tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23871221880141198142024-03-12T21:56:34.392-04:00Digital PubliusThis Blog will feature my thoughts and the thoughts of all those who choose to participate in a dialogue on American society. My views are conservative and strongly influenced by an unapologetic Christian world view. I will toss in the occasional video that will serve to illustrate the latest liberal and secular affront. I will accept and allow to remain any posting that is not offensive, so send your quicktime clips and written quips and let the chips fall were they may.Digital Publiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03875031906283264215noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2387122188014119814.post-24863987185099563762021-09-18T13:57:00.004-04:002021-09-18T15:00:45.882-04:00Ain't Enough Red Pills<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjidNHXUQSUtTq2rBKG8f56RoIiucoOw6NjjoiYw0UaZL9N5a_MBtCcJQS-IJnczk4U2Zaa1UjKQcBeudZdUWAlCouBRvHDfQ7BkGr4JsGSvrZkvIGOCA5VD0NsTb2zgUf4PyuS0NnOrTk/s2048/1984F45B-8D94-4261-9F54-D569CCB3F0E3.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjidNHXUQSUtTq2rBKG8f56RoIiucoOw6NjjoiYw0UaZL9N5a_MBtCcJQS-IJnczk4U2Zaa1UjKQcBeudZdUWAlCouBRvHDfQ7BkGr4JsGSvrZkvIGOCA5VD0NsTb2zgUf4PyuS0NnOrTk/s320/1984F45B-8D94-4261-9F54-D569CCB3F0E3.JPEG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">It is time to pray. I am by nature an optimist, more amenable to the half full side of things than the alternative. However, it has also been my endeavor to add a measure of pragmatism to the glass—Truth beats pie in the sky everyday of the week and twice on Sundays. The United States of America is in trouble.</span></p>
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<b><i>“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” II Timothy 4:3,4</i></b></p>
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</i>The founders of fascism were all committed socialists who were bitterly disappointed when the workers failed to unite against capitalist oppressors during the First World War but instead fought with their individual nations against each other—putting their national identity ahead of their economic philosophy. German socialists fought with Germany, Italian with Italian, British with British… So nationalism was introduced to the wider socialist theory and fascism was born. Hence for example, National Socialist German Workers,’ or NAZI Party. In fact, if you find “Workers” in the title, it’s a safe bet there’s socialism somewhere in the mix.<br />
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<i>“The authority of the State was not a product, but a presupposition. It could not depend on the people, in fact, the people depended on the State… The Fascist state, on the other hand, is a popular state, and, in that sense, a democratic State par excellence… Every citizen shares a relationship with the State and is so intimate that the State exists only in so far as it is made to exist by the citizen.“</i> — Giovanni Gentile **<br />
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<b><i>“How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.” Jude 1:18</i></b></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The United States Preamble begins with “We the People…” Not we the State and this was our strength for much of our national history. It is the reason we have been so indomitable as a people—It was therefore the most important thing for the fascist left to undermine. It is the reason the Democrat Party strives to control every aspect of American life.<br />
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The media, academia, technology, entertainment and now all three branches of government work tirelessly to make government the center of our society. Never in our history has individual liberty been under so constant an attack—The Pandemic is the greatest tool to ever enter the left’s kit box to meet their Hegelian dreams.<br />
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Add to the Pandemic, a heaping helping of anti-American sentiment, carefully cultivated now for generations in our schools and media and the United States is just about finished. I’m a fan of Longfellow—In works like his novel “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanagh_(novel)">Kavanagh</a>,” you find words describing the feeling America used to inspire:</p>
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</i>We seem now more interested in emphasizing the depraved in our works of art. There is much more cache in hating America than praising it nowadays. The fascists of old played up nationalism—Today in America they mock it—The fascists of old kickstarted the Hegelian dialectic by unleashing the Brownshirts in Germany and the Black Shirts in Italy—Thugs controlled invisibly by agents of the state to sow chaos so the benevolent state can then step in and restore order—Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.<br />
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In modern America these thugs are called Anti-Fascist, or AntiFa and from a more political perspective, BLM. AntiFa is fitting when one apprehends the anti part is in fact anti national American pride. In every other way it is classical fascism. The Brownshirts had their “Kristallnacht,” AntiFa had their “Summer of Love.” The contemporary fascists have discovered supplanting nationalism with statism eliminates the middle man. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Democrat Party for example cares nothing about our nation—This is made manifest by their disinterest in maintaining our sovereign borders. Not to mention the wanton abandonment of our citizens and allies to the tender care of the Taliban. What could more perfectly Illustrate their disdain for you and me? Beyond our devotion to them, we have no further value.<br />
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The problem is the Democrats/Leftists know who their true spiritual and philosophical fathers are and most of us don’t—they study and implement their ideas; While providing academic cover, teaching only hatred for America, capitalism and Western Civilization—They have literally made generations believe Fascism is a right wing ideology even though NAZI has socialism right in the name and its origins are as left as you can get. The earliest enthusiasts for the theory in the United States where themselves “Progressives like F.D.R. and W.E.B. DuBois… More from Gentile:</p>
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It is, we must recognize, a false liberalism, containing only half the truth. It was opposed among us by Mazzini with a criticism, that I maintain, is immortal. But there is another liberalism, that matured in Italian and German thought, that holds entirely absurd this view of the antagonism between the State and the individual.“ ***<br />
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</i>I don’t know a single conservative who would agree with that. It does nevertheless describe the transformation of the term liberal. More over, I don’t see how a Christian could align themselves with such ideas—Yet when you elect men like Joe Biden and find yourself more often than not, agreeing with CNN and MSNBC you already bow to the State.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><i>“If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” John 15:19<br />
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</i></b>The modern day American fascist assures you daily through the likes of Don Lemon, Howard Stern, Joy Reid, Anthony Fauci, Jen Psaki… opposing the collective will of the State via vaccine mandates, travel restrictions, or straying from any of the left’s brand of orthodoxy, be it Pro Choice, open boarders, or an infinite regress of gender possibilities, you are to be shunned, vilified, demeaned… </p>
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* “The Philosophy of Fascism,” first published in English in the Spectator, November 1928, pp. 36-37. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">** Orgini e dottrina del fascismo, Rome: Libreria del Littorio, (1929). Origins and Doctrine of Fascism, A. James Gregor, translator and editor, Transaction Publishers (2003) p. 28</p>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Once infected, the new carriers become immune to reason—feelings take primacy over rationale and nothing ever really changes—which is precisely what their enlightened handlers want, a constituency of victims with whom to offer ethereal largesse in exchange for power...forever.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The progressives promote such actions because they are hollow and it keeps the very rich and influential athletes from the truly screwy idea of putting their resources to actual good use on the ground. The sort of work true heroes like Hall of Fame Football star Jim Brown has been engaged in for decades. Literally yanking young men out of gang life in California and other areas.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The Trump administration, In just over 500 days, has orchestrated record highs in black employment and record lows in overall unemployment. It’s being reported, reluctantly by the mainstream media, we actually have more available jobs than people to fill them.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Mr. Trump met with 100 of the Historical Black Colleges and University Presidents last year—Most black folks have no idea. The HBCUs had a very contentious relationship with the previous Obama administration—Whether President Trump’s continuing support for the HBCUs is merely political oneupmanship or not, the net effect is positive for the black community.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Sylvester Stallone, along with ex-heavyweight Champion Lennox Lewis, met with President Trump to advocate pardoning the first black Heavyweight Champion, Jack Johnson who was unjustly convicted under the Mann Act in 1913–a vindictive action motivated solely by bigotry. A bill passed in the House requesting a pardon for Johnson from President George W. Bush, but died in the senate controlled by 35 Democrat seats.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">A bi-partisan group in 2016 lead by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and former senator Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), along with Congressmen Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) and Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.), requested a pardon for Jack Johnson from President Obama, he and Atty. Gen., Holder rejected the idea. Despite these previous ineffective efforts, a talk with Mr. Trump secured the pardon in short order.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Most recently, reality TV star, Kim Kardashian West met with President Trump in the Oval Office to argue for the release of 63 year old Great Grandmother, Alice Johnson, convicted 22 years ago for her role in a cocaine distribution ring, a nonviolent drug offense—Mr. Trump commuted Johnson’s sentence and she is now free. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I have seen black folks irrationally down play the move, arguing the President didn’t pardon Ms. Johnson, “...like he did for his boys.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Alice Johnson, unlike Jack Johnson before her, was not the victim of an unjust conviction —She was guilty of her crime, the life sentence plus 25 years she received, the result of mandatory sentencing installed during the President Bill Clinton administration for a non-violent crime, was unjust, so the sentence was commuted.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Whatever Mr. Trump’s motivations, if you are a cynic and believe it all to be just political pandering, or opportunism—If you have a cause worth fighting for and meaningful goals can be met, why would you squander your opportunities. The Philadelphia Eagles players, LeBron James, Steph Curry... all these mushy headed, privileged and entitled rich, pseudo activist athletes, refusing to visit the White House with Mr. Trump in residence, get your collective heads out of your butts.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">You have the chance to meet and perhaps chat with arguably the most powerful man in the world. A man with the resources and authority to actually make things happen. It would be tragically stupid to squander it—If you have a worthy cause, or a grievance with the man, take whatever opportunities presented you to lay them out before him... Or you can stick to your high-minded, but shallow, empty gestures.</span></div>
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<i>“I need every black man in the country to go out tomorrow and buy an AR-15 assault weapon. They’ll be banned by Tuesday.”</i><br />
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Thus read the dumbest meme I’ve read since the Parkland, Florida shooting—Made doubly stupid by it originating with an LGBT activist white male and posted on a black male friend’s FB page. It speaks to a sort of backhanded racism rife in the contemporary and completely self unaware American left.<br />
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The meme brings up questions obvious to the thinking, yet elusive to the folks inclined towards posting such utter nonsense. Do you believe American government is so systemically racist it would make the meme true? Do you buy into the idea law enforcement is so systemically racist it makes it policy to kill as many unarmed black men as is possible to get away with? Do Black lives indeed matter?<br />
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If you answer yes to any of the above queries and subscribe to the idea of banning AR-15s or any other high-capacity, commercially available semi-automatic firearm the question begging for an answer? Why would you cede your personal protection to the same racist government and law enforcement you fear undermines the importance of your black life? Government and law enforcement, have real assault weapons capable of full automatic fire which will go nowhere after they ban your semi-automatic rifle.<br />
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If they are as problematical as you fear, wouldn’t it further empower a system already hostile to LGBT and black folks?<br />
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The idea so many black folks in America (That is black folks not tied into criminality.) buy into the leftist idea of banning and removing semi-automatic rifles, speaks directly to the effectiveness of our handlers conditioning. The first restrictions on our 2nd enumerated right came about specifically to keep freshly emancipated slaves unarmed. The 1893 Florida Gun Control Act as explained by Supreme Court Justice Rivers Buford was “Never intended to be applied to the white population.”<br />
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In the 1960s when Riots began to break out in Los Angeles, Newark and Chicago, Congress passed the 1968 Gun Control Act. The Act, authored by Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd and signed by President Johnson was literally copied from the gun act passed by the Nazis in 1938 Germany. The Dodd act was pushed by the public outcry following the assassinations of DR. King and Bobby Kennedy, but it specifically targeted a specific group, black folks. The left uses every opportunity to use the same Hegelian principals which inspired the Nazis—Like Rahm Emanuel stated: “You never let a good crisis go to waste.”<br />
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The contemporary liberal says the 2nd Amendment is archaic and governmental tyranny can and will never rear its ugly head in the United States. Yet, it was in fact state and local municipalities all over the nation, in our not too distant past acting to curtail our inalienable rights. Further, the tyranny inflicted by the United State’s criminal culture is no less oppressive than can be brought to bear by government. Real tyranny played out daily as the law abiding are preyed upon.<br />
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Decades of cleverly devised and implemented messaging in all American media created and controlled by the left has worked to vilify firearms instead of villains. I see men, I mean grown men, husbands and fathers saying “I can’t understand why anyone wants or needs to own a gun.” How do you look at your loved ones and not see a reason to procure the most effective means of defending them?<br />
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Growing up as one of the last members of the Baby Boom, I did not personally know a father who did not own a firearm to protect his family. My dad owned a surplus M1 carbine just like the one seen in the famous (By any means necessary) Malcolm X photo, equipped with what he used to call banana clips. These were 30 round magazines in a rifle, though not all black like a scary looking modern AR-15, had the equivalent rate of fire. In the 1970s a surplus M1 was dirt cheap, as was the surplus ammo—Dad liked the M1 carbine because it was what he learned to use in the Navy. In other words, the M1 is an actual military rifle issued to GIs during WWII and up to it being replaced by the M-16.<br />
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By virtue of the M1 carbine being only capable of semi-automatic fire, it is not designated an Assault Weapon, hence the need for an actual American Assault Weapon resulting in the M-16 which is capable of full automatic fire. The commercially available AR-15 is a copy of the M-16 without the full auto “Assault” function. Just like dear old dad’s M1 carbine.<br />
