Yes! Some People have the 10 Commandments posted in their home. I guess this along with the Bill of Rights should be posted in our homes too.

AMEN: May the free thinking people of our nation please take a stand and preach such truths. The time is NOW. There is noone else to speak such things. Who else will if you do not. I cannot speak to the people you know, I can only speak to the ones I know. Therefore, if you don't know anyone else speaking such things, than it is in your hands to share it. If you know others who speak such truth, amen, speak to those whom you know that know no other that speak suchs things. The truth of the matter, you are the only one to speak these truths to someone.

Thank you Orrin and Chris and the PC for supporting such pillars of truth. Continue to shine the light of truth for others to see. You examples have rippled into the lives of so many, most importantly - mine. Thank you. God bless - Abraham

AMEN!

I can just hear Bob McEwan now, "We hold these truths to be self evident..."

I think TEAM is creating a long lineage for Presidents one day!

I believe that we should adopt this into our countries constitution as a side bar just so people whom don't understand what the constitution really means will have this as A REFERENCE GUIDE AS TO WHAT THIS MEANS TODAY..LOL...GOD BLESS YA ORRIN !!
Thanks and God Bless you..
Brother

Hey Orrin,

thought you should know that this was not actually written by Mitchell Kaye according to snopes.com

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/norights.asp

Doesn't make it any less true, but I know you'd want to make sure the blog is accurate.

I just wanted to share this video with y'all! This Campaign For Liberty group is definitely a force to be reckoned with. They had 12,000 people at this freedom rally!! Barry Goldwater Jr makes the introduction. At the end of this clip what is said will really speak to TEAM, I know it did for me and really made me proud to be apart of the TEAM!

Orrin, thank you for igniting Liberty in this Country too!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPPJdA6ANZo&feature=related

Woo HOO! Standing O!

Scary that all this actually has to be articulated! You know what they say about common sense...

All the best,

Yitz

AMEN Orrin!!! Awesome, and that's EXACTLY how it should read. Sorry you people that think you can come here and change things around, because you don't want to follow them. See ya! Go back home, where FREEDOM doesn't ring, and your voice isn't heard. "WE THE PEOPLE" want to fight, take a stand, with what FREEDOM truly means.
God Bless Orrin, on this journey to one million!! Let's all continue to take a stand, one person at a time.

Kaye for President!!! Can we send this to everyone in Congress? I have sent it to everyone in my address book.

Orrin I wanted to get your thoughts on this Sorry about how long it is


95 Theses On the Nationalistic Idolatry
of Churches in the United States




Summary:
The tragedies of 11 September 2001 are grievous not only for the lives taken by terrorists, but also because their aftermath has powerfully revealed that we, the Church in the United States, have prostrated ourselves before the idol of our nation. Thus, it is with great sadness that the endorsers of this document humbly plead with our churches to join us in repentance, turning from the United States' twisted notions of liberty, democracy and justice, from the historical misconceptions of its "Christian heritage" and from the ubiquitous greed that drives our nation. Jesus is calling his people in the United States today to grieve the sins of our nation, to return to our first love, and to once again recognize him alone as our King and the provider of our security.

Out of love and concern for the truth, and with the object of eliciting it, the following theses are submitted to the Church in the United States for public discussion, under the guidance of the endorsers of this document. We request that discussion on this matter be directed to: Our Discussion Board or discuss@kingdomnow.org.


1. When our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ said, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand," he called us to become citizens of His Kingdom.

2. This Kingdom to which we are called cannot properly be understood as equivalent to any worldly kingdom (nation or empire) -- cf., Jn 18:36, Lk 17:20-21.

3. Thus, the United States of America is not the Kingdom of God, nor did it ever have any special place -- as a nation -- in that Kingdom.

4. Furthermore, the United States, despite the manifold references to "God" in its defining documents, never recognizes Jesus as part of the Godhead it proclaims.

5. Despite its thoroughly religious character, the United States also never makes any pretension of allegiance to Jesus and to his will for establishing a kingdom here on Earth (Mt 6:10).

6. The Founding Fathers of the United States -- despite their unanimous theism -- held a wide spectrum of religious beliefs, and the claim that they all were disciples of Jesus is a dangerous falsehood grounded in boastful mythology that arose in the early nineteenth century.

7. Even those few Founding Fathers who did profess to follow Christ, generally yielded to the Enlightenment spirit of that day and understood their faith in very private, individualized terms.

8. Thus, they downplayed or ignored the socio-political reality of the Church (God's people) as the Kingdom proclaimed, and established, by Jesus.

9. Therefore, the only vestige of the Christian faith that we find exhibited in the documents that established the United States are moral and legal imperatives condensed from the Scriptures.

10. However, the Founding Fathers did not adopt the moral and legal principles of the Scriptures as a whole, but rather selectively drew upon principles that fit their vision.

11. Thus, Scriptural principles that were not consistent with their worldly philosophies (economics, Enlightenment individualism, etc.) -- e.g., the social and economic justice of the Jubilee -- were discarded.

12. Even if the Founding Fathers had embraced the whole of Scriptural law (and yet refused to recognize Christ), the United States would not be a Christian Nation, for as the Apostle Paul reminds us (Rom. 3:20ff, Eph. 2:8-9, etc.) the basis of Christianity is faith in Christ's gospel of grace, not Law.

13. Therefore, the Founding Fathers, by clinging to the philosophies of their day and thus relegating faith to the private sphere and by choosing a selective approach to the Scriptures, created in essence a space in which a new religion could arise.

14. As the nineteenth century progressed and as the United States grew as an economic and political power -- and at the same time, as the church was waning as a cultural institution-- a new religion did emerge, one which astute scholars have labeled the "American Civil Religion."

15. The highest value of this American civil religion is not Christianity's love for Yahweh and neighbor, but rather personal liberty.

16. For us, the followers of Jesus, liberty is a virtue, but it is not the highest virtue.

17. Indeed, Jesus's statement that "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free" reminds us that true liberty comes only through Christ (who calls himself the "Truth," John 14:6) and thus that liberty must take a backseat to Christ-like love.

18. Furthermore, the true freedom that we experience as a result of knowing and obeying Jesus (I Jn 2:3) is not something that a worldly government can either grant or deny.

19. Beginning with the American Revolution, the United States' relentless pursuit of liberty has been the cause of most of its wars, in which hundreds of thousands of lives have been taken -- including those of many Christians.

20. In contrast, Jesus himself distinguished His Kingdom from worldly ones by stating that His Kingdom needed no violence to defend it (Jn. 18:36).

21. Jesus's words therefore remind us again that the United States is not the Kingdom of God, and that the God in which it trusts is not the triune Yahweh.

22. Thus, it is not difficult to see that this new American religion centered on liberty required a god shaped in its own image, an idol quite distinct from the triune God of the Christian faith.

23. This god, although he bore some resemblance to Yahweh, was more reminiscent of the ideological god of the eighteenth century philosophers and was strikingly characterized by the highest virtues of their humanism.

24. Robert Bellah has described this idol: "The god of the civil religion is not only rather 'unitarian,' he is also on the austere side, much more related to order, law and right than to salvation and love."

25. Although the Founding Fathers did not intend to replace Christianity with a civil religion, they did expect that, at least for the nation's leaders, Christianity would be subordinated to the will of the State (Robert Bellah has said: "(In the United States,) the national magistrate, whatever his private religious views, operates under the rubrics of the civil religion as long as he is in his official capacity.")

26. Despite the intentions of the Founding Fathers, Jesus has made it clear that his followers (in the United States or elsewhere) cannot simultaneously serve two masters for they will end up loving one and hating the other-- cf. Mt 6:24, Lk. 16:13.

27. Thus, American governmental officials who profess Christ (and particularly those at the highest levels) find themselves straining to serve two masters and we, the Church, should not look to them as heroes of the Christian faith or as prophets speaking God's words to His people.

28. The American civil religion, with its idolatrous images of the divine, has survived throughout the history of the United States because it is useful for blinding and deceiving the Church.

29. For America to retain its power, we the Church must be deceived for as Herbert Richardson has said: "The real limitation on the power of the state is its citizens' loyalty to and participation in groups whose membership, goals and procedures are not isomorphic or consistent with the membership, goals and procedures of the state."

30. Following in the pattern of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we -- the churches in the United States -- have been greatly deceived by lies grounded in pride.

31. We have fallen prey to the presumptuous notion that our nation is God's chosen people; this proud lie no doubt has numerous roots including the early Puritan view that understood the American colonies as a "New Israel" and the Founding Fathers' choice to claim a divine origin for the fundamental values and laws of the nation.

32. The pride that we express as a Church in "the American way of life" wreaks havoc upon the fundamental equality and unity that undergirds Yahweh's universal Church -- cf. Gal. 3:28.

33. Indeed, many Christians around the world -- e.g., in Germany or in Vietnam -- have been hated or even killed as a result of the nationalistic pride of the United States, which is always at its highest levels during times of war.

34. Such nationalistic pride is incompatible with our calling to follow Jesus's example of humility, "considering others better than ourselves" (Phil. 2:3).

35. Indeed, in the Old Testament, pride was a prominent symbol of the lack of God's favor upon a person or a nation (cf. Ps 94:1-2, Pr 16:19, Is 2:12).

36. Thus, we -- the Church in the U.S. -- must carefully weigh nationalistic petitions for God to bless America against the biblical understanding of Yahweh as one who "opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble" (James 4:6).

37. We also have been deceived into looking to its government for security -- instead of looking to Yahweh.

38. It is Yahweh who created us and it is Yahweh who will sustain us and protect us (cf. Mt. 6:25-34).

39. Jesus told us that our primary calling as the Church is to seek first His Kingdom -- not a worldly Kingdom -- and when we do so, we are promised that our needs will be met (Mt 6:33).

40. Although the United States and other nations may set themselves up as providers of sustenance and security, we the Church must always remember that the power that Yahweh allows a nation to have is minuscule in comparison to Yahweh's omnipotence.

41. Thus, the Scriptures provide us with images of Yahweh scoffing at nations (Ps. 2) and considering them as "less than nothing and emptiness" (Is. 40:17).

42. We must therefore understand the United States of America, as a "kingdom" of this world, in light of these Scriptural images, and thus treat it with a healthy dose of caution.

43. However, we the Church do have a clear biblical responsibility to lovingly respect and to pray for the governing authorities (cf. Rom. 12:14-13:8, I Tim. 2:1-2).

44. Maintaining an attitude of "loving respect" however does not mean that we have an obligation to endorse the government or to unconditionally approve of all its policies; neither does it mean that we should unquestioningly obey every one of the nation's edicts.

45. Indeed, our primary responsibility is to be obedient to the triune God, for it is Yahweh, and not the United States, who dictates what is right.

46. Thus, the spirit of love reminds us that if -- in a situation where the righteousness of Yahweh and the righteousness of the nation conflict-- we choose to obey Yahweh, then we should be prepared to face the wrath of the state.

47. However, if we suffer, are imprisoned or even die for our insistence on being obedient to Jesus, we are blessed by Yahweh (cf. I Pet 2:19-21, Mt 5:10).

48. Our call to lovingly respect the governing authorities of the nation, also dictates that we should not angrily demonize the government, but instead mourn the sins of her nation.

49. We, the Church in the United States, have also been deceived about the way in which Yahweh's blessing is poured out; viz., economic wealth is rarely a sign of God's blessing.

50. And in those instances where Yahweh does bless a person or people with wealth, the intent is that that wealth should be lavished upon others, not stored up (Mt. 6:19-21, I Tim. 6:5-11, Lk. 3:11).

51. Indeed, the New Testament image of the Church's economics is one characterized by sharing (Greek, "koinonia"), not by greed or the amassing of capital (cf. Acts 2:44-45, 4:32, I John 1:6-7).

52. In contrast, the power of the United States has come through economic domination as much as it has through political domination.

53. Thus, the nation of the United States with its wealth -- especially relative to the rest of the world -- must be regarded by the Church with caution for money is a powerful force and one that easily can become a false god (cf. Mt 6:24).

54. After encountering the rich young ruler, Jesus remarked to his disciples that: "It will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven" (Mt. 19:23).

55. Similarly, it would seem equally difficult for a wealthy nation to attain a favorable status in the Kingdom that Jesus proclaimed.

56. Thus, in light of the United States' wealth, we must examine critically any claim that the U.S. is favored by Yahweh.

57. In accord with the Scriptural principle that conflict and wars often have their origins in greed (Jam. 4:1-2), the affluence of the United States has been a major contributing factor to both the wars it waged abroad (e.g., in the Persian Gulf, to protect its access to oil) and its excessive spending on the defense of its own soil.

58. The rich young ruler, held captive by his own greed, made a decisive choice to not follow Jesus, and a good case can be made that the United States has done likewise.

59. We the Church have, in many cases, also been blinded to the fact that the United States is not a democracy.

60. From its earliest days to the present, from the male Colonial land-owners to Corporations and lobby groups, the power in the United States has always rested primarily in the hands of the wealthy.

61. Furthermore, the United States historically has never completely succeeded at protecting the basic rights of its most powerless minorities: from Native Americans to Blacks to Women to the unborn.

62. Despite the fact that -- in the words of Frederick Douglass -- the United States' own claims of equality and democracy are "hollow mockery," it hypocritically has been quick to take up arms in defense of democracy abroad (Korea, Vietnam, etc.).

63. Indeed, democracy -- even in its purest incarnation -- is not the modus operandi of the Kingdom of God, for our sovereign and omnipotent King Yahweh loves all people and thus has a special concern for the marginalized minority (cf. Lk. 4:16-20).

64. Thus, we the Church in the United States must be careful not to put too high of a value on democracy, lest visions of this earthly form of government obscure the sovereignty of God.

65. Furthermore, we as God's chosen people -- for whom mere anger is a grave sin (cf. Mt 5:21-22) -- cannot endorse wars waged in the name of earthly ideals including democracy.

66. Justice, like democracy and liberty, is another ideal that the United States is quick to defend.

67. The Scriptures are unquestionably clear that Yahweh is a God who delights in justice (cf. Is. 5:16, 30:8, Mic. 6:8, etc.).

68. However, genuine justice must be grounded in Truth, not half-truths, rumors, speculations or propaganda.

69. We, the Church in the United States, have a responsibility to act like the Church in Berea (Acts 17:10-11), carefully examining in the light of the Scriptures the claims that are brought before it.

70. Thus, given that the concepts of liberty and democracy that the United States presents are flawed, we should be particularly careful when the United States makes appeals to justice.

71. One of our fundamental principles as the Church is that humanity is deeply flawed (or "fallen"), and therefore that any human claims to truth (and thus justice also) must be made in humility, admitting the possibility of error.

72. Therefore, we must also carefully examine the attitude with which the United States (or any government) makes appeals to justice.

73. The Old Testament law, in sanctioning "an eye for an eye," thus limits the scope of just retribution to no more than was taken.

74. Thus, we the Church who have been called by Jesus to an even higher standard than that of the Old Testament (Mt. 5:38-42), must resist initiatives of retaliatory rage that seek to be increasingly destructive, for we cannot both love Yahweh and hatefully destroy other human beings (I Jn. 4:20).

75. Although we the Church share Jesus's longing for justice, we must recognize in humility that our pursuit of justice must be subordinated to our faithfulness in following Jesus, the Prince of Peace.

76. Indeed, faithfulness to Jesus and to the building of his Kingdom is our primary calling, and we can no longer adulterously serve two masters: Jesus and the United States.

77. Sadly, the tragedies of 11 September 2001 have unearthed a massive vein of nationalism in our churches in the United States.

78. Jesus's Church, like the Israelites in the promised land, is called to be a holy --set apart-- people in the midst of their pagan neighbors (Deut. 7:6, 1 Pet 2:9).

79. However, since September 11, our churches in the U.S. have become exponentially more vocal about praising and defending our own golden calf: the United States.

80. We are thus in grave danger for one of our fundamental principles is that we are neither to craft nor to worship any false gods (cf. Ex 20:1-5).

81. Today more than ever, God's people in the United States need to hear the words of Jesus: "Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."

82. The Greek word in this verse that is translated "Repent!" literally indicates a changing of mind.

83. The Church in the United States needs Jesus to transform us by renewing and changing our minds, in order that we may no longer be conformed to the worldly culture of the United States (Rom. 12:2).

84. The Scriptures promise the Church that if we confess our sins, Yahweh -- who is faithful and just -- will "forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (I Jn. 1:9).

85. Therefore, we, the Church in the United States, must confess that we have fallen for the proud lies of nationalism.

86. Furthermore, we need forgiveness for the patriotic idols that we have crafted and for our arrogance in relating to other nations.

87. We must also confess that we have trusted in our nation to bring us sustenance and security and that we have been slaves to wealth and greed.

88. If we humble ourselves before Yahweh, the blood of Jesus will cleanse us, even from the blood on our hands from the lives that we have taken to appease our idols (liberty, democracy and the United States).

89. Jesus will not only cleanse us, but will also free us from our economic enslavement to greed and from our political enslavement to lies and arrogance.

90. Thus, forgiven, cleansed and freed, we may once again pledge our allegiance, in word and in deed, to Jesus's Kingdom alone.

91. And in recognizing Jesus as King, we must have loving respect at all times for those who govern our land, and especially at those times when we disagree with them.

92. We, the Church in the United States, must come to Yahweh in true humility, admitting our many sins and asking Jesus to reign once again as our sole King and Master.

93. For it is the Church's foremost desire that Yahweh's Kingdom come and the will of God be done on Earth as it is in heaven!

94. To this end, the Church -- once cleansed -- must commit to being zealous in following Christ, their King, through penalties, imprisonments, and deaths.

95. And let us be more confident of entering heaven through these many tribulations than through the false assurance of security that the United States provides.

Great Post!

Hi Orrin,
I don't know how to reach you but I this is an article you will find agree to.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/16/shapiro.entrepreneurs/index.html?iref=newssearch

Hi,
Go to google video and type in "stethoscope" - it's the one with the bald guy, he
finds a stethoscope on the sidewalk, puts it on and starts listening to stuff.
You'll be amazed.

Sincerely,
Dave in FL

I'm going to share and link to this one. Good stuff!

priceless ............

This caused a bit of a stir on my facebook Notes. I love it!

"How Representative Kaye's name got attached to this, nobody knows, but it was actually written by Libertarian writer and former U.S. Senate candidate Lewis Napper." I checked more than one urban legend site. The above appears to be the case.

I truly love the list. But I got the beat down by several of my liberal critics who like to watch for my mistakes. Instead of reading the meat of the message, I get the argument about who actually wrote this. Like it matters. Anyway, thought you should know, I guess it helps our influence at least if we have our facts straight. :) Love ya Orrin,

Brad

It makes you wonder how our country has gone so far off course in a such a short time. I'm proud to be affiliated with a group of individual leaders that are willing to take a stand and say, "enough is enough!" not just in words but in actions by turning off our TV's and getting educated about the principles our country was founded upon. This generation has to engage in actively fighting the status quo by going out serving others and educating them about the principles of free-enterprise. Thank you Orrin for maintaining such an inspiriing and educational blog!

Orrin, I passed your message of the US Constitution Preamble on to a friend of mine. He sent me back an e-mail of the Preambles of every state's constitution. The source link I found is included below. I think they are an even greater testament to God in our every day lives than the US constitution.

This solidifies for me the even greater need to get out into America's living rooms and get the right information into people's hands! To one million and beyond!!

http://www.usconstitution.net/states_god.html

Andrew Willems
Team Stealth
no longer under the radar!

Well said Orrin. I particularly like Article IV. Why do people expect something for nothing? Where has our work ethic gone?

Hi Orrin! It would be really interesting to see what you know about the global warming thing. I have heard from very credible sources that the whole thing is based on bad science and it has become a religion of sorts that will be used to control more and more aspects of our lives by the government. Thanks for your efforts in saving America! Heidi

Hey Heidi,

Bob McEwan spoke a bit on the global warming issue at a previous major function (and several other extremely informative topics). You can see what he had to say on DVD 40: The Economic Crisis and The Truth About Freedom. Watching that DVD never gets old. Orrin may have additional information on the subject but Bob McEwan did a really good job at giving a very understandable view and point on global warming. I'd definately check it out if you missed the talk in person or have not yet seen the DVD...you'll get a bunch more than you asked for as well!!

Orrin,

I love reading the US Constitution! I haven't read it in awhile, but it definitely does make me think.

Thanks,
John

Orrin,
Here is an interesting article that came across my email today. Dr. David Kaiser makes some very good points. Thank you for leading us all to the truth through sharing your love of history and our God.

Jim Chauvin. LTIT

OUR UNFOLDING DEMISE

This is long, but enlightening. Lest you think it was written by some
right-wing kook, David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published
works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to
American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser
spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C., Albany, New
York, and Dakar, Senegal. He attended Harvard University, graduating
there in 1969 with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at
Harvard, gaining a PhD in history, which he obtained in 1976. He served
in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976.

He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United
States Naval War College and has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon,
Williams College and Harvard University. Kaiser's latest book, The Road
to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by Harvard
University Press.

"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." ~ Barack Obama

History Unfolding by Dr. David Kaiser

I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on
history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied
history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally
large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a
mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely
single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a
sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I
know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to
it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening
within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years.
The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make
massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?

We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no
real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is
$2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to
whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And
that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously
just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why
are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I
thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers
to our elected leaders. Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our
economy. Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and
no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why
we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think
critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are
not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election
(violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that
it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one
woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We
have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges
to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream
Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a
banana republic. To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall,
major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of
collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our
entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach
college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is
staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x
ten. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of
offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit
the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything
about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as
big as Wasilla, Alaska . All of his associations and alliances are with
real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we
learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary
(Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a
mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use
inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that
for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's
pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)

Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change.
Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am
now.

This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never,
ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide
us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the
pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming.
And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning.

As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to
experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the
mid-1930s. In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking
rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next
to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with
groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they
disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great
oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now.

And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were
losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and
waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for
fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission.
Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office,
while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great
Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government
power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by
bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to
join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to
think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course.

How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the
jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial
complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun
control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to
re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe and across the
world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he did
this all in the name of justice and ... change. And the people surely got
what they voted for.

If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history
books.

So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933
and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When
Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated
in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was
booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right,
though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.

Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured
country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals,
laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a
shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was
rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws,
turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All
with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with
them.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I
have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence
tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what
history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I
can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and
ignoring what is transpiring around me.

I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me,
others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree,
perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and
tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.

I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote
in the next elections.

David Kaiser
Jamestown, Rhode Island
United States
+++++++++
PS - from me

Our hope is in the Lord.

This is a hoot...become an illegal alien today:

FORMS ARE GOING FAST- SIGN UP TODAY!

Becoming Illegal (Actual letter from an Iowa resident and sent to his senator)

The Honorable Tom Harkin
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Phone (202) 224 3254
Washington DC , 20510


Dear Senator Harkin,

As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.

My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alie n stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill's provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.

Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I'm excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005..

Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could save almost $10,000 a year.
Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as 'in-state' tuition rates for many colleges throughout the United=2 0States for my son.
Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver's license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums.. This is very important to me given that I still have college age children driving my car.
If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative

Thank you for your assistance.

Your Loyal Constituent, (hoping to reach 'illegal alien' status rather than just a bonafide citizen of the USA )

Donald Ruppert
Burlington, IA

Get your Forms (NOW)!!
Call your Internal Revenue Service at
1-800-289-1040 .

that's a great blog article there, that's so true if only everyone could read that.

LAW.

Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

Where in the constitution does it say that this country was "founded on the belief in one true God,"? The first amendment states "congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." It doesn't sound like the founding fathers were too worried about founding this nation on "one true God," but allowing people the right to believe whatever they want.