Meet General Stanley McChrysal,

Commander of all troops in Afghanistan

(Here the General works on board a Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft)

The ever changing nature of the War on Terrorism:

Below you will find an article that I think probably paints a more accurate perspective regarding today’s decision.

But on the issue at hand, it certainly appears that it is business as usual in today’s News, Washington DC style, as it relates to politics anyway; and more particularly as it relates to the resignation/firing of General Stanley McChrystal, who has been the commander of all US troops in Afghanistan since June of 2009.

What is actually not news is that, as is usually the case, in that what we are being told, and what is the actual truth, never the twain shall meet! Which is a nice way of saying that Washington is spinning the story and lying to us again.

What actually did happen?

Well according to a Rolling Stone’s article that went on the newsstands today, Friday, June 25, there have been problems all long, and as one example here is a statement that was made back in April:

‘How’d I get screwed into going to this dinner?” demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It’s a Thursday night in mid-April, and the commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan is sitting in a four-star suite at the Hotel Westminster in Paris.

He’s in France to sell his new war strategy to our NATO allies – to keep up the fiction, in essence, that we actually have allies.

Since McChrystal took over a year ago, the Afghan war has become the exclusive property of the United States.

Opposition to the war has already toppled the Dutch government, forced the resignation of Germany’s president and sparked both Canada and the Netherlands to announce the withdrawal of their 4,500 troops.

McChrystal is in Paris to keep the French, who have lost more than 40 soldiers in Afghanistan, from going all wobbly on him.

“The dinner comes with the position, sir,” says his chief of staff, Col. Charlie Flynn.

My problem is when there is a disconnect between the men who make strategy, among our Military leadership, and that of our politicians, who have an entirely different agenda; and the views and opinions of the experienced officers are over ruled for reason of political expediency, especially in time of war, it is always our men and women in uniform who lose out, and end up paying the price!

Now on the subject of our politicians lying to us, what else is new; especially in this administration under Obama, as he has done nothing but lie since he took office; and his lies go all the way back to when he first entered into politics back, in early 90’s.

But of course the mark of a successful politician today is that you can make your lies sound convincing and believable, and to that end both Obama and also Bill Clinton have elevated their particular form of guile to an art form. And of course lacking any scrutiny from the major News organizations, who only rubber stamp whatever they say anyway, the general public is none the wiser, and are always kept in the dark.

My problem about this story is that we apparently haven’t yet learned our lesson from the Vietnam War, in that we can ill afford to allow our unscrupulous politicians, who have no combat experience; and who have no skin in any of this at all, beyond their own selfish ambitions, hidden agendas, careers, public image, and public perception of same, to dictate strategy to our fighting men and women on the battle field… because it always ends up costing us more American lives, and unnecessarily loses when we do.

May God help us to wake up and keep us from making that mistake again!

On the subject of lying as it refers to the man Barack Hussein Obama, let’s take a look at the record thus far; and oh yeah, what about that small matter of him lying about his place of birth and his citizenship; and the fact he has yet to provide any evidence whatsoever to prove these allegations are untrue?

Folks this is a constitutional nightmare, and if these allegations are true, he doesn’t even have the legal right to be in the White House, let alone be Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces, especially at a time of war!

In any case here is a partial list that just includes a few of the lies he has told during his first 100 days in office; I don’t have the space nor the time to give you the whole list.

1. Promising to “publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days… before the President signs it,” then breaking that promise over and over again.

2. Despite promising to keep lobbyists out of his administration, Obama has broken his word again and again (making 17 exceptions to this promise in his first two weeks).

3. Obama promised to eliminate income taxation for seniors making less than $50,000 a year. He has broken this promise despite numerous opportunities to keep it, including the economic stimulus package and his administration’s first budget proposal.

4. The President also boasted during his campaign that “During 2009 and 2010, existing businesses will receive a $3,000 refundable tax credit for each additional full-time employee hired,” and has failed to keep his word.

5. Obama made it part of his agenda to “allow withdrawals of 15% up to $10,000 from retirement accounts without penalty (although subject to the normal taxes). This would apply to withdrawals in 2008 (including retroactively) and 2009,” but didn’t include this measure in the stimulus package or his budget proposal.

6. Obama broke his promise to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

7. Obama did a shameless 180 degree turn on earmarks by sharply criticizing them (and bragging that he would pass legislation without a single one) and then signing a spending bill with literally thousands of them.

8. Obama promised a $4000 tax credit for college tuition, but backpedaled when he signed a much smaller $2,500 college tax credit into law.

9. Obama called presidential “signing statements” (letters of interpretation and recommendations attached to Congressional legislation) unconstitutional… then attached a signing statement of his own to a $410 billion spending bill.

10. Obama promised a different tone in Washington D.C. and a move past bitter, partisan rhetoric. It took him less than a week as president to berate Republicans and sully the dignity of his office by picking a very public rhetorical fight with a private citizen, Rush Limbaugh.

11. In his first private meeting with Congressional Republicans, instead of “reaching across the aisle” and seeking earnest dialogue, he smugly told them that he should have his way because “I won.”

12. The White House violated the custom of keeping private meetings private by leaking this comment to the press.

13. Taking a page out of the Bush Administration‘s playbook, Obama applied shrill, frantic, fear-mongering rhetoric to assure passage of his stimulus package.

14. Obama revealed the duplicity of his rhetoric and the arrogance of his character when he took off on a ritzy Valentine’s Day vacation in Chicago for the weekend instead of signing the stimulus bill that he said needed to be passed as soon as possible to avert an irreversible economic meltdown.

15. Obama did not criticize Congress for its secrecy and closed-door committee meetings in crafting the stimulus package despite his calls for greater transparency in Washington.

16. Obama’s appointment of Hillary Clinton to the office of Secretary of State was unconstitutional.

17. His movement of the United States Census out of the Department of Commerce and under the direct control of the White House was unconstitutional, politically motivated, and a dangerous, undemocratic expansion of executive power.

18. Obama’s decision to continue Federal funding for religious organizations that discriminate on the basis of religion is unconstitutional and just plain unseemly for a “liberal” Democrat.

19. One promise Obama has kept is in his distribution of TARP II funds to non-financial institutions, which is contrary to the stated intention of those funds in the legislation passed by Congress, making his action illegal, unconstitutional, and an expansion of unlimited executive power.