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My dad also had a Smith and Wesson .38. He taught my sister and I how to operate both firearms. In fact, the M1 was the first firearm I ever fired. The carbine is a very effective home defense weapon precisely because it is so easy to operate and has such little felt recoil, a ten year old boy can do it. Just like a modern AR-15.<br />
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He taught me to field strip it and clean it—he removed all mystery from the firearms in our home, preparing us to defend ourselves when he was out. We did not touch them without his supervision, though they were easily accessible at all times. However, an intruder was equally at risk whether or not my dad was home.<br />
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I see men say silly things like: “I have a baseball bat, swords, knives, martial arts training…” If your home is assaulted while you and your family are home by thugs with guns and you are standing there with a sword, you are unarmed. You may get lucky and cut the first guy, but the next one will not be surprised. It’s the reason cops and soldiers don’t carry swords in the field.<br />
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Not quite sure how leaving your personal defense to others is somehow noble—In my opinion it speaks to a sad naïveté, or tragic stupidity at best and cowardice at worst. We’ve all heard the cliché by now: When every second counts, the police are minutes away.<br />
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I’m not saying a bad guy can’t get the drop on me, even if I’m armed locked and loaded—Nevertheless, call it a character flaw if you must, I’d rather be prepared.<br />
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One of the heroes of the so-called “Woke” black community, the aforementioned Malcolm X habitually called on the black community to buy not pistols, not swords and knives, but<a href="https://youtu.be/_30EnfcEqHM" target="_blank"> rifles and shotguns.</a> Going so far as to admonish black folks to <a href="https://youtu.be/lys7P58Yaio" target="_blank">organize rifle clubs</a>. This was before “After School Specials,” social justice propaganda indoctrinated teachers and liberal media made owning a firearm for protection akin to mental disorder, especially in the problematic black community.<br />
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The left continues its soft assault on the black community, it’s better for us to choose killing our children in the womb, keep our children in failing urban schools instead of vouchers and look to the democratic teat for succor. Black Lives Matter… but not enough to own a gun so you can protect yourself, we got you, don’t worry.<br />
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Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Bernie Sanders are fine with you and our school children being defenseless as they seek “Common Sense” gun laws. They expect you to ignore the fact they may not be armed personally, they still have serious and resolute men armed to the teeth ready to do violence on their privileged behalf.<br />
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Guns have always been plentiful in the United States, 40, 60 or 100 years ago there was no paucity of firearms of any kind, yet our youth weren’t shooting up their schoolmates. Firearms are even more ubiquitous in countries like Switzerland where families have <a href="https://youtu.be/6nf1OgV449g" target="_blank">generations of military rifles</a> in their homes. After service in the Swiss Army, you take your weapon home with you. Yet we do not see this happening in Switzerland or in our own past. What is the difference here and now? What has so dramatically changed since the 80s?<br />
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The left wing rush to promote secularism in The USA has removed the societal reinforcement of the principals formally taught in our homes and churches. When you remove the Immutable Source for morality, what you end up with is not morality at all, but rather fashion. Absent a fear of the Creator God holding us responsible for our actions in our children, is it any wonder for some students it is fashionable to become a “Professional School Shooter?”<br />
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As always I am reminded of Holy Scripture, specifically the Lord preparing his disciples for the days to come Luke 22:31-38<br />
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<b><i>“And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end. And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.”</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />I haven’t felt compelled to write an article since November 7th 2016—Today I am saddened by the ginned up racial strife running rampant in our nation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the 2016 elections resulting in a win for President Trump and republican majorities in the House and Senate—New York Times editor Toni Monkovic and election’s analyst Nate Cohn published a lightly edited <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/upshot/how-did-trump-win-over-so-many-obama-voters.html" target="_blank">transcript </a>of their written exchange on the subject. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Therein they echoed the same rather narrative destroying fact the pundits on the right offered to explain the stunning Trump campaign win. Namely—the same white working-class voters who voted for President Obama in droves, actually supported Donald Trump during the last cycle. This exchange is salient:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b>Toni</b> <i>The fact that they voted for Obama, you wrote, suggested that racism wasn’t the primary reason that so many of these voters chose Trump. But there’s a counterargument that Trump made an explicit appeal to racial/ethnic resentment (which John McCain and Mitt Romney did not). And white nationalism has been a rising force in recent years, not just in the United States.</i><br /><br /><b>Nate</b> <i>Well, I think I’d make two points. One is that racism might be the animating feature of Trump’s base, but may not be the way that he expanded his appeal to the voters who often support Democrats on economics.</i><br /><br /><i>The other thing I’d say is that I think it’s possible for racism to play a role, even for Obama voters: You could imagine, for instance, that these voters may have liked Obama but may have real reservations about demographic changes, or they may have perceived Trump as “on their side” in part because of racial appeals. I think, though, that making racism the core of the reason Trump won the election is probably oversimplifying things. As I said, I think Democrats have to grapple with the importance of the Obama-Trump voter, and I think that applies on race as well.<br /><br />One other thing: Both Trump and Obama made white working-class voters feel a little better about racial anxiety.</i><br /><br />The left, especially the media, want desperately to infuse race into an issue where it is most likely not playing as large a role as desired. The left thrives on identity politics! Be it the local democrat politicians vying for city, state level positions, or the national political stage, together with the mainstream media—there is no argument without a root sunk deep in the soil of division. Black, white, gay, straight, rich, poor… there must be grievance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With all their talk of diversity and tolerance, the left cannot envision, nor abide the idea of an America whose majority white citizens may in fact have embraced Dr. King’s “Content of character ideal” when they chose to tacitly support President Barrack H. Obama…twice. Let alone the idea these same citizens voting for a non-establishment, “Hope and “Change” agent for two previous cycles, may not have liked the changes wrought and saw Trump as a counterbalancing non-establishment change agent in the last elections. It has to be racism.<br /><br />The racial friction so keenly felt contemporaneously in America is an ember steadily stoked over the last ten years with great care. On the stump in 2007 we heard candidate Obama’s unity soaked soaring rhetoric: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>In the face of war, you believe there can be peace. In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope. In the face of a politics that's shut you out, that's told you to settle, that's divided us for too long, you believe we can be one people, reaching for what's possible, building that more perfect union.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>It was here, in Springfield, where North, South, East and West come together that I was reminded of the essential decency of the American people - where I came to believe that through this decency, we can build a more hopeful America.</i><br /><br />He then went on to eight years of calling America “Arrogant” and “Dismissive”—never missing the opportunity to play up every incident in America as a struggle between one group or another. You can’t begin a statement with: “Too many feel…” as often as President Obama did without seeking to play up differences. Thesis, antithesis, leading to a desired leftist synthesis. You create a crisis so you can be the deliverer.<br /><br />Presidents Clinton and W. Bush were no less, or no more embattled than President Obama, it's the nature of the beast—Only when the opposition targets a minority, or a woman is the destructive specter of race or fill-in-the-blank identity politics raised. You cannot object to leftist policy without some appeal to one’s inner bigotry don’t you know?<br /><br />This is the soul of Hegelian dialectics—If <a href="http://digitalpublius.blogspot.com/2010/08/alinsky-bar-sinister.html" target="_blank">Saul Alinsky</a> is the high priest responsible for President Obama and to an even greater degree Hillary Clinton’s leftist catechism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was the god Alinsky served. Hitler used it in his rise to power, releasing his brown shirts into the world to wreak the havoc he would then remedy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It was signaled by Mr. Obama’s initial Chief of Staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Hegel’s philosophy was to be employed in the United States in earnest, when he made the statement: <i>“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” </i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is important to note, the above statement was made in context of the financial crisis, created by the collapse of the GSEs. The same entities the democrats argued were so healthy when President Bush and other <a href="https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/10/20081009-10.html" target="_blank">republicans pleaded</a> with the democrat law makers year after year to reign in and regulate before disaster struck.<br /><br />Have you taken a look at Mayor Emanuel’s Chiraq lately, one can’t help but wonder with a sense of genuine foreboding what awaits the once proud “City of the Big Shoulders.”<br /><br />The media began this present-time racial crisis with the false narrative surrounding George Zimmerman, painting him as a virulent anti-black, profiling racist in the incident leading to the death of Trayvon Martin. All done with clever editing of the 911 call Zimmerman made—It was somehow lost NBC was forced to offer an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqGzfdn53dg" target="_blank">apology</a> to Mr. Zimmerman who is nevertheless labeled a hate filled murderer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then they advanced the false “Hands up, don’t shoot” exploiting the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson… Re-imagining America into a land where innocent black folks are shot by white cops willy nilly as a matter of course. Black Lives Matter is created and funded by powerful puppet masters.<br /><br />Now we find, Jason Kessler, the man credited with organizing the Alt-Right protest, the racial crisis du jour, which lead to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. It seems Kessler was an Obama supporter. He voted for him twice and had gone to at least one Occupy Wall Street event. A woman lost her life in the madness, a sacrifice to please Hegel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /> As I stated above, the right has correctly pointed out most of the voters who supported Trump, were erstwhile Obama voters disillusioned with his version of Hope and Change and his focus on identity politics. You can only call the white folks who voted for the first black President racist for so long before they grow…resentful. <br /><br />You do not get to be President of the United States without overwhelming support from white America. This plays hob with the narrative painting President Trump and the people who voted for him as racists and most of all, the republican party, conservatism and anything to the right of Squeaky Fromme intrinsically ipso facto racist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The democrats as Obama apologists, chafe whenever Mr. Obama is referenced as a divisive figure, not because of his race, but his and the rest of the party’s constant exploitation of identity politics. Ironically, the left leaning <a href="http://www.snopes.com/2017/08/17/jason-kessler-soros-deep-state-plant/" target="_blank">Snopes</a>, in their fact check on Jason Kessler affirm the notion when they posted: “<i>He told us (and has consistently said elsewhere) that he was an Obama supporter and voted for him. He says he began to sour on Obama and the Democrats during Obama’s second administration because of their focus on what Kessler terms “identity politics.”</i><br /><br />Kessler is either an agent of the left, pretending to be an ersatz modern brown shirt—or a legitimate person driven over the edge by constant leftist identity politics—Neither explanation lays blame at the feet of conservatism…there is no third thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having a heart for history I can’t help thinking of the Weimar Republic, the Reds fighting the Brown Shirts in the streets of Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, locked in a struggle to control the left in a weary Germany… Today, we watch groups like Antifa vying against the so-called Alt-Right, both claiming to represent what is best for the United States of America—The same dance, the same piper, the same aftermath? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are being manipulated the media is the left’s most powerful tool. Preying on you, identifying you as a victim of one kind or another. Black vs white, man vs woman, gay vs straight—bound by forces with one aim, strife and conflict leading to the demise of the greatest nation in the history of the world. Spoiled by envy and hatred fomented by those who despise liberty and feed on chaos. Resist!</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Mark 3: </span></b></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?<br /><br />24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.<br /><br />25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.<br /><br />26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.<br /><br />27 No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.</b></i><br /><br />Digital Publius</span><br />
<br />Digital Publiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03875031906283264215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2387122188014119814.post-36540618291609447082016-11-07T21:54:00.003-05:002016-11-08T07:29:39.537-05:00The Fat Lady Sings?<style>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><br /><br />In the spring of 2011 I
wrote an article titled <a href="http://digitalpublius.blogspot.com/2011/04/trump-psychosis.html">“<span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Trump Psychosis!”</span></a>
Therein I chronicle the rise of the Trump voter scourge, likening it to the
same sort of mental abnormality as the “Hope and Change” voter. I had no idea
then how virulent the malady would prove to be.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">I’ve written less this
election cycle than in cycles past, more out of disillusionment and the desire
to interact more directly on social media than a lack of subject matter. I feel however,
it is necessary to pen something on the eve of the 2016 election.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">I am astonished not so
much by the idea people truly think the openly corrupt Donald Trump will be
useful in supplanting the oh so obvious corruption of Hillary Clinton. The
troubling thought is the gyrations my fellow conservatives use to contort their
brains, so they can rationalize supporting Donald Trump. <br />
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I’ve seen the religiously recalcitrant Donald Trump compared to the Biblical
King David, Moses, the Apostle Paul and lately, King Cyrus II of Persia due to
impressive examples of Scriptural eisegesis. All of which highlighted much to
my chagrin, either the right’s epic Biblical ignorance, or the depths folks
will go in soothing their spirits when they know Trump is tragic at best, or more likely a democrat shill who conned them. Too invested, they hunker down. <br />
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The Hillary voter falls under the auspices of the willingly/unknowingly
ignorant and the knowingly wicked—There is no third thing. Hillary Clinton is
the most unrepentant, loathsome creature ever to be nominated for President.
