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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Impeach the Traitors!

by Timothy N. Baldwin
April 6, 2010

In a recent article on World Net Daily,[1] it was reported that Congressman Phil Hare (D – IL) admitted on video that he did not care whether or not the U.S. Constitution granted authority to the federal government to execute the recently-passed Health Care law. He openly acknowledged that he does not even know where the constitution grants the authority. Hare tells those constituents asking him questions on the matter, “I don’t worry about the Constitution on this to be honest.”[2] That Congress does not worry about the limits of the Constitution is obvious by their actions. Here, we see the subjective intent and motive to ignore the constitution that they swear an oath to uphold.

For many generations the nature, character of form of government as operated under the federal constitution have been completely annihilated from their original ratification by the states from 1787 to 1791. Despite each federal and state politician swearing an oath to uphold the Supreme Law of the Land (which does not equate to federal laws, by the way), our laws and system of government today literally contradicts what it was intended to be when the constitution was ratified.

The reasons for this contradiction are many: lack of (true) education and a host of disinformation; indifference to the principles of the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God; the evils and corruptions of politicians who prefer the luxuries of power, money and sex over free society and government; the dearth of diligence by the states to check the federal government; bad faith has replaced good faith in following the limits placed upon government; and so on. In short, for politicians, the problem can be summed up this way: their oath to uphold the Supreme Law of the Land means nothing.

The oath of office is significant and telling because of its intended meaning, application and consequence. Consider what an oath is and compare what it means today.

The oath of office comes from the notion first that there is a Creator God who implements justice on earth and in life hereafter: he rewards good and punishes bad. It comes from the notion that mankind has a tendency to be evil and will use power at the expense of the people’s and individuals’ freedom and rights. It comes from the notion that constitutions, elections and even threats of revolts do not adequately prevent politicians from abusing power. Therefore, an oath of office is required to ensure political leaders will bind themselves to the Supreme Law of the Land, which is the law that comports to the natural and constitutional limitations placed upon government by God and the people.

More specifically, an oath is a solemn promise made by the politician to God Almighty, where if the politician breaks his promise, he is calling upon himself the wrath of God’s punishment upon his life in whatever proportion God feels is justified. Samuel Pufendorf (enlightenment philosopher and jurist) writes on the matter and expresses it as follows:

“If…an oath has been given…the man captured is bound to fulfill his promises; not because the brigand wins a peculiar right therefrom, since…oaths add nothing further to the substance, as it were, of the obligation…as concerns the man to whom the promise is made, and no special right arises from them in a human court of law…; but because of the reverence due the DIVINE SPIRIT, whose mercy he has renounced unless he keeps his promise. And it is better to suffer loss of money than to have treated the DIVINE MAJESTY with a certain lack of respect.”[3]

Pufendorf adds to the subject:

“[The] purpose [of an oath] is, that men should be more firmly bound to…fulfill their promises out of FEAR OF THE DIVINE SPIRIT, omnipotent and omniscient, whose wrath, if they should knowingly practice deceit with an oath, they are calling upon themselves, where otherwise the fear of others appeared to be a less effective bond of faith, as they hoped to be able either to escape their power or else to avoid detection.”[4]

As described, the oath of office is not even a matter between politician and society: it is between politician and God, where the politician openly and publically binds himself to a promise and willingly accepts the wrath of God upon his life for breaking that oath.

To this end,

“the fear of Deity adds finally the last element of strength to human good faith. From this fact also it is apparent…that atheism should not grow strong. For, if you have removed God from the function of administering justice, all the efficacy of these pacts, to the observance of which one of the contracting parties is not able to compel the other by force, will immediately expire, and every one will measure justice by his own particular advantage.”[5]

It is no wonder that federal politicians ignore their oath of office: they have no fear of God before their eyes, and they much more have no fear of the people. How can you expect a person to fear people if they do not fear God? How can you expect the federal government to uphold their oath when the only fear they have is a U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that the law they passed two years or four years ago was unconstitutional?

How do you expect those God-rejecting vultures in Washington D.C. to refrain from power usurpation when the only power allegedly capable of resistance comes from a source so remote from application that they can scarcely comprehend its effect? How do you expect a government possessing bad faith to check and balance its own actions when the second amendment’s intended application against that usurping federal government is comical and when the state governments have shirked their role in this regard for generations?

As has been apparent for many years, federal (and many state) politicians could not care less about the solemn oath of office. So, besides the obvious corruption of laws and politics, what is the final and natural effect of this evil? The end result is that the very foundation of society forming government is destroyed, giving rise for those people to form a new government.

