Month: July 2010

It is men and women like this who keep our nation free!!!

Meet Colonel Jim Harding:

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918 (amended by an act of July 25, 1963), takes pleasure in presenting a Second Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Third Award of the Silver Star to Major James C. Harding (AFSN: 0-57979), United States Air Force, for gallantry in connection with military operations against an opposing armed force as an A-1 Tactical Fighter Pilot of the 1st Special Operations Squadron, Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Base, Thailand, in action in Southeast Asia on 2 June 1972. On that date, Major Harding flew as flight leader on an extremely hazardous and complex search and rescue mission to recover an American crew member in the heavily fortified Red River Valley. While providing protective escort for the vulnerable rescue helicopter, Major Harding deliberately and repeatedly exposed his slow-moving aircraft to intense anti-aircraft fire, counterattacked hostile gun positions, and intercepted and attacked a hostile aircraft forcing it to depart the area. His actions were vital in allowing the rescue helicopter to effect a safe and successful recovery of the downed crew member. By his gallantry and devotion to duty, Major Harding has reflected great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.

General Orders: Headquarters, Pacific Air Forces, Special Order GB-32 (January 10, 1973)

Action Date: 2-Jun-72

Service: Air Force

Rank: Major

Company: 1st Special Operations Squadron

Division: Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Base, Thailand

July 4, 1776, may have been the day the Declaration of Independence was signed. But it took seven years of war to win that independence—proving once again that “freedom isn’t free.”

One of the more striking characteristics of radical Islam is its oppressive, totalitarian nature.

Throughout history, the spread of this evil ideology has brought with it death, slavery, suffering and oppression—not the “peace” and “tolerance” its adherents claim.

Non-Muslims and Muslims have suffered under the boot heel of this ideology.

• For instance, countless Muslim women around the world today suffer as second-class citizens under sharia law.
  
• Non-Muslims in Islamic countries face persecution, intimidation, even torture and death.
  
• Non-Muslims in countries like France fear to go near “no go zones,” Muslim enclaves where even law enforcement officers dare not tread.
  

In April, ACT! for America announced the launch of a new joint project entitled Veteran Defenders of America (VDA).

Since then, hundreds of veterans nationwide have signed up to be part of this grassroots movement whose motto is “the eyes and ears of freedom.”

Are you a veteran? Do you have a family member who is a veteran? Then please visit http://www.veterandefenders.org today to find out more about the mission and objectives of this organization.

On June 15th, over 270 people jammed a meeting room in the Nashville, Tennessee, area to attend an event co-hosted by the Middle Tennessee chapter of ACT! for America and Veteran Defenders of America.

Keynoting the event were Erick Stakelbeck, an international CBN news correspondent/expert on radical Islam, and Colonel Jim Harding, the 19th most decorated soldier in United States military history.

Attendees heard a summary of the threat arrayed against us—and how they as veterans can do something about the threat.

VDA plans for the future include training programs in homeland security, emergency preparations, and the threat of Islamist organizations located here in America linked directly to the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood.

VDA is already building a grassroots leadership infrastructure of veterans and for veterans. To find out how you can get involved, visit http://www.veterandefenders.org.

Because veterans understand, better than most, that freedom isn’t free.
Please log on to:

Veteran Defenders of America…

because “freedom isn’t free”

ACT for America

P.O. Box 12765
Pensacola, FL 32591
www.actforamerica.org

Listen to some of Obama’s quotes:

“Whatever we once were, we’re no longer a Christian nation.”

“America does not presume to know what is best for everyone”

“As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”

“In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.”

“The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history.”

“Too often, the United States has not pursued and sustained engagement with our neighbors.”

“The United States will be willing to acknowledge past errors where those errors have been made.”

“So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other.” (Why don’t you tell that to your friends in the Islamic nations of the world Obama?)

“We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.”

“Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”

“Our country still struggles with the legacies of slavery and segregation, the past treatment of Native Americans.” (and yet America still surpasses any place else in the world where people can have equal opportunities, regardless of race, color, or creed… that’s why we have so many people wanting to come here)

“The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person….”

“My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.” (who attacked who on 9/11?)

“national security. It is a rallying cry for our enemies.” (So is that why we leave our southern most border wide open, to make our enemies feel better?)

“I would like to think that with my election and the early decisions that we’ve made, that you’re starting to see some restoration of America’s standing in the world.” (As far as I can tell the only arrogance and condescension that I hear these days, is coming out of your mouth, Obama.)

“The Holy Koran tells us, “O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.” (…and that you must convert to Islam or be killed – read your history Obama—and then look at the world today, it’s not Catholic nuns who are going around blowing themselves up!)

“While the United States has done much to promote peace and prosperity in the hemisphere, we have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms.”

“The danger I think is when the United States or any country thinks that we can simply impose these values on another country with a different history and a different culture” (… again look around you Obama, and see who it is in the world today who is trying to impose their belief system on the world… it is the Muslim nations.)

“So I read the book to help me understand what it is that makes white people so afraid, their demons, the way ideas get twisted around. It helps me understand how people learn to hate.” (Do you mean ‘Hate’ like Jeremiah Wright, where you went to church for 20 years?)

“…I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.” (So is this your excuse for infanticide and abortion?)

“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” (Hey folks, he’s talking about them ‘crazy right-winged Christians’ here; and no we are NOT against immigrants, just the illegal immigrants, who break the law… and while we are on the subject, where is your Birth Certificate Obama?)

“America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” (How dumb a statement is that! Again it isn’t the Christians who are intolerant of other faiths, it is Islam… try taking Bibles into Saudi Arabia!)

“You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin,” Obama said. “Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq War, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest. (I suppose he is talking here about why he wouldn’t wear a flag pin… is that also why you refused to salute the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance?)

“Unfortunately, faced with an uncertain threat, our government made a series of hasty decisions. I believe that many of these decisions were motivated by a sincere desire to protect the American people. But I also believe that all too often our government made decisions based on fear rather than foresight; that all too often our government trimmed facts and evidence to fit ideological predispositions.” (Yeah, like the decision to ignore our U.S. Constitution and invoke Executive Orders that violate our Constitutional rights… which began under former President George W. Bush, and is today being continued under Obama.)

1st U.S. President

“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
_{—The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343.}

John Adams

2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

“Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God … What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.”
_{—Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9.}

“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
_{–Adams wrote this on June 28, 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.}

“The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever.”
_{–Adams wrote this in a letter to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776.}

Thomas Jefferson

3rd U.S. President, Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event.”
_{—Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.}

“I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.”
_{—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 385.}

John Hancock

1st Signer of the Declaration of Independence

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. … Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”
_{—History of the United States of America, Vol. II, p. 229.}

Benjamin Franklin
Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Unites States Constitution

“Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them.

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see;

But I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as probably it has, of making his doctrines more respected and more observed; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar marks of his displeasure.”
_{–Benjamin Franklin wrote this in a letter to Ezra Stiles, President of Yale University on March 9, 1790.}

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Why it’s the greatest nation in human history

“America is – is no longer, uh, what it could be – what it, it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.”
– Barack Obama to a 7-year-old girl asking why he wanted to be president, Elkhart, Indiana, Aug. 6, 2008

Whether Barack Obama is apologizing about America to a 7-year-old child or to European and Muslim world leaders, after 18 months as president there is no longer any doubt about which direction he’s taking America: Down.

• “Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.”
  – President Barack Obama in Cairo, Egypt, June 3, 2009
  
• “Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower.” – President Obama at close of two-day nuclear security summit in Washington, D.C., April 13, 2010
  
• “[The world] cannot depend as much on the U.S. as it did in the past.”
  – U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to the BBC, June 25, 2010
  

By every objective measure, it’s clear that President Obama and those surrounding and guiding him are firmly committed to ending, once and for all, America’s economic, military and moral leadership in the world.

However, the problem with that is that history proves the only thing that has prevented the world from plunging into utter darkness and tyranny has been America’s leadership, strength, courage, generosity and legendary liberty – in short, its exceptionalism.

“‘AMERICA THE EXCEPTIONAL’ is the antidote to Obama and his vision of a dependant, enfeebled, American socialist utopia,” said David Kupelian, managing editor of WorldNetDaily and Whistleblower. “It transports readers to the real America – the nation they loved as a child, the ‘shining city on a hill’ our founders gave us and the Pilgrims dreamed about and courageously pursued.”

Out of the thousands of years of suffering and oppression that comprise human history, a light burns brightly for just a couple of hundred years.

The American experiment: a revolutionary idea that the common man can be free, master of his own government, so long as he himself is ruled by God.

For a short time this brilliant young country dazzles all the world and all of history, not just with its power and productivity and progress, but with its goodness.

No question about it. For two centuries America has been the leader of the free world and inspiration to the unfree world. It has sent its soldiers to fight and die in foreign lands to protect the innocent, it has led the world in science, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, business and philanthropy – but above all, it has been a beacon of liberty. But that beacon today is under withering assault.

“Despite the attempted socialist transformation of our nation under Obama,” said Kupelian, “in November Americans have a chance, perhaps our last chance, to restore America’s exceptionalism and to reconnect with her original, transcendent purpose.”

“If you want to re-experience the real America,” he concluded, “and be refreshed and strengthened for the battles ahead, you must read this very special and inspiring issue.”

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A number of years ago, I started receiving revelations regarding a insidious attack from an old enemy; an enemy with a smile on the outside but hatred on the inside. Eventually the revelation became a prophecy and I spoke it out a number of times. I spoke of Russia and even mentioned ‘citizens’ gaining access to the secrets of the USA. People laughed at this, informing me that the cold war era was over, but I knew that something was wrong.

As a prophet I began praying about this and every day I would call to God for America’s protection. Then a few months ago, I had a vision and the words spoken to me were, “The hand of the betrayer is on the table.” In the vision I was in the White House, and I shared the little that I knew with all of you. A few days before the revelation from the news media of the espionage by Russian agents, who had become American citizens, God sent me into a time of isolation to pray. I knew something was going to happen. He is protecting this great land of HIS. Here is an excerpt from one of the prophecies that I received in Nashville, Tennessee in 2005:

“I will pinpoint Russia… I will pull their pants down and show their nakedness to the world. For they have played with this nation. They have played with this nation and they have said we will bring to shame this nation…I will expose Russia. And men, citizens of this nation that have acted the whore I will bring them out… exposing corruption, and America shall rid itself of leeches that take and they give nothing back: Citizens who are not citizens but enemies of this nation. The United Nations has housed Judas. And now I have taken Judas out and I’m revealing the lie… And then there will be one political upheaval after the other.”

Tomorrow night I will share in a few minutes what God had shown me and also how President Obama will be challenged to face some very difficult decisions.  You will see how God is protecting our nation in spite of the fact that millions of Americans sit glued to political entertainment, while every law of the land being passed and proposed is tainted, influenced, molded and stuffed full of “spending” for things a nation cannot afford.

The media is the most powerful weapon of the 21st century, but it has been so corrupted by the political machines and used to promote all kinds of ungodly sewer. God will make this change and I, as a prophet, will do everything in my power to speak His word through this same media (specifically the Internet). Our audience is growing and the interest in what God has to say is increasing at a rapid rate.

Stand with me and join me as we pray under the guidance of his prophetic word.

KIM CLEMENT

Prior to the American Revolution, the only English Bibles in the colonies were imported either from Europe or England. Publication of the Bible was regulated by the British government, and required a special license. Robert Aitken’s Bible was the first known English-language Bible to be printed in America, and also the only Bible to receive Congressional approval. Aitken’s Bible, sometimes referred to as “The Bible of the Revolution,” is one of the rarest books in the world, with few copies still in existence today.

History of the Aitken Bible

On January 21, 1781, Robert Aitken presented a “memorial” [petition] to Congress offering to print “a neat Edition of the Holy Scriptures for the use of schools.” This is the text of that memorial:

To the Honourable The Congress
of the United States of America
The Memorial of Robert Aitken
of the City of Philadelphia, Printer

Humbly Sheweth

That in every well regulated Government in Christendom The Sacred Books of the Old and New Testament, commonly called the Holy Bible, are printed and published under the Authority of the Sovereign Powers, in order to prevent the fatal confusion that would arise, and the alarming Injuries the Christian Faith might suffer from the Spurious and erroneous Editions of Divine Revelation. That your Memorialist has no doubt but this work is an Object worthy the attention of the Congress of the United States of America, who will not neglect spiritual security, while they are virtuously contending for temporal blessings. Under this persuasion your Memorialist begs leave to, inform your Honours That he both begun and made considerable progress in a neat Edition of the Holy Scriptures for the use of schools, But being cautious of suffering his copy of the Bible to Issue forth without the sanction of Congress, Humbly prays that your Honours would take this important matter into serious consideration & would be pleased to appoint one Member or Members of your Honourable Body to inspect his work so that the same may be published under the Authority of Congress. And further, your Memorialist prays, that he may be commissioned or otherwise appointed & Authorized to print and vend Editions of, the Sacred Scriptures, in such manner and form as may best suit the wants and demands of the good people of these States, provided the same be in all things perfectly consonant to the Scriptures as heretofore Established and received amongst us.

After appointing a committee to study the project, Congress acted on September 12, 1782, by “highly approv[ing of] the pious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Aitken.” The endorsement by Congress was printed in the Aitken Bible:

What are some statistics on children when prayer was taken out of school?

In 1963, Madalyn Murray O’Hair won a lawsuit against the Baltimore School System, which voted in her favor 8-1 to ban school prayer and label it “unconstitutional”. Though not all prayer was immediately banned from schools at that time, through a process of time, almost all school prayer is banned today.

Young People

1. For 15 years before 1963 pregnancies in girls ages 15 through 19 years had been no more than 15 per thousand After 1963 pregnancies increased 187% in the next 15 years.
   
2. For younger girls, ages 10 to 14 years, pregnancies since 1963 are up 553%.
   
3. Before 1963 sexually transmitted diseases among students were 400 per 100,000. Since 1963, they were up 226% in the next 12 years.
   

The Family

1. Before 1963 divorce rates had been declining for 15 years. After 1963 divorces increased 300% each year for the next 15 years.
   
2. Since 1963 unmarried people living together is up 353%
   
3. Since 1963 single parent families are up 140%.
   
4. Since 1963 single parent families with children are up 160%.
   

Education

1. The educational standard of measure has been the SAT scores. SAT scores had been steady for many years before 1963. From 1963 they rapidly declined for 18 consecutive years, even though the same test has been used since 1941.
   
2. In 1974-75 the rate of decline of the SAT scores decreased, even though they continued to decline. That was when there was an explosion of private religious schools. There were only 1000 Christian schools in 1965. Between 1974 to 1984 they increased to 32,000.
   

   a. That could have an impact if the private schools had higher SAT scores. In checking with the SAT Board it was found that indeed the SAT scores for private schools were nearly 100 points higher than public schools.
   b. In fact the scores were at the point where the public schools had been before their decline started in 1963 when prayer and Bible reading/ instruction was removed from the schools.
   c. The scores in the public schools were still declining.
   

3. Of the nation’s top academic scholars, three times as many come from private religious schools, which operate on one-third the funds as do the public schools.
   

The Nation

1. Since 1963 violent crime has increased 544%.
   
2. Illegal drugs have become an enormous & uncontrollable problem.
   
3. The nation has been deprived of an estimated 50 million citizens through legal abortions just since 1973.
   

I don’t know about you, but I think it is way past time for We the People to do some housecleaning, and we need to remind these folks who their boss is!