There is not a shred of decency in a person who can stand before victim’s
families and lie to their faces for no other reason than political expedience. Unfathomable shame should fall on anyone who supports her.</span></div>
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The only argument for Trump I can almost understand is he has the virtue of not
being Hillary Clinton. If people stuck to this line of reasoning in supporting
Trump I could partially relate. All the other rationalizations though… The
saddest is the, we must protect the Supreme Court from Hillary appointees! Even
though Trump is a congenital liar, we should trust he will appoint conservative
Justices as he sort of promises—Never mind not too long ago, Trump stated his </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">über liberal
and pro abortion sister, would make a great Justice. <br />
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I can think of no better example than the Roe v. Wade decision to illustrate the
fallacy of this reasoning. Of the nine seated justices, ruling in Roe, six were
appointed by real, dyed in the wool Republicans, namely Eisenhower and Nixon—These
weren’t ersatz Republicans like Trump.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Only two of the nine justices voted against and offered dissenting
opinions, William Rehnquist, appointed by Nixon and elevated to Chief Justice
by Ronald Reagan and Byron White, appointed by John F. Kennedy—The two
dissenters weren’t even both the result of Republican administrations.<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Far more recently, a conservative
majority failed to strike down the dreadful Affordable Care Act. This with John
G. Roberts, Jr. appointed by George Bush as Chief! <br />
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Then I hear, the painfully shallow, “We aren’t electing a pastor.” This is
without question, the most pig-ignorant, immature, buck passing argument ever!
It’s insulting! This bit of silliness is eclipsed only by the even more vacuous:
“According to your standards, no Christian can vote for anyone because we are
all sinners. No one is perfect enough for you.”<br />
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Well, I believe God when he gave us a formula for choosing leaders.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Moreover
thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of
truth, hating covetousness; and place <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">such</span>
over them, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to be</span> rulers of
thousands, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span> rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:” Exodus 18:21</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Was God Himself
suggesting the men Israel was to provide His people be sinless? The God who
says we all fall short of His glory? Are we so immature we think there were
less sinners back then than today? Yes, we all sin, but this does not absolve
you of the solemn responsibility to consider some men are more worthy than
others. Does the above verse suggest Trump or Hillary to you at all? <br />
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John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court the Trump voters are so
worried about preserving from Hillary stated: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Providence has
given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as
the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer
Christians for their rulers.” </i>Was Jay suggesting “Perfection,” or simply a
standard we ought to not think ridiculous and unattainable? Certainly making
the argument “No one is perfect” lets you off the hook when you choose as
abysmally as Hillary and Trump.<br />
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That God allows us to choose, does not infer he approves of our choices, or is
in any way responsible for our errors. I say this for the “God is in control,”
folks who feel comfortable passing Trump onto God, as if He is going to use
Trump to usher in a new golden age. Please don’t blame our choosing between
Trump and Hillary on the Holy God revealed in the Holy Bible.<br />
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I am a believer—I don’t just believe in God, I<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> believe</i> God! When you say you believe in God, but ignore His
tenets for political expedience you betray Him and yourself—This is the
opposite of faith. God has earned our faith because He is faithful. Faith is not
belief without proof, the sort of faith one has to have in a Trump or Hillary
who lie as a matter of course, but rather trust without reservation based on a
proven track record.<br />
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This is why Christ admonishes us to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Judge not according to appearance, but
judge a righteous judgement.” </i></b>You have the folks who castigate people
for judging Trump and Hillary harshly—They do this while quoting from Matthew
7: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Judge
not, that ye be not judged.” </i></b>As if Christ was speaking of judging in
general, as opposed to judging hypocritically as is contextually obvious.<br />
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This is the same God who says in the very same chapter of Matthew: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Ye
shall know them by their fruits.” </i></b>Why would the Lord tell us to examine
folk’s fruits, if we shouldn’t heed what we glean about a person’s character by
doing so? Are we not supposed to temper our dealings based on observing a
person’s track record? <br />
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The Trump supporter claims they like Trump because he says he will fight for
them and he is not an insider, even though during the time Ted Cruz for example
was actually leading filibusters and revolts on the people’s behalf, Trump was,
with his personal treasure, aiding and abetting the very people Senator Cruz was
fighting against. If I have to choose the saddest thing for me personally this
cycle, it would be admitting the right is not immune to the exact same strain of
cognitive dissonance the left exists on.<br />
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As I stated above, as a believer I believe God. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If my people, which are called
by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from
their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.” II Chronicles 7:14 </i></b><br />
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America’s problem is not political it’s spiritual. Today, we have a haughty
spirit in our nation—one comfortable with disregarding God’s tenets. If you can
explain to me how voting for a man who has said from his own mouth, he has
never approached the throne of grace in humility asking forgiveness for
anything--Or a woman so wicked, like a modern day Ananias and Sapphira,
together with her husband, raised millions for Haitian relief only to enrich
themselves is an indication of a nation humbling itself and seeking God’s face,
I will gladly vote one of those wretches in.<br />
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Do you believe this nation can be healed apart from God? You must, or it would
not be so easy to support Trump, or Hillary for any reason. I am reminded of
the words of Ben Franklin spoken before the Constitutional Convention in our nation’s youth: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of
danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers,
Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered… do we imagine we no longer
need His assistance?”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Elections are not always binary; this is the
thinking of the small-minded. Voting isn’t always a matter of simply who wins
and loses. Voting is about exercising your voice. There are times when you
don’t knuckle under, taking what they give you; there comes a time your voice
has to say NO! Until we have a true rebellion fueled by people refusing to choose
between evils, we are doomed to forever doing just that.</span>
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Digital Publiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03875031906283264215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2387122188014119814.post-29299162399035832302016-10-18T07:05:00.000-04:002016-10-18T07:05:12.569-04:00I Left My Hat In Haiti<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><br /><br />The recent Hillary Clinton Wikileaks revelations the mainstream media is working so feverishly to ignore during this farcical general election, brought back memories of another story ignored by the press to shield the Democrat hopeful. The Haitians who gathered outside of Clinton's offices this summer to protest the Clinton Foundation's economic exploitation of the beleaguered Island nation. Seems Ol' Hispaniola is still a lure for greedy privateers.<br /><br />Dinesh D'Souza documents brilliantly the Clinton's crimes regarding Haiti in his latest book; </i><br />
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<i>Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437883/hillarys-america-secret-history-democratic-party-dinesh-dsouza-clinton-foundation" target="_blank">excerpted here</a>.</i></div>
<i><br /> A Facebook friend's comments on the connection between Haiti's devotion to witchcraft, coupled with hurricane Matthew's recent devastating impact on Haiti, prompted me to re-post for your consideration an article from the old Digital Publius site I wrote in January 2010.</i><br /><br />As a baby boomer, influenced probably to an unhealthy degree by pop culture, just about everything I come across triggers a sort of semi-related memory or response. It may be perverse, but the first thing to pop into my head when I heard about the horrific earthquake in Haiti was the Fred Astaire and Jane Powell musical number from the film “Royal Wedding”, "I left My Hat in Haiti."<br />
<br />I know I need help, but, it is the truth. Haiti also triggers thoughts of pirates seeking refuge on Hispaniola (the little Spain), the name given by Columbus to the Island later bisected becoming modern Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Seems in the movies privateers were always headed there.<br />
<br />The devastation left in the wake of the earthquake that rocked the island nation should not be made light of. The death toll is staggering and expected to continue climbing. Long term suffering will likely make Katrina seem like a picnic. The swift response from the Obama administration offering aid, is laudable, not only in supplying succor to the native population, but also because of his responsibility to the 40,000 some-odd American citizens on the Island at any given time.<br />
<br />Odd Haiti seems to suffer from an arguably endless plague of miseries, a fact which can’t be disputed. When one considers Haiti shares a land mass with the relatively prosperous Dominican Republic, it is indeed a quandary why Haiti remains a perpetual mare’s nest. Unless of course Pat Robertson is right.<br />
<br />I am sure by now you have heard of the flap caused by Pat Robertson stating Haiti is accursed due to a pact the early Haitian patriots made with the devil. Robertson’s proclamation was met with the expected derision and vitriol from the left, and a fair amount from those who say they are right-wing evangelicals.<br />
<br />Robertson’s statement and the following uproar triggered another pop culture response in yours truly, when the Sly and the Family Stone lyric <i>“It’s the truth, that the truth, makes them so uptight,”</i> from the song “Stand,” skulked unwarranted across my fevered brain. I spent a goodly amount of time running down the voodoo curse story and I have not found a reason to doubt its historicity.<br />
<br />Every history of Haiti I came across mentioned a houngan (voodoo priest) named Dutty Boukman did in fact lead a large gathering of slaves in a voodoo rite. From the Haitian bicentennial site we read:<br />
<br /><i>“A man named Boukman, another houngan, organized on August 14, 1791, a meeting with the slaves in the mountains of the North. This meeting took the form of a Voodoo ceremony in the Bois Caiman in the northern mountains of the island. It was raining and the sky was raging with clouds; the slaves then started confessing their resentment of their condition. A woman started dancing languorously in the crowd, taken by the spirits of the loas. With a knife in her hand, she cut the throat of a pig and distributed the blood to all the participants of the meeting who swore to kill all the whites on the island.”</i><br />
<i> </i><br />We find the story repeated on kreyol.com:<br /><i>“Among the rebellion's leaders were Boukman, a maroon and voodoo houngan (priest); Georges Biassou, who later made Toussaint (Louverture) his aide; Jean-François, who subsequently commanded forces, along with Biassou and Toussaint, under the Spanish flag; and Jeannot, the blood thirstiest of them all. These leaders sealed their compact with a voodoo ceremony conducted by Boukman in the Bois Cayman (Alligator Woods) in early August 1791. On August 22, a little more than a week after the ceremony, the uprising of their black followers began.” </i><br />
<i> </i><br />On the same site we find a fellow named François Macandal, lead a six year rebellion between 1751-57 leaving some 6,000 dead. Macandal was himself, a boko, or voodoo sorcerer from African traditions who used his dark religion to motivate his followers.<br />
<br />These occurrences happened and are canonical according to Hatian sources. The high dudgeon displayed by Robertson’s detractors, eager to call him a man filled with racist hatred, fail to mention as he made the remarks, the Christian Broadcast Network had a team already on the ground in Haiti and one of it’s Operation Blessing containers on a ship at the port of Port-Au-Prince waiting to clear customs, filled with 2 million dollars worth of medical supplies as a contribution to aid in the relief effort.<br />
<br />Comments like this one accompanying the story on breitbart.tv regarding this subject are telling:<br /><i>“I am a Christian and am frankly embarrassed almost every time this guy opens his mouth. He said the same thing about the tsunami in SE Asia in ‘04. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Jesus would never have uttered such stupidity. He would have been too busy trying to dig people out of the rubble and administer first aid. “Do unto others….” You know the rest.”</i><br />
<i> </i><br />However, Pat Robertson’s words are exactly the sort of thing we would expect to hear from the Jesus Christ revealed in the Holy Bible:<br />
<br /><i><b>“And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. “ John 8:3-12</b></i><br />
<i><b> </b></i><br />In this passage of Scripture Christ does not condemn the law of Moses, the woman deserved to be stoned to death, just as all of us who sin deserve punishment. He did not excuse the guilt of the woman nor did He endorse the Pharisees false zeal. As Matthew Henry far more ably put it:<br />
<br /><i>“All who are any way called to blame the faults of others are especially concerned to look to themselves, and keep themselves pure. In this matter Christ attended to the great work about which he came into the world, that was, to bring sinners to repentance; not to destroy, but to save. He aimed to bring, not only the accused to repentance, by showing her his mercy, but the prosecutors also, by showing them their sins; they thought to ensnare him, he sought to convince and convert them.”</i><br />
<i> </i><br />It is important to note that Jesus’ last words to the woman were <i><b>“Go, and sin no more.” </b></i>This is a warning, though she received mercy that day, continuing in her sin would result in condemnation from the Father later, which is precisely what Pat Robertson was calling for when he prayed Haiti would repent and turn from the sin of witchcraft the very scourge of the island nation.<br />
<br />Haiti is rife with voodoo. The official religion of Haiti is Catholicism, but it is reported 95% of Haitians are inculcated with some measure of voodoo, believed, by them, to be compatible with Catholic belief. God, in no uncertain terms, condemns witchcraft in both the Old and New Testaments in every form.<br />
<br /><i><b>“Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, <span class="jesus georgia">I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.</span>”
John 8:12</b></i><br /><br />The last verse bears repeating. Jesus’ words are the key unlocking the mystery and fuel the loving comments Pat Robertson, offered in hope the lost of Haiti find the Light of Truth. Jesus’ words also fuel the much maligned comments Britt Hume proffered to Tiger Woods. <br /><i>“When you aid them, you do no favor to those in trouble if you fail to point out issues that may have caused those troubles to begin with.”</i><br />
<i> </i><br />It’s better to tell a guy it’s not a good idea to fall asleep on train tracks than to have to follow a person around so you are there to pull him out of the way of a train. It is the devil’s mission to convince man to reject God and then take their lives before the deceived learn the truth. Armed with that knowledge, I am convinced; the devil left his hate in Haiti.<br />
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<span class="text"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /><br /><br />That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should
have the same care one for another.</i></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <span class="text">And whether one
member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all
the members rejoice with it. I Corinthians 12:25,26</span></i></b><span class="text"><br />
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In a recent interview for <a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12256510/republican-party-trump-avik-roy" target="_blank">Vox World</a>, Republican Party operative and Forbes
editor Avik Roy remarked: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I think
the conservative movement is fundamentally broken, Trump is not a random act.
