Dates That Destroyed America

Dates That Destroyed America

By Chuck Baldwin

March 24, 2010

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Passage of the so-called “health care reform” bill in the House of Representatives this past Sunday, March 21 (I won’t even address the inferred unconstitutionality of Congress doing business on the Lord’s Day. See Article. I. Section. 7. Paragraph. 2.) drove yet another stake into the heart of America. For all intents and purposes, it is the health of the United States that is in dire need of healing. In fact, the US has been on extended life-support for decades. With its condition being rendered critical, and absent major surgery, its days are numbered. The passage of this bill only serves to further weaken an already frail Constitution. In fact, this one may prove to be the fatal blow. Lady Liberty may never recover.

The decision by Congress to socialize medicine in the US ranks among the most draconian, most egregious, most horrific actions ever taken by the central government in Washington, D.C. This bill rocks the principles of liberty and constitutional government to the core. It changes fundamental foundations; it repudiates historical principle. Oh! The same flag may fly on our flagpoles, the same monuments may grace our landscape, and the same National Anthem may be sung during our public ceremonies, but it is not the same America. The Congress of the United States has now officially turned America into a socialist state.

On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the health care bill into law, and as such, this date—along with March 21—joins a list of dates that have each inflicted unconstitutional, socialistic, and sometimes even tyrannical action against the States United and have, therefore, contributed to the destruction of a free America.

April 9, 1865

This is the date when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Regardless of where one comes down on the subject of the Civil War, one fact is undeniable: Abraham Lincoln forever destroyed the Jeffersonian model of federalism in America. Ever since, virtually every battle that free men have fought for the principles of limited government, State sovereignty, etc., have all stemmed directly from Lincoln’s usurpation of power, which resulted in the subjugation and forced union of what used to be “Free and Independent States” (the Declaration of Independence). In fact, the philosophical battles being waged today regarding the recent health care debacle (and every other encroachment upon liberty and State power by the central government) have their roots in Lincoln’s tyranny.

July 9, 1868

This is the date when the 14^th Amendment was ratified. This amendment codified into law what Lincoln had forced at bayonet point. Until then, people were only deemed citizens of their respective states. The Constitution nowhere referred to people as “US citizens.” It only recognized “the Citizens of each State.” Notice also that citizenship was only recognized among the “several States,” not among people living in non-State territories. Until the 14^th Amendment, people were “Citizens of each State.” (Article. IV. Section. 2. Paragraph. 1.) The 14^th Amendment created a whole new class of persons: “citizens of the United States.” This false notion of ”one nation” overturned the Jeffersonian principle that our nation was a confederated republic, a voluntary union of states.

February 3, 1913

This is the date when the 16^th Amendment was ratified, and the direct income tax and IRS were instituted. This was a flagrant repudiation of freedom principles! What began as a temporary measure to support the War of Northern Aggression became a permanent income revenue stream for an unconstitutional—and ever-growing—central government.

April 8, 1913

This is the date when the 17^th Amendment was ratified. This amendment overturned the power of the State legislatures to elect their own senators and replaced it with a direct, popular vote. This was another serious blow against State sovereignty. The framers of the Constitution desired that the influence and power in Washington, D.C., be kept as close to the people and states as possible. For example, the number of representatives in the House of Representatives was to be decided by a limited number of voters. In the original Constitution, the ratio of “people of the several States” deciding their House member could not exceed “one for every thirty thousand.” (Article. I. Section. 2. Paragraph. 3.) And when it came to the US Senate, the framers also recognized the authority of each State legislature to select its own senators, thereby keeping power and influence from aggregating in Washington, D.C. The 17^th Amendment seriously damaged the influence and power of the states by forcing them to elect their US senators by popular vote. The bigger the State, the less influence the State legislature has in determining its US senator. Senators who answered to State legislators, each answering to a limited number of voters, are much more accountable to the “citizens of the several States” than those who are elected by a large number (many times numbering into the millions) of people. For all intents and purposes (at least in the larger states), US Senators are more like “mini-Presidents” than they are representatives of sovereign states.

December 23, 1913

This is the date when the Federal Reserve Act was passed. This Act placed oversight of America’s financial matters into the hands of a cabal of private international bankers, who have completely destroyed the constitutional principles of sound money and (for the most part) free enterprise. No longer would the marketplace (private consumption, thrift, growth, etc.) be the determinant of the US economy (which is what freedom is all about), but now a private, unaccountable international banking cartel would have total power and authority to micromanage (for their own private, parochial purposes) America’s financial sector. Virtually every recession, depression, and downturn (including the one we are now experiencing) has been the direct result of the Fed’s manipulation (again, for its own purposes and with Washington’s cooperation) of the market.

June 26, 1945

This is the date when the United Nations Charter was signed and America joined the push for global government. Ever since, US forces have spilled untold amounts of blood and sacrificed thousands of lives promoting the UN’s agenda. Since the end of World War II, in virtually every war in which US military forces have been engaged, it has been at the behest of the UN. And it is also no accident that America has not fought a constitutionally declared war since we entered the UN—and neither have we won one.

Furthermore, it is America’s involvement in the United Nations that has spearheaded this draconian push for a New World Order that George H. W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair, Walter Cronkite, et al., have talked so much about. The United Nations is an evil institution that has completely co-opted our US State Department and much of our Defense Department. It is an anti-American institution that works aggressively and constantly against the interests and principles of the United States. But it is an institution that is ensconced in the American political infrastructure. Like a cancer, the UN eats away at our liberties and values, and both major political parties in Washington, D.C., are culpable in allowing it to exert so much influence upon our country.

June 25, 1962, and June 17, 1963

These are the dates when the US Supreme Court removed prayer (‘62) and Bible reading (‘63) from public schools. At this point, these two Supreme Court decisions were the most serious affront to the First Amendment in US history. Think of it: from before a union of states was established in 1787, children had been free to pray and read the Scriptures in school. We’re talking about a period of more than 300 years! Of course, the various State legislatures—and myriad city and county governmental meetings—still open their sessions in prayer, as do the US House and Senate, and even the US Supreme Court. But this same liberty is denied the children of America. There is no question that America has not recovered from these two horrific Supreme Court decisions. In effect, the federal government has expelled God not only from our public schools, but also from our public life! And America has not been the same since.

October 22, 1968

This is the date when President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968. Before this Act, the 2^nd Amendment was alive and well in the United States. The Gun Control Act of 1968 turned a right into a privilege and forever forced the American people to bow to the altar of government when seeking to arm themselves. Interestingly enough, this Gun Control Act mirrored Nazi Germany’s Gun Control Act of 1938. In fact, the Gun Control Act of 1968 is almost a verbatim copy of Hitler’s Gun Control Act of 1938.

Our Founding Fathers could never have imagined that governments within the “several States” would ever be allowed to deny the people’s right to keep and bear arms. In fact, it was the attempted confiscation of the firearms stored at Concord, Massachusetts, that triggered the War of Independence in 1775. That the people of Massachusetts would be denied their right to keep and bear arms, as they are today, could not have been foreseen—and would never have been tolerated—by America’s founders.

Yet, most of the hundreds of draconian gun control laws that have been inflicted upon the American people have all come about as a result of the Gun Control Act of 1968.

January 22, 1973

This is the date when the US Supreme Court issued the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions, which, in effect, legalized abortion-on-demand. These two decisions expunged the Jeffersonian principle that all men are endowed by their Creator with the unalienable right to life (Declaration). Since then, more than 50 million unborn babies have been legally murdered in their mothers’ wombs. Abortion is, without a doubt, America’s national holocaust. It has opened the door to a host of Big Government programs and policies that have resulted in the wanton destruction of human life both in the United States and overseas. It has created an entire industry whose express purpose for existing is the destruction of human life. It has desensitized the conscience and soul of America. Furthermore, it has forced men of decency and good will to finance—with their tax dollars—the unconscionable act of killing unborn children.

And once again, another Jeffersonian principle was eviscerated. He said, “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” The Roe and Doe decisions violate this principle in the most egregious manner possible.

October 26, 2001

This is the date when President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act, and the federal government’s war against individual liberty began in earnest. Most of the unconstitutional eavesdropping, snooping, wiretapping, phone call intercepting, email reading, prying, financial records tracking, travel watching, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, by federal police agencies began with the implementation of the Patriot Act. The Department of Homeland Security and the “war on terrorism,” which have resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people worldwide, and the usurpation of federal power at home, have all come about as an outgrowth of the Patriot Act. The USA Patriot Act has forever shifted the focus of American law and jurisprudence against constitutional government and individual liberty, toward a police-state mentality. The Patriot Act is even turning our local and State law enforcement agencies into military-style “Jackboots,” where police officers see themselves not necessarily as guardians of the citizenry, but, as often as not, as adversaries, where citizens are deemed to be the “enemy.”

October 17, 2006, and October 9, 2009

These are the dates when President G.W. Bush signed and re-signed the Military Commissions Act. This Act is the outgrowth of the Patriot Act but has, in effect, terminated the fundamental protections of individual liberty, which are found in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. For all intents and purposes, the Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act eviscerated the 4^th and 5^th Amendments, and do serious injury to several others. The Military Commissions Act also expunges the constitutional right of Habeas Corpus.

March 21 and 23, 2010

These are the dates when Congress passed and President Obama signed into law the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the so-called “health care reform” bill that we spoke about at the beginning of this column. While Social Security and various Welfare programs have toyed with socialism in the United States, this bill is the largest and most expansive endorsement of socialism in American history. This bill socializes some 18% of the US economy by socializing the health care industry in America. The fallout and ramifications of this bill are going to be horrific.

