Citizens, Occupy The Republic: Meet The Enemy Head On!

Citizens, Occupy The Republic: Meet The Enemy Head On!

By Greg Evensen

January 26, 2010

http://www.theheartlandusa.com/

As the celestial clock ticks down on history, there are millions upon millions who still do not know whether it is day or night.  Among these are many who are just not capable of understanding the events which are crowding us into a corner from which there is only one way out and that is into the giant fan blades covering the exit.  These folks are unable to care for themselves, elderly, physically or mentally handicapped, wonderful people who are financially destitute and at the absolute mercy of those around them.  I know, I hear from many of them and they are terrified at the thought of a descending legion of mercenaries from hell who will terminate their life’s choices with the swift declaration of a “power of attorney” through an Obama “transparent choice you can live with” executive action declaration.

For millions of other Americans, it boils down to this.  Do I spend what very little discretionary money I have left on storable food, water, natural medicines, firearms and ammunition, hand tools to rebuild with, energy systems, expensive rugged clothing or a thousand other necessary choices including a safe place to reside and a means to get there?  Just what do I do first and will I have time to finish this Herculean task?

I have looked into the faces of thousands of my new friends and acquaintances after completing a survival seminar or two day in-field training regimen somewhere in America.  These folks get it and are doing something about it.  The commitment and valor of men and women who are NOT going to suffer through this upheaval in fear and without a thing to assist them in defending themselves is a miracle and I will never forget our parting embraces as I leave them to an uncertain future and move on to another anxious group of “recruits.”

“Men In Leadership I Train In America”

(M.I.L.I.T.I.A.)

“WE ARE PROUD OF WHAT WE ARE DOING.”

This is what America has needed for 120 years.  Had men and women trained to defend the republic from the corrupted government and its allies in the banking and corporate sectors, today in America would be much different.  Men and women by the tens of thousands have answered the call to train, prepare, assist others and occupy until they are needed.  That need has never been greater and the response to our efforts to bring these patriots into REAL preparedness is in huge demand.  (www.theheartlandusa.com) This effort is not about waging a battle that is a lost cause or constitutionally invalid, but it is completely about freeing our people from the scourge of socialist government and securing the Republic for our legacy to inherit.  It is not about defending “democracy,” it is about redefining a democratic REPUBLIC as the very core of our nation and in a manner that reflects the people’s right to design and pursue their destiny free from a government that does not trust them to do so.  It is not about conquering anybody or anything except our own state and federal government’s tyranny.  It is about assisting our precious friends in Canada, Australia, and even Nazified Illuminati England.  It is not about creating confusion and fear.  That has been created by several generations of elitists (Bilderbergers, Trilateralists, CFR members, UN supporters, banking and industrial families, etc.).  We are attempting to rebuild the ideals that placed individual and national sovereignty above statist agendas and “legal”

Foundations. Trusts, Corporations, and government funded “think tanks” at selected universities across the country.  THEY MUST GO!!!

We are not about usurping judicial roles nor nullifying constitutional principals.  That has been done in our name by state and federal justices who long ago agreed as a group of conspirators to deprive Americans of the unhindered right to a trial by informed jurors who judged both fact and the constitutionality of the law itself behind closed doors free of a judge’s assumed right to impanel that jury with his instructions for their deliberation.

That continuing illegal act alone has imperiled the republic by use of “admiralty standards” and military style directorates.  THEY MUST GO!!

We are not about robbing banks or businesses to support this cause in any way what-so-ever as some on the government fringe SS (security services) try to paint us.  Quite the contrary.  The government, through its Obama Czars and their unconstitutional edicts, has conspired with the criminal Bernenke of the Federal Reserve to rob the American people and spread the citizen’s treasure among criminally complicit US banks, Wall Street, and international firms receiving the very loans small businesses and American’s themselves should have benefited from.  Just what if, Comrade Obama and Senor Bush had directed that American citizens over the age of 21, working, and buying their own homes had been given $750,000 each, that is, all 275 million of us legal types only?  It would have been roughly the same price as the 800 billion that was given to the banks and businesses to squander on perks, bonuses and foreign partners.  Don’t you believe that vouchers to pay off mortgages, credit cards and loans would have benefited the families, small business and government at all levels?  Of course it would have.  That is why it was never considered nor implemented.  That is why not a single legislator anywhere in America offered it in a serious reform package to get America “back on its feet.”  They preferred to have America flat on its ass and keep it there so THEY could “rescue” us from Washington with smoke, mirrors, and a load of crap outweighing America itself.