This election is not a random act.”</i><br />
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The interview explains the shift in political perception regarding the civil
rights movement in America. The exodus of Blacks from the GOP was a reaction to
Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater’s “Principled stance against
the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Goldwater himself was not a racist; he believed it
was wrong for government to force private businesses to desegregate.<br />
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The article continues: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“But this
‘principled’ stance identified the GOP with the pro-segregation camp in
everyone’s eyes, while the Democrats under Lyndon Johnson became the champions
of anti-racism.</i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This had a double effect, Roy says.
First, it forced black voters out of the GOP. Second, it invited in white
racists who had previously been Democrats. Even though many Republicans voted
for the Civil Rights Act in Congress, the post-Goldwater party became the party
of aggrieved whites.” <br />
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“The fact is, today, the Republican coalition has inherited the people who
opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — the Southern Democrats who are now
Republicans,” Roy says. “Conservatives and Republicans have not come to terms
with that problem.”</i><br />
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Where the stance Goldwater took may have been principled and strict
Americanism from a Libertarian perspective, it was ultimately wrong—just as
such stances on states rights regarding slavery were wrong, wrong morally and
an affront to natural law. Principles are great, when they agree with human
decency and common sense. “<span class="text"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And whether one member suffer,
all the members suffer with it”</i></b></span><br />
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<span class="text">It is not all right to advocate for individual rights which
systemically harm or restrict others in their personal pursuit of happiness. A
modern day example would be the Democrat Party and liberal’s in general slavish
devotion to a woman’s right to murder her child in the womb, an act that robs
the aggrieved individual the most fundamental right of all—Life!</span><br />
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<span class="text">There are some today who would attempt to draw a moral
equivalency to LGBT patrons being denied services—on the surface this may seem
a fair argument. For those of us with a mature outlook on reality, the argument
falls apart as LGBT is an operation of choice, while a person does not choose
their race, or the circumstances of their birth. <br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which
is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Ephesians
4:29</i></b><br />
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I have struggled living up to that verse myself during this election cycle
God forgive me! I am personally frustrated by the shear madness of the choices
presented our nation for the next President. The party I have aligned myself
with is chock full of wonderful people of all races, but it can no longer be
denied. Trump’s ascendancy is directly attributed to the racists who joined the
GOP because they mistook the party’s adherence to individual liberty to be a
tacit approval of racism.<br />
<br />
We did it to ourselves, the racists and the dull witted in the GOP are quick
to argue against conservatives who suggest reaching out to minority groups.
Stating callous rhetoric to bolster their position. “Why don’t they just get
it?” Why should we reach out to Blacks, or fill in the blank group when all
they do is reject us?” <br />
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The answer is simple; you do it to help others, which has the further effect of
eventually helping yourself. You do it because it is the right thing to do! You
do it because we are losing our country to the very bad ideas the unopposed
liberals vying for and winning those votes champion! <br />
<br />
The two factors most responsible for our choice this election cycle are hate
and immorality. Trump tapped into the vein of hate infecting the Republican
Party, not the majority to be sure, but more than enough to override the decent
folk whose votes where split amongst the sensible and good Republican candidates.
Just enough hate filled Republican voters to give a plurality great enough to
give us Trump and a more lasting impression of ignorance and bigotry with the
rest of the thinking world.<br />
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Hillary Clinton supporters are those whose conscience has been seared to the
point they are completely incapable of moral thinking. The intrinsic wickedness
she has displayed for decades is not even recognized as such. The Democrat
party has tapped into grievance and personal identity, whether it be race, or
LGBT and raised it to a religion so powerful it’s adherents have completely
forgotten the Providence and tenets undergirding and guarding our nations
prosperity from it’s founding.<br />
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Even if Trump were by a miracle to win the presidency, the very idea of decency
will have been struck a blow so great this nation may never recover from it.
Christians, supporting either candidate have completely lost sight of the
tenets of God. Opting instead to join the world in this celebration, no this
orgy of unscrupulousness.<br />
<br />
Forgetting the Word of God that warns us you do not do evil that good may come
of it, you cannot expect to overturn the corruption of Hillary Clinton with
what you believe to be, the lesser corruption of Donald Trump! A house divided
against itself cannot stand; Satan cannot and will not cast out Satan. Even
when you think your Satan is less Satany than the other party’s.<br />
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<span class="text"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Put on
therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness,
humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Colossians 3:12</span></i></b></span><br />
<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Digital
Publius</span></span>
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<br /><br />This <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ante meridiem,</span> the nation wakes
to such headlines as: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/us/politics/bernie-sanders-reaction.html?_r=0"><b>“You
Broke My Heart”</b></a> documenting those who so stridently felt the “Bern”
expressing their feeling burned by Senator Bernie Sanders’ tacit endorsement of
Hillary Clinton’s run for President. Mr. Sanders states: “Hillary Clinton
understands that we must fix an economy in America that is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rigged</i> and that sends almost all new wealth and income to the top
one percent.”<br />
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All “New wealth and income?” who is creating the wealth and income Mr. Sanders?
Is it the people you say you represent? On their own, the workers simply work,
they don’t create wealth, and they benefit from the wealth created by the
fertile minds savvy enough to risk what they have to bring about their ideas.
The workers, through the fair and freely entered exchange of their energy for
wages get what they earn. <br />
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No one is trapped in such an arrangement in America. Any person is free to
pursue his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">own</i> ideas, or to make
herself <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more marketable</i> by acquiring
new skills, facilitating higher wages. There is nothing in the rigging of our
economy beyond the ropes and pulleys everyone has access to and necessary for
use in raising <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one’s self </i>in our
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If anything was rigged, it was this election cycle, on the
left and right! Bernie Sanders? Really? As much as the collective brainpower
and common sense of the American youth has atrophied, there still aren’t enough
dummies to think America would elect a socialist, democratic or otherwise to
run the most powerful economy in human history.<br />
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If you think the democrat “Primaries,” has been anything other than an
anointing ceremony for Mrs. Clinton… I don’t have the words to express your naïveté,
or just plain pig-ignorance. Sanders was handpicked by the powers that be to
run against Hillary so there would be no serious competition for her to
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The fact so many people seemed oblivious to the contemporary
nations suffering under the yoke of socialism and the loathsome history of the
terribly destructive ideology would actually support Sanders was an unforeseen
wrinkle. Consider modern day socialism notably contributing to the influx of
Latin American refugees fleeing nations operating under the very ideas Sanders
and to a slightly lesser extent Clinton champion as they pour unabated across
our boarders. <br />
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No one with a brain ever conceived Bernie Sanders being a serious candidate for
President in a nation, which spent the better portion of the twentieth century,
fighting tooth and nail against socialism/communism. You Bernie supporters are
not just woefully ignorant you were jobbed! How else to explain a democrat
field so inexplicably unpolluted by democrat candidates? That my friends, is
rigging.</div>
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Lest you think this critique too partisan, the rigging by no
means stopped in ships sailed solely by leftists—the same builders strung the
lines on the right’s political vessels this cycle. Donald Trump is no less a
joke in opposition to Hillary Clinton. He too in my humble opinion was meant to
make the way easier for the Clinton’s to be paid off for their globalist work.<br />
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No person was more tailor-made to distract and blunt the required contrast in
policy needed to vanquish the left this cycle. Trump was the perfect shill
designed to play to the most base thinking ruling the ignorant portion of the
right wing. Trump’s shrill caterwauling, lying and indifference to decency was
just the thing to make enough noise to drown out the real issues, policies and
solutions offered by true conservatives.<br />
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Coupled with the never ending news coverage train wrecks, metaphorically
speaking of course inevitably garner and the constant chorus of "Real conservatives can’t
win"—we end up with the one democrat in the republican field winning the
republican primary. Trump was the one man perfect for Hillary to walk all over
in her march towards the White House. That my friend’s is rigging.<br />
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One can’t help but notice the two candidates left and right, recruited by
whomever, for who knows what rewards to make it easy for the Clinton’s, are
both enamored with speciously using the word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Rigged </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">throughout their demagogic rants</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.”</i> Mostly to describe systems they either don’t understand,
or have actually worked quite well since our nation’s inception. </div>
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The easily manipulated, left and right are blind to the
common handwriting marking a singular author, or group for both the Sanders and Trump
campaigns—Both sides assure you they will protect the Supreme Court with the
sort of judges who will do the sort of things both groups of lemmings want to
hear. The ending of the story was inevitable, more of the same, in ever
increasing portions as we as a nation are herded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rigged?<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ephesians
5:<br />
<sup>6 </sup>Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these
things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>7 </sup>Be not ye therefore partakers with them.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>8 </sup>For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light
in the Lord: walk as children of light:</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>9 </sup>(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and
righteousness and truth;)</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>10 </sup>Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>11 </sup>And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather reprove them.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>12 </sup>For it is a shame even to speak of those things
which are done of them in secret.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>13 </sup>But all things that are reproved are made manifest
by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>14 </sup>Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and
arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>15 </sup>See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools,
but as wise,</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>16 </sup>Redeeming the time, because the days are evil</i></b></div>
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A year ago today I posted on Facebook: "<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">If
the state you live in maintains your right to self defense and you are
considering a CPL (Concealed Pistol License), allow me to encourage you to do so! That class ain't
gonna take itself! Remember, it's not about fear, it's about preparation
and personal responsibility. Protect yourself and the ones you love!"</span></span><br />
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br />On the day after we celebrate our nation's liberation from the tyranny of unjust rulers, I reflect on the turmoil being spread across the globe by various dark forces and I thank God for the wisdom of our founders. Where the United States of America is not untouched by the havoc wreaked by chaotic forces and Islam run amok, we do maintain our freedom to be armed for personal protection.<br /><br />Sadly, many, blinded by relative security in their personal lives, do not see the wisdom, the reasons we should guard the "Unalienable" right to bear arms jealously. With every act of chaos, without regard to motivation, they call for less access to firearms, not for the criminals who disregard laws, but rather the law abiding.</span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"></span></span><br />
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Many are comfortable with abdicating personal responsibility when it comes to the security of themselves and their loved ones, I am not. Unfortunately this comfort level by some is driven by propaganda and a poor understanding of the very concept of the words, "Shall not be infringed."<br />
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The 2nd Amendment was not added to our Constitution to secure your ability to hunt, (hunting was a forgone conclusion) or for the sole purpose of raising militias, or limited to the types of arms available at that time, as if the framers could not imagine greater weapons invented in the future, (It ain't muskets v AR15s). The 2nd Amendment does not grant the right to bear arms, it affirms the right of protection, of self preservation granted by Almighty God! It is natural law!<br />
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A cursory glance at history grants access to those given to reason, example after example of tyrannical power riding on the backs of legislation aimed at disarming the people marked for victimization. Tyranny whether exercised by a political potentate, or maniac empowered by the knowledge of a freehand in so-called gun free zones, is only stopped when it meets an armed countervailing force.<br />
<br />
<i><b>"Then said he unto them, But now, he that has a purse, let him take it,
and likewise his bag: and he that has no sword, let him sell his
garment, and buy one." Luke 22:36</b></i><span class="p"><br /></span><br />
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With that said, I offer a hunk of quotes preserved from the minds of the very Founders aforementioned, these quotes play hob with the notions peddled by the anti-gun rights advocates seeking to reinterpret the 2nd Amendment. Self defense is not only lawful, it is common sense. <br />
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<b>"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined..."<br />
- George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."<br />
- Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."<br />
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not
warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of
resistance. Let them take arms."<br />
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature.
