some hated him and tried to discredit him… but you can’t discredit the truth. Then some killed him. We hope the enemies of freedom won’t get that far, but doing the right thing is never wrong and if we shrink back, we are unworthy of our founding fathers.

We can only hope that we see enough change in Washington to defund such programs in the absence of the possibility of an actual repeal. At a time when our country is more divided than at any time in the recent past, we do not need one more, or multiplied numbers of agencies designed to assign quotas and pit one group of citizens (usually) against another.

The United States has long been known as a “melting pot” where newcomers to our country were integrated into a more or less common culture with common language and aspirations. Immigrants came here, and believed they were coming to the promised land. Most saw an opportunity filled land and they wanted to get their piece of the pie. Our country prospered as more and more legal immigrants joined the pursuit of the American Dream. This is not surprising as our creator knew the value of unity when he said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.” (Genesis 11:1-9 NIV)

Unfortunately, somewhere around forty years ago, academics and overly ambitious political types decided they could garner more influence by pushing the idea of multiculturalism. It’s the old strategy of divide and conquer. From a common effort to keep our country strong, we moved to parochial society primarily looking out for group benefits, even if it did damage to the rest of our American brothers and sisters. This fragmentation of society can be defined by memberships in unions, or some sort of racial or possibly social group. Instead of working to create an expanding economy driven by entrepreneurial effort and expertise, we have retreated to a zero-sum game where everyone’s gain is offset by someone else’s loss.

This is a plan destined for failure. It is a plan that, by definition, makes our citizens jealous of any gains by any group they don’t belong to. We have become suspicious of our government and suspicious of our fellow Americans… anyone not like ourselves. Ivory tower promoters of the multicultural curse on our land live in the dream world where the words of Karl Marx, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” actually make sense. They totally misunderstand the human nature that will cause men (and women) to create and innovate when they can reap rewards for their ingenuity. This same human nature will slam the brakes on innovative creativity if people see the fruits of their labors snatched away before they can be enjoyed.

The lack of economic understanding on the part of the national government, concerning the creation of wealth they intend to confiscate to fund their grandiose schemes is astounding. We cannot continue to carve out benefits for unions, ethnic groups and now, illegal groups. We have an administration obsessed with the common political practice of creating focused benefits combined with broad base financing to the point where the broad based financing consists, not of the taxpayers, but the taxpayers grand children.

I have been learned many years ago that when you find yourself in a hole… you stop digging. The Obama administration, already way over its head in debt, is even bringing in a bigger backhoe to dig even deeper. They are catering to the most extreme and least productive segments of our society and their base, promising all sorts of benefits at the expense of other segments of the population. This is a situation guaranteed to create dissension and fragmentation of our society… possibly even violence when the money runs out or the citizens tire of being financially raped.

Our country is in trouble and this condition will not be cured until we send the multiculturalists packing and return to our founding values of individual responsibility and unity of purpose. We cannot remain fragmented and stand strong. We cannot rob Peter to pay Paul… even though the current plan has the complete support of Paul. It is time to review Ben Franklin’s sage advice that “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

Each in his own way thought the normal rules of civility, legality, economics and humanity did not apply to them. Each one, not only destroyed themselves, but they left a trail of devastation and death (some literal and some figurative). This should not be surprising that each came crashing down to earth in a tragic death spiral as Numbers 32:23 tells us “you may be sure that your sin will find you out.”

There is one more name that is on track to be added to the list and he is in the process of pulling us all under in a whirlpool debt and destruction. That name is Barack Hussein Obama. Many people believe he is unique on the scene… and in some ways, he is. On the other hand, he is just one more in a long line of charlatans whose dreams took them far beyond the realm of the possibility and propriety.

The thing about pulling us all under in a whirlpool of debt and destruction is the real issue. If he should choose to self destruct, while it would be sad to see, it would be his own business. Yet it is not just his own ruination he is careening toward, but ours, our children’s and our grandchildren’s.

We cannot let November go by without giving the this man’s supporters a thorough thrashing at the polls. But that’s not enough. We need to keep the pressure on the legislators to minimize the damage they do both before the election and during the lame duck session that follows.

Yet even that is not enough. The Keynesian economic policies of the current and previous administration have put our country on track… and the numbers confirm that we are on the path to a double dip recession. The economic policies are in line with actions taken leading up to the previous Great Depression as are the results of governmental effort. The point is that even more difficult times appear to be around the corner and we would do well to take defensive steps to protect our families.

The scope of this article does not even come close to providing financial advice. You might want to look into advice from someone like Dave Ramsey, which would include such things as reducing debt and expenses along with re-evaluating investments. Wisdom will guide you to moderate the impact of the Obama disaster.

Before you go off into a doom and gloom funk, please consider that some of the rules (not of behavior, but of economics) do not always apply to followers of Christ. Psalm 37:25 says, “I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.” So no matter how badly the government fouls the economy, if we are faithful, we will make it through. With that confidence, we can go through life annoying secular progressives with a smile on our faces.

Highway 40 runs the width of Tennessee and beyond. This ribbon of asphalt gives truth to the saying that in the volunteer state they have two seasons, winter and highway construction. Anyone who has made the run in or out of Nashville can attest to the fact that the smooth high speed run across the state is invariably broken by periods of restful pause as one sits in line waiting to get through yet another construction zone.

Pennsylvanians living along Route 22 that runs through the Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton, especially the last few miles before crossing the Deleware, can tell tales of constant construction repairing this or that section of road. It’s been rumored that some PennDot employees have spent their entire careers on this stretch of road. While we all recognize the need to keep up our infrastructure and hate bouncing our cars over the pot holes that never seem to go away, it is often easy to relate to the frustrations of the Michael Douglas character in the 1993 movie Falling Down.

I just completed a ten day swing up through the northeast for a graduation and wedding along with a little family vacation time. We spent far too much time on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway, which surprisingly enough, were about the only roads that had no shovel ready projects ready to absorb the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds congress borrowed from the Chinese in an attempt to undo the damage to our economy done by previous federal interventions.

Everywhere else, it was Highway 40 and US 22 on steroids. It was difficult to go more than a few miles without either being part of a construction site or seeing signs telling us one was to be part of our immediate future. Some even had the gall to place notices somewhere near the start that funding came from the ARRA. I felt good, seeing my children’s tax dollars at work, and wondered how they would pay for repairs needed in their time.

As I passed through the sites, it did my heart good to see all the union workers… some doing so… some watching and the politically connected contractors gainfully employed while much of the rest of the country struggles. I guess it’s like NJ Governor Christie said, that the government workers (and apparently contractors as well) have not participated in the recession.

There appears to be a new protected class, a class that lives off of our tax dollars and hardly ever bites the Democratic hand that feeds it. They have a pretty good relationship that leaves the rest of us out in the cold – or at least leaves us with the bill. It follows the old political principle of narrowly defined benefit with broad based cost.

With my apologies to Larry Cordle who wrote the Ricky Scaggs hit, we are all feeling a different kind of Highway 40 Blues, no matter what road we are traveling down. Some of the construction work, highway and who knows what else, is necessary. Some is not. But all of it will be paid for by several generations of Americans, and the bulk of money will be going to the “right” people, which, for the most part, is not Joe Lunchbox who is just trying to make ends meet… unless he has the right union card.

It’s not just highways, our benefactors are doing their best to see that we have nice, attractive buildings powered with green energy, populated by well paid government employees offering us seats in fine furniture when we come in to apply for our welfare check. Unfortunately, for this plan to work, it is necessary to turn the middle class into part of the dependent class. But, we will be able to have our checks deposited automatically into our government bank accounts. I really appreciate their consideration.

You can mark it down: every major crisis that America has faced over the last several decades has been either manufactured or facilitated by policies and activities originating in Washington, D.C. But at the same time that DC is creating these crises, it categorizes any ideological group it finds distasteful as a convenient scapegoat. These convenient scapegoats can include “angry white guys,” “tea party extremists,” “a vast right-wing conspiracy,” Constitution Party or Libertarian Party “extremists,” “Second Amendment extremists” (gun owners), “pro-life extremists,” ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

Yet, while DC’s elitists are plotting America’s next crisis and figuring out whom to categorize as America’s next “extremist,” some real enemies are waging war against the freedoms and liberties of our once-great republic. And, ladies and gentlemen, these enemies are much more subtle, a lot closer, and much more dangerous than almost anything you are being told about.

Here are some of freedom’s real enemies:

Big Cities

When the United States was a much smaller–much more agricultural—nation, our freedoms were mostly intact. The mass exodus out of rural America into urban America has been a bane of freedom–and it will continue to be so.

Thomas Jefferson addressed this issue astutely when he wrote in a letter to James Madison, “When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe.” (Source: The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of Thomas Jefferson)

Jefferson spoke again of this danger in a letter to Benjamin Rush. He wrote, “I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts, but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere, and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.” (Source: Ibid.)

Big cities are most always more liberal, more socialistic, more utopian, and more centralist. Citizens living in big cities readily submit to the machinations and designs of Big Government with much greater regularity than do their rural counterparts. In states where a handful of big cities dominate State politics, Big-Government policies almost always take over the politics of the entire State. If you doubt that, just speak with freedom-loving citizens in New York, Illinois, or Maryland.

Consider, specifically, the freedom most necessary to preserve our liberties: the right of the people to keep and bear arms. People in states that are less populated enjoy much greater liberty than do people in heavily populated states. For example, Boston’s Gun Bible (BGB) ranks the states according to the degree of gun ownership (and possession) protection in each State. It is no coincidence that the states with sparser populations are much freer than states with denser populations.

Here is BGB’s breakdown of the most and least free gun ownership states:

Most Free States:

1. Vermont

2. Idaho and Kentucky (tie)

3. Louisiana and Alaska (tie)

4. Wyoming

5. Montana

Least Free States:

1. New Jersey

2. Illinois

3. Hawaii

4. Massachusetts

5. New York

Population density in the “most free” states is less than 50 persons per square mile, while in the “least free” states it is more than 460 persons per square mile. Case closed!

While big cities will typically tolerate much more in the way of licentiousness and sexual perversion, they are also the first to tolerate Big-Government socialism. Without a doubt, Thomas Jefferson was right: big cities are “pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.”

If you want to live free in the future, you will probably need to leave the big city–and perhaps the states that are dominated by big cities.

The National News Media

For the most part, the national news media is no friend of freedom. About all most of them know of the US Constitution is the part about the “freedom of the press” (from the First Amendment, of course). Watch any of the Big Three television network newscasts on any weekday evening, and what will you see? You will see the exact same stories regurgitated over and over again–even with the exact same spin! And that spin is most always tilted toward bigger and bigger government. This goes on night after night, week after week, month after month, and year after year. But this is all just coincidental, right? Get real!

The cable news networks are not much better. About the only difference between cable networks is that CNN will provide cover for Big Government Democrats while viciously attacking all things Republican, and FOX NEWS will provide cover for Big Government Republicans while viciously attacking all things Democrat.

Face it: the national news media is intoxicated with Two Party Politics. They really don’t care nearly as much about the fundamental tenets and principles of liberty as they do about whether a Democrat or Republican wins office. Washington’s media elite are wined and dined by the same party politicians that they cover on television or in the newspaper. (What a racket!) Do you really think any major media news personality is going to risk losing his or her job (which is exactly what would happen) by asking too many questions, or boring too deeply, or straying too far off the reservation? Once again, get real! All of these guys and gals know exactly where the line–and the “third rail”–is located. And they all will stay clear of both! It’s not about reporting the news, or defending liberty, or anything of the sort. It is about pleasing their big corporate sponsors–corporate sponsors who are in bed with the elites from both major political parties, by the way!