When future historians review the demise of our once-great republic, they will observe that the above dates, including March 21 and March 23, 2010, were the dates that destroyed America. The American people have been far too tolerant for far too long.

People concerned about the future of freedom and prosperity in America should line up quickly and demand that their respective State legislatures and governors resist this new health care bill, even to the point of refusing to implement it in their states. More than 30 states are threatening to take the health care bill to court. But states must do more than that. They must follow the lead of the State of Virginia and pass legislation refusing to comply with it. Yes, I’m saying it: it is time for another State rebellion! If states do not stand up and draw their lines in the sand now, it will be forever too late.

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Veritas Vos Liberabit

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The Election That Never Was

Hello Everyone,

The writer below is posing a thought I also had.  What if Barry declares there is some kind of national crisis as this coming November draws near?  Would he use his “executive authority” to eliminate or severely restrict the 2010 national elections?  If this took place, would the power of that “Council of Governors” come into play to ” “secure” the nation?  And if so, how would the typical American citizen react?   

Just speculating and wondering seeing all those executive orders that have come out.  BTW, an executive order is not the same as a duly passed and signed law. 

Godspeed,

Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

http://grapoza.blogspot.com/

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The Election That Never Was

Will Obama Suspend the Mid Term Election?

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

http://www.silentmajority09.com/2010/03/election-that-never-was.html

More and more politics watchers are coming around to the conclusion that the scheduled Mid-Term Election in November of 2010 will be a political bloodbath for the Democratic Party. It is beginning to appear as if the democrats may, indeed, lose control of BOTH houses of the Congress. As a conservative I can only hope and pray they do.

But – the democrats lust for power is so great and their zeal for socialism so intense, that I cannot see them allowing their hold on power to be placed in jeopardy by, of all things, an election where the voice of the people is actually heard.

So, the question must be asked: Will Obama and the socialist/democrats in our government suspend, postpone, or “call-off” the Mid Term Election scheduled for this coming November?

First we must remember that Obama promised during the presidential campaign to bring “Fundamental Change” to the United States. I do not believe a person alive in America today could doubt his sincerity when he said that. Plus, the evidence of that fundamental change is right before our eyes, and in our wallets. In less than eighteen months the Obama Regime has managed to take America from a constitutional republic to a socialist republic. That accomplishment alone should give you reason enough to suspect that when their power is threatened they will use the full force of the Central Government to ruthlessly crush any and all who they perceive as a threat. At this moment in history, a threat is anyone, any American, who does not agree with them.

What the Obama Regime needs is a national crisis of some kind, a national emergency, in order to suspend the election in November. There is much talk about the Obama Regime declaring martial law as the result of a national emergency. That would take care of the election.

Next question: Who decides what a national emergency is? You’ve got it—the Obama Regime!

Ok. So now I am worried about a natural disaster such as a major hurricane striking the Eastern Seaboard this summer or this fall. As all of us who live in Hurricane Alley will attest, we know from experience that we are due a major strike.

All right, already! I KNOW this all sounds paranoid as the dickens! But understand this: A little paranoia in the face of danger can save your butt! Lord knows—we are starring danger in the face every day the Obama Regime enjoys in power.

Will there actually be a Mid Term Election this year? I honesty wish I could answer affirmatively, but I fear the raw power on which the democrats are drunk may decide that for us. Understand this: there is nothing as dangerous to freedom in the US as a Progressive (Socialist) Democratic Party inebriated on raw power.

I can say this: The American people are a patient people. We will put up with a lot of nonsense from our government – for a while. But we draw the line when that government ignores the constitution, as the Obama Regime and the Democrats in the Congress have done. There is a seething rage in America today. It has cut to the quick many a patriotic American’s soul. There is a tidal wave of unrequited anger, roiled up and posed, ready to fling itself at a government it sees as a threat to America’s freedom and liberty. Woe be unto him who is caught in the deluge.

Look, some of us have a knack, a talent, a curse, call it what you will, of sensing huge changes around us well before they actually occur.

During the past few months I have sensed a change in the American atmosphere. Where there was anger, there is now rage. Believe me, there is a HUGE difference between anger and rage. Both are great motivators. But motivation by anger can be considered and well thought out. On the other hand, motivation by rage (or outrage) is often not well considered and thought out. It is more akin to lashing out, and is, therefore, to be avoided when it is possible.

But, my senses tell me it is too late to avoid the “lashing out” Americans are about to unleash.

Why do I even bring this up? I bring this up because—at this very moment that tidal wave of anger and outrage is dammed up, increasing in power and intensity, waiting, just waiting, for an incident that will knock the chocks from the dam wall holding back the cascade. Postponing, or suspending, the Mid-Term Election, currently scheduled for this coming November, would be the spark that ignites a firestorm that will consume all in its path.

But those in our nation’s legislature, intoxicated on their acquisition of more and more raw power, haven’t seemed to notice the shadow of liberty loving Americans looming over them as they celebrate.