They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to
commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and
better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to
prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater
confidence than an armed man."<br />
- Thomas Jefferson, <i>Commonplace Book</i> (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises,
I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it
gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played
with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body
and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your
constant companion of your walks." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter
Carr, August 19, 1785</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States)
assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise
it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times
armed."<br />
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry
ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect
the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force]
what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it,
[instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."<br />
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"I enclose you a list of the killed, wounded, and captives of the
enemy from the commencement of hostilities at Lexington in April, 1775,
until November, 1777, since which there has been no event of any
consequence ... I think that upon the whole it has been about one half
the number lost by them, in some instances more, but in others less.
This difference is ascribed to our superiority in taking aim when we
fire; every soldier in our army having been intimate with his gun from
his infancy."<br />
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Giovanni Fabbroni, June 8, 1778</b><br />
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<b>
</b><b>“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."<br />
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759</b><br />
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<b>
</b><b>"To disarm the people...[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them."<br />
- George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, <i>The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution</i>, June 14, 1788</b><br />
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<b>
</b><b>"I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers."<br />
- George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as
they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America
cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the
people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular
troops."<br />
- Noah Webster, <i>An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution</i>, October 10, 1787</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess
over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of
subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which
the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the
enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple
government of any form can admit of."<br />
- James Madison, <i>Federalist No. 46</i>, January 29, 1788</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people,
trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free
country."<br />
- James Madison, <i>I Annals of Congress 434</i>, June 8, 1789</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"...the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone..."<br />
- James Madison, <i>Federalist No. 46</i>, January 29, 1788</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."<br />
- William Pitt (the Younger), Speech in the House of Commons, November 18, 1783</b><br />
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<b>
</b><b>“A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and
include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all
men capable of bearing arms… "To preserve liberty, it is essential that
the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike,
especially when young, how to use them."<br />
- Richard Henry Lee, <i>Federal Farmer No. 18</i>, January 25, 1788</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone
who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but
downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The
great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might
have a gun."<br />
- Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty.... The
right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it
has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest
limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of
the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext
whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the
brink of destruction."<br />
- St. George Tucker, <i>Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, </i>1803</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on
the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the
plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as
property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance
would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would
be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And
while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all
should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world
deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a
place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong.
The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts
need but little arguments when they prove themselves."<br />
- Thomas Paine, "Thoughts on Defensive War" in Pennsylvania Magazine, July 1775</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of
the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own
arms."<br />
- Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been
considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it
offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power
of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first
instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."<br />
- Joseph Story, <i>Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States</i>, 1833</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the
establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty .... Whenever
Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they
always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon
their ruins."<br />
- Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, <i>I Annals of Congress 750</i>, August 17, 1789</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that
the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their
rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least
suspicion."<br />
- Alexander Hamilton, <i>Federalist No. 25</i>, December 21, 1787 </b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents,
there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original
right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of
government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers,
may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against
those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the
persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different
parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no
distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense.
The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without
system, without resource; except in their courage and despair."<br />
- Alexander Hamilton, <i>Federalist No. 28</i></b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form
an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the
liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little,
if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who
stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their
fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be
devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it,
if it should exist."<br />
- Alexander Hamilton, <i>Federalist No. 28</i>, January 10, 1788</b><br />
<br />
<b>
</b><b>"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them,
may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be
occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to
the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the
article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."<br />
- Tench Coxe, <i>Philadelphia Federal Gazette</i>, June 18, 1789</b>Digital Publius<br />
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I will be brief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cognitive dissonance is not just an ailment
on the left anymore; it is in full effect on the right this election year. We
have endured cycle, after cycle of the establishment right continuously selling
the same old saw, we need to back the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Most conservative with a chance to win.” It’s why the electorate on the
right habitually tosses aside the good candidates for the status quo candidates,
Like McCain and Romney.<br />
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Neither of these fellows had plans, particularly when it comes to tax reform,
on a scale large enough to actually improve things. Nor, by the way did either
candidate actually win. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If you fix the tax
system in America and install either a flat tax in the style advocated by
Senator Cruz, or even better the FairTax—The false narrative of immigration as
the most critical concern becomes irrelevant. Every candidate on the right
wants secure borders, I repeat, all of them.<br />
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The important candidates did not harp on the issue, because it is prima
facie—Trump latched on to that particular concern after reading Ann Coulter’s
book “Adios, America!” and recognized it as the mindless red meat issue most
likely to appeal to the low information voter on the right. Just as “Make
America Great Again” is the pseudo rightwing version of the equally vacuous
“Hope and Change” still beguiling Democrat voters, especially black ones, as
they continue to wallow in the mess the Democrat party perpetuates wherever
they are given sway.<br />
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Donald Trump has the weakest tax plan in the group followed closely by Marco
Rubio—It will be business as usual if Trump were in fact able to stumble into
the White House and the establishment left and right know it. If you get Tax
reform right, who cares how many people immigrate to America? There will be
more jobs than the nation will know what to do with. Trump and his followers are
so filled with misguided rage they can’t see it.<br />
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That being said, the Trump supporter has forgotten the establishment’s best
chance to win scenario—They are so apoplectic over the idea of a possible
Hillary or Bernie presidency, they miss the fact Trump in almost none of the
national polls defeats either of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Polls of course are only accurate to a Trump supporter if they show
their guy throttling his opponents, so… They dismiss facts in favor of their
own reality… just like democrat voters.<br />
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The leftist controlled media and Super PACS are straining in the slips in
anticipation of unleashing an endless torrent of folks Trump has bilked out of
their hard earned money, they shall become like household names soon enough in
the general election. The democrat party plays to win, no gentlemen amongst
them.<br />
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Now as to the right wing DC centric establishment, cognitive dissonance
manifests thusly. The fellow who it seems has the best chance to bring down the
Trump parade and incidentally defeats Hillary and Bernie regularly in the polls
is Ted Cruz.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yet the
establishment hates Ted Cruz even more than they hate Trump the dealmaker—Why
do they hate Cruz? He had the audacity to actually come to the District and
busy himself with doing the things, or at least attempted to do the things he promised
and was elected to fulfill. Ted Cruz makes the establishment look really,
really bad—So they prefer the idea of backing the more conciliatory Rubio
instead another dealmaker like Trump promises to be. Even though according to
the polls, we actually have a true conservative in Ted Cruz meeting the
mythical standard, (According to the polls that is) of “Best chance to win,”
while actually exciting the grass roots thinking voter.<br />
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I look at the party I have chosen to align myself with and I see a group as mercurial as Donald Trump's ever shifting positions. I am reminded of an
oft-repeated bit of Scripture: <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A double
minded man is unstable in all his ways.”</i></b> <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">James 1:8 </i></b>I dare say this petit divine wisdom applies no less
to political parties.<br />
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Digital Publius</span></div>
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One of the oft repeated utterances amongst the television
talking heads post the South Carolina Primary, left and right and then aped by their viewers is: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Cruz was counting on carrying the
evangelical vote in South Carolina and Trump got more of them instead.”</i>
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When a Democrat pundit speaks this, or some variation of the statement, it reveals
the one-dimensional thinking rife in those who lean left--it's programming
really, it’s the reason they tend to support the Bernie and Hillary types.</div>
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Liberals believe in monoliths--because the left stacks people neatly into rigid
piles so they can develop ways to pander specifically to each. The Black vote,
the women's vote, the LGBT vote... Each gets it's scientifically designed,
specifically tailored set of promises to deal with grievances created by their
Hegelian masters.<br />
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The right leaning pundit speaking this way generally reveals a preference for
Donald Trump—I find Eric Bolling and Sean Hannity, (both Catholic) or Mike
Gallagher (Methodist, a more liberal Protestant group today) the less cerebral
right leaning pundits, tend to always find a way to turn some idiotic thing
issuing forth from the Donald’s mouth into an apologetic for him, all while
insisting they are neutral.<br />
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The "Evangelical" vote is not a monolith any more
than the other groups are.</div>
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You err in thinking Evangelical is synonymous with white conservative
Republicans. Most of the Evangelicals I know personally are Black liberals who
vote Democrat-- (Evangelical being primarily defined as a Bible believing
Protestant who stands on the idea of spreading the good news of salvation
through Christ Jesus.) This was the reason I started my Blog Digital Publius back
in 2007, to challenge Christians voting for a man so obviously against the
things of God as Barrack Obama was and so manifestly more obviously is today
now he no longer has to pretend.</div>
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Black Evangelicals tend to put racial identity and materialism above the Word
of God when it comes to politics—This is why they vote in such large numbers
for the vilest of people, even when those liberal candidates stand against
nearly every tenet taught in the Holy Bible. Black folks do this while living
in areas decimated by the ideas of the liberals they put in leadership.<br />
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When you ask black Evangelicals why they don’t vote for Republicans, even when
you point out the Republican believes as they do on so many issues like
abortion, special rights for the LGBT community and so on, they either respond;
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Republicans are racist, or don’t like
the poor</i>, or any of the other things the left through media and their
agents on the ground perpetuate to keep them voting Democrat.<br />
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Racism to Democrats is not supporting things like Affirmative Action, though
they never question why the left does not support School choice and vouchers.
Standing against a perpetual welfare state and supporting the dignity of hard
work is racist. Yet the Clintons create the most Draconian drug-sentencing
laws in the 90s, creating the largest boom in black incarceration in history is
not racist. The white Cocaine mogul gets light sentencing, while the street level
dealer gets mandatory life… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All this of course
aids in the break down of the black family, heck the family in general, whose
health is the only true starting point to eradicate the need for welfare.<br />
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South Carolina is an open primary, if you don’t think Democrats of every
stripe, including those who consider themselves just as evangelical as
President Jimmy Carter are committed to forcing a candidate on the right most
easily beaten by Mrs. Clinton, you are really quite naïve. Trump fits the bill.