Consider what the foundational purpose is of a people’s forming society and subsequently, government (note: there is a huge difference between society and government, despite the actions of our socialists in D.C.). A complete education will reveal that a body of people will enter into society for their utility first, and then they subsequently form a government to secure their freedom and rights so each person may enjoy his or her pursuits of happiness without unjust interference. This entire operation among that body of people gathered together for self-governance (called a body-politic) is based upon the presumption of many things, one of the most important of which is “good faith” within government.

Those in government must possess good faith because government has the force of law and the power to trample freedom through taxation, regulation and punishment. Good faith in government demands that those who hold its power possess both the subjective and objective intent of carrying out the purposes of that society and the fundamental laws formed by that body-politic or bodies-politic in form of a constitution. Where those politicians do not possess the necessary intent as such to preserve freedom, there no longer exists the good faith element of government. The consequence: tyranny and oppression.

Pufendorf recognizes that without this presumption of good faith, that society or societies would not even have come together to form that government and would not have even gathered together for purpose of utility. He observes,

“[I]f that fear [of others breaching their obligations under natural law and pact] should prevail over good faith, no civil society could be formed or preserved, but life would have to be spent in perpetual warfare, and therefore in the status of brute beasts. For those…who unite to form a state ought to have good faith among themselves, because they, indeed, wish to procure public welfare, the rest of men to obey it. Otherwise they would never coalesce into one body, unless those who subject themselves to the other party should compose themselves to obey, content with the pledge of good faith which has been given by the one who is to bear authority.”[6]

Shortly put, where the element of good faith is absent in those who possess governing authority, government’s very purpose no longer exists and those in that society revert back to a state of nature, possessing the natural power to reinstitute new forms of government that they deem best to preserve freedom and rights. To this end, the Declaration of Independence of 1776 was executed by each body-politic in America: the thirteen colonies, acting independently for each society, creating independent and sovereign states.

If you think Congressman Phil Hare and his like are the only federal politicians who do not possess the required element of good faith, you are mistaken. If you think that only those politicians who openly express, as Hare did, that they do not care about the constitution, you are mistaken. Whether openly admitted or not, the conclusion is the same: for generations, federal politicians’ (both Democrat and Republican) actions reveal their objective and subjective intent of ignoring and usurping the U.S. Constitution’s limits. (Sadly and sickening enough, we put them there!)

Today, the people who have formed individual societies of states (bodies-politic) must re-evaluate the very purpose of their forming the federal government. The political sciences (revealed through the nature of man and the creation of God) which generate the formula of freedom must be once again examined and applied by enlightened freedomists of our generation. Tyrannical empires of the past have fallen for their ignorance and contradiction of these principles, proving that governments are not eternal, nor should they be. Thankfully, freedom’s principles never die, as freedom spirit cries out eternally for all those who will listen and act accordingly.

When a government shows its design of reducing us to mere despotism, it is our right and our duty to take the natural measures God has granted to us to secure our freedom–union of fifty states existing or not. Union of fifty states is not the goal. Freedom is the goal: freedom for us now and freedom for our posterity later.

So, let us see whether Congress impeaches those traitors in Washington D.C. who openly ignore the constitution they swore to uphold. If they do not, we can only presume that they are complicit with that most egregious breach of their solemn oath to God; and more than that, they agree with and participate in that evil.



Footnotes:
1, WorldNetDaily, “Congressman: ‘I don’t worry about the Constitution’,” (April 2, 2010)
2, Ibid
3, Samuel Pufendorf, “Two Book of the Element of Universal Jurisprudence,” Book 1, (Indianapolis, IN, Liberty Fund, 2009), 137.
4, Ibid., at 170.
5, Ibid., at 130.
6, Ibid., at 127.
© 2010 Timothy N. Baldwin, JD – All Rights Reserved

Gill Rapoza
Veritas Vos Liberabit


Friday, April 9, 2010

Obama Will Now Have His Private Army

Hello Everyone,

Laurie Roth makes some good sense here.  I too am figuring there will be some kinds of voter fraud this coming election, possibly to some large degrees.  Or, as I have said before, there is always the possibility that someone will find reason for a national emergency that will “delay” the next national elections.  Let’s hope and pray not. 

Godspeed,

Gill Rapoza
Veritas Vos Liberabit




Obama Will Now Have His Private Army
By Laurie Roth
April 1st, 2010

Of course, SEC. 430, Establishing a Ready Reserve Corps.  lists in detail the commissioned Regular Corps and Ready Reserve Corps that will be trained up, fired up, lined up and controlled by Obama himself.  Naturally the purpose for this army is to stand by in case they are needed at short notice for a national health emergency or emergency response missions.  The health bill talks specifically about their routine training, appointment by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, and other details of service.

