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{ I want to share with every Believer, a very Real Hero, whom just passed away recently, so that all
might know that he was a Real Christian...........who had a tremendous Testimony!
~
I presume that most of us were unaware of this story. I didn't know this,
but it's awesome! 42 years ago...guess what happened... many have not
heard of this before .
Communion on the Moon: July 20, 1969 (This is an article by Eric
Metaxas) Forty-two years ago two human beings changed history
by walking on the surface of the moon. But what happened before
Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps
even more amazing, if only because so few people know about it.
"I'm talking about the fact that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the
surface of the moon. Some months after his return, he wrote about
it in Guideposts magazines <http://www.snopes.com/glurge/communion.asp>
And a few years ago I had the privilege of meeting him myself. I
asked him about it and he confirmed the story to me, and I wrote
about in my book 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About
God (But Were Afraid to Ask).
The background to the story is that Aldrin was an elder at his
Presbyterian Church in Texas during this period in his life, and
knowing that he would soon be doing something unprecedented
in human history, he felt he should mark the occasion somehow,
and he asked his minister to help him. And so the minister
consecrated a communion wafer and a small vial of communion
wine.
And Buzz Aldrin took them with him out of the Earth's orbit and
on to the surface of the moon. He and Armstrong had only been
on the lunar surface for a few minutes when Aldrin made the
following public statement: "This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this
opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever
they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of
the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way." He
then ended radio communication and there, on the silent surface of
the moon, 250,000 miles from home, he read a verse from the
Gospel of John, and he took communion. Here is his own account
of what happened:
"In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which
contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice
our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the
wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup. Then
I read the scripture, 'I am the vine, you are the branches. Who so
ever abides in me will bring forth much fruit.. Apart from me you can
do nothing.’
“I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth, but
finally at the last minute [they] had requested that I not do this. NASA
was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn Murray O'Hare,
the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crew reading
from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas. I agreed
reluctantly. <http://www.snopes.com/glurge/communion.asp>;
“I ate the tiny Host and swallowed the wine. I gave thanks for the
intelligence and spirit that had brought two young pilots to the Sea
of Tranquility. It was interesting for me to think: the very first liquid
ever poured on the moon, and the very first food eaten there, were
the communion elements.”
And of course, it's interesting to think that some of the first words
spoken on the moon were the words of Jesus Christ, who made
the Earth and the moon - and Who, in the immortal words of
Dante, is Himself the "Love that moves the Sun and other stars."
How many of you knew this? Too bad this type news doesn't travel
as fast as the bad does...share it if you've felt God's Love.
*TODAY IS THE OLDEST YOU'VE EVER BEEN, YET THE
YOUNGEST YOU'LL EVER BE, SO ENJOY THIS DAY WHILE IT
LASTS. "IN GOD WE TRUST"*
This is a place for you to find videos or video links to the RNC speeches. There are no comments, as this is informational only:-)
~TUESDAY'S SPEECHES~
ANN ROMNEY:
GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE:
RICK SANTORUM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68IMkUcVy9Y:
REP. ARTUR DAVIS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcsVnkwmDok
MIA LOVE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4BM_B0PTvM
CONGRESSMAN TIM SCOTT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_wD1ecduK0
TED CRUZ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gMxoc4tZBQ
GOV. MARY FALLIN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEYs7l2P_aQ
GOV. NIKKI HALEY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccpZ3jtX1z4
GOV. JOHN KASICH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gU7Jgkgk54
GOV. SCOTT WALKER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfjQZ0VEYxE
GOV. BOB McDONNELL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQYJ3jurdI4
GOV. BRIAN SANDOVAL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bVMI-KJ-1Q
SENATOR KELLY AYOTTE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ygQWobL3sQ
CONGRESSWOMAN CATHY McMORRIS RODGERS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcGqfGtxz9c
JANINE TURNER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slagiV7oOhc
~WEDNESDAY'S SPEECHES~
PAUL RYAN:
CONDI RICE:
RAND PAUL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAAtrTM1v-c
SENATOR JOHN McCAIN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnv4axCbJM8
SENATOR ROB PORTMAN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC8W6AGl-Yo
GOV. SUSANA MARTINEZ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEewz5v04mU
MIKE HUCKABEE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjBDGHcA65s
TIM PAWLENTY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epIi8YRo3Lc
GOV. LUIS FORTUNO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-FYBZIx9YU
PAM BONDI & SAM OLENS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyMbZ8BoPx0
~THURSDAY'S SPEECHES~
MITT ROMNEY:
http://www.c-span.org/RNC/Events/Mitt-Romney-at-the-2012-Republican...
MARCO RUBIO:
CLINT EASTWOOD:
PAM FINLAYSON: (Beautiful story about her little daughter and the Romney's)
HISPANIC OUTREACH VIDEO:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/3845700
TED & PAT OPAROWSKI: (Speaking of son's tragic death)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlB7aR-2h8
NEWT & CALLISTA GINGRICH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rQ2QJO-RSw
CONNIE MACK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFsZD78vMXk
FORMER MASS. LT GOV-KERRY HEALEY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhkcBWksZPA
JANE EDMONDS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL7wZuHVx9A
CRAIG ROMNEY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rMyU-o22Ss
JEB BUSH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIB0aTmm-s8
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A VIDEO NOT POSTED--TRY THIS:
Here is something I wrote a while back but may be of interest still.
Waste My Vote?!
This is for you Lori
.
There are few ways to waste a vote. The first, worst way is to not vote at all. Responsible adults vote every chance they get. If you don’t vote, you can’t bitch and will never make a difference in this country.
Another way to waste a vote is to vote for a grossly flawed or substandard candidate. Such a candidate always offends conservative sensibilities. This fact renders him/her unelectable to any base of patriotic Americans. Consider some seriously flawed candidates who have actually gotten elected.
Arnold Schwarzenegger; Here’s a RINO who has disappointed everyone except the unions that own the CA government. His conservative opponent, Tom McClintock is still the most conservative elected official in the state.
John McCain/Lindsey Graham; These liberal knuckleheads lead the Republican efforts of amnesty for forty million plus, illegal aliens who are colonizing America. They got that chance because the voters of AZ and SC couldn’t bear the prospect of being represented by Democrat senators for a term or two. Could junior senators have caused as much trouble as either of these two liberals? Doubtful.
Using my own vote as an example, I helped get Obama elected. (Author ducks to avoid thrown vegetables, fruit and eggs). My vote for conservative, Chuck Baldwin of the American Independent/Constitution Party got Obama elected. Why? Because too many Americans voted for the lesser of two evils. But my vote has helped America more than the vote of those who voted for that, lesser evil. How? President Hussein and the liberals of both parties in congress have given rise to the entire Tea Party movement. It is their efforts to destroy our liberty, our sovereignty, our economy, our jobs and industry that has spawned a new era in citizen participation. My hope was that if Obama was elected he would destroy so much liberty and opportunity so quickly that it could not escape notice. The hopes for my vote have been realized; have yours?
And what if McCain had been elected instead? Does anyone believe he’d act much differently? He still advocates amnesty for illegal aliens. He still votes for bailouts and massive spending. He still wants full government intrusion into our lives. He still believes there is a government answer to healthcare, the economy and everything else. And there is no evidence that he would even nominate constitutionalist judges to the Supreme Court. He would be pushing us over the same totalitarian cliff we are currently headed toward albeit at a slower, less noticeable pace.
Now, what if patriots had voted with me for the conservative candidate? Chuck Baldwin promised to grant FULL pardons to Ramos and Compean his first day in office and veto amnesty for the aliens. He would defend our rights enumerated in THE ENTIRE BILL OF RIGHTS; guns, speech, religion, the works. Lower spending, lower taxes, lower government intrusion into our lives. No TARP, no bailouts, no government takeover of industry, certainly no government-as-usual that every president has followed over the past 20 years.