What Americans are beginning to see is, that their defense of home, family, property and nation are irretrievably connected and worth the cost to defend.  The Castle Defense I & II doctrine spells out in no uncertain terms what has happened and what you must do to be an active part in recapturing the dream hundreds of millions worldwide have pursued for generations.  (www.theheartlandusa.com) Thousands can testify that the information you must have to begin and upgrade your abilities is NOT generally available in any other form.  People from around the world have ordered their DVD’s and other tools to prepare—especially if they cannot get to Michigan this summer or to another training session somewhere “on the road.”  The classes are filling rapidly and we are so glad to be on the forefront of this effort.  There are several other specialty organizations that train in the use of weapons, natural medicines, field first aid, farming, energy systems and many other critical areas.  We discuss this as well at our sessions.  If for no other justifiable reason, it is a wonderful feeling of independence many have said they never felt before, to be free from the “grid” and able to fend for themselves and others close to them.  It provides leadership that has been absent since frontier days for many.  As time will reveal, it is the ONLY way those who survive the coming time of sorrow and the lack of systemic supplies, will be able to emerge if at all.  End of story, end of debate.  You will either be trained, aware and operating or you will not.  You can figure out for yourselves which outcome you would rather be a part of, can’t you?

Within the next two weeks, I will be submitting to News With Views first, and my own site, www.theheartlandusa.com along with a few hundred or so other sites that pick up my writings, a detailed and comprehensive discussion dedicated to the absolute basics of what you must know even above and beyond what you may have already done about “THE PLAN” for your own use.  It will really only scratch the surface, but for many, it will be an eye opener.  Together with the Castle Defense, you will have a chance.

So, what can you do in the short term?  Believe!  Believe in a God that loves you and wants more than anything to provide for you his Grace, Love, forgiveness and guidance.  Believe that we can do this!  Hundreds can change a county.  Thousands can change a city.  Tens of thousands can change a state, and millions can change a nation and the world.  Let’s believe big—REAL BIG!  But let’s start where you are and let’s start RIGHT NOW!  Our precious America cannot wait nor survive much more of the tyranny and constitutional destruction that has already been legislated and moved through maritime courts allowing the corruption to stand.

I support every last effort being waged by the Second Amendment Committee from California as well as the efforts to regenerate the several states’ militias through Edwin Vierra and Devvy Kidd’s valiant and very thorough efforts.  Many of my fellow writers here and in other venues have spelled out this nation’s plight in far more eloquent ways than I could ever offer, but together we are trying to bring as many of you as will, along with us, to victory and a brand new United States of America.  (Not the corporate sold-out united states, Inc.)

Thanks to Joan Veon, Andrew Wallace, Jim Schweisow, Dave Daubenmire, Chuck Baldwin, Drew Raines, Don Nicholaff, Katherine Albrecht, Paul Walter, Ed Snook, Bob, Judd, and hundreds of others who have put it all on the line to insure that we indeed swim with dolphins while we fight against the sharks.  You are my brothers, sisters, dear friends and fellow patriots along with the thousands who will simply stand in the gap when the time comes to secure our homes and nation one more time.  This time, for our very survival.  We must not falter, we must not delay.  We cannot lose heart and we must summon our courage, for the fight is worth the cost and will be worth every ounce of effort.  To fail is not an option, and even unto death will be worth the cost, no matter how high nor personal.  To do less is to condemn us to failure and defeat.  “I know not what others may do, but as for me, give me ultimate complete and total liberty, or I will accept death.”  Not today, not ever…….  One more time dear friends around the world praying for our success I ask you…...

Steady boys……real, real steady. God bless each one of you.

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Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

http://grapoza.blogspot.com/

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The Temporal Consequences of Atheism for Christians

Hello Everyone,

This may well be the future of America if enough people do not wise up and stand up.  And there do not seem to be that many willing ones now.  But I will.  I will stand in the gap and speak up for what is right.  I know some of you will also.