20. Despite the buzz surrounding Obama’s closing of Gitmo, indefinite detainment and torture are alive and well under Obama’s administration with his chilling executive order to continue the practice of “CIA renditions” -secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to other countries where they are detained indefinitely and their interrogations are outsourced to other governments.

21. Backing “the continued imprisonment of enemy combatants in Afghanistan without trial.”

22. Asking “the Supreme Court to overrule long-standing law that stops police from initiating questions unless a defendant’s lawyer is present, another stark example of the White House seeking to limit rather than expand rights.”

23. Limiting “the rights of prisoners to test genetic evidence used to convict them.”

24. Despite claiming our environment is in a state of crisis, Obama‘s extravagant inauguration alone emitted over 500 million pounds of CO2.

25. His lavish inauguration also cost $170 million.

26. After saying “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that every country is going to say okay,” journalists discovered that Obama cranks the thermostat in the Oval Office.

27. Obama‘s Earth Day flights burned more than 9,000 gallons of fuel.

28. The Obama Administration ended funding for Washington D.C.’s school voucher program, while suppressing a study that showed it delivered better results at a lower cost.

29. Obama’s daughters however, attend a private school in Washington D.C., enjoying the freedom of educational choice that the Obama administration has denied to poor children who live in Washington.

30. Out-of-control deficit spending.

31. Blaming Bush for America’s deficits, but then increasing spending.

32. This is after saying on the campaign trail: “There is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments.”

33. Made a big show of challenging his cabinet to cut a measly $100 million from the Federal budget (a .0027% cut in Federal spending).

34. Admitting that this doesn’t even represent a spending cut by saying that it will free up more money for Federal spending on other things like health and education.

35. Moving to convert U.S. Federal loans to banking institutions into common stock, effectively nationalizing major portions of the U.S. banking industry.

36. Forcing U.S. banks to accept TARP money, then attaching strings ex post facto.

37. Acting to oust corporate executives like the CEOs of GM and Citigroup.

38. Promising that the U.S. government (i.e. American taxpayers) will guarantee GM’s warranty.

39. Every time Obama talks about the economy or signs economic legislation, the stock market tanks.

40. “We can’t go back to a bubble and bust economy.” President Obama on April 14, while touting the kind of inflationary monetary policies that cause bubble and bust cycles.

41. “The Obama administration is signaling to Congress that the president could support taxing some employee health benefits, as several influential lawmakers and many economists favor, to help pay for overhauling the health care system. The proposal is politically problematic for President Obama, however, since it is similar to one he denounced in the presidential campaign as ‘the largest middle-class tax increase in history.”

42. Increasing the timetable for withdrawal from Iraq beyond his campaign promises and leaving 50,000 troops in Iraq after the “withdrawal.”

43. Deploying 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan, then several thousand more on top of that.

44. Obama calling on European leaders at G20 to provide more troops for the war in Afghanistan: “Europe should not simply expect the United States to shoulder that burden alone. This is a joint problem it requires a joint effort.”

45. Using Bush-era war rhetoric and tactics.

46. Officially changing the name of America’s vast, expensive, and endless overseas wars to “Overseas Contingency Operation.”

47. “President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday for $83.4 billion for U.S. military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pressing for special troop funding that he opposed two years ago when he was senator and George W. Bush was president. This would push the costs of the two wars to almost $1 trillion since Sept. 11, 2001.”

48. “President Obama’s plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs for the treatment of troops injured in service has infuriated veterans groups who say the government is morally obligated to pay for service-related medical care.”

49. Appointing Tim Geithner to the office of Secretary of the Treasury, even though he was a part of the problem with the economic status quo and evaded his taxes for years.

50. Selected Annette Nazareth for the position of Deputy Treasury Secretary, who withdrew after a month long probe into her taxes.

51. Appointed Tom Daschle to the Department of Health and Human Services, who had to resign his nomination for the position because of tax evasion.

52. “Barack Obama has been embroiled in a cronyism row after reports that he intends to make Louis Susman, one of his biggest fundraisers, the new US ambassador in London. The selection of Mr. Susman, a lawyer and banker from the president’s hometown of Chicago, rather than an experienced diplomat, raises new questions about Mr Obama’s commitment to the special relationship with Britain.”

53. Appointed Nancy Killefer for Chief Performance Officer, but she had to step down because she didn’t pay her taxes either!

54. Samantha Power resigned from the Obama campaign f0r calling Hillary Clinton a “monster,” but was later hired by the Obama Administration for a position on the National Security Council.

55. Appointed Rahm Emmanuel as Chief of Staff, who failed to report five years of free rent at a US Congressman’s property in accordance with IRS policy and congressional ethics rules.

56. Adolfo Carrion, Director of White House Office of Urban Affairs, “pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers’ money.”

57. Appointed Janet Napolitano to the office of Secretary of Homeland Security, who was clueless enough to falsely claim that the 9-11 terrorists came into America through Canada.

58. “The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.” — Department of Homeland Security intelligence report

59. Transparency: “Administration Permits Only One Question, No Follow-Ups About Extremism Report”

60. Appointing Attorney General Eric Holder, who said “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.”

61. AIG’s second biggest campaign donation beneficiary: Barack Obama, who acted angry about the results of a bailout he helped to craft as U.S. Senator.

62. “For months, the Obama administration and members of Congress have known that insurance giant AIG was getting ready to pay huge bonuses while living off government bailouts. It wasn’t until the money was flowing and news was trickling out to the public that official Washington rose up in anger and vowed to yank the money back.”

63. Giving Henrietta Hughes a house instead of downsizing the government to free up productive capital that could be used by businesses to employ her so that she can afford her own living arrangements while providing value to other Americans.

64. Warmly greeting, smiling at, and shaking hands with Venezuela’s brutal, autocratic dictator- Hugo Chávez.

65. Bowing to Saudi King Abdullah. U.S. Presidents do not bow before foreign monarchs.

66. Then a White House aide poorly and awkwardly lied about it: “It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah.”

67. At their first meeting, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s gift to Obama: “an ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the Victorian anti-slave ship HMS Gannet,” and “a framed commission for HMS Resolute and a first edition of the seven-volume biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert.” Obama’s gift to Brown: a box set of 25 classic American DVDs… that don’t work on European DVD players.

68. Used “England” to denote the U.K. -a gaffe that people from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales don’t appreciate and chalk up to American ignorance and parochialism.

