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GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH

There is something noble in the human spirit when confronted with the
difficult and terrifying4063685888?profile=original choices. The ability to "overcome" the fear is
called "courage"...that is why medals are given to military men and
women who find the within themselves something they never realized
was present...willingness to ,if necessary,to sacrafice their life for a just
cause. King David stood before the Army of Israel as the giant Goliath
threw blasphmeous insults against the GOD of heaven...Davids words
ring down through the ages "IS THERE NOT A CAUSE??"...
The LORD himself speaking of himself as an example of what true love
was when HE said "GREATER LOVE HAS NO MAN BUT
THIS,THAT HE LAY HIS LIFE DOWN FOR A FRIEND, YOU ARE
MY FRIEND"....In the book of REVELATIONS THE 12TH CHAPTER
CONCERNING OUR VICTORY OVER SATAN WHICH IS USUALLY
PARTIALLY QUOTED BECAUSE OF THE LAST VERSE..."AND
THEY OVERCAME SATAN BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND
WORD OF THEIR TESTAMONY,BECAUSE THEY LOVED NOT
THEIR LIVES UNTO THE DEATH".....
This principal must have burned in the heart of PATRICK HENRYwhen
he proclaimed "GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH"

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Let Me Say This Clearly

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Posted by Michael Boldin

dc-area-code-300I know we’re all very upset about what’s happening in DC.  For many people, today’s events are extremely upsetting.  Sadly, though, we need to accept facts.  The federal government is filled with sociopathic criminals.

But we can beat them.  And we will.

Here at the Tenth Amendment Center, we’re in the process of putting together a long-range strategy which helps people understand what needs to be done to advance liberty and the Constitution.  So, as many of our nullification bills are moving forward, we’re becoming quite good at getting things done.  Stay tuned for that.

In the meantime…

http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2ndamendmentpreservation

Start here.  The ONLY way you’ll ever protect your right to keep and bear arms is by nullification – on a state and/or local level.   No matter how awful your state is, you have multiple times greater chance of getting something accomplished closer to home on a state level, or even city council level – than you’ll ever have calling the likes of Reid or Toomey to do the right thing.

Nullify.  Nullify.  And Nullify.

I include this very specific nullification legislation on the right to keep and bear arms because of what’s happening in DC right now.  But, if a different issue is what’s important to YOU, the message is still the same.

Start here, and nullify.
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/legislation

TRUTHS AND ADVICE:

You may not find hard truths easy to hear or read. But since I’m not trying to win elections or friends, I’m going to share some anyway. My only goal here is to advance the cause of liberty and the Constitution. This needs to be said.

1.  Washington DC is a lost cause.  If you’ve been spending your days calling politicians in DC to support or oppose something, you’ve wasted your time.  If you want to advance liberty, forget DC.  That is a pit of criminals, and you will never, ever accomplish your goals.  Don’t call anyone there.  Don’t send any letters to your reps or senators.  Don’t support their campaigns, or donate your money.  Forget that the 202 area code even exists.

2.  Recognize that the s&!t has hit the fan.  Things are bad, really bad.  And they will likely keep getting worse.  That will never stop until you follow point #1.

3.  There’s no quick fix.  Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, is going to turn this mess around in short order.  Whether it’s guns, or hemp, or health care, farming, money, and everything in between, the People in this country…well, we’ve all let it happen for far too long.  We’ve cared about the drama of national elections, or which political team was winning in congress far more than we’ve cared about our liberty and the Constitution.  So we’ve got a long haul back.  But we have to start working on nullification, and nothing else, right now.  Not tomorrow, now.

4.  Think Nationally, Nullify Locally.  Centralized power is the cause of our situation.  Every time you spend an ounce of energy on their game, they gain more power.  Again, this goes back to point #1.  Stay away from DC, don’t call, don’t visit, and don’t ever count on them to fix the problems they’ve created.  A one-size-fits all solution – centralized – is the game of our enemies.  We win from the ground up, not the top down.

LET ME SAY THIS CLEARLY

In Kansas, a bill that would nullify a huge number of federal gun control measures is sitting on Governor Brownback’s desk with a veto-proof majority.  In Missouri next week, the state house will be considering an even stronger version of that bill.

Become a member and support the TAC!

In Maine and Washington State, bills to nullify unconstitutional bans on industrial hemp are moving forward.  And South Carolina’s nullify Obamacare bill just got voted out of committee and is going to the State House floor very soon.