Of the top three Republicans, Trump is the only one not beating Hillary in any
of the polls. Otherwise poll happy Trump
and his supporters, like ignoring this fact. Monolithic, group thinking is how we got in the position we now find ourselves.<br />
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<i><b>"<sup class="versenum"> </sup>Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure." I Timothy 5:22</b></i><br />
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Every time President Obama, or Hillary Clinton shows up at a Black church,
affecting a quasi-southern Negro dialect, (That’s the way they think all Black
people talk apparently) or in front of a group of Pastors, followed up with a
photo-op featuring said pastors laying hands on a candidate, while said
candidate holds their beliefs in utter contempt inwardly, you are seeing the
Evangelical vote.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to
this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into
lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.” Jude
1:4</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Former
NY Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, during a forum held at the <a href="http://www.aspentimes.com/news/14957190-113/michael-bloomberg-calls-colorados-decision-on-legal-pot-stupid"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Aspen Institute</span></a>,
takes time out of discussing drug legalization to make this statement: </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.0pt;">95 percent of murders fall into a
specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25. Cities
need to get guns out of this group’s hands and keep them alive, he said.</span></i></div>
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“These kids think they’re going to get killed anyway because all their friends
are getting killed,” Bloomberg said. “They just don’t have any long-term focus
or anything. It’s a joke to have a gun. It’s a joke to pull a trigger.”</span></i></div>
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At one point, the former mayor brought up New York City’s stop-and-frisk practices,
which gained national attention in 2011. Bloomberg said that during his last
year in office, a minister at a Baptist church in Harlem invited him to speak.</span></i></div>
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“While I’m sitting there waiting for him to introduce me, he said to his
congregation, ‘You know, if every one of you stopped and frisked your kid
before they went out at night, the mayor wouldn’t have to do it,’” Bloomberg
said. “And so I knew I was going to be okay with that audience.” </span></i></div>
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He was okay because he was in a room already thoroughly indoctrinated with the
kinds of poison the Democrats infest minority minds with. Liberal/Democrat
party ideology and policies are at the very root of the minority male ennui
Bloomberg here laments! I like the way</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Milwaukee County Sheriff David A Clarke
summed it up:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
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“You would have to absolutely loathe black people to want to keep them mired in
generational poverty and ignorance, living in ghettos with high unemployment,
with their kids shackled to failing K-12 urban school systems and crime-ridden
neighborhoods just to secure a permanent voting majority and to hang onto
political power.”<br />
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</span></i><span style="color: black;">When asked <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what the U.S. can do to get people out of poverty. Bloomberg responded
that conventional wisdom points to education, but education isn’t going to help
uneducated adults</i>.<br />
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Apparently Mr. Bloomberg has never heard of “Adult Education,” training
programs, or just the idea of acquiring skills to make oneself more marketable
on your own. Ironic when you consider he spoke about vocational education
earlier in the same forum. When you promote ideas like personal responsibility,
even in education, you may harm your constituency by raising them above their
need for leftist help. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mustn't</span> do
that!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Racist White liberals like Michael Bloomberg and their
indoctrinated, or equally evil black liberal minions in politics and
media—Spare no opportunity to preach the minority communities inferiority.
Teaching without fail minorities are incapable of competing with white folks
like them without their masters in government’s help.<br />
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So these at risk youths internalize the message the system is rigged against
them, even with a “Black” President and the massive amounts of wealth created
by black folks in the freest nation in the history of the world. Liberals twist,
change or flat out omit history and manipulate news stories in favor of
propaganda in order to inflame minorities, keeping them in a perpetual state of
perceived victim hood.<br />
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Liberals promote idleness every time they create new ways to reward the idle
with entitlements unattached to the simple dignity of work. They do this while
demonizing any philosophy suggesting personal responsibility or even
culpability amongst the idle. Anyone promoting, as the Holy Bible teaches that
charity begins at home, or If you are able-bodied and don’t work, you don’t
eat, is summarily pilloried.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.0pt;">And when ye reap the harvest of your
land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou
reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt
leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">am</span> the LORD your God.” Leviticus 23:22<br />
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</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The poor and
strangers had to come and gather the food for themselves, they had to work to
eat—God did not instruct the land owners to put the food in baskets and
distribute it—The dignity of the poor is maintained in this arrangement, it
even provides the needy the opportunity to ask for permanent employment when
thanking the landowner for following God’s instruction.<br />
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To the left, such an arrangement, asking the poor to offer some kind of work in
return for governmental largesse is somehow hateful and anti-charity and anti
aiding the poor, when largesse by it's very nature implies inferiority. After the inevitable deterioration of urban areas leads to
crime and violence, instead of addressing the root—Leftists like Bloomberg and
President Obama react by blaming guns, calling for their removal without
regarding the same tools usefulness in self-defense for those who are truly
victims.<br />
<br />
Liberalism creates those 15-25 year old male minorities so given to violence
and they are doing what idle young men of any variety have always done.<br />
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You want to put an end to urban hopelessness and violence? How about allowing
school vouchers, so parents can get their kids out of failing school systems?
Let them go to school with your family’s kids Mr. Bloomberg. After we remove
ourselves from the teacher’s unions protecting all those worthless urban
schools and properly educate our children—How about we unleash the free market?<br />
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Lets reform the horrific tax laws and ridiculous regulations designed by the left
to choke businesses. Let the free market work, creating plentiful jobs and
boundless innovation! Who cares how many immigrants want to come to our nation?
If the jobs are flowing, we will need them.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Taking your gun away is the ultimate means of controlling
you.<br />
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How about discontinuing the creation of narratives making law enforcement the
villain when dealing with criminality? Let’s stop turning criminals into
sympathetic characters—The Holy Bible rightly teaches <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“…the law is not made for a righteous man,
but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for
unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for
manslayers,”</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Don’t strong arm store owners, or illegally sell loose cigarettes
and you reduce your chances of running afoul of the law and being the “Victim”
of brutality. When white cops start to walk up as a matter of course and start
shooting black folks minding their own business—Ill be first in line with my
gun strapped on, to shout Black Lives Matter!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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Guns are not the problem, people like Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Barrack
Obama and Michael Bloomberg are the problem! Idleness does not always result in
urban brutality—When the white and wealthy are idle, they come up with ideas
like socialism. We used to call them Parlor Pinks or Pinkos. Then stupid people
of every kind buy into it.<br />
<br />
Folks are only able to sit around dreaming so-called <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3435131/Friends-girl-18-leukemia-sign-casket-loving-messages-final-goodbye-died-waiting-hospital-bed-shortage-Canada.html"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">“Progressive”</span></a> ideas
after capitalism creates the wealth allowing for idleness. Socialism is fueled
by capitalism, socialism has never created wealth, nor has it brought anyone
out of poverty—Ever! It does the exact opposite--it crushes prosperity and eats
at the soul.<br />
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Yet the left somehow believes what I call <a href="http://digitalpublius.blogspot.com/2013/03/us-socialism-and-politics-of-arms.html"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">U.S. Style Socialism</span></a>
will work when socialism without regard to nomenclature has never worked
anywhere. Tragically, so many of our mushy headed youth and a good number of
mature Americans believe Democratic Socialism, as espoused by Bernie Sanders
overtly and Hillary covertly is a viable economic idea. This is a testimony to
the effectiveness of leftist propaganda and control. There are no greater
racists and parlor pinks than Michael Bloomberg, Bernie Sanders and Hillary
Clinton, they represent the soft racism of low expectations and pandering—Every
time Clinton affects her quasi-southern, black dialect, at black churches or
events, she is calling minorities stupid.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">“<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for</span>
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Hmmmm…<br />
If the United States is so intrinsically evil, why do so many, from so many
disparate lands flee to these shores for succor? People immigrate to the U.S.
whether they are under duress, or simply in search of a dream; they come by
land, sea and air—often at great risk, enduring unimaginable hardships they
come.</div>
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If the policies of the United States of America around the
world and specifically in Islamic nations are the root cause of the enmity felt
towards us by Muslims, why do so many Muslims come to the shores of their
oppressor? When they are forced from their homes by warfare most commonly
between fellow Muslims, it would seem logical to flee to a more peaceful Islamic
land. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet in huge numbers, they come to
America.</div>
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If some Muslim immigrants truly blame the U.S. for the ills
plaguing their native lands, is it possible some in their number seek
vengeance? Is it possible some may be bent on harming us not just for perceived injustices, but driven by religious beleifs? If so, how do we
react? Does our desire to be a nation of inclusion at all costs amount to a sort
of suicide pact?</div>
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If the number of so-called “Radical Islamists” is so
infinitesimal, how are they able to control such huge amounts of land? Most in
the media refer to the terrorist organization known as Islamic State as ISIS or
the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, natively Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham.</div>
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President Obama, his State Department and the United Nations
prefer the term ISIL, referring to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant—In
Arabic al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi Iraq wa al-Sham. This appellation connotes a
land the Islamists seek to control much larger than Iraq and Syria, including southern
Turkey through Syria to Egypt; Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian territories and
Jordan. This may have already occurred ideologically amongst many Muslims in
the area if it is not yet so geographically.</div>
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Odd the President and the mainstream media are obsessed with
assuring us the radical’s numbers are small in the scheme of the larger Islamic
world. Yet he assigns them greater power and ambitions via the very term he
prefers to use when discussing IS.<br />
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If indeed Islam itself is not a threat to the rest of the world and the West in
particular, and few Muslims are in fact radicalized and are given to living
peaceably, why are there so many no-go zones for non-Muslims cropping up in the
United Kingdom and European cities?</div>
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The same simplistic leftists fond of blaming America’s
international boorishness for Islam’s hatred of the West prefer the term <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"DAESH,"
or Da'ish</span> to describe Islamic state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just an Arabic acronym for the group’s name, it is not an actual Arabic
word, but it sounds like an Arabic word which translates to “Tread On or Trample
Underfoot” Islamic State does not like the name at all, they truly abhor it.</div>
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If the left insists our bad behavior is responsible for
Islamic aggression and they object to antagonizing Islamists with cartoons of
the Qur’an’s prophet, why do they insist on taking a stick to the hornet’s nest
with a name they know the “Radical” Muslims revile?</div>
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If it is not our bad behavior and calling them names the
Islamists don’t like, why are we under attack? </div>
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If Climate Change, as President Obama infers is the true problem, was it
climate change prompting the Islamic conquest of Judea; Egypt, North Africa,
Spain, Portugal, a hunk of France; Greece, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan,
Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, what is today the United
Arab Emirates, southern Italy all by the mid 9<sup>th</sup> century? There was
no sizable push back until 1095AD and the first Crusade.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be
ye angry, and sin not, let not the sun go down upon your wrath:”</span></i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We read these words in the Biblical book
of Ephesians—A person can be angry without sin, anger is not evil when it is
aimed at sin and not kindled so much by persons. We can hate the sin of man whilst
still loving and praying for the man responsible for the sin against us.</span></div>
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before it can be fought against whether the warfare is spiritual or physical.
There is no evil in anger towards those who perpetrate horrific acts. Anger is
sinful when it is without cause and prompts actions exceeding due bounds. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“…let not the sun go down upon your wrath:” </i></b>This means your
anger is not to be perpetual. I don’t know of a nation in the history of the
world that has been more compassionate to her enemies than the United States.
