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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Health Care Horror Show Voted Through The Senate…On Christmas Eve!

Hello All,

I have no problem writing to my senators and congress people, as the writer below recommends.  I have done it before and have no problem doing so again.  I am considering being a little less polite this time out, but either way I am going to do so.  I know from what at least a couple of you have sent me in the past you don’t mind either. 

Truly, this is not about giving you better health, but about controlling you.  Every time they do this they are another step closer to running everything in our lives.  We are nearly a Socialist nation now. 

I can think of nearly 535 people that need to be unemployed, while we are thinking of it.  And around 55 of these dopes are from California! 

Godspeed,

Gill Rapoza
Veritas Vos Liberabit




Health Care Horror Show Voted Through The Senate…On Christmas Eve!
By Dr. Laurie Roth
December 24, 2009

The last time the US Senate voted on anything on Christmas Eve was in 1895 regarding the military.  SHAME ON ALL SENATORS WHO VOTED YES ON THIS BILL AND BETRAYED THEIR COUNTRY!  Now this bill will bounce back to the House after the Holiday break for the final series of discussions, slicing and dicing, then on to the teleprompter President for a signature.  The constitutional betrayal is almost official, just in time for Obama’s speech coming soon to a theatre near you.

Don’t give up.  Scream at your political leaders.  Make sure your Senators and congressmen hear from all of you over this break in town halls, faxes, emails and phone calls.  THIS BILL IS NOT HEALTH CARE REFORM, BUT IN TRUTH:

They can call it what they want, hiding behind emotional and special words but I and tons of Americans get it!  I have a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, so I get the President’s emotional, reform words and it is nothing but LIES, CONTROL AND BETRAYAL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Here is what is coming on this trail of reform folks.  Here is what will really happen, NOT, what they say!

Seniors will die in droves due to long lines and rationed health care.  This is a smooth way of getting rid of the growing masses of seniors we have that cost money.  SHAME!

This is a way of killing more babies and forcing Doctors and Hospitals to join in on the murders.  SHAME!

This is a way of controlling your bank accounts and forcing you into health care, ultimately decided by this warped Government in place.  SHAME!  Welcome IRS as the head controller of this program from hell.  SHAME!

This administration and majority in congress believe in deciding your care through control panels that dictate decisions, rules and guidelines to your ‘puppet’ Doctor based on cost effective treatment, NOT, safe and effective treatment.  Do you all get it yet in between the warm, teleprompter moments from this President?

People will die prematurely.  People will be controlled.  People will lose their freedoms and the best health care system in the world WILL BECOME A FOSSIL AND MUSEUM EXHIBIT. 

SCREAM!  ORGANIZE!  FAX! TALK TO YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESS PEOPLE IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.

The Senate has only continued the bold steps of betrayal to our constitution, God and the people.  We will have the last laugh. 



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Gill Rapoza
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Green Lies and Deceptive Science


Hello All,

I have exchanged a couple of emails with Berit Kjos, the writer of the article below. She has graciously given permission to reproduce all of her articles, which I am more than happy to do. This is one very smart and Godly woman. Not so many folks do the research she does for her articles.

I laughed that parts of this “global warming” meeting were snowed in, and at how much fossil fuels these jokers spent jetting there and back in private planes while “protecting the earth” from us and our “wastefulness.”  A word of caution however.  These pretenders will try again!

Gill Rapoza
Veritas Vos Liberabit




Green Lies and Deceptive Science
By Berit Kjos
April 20, 2007 (Updated 12-21-09)

The Agenda: Using false science to create a “global crisis”

Club of Rome: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill...”[1] The First Global Revolution, Club of Rome, an elite think-tank (David Rockefeller, Gorbachev, etc.) working with the UN.

