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At The Crossroads

Friday, October 28th, 2011

I am not a’gin Government; I am not a’gin Government Spending. I am against federal government usurping the power not granted to it by the Constitution thereby driving spending levels out of control without real fiscal checks and balances.  Diverse ideological groups wrestle to commandeer the reins of authority but most of them share a common end goal.  Often the views overlap on both ends of the political spectrum.

In the Eighties, I learned a valuable lesson from the John Birch Society.  The political spectrum is not really a flat line running left to right; it is actually more like a horseshoe.  The curve is home to constitutional republicanism (small r). where the ends nearly meet consist of Marxism (left) and Fascism (right). Marz fathered radical socialism or Communism. Most forget that Fascism is National Socialism (Nazi).  Both ends share a powerful oligarchy controlling the economy picking winners and losers.  The rich get richer while the middle class dissolves into the serf masses.  Bread & circuses are provided to keep social unrest at a minimum.

Keynesian Liberals see government as a cure-all. They never met a program they did not like.  Confiscate as much revenue as possible from the haves to redistribute to the have-nots. Great Society billions have been spent over a half century and poverty levels continue to grow while the traditional family and the Puritan work-ethic are disintegrating.  International financiers and mega-corporations control our elected officials with their lobby money.  They sell their ethical compass in pursuit of the almighty dollar. They destroy the middle class blue collar worker moving to use overseas labor.  They promote sources for enemies to continue war profiteering.  Both sides would continue the march toward an integrated global economy and political system to the detriment of our constitutional liberties and private-ownership, free-market system.

Both parties are riddled with members of these overlapping blocs.  To stay in power and continue to rake in federal benefits, they answer to the Oligarchy rather than the electorate.  Competitive primaries and greater third-party access are the most legitimate answer to the threat faced as of now.  Congressional perks: insurance, retirement, travel, etc., should be eradicated entirely.  American foreign policy should be based on nationalist concerns; we cannot go on as the world’s policeman. That practice broke the British Empire and we are sliding headlong down the same path.  American companies must bring jobs home, but the government should encourage them to do so with a carrot & stick approach, ie, tax policies on imports and fewer regulations and unfunded mandates.

The country is truly at a crossroads. The choice is whether to preserve the Republic with its constitutional liberties in regards to equality of opportunity in economics, political speech, and Judeo-Christian morality; or, do we continue incrementally towards a Corporate/ Financier class oligarchy overseeing a Welfare State on its way to full integration in a New World Order with a global economy on an uneven playing field and the emasculation of our Bill of Rights ?  Standing still is no longer an option for we are robbing our children’s generations of a way of life that was unequalled in History.

Tags: bill of rights, british empire, cfr, communism, fascism, government spending, great society, international financiers, john birch society, Judeo-Christian, keynesian, liberals, liberty, marxism, mega-corporations, military industrial complex, national socialism, nazi, oligarchy, republic, republicanism, serfs, usurping authority, welfare state, world's policeman
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One Nation Under God

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Independence Day, July 4, is important to Christians because America is the best hope of Liberty on the face of the earth.   Our republic was founded primarily by men who possessed faith in the Bible as God’s Word.  Many of our Founders saw America as a new Israel being carved out of the wilderness.  If the people trusted the Lord He could bless them; if they turned from Him He could forsake their labors.

The US Senate Judiciary Committee, in 1853, said in a report: “We are a Christian people…, from choice and education; and in a land thus universally Christian, what is to be expected, what desired, but that we shall pay a due regard to Christianity?”  The SC Supreme Court ruled in 1849: “Christianity is part of the common law… the basis for morality, the foundation of principles of right and wrong.”

Patrick Henry, who said, “Give me liberty or give me death” also stated, “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”

Not all the people who founded and shaped early America were Christians or even Bible believers, but the vast majority were.  Their biblical views shaped the state constitutions, the Declaration of Independence (”inalienable rights”, the “laws of nature and nature’s God”), and the US Constitution w/ a Bill of Rights.  This is indisputable.

The United States had treaties w/ Indians and they at times spoke of their Great Spirit watching over their tribes.  The US signed a treaty under duress of extortion w/ the Barbary pirates where lip service was made to their religion as Musselmen or Mohommadans.  But nowhere can you find the American Gov’t putting other religions on equal footing w/ the God of the Bible.  America has made its share of mistakes along the way but its adherence to the Bible, its foundation as a Republic, and its free market economic system succeeded in making it the greatest Nation ever to exist in human History.  These characteristics have enabled it to grant rights and freedoms for others from foreign shores as Patrick Henry stated.  Never has an Arabic or Far Eastern nation opened its doors to opportunities like those available here.  Our Faith and Culture alone has made those opportunities available.  That does not give them the right to subvert and undermine our cultural and spiritual foundations.  We as Americans, particularly as Christian Americans, must guard our rights and our power to vote in the face of those who would rob future generations of the liberties and faith of our founding fathers we grew up with. 

*All the quotes above , and more, can be found in the book For The Cause: Spiritual Revival in America available on this website.

Tags: barbary pirates, bill of rights, declaration of independence, founding fathers, independence day, july 4, mohommadans, patrick henry, us constitution
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