The bottom line after reading the details of this section, is that Obama now will have his private army he always wanted.  As Saul Alinsky or Hitler would teach, hide behind an expectable issue.  Shine a bright light over here so you can walk forward with your agenda over there.

It is about a Health emergency….isn’t that ok?

In the history of our country, have we ever had such a massive, national health emergency that we needed a militia/military reserve ready to pepper the country and control things?  No!!!

Katrina…..there was the blue cross, FEMA, the National Guard, local police, charities, congress and other leadership responding to this disaster.  Mayor Ray Nagin and FEMA got much criticism about their organization and response time, but that seems to be typical with any disaster, be it tornado, attack or hurricane.  Organization and pace can always improve.  New Orleans needed a ton of things, not, a military force trumping and smothering the naturally, already in force health and enforcement channels. 

The last flu season……I followed the H1N1 Swine flu drama from beginning to end.  I was amazed as to how a normal flu season, even milder at times than most other flu seasons, (according to CDCs own tracking data on their web site) was described as practically a nuclear bomb on America’s people and children.  There was ridiculous talk of forced inoculations, yet real science pointing out (I talked with a few of the research scientists on my show) the danger and lack of real study with the vaccines.  Many later and serious health problems were linked to some of the dirty ingredients in the vaccine.  This was at the very least a horribly manipulated event.

With the messiah now with a ‘health’ militia, will the next flu season be an even larger crises causing FORCED vaccinations for the good of the community, family and country?  Wouldn’t it be special, a Stepford wives, ACORN type Obamaton showing up at your door with a forced injection or else.  What a wonderful opportunity to manipulate a flu season for a premiere, national emergency, thus declaring Martial law……oh yeah, being directed by Obama’s civilian militia.

The purpose in the Health care bill is listed as ‘routine public health and emergency response missions.’ 
As usual, the description is vague and blurry enough that one wonders just what ‘routine public health’ issues are.  Remember Obama’s passion for abortion. Some of his czars are abortion heroes.   John Holdren (Science Czar) even wrote about it being appropriate having ‘forced abortions’ and aborting a child up to age 2.  How do you do that since they have been alive for 2 years?  Do you push them in front of a train or mercifully inject them with poison? 

Could this President some day declare a national population growth emergency and certain/controlled criteria for having children, thus forcing abortions with some or worse?  He already has a sea of radical, abortion and control loving Stepford wives as his czars!  I pray and hope that something this absurd will never happen in America but with Obama’s actions and associations thus far…..watch very closely.

Another national emergency, needing Obama’s ‘health’ militia could be his troops coming to get our guns if we didn’t turn them in one day.  Of course, this again would be required of the people due to a contrived crises such as extreme growth of crime, terrorism or hiding behind a treaty of ‘gun control’ with the UN, thus having to enforce it.

Some of you think I’m a loon and a tin helmet hussy…..but consider this.  Hitler did the very same thing.  First he got elected in through seduction, lies and false promises.  The Nazis had blown up the German Government headquarters already to blame the communists so they could have the desperate people give up their guns when they demanded them. 

Hitler created a huge fan base and distracted public.  Once Hitler’s Enabling act was voted in, he quickly got total control over health care and the records.  Mentally ill and physically challenged kids and adults disappeared to ‘job and skill training camps’ where they were murdered.  Hitler trashed and took out all religious symbols from the schools and work places, instituting Hitler’s photos everywhere and a required national greeting ‘Heil Hitler’ (Hail my leader).  It was the instituted control of a nation and worship of Hitler.  Obama also wants our worship and now he has a civilian military………….for crises of course.

We must hold our Government accountable and not allow ourselves to be taken over.  We can’t support violence in anyway but we must not be seduced when dictator type behavior is everywhere.  Focus behind the conservative, freedom loving candidate in your city and state!  Do more than talk over coffee.  You need to organize, call, fax, march if need be and campaign.  We know that there will be voter fraud and manipulation like never before in November.  All conservatives and concerned citizens MUST vote this time.  Don’t fall into the self talk of ‘my vote won’t count anyway.’  If you don’t vote with your attitude and all, the dead person and illegal alien down the street will.  Others will vote 20 times.  If we ALL vote we will win and correct this nightmare.

The way for us to secure our country is not to forget what has happened to the American people already with this unconstitutional Health care bill, the destructive, Cap and Trade bill being backed by fraudulent science, and the push for amnesty for illegal aliens and their coveted votes.  It is not imagined.  It is not extreme right wing talk.  It is real.  We have voted in a tyrannical, socialist control freak who will continue to take control if we let him. 

We must not play into Obama’s hands.  No violence…..obey the law and no threatening except to impeach, repeal, sue, march and vote him and this liberal congress out of office as soon as possible.  We then start the business of neutering, correcting and fixing our abused country, freedom and law!




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Gill Rapoza
Veritas Vos Liberabit



Thursday, April 8, 2010

Will America Survive Islamofascisim?

Hello Everyone,

The online version of this post came with several videos you may wish to look over.  In particular this may be of interest:  (It is a six part video that you can follow):

Truly, if we sleep, as in not pay attention, we will find ourselves over run one day.  Our so-called leaders are not so interested in protecting you and I as they are in filling their own pockets.  Islam is one thing they will tout over our own system.  Communism/socialism is another.  You watch and see how they will combine these and more to change America from our foundations to something we will not recognize.  We were based on a Christian foundation that is getting harder to recognize all the time. 

And the picture is bigger than most can see. 

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.  Ephesians 6:12

Godspeed,

Gill Rapoza
Veritas Vos Liberabit



Will America Survive Islamofascisim?
Written by Amil Imani 
01 April 2010

Nearly 1400 years ago, a large number of Muslim jihadists from across the scorching Arabian desert, motivated by the ideology of Islam, indoctrinated by Muhammad, unafraid of death, conquered Iran (Persia), one of the greatest, strongest and most tolerant empires known throughout the history of man. The Bedouin Arabs who toppled the Sassanid Empire were propelled not only by a desire for conquest and to steal Persian jewels and treasures, and also to enslave Iranian women and children, while imposing their barbaric ideology upon the entire population. With that, they almost destroyed one of the most benevolent religions of all humanity, Zoroastrianism, often called the mother of all revealed religions.

The political nature of Islam demanded that a conquered people, not only convert to Islam but also to regard its past history as a time of darkness before the light of Islam came. Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran is busy purging Pre-Islamic Persian history from children text-books. Islam required conquered people to scorn their own past and love their Islamic Arab conquerors by striving to imitate them. According to Islam, all history before Islam was an era of “darkness” and should be discarded.

The prophet of Islam motivated his rapidly growing body of followers to rally around him by proclaiming: if they are victorious they will have the treasures of the infidels as well as their women and children as slaves to hold or sell; if the faithful kill the infidels in doing the work of Allah, further reward awaits them in paradise; and, in the unlikely event that they are killed, they find themselves in Allah’s glorious paradise for eternal life of joy and bliss. The Persians underestimated the power and dedication of this newly formed Islamic ideology of hate and vigilance by the desert dwellers. Their unorthodox attack on Persian army caused the Persian army to fall into the hands of the butchers of Islam and eventually the culture of death prevailed and the era of Islamic terrorism began.

Islam once again, 1400 years later, flushed by petrodollars, is seeking world domination through worldwide Islamic terrorism. It is seeking the destruction of everything in the world that is good, and intends to replace it with the most barbaric ideology known as Sharia law. Islam sees Christian America as a formidable enemy standing in its path of world-domination. Hence, it has waged stealth jihad on Christian America.

In many surprising ways America resembles the great ancient Persian Empire. Like the ancient Persians who were the first world managers and the most tolerant empire-builders, America, by its constitution, is also the most tolerant and benevolent nation in the world. Is America’s destiny will end up like the Persians?

Reading about the Islamic religiously mandated horrific acts and even seeing them on television or the Internet may momentarily repulse, but does not terribly concern many Americans. After all, those things still are happening on the other side of the world and away from their homes, we are safe in fortress America, so goes the thinking. Wrong!

“Fortress America” is a delusion that even the events of 9/11and Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan massacre seem to have failed to dispel. Many prefer to believe that the assault of 9/11 was an aberration, since nothing like it has happened again, and it is unlikely that anything of the sort will ever happen again, so goes the wishful thinking. The reality portrays a vastly different picture. America is far from a fortress, given its vast wide-open borders. It is a nation of laws where all forms of freedom are enshrined in its constitution; where Americans live by humane ethos diametrically different from those of Islamist savagery. Sadly, these differences confer great advantage to the Islamists and place America in imminent danger.

The breach of “Fortress America” from the air on 9/11 is only the first installment of many more forthcoming heinous assaults, about which we have been repeatedly warned by Muslim thugs living in caves. Unless we abandon our way of thinking, we will suffer the consequences of a dangerous complacency. We need to stop relying on the invincibility of the law-enforcement people and willingly make the sacrifices that would protect our way of life.

I have never claimed that the reported 1.2 billion Muslims are all jihadists aiming to destroy civilization and establish Muhammad’s Ummah over all of us. I certainly know that the active jihadists are a small minority. Yet, it takes a blind eye to ignore militant minorities. Did Hitler become the Chancellor of Germany because he and his gang got the majority vote in Germany? More than 65% of Germans were not supporters of Hitler and his party and viewed the Nazis as louts and worthless. Yet, we all know what this little minority did while being ignored.

What about forest fires? You cannot ignore a little smoldering fire here, a little smoldering fire there because the rest of the forest is not on fire. Only a fool will ignore these fires, because they will eventually devour the forest.

Now, wishful thinking and being optimistic on the basis of some evidence here and some evidence there is the way some people prefer to deal with the Islamic threat. In the process, they tell us how some Muslim Turkish officers are working to combat Islamic terrorists or how some Pakistanis are also helping the West. Surely these folks don’t want to look at the horrors of this “minority” in places such as Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and every other Islamic country.

A longstanding Islamic practice is to be meek while weak and assume despotic intolerant power as it gains strength. Recent migration of Muslims to non-Islamic lands began as a seemingly harmless, even useful, trickle of cheap needed labor. Before long, greater and greater numbers of Muslims deluged the new territories and as they gained in numbers-by high birth rate as well as new arrivals-Muslims began reverting to their intolerant ways by, for instance, demanding legal status for Sharia (Islamic laws), the type of draconian laws that for the most part resemble those of man’s barbaric past.

Just a sobering note; mild Islamism is already here. As an example, there is the Muslim cab driver of the Minneapolis Airport’s refusal to ferry passengers with alcohol or even those with seeing-eye dogs, Muslim inmates demanding to be served only halal food, Kentucky Fried Chicken opens first halal restaurant in New York City, honor killing, Muslim students badgering universities for special facilities for their meetings, and, for the first time ever Muslim Congressman’s assuming the office by swearing on the Quran and not the Bible.

Islam need not even literally destroy the civilized world. All it needs is to gain enough power to impose its worse than death Sharia on everyone. If you are not up to speed with the horrors that Muslim governments and their jihadist foot-soldiers commit on a daily basis, you need to open your eyes and deal with this deadly threat of Islam with much more realism.

“Hitler knew that it would be an easy matter to transform the skilled, young glider aviators into fighter and bomber pilots. As the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad know today that once they have enough enriched uranium, have the missile tested out for their range and have other building blocks of nuclear technology in place with uranium enrichment, it would be a walkover to a nuclear weapons suite to blackmail and then destroy the civilized world,” while the rest of the world is snoozing.

Ignoring the smoldering fire and relying on a few local “firefighters” to keep the fires from spreading is either naive or outright criminal. But it is certainly the easiest thing to do. That’s why I have chosen to fight the fire and I am calling for help to put out Islam, the source that raises arsonists—the minority that they may be. It takes one arsonist to set a fire that a thousand firefighters will have difficulty putting out, right? The few Muslims who are brave enough to advocate reform of their religion are tossed out of mosques or, very likely, much worse.

When our leaders, for instance, call Islam a great religion, they are appeasing, if not lying outright.

We the people elect our leaders and we hold them accountable to be honorable: using their voice to call a great religion a most deadly threat to everything we cherish as a great religion legitimizes Islamofascisim, on the one hand, and infuses the rest of us with a false belief.

In this relentless campaign, the Islamists have a vast cadre of “experts,” “talking heads,” and for-purchase politicians who keep endlessly broadcasting the false mantra that Islam is a religion of peace. This latter bunch is criminally complicit in making the populace complacent and furthering the work of the Islamists.

While President Obama glorifies Islam, the barbarians have made it inside our fortress.

They have infiltrated our system of government.

This time around, the people of the sword have their collaborator, Useful Idiots, inside busily doing all they can to dismantle our republic and replace it with the tyrannical Islamofascisim by appeasing our enemy.



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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The Enemy of the People

Hello Everyone,

Here is an older but relevant article from Berit Kjos.  The reason I post this one out of the archives is because you should see some similar things going on now as we saw then. 

It was during this time that Hilary (I was almost president) Clinton was hollering about right wing conspiracies and talk radio causing all kinds of destruction in America.  According to, her husband Bill (I did not inhale or have sex with that woman) Clinton everything that was wrong in America and the rest of the world was the fault of the kind of folks that most of us would call regular Americans. 