As long as the American people continue to allow the national news media to manipulate and spin the news, our liberties will continue to erode.

Big Business

In fact, Big Anything can be freedom’s enemy: Big Business, Big Labor, Big Media, Big Cities, and Big Religion. Big Anything!

However, the rate and degree to which Big Business has been able to advance during the last half of the twentieth century–and now into the twenty-first century–is especially problematic for the survival of liberty. Dear friend, it is a mistake to equate Big Business with freedom. Big Business has little to do with capitalism and free enterprise and much to do with monopolism and globalism. Big Business does not want to compete with private enterprise; it wants to crush it! Big Business sees Big Government as a friend and partner. In fact, Big Business and Big Government are conjoined twins. They grow and live as one.

Accordingly, it is no accident that when the Bilderbergers got together a few days ago at the Hotel Dolce in Sitges, Spain, for their super-secret meeting, the list of attendees included the cabal of super-elites from Big Government, Big Business, Big Academia, and Big Media. People such as Bill Gates (Microsoft), Roger Altman (former Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury), Martin Feldstein (Harvard University), Niall Ferguson (Harvard University), Philip Gordon (Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs), Donald Graham (The Washington Post), Richard Holbrooke (Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan), Robert Hormats (Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs), Henry Kissinger (former Secretary of State), Klaus Kleinfeld (Chairman and CEO, Alcoa), Craig Mundie (Microsoft), Peter Orszag (Director, Office of Management and Budget), Charlie Rose (Producer, Rose Communications), Robert Rubin (Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; former Secretary of the Treasury), Eric Schmidt (CEO and Chairman of the Board, Google), James Steinberg (Deputy Secretary of State), Lawrence Summers (Director, National Economic Council), Christine Varney (Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust), and Paul Volcker (Chairman, Economic Recovery Advisory Board). And please remember that these are only the names of those that were published. The complete list of attendees is top secret and never released. For example, was Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner there? He is a Bilderberg (and CFR) member.

But of course, this meeting–complete with the tightest security and secrecy possible–is only for the purpose of social fellowship and clubmanship, right? That the world’s most interconnected business, governmental, and media elites would meet outside the viewing and listening of everyone is supposed to be dismissed as irrelevant and insignificant, right? Well, if you get your news from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, or FOX NEWS, that is exactly what you are being led to believe.

Yet, Big Business has been conspiring with Big Government for the purpose of personal aggrandizement (at the cost of liberty, of course) for decades–probably centuries. Remember, it took an act of Congress to stop old Prescott Bush (George H.W. Bush’s father and G.W. Bush’s grandfather) from sending financial assistance to Nazi Germany. Know, too, that international bankers today are supporting governments (some that are openly hostile to the United States) in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Again, Big Business and Big Government are conjoined twins–an interconnected body that grows in unison at the expense of our liberties.

Freedom has many more real enemies that could be added to this list, of course; and maybe in the future we can talk more about them. For now, recognize that our liberties are hanging by a thread in this country. And the next time you hear someone in Washington, D.C., or the national news media railing against the latest “crisis” that requires Big Government to fix, please remember who the real enemy is.

For more by Chuck Baldwin, go to http://chuckbaldwinlive.com

The Stanley Cup Finals are over and World Cup soccer time is upon us. I suppose we need the break from the drama and excitement of men flashing across the ice and bashing each other into dasher boards to get the little puck in the net. The World Cup time is an ideal time to relax, have a cook out with the family, go to the beach, or even read a good book. According to a recent Zogby poll, only 31% of the American men and 17% of the American women are planning to watch any part of the matches. Observing the hype on TV, one would think this is a major event for the people of the United States.

Numbers for the under 30 crowd are somewhat higher than this average, reflecting the globalist thinking foisted up the students in the public schools and academia. Yet even in this group, there is enough realism the prevent them from believing that soccer will become a major sport, ranked with football, baseball, basketball and hockey, in the US. It is notable that auto racing was not included in the question, even though it outdraws the other sports leaders.

The traditional sports tend to be American generations, including hockey where the primary development came from our neighbor in the frozen north. Our sporting preferences show what our “betters” would describe as a negative North American-centric mind set that blinds us to virtue in other parts of the world. It is the ugly face of American exceptionalism that the left and academia (but I repeat myself) have been fighting for decades.

I would argue that belief in the uniqueness of our country does not prevent one from appreciating the work of those from other nations. During his peak years, I was amazed at the way Michael Schumacher of of Germany dominated Formula One racing. I watched in awe, the 1976 Olympic downhill race of Austrian, Franz Klammer. And I continue to relish the culinary skills of the Samurai chefs at our local Japanese steak house. I, like many, am an American. It is our culture. Many of us have no desire to become European, or Mexican culturally… although all from those areas, and others, who care to join us legally are welcome.

Even in sports that are traditionally American we can see the US-centric impact. When I was growing up with heroes like AJ Foyt, Parnelli Jones, Mario Andretti, Fireball Roberts, Richard Petty and David Pearson, and even Charlie Glotzbach, the Indianapolis 500 was the biggest deal of the year… the pinnacle of auto racing in the US. The Indy 500 winner was a celebrity known well beyond the circle of race fans who followed to the sport religiously. Today, people like Tony Steward, Sam Hornish, Jr. and now rumors are Danica Patrick, have used the Indy Racing League as a stepping stone into the formerly regional southern sport of NASCAR

Why is this? In the past, when Indy at was the top of the heap, we had drivers from places like Tinley Park, IL, North Tonawanda, NY or even Center Valley, PA. Today these driving tasks have been outsourced to people from Brazil, Scotland and Japan. Each one of the drivers is skilled and following their dream, but the owners, in search of a perceived edge, have sought exotic replacements for local drivers, and interest in their sport has plummeted.

There are many reasons for this we are told, such as the type of cars run at local tracks which form the training ground for professional racing in the US are so different from the sophisticated, cookie cutter cars run on the present day champ car circuit that they have to look overseas to get the experience needed. Even if this were true, it is a terrible public relations mistake to present a product that your audience does not care about. The field of an Indy car race also presents a sameness and dearth of unique innovation compared to days gone by. Chassis are bought from one or two constructors, everyone runs the same engine from a Japanese manufacturer, the fuel is the politically correct ethonol and the only difference one sees is the color of the carbon fiber skin and the number on the side of the car.

NASCAR, the series that is prospering, even though somewhat hit by the economic downturn, presents a field of cars that, at least, look like the ones you can buy on the showroom driven by drivers from all over our great land. We feel a connection to them, rather than watching mercenaries, skilled mercenaries I will grant, run similar machines at similar speeds. Americans like to root home town kids to do well. While I admit to being a Tony Stewart fan, I always like to see fellow Chesterfield VA resident, Denny Hamlin run a good race, if for no other reason than he is a local boy. It’s just not the same, admiring the work of a driver from Sao Paulo slice through a field of drivers from who knows, or cares, where.

Sure, I’m American-centric. I’m an American, and proud of it. I recognize that other places have there own virtues and greatness, but I am determined that those who would censor this pride in my country through political correctness and multi-culturalism, will not prevail in turning me into a “citizen of the world” with all the ambiguity that term imposes.

This fits the media template that Israel is just a bully pushing around anyone they jolly well please, completely disregarding the numerous times rockets have been smuggled into the area, later to fall into populated areas of the country. A look at a map, which is something most are unwilling to do, will show a country surrounded people who hate  the Jews and their state more than they love their own children. Many consider it their holy duty to eradicate this country from the face of the earth.

Unfortunately there are those in our own country that feel the same way. Many in the current administration see the existence of Israel as the primary obstacle to peace in the middle east. Most Christians have a grasp of our spiritual kinship to the Jewish people and special place these people and their land have in God’s economy. Others have, to their detriment, rejected the reliability of the scriptures and have substituted the humanistic thinking propagated by academia, the media and our own government. Many of the mainline denominations… the ones losing members year after year, are the primary culprits here, but they are not alone. Some, who call themselves evangelical, want to spiritualize much of prophecy, in addition to adding the thinking that since Israel rejected His Messiah, God has forever rejected the Jewish people.

This thinking, even though cloaked in religious sounding terms and tones… arrogant ones even, as it makes the assumption that the church has completely replaced God’s chosen people. Romans 11:17-21 tells us:

If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

Sure it says that some branches were broken off… but it does not tell us a new tree was selected. It tells us that the Gentiles were grafted in because of belief and that we should not become arrogant and take our position for granted. The original tree is the one he is concerned with. II Timothy 3 tells us that in the last days there will be those that will be “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof“. What does it tell us to do with them? “From such turn away”, we are told.

Of course, the land of Israel is not perfect. It is run by people with basic human frailties. So mistakes will be made. However we must be careful we don’t get sucked in by the world that wants to destroy the small nation and accept their accounts, condemning the evil Israel for attacking the poor, innocent do-gooders on their way to Gaza. Even now, the facts to bear this out.

Israel makes no secret of the blockade of shipping into the region. They have a port and a route to get goods into the territory, so it would not be difficult to get the materials into the people, if they were needed… which they aren’t. Knowing that the Israeli military is always on guard because of their hostile neighbors who have the nasty habit of lobbing rockets across the border periodically, it is the height of foolishness to attempt to run this blockade – unless, of course, an incident like this one was desired.

My Bible still say to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” This is good, but we need to put feet to our prayers… and we can’t do that if we are following along with all those who want to push the small nation into the sea. The incident needs to be investigated, but not with the forgone conclusion that Israel was unreasonably at fault.

Even many of those who oppose the prospect of secession understand the increasing tyrannical nature of the current central government in Washington, D.C., and that something must be done about it.

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines tyranny as “1: oppressive power . . . 2: a government in which absolute power is vested in a single ruler . . . 3: a rigorous condition imposed by some outside agency or force . . . 4: a tyrannical act.”

Even a casual observer would have to conclude that most of the actions proceeding forth from DC today match at least Webster’s 1st and 3rd definitions of tyranny. Besides, who would argue the advantage of the tyranny of an oligarchy over the tyranny of a monarchy? A tyranny of many cannot be distinguished from a tyranny of one in most cases–especially not by those poor souls who are at the point of the spear of Government’s cruelties.

The fact is, there is collusion between Big Government and Big Business (as each feeds and profits off the other) to strip the American people of their God-given liberties. Without a shadow of a doubt, had America’s Founding Fathers not sagaciously cemented the Second Amendment into the US Constitution, the Jackboots would have marched over us years ago.

That freedom-loving people are reaching a point of frustration–and even fury–is quite understandable. And State secession is, very properly, the last best option for freedomists to maintain fidelity to the principles of liberty. All of America’s founders understood this–all of them! And millions of modern-day American patriots are just now beginning to become reacquainted with this great, historic doctrine.

However, whether one subscribes to the doctrine of secession or not is quite immaterial. The breakup of the US is inevitable! Short of another Great Awakening, nothing can stop it. And given the spiritual deadness of most American churches these days, the prospect of a modern-day national revival seems remote at best.

It is a historical fact that no empire can sustain itself. And America is more and more becoming a global empire. For the sake of simplicity, I ask readers to ponder this question: How can one sustain a global economy without global government to manage and control it? Answer: One can’t.

This is why elitists in politics, economics, and the military have been calling for global government for decades. People such as George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Walter Cronkite, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Gideon Rachman, Warren Christopher, Walt Rostow, Richard Gardner, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Pastor, et al. Furthermore, organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Bilderbergers, and the Trilateral Commission are constantly promoting regional or global unification. Moreover, institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and, of course, the United Nations (UN) all contribute to the escalation of globalism.

I have written two previous columns outlining much relevant information on this very real promotion of globalism. See them at:

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=84

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=86

Therefore, it is safe to say that, for the most part, America’s foreign policy is (and has been) controlled and manipulated by globalists. Accordingly, America’s armed forces are used more and more as international policemen to patrol the streets of the world on behalf of this international cabal of merchants and politicians. The cover for this is the mantra of fighting an international “war on terrorism.” But the real agenda is, keeping our troops fighting in perpetual war so that they might be available to the globalists at the UN and US State Department (not to mention countless “off the books” operations being run by the CIA and a host of other agencies) for the purpose of maintaining the “global economy” (and only God knows how many illegal enterprises).

Perpetual war also allows the Machiavellians who desire to turn America into a police state to increasingly encroach upon constitutionally protected liberties by keeping the populace in a perpetual state of fear. After all, as long as our troops are “over there” fighting (and making) enemies, we will always need Big Brother to keep us safe “over here.” And the only way he can do that is by putting us all in cages; but hey, it’s for our own good, right?

And, of course, this new “global force for good” must itself be reshaped into an image compatible with the political correctness of the New World Order. Hence, more and more women are being placed in combat units. In fact, females are now the fastest growing group of enlistees within the US armed forces. And for the first time in US history, women are now approved to serve aboard submarines. (I am sure submariners’ wives are thrilled about this!)

“How does flooding the US military with women fit into the scheme of the globalists?” you ask. Simple. By reducing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our military forces, it requires them to be part of a “coalition” force. Come on, folks, figure it out: our troops are always part of some sort of global “coalition” army. They always serve in concert with NATO, or the UN, or at the behest of some other global entity.

And please, I don’t need readers to write me with great indignation, calling me “sexist.” Get real! If women can serve in combat equally with men, why not have an all-female combat infantry division? How about an all-female tank division? Let’s have an all-female Navy warship! What about an all-female Navy SEAL team or Army Special Forces team? If, then, women are inefficient in combat as a unit, they are equally inefficient in combat individually. Wise up, people! It is critical to the globalists controlling Washington politics that our military be integrated with foreign entities. Allowing the weaker vessels to dilute the warrior-strength of our combat units helps to accomplish this in spades!

Folks, this new American empire is not sustainable. Mark it down: the American empire will follow every other notable empire of antiquity and collapse under its own weight. The signs are already ubiquitous.

In its attempt to entice illegal aliens (a necessary component to the globalization of America) by providing them with almost complete and universal welfare benefits, the Empire has saddled the states with a monstrous debt and has planted the seeds for its own fragmentation.

The American Southwest is a boiling caldron. Revolutionaries, violent criminal gangs, agitators, drug runners, human traffickers, and agent provocateurs–all loyal to Mexico–have been allowed to freely unleash their anti-American vitriol to the point that, in desperation, the State of Arizona is now trying to fight back. It is probably too little too late, however. Both the central government in Washington, D.C., and the national news media are sympathetic to the cause of La Raza. Look at how those brave legislators and governor in Arizona have been lampooned by the national press corps.

The call for the “reconquista” of America’s great Southwest will continue to escalate. It is all part of the globalists’ plan to regionalize the United States. The template is already in place. CFR’s Robert Pastor has already done the legwork. The North American Community (or Union) is past the drawing table stage; it is now being implemented. The NAFTA superhighway is being built and La Raza has been unleashed on the frontier. It’s only a matter of time.

Furthermore, take a look at the staggering debt that this government in Washington, D.C., has burdened the American people with. To talk numbers is meaningless: they total more than we can possibly begin to fathom. These numbers shock sensibilities and strain comprehension. In this regard, toss away all notions of partisan politics. Both major parties in DC have forever plunged our children and grandchildren’s future into a chasm of indebtedness so deep that it can never be recovered. Never!

Yet again, perpetual war has accomplished its purpose: unmitigated debt has allowed international bankers to print and loan vast sums of paper money that can be used to further their dreams of a global economy, complete with a mutually palatable system of burgeoning global governance.

I say again, the American empire is not sustainable; the breakup of the United States is inevitable. It is only a matter of time. The real question is not IF the US will breakup, but WHEN and HOW?

Globalists are already planning America’s breakup. Indeed, their plans for the future global economy DEMAND that America fracture. So, all of those who want to parade around and pontificate about the “unconstitutionality” and “impracticality” of secession can do so to their hearts’ content. It changes nothing. The breakup is coming.

What is yet to be seen, of course, is if there will be enough states (the last vanguards of liberty) with the foresight to recognize the rise of tyranny and globalism as it approaches, and muster the courage and fortitude to do what principled patriots and lovers of liberty have always done: draw their line in the sand for freedom. Call it what you will; debate the definitions and language all you like; it all comes down to the same thing: either men fight for freedom and independence or they allow themselves and their children to be sold into slavery. At some point in the future (how far in the future, no one knows), we Americans will, once again, have to face that decision.

In the meantime, keep talking about freedom around your coffee tables; keep writing about freedom in your books and columns; keep praying about freedom in your churches and closets; keep dreaming about freedom in your hearts and minds. Real freedom–where a man can be left alone; where a man can keep what he earns; where a man can make his own choices; where a man’s property is his own; where harassing agents of an oppressive central government are nowhere to be found; where a man doesn’t have to sell his soul in order to sell his wares; where a man’s worship of God is not subject to political correctness (or the IRS); and where a man can actually exchange commerce and correspondence without the prying eyes of Big Brother–is worth any price. ANY PRICE!

As Barry Goldwater said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” Amen! And if the pursuit of freedom requires the extremism of secession, I say, LET IT COME!

For more by Chuch Baldwin, go to http://chuckbaldwinlive.com

But then, that should be the point for each of us. Most every one reading this has a pretty good understanding of what is going on in our country and in the world. The key, then, is what do we do about it? It’s easy to sit around and complain about how bad things are, how bad the government, how bad the kids are… but that doesn’t do a whole lot to make the world a better place. If that’s not one of your goals, there is not much to say.

Watching TV news, listening to talk radio, reading books, even reading blogs will fill your head with so much information that your head will explode. Many have taken this to heart and thrown themselves into tea parties, tax payer associations, and political party involvement. This is the best way we need to reverse the disastrous course Barack Hussein Obama is leading us down before peaceful means become impossible.

Those making the news reports and absorbing the slings and arrows of outrageous formerly mainstream media appear to be the tip of the iceberg. So many have commented to me that they would really like to be more involved, but have work commitments, family commitments and all sorts of other demands on their time. I’m sure every reader has many such friends and acquaintances. They are with us mentally, but have not reached the point action beyond going to the polls.

There are two sets of responsibilities operating here. Before we discuss the responsibilities of others who could be doing more… we need to look at responsibilities of the guy (or girl) in the mirror. Over the past year or so, many of us have become more aware of our shrinking freedoms, of corruption in high places and the truth about our founding fathers. We have been sharing it amongst ourselves and affinity groups like Facebook.

We need to break out of our cocoons. We are, in some ways, in as much of an echo chamber as the folks inside the beltway. We have seen some successes like the recent victory by Rand Paul, and the defeat of Bob Bennett. However, to keep the ball rolling and send DC’s resident evil packing, we need to get our sleeping friends out of their own little worlds to insure their children and grandchildren still have our wonderful country to enjoy.

Each of us may well be the one our friends turn to for insights into the events of the day. We now need to take it one step further… and get them involved in rising up to defend the land of the free and home of the brave. We need to get the point across that if we don’t get this socialist/global warming fraud/anti-Christian administration behind us, the rest of our day to day concerns won’t amount to a hill of beans.

Help us, help your country by encouraging these well meaning, but short sighted friends to join the fray. Polls tell us our issues are ringing true with the American people. They just need to be mobilized. The sleeping giant needs to be awakened. On the other hand, if you have been cheering from the sidelines, come on out get involved, the thrill of victory will be so much greater if you’ve played a part.