If you harm us, we will give you a thumping, but we have always worked to
rebuild for our enemies once the fighting is done. Perhaps that is the reality
of America the world sees <i>above</i> the sins so many in our own nation seek to
accentuate.</div>
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The world sees more of the compassion of America than many
of the malcontented creatures enjoying her freedoms. I am reminded of Christian
apologist Ravi Zacharias’ anecdote recalling one of his erstwhile Indian
countrymen. The man said he so passionately wanted to come to America because he
desired to live in a land where even the poor are fat.</div>
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Such a land is worth protecting. Scrutinizing those who come
here is no sin. Circumspection is wisdom, especially in a time when there are
those declaratively resolved to do us grievous harm. <br />
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the leader of Islamic State, Tashfeen Malik, the female
terrorist involved in the dastardly San Bernardino massacre pledged her
allegiance to al-Baghdadi <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">after</i> our
nation opened wide her doors in hearty welcome, it is reported she was thoroughly
vetted, she seemed nice enough—it was the first Caliph Abu Bakr, the son in law
of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who started the 1500 years of Islamic aggression, the beginning of
which I summarized above. Failing to recognize the true nature of a threat does
not hasten its demise, nor protect the innocent be they Muslim or otherwise--rather
it emboldens our enemies.</div>
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So I just had my first opportunity to peruse the latest
issue of Popular Mechanics—It features a cover story on Ridley Scott’s new film
“The Martian.” The featured article begins with a sweeping description of Mars
as seen through the eyes of a denizen of the red planet. You feel like you’re
there yourself.<br />
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Then it struck me, this is speculative fiction being used to describe not the
actual surface of Mars, but rather the speculative fiction version of Mars
created for the film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No man has set
foot on Mars to know just how accurate our fantasies are.<br />
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NASA built the lunar lander with feet meant to stabilize it on what they
believed would be a very, very deep layer of dust on our satellite’s
surface–They believed the layer would be very deep based on the great age of
the universe evolutionary science is based on—speculation drove them. They were
surprised to find a very thin layer of dust arguing against great age.
Nevertheless in spite of practical data to the contrary great age is still
accepted.</div>
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I personally feel man should have long ago stood on the
surface of Mars. Alas, we don’t actually do great things in America any more;
our fantasies are far too strong. Why go to Mars when special effects have
reached the point they have? Spend hundreds of millions to make a film about
going to Mars in hopes of making billions, instead of spending billions to
actually go there.<br />
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Heck we can use those billions we saved not going to Mars to not actually do
anything here on Earth like feeding the hungry, or all the other things we are
supposed to think are more important than going to Mars. America has become a
nation so bogged down with what it should do; we don’t do much of anything.</div>
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The left in America likes it this way. Fantasy is the basis
of all liberal thinking—Rather than dealing with real issues, the left will
ever be more interested in the conjurations of feel good imaginings. Man-made
climate change is real despite all the data contradicting the computer models
their video games draw pixel by pixel like the latest from Pixar.<br />
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No amount of videos actually showing Planned Parenthood personnel discussing
illegal activity will dislodge the notion the right is prosecuting a war on
women’s rights. Doesn’t matter “Hands up don’t shoot” never happened, “Black
lives matter” even as we, (Black folks) kill ourselves in Old Testament numbers
on the streets and in the abortion clinics nation wide.<br />
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A boy named Ahmed dismantles a functioning digital clock, stuffing the contents
into a briefcase, takes it to school and is shocked when it is perceived as a
possible threat in 21<sup>st</sup> Century America. Liberals offer no end of
support to the set upon “Clockmaker,” anointing his Twitter feed, offering him
jobs and college tuition and trips to the White House–While pillorying another boy
for having the temerity to wear an American flag T-shirt under his hoody.</div>
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A Little boy chews a Pop Tart into the shape of a gun and
his parents have to hire legal help to get him back in school—But a suitcase
clock, carried into a school by a boy named Ahmed is an absurd thing to invite
scrutiny?<br />
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People are flocking to this nation from various other Americas, fleeing most
notably socialism and the crushing poverty the system creates—Yet one of the
leading candidates for the Democrats is an avowed socialist bent on
implementing many of the concepts Latin Americans are coming here to avoid.<br />
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Liberals for some reason think because Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama
presents an American style of socialism, it will somehow work when socialism
has never worked anywhere. This in the face of data demonstrating capitalism,
particularly American style capitalism has, educated, fed and lifted more
people out of said crushing poverty than any other thing in the history of the
world.</div>
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Hillary Clinton goes further than even Richard Nixon dared
to go during the Watergate scandal, which cost him the Presidency, she actually
destroyed data—Data rightfully belonging to the American people, yet she is the
victim of a “Vast rightwing conspiracy,” not someone engaged in shenanigans far
more egregious than anything General David Petraeus was involved in.<br />
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Surah 9:29 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor
hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor
acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the
Book, </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Christians and Jews)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> until they pay the Jizya </i>(Humiliation
tax<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">) with willing submission, and feel
themselves subdued.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Qur’an teaches three options for
the world—Submit to Islam by converting, be killed, or pay a tax to live
amongst Muslims without harassment—If you do not pay the tax or convert, you
are back to death. This is the very definition of compulsion.<br />
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Contrast that with the teachings of Christ on the same subject of
proselytizing, Matthew 10: <br />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>5 </sup>These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them,
saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the
Samaritans enter ye not:</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>6 </sup>But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>7 </sup>And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven
is at hand.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>8 </sup>Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead,
cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>9 </sup>Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your
purses,</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>10 </sup>Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats,
neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>11 </sup>And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter,
enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>13 </sup>And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon
it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>14 </sup>And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your
words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your
feet.</i></b></div>
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Which of the two philosophies are consistent with a
tolerant, freedom and liberty respecting representational republic as
established by the Constitution of the United States of America? The answer is
obvious to the rational, grounded in reality and truth.<br />
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For the Democrat, to compare and contrast faiths is to represent not truth, but
rather intolerance—I wrote in an article years back: “…<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it
does not follow that because we have religious freedom in America, all faiths
are equally valid, or are equally useful in determining American morality or political
thought."</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The wanton barbarity
of those who follow the Qur'an strictly and the tragic state of affairs in
Islamic nations, who base their laws on the Qur'an's brand of morality, stand
as a testament to this truth, particularly as it pertains to human rights.”</i></div>
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Many of the world’s fugitives are fleeing Islamic states
whose rule of law is based on the teachings of that very faith. So why is it
wrong for Ben Carson to suggest Islam is inconsistent with American “Values and
principles?” The answer is simple; the left cares more about the idea of
tolerance than the principle in action.<br />
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Just like they care more about things we can’t do a thing
about, like Climate Change to a point where they advocate for policies driving
the price of energy up, effecting the poor they pretend to care about much more
than their rich heroes like Al Gore and President Obama who do as they will
energy wise.<br />
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For the leftist, the pragmatic honesty of Ben Carson is seen as an evil rather
than a virtue—principles are abstract concepts with no place in everyday life.
If men are from Mars, women from Venus, liberal democrats are from Barsoom—a
fictionalized version of a real place much like Scott’s film—Bound by the idols
and narratives they create.<br />
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Isaiah 44:<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>15 </sup>Then
shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea,
he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he
maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>16 </sup>He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part
thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth
himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>17 </sup>And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his
graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it,
and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>18 </sup>They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut
their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot
understand.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>19 </sup>And none considereth in his heart, neither is there
knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea,
also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten
it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to
the stock of a tree?</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>20 </sup>He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned
him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my
right hand?</i></b></div>
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Digital Publius<br /><br />P.S. today's right is not much better sadly, a field full of authentic conservatives and our front runner is a ersatz republican, or progressive glorified pitch man.<br />
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If I say: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I cannot
stand the music Beyoncé’ puts out, it lacks artistic merit.” </i>And you say: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I love Beyoncé’s music, I think it’s
brilliant.”</i> I have no problem with saying: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“We’ll have to agree to disagree on Beyoncé’.”</i> If I say: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”</i> And
you insist the old saw is instead: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“1493
Columbus sailed the deep blue sea.” </i>I am objectively and demonstrably
right, there is no room for you to disagree.<br />
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If we are both history teachers, we cannot proceed to create a course of study
until <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> accept Columbus’ first
voyage took place in the year 1492. To do so would be a disservice to our
students—we must be on one accord founded upon facts. </div>
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Unless of course you have your own agenda, one where you
stand to gain through discord. Then you <i>must</i> insist not only on being allowed
to think whatever you like about history without regard to facts, I also in your
eyes must declare your false history equally valid to the truth.<br />
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The false narrative then becomes more important than advancement. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is always the case when the narrative
itself is based on the subjective rather than simple truth. There can be no
unity apart from objectivity. If we cannot all <i>agree to agree </i>on what is
objectively true, there can be no progress! This is why the hell-bound paths
liberals lead people down are paved with seemingly good, but almost always-wrongheaded
intentions.</div>
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That in a nutshell is why liberals or “Progressives” always
fail—they trumpet the idea of diversity—but they trample on the idea of unity
in diversity. They rebel against the very idea of E Pluribus Unum, <i>"Out of many,
one." </i>The left prefers out of many…many.</div>
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Allow me to abridge what I just wrote, “Progressives” do not
always fail, they are brilliant at dividing people, using diversity as a wedge,
sometimes a cudgel to foment the grievances keeping people from actually
uniting so the liberals can maintain their own ends.<br />
<br />
America is weaker than she has ever been not because we are more diverse than
ever before, but because we have elements today insisting on selling the idea
all cultures and traditions are equally valid and should be celebrated and
included. We love our hyphens today—We can’t simply be Americans.<br />
<br />
Today, many can’t even come together in the sacrament of marriage without hyphenating
names. If these diverse cultures we are to celebrate and accept as equally
valid are so great, why do they not produce societies their natives desire to
stay in? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the American culture is not
objectively superior to the ones their traditions and ethnicities created, why
do so many diverse peoples flock here?<br />
<br />
Why do we have the border crisis so many people, so many children are now
suffering through? People from all over the world are fleeing nations where
there is scarcely any diversity. Hondurans are fleeing other Hondurans, Iraqis fleeing
other Iraqis…</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” Amos 3:3</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">my</span> Father are
one.” John 10:30</i></b></div>
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The number three represents the triune God of the Holy
Bible, in fact no number represents unity and strength more than three, so it
is no wonder God arranged Scripture so two of the most important verses on unity
fall where their Biblical addresses are threes and multiples of three, that’s
just how God rolls.<br />
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In Genesis chapter eleven the third verse, man unites and decides to build a
tower to reach heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In verse six,
(incidentally the number six is the number of man) God says: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…Behold,
the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do:
and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.</i></b></div>
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What the people were doing at this point was a bad thing in
God’s eyes I won’t go into that here, but it forced Him to split them up, the
point I am making is that God declares there is nothing man cannot accomplish
when we are united not just by location, but in purpose. We can all be in the
United States, but if we are not united culturally, in purpose, we are weak.<br />
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In Genesis and Leviticus God teaches Israel and by extension, those of us who
love Israel’s God, should welcome strangers to our lands and treat them well
while they are among us. But they are not partakers of the covenants of our
land if they do not willingly join themselves to our traditions and way of life
we see it again in Isaiah 56:<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>1</sup>
Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near
to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>2 </sup>Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of
man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and
keepeth his hand from doing any evil.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>3 </sup>Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined
himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his
people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>4 </sup>For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my
sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>5 </sup>Even unto them will I give in mine house and within
my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give
them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>6 </sup>Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves
to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his
servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold
of my covenant;</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup>7 </sup>Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make
them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of
prayer for all people.</i></b></div>
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For all people God says, but not if you want to do your own
thing! Bring your Shawarma, Enchiladas and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pad see ew, they become things Americans eat, they become American food.
Bring your acrobatics, your martial arts and merengue, they become American
skills -- But offer them as Americans unattached to whatever flags you left
behind. Don’t join yourself to America if the American flag offends you.<br />
<br />
Don’t look for anything other than courtesy amongst us if you wish to keep
yourself divided. If you follow the laws of the land and become a citizen, be
an American—Learn English, participate, keep your old flags to yourselves, be
they from Ireland, Mexico or Narnia.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A melting pot leads
to a stronger alloy, the left’s salad leaves elements that you can take or
leave—a salad still prompts people to say yuck, I don’t like tomatoes or Puerto
Ricans… If your leaders are constantly reinforcing differences and stoking the
flames of racial and cultural discord to garner votes and secure power for them
instead of securing our borders to protect all Americans, you need new leaders.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
I don’t often lean on bromides, but it seems terribly appropriate these days, America,
love it, or leave it!<br />
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Digital Publius</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I had a conversation on
a friend’s Facebook page that ended with the main person I was engaged with
stating: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“You believe in what you believe
(and post) and so do I... Have good day.” [sic]</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">That statement is
emblematic of where our society has devolved to—it is as stark an example of
the 2<sup>nd</sup> law of thermo dynamics at work sociologically as you are
likely to find. Every system not isolated will tend towards disorder—there is
no more powerful agent of disorder in a society than a disregard for objective
truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">If what you believe
disagrees with the truth, you are simply wrong. Two people can believe
something and both be in error, the two having missed the truth, but they can
never both be right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">People today are more
concerned with being right, or at least being perceived as right, than with
objective truth or even the very idea of right and wrong. How does one
determine what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> right or wrong
absent demonstrable truth? It seems to me, right and wrong is of little value
in modern America, having given way to what works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Have you ever read an
actual historical account, or seen a film set in the past depicting an instance
where a fellow is accused of lying and is willing to fight a duel to the death
against his accuser to uphold his honor? That is how great a value the truth
held in the past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Today, most people would
think a person mad if he were willing to risk his life to prove he was honest.