Godspeed,

Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

http://grapoza.blogspot.com/

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The Temporal Consequences of Atheism for Christians

by Gary DeMar,

Feb 02, 2010

http://www.americanvision.org/article/the-temporal-consequences-of-atheism-for-christians/

There are temporal consequences for theists as there are eternal consequences for atheists. If as Christopher Hitchens believes Christianity is not good for the world, will laws be passed to outlaw or at least suppress religious expression? This has already been done in public schools. There are signs that such oppositions to religion are spreading:

[A] man talking to two willing strangers in a shopping mall was arrested because the subject of the conversation was God. The case developed several years ago when a youth pastor was arrested at the Galleria Mall in Roseville, Calif., for having a conversation about religion with two other people. Matthew Snatchko, who works with youth at his church, was interrupted in the middle of a conversation by a security guard. A second guard joined the confrontation and told Snatchko he was being placed under citizen’s arrest for “trespassing.” . . . Besides the ban on conversations with strangers about religion or politics, the mall also bans any clothing with religious or political messages.[1]

It’s one thing to have a policy that prohibits proselytizing, standing on a soapbox and preaching, or carrying a sign around that says “Repent!” Malls are private property. We’ll have to see how the courts rule on this one, but the fact that there is such a written policy is frightening. If you live in an area where malls owned by these companies, you might want to consider shopping elsewhere. By all means let the company know why you no longer will do business there: Fear of getting arrested because you might happen to strike up a conversation with a stranger in the foot court that leads to a discussion about religion.

Those who believe in God could be marginalized, and if atheists get their way politically, we might find some very bad laws passed. Here’s what prominent atheist Daniel C. Dennett wants to happen:

If you insist on teaching your children falsehoods—that the Earth is flat,[2] that “Man” is not a product of evolution by natural selection—then you must expect, at the very least, that those of us who have freedom of speech will feel free to describe your teachings as the spreading of falsehoods, and will attempt to demonstrate this to your children at our earliest opportunity. Our future well-being—the well-being of all of us on the planet—depends on the education of our descendants.[3]

If enough of these guys gain political power, will any of our children be safe? Could teaching falsehoods like creation be considered child abuse? It’s not a far-fetched fear. Hitchens broaches the subject in chapter 16 of his book God is Not Great: “Is Religion Child Abuse?” Doug Wilson comments, “Hitchens puts infant baptism, the learning of a catechism, the practice of confirmation, Sunday School lessons, and family worship into the same category that we use to describe the making of child pornography, starvation, locking up in closets, blacking eyes and breaking bones.”[4] Nicholas Humphrey writes something similar, and Richard Dawkins is not far behind:

“So we should no more allow parents to teach their children to believe, for example, in the literal truth of the Bible or that the planets rule their lives than we should allow parents to knock their children’s teeth out or lock them in a dungeon.”[5]

Yikes! Atheists rail against theocracy, but they don’t see that their worldview is oppressively theocratic with no hint of restraint. Man is god, and man’s law must be imposed on every area of life in the name of Darwin through the power of the State using reason and science as the twin authorities. These revelatory pillars of evolution—the old and new testaments of their man-centered worldview—are as infallible in their eyes as the Bible is in ours. There is no question that this is the truth.

Education is used to promote their theocratic worldview. An academic setting is viewed as far less oppressive, a neutral, fact-alone approach to truth, if you will. The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has issued a report that says British Columbia-based Trinity Western University falls below the standard of proper academic freedom because it requires that its faculty sign a statement of Christian faith before being hired. It has also put the organization “on a list of institutions found to have imposed a requirement of a commitment to a particular ideology or statement as condition of employment.”[6] Just imagine if a Christian who did not believe in evolution applied to a state school. Do you think he would be accepted to teach in the biology department? I don’t think so.

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Endnotes:

[1] Bob Unru, “Mall to Christians: God talk banned!” (January 30, 2010).

[2] On the “flat-earth myth,” see Gary DeMar, America’s Christian History: The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision, 1995), 221–34; Gary DeMar and Fred Douglas Young, To Pledge Allegiance: A New World in View (Atlanta, GA: American Vision, 1996), 75–82; Jeffrey Burton Russell, Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians (New York: Praeger, 1991).

[3] Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), 519.

[4] Douglas Wilson, God Is: How Christianity Explains Everything (Powder Springs, GA: American Vision, 2008).

[5] Quoted in Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006), 326.

[6] Charles Lewis, “Faith as a guide in higher learning: Can academic freedom exist in overtly religious universities?” (January 30, 2010): http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2501821

Thank you for your interest in our vision to Restore America to its Biblical Foundation.

© The American Vision, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

http://grapoza.blogspot.com/

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Not Your Father’s Army

Not Your Father’s Army

By Chuck Baldwin

February 5, 2010

http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2010/cbarchive_20100205.html

Most of us Americans have a deep and abiding respect and admiration for our country’s fighting men who have served—and are serving—within the US Armed Forces. We appreciate their willingness to put themselves in harm’s way for the preservation of our nation’s liberty and independence. We honor their sacrifice. Indeed, many of us share that sacrifice with the deaths, dismemberments, and paralysis of our most cherished loved ones who were killed or injured in the line of duty.

It is time, however, that we awaken to the reality of what our military is becoming and where it is heading. Suffice it to say, this is not your father’s army.

On December 8, 1941, my father, Ed Baldwin—along with his two brothers, Bud and Gene—marched down to a recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas, to enlist. The Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor the day before, and no branch of service had to beg people to enlist that day. Bud joined the Navy. Gene joined the Marines. When government officials saw Dad’s resumé, they selected him to help construct the atomic bomb. All three brothers served their country with distinction throughout the war.

But what all of us need to realize is, World War II was the last constitutionally fought war in which America has been engaged. The United Nations was created at the end of WWII, and ever since then, our military forces have increasingly become the “peacekeeping” arm of that evil institution.

Since WWII, American forces have fought major wars in South Korea, South Vietnam (including Laos and Cambodia), Kosovo, the Persian Gulf (Kuwait), Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan—all for the benefit of the United Nations. Add to these major wars lesser conflicts (except to those Americans killed or wounded in them) such as Lebanon, Dominican Republic, Congo (Zaire), Iran, El Salvador, Libya, Grenada, Honduras, Chad, Panama, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanzania, and Somalia. And this does not take into account the countless CIA-sponsored Black Ops missions that have taken place all over the world.

Yes, American forces have been used to both put people in power and take people out of power all over the world. And as often as not, the people we put in power were counted among the “bad guys,” while the people we removed from power were “good guys.” Remember, our own CIA was the organization most responsible for the rise to power of Osama Bin Laden. And it was the US government that surreptitiously set up the murder of Dr. Jonas Savimbi, who was one of the best friends the United States had overseas. Plus, does anyone remember how the US treated our friend, the Shah of Iran? Yes, some of us are old enough to remember when Iran was one of the best friends we had in that region of the world.

But mind you, not one single war in which American forces have been engaged since WWII has been constitutionally fought. Not one!

Ever since the United Nations was created, its interests have dominated the usage of US forces. In fact, our military today is quickly morphing into the tip of the spear for a burgeoning, global New World Order. To those with eyes to see, the evidence is everywhere. It’s not even being hidden anymore. Have you seen that new US Navy television commercial? It boldly proclaims, “The US Navy: A GLOBAL FORCE For Good.” (Emphasis added.)

This politically correct, UN-dominated New World Order has changed (and is changing) our US military right before our eyes. It has taken the greatest and proudest independent fighting force in the world—one created to defend the people and property of the United States—and turned it into a global military policeman for the evil Machiavellians at the UN.

In order to convert the US military into a true “Global Force,” several changes are being forced upon our fighting men.

First, more and more women are entering the US military.

Currently, women comprise about 20% of military personnel. And for the first time in US history, women are actively engaged in combat units in the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The massive integration of women in combat may serve the interests of political correctness, but it does not serve the interests of combat effectiveness. Neither does it serve the interests of family and child rearing. And I don’t care how old fashioned that sounds!

Wives and mothers are the backbone of family nurturing. To willingly take mothers away from their children—and subject both mother and child to the separation and suffering that military life demands—is both unnatural and cruel.

And there is another stark reality that few people want to discuss: the fact that 30% of all women in the US military are raped. Yes, you read it right: 30%.

According to NPR, “In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars, found that 90 percent had been sexually harassed.”

See the report here.

Government and military brass know that the introduction of women into the military environment (especially the combat environment) is reaping problems of epidemic proportions, but they are deliberately ignoring and even covering them up.

For example, does anyone recall the name Jamie Leigh Jones? According to ABC News, “A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.

“Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.”

See the report here.

And this story leads into another phenomenon being created within this New World Order army: the way our government and military are increasing their use of “private” or “independent” contractors. In the past, these people were always known simply as mercenaries. Call them what you will, mercenaries are now a major component of the way our government wages war.