Stanford University Professor Steven Schneider (Nobel Prize winner along with Al Gore):”...we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination.... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts.... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”[2]

Christine Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment: “No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.”[3]

The Truth: Climates has always been changing -- 1000 AD was warmer than today

Atmospheric physicist Fred Singer: “The earth continually warms and cools. The cycle is undeniable, ancient, often abrupt, and global. It is also unstoppable. Isotopes in the ice and sediment cores, ancient tree rings, and stalagmites tell us it is linked to small changes in the irradiance of the sun.”[4, p.4] Atmospheric physicist Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery, Unstoppable Global Warming

Edward Hunter (author of Brainwashing, an exposé of Soviet strategies for mind control): “The methods used to make ‘learning’ and confession palatable and workable are borrowed freely from … evangelism, psychiatry and science. The language and ideals of each of these fields were taken over and given new meanings and new interpretations in accordance with communist need. Brainwashing is a combination of fake evangelism and quack psychiatry in a setting of false science.” (1960, p.185)

“Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: ‘Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?...Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? ... To what were its foundations fastened?... Or who shut in the sea... when I said, ‘This far you may come, but no farther, and here your proud waves must stop!’” Job 38:1-6, 8, 11

As the Copenhagen conference on global warming ended with a rising snow storm that blanketed Europe with record-breaking freeze, the world was treated to a welcome glimpse of reality: Our planet has been cooling, not heating, in recent yearsin spite of human activities and the CO2-spewing jets of the global elite! (See Not So Hot)

No binding treaties had been signed when our would-be world managers flew home through the icy storms. Many had tried to conceal the damaging revelations of “ClimateGate,” but their fraudulent science had been exposed to the world. Do you wonder whom we can trust when our leaders are trading integrity for a conspiratorial plan to undermine our freedom through outright lies? Their next steps toward global control will most likely take place behind closed doors—out of sight like the leaders of the European Union and like our president’s congressional puppets.

“‘What we will need after Copenhagen is a little time,’ said Yvo de Boer, head of the United Nations climate change secretariat.... ‘Obama has committed to showing action and leadership on climate change.’” (“New climate change treaty could be ready in 2010)

Yes, he has certainly fueled this deceptive drive toward global tyranny. The magnitude of its lies and corruption is immeasurable—far beyond what most honest Americans would even imagine. For example,

“...a British scientist and Wikipedia administrator rewrote climate history, editing more than 5,000 unique articles in the online encyclopedia to cover traces of a medieval warming period – something Climategate scientists saw as a major roadblock in the effort to spread the global warming message....

“A major climate-change researcher told Deming, ‘We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.’ ...Beginning in February 2003, Connolley rewrote Wikipedia entries on global warming, the greenhouse effect, the instrumental temperature record, the urban heat island, on climate models and on global cooling.... In February, he began editing the Little Ice Age. By August, he began to rewrite history without the Medieval Warm Period [described below]. In October, he turned to the hockey-stick chart.” (See “Look who’s erasing history of climate”)

The actual Ups and Downs of Climate (The rest of this article was written in 2007)

In spite of Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth,” there has never been any scientific consensus on human-caused global warming! His claim that Greenland’s ice will melt, causing oceans to rise twenty feet, is science fiction, not reality. Unadulterated scientific facts show us that, since 2005, Greenland’s ice mass has been growing, not shrinking! So has its population of polar bears.

During a medieval period of global warming (significantly warmer than before the latest cooling trend), Norwegian Vikings settled on Greenland’s sunny coast. Its green grass seemed to welcome farming. But the climate cooled, and by 1350 AD, ice covered their fields and coastal waters. That “Little ice age”—a natural shift in the revolving cycles of nature—wiped out the entire community. What’s more, during that warming period—almost a millennium before the media would blame SUVs for warm days—the Atlantic coasts were not buried by rising oceans. In fact, any slight variation in ocean levels are naturally moderated by increased evaporation during warmer cycles. Our Maker planned His creation well!

Opposing today’s deceptive propaganda, more than 17,100 basic and applied American scientists (physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers, and environmental scientists) have dared to publicly disagree with the supposed “global warming” consensus. Their research showed that the increase of “atmospheric carbon dioxide during the 20th Century have produced no deleterious effects upon global weather, climate, or temperature. Increased carbon dioxide has, however, markedly increased plant growth rates.”[5]

Other concerned scientists warn us that the ominous media predictions are “based solely on unproven scientific theories, imperfect computer models—and the unsupported assumptions that catastrophic global warming follows from the burning of fossil fuels and requires immediate action.”[6]