Even here in California, a state assembly committee this week passed a bill to nullify NDAA indefinite detention – unanimously.

This is the foundation.  It will grow, if you commit to it.  The response on both the state and the local level will get stronger and stronger if you put your time, energy and financial resources behind it.  If you forego the soap opera that is the sickos in Washington DC, all our nullification efforts will get stronger – and in greater numbers.

Joe Biden wants to scare us all – telling us that this is just the beginning on gun control.

Well, I’ve got a message too.   Hey Joe, let me say this as clearly as I can.  This is just the beginning.  Whatever you’ve got, we’re going to Nullify it.

Peace,

–Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin [send him email] is the founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. He was raised in Milwaukee, WI, and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. Follow him on twitter - @michaelboldin, on LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

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Stockman to use blue slip to kill Manchin-Toomey scheme, deliver U-Haul gift cards to Democrats who vote in favor

‘Constitutional rights don’t require permission slips.  If you infringe upon the Second Amendment’s absolute protections, you will be removed from office’

 

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Stockman today reinforced his intentions to use a “blue slip” to kill any Senate anti-gun bill that contains expanded background checks.

Stockman will also deliver U-Haul gift cards to the offices of Mark Begich, Mark Pryor, Mary Landrieu, Kay Hagan and Max Baucus should they vote for the package, to help with move-out expenses after they are defeated by voters in 2014.

“A requirement to make citizens submit to a background check imposes a tax.  Such legislation cannot originate in the Senate.  The bill is automatically unconstitutional,” said Stockman.

“Constitutional rights don’t require permission slips.  If you infringe upon the Second Amendment’s absolute protections, you will be removed from office,” said Stockman.  “The language of the Second Amendment is perhaps the starkest and most absolute in the Constitution.  ‘The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.’  That means any obstacle whatsoever is strictly prohibited.  The right to keep and bear arms cannot even be approached.”

“Criminals nationwide are applauding Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey,” said Stockman. “Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey want to give the federal government the name and address of everyone who buys a gun.  They want to turn our entire country into Chicago.”

“Of the 1.5 million background checks conducted in 2010, only 13 criminals were caught and jailed but hundreds of thousands of law-abiding citizens were denied self-protection because of administrative errors and false matches,” said Stockman. “Background checks lead to confiscation from law-abiding citizens and more crime from criminals. ”

The Manchin-Toomey anti-gun compromise reportedly would mandate background for gun sales at gun shows and over the Internet, despite the well-documented fact criminals don’t look to gun shows or Internet sales for guns.

A “blue slip” is a resolution that automatically returns to the Senate any bill that violates the “origination clause” of the United States Constitution.  The origination clause states “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.” 

Blue slip resolutions are immediately considered as a matter of constitutional privilege, are debatable for an hour and are not subject to amendment.

According to The Heritage Foundation, background check mandates imposes a new tax by forcing individuals to pay for background checks when selling or giving away a firearm.  The mandate to use the National Instant Criminal Background Check System does not provide a service to the buyer or seller but to the government, making it a tax. 

Additionally, the Supreme Court ruled last year in NFIB v. Sebelius that mandating citizens to pay for a service can be construed to be a tax, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion expanding the federal definition of a tax.

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The Basics of Forex, or Foreign Exchange, or Currency Reserves and how this will decimate the poor in America
 
“Deposits of a foreign currency held by a central bank. Holding the currencies of other countries as assets allow governments to keep their currencies stable and reduce the effect of economic shocks. The use of foreign exchange reserves became popular after the decline of the gold standar...d.”
 
This is good.  Unless it becomes unbalanced, or in America’s case, unless we devalue the US Dollar to such a point that those holding our dollar band together against us.
 
Headline in Financial Times this morning; China’s Forex reserves reach $3.4tn - Last updated: April 11, 2013 - 12:17 pm
 
This headline will NOT make the regular news, but should concern you all, as I believe it is about to impact America in a way that Sam Zell, the CEO of Equity Residential, one of America’s largest Real Estate Investment Trust told CNBC, could lead to a drop in the US standard of living by as much as 25%.
 
China’s mountain of reserves reached $3.44tn – roughly the size of the German economy.  It is mostly in Dollars, followed by Japan’s Yen.
 
Cheng Siwei, head of China's green energy drive, said Beijing was dismayed by the Fed's recourse to "credit easing".
 
