We don't need a society of vandals

When demonstrations triggered by the death of George Floyd spread to Philadelphia, vandals defaced a statue outside City Hall of an old white man. They spray-painted the words “colonizer” and “murderer” on it. But the statue was of Matthias Baldwin, a 19th-century businessman and abolitionist.

Baldwin was a vocal opponent of slavery decades before the Civil War. He founded a school for poor black children and paid the teachers’ salaries for years. He also advocated voting rights for black people well before the enactment of the 15th Amendment. None of this spared his likeness from today’s Jacobins.

Nor was the Baldwin episode an isolated case. Boston protesters painted graffiti all over the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, including the phrases “Black Lives Matter,” “No Justice, No Peace,” and “Police are Pigs.” Yet that memorial honored the men who comprised the first blacks to fight in uniform for the Union Army during the Civil War. Their heroism was captured in the 1989 film “Glory,” for which Denzel Washington won an Oscar. In Philadelphia, too, vandals defaced the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution, with the graffiti “Committed Genocide.” Overseas, Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square was defaced and then covered for its protection by a large metal box. The British government cannot be confident that the nation can celebrate the leader who, more than any other, stood up to fascism.

The debate over symbols of the past is legitimate, but what we have are indiscriminate attacks on all elements of our shared history. Today’s vandals are not really attacking evil; they’re attacking the past. It’s one thing to argue against honoring the Confederacy either because it fought against the United States or because it fought to preserve slavery or both. It’s quite another to destroy things simply because they date back to a time you cannot remember and cannot be bothered to find out about. The first is a reasonable argument; the second is nothing but malignant violence.

Debates over removing monuments should happen in public, overseen by elected officials. When the debate is given over to the mob, you get the sort of general vandalism that we see now. Taking down statues of Confederates is different from targeting those of America’s founders, such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who owned slaves but are celebrated for other achievements in the nation’s founding and for the advancement of liberty.

Wanton attacks on symbols of the past are partially rooted in ignorance. Given how much schools and colleges focus on racism in America’s history, it’s no surprise that the mob assumes any old statue it sees must be of somebody irredeemable. The trend also fits the concept seen in other revolutions from the French Revolution to the Khmer Rouge of trying to erase the past and starting over from Year Zero. Today’s street vandals call the police “pigs,” but who are those displaying porcine ignorance, and who behave most like the pigs of “Animal Farm,” making no distinction between innocence and guilt?

In a civilized debate, people can discuss the nuances of who we choose to honor and who, because fellow citizens want to honor them, we should accept in the interests of reconciliation and national unity. Such a debate would recognize that history is messy and that some people who achieved great things were also deeply flawed. It would also provide an opportunity for all sides to feel heard and make any decisions more sustainable. Lawlessness short-circuits this process, which is part of the extremists’ purpose.

REPRINTED FROM THE COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE

Communist Goals for America

Albert S. Herlong Jr. who was a Democrat Congressman from the state of Flordia warned of the socialist-communist agenda infiltrating the American school systems. On January 10, 1963, he read into the Congressional Record, the list of Communist goals for America and I agree with every word he has said. He said this over 56 years ago when there was not all the chaos in our country with the things listed here by the congressman. This was a Democrat speaking not a Republican or an independent. But an honest American who spoke the truth and how true is every word he spoke. The Congressman warned of the socialist-communist agenda that was then starting to infiltrate our schools. Please go to the source listed at the end of this article and read it for your self.  Here is what he said; 

• Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of separation of church and state. 
• Control schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and the current Communist propaganda.
• Soften the curriculum. Get control of the teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks. Control student newspapers.
•  Infiltrate churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion (i.e. "social justice, liberation theology")
• Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch"
• Discredit American culture.
• Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and divorce.
• Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

Source  (Vol 109, 88th Congress, 1st Session, Appendix, pp. A34-A35)

Since the reading of this in Congress in 1963, our country has done just about 180-degree turn in just about everything that is important to the American people. Our schools are in such bad shape we have to have police officers patrolling the halls, for the most part, to keep kids in line. But the politically correct term is to call them resource officers. We can no longer say anything about Adam and Eve in school but now the new norm is Adam and Steve which is being taught as a normal, natural, and healthy way of life. Some of the children do not know if they are a boy or girl so we have created a number 3 on drivers licenses and birth certificates to help them out. We have liberal professors in our colleges teaching socialism along with their brand of liberalism. We have babies in the womb being murdered and our government upholds the practice while punishing people that kill certain species of wildlife. Where is this country headed to? We have cities called sanctuary cities that defy the federal government and give illegals a place to live and all they need to survive while the homeless and veterans live on the streets in tents. There is so much hate between the elected officials' nothing will ever get done to better this country. This nation is headed down the broad road of destruction with increasing speed. 

We were tolerant, now they are not

As I sat last night and thought about the changes to our country during my lifetime of 72 years, I have realized this, the USA has almost done a 180-degree turn in her principles, her values, and our way of life. The values and principles that made this country great. Now I also realize this country on its present course will be reaping the winds of destruction. 

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a few dissatisfied and discontented students chose not to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag and not to bow their heads during the moment of silence. The rest of us didn't like it much, but we tolerated and put up with it. When you give an inch the devil will take a mile.

Their numbers grew. They started burning flags. The flag of this nation that men died defending. We didn't like it, but we tolerated it. They made fun of our faith in God. The God who blessed our forefathers as they built this country according to His word. We didn't like it, but we tolerated it.

Now if we wear a cross, go to church, or honor God in any way to show where our faith lies, they don't tolerate us. If we stand to say the Pledge of Allegiance, they don't tolerate us. If we stand and bow our heads to pray, they don't tolerate us. If we raise our flags and display them, they don't tolerate us, because you see, tolerance, in this country, is only one-sided ... and those who tolerate become the enemies of those who do not.

When is it UnAmerican

Our country was founded on principles that all men are created equal. Our founding fathers were visionaries and sought to assure all citizens the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, today we have groups that will deny others the right to life, deny others their liberty, and only think they themselves should be able to pursue happiness. Friends, so much of what I see in our country today crushes these values America was built upon.
When a senator can shed tears on the senate floor because there is a policy to vet refugees from terror sponsored countries but remains dry eyed when millions of innocent babies are murdered in the womb—that is un-American.
When our homeless go hungry while illegal aliens can come into this country and receive food stamps, welfare and shelter—that is Un-American
When our elderly must choose between eating or buying their medications while abortions and transgender surgeries are paid for with tax payer money—that is Un-American.
When our troops go without proper equipment while celebrities and athletes protest our country and national anthem—that is un-American.
When our veterans go without benefits that were promised but billions of dollars are given to countries that hate us—that is Un-American.
When Christian companies are forced to compromise their faith and values by serving same sex weddings while other businesses can say, “if you support traditional marriage, don’t shop here.”—that is Un-American.
When radical groups like BLM and anti fa can riot, burn cities and kill or injure people but citizens are prosecuted and persecuted for speaking out against them—that is Un-American.
When a black criminal disobeys law enforcement and is shot by police and there is a public outcry while police officers are shot everyday for doing their jobs and media is silent—that is Un-American.
When the media takes it upon itself to slant the news and tell us what to think instead of reporting the news and trusting us to decide for ourselves what to think—that is Un-American.
When liberal head explodes at the use of a word in describing a third world country while cities in this country resemble these third world countries and nothing is being done to improve the lives of citizens in these cities— that is Un-American.
When a political party would rather protect 8,000 illegal aliens than protect the citizens of this country and even go as far to threaten a government shut-down and deprive the elderly and military of their money— that is Un-American.
It appears that some of our leaders are more concerned about themselves and the special interest groups that has bought them  than the citizens that elected them and that is not only Un-American but unacceptable to the the citizens of this country that are counting on the leadership.
Friends, I have been told that, as a Christian, I should not be political. I am not a political person but what I see goes beyond politics. It is now about our survival as a country and the fabric of our way of life. I once read “All it takes for evil to spread is for good men to do nothing.” I am only trying to do my small part to stop the spread of evil.
As always you are free to disagree but I am free to express my opinion. May God bless you all. . Just saying

Credit to @Doretta Mills For the post

Armed teenage heroes

During the 2016 presidential election cycle, Hillary Clinton professed that half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables.” Based upon her statement, it may be reasonable to conclude that Hillary’s followers, in the liberal wing of politics, find that those voters who oppose gun control on purchases by citizens less than 21 years of age should also be thrown into the basket of deplorables. However, the history of our nation expresses a strong and vibrant case for preteens and teens owning and using guns in a responsible manner. The most glaring examples are noted during times of military conflict when this age group rises to the occasion of preserving liberty and uses weapons of war in protection of our republican form of government.
In the Revolutionary War, Jeremiah Levering, age 12, along with hundreds of other soldiers 16 years and younger, fought the British to secure our freedom from the King of England.
Joseph Burger, a 14-year-old Union Army soldier who fought in the American Civil War, received the United States’ highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor. Burger also received a battlefield commission to the rank of captain at the age of 15.

During World War II, the Alaska National Guard was called up into the Army of the United States. As a result, the territorial governor, in seeking to protect Alaska’s border, called for local citizens to rise to the occasion to defend against an invasion by Japan. With their own guns in hand, citizens of all ages, including preteens and teens, organized into a 6,300-member volunteer militia known as the Eskimo Scouts/Alaska Territorial Guard. When the Japanese invaded Alaska, bombing Dutch Harbor and occupying four of the Aleutian Islands, it was the bravery exhibited by teenagers, preteens as young as 12, and others in the Eskimo Scouts which resulted in repelling the Japanese through combat operations.
Bringing this type of citizen militia closer to our home, the governor of Maryland, in response to the absence of the Maryland National Guard, called on citizens, using their own firearms, to form into “Minuteman” units. In a 1942 photograph of the fourteen Tilghman Island Minutemen shown training with rifles, one of those volunteers was a young teenager.
Additionally, there were many heroes in World War II who were teenagers. Among them was a 16-year-old Marine, Bernard Hoffendaffer, who fought at the Battle of Iwo Jima and after the war became a Methodist preacher serving six churches in West Virginia; Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in World War II, who at age 19 was awarded the Medal of Honor and after the war became a Hollywood legend; Calvin Leon Graham, who at age 12 was the youngest to serve in the U.S. Navy, received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star medals for his bravery and wounds received during the Battle of Guadalcanal; and George H.W. Bush, a bomber pilot, who at 19 years of age was the youngest Naval aviator in history and was wounded in combat. Bush later became President of the United States.
During the Korean War, David Hackworth, at 15 years of age, was given a battlefield commission to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.
During the Viet Nam War, David A. Christian, a 19-year-old 2nd Lieutenant led many search and destroy combat missions. Wounded seven times, Lieutenant Christian was among the most decorated soldiers of that war.

This article was published in The Star Democrat newspaper, 

Ron Frampton writes from Tilghman Island.

WRONG CHOICES AND A DYING AMERICA

I was born in 1946. That makes me seventy plus years old and for the most part I have always been a Christian first and a conservative second. In my seventy years of life I have seen a lot of presidential elections but none like the one that is in progress now. I have to say this presidential election is so scary that it can make one think what is happening here. Are these the best we got? To me both candidates are scary and it makes me think what in the world is going on. We have Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton as the front runners. Neither are, in my opinion, good choices to be commander and chief of our country. But of course my opinion along with others like me does not make much difference when we vote because if you stop and think about it, it never does. For the poor man, the working man, and the God fearing man it never does. It is the same old, same old, just a different spin on it.

We have the Democrat party with Hillary as their pick for president and her record {speaks for itself} as far back as Watergate. It is one of lies and deceit. Also the Democrat Party and their record also speak for its self. If Hillary is elected as president it will be at least four more years of Obama's policy's which have just about brought us to the breaking point. We have pure chaos in America and the government lies about everything. Obama said when he was elected he was going to have a transparent presidency. And that never happen. The only thing that has happened is the change he promised and that was one of dismantling and destroying America. It is amazing what freebies will do when it comes to voting for someone. Our military is growing weaker all the time, we have open borders that allow drug smugglers, Islamic terrorist, and criminals come across nearly unopposed. We are trillions in debt and we have more debt now under Obama than with all the other presidents, democrat and republican combined. With the election of Hilary these policies will continue. 

Let’s not leave Bernie out or the mix. It is a sad day in America when we have a socialist {communist} running for the highest office in our land. As I look back at the Korean War and the Vietnam War where thousands upon thousands of our young men died on the battle field and spilled their blood to fight communist aggression and here it is right at our door, with the young men of today applauding it. God have mercy on America.

The Republican Party has Trump as their candidate for presidency. I'm sorry folks but to some degree that bothers me too. To me he does not have the right temperament for the highest position in our country. With him we could be at war in a heartbeat because of what someone has said to him. I have not heard from him how he would bring some of the things that he has promised to pass. Unless he has had a change of heart about some things he has said in years gone by we are in big trouble with him if he is elected, because he sounds like and has promoted Liberal Democrat policies. The Republican Party is just about a do nothing party as you can get. For the past seven plus years they have did nothing or very little to stop Obama's policy's. Although I will vote for Trump to keep Hillary out of the presidency I still have some problems with him. Only time will tell.  Above all we must not let Hillary near the White House. 

A few years ago I finally realized that the Republican Party was not much different than the Democrat party. When Bush #1 was pushing a one world government that did it for me as far as the Republican Party and most of their leaders. With both parties it is not the will of the honest working folks but what is best for them and the special interest groups who put them into office. We have dead people voting and more than once, dogs voting and now illegal’s voting. And now to top all that we have super delegates that can over ride the peoples vote. So where does the average American fit in like you and I.  The answer is we don't fit in! Both parties turn their head when it comes to illegal’s crossing the border. One party closes their eyes for the votes they will bring and the other party closes their eyes because it is cheap labor. 

Our nation has no morality anymore and no leader or leaders to bring it back to our Christian roots.. We have homosexuals parading on our streets, same sex marriage, uni sex bathrooms, transgender rights, and most of all the degrading of the Christian religion, the Bible, and many other things. People are calling bad good and good bad. We as a Christian nation have no one in office to stand in the gap and fight for our rights.

The seniors of this nation who are living on their social security retirements and the veterans of this nation {some living on the streets} can get very little help or no help at all while Muslim refugees and illegal’s get all kinds of help from the government What is wrong with that picture?

Give Me Liberty, Religious Freedom, Or Give Me Death

I wonder if most people in America truly understand what is going on in our country and in the world that we live in today, All Americans should be truly worried about our loss of personal freedoms! They are leaving us fast! Since Obama has come into office we are losing more and more everyday and most people do not care that this is happening as long as this big plantation that we are now living on, does not stop giving out the freebies. People all over this world in a lot of different countries are fighting to keep their freedoms while most people in America could care less with a “What you going to give me “attitude. They would rather live on the plantation. Some people see Obama a the messiah and what a shame that is.

Americans, who care, should strongly challenge the many schemes, and exploitations, of our progressive (a polite word for communist) president against our own Constitution and Bill of Rights. If you remember he is the man said he would change America and he is piece by piece! The is just about the only true thing that he has done since he has been elected. Some Americans are losing their freedoms and they, for the most part, are doing nothing except looking for the next hand out.

If people want to see where our country is headed they need to look no further than Korea. The contrast between a people’s freedom and slavery can be clearly seen, by comparing the North and South Korea nations. One was founded and exists on absolute political control; the other thrives and blossoms through a democratically operating free people!

History has shown that our freedoms are taken for granted and that is one thing that should never happen. Because once our freedoms are lost, they go the way of North Korea, and like in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany years earlier!

If the American people do not soon take notice and realize it is Obama and his “political class” that “We the People” must control and get a grip on and not the other way around So take heed America, your future is in your hands, but only if you fight constantly for your Constitutional rights, as our Founders fought for us and our futures! If we do not wake up soon the next two years can spell doom for America under Obama and we are already on that slippery slope.

The freedoms that American soldiers, both men and women, have fought for, been maimed for, and died for are leaving us fast. As for me “Give me liberty, let me serve the Lord as I want or give me death!”

The Old Soldier

He was getting old and paunchy
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past.
Of a war that he once fought in
And the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies;
They were heroes, every one.
And 'tho sometimes to his neighbors
His tales became a joke,
All his buddies listened quietly
For they knew where of he spoke.
But we'll hear his tales no longer,
For ol' Joe has passed away,
And the world's a little poorer
For a Soldier died today.
He won't be mourned by many,
Just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary,
Very quiet sort of life.
He held a job and raised a family,
Going quietly on his way;
And the world won't note his passing,
'Tho a Soldier died today.
When politicians leave this earth,
Their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing,
And proclaim that they were great.
Papers tell of their life stories
From the time that they were young
But the passing of a Soldier
Goes unnoticed, and unsung.
Is the greatest contribution
To the welfare of our land,
Some jerk who breaks his promise
And cons his fellow man?
Or the ordinary fellow
Who in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his country
And offers up his life?
The politician's stipend
And the style in which he lives,
Are often disproportionate,
To the service that he gives.
While the ordinary Soldier,
Who offered up his all,
Is paid off with a medal
And perhaps a pension, small.
It is not the politicians
With their compromise and ploys,
Who won for us the freedom
That our country now enjoys.
Should you find yourself in danger,
With your enemies at hand,
Would you really want some cop-out,
With his ever waffling stand?
Or would you want a Soldier
His home, his country, his kin,
Just a common Soldier,
Who would fight until the end.
He was just a common Soldier,
And his ranks are growing thin,
But his presence should remind us
We may need his likes again.
For when countries are in conflict,
We find the Soldier's part
Is to clean up all the troubles
That the politicians start.
If we cannot do him honor
While he's here to hear the praise,
Then at least let's give him homage
At the ending of his days.
Perhaps just a simple headline
In the paper that might say:
"OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,
A SOLDIER DIED TODAY."
Pass On The Patriotism! YOU can make a difference.
If you are proud of our Vets, then send this to them. You'll be glad you did.
Then send it to ALL your friends. Thank you and GOD bless.

The Vanishing American

While at the doctors office today, as I was sitting in the waiting room, I met a elderly gentleman who was wearing a World War Two Veteran cap. I asked him where was he stationed at during the war and what he did in the war. He told me all the countries that he fought in. All of those countries were in Europe and even though he was old and could hardly get around he still remembered the dead bodies in the concentration camps, and the people, all across Europe the United States Army liberated. As he told of the events I saw tears come to his eyes. He told of other soldiers, his friends who died or were maimed in the many battles they they fought in. He was proud to be an American soldier who fought to set people free of bondage and dictators. Then the very next words that that came out of his mouth was a shocker. He said:

" We fought, bled, were maimed, and died for our country and the ideals that it stood for. Now look at it. Everything that we fought against is now becoming a part of our country. Hitler would be proud of this president that we have now! My friends who fought and died would turn over in their graves if they saw what is happening to this country today. We have a president who is fast becoming a dictator and who is piece by piece taking away all the freedoms that we have in this country. When I was at war we did what it took to win. Now they will not let our boys win. They will only let them go so far. This president goes around the world apologizing for our country when we have freed more people than any other country in the world. We are living in sad times. Our nation is just about gone. God save this nation and make us great again."

When he finished talking I had tears in my eyes and to my amazement so did nearly everyone else in the waiting room. We all knew that he was speaking the truth. I was thankful for being in the presents of an American hero and before I left I shook his hand and I thanked him for his service to our country. As I was leaving I noticed other people getting up from their seats and shaking the old fellow's hand and thanking him for his service. As I watched the others shake his hand I thought to myself: 'Just maybe we have a chance.' God Bless our Veterans, God bless our soldiers, and God bless the United States Of America!

Next Time Elect An American

For those too young to remember; Here is a photo of the The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France memorializing the fallen US soldiers of the D-Day Invasion to retake Europe from the Nazis. The large white areas in the photo are created by thousands of white Crosses and Star of David grave markers:

There is also a D-Day Monument in Bedford , VA ... a relatively short 200 mile helicopter ride from the White House:

In all the years since D-Day 1945, there are only three occasions when the sitting President of the United States of America failed to go to the D-Day Monument that honors the soldiers killed during the Invasion. Only Three Times... The occasions were:

1. Barack Obama 2010
2. Barack Obama 2011
3. Barack Obama 2012

For the past 68 years, every single president, except Obama, has paid tribute to the fallen American soldiers killed on D-Day. This year, instead of honoring the soldiers, he made a 3,000 mile campaign trip on Air Force 1 to California to raise funds for the upcoming election.

Priorities?  - - It speaks volumes... doesn't it?

          

You Could Hear A Pin Drop

JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO.  DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible. Rusk responded "Does that include those who are buried here?"DeGaulle did not respond. You could have heard a pin drop.  When in England ,at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by the USA.  He answered by saying,"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders.  The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." You could have heard a pin drop.  There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American.  During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt the USA has done? They sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims.  What do they intend to do, bomb them?"A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly:  "Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency  electrical power to shore facilities; they have three  cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck.  We have eleven such ships;how many does France have?" You could have heard a pin drop.  A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies  At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, "Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?"without hesitating:the American Admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the Brit's, Canadians, Aussie's, and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German." You could have heard a pin drop.  AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...  Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane.At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously. "Then you should know enough to have your passport ready."The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it." "Impossible, Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France !"The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look.  Then he quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to."You could have heard a pin drop.   I am proud to be of this land, AMERICA

WE THE PEOPLE: Should Be Concerned

Under the Obama Regime our federal government has twisted and created a lot that “We The People” ought to and must be concerned about. The much-talked-about "stimulus" bill is a huge extension and increase of government authority. This was a bill most Americans did not want. The bill was rapidly pushed through Congress without enough time for legislators to appropriately review it as it should have been done, (most of them did not know what was in the bill), and now it infringes on the rights and privacy of every American. It became the law of the land over night. What great things that are done in darkness behind closed doors! Sounds like Hitler’s Germany all over again.
Because of Heath Care Reform we now have to make our medical records accessible to the government? Where did all the privacy go? Heath Care Reform  is now the law of the land. Another bill that the American people did not want, but it makes no difference what the people want, it is what Barrack Obama and his liberal friends want. I believe that this bill will lead to the government making an effort to administer many new laws. For instant one would be to ban guns from all citizens. There are  folks who been denied from gun ownership because they sought (or will seek) treatment for certain conditions. This has already been done to our military veterans, by bill HR 2640 (the "Veterans Disarmament Act"),  and permanently strips gun ownership rights from U.S. military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, or who have Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) -and these aren't the only conditions that allow the government to disarm our vets. I wonder just how many have post-traumatic stress disorder in the first place?
Gun Owners of America reported that even before HR 2640 became law, "up to 140,000 veterans [had] ALREADY BEEN DISARMED and denied ownership of firearms by using distorted and warped interpretations of the federal code. That figure was released by Congress' own research team, which is called The Congressional Research Service. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the policy research arm of the US Congress. With its $80 million budget and 800 employees, it issues about 3,000 briefs, reports, short issue papers and longer position papers per year. On March 22, 2007 the CRS moved to restrict access to its reports from the American people.  Why was this and who was behind that decision? I believe the policy of disarmament could be easily applied to all citizens of the USA -- and that some in the Federal government, including Obama, wants to do this very thing. Returning soldiers, from the war, are labeled by some of the liberal government as terrorist and a threat. They now have the tool, or bill, to take guns from them. They can label anybody they want, as having post- traumatic stress disorder. Who will be next, the Tea Party Members, The Christians, people who oppose Obama (who are also called racist), or the hunters, it could be almost anybody!  You can bet one thing, the criminals, the illegals, and the terrorist will still have their guns long  after the honest American people will.
Also attached to the Health Care Bill" and passed with it was the “National Security Police Force Bill” which Barrack Obama wanted. The bill was sneaked in as an attachment. Sneaky way of doing it. This is more of the “change” we were promised at election time. Most Americans are numb to these things. They know nothing. To have a national security force is the same as what Hitler had in Germany in the 1930’s. Remember the SS and the Gestapo? Why does any leader or country such as ours need a security force that only answers to Obama or whoever the president might be? We already have local, county, state, and federal police agencies now.  It is called people control! You cannot control the people until you control their minds and the ones they cannot control they want to render them harmless.

Also written into law with this "stimulus" is a provision (what I call a hidden agenda) which many believe will produce millions of dollars' worth of government backing for liberal organizations such as ACORN. Acorn has a history of voter fraud (which we all know) and they are a staunch supporter of anti-gun candidates (although they're will tell you they are non-partisan), Acorn has pushed anti-gun measures in the past, and now they can keep on doing it with the taxpayers' dollars.
More and more laws has been and are being pushed for , (behind close door laws) , and are coming dangerously close to becoming law.  There's a bill, (S. 22), which would enlarge the amount of land that is covered by the National Park Service. Why is this? Because The National Park Service bans all gun possession on most of its land, this would create huge new areas of the United States in which it would be illegal to own or even have a gun. This would included six hundred fifty miles of public highways which would be turned into an anti-gun zone by designating it a "historic trail." (The route would run from Rhode Island to Virginia, including portions of U.S. Route 1 and Interstate 95, and would pass through a number of metropolitan areas.) All this is part of the change that Barrack Obama  promised.  Just like with Hitler in Germany you ban all fire arms and them you have (like Hitler)  your own army (like Hitler’s Gestapo) and then you can change the system and rule, not govern it.  
The list could go on and on about how this administration wants to disarm the American people and take their rights away. What we need is a leader that will stand up and tell the American people; “I HEAR YOU” A leader and a congress that will give back to the people what the canker  worm has taken away.  Give  back our freedoms, our schools, and our way of life. What we do not need is another four years of Barrack Obama and his socialist (communist) Agenda. We do not need another four years of America being tour down by a president who does not like this country and is now in the process of dismantling it piece by piece.

PRESS 2: For A Handout!

According to a recent Fox Business News Network report American families are now getting more cash hand outs ($2.3 Trillion) from our government than they are paying in taxes. ($2.2 Trillion) . In 2010 American families got more handouts from the federal government since the great depression. For some reason I cannot compare the handouts in the Great Depression to the handouts by our government today. They are two different handouts. The handouts in the Great Depression were to a people who because of no fault of their own were in need of help. The handouts today are not like that.

 According to Fox News “HANDOUTS” includes expanded unemployment benefits, as well as payments for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and stimulus spending, among other things. According to fox News, an estimated 59% of the 308.7 million Americans in this country get at least one federal benefit, according to the Census Bureau, based on 2009 data. An estimated 46.5 million get Social Security; 42.6 million get Medicare; 42.4 million get Medicaid; 36.1 million get food stamps; 12.4 million get housing subsidies; and 3.2 million get Veterans' benefits. And the handouts from the government have been growing. Government cash handouts account for 79% of household growth since 2007, even as household tax payments--for things like the income and payroll tax, among other taxes--have fallen by $312 billion.

As much as I like watching Fox News for their reliable and honest news reporting I have to take issue with their reporting of the facts you see here. The word that I’m having difficulty with is handout. I agree that food stamps, free housing, Free medical, free government paid education and free everything for illegals and the people who will not work is a handout, but to call Social Security, Medicare, and Veteran benefits a handout is just not right! According to several online dictionaries and a couple that I have laying around here the word HANDOUT is defined this way:

•         Aid, gifts, donations, assistance, offerings
•         Something giving free to a needy person
•        Giving clothes, money, or food, to a needy person.

There are many more of the same definitions for handouts, if you look. The trouble is I cannot find any definition in the dictionaries that I looked at that the word “HANDOUT” fits several of the ones that Fox News has listed.

 Whatever our veterans receive from the government is not a handout. When men and women sign on to help protect our country with their time by going in harm’s way, leaving their love ones behind, spilling their blood in foreign lands to keep us free, and even dying, you cannot call anything they get from the government a handout. We are the ones who got the handout from them when they went to war to defend this great country of ours.

Social Security and Medicare are not handouts either. When American citizens have deducted from their pay checks each week a certain amount of money to pay for these benefits when they retire it is no handout. For a example if a person put money into a savings account all there life, when they go to withdraw some of it or all of it, you cannot call that a handout because it is not. That is the same way it is with social security and Medicare. Those benefits are deducted (by law) from a person’s pay check every week.  Also let me add this to the mix; Social Security was signed into law as something the American worker had no say over. The money from the deductions in the paycheck was to go into a separate account to be used only for the workers retirement. It was never the government’s money ,in the first place, for them to give, as a so called handouts. The fact is the government robbed the Social Security account (my money and your money) to help cover some of their runaway spending.  The government is not giving you a handout when you receive your Social Security Check each month. How can they give you something that was not theirs n the first place?

Who are getting the true handouts by our government? That is easy to answer!  Since the great society was started in 1964 by Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Democrat party there has been people who have lived off the backs of the tax payer. Their kids, and their kid’s kids are doing the same thing. Why work when the government gives all the handouts that a person needs to survive and live. Free food, free housing, free college education, free medical, free cell phones, and free cash money to spend. This is a handout!

Then we have the millions of illegals who receive all the benefits of this great nation. Just walk over the border and they get all kinds of handouts. Free everything and the tax payer is paying for all of it. Not only that but our prison systems are becoming crowded by illegals and taxpayers are footing the bill. These people are like termites. They are under minding the very foundation of this country. They are eating away at a system that was never designed for such. This is a handout.

The American government is giving away millions of taxpayer’s dollars to foreign countries to help the poor of those countries. A great jester, but most of it never gets to the masses. It goes to line the pockets of their corrupt leaders who are living like fat cats off of the taxpayers dime. This is a hand out!

The American people have the government, not private enterprise, to thank for their resent wealth growth. Clearly, there are big implications to this. For a example, if the family have the government to thank for their wealth instead of honest work, does that mean those households are more prone to re-elect the corrupt politicians who are pushing for more government handouts? Does the American workforce wear down and erode because it is easier to collect a check from the government than it is to answer to an alarm clock each morning? Can the taxpayers of this country, afford to carry the burden of government-sponsored HANDOUTS?

The Visitors: A Class Act

A doctor had his TV on in his office when the news of the military base shootings at Ft. Hood , TX came on. The husband of one of his employees was stationed there. He called her into his office and as he told her what had happened, she got a text message from her husband saying, "I am okay." Her cell phone rang right after she read the message. It was an ER nurse,” I’m the one who just sent you a text, not your husband. I thought it would be comforting but I was mistaken in doing so. I am sorry to tell you this, but your husband has been shot 4 times and he is in surgery." The soldier's wife left Southern Clinic in Dothan , AL and drove all night to Ft.Hood. When she arrived, she found out her husband was out of surgery and would be OK. She rushed to his room and found that he already had two visitors there to comfort him. He was just waking up and found his wife and the visitors by his side. The nurse took this picture: What? No news crews and cameras? This is how people with class respond and pay respect to those in uniform. I sent my cousin in Fayetteville, N.C. (Retired from Special Forces) that picture of Geo. W. visiting the wounded at Ft. Hood . I got this reply: What is even better is the fact George W. Bush heard about Fort Hood, got in his car without any escort, apparently they did not have time to react, and drove to Fort Hood. He was stopped at the gate and the guard could not believe who he had just stopped. Bush only asks for directions to the hospital then drove on. The gate guard called that "The President is on Fort Hood and driving to the hospital." The base went bananas looking for Obama. When they found it was Bush, they immediately offered escort. Bush simply told them it was o.k. and to let him visit the wounded and the dependents of the dead. He stayed at Fort Hood for over six hours, and was finally asked to leave by a message from the White House. Obama flew in days later and held a "photo opportunity" session in a gym, and did not even go to the hospital. All this I picked up from two soldiers here who happened to be at Fort Hood when it happened. This Bush/Obama/Ft.Hood story is something that should be sent to every voter in the US . Those who wanted "change". You certainly got it.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/bush-fthood.htm

Thanks Shifty!

Shifty volunteered for the airborne in WWII and served with Easy

Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st

Airborne Infantry.  If you've seen Band of Brothers on HBO or the

History Channel, you know Shifty.  His character appears in all 10

episodes, and Shifty himself is interviewed in several of them. 

I met Shifty in the  Philadelphia airport several years ago. I didn't

know who he was at the time.  I just saw an elderly gentleman having

trouble reading his ticket. I offered to help, assured him that he was

at the right gate, and noticed the "Screaming Eagle," the symbol of

the 101st Airborne, on his hat. 

Making conversation, I asked him if he'd been in the 101st Airborne

or if his son was serving.  He said that he had been in the

101st.  I thanked him for his service, then asked him when he served,

and how many jumps he made. 

Quietly he said: "Well, I guess I signed up in 1941 or so,

and was in until sometime in 1945 ..."

At that point, again, very humbly, he said "I made the 5 training

jumps at Toccoa, and then jumped into  Normandy . . .  do you know

where Normandy is?"

I told him "yes, I know exactly where  Normandy is, and I know what

D-Day was."  At that point he said "I also made a second jump into

Holland , into Arnhem ."  I was standing with a genuine war hero ... 

and then I realized that it was June,  just after the anniversary of

D-Day. 

I asked Shifty if he was on his way back from  France, and he said

"Yes...  And it 's real sad because, these days, so few of the guys are

left, and those that are, lots of them can't make the trip."

I helped Shifty get onto the plane and then realized he was back in

coach while I was in First Class.  I sent the flight attendant back to

get him and said that I wanted to switch seats.  When Shifty came

forward, I got up out of the seat and told him I wanted him to have

it, that I'd take his in coach.

He said "No, son, you enjoy that seat.  Just knowing that there are

still some who remember what we did and who still care is enough to

make an old man very happy."  His eyes were filling up as he said it.

Shifty died on Jan. l7 after fighting cancer.

There was no parade.

No big event in Staples Center .

No wall-to-wall, back-to-back 24x7 news coverage.

No weeping fans on television.

And that's not right!

Let's give Shifty his own memorial service, online, in our own quiet way.

Please forward this email to everyone you know.  Especially to the veterans. 

Rest in peace, Shifty. 

Chuck Yeager, Maj. General [ret.]

P.S.  I think that it is amazing how the "media" chooses our "heroes" these days...

Michael Jackson & the like!

"SHIFTY" - an incredible American hero

SHIFTY DIED JAN 17, 2011..........May God rest his soul.

Please do me a favor and pass this on so that untold thousands can

read it. We owe no less to our REAL heroes....

"The Axis of Idiots" – By J. D. Pendry, Retired Sergeant Major, USMC

Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You're the "runner-in-chief."
Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the USS Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.
John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in  Vietnam  ... Your military service, like your life, is more
fiction than fact. You've accused our military of terrorizing women and children in  Iraq  .. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, and the same words you used to describe Vietnam . You're a fake! You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese. Iraq , like Vietnam , is another war that you were for, before you were against it.
John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq . You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa . Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt, and washed up old fool.. You're not a Marine, sir. You wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's ass. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John. ( a dead man can't run )
Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run. ( The worst of the bunch )
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we'll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both strength and momentum. ( The IDIOT crew )
American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer. ( The leading traitors in The U.S. )
You are America 'AXIS OF IDIOTS.' Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us.. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam . If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.
Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.
Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within.
Semper Fi,
J. D. Pendry - Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired