Happy Independence Day...Believer...

Happy Independence Day...Believer...

As modern Americans, we suffer various handicaps when it comes to the vigilance required to maintain the liberty and freedom which we have been entrusted with. Generations of educational and intellectual erosion have washed away a historic American identity. Into that void of collective memory loss has been poured a national lifestyle and dependency that necessitates a reliance on Government that is not just dangerous but ultimately destructive. We were born in the twentieth century missing a memory of our country's most basic life support requirement. Vigilance!

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." -John Philpot Curran - 1790

That is another way of saying the ones willing to participate or act will rule the ones that are either not willing or too busy to do so. I'm afraid we may have to do more than show up to vote once a year if we hope for America to change direction.

This is what prompted Benjamin Franklin to remark that the Founding Fathers had given us "A republic, if you can keep it."

The fertile ground of liberty has given way to every imaginable restriction requiring all manner of sanctioned licenses, permits and registrations. The more than 300 million American citizens are now by default, scrutinized, spied on and cataloged in the name of "safety and security" because there may be those wanting to harm us among us. So Americans are treated like subjects while a criminal banking elite wreaks havoc on the country in broad daylight and with the permission of elected officials. The few are constructing a police state around themselves while the rest of America remains vulnerable.

There is no security nor safety in the disregard of freedoms.

But having been born into a condition only a little better than the present one, most living Americans are willing to tolerate all manner of "evils", as long as they are "sufferable". As long as those "evils" do not interrupt Sunday ball games and summer vacations. American believers have additional mental hurdles to clear before getting in the game of securing their own country's future from within. After all, It could be God's will that our beloved Republic deteriorates into ungodly socialistic ground for our "end time" church to thrive.

Thank God some of the founding generation used their faith as the reason to do what was right instead of an excuse to allow what was wrong!

On this 233rd anniversary of our great festival, Independence Day, let us remember at least some of those words of reasoning and ordained thought from our Declaration of Independence...

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

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."

We are well beyond "transient causes". Yet it seems that we still "are more disposed to suffer," Because apparently the current "evils are sufferable". That is sort of like choosing the lesser evil isn't it? This is precisely our current mode of national existence. Most of us Americans are too busy making the mortgage payment, putting food on the table or manicuring our lawns to concern ourselves with providing "Guards for our future security". Perhaps a future generation, our children or grand children will find the time and desire to reverse the trend. Unfortunately, that will probably be too late.

We still have hope to accomplish this necessary function if we will just realize the need and respond to the responsibility, especially followers of Christ. The mechanisms still exist within the Constitution of the United States to accomplish this. The answers and vehicle are there for us to right the country but it cannot wait for future generations. We must realize this as American believers. We are rapidly heading towards the day when not only will the Constitution be ignored by elected officials but we will no longer have the ability to even point that fact out, let alone remedy it.

We have to begin to care and begin to educate ourselves and one another on the God given rights and responsibilities that the Founding Fathers attempted to hardwire into our system of government. The effective means of correcting our predicament still exist but are by and large forgotten. Let's start remembering. It still begins with the Declaration of Independence , the Constitution including the Bill of Rights.

Remember what it is about... Happy Independence Day!
Eternal vigilance!

Please read the article "Is the Constitution Dead?" By Dr. Edwin Vieira http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin36.htm
Please read the article "Independence Now and Forever" By Pastor Chuck Baldwin http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin518.htm

Watch the Declaration of Independence Performance Video

An Urgent Plea to my Fellow Believers... Change is Here

Wow, it's time to take a break from politics... Think again.

I am of course very concerned by the election of Barack Obama primarily because he has refused to (easily) produce a certified copy of his Hawaiian birth certificate for some reason (along with keeping many documents sealed from Harvard, University of Illinois, his wife's thesis, etc.). Perhaps because of his paternal grandmother's claim that she ...was in the delivery room in [Mombosa,] Kenya (making him not qualified to be President), when he was born Aug. 4, 1961. But I will be following that more in the future. See the latest about this situation in the article: Obama and our Coming Constitutional Crisis by Ellis Washington (professor of law and political science at Savannah State University)http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80435. Also see the latest on the lawsuit at: www.obamacrimes.com. Understand, this truly is a big deal.

But I want to deal a little with our overall situation in this country and what our responsibility is to God and future generations of Americans.

Involve yourself in politics at the local level and you will quickly realize why most people have no interest in pursuing it as an occupation or a hobby. It takes at least three things that most of us are in short supply of; time, money and thought.