Ask these of yourself. Do you have faith in your religious beliefs? Was America founded upon Christian morals and principles? Is God looking over our nation to help us to survive as such? Then why in the hell would you vote for McCain who would dissolve our sovereignty? Who puts faith in the lesser of two evils instead of something higher? If one believes that we live in a Christian nation, how could one vote for evil to rule it? Lesser or otherwise. Do people think that any candidate sent by God to save our nation could only come to us through the Republican Party? Do people think God a Republican? The word “Republican” appears nowhere in the Bible. If Americans had rejected 3rd party candidates, Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president would never have been elected! If God actually sent us a political savior as a candidate, most “conservatives” would not even vote for him if he wasn’t Republican! Is that not insane!?
If you have any belief in Divine Providence at all just study the philosophies and goals of John McCain and Chuck Baldwin and ask yourself which one would be the more likely to have been sent to save America? If God sent America a candidate for our salvation, most Americans would never even hear about him because they are too busy deciding which of Satan’s candidates look the best! I’m not going to suggest that God is sending us candidates. But I’m pretty sure the devil is. Any way you look at it, in 2008, most voters chose between two candidates from Hell and we elected one. When we vote for the lesser of two evils we will always elect evil.
Ask yourself a few more questions. How bad, liberal or destructive does the Republican candidate have to get before you will refuse to vote for him/her? What if Hillary had gotten the Republican nomination since she is less liberal than McCain? Would you have voted for that lesser of two evils? How will you ever vote for a candidate from Heaven if you are fixated on wasting that vote on those from Hell?
© Bobby XD9
16 Feb. 2010
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What is Pro-Life?
Time has come to show your colors. Now is the time, America is the place, the choice is yours, He is waiting for your answer. Who are you?
ONE MINUTE EACH NIGHT
This is the most troubling election we as Christians have ever faced, and from the looks of the polls, the Christians aren't voting Christian values. We all need to be on our knees.
Do you believe we can take God at His word? Call upon His name, then stand back and watch His wonders unfold. This scripture gives us, as Christians, ownership of this land and the ability to call upon God to heal it. I challenge you to do that. We have never been more desperate than now for God to heal our land.
This election is the scariest I can remember in my lifetime. 2 Chronicles 7:14: 'If my people, which are called by my name shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land"
During WWII, there was an advisor to Churchill, who organized a group of people who dropped what they were doing every night at a prescribed hour for one minute, to collectively pray for the safety of England , its people and peace. This had an amazing effect, as bombing stopped.
There is now a group of people organizing the same thing here in America .
The United States of America , and our citizens, need prayer more than ever! If you would like to participate, each evening at 9:00 P.M. Eastern Time (8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific), stop whatever you're doing, and spend one minute praying for the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens, for peace in the world, the upcoming election, that the Bible will remain the basis for the laws governing our land, and that Christianity will grow in the U.S.
If you know anyone who would like to participate, please pass this along. Someone said if people really understood the full extent of the power we have available through prayer, we might be speechless. Our prayers are the most powerful asset we have. Thank you.
May God Bless You!
Much has been said in the media about how Paul Ryan is an "extremist”, how he plans to "destroy" the lives of everyday people, especially the elderly. A lot has being written about how his fiscal positions make him hostile to middle class Americans. After extensive, intensive, investigative research there is now a Top Ten List to explain Ryan’s "unlike-ability."
1. His economic plan will benefit the private sector economy by reducing big government spending and eliminating unnecessary regulations. If only he would slow job growth, cripple the economy and inflict further damage on the private sector by hiking taxes and continuing trillion dollars a year deficit spending. Finally there would be a plan with which “progressives” could “compromise”.
2. He has a plan to reform and save Medicare. He will secure the future of Medicare with volunteer vouchers for future retirees, thus preserving the Medicare guarantee for current seniors by preventing the bankruptcy of the Medicare system. If only he would put the entire Medicare system at risk by sticking his head in the sand and pretending that maintaining the insolvent status quo is perfectly fine. Then maybe the White House, the DNC and the mainstream media would celebrate him as a hero of the common man.
3. The Ryan jobs plan will invite investments by lowering of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. His plan to cut those tax rates will stimulate the creation of middle class jobs, enhance and preserve private wealth and reduce deficits by increasing revenues to the IRS. If only he would raise taxes on rich. Then America would be more like Europe, causing insulated “progressive” “elites” in academia and the media to rejoice. Heck, maybe even Sean Penn would join him on the campaign trail.
4. He's a pro-life candidate who believes that “in every life there is goodness; for every person, there is hope.” If Ryan would just come to his senses and support government funding the systematic slaughter of millions of innocent, unborn babies the largely post-menopausal National Organization of Women would celebrate his “choice”.
5. He will reform Social Security and put it on firmer fiscal ground by ending the current bankrupt Ponzi scheme system and providing future generations the option of controlling their own retirement money. If only he would agree to big government bureaucrats and me-first career politicians remaining in charge of the money, then they could continue to spend it wildly and stuff more IOUs into the Social Security “lock-box”. After all, the money really belongs to the big government sophisticates. Americans are lucky they deem to allow taxpayers to keep any of it. You did not earn it, they did.
6. He will reduce Pell Grants that have been greatly expanded under the current administration. His proposal calls for reducing Pell Grant spending to pre-stimulus levels. His plan will help curb tuition inflation and ensure the aid reaches the truly needy. If he was only willing to continue the government’s sole proprietorship over college loans, then college students would remain beholding to Big Brother and the Nanny State.
7. His budget retains $40 billion in tax deductions for energy producers, thereby ensuring that they remain capable of researching, developing and delivering affordable energy to all Americans. If only he would continue using taxpayer dollars to investment in impractical, inefficient “alternative” fuels and “green” energy technologies. Then the government could continue to redistribute billions to the pockets of big “progressive” campaign bundlers and America could continue to burn corn in internal combustion engines instead of feeding its people.
8. He supports the private sector economy. Not surprisingly, the Koch brothers support Ryan with political contributions. Too bad he refuses to side with “progressives” in pushing for the growth of big government, the destruction of free enterprise and the elimination of national sovereignty. Then he could reap huge financial rewards from ner do well George Soros and his ill-gotten billions. Even if Ryan lost his government job, Uncle George would be sure to find a place in one of the hundreds of anti-American foundations he supports for someone dedicated to the “progressive” overthrow of America. Just ask Van Jones.
9. He supports traditional marriage. If Ryan would just support adoption by gay couples, same-sex marriage, and repealing "don't ask, don't tell." Then his positions would align with the demands of a tiny fringe minority. Movie and television scripts would be written singing his praises. Perhaps even Alec Baldwin would play the starring role.
10. He believes in private property rights and that entrepreneurs built their own businesses. Ryan ascribes to Ayn Rand's philosophy of individual success. If only he would get on board with collectivist thought and support “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need”. Then his election campaign would garner huge support from “progressive” activists and Communists backed labor unions. Perhaps they would resurrect ACORN to ensure enough dead people, family pets or felons voted to clinch his election. Then he and Al Franken could have a laugh swapping stories about the naïveté of the voting proletariat.
Paul Ryan’s background, experience and trustworthiness demonstrate that he is a proven leader and a fine citizen who is ideally qualified to become Vice President of the United States. America knows where he was born, that he will support small businesses and private enterprise, understands the threat posed to America’s unreformed “entitlement” programs, and will not redistribute taxpayer’s money to fringe radical self-separating hyphenated identity victim groups.