69. Repeatedly reminding House Republicans that none of them voted for the stimulus package. He’s really going to regret that during the 2010 midterm elections when they’ll be the ones reminding America.

70. “The White House says the president is unaware of the tea parties-” either they’re lying or the President is clueless. Pick one.

71. “Mr Obama is an accomplished orator but is becoming known in America as the “teleprompt president” over his reliance on the machine when he gives a speech.”

72. This has lead to numerous gaffes such as Obama thanking himself for being invited to speak with the Irish Prime Minister, as well as…

73. The bizarre spectacle of the President “arguing with” a teleprompter during a recent speech.

74. “I’ve been practicing bowling. I bowled a 129. It was like the Special Olympics or something.” -Obama on The Tonight Show

75. Choosing purebred dog, “Bo” for the White House family’s “first dog” instead of adopting a dog from a shelter like Obama promised.

76. Gaffe: “I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances.” -President Obama

77. False: “More than 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States.” -President Obama

78. What? “If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, if we stand up there and we really make the tough decisions, there’s still a 30% chance we’re going to get it wrong.” -Vice President Biden

79. Clueless: “You know, I’m embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number? I should have it in front of me and I don’t. I’m actually embarrassed.” -Vice President Biden, who should be.

80. Scary: Obama to Rep. Peter DeFazio, one of the Democratic congressman who voted against the stimulus package, “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.”

81. Airforce 1 panics New York City residents with extremely low flight plan for photo op and no public announcement.

82. Obama’s perpetual campaign. The only thing our President has ever really led in his life was his campaign… instead of actually governing, he’s been sticking to what he knows for the past 100 days- campaigning.

83. Obama’s perpetual campaign failing.

84. Brushing off, laughing at, and dismissing a serious and valid question about the legalization of Marijuana and its impact on our economy.

85. SCHIP.

86. The regressive cigarette tax that falls mostly on lower income households to fund SCHIP.

87. Buying into and perpetuating the swine flu hysteria.

88. Allowing the Department of Homeland Security to take the lead in managing the swine flu. It should be the responsibility of the Department of Health and Human Services. Flu epidemics are not national security issues- they’re health issues. Conflating the two is a dangerous precedent that puts too much power into the hands of the DHS.

89. Making a big flashy deal out of releasing the President’s and Vice President’s income tax returns (Oooohh- transparency!), which every President has done for years now.

90. Being totally shown up by the Bushes– according to their respective tax returns, the Obamas gave 6.5% of their 2008 income to charity while the Bushes gave 23% of theirs to charity in 2007. Embarrassing.

91. Supporting and signing The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Stimulus Package)

92. The health provisions in the stimulus bill.

93. Actually believing and preaching to others that consumption, not production, drives economic growth.

94. Obama’s war on small business.

95. Bragging about his tax cut for 95% of Americans and not realizing (or conveniently not addressing) the fact that if it’s funded with deficits and debt, it isn’t really a tax cut because taxpayers will have to pay off the debt eventually (with interest) and the tax cut is offset by the rising prices of inflation.

96. Echoing Bernanke and Geithner’s line that the economy needs more credit, while running trillion dollar deficits that hog up the credit market.

97. Timothy Geithner getting owned by Congressman Michelle Bachmann during his testimony in Congress.

98. Blatantly and unambiguously supporting policies that take from poor and middle class Americans to give to wealthy businesses and corporate executives.

99. Justifying these policies by saying that these businesses support poor Americans by giving them jobs and that they are simply “too big to fail.”

100. Not realizing how suspiciously similar his argument sounds to “trickle-down,” supply-side, Reaganomics.

~by W. E. Messamore , posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2009

All of this points up one thing, and that is the absolute necessity that we have a complete housecleaning in our government from the top down; and that we restore again our Constitutional Republic, and replace these self-serving political opportunists, who lie to us constantly, with honest men and women, who sincerely have our best interest at heart, and who most importantly will put our nation back on track with God; and make laws and policy that do not offend Him, that are actually in the best interest of our nation, and for our nation’s future.

My prayer for America is for a grassroots Spiritual Awakening that grows like wild fire all across our land, that will ignite the sort of revival that our nation so desperately needs!

Truly, this is our ONLY hope for survival, as a free people; and if this doesn’t happen soon, I believe our days as a free people are numbered!

So with that, I will just leave you again with the same admonition, and that is let us continue to Watch and Pray… and let us truly pray for the sort of “Change” that brings our country back to God!