And lest you forget, yes the guy that blew up the Mariah Federal Building in Oklahoma was called a Christian, a patriot, and a militia member.  From all I can tell he was none of those things but he was a stinking murder that made for good reading fodder for the liars in charge.  I don’t recall any Christian, “patriot” group, or “militia” member types dancing in the streets like the Muslims did on 9/11.  That should tell you a story.  Always look for the evidence. 

And from all that we can read, Hilary was from that same Saul Alinsky school of disruption that Barry attended.  Could be a clue here. 

If I were a logical man, I would say that what took place during the time Hilary allowed Bill to play president was used as a set up for what we see now.  They failed then with “health care” and other such programs, but set in motion the plans of deception that allowed a guy like Barry to be set as president when we don’t even know for sure where the guy was born.  And no one required proof. 

Godspeed,

Gill Rapoza
Veritas Vos Liberabit




The Enemy of the People
Berit Kjos
1996

In the wake of the tragic Oklahoma bombing, most Americans realized that unthinkable violence could touch anyone at any time. But some citizens had to face a more personal reality: The deadly explosion had given government and media leaders the crisis they needed to justify merging a vast and varied mix of “malcontents” into the singular group labeled the Radical Right

They might as well have been called the enemy of the people. Day after day, the media’s accusing pens pointed to suspected foes of American togetherness—those whose “enraged rhetoric” had created a national “climate of hate and paranoia.” They ranged from “rabid” radio hosts and armed “extremists” to concerned Christian parents. “Their coalition,” said Time, “included well known-elements of far-right thought: tax protesters, Christian homeschoolers, conspiracy theorists... and self-reliant types who resent a Federal Government that seems to favor grizzly bears and wolves over humans...”1 All were implicated, for all had questioned the government’s growing control over local schools, private property, and personal lives.

Emotional appeals work

It’s easier to shout, “Stop spreading hate!” than to encourage rational debate. It’s more effective to discredit discerning citizens by linking them to violent anarchists than to give factual answers to legitimate questions. It’s quicker to invalidate unwanted information by tying it to wild speculations than to provide honest responses—especially when the truth would expose plans best kept hidden. History has shown that nothing crushes well-informed resistance faster than well-planned disinformation and false accusations. Nothing unifies a nation faster than a common enemy.

Hitler knew those lessons well. He had watched the Bolshevik Revolution. His book, Mein Kampf, explains the winning strategies to any future revolutionary. Notice his insight into group psychology:

“The art of truly great popular leaders in all ages has consisted chiefly in not distracting the attention of the people, but concentrating always on a single adversary.... It is part of a great leader’s genius to make even widely separated adversaries appear as if they belonged to one category, because... the recognition of various enemies all too easily marks the beginning of doubt of one’s own rightness.”2

Hitler focused his fury on an influential, well educated ethnic group whose religious beliefs opposed his own. “It was a stroke of genius on the part of Hitler to find this common denominator in the Jew,” explains the Encyclopaedia Britannica. “This enabled him to discover the Jew behind all his changing adversaries... in short, behind everybody and everything that at a given moment opposed his wishes or aroused his wrath.”3 

Long before the Oklahoma bombing, political and educational change agents had found their common enemy in the medley of “malcontents” they called the Radical Right. Like Hitler’s Jews, this diverse mix represented politically incorrect religious values. The Oklahoma explosion added new intensity and plausible justification to the growing hostility, and the public quickly echoed the media rhetoric.

“There is a dedicated, very well organized, very well financed movement in America that is very anti-public schools, very anti-government, very anti-tax,” said Lew Finch, the superintendent of schools in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “The ultimate example of that sentiment is the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.”4

Finch’s revolutionaries were Christian parents, those who supposedly want “all schools” to “be controlled by the church—their church.” Like many progressive educators, he felt hampered by parents who resist two key parts of the new education system mandated through Goals 2000: (1) the psychological strategies for changing their children’s beliefs and values and (2) their government’s plan to expand the educational bureaucracy through national standards and tests that emphasize attitudes, not academics.

Across the country, educators battling “the agenda of the Radical Right” express similar paranoia toward concerned parents. In state after state, leaders organize conferences to identify opposition groups, analyze their tactics, and plan counter-action.5 Many follow the suggestions from Ronald Havelock’s book, The Change Agent’s Guide to Innovation in Education. “[T]ry to identify resisters before they become vocal and committed,” he wrote. “Resisters, like innovators, should be judged for relative sophistication and influence.”6

A report titled “Primer on the Extremist Attacks on Public Education,” teaches educators to do just that. Prepared by the California Teachers’ Association, it also lists specific strategies for defeating “Extreme Right Groups” so that “the majority’s moderate, more inclusive values may be promoted and protected....”7

It’s hard for many Christians to understand this hostility. Why are educators and politicians so angry at them? Why can’t they just teach basic academics? 