America will not like taking some of the steps necessary to recover from a mountain of debt, but someone with Ryan's extensive knowledge of the issues, experience in how Congress works and exceptional, American bred humility knows how to accomplish the task.
http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/the-top-ten-reasons-paul-ryan-is-so-despicable/
I just gave to the Romney/Ryan Campain, Tea Party, Heritage Organization and NRA and will continue to do so until the election is over. Although my money is needed other places (living expenses ect) I feel that it very necessary to support the canditates and organizations working to preserve our freedoms and way of life for my children and grandchildren.
I especially hope that my contributions will help to finance the "Little Suzie " infomercials that I have not seen for a couple of weeks. I belive that the "Little Suzie" infomercials were very good. If it is drummed into the peoples heads repeatidly that the goverment is borrowing 40 some percent of everything they spend and that there is over 1 million in unfunded liabilities per taxpayer, then I think that the average voter will eventually realize that things have to change.
http://blackroberegimentpastor.blogspot.com/2012/08/its-not-just-economy-stupid.html
“It's Not Just The Economy Stupid”
In this upcoming election do your part to get the vote out. Volunteer to get the vote out. It is critical to all of us. Talk people out of the notion that their vote does not count or that it is all the same if you vote for tweedle dee or tweedle dum. Not voting leads politicians to ignore the needs of the citizenry. GET THE VOTE OUT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkAsLPrnJGc
If the nations of the world continue to kill the unborn, God will eventually severly punish those nations that continuously defy His Holy Will. Other nations have been severly punished for disregarding the sanctity of life and His Holy Will throughout history! Do we want that to happen to the US?
WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913
The Federal Reserve is the central banking system that controls the
monetary system of the United States. Contrary to popular belief, the Federal
Reserve is not a government institution, but a private credit monopoly managing
the supply of U.S. dollars. It charges the Treasury for its services. But the
real problem is that the Fed makes its decisions behind closed doors with
little, if any, transparency or input from our elected officials. Thomas
Jefferson said, "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."
Look at this interactive painting of the American Presidents:
Clint Eastwood stated the following at the convention:
"We own this country." "Its not you (refering to President Obama) owning it and its not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours." ......"When somebody does not do their job we got to let them go!"
"MAKE MY (HIS) DAY AND SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
if OBAMA WINS WE WILL LOSE ARE FREEDOM SO BE PEPARED TO FIGHT FOR YOU FREEDOM LIKE FOREFATHERS DID DONT BE A BUNCH OF SHEEP AND BE LED TO KILLED IN SOME FEMA DEATH CAMP I HAVE MENTIOND THIS BEFORE WHEN I WARNED AMERICA ABOUT THE NAT GUARDS MOBLIZED TO HELP IMPRISON PEOPLE SO JOIN ME AND HELP DEFEND AMERICA YOU CAN CONTACT JOHNREB137@GMAIL.COM
With the strong backing of an energized Republican Party and a diverse team of rising stars, candidate Mitt Romney formally accepted the GOP nomination to be President of the United States.
Recalling the excitement and optimism of the presidential race of four years ago, Romney pointed out how those elevated expectations and the bevy of promises that came with those expectations have led to disappointment over opportunities lost:
“Every family in America wanted this to be a time when they could get ahead a little more, put aside a little more for college, do more for their elderly mom who's living alone now or give a little more to their church or charity.
Every small business wanted these to be their best years ever, when they could hire more, do more for those who had stuck with them through the hard times, open a new store or sponsor that Little League team.
Every new college graduate thought they'd have a good job by now, a place of their own, and that they could start paying back some of their loans and build for the future.
This is when our nation was supposed to start paying down the national debt and rolling back those massive deficits. This was the hope and change America voted for. It's not just what we wanted. It's not just what we expected.
It's what Americans deserved.”
Romney shared the pain and hardship everyday Americans have felt over the past four years as the result of the current administration’s failed economic policies:
“You deserved it because during these years, you worked harder than ever before. You deserved it because when it cost more to fill up your car, you cut out movie nights and put in longer hours. Or when you lost that job that paid $22.50 an hour with benefits, you took two jobs at 9 bucks an hour and fewer benefits. You did it because your family depended on you. You did it because you're an American and you don't quit. You did it because it was what you had to do.
But driving home late from that second job, or standing there watching the gas pump hit 50 dollars and still going, when the realtor told you that to sell your house you'd have to take a big loss, in those moments you knew that this just wasn't right.”
He then pointed to the morning light peeking over the horizon by reminding Americans “Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, ‘I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!’”
Romney then went on a brief autobiographical journey. He reminded Americans who know him, and revealed to those who do not, that his life has been a familiar American story. The son of immigrants, whose parents worked hard to give him opportunities they never had. By example they taught him the value of hard work and enterprise, and the meaning of love. He met the love of his life, and with her raised a happy, loving family of their own. He summed up by saying “And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives. The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths.”
Next, he outlined the story of his business career, where struggles to launch Bain Capital were rewarded by success: “That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.”
Romney chose that moment to remind Americans that attacking success is “the centerpiece of the President's entire re-election campaign… Is it any wonder that someone who attacks success has led the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression? In America, we celebrate success, we don't apologize for it.”
He then reminded voters “That is why every president since the Great Depression who came before the American people asking for a second term could look back at the last four years and say with satisfaction: "you are better off today than you were four years ago." Except Jimmy Carter. And except this president.”
Mitt Romney understands that for America to work and for Americans to succeed, they need jobs. “Lots of jobs,” and how the current administration’s policies “…have not helped create jobs, they have depressed them.”
Romney put American voters on fair notice when he warned them:
“To the majority of Americans who now believe that the future will not be better than the past, I can guarantee you this: if Barack Obama is re-elected, you will be right.”
Romney then outlined his five point plan to revitalize the American economy:
“First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.
Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.
Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.
Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.
And fifth, we will champion SMALL businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.”
On foreign policy, Romney criticized the current administration for their failure to slow Iran's nuclear threat, for how they have disrespected allies like Israel and Poland, and sought to appease Russia. He assured Americans that “Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty, and Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone.”
Romney concluded his speech before a cheering crowd and to a standing ovation:
“The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.
Everywhere I go in America, there are monuments that list those who have given their lives for America. There is no mention of their race, their party affiliation, or what they did for a living. They lived and died under a single flag, fighting for a single purpose. They pledged allegiance to the UNITED States of America.
That America, that united America, can unleash an economy that will put Americans back to work, that will once again lead the world with innovation and productivity, and that will restore every father and mother's confidence that their children's future is brighter even than the past.
That America, that united America, will preserve a military that is so strong, no nation would ever dare to test it.
That America, that united America, will uphold the constellation of rights that were endowed by our Creator, and codified in our Constitution.
That united America will care for the poor and the sick, will honor and respect the elderly, and will give a helping hand to those in need.
That America is the best within each of us. That America we want for our children.
If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it. And with your help we will deliver it. Let us begin that future together tonight.”
With a strong supporting cast, with an energized Republican Party and a diverse team of rising stars behind him, Mitt Romney demonstrated why on January 20, 2013 he is the man best prepared to sit in the Oval Office.
Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and Republicans are ready to lead. It is time for the current administration and their “progressive” allies to either follow or get out of the way.
http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/romney-ryan-republicans-ready-to-lead/
I believe the subject of this treatise will be about an individual which a great many people consider to be public enemy number one. For those of you who have read my other treatises, I hate to disappoint you, this particular treatise will not be the scathing witch hunt which uncovers the corruptness of our so-called leadership or of any particular leader for that matter. Instead, I am going to spend the time looking into a man who much of the public seems to intensely dislike, but for whom I have a great deal of respect.