But the liberal media turns a deaf ear to the rational voices. Mention global warming and the name most likely to come to mind is Al Gore. His 1992 book, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit helps explain why his disciples defend his deceptive message with religious zeal. It IS religious!  M. Scott Peck, the supposedly “Christian” author of The Road Less Traveled, called it a “holy book” that we “must have for our collective salvation.”[7, back cover]

Notice the emphasis on earth-centered spirituality in the quotes below. Gore’s spiritual blend matches the UN demand for a universal, unifying spirituality based on systems thinking—a postmodern version of the timeless pantheistic belief that everything is interconnected. (See the butterfly story) Contemporary change agents have stretched this philosophy to include all systems: political, economic, social, and spiritual. With that in mind, ponder the faith—and the deceptive suggestions—behind Gore’s pseudo science and historical revisions:

“The richness and diversity of our religious tradition throughout history is a spiritual resource long ignored by people of faith, who are often afraid to open their minds to teachings first offered outside their own system of belief. But the emergence of a civilization in which knowledge moves freely and almost instantaneously throughout the world has. . . spurred a renewed investigation of the wisdom distilled by all faiths. This panreligious perspective may prove especially important where our global civilization’s responsibility for the earth is concerned.... Native American religions, for instance, offer a rich tapestry of ideas about our relationship to the earth....’All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.’” (pages 258-259)

“The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization.... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.” (page 260)

“Hindu environmentalist, Dr. Karan Singh, regularly cites the ancient Hindu dictum: ‘The Earth is our mother, and we are all her children.”[7] (page 261)

To help establish this earth-centered spirituality, Gore calls for “a central organizing principle – one agreed to voluntarily.” Then he warns us that...

“Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations, rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change—these are all forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation of society will not be necessary.”[7] (page 274)

Only a major crisis would persuade the masses to consent to such a “wrenching transformation.” Like Al Gore, the elite members of the Club of Rome knew that well. That’s why they concluded that “global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.”[1] Local abuses (polluted rivers, industrial waste, etc.) won’t suffice. Unlike “global warming” with its sensationalized consequences, local problems seldom capture the imagination of the global community. They just aren’t scary enough!

Green History

To understand the politics behind the environmental movement and its persuasive propaganda, let’s look at the social ambitions that drive it. Its agenda was formed during the sixties, when four overlapping anti-establishment groups joined to form the Green Party in Germany: radical feminists, Marxists (the new Left), peace-niks (the anti-war movement), and hippies seeking spiritual enlightenment. Small wonder they chose Vladimir Lenin’s birthday as their Earth Day.

Militant U.S. “Greens” formed a similar agenda: radical population control, a global welfare system (replacing capitalism with socialism), planetary governance (including national disarmament), and earth-centered spirituality.

The blend of these four counter-culture philosophies shows why pantheism and Marxism permeate environmentalism. Consider the sobering fact that William Reilly, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, stated that private ownership of land is a “quaint anachronism.”[8] According to former Washington governor Dr. Dixy Lee Ray, Reilly sought the “repeal of the Fifth Amendment to make it easier for government to seize private land.”[8]

But the undisputed leader of the environmental movement during the last three decades has been Canadian billionaire Maurice Strong. Though usually operating behind the scenes, Strong is no minor player in this global contest for the minds of the masses. He led the UN Environmental Programme, directed the 1972 and 1992 UN Conferences on the Environment and Development, founded Planetary Citizens, directed the World Future Society and founded and co-chaired the World Economic Forum. He has been a member of the Club of Rome, trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and Aspen Institute, a member of the UN Commission on Global Governance, and the Senior Advisor to the World Bank as well as to former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

Mr. Strong also founded the Earth Council. Working closely with Steven Rockefeller, Mikhail Gorbachev and Robert Mueller, he oversaw the drafting of the UN Earth Charter, which is housed in the notorious Ark of Hope. If this Charter wins the consent of “the people,” it would only be a matter of time before its rules replace all rights granted by the U.S. Constitution.[9]

The Earth Charter opens with this declaration: “We stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, a time when humanity must choose its future....” It continues,

“As never before in history, common destiny beckons us to seek a new beginning. Such renewal is the promise of these Earth Charter principles.... This requires a change of mind and heart. It requires a new sense of global INTERdependence [systems thinking] and universal responsibility. ... The partnership of government, civil society, and business is essential for effective governance.”[10]

This global contract clashes with Christianity. “Fundamental changes,” it tells us, “are needed in our values, institutions, and ways of living.” A new set of beliefs, values and behavior must unify “the one human family” to ensure lasting peace.