Professor John Goodlad, an influential “change agent” in the global as well as national arena, answers that question. He warned his fellow educators that “most youth still hold the same values as their parents.... If we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize.... our society may decay.”8 

“Paradigm shifts are complicated,” said Chester Finn, who helped Lamar Alexander market America 2000 to the public. “But shift we will.”9

To sell their radical agenda to the public, politicians, and educators have become masters at manipulating information. “We have actually been given a course in how not to tell the truth,” said North Carolina school superintendent Dr. Jim Causby in his speech at the 1994 Annual Model Schools Conference in Atlanta. “How many of you are administrators? You’ve had that course in public relations where you learn to put the best spin on things.”10

Does Causby’s admission sound familiar? “Spin control” has become a daily task for White House staff and political news-makers. New policies, plans, decisions... everything demands the right kind of marketing. Many of those “spins” are used to mold public attitudes toward “radicals” who oppose White House policies. 

We shouldn’t be surprised. The Bible tells us that “the whole world is under the control of the evil one,”11 and he has always despised God and His people. Today, as our culture shifts to the global paradigm, political and educational “change agents” are turning biblical values upside down. From the new paradigm perspective, God’s people look like inflexible radicals who oppose tolerance, unity and “academic freedom.” It makes sense to hush their voices and purge beliefs that block “progress” toward the 21st Century global village.

Remember that throughout history, Satan has used government leaders to persecute Christians and Jews. In fact, persecution is a normal part of Christian life. “If they persecuted Me,” said Jesus, “they will also persecute you... because they do not know the One who sent Me.” (John 15:20-21)

Hitler tolerated what he called “positive Christianity”—a government-controlled church movement that conformed to Nazi ideals. But genuine Christianity was incompatible with Nazi loyalties. Actually, the Nazis realized that sooner than most Christians.12 Today, only compromised, cross-less “Christianity” that blends with all the other spiritual paths to “ultimate reality” is acceptable to America’s new paradigm leaders. Those who choose to follow the narrow path of obedience, surrender and intimacy with Jesus will surely be viewed as the most repugnant of the so-called Radical Right. But to those who know the joy of His presence and live in the light of eternity, that won’t matter at all.13 



Endnotes:
1 Philip Weiss, “Outcasts Digging in for the Apocalypse,” Time (May 1, 1995); 48. The last words of the quote (“on government land”) were deleted since Time failed to mention the reason for concern: the government land borders on farms where wolves attack domestic animals, yet laws protecting wolves prohibit farmers from protecting their livestock.
2 Encylopaedia Britannica, Vol. 16, (Chicago: William Benton, 1968), 93-94.
3 Ibid.
4 Anne Carothers-Kay, “School chief fighting the radical right,” Des Moines Register, May 4, 1995.
5 Joy Perry, “Workshop: “Responding Democratically to Opposition Groups,” Wisconsin Report, December 16, 1993, 1.
6 Ronald G. Havelock, The Change Agent’s Guide to Innovation in Education (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications, 1973);122.
7 Ibid., 19.
8 John Goodlad, “Report of Task Force C: Strategies for Change,” Schooling for the Future, a report to the President’s Commission on Schools Finance, Issue #9, 1971.
9 Chester Finn, Jr., “The Biggest Reform of All,” Phi Delta Kappan (April 1990); 592.
10 Cynthia Weatherly, “The 2nd Annual Model School Conference,” The Christian Conscience (January 1995); 36.
11 1 John 5:19
12 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 16-95.
13 Matthew 5:10-12; Philippians 3:7-10; Psalm 27.


Gill Rapoza
Veritas Vos Liberabit



Tuesday, April 6, 2010

An Imperial Presidency In The Making?

An Imperial Presidency In The Making?
By Chuck Baldwin
March 31, 2010

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal carried a story entitled “Obama Steps Up Confrontation.” It said in part, “On Thursday, the president challenged Republicans who planned to campaign on repealing his health-care bill with, ‘Go for it.’ Two days later, he made 15 senior appointments without Senate consent, including a union lawyer whose nomination had been blocked by a filibuster.

“At a bill-signing event Tuesday, he is set to laud passage of higher-education legislation that was approved despite Republican objections through a parliamentary maneuver that neutralized the party’s filibuster threat.”

