Snopes receives funding from an undisclosed source. The source is undisclosed because Snopes refuses to disclose that source.
The Democratic Alliance, a funding channel for uber-Leftist (Marxist) Billionaires (George Soros etc.), direct funds to an “Internet Propaganda Arm” pushing these views. The Democratic Alliance has been reported to instruct Fundees to not disclose their funding source.
For the past few years www.snopes.com has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the ‘tell-all final word’ on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com.
It is run by a husband and wife team – that’s right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It’s just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby.
David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research.
The reason for the questions – or skepticisms – is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the ‘true’ bottom of various issues.
A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the Internet, ‘supposedly’ the Mikkelson’s claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com.
In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort ‘ever’ took place. I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this and I gave him Bud Gregg’s contact phone numbers – and Bud was going to give him phone numbers to the big exec’s at State Farm in Illinois who would have been willing to speak with him about it.
He never called Bud. In fact, I learned from Bud Gregg that no one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm.
GOD TOLD ME SOMETHING I WAS NOT EXPECTING TO HEAR! by David Wilkerson | October 20, 2010
One night during a prayer meeting, God told me something about our church I was not expecting to hear.
The Lord whispered to me, “This church needs shock treatment! Too many have grown satisfied and complacent. You feel safe and secure from all the winds and waves of false doctrines sweeping over the land—but you are not prepared for what is coming!”
Beloved, the message of having the Spirit’s witness functioning in you is not a request—it is a matter of life and death!
If you don’t have the witness of the Holy Ghost in these last days, you’re not going to make it! You’ll give in to the coming spirit of the Antichrist!
You need the Holy Spirit witness every day—on your job, at work, at school.
You need to rightly judge politicians and leaders so you’ll not suddenly be sucked into the antichrist system.
This is what Jesus was trying to tell us about the foolish virgins who ran out of oil for their lamps. They had a supply of the Holy Ghost—but they didn’t have his witness at the final moment.
Don’t end up a foolish virgin! If you are running out of oil—trusting your church or your pastor to keep your soul—then repent!
Humble yourself and search your heart! Cry out to God to rid your soul of all anger and bitterness. Confess your sins and forsake them. And depend on God once again for everything!
Get the peace of God in your heart, so you can have a Holy Ghost witness. And ask the Father for a greater endowment of the Spirit. Invite him to be your witness and guide in everything!
We face a cost of going all the way with Jesus, but we also will receive a reward: It is simply the blessing of having Christ stand with us. There are many other rewards as well (see Matthew 19:29), but I mention this one because it is all we will ever need.
When Paul was imprisoned in Jerusalem, the whole religious system wanted to kill him. They accused him of polluting the holy place and preaching false doctrines.
His life was in danger; even the soldiers were “fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces” (Acts 23:10). So they took him by force and locked him away in a castle.
The next night the Lord himself spoke to Paul, and what a word he brought: “Cheer up! There’s even more trouble to come!”
The cost of following Christ was clear in the lives of these men of God—and if we are going to be like our Master, then we must embrace this cost as well.
Enduring it becomes a joy because Jesus promises to stand with us in every situation. And we can face anything or anyone when we know the Lord stands with us.
So count the cost and know that your reward, in all things, is the precious presence of Jesus Christ.
With all that is happening in these days and times; with our country in a tizzy and going downhill as it is; we desperately need God’s leading and discernment.
In the media on our billboards, in advertisements printed and electronic, just about everywhere we look we find words that are screaming at us to: “Use me, take me, buy me, drink me smell me, touch me, kiss me, sleep with me, vote for me.”
But how can we know which word to follow and what to do?
We desparately need God’s discernment in our lives; and we need to learn how to follow our God given shalom (peace).
Do nothing unless you have God’s peace; and if you don’t have it, wait until you do.
Probably ninety five percent or more of what we hear and see today is just plain vanity, the same sort of vanity that we read about in Book of Ecclesiastes, that Solomon wrote about:
Ecclesiastes 1:1-2
The Vanity of Life
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 ” Vanity[a] of vanities,” says the Preacher;
” Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
We can know from the warnings of Christ that when we see certain signs take place in the world to listen up and pay attention; because we can know by these things that the end is near; and that our Messiah Jesus is standing at the door, and is about to break through the clouds and establish His Kingdom in the earth.
We also know that the spirit of Antichrist will be running rampant in the world, full of deceiving lies and deceptions.
Let us understand that what is normal for the world, in the world’s wisdom and methods, is not even close to what God wants and expects; and frankly what it says in Proverbs 14:12 applies: “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.”
Let us be particularly careful and discerning in this volatile and deceiving political environment in which we are living today!
Where empty and deceiving words are given in speeches are given on both sides by Republicans and Democrats, by candidates who say what they feel they must, what they fell the public wants to hear, in order to get elected; but when elected they quickly forget their promises.
Consider for a moment that for us to elect but another Republican Congress in 2010, and Republican Administration in 2012, we will have accomplished nothing, except to remain on the same downward track, as we were on for eight years under President George W. Bush.
By our not addressing the core problem, which is our failure to repair the cracked foundation of our government, and by our allowing the same criminals to retain their power behind the scenes (who are the Globalist Bankers) who operate out of sight, we are only choosing to have our country remain on the same downward spiral and course that we have been on for the last 100 years or more, as we are being led as lambs to the slaughter, into what the Republican former President George H.W. Bush termed the “New World Order!”
The words that you are hearing on the media and reading in the press these days are mostly lies and deceptions that are designed to get you to think and act in a certain way!
The enemy over the years as erected a political system in this UNITED STATES CORPORATION that plays both sides against the center; so that whichever way you vote, partisan politics aside, 9 times out of 10, you are only voting a President and a Congress into office that is nevertheless moving our country towards its own extinction; as the goal is to establish what the International Bankers see as their “New World Order!”
This will be we a world, which the Bible says will ultimately be ruled by the Antichrist; where individual rights and liberties are gone; and where “We the People” will be the slaves of government!
Don’t be fooled folks into accepting the same corrupt system, and remain on the same merry-go-round, that we have been on for the last 139 years, when in 1871 our U.S. Congress first set aside our “organic” U.S. Constitution and our Republic, and replaced it with the UNITED STATES CORPORATION!
Let us instead reestablish our government according to our U.S. Constitution, as it was always intented to be, as a Constitutional Republic; where our politicians are held in check by the highest law of the land, which is our “organic” Constitution; and where “We the People” are the sovereigns, and not BIG government!
Folks what I am saying here should be common sense, that you cannot erect anything that is built upon a corrupt foundation, and in the political sense I am speaking of here that foundation is built on lies and deceit, and expect to build anything that will be lasting and solid… which God can bless!
There is an alternative to this present course of madness that our country has been on for all these years; and especially in light of the fact the UNITED STATES CORPORATION is headed towards defaulting; as even the Congressional Budget Office has predicted is only a matter of time; in that light, the ONLY viable alternative that will save our country is for We the People to take it back legally, without any civil war or violence, and reestablish our Republic, as ONE NATION UNDER GOD!!!
Consider for a moment that the plans and implementation for our war of Independence from Great Britain and to form our Constitutional Republic where made to a large extent, and was conceived and implemented, in colonial American churches; and it was the clergy that was the main driving force to rally the colonists.
Now consider that we have a president who has three times now in quoting the preamble to our Declaration of Independence, has left out “Creator” in the part that says:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Think about it and pray about it; and consider the following (see below).
Shalom,
Skip Barland
What follows is a conference call from October 20th:
MESSAGE FROM TIM TURNER sent via email on 9/21/2010
Email from Tim Turner explaining why we ARE a Christian Nation under GOD.
Our nation was founded on Christian principles that protect the rights of all people.
Throughout our history we have never complained about any other religion or belief system and always allowed these other religions to practice in peace.
We have always been on the defense from attacks, by non Christians, as we are now.
Your listeners are not getting emails from us complaining about what they are doing but we are getting complaints from many of them because of our stand for Christianity.
The truth is that if it wasn’t for Christian beliefs operating in this government, you would not even have the right to complain without retaliation.
We wish no harm on anyone and help everyone.
We love God and our neighbor and what is wrong with that?
So why are we being challenged on this?
We only want to make sure that we uphold principles that will protect everyone because we have seen the evidence of how we are treated by non-Christians.
It is ok for everyone else to have freedom of speech and press but not Christians. I will uphold and support the Christian ethics of this government as long as I am involved.
I hope that you and your friends will find peace.
God Bless,
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MESSAGE FROM TIM TURNER 9/9/2010
Because God is still on His Throne, there is hope for the “pursuit of life, liberty and happiness” in the great Republic of the united States of America.
We have all been through some difficult and challenging times during the last year.
We’ve made some mistakes and been disappointed with things that have not happened as we expected they would.
We have not developed and utilized all the leaders of this movement of God to effectively re-inhabit this Republic.
I have assembled some faithful men. We have prayed, researched and prepared the vision, plan and procedure to fulfill the vision of the restored republic. We have also set some policy to insure the integrity of our actions here forward.
Effective immediately we are implementing a short and long term plan to embark on a mass education of the public.
We also have developed the tools to start a mass recruitment of people to join the county state republics and ratify the national republic.
Starting tonight we are introducing an opportunity for “we the people” to join all of us in taking back our freedom.
Therefore this call will be our last national jury call. Let me repeat, “this will be our last national jury call.
Within the next couple weeks we will be coming to your region to meet with you face to face.
We will introduce the new state ambassadors and jury fore persons to have the tools and training that will help the public join us.
The training of the juries will begin to be done in each state.
We are asking the coordinators and jury foreman to meet in one of the seven regions around the country to talk with us personally to be trained, as well as receive the new materials and tools to do their job.
The coordinator’s job as you have known it has been finished. Each coordinator will be given the opportunity to become an ambassador for their state or stay on the jury, if they are a juror, if they so desire.
Through the jury fore person and the new ambassador position everyone will be given the opportunity, training and documents to perfect all of what we have done so far these last few months.
This training and documents will make it possible for everyone to bring hundreds and thousands in to the republics.
No longer do we have to suffer the slavery and abuse of a Democracy. We can once again enjoy the freedom of the Republic.
Many of the freedoms bought with the blood of early Patriots have been gradually usurped by insidious Democracy, rendering us as little more than subservient commodities of political power mongers who care only for themselves.
We can, however, reclaim and re-inhabit the life that was known by our forebears, shaking off the deceptions of Democracy and embracing the benefits of a true Republic.