According to Global Research, “The growing use of private armies not only subjects target populations to savage warfare but makes it easier for the White House to subvert domestic public opinion and wage wars.

“Americans are less inclined to oppose a war that is being fought by hired foreign mercenaries, even when their own tax dollars are being squandered to fund it.

“‘The increasing use of contractors, private forces, or, as some would say, “mercenaries,” makes wars easier to begin and to fight—it just takes money and not the citizenry,’ said Michael Ratner, of New York’s Center for Constitutional Rights. ‘To the extent a population is called upon to go to war, there is resistance, a necessary resistance to prevent wars of self-aggrandizement, foolish wars, and, in the case of the United States, hegemonic imperialist wars.’”

See the report here.

Remember, at any given moment, there might be as many—if not more—mercenaries fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as there are US military forces. For example, according to the Christian Science Monitor, in early 2008, the number of mercenaries fighting in Iraq numbered more than 190,000. Remember, in addition to the benefit of not drafting US citizens to fight these perpetual wars (and thus avoid incurring the wrath and resistance of the American public), mercenaries enjoy the luxury of not having to comply with the military rules of engagement. And the stories of atrocities committed by US-employed mercenaries in Iraq and Afghanistan are too numerous to list.

In addition to the Jamie Jones case mentioned above, consider the case where Blackwater (now called Xe) mercenaries mowed down 17 Iraqi citizens in an unprovoked attack. And, of course, no one at Blackwater was held accountable for these murders. Reports of abuse, cruelty, and savagery by mercenaries in Iraq are commonplace. According to the Global Research report, “Many soldiers of fortune on private payrolls previously served dictators in South Africa, Chile, and elsewhere.”

The Washington Post quotes Brigadier General Karl Horst, an advisor to the U.S. Joint Force Command as saying, “These guys [mercenaries] run loose in this country [Iraq] and do stupid stuff. There’s no authority over them, so you can’t come down on them hard when they escalate force . . . They shoot people, and someone else has to deal with the aftermath. It happens all over the place.”

And you wonder why the United States is viewed so negatively around the world?

Granted, there is a place and proper use for mercenaries. Fred E. Foldvary, Senior Editor of The Progress Report, rightly observes, “One alternative to U.S. military action against terrorists who have attacked the U.S. and other countries, and are threatening further attacks, is to enact Letters of Marque and Reprisal. Article I, Section 8, paragraph 11 of the U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to ‘grant letters of Marque and Reprisal and make rules concerning captures on land and water.’ A ‘reprisal’ means an action taken in return for some injury. A reprisal could be a seizing of property or guilty persons in retaliation for an attack and injury. It could include forces used against the perpetrators for the redress of grievances. A reprisal could even involve killing a terrorist who is threatening further harm and cannot be captured.

“’Marque’ is related to ‘marching’ and means crossing or marching across a border in order to do a reprisal. So a letter of Marque and Reprisal would authorize a private person, not in the U.S. armed forces, to conduct reprisal operations outside the borders of the U.S.A.

“Such Letters are grantable not just by the U.S. Constitution, but also by international law, which is why it was able to be included in the Constitution. The Letters are grantable whenever the citizens or subjects of one country are injured by those in another country and justice is denied by the government of that country, as happened with the attack by persons who were in Afghanistan.”

See Foldvary’s column here.

And that is exactly what Congressman Ron Paul attempted to do. He proposed H.R. 3076, the September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001, to authorize the U.S. State Department to issue such Letters. See Dr. Paul’s Press Release here.

However, neither the Congress nor the White House—Democrat or Republican—has any intention of following the Constitution; therefore, Letters of Marque and Reprisal were never authorized. As a result, no authority has been granted to these mercenaries to wage war on behalf of anyone, especially not the people of the United States.

But what unauthorized mercenaries do accomplish is to fulfill the demands of internationalists and globalists to use unaccountable and uncontrolled (at least by normal military protocols) private armies for their own personal and nefarious purposes.

The next step for our politically correct “Global Force” is the authorization for homosexuals to serve openly in the US military. This has long been the goal of globalists, and it is now about to happen.

It was globalist President Bill Clinton who introduced the current “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that allows homosexuals to serve in the US armed forces—but not openly. Of course, this was a major departure from US military history. From George Washington’s Continental army until the Clinton administration, homosexuality was deemed “incompatible” with military service. And now globalist Barack Obama is leading Congress to change the policy even further by allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the US military.