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) called Obama’s decision to federalize most student loans “really brazen” and “the most underreported, biggest Washington takeover in history.”


If history teaches us anything, it teaches us that power always craves more power. And there are only 2 ways to check power: internally, through self-discipline and humility; or externally, through equally determined and equipped counterforces.

Americans should thank God that George Washington was our first President, because no one exemplified self-discipline and humility more than he did. After having led the colonies to perhaps the most miraculous revolution in world history, Washington was universally adored and even idolized. There were many that even attempted to make Washington America’s king. He flatly refused this proposal, of course. (Compare Washington’s character and humility to former President G.W. Bush, who, on this subject, said, “If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.”)

The concept of an American monarch may seem foreign to us today, but remember that a monarchy was the only form of government the colonists had ever known. And there can be no doubt that a monarchy (or some form of it) has been the single most popular form of central government that the nations of the world have utilized. But remember, too, the theme of America’s War for Independence was “No King But Jesus.” And no one believed that more than General George Washington did.

Like most of America’s founders, Washington distrusted government in general and despised big government in particular—even though people were willing to make him government’s imperial ruler. Listen to the Father of our Country:

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a man of George Washington’s caliber in the White House for many a moon. Instead of distrusting and limiting the central government, the vast majority of modern Presidents have completely ignored the constitutional role of the Presidency, and have sought to expand the authority of the executive branch of the federal government to proportions never allowed in the Constitution or envisioned by its creators. And Barack Obama is following the example of his predecessors by continuing this malevolent model (with increased rapidity, I might add). The above-mentioned stories are just the latest examples of what is fast becoming an imperial Presidency. It seems that every day another example of executive arrogance and usurpation of power takes place.

Given the lack of genuine humility and character of America’s President—and the unwillingness of Congress and the Supreme Court to restrain his unconstitutional propensities—it is left to the states and the People to hold this would-be king in check.

And here is another reason to be thankful for America’s founders: they recognized the ultimate role of the states in safeguarding and protecting liberty. As James Madison said in Federalist 45, “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”

In Federalist 39 Madison said, “Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.” (Emphasis in the original.)

If America’s founders desired that a national—or monarchal—government be established in the United States, what was the purpose of the original 13 colonies retaining individual statehood? Why would each State retain its authority as “a sovereign body,” if not to serve as a vanguard against the encroachment upon liberty by the central government?

And never has liberty been more vulnerable to oppression and tyranny than right now! Why? Because ever since 9/11, both political parties in Washington, D.C., have placed America in a state of perpetual war. This fact alone puts the federal government in a position to become America’s oppressor.

In the first place, the Congress of the United States (then controlled by Republicans) abdicated its constitutional obligation to be the sole determiner regarding America’s entrance into war by providing then-President Bush with virtually unlimited and unchecked ability to determine and wage war clearly outside the perimeter of constitutional authority. And since taking over the federal government last year, Democrats in Washington, D.C., have followed suit.

But listen to Madison: “The executive [President] has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”

Furthermore, the condition of unending, perpetual war only serves the purpose of lessening liberty. To quote Madison again: “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” Madison also declared, “If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” And one more from Madison: “The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

One needs to only look around to observe that Madison’s warnings are quickly becoming a reality in these United States.

What all this means is that the American people cannot rely on Washington, D.C., to control itself. We cannot trust Washington politicians and bureaucrats to have the character and self-discipline to honor the Constitution and defend our liberties. If we are to preserve our freedom in this country, it will be up to the body politic in each State to do it. If the Congress and Court in Washington, D.C., will not rein in this burgeoning monarchy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, then the states and People must.

At this point, I do not believe there is any way to avoid it: a showdown between freedom-loving states and the federal government is inevitable. But not only is it inevitable, it is absolutely necessary! The central government in Washington, D.C., is quickly morphing into a monarchy—or at the very least an oligarchy. And neither the Donkeys nor the Elephants inside the Beltway are willing to do anything to stop it.

Either the states determine to defend the rights and liberties of the American people now, or we are destined to be governed by DC’s despots. Furthermore, we cannot cede to the US Supreme Court—or to any other federal authority—our independence, and most certainly, those fundamental elements necessary to our very survival. Only the states and the People, respectively, can maintain these bulwarks.

The question is, Will my State raise the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag and sincerely defend my liberties? And the follow-up question is, If my State will not do it, which states will, and what will I do? We have little choice. Either we join with a State that will fight for our liberties and help procure freedom for our posterity, or we follow radical unionists (and globalists) into a modern-day monarchy that is marching America toward oppression and servitude.

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