Shalom,

Skip Barland

A ‘do over’ in Afghanistan? Posted By Stephen M. Walt Thursday, June 24, 2010 – 11:08 AM Contrary to what many (but not all) commentators seem to think, the firing of Stanley McChrystal and his replacement by General David Petraeus is not that significant. To be more precise, it will only be a significant event if Obama uses this shift as an opportunity to move towards withdrawal. Otherwise, we’ll just rearrange some deck chairs and watch the war effort continue to founder. Until the Rolling Stone article surfaced, there was little sign that Obama was unhappy with McChrystal’s handling of the war. (Gareth Porter of IPS reports that there was in fact growing discontent within the administration over the lack of progress, but it hadn’t surfaced in any visible way.) More importantly, there was no sign that Petraeus had serious problems with McChrystal’s performance or visible doubts about the need to continue the fight until “victory” was achieved. Don’t forget that Petraeus’s status and prestige is based on his knowledge of and commitment to counter-insurgency (COIN) warfare, and COIN is exactly what McChrystal was doing too. Unlike the “surge” in Iraq, which involved a fundamental shift in U.S. strategy and tactics, there is no reason to expect Petraeus to implement a fundamentally different approach in Afghanistan. The subhead in today’s New York Times says it all: “Obama Says Afghan Policy Won’t Change after Dismissal.” Uh-oh. There is also no reason to believe Petraeus will achieve significantly different results because the problem in Afghanistan is not the quality of our generals. Bad leadership can hamper a war effort, of course, but it is a fallacy to think that all we need to do is get the right leader in place at the top and then all will be well. (Military history is often written in ways that glorifies the role of the “great captains,” but there’s a lot more to military success than just a smart and inspired commanders). The real problem is that our campaign in Afghanistan is like trying to nail jelly to the wall. The Karzai government is a liability, not an asset, and we have no way of making it perform better. Similarly, we have no way of forcing the Taliban to sit still and fight us out in the open — where they would be easy to beat — when confronted by superior force, they simply melt away and wait us out. Although troop morale seems to be good, our forces have been fighting a long time and burnout is beginning to set in. Our NATO allies are leaving the field, and Americans are beginning to realize that the costs of continuing this fight exceed either the benefits of victory or the risks of withdrawal. “Victory” in Afghanistan — whatever that might mean — wouldn’t make al Qaeda a lot weaker; and “failure” wouldn’t make them much stronger either. Putting a new general in charge doesn’t change that calculus at all. Third, some prominent commentators like Andrew Sullivan now worry that Obama is in effect hostage to Petraeus, because the latter’s stature and prestige will make it almost impossible for Obama to overrule him should he ask for more troops or seek to continue the war indefinitely. That is an obvious danger, but that same prestige and stature also makes Petraeus the best person to help Obama sell a prudent decision to cut our losses and get out.  Moreover, Petraeus’ stature is based primarily on the supposed success of the 2007 “surge” in Iraq, a campaign that achieved the tactical objective of lowering the level of violenace but did not achieve the strategic goal of political reconciliation. If Iraq goes south again as U.S. forces withdraw, some of Petraeus’s current luster is bound to diminish and Obama’s freedom of maneuver might increase. In any case, the only important question here is what Obama is telling Petraeus to do. In essence, McChrystal’s gaffe has given Obama a chance for a “do-over.” He made the wrong choice in the fall of 2009, when he agreed to escalate the U.S. presence despite all the obvious pitfalls.  Has he learned from the results of the past nine months?  Does he now realize that he is not the master of events in Afghanistan, and that he cannot achieve success there simply by giving inspiring speeches and sending more troops? And has he begun to sense that this war might not be winnable at acceptable cost, and that continuing the fight is putting his entire presidency at risk? If he has, he’ll tell Petraeus that his mission isn’t to pacify Afghanistan, build a stable central government there, or even “defeat, disrupt, and defeat al Qaeda” (which isn’t in Afghanistan anymore). Rather, his mission is to find a way for the United States to end this futile and unnecessary adventure in social engineering, so that we can turn our attention (and our finite resources) to more pressing problems. If Obama hasn’t learned that lesson, then he will find himself stuck in the Afghan quagmire for the remainder of his time in office. As with Johnson in Vietnam and Bush in Iraq, the war will suck the life out of his presidency and make it impossible to achieve more urgent domestic and international priorities. And because he’s now had two opportunities to chart a different course, it will have been entirely his own doing. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/

Well that makes sense, since our government hasn’t the will to secure our borders… just give the land back to Mexico!

Once again the news is most shocking… I mean what country is this that we have become?

Certainly it cannot be the United States of America!

Who ever thought the day would come that our own government would turn on us and betray us?

Well all you have to do is look at what’s going on in the economic world, and how our government gave billions to private bankers, who now refuse to be accountable and tell us what the money was used for.

We have this huge problem now in the Gulf, with this oil spill, and our government is caught with its hands in its pocket.

Now there’s this ongoing problem with the hole that they refuse to close at our southern most border; where not only are drugs being smuggled, but we know for a fact that Spanish speaking Palestinian terrorists have been using this corridor to come into our country, bringing God only knows what sort of chemical and/or biological, or maybe even nuclear weapons into our country… and again our government has its hands in its pocket!

Folks there is an obvious HUGE disconnect between what our government is doing today, in all of these things, and the will of the American people; and if We the People fail to see what’s going on; and if we fail to take action to take back our Republic, then our days as a free people are numbered… that’s all I can say!

We are going to need God’s wisdom, big time, if we are ever to extricate ourselves from this quagmire that our government has gotten us into on all these fronts; and whether it is on purpose or not, the results are the same, in that all of this will only serve to further destabilize and undermine both our government and our economy.

Pray for America… and pray for God’s mercy and grace to be upon our land.

Shalom,

Skip Barland

The Question is now being raised as to whether the Deepwater Horizon disaster was caused by…

A scalar weapon attack, from something called HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), in order to force through the controversial cap-n-trade bill?

As far out as all of this sounds, having just read what Scalar Weapons are, listen to this video:

My thanks goes out to Mary Helen, for forwarding the above link to me.

It all sounds very bazaar doesn’t it; but I might add, so does the stuff we read about in the Book of Revelation sound bazaar too!

One other point, regarding this Gulf oil spill that I think is worth mentioning; the Bible talks about how 1/3 of the seas would turn blood red in the last days, do you remember reading that?

Revelation 8:8–9
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

Now mind you, I’m not saying for sure that what is happening here, with this oil spill is what Revelations is talking about; but it very well may be, espeically if what this man in the video says turns out to be true, that it will be over a year before they stop this leak.

I know that it says a mountain falls into the sea; but I suppose if one where looking at this from the first century, as John the Revelator was, who wrote the Book of Revelations, from his perspective I suppose something as big as this the Horizon Oil platform could look like a mountain. It certainly is something to watch however, I think.

As far as these Scalar Weapons are concerned, obviously not being a scientist myself, I have no way of knowing exactly what this weapon can do? I just know that I have heard others talk about it, and that it is top, top secret!

I would say however that I do believe that our level of proficiency and technical advancement of weaponry has increased exponentially over the last number of years, and what we are told and what our actually capabilities are, with regard to the weaponry that we have today, I think certainly if we knew the truth, that it would blow most of our minds.

I do know this, if it is true, and I can only hope I am wrong, that our government, or rather the “Shadow Government” that operates in the dark, if they could have had anything to do with this, or any other disaster, where innocent people have been killed; or as it has even been suggested (in this video) that such a weapon could have been used to trigger the earthquake in Haiti; all I can say is that this is beyond evil!!!

But then again, so was the killing of over 6 million Jews during World War II; and all the millions of innocent lives that were exterminated in both the U.S.S.R., and Communist China.

If history has shown anything, it is that men are capable of some really wicked and evil things; and Jesus said that what we are about to experience, in what He called the “Beginning of Sorrows,” in those events that would precede His return to earth, that they would be the absolute worst period of evil atrocities of all time!!!

I do believe that we are living in that time; and I also believe that same evil, which originates from Satan himself, is very active and real, and is influencing people both behind the scenes, and in the spotlight of public attention right now, today, in our government; as this world is today being set up for the Antichrist!

Please pray folks, that’s all I can say… watch and pray!

And may God have mercy on our country!

Shalom,

Skip Barland

We will either learn from history, or we will repeat it…

and whereas our memories are short, may God help us that we don’t make that mistake!!!