However, please consider this: if our governmental and military leaders would cover up the raping of American servicewomen by servicemen, don’t you know that they will cover up the raping of American servicemen by homosexual servicemen? Mark this down: mixing sex (heterosexual or homosexual) and military service is a recipe for disaster. And the potential damage inflicted upon military units (especially combat units) is exacerbated exponentially by the introduction of large numbers of homosexuals and women into those units. (This is the universal sentiment of virtually every active duty or retired serviceman I have ever spoken with.) But it does fit perfectly into the plans of the New World Order architects, who want to use the US military as much for the advancement of their politically correct agenda as they do for any actual military purpose.

Plus, dare I mention how that many violent gangs in North America are encouraging their members to join the US military in order to learn tactics and skills, which enable them to more effectively inflict their criminality upon the American people? Well, it’s true. And our military brass knows it’s true, and yet they still allow these thugs to enter our military. Hispanic gang members, especially, are entering the US military in droves.

According to a report in The American Conservative magazine, “[R]ecent figures indicate that gang membership in the Armed Forces significantly surpasses civilian levels. Stars and Stripes reported that 1 to 2 percent of the military are gang members, compared to 0.02 percent of the general population.”

See the report here.

No, ladies and gentlemen, it is not your father’s army. And, sadly, while many of our fine military leaders (not to mention many of our active duty soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines) see all of this taking place, they are practically powerless to stop it, because political correctness and globalism run rampant in Washington, D.C., including at the Pentagon.

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Veritas Vos Liberabit

http://grapoza.blogspot.com

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Who You Are

Hello Everyone,

I read a lot of material.  Some of it is rather long and the words are eloquent and flow so well. 

When I read Charlie Daniel’s stuff, I see simple and direct phrases that so often portray simple country logic, direct, and so often, better than the fancy stuff.  Charlie comes from the heart.  It would be hard to ask for better! 

I pray he is recovering well from his stroke. 

Veritas Vos Liberabit,

Gill Rapoza

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Who You Are

By Charlie Daniels

Feb 1, 2010

http://www.charliedaniels.com/soapbox-2010/soapbox-2010-0201.htm

No matter who you are, no matter how rich you are or how much power you have, no matter your resources or your connections, your background or your fame, one of these days you're going to be in a position when you realize that the only help you're going to get will come from Almighty God.

If you're sick, no matter how good your doctor is or how potent your medicine, you will have to realize that doctors can only treat you, healing comes from divine sources and only divine sources.

Every breath we take is a blessing from above. Our ability to walk, talk and reason, our individual talents and abilities are all gifts that God has endowed us with, making no two of us exactly alike. You need go no further than our fingerprints to prove this.

We are all wondrously made in the image of God. We did not descend from some prehistoric simian ancestor, but were created and given our individuality by the hand of God.

Human beings are not the end product of evolution, but of a compassionate creation.

The earth is not just some piece of rock that was separated from the sun in the big bang and just happened to fall into the place at the third place in the solar system.

There is nothing random in the whole universe, it is designed and maintained, there is not one star out of place and untold galaxy after galaxy are exactly where they're supposed to be, doing whatever God designed them to do.

The earth is located in the perfect place in the solar system to sustain life. Could that be by chance? Not a chance.

Have you ever stopped and considered the intricacies of the human body, the brain and the conscience; or the way a tree lies dormant in the winter and gloriously comes back to life in the spring?

Did you ever think about how the water on earth never disappears but is moved around and recycled over and over again, evaporating into the air and coming back again as life giving rain? By chance, couldn't be.

Did you ever consider the wonder of birth, how a tiny baby is infused with life in it's mother's womb, but doesn't breath until it is delivered into the world?

There is no way that this world and its inhabitants just happened. There is no way that man with an eternal soul just crawled up out of some primordial ooze in the form of a microscopic amoeba and became the intelligent creature he is.

There is no way that man and animal came from the same original blob of whatever it is supposed to be. That is impossible; man is capable of thought, capable of love and has an eternal soul.

Animals, no matter how smart you perceive them to be, operate by instinct, are incapable of real love and have no soul.

I know that some of the supposedly smartest people on this planet believe in the evolutionary theory. They may be super-intelligent but they believe a lie, a lie straight out of the pits of hell.