There is a fourth thing that I have come to realize it takes and it is the one thing I believe we've been missing. It's also the one thing that will keep me involved beyond today and probably at a whole new level of conviction. Care. Care is the fourth thing that can trump the other three things it takes to involve yourself in politics. Call it love for others if you want. Call it love for your country or like in my case all of that plus more importantly love for my family's future... concern for my children and their children's country. For of all the things I have come to realize over the past two years of campaigning and working within the party politics, this one thing is true: I believe that if I (and everyone else) do not remain involved between elections, our country is lost. If we just vote and wait for the next election, we will keep getting progressively worse candidates, guaranteed. Do you want that? I don't.

Now if you are one of those that believe that it really doesn't matter or that God is through with our country, stop reading and move on. All others consider a few things please.

It is true: God is in control and He raises, removes and controls leaders. However, most Americans, (especially Christians) have not been taught that the ultimate "authority" in the American Republic was "We the People" based on our Constitution. This was intended by the founding fathers expressly because of the evil nature of man and Satan's working through people down through history. It was also not the founder's intent that Americans only concern themselves with politics at election time. The one thing that the founding fathers were certain of was that power placed in the hands of men and left unchecked for any amount of time would always lead to despotism. It always has in every society throughout history. Yet today's Americans, including the church in America seem to believe that men can be trusted after we elect them. After all, isn't Roman's 13 permission to not question government? It's almost as if many believers think we live in some extension of the Roman Empire of Paul's time. This lack of historical context is why America and America's churches are where they are and headed where they're headed. We go to church and we go to work, maybe vote once every couple of years and then we let the "rulers" rule us... and we complain about it because "if you vote you have a right to complain."

The founders with the support of the minister's of the time gave us the gift of self government born out of resistance and ultimately rebellion to tyranny. They truly believed that they "must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29) and that meant that there was a point at which you must stand up to human "authorities".

More importantly we still have the responsibility and ability to influence and correct our government and policies. America is alone in history and in the world as the one time and place where Christians have and still do enjoy liberty and freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of worship and freedom to spread the Word. But that is being slowly eroded generation after generation in such a way that few have recognized the complacency that allowed it. We vote and feel empowered while America is squandered by corrupted politicians that we elect as the "lesser of two evils". That is the choice only because we refuse to be involved as a body continuously between elections.

It's time for God's people to realized their birthright in America and reclaim it through participation BETWEEN elections. It is our right and responsibility to vote but it is even more our responsibility to confine our government to the Constitutional constraints placed on it to ensure that our Republic remains the light on the hill of the world. That light has all but gone out and If we cannot get other Christians to educate themselves and realize this, and to realize that we can do something in addition to pray and wait for the rapture, America could be the foundation for an Antichrist system like the world has never seen. If that happens, I believe a century of Christians are at least partly to blame because of our actions and inaction that has contributed to the slide into despotism. We must act according to what we understand God's character is, not what we think the "end time" time line is.

That all being said, Christians are the only Americans that truly have the hope to offer the world. But that "right" and responsibility is very close to being lost. If it is taken it is our own fault believers. Liberty and freedom are at much greater risk of being lost from within than from a foreign threat. We can use our unique position and authority over our government to recreate the free republic that the founders gave us or we can allow it to fade into tyranny like all civilizations before. This hope is what should give us the resolve to pick up the pieces and rebuild our country for God. There is ultimate hope in Christ but we must share it and defend it for the world as the salt and light that we have been called to be. But Jesus said if the salt loses its flavor... it is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. That is where we are today.

Please get involved now in local politics where you are at some level. That is the only way to fix things in America. If you do not know what to do, ask me and I will be more than happy to tell how you can join the fight for our nation.

For the Republic and in Jesus blessed name,

Troy Perkins

Ron Paul, The Revolution, and Ending Abuses and Usurpations

by Michael Scheuer

Congressman Ron Paul’s new book, The Revolution, is an unusual presidential campaign book in that the candidate – Dr. Paul – is almost entirely absent. This is not to say that his presence is not felt; indeed, Dr. Paul is with the reader every step of the way and writes in a clear and very direct style. But the reader will find that Dr. Paul is not offering the audacity of hope or chanting change; he does not argue that it takes a village or having slept with a former president; and he surely does not hold up his military service as a reason why he should be elected. Instead, Dr. Paul politely, laconically, but frankly lays it on the line for his countrymen: America is in significant and potentially catastrophic trouble economically, financially, and militarily; the country’s political class is homogenous, gutless, and ill-educated; its two major parties do not offer a nickel’s worth of difference on important issues, especially foreign policy [pp. 2, 26, 163]; and our leaders are consciously negating parts of the Constitution, compromising America’s national sovereignty, and circumscribing the liberties of Americans. But then, astoundingly and correctly, Dr. Paul does not say "Only I can fix this mess" – as have Senators Clinton, Obama, and McCain – he says: "Only you, the American people, can fix this mess." Dr. Paul confronts Americans with a reality that ought to both chill and inspire them.