What started under former President George W. Bush, under heading of national security, is today being implemented under Obama to move us towards socialism,  just as happened in pre-Nazi Germany…

The 10 steps towards Fascism are as follows:

1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2. Create a gulag
3. Develop a thug caste
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens’ groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9. Equate dissent with treason
10. Suspend the rule of law

Whereas the above video is a bit dated, going back to 2007; nevertheless I think it is still relevant.

The woman being interviewed is obviously left of center in her own political beliefs; but it is good that she is being interviewed, because don’t you see that is the plan, to pit the Left against the Right, all for the reason to keep the attention off the Globalist Agenda and the oligarchy that is behind this movement, that is in fact a shadow government that is now operating behind the scenes.

Also let me start by saying that I was someone who supported and voted for former President George W. Bush, and his father before him, when he was in office. I also believed George W. Bush to be a Christian, and I can’t tell you how disappointed I was to hear all of this and want to say I did not accept this information without doing my own homework; and the evidence is there folks.

As Alan Keyes has said before, and it is true, that when it comes to partisan politics, as practiced here in the United States for years now, whether you are talking Democratic or Republican, partisan issues aside, on the issue of the Globalists agenda to move us towards a New World Order, they both are on the same page, and are two sides of the same coin.

I have often said that our real problem is not Barack Hussein Obama, he and everyone who is like him, in my opinion, are but political opportunists, who are out for themselves… and what else should we expect from people who are in the world?

These men who are in the spotlight so to speak, are but puppets on a string, and they are taking their orders from their handlers, who operate behind the scenes and out of sight, like someone else we know… the Devil, I might add. Neither can stand the light of day!

But on the issue of what our real problem is, as it relates to political opportunism, and one’s ambition to gain more power and wealth, you and I struggle with the same sort of tendencies ourselves, as Christians, as we all do, every single day.

If it were not for the fact that we have had an encounter with Jesus Christ, have been born-again, and have been influenced by the Bible, then most of us would probably be right there beside them, doing the very same things; or at the very least we’d be like the people who voted them into office.

No, our real problem in America is at the grassroots of our country, that the people who vote do not have the discernment and good sense to see the red flags, and despite all the evidence that this man was not who he claimed to be, they voted him into office anyway.

Folks, as I have said before, the same thing exactly happened in Pre-Nazi Germany, in the 30’s, that gave rise to Hitler… and having not learned that lesson from history, we are repeating exactly that same history again, here in America!

As evidence of the truth of what I have just spoken, I would like you to read the following article.

Again I say Pray for America… and may God bless America!

Shalom,

Skip Barland

26 SIMILARITIES BETWEEN AMERICA AND NAZI GERMANY Posted: 05/05/09 26 Similarities Between America and Nazi Germany Three Forces Destroying the America We Know By Brannon Howse This article was published in the January 2008 Worldview Weekend Digest and was only available to those that ordered this free publication from our website. However this magazine is now out of print after distributing an estimated 100,000 copies in just 16 weeks.  Our next magazine will be released in June and the theme of this next magazine is “Understanding the Perilous Times and A Christian Response“.  You can order your free copy or copies today but when they are gone they are gone. To place your order now please click here: http://www.worldviewweekend.com/digest.shtml If you would like to place an ad in our publication please visit this link: http://www.worldviewweekend.com/digest/ Even the most nominally aware person knows all too well that our nation-and the world-is engulfed in a major economic catastrophe. Thanks to the variety of factors at work, some observers have characterized it as the perfect economic storm. Yet this drama is a mere thunder shower by comparison with a far more devastating potential that threatens to wreck not just the American dream but the entire American ideal. If this maelstrom reaches its full power, liberty and justice for all-to say nothing of the pursuit of happiness-will be wiped from the face of the earth. A perfect cultural storm is developing from the convergence of three forces, any one of which would seriously harm our way of life. But together they portend the near certain doom of the most cherished American values. Socialism, pagan spirituality, and pragmatism have come together over the last several decades to produce a cataclysm waiting to happen. Socialism imposes the redistribution of wealth and private property through an all-powerful, freedom-robbing central government. Pagan spirituality embraces the worship of nature along with occult practices and beliefs. Pragmatism proclaims that the truth or worth of an idea is based solely upon the results it brings (pragmatists believe that truth is relative, situational, and that a desired end justifies any means required to reach it). All three of these political, spiritual, and intellectual systems have taken a dominant place in the American worldview. Doomsday-Again It’s been said that if we don’t learn from history we are doomed to repeat it. There are those who have even compared the rumblings in America today as similar to those in pre-Nazi Germany of the 1930s. While I don’t buy the notion that our government might be ready to establish concentration camps, the storm clouds heading this way have brought ideas into our public policy, laws, and national consciousness that bear a frightening resemblance to what has gone before-in the worst of times. This same collection of worldviews laid a foundation for the atrocities and godless government of Hitler’s Germany. Adolph Hitler, you’ll recall, established the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. He also bought into what I call One World Spirituality, a merging of the three worldviews of evolutionary humanism, Hindu pantheism, and occultism. Atheism in America is no longer in vogue among our “intellectual elite.” It’s being replaced by the far more insidious pantheism-insidious because it is more acceptable to the masses than outright disbelief in God. Pantheism is on track to become the dominate worldview in America and around the world in very short order. Similar Is as Similar Does Please understand that I’m not sensationalizing when making these observations. First Chronicles 12:32 says men of the tribe of Issachar were called wise because they “understood the times and knew what God would have them to do.” To help you make your own assessment of the situation, I’ve distinguished 26 benchmark issues that clearly define the intensity of the tempest that is nearly upon us. And yes, there are obvious comparisons with the growth of Nazism in Germany. I will point them out unabashedly because it’s only reasonable to say so if something that looks similar to an earlier, dangerous historical parallel actually is similar. After all, storm warnings, by nature, foretell bad news. As you read through my list, I invite you to understand the times and prepare to respond with a Biblical worldview. Hitler outlawed school prayer in Germany. In 1962, The U.S. Supreme Court did the same for us. Hitler eliminated Christian holidays in the schools first by calling Christmas “Yuletide.” Most American public schools now call Christmas vacation a “winter break.” Hitler took Easter out of schools and instead honored that time of year as the beginning of spring. It has likewise become common for schools in America to refer to time off at Easter as “spring break.” Hitler controlled the church using intimidation and threats. A half-century ago, U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, promoted a bill that included an amendment to use the Internal Revenue Service to remove the non-profit status of a church that speaks against the election of any specific political candidate. Hitler enticed thousands of pastors to promote paganism in their congregations. Neopaganism is one of the fastest growing religions in America, doubling every 18 months according to a June 2008 article in The Denver Post.  Many American church-goers practice paganism such as “Christian” yoga, contemplative prayer, and walking a labyrinth. As evidence that church doors continue to open further to aberrant beliefs, a 2008 survey found that 57% of evangelicals do not believe Jesus Christ is the only way to God. Hitler was an environmentalist and vegetarian. Marriages performed by the Nazi state frequently included blessings of “Mother Earth” and “Father Sky.” Today Americans increasingly accept radical environmentalism, pantheism, and the celebration of Earth Day. Hitler was fascinated by eastern mysticism. Today an increasing number of American pastors encourage their followers to become “mystic warriors”. Hitler believed in reincarnation. He even convinced SS officers that by murdering millions of Jews and other “undesirables” they were allowing them to get on with the reincarnation process and come back more quickly in an advanced status. Americans increasingly accept the idea of reincarnation as well as good and bad karma. Hitler’s holocaust killed between 8 and 11 million Jews and non-Jews. Americans have killed an estimated 50 million babies since abortion was legalized through the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973. According to a July 7, 2008 article on worldnetdaily.com “An abortionist who claims to have destroyed more than 20,000 unborn children and who once was Hillary Clinton’s OB-GYN says he is doing ‘God’s work’ when he terminates a pregnancy…He admits that abortion kills a human soul.” Hitler killed 270,000 handicapped people through active euthanasia.[1] America and the courts are rushing toward the same with the murder of individuals such as Terri Schiavo. Oregon voters passed their Death with Dignity Act in 1994 and re-affirmed it in 1997. Washington state voters legalized doctor-assisted suicide on November 4, 2008. In December 2008, a Montana judge ruled terminally ill residents of that state have the right to physician-assisted suicide, and “death with dignity” is gaining acceptance in other states as well. Private schools were abolished by Hitler and all education placed under Nazi control. There is constant pressure from federal and many state education authorities to require that Christian schools use state-mandated, humanistic textbooks. The Home School Legal Defense Association is fighting numerous battles at any given time to prevent parents from loosing the right to educate their children as they see fit. In August 2008, a federal district court ruled that the state of California university system may choose not to recognize the diplomas-and thereby deny college entrance to-students who attended a school using textbooks that express a Biblical worldview in the areas of history and science (i.e., Christian schools). Hitler prevented dissenters from using radio to challenge his worldview. Many powerful liberals in America have made clear their intent to reintroduce the “Fairness Doctrine” that would require conservative and religious radio stations to offer equal time to anti-Christian, anti-conservative worldviews. Pastors who spoke against Hitler’s worldview and his murderous regime found themselves on trial and frequently imprisoned for “Abuse of Pulpit.” In America, hate-crime legislation has the potential to criminalize Christians and pastors who speak out against the homosexual agenda. Many Christians in Germany justified their allegiance to Hitler through a belief that “Their duty to God was spiritual; their duty to the state was political.”[2] Many American Christians now have bought the lie that their worldview can be divided between the secular and the sacred-the politician has one area of responsibility, the pastor another, and never shall the two meet. Yet the Bible teaches that all issues are fundamentally spiritual. Hitler outlawed the cross and replaced it with the swastika. Today many churches, Christian colleges, and universities have willingly removed the cross from their buildings. Numerous court cases sponsored by the ACLU have required the removal of the cross from public grounds. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that the Ten Commandments cannot be posted on public grounds for religious purposes. Hitler was fascinated with Friedrich Nietzsche and distributed his writings to his inner circle. Nietzsche promoted Nihilism, the belief that life has no meaning, and he is best known for his position that “God is dead”. Nietzsche is presently one of the most widely read authors by American college students. Hitler exploited the economic collapse of Germany to take over as dictator and usher in his brand of socialism. America’s financial crisis has given liberals in both political parties the opportunity to grow the size of government and implement freedom-robbing socialism at lightning speed. Hitler was obsessed with globalism, and many of America’s most powerful political leaders are willing to subjugate American sovereignty to contemporary globalism. Many Germans responded to Hitler by retreating into neutrality. Today most Americans prefer to remain neutral on moral issues that they think don’t affect them personally. On trial after World War II, Hitler’s henchmen used the defense that they had not broken any laws. True, they had not defied the laws of Germany since those had been re-written to fit the goals and objectives of Hitler. The Nazi leaders were nevertheless found guilty because the courts at the time recognized a “law above the law.” Yet now the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the law of nature and nature’s God by claiming that as society evolves, morals evolve, and so the law, too, must evolve. Calling upon Darwinian evolution, Hitler convinced the German people that purging millions of people was acceptable because of the need to create a pure race; also referred to as eugenics. American students across the board have been educated in Darwinian evolution because the Supreme Court has ruled that creation cannot be taught in our schools-even if both creation and evolution are taught side by side. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood in America became acquainted with the doctors and scientists that had worked with Nazi Germany’s eugenics program and had no quarrel with the euthanasia, sterilization, abortion, and infanticide programs of the early Reich.[3] Sanger even published several articles in Birth Control Review that reflected Hilter’s White Supremacist worldview. Planned Parenthood now grosses one billion per year. In Germany, pastors often cited Romans 13:1-2 to encourage Christians to obey the Nazis. Today in America, many pastors have a false view of Romans 13:1-2 and have convinced millions that to disobey governing authorities is to disobey God. This poor training would facilitate Christians here doing just as the German Christians did if faced with similar challenges. Germans accepted socialism to avoid pain. Today’s Americans are rejecting capitalism in exchange for government-sponsored “free” healthcare, education, and countless other government handouts. Many Americans accept what I call, One World Spirituality. This is actually an amalgamation of the three worldviews of evolutionary humanism, Hindu pantheism, and occultism. I noted earlier that Hitler embraced all of these. America is rushing toward government-sponsored, national healthcare. We already have a form of this in Medicare and Medicaid. Hitler, too, expanded and centralized Germany’s healthcare system. As Melchior Palyi explained, “The ill-famed Dr. Ley, boss of the Nazi labor front, did not fail to see that the social insurance system could be used for Nazi politics as a means of popular demagoguery, as a bastion of bureaucratic power, [and] as an instrument of regimentation.” If the church in Germany had truly acted like the Church of Jesus Christ, if Christians had understood and lived out a Biblical worldview, Germany would never have accepted Hitler. I believe he would have been rejected and overthrown within weeks of his true worldview coming to light. Most American church members today are simply reflect the culture instead of correcting and changing it. If we are to quiet the brewing storm, apathy, political correctness, and intellectual laziness must be replaced with a passion for Biblical truth, sound reasoning, logic, and the desire to lead. Becoming a leader does not mean you must be on the radio, give speeches, or even stand up in front of a group. An effective influencer leads through his or her actions and lifestyle. Lovingly defending and proclaiming truth in a world bent on  political correctness is being a leader. Even in private conversation, leadership can take the form of lovingly correcting someone’s false beliefs or ideas. America needs Christians now more than ever to take the lead. If not, the perfect storm is ready, and annihilation is what it portends. http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=4881

This is not the proper position for any Christian to be in!

I would say there are even Christians today, who have assumed this position as their position of prayer… but the Bible instructs us to watch and pray, does it not?!

This is still American, and mind you this is going on today in our country:

Need I remind you that our nation was not founded by pacifists, but it was founded by Christians; and neither has our liberty been preserved by pacifists, but by people who put themselves in harm’s way, many at the cost of their lives, and died in order to preserve this liberty that so many today are taking for granted!

This pattern of eating an elephant one bite at a time takes both patience and time; and for those who have the eyes to see and ears to hear, who have heard the warnings from people like Brigitte Gabriel, who is founder and president of an organization called American Congress for Truth, will understand that this is exactly what the plan is for our United States of America; as it is today in the UK; as it is in France; and as it has already happened in Lebanon, where Mrs. Gabriel is from.

It is because this Administration, as well as the last Republican Administration (under George W. Bush), and the one before that (under Clinton) were all soft on the problem of the illegals invading our borders; and also given the fact that this present administration, under Obama, is on record himself as being pro Islamic in his own beliefs; and also because of the fact that all of this serves the Globalist ultimate agenda to move our nation closer towards a “New World Order;” all of this together is the reason why you won’t be hearing about this on the evening news.

Well, that elephant is being eaten right before our eyes… as I would add, happened once before in a place called pre-Nazi Germany; but even as I write, I can hear some of you are saying, “Dearborn is not my problem and it is far from where I live; and besides I have enough problems myself locally, just trying to survive in this economy, not to be concerned about what’s going on the other side of the country.”

I know sure as shooting that this is exactly what some of you are saying; and I can tell you that is exactly what the enemy is counting on; and when I say the “Enemy,” I mean Satan, the Devil.

Obama, Bush, and Clinton ALL have been puppets on his string, and they all have been both recruited and mentored, since their college days, in secret societies and such to betray their country; as this meal to serve up this proverbial elephant began long ago, more than 200 years ago, and even goes back before the founding of our country… and I can tell you this, the enemy is counting on your inaction and your acquiescence to what is happening today.

Christians, the world, the unbelievers in our country do not have the biblical perspective that you and I have; and they aren’t aware of the prophecies regarding these last days, and the New World Order, as you and I are… they don’t know what they don’t know… and so possibly even they have an excuse for their ignorance, and for not seeing the danger; but you and I don’t!

Need I remind you that it was definitely not a soft and weak people who came here to shape our nation; but rather they were for the most part Christians, who came here as Pilgrims.

They were a people who were fleeing the same sort of religious persecution and abuse that is today developing in our country, and though it is in the beginning stages, it nevertheless is happening; howbeit for the Pilgrims, their source of persecution was from a corrupt church hierarchy, not from Secular Humanism (which is a religion folks), or Islamic fundamentalism, as we see in our country today.

Satan is very religious folks, and he doesn’t care what the label is over you church or synagogue, or mosque, he will use them all to serve his purpose, to enslave and deceive; and that is exactly the reason why Jesus warned us that we need to be wise as serpents; and also the Apostle Paul warned us not to be ignorant of the enemy’s devices, meaning his strategies and mode of operation that the enemy uses.

However, I’m sad to say that is exactly where much of the church is today, where Christians are most comfortable with their heads in the sand… and are hoping against hope, in fear, that all of this goes away!

This nation was not formed by Christians like that, who were passive, who were just going with the flow, I can tell you that; and even in our war to gain our Independence, against Mother England, it required people just like you and I going against the flow, and the status quo; in order to resist the evil that was being forced upon them.

The question is, do we not care enough for the liberty that we have today, that so many have shed their blood to preserve, that we won’t even speak up?

Again, I can tell you that is exactly what the enemy is counting on, and if you are fearful and are paralyzed and are not willing to speak up, we will most certainly repeat the same history here in America, that happened in pre-Nazi Germany… and you can count on it!

Folks I can tell you, if you ever felt a need to pray for our nation, please do so now; as we are at a definite crossroads in our history.

I really don’t think it is set in stone yet what our role is to be, that will be played by the United States in these last days, as to which side we will be on (either for or against God), and whether we are a sheep nation or a goat nation when our Lord comes back.

I do however believe that what we do and don’t do right now, whether we are praying and interceding or not, will determine just that. And so I urge you ALL, who are Christian, to pray, to both watch and pray, as though our future and the future of our children depended upon it… because I can tell you this, it most certainly does!

In conclusion, once again I would like to direct your attention to an effort that is on going right now, as I write; and it is a peaceful movement by all fifty states of the union to take back our country, and restore our Constitutional Republic once again, as it was originally established by our founding fathers.

If you have ever wondered and have been frustrated, as I have been, as to why our government today is so unresponsive and obtuse, and why our elected representatives, especially of late, just seem to go ahead and blatantly do whatever they want, regardless of the will of the People, well there is a reason.

They are not representing us; but as our nation is formed now, and has been since 1871, under articles of a corporation, our elected officials are legally officers of the corporation; and as such they no longer serve We the People, nor the Republic, but they serve the Corporation!

Now mind you this is a peaceful movement and these people have the Constitution, and therefore the law on their side.

As soon as they started presenting these letters to the governors, however the media tried to paint these people as extremists.

Here is what the media was saying; but ever since they found out different, that these people are not extremist… there has been a media blackout. Again I want to remind you that the media is highly influenced and controlled by the Globalist agenda, and they are NOT on the side of a Free Republic, and so they are not on our side at all!