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We welcome you to the Republic of the united States of America. The link above is for your review and consideration as you are looking into becoming a part of the re-inhabited Republic of the united States of America.
We at the Republic are showing the People that they are the true fourth branch of government. Our goal and intention is to give the power back to the People. We need you (The People) to understand the difference of a Republic and a Democracy.
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This is the CHANGE that Obama and this rogue organization called the UNITED STATES CORPORATION has planned for the American people, as Bible prophecy is unfolding today, right before our eyes!
Jack Van Impe says he has received insider information from the Bilderberg meetings that Obama has been picked to be the leader of a One World Government, called “The New World Order.”
This New World Order concept was first introduced publically by former President George H.W. Bush, in a speech which he gave in 1991; and as I have been saying, at least from the standpoint of party leadership and control, both our primary political parties (Democrat and Republican), partisan politics aside, when it come to this subject, they are both working together towards that end.
What is not said however is that this “New World Order” will be a totalitarian dictatorship; and as is prophesied in the Book of Revelation, it will ultimately become a One World Government police state, controlled by the Antichrist.
We also know there there will be a one world monetary system, which we know today will be a microchip inserted into your right hand or forehead.
Whereas Jack Van Impe is of the opinion and is putting forth the idea that this coming one world government will be the product of the European Union, there is another growing opinion that it will be a compilation of Islamic nations, possibly centered around Iraq (which is ancient Babylon).
It is believed also that the Antichrist will be a Muslim; and I personally am leaning in that direction myself.
I have been sounding this warning for a long time, and I want to repeat here that it is not written in stone, and nor is it written in the Bible, what place the United States will have in these events. The Bible says there will be both sheep nations and goat nations during this period, and I want the U.S. to be a sheep nation.
Whether or not that happens, I believe, will depend on whether we are able to restore our Constitutional Republic?
Our government as it is, under this UNITED STATES CORPORATION is illegal, because it is unconstitutional; and it has been that way ever since 1871.
If you have not done so, please register and sign up today and become a part of this movement to restore our Constitutional Republic:
This is not a time for Christians to be hiding in fear, hoping all this passes over and looking for the rapture.
I believe in the Rapture as well, but I also know that Christ is not coming back for a bride, cowering in fear, with her tail between her legs, looking for a back door of escape!
I believe that when the Bible talks about the resisting force that will hinder the Antichrist, in the last days, that must be removed before he comes to power, I believe that force comes from the Holy Spirit inside the church; and that the church will be taken out most likely 3½ years into the seven year peace treaty, which again is initiated by the Antichrist.
The Bible also says that he will break this treaty after only 42 months, after which I believe Satan then comes in and takes over this person, and possesses him; and then the abomination that causes desolation (as the Bible calls it) is placed inside the newly constructed Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, which will be his image, which he will require people to worship.
It is my position that as Christians, and as God’s occupation force in the earth, it is our position to resist any and all evil in Christ Name; and that certainly includes this coming evil New World Order and Antichrist kingdom.
Please join with me and pray for revival and for a spiritual wakening in our land; and that God would save America.
Pray also for the success of this move to restore our Constitutional Republic; as I truly believe this movement is of God and that it is our last chance to turn our country around; and I also believe that this whole movement just may be the launching pad for this coming Revival too.
Two presidents, one Republican and this guy we have currently in the White House have both called Islam a religion of peace; but on the contrary history and today’s news reports say otherwise…
Islam is NOT a religion of peace; and furthermore, it is not even a religion!
Ever since 9/11, Muslim leaders who have had access to the national media have told us that Islam is a religion of peace and that violence does not represent the essence of Muhammad’s message or religion.
Even former President Bush (a conservative Republican), Britain’s former Prime Minister Blair, and now Obama have ALL repeated this same assertion, saying that Islam has been “hijacked” by a few violent fanatics.
These statements just do not line up with the empirical and observable facts of history, and nor do they line up with what we can see on the evening news!
In fact history demonstrates that beyond any doubt that Islam at its very founding was filled with violence—in the life of Muhammad himself, and also in the Quran.
First of all, Islam is NOT a religion, but it is a political ideology that does not tolerate descent and nor does it tolerate other faiths and beliefs that do not agree with the worldview as they want it to be… which is under Sharia Law!
What follows (see below) is an interesting article that asks the question… “Can Muslims be good Americans?“
In my opinion, the same logic applies to the above question, as I believe would also apply to the question as to whether you can be a born-again Christian and at the same time worship and pray to a demon god called Allah, as does Obama?
Not according to what I read in my Bible you can’t, because we are told to forsake the former pagan lifestyle and no longer are we to have fellowship with darkness.
The Good News is as long as they aren’t pushing up daisies everyone, even Muslims, still has an equal chance to be saved, and born-again; and I am sure that is both God’s desire and His plan for a great many of those poor people who are caught up in that cult; among those who have no hope in this life or for heaven, unless they strap on a bomb and go to some public place and blow themselves up along with a bunch of innocent people with them.
If you ever want evidence that there is a Devil, called Satan, well then just look at what this so called “religion of peace” teaches, even their youngest children.
On that note I have to say that even though Islamic children are being raised outside of any kind of covenant with the one true God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; based on the premise, which I believe to be true, that ALL children are born into this world innocent before God, until the age of accountability, which I believe happens somewhere around age 13, when boys and girls in the Jewish faith go through either Bar Mitzvah (for the boys) or Bat Mitzvah ceremonies (for the girls), and are thereafter considered adults; based on that premise, listen to what Jesus had to say on this subject, and I certainly believe that would also apply to these little ones as well:
“Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.”(Matthew 18:6-10)
However I have said this before and I think it still bears repeating, that I am sure that for many Muslims in America, Islam is nothing more than a cultural thing, that they have been raised in; and as is the case with many nominal Christians, when it comes to the Bible, I believe there are Muslims who have no idea what the Koran says, because they don’t read it.
But with that said, the culture within Islam is such that you cannot question its beliefs, and certainly you can never renounce Islam or Allah without suffering serious repercussions and consequences; including being disowned by your family, or even being killed by them.
In either case, that certainly doesn’t sound like a religion of peace to me, where critical thinking and dissent are not even tolerated.
Also you will note that the ONLY countries in the world where people have the freedom to worship and believe as they please, without any kind of government interference, are in Christian Nations, that have been founded upon the Bible.
You won’t find that sort of freedom in any of the secular societies, and that includes all of your Communist dictatorships; and nor do you find that sort of freedom in any of your countries that are sectarian dominated, such as in Iran, or Saudi Arabia, where no other beliefs are even tolerated, except for Islam.
Whereas it has been pointed out, and correctly so, that not all Muslims are terrorists; but certainly ALL terrorists, for the most part today (about 99%) tend to be Muslim.
Of those Muslims who are considered to be moderates, their voices are certainly silent when it comes to any sort of dissenting opinions that disagree with the radial rhetoric from the so called minority leadership of the radical Islamic Jihad movement, and why is that?
Where do their true loyalties lie?
For some of these moderate or nominal Muslims, I am sure the case is not that different from what we see in history that happened when Martin Luther, who began the Protestant Reformation, at a time when the Bible was not made available in the language of the people, to be studied; when he nailed his thesis to the church door; where he was calling the church and the people to return back to the true faith of the Bible.
The main point of his thesis was how scripture showed that salvation comes strictly by faith in the propitious work of Christ on the Cross, as our Passover Lamb, and not by works; as was being taught in the church, and as was the popular belief of the people of that day.
So in essence that which was the prevailing and popular belief of that day, regarding the Christian faith, to the extent those popular beliefs were not reflected in the Bible, they were in fact incorrect and in error; as the Bible is our only source for what we believe, in all things having to do with Church doctrine and Christian orthodoxy.
In the same way, the true teachings of Mohammad, and the nature of what Islam teaches, can be found in the Koran; and when you read it, you find that it mirrors exactly the message of what the Islamic extremists of today are saying, who are calling for jihad; in that the Koran itself calls for death to the infidels and unbelievers of the world.
Those verses that are often mentioned that speak of peace and tolerance where written at a time when Islam was just beginning; but when it became a force to be reckoned with, those earlier verses were discarded, and were replaced by those later verses that were totally intolerant of any dissenting beliefs or views.
Not only that, but you have but to look to most any Islamic country in the world today, and with very few exceptions, you will see nothing but a gross disregard for human rights, and the absolute subjugation and abuse of women; not to mention the so called “honor killings,” were fathers and family members will kill their own children and relatives, all in the name of Islam.
This is found in every place where a strict adherence to Sharia Law is practiced, and in all of these countries there is an absolute NO tolerance policy for any other religions or beliefs outside of their own… and there are no exceptions!!!
With all this evidence and history how foolish is it for our political leaders, at a time when we are at war no less with these people, in the interest of being “Politically Correct,” for them to blatantly ignore all the evidence, ignore all the facts, and are telling us this lie about how Islam is peaceful… I don’t think so!
We can only hope and pray that what has already begun in Europe and is pretty far along over there, where the population growth of the Muslims far exceeds that of the native population, and eventually demands are made, as they become a political force to be reckoned with, in order to force their evil beliefs on their host country… Let us hope and pray that same thing won’t happen here in America!
So tonight as we hit the floor on our knees, let us all pray for the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to have mercy on us, and save our beloved country… America!
I got this email today, although I have seen it posted in a number of places. I often say that all of Islam is a threat to modern civilization.
This however, does not mean all Muslims are out to kill me. I am sure many Muslims are just stuck being Muslims, and if their religion permitted it, they certainly would not be Muslims.
But let’s read the email called:
Can a Muslim be A good American?
Theologically – no. . . Because his allegiance is to Allah, The moon god of Arabia .
Religiously – no. . . Because no other religion is accepted by His Allah Except Islam (Quran, 2:256)(Koran)
Scripturally – no. . . Because his allegiance is to the five Pillars of
Islam and the Quran.
Geographically – no … Because his allegiance is to Mecca , to which he turns in prayer five times a day.
Socially – no. . . Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make Friends with Christians or Jews.
Politically – no. . . Because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual
Leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America, The great Satan.
Domestically – no… Because he is instructed to marry four Women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34)
Intellectually – no… because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.
Philosophically – no… because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran does not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot Co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.
Spiritually – no… because when we declare ‘one nation under God, the Christian’s God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to As Heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in the Quran’s 99 Excellent names.
Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic. Therefore after much study and deliberation perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both good Muslims and good Americans.
Call it what you wish…it’s still the truth. If you find yourself intellectually in agreement with the above, perhaps you will share this with your friends. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country. Pass it on. The war is bigger than we know.
Before we examine this in detail we can read the following rebuttal from a good merican.blogspot, which seems to be a blog created solely to address this particular email:
Saturday, March 11, 2006
A response to “Can Muslims be Good Americans?”
Can a devout Catholic be an American patriot and a loyal citizen? Consider this:
Theologically, no. Because his allegiance is to the Pope, the ruler of a foreign city-state.
Historically, no. Throughout history, nations ruled by the Catholic Church have been amongst the most repressive, oppressive, and war-mongering on record. Exhibiting a distinct lack of compassion and disdain for freedom of religion, their historical record is the antithesis of what our Nation stands for.
You can read the rest at the blog above, I’m stopping here because even the author admits after a long litany of evils that:
Of course, the above is RIDICULOUS. It is just as ridiculous as the initial forward about Muslims was.
I could create equally ludicrous lists ‘proving’ that Jews, African-Americans, Italians, Germans, American Indians, and even Women are incapable of being ‘good Americans’.
We cannot let Theological hubris distort our view of our fellow Americans. The more who pull their heads out of their myopic and bigoted rears, the better it will be for our country.
Catholics certainly don’t listen to the Pope above country, indeed all Christians are taught to ‘Render onto Caesar what is Caesar’s, which, let me translate for Muslims who do not understand the concept, that you follow the laws of your host country.
For Muslims, on the other hand, god’s laws must be the laws of the country.
Most of the items this blogger lists are ancient complaints. Yes, there was an inquisition a long time ago and the Church engaged in many barbaric acts. But that was a long time ago. The problem with Islam is that our complaints are in regard to today, to current not ancient barbarities.
And Yes, a small group of Catholics engaged in terrorism in the last century where a few thousand people died. But that was a minor blip in history and certainly not supported by the Catholic Church.
One cannot compare it to the brutal and savage torture, rape, and murder of hundreds of thousands (I’m low-balling here) that are encouraged and sanctioned by Sharia Law now, today, in the modern era.
One can take all the atrocities by Christians in the past 50 years and fit them on one page.
If you’d like to see what 30 days worth of Islamic attacks looks like go here [if you have dial-up don’t bother – it will take more than 2 hours to load.]
If you think that we are not at War with Islam, but merely with a small, radical element of the Muslim faith then perhaps a visit to The Religion of Peace will disabuse you of that notion.
As for the original email, there is one small point that is inaccurate:
Allah is NEVER referred to as our heavenly father, nor is he ever called Love in the Quran’s 99 excellent names.
Actually number 47 of the 99 names he is called Al-Wadud – The Loving One, see sufism.org.
Other than this single, irrelevant, factual error, I agree that a devout Muslim cannot be an American patriot and a loyal citizen.
I could list tens of thousands of citations with warnings of the threat of modern Islam. But so what?
Either you’ve read them already or you’ve closed your eyes to it, afraid to contemplate the truth, even delude yourself into believing that this is just blatant Islamophobia.
One is told that a good Christian or Jew should be tolerant, should not listen to what has to be racist propaganda. Oh please let it be propaganda, please let it be untrue.
Hiding one’s head in the Arabian sand can kill you.
By the way, it’s not only in America that one questions the loyalty of Muslims, other nations throughout the world are finding out that Muslims cannot be good citizens of their own countries.
Last March three conscripts of the Austrian army refused to salute the Austrian flag because they said this was incompatible with their Islamic religion.
It is said that one of the reasons why the French authorities did not employ the army during the November 2005 riots, despite calls to do so, was because 15% of the French armed forces are made up of Muslims.
Last month a Swiss website reported that some are concerned about the rising number of Muslim soldiers in the Swiss army. The number of Muslim citizens in Switzerland has grown from 16,000 to 310,000 during the past four decades.
In fact, except for harmless Mexicans who eventually accept American Culture and our way of life, Muslims are the fastest growing immigrant population all over the world, see How many Muslim buggers are there?.
Instead of immigration one should be speaking of infiltration.
Sure there will be those who say they have Muslim friends and that they seem nice, friendly, – read my post on dogs – they seem nice, friendly, too – but there are over 4.5 million dog bites a year – usually by the family dog – by the “family” member you most trusted.
This is because it is in the dog’s nature to attack – and it is the one that appears friendly that is the most dangerous.
That old saying barking dogs don’t bite is true. It is your friendly Muslim without his teeth bared – that is most dangerous.
The Dutch are now trying an in-your-face technique to stop Muslims from coming into Holland.
Basically, if you can’t stand the culture, don’t come in and try to change it.
There will be some who will blame a few ignorant, poor, disenfranchised and unemployed youth for Islamic terror throughout the world.
Citizens of the UK were surprised to learn that the 7/7 Terrorists that blew up buses and tubes were British born and bred Muslims that were not desperate or without hope.
They were middle class, employed, respectable Muslims with everything the West could offer them who took it upon themselves to murder hundreds of innocent people.
They could have expressed their views without doing what they did. But that is not in their nature.
How else can one explain the actions of dogs who were brought up in a free society?
Surveys among Muslims after the attacks showed less than 25% condemned the attacks.
You would think that discretion alone would demand that 100% of Muslims condemn the attacks and keep their real opinions secret.
I recall on 9/11 that most of the world sent us their condolences; and even citizens of nations that previously were not great supporters of America at least on that day, announced that they too were New Yorkers. Even the hated French said, Today we are all Americans.
And when I read sentiments like that, I have to tell you, on that day, I found it impossible to keep a dry eye. And what did we hear or see from 5 million American Muslims?
Did they clog the streets as the Hispanics did just recently over jobs and citizenship?
Did they display to the world in massive revolt their horror at the Islamic Terror that day or what THEY thought of this barbarous act?
Did any Islamic nation say Today we are all Americans?
Or did we see dancing in the streets?
I can only conclude that for a devout Muslim to be a good citizen of any country he or she has to renounce their religion. It’s a sad and terrible thing to say. It leaves a racist tang on the tongue. But it’s the truth and so as revolting and reprehensible as it is to say, it must be said.
The cost of freedom is NOT free and let us never forget the sacrifice that so many have made to keep us free!
On the subject of profiling the following email was sent to me today, and I think it has a good many points that need to be aired and heard in a society and country that is too much hung up on “Political Correctness;” and not enough on common sense and truth!!!
I THINK THIS SHOULD BE SENT TO EVERY AMERICAN WHO HAS E-MAIL. THESE ARE MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY. THE MUSLIM WORLD NEEDS TO DRAW A LINE AND THE AMERICAN MUSLIMS NEED TO STEP FORWARD. THE ONES THAT DO NOT SHOULD BE DEPORTED. A PILOT EDITORIAL– “YOU WORRY ME!”
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I’ve been trying to say this since 9-11…
I guess I will be labeled as a bigoted American.
By: American Airlines Pilot – Captain John Maniscalco
“You worry me. I wish you didn’t. I wish when I walked down the
streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still
blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country.
But you don’t blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me. I notice you because I can’t help it anymore.
People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now.
I don’t fully understand their grievances and hate, but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.
On September 11, nineteen ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others.
They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children’s mothers.
So I notice you now. I don’t want to be worried. I don’t want to
be consumed by the same rage and hate and prejudice that has destroyed the soul of these terrorists. But I need your help.
As a rational American, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.
How do I differentiate between the true Arab-Muslim-Americans and
the Arab-Muslims in our communities who are attending our schools, enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities under the protection of OUR constitution, while they plot the next attack that will slaughter those very same good neighbors and children?
The events of September 11th changed the answer. It is not my
responsibility to determine which of you embraces our great country, with ALL of it’s religions, with ALL of it’s different citizens, with all of it’s faults.
It is time for every Arab-Muslim in this country to determine it for me.
I want to know, I demand to know, and I have a right to know
whether or not you love America?
Do you pledge allegiance to it’s flag?
Do you proudly display it in front of your house, or on your car?
Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will bless this nation? That He will protect and prosper it?
Or do you pray that Allah with destroy it in one of your “Jihads?”
Are you thankful for the freedom that only this nation affords? A freedom that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this country?
Are you willing to preserve this freedom by paying the ultimate sacrifice?
Do you love America?
If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to start letting ME know about it.
Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be flooding the media at
this time with hard facts on your faith, and what hard actions you are
taking as a community and as a religion to protect the United States of
America.
Please, no more benign overtures of regret for the death of the
innocent because I worry about who you regard as innocent. And no more benign overtures of condemnation for the unprovoked attacks because I worry about what is unprovoked to you.
I am not interested in any more sympathy… I am only interested in action.
What will you do for America — our great country — at this time of crisis, at this time of war?
I want to see Arab-Muslims waving the AMERICAN flag in the streets.
I want to hear you chanting “Allah Bless America.”
I want to see young Arab-Muslim men enlisting in the military.
I want to see a commitment of money, time, and emotion to the victims of this butchering and to this nation as a whole.
The FBI has a list of over 400 people they want to talk to regarding
the WTC attack. Many of these people live and socialize in Muslim
communities.
You know them. You know where they are. Hand them over to us, now!
But I have seen little even approaching this sort of action. Instead
I have seen an already closed and secretive community close even tighter.
You have disappeared from the streets. You have posted armed security guards at your facilities. You have threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for protection from reprisals.
The very few Arab-Muslim representatives that HAVE appeared in the
media were defensive and equivocating.
They seemed more concerned with making sure that the United States prove who was responsible before taking action. They seemed more concerned with protecting their fellow Muslims from violence directed towards them in the United States and abroad than they
did with supporting our country and denouncing “leaders” like Khadafi, Hussein, Farrakhan, and Arafat.
If the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance and peace and love for all people then I want chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from popular Muslim leaders to back it up.
What good is it if the teachings in the Koran are good and pure and true when your “leaders” are teaching fanatical interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance?
It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if large numbers of the
world’s Muslims interpret the teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a degenerative form of the religion. A form that has been demonstrated to us over and over again. A form whose structure is built upon a foundation of violence, death, and suicide. A form whose members are recruited from the prisons around the world. A form whose members defended Johnny Cochran and O. J. Simpson after the latter butchered his wife and murdered an innocent friend. A form whose members (some as young as five years old) are seen day after day, week in and week out, year after year, marching in the streets around the world, burning effigies of our presidents, burning the American flag, shooting weapons into the air. A form whose members convert from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms against the great United States of America, the country of their birth. A form whose rules are so twisted, that their traveling members refuse to show their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the name of Islam.
Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because our women proudly
show their faces in public rather than cover up like a shameful whore?
Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because we drink wine with
dinner, or celebrate Christmas? Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because we have befriended Israel, the ONLY civilized democratic nation in the entire middle-east? And if you and your fellow Muslims hate us, then why in the world are you even here?
Are you here to take our money? Are you here to undermine our peace
and stability? Are you here to destroy us?
If so, I want you to leave. I want you to go back to your desert sandpit where women are treated like rats and dogs. I want you to take your religion, your friends, and your family back to your Islamic extremists, and STAY THERE!
We will NEVER give into your influence, your retarded mentality,
your twisted, violent, intolerant religion. We will NEVER allow the
attacks of September 11, or any others for that matter, to take away that which is so precious to us: Our rights under the greatest constitution in the world.
I want to know where every Arab-Muslim in this country stands and I
think it is my right and the right of every true citizen of this country to
demand it. A right paid for by the blood of thousands of my brothers and sisters who died protecting the very constitution that is protecting you and your family. I am pleading with you to let me know. I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow American. But there can be no gray areas or ambivalence regarding your allegiance and it is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand.”
“Until then … you worry me.” “”
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LET’S COVER THE COUNTRY WITH THIS ONE
So why aren’t we profiling, or are we?
Well the word that I have heard from unconfirmed sources is that really we are profiling; but because it is so volatile an issue and because of its politically incorrectness, in today’s political environment to do so, at least the appearance has to be maintained that everyone is being treated the same, regardless.
Whether or not that is actually true or not, I really don’t know; but what I do know is that it is crazy for us to be at war and at the same time refusing to recognize who the enemy is; and to add insult to injury, with the extreme pro Islam rhetoric that is constantly coming out the White House these days, it is very difficult to know on what side this current administration is on!
In my view and in the view of an increasing number of Americans today, this administration seems to have a completely different agenda and purpose that seems to be anything but pro American; as Obama is doing just about everything he can to weaken us economically, militarily, and morally, as a country; and at the same time he’s attacking the very foundations of our freedoms, by compromising and undermining our Constitutional rights.
If this man is working for us, as an American (which I really DO NOT believe that he is), and even though he calls himself a Christian, from his rhetoric, his policies and everything else, he is certainly doing a much better job at championing the cause of our enemies; and through his polices he is helping to further their cause and their agenda to undermine and permanently destroy our Constitutional Republic. And all the while, at least it appears that most of America is asleep and is unaware… or worst, doesn’t care!
We can only hope and pray that is NOT true; even as happened with Elijah, when he was running away from Jezebel, after orders had been given by her to kill him; when he thought he was the last one faithful; and God told him, that there were many besides him who had not bowed to Baal and had not compromised their faith!
We can only hope and pray that same thing is true in America today; and that for those Americans who also call themselves Christian, in what used to be called the “Silent Majority,” that sleeping giant if you will, that they will arise and let their collective voices be heard!
I ran across this article today, and I thought it also was worth posting:
Not All Muslims Are Suicide Killers–But All Suicide Killers Are Muslims by sheikyermami on January 12, 2010 Phyllis Chesler
Stand up and be counted!
Many Westerners find it difficult to accept that a religious war has been declared against the West; that jihadists are ready to die, wave after wave of them, in order to ensure that our way of life is destroyed.
Their ideal is Islamic supremacy (only Muslims will rule because they are “superior”) and they want to return to a seventh century way of life, albeit one with cell phones, the internet, and nuclear weaponry.
Moderate, peaceful Muslims certainly exist—but how many are willing to stand up to the jihadists?
Earlier today, I was lying on my gynecologist’s table in a highly exposed position when suddenly she said: “You’re probably going to think this is very politically incorrect but isn’t it crazy not to profile? I mean, isn’t it clear who’s doing what?”
I immediately shot straight up and engaged this worthy liberal in a very politically incorrect conversation. (No, she had absolutely no idea what I’ve been writing about).
So some things are becoming clear and can no longer be denied. Not even by some liberals.
Jihadic terrorists tend to be Muslims. Atheists are not blowing themselves up nor are Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Ba’haii or Zoroastrians.
Not all Muslims are terrorists; but these days, all terrorists seem to be Muslims.
Terrorists and their handlers are not all motivated by poverty and suffering. Many are often wealthy and educated men.
For example, according to the Wall Street Journal, Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi, the Jordanian double agent who recently blew himself up along with seven American CIA operatives in Afghanistan, was a 32 year-old physician.
A physician—not a madrassa trained slum dweller. He is now being linked to Al Qaeda in Pakistan.
On video, he said: ” We will never forget the blood of our emir, Baitullah Mehsud. We will always demand revenge for him inside America and outside.” (Al-Balawi was shown meeting with the Pakistani Taliban/Al Qaeda and vowing revenge for the death of their leader).
Our own homegrown jihadic terrorist, Major Nidal Malik Hassan, (a Palestinian-American), is also a physician, a psychiatrist in fact. He had money, independence, prestige. His massacre at Fort Hood was not motivated by illiteracy, poverty, or war-related trauma.
Many Westerners find it difficult to accept that a religious war has been declared against the West; that jihadists are ready to die, wave after wave of them, in order to ensure that our way of life is destroyed.
Their ideal is Islamic supremacy (only Muslims will rule because they are “superior”) and they want to return to a seventh century way of life, albeit one with cell phones, the internet, and nuclear weaponry.
Moderate, peaceful Muslims certainly exist—but how many are willing to stand up to the jihadists?
For example, according to the AP, only 50 Muslims showed up for a “Muslims Against Terrorism” rally outside the federal courthouse in Detroit where the Christmas Day crotch-bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was being arraigned.
Although the local Detroit press estimated that there were 150 protestors there—this is still a very small showing given that Detroit and its suburbs are also known as “Dearbornistan” and boast the largest Muslim community in the United States.
How many European-Muslim leaders protested the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the murder of Theo Von Gogh, the character assassination of Geert Wilders and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, ore the recently attempted murder of Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist?
How many Muslim religious leaders in Egypt protested the Orthodox Christmas Day shooting of Coptic Christians as they left church? Or protested the abductions, forced conversions, and the hastily arranged marriages of Coptic Christian female children to Muslim adult males?
How many Muslim religious leaders have issued fatwas against the Islamic regime of Iran for its heart stopping persecution of Iranian dissidents?
Too few, if any.
The danger of not standing up early enough is that we condemn ourselves to a higher body count. If we refuse to (behavior) profile now—we must accept that more airports and airplanes will be blown up, more cities held hostage, Mumbai-style. And, those of us who travel frequently will all have to spend a good part of the rest of our lives standing on line at the airport. And, eventually, at the boat dock, or at the train or bus station.
Our nation’s flag has a long and proud history; and the United States of America has had a long and established reputation as being the symbol for freedom to the whole world; and that’s only because our forefathers, as well as our men and women in uniform, both today and in the past, have fought and have died to preserve it and to make it so.
It most certainly did not come to us free, and yet so many people today seem to have forgotten that fact; and are so willing to play nice with our enemies and lay down our arms so as not to make them nervous, and God forbid that they should be offended!
We were once called the “Land of the Free and the home of the Brave,” well what has happened to America today?
There is this inscription on the Statue of Liberty:
The following words are inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
Author: Emma Lazarus
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
The history behind the Statue of Liberty:
Emma Lazarus, the poetess, is probably best known for her poem associated with the Statue of Liberty. Her poem has become one of the quintessential statements of a U.S. ideal of open immigration.
Her poem “The New Colossus” stands as a stirring statement of the American ethos.
Emma Lazarus was born to Moses and Esther Nathan Lazarus in New York City on July 22, 1849. Emma grew up in a prominent fourth generation Jewish family, one of the oldest in New York City. She was well educated and by age 25 was a published poet and author.
She wrote “The New Colossus” in 1883 for an art auction “in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund.” While France had provided the statue itself, American fundraising efforts like these paid for the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal.
In 1903, sixteen years after her death, Lazarus’ sonnet was engraved on a plaque and placed in the pedestal as a memorial.
President Grover Cleveland delivered an address at Liberty’s dedication ceremony in October of 1886 and finally unveiled the statue to the American people.
In 1903 the sonnet “The New Colossus” by American poet Emma Lazarus was inscribed in bronze at the base of the statue, enhancing the Statue of Liberty’s image as a symbol of freedom and opportunity.
In 1924 the statue was declared a national monument and was fully restored in 1986 by a French-American rehabilitation project to celebrate its centennial year.
Here is the entire poem as it appears on the statue:
“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles.
From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome;
her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
America it would seem has forgotten so much of our strong Judaic/Christian legacy and history, as a nation.
There was a time when immigrants came to our shores to be loyal Americans and to assimilate; because they found the chance for opportunities here and hope for their future that was absent in the countries they immigrated from.
However that long history of faith in God that is responsible for our many blessings has long since been removed from our history books; and so our children are no longer taught how we were founded and formed as a Constitutional Republic, by men and women who were predominately Christian; who even designed and structured both our government and our U.S. Constitution around the Holy Bible.
Not only that, but our winning the war of independence against mother England is a miracle in itself; in that we were nothing but a scrawny ban of colonialists, and all that we had on our side was our faith in God, that what we were doing was right; and so men and women were willing to put their lives and fortunes on the line to gain our liberty; that same liberty that is so much taken for granted today, by so many in our country!
Here is just one example, our first navy consisted of nothing more than a small boat, a little larger than a row boat, with several cannons mounted on it, and we were taking on English battle frigates and sinking them!
Now if you don’t call that a miracle, I don’t know what you would call it!
God was certainly on our side, or we would never have won our freedom; because in the natural we were too badly outnumbered and outgunned!
Now having said that, and having recognized that this is a very real part of our history and our legacy, as a nation for ALL Americans, regardless of race, color, creed, or nation of origin, for truly we are the melting pot of the world; and also owed to the fact that this nation has been blessed more than any other on this planet, and in the history of the world, it is of utmost importance that we NOT forget the very precepts upon which our nation has been founded!
The Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
2.1 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
2.2 That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
2.3 Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
2.4 But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
2.5 Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.”
