Is anyone else REALLY concerned about National Defense Authorization Act, S. 1867?

Defense Bill Includes Authorization for Indefinite Detention of US Citizens

Flabbergasted by the passage of National Defense Authorization Act, S. 1867 – otherwise known as the McCain-Levin Military Detentions Law for Americans, for once, I’m standing whole-heartedly with the ACLU (Never thought I’d see the say!) in opposition to this travesty.

Fortunately, the Founders of the republic foresaw that corrupt and vicious men might attempt to change the Constitution they had written on their own, without a Constitutional Convention. They therefore commanded that all officers of the United States understand that their primary duty was to defend, even unto the death, not the president, not any of the institutions that they had established, not even the territory or the people of the United States. Because the Oath was given such an elevated place, to be not sworn or signed at some point in the commencement of duties, but sworn in public before the eyes of all before any other official action, it was to be understood that defense of the Constitution, against all enemies both foreign and domestic, comes first, and would require the dropping of all other business in the hour of mortal danger.

The Oath of Office of both US senators and military officers creates the class of criminal “domestic enemies” of the “United States Constitution.”

This makes the second time, selected Congressional members have met behind closed doors to accomplish something so blatantly against the will of the people they had to do it in “secret!”

MAKE NOISE, PEOPLE!!!!!

Call, write, email your representatives and let them know their careers will be short lived if they permit this to go through!

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Wisdom from Sam the Sheepdog Cartoon

via SilenceDogood2010’s Blog

• GOOD = Sam Sheepdog, TEA Party, Republican (occasionally), Conservatives
• EVIL = Ralph Wolf, Occupy, Democrat, Liberals

Only slightly over-simplified!

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Liberties are the Gift of God

For 100 (or so) years the people of the United States of America presumed the existence of a benevolent God. The specifics differed among us, and whether this Sovereign power still interacted with humans was at question, yet His existence stood firm. With this presumption, came an automatic wish to attain the behavioral goals set forth from various, but similar religious views as summarized by Thomas Paine, “I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.” (from Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason)

From the shadows of the prosperity and abuses of the organized Church, a thought reverberated from the ancient tale of Adam and Eve: “Has God really said …” and from that question issued a rising tide of doubt.

Doubt is not evil in and of itself, and our Founding Fathers had witnessed first hand the magnitude of corruption within the Church in Europe. We all experience doubt. What happens, however, is that with doubt, often comes deception. In regards to the US of the post-Victorian age, the deception was wrapped in the interpretation of the Founding Fathers’ determination that our Government would function separately from any religious body, that personal beliefs and affinities were exactly that – personal and free from inhibition so long as the exercise thereof did not infringe upon the liberty of others.

America’s Victorian values were not undermined by the dramatic growth in industry and commerce that transformed the nation in the last half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. Civil society could assimilate vast new wealth. What it couldn’t assimilate was the dramatic expansion of government which began in the 1930s and reached its peak in a “War on Poverty” that encouraged poor Americans not to work and not to form stable families. What it couldn’t assimilate was the relentless intrusion of state and federal regulations into virtually every aspect of American life. What it couldn’t assimilate was a convoluted tax code that taught taxpayers that honesty is a sucker’s game. Above all, what it couldn’t assimilate was the proliferation of programs that treated Americans like children who cannot be trusted to run their own lives. For the effect of that infantilization was to erode the adult virtues that healthy society depends on: Work, honesty, discipline, fidelity, temperance, thrift, initiative. CONTINUE READING

It is time, actually PAST time for Americans to grow up and re-assert our adult virtues, adult character, adult understanding so that we can

• Teach it to our posterity – our children and grandchildren
• Improve our own quality of life, and once again,
• lay hold of the personal Liberty we once cherished above all else.

We have remained adolescents long enough. The evidence is demonstrating in a few of our cities as this is written. Young people with no direction because their elders never accepted the responsibility of adulthood and parenthood. There is still hope …but we have to see our error and make the necessary personal changes. Join me in maturing to adulthood!

~ Barb

“Our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor”

an excerpt by Rush Limbaugh, Jr

Of those 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence, nine died of wounds or hardships during the war. Five were captured and imprisoned, in each case with brutal treatment. Several lost wives, sons or entire families. One lost his 13 children. Two wives were brutally treated. All were at one time or another the victims of manhunts and driven from their homes.

Twelve signers had their homes completely burned.

Seventeen lost everything they owned, yet not one defected or went back on his pledged word. Their honor, and the nation they sacrificed so much to create is still intact.

And, finally, there is the New Jersey Signer, Abraham Clark.

He gave two sons to the officer corps in the Revolutionary Army. They were captured and sent to that infamous British prison hulk afloat in New York Harbor known as the hell ship “Jersey,” where 11,000 American captives were to die. The younger Clarks were treated with a special brutality because of their father.

One was put in solitary and given no food. With the end almost in sight with the war almost won, no one could have blamed Abraham Clark for acceding to the British request when they offered him his sons’ lives if he would recant and come out for the King and Parliament. The utter despair in this man’s heart, the anguish in his very soul, must reach out to each and one of us down through 200 years with the answer: “No.”

The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence proved by their every deed that they made no idle boast when they composed the most magnificent curtain line in history. “And for the support of this Declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” CONTINUE READING

Hard to find wealthy men or women today with any shred of honor still in tact. Oh that I had a fortune to pledge, but I do not. To the best I am able, my life has been and continues to be dedicated to the pursuit of TRUTH & LIBERTY. These men and women, and many others since then have paid the price for the Liberty we enjoy yet today, however, our Liberty is quickly being stripped away in the name of security. I believe it is time to choose:

LIBERTY or SECURITY

*NOTE: Can security ever really be guaranteed?