Everybody has a moment of truth in their lives, it could be lying on an operating table in a hospital, or a time when you're in imminent physical danger or your world is just about to fall apart for some reason or another.

There will come a time in everybody's life when they will become absolutely helpless, when the only thing that can save you is something greater than yourself.

Who do you call on at a time like that? Mother Earth? Mother Nature? Charles Darwin?

There is only one power that is greater than any crisis you'll ever face and only one source of help.

His name is Jehovah, Almighty God, Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords, Creator of all that exists, and every thesis that has ever been written, all the historical facts that have ever been twisted, all the theories of imminent men, the governments, armies and weapons of the world will never change that fact.

It is eternal.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, and for our country

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

© Copyright The Charlie Daniels Band

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Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

http://grapoza.blogspot.com

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Abortion Is NOT Legal!

Abortion Is NOT Legal!

The American View

God – Family – Republic

http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=438

v     The following article by Herbert W. Titus, JD, and Christine Ross first appeared in the May/June ‘99 issue of “Life Advocate” magazine.

The mainstream media tell us that the Supreme Court legalized abortion with its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. The media also tell us that there is nothing we can do about it because Roe v. Wade is the “law of the land.”

Nothing could be further from the truth. Abortion is not legal in America! Recognition of this fact is the first step for the pro-life movement in its campaign to turn back the murderous scourge on innocent babies. Indeed, heart disease (738,781 deaths per year) is not the number one cause of death in the United States - abortion is, at well over a million deaths per year.

Article VI of our nation’s founding document declares that “[t]his Constitution, and the laws of the United States.. .made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties…made…under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land.”

What is clearly missing from this Constitutional list of supreme laws is a court opinion. This was not an oversight. Our Constitution’s writers knew that a court opinion could never be law; much less the supreme law of the land. This is especially true if that court opinion contradicted the Constitution itself.

As can be plainly seen from the Constitutional text, a statute enacted by Congress is the supreme law of the land only if made “pursuant to” (in conformity with) the Constitution. If a statute passed by the people’s representatives is not law unless it conforms to the Constitution, then how can a court opinion decided by unelected judges be given a higher status?

When Chief Justice John Marshall established judicial review-the right of the court to review a statute to see if it conformed to the Constitution-he said that the written Constitution was just as binding on the courts as it was on Congress. Marshall, then, did not establish the supremacy of judges over the Constitution-but the supremacy of the Constitution over Congress, the President and the courts.

Our Founding Fathers resoundingly rejected the idea of judicial supremacy. They did not empower judges to usurp a power, rightfully belonging to the people and thereby become a law unto themselves. That is why they put the Constitution in writing-so that the original founding laws and principles would not be mistaken or forgotten. In this way they believed that the Constitution would become the fixed law of the land.

Just a little more than 100 years ago, the American people knew that Supreme Court opinions did not become the law for the whole country, but bound only the parties to the case. That is why Abraham Lincoln rejected the Supreme Court’s decision in the infamous Dred Scott case. Lincoln knew that even though the Court declared-in the name of the Constitution that black people had no rights that white people were bound to respect, that ruling was not the law of the land.

What has happened to America since the days of Lincoln?

Things began to change when Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., ascended to the Supreme Court. He introduced the idea that law changed with changing times, and that it was the business of judges to make the necessary changes.

Holmes’s evolutionary philosophy of law soon transformed the Constitution from a document of fixed rules and principles to one reflecting the latest court pronouncements. In this way, the judges became the nation’s supreme lawmakers, displacing the Congress and legislatures on matters ranging from abortion to pornography.

But judges have no right to make law. Their job is to discover the law, state it and apply it. Their role is like that of an engineer who designs a bridge according to the discovered laws of the natural world, not according to “laws” that he has made up.

If an engineer should design a bridge contrary to natural law, there is no question that the government officials who employed that engineer would reject his design. So it should be with a court opinion. If it is contrary to the Constitution, then the president, the Congress and the fifty states’ governors and legislators should reject that opinion.

This is what their oath of office demands. The president takes an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution,” not Supreme Court opinions. Further, Article II, Section 3 states that the president is duty-bound to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Any court opinion that is contrary to the Constitution is, by definition, not law. Therefore, the president must not enforce it.

That was what President Lincoln did with the Dred Scott decision. He refused to enforce it as the law of the land.

That is what presidents today should do about Roe v. Wade. Pursuant to his Constitutional oath, the president should issue a proclamation declaring Roe v. Wade to be illegal, and declaring that the human fetus is a person entitled to the full protection of the right to life by the states.

At the state and local level, the people should insist that the laws that are still on the books be enforced against abortionists. In Virginia, for example, abortion is still a Class 4 felony. While other Virginia statutes have incorporated the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade, those statutes are unconstitutional. They violate Article 1, Section 1 of the Virginia Bill of Rights which denies to the state legislature or any other civil authority any power to deprive the state’s “posterity” (the yet-to-be-born) of their “inherent” rights to “life, liberty, and property.”

In Virginia, then, pro-lifers do not have to change the state law to protect innocent life. They don’t have to look to the president or Congress for action. They don’t have to elect a pro-life governor or state attorney general. They can act now, petitioning their local Commonwealth’s Attorney to prosecute abortionists under the state law and defend the right to life of the preborn under the state Constitution. And if the Commonwealth’s Attorney chooses not to prosecute, then the people can vote him out of office and elect another who will do his prosecutorial duty consistent with his Constitutional oath.

A petition drive has already begun in Virginia. The governor and the attorney general have been petitioned to speak out, urging the Commonwealths’ Attorneys to prosecute the abortionists. While neither office has the authority to command such prosecutions, such a statement would have a profound moral impact. Some local prosecutors have also been petitioned to take action now.

As concerned citizens, it is our duty to petition the Commonwealth’s Attorneys to make decisions according to what the Constitution demands, and not according to what the Supreme Court decides. And it is our further duty to continue to seek justice until we receive it.

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Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

http://grapoza.blogspot.com

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Not Just In Germany

Hello Everyone,

Here is another of those articles advising us to pay attention to our surroundings. 

Godspeed,

Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

http://grapoza.blogspot.com/

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Not Just In Germany

by Thomas E. Brewton

January 29th, 2010

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2010/01/29/not-just-in-germany/

Germany has criminalized home schooling, demanding that parents place their children in state schools. California is moving in the same direction.

In Germany and California the secular, socialist political state is attempting to crush parents who teach Judeo-Christian moral principles to their children. Shades of Bismarck’s kulturkampf and Hitler’s pogrom to impose Aryan purity.

Germany has criminalized home schooling, demanding that parents place their children in state schools, where they will be suitably indoctrinated in the religion of socialism.

California is moving in the same direction. In an appellate court decision last year (In re Rachel L.), California judges ordered the lower court first hearing the case to compel parents to cease home schooling and to enroll their children in public schools or certified private schools.

A superficial difference between Germany and California in this regard is that the latter is probably motivated in the main to preserve the monopoly of teachers’ unions. The final effect is the same in both cases, however. Teachers’ unions, supported by the Federal government, are dedicated to teaching the moral relativism of secular socialism. In both Germany and California, we are dealing with state imposed politically-correct thought control.

In contrast to the California appellate court, an immigration court judge recently granted political asylum in the United States to a German family, who had been home schooling their children.  In Germany, home-schooling parents can be jailed and have their children taken from them, because socialist Germany wishes to eliminate vestiges of Judeo-Christian morality that interfere with the political state’s socialistic collectivism.

Our hate-crime legislation has criminalized not just actions, but private thoughts. The way is open under the Democrat/Socialist Party for a future Federal police force, a sort of Gestapo to criminalize spiritual religion. We need only a future crisis and a Rahm Emanuel who will not waste the opportunity presented.

Don’t dismiss that threat as impossible. Before 1933, no one in the United States could have dreamed that a farmer would be imprisoned for raising food on his own land to feed his family, on the grounds that he was not authorized to do so by Federal bureaucrats.

President Obama’s tutors Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, in their leadership days in the Weatherman underground, advocated wiping out the Constitution and our entire social and political structure at gunpoint. Mr. Obama’s determination to nationalize the healthcare industry in the face of overwhelming public disapproval, and his rationalization that people will learn to like it, are eerily reminiscent of George Orwell’s novel 1984. At the end, the main character, having been worked over by government agents, tearfully declares that he loves Big Brother.

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Thomas E. Brewton had the extraordinary good fortune to study political philosophy under Eric Voegelin and Constitutional law under Walter Berns. viewfrom1776@thomasbrewton.com.

Visit their website at: http://www.thomasbrewton.com/

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Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

http://grapoza.blogspot.com

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