Elections are a sort of safety valve in America. Without a safety valve to release unwanted pressure a boiler would soon explode. This coming Mid Term Election, in November, is one of the most important safety valves ever to exist. Shut it, remove it, or disable it, and believe me, the boiler will explode with unimaginable force.

If America was one huge computer, we could simply “reboot.” Of course we cannot do that – but many are saying we CAN “reset.” That is the aim of Americans in the coming Mid Term Election.

The federal government MUST be brought back under the control of the citizens and limited to only that power, and those particular powers, granted by the US Constitution. If Americans can accomplish that—then most everything else can readily be taken care of—and a return to constitutional republicanism in America restored.

I don’t even want to think about what will happen if we are unsuccessful in saving and restoring America at the ballot box in November. It MUST happen if America is to survive.

Remember in November!

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Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

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Put on the Whole Armor of God

Hello Everyone,

Here is an article written near 38 years back.  It is very dated, for one example, as it mentions Nixon as president.  The interesting thing is that while the many years have gone by, it is very relative.  See what you think.  It may be a lot more relative to things going on about us now and what our reactions might be. 

Godspeed,

Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

http://grapoza.blogspot.com/

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Put on the Whole Armor of God

November, 1972 American Opinion

Tom Anderson

http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/Armor_of_God.htm

Thomas Jefferson Anderson succeeded General Curtis LeMay as the nominee of the American Party for Vice President of the United States.  Mr. Anderson has long been America’s foremost farm publisher, having built fourteen magazines with circulation in the millions, and his column is nationally syndicated to a vast audience.  Tom Anderson is one of the nation’s most sought-after public speakers.

Put on the Whole Armor of God One evening a famous actor was asked to entertain at a large dinner party.  A ripple of excitement ran through the crowd of prominent guests as he rose to speak.  The actor chose to recite the Twenty-third Psalm, which he did eloquently.  He finished the dramatic recitation in a thunder of applause, and the audience gave him a standing ovation. The next speaker was an elderly white-haired man, bowed and worn by long years of patient labor as a Christian missionary.  “I too would like to recite the Shepherd’s Psalm,” he said quietly.  Then, turning his face upward a little, and closing his eyes, he began...  And, when he was through, there was not a sound.  No word.  No applause.  And there was not a dry eye in the room. Afterward, a man said to the great actor, “I don’t understand, you both spoke the same words..  Your presentation was perfect in every way.  Yet, when he spoke in his halting, imperfect manner, people were moved too deeply for words.  What made the difference?” “The answer is simple,” the actor replied, “I know the Twenty-third Psalm; I know it well.  But he knows the Shepherd.”

Many of us say we know the Shepherd; but few of us act like it. There is much concern on the American Right these days about a relatively new phenomenon called “religious neutralism.”  After awakening lukewarm Christians and half-hearted patriots to the Satanic collectivism that threatens our country.  Conservative organizations have lost hundreds of these people to a fundamentalist revivalism that discourages their remaining active in the fight to keep America free. Once an American is fully awakened to the depth and depravity of what I shall call “The Conspiracy” to control the world, he sometimes begins to think, “We are making little or no headway against it.  We are lost!” After all, he rationalizes, “Today’s America is not worth saving, because America is no longer a Christian nation.”  Since “our country is irretrievably lost and a takeover is near,” he reasons, “the best thing for each man to do is to concentrate exclusively on his own salvation and on the souls of his loved ones.”

The Comrades have long proclaimed that “religion is the opiate of the people.”  Indeed, a tired, discouraged, disconsolate Conservative who turns to “religion” as an excuse for quitting the fight to save our country is hunting for an opiate.  And opiates don’t save anybody!  I, too, would rather devote myself exclusively to leading people to Jesus Christ.  But it is not Christian to abandon our nation and to leave the patriotic remnant to fight our battles for us. It is ironic that the patriotic John Birch Society, named for a Christian missionary, has perhaps “lost” more members because of religious neutralism than for any other one reason.  The Society, though not exclusive to Christians, was the main factor in bringing many of those same people to Christ. Once thoroughly “educated” to the dangers that threaten our country, and thoroughly discouraged, they finally turned to Christ as the answer.  Christ is the answer.  But Jesus never admonished us to cop out, resorting only to prayer in times of danger.  He said, “Occupy until I come.”  St. Augustine put it very well:  “I shall work as if everything depended on me; I shall pray as if everything depended on God.”

The Bible teaches that Christ is the Lord over both the nation and the individual.  Thus, a true Christian cannot forsake either!  Where in the Bible does the Lord allow any Christian to surrender his responsibility to defend freedom, family, and country?  Christ said: “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s,” thus establishing the spiritual kingdom under God and the earthly kingdom under law. He not only recognized nationalism, but directed Christians to participate in the earthly government. Still, if communism [internationalism] were merely a political system, we Christians should not be overly exercised about it.  Mere politics should be an incidental business to the Church and to born-again Christians.

Certainly “politics” as such, Left or Right, has no place in the pulpit. The church belongs in the world, but the world does not belong in the church.  I go to church to hear Christ preached, not the words of politicians.  But communism/[internationalism] has almost nothing to do with politics; it is a diabolical conspiracy, an evil religion, and the deadliest enemy Christianity has ever faced. A Communist/[Internationalist] must be an atheist.  More than that, he must hate Christianity and Christians.  The Communist/[Internationalist] god is the government - the dictatorship of the proletariat.  The communist/[internationalist] promise for the future is not eternal life with the Savior, but eternal dictatorship over all the world - a world of people “perfected” by Marxism.  In such a world the authority of Caesar would be omnipresent, and your only escape would be death.  Any “Christian” who can accommodate and accept communism/[internationalism] is simply not a Christian.  This is a conflict to the death, between absolutes.  ... Christianity and communism/[internationalism] are enemies and cannot coexist.  If you are loyal to one, you are a traitor to the other.  Jesus said: “He that is not with me is against me.” (Matthew 12:30).  We cannot be with Jesus and fail to suppress His most bitter enemy!  We must have and obey the absolutes that are the Laws of God.  And when those absolutes are attacked by conspirators seeking to use the state to establish an atheistic dictatorship, we must choose between God and mammon.  Peter told us that when Caesar demands of us that commitment which belongs to God alone, then we ought to obey God rather than man.  ... The fact is that both the Old and New Testaments are full of admonishments for us to hate evil.  Christ and his Apostles hated evil and refused to compromise with it.  We must do the same.  Jehu the prophet, chastised Jehoshaphat, asking: “Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore is wrath upon thee from the Lord.”--(II Chronicles 19:2). 

Yet, the foreign policy of this nation for the past thirty years, if we can be said to have had one, has been to help our communist/[internationalist] enemies who hate the Lord.  John said of those who rejected Christ and helped his enemies: “For he that biddeth him God-speed, is partaker of his evil deeds.” --(II John II).  He was talking about men like Richard Nixon. The purpose of government, according to the Bible, is “for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.”--(Peter 2:14).  But communism/[internationalism] rewards evil and punishes good. What kind of government was Paul talking about when he said in Romans 13:1-4: “For there is no power but of God...  For rulers are not a terror to good works, but the evil”?  Obviously, he wasn’t talking about a communist/[internationalist] government!  For Paul continued, saying of the good ruler that “he is the ministry of God to thee for good.  But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.”

So the Bible does not tell Christians not to oppose evil government, nor even to be neutral toward evil government, but to oppose all evil.  The Bible advocates government punishment of evil-doers, including the death penalty.  But it is talking about good rulers, with constituted, limited authority, not criminal conspirators who murder wholesale and enslave globally.  Personal freedom, family, and nationalism are all divine institutions, ordained by God. Before proceeding further, let me define some terms.  By “Christian” I do not mean a non-Jew, do-gooding, nice fellow who goes to church and sings the hymns.  Going to church won’t anymore make you a Christian than going to the Lions Club will make you a lion.  A Christian is somebody who accepts Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour.  Certainly I do not use the term religion as a synonym for Christianity.  Religions are the enemy of Christianity.  “Religion” is an attempt by elitists to organize worship.  Buddhism is a religion.  Communism, for many, is a religion. Mere “religion” is based on works; Christianity is based on faith in Jesus Christ. To a Christian there are two types of Kingdoms: the earthly kingdom, or state, and the spiritual kingdom of God.  The Lord our God sent His son Jesus Christ to establish an earthly spiritual kingdom.  This spiritual kingdom is not composed of do-gooders, church goers, good-guys, anti-communists [Internationalists], or patriots, but of those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. 

“He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”--(John 3:36).  Jesus said, “no man cometh to the Father, but by me.”--(John 14:6).  And we read in Galations 3:26: “For ye...the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” We learn from the book of Genesis that man’s freedom was bestowed by God at the time He created man.  In Genesis 1:26; 2:16-17, we read that God made man a free, self-conscious, self-determinate individual after His own image. 

Communism [internationalism], denying “God, necessarily denies the divine right of man to be free.  One World “brotherhood” is a project of the Devil, not of God, for God has prescribed nationalism.  (Deuteronomy

32:8, see also Amos 3:3). In fact, God divided the people into nations to keep them from being destroyed.--(Genesis 9 & 10).  Internationalism is Satan’s program, not God’s--(Isaiah 14:12).  In Genesis 11:19, we read how internationalism brought on wickedness and rejection of God.  And for thousands of years it has been used by Satan to do so again and again. God decried internationalism at the Tower of Babel, scattering the human race and creating the different languages to hinder their communication.

In Acts 17:26-27, we read that God even established political boundaries in order to encourage peoples to seek the Lord. So, when we defend he sovereignty of our nation, we are doing God’s will. But unless more people get involved, Christian and non-Christian, the next generation of Americans will experience what Walt Rostow called “an end to nationhood” - which means an end to American liberty.  The Communists [Internationalists] might not have to attack us from without, since they are winning within.  The chief threat to our nationhood is still not fallout but sellout.  Treason is the reason. And the born-again Christian who sees the sellout but is unwilling to work against it, as well as pray against it, lacks understanding of Christian doctrine.  As the Apostle James wrote: “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”--(James 4:17).

We need to ask our brother Christians who spend all of their time praying and preaching, “wouldn’t you prefer to keep on doing it wherever you desire, instead of underground only?  Can’t you witness to more people in a free America than in a slave-labor camp?  Wouldn’t you prefer the life of a free-professing Christian to that of a priest in prison?  Wouldn’t you rather live a long life preaching Christ than to be the most prayerful Christian shot in the back of the neck and dumped into a mass grave?” Another lame excuse offered by some professing Christians goes like this: “It’s all ordained, so why fight it?” 

That one reminds me of the Presbyterian preacher in pioneer days who was asked by a parishioner: “If you believe everything is pre-ordained and pre-destined, and that when our time has come, it’s come, and there’s nothing we can do about it, why do you carry a rifle with you when you go to church every Sunday?”  “Because,” replied the preacher, “I might meet an Indian whose time has come.”

If everything in your own life was already ordained, why would you work for a living?  If everything is ordained, why try? Each of us was ordained by God with certain talents.  I believe that each of us, rich and poor, educated and uneducated, free and unfree, has divine obligation: To do the best we can, where we are, with what we’ve got; to use our God-given talents in the highest degree possible; to make ourselves, our family, our country, our world a better place, in Christ’s name.  God does not expect great accomplishments from us.  He just wants us to use the talents He gave us.  You will remember that Jesus took away the one “talent” of the man who did nothing and gave it to the man who had ten talents.--(Matthew 25:28).  He did not believe in forced equality; but He did believe in doing the best you can. Some ill-informed, head-in-sand evangelicals say: “just preach the Gospel” openly.  The Bible tells us to “do that which is good.”-- (Romans 13:3). That means to defend our country, in war and piece; to participate. Preaching is not enough! Christians have ever to make the choice. 

Two thousand years ago, Christians were given the choice of worshipping their Roman Emperor or Jesus Christ, their King.  They took Christ and the lions took them.  And so did the torture chambers, and the crucifixions.  And the Romans were civilized in comparison with the Communists.  Thousands of Christians in Communist dungeons have been forced to watch or listen as their wives and children were tortured.  In America, a public schoolteacher who teaches Christianity will lose her job; in communist China she will lose her mind, rotting in a jail, or have her tongue pulled out. So what chance has Christianity:  It has every chance.  It will be victorious.  The cause of Jesus will conquer the atheism of the Russians, the Red Chinese, and all their vassals.  The Communists might very well destroy America, but they won’t destroy Christianity.  Two thousand years ago, the more the Roman tyrants persecuted the Christians, the more Christians there were, until the emperor Constantine himself presumably became a Christian.  Jesus said even the gates of Hell shall not prevail against His church--(Matthew 16:18).  But they will prevail against America if Christians don’t get up off their knees and pray fighting.

The Communists [Internationalists] know that their main enemy is not the Pentagon, but Christianity.  Since a revolution wiping out Christians can’t be accomplished yet, their best approach is to water-down Christianity until the next generation of lukewarm “Christians” figures it is not worth dying for.  If it’s not worth living for, how could it be worth dying for?  If Jesus was just a “good guy”; if He was not virgin-born, not divine; if He did not rise from the dead to go and prepare a place for you - why should you fight and maybe die for Him? What’s the best way for the conspirators to soften up Christians?  By infiltrating the theological seminaries, the universities, and the church hierarchy - which they’ve done.  The brainwashing has already progressed to the point that a high percentage of so-called “Christian” pastors and priests don’t believe in the divinity of Christ.  The “gospel” they preach is do-goodism equality, “peace,” the social; gospel.  Their idea is to make a Heaven on Earth by accumulating brownie points. 

What these conspirators are rally doing is making many of our clergymen the servant of Hell on Earth. It’s foolish and unavailing for us to debate whether to save souls first or to save the country first.  We must do both first!  The more souls we lead to Christ, the more dedicated patriots we’ll have.  And the more citizens that decide to become dedicated patriots, the more souls we’ll lead to Christ.  But we Christians must work at doing both! Since this is an extremely complex subject, “Let me make myself crystal clear,” as our chief pharisee is wont to say (when he means something else).  I do not subscribe to the viewpoint that all it takes to save America is to educate, and that an enlightened people will do the right thing.  I believe that even an enlightened people, without God, will do the wrong thing.  Well, did the prophet Jeremiah declare:  “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.”--(Jeremiah 17:9).  But we must do more than just sit and pray for forgiveness of our sins.  As Beaumont said: “Faith and works are like the light and heat of a candle; they cannot be separated.” 

Brownie points don’t count in Heaven, and the sins of born-again Christians are already forgiven.  That’s the reason Christ died.  So what should a born-again believer do?  He should work harder than the Devil—not to get saved, but because he is saved.   A living, saving faith produces works.  “By their fruits ye shall know them.”--(Matthew 7:20).  And the fruit comes after the roots, after the pollination, after the flowering. Incidentally, there is an off-season for nearly every flower, except the blooming idiot—the atheist. “I would not give much for your religion,” said Charles Spurgeon, “unless it can be seen.  Lamps do not talk,, but they do shine.” 

Some drop-out Conservatives are like the fellow in the little country church who was bitterly opposed to the pastor’s suggestion that the church purchase a chandelier.  “But why are you so against it?” the pastor asked him.  “Well, first,” said the man, “nobody can spell it, so how can we order it? Second, nobody can play it if we get it.  And, third, what we really need is more light.” More light and hard work!

Archimedes, the mathematical genius of ancient Syracuse, gave himself completely to his studies.  When the Romans besieged his city, he was so engrossed in his studies that he was oblivious to the deadly struggle going on all about him.  When the Romans breached the wall and entered the city, he took no note of it.  When fighting broke out in his own street, he paid no attention.  Even when a soldier broke into his house and ran him through with a sword, he never looked up from a mathematical problem that held his interest.  He was a charter member of “the silent majority.”  But he was certainly enlightened.  He was certainly educated.  It will be unrewarding to be the best educated prisoner in the concentration camp.  And being the best Christian ever tortured to death won’t do a thing for your God, your family, or your country. It is not enough to “educate” yourself idly.  Some of the “best educated” people are totally lacking in character. 

Education, without morality, breeds only clever criminals.  Will a highly educated person, lacking in character, stand up and be counted for what’s right; for God, family, and country?  No, he will not!  He’s probably either neutral or on the other side.  So if Christians were not willing to go to bat for freedom, who will?  Many of these educated yellow-bellies proclaim that there is no use fighting, because the ball game is over.  That eases their conscience and makes them socially acceptable.  They wouldn’t get in the ball game if it were in the first quarter. They’re not ignorant and innocent, but gutless and guilty.  They sell their freedom inch by inch for temporary personal peace and profit.  When freedom is at stake, silence is not golden; it’s yellow. Which reminds me of a story about Mark Twain?  The subject of Heaven and Hell was being heatedly debated at a dinner party by all except Twain.  A lady bluntly asked him: “Why are you silent?  I want your opinion.”  Twain gravely replied: “Madame, you must excuse me.  I am silent because of the purest necessity.  You see, I have friends in both places.”

The average person is equally irritated by hearing Christianity attacked or by seeing it practiced. What irritates me is seeing Christians used to destroy their own faith and the faith of this once-Christian nation.  All that is necessary to cause fifty million American Christians—real Christians—to be murdered by the Communist [Internationalists] is for Christian Americans to devote themselves exclusively to prayer and let the Communists [Internationalists] take our country! Conspirators even now blame the decline of the church on nationalism and claim that being “obsessed” with communism [internationalism] causes Christians to leave the church.  That is a carefully created lie!  The organized church has declined mainly because it has deserved to; and it has deserved to because it has not been doing its job...which is to preach the Good News of Christ.  Christians have left the churches in droves to seek the Lord, who has been abandoned by their modernistic, apostate churches. A church and a preacher denying the virgin birth is not a Christian church, it is against Christ.  Our Lord is either what He said He was, or He is history’s greatest liar and faker. And how can one stand up and be counted for Christianity, without standing up and being counted against communism [internationalism]? 

Modern Christians should emulate Moses: “Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Who is on the Lord’s side? Let him come unto me.  And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto Him.”-- (Exodus 32:26). In the war between good and evil, neutralism is anti-Christian.  A people which lack the morality to stand on their feet and say “NO” to communism [internationalism] will some day have to say “YES” on their knees. Communism [internationalism] is a Satanic, atheistic religion dedicated to destroying Christianity and freedom.  No true Christian can be neutral about anti-Christian communism or its advocates or apologists.  In one of his letters to the Corinthians Paul wrote: “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate.” -- (IICor. 617).  And, as Spurgeon put it: “All true men ought to be decided, for a dreadful conflict is going on at this present day, and a curse will fall on neutrals.” Many “neutrals” don’t want to know the truth.  They worship the ground their head is buried in. 

Cicero explained their plight about two thousand years ago, observing: “It’s impossible to know the truth and not be held responsible.” Jesus Christ said: “I would thou wert cold or hot.  So then because thou art lukewarm and nether cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.”-- (Rev. 3:15-16).  The great Dante wrote: “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, maintain neutrality.” Has the world ever known a time of greater moral crisis than now? Americans are so tense, nervous, and guilt-ridden today, they have a hard time sleeping through sermons.  Though, in the modernist churches, they might as well. 

