Memorial Day for Lost Freedom

Listening to David Barton yesterday at Highlands made me feel like Sunday was Memorial Day.  After that good dose of Godly American history, I feel sad today.  Today’s sadness, on Memorial Day proper, isn’t for all the fallen heroes, it’s for all us Americans that have been left behind.

It is so ironic that men and women, in so many military campaigns, have lost their lives defending our freedom, and the rest of us let our politicians take it away after 9/11.  Our Constitution has been so watered down it barely exists.  The Patriot Act, along with other legislation, have taken away many of the rights we all hold dear!

• Freedom from unreasonable searches… gone!
• Right to a speedy and public trial… gone!
• Freedom of association… gone!
• Right to legal representation… gone!
• Freedom of speech… gone!
• Right to liberty… gone!

This is the way it now is – video!  You thought the “God-given rights” still existed?  No, not in today’s America.  If you don’t believe me, Judge Andrew Napolitano will tell you about it in this video.

There is a great quote from Benjamin Franklin that applies here, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”  Let’s face it, we were suckered on 9/11.  You can’t look at all that happened  and NOT think it was wasn’t preplanned.  Why would anyone have to give up any “God-given right” to keep a foreigner from coming in and attacking anything in this country.  All we ever had to do was increase security!  A police state should have been out of question by even our lawmakers.  They claim there just wasn’t time to read the entire 315 pages before voting on it.  Fine, don’t vote for it then.  If you voted for it, repeal it!  There has been time to fix it and it has not been fixed.  Our freedoms are still gone!

I read the news article this weekend listing the “words not to use” to avoid Homeland Security from listing someone as a terrorist.  I think I’ve used most of them in this blog.  I’m a Christian though, so I harbor no violence against anyone.  As a United States citizen though, I feel I must urge repeal of the Patriot Act and a return to the constitutional rights I was blessed by my Creator with!  Our founding fathers said it better than I…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long-established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.     Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

This year I’ve encouraged everyone to support Ron Paul for President.  The powers that be have opposed him strongly and positioned others ahead of him via propaganda in the media.  If you listen to any Paul supporter, it is liberty that is our main theme.  Fix the liberty issue and many other problems resolve themselves.  It is obvious that neither party is moving toward that end.  The same old way of governing isn’t going to be acceptable by Americans much longer.  Our future depends on new leaders who represent the citizens. Washington has proven it is more interested in appeasing foreign governments and corporations and forgetting about the average citizen and all the soldiers that died, fighting for freedom!

Maybe the word “terrorist” needs to be redefined.  After that, we just need to vote them out of Washington and put some real statesmen back in government.  We can fix all this, but it’s going to take a few election cycles!  This “Orwellian” society has to go!

Polygamy - Why Romney will Win

I just finished my first yoga workout, there’s a first for everything.  This weekend, I even did two P90x workouts.  Yes, I’m sore.  I decided that I was out of balance, physically.  My mind was strong, but my body seemed a little weak.  I can serve as an example, that its never too late to change and start improving oneself. We need to break out of the rut sometimes.

That rut is different things to different people.  For you, it might be just turning off the television and picking up a good book.  The Bible is an excellent read, by the way…  For most of our younger folks, it will probably mean turning off or putting down whatever device has you chained to it; iPhone, Xbox, or PS3.  It’s easy to get out of balance by following whatever your mind tells you it wants to do.  The mind is a good thing but it is inside our flesh.  The problem with that is, the flesh usually rules.  Teenagers would be a good example of that reasoning.

Oh yeah, about the title, I’m getting there.  Balance is what we don’t hear very much of.  Society acts like our fleshly bodies.  It wants the cake and candy while skipping the salad and the other stuff that’s good for us.

Take gay rights for instance, it’s very bad for society.  It is, however, being shoved upon us by whoever shoves stuff upon us, from the top of the power pyramid.  They want it legalized, and not only legalized but condoned by everyone in the world.  They were pulling Piers Morgan’s strings when he attacked Kirk Cameron recently.  The media elites have to ridicule Christian beliefs in order to sway public opinion to their side.  It’s a really sad way of trying to win the debate.  They have to demonize the teachings of Jesus Christ.  He’s been dead for thousands of years and His followers still stand in the way of a good party.

I believe it goes beyond the gays just having a good time.  They could do that without getting married.  It’s about changing our laws.  I never really thought about it until I heard Paul Diamond speak about the trials the United Kingdom is going through trying to redefine marriage.  He spoke about the real oddity of a Conservative Prime Minister introducing the argument supporting gay marriage, against the wishes of his own party.  He also mentioned that if gay marriage is legalized, Muslim polygamy will be next on the agenda.

I have to admit that I didn’t think about that one.  So, we have the Muslims who normally have four or more wives and they want it to be legal.  The end run on this political play is to make a little change in the law for a bigger change later on.  A change, that I suppose, even Mitt Romney could support.  If you want the American people to soften up on polygamy, why not elect a Mormon President?  Make him likeable, let him even bring the economy back from the brink.  Why, he could be the next Kennedy… in the eyes of the people.

Politics is never random!  The backroom deals have been made long before the election.  The think tanks have used supercomputers for all the variables and the outcome is written in stone.  We just won’t know for sure, until it happens.  I  want you to be aware and exercise your mind a little.  We’ve gotten soft when it comes to liberty.  We’ve thought that “as long as the Government leaves me alone, everything is okay.” Wake up, things are not okay.  We need to be the watchdogs that the founding fathers intended.

Maybe a little 1776 history workout would do you some good.  There is an awesome website that you could spend fifteen to twenty minutes a day on, and it would have you in shape in no time.  It’s called Wallbuilders.  Their website is at HTTP://www.wallbuilders.com.  Next, go work the soreness out by seeing the movie “Monumental” that should be showing in March at a theater near you.  It looks like a great movie which will stretch those liberty muscles in ways unimaginable.  Then, stay involved.  Look for people to follow on Twitter that can keep you informed.  A couple of  examples would be Judge Napolitano and Ron Paul.

Things are happening that we all should be aware of.  You won’t read it in the news because you aren’t supposed to know.  They just want you kept fat, happy, and anti-Christian.  That way, the money and good times just keep on coming… for them!

I’ll close with the last line of Longfellow’s poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride”.

So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,—
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.


Originally published at Thechestnutburr on March 19, 2012


 

Zombie Voting

 

I was surfing around the net and accidentally came across the Center for Disease Control’s Zombie Apocalypse page.  I was really impressed.  I had no idea someone in the United States Government had a sense of humor.  I’ve heard zombies mentioned quite a bit lately from various sources and that usually indicates a blog is needed on the topic.

If you don’t know, zombies are people who have been brought back to life by mystical means and are in search of normal people’s brains.  I’m not sure why they eat brains.  Maybe its because when that person gets reanimated, they won’t need their brain.  Another definition of zombie would be someone who is hypnotized and practically unconscious, but able to respond to surrounding stimuli.  Much like those recent voters, who have ambled in to vote for Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum without using their brains.

Can’t you just picture all of them slowly, methodically, dragging one leg and swinging an arm, as they march toward the voting place.  Hundreds of voters in a trance-like state who will be undeterred from their only purpose in life, voting for one of the candidates their media moguls encourage.  ”Its only between Mitt and Rick. Its only between Mitt and Rick.  Its only between Mitt and Rick”, you hear them mutter as they pass by.  You shout, “Wait, there is a better candidate!  Have you heard about Ron Paul?” “Its only between Mitt and Rick.”  Its no use, they just won’t listen!

Your eyes suddenly get wide and your mouth drops open.  The Realization sinks in that the dreaded zombie apocalypse has begun!  The time when zombies everywhere, arise and begin their long-awaited war against humanity.  Zombies who hate human life in America, along with its liberties and opportunity for financial freedom.  Zombies who love a crushing national debt, Zombies who have no other function than to  keep their evil leaders in power!  Zombies who ignore lie after lie from the same candidates over and over…

I’ve tried reasoning with them, tried handing them good intelligent literature, suggested good psychologists who could help pull them out of their self-inflicted pain.  Nothing works.  They are slaves who don’t want freedom.  They are citizens intent on national suicide!  I just don’t understand.  Here is an awesome candidate in Ron Paul, that they just won’t vote for. A candidate who could have fit in perfectly sitting beside Thomas Jefferson.  Ron Paul may be the last opportunity to save our country from the evils of debt, tyranny, and imperialism.  If anyone could be nominated a founding father “out of time” its Ron Paul.

So how do we help these voting zombies?  I suppose we could work it like a suicide prevention intervention.  For people who are in danger of suicide, you would keep anything they could use to harm themselves out of reach.  Let’s keep these people from the polls.  If you know a Romney or Santorum supporter, invite them to play golf or go jogging that day.  Go for a visit and ask to see all their home movies or pictures of grandchildren.  Of course you need to go vote for Ron Paul yourself, first!  Then, just keep them away.  Keep them from harming themselves.  We’ve got to love them, they just don’t know any better.   Let’s also keep up the flow of truthful information.  Zombies seem easily led by others in power, so if we can convert more of their leaders, we’ll have a pied piper effect.  They might be able to “wake up” from their zombie trance when they see friends and relatives supporting a true leader.

The one bright spot on the horizon is the support that Ron Paul has from the younger generation.  There may be a genetic trait that has developed to fight this disease.  An anti-zombie chromosome.  Or, its just possible, really possible–they’re smarter!  Maybe our intelligence is evolving to the point that America will be saved from harmful politicians and greedy corporations by a generation of super voters.  Able to swat aside media polls with a single swat.  Jump over media traps with a single jump.  Boldly go where the baby boomers didn’t!

Wake up America, your future is calling!

Originally published March 1, 2012 at Thechestnutburr.com

Ron Paul is a Christian Too

I am perplexed to keep reading how the evangelicals are flocking to support Rick Santorum, a Catholic.  The other candidates that the media keep pushing are Mitt Romney, a Mormon, and Newt Gingrich, a recent Catholic convert.  I guess there isn’t anyone else for us Christians… we have to choose between those three!

But wait, there is another candidate.  What’s his name, I heard it once or twice on the news… oh yeah, Ron Paul.  But he isn’t a Christian and he’s against the military, right?  Wrong, wrong, wrong.  Ron Paul professes his faith in Christ in this video, if you need to see it for yourself.  Ron Paul worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist from the 1960′s to the 1980′s.  He’s against abortion!  He’s against borrowing money by constantly raising the debt ceiling!  Wow, that’s another  Biblical principle and where do the other candidates stand on that???

Many of you believe America won’t be #1 militarily anymore, if Ron Paul is elected President.  Again, that is a misunderstanding of what will happen that has been publicised  in the media and proclaimed loudly in the Republican party.  Ron Paul is against the undeclared wars we’ve pursued in a misguided foreign policy.  Yes, I believe the neo-conservatives will have to look elsewhere to support their money addicted habit in defense spending.  But let me ask you a question, how big does the military have to be?  Honestly, it has to be big enough to defend this country and protect our allies.  We don’t need to keep attacking countries who haven’t attacked us.  Hey, that’s another Biblical principle.

I’m going to stray into college football a little here, just for an illustration.  I’ll say up front that I tend to be an Auburn fan, so no one will take this personal.   In Alabama, the Crimson Tide football team has to be #1 to all their fans.  In my mind, they’ve been spoiled with so many national championships, that a single season loss is a ruined and disappointing year.  If the coach were to leave, the fans would demand the best(highest paid ), most talented around as a replacement.  There are other things going on at the University of Alabama, but most football fans aren’t aware of it.  A lot of kids actually get an education there.  The illustration is this, there are more important issues confronting America than her military power.  We’re going to be #1 for decades to come, lets stop throwing money at the pentagon!  We are overburdened with debt brought on by imperialistic ideas, encouraged by corporate greed.  It’s time to focus on the home front.

It’s time to bring some relief to the financial pain most Americans feel.  I believe Ron Paul will work hard to that end.  President Obama promised us change and didn’t deliver.  Ron Paul has made that promise and will keep it!  For Christians who are searching to someone to support, I can’t think of anyone in the race that has been more consistent than Ron Paul.  His beliefs haven’t changed through the years like the other candidates… Hey, that’s another Biblical principle, faithful to his word!

 Originally published Feb. 25, 2011 at Thechestnutburr.com

Ron Paul, The Time is Now

My initial political affiliation was with the Democratic party.  When I went to work for South Central Bell In 1978, Jimmy Carter was President.  I think that was the year I became aware of the political process.  Growing up in the south in a heavily democratic Etowah county, everyone seemed to be a Democrat.  I guess the issue of abortion became the pry bar that separated our friendship.  The Republicans were against it and Ronald Reagan was a great spokesman for the cause.  I became a Reagan conservative and haven’t missed the party of Jimmy Carter.

Much has changed in the years since Reagan.  Popularity breeds contributions, so corporations have taken over the conservative movement.  The Republican Party now listens to corporate desires over the citizens who put them in power.  Bankers and foreign interest own our government in such a way as to make “taxation without representation” a valid cry again!

The Democratic Party is a complete lost cause.  Their left-wing fringe elements control most decisions.   They also suffer from being hooked on corporate and foreign money as well.  I believe the Republican Party is salvageable and our best opportunity for reform.  The base is still conservative, only misguided by media control.  There is a strong Christian element, something completely lacking on the Democratic side.  Republicans still oppose abortion, which is a growing concern among younger voters.

The youth in our country may be our future salvation, they certainly have a better view on environmentalism and corporations.The occupy movement illustrated the opposition our youth have with corporate greed.  Government’s response to “occupy” was horrendous and shows the extent of lost liberty in America.  Corporate greed is “the beast” and the beast doesn’t like opposition.

I was extremely disappointed with our last nominee, Senator John McCain.  I didn’t feel his voting record reflected the type man we needed in the White House.  It seemed to me that the media chose our nominee and not the process.  I voted for him but it was not with conviction.  I felt the party made a tremendous mistake and would correct it over time.   But alas, the nominees this year have been taken out one by one.  According to the media, who seems to be choosing President Obama’s opponent, the crown belongs on Mitt Romney’s head.

Enter Ron Paul, the twelve term congressman from Texas.  I’ve known about Congressman Paul for a long time but didn’t know about him.  I’ve watched video after video of the man and he doesn’t contradict himself.   His voting record is outstandingly conservative.  He makes so much sense it scares me.  I, myself, have been a victim of the media keeping him hidden from view.

I understand the “Ron Paul Revolution” now.  He is exactly what our country needs to put us back on the right road.  Our government has become bloated, to the point it is a monster eating us out of home and country.  It’s on a leash, which is held by foreign interests. who have no love for our constitution.  Ron Paul loves our constitution and knows how it’s been undermined!  America, the time is now.  If we don’t stand up for Ron Paul our future looks dismal.  We’re already speeding down the highway to a police state.  Liberty can only be seen in the rear view mirror, and only with the magnified one.

Not many people know about the Battle of Kings Mountain during the Revolutionary War.  It was fought by southerners who voluntarily banded together to fight for their way of life against British rule.  These “hillbillies” turned the tide of momentum toward the Patriots.  It is said that history has no other instance of a thousand frontiersmen coming together as a volunteer army.  They were men who knew what they had to do to save their young country.  We were not there in 1780 to help, but we’re here in 2012 for practically that same battle.  Our way of life is threatened by debt, foreign wars, moral bankruptcy, corporate greed, and corrupt politicians.  The time is now, this is the place, the fight is here.

You won’t hear about Ron Paul in the media.  They don’t like him and will fight against him with every tool they have.  Like Orwell’s 1984 though, the power is with the proles.  The power is with us, not them.  They know it and are tremendously afraid of a Paul election.  Let’s do it.  Let’s elect Ron Paul as President of the United States of America.  Let’s restore liberty’s light for the world.  Help us fight during the Ron Paul revolution!

 
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Media Bias & Politicians

    

     Greetings everyone!  Hope you enjoyed a good Thanksgiving and have picked out all your ideal Christmas presents and have them wrapped already.  For me, its not Christmas eve yet, so I'm good.  I'll get to my shopping later.

     This evening, I find myself annoyed at the media.  Which media you ask...  all of it!  I tweeted last night that we needed a local television station for news, here in Shelby County Alabama.  All of our TV stations are in the neighboring county of Jefferson which, of course, has the City of Birmingham in it.  Almost all of their news stories are about black on black crime, schools that need money, politicians that could be(or should be) going to jail, sewer system debt, or the past April 27th tornadoes.  Oh, I forgot the biggest story of late, the awful Alabama immigration law which is being harsh on illegal immigrants.  Crocodile tears flow regularly from the news anchors when they speak about the poor criminals who have to leave our state to find jobs and how evil we are not to look the other way and leave them alone.  I've stopped watching FOX6 news altogether over that one issue.  I alternate between ABC33/40 and CBS42 news now, with the edge going to 33/40.

     It amazes me how a 21 county television market can spend 90% of their coverage on probably 40% population but possibly 5% of area.  Shelby County alone has 800 square miles with a population of around 200,000.  It is the fastest growing county in the state and ranks among the 100 highest-income counties in the United States.  It votes heavily with the Republican party, hence was punished politically for years when the Alabama Legislature was controlled by Democrats. 

     We do have a good newspaper, the Shelby County Reporter, but it is not published daily.  It contains much better local news for us than it's rival the Birmingham News.  The News has a section once a week about Shelby County, but is isn't worth reading.  The Shelby County Chamber of Commerce has a nice website with additional info called Shelbyco. Also, if you get on the right twitter feeds, there is plenty of local stuff.  We just need news about us, without all the Birmingham bias.

     Now that I've chased that rabbit, I want to talk about the national media a little.  The latest polls have Newt Gingrich in the lead, with Romney a distant second.  I hate the fact that misinformation is constantly published as truth in an effort to mislead the public.  They want you to believe there is no reason to keep supporting your loser,  just vote for who they tell you to.  This is the same media who set up the Obama-McCain contest.  I held my nose and voted for McCain, but it won't happen again.  I WILL NOT VOTE FOR NEWT GINGRICH.  In my opinion, he is morally and ethically challenged!  He is old news and should have stayed out of the race.  You might find this story revealing about Newt.

     I find myself supporting Ron Paul.  Where Obama promised change last time around, Ron Paul would actually accomplish it!   He seems to be the only candidate with common sense!  Listening to him speak, it is from the heart and not to appeal to any particular group of voters.  The media is harsh on Representative Paul.  You can tell from the way each question is framed in the debates.  They TRY to make him look foolish but usually end up foolish themselves.  I follow him on his YouTube channel.  Visit it and listen to a real statesman!  And to the media I'll say, "you should be more fair and balanced so as not to drive your listeners away"!