I would like you to read a note I got from a friend, who is the California Coordinator for this movement, and is someone I have known for years:

“The military SUPPORTS US as a people now.  We need to establish this movement in front of all, so they know and can support their new government.  What people don’t realize is that all media is controlled by a few people.  Those few are heavily tied into the bankers and global agenda.   When we first served the Governors on March 31^st of 2010, we were all over the news.” ~ Kelby Smith

This movement is called the RESTORE AMERICAN PLAN, and the reason you are not hearing anything about it is because, as I have told you the media is no longer trustworthy, and they are for the most part already bought and paid for, just as many of our politicians are.

And for those of you who are reading this, and still don’t believe what I’m telling you, who aren’t even aware that we are no longer legally a Constitutional Republic, and that our government illegally changed us, back in 1871, form a Constitutional Republic to the UNITED STATES CORPORATION, this is exactly what I’m talking about, and that is exactly the reason why we are in real danger today of losing our freedom.

If you aren’t careful, what you don’t know, and what you aren’t willing to confront, resist and speak out against will soon over run you and your family like a freight train!

Shalom,

Skip Barland

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Subject: America, 2010: Christians hauled to jail for preaching Jesus

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 FAITH UNDER FIRE WorldNetDaily Exclusive America, 2010: Christians hauled to jail for preaching Jesus ‘Apparently the Constitution carries little weight in Dearborn’ Posted: June 22, 2010 9:06 pm Eastern WorldNetDaily One of the nation’s top legal teams regarding civil and religious rights has stepped into a dispute stemming from last weekend’s Arab Festival in Dearborn, Mich., where police are accused of enforcing Islamic law. “Officers arrested four Christian missionaries and illegally confiscated their video cameras which were recording the events surrounding their arrests,” said a statement today from the Thomas More Law Center of Ann Arbor, Mich. Officials in the police department with the city of Dearborn declined to comment to WND. Be a champion for the absolute truth of Scripture, and learn your spectacular destiny direct from your Bible that’s hardly ever mentioned in church: Get “Shocked by the Bible: The Most Astonishing Facts You’ve Never Been Told” — autographed! But the law center announcement said the incident has been described as “police enforcement of Shariah law.” The organization said it would represent the Christians. “These Christian missionaries were exercising their constitutional rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion, but apparently the Constitution carries little weight in Dearborn, where the Muslim population seems to dominate the political apparatus,” said Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center. “It’s apparent that these arrests were a retaliatory action over the embarrassing video of the strong arm tactics used last year by festival security guards. This time, the first thing police officers did before making the arrests was to confiscate the video cameras in order to prevent a recording of what was actually happening,” Thompson said. Arrested on charges of breach of the peace were Negeen Mayel, Dr. Nabeel Qureshi, Paul Rezkalla and David Wood, the legal team said. Mayel, an 18-year-old woman whose parents emigrated from Afghanistan and a recent convert from Islam to Christianity, also was charged with failure to obey a police officer’s orders. She was approximately 100 feet away and videotaping a discussion with Muslims when her camera was seized, the law firm said. “Contrary to the comments made by Police Chief Ron Haddad, our Constitution does not allow police to ban the right of free speech just because there are some hecklers. Not all police officers approve of the way their department treated these Christians,” said Thompson. The Christian missionaries reported police told them they would have to be five blocks away from the festival to give away copies of the Gospel of John. The law center also is representing Pastor George Saeig, who was prohibited by the festival and police authorities from distributing religious material at last year’s festival. That case is ongoing and a federal appeals court ruled prior to the 2010 event that handing out Christian literature in the proximity of the festival was allowed. WND reported earlier that at least two people claim a crowd was cheering “Allahu Akbar!” while the Christians were led away in handcuffs for doing nothing more than engaging in peaceful dialogue and videotaping the event. The Arab event was June 18 in Dearborn, where an estimated 30,000 of the city’s 98,000 residents are Muslim. The American Arab Chamber of Commerce announced the event was expected to draw “over 300,000 people from across the country, Canada and the Middle East.” The festival covers 14 blocks and is free and open to the public. All the Christian missionaries are from a Christian group called Acts 17 Apologetics. Qureshi said people at the festival recognized his group from its visit in 2009. Last year, the Acts 17 Apologetics team was escorted from the grounds while being allegedly assaulted by security personnel and several attendees. The following is the group’s footage of the incident: This year, Qureshi said some attendees who recognized them “would come up to us, accusing us, threatening us, saying we were racists, saying they were going to hurt us and yelling curses and insults at us.” However, he said his group was able to engage in civil conversations with many people who initiated discussion. But then the group was arrested by local police. Each of the four are now free on bond. “Paul, David, Negeen, and I went to the festival to see and comment on the situation,” Qureshi wrote on his blog. “Thankfully, we recorded every second of our activity at the festival.” In Saieg’s case, WND reported, a federal appeals court granted an emergency motion allowing him to hand out information about his faith at the same festival. A three-judge panel from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, citing the precedent that even a minimal loss of a fundamental right is irreparable, granted the motion requested by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of the Sudanese Christian.

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PUTTING WASHINGTON DC ON NOTICE…

And any President, Senator, Congressman, or Judge who aren’t going to go along with the program had better start packing now; and don’t let the door hit you in the butt!!!

We the people of these United States, from all fifty states of the union, have just about had it with you people; and all of you potentate dictator wannabes in DC had better start packing your bags now!!!

This is still America, and though many of you bums, who have forgotten that fact, and have also failed to honor your oath of office to preserve, defend and protect our U.S Constitution, because obviously you have demonstrated by your actions that you have no honor, we are putting ALL of you on notice now that your days are numbered… and if I have my way, my vote will be to have all of you brought up on charges for treason, in that you have betrayed our country; you have betrayed our constitution, and you have also betrayed what we stand for as a nation, not to mention all the lives that were sacrificed to defend our Liberty!

I’m here to tell you that these good people who have died in defense of our liberty, and are defending it today, it is not so that the likes of you can trample our flag and betray our country!

As a Christian I have prayed for you, and I have prayed that you would do the right thing.

I also have prayed for God to either change your little pea picking hearts; or that He remove you from office… and it looks to me like the latter is what is about to happen!

So be it… and it can’t happen too soon, for my taste!

I guess that about says it… and if you ask me sometime, I’ll tell you how I really feel. 🙂

May God bless America, the land that I love…

Shalom,

Skip Barland