The fact is, the whole world has sought to come to our shores in order to enjoy our liberty and our blessings, blessing that we have inherited because of the faith of our founding fathers, and also owed to the covenant which they once made with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and that’s true even going back to the Mayflower Compact:
“In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620.”
Now given that this is our long established history, it is inexcusable that Christians have allowed our nation to be taken over today by men and women, many of whom are Christian in name only, and others who are out and out atheists and agnostics; and subsequently we have been put upon a course that has taken us away from the God of the Bible, and our nations has also forsaken His ways and His laws… but what is it that we expected would happen when unbelievers are in charge?
So here we are today, where our leadership for the most part has forsaken God, and in so doing we are doing exactly the very thing that the Bible warns us against:
Deuteronomy 8:11-20
11 “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, 12 lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 14 when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end— 17 then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
18 “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.
The truth is, there are many who have come here to our shores from all over the world, and have enjoyed our liberty and our blessings, which in most cases they did not have in their country of origin, and yet rather than being thankful for their new found home and liberty, and the freedom to worship their god and practice their religion as they please, at least from the rhetoric we have heard, many of these people even hate us and they despise who we are and what we stand for.
They are obviously not here to assimilate, but rather it would seem their sole purpose is to destroy both our country and our way of life!
Then to add insult to injury, our very nation itself, who has benefited from God’s protection and His many blessings, has itself long since turned its back on the God of our forefathers; and truly our only hope today that we can change all this, and turn our nation around, is for us to have another Spiritual Awakening and Revival, as happened when our nation was first formed.
To that end, I would ask that ALL Christians, not just in America, but around the world, would pray for America; because what happens here will also affect the rest of the world, either for good or bad, depending on whether we survive as a free republic or not!
Cyborg Technology, bioengineering, and the integration of human and animal DNA:
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FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS
I’ve often said that the movies that are coming out of Hollywood these days are more reality than fiction; and that it certainly seems to me that the prince of the power the air, Satan, is in fact telegraphing his strategies for his end of days offensive action. Well what follows is exactly on that subject.
FORBIDDEN GATES PART 1
By Thomas R. Horn
August 7, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, & Human Enhancement Herald the Dawn of Techno-Dimensional Spiritual Warfare
While this new series Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, & Human Enhancement Herald the Dawn of Techno-Dimensional Spiritual Warfare will include fresh insights for traditional, tried and true methods of overcoming darkness, it unveils for the first time how breakthrough advances in science, technology, and philosophy—including cybernetics, bio-engineering, nanotechnology, machine intelligence, synthetic biology, and transhumanism—will combine to create mind-boggling game-changes to everything you have ever known about the ancient subject of spiritual warfare.
How so?
In recent years, astonishing technological developments have pushed the frontiers of humanity toward far-reaching morphological transformation that promises in the very near future to redefine what it means to be human. An international, intellectual and fast-growing cultural movement known as transhumanism has been embraced by the deepest and darkest chambers of national laboratories, which intend the use of genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology (GRIN technologies) as tools that will radically redesign our minds, our memories, our physiology, our offspring, and even perhaps, as Joel Garreau in his bestselling book Radical Evolution claims, our very souls.
The technological, cultural, and metaphysical shift now under way unapologetically forecasts a future dominated by this new species of unrecognizably superior humans, and applications under study now to make this dream reality are being funded by thousands of government and private research facilities around the world. As readers will learn, this includes among other things rewriting human DNA (in some instances actually combining men with beasts), a fact not only reflected in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) budgets (including the current 2011 president’s budget) but that some university studies and transhumanists believe will not only alter our bodies and souls but could open a door to contact with unseen intelligence.
And that is just the beginning.
As a result, new modes of perception between things visible and invisible are expected to challenge people of faith in ways that are historically and theologically unprecedented. Without comprehending what is quickly approaching in related disciplines of research and development, vast numbers of people could be paralyzed by the most fantastic—and most far reaching—supernatural implications. The destiny of each individual—as well as the future of their family—will depend on their knowledge of the new paradigm and their preparedness to face it head on.
As outlined in this research, the power operating behind this scheme to integrate human-animal-machine interfaces in order to reengineer humanity is not new. The ancient, malevolent force is repackaging itself these days as the forward-thinking and enlightened progress needed for the next step in human evolution.
Facing god-like machines and man’s willingness to cross over species and extra-dimensional barriers put in place by God (or if you prefer, evolution), traditional methods of spiritual warfare, which religious institutions have relied on for the last century, will be monumentally impacted in nontraditional ways and insufficient when approaching this threshold.
What continues within these entries will lift the curtain on a world unlike previous generations could have expected or even imagined. This series will combine investigation by numerous brave resources and reproduce leaked documentation that clearly outlines how soon (several government reports point to “2012” as year one) human enhancement technology of the most exotic order will start. Due to the urgent nature and timing of this expose, we offer one caution: If you are a person that is happy living in a “Matrix”, cradled in the warm embrace of illusions, we recommend you lay this study aside and enjoy your remaining days uninformed.
But if like millions of others around the world you have recently awakened with a sense that something foreboding is unfolding on earth, then this information is for you. If you believe that a global event, which so far nobody has been able to clearly explain is on the horizon, this information is for you. If you feel whatever is happening is both physical and spiritual, yet you cannot solve the conundrum of what is stirring beneath the surface, this information is for you. If you hunger to discern the meaning behind the raging turmoil enveloping nature, societies, and global politics, this information is for you.
But prepare yourself for the unexpected, including truly startling and often discomforting information, which you have not heard or read anywhere before.
What has been in preparation for thousands of years is about to reveal itself to humanity.
The clock is ticking and the hand is closer to midnight than most can comprehend.
Something wicked this way comes.
The occult desire of the ages is here.
And once you understand the secret, you will know what you have to do to survive.
Over the last decade, he has authored three books, wrote dozens of published editorials, and had several feature magazine articles. In addition to past articles at NewsWithViews.com , his works have been referred to by writers of the LA Times Syndicate, MSNBC, Christianity Today, Coast to Coast, World Net Daily, White House Correspondents and dozens of newsmagazines and press agencies around the globe. Tom’s latest book is “The Ahriman Gate,” which fictionalizes the use of biotechnology to resurrect Biblical Nephilim.
Thomas is also a well known radio personality who has guest-hosted and appeared on dozens of radio and television shows over the last 30 years, including “The 700 Club” and “Coast to Coast AM.” When looking for a spokesperson to promote their film “Deceived” staring Louis Gossett Jr. and Judd Nelson, “Cloud 10 Pictures” selected Thomas as their spokesperson to explain the Christian viewpoint on UFO-related demonology.
You know as we look to scriptures (the Holy Bible) and read what Yeshua (Jesus) had to say regarding something He called the “Time of Sorrows,” which He described as being the worse time this world has ever known, or ever will know; and particularly as we look to the Book of Revelation, we see some pretty hair raising things happening, that is beyond anything Hollywood has even dreamed of, though they have certainly come close; and yet we can know as Christians that not only are we living in those days; but that much of this stuff that we read about will be happening in our lifetime.
What was the development of events and the scenario, as we can read in our Bible that happened in the antediluvian age that caused God to destroy all life on earth, with the exception of Noah and his family?
Didn’t Jesus say that the end of days would be like the days of Noah?
Even the Old Testament contains reference to the genetic mutations that developed among humans following this time frame, including “men” of unusual size, physical strength, six fingers, six toes, animal appetite for blood, and even lion-like features (2 Samuel 21:20, 23:20). But of all the ancient records, the most telling extra biblical script is from the Book of Jasher, a mostly forgotten text referred to in the Bible in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18.
Jasher records the familiar story of the fall of the Watchers, then adds an exceptional detail that none of the other texts is as unequivocal about, something that can only be understood in modern language to mean advanced biotechnology, genetic engineering, or “transgenic modification” of species.
After the Watchers had instructed humans “in the secrets of heaven,” note what Jasher says occurred: “[Then] the sons of men [began teaching] the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord” (4:18). http://defenderpublishing.blogspot.com/
We are living in the Last Days folks, and that fact should be all but obvious from all that we see happening in the world. As Jesus said the mariners can discern the weather by looking at the skies, likewise as we read our Bible and then look at the unfolding of events in the world, and within our own country, certainly we can see that the time of Jesus’ return to earth is near.
Our nation today is, I believe, at a crossroads; and our future will depend on what the Christian Believers do or don’t do!
Folks, our enemy is NOT our politicians in DC and nor is he in the White House; for even as the Apostle Paul says, “We fight not against flesh and blood, but spiritual wickedness in high places!”
Obama is, is NOT the enemy; but he certainly is deceived and is being manipulated and controlled, as the Bible says every unsaved soul is, by the enemy, who is Satan.
The Bible tells us in no uncertain terms that we are in either of two camps; we are in God’s camp, by choice, having entered into covenant relationship with Him, through Jesus Christ; or we are in Satan’s camp by default, and there is no in between.
So we can know from this that there are many people out there in the world, be they atheist or agnostic, who don’t know what they don’t know.
Now at some point, depending on how much of one’s will is given over to these unseen evil forces, through such things as the occult, the soul of some of these wayward individuals can be completely inhabited and taken over by these demon entities; and we can know from the Bible that this will certainly be the case with the Antichrist, who will ultimately be possessed by Satan himself.
Could Obama be him, I don’t know, he very well could be; but certainly in his ignorance and in his misguided ambition and quest for power, I believe that he is an archetype of the Antichrist; and is a foreshadowing or forerunner of him? But this I do know that as I read what the Bible says, that once Satan enters into this man of perdition, that he will be completely changed for the worse.
The point is, as Christians, we don’t want to be deceived and caught off guard; and that is why it is time for us to truly get serious because we are entering into some pretty dangerous times; even more dangerous than what we are facing today.
Pray for our nation, pray for our leaders in Washington DC, that they repent; and pray for revival!
Shalom,
Skip Barland
P.S.
If you are reading this and you have not yet made your reservations for eternity, and have not yet entered into covenant with the God of Creation, of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, through Jesus Christ; and if you would like information on how to do that, watch the following video:
This is the “religion of peace” that Obama and Bush talked about!
TheRightScoop.com says: Oh man, I have NEVER seen Walid Shoebat like this before! I mean, I love Glenn Beck, but it was Walid’s speech that had me pumping my fist in the air. You just have to take 30 minutes to watch this speech. It’s just the best speech I’ve ever heard from Walid, and in my opinion it was the best speech at Six Flags. Sorry Glenn, but Walid out did you, and that’s saying something. Enjoy!