Ours is not a fated existence, for nowhere is our destiny etched in stone. In the final analysis, the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would be without it, there is no force that can stop them. If freedom is what we want, it is ours for the taking. [p. 167]

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From Wikipedia - Michael F. Scheuer is a former CIA employee. In his 22-year career, he served as the Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station (aka "Alec Station"), from 1996 to 1999, the Osama bin Laden tracking unit at the Counterterrorist Center. He then worked again as Special Advisor to the Chief of the bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004...

Ron Paul on CNN Larry King Live - UnAired

This is the interview that apparently has not aired on Larry King Live, as of yet...

Media Coverage of Mall Shooting Fails to Reveal Mall's Gun-Free-Zone Status

The horrible tragedy at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Neb. received a lot of attention Wednesday and Thursday. It should have. Eight people were killed, and five were wounded.

A Google news search using the phrase "Omaha Mall Shooting" finds an incredible 2,794 news stories worldwide for the last day. From India and Taiwan to Britain and Austria, there are probably few people in the world who haven’t heard about this tragedy.

But despite the massive news coverage, none of the media coverage, at least by 10 a.m. Thursday, mentioned this central fact: Yet another attack occurred in a gun-free zone.

Surely, with all the reporters who appear at these crime scenes and seemingly interview virtually everyone there, why didn’t one simply mention the signs that ban guns from the premises?

Nebraska allows people to carry permitted concealed handguns, but it allows property owners, such as the Westroads Mall, to post signs banning permit holders from legally carrying guns on their property.

The same was true for the attack at the Trolley Square Mall in Utah in February (a copy of the sign at the mall can be seen here). But again the media coverage ignored this fact. Possibly the ban there was even more noteworthy because the off-duty police officer who stopped the attack fortunately violated the ban by taking his gun in with him when he went shopping.

Yet even then, the officer "was at the opposite end and on a different floor of the convoluted Trolley Square complex when the shooting began. By the time he became aware of the shooting and managed to track down and confront Talovic [the killer], three minutes had elapsed."

There are plenty of cases every year where permit holders stop what would have been multiple victim shootings every year, but they rarely receive any news coverage. Take a case this year in Memphis, where WBIR-TV reported a gunman started "firing a pistol beside a busy city street" and was stopped by two permit holders before anyone was harmed.

When will part of the media coverage on these multiple-victim public shootings be whether guns were banned where the attack occurred? While the media has begun to cover whether teachers can have guns at school or the almost 8,000 college students across the country who protested gun-free zones on their campuses, the media haven’t started checking what are the rules where these attacks occur.

Surely, the news stories carry detailed information on the weapon used (in this case, a rifle) and the number of ammunition clips (apparently, two). But if these aspects of the story are deemed important for understanding what happened, why isn’t it also important that the attack occurred where guns were banned? Isn’t it important to know why all the victims were disarmed?

Few know that Dylan Klebold, one of the two Columbine killers, closely was following Colorado legislation that would have allowed citizens to carry a concealed handgun. Klebold strongly opposed the legislation and openly talked about it.

No wonder, as the bill being debated would have allowed permitted guns to be carried on school property. It is quite a coincidence that he attacked the Columbine High School the very day the legislature was scheduled to vote on the bill.

Despite the lack of news coverage, people are beginning to notice what research has shown for years: Multiple-victim public shootings keep occurring in places where guns already are banned. Forty states have broad right-to-carry laws, but even within these states it is the "gun-free zones," not other public places, where the attacks happen.

People know the list: Virginia Tech saw 32 murdered earlier this year; the Columbine High School shooting left 13 murdered in 1999; Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, had 23 who were fatally shot by a deranged man in 1991; and a McDonald's in Southern California had 21 people shot dead by an unemployed security guard in 1984.

All these attacks — indeed, all attacks involving more than a small number of people being killed — happened in gun-free zones.

In recent years, similar attacks have occurred across the world, including in Australia, France, Germany and Britain. Do all these countries lack enough gun-control laws? Hardly. The reverse is more accurate.

The law-abiding, not criminals, are obeying the rules. Disarming the victims simply means that the killers have less to fear. As Wednesday's attack demonstrated yet again, police are important, but they almost always arrive at the crime scene after the crime has occurred.

The longer it takes for someone to arrive on the scene with a gun, the more people who will be harmed by such an attack.

Most people understand that guns deter criminals. If a killer were stalking your family, would you feel safer putting a sign out front announcing, "This Home Is a Gun-Free Zone"? But that is what the Westroads Mall did.

John Lott is the author of Freedomnomics, upon which this piece draws, and a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland.