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post 078
For the past few weeks I have watch carefully as a small colony of yellowjackets built a hive in the rafters on my front porch.
In benevolence I have left them to do what they will, and for the most part they have left me alone to do what I want, but their presence alone has caused me to use great caution when I have need to go into the area of my porch they have claimed.
This morning as I went out to attempt to cook breakfast on my porch grill,
I looked up to see a yellowjacket emerge from his hive, fly unusually fast directly to me and stung me twice on the lip, right under my nose before I could react.
Oh that hurt!
Now suddenly, due to an unacceptable injury inflicted on me by them, I am no longer willing to extend my benevolence to them. Tonight I will use whatever force is necessary to eliminate them from my porch.
Now a yellowjacket loving naturalist might challenge my morals, or my right to do this;
After all, they are God’s creatures too! And they have as much right to be here as I do!
Perhaps, for my protection the federal government should post signs on the inside of my door, warning me that travel onto my porch would be hazardous due to unacceptable activity by yellowjackets.
But here is how the law of reality works.
This property is mine. Therefore I am the authority, and I have the power, to determine who or what has rights on this particular land.
In fact it was I who spent my time, sweat, and money to clear my land, and build my house, and the porch on which they now find so desirable.
But even more is this additional fact;
Suddenly, I have a new fear every time I need to go out onto my porch.
Presently, I only have animosity to one particular hive of bees which have encroached on my homeland. But if I allow them to stay, and allow myself to be stung even more, the only thing that will happen is I will grow to hate all yellowjackets.
Theoretically if this continues, I might go so far as to seek out and eliminate every yellowjacket hive on my 7-acre property!
And once this starts, what is to say I would not take out all “races” of bees from fear of being stung again?
My neighbors have their right to manage their property in anyway they feel is right and good. Even if I don’t like bees, I have no right or power to manage them on my neighbors land. But on my land, I can choose to leave them stay, or remove them.
This is the law of lawful possession in a free land.
If the illegal Mexican nationals are allowed to stay, that is one thing.
But to give them the right to stay, transfers lawful authority to make any further determination regarding their presence and conduct. This is no different than adding the colony of yellowjackets to my property title!
If this is done, there is one thing sure to happen;
Due to a lack of distinction between legal and illegal people on American soil, there will be a growing animosity, and eventual hatred toward all people of Mexican descent. This is an unacceptable direction created by congress, and must not be allowed to continue!
Do not legalize the illegals.
Only a fool, or one with destructive goals, would consider such legislation!
The following is copied from the internet, I do not have the time to review the accuracy of each claim, but I was surprised to find my own former Senator, Ted Stevens in this list. I checked it out, and sure enough he voted as this list indicates.
Find your state, and use this link ontheissues.org to check the vote of your own representative.
It is your job to know who to keep, and who to remove.
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Don't forget. November 2 is "Take out the trash day"!!!!!!!
Please remember November elections are not far off. It's time to take back our country and give our representatives their due.
The following Senators voted against making English the Official Language of America: (Republicans are in italics)
Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Domenici (R-NM)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Now, the following are the Senators who voted to give illegal aliens our Social Security benefits. They are grouped by home State. If a State is not listed, there was no voting representative (or abstention) from that State.
Alaska : Stevens (R)
Arizona : McCain (R)
Arkansas : Lincoln (D) Pryor (D)
California : Boxer (D) Feinstein (D)
Colorado : Salazar (D)
Connecticut : Dodd (D) Lieberman (D)
Delaware : Biden (D) Carper (D)
Florida : Martinez (R)
Hawaii : Akaka (D) Inouye (D)
Illinois : Durbin (D) Obama (D)***
Indiana : Bayh (D) Lugar (R)
Iowa: Harkin (D)
Kansas : Brownback (R)
Louisiana: Landrieu (D)
Maryland : Mikulski (D) Sarbanes (D)
Massachusetts : Kennedy (D) Kerry (D)
Montana : Baucus (D)
Nebraska : Hagel (R)
Nevada: Reid (D)
New Jersey : Lautenberg (D) Menendez (D)
New Mexico : Bingaman (D)
New York : Clinton (D) Schumer (D)
North Dakota : Dorgan (D)
Ohio : DeWine (R) Voinovich(R)
Oregon : Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania : Specter (D)
Rhode Island : Chafee (R) Reed (D)
South Carolina : Graham (R)
South Dakota : Johnson (D)
Vermont : Jeffords (I) Leahy (D)
Washington : Cantwell (D) Murray (D)
West Virginia : Rockefeller (D), by Not Voting
Wisconsin : Feingold (D) Kohl (D)
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Washington's Slaves
post 077
On July 10, 2010 I saw a book review on "BookTV After Words" channel CSP2 351 by Judge Andrew Napolitano regarding his book "Lies the Government Told You" proclaiming that George Washington was a ruthless slave owner who maneuvered his slaves from one place to another in order to avoid the law which might obligate him to free them.
His accusations against Mr. Washington are of conduct only seen from the worst kind of humanity, reserved for monsters and serial killers.
It is far too easy to assume our founders were as corrupt of character as Americans are today, but recorded history shows most these men to have a very deep commitment and obedience to the Almighty, and character above reproach. Whether 1776 or 2076, The Word of God remains consistent and faithful. Cruelty to your fellow man was as wrong to the believer then, as it is today. These are the men, of Washington's day, who fled the cruelty of England, and after a long and arduous effort for reconciliation, severed all allegiance to England because of cruel treatment by writing the Declaration of Independence, then they wrote the constitution to form a government free of such cruelty!
In the Amendments to the Constitution, is Article 13. Written and sponsored by these same men, including George Washington, which speaks for itself;
Article 13
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Mr. Washington was an active party to these writings, and events of this time, and was of such character that the people voted him to be the first President of the United States.
An accusation is so easy to make, and the defense against one can consume huge amounts of time and documentation to refute.
There are now so many, many accusations coming against the founders, that it is impossible to address each of them in a thorough way.
So in this writing, before I have a chance to explore this accusation in detail, I will take the course, which aught to be considered in every argument. That course is the one of spirit:
Today for a Jury trial, the jury is picked with the specific exclusion of anyone who knows the accused. The reason given is to avoid favors toward friends, and thereby letting the guilty escape punishment. Juries are also instructed with the exclusion of any past conduct of the accused, which is supposed to avoid jury bias.
But originally the Jury was established with just the opposite points, to avoid the very same results!
How is that possible?
The original jury was designed to be the peers of the accused. In this way the jury was sure to know the spirit, or the nature of the accused, because they knew the man in public life at least, and private life at best. They knew better than a stranger if the man was prone to laziness, greed, lust, anger or selfishness, therefore the heart intent of the accused, in the event being investigated, was a main point of the trial. (Elliot, 2:110)
Is the man guilty of willful misconduct? Or is this alleged violation the result of another reason?
The reason why the Jury was so important to the protection of our freedom is because the law has no heart. (Elliot, 3:545, 546) The law is a point of fact designed to manage an organized society and cannot include the many human elements that might add obscure variables to that point of fact. “…The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” II Corinthians 3:6
This separation of law and humanity is the reason the original laws were so few, and performed their job so wonderfully for so many years. The law did not try to encroach onto the spiritual element.
The blending of law and humanity today is why there is an ever increasing need for more laws and yet still incapable of covering the need. For every point of fact law, which attempts to cover a human element, there are new loopholes and additional factors that compound the complication and therefore need yet more laws to address them.
This principle of separation between law and spirit, is a core element in the form of the American experiment.
Our founders and citizens were so familiar with God’s Word, and therefore God’s intent, they understood the design and purpose of this separation.
It is the design of separation that caused them to form our government into three branches, the Judicial branch, the Legislative branch, and the Executive branch.
This separation is found in Isaiah 33:22 “For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.”
It is the purpose of separation that also caused the founders to establish the final and most powerful check and balance of power, the Jury, the greatest protection to the citizen against corruption as identified in Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?”
The whole purpose of the Jury was to ensure that regardless of the laws, regardless of the powers, regardless of the judges, the citizen was protected by the decision of the people who knew him, from any injustices, which may arise.
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.”
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
This last separation is also found in the Scriptures, but unlike the point of fact making the law very clear and non-negotiable, this last separation is a bit less defined and more spiritual in nature. It is the principle of this last separation that caused the founders to keep the wording of the lawful founding documents, free from religion while at the same time ensuring that religion remained free and unobstructed to regulate those same documents and the resulting laws.
The religion, needed to maintain a healthy balance, must remain held in the hearts of the people and not held in the Law.
This principle, though also found in the Scriptures, is not found in one clear verse because it is not in the category of point in fact, as the law is.
The details of this concept is laid out in a very long chapter in my upcoming book of the same title as this blog, but for this post I will condense the data;
Christians around the world are aware of the scriptural prophesy for the last days including two mysterious witnesses who will preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, and cannot be harmed, though many will try.
It is said, they will be given great, unhindered power to fulfill their mission for a specific period of time determined by God. Revelation 11:3 “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” (That’s 1260 days exactly)
What most modern Christians no longer know, is anything more about them.
They appear to pop out of nowhere, have no names, do their obscure job, and then are done, with nothing more said about them.
But this is not the way of the Scriptures.
The bible always provides from itself, a precedent for itself. If any concept of the bible appears to be unique in world history, one of two things is sure:
1) The bible has previously shown an example of the event in a representation, metaphor, or a similar evens.
Or
2) The concept is not a correct interpretation of scripture.
So where do we find the representation of these two witnesses in scripture?
Amazingly they are found many times from Geneses to Revelation;
They are first represented as the two trees in the Garden of Eden; the tree of Life, (the Spirit) and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. (The Law) Genesis 2:9
They next appear as the two Brass Pillars standing before the first temple in Jerusalem. I Kings 7:21
Today we have no idea what the job of these pillars was, or why they were placed there. They appear to have been nothing but ornamental yet they were there, and they even had names.
They appear again in the presentation of the tith by Moses, (the lawful authority), to the High Priest, Melchizidek, (The spiritual authority).
Genesis 14:18-20, Hebrews 7:2.
We see them again in the Zechariah vision of a still future 3 dimensional menorah which had two olive trees on each side of it, dripping their life giving olive oil into the menorah to feed the flames of light.
That principle is made more clear when we understand the significance that Jesus, will be priest, but David will be king even in the millennium! Ezekiel 37:24
All these and more, show us a many fold representation of the power and authority establishing a none-corruptible form of government, which cannot fall unless it breaks down from its own failure to maintain.
The American form of Government was established on this principle. Though intentionally kept independent, these two elements are crucial in working together.
This is also the foundational concept behind making us a Democratic Republic.
We were not made a Democracy as is commonly assumed today! We were created as a democratically managed republic.
The spirit represented in the Democracy element by the vote of the people, and the Law represented in the Republic element.
A pure republic allows for a despot, a pure democracy allows for anarchy just before implosion with countless following evils.*1
But a proper Democratic Republic defends against both! Much of the problems in America today can be found in the corruption or dismantling of this concept, which has been the long term goals of our enemies, (Progressives among them).
According to Judeao Christianity which our founders understood, the event of Jesus the Christ establishing his realm of Priest in the hearts of his followers through the gift of the Holy Spirit, made each believer a priest unto God, and so eliminated the single man as a representation.
In a great experiment of providence, our founders also established the lawful role of the priest in the hearts of the citizens by the form of government they gave us.
It is for this reason that John Q. Adams stated;
“. . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
He knew the importance of both these powers to maintain it.
Perhaps now you can begin to see the depth and meaning intended by his statement.
It is this concept by which the Jury "plays the role" of the priest, in the final separation of power. The Jury judges the heart, and evaluates the applied law to make the final judgment.
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So what does this have to do with Washington and his slaves?
Because with all the evidence showing the deep understanding Washington had of Scriptural principles, this accusation of Washington’s evil actions toward his slaves is not compatible with his known spirit. A man that is committed to the ways of Christ, As the history of his life clearly shows, cannot have such an un-scriptural attitude toward enslaving, and inhuman treatment of, another human being.
So knowing the man’s spirit, we have the ability to investigate the other explanations as options which may better fit his character.
Did Washington own slaves? Yes he did.
Did Washington transport his slaves to different plantations in an effort to avoid the law? Perhaps. I don’t know yet.
So is this not proof that this supposed Christian man was an evil slave owner?
Lets wait just a second before we decide;
It is an ignorant but public understanding that early Americans brought slaves to America. Do you think the bible packing families of pilgrims with funny hats and buckles on their shoes, read their bible verses above decks while their slaves were naked and starving in chains below decks? If you think so, then you have virtually no understanding of the ways of Christ. Your confidence of this possibility is a purely ignorant fabrication in violation of many historical documents.
So how did the slaves get to America? And how did Washington end up with slaves?
While still the lawful authority over the new land, England sent slave traders to America and sold their slaves to colonies of Virginia in 1619, thus establishing the slave trade here in opposition to the will of the majority, much like the Obama administration is passing laws today. But the first slave ship that came to sell slaves in the Christian Pilgrim colonies of Massachusetts, was confiscated, the captain imprisoned, and at the expense of the colonies, the slaves were sent back to their own lands. Thus showing a significant difference in thinking which separated the secular settlers from the Christian Pilgrims.
England was still the Authority at that time. The colonial laws established by England established slavery, and not the colonists themselves.
If you have forgotten, the colonies eventually went to war with the king of England to separate themselves from unacceptable oppressive laws, including slavery. The result was the Declaration Of Independence in 1776 declaring in part;
"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."
Where did they get such notions?
From scripture such as Acts 17:26a;
"From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth..."
But by the time our nation was founded, slavery was a very real problem here.
So did Washington take advantage of this?
Not if you believe him to be a Christian.
The Christian mind frame at that time can be summarized by Noah Webster;
"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws...All of the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from them despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."
But Washington bought slaves! And he used slaves on his plantation!
Yet from the heart of a Christian, it is more likely he bought them not as property, but as protection for them. To him and them both they were not slaves, but hired labor. They needed to survive in a world that enslaved free blacks, and he needed workers, so he bought them to protect them from the wickedness of the slave laws, and treated them as friends.
Legislation was in the process of making slaves free, but the South was very committed to slavery by this time. There was a common problem of freed blacks, being abducted and sold back into slavery.
Washington dearly wanted his slaves to have freedom, but to send them out at that time was to send them to horrible slavery beyond his ability to help.
His slaves did not want to go because they had such a good life working for him as an employer, and lawful security as under a master, but the new laws required their freedom.
And so in an effort to keep them safe, it is very possible that both Washington and his slaves agreed to move them from one plantation to another in an effort to avoid the law which would subject them to the open slave market.
The anti-slavery law was good, but the application was complicated because of wicked men.
Until the transition was complete “things got worse before it got better”.
All this of course is supposition, but this interpretation of events fits far better the character and spirit of the man we know through history.
Am I suggesting Washington was a perfect saint? Of course not, he was a man. But he could not have done what he did, nor written what he wrote, nor achieved what he achieved if his heart and mind was not Christian.
Therefore without spending months investigating the legitimacy of the accusations presented by Judge Napolitano in his book, The Character of George Washington should stand against blanket Character assassination such as this.
This is the kind of original Jury thinking we need to have when new accusations arises.
Take the man’s nature and his character into deep consideration when accused of violating the law. Thorough investigations are indeed warranted, and should be conducted whenever possible.
If it is found by fact and spirit that he actually did commit an intentional wickedness, the law is there to bind him. If his actions can be shown to have a pure and good purpose even if in violation of some law, the jury is there to find him not guilty.
This is the marriage of Law and Spirit, established in separation of offices, upon which this nation was founded.
This is the mind frame of government, and the people, that would keep us free.
“The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.”
John Jay, 1st Chief Justice U.S. supreme Court, 1789
“The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.”
Samuel Chase, U.S. supreme Court Justice, 1796
“The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. supreme Court Justice, 1902
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"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams in a speech to the military in 1798 is a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and our second President.
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.”
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1781
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State.”
Thomas Jefferson, letter to a Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, Connecticut, January 1, 1802
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Charles Jarvis, September 28, 1820
“It is not honorable to take mere legal advantage, when it happens to be contrary to justice.”
Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on Debts Due to Soldiers, 1790
“The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not expressed in direct terms, it is clearly the spirit of the Constitution, and it ought to be so commented and acted on by every friend of free government.”
Thomas Jefferson, January, 1797
“The people are the masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!”
Abraham Lincoln
“Where jurors can be acquainted with the characters of the parties and the witnesses - where the whole cause can be brought within their knowledge and their view - I know no mode of investigation equal to that by a trial by jury; …” (Elliot, 2:516)
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“Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
John Adams
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“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”
Benjamin Franklin
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"Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule."
Plato
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“Democracy is the road to socialism.“ Karl Marx
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"Democracy is indispensable to socialism."
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
For more along the topic of slavery please see Post 226 The Door to Slavery (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/12/door-to-slavery.html).
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On July 10, 2010 I saw a book review on "BookTV After Words" channel CSP2 351 by Judge Andrew Napolitano regarding his book "Lies the Government Told You" proclaiming that George Washington was a ruthless slave owner who maneuvered his slaves from one place to another in order to avoid the law which might obligate him to free them.
His accusations against Mr. Washington are of conduct only seen from the worst kind of humanity, reserved for monsters and serial killers.
It is far too easy to assume our founders were as corrupt of character as Americans are today, but recorded history shows most these men to have a very deep commitment and obedience to the Almighty, and character above reproach. Whether 1776 or 2076, The Word of God remains consistent and faithful. Cruelty to your fellow man was as wrong to the believer then, as it is today. These are the men, of Washington's day, who fled the cruelty of England, and after a long and arduous effort for reconciliation, severed all allegiance to England because of cruel treatment by writing the Declaration of Independence, then they wrote the constitution to form a government free of such cruelty!
In the Amendments to the Constitution, is Article 13. Written and sponsored by these same men, including George Washington, which speaks for itself;
Article 13
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Mr. Washington was an active party to these writings, and events of this time, and was of such character that the people voted him to be the first President of the United States.
An accusation is so easy to make, and the defense against one can consume huge amounts of time and documentation to refute.
There are now so many, many accusations coming against the founders, that it is impossible to address each of them in a thorough way.
So in this writing, before I have a chance to explore this accusation in detail, I will take the course, which aught to be considered in every argument. That course is the one of spirit:
Today for a Jury trial, the jury is picked with the specific exclusion of anyone who knows the accused. The reason given is to avoid favors toward friends, and thereby letting the guilty escape punishment. Juries are also instructed with the exclusion of any past conduct of the accused, which is supposed to avoid jury bias.
But originally the Jury was established with just the opposite points, to avoid the very same results!
How is that possible?
The original jury was designed to be the peers of the accused. In this way the jury was sure to know the spirit, or the nature of the accused, because they knew the man in public life at least, and private life at best. They knew better than a stranger if the man was prone to laziness, greed, lust, anger or selfishness, therefore the heart intent of the accused, in the event being investigated, was a main point of the trial. (Elliot, 2:110)
Is the man guilty of willful misconduct? Or is this alleged violation the result of another reason?
The reason why the Jury was so important to the protection of our freedom is because the law has no heart. (Elliot, 3:545, 546) The law is a point of fact designed to manage an organized society and cannot include the many human elements that might add obscure variables to that point of fact. “…The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” II Corinthians 3:6
This separation of law and humanity is the reason the original laws were so few, and performed their job so wonderfully for so many years. The law did not try to encroach onto the spiritual element.
The blending of law and humanity today is why there is an ever increasing need for more laws and yet still incapable of covering the need. For every point of fact law, which attempts to cover a human element, there are new loopholes and additional factors that compound the complication and therefore need yet more laws to address them.
This principle of separation between law and spirit, is a core element in the form of the American experiment.
Our founders and citizens were so familiar with God’s Word, and therefore God’s intent, they understood the design and purpose of this separation.
It is the design of separation that caused them to form our government into three branches, the Judicial branch, the Legislative branch, and the Executive branch.
This separation is found in Isaiah 33:22 “For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.”
It is the purpose of separation that also caused the founders to establish the final and most powerful check and balance of power, the Jury, the greatest protection to the citizen against corruption as identified in Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?”
The whole purpose of the Jury was to ensure that regardless of the laws, regardless of the powers, regardless of the judges, the citizen was protected by the decision of the people who knew him, from any injustices, which may arise.
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.”
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
This last separation is also found in the Scriptures, but unlike the point of fact making the law very clear and non-negotiable, this last separation is a bit less defined and more spiritual in nature. It is the principle of this last separation that caused the founders to keep the wording of the lawful founding documents, free from religion while at the same time ensuring that religion remained free and unobstructed to regulate those same documents and the resulting laws.
The religion, needed to maintain a healthy balance, must remain held in the hearts of the people and not held in the Law.
This principle, though also found in the Scriptures, is not found in one clear verse because it is not in the category of point in fact, as the law is.
The details of this concept is laid out in a very long chapter in my upcoming book of the same title as this blog, but for this post I will condense the data;
Christians around the world are aware of the scriptural prophesy for the last days including two mysterious witnesses who will preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, and cannot be harmed, though many will try.
It is said, they will be given great, unhindered power to fulfill their mission for a specific period of time determined by God. Revelation 11:3 “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” (That’s 1260 days exactly)
What most modern Christians no longer know, is anything more about them.
They appear to pop out of nowhere, have no names, do their obscure job, and then are done, with nothing more said about them.
But this is not the way of the Scriptures.
The bible always provides from itself, a precedent for itself. If any concept of the bible appears to be unique in world history, one of two things is sure:
1) The bible has previously shown an example of the event in a representation, metaphor, or a similar evens.
Or
2) The concept is not a correct interpretation of scripture.
So where do we find the representation of these two witnesses in scripture?
Amazingly they are found many times from Geneses to Revelation;
They are first represented as the two trees in the Garden of Eden; the tree of Life, (the Spirit) and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. (The Law) Genesis 2:9
They next appear as the two Brass Pillars standing before the first temple in Jerusalem. I Kings 7:21
Today we have no idea what the job of these pillars was, or why they were placed there. They appear to have been nothing but ornamental yet they were there, and they even had names.
They appear again in the presentation of the tith by Moses, (the lawful authority), to the High Priest, Melchizidek, (The spiritual authority).
Genesis 14:18-20, Hebrews 7:2.
We see them again in the Zechariah vision of a still future 3 dimensional menorah which had two olive trees on each side of it, dripping their life giving olive oil into the menorah to feed the flames of light.
That principle is made more clear when we understand the significance that Jesus, will be priest, but David will be king even in the millennium! Ezekiel 37:24
All these and more, show us a many fold representation of the power and authority establishing a none-corruptible form of government, which cannot fall unless it breaks down from its own failure to maintain.
The American form of Government was established on this principle. Though intentionally kept independent, these two elements are crucial in working together.
This is also the foundational concept behind making us a Democratic Republic.
We were not made a Democracy as is commonly assumed today! We were created as a democratically managed republic.
The spirit represented in the Democracy element by the vote of the people, and the Law represented in the Republic element.
A pure republic allows for a despot, a pure democracy allows for anarchy just before implosion with countless following evils.*1
But a proper Democratic Republic defends against both! Much of the problems in America today can be found in the corruption or dismantling of this concept, which has been the long term goals of our enemies, (Progressives among them).
According to Judeao Christianity which our founders understood, the event of Jesus the Christ establishing his realm of Priest in the hearts of his followers through the gift of the Holy Spirit, made each believer a priest unto God, and so eliminated the single man as a representation.
In a great experiment of providence, our founders also established the lawful role of the priest in the hearts of the citizens by the form of government they gave us.
It is for this reason that John Q. Adams stated;
“. . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
He knew the importance of both these powers to maintain it.
Perhaps now you can begin to see the depth and meaning intended by his statement.
It is this concept by which the Jury "plays the role" of the priest, in the final separation of power. The Jury judges the heart, and evaluates the applied law to make the final judgment.
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So what does this have to do with Washington and his slaves?
Because with all the evidence showing the deep understanding Washington had of Scriptural principles, this accusation of Washington’s evil actions toward his slaves is not compatible with his known spirit. A man that is committed to the ways of Christ, As the history of his life clearly shows, cannot have such an un-scriptural attitude toward enslaving, and inhuman treatment of, another human being.
So knowing the man’s spirit, we have the ability to investigate the other explanations as options which may better fit his character.
Did Washington own slaves? Yes he did.
Did Washington transport his slaves to different plantations in an effort to avoid the law? Perhaps. I don’t know yet.
So is this not proof that this supposed Christian man was an evil slave owner?
Lets wait just a second before we decide;
It is an ignorant but public understanding that early Americans brought slaves to America. Do you think the bible packing families of pilgrims with funny hats and buckles on their shoes, read their bible verses above decks while their slaves were naked and starving in chains below decks? If you think so, then you have virtually no understanding of the ways of Christ. Your confidence of this possibility is a purely ignorant fabrication in violation of many historical documents.
So how did the slaves get to America? And how did Washington end up with slaves?
While still the lawful authority over the new land, England sent slave traders to America and sold their slaves to colonies of Virginia in 1619, thus establishing the slave trade here in opposition to the will of the majority, much like the Obama administration is passing laws today. But the first slave ship that came to sell slaves in the Christian Pilgrim colonies of Massachusetts, was confiscated, the captain imprisoned, and at the expense of the colonies, the slaves were sent back to their own lands. Thus showing a significant difference in thinking which separated the secular settlers from the Christian Pilgrims.
England was still the Authority at that time. The colonial laws established by England established slavery, and not the colonists themselves.
If you have forgotten, the colonies eventually went to war with the king of England to separate themselves from unacceptable oppressive laws, including slavery. The result was the Declaration Of Independence in 1776 declaring in part;
"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."
Where did they get such notions?
From scripture such as Acts 17:26a;
"From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth..."
But by the time our nation was founded, slavery was a very real problem here.
So did Washington take advantage of this?
Not if you believe him to be a Christian.
The Christian mind frame at that time can be summarized by Noah Webster;
"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws...All of the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from them despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."
But Washington bought slaves! And he used slaves on his plantation!
Yet from the heart of a Christian, it is more likely he bought them not as property, but as protection for them. To him and them both they were not slaves, but hired labor. They needed to survive in a world that enslaved free blacks, and he needed workers, so he bought them to protect them from the wickedness of the slave laws, and treated them as friends.
Legislation was in the process of making slaves free, but the South was very committed to slavery by this time. There was a common problem of freed blacks, being abducted and sold back into slavery.
Washington dearly wanted his slaves to have freedom, but to send them out at that time was to send them to horrible slavery beyond his ability to help.
His slaves did not want to go because they had such a good life working for him as an employer, and lawful security as under a master, but the new laws required their freedom.
And so in an effort to keep them safe, it is very possible that both Washington and his slaves agreed to move them from one plantation to another in an effort to avoid the law which would subject them to the open slave market.
The anti-slavery law was good, but the application was complicated because of wicked men.
Until the transition was complete “things got worse before it got better”.
All this of course is supposition, but this interpretation of events fits far better the character and spirit of the man we know through history.
Am I suggesting Washington was a perfect saint? Of course not, he was a man. But he could not have done what he did, nor written what he wrote, nor achieved what he achieved if his heart and mind was not Christian.
Therefore without spending months investigating the legitimacy of the accusations presented by Judge Napolitano in his book, The Character of George Washington should stand against blanket Character assassination such as this.
This is the kind of original Jury thinking we need to have when new accusations arises.
Take the man’s nature and his character into deep consideration when accused of violating the law. Thorough investigations are indeed warranted, and should be conducted whenever possible.
If it is found by fact and spirit that he actually did commit an intentional wickedness, the law is there to bind him. If his actions can be shown to have a pure and good purpose even if in violation of some law, the jury is there to find him not guilty.
This is the marriage of Law and Spirit, established in separation of offices, upon which this nation was founded.
This is the mind frame of government, and the people, that would keep us free.
“The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.”
John Jay, 1st Chief Justice U.S. supreme Court, 1789
“The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.”
Samuel Chase, U.S. supreme Court Justice, 1796
“The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. supreme Court Justice, 1902
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"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams in a speech to the military in 1798 is a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and our second President.
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.”
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1781
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State.”
Thomas Jefferson, letter to a Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, Connecticut, January 1, 1802
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Charles Jarvis, September 28, 1820
“It is not honorable to take mere legal advantage, when it happens to be contrary to justice.”
Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on Debts Due to Soldiers, 1790
“The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not expressed in direct terms, it is clearly the spirit of the Constitution, and it ought to be so commented and acted on by every friend of free government.”
Thomas Jefferson, January, 1797
“The people are the masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!”
Abraham Lincoln
“Where jurors can be acquainted with the characters of the parties and the witnesses - where the whole cause can be brought within their knowledge and their view - I know no mode of investigation equal to that by a trial by jury; …” (Elliot, 2:516)
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“Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
John Adams
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“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”
Benjamin Franklin
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"Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule."
Plato
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“Democracy is the road to socialism.“ Karl Marx
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"Democracy is indispensable to socialism."
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
For more along the topic of slavery please see Post 226 The Door to Slavery (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/12/door-to-slavery.html).
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Where Are We Going?
post 075
My community neighbors are a good source for thought and perspective.
Lately there has been a general stopping of the ears because they are tired of hearing how bad everything is. In deference I try real hard to remain quiet, but marvel at their daily approach to life based on little more than what is this weeks events.
It appears that if it happened last year, it was the past, and has no relation to what is happening today. If the price of gas is more than it was last week, then it is high, and if it is lower than last week, then it is low.
This microcosm world view results in a slave mentality;
“I am content to exist in the now with no expectations. Today I am happy to live in the circumstances in which I find myself.”
They apparently see me as the unhappy individual always complaining about the way things are.
Although their perspective appears to them to be the most reasonable attitude to produce happiness, It is very short sighted and leaves the circumstances of tomorrow's life, up to “someone” else entirely.
Yet even these people are still alert enough to keep an eye on their gas gauge.
Why is that?
Because their gas tank is small enough to provide an unfavorable result within their week long, microcosm mentality!
Who provides the gas? They don’t know.
What determines the gas price? They don’t know.
What will happen if the gas is no longer available, or you can't afford it? That won’t happen.
Why? They don’t know.
This morning at the coffee shop I asked the locals if they remembered, as kids in the 70s, that most the stores and businesses in America were closed on Sundays. My discussion was going to center on why? But they could not even remember clearly.
At first they said they did, but when thinking about it they began to remember eating out on Sundays, and began to be confused in thought, and within less than 5 minutes they were no longer able to remember that any businesses were ever closed on Sundays except maybe a few fanatical religious business owners.
I grew up in a bible believing family, and although I too remember eating out occasionally on Sunday, I also remember thinking it strange that generally the business streets were empty and quiet on Sundays, the one day that everybody was not at work!
I remember as a child realizing this must be a religious reason, because it was not actually financially smart.
I remember the first time the local mall opened on Sunday to a few of the stores that demanded it, and walking through the mall seeing most the storefronts dark with the chain-mail style gates rolled down and locked tight.
My neighbors replied, they only try to remember “important stuff.”
With thought patters as uncomplicated as this, how are we to evaluate our existence?
Is it good or bad, is it getting better or worse, if we like it now, how can we know it will be just as good next week? And if it gets worse, how much worse can it actually get?
But even more important than these questions is;
“Why don’t we care to think about it?”
The following are a few quotes compiled into a general direction in which all these “isms” intend for America. (Socialism, Communism, Marxism, Progressivism, Obamaism etc.) The point here is not the right or wrong of the direction, but;
Is this the direction in which you want to go? Do you see the end goal to be better or worse for America?
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“I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism…Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.” - Nikita Krushchev, July 1957
“Democracy is the road to socialism.“ Karl Marx
"Democracy is indispensable to socialism."
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.” Nikita Khrushchev
“I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.” Barack Obama (socialism)
“Under my plan of a Cap and Trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” Barack Obama (the destruction of Capitalism) Skyrocket plan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.” Josef Stalin
“The Constitution… is fundamentally flawed” Barack Obama (attack on Patriotism) Fundamentaly flawed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_xNyrzB0xI&feature=related
“Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?...” Barack Obama June 28, 2006 as he proceeded to mock Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and the Sermon on the Mount as radically inapplicable. (attack on Moral foundation) radical scripture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNCklX2wZy4
“America is no longer a Christian nation.” Barack Obama (attack on our spiritual life) no longer a Christian nation
not considered a Christian nation
According to Josef Stalin, Mr. Obama has committed acts which will aid in the collapse of America. This is aiding that intended end, and is therefore Subversion at best and intentional treason.
“The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.” - Nikita Krushchev, July 19, 1962
“In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.” Barack Obama
“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” Karl Marx
“Kill the disbelievers wherever you find them” Qur’an 2:191 “The religion of peace”
“One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are a statistic.” Josef Stalin
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” Adolph Hitler Aug. 22, 1939 defending his death squads into Poland.
“I have nothing against Islam because it educates the men in this division for me and promises them heaven if they fight and are killed in action, a very practical and attractive religion for soldiers.” Heinrich Himmler a high ranking Nazi. - The Waffen SS by George S. Stein, 1966 page 182
“We are five days away from fundamentally changing America.” Barack Obama prior to taking office as President
“The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.” Barack Obama
“I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.” Barack Obama
“Make war upon such of those to whom the scriptures have been given (Jews and Christians) as believe not in Allah and have forbidden His Apostle, and profess not the professor of truth, until they pay tribute out of hand, and they be humbled” Qur’an 9:29
“No Muslim should be killed in Qisas (reciprocity)for the killing of a disbeliever.” Sharia law of Qisas. Sahih Bukhari Vol. 1, Book 3, #111
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Why have I linked here Socialism, Communism, Marxism, Progressivism, Obamaism, Nazism and Islam? Because they all have the same goals in the end; The destruction of Freedom, and Christianity, the very foundations of America. If the goals are the same, it can be said the spirit is the same. If the Spirit of America is Christianity, then the enemy spirit must be the enemy of our God. That enemy is Satan himself presenting under slightly different masks.
How bad can it actually get here in America? Just look to the ism nations through world history. Where Communism, Marxism and Islam rule, the death count always ends up in the millions…. By intention and design!
Oh wait, that won’t be here this week, so don’t worry about it!
Can I get some gas?
* * * * * * *
My community neighbors are a good source for thought and perspective.
Lately there has been a general stopping of the ears because they are tired of hearing how bad everything is. In deference I try real hard to remain quiet, but marvel at their daily approach to life based on little more than what is this weeks events.
It appears that if it happened last year, it was the past, and has no relation to what is happening today. If the price of gas is more than it was last week, then it is high, and if it is lower than last week, then it is low.
This microcosm world view results in a slave mentality;
“I am content to exist in the now with no expectations. Today I am happy to live in the circumstances in which I find myself.”
They apparently see me as the unhappy individual always complaining about the way things are.
Although their perspective appears to them to be the most reasonable attitude to produce happiness, It is very short sighted and leaves the circumstances of tomorrow's life, up to “someone” else entirely.
Yet even these people are still alert enough to keep an eye on their gas gauge.
Why is that?
Because their gas tank is small enough to provide an unfavorable result within their week long, microcosm mentality!
Who provides the gas? They don’t know.
What determines the gas price? They don’t know.
What will happen if the gas is no longer available, or you can't afford it? That won’t happen.
Why? They don’t know.
This morning at the coffee shop I asked the locals if they remembered, as kids in the 70s, that most the stores and businesses in America were closed on Sundays. My discussion was going to center on why? But they could not even remember clearly.
At first they said they did, but when thinking about it they began to remember eating out on Sundays, and began to be confused in thought, and within less than 5 minutes they were no longer able to remember that any businesses were ever closed on Sundays except maybe a few fanatical religious business owners.
I grew up in a bible believing family, and although I too remember eating out occasionally on Sunday, I also remember thinking it strange that generally the business streets were empty and quiet on Sundays, the one day that everybody was not at work!
I remember as a child realizing this must be a religious reason, because it was not actually financially smart.
I remember the first time the local mall opened on Sunday to a few of the stores that demanded it, and walking through the mall seeing most the storefronts dark with the chain-mail style gates rolled down and locked tight.
My neighbors replied, they only try to remember “important stuff.”
With thought patters as uncomplicated as this, how are we to evaluate our existence?
Is it good or bad, is it getting better or worse, if we like it now, how can we know it will be just as good next week? And if it gets worse, how much worse can it actually get?
But even more important than these questions is;
“Why don’t we care to think about it?”
The following are a few quotes compiled into a general direction in which all these “isms” intend for America. (Socialism, Communism, Marxism, Progressivism, Obamaism etc.) The point here is not the right or wrong of the direction, but;
Is this the direction in which you want to go? Do you see the end goal to be better or worse for America?
* * *
“I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism…Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.” - Nikita Krushchev, July 1957
“Democracy is the road to socialism.“ Karl Marx
"Democracy is indispensable to socialism."
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.” Nikita Khrushchev
“I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.” Barack Obama (socialism)
“Under my plan of a Cap and Trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” Barack Obama (the destruction of Capitalism) Skyrocket plan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.” Josef Stalin
“The Constitution… is fundamentally flawed” Barack Obama (attack on Patriotism) Fundamentaly flawed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_xNyrzB0xI&feature=related
“Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?...” Barack Obama June 28, 2006 as he proceeded to mock Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and the Sermon on the Mount as radically inapplicable. (attack on Moral foundation) radical scripture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNCklX2wZy4
“America is no longer a Christian nation.” Barack Obama (attack on our spiritual life) no longer a Christian nation
not considered a Christian nation
According to Josef Stalin, Mr. Obama has committed acts which will aid in the collapse of America. This is aiding that intended end, and is therefore Subversion at best and intentional treason.
“The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.” - Nikita Krushchev, July 19, 1962
“In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.” Barack Obama
“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” Karl Marx
“Kill the disbelievers wherever you find them” Qur’an 2:191 “The religion of peace”
“One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are a statistic.” Josef Stalin
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” Adolph Hitler Aug. 22, 1939 defending his death squads into Poland.
“I have nothing against Islam because it educates the men in this division for me and promises them heaven if they fight and are killed in action, a very practical and attractive religion for soldiers.” Heinrich Himmler a high ranking Nazi. - The Waffen SS by George S. Stein, 1966 page 182
“We are five days away from fundamentally changing America.” Barack Obama prior to taking office as President
“The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.” Barack Obama
“I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.” Barack Obama
“Make war upon such of those to whom the scriptures have been given (Jews and Christians) as believe not in Allah and have forbidden His Apostle, and profess not the professor of truth, until they pay tribute out of hand, and they be humbled” Qur’an 9:29
“No Muslim should be killed in Qisas (reciprocity)for the killing of a disbeliever.” Sharia law of Qisas. Sahih Bukhari Vol. 1, Book 3, #111
* * *
Why have I linked here Socialism, Communism, Marxism, Progressivism, Obamaism, Nazism and Islam? Because they all have the same goals in the end; The destruction of Freedom, and Christianity, the very foundations of America. If the goals are the same, it can be said the spirit is the same. If the Spirit of America is Christianity, then the enemy spirit must be the enemy of our God. That enemy is Satan himself presenting under slightly different masks.
How bad can it actually get here in America? Just look to the ism nations through world history. Where Communism, Marxism and Islam rule, the death count always ends up in the millions…. By intention and design!
Oh wait, that won’t be here this week, so don’t worry about it!
Can I get some gas?
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