"If they keep printing money to buy bonds (Through our Treasury) it will lead to inflation, and after a year or two the dollar will fall hard. Most of our foreign reserves are in US bonds and this is very difficult to change, so we will diversify incremental reserves into euros, yen, and other currencies," he said.
 
"Gold is definitely an alternative, but when we buy, the price goes up. We have to do it carefully so as not to stimulate the markets," Cheng added. (This means they’re secretly buying it)
 
Mr. Cheng said the Fed's loose monetary policy was stoking an unstable asset boom in China. 
 
"This is where Greenspan went wrong from 2000 to 2004," he said. "He thought everything was alright because inflation was low, but assets absorbed the liquidity." *He is referring to our Housing Bubble*
 
"The US spends tomorrow's money today," he said. "We Chinese spend today's money tomorrow."
 
"He who goes borrowing, goes sorrowing," said Mr Cheng. It was a quote from US founding father Benjamin Franklin, Mr. Cheng noted.
 
Very sad that China knows our history better than we do and is adhering to what our founding fathers taught us about monetary policy and we’re ignoring it.
 
The unilateral moves by China are a sign of the growing impatience with America’s unwillingness to get its act together. The US' public debt has reached 100% of GDP and shows no sign of a let-up. China is also signaling its willingness to confront the US, if it is required to protect its interests.  It is doing so by divesting itself from our dollar as quietly as possible so as not to impact the global markets and hurt themselves.
 
If they don’t want our dollar anymore, should you?  Why is our largest creditor not happy with the dollar?  It’s simple; we are devaluing it at a record pace by spending more than we produce. The effects of this will be devastating. 
 
Liberals and Democrats claim they want to help the poor and anyone and everyone else they deem worthy.  They claim, I and those like me are simply white, angry, racist, conservatives, who are heartless.  Here is the irony of it all, if my fears come true and the Liberals and Democrats continue to go forward with their plans under Obama and state governments to live beyond our means and tax and spend more than any time in our history and at record levels never before attempted in the history of the world, and China as well as our allies grow tired of this, they will have no choice but to act.  When they do, there will be no more money or ability for Liberals and Democrats to use other people’s money to help those they claim they want to help.
 
Bottom line, their folly will be the poor’s worst nightmares realized.  And it is already happening and you have not a clue.  Why?  Why would Obama and others allow this?  "Chris, you're over reacting." All I can tell you is that if one wishes to remove America's ability to spread God, self reliance and freedom, destroying our US dollar is the quickest way.
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Whats on my mind??? As I witness this charade perpetrated by the so called elected officials 

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of the people (the US SENATE)...I'm remained of an old proverb "When the Obvious sense makes the most sense a

ny other sense is nonsense"...Mass protests,petitions,massive 

fax and email campaigns...The grassroots of the RNC "locked out and ignored"...A traitorous group of self serving pigs obviously feel the need to prepare for themselves "golden parachutes" as they have joined the enemy in the outright transformation of this R

epublic into a "Socialist State"...face it we have no last line of legislative defense....God Help US. We have shown to the wind and appears we may be about to reap the whirlwind.....


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We just never know which Republicans are going to help shove Obama's agenda's down our throats, but Toomey has just done so by breaking from the NRA's stand against any gun restrictions.

He had better be looking for another job come time for his re-election.  We WILL remember this.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/10/Sens-Toomey-and-Manchin-Break-with-NRA-on-Gun-Control

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Obama said; “Some folks in Washington are already floating the idea that they may use political stunts to prevent votes on any of these reforms,” Obama said. “They’re not just saying they’ll vote no on ideas that almost all Americans support. They’re saying they’ll do everything they can to even prevent any votes on these provisions.”

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So those mis-guided and mis-educated people in the Senate and their entourage of democrats are trying to tell us that guns are the real problem.  Did guns kill the 55 million holy innocents?  How dumb do they think we are to believe that kind of pap-crap.  It is about evil not about guns.  The fact that we as a nation have a terrific defense force is what has prevented a foreign invasion and prevented countless lives from being destroyed.  The same holds true with regard to the 2nd Amendment and our right to bear arms.  Do they have a statistic on how many lives have been prevented from being killed due to the 2nd Amendment.  Not on your life and if they did they would burn the documentation.   

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I have just watched one of the most astounding dissertation on the subject of "Islam". The Lady in this embedded clip lays out her credentials then goes on and paints the threat that "Islam and Shariah law" poses to our nation and culture. I hope this will challenge and inspire all who take time 

and view it to stand-up against the pretense of "Multi-cultulism as the divisive and destructive lie that it is"....her message is both constitutional but foundationally biblical.

 

II John 1:10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:11For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salv
ation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ

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                        Since Barack Obama has said he is going to send federal agents into Oklahoma and other states to enforce Obamacare, what is there to make me believe he won’t send federal agents in to enforce his gun registration/confiscation scheme?  If he “dictates” an executive order that I have to turn in or register any weapons and I refuse, who is going to enforce that dictate?  If Congress decrees that I cannot own particular types of weapons or magazines and I refuse to comply, who is going to enforce it?

In his E/O decree on Obamacare he essentially said the states have no right to oppose the federal government, that the federal government has the final say, PERIOD!!!, he is the ultimate authority of the land  http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/14892-obama-admin-ignores-nullification-federal-agents-will-enforce-obamacare .  Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution say different!!!  Obama and his “Gangs of ??????” in Congress, both political parties,  see themselves as rulers rather than servants of We the People. 

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 The Office of the Public Advocate for the US Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) held a series of “community roundtables” with numerous left-wing groups that have been lobbying the Obama administration for years to reduce the detainee population in ICE facilities because those groups believe that the Obama has been arresting, holding, and deporting far too many illegal aliens. These roundtables were held regularly for three months prior to the release of several thousand suspected illegal aliens from a number of ICE facilities in

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February 2013.

Rev. James Wesley Jr

 

Whats on my mind??? Hmmm. for one thing the strange phrase "PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY" You may ask what has it to do with this topic ? Lets say, you are a rogue out of control wanna be dictator, and you have an "Enemies list". Now you have just let an "illegal flood" of aliens across our borders and released many in detention facilities, and you have armed (fast and furious) this group and held coordinating meetings with some of the more radical and dangerous of this "ILLEGAL MASS", The agenda? Target ,and eliminate then melt away, into the "UNIDENTIFIABLE MASSES"...sound far fetched???? I don't think so.....
 it's perfect and untraceable....lets see what the coming days bring...

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Walter Williams ask; “Are We Equal?”

 

           Are women equal to men? Are Jews equal to gentiles? Are blacks equal to Italians, Irish, Polish and other white people? The answer is probably a big fat no, and the pretense or assumption that we are equal -- or should be equal -- is foolhardy and creates mischief. Let’s look at it.

 

            Male geniuses outnumber female geniuses 7-to-1. Female intelligence is packed much closer to the middle of the bell curve, whereas men’s intelligence has far greater variability. That means that though there are many more male geniuses, there are also many more male idiots. The latter might partially explain why more men are in jail than women.

 

            Watch any Saturday afternoon college basketball game and ask yourself the question fixated in the minds of liberals everywhere: “Does this look like America?” Among the 10 players on the court, at best there might be two white players. If you want to see the team’s white players, you must look at the bench. A Japanese or Chinese player is close to being totally out of the picture, even on the bench. Professional basketball isn’t much better, with 80 percent of the players being black, but at least there are a couple of Chinese players. Professional football isn’t much better, with blacks being 65 percent. In both sports, blacks are among the highest-paid players and have the highest number of awards for excellence. Blacks who trace their ancestry to West Africa, including black Americans, hold more than 95 percent of the top times in sprinting.

 

            By contrast, blacks are only 2 percent of the NHL's ice hockey players. But don’t fret about black NHL underrepresentation. State underrepresentation is worse. Most U.S. professional hockey players were born in Minnesota, followed by Massachusetts. Not a single U.S. professional hockey player can boast of having been born and raised in Hawaii, Mississippi or Louisiana. Any way we cut it, there is simply no racial proportionality or diversity in professional basketball, football and hockey.

 

            A more emotionally charged question is whether we have equal intelligence. Take Jews, for example. They are only 3 percent of the U.S. population. Half-baked theories of racial proportionality would predict that 3 percent of U.S. Nobel laureates are Jews, but that’s way off the mark. Jews constitute a whopping 39 percent of American Nobel Prize winners. At the international level, the disparity is worse. Jews are not even 1 percent of the world’s population, but they constitute 20 percent of the world’s Nobel Prize winners.

 

            There are many other inequalities and disproportionalities. Asian-Americans routinely score the highest on the math portion of the SAT, whereas blacks score the lowest. Men are 50 percent of the population, and so are women; yet men are struck by lightning six times as often as women. I’m personally wondering what whoever is in charge of lightning has against men. Population statistics for South Dakota, Iowa, Maine, Montana and Vermont show that not even 1 percent of their respective populations is black. By contrast, in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, blacks are overrepresented in terms of their percentages in the general population. Pima Indians of Arizona have the world's highest known diabetes rates. Prostate cancer is nearly twice as common among black men as white men. Cervical cancer rates are five times higher among Vietnamese women in the U.S. than among white women.

 

            Soft-minded and sloppy-thinking academics, lawyers and judges harbor the silly notion that but for the fact of discrimination, we’d be proportionately distributed by race across incomes, education, occupations and other outcomes. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere, at any time, that proportionality is the norm anywhere on earth; however, much of our thinking, many of our laws and much of our public policy are based upon proportionality's being the norm. Maybe this vision is held because people believe that equality in fact is necessary for equality before the law. But the only requirement for equality before the law is that one is a human being.

By Walter Williams. Professor of economics at George Mason University.

 

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REMEMBER BENGHAZI

When America came under attack, Obama panicked and froze.
When Americans under his direction pleaded for their lives, he was afraid to pull the trigger.
Here’s the emerging picture.
White House Ordered Military and CIA to Stand Down and Let Al Qaeda Kill
Former Navy SEALs Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, so disgusted by the White House’s refusal to help Americans under attack, defied an order to stand down. The heroes died after hours of valiant fighting against overwhelming odds. Woods and Doherty died doing what Barack Obama was politically afraid to order. Ty Woods and Glen Doherty laid down their lives for fellow Americans in violation of cowardly orders from the President of the United States to let Chris Stevens and Sean Smith die.
Two SEALs made the decision to ignore Washington’s cowardly order to “stand down” and let al Qaeda rape and pillage the US Consulate in Benghazi. Ty Woods and Glen Doherty moved in on the attack. Woods’s father’s not surprised:
This news that he disobeyed his orders does not surprise me. My son was an American hero. And he was going–he had the moral strength to do what was right. Even if that would professionally cost him his job. Even if it would potentially cost him his life. He was a hero who was willing to do whatever was necessary to respond to their cries for help.
The White House then leaked the story that Woods died because he disobeyed a direct order. Obama’s reasoning for the leak was that Americans would turn against Woods and Doherty for the infraction. But Obama doesn’t know very much about the American mind.
Americans revere men and women who break the rules to do what’s right. We honor as heroes those who will risk career and life to save others, and to save America’s honor and prestige. The entire American Revolution was a violation of rules. The Boston Tea Party was a major felony.
When leadership fails, we expect new leaders to emerge. Ty Woods and Glen Doherty emerged as heroes because they violated the unconscionable, cowardly orders of an unfit President.
White House Ordered the Illegal Arrest of the anti-Mohammed Filmmaker
Almost immediately after the story broke, the White House invented “Muslim Rage” over a YouTube video to cover the President’s failure. To a degree, it worked. Muslims throughout the Middle East took to the streets to protest in response to Barack Obama’s instigation.
But let’s be clear about this: the Muslim rage was fomented by Barack Obama, not by a video.
And the President had his scapegoat arrested until after the election. According to Front Page Magazine:
The father of Tyrone Woods, the ex-Navy SEAL killed in Benghazi, met with Obama and Clinton. And he reports that Clinton told him that they were going to “arrest and prosecute” the man behind the Mohammed movie.
There would be no reason for Clinton to have that information unless the decision did not come from the level of the Federal prosecutor in California, thousands of miles away, but from the White House and the State Department. That makes this a political prosecution and a direct attack by the government on Freedom of Speech by Obama and Hillary Clinton.
So frightened by his own failure to help dying Americans, Barack Obama took to the last refuge of a dictator, rounding up political prisoners to serve as scapegoats. Mark Basseley Youssef, the filmmaker, is Barack Obama’s Alfred Drefus.
White House and Leon Panetta Lied
Leon Panetta told reporters that the US military lacked the means and intelligence to intervene during the Benghazi attack.
He lied.
We also learned that, in those first moments of the attack, a request for military back-up was made by U.S. staff on the ground but was denied by Washington. It had planes and Special Forces less than 500 miles away in southern Italy – or about the same distance as Washington to Boston. They could have been there in less than two hours. Yet the commander-in-chief declined to give the order.
Barack Obama let Americans die because he wanted to be re-elected.
White House Attempts to Blame Cowardly Orders on CIA. Petreaus Turns on Obama
Yesterday’s White House story was that the CIA ordered Ty Woods and his security crew to stand down and let Chris Stevens die. Obama expected CIA chief, David Petreaus, to be a good German soldier and back-up the lie.
Petreaus refused to accept the White House smear. In a statement, Petreaus refuted Obama, saying, “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ”
Obama will fire Petreaus, of course, and replace him with some incompetent but loyal apparatchik. Undoubtedly, Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda will leak lies about some hideous flaw in Petreaus’s character. That’s what dictators do.
Americans Must Right These Wrongs
The people of the United States must right five wrongs. (Six if you count electing Barack Obama in the first place.)
1.  Obama failed to protect Americans sent into harms way.
2. Obama failed to respond to pleas from Americans under attack when he had the means to do so.
3. Obama jailed a man for his political beliefs.
4. Obama lied to cover up his deadly failures.
5. Obama attempted to smear the true heroes of this affair.
When the President fails, his board of directors fails, too. And we are the President’s board.

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Whitehouse.gov response to our second amendment

The White House, Washington

Dear Branden:

Thank you for taking the time to write. I have heard from many Americans regarding firearms policy and gun violence in our Nation, and I appreciate your perspective. From Aurora to Newtown to the streets of Chicago, we have seen the devastating effects gun violence has on our American family. I join countless others in grieving for all those whose lives have been taken too soon by gun violence.

Like the majority of Americans, I believe the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. In this country, we have a strong tradition of gun ownership that has been handed down from generation to generation. Hunting and sport shooting are part of our national heritage. Yet, even as we acknowledge that almost all gun owners in America are responsible, when we look at the devastation caused by gun violence—whether in high-profile tragedies or the daily heartbreak that plagues our cities—we must ask ourselves whether we are doing enough.

While reducing gun violence is a complicated challenge, protecting our children from harm should not be a divisive one. Most gun owners agree that we can respect the Second Amendment while keeping an irresponsible, law-breaking few from inflicting harm on a massive scale. Most also agree that if we took commonsense steps to curtail gun violence, there would be fewer atrocities like the one that occurred in Newtown. We will not be able to stop every violent act, but if there is even one thing we can do to reduce gun violence—if even one life can be saved—then we have an obligation to try.

That is why I asked Vice President Joe Biden to identify concrete steps we can take to keep our children safe, help prevent mass shootings, and reduce the broader epidemic of gun violence in this country. He met with over 200 groups representing a broad cross-section of Americans and heard their best ideas. I have put forward a specific set of proposals based off of his efforts, and in the days ahead, I intend to use whatever weight this office holds to make them a reality.

My plan gives law enforcement, schools, mental health professionals, and the public health community some of the tools they need to help reduce gun violence. These tools include strengthening the background check system, helping schools hire more resource officers and counselors and develop emergency preparedness plans, and ensuring mental health professionals know their options for reporting threats of violence. And I directed the Centers for Disease Control to study the best ways to reduce gun violence—because it is critical that we understand the science behind this public health crisis.

As important as these steps are, they are not a substitute for action from Congress. To make a real and lasting difference, members of Congress must also act. As part of my comprehensive plan, I have called on them to pass some specific proposals right away. First, it is time to require a universal background check for anyone trying to buy a gun. Second, Congress should renew the 10-round limit on magazines and reinstate and strengthen the assault weapons ban. We should get tougher on those who buy guns with the purpose of selling them to criminals, and we should impose serious punishments on anyone who helps them do this.

These are reasonable, commonsense measures that have the support of the majority of the American people. But change will not come unless the American people demand it from their lawmakers. Now is the time to do the right thing for our children, our communities, and the country we love. We owe the victims of heartbreaking national tragedies and the countless unheralded tragedies each year nothing less than our best effort—to seek consensus in order to save lives and ensure a brighter future for our children.

Thank you, again, for writing. I encourage you to visit www.WhiteHouse.gov/NowIsTheTime to learn more about my Administration’s approach.

Sincerely,

Barack Obama

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US Christians, Catholics, Jews, and Mormons were listed as terrorist in a US Army presentation LAST THURSDAY & a Colorado Undersheriff is warning us about Homeland Security.

 “The Defense Department came under fire Thursday for a U.S. Army Reserve presentation that classified Catholics and Evangelical Protestants as “extremist” religious groups alongside al Qaeda and the Ku Klux Klan.” Source: The Washington Times

The very fact that a “presenter/Army educator” would be so emboldened in today’s environment to present a Power Point that listed you and I as terrorist should be a nail in the coffin to those who were on the fence about my claims that Christians under the Obama Administration are being targeted.

We are being labeled extremist by numerous government agencies.

Christian’s made the list with The Muslim Brotherhood as well as Hamas and the KKK.

Another slide posted by the UK Daily Mail tells soldiers they are prohibited from participating in any activities, including meetings or rallies, with these groups, meaning that some Christian soldiers would not be allowed to attend church and Catholics would be banned from attending mass.

This is all part of an indoctrination that is happening right before our eyes under a Commander in Chief who created an environment that encourages this type of behavior.

If you wish to state that Christian’s are not being targeted, than explain this;

Floyd Lee Corkins II said he used the Southern Poverty Law Center’s "hate map" to locate the offices of the Family Research Council before his attack on the organization.

This Liberal group considers any person or group that believes in God and reiterates what the Bible teaches on homosexuality is part of a “Hate Group”.  So, they created a map, locating you, so wing nuts can kill you.

Ron Trowbridge, undersheriff with the Prowers County, Colo., Sheriff’s Office, said he attended training and was so offended he sent a written warning to us all;

“Christians who believe the Bible is the literal word of God and others who do not agree with the changes taking place in America could find themselves under scrutiny by law enforcement authorities and Homeland Security…”

Joe Kluczynskim the trainer (Who stated he accepted a job at Homeland Security), gave a 2-hour presentation and according to Undersherriff Trowbridge, Kluczynski said that law enforcement must watch and be concerned with; “those who believe America was founded on Godly principles, Christians who take the Bible literally, and 'fundamentalists'."

“These people”, Kluczynski reportedly said, have a right to their beliefs, but need to be monitored by law enforcement authorities.

According to Kluczynski, these individuals and groups are "dangerous" because they are "angry over the election of a black president." Undersheriff Trowbridge

When another law enforcement officer suggested the economy was probably more to blame, Kluczynski said; “those who are not going along with the changes in America will need to be controlled by law enforcement," Trowbridge added.

This stuff is getting bizarre.  As a Christian who speaks out openly about Obama, law enforcement and our military is now being indoctrinated to view me as a terrorist threat.

Democrats and others, who voted for Obama, please help me understand, is this truly what you want? 

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Fellow Patriots:

          True American's who really understand our Founding Father's intentions and the Documents that they wrote for our National Guidance must realize that these men were brilliant, totally devoted, and swore their personal allegiance and Sacred Honor, to the man;...  so that WE, the future generations will have NO DOUBT in our minds as to the FREEDOMS and benefits of such would afford us,...  each and every one of us.

 

Therefore,...  OUR CONSTITUTION, and the BILL OF RIGHTS afforded us must NEVER be changed to the point of being contexturally misinterpreted.

 

Therefore,...  I would suggest that the Tea Party and all of it's Patriotic Supporters affirm this idea and offer up a simple automobile bumper-sticker displaying this motto or slogan.

 

OUR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONSTITUTION IS NOT OPEN FOR DEBATE,...

BUT IS RATHER,...  TO BE OBEYED!!!

 

         This is the Achile's Heel of the subverters of our American Way.   They must first destroy our faith in both the Constitution and our Bill of Rights,  or at least cause "doubts" of the veracity of these documents.

Let's not let this to happen.  Produce these bumper stickers and then let's display them on every car in America.

 

          I know, just an idea.   But, I think a good one.   Thank you,....

 

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Food for thought

Food For Thought

 

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally ...you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If the only school curriculum allowed to explain how we got here is evolution, but the government stops a $15 million construction project to keep a rare spider from evolving to extinction ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

 

If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a library book, but not to vote who runs the government ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

 

If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

 

If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

 

If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.


If a seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher "cute," but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

 

If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

 

If children are forcibly removed from parents who discipline them with spankings while children of addicts are left in filth and drug infested “homes”... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

 

If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing and free cell phones ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

 

If the government's plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working with 99 weeks of unemployment checks and no requirement to prove they applied but can’t find work ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

 

If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more "safe" according to the government ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

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