While there are nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices, I am going to focus on one. If you haven’t guessed who I am referring to by now, it is Senior Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia. Antonin Scalia was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate and assumed his office, or his seat, on 26 September 1986 as a Supreme Court Justice. Who is this Supreme Court Justice and what sets him apart from the rest? According to Wikipedia Justice Scalia is, “The longest-serving justice currently on the Court, Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice. Appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia has been described as the intellectual anchor of the Court’s conservative wing[i].” I would like to mention a few more items noted in Wikipedia before I continue, which I believe will give us something to work with regarding Justice Scalia. Wikipedia also notes, “In his quarter-century on the Court, Scalia has staked out a conservative ideology in his opinions, advocating textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in constitutional interpretation. He is a strong defender of the executive branch…and, in his minority opinions, often castigates the Court’s majority in scathing language.” I’ll also touch on Justice Scalia’s beliefs on such matters as flag-burning and abortion as they relate to the Constitution of the United States. I believe these items through his over 25 years on the Court will allow us to find out who Supreme Court Justice Scalia is and why so many people believe he is public enemy number one.
A Constitution is not meant to facilitate change. It is meant to impede change, to make it difficult to change.
Antonin Scalia
Because I love the U.S. Constitution and know the founding fathers of this nation were great men, I believe that would be a good place to start. What does Justice Scalia mean when he speaks about originalism in constitutional interpretation? According to an interview with Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes, the CBS News report states, “Justice Scalia is still a maverick, championing a philosophy known as “originalism,” which means interpreting the Constitution based on what it originally meant to the people who ratified it over 200 years ago[ii].” Personally, I like the idea of interpreting the U.S. Constitution[iii] in a manner that upholds the values, principles and words of our founding fathers who actually risked everything to create such a wonderful document for the people of the United States. In the report Justice Scalia goes on to explain what he means, “It is an enduring Constitution that I want to defend.” Ms Stahl notes, “Scalia has no patience with so-called activist judges, who create rights not in the Constitution – like a right to abortion – by interpreting the Constitution as a “living document” that adapts to changing values.” Justice Scalia states why he is against the idea of a living Constitution, “What’s wrong with it is, it’s wonderful imagery and it puts me on the defensive as defending presumably a dead Constitution.” So it is apparent, Justice Scalia believes the U.S. Constitution should be and is our ‘rock solid foundation’ which we stand upon and which has elevated us, the United States, to our (at least once) grand stature. With regard to the founders, Justice Scalia goes on to say, “Well, it isn’t the mindset. It’s what did the words mean to the people who ratified the Bill of Rights or who ratified the Constitution.” Justice Scalia isn’t against progress or change, “Create it the way most rights are created…Pass a law.” But he is against changing the Constitution, our foundation. Like many people I believe if you wish to change the Constitution, lawmakers need to go through the extremely cumbersome amendment process in order to make the Amendment. However, making a law in itself, is much less cumbersome, it just needs to be constitutional.
Why does Justice Scalia advocate textualism in statutory interpretation and what is it? Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Theory of Legal Interpretation stated, “How is it when you admit evidence of circumstances and read the document in the light of them? Is this trying to discover the particular intent of the individual, to get into his mind and to bend what he said to what he wanted?” Mr. Holmes, who I might add was a brilliant man, further states, “Thereupon we ask, not what this man meant, but what those words would mean in the mouth of a normal speaker of English, using them in the circumstances in which they were used, and it is to the end of answering this last question that we let in evidence as to what the circumstances were[iv].” So I believe Mr. Holmes is stating textualism is not necessarily the intent of the man as much as it is the words themselves, as used by men in general, to understand the meaning of the words within a certain circumstance.
According to the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, “The basic premise of textualism is that judges “must seek and abide by the public meaning of the enacted text, [as] understood in context” and should “choose the letter of the statutory text over its spirit[v].”” Mr. Davis further states with regard to textualism, “Only the statutory text has passed the constitutional requirements of bicameralism and presentment, and that judicial reliance on unenacted intentions or purposes “disrespects the legislative process.”” Also according to Mr. Davis, textualists believe those ‘unenacted intentions and purposes’ are that which “Skirts the constitutional protections designed to safeguard liberty by diffusing legislative power.” So textualism maintains the separation of power within the three branches of government itself and protects the U.S. Constitution as well as the liberty of sovereign individuals and sovereign States.
Just so you know bicameralism is Congress as two chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate. For the definition of presentment I’ll go to Black’s Law Dictionary, “In criminal practice. The written notice taken by a grand jury of any offense, from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the government. A presentment Is an informal statement In writing, by the grand jury, representing to the court that a public offense has been committed which is triable in the county, and that there is reasonable ground for believing that a particular individual named or described therein has committed it[vi].”
So between Oliver Wendell Holmes and Mr. Davis of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Justice Scalia’s advocacy of textualism in statutory interpretation is not the intent of what is or was meant, but the actual public meaning of the text itself within the context of what was said [in the statute] and this is done strictly to safeguard our liberty under the U.S. Constitution while holding the government in check. I can’t figure out how that is a bad thing. The framers of the Constitution believed in limited government, to be sure, limited federal government as stated by James Madison in Federalist No. 45, “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined[vii].”
Now imagine a provision—perhaps inserted right after…the Naturalization clause—which included among the enumerated powers of Congress “To establish Limitations upon Immigration that will be exclusive and that will be enforced only to the extent the President deems appropriate.” The delegates to the Grand Convention would have rushed to the exits.
Antonin Scalia
An example of one of Justice Scalia’s minority opinions can be found in Arizona v. United States. Justice Scalia states, “Must Arizona’s ability to protect its borders yield to the reality that Congress has provided inadequate funding for federal enforcement—or, even worse, to the Executive’s unwise targeting of that funding[viii]?” Justice Scalia goes on to say, “The President said at a news conference that the new program “is the right thing to do” in light of Congress’s failure to pass the Administration’s proposed revision of the Immigration Act. Perhaps it is, though Arizona may not think so. But to say, as the Court does, that Arizona contradicts federal law by enforcing applications of the Immigration Act that the President declines to enforce boggles the mind.” This is wonderful example of Justice Scalia castigating the majority (let’s call it) in scathing language-lite (I would have just called them spineless jellyfish). While the majority opinion was in favor of the President’s so-called plan of doing nothing other than trampling atop the rights of the sovereign State of Arizona, Justice Scalia sets himself apart and appropriately rebuffs the majority as well as the Executive branch. Justice Scalia states, “The Court opinion’s looming specter of inutterable horror…seems to me not so horrible and even less looming…the specter that Arizona and the States that support it predicted: A Federal Government that does not want to enforce the immigration laws as written…Are the sovereign States at the mercy of the Federal Executive’s refusal to enforce the Nation’s immigration laws?” Justice Scalia seems right on point and makes my previous statement with regard to the Supreme Court Justices in “On Sovereignty[ix]” seem a bit harsh. Quite frankly I should have stated the Supreme Court might as well be referred to as ‘Eight Empty Chairs’ instead of nine. Justice Scalia quite eloquently affirmed Arizona’s sovereign status and rebuked the Executive’s misguided stance as well as the Supreme Court’s inconceivable majority opinion. Why should the sovereign State of Arizona be required to allow its borders to be violated? As a sovereign State, Arizona has every right to secure its borders, protect its citizens and enforce Immigration Laws even if the Federal government doesn’t have the backbone or the intestinal fortitude to aggressively enforce those laws. I have always been unable to fathom why the federal government shirks its own responsibilities but has such a voracious appetite for prosecuting decent Americans who simply exercise their freedoms as they see fit, which seem to be at odds with the misguided beliefs of the jack-booted thugs in Washington.
Apparently, the Obama administration which flatly refuses to rigorously enforce existing immigration laws, just like his predecessor, George W. Bush who also refused to enforce those laws should not handcuff a sovereign State from doing so. Each sovereign State, like the nation as a whole, has its own Constitution and its own three branches of government. The federal government in my view is always subordinate to the States as well as the individuals who make up the States, unless one of the various constitutionally guaranteed rights of the individual has been violated by the State. What right does the federal government believe it has to step in as ‘High Lord and Potentate’ and issue its so-called fatwa’s or to even dictate to the sovereign individuals and the sovereign States? The business of the State is just that, the business of the State. The federal government’s power is limited for a reason, the founders believed in the sovereign individual and the sovereign State. Clearly, the federal government merely acts out of jealousy in its daily attempts to usurp what is not rightfully theirs as stated in the Law of the Land, the U. S. Constitution.
Frequently an issue of this sort will come before the Court clad, so to speak, in sheep’s clothing…But this wolf comes as a wolf.
Antonin Scalia
Now that we have seen Justice Scalia beat up on Obama, I think it would be a good time to touch on him [Scalia] as a strong defender of the executive branch. In Morrison v. Olson Justice Scalia gave his dissenting opinion, “We should say here that the President’s constitutionally assigned duties include complete control over investigation and prosecutions of violations of the law, and that the inexorable command of Article II is clear and definite: the executive power must be vested in the President of the United States[x].” Clearly, Article II of the U.S. Constitution states the duties and power of the Executive Branch as separate from either the Legislative or Judicial Branches, as stated in Articles I and III respectively, and vice versa. Justice Scalia’s dissenting opinion continues, “In my view…the Court’s conclusion must be wrong…One of the natural advantages the Constitution gave to the Presidency, just as it gave Members of Congress (and their staffs) the advantage of not being prosecutable for anything said or done in their legislative capacities…It is the very object of this legislation to eliminate that assurance of a sympathetic forum.” As executive privilege is a principle based on the constitutionally mandated separation of powers – the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches operate independently from one another. Private decision making with their advisors, in this case the independent council was the Assistant Attorney General Olson, has to be done without fear of ‘how something might look’ to either of the other branches of government. Unless a crime has been committed, no branch of government may frivolously impede the duties of the other branches of government. Especially when the aim is simply to destroy an elected leader’s ability to carry out the duties of his office through a so-called witch hunt or a fishing expedition which effectively renders the elected leader impotent without just cause, or simply to act as a device to destroy one’s political enemy. “The purpose of the separation and equilibration of powers in general, and of the unitary Executive in particular, was not merely to assure effective government but to preserve individual freedom.” This is a good example of Justice Scalia’s strong defense of the executive branch. But in doing so, Justice Scalia is actually defending all three separate branches of government and their duties as delineated in the U.S. Constitution. What strikes me as even more paramount than the defense of the Executive and the separation of powers (which is extremely important), is Justice Scalia’s believe that in doing so it is in the defense of the individual freedoms which are ultimately protected.
Lastly, we should take a look at Justice Scalia’s conservative ideology. If we go back to the 60 Minutes interview with Leslie Stahl, Justice Scalia states, “I’m a law-and-order guy. I confess I’m a social conservative, but it does not affect my views on cases.” An example of Justice Scalia’s impartiality, in spite of his own personal beliefs, is in regard to flag-burners, “If it was up to me, I would have thrown this bearded, sandal wearing flag-burner into jail, but it was not up to me.” While that does sound conservative to me, it also sounds impartial. Justice Scalia clearly states his disdain for flag-burning and flag-burners, yet his opinion with regard to the law is flag-burners are protected under the U.S. Constitution. I’m not so certain I could be so fair-minded. It seems to me, flag-burners have plunged themselves into the depths of the multitudes of depraved individuals around the globe who constantly burn our flag, yet cry a river whenever the United States does something with which they do not agree. Of course, they claim they burn our flag because of our aggression, and while there may be a certain amount of truth to that statement, these people which I speak of live in a barbaric rat hole as a result of their own choosing, not ours. Their argument is disingenuous as well as fallacious.
The right to abortion is another issue with which we are all too familiar, based on the landmark case Roe v. Wade. In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Justice Scalia gave his dissenting opinion, “By foreclosing all democratic outlet for the deep passions this issue arouses, by banishing the issue from the political forum that gives all participants, even the losers, the satisfaction of a fair hearing and an honest fight, by continuing the imposition of a rigid national rule instead of allowing for regional differences, the Court merely prolongs and intensifies the anguish. – We should get out of this area, where we have no right to be, and where we do neither ourselves nor the country any good by remaining[xi].” Whether someone is for or against abortion, it seems clear to me as it seems to be with Justice Scalia, nowhere within the U.S. Constitution does it state there is a right to abortion. However, I do believe as Justice Scalia’s dissenting opinion states, this is a matter that should be left up to the States. Roe v. Wade is a perfect example of the federal government’s attempts to destroy States rights. Has there been an amendment to the Constitution? The easy answer is no, but if that is the case, then why does the federal government feel they have the right to enact a national law without going through the cumbersome amendment process to the U.S. Constitution? If a State or the people of a State enact a law which either affirms or denies the right to have an abortion through State law, the individual on either side is not held against their will in that State. They have the freedom and the right to leave and seek out their liberty in another State where the people of that State have beliefs which are more in keeping with their own set of beliefs. But to have a national law foisted upon us all with the misguided attempt at appeasement for some, completely disregards the others. Not to mention the fact that such an idea is completely foreign to the U.S. Constitution.
I would conclude by stating Justice Scalia is not only a fantastic jurist, but an outstanding Supreme Court Justice. This man has a clear grasp of the law and an understanding of the U.S. Constitution which is unparalleled. I happen to like the fact that he adheres to the public meaning of text in his interpretation of the statutes and how he sticks to what the founding fathers said and what the words meant to them regarding the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Justice Scalia’s belief that the idea of a living constitution is in reality a dead constitution is an honorable defense of the U.S. Constitution. His belief that his duty is to defend an enduring Constitution speaks volumes about this man. Justice Scalia’s defense of the sovereign State in the face of Executive, Congressional and Judicial malfeasance is also quite noteworthy. To protect the sovereign State is to protect the sovereign individual and it would appear as though Justice Scalia is a staunch supporter of both. As I have already stated, he defends the Constitution, but he also does this by affirming there is a clear separation of power between the three branches of government as stated in the Constitution. His conservative leanings don’t seem to sway his opinions or impartiality with regard to any case. And his opinions in general are quite interesting to read. Justice Scalia shows up for work each day fully prepared to uphold, defend and protect the Constitution of the United States. I cannot imagine why so many people hate this man, unless of course, it is because they hate the U.S. Constitution.
Justice Scalia is in many ways like Socrates, he questions and reproves, he educates and he enlightens. While in his interview with Ms Stahl he stated, “I was never cool,” I would have to disagree with him on that point. I personally believe Justice Scalia is in fact very cool, I might even go so far as to say he is a role model for decent and honorable men and not just young lawyers who someday wish to sit on the Supreme Court. Justice Scalia is an example of a man who leads by example. If we had more like him on the Supreme Court, it’s possible our nation wouldn’t hit the nail right on our thumb quite so often.
If you think aficionados of a living constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens to enact it. That’s flexibility.
Antonin Scalia[xii]
God Bless this Great Republic, the United States of America.
Brett L. Baker
http://mytreatises.blogspot.com
References
[i] Wikipedia; Antonin Scalia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia
[ii] CBS News; 60 Minutes, Justice Scalia On The Record, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/24/60minutes/main4040290.shtml
[iii] Charters Of Freedom; Constitution of the United States, http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
[iv] Harvard Law Review; The Theory of Legal Interpretation, Oliver Wendell Holmes, pp 417-418. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1321531?seq=1
[v] Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy [Vol. 30]; The Newer Textualism: Justice Alito’s Statutory Interpretation, p. 988, Elliott M. Davis. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No3_Davisonline.pdf
[vi] Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Edition Online; Definition of PRESENTMENT, http://thelawdictionary.org/presentment/
[vii] Founding Fathers Info; Federalist No. 45, James Madison. http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/fedindex.htm
[viii] Arizona v. United States; Opinion of Scalia, J, pp 19-21. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-182b5e1.pdf
[ix] On Sovereignty; US Constitution: How the U.S. government fails to follow the U.S. Constitution and the incompetent, so-called leadership of the United States, http://mytreatises.blogspot.com/p/on-sovereignty.html
[x] Cornell University Law School, Legal Information Institute; Morrison v. Olson (No. 87-1279), http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0487_0654_ZD.html
[xi] Gonzaga University; Scalia dissent in the Casey case, http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/~dewolf/scalia.htm
[xii] Brainy Quotes; Antonin Scalia Quotes, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/antonin_scalia.html
Was Brandon Raub Labeled a “Sovereign Citizen?”
Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 28, 2012:
“(Aug. 28, 2012) — After The Blaze interviewed the president of a civil liberties advocacy organization about its recent defense of seized former Marine Brandon Raub, the video and story were widely disseminated on the internet with the statement that people have reportedly been “disappearing,” particularly veterans.
John Whitehead, who has been president of The Rutherford Institute since 1982, is featured on the home page of “Veterans Today.” In his interview with told Glenn Beck, owner of The Blaze, he told Beck that “the Rutherford Institute is getting flooded with calls, many of them from military veterans, who say they have been victims of involuntary civil commitments like Raub.” Whitehead added, “What I’m getting from veterans is, they say they are getting picked up by the FBI, mainly for 9/11 ‘truther’ statements” (emphasis The Blaze’s).
Rutherford has described the accounts coming in from veterans and others as “Orwellian,” referring to the novel 1984 by George Orwell about a world controlled by “Big Brother” in which people were regularly surveilled, brainwashed, deprived of their dignity, and beaten and tortured into submission. A review of the book stated:
You’ll find yourself asking how this man who wrote the novel in 1948 could possibly have such foresight into what would evolve into the world as we know it today. Similarities between life as we know it and life as Orwell foresaw abound.
For more than two years, The Post & Email has been reporting on the cases of Darren Wesley Huff and Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, both of whom have been incarcerated as a result of attempting to expose government corruption. Huff is currently in a federal prison, while Fitzpatrick is fighting a charge of “tampering with government records,” after having spent more than six months in total in the Monroe County jail.
While The Blaze injected its opinion about those who doubt the official 9/11 narrative into the story, thereby editorializing, it vindicated statements Fitzpatrick has been making for nearly three years: that the Obama regime has targeted veterans, particularly white men, for incarceration if they speak out against government corruption on any level. The “Sovereign Citizen” training program assembled by the FBI, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Tennessee Department of Safety is one example, as Huff and Fitzpatrick, who did not commit violent crimes, are portrayed as dangerous criminals in the same category as Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh.
Months ago, The Post & Email contacted The Blaze regarding judicial corruption in Tennessee, Fitzpatrick’s repeated incarcerations, and the police brutality which have been reported, but never received a response. We have contacted National Review Online, multiple law firms, Tennessee television stations and other news sources, none of which took interest in the story. Now Whitehead cites similar stories from “thousands of people” reported as having disappeared, to which Whitehead responded, “The government covers their tracks and they don’t tell the truth most of the time, unfortunately.”
What happened to Navy veteran Darren Huff?
He drove to attend an assignment hearing for Fitzpatrick on April 20, 2010 and was arrested ten days later. No crimes occurred that day nor on any other, yet FBI affidavits state that Huff had planned to commit acts of violence against public officials in Madisonville, TN. Huff claims that the witnesses lied on the witness stand during his trial and that he never made any claims to violence. Huff has told The Post & Email that he has been labeled a “sovereign citizen” in the prison where he is currently being held.
The federal government has failed to produce any documentation of the planning of the heavy police presence in Madisonville on April 20 six months after The Post & Email filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain it. Initially, the U.S. Department of Justice said it possessed no such documentation, and an appeal requesting another search has remained unanswered since May 1, 2012.
Fitzpatrick believes that the orders to mistreat and incarcerate veterans come from Obama personally. He has had many threats made against his life which have been reported to the FBI but appear not to have been investigated. After reporting judicial corruption to the FBI on a particular occasion, three agents laughed and responded, “This is the way it is.”
Instead of revealing his birth certificate and other probative materials to show that he is a “natural born Citizen” and constitutionally eligible to serve as president, Barack Hussein Obama remained mute and a decorated Army flight surgeon spent five months in Ft. Leavenworth for questioning him. While Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin was still incarcerated, Obama released what he claimed was his birth certificate, although an official law enforcement investigation has concluded that it is a “computer-generated forgery.”
The law enforcement officer overseeing the investigation of Obama’s birth certificate, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, AZ, has been sued by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges of discriminating against Hispanics in the custody of his department. Arpaio denies the claims and is fighting the lawsuit in court. Fitzpatrick has stated that Arpaio is being treated like a “sovereign citizen” by the Obama regime.
The Post & Email has submitted two Tennessee Open Records Act requests for documentation of how and by whom the “Sovereign Citizen” training program was written and will report any results received in a future article.
Despite two pronouncements of forgery in regard to both Obama’s Selective Service registration card and his long-form birth certificate, Obama has not been arrested or charged with a crime. Members of the military, whether on active duty or retired status who have spoken out about what they see as Obama’s abuse of power or corruption within the federal government have been dismissed from the military, jailed, financially ruined, and in Raub’s case, intimidated by a psychiatrist.
When The Post & Email contacted the Washington, DC bureau of the FBI, the media contact person told us that the FBI “is investigating really serious crimes” and advised us to contact our congressman about the forgery issue.
Fitzpatrick was also ordered to obtain a psychiatric evaluation in April 2010, to which he reported but refused to undergo.
In April 2009, the Department of Homeland Security under Janet Napolitano stated that “returning veterans” were susceptible to succumbing to “right-wing extremism.” Major media outlets appear to have expounded on that theme.
Fitzpatrick spent 25 years in the U.S. Navy, earning numerous medals and letters of commendation, but has been labeled a “terrorist” by the Obama regime.
How many other veterans have stories similar to those of Fitzpatrick and Huff?
Source:
http://www.thepostemail.com/2012/08/28/was-brandon-raub-labeled-a-sovereign-citizen/print/
Note: The following recent eye-opening articles and/or blog posts published by The Post & Email relate to this disturbing issue:
I. Mainstream Media Report: TBI Investigating Alleged Tenth Judicial District Corruption!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 28, 2012:
“(Aug. 28, 2012) — The Chattanooga Times Free Press is reporting that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Attorney General, and the state Comptroller’s Office have opened a probe into claims of malfeasance and fiscal improprieties in the Tenth Judicial District of the state.
A statement from Attorney General Robert E. Cooper, Jr. says that “there will be no public announcements regarding the progress of this investigation.”
The Post & Email has been reporting prosecutorial misconduct, rigged juries, hand-selected jurors, libel, defamation, and criminal conduct on the part of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department, judges prosecutors and for nearly three years. Monroe County is one of four counties of the Tenth Judicial District.
While The Post & Email did not specifically investigate misspending of public money, while in the Monroe County jail, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III reported that a human trafficking operation was ongoing which channeled people into the jail, many on bogus charges, in order to maintain a steady flow of cash which did not go toward upkeep of the building. The Monroe County jail was placed on a “Plan of Action” because of substandard conditions early last year but remains open today.
Many readers of The Post & Email and this writer have contacted Cooper and Gov. Bill Haslam over the last two years to protest police brutality, rigged juries, and unlawful conduct on the part of judges and members of the district attorney general’s office. The Tennessee Attorney General is appointed by the state Supreme Court rather than elected by the people. Others have contacted their legislators, who attempted to ignore the communications.
Fitzpatrick has called District Attorney General Steve Bebb “a criminal” along with Assistant District Attorneys General Jim Stutts and Paul D. Rush. Rush is prosecuting Fitzpatrick on a case involving government records which Fitzpatrick’s attorney, Van Irion of Knoxville, said that “Facts alleged in the indictment could only have occurred if members of the Monroe County Court’s staff first acted negligently.”
The state of Tennessee has insulated its judges and prosecutors from public scrutiny with layers of bureaucracy. The state Supreme Court operates the Board of Professional Responsibility to discipline attorneys. The now-defunct Court of the Judiciary was recently replaced by the “Board of Judicial Conduct” which still contains mostly judges and attorneys. One, Judge Christy Little, has exhibited less than professional conduct while on the bench in a child custody case reported exclusively by The Post & Email.
Tennessee General Assemblywoman Mae Beavers, who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had wanted to institute a judicial oversight board with more citizen authority but was urged to drop her proposed legislation by Lt. Gov. and Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey earlier this year. Ramsey had never responded to any of The Post & Email’s telephone calls about judicial corruption in the Tenth Judicial District.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation told Fitzpatrick almost two years ago that it could not launch an investigation into a judge’s conduct unless ordered to do so by the District Attorney General or the “Attorney General in Nashville.” At that time, Agent Cathy Pendleton rudely said to Fitzpatrick, “I don’t know what to tell you. You could call the governor…” and then called Fitzpatrick a “blowhard.” “You’re just running your mouth,” Pendleton said, concluding with “I think you need to find somebody else to ying-yang with, sir, because I’m not gonna talk to you,” after which she hung up on him.
Fitzpatrick had contacted Attorney General Cooper and said he had “gotten the runaround.” Fitzpatrick told Pendleton that “the judges have taken over our grand juries,” citing the long-standing grand jury foreman in Monroe County, Gary Pettway. Local FBI office agents have told Fitzpatrick, “Live with it!” in regard to the corruption of the juries.
Fitzpatrick has recently met with his state senator and representative and given them copies of 1984 laws still current which state that Tennessee’s criminal courts were directed to reorganize into and empanel jurors from districts consisting of several counties, in most cases. Neither of the legislators has responded to an invitation from The Post & Email to a complimentary subscription to read its now-extensive collection of evidence pointing to massive corruption in their districts and their state.
Given the 1984 laws, it appears that Fitzpatrick was correct when he said that the “Monroe County Criminal Court” had no “jurisdiction” over him. Fitzpatrick has been jailed on five occasions totaling over six months and labeled a “sovereign citizen” by the TBI and FBI for his exposure of corruption within the Tenth Judicial District and Tennessee as a whole, beginning with his filing of a criminal complaint for treason against Barack Hussein Obama in March 2009.
In the Fourth Judicial District, a former deputy sheriff is awaiting sentencing for a felony he did not commit which has ruined his career and besmirched his reputation. A phone call from The Post & Email to the Sevier County Sheriff’s Department asking for information on the case last week was not returned.
Have enough Tennessee residents spoken up about the corruption in their midst to effect action? Could the evidence against officials in the Tenth Judicial District be taken to a lawfully-empaneled grand jury for review, as outlined in the Fifth Amendment?”
Source:
II. Breaking: Judicial Corruption Video Which Every American Needs to See!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 29, 2012:
III. Updated Video of Fitzpatrick Saga Spreads over the Internet!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 30, 2012:
IV. Breaking: Three Witnesses at Trial of Darren Huff Under Cloud of Suspicion in State Corruption Probe!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 30, 2012:
Note: Please read "Is the Obama Regime Targeting Veterans? (Part 1)" for more disturbing revelations regarding this issue:
Is the Obama Regime Targeting Veterans? (Part 1):
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/is-the-obama-regime-target...
Note: What follows is a letter that I sent to my family members, comrades and friends shortly after the historical 2008 Presidential election that includes my extensive research into then Senator Obama’s background that I completed on November 3, 2008 (two days prior to general election), which I believe relates to this extremely disturbing issue-You Decide:
Letter to my family, comrades and friends after our historical 2008 Presidential election:
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/letter-to-my-family-friend...
Note: The following videos and article and/or blog post relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
I. Video: Foreign and Domestic: Exposing America's True Enemies!-Posted on YouTube.com-By TheJoshTolleyChannel-On July 7, 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UCQ1VwhdRU&list=UUA5hOHgxCuXdQs...
II. Video: Ted Nugent: Feds Arresting Innocent Citizens Without Warrants!-Posted on YouTube.com-By patriotupdatereport-On August 31, 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIbCU2RnD4s&feature=player_embedded
III. SCALIA FLUMMOXED ABOUT NATURAL BORN CITIZENSHIP: ‘Exclusive: Larry Klayman asks justice for definition of term used in Constitution!’-Posted on WND.com-By LARRY KLAYMAN-On August 31, 2012:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/scalia-flummoxed-about-natural-born-citi...
Note: What follows are other articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
President Obama's Tin Ear!-Posted on American Thinker-By Shoshana Bryen-On September 6, 2012:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/09/president_obamas_tin_ea...
Obama speech to soldiers met with silence!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Neil Munro-On August 31, 2012:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/31/obama-speech-to-soldiers-met-with...
Naval expert: Ships shown during Democratic convention tribute to veterans were Russian!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By David Martosko, Executive Editor-On September 12, 2012:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/12/naval-expert-ships-shown-during-d...
Obama’s Military Voter Suppression Campaign!-Posted on FrontPage Magazine-By Matthew Vadum-On September 12, 2012:
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/obama’s-military-voter-suppression-campaign/
Every American Should Be Ashamed Of Their President!-Posted on Conservative 50 Plus-By ADMIN-On September 14, 2012:
http://conservative50plus.com/blog/mark-steyn-every-american-should-be-ashamed-of-their-president/
Obama Doctrine: Slashes Military Amidst Islamist Uprising!-Posted on Big Peace-On September 14, 2012:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/14/Obama-doctrine-slash-military-world-in-flames
VII. A Patriot’s Warning about the Growing Obama Police State!-Posted on Gulag Bound-By Sher Zieve-On October 7, 2012:
http://gulagbound.com/34647/a-patriots-warning-about-the-growing-obama-police-state/#.UHIJUWB4Ji0
Obama Faces Backlash on Military Budget Cuts!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By David A. Patten-On October 23, 2012:
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Romney-ad-sequestration-Obama/2012...
Video: Facebook Censors Special Ops PAC to Help Obama!-Posted Restoring Liberty-By News Editor-On October 31, 2012:
http://joemiller.us/2012/10/facebook-censors-special-ops-pac-to-hel...
UPDATE: FACEBOOK REVERSES, ALLOWS SEALS’ POST CRITICAL OF OBAMA!-Posted on Big Peace-By AWR HAWKINS-On October 31, 2012:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/30/Facebook-Censors-Navy...
Soldier Pays $90 to Vote Absentee!-Posted on Restoring Liberty-By Hope Hodge-On November 3, 2012:
http://joemiller.us/2012/11/soldier-pays-90-to-vote-absentee/?utm_s...
Thousands of ballots unlikely to reach military voters in time!-Posted on The Hill-By Ramsey Cox-On November 5, 2012:
Our Disenfranchised Troops Deserve Better!-Posted on FrontPage Magazine-By Michelle Malkin-On November 7, 2012:
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/michellemalkin/our-disenfranchised-tro...
Military Absentee Ballots Delivered One Day Late, Would Have Swung Election For Romney!-Posted on Duffle Blog-By DREW-On November 7, 2012:
http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/11/military-absentee-ballots-deliver...
Fitzpatrick: Obama’s Replacement of Commanders is Treason!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On November 4, 2012:
http://www.thepostemail.com/2012/11/04/fitzpatrick-obamas-replaceme...
Last Chance to Save our Constitution!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On November 4, 2012:
http://www.thepostemail.com/2012/11/04/last-chance-to-save-our-cons...
Squatters in the White House!-Posted on Obama Ballot Challenge-By GeorgeM-On November 3, 2012:
http://obamaballotchallenge.com/squatters-in-the-white-house
FL Grand Jury: OBAMA AND BIDEN: TIME TO INDICT BOTH!-Posted on Obama Ballot Challenge-By GeorgeM-On October 21, 2012:
http://obamaballotchallenge.com/fl-grand-jury-obama-and-biden-time-...
WHITE HOUSE BLASTED FOR CLASSIFIED INFORMATION LEAKS: ‘Citizens grand jury’ accuses administration of using secrets to ‘bolster’ political standing!’-Posted on WND.com-By BOB UNRUH-On November 2, 2012:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/white-house-blasted-for-classified-infor...
Obama and Biden Indicted by Florida Grand Jury For Willfully Releasing Classified National Security Information!-Posted on ObamaBallotChallenge.com-By GeorgeM-On November 5, 2012:
http://obamaballotchallenge.com/new-citizens-grand-juries-site
The Petition To Impeach Barack Obama Over Benghazi!
http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/11/03/the-petition-to-impeach-barac...
Note: My Following Blogs Relate To This Distrubing Issue-You Decide:
U.S. GENERALS NOW TAKE ACTION TO WATCH OBAMA: Retired Army, Air Force leaders say ‘government continues down path of destroying America’!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 26, 2013:
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/u-s-generals-now-take-ac...
Veterans and members of our Armed Forces under attack!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/veterans-and-members-of-ou...
The Military Pays the Price for Obama’s Agenda!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/the-military-pays-the-pric...
Rules of Engagement Killing Marines and U.S. Soldiers!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/rules-of-engagement-killin...
Special Ops Groups Slam Obama Over Bin Laden Bragging, Leaks! (Part 1):
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/special-ops-group-attack...
Special Ops Groups Slam Obama Over Bin Laden Bragging, Leaks! (Part 2):
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/special-ops-groups-slam-...
Request For Congressional Investigation Into Mysterious Downing of Chinook Helicopter in Afghanistan!
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/request-for-congressiona...
Price for Justice: One of many Benghazis!
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/price-for-justice-one-of...
Hold Obama Accountable For Libya!
http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/hold-obama-accountabl...
Arming Our Enemies!
http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/arming-our-enemies?xg...
2000 Dead Soldiers and Obama Can Still Do No Wrong!
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=4301673%3ABlogPos...
Treason in America: Move Over ‘Hanoi Jane’!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/treason-in-america-move-over-‘hanoi-jane’/
Time To Remember The Price Of Freedom!
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/memorial-day-2012-time-t...
It’s Getting Very Serious Now!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/it’s-getting-very-serious-...
The planned re-election of Obama, revolutionary style!
http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-planned-re-electi...
Did ATF provide weapons to Mexican drug cartels that were subsequently used to kill one of our own?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/did-atf-provide-weapons-to...
What is the true intent of the UN Small Arms Treaty?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/what-is-the-true-intent-of...
Clearing the Smoke on Obama’s Eligibility!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/clearing-the-smoke-on-obam...
The Greatest Fraud Perpetrated in American History!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpetr...
American Flag Clothing Sparks New Protest!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/american-flag-clothing-spa...
When Loving Your Country Makes You As A Domestic Terrorist!
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/when-loving-your-country...
What Happened to Free Speech?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/what-happened-to-free-speech/
Who owns our supposedly fair and balanced airwaves and news outlets?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/who-owns-our-supposedly-fa...
Obamanites Get Violent in Support of the Agenda!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/obamanites-get-violent-in-...
The Vetting: ‘Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection’!
http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-rad...
Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-r...
‘CIVILIZATION JIHAD’ AND OBAMA’S CONNECTIONS!
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/civilization-jihad-and-o...
Who ran cover for Obama’s Islamic background? ‘Tracing The Politics And The Money Behind Obama’s 2008 Campaign’!
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/who-ran-cover-for-obama-...
Are We Witnessing Narcissism At Work?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/are-we-witnessing-narcissi...
What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven’t-been-told-...
President and DOJ have contributed to the racial mess in our country!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/president-and-doj-have-con...
Letter to Congressman Allen West Regarding Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse Allegations!-Posted on We The People USA-By Jake Martinez-On August 26, 2012:
http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-congressman...
http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-n...
Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Congressman Martin Heinrich Regarding My Request For Full-scale Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!-Posted on We The People USA-By Jake Martinez-On August 26, 2012:
http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-n...
Letter To NM U.S. Senator Udall Regarding Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan!-Posted on We The People USA-By Jake Martinez-On August 15, 2012:
http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-nm-u-s-sena...
Letter to Congressman Allen West Regarding Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse Allegations!-Posted on We The People USA-By Jake Martinez-On July 28, 2012:
http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-congressman...
Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Senator Udall Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!-Posted on We The People USA-By Jake Martinez-On May 26, 2012:
http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-n...
Follow-up Letter to NM Governor Martinez Regarding The Removal of President Obama From The NM 2012 Presidential Election Ballot!-Posted on We The People USA-By Jake Martinez-On May 1, 2012:
http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-n...
Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Senator Udall Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!-Posted on We The People USA-By Jake Martinez-On April 11, 2012:
http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-n...
Note: The following videos seem extremely appropriate today:
A Republic, If You Can Keep It!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0
Freedom Isn’t Free:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIO3VMLdRE
I Stand For America!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTlDyY5i9i4&feature=player_embedded#at=208
The Fightin Side of Me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32-OyyLJzHw&feature=player_embedded
Video: Obama, the Final Straw!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYyug3Ac7HU&feature=player_embedded
We Are The Resistance-Keep Blogging, Exposing and Pursue Treason Charges!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGvhK0Pnh-U&feature=player_embedded
Declaration to Restore the Republic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYycZOCJv4k&feature=player_embedded
Note: If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts, please copy website and paste it on your browser. Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial by this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.
“Food For Thought”
God Bless the U.S.A.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related
Semper Fi!
Jake
It seems to be common knowledge that if Mitt Romney is elected Ben S. Bernanke will be replaced as Chair of the Federal Reserve. With that hanging over Ben Bernanke's head Don't you suppose that he will do what ever it takes to see Obama re-Elected? after all it is in his self interest to do so.
This is another reason to make sure we not only win the Presidential race but also take the senate and improve our hold on the house!
I still think it is past the point of no return for saving this currency from being wiped out and the USA being forced to do the unthinkable and replace the present banking system with a gold backed currency controlled by congress and not a central bank, as it was originally written into the constitution !
Well those Republicans sure came off looking good and sounding good too. It does not matter at all that the nation is on the very edge of a fiscal cliff and drastic measures are needed NOW. [not is a year , but now]
Mitt Romney had lots of folks say how sweet and nice and kind he is and I am sure he is the nice guy that they say he is. [ not a doubt in my mind] a real price of a guy.
However when you are going to war who do you want leading you ?
George Patton , or a nice guy [General Georg Patton was not said to be a nice guy] but he won battles
He also do not die for your Country make the other SOB die for his!
Well let us hope that Mitt Romney has the same metal in his back bone that George Patton had in his!
He calls to RESTORE AMERICA
The tree of liberty [FREEDOM} requires that it be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots form time to time , let us hope that we can step up to this task.