Benjamin Franklin recognized this truth when he said, “He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity, will revolutionize the world.”  In other words, if America were really a Christian nation, there would be no takeover. My point is put best, I think, in Ephesians 6:10-12, where the Bible commands: “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.  Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of he devil.  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against he rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Clear as the Scripture is on this subject, there are still conservative drop-outs who are convinced as Christians that since these are “The Last Days” one might as well give up the fight, put on a white robe, and sit around waiting for the coming of the Lord.  Maybe these are “The Last Days.”  Yet the Bible says: “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”--(Matthew 24:36).  It does not say that in The Last Days we are to fold our tents and quit. 

Delmar Dennis, a major coordinator for the John Birch Society, tells of a fundamentalist preacher he recently recruited into The Society.  Delmar says that preacher told him: “I’m joining The John Birch Society because I am certain that these are ‘The Last Days’—and when Christ comes, I want him to see me fighting on his side!” Some “Last-Days Christians” claim that they can’t fight the Communists [Internationalists] because they must spend all their remaining time saving souls.  But thousands of already saved souls are rotting away in communist/fascist dungeons and slave-labor camps.  Dare we ignore and forget them?  In First Corinthians 12:12, it says that every born-again Christian is a member of the Body of Christ, His Church.  And as Paul adds in the twenty-sixth verse, if one member of the body suffers, the whole body suffers.

Christian martyr Richard Wurmbrand, a Lutheran minister who was imprisoned and tortured fourteen years by the Communists, says: “When I was beaten on the feet, my tongue cried.  Why did my tongue cry?  It was not beaten.  It cried because the feet and the tongue are both a part of the same body. Christian martyrs and their families are part of the same body of Christ. Can you not feel the pain?” Thousands of Wurmbrands, Popovs, and Mindszentys are still being tortured.  Why can’t the neutrals feel the pain? I believe the goals and effectiveness of each would be strengthened if the pro-American, anti-communist [internationalist] organizations were Christian-oriented, though open to all people of good will, and if the back-slid patriots and others “neutralized by Christianity” would realize that “Occupy until I come” means just that.  The word occupy means: Take or hold possession of; seize; to engage the attention or energies of; to fill up (an extent in space or time); to reside in as an owner or tenant.

So, let us occupy!  Let us keep on keeping on—for God, family, and country, until He comes.  And let us lead all the souls we can to Christ, while we are occupying in this land blessed above all others. It could be said that this debate is not so much over principle as over strategy:  Should we first expose and defeat the political, economic, and intellectual Conspiracy (of which  communism [internationalism] is a a part), or concentrate exclusively on leading people to Christ:  Why should it be either/or?  We can expose and defeat the total Conspiracy as a part of a  long-range goal to return this country to the Christian principles on which it was founded. 

Returning to God before exposing the Devil is like making a touchdown before crossing the goal line.  You do them both on the same play. In 1790, a great Irish patriot, John Philpot Curran, said: “The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.” 

Evidently Curran, like us John Birchers did not belief that liberty can be attained or retained merely by praying for it.  If God originated freedom, then certainly we as Christians must always be ready and willing to fight for freedom.  Our nation was founded more for religious reasons than for political reasons.  Our forefathers were primarily Christians seeking freedom to worship.  This nation was founded by Christians on Christian principals revealed in the Bible.  Our Supreme Court has ruled this a Christian nation.  The Mayflower Compact is a Christian document. 

While the conservative, God, family, and country organizations have doubtless had thousands of members neutralized by “Christianity,” for lack of a better term, there is another side to that coin: Thousands of people who belong to and work in these organizations do so because they are Christians. If I were not a Christian, I am not sure I would continue in this struggle.   I’ve been in it ever since Fraudlin Deficit Russiavelt was in his first term. If we are going to still claim to be Americans, we should act like it. And if we claim to be Christians we should act like it.  Back in 1775 our Christian forbears decided that if they were going to be Americans, they had to act like Americans.  So they fought, bled and died to replace a non-American government with an American government; and we can thank God for that. 

Now, as then, lovers of liberty must trust in God and in the protection of Divine Providence. More and more Americans are beginning to believe that only a miracle can save us.  It would be well to remember that miracles come from God-and then only in answer to prayers that are heartfelt, repentant, and accompanied by enlightened “ACTION.” I believe our founding fathers are watching us today.  The whole world is watching us.  We are what stands between the world and slavery.  If the lamp of freedom is blown out in America, the world will be thrown into darkness.

If we have what it takes, morality and courage, we will destroy that diabolical conspiracy of hate that is communism [internationalism], and the evil Conspiracy behind it.  We will win, because as Christian soldiers we are prepared to fight and work for what is right. 

If God be for us, who can be against us?  **

AMEN!!

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Gill Rapoza

Veritas Vos Liberabit

http://grapoza.blogspot.com

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