Listen to this ex PLO terrorist as he tells the truth about Islam: Born in Bethlehem of Judea, Walid’s grandfather was the Muslim Mukhtar (chieftain) of Beit Sahour-Bethlehem (The Shepherd’s Fields) and a friend of Haj-Ameen Al-Husseni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and notorious friend of Adolf Hitler. Walid’s great grandfather, Abdullah Ali Awad-Allah, was also a fighter and close associate of both Abdul Qader and Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who led the Palestinians against Israel. Walid lived through and witnessed Israel’s Six Day War while living in Jericho.
As a young man, he became a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and participated in acts of terror and violence against Israel, and was later imprisoned in the Russian Compound, Jerusalem’s central prison for incitement and violence against Israel.
After his release, he continued his life of violence and rioting in Bethlehem and the Temple Mount. After entering the U.S, he worked as a counselor for the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago and continued his anti-Israel activities.
In 1993, Walid studied the Tanach (Jewish Bible) in a challenge to convert his wife to Islam. Six months later, after intense study, Walid realized that everything he had been taught about Jews was a lie. Convinced he was on the side of evil, he became an advocate for his former enemy.
Driven by a deep passion to heal his own soul, and to bring the truth about the Jews and Israel to the world, Walid shed his former life and his work as a software engineer and set out to tirelessly bring the cause of Israel to tens of thousands of people throughout the world: churches and synagogues, civic groups, government leaders and media.
Walid has written several online books including “Dear Muslim, Let Me Tell You Why I Believed” and “Israel, And The World’s Mock Trial”, where he exposes anti-Semitism and the hatred of Jews in both the Islamic Christian and secular worlds.
Walid is an American citizen and lives in the USA with his wife and children, under this assumed name.
We have a dire situation here in America today that most people are not even aware of.
While the average American is so concerned about the state of the economy and is trying to survive month to month, our nation’s leaders are running our country into the ground!
All we hear over the liberal media is this “politically correct” doubletalk and rhetoric that comes out of the mouths of these talking heads on the tube; as well as so many of our politicians and even presidents, and all of them are setting our country up for a fall!
America, you need to listen up and begin to take these warnings seriously, because if you don’t our beloved country, as we know it, will cease to exist in the not too distant future; as we cannot not continue this outrages deficit spending that has been going on for years, but first under George W. Bush and now with Obama has gone to new levels, that has taken our national debt to over 13.5 Trillion Dollars!
The truth is our nation is already bankrupt, and we have been ever since 1863, coming out of the Civil War. The lying started when our politicians passed the Act of 1871 in order to borrow from the Rothschild’s International Banking Cartel, and subsequently both surreptitiously and illegally changed our Constitutional Republic into the UNITED STATES CORPORATION.
The date is February 21, 1871 and the Forty-First Congress is in session. I refer you to the “Acts of the Forty-First Congress,” Section 34, Session III, chapters 61 and 62. On this date in the history of our nation, Congress passed an Act titled: “An Act to Provide a Government for the District of Columbia.” This is also known as the “Act of 1871.” What does this mean? Well, it means that Congress, under no constitutional authority to do so, created a separate form of government for the District of Columbia, which is a ten mile square parcel of land.
Why was this done?
To explain, let’s look at the circumstances of those days. The Act of 1871 was passed at a vulnerable time in America. Our nation was essentially bankrupt — weakened and financially depleted in the aftermath of the Civil War. The Civil War itself was nothing more than a calculated “front” for some pretty fancy footwork by corporate backroom players. It was a strategic maneuver by European interests (the international bankers) who were intent upon gaining a stranglehold on the neck (and the coffers) of America.
The Congress realized our country was in dire financial straits, so they cut a deal with the international bankers — (in those days, the Rothschilds of London were dipping their fingers into everyone’s pie) thereby incurring a DEBT to said bankers. If we think about banks, we know they do not just lend us money out of the goodness of their hearts. A bank will not do anything for you unless it is entirely in their best interest to do so. There has to be some sort of collateral or some string attached which puts you and me (the borrower) into a subservient position. This was true back in 1871 as well. The conniving international bankers were not about to lend our floundering nation any money without some serious stipulations. So, they devised a brilliant way of getting their foot in the door of the United States (a prize they had coveted for some time, but had been unable to grasp thanks to our Founding Fathers, who despised them and held them in check), and thus, the Act of 1871 was passed.
In essence, this Act formed the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. Note the capitalization, because it is important. This corporation, owned by foreign interests, moved right in and shoved the original “organic” version of the Constitution into a dusty corner. With the “Act of 1871,” our Constitution was defaced in the sense that the title was block-capitalized and the word “for” was changed to the word “of” in the title. The original Constitution drafted by the Founding Fathers, was written in this manner:
“The Constitution for the united states of America”.
The altered version reads: “THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”. It is the corporate constitution. It is NOT the same document you might think it is. The corporate constitution operates in an economic capacity and has been used to fool the People into thinking it is the same parchment that governs the Republic. It absolutely is not.
Capitalization — an insignificant change? Not when one is referring to the context of a legal document, it isn’t. Such minor alterations have had major impacts on each subsequent generation born in this country. What the Congress did with the passage of the Act of 1871 was create an entirely new document, a constitution for the government of the District of Columbia. The kind of government THEY created was a corporation. The new, altered Constitution serves as the constitution of the corporation, and not that of America. Think about that for a moment.
Incidentally, this corporate constitution does not benefit the Republic. It serves only to benefit the corporation. It does nothing good for you or me — and it operates outside of the original Constitution. Instead of absolute rights guaranteed under the “organic” Constitution, we now have “relative” rights or privileges. One example of this is the Sovereign’s right to travel, which has been transformed under corporate government policy into a “privilege” which we must be licensed to engage in. This operates outside of the original Constitution.
So, Congress committed TREASON against the People, who were considered Sovereign under the Declaration of Independence and the organic Constitution.
Then in 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was passed these same bankers achieved their objective and became a legal and permanent fixture in our government by creating an entity called the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK, which is no more Federal than Federal Express.
This is not a part of the Federal Government, but it is an autonomous, independent and private corporation that has no accountability or oversight from any of our elected officials; and it is made up a group of men in which at least 6 out of the 10 who sit on the Board of Directors are foreign nationals.
Who are these men?
THESE TEN MEMBER BANKS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Are all owned by the Rothschilds
Rothschild Bank of London
Warburg Bank of Hamburg
Rothschild Bank of Berlin
Lehman Brothers of New York
Lazard Brothers of Paris
Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York
Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
Goldman, Sachs of New York
Warburg Bank of Amsterdam
Chase Manhattan Bank of New York
There are two evil agendas that are converging on our country today, one is the Islamification movement that is subtly growing in America, whose agenda is to ultimately overthrow our form of government and replace it with Sharia Law; just as happened in Lebanon; and is today happening in the UK, France, Belgium, and other Western European countries.
The other is a move to take our world into what George H.W. Bush first introduced in a speech he gave in 1991, which he called “The New World Order”, which is the International Banker’s code name for a world that ultimately will operate under a One World Government and one world monetary system, which we know from the Bible will be a mark, or as we now know it will be a micro chip that is inserted into either the right hand or forehead; and then these Globalist Bankers will become the masters of the world, and we shall be their slaves.
If you will remember history there were also Muslims who aligned themselves with the Nazi’s and with Hitler in the 1930s and 40s, who fought on the same side, and so don’t think that their can’t also be a similar alliance today, to undermine our freedom and weaken our nation.
We must realize that this evil alliance started with Satan, as he is the ultimate head over this One World Movement; and these men and women who work for him and are representing his cause are his puppet masters, and are individuals whom he has given the wealth and power to carry out his will and his agenda.
We also know from the Bible that this New World Order will ultimately be ruled by the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation.
The handwriting in on the wall, and we are being set up for this fall by our own politicians.
The ONLY hope we have at this point, in my view, that America will wake up in time to save our country, is if we have a Spiritual Awakening and Revival among grassroots America, much like the one that happened between 1730-1760, when our nation and our Constitutional Republic was first being formed.
We need a miracle folks, and we need for Christians in America to take their collective heads out of the sand, and as our Lord says “Be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves;” and understand what this evil agenda is; and pray for a miracle of God to stop it!
You know what threatens our country most is not our enemies from outside, but it is those within our own government who have been recruited and groomed, some since their college days, to betray our U.S. Constitution and our country.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman orator, statesman 42 B.C.
What we are facing today is very similar to the same scenario that unfolded in Germany during the 1930’s, that gave rise to the Nazis, and to Hitler, who is one of history’s archetypes of the Antichrist.
If we are to save our country and restore our Constitutional Republic, then Americans have to band together and act as one; and those of us who are Christians need to be on our knees and interceding and praying for that miracle!
Chalmers Johnson is an American author and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego (now retired). He served in the Korean war, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967–1973, and led the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley for years. He is also president and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute (now based at the University of San Francisco), an organization promoting public education about Japan and Asia. He has also written numerous books including, most recently, three examinations of the consequences of American Empire: Blowback; The Sorrows of Empire; and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.
My thanks goes out to Gene and Stan for forwarding this link to me.
I actually like this guy, and I find much of what he says very interesting and informative.
My take on the subject, however, I think might be a little different.
Whereas I’m sure that if we got some different people in charge, in Washington DC, other than career politicians, who have their hidden agendas as many of our politicians have today, for that’s how they stay in office, I am sure that we could save money; and certainly there is nothing wrong with that at all, as long as we don’t compromise our national defense in the process.
After all, providing for our national defense is the one IMPORTANT thing that our Federal Government is mandated by our U.S. Constitution to do; but unfortunately, as is the case today, our Federal government has elected instead to butt their nose into every aspect of our lives; and are doing things today that are beyond the authorized scope of their authority, as per our Constitution.
As to his comment about dropping bombs on children, I think that is completely out of line! If anything, I think history will prove that we bend over backwards to avoid civilian casualties, even at the risk of American lives; and I actually took a offense at that particular comment, because I don’t believe it is at all justified.
I think it is probably fair to say that the bulk of the money that we spend today, is spent more on Social Welfare programs, and those expenses are about to go through the roof if this administration has their way with the illegal alien situation; and the Obamacare program that was just rushed through congress without anyone reading it, I might add; and the fact is, most all of these sorts of programs are not at all mandated by our U.S. Constitution… so why are we doing them?
Besides, our social welfare programs today are not so much designed to help people, as they are to keep them dependent upon the government; and to provide for these huge bureaucracies that have to be supported and managed by those who run them.
After all, if we are doing right by the people who are on these various welfare programs, then the ultimate goal should be for government to eliminate the need for that service, wherever possible, or at least reduce the need for it.
I believe if our Federal Government were to butt out of a lot of stuff that they are involved in, that according to our Constitution they have no business in; and if we would elect honest and knowledgeable men and women to office, who are there to serve the public and not their own careers; who understand business and how to operate at a profit and within a budge; who also know how to pray and seek God for guidance and wisdom; and if we would return our dollar to the gold standard; and also allow more freedom of commerce in market place, without all the unnecessary red tape and taxes, I believe that our economy and our employment picture would be greatly improve.
The bottom-line is, if our government does anything, it is of utmost importance, I believe, that we maintain a strong military presence in the world, especially in these times; and I would like to see us be even more as Teddy Roosevelt said, and that is for us “To speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Believe me, this world today is much too dangerous for us to not maintain a strong military presence; because as is the case with any bully, and there certainly are plenty of bullies out there in the world today, of people who hate us and have made themselves our enemies; and these people don’t hesitate to use women and children as their cannon fodder, and the fact is, these people don’t respect anything but a stick that’s bigger than their own.
In my opinion we should always try and avoid war at ALL cost, whenever possible; but when we have said all we have to say; and diplomacy has obviously failed, our enemies need to know that we are not afraid to back up what we say with action!
I have heard this in the past, and I happen to believe it is probably true, that a lot of our wars that we fight, and have fought in the past, to a large extent, have been instigated and influenced by the International Banking Interests, of those who control the FED and the monetary systems of the world.
I’m sure if we looked behind the scenes as to what events have lead up to WW I and WW II, and other wars we have fought, I am sure that we would find evidence to support that theory; because in every case where there is a war, the economy gets stimulated, resulting in an increase of fiat money to pay for it; thereby increasing the profits of these Bankers tenfold or higher, and also of large corporate interests.
The Bible clearly says that things like this are to be expected when a people are unequally yoked with unbelievers; and that is certainly the case in our government today, where we have people in high places who are more in business for themselves, who have hidden external interests outside of government; and are more interested in serving those outside interest at a profit for themselves, then they are in doing what’s best for the people, whom they are suppose to be serving.
That being said, I think the maintaining of our military has been at least one area that our government has usually done half way descent, all things considered, and that’s not to say there isn’t room for improvement, and that we can’t cut off unnecessary and wasteful spending.
But when it comes to putting our guys in harm’s way, there is no more worthwhile expense, than for us to make sure that they have the very state of the art in weaponry, and the best possible means to defend themselves, that money can buy!
After all, we only get to lose a war once!!!
Shalom,
Skip Barland
From: Stan Carpenter
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:44 AM
Subject: YouTube – Chalmers Johnson – Speaking Freely
I would like you to hear a current comment from Chalmers Johnson: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPr_T7btVgA)! Chalmers Johnson is a retired professor of international relations at the University of California, San Diego. He is also President of the Japan Policy Research Institute. Johnson has written for several publications including Los Angeles Times
The guy was my introduction to world economics about 3 years ago. I caught a program on PBS that interviewed him. He has written several books, particularly frightening is entitled “Nemesis” (http://www.democracynow.org/2007/2/27/chalmers_johnson_nemesis_the_last_days) which touted the “Hubris” (Arrogance) of our placement of over 800 military basis throughout the world. The growing animosity towards the U.S. in each of these outlying countries is huge.
I am rushing my point here regarding the US Military complex, because the issue is larger: The Banking system at large (http://motherjones.com/politics/2006/05/predator-state), The Progressive Movement, the rise of China and India as economic forces of change, plus the Muslim presence in non-Muslim countries.
Viewers of this video may better understand this clip if you knew the original poem upon which this video clip is based – “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Thayer is often considered one of baseball’s greatest writings. My thanks to Dick for forwarding this video to me.
A little Nostalgia and History
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer
It all started in 1885 when George Hearst decided to run for state senator in California. To self-promote his brand of politics, Hearst purchased the San Francisco Examiner. At the completion of the election, Hearst gave the newspaper to his son, William Randolph Hearst.
William, who had experience editing the Harvard Lampoon while at Harvard College, took to California three Lampoon staff members. One of those three was Ernest L. Thayer who signed his humorous Lampoon articles with the pen name Phin.
In the June 3, 1888 issue of The Examiner, Phin appeared as the author of the poem we all know as Casey at the Bat. The poem received very little attention and a few weeks later it was partially republished in the New York Sun, though the author was now known as Anon.
A New Yorker named Archibald Gunter clipped out the poem and saved it as a reference item for a future novel. Weeks later Gunter found another interesting article describing an upcoming performance at the Wallack Theatre by comedian De Wolf Hopper – who was also his personal friend. The August 1888 show (exact date is unknown) had members from the New York and Chicago ball clubs in the audience and the clipping now had a clear and obvious use.
Gunter shared Casey at the Bat with Hopper and the perfomance was nothing short of legendary. Baseball Almanac is pleased to present the single most famous baseball poem ever written.
“Love has its sonnets galore. War has its epics in heroic verse. Tragedy its sombre story in measured lines. Baseball has Casey at the Bat.” – Albert Spalding
Casey at the Bat
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
The Outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought, if only Casey could get but a whack at that –
We’d put up even money, now, with Casey at the bat.
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,
And the former was a lulu and the latter was a cake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
For there seemed but little chance of Casey’s getting to the bat.
But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,
And Blake, the much despis-ed, tore the cover off the ball;
And when the dust had lifted, and the men saw what had occurred,
There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.
Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.
There was ease in Casey’s manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey’s bearing and a smile on Casey’s face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt ’twas Casey at the bat.
Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt;
Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt.
Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip,
Defiance gleamed in Casey’s eye, a sneer curled Casey’s lip.
And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air,
And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped-
“That ain’t my style,” said Casey. “Strike one,” the umpire said.
From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore.
“Kill him! Kill the umpire!” shouted someone on the stand;
And its likely they’d a-killed him had not Casey raised his hand.
With a smile of Christian charity great Casey’s visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the game go on;
He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the spheroid flew;
But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, “Strike two.”
“Fraud!” cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered fraud;
But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn’t let that ball go by again.
The sneer is gone from Casey’s lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey’s blow.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville – mighty Casey has struck out.
Congress Voting on the Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. (…More)
The grievances which our founding fathers had against mother England and King George III were as follows:
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. (Declaration of Independence – July 4, 1776 )
Many people today are questioning how our country arrived in this sad state that we are in today; and how we have degenerated as a free people and republic into this present state, both morally and economically, where we are today tottering on the precipice of totally economic collapse and ruin?
Well every Democracy in history has traveled through a similar progression, as was once pointed out in an article that has been attributed to a man by the name of Alexander Tyler, back in 1770; but more than likely it goes back even further:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
Who were our founding fathers and what was the atmosphere that brought these English subjects to turn upon their mother country and king?
“The American Revolution was made by British subjects, individual men and women who, by our modern sense of proportions, were amazingly few in number. The war they fought was the most important in our history, and as too few today seem to understand, it very quickly became a world war. But the revolution began well before the war. As John Adams famously observed, ‘The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.’ And it changed the world.
There was no American nation, no army at the start, no sweeping popular support for rebellion, nor much promise of success. No rebelling people had ever broken free from the grip of colonial empire, and those we call patriots were also clearly traitors to the King. And so, as we must never forget, when they pledged ‘their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor,’ it was not in a manner of speaking.
We call them Founding Fathers, in tribute, but tend to see them as distant and a bit unreal, like figures in a costume pageant. Yet very real they were, real as all that stirred their ‘hearts and minds,’ and it has meaning in our time as never before.
With change accelerating all around, more and more we need understanding of those principles upon which the republic was founded. What were those ‘self-evident truths’ that so many risked all for, fought for, suffered and died for? What was the source of their courage? Who were those people? I don’t think we can ever know enough about them.” (Quote from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough’s book, “John Adams”}
How did this web of deceit and betrayal begin, that has brought our nation to this point?
As with most forms of corruption, to get to the root cause you have but to follow the money; and unfortunately our country is not different.
The root cause of our troubles today can be traced to a Privately owned and controlled Central Bank, which by the way is absolutely UNCONSTITUTIONAL, but was nevertheless allowed and was signed into law by the Congress and by then President Woodrow Wilson, back in 1913; and mind you this happened over the Christmas holidays, after most of Congress had already dismissed and had gone home for the holidays, and so this unconstitutional bill was voted upon and signed into law by a simple majority of those who stayed behind for that very purpose.
Our founding fathers and a rare few number of our presidents have warned us of the dangers to our liberty and freedom that would happen if ever we should abdicated control of our currency creation and our medium of exchange, and would allow this control to fall into the hands of a secretive member group of private Banks.
“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”
~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild (23 February 1744 – 19 September 1812) was the founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty
Question: Who gains from this system of credit that is the creation of these private banks; that has been allowed by the laws that these big Banks have introduced, whether it be through lobbyists or from their expertly-financed and polished candidates and representatives; many of whom have been trained since their college days to betray both our U.S. Constitution and our Republic; and in that group are the Bush’s, the Clintons, and Obama.
Question: Who gets first pick of the prime assets when they withdraw the fake credit they control, and the economy collapses, as just happened in 2008; and as also happened in 1929?
The greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated upon the American people, that allowed for the creation of this evil oligarchy, that has spawn the creation of this “superior ruling class of people,” so they think, was first allowed under the administration of Woodrow Wilson, though he later recanted and apologized for his involvement; but nevertheless, the results are now what you see happening; as this current president and Congress are today spending money like drunken sailors; creating unfettered and unrestrained inflation, and paying for it with worthless fiat Federal Reserve Notes; and still these corrupt bleeders, these Globalist Bankers, are still at large and in charge, and are at the ready to do it all again… as they take us down the road to the establishment of something they call the “New World Order!”
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.“ Thomas Jefferson
Here is a history that you may not know:
After more than 30 years of anecdotal research, connecting thousands of dots across an endless sky, a distinct pattern begins to emerge, something I’ll share a bit with you here.
First, there’re other brave souls out there who also have researched this contentious topic, and have drawn similar conclusions. And we’ve all done so independently, which makes our conclusions all the more striking. I’ve said this before and it bears repeating: the evil Rothschild family, which controls what I term The First Sphere of Influence in the western world, hides in plain sight. They even flaunt their wealth, their control and power with such arrogance and contempt that it cannot be ignored, even by like-minded people as they.
Where shall I start?
The U.S. income tax was a long sought-after tax the Rothschilds had attempted to bring on since the late 1770s, but it was strongly resisted by Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, James Madison and John Adams, among other less-known (to contemporary audiences) American Patriots.
Traitor Alexander Hamilton, was our first Secretary of the Treasury, sent to the US by the Rothschilds to establish the first central bank.
Hamilton, who had been born out of wedlock in the Caribbean islands, had been groomed from the start by the Rothschilds, although few people actually knew of his true identity.
Aaron Burr, Hamilton’s killer, knew of his background and often chided and bullied him over it, until Burr finally slapped Hamilton across the face with a leather glove, thus issuing the challenge that killed Hamilton.
While Thomas Jefferson vehemently fought against the creation of such a bank, George Washington believed that Hamilton knew what he was doing and thus must be correct. The bank was started . . . and suddenly plunged the United States into debt.
When the central bank’s charter expired, it was not renewed, so the Rothschilds punished the “Colonies” by having the British attack the US again to commence the War of 1812.
When the US “won” the war, once again expelling the Red Coats from our lands, the Rothschilds reveled in their own victory, having established yet another central bank that drained the US taxpayers of their Personal Income.
When this bank’s charter ran its course, the whole Rothschild-US President [Fill In The Blank] battle started again, with one side winning a victory over the other in the ensuing 70 years.
Without dredging up reams of references from our beloved annals of history, please note that President Andrew Jackson was instrumental in fighting the Rothschilds, although they tried on numerous occasions to assassinate him.
It wasn’t until 1913 that Senator Nelson Aldrich and his fascist “American Rothschilds” managed to sneak through a bill, during the winter break of the House of Representatives that imposed a formal personal income tax on all Americans.
Our notion that our personal income taxes go to paying for our country’s infrastructure, social services, military, etc. is inaccurate, to say the least.
Our personal income taxes first are collected by the US Treasury via the Internal Revenue Service, which sends the funds to the Federal Reserve, which is NOT a federal bank of any sort.
The privately owned Federal Reserve, which is owned by the Rothschilds and, to a smaller extent, other banking families, then sends our tax dollars to its own Bank of England, which is located in the sovereign area of London called The City of London.
Interestingly, The City of London has its own laws, security forces and military, completely independent of the rest of London and the entire United Kingdom.
It is considered the most elite banking and economic center in the western world.
The Bank of England, again, owned by the Rothschilds, sends our tax dollars to other central banks, all privately owned, and located in Europe.
Why do we even pay this illegal personal income tax, when our own government can operate without it?
Because our government borrows heavily from the Rothschilds and must pay interest on these loans. Our personal income tax offsets these interest payments. All usurious, of course. And all illegal. (taken from an article by William Dean A. Garner)
This Rothschild International Banking Cartel has, against the wishes of our founding fathers, has always sought to establish a central, privately owned and controlled bank, which they would both own and control.
The Act of 1871 – Is this the source of all our problems?
Submitted by Ralph Waldo on Sat, 06/26/2010 – 17:07
The following article explains how the original “Constitution for the united states for America” was in 1871, changed to the “THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”.
If this impostor is the source of our modern day problems, repealing it could be the simple solution as well.
I am a neophyte of this topic but find it most interesting. Hopefully, some other DPs will help confirm the accuracy of this historical event and bring additional understanding to the fore.
Excerpt:
The Congress realized our country was in dire financial straits, so they cut a deal with the international bankers — (in those days, the Rothschilds of London were dipping their fingers into everyone’s pie) thereby incurring a DEBT to said bankers.
If we think about banks, we know they do not just lend us money out of the goodness of their hearts. A bank will not do anything for you unless it is entirely in their best interest to do so. There has to be some sort of collateral or some string attached which puts you and me (the borrower) into a subservient position. This was true back in 1871 as well.
The conniving international bankers were not about to lend our floundering nation any money without some serious stipulations. So, they devised a brilliant way of getting their foot in the door of the United States (a prize they had coveted for some time, but had been unable to grasp thanks to our Founding Fathers, who despised them and held them in check), and thus, the Act of 1871 was passed.
In essence, this Act formed the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. Note the capitalization, because it is important. This corporation, owned by foreign interests, moved right in and shoved the original “organic” version of the Constitution into a dusty corner.
With the “Act of 1871,” our Constitution was defaced in the sense that the title was block-capitalized and the word “for” was changed to the word “of” in the title. The original Constitution drafted by the Founding Fathers, was written in this manner: “The Constitution for the united states of America”.
Below is an article, and also a petition sign (see at bottom of page), where you can show your disgust over the recently passed Obama Care Legislation, all of which again is unconstitutional and therefore illegal, by adding your name to a class action law suit.
There is also underway a movement in progress to take back our country, and to restore our original Constitutional Republic.
If you would like to be a part of this movement and be advised of any news, which by the way, the major “Globalist bought and paid for” media are ignoring, then please register at this website: http://republicoftheunitedstates.org/.
One thing is for sure, and that is are living in very exciting and also very dangerous times; and as a Christian I believe these are the times that the Lord warned us about, which he called a time of “great sorrows” that he said would precede his return to earth.
Pray for revival and for a spiritual awakening in our land; pray for the success of this ongoing effort happening in all 50 states, to Restore our Constitutional Republic; and let us all pray according to 2 Chronicles 7:14; which promises that if we as a nation and as individuals humble ourselves and pray; turn from our wicked ways, and seek God’s face; that God will hear from heaven and heal our land. Selah
Shalom,
Skip Barland
A Free Press For
A Free People Since 1997
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
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WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Now you, too, can sue Obama, Pelosi, Reid Health-care lawsuit already
has 30,000 plaintiffs aboard
Posted: October 04, 2010
8:20 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily
Fed up with Washington’s health-care takeover? Don’t want to hear about any more demands? Actually, would you like get into the fight and sue them? Really. In court. Before a judge and everyone.
Officials at Liberty Legal Foundation are offering Americans the opportunity, right now, to join in a formal legal action that calls Obamacare unconstitutional and alleges Sen. Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Obama simply ignored the Constitution to adopt their nationalization plan.
Plaintiffs are being sought for the case against Obama, Pelosi, Reid and others. The organizer told WND today he’d like to see 100,000 names on the list of plaintiffs (there already are almost 30,000) by the time the hearings in the dispute actually start.
Foundation chief Van Irion, who brought the original action and served notice on Pelosi and Reid told WND today that he launched the action after the attorney general in Tennessee made it clear he would not do what many voters wanted: to join a case brought by multiple states challenging the constitutionality of the law sought by and signed by Obama.
He also said he wanted to take the broader view rather than just trying to overturn the so-called “individual mandate” that Congress approved requiring each person to purchase a government-approved health insurance plan.
His case actually targets a precedent established by a 1942 Supreme Court decision that, he believes, is the key to today’s problems.
“Wickard [v. Filburn] has got to be overturned,” he said. That decision established that the government could regulate what it determines impacts “interstate commerce,” which, under the Constitution, it can control.
The case seeks that “precedent that interprets the Commerce Clause or the General Welfare Clause of the Constitution as granting Congress essentially unfettered authority to regulate all aspects of human interaction, effectively destroys the most important purpose of the Constitution,” the case file states. “Such precedent has eroded the foundations of our Republic and must be overturned.”
Irion said the government’s response to date has been proving the case’s point, with statements that a person’s health is within the nation’s regulatory power of Congress because of how it impacts interstate commerce.
If that actually is the truth, Irion told WND, then “eating a Twinkie or not exercising, being a member of a gym, all come within their jurisdiction.”
The plaintiffs responded to the government’s demand that the case be dismissed by explaining under the ill-written “Wickard,” “Congress can regulate conduct of individuals if the ‘class of activities,’ ‘taken in the aggregate'” affects interstate commerce.
“The plaintiffs defy anyone to describe any subject matter that cannot be brought within congressional authority to regulate under the above precedent and analysis. Please don’t misunderstand, the plaintiffs acknowledge that certain precedent has limited the methods under what Congress may assert its power … but no subject matter is beyond the reach of Congress under current precedent.
“This absurd result cannot possibly be conformed to the clear meaning of the Constitution’s specific enumeration of limited congressional authority,” Irion wrote.
“Since, as the defendants’ memo tells us, poor health affects interstate commerce, all individual health choices made by every American are within the regulatory authority of Congress. What we eat, whether we exercise, how much sun we get, how often we drive… Every behavior of every American is now within Congress’ scope of authority to regulate, prohibit, mandate, and fine.”
Irion told WND that the Commerce Clause actually has more words than just the, “Congress shall have power” that seems to be the contemporary interpretation.
Also reported today was the plan that voters in Arizona, Colorado and Oklahoma will decide in November whether to approve constitutional amendments that would allow residents of their states simply to opt out of key provisions of Obama’s signature agenda.
Voters in Missouri already have.
Jon Caldara who is working with the Amendment 63 plan in Colorado said the 10th Amendment reserves to the states “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution.”
In a related effort, more than 40,000 voices from across America are offering their encouragement to members of the House who have yet to sign the discharge petition offered by King.
Whereas, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, approved by a narrow vote of the House of Representatives earlier this year, threatens to transform the U.S. health-care system from its roots in free enterprise and personal choice;
Whereas, the act is unconstitutional because of its unprecedented requirement that Americans purchase a service;
Whereas, the system the law would create is financially unsustainable, places personal medical decisions in the hands of bureaucrats and is likely to lead to rationing of health-care options;
Whereas, the act is likely to result in forcing some 87 million Americans to drop their current health-care coverage;
Whereas, the costs involved in complying with the law are likely to cost more Americans their jobs, inhibit the creation of new employment opportunities and suppress wages …
The petition drive was launched by Joseph Farah, founder and CEO of WorldNetDaily, who said the results are worthy of note already.
“This is a very impressive petition, but it will be much more impressive at 100,000 or 200,000 or 1 million,” he said. “We need people signing and spreading the news about this effort – news that has not been reported anywhere else expect at WND.”
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