The Power behind the GREEN AGENDA

This grand purpose not only demands favorable propaganda—the doomsday predictions that trade scientific facts for intentional deception. It also calls for unthinkable censorship. Contrary voices must be silenced.

It’s happening in the UK. “Only a few years ago the Greens were merely a fringe group, today they are at the center of British politics,” wrote Paul Johnson in his Forbes article titled “The Menace of the Lobby:” 

“This is largely because of the backing they have received from a majority of scientists over the issue of global warming, especially the unproved theory that it is caused largely by human activities. The Royal Society, the most prestigious of British scientific institutions, has thrown its weight strongly behind the Greens. Scientists who are known to be skeptical of global warming find it hard to get academic jobs and impossible to receive university funding for their research....

“How many Greens are there? It is assumed they number in the millions.... The environmental fervor of most Greens borders on fanatical. Some call for the denial of climate change to be made a criminal offense, along the lines of legislation in European countries that makes denial of the Holocaust unlawful.... As a result a mass of legislation is being turned into law, subjecting any activities that increase greenhouse gas emissions or are seen as ‘crimes against nature’ to severe financial penalties.... It won’t be long before all households feel their effects.”[11]

America follows close behind. Under the banner of Sustainable Development, the UN/US plan for government control over all water, land, food and housing is progressing at full speed. Few Americans are even aware of the vast networks of regulatory agencies and community partnerships that are implementing the new system through Agenda 21 -- often disguised as Smart Growth or other pleasing labels for this all-consuming UN agenda.

While most of these new rules and regulation bypass Congress, some do not. A recent article titled, “Bill ties climate to national security” warns us that...

“The CIA and Pentagon would for the first time be required to assess the national security implications of climate change under proposed legislation intended to elevate global warming to a national defense issue.... The measure also would order the Pentagon to undertake a series of war games to determine how global climate change could affect US security....

“John J. Hamre, who served as deputy secretary of defense in the Clinton administration, said global warming couched in security terms would make if far more difficult for politicians to ignore. ‘What makes this interesting is the clear effort to make the politics of global warming broader.’”[12]

The Contrary Evidence

Meanwhile, the evidence against man-made global warming is overwhelming. Here are just a few links that tell the “other” side:

“Their experiments confirmed that cosmic rays, by ionising molecular particles, provide nuclei for condensation of water vapour, thereby significantly influencing cloud cover on the planet. In periods of high electro-magnetic activity in the sun, such as occurred during the past century, cosmic rays are deflected, resulting in a reduction of clouds. This effect plus greater direct radiation from the sun is likely a significant factor in global warming.” Exploding stars influence climate on earth

“The past, both recent and geologic, has seen large and rapid natural changes in temperature. Any onset of warmer temperatures [which increases the rate of evaporation] would be expected to produce a drop in sea level, not a rise.” The Scientific Case against the Global Climate Treaty

“In almost a point-by-point refutation of Al Gore’s unsupportable rant that ‘the debate is over; man is warming the Earth,’ Singer and Avery explain technically but lucidly why nearly every cherry-picked fact in Gore’s movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is contradicted by science.... Man is in fact all but irrelevant to global climate, as the sun and its accompanying solar system rule." Careful Review of Science Refutes Global Warming Myths

How can Al Gore claim to have all the answers when honest scientists are just beginning to uncover the unfathomable mysteries of God’s creation? His shallow “certainties” ignore the cyclical forces and natural fluctuation that have influenced the earth’s warming and cooling phases through the ages. They include:

Ø      sunspot activity (increased solar turbulence, which heat the earth in 9 to 13-year cycles). During the coldest years in the “Little Ice Age,” there were “virtually no sunspots at all...”[4, p.8]
Ø      major volcanic eruptions (can blast millions of tons of particles and gas into the stratosphere, blocking solar rays, and cooling the earth for years).
Ø      the gravitational pull of the moon (affects tidal forces and triggers volcanoes)
Ø      the annual decrease of stratospheric ozone each southern winter (our summer) when the sun’s seasonal absence prevents ultraviolet rays from interacting with oxygen and producing ozone.
Ø      the earth’s magnetic field (deflects storm tracks)

“We know more about the surface of Mars than the three-mile strip of state waters along our coast,” admits Rikk Kvitek, director of the Seafloor Mapping Lab at California State University.”[13]

Even so, faithful Job, who lived about 4000 years ago, knew some amazing facts about God’s creation. Thousands of years before the celebrated discoveries of Newton and Galileo, Job described God’ work to his critical friends:

He hangs the earth on nothing. He binds up the water in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it.” Job 26:7

But Job didn’t realize how little he actually knew. So God gave him (and us) a lesson. Here is only a fraction of that lesson, but take time to ponder it. And never forget the amazing sovereignty of God and the absurdity of human claims to improve the order of His magnificent creation.

The Lord answered Job...
“Have you entered the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths? ...Tell Me, if you know all this.
“By what way is light diffused, or the east wind scattered over the earth? Who has divided a channel for the overflowing water, or a path for the thunderbolt...
“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the belt of Orion?... Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that an abundance of water may cover you?...” Job 38:16-40

Then Job answered the Lord...
‘I know that You can do everything, and that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.” Job 42:1-6

Though we don’t agree with today’s politicized science and false conclusions, we do appreciate the responsibilities God has given us in caring for His creation. We shared some guidelines on that topic in our 1992 book, Under the Spell of Mother Earth. You may want to read chapters 1 and 3.

Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed:

Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee:
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul! my Savior God, to Thee:
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!


Excellent outside resources: http://www.sovereignty.net/p/clim/cctutorial.htm and Secret Worlds: The Universe Within. This amazing videoshows the infinitely vast—and the inconceivably tiny—wonders of the universe we inhabit. Please watch it, then ask yourself, How could such an astounding universe simply evolve from nothing?



Endnotes:
1. Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, The First Global Revolution (New York: Pantheon Books, 1991), 115.
2. Jonathan Schell, “Our Fragile Earth,” Discover (October 1989); 44. 
3. Christine Stewart, then Canadian Minister of the Environment, speaking before editors and reporters of the Calgary Herald, 1998, and quoted by Terence Corcoran, “Global Warming: The Real Agenda,” Financial Post, 26 December 1998, from the Calgary Herald, December, 14, 1998. Cited by Fred Singer, page 4. (See note #4)
4. S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery, Unstoppable Global Warming (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007).
7.Al Gore, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (Houghton Mifflin, 1992).
8. Dixy Lee Ray, Environmental Overkill (Washington: Regnery Gateway, 1993), 101.
12. Bryan Bender, “Bill ties climate to national security,” Boston Globe, 4-9-07.
13.Barbara Feder Ostrow, “Undersea map reveals Maverick’s secret,” www.mercurynews.com, 4-17-07.



Gill Rapoza
Veritas Vos Liberabit



Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Anger With Federal Government Not Enough




Anger With Federal Government Not Enough
By Chuck Baldwin
December 18, 2009

According to Rasmussen Reports, “Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry.

“The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 27% are not angry about the government’s policies, including 10% who are Not at All Angry.”

The report goes on to say, “The data suggests that the level of anger is growing. The 71% who are angry at federal government policies today is up five percentage points since September.

“Even more stunning, the 46% who are Very Angry is up 10 percentage points from September.”

The report also states, “The latest numbers show that only nine percent (9%) of voters trust the judgment of America’s political leaders more than the judgment of the American people.” It further states, “Seventy-one percent (71%) believe the federal government has become a special interest group that looks out primarily for its own interests. Sixty-eight percent (68%) believe that government and big business work together in ways that hurt consumers and investors.”

Rasmussen Reports goes on to say that voter opposition to the proposed health care plan, government bailouts, and higher taxes is especially high.

See the report at:

That Americans are angry with the federal government is nothing new. As a general rule, Americans STAY angry with the federal government. So what? Nothing changes, anger and discontentment notwithstanding.

Oh! Occasionally, grassroots effort can be mustered in sufficient quantity to stop whatever happens to be the latest effort by the miscreants in Washington, D.C., that tramples our freedoms. But only occasionally. The only recent triumph I can think of was when G.W. Bush, Lindsey Graham, and John McCain tried to ram an amnesty bill for illegal aliens through Congress. But never fear, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid will pick up that particular baton soon enough.

I’m old enough to remember when giving the Panama Canal away was opposed by virtually everyone outside the Beltway. It changed nothing. Jimmy Carter and Congress gave it away, anyway. Most people oppose the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. So what? Our troops are not only still there, but more are on the way. Most people believe children should be allowed to pray and read the Bible in school. So what? They still are forbidden from doing so.  Most people believed former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore had the right to post the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. So what? He was forced to take them down, anyway (and removed from office in the process). I could go on, but you get the point.

Anger and opposition to Washington’s policies and edicts—no matter now egregious—hardly ever translate into anything beyond words of frustration. And Washington politicians don’t pay much attention to rhetoric—not even their own.

You see, the wizards in Washington and on Wall Street have us figured out. Along with their compatriots in the propaganda press corps, they know that no matter how loudly we scream, how much we protest, or how angry we become, the system is rigged to protect them. The best we the people can seem to come up with is “throwing the bums out” every two or four years. BUT NOTHING CHANGES—at least, not in terms of restoring the fundamental principles of freedom and constitutional government.

Throw out George H.W. Bush in 1992, and nothing changes. Throw the Democrats out of Congress in 1994, and nothing changes. Throw Bill Clinton’s party out of the White House in 2000, and nothing changes. Throw out G.W. Bush’s Republicans in 2008, and nothing changes. The only thing that happens with a changing of the guard is an escalation in the pace of whatever version of socialism—or Big Government program—is currently in vogue. With Bush it meant expanding the Warfare State. With Obama it means expanding the Welfare State. But both do everything they can to expand Big Government.

When will we awaken to the reality that Washington, D.C., has had the American people chasing their tails for decades? People, wake up! As long as we continue to focus our attention and energy on Washington, D.C., we will only continue to supply more rope to those who wish to hang us.

Washington, D.C., is too far gone to salvage. Admit it! Washington is a cesspool, a landfill, and a putrid pond of corruption and duplicity. Neither the Republican nor Democratic Party will ever allow a principled constitutionalist to become its Presidential nominee. No matter whom we elect as President, the beat toward Big-Government socialism and one-world internationalism will go on without interruption. Big Government scalawags own the entire federal system, including Big Media, Big Business, Big Labor, Big Religion, and Big Special Interest Groups. They are all feeding at the government teat.

Therefore, it is absolutely obligatory that freedom-minded Americans refocus their attention to electing State legislators, governors, judges and sheriffs who will fearlessly defend their God-given liberties. And, as plainly and emphatically as I know how to say it, I am telling you: ONLY THE STATES CAN DEFEND OUR LIBERTY NOW! And awakening to this reality means we will have to completely readjust our thinking and priorities.

It means awakening to the fact that Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly (and the rest of Big Media’s talking heads) are, for the most part, irrelevant to providing real solutions to the continuing loss of liberty. And, in truth, they are, more often than not, part of the problem, because they continue to focus our attention on Washington, D.C., and off the source of genuine solution, which lies with the states drawing a constitutional line in the sand for freedom. Good grief! Beck and O’Reilly have recently even advocated for higher federal taxes! Yeah! That’s a real solution: more power and money to Washington, D.C. Ughhh!

Instead of getting all worked up about what Glenn Beck says or what Sarah Palin says or what CFR member and Big Government neocon Newt Gingrich says, start paying attention to what your State legislators and candidates are saying.

If we had more State legislators such as Washington State’s Matthew Shea; Georgia’s Bobby Franklin; Pennsylvania’s Sam Rohrer; New Hampshire’s Dan Itse; Michigan’s Paul Opsommer; Oklahoma’s Randy Brogdon, Sally Kern and Charles Key; Montana’s Rick Jore, Greg Hinkle, and Joel Boniek; Tennessee’s Susan Lynn; South Carolina’s Michael Pitts and Lee Bright; Missouri’s Jim Guest and Cynthia Davis; and sheriffs such as South Carolina’s Ray Nash, Arizona’s Richard Mack and Joe Arpaio, Montana’s Jay Printz and Shane Harrington, etc., it wouldn’t matter what those nincompoops inside the Beltway do. The federal government cannot violate your rights and steal your freedoms without the consent and approbation of your State government.

Folks, let’s get down to where the rubber meets the road: the reason we are in the miserable mess we are in is because the states have—either wittingly or unwittingly—ceded their authority and independence to Washington, D.C. Therefore, it is now critical that states reclaim their authority—authority that is duly granted them under the US Constitution.

All of us who call ourselves conservatives or constitutionalists or libertarians (who, no doubt, compose a majority, especially in “red” states) need to retake our State governments. Elect a governor who knows how to say “No” to the federal government. Elect a State legislature that knows how to say “No” to Washington, D.C. Elect sheriffs and State judges who understand the Constitution, State sovereignty, and the principles of freedom—and who are courageous enough to defend those sacred principles in the face of attempted federal usurpation.

The truth is, for all intents and purposes, we could turn off television completely and be in no worse shape. And newspapers are no better. The vast majority of them blatantly support and promote Big Government. As Mark Twain said, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

With Big Media, it’s all about Washington politics. Period. For the most part, the conservative-liberal/Republican-Democrat paradigm is nothing but a distraction at best, and a scam at worst, to keep all of us safely on the federal reservation, where we are without hope or recourse to actually change anything.

Ladies and Gentlemen, freedom in America has only one hope: the resurrection of State independence and sovereignty. Fortunately, there are rumblings around the country that this revival has already begun.

The last time I checked, some 38 states have introduced Tenth Amendment resolutions—or some form of federal nullification proposals—in their State assemblies. To follow the status of various states’ rights initiatives, keep an eye on these two web sites:

If conservatives/constitutionalists/libertarians would spend as much time and energy influencing elections and policies at the State and local levels as they attempt to do at the national level, we could turn this floundering ship of state around. If he had the support and backing of his State’s legislature and sheriffs, imagine what ONE constitutionalist governor could do. I get goose bumps thinking about it!

Imagine a State with its own financial system—its own currency, banks, regulatory agencies, etc. Imagine a State with its own militia—under the authority of the governor only—completely independent from any responsibility to the President or federal government. Imagine a State with an education system unfettered by the federal Department of Education. Imagine a State where the BLM, the FBI, the ATF, and the DEA had to actually submit to State law. Imagine a State with no federal bribes, or federal “funding” as it is commonly called—except as is constitutionally constructed (with no strings attached). Imagine a State with its own health care system. Imagine a State with no FEMA—UNLESS INVITED IN. Imagine a State that would not allow Washington’s spooks to unlawfully spy on law-abiding citizens. Imagine a State that actually had a say in how much land the federal government could claim for its own. Imagine a State where citizens never had to worry about a national ID act. Imagine a State that would protect the right of its citizens to freely express their faith in the public square. Imagine a State that did not demand that its farmers put RFID computer chips in their livestock. Imagine a State that would let you drill a well without reporting it to the federal government. And for some really fun mind games, imagine a State that would be willing to challenge the constitutionality and legitimacy of the direct income tax and the IRS. All of this—and more—is attainable with a constitutionalist State government committed to protecting the liberties of its citizens.

I repeat: freedom in America has only one hope: the resurrection of State independence and sovereignty. In the US Constitution, our Founding Fathers sagaciously reserved to State governments their independence and sovereignty, knowing that they had the awesome responsibility of being the last (and greatest) vanguard of liberty for the American people. They never intended or imagined that the states would ever become a doormat for the central government (which is what most of them have become).

In this regard, the states that are proposing State sovereignty resolutions should immediately band together to overturn the 17th Amendment, because this amendment strips the states of their constitutional powers by turning US senators into Washington insiders, who are more beholden to Washington interests than the interests and well-being of the states that they are supposed to represent.

If the 71% of voters who are angry with the federal government would channel their energies into electing constitutionalist governors and State legislators, their anger might actually produce real and lasting change. As it is, efforts to “reform” Washington, D.C., are like trying to teach a hog to take a bath. Instead, let the hog wallow in the mud, but make sure the mudhole stays small; don’t let it spread to your back yard. And keeping that Washington mudhole small is the job of the states. And, in case you have not noticed, the mudhole has already grown to the point that it’s not just in your back yard; it’s on your front porch and about to consume your whole house.

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