That’s because ethics today are no longer tied to truth but rather situations. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Contemporaneously </span>the subjective has supplanted the objective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">For multitudes in modern
America, even the God revealed in the Holy Bible is limited to the reader's opinion—This
is why people so often say things like: “That is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">your</i> interpretation of Scripture, not mine.” The idea the Holy
Bible actually means what it says is horrifying to a person more interested in
his idea of what a god ought to be, rather than who the Holy God of Revelation says He is, let alone what He reveals about His character and nature. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Man left to his
druthers, prefers a god reconciled to his values, his idea of justice, as
opposed to reconciling himself to God. No room for an immutable, inflexible God
telling you what is good or bad. <br />
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I have often said it takes a great deal more faith than I can muster to believe
in a god of my own imagining instead of the God who says <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I am the way, and the truth and
the life...”</i></b> Today, even God must agree with fashion or He is
disregarded, no room for Biblical statements like: <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Thy
word <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> true <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">from</span> the beginning: and every one of
thy righteous judgments <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">endureth</span>
for ever.” Psalm 119:160</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The end justifies the
means—if you get the desired result, does it matter if what you desire is right
or wrong? If you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">believe</i> your
intention is noble does it make it so? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Can you be a nation of
laws without a healthy respect for the truth? Lawlessness was ever the
handmaiden of disorder. In answer to a question, I told a person Adam and Eve
in the simplest of terms were cast out of Eden, the perfect paradise God
prepared for man, because they broke the rules. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The fellow derisively
laughed and flippantly responded: “There are rules in paradise?” I freely
confess I was stunned into an awkward silence by this educated man’s shallowness. I couldn’t believe
anyone with a brain could think perfection capable of existing apart from order—order
is a self-evident result of rules.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">It takes discipline to
submit to the truth, this is why it is so unpopular a concept. Truth takes
judgment, judgment means responsibility for the truth and to the Giver of truth
and who wants that? Clearly not the current President of the United States and
his administration, Mr. Obama seldom allows the proverbial buck to stop
anywhere in his vicinity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">George W. Bush did
things I did not like and made his share of errors, but he never ran from them.
He dubbed himself the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Decider</span>-In-<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chief” </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and stood by
his decisions and took responsibility for what occurred on his watch. President
Obama? Not so much.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Be it, Solyndra, Fast and Furious, the IRS, the NSA, Benghazi, the VA or
the chaos building in our border states stemming from him and his Justice
Department deciding which laws they will or will not enforce guided by
self-interest and politics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We have children in
droves pouring over our borders from Latin America because they are being told America is no
longer interested in discouraging lawlessness when it comes to immigration. The
left pretends to care for the poor even as they act to increase the number of
poor people in America and by doing so they are increasing the pressure on the poor
already here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The poor are the left’s
bread and butter, the more poverty they can create through their calculated Hagelian chaos the better. The left’s energy strategy, economic and immigration schemes
are designed to keep the poor, in need. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Increasing the pressure
on energy producing entities has no effect on the rich like Al Gore, or Barack
Obama when they result in rising costs—it is the poor who struggle to find the
extra money they need to heat their homes and drive their cars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">If the left manages to
increase the minimum wage, it will just be used to offset the
rising costs associated with the President’s war on traditional energy. Racial
identity and class warfare remain the tools the left uses to maintain power,
loving the poor in word only. Yet those who are motivated to support the left
politically seem to miss the truth, the irrefutable fact misery is increasing with the
amount of governmental largesse the left heaps on them from on high. </span></div>
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I am reminded of the words of the Lord’s Apostle when he said: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“My
little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in
truth.” 1 John 3:18</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Truth, that unblinking,
cold judge so easily ignored when discipline gives way to selfish immediacy,
pride and lust in all the ways lust manifests. This is the reason modern
America is shackled to chaos in government and Americans themselves are yoked
to discord—no more common truth.<br />
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Truth cannot be common when truth is now subjective, driven by a refusal to
accept moral absolutes. Why should the President keep the laws he himself
signs? Why not act unilaterally and trade five terrorists for one soldier of
dubious distinction? Keeps the folks from asking about veterans dying while
waiting 90 days to see a doctor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">That is how the unseen
hand works it’s magic. I’ll stick with Revelation and the God, revealed
therein, I recommend you do the same! It may not be politically correct, but it
has the virtue of being true.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“…If
ye continue in my word, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">then</span>
are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall
make you free. Matthew 8:31,32</i></b></span></div>
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Digital Publiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03875031906283264215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2387122188014119814.post-12375009483053143312014-05-13T17:29:00.001-04:002014-05-13T17:29:15.655-04:00Comrade God
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><i>I wrote this article several years ago on my old DP blog before the advent of Obamacare--One of the things you often find useful when you've written a blog as long as I have now, (especially when it comes to answering the tired arguments the liberals regurgitate from some website, or equally bad scholarship flowing from shallow minds) is that you have pretty much covered everything they gleefully toss out as if it is earth shattering revelation.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>At no time is this behavior from leftist more unfortunate, than when they cherry pick some verse of Scripture out of context, believing it bolsters their woefully ill-informed opinions. They cannot seem to grasp Scripture is a whole and it bears witness for itself. All that to say, I am re-posting this for my new friend and readers who may have missed it in the past to arm you with what you need to overturn this particular leftist fallacy! </i></span><br /><br />Last December I wrote an article titled
“Capitalism for Dum Dums” in an attempt to shed light on the leftist’s
propensity for perpetually clinging to failed economic models, particularly as
it pertains to their distressing healthcare schemes. Think of this article as
“Theology for Dum Dums”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">For those of us clinging to a rational view of
reality and history, not rendered pie-eyed by the intoxicating rhetoric of
utopian collectivists sitting about campfires singing Puff the Magic Dragon and
reeking of Patchouli Oil, we know that socialism does not work. Whether it is
“The Peoples” farm and toilet paper factory, or universal healthcare, it all
invariably collapses, primarily driven by a spirit fostering sluggardly
behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The more adventurous leftists, the ones more
likely to refer to themselves as “progressives” even hazard a go at selling
socialized medicine, even socialism proper, by means of the Holy Bible. They
try to accomplish this most often by quoting from the second book of the Acts
of the Apostles, verse 44,45:</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“And all that believed were together,
and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted
them to all men, as every man had need.”</span></b></i><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">This would appear to be a compelling argument
for socialism on the surface for those inclined towards that sort of
tomfoolery. Though, “ as every man had need” suggests that this was not an even
distribution of resources, some obviously had less need. The problem with
secular leftist Bible experts is that they do not apprehend and cannot
comprehend that the Spirit driving acts like the ones depicted in Acts 2:44,45
is just that, spiritual. I like the way the great theologian Matthew Henry puts
it:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“The greatness of the event raised
them above the world, and the Holy Ghost filled them with such love, as made
every one to be to another as to himself, and so made all things common, not by
destroying property, but doing away selfishness, and causing charity.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We see the behavior in Acts 2 repeated in Acts
4. Lets look at the whole thing in context:</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">And when they had prayed, the place
was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with
the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. And the multitude
of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of
them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all
things common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. Neither was there any
among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold
them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down
at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he
had need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acts 4:31-35</span></b></i><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">So we see these people were filled with the
Holy Ghost, the very Spirit of God. Inspired by the resurrection of the Lord,
these saints were convicted to lovingly act in concern for the welfare of their
brothers. This was a voluntary action not an obligatory one and therein lays
the power. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">What we see in Acts, is the ultimate
manifestation of Christian fellowship, what is mine, is yours and I share it, the
ultimate in “mi casa es su casa”. Socialism says what is yours is mine and I’ll
take it, an entirely different paradigm, a different Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, the liberal who favors big
government says; you can’t be trusted to do what’s right with what you have, so
we’ll do it for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The goal in the Acts of the Apostles was not to
bring about social or economic justice, this would nullify the Bible’s
teachings on sowing and reaping taught with regularity throughout scripture. In
fact we are given a harsh lesson in the hypocrisy of false giving in the story
of Ananias and Saphira in the very first few lines of Acts chapter five
immediately following the liberals celebrated “all things in common” verses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The Apostles were not in the habit of
subsidizing those who could work but refused to, as illustrated by Paul.</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“For even when we were with you, this
we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we
hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all,
but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord
Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. But ye,
brethren, be not weary in well doing. And if any man obey not our word by this
epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be
ashamed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet count him not as an enemy,
but admonish him as a brother.” II Thessalonians 3:10-15</span></b></i><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The fact that the first century church was not
a communal society is further illustrated in I Timothy:</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“ Honour widows that are widows
indeed. But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew
piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable
before God. Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and
continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. 3:3-5</span></b></i><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We see here that it is family that is foremost
responsible for the welfare of its own. If families take care of their own
needy, Paul shows they will not be an unnecessary burden on the church, or, to
take it further, society on the whole. This of course still requires the
spiritual component; you have to have a heart for God. Paul says trust in God
and His people. The progressive says trust in the state to do what is right
with what it takes from you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">If Christ, the Apostles and the early church were socialist like
so many leftists purport, they were not very good ones. If Christ were to
appear in Communist China or Cuba and began teaching the parable of the <u style="text-underline: #000099;"><span style="color: #000099;">“Laborers in the
vineyard” Matthew 20:1-16</span></u> , the <u style="text-underline: #000099;"><span style="color: #000099;">“Pounds” Luke 19:11-27</span></u> or God forbid the<u style="text-underline: #000099;"><span style="color: #000099;"> “Ten Talents”
Matthew 25:14-30</span></u> were Jesus Christ begins; “For the kingdom of
heaven is as...” and goes on to share a lesson on capitalism that would make
Donald Trump blush. It is safe to say they would find themselves in a
re-education camp at or even more likely up against a pitted wall before you
could say Trotsky three times fast. Come to think of it, that’s exactly what
happens to people in those places who teach those parables.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">You would think that socialist societies would
be more welcome to the teachings of comrade Jesus. No, only the fevered mind of
the most dedicated progressive liberal can perceive socialism in the Good News.
This is made possible by eyes covered with the cataracts of ideology dimly
focused on the teachings of the God quite often they don’t even believe in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">What we find in socialist experiments in
history, are that the results of forced and often times indiscriminate
redistribution of resources, delivered into the hands of a flawed oligarchy
whatever nomenclature is in vogue, leads inevitably to waste and lack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">This is in strong contradiction to the God of
the Holy Bible who is conspicuous in His blessing of those who are wise,
industrious, and generous. Unlike many of the Eastern philosophies, we who
follow Christ are not taught to forsake the physical, but, we are to be mindful
that God is less concerned with the physical and temporal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Christ preached the Kingdom of God above all
else and that is eternal and heavenly. He did not teach dependence upon secular
government for anything, including universal healthcare in any permutation. It
may not be progressive by today’s standards, but it is still true.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">“Evil always wins through the strength of its
splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between
abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.” – G. K. Chesterton</span></i><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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We on the right have used the term <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Useful
Idiots"</i> in describing the overwhelming majority of liberals for a very
long time—The irony that so many liberals take offense to this term is
highlighted by the fact it was allegedly coined to describe <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">them</i> by the very socialists whose programs they work so feverishly
to ape in their own country. Personally, I prefer Chesterton's </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">splendid dupes, </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">it's so much more poetic</span></span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The reality of what these splendid dues
have truly wrought is only now becoming crystal clear to me in a more than
simply academic sense! There is no escape from the leftist mindset for the liberal/useful
idiot apart from coming to a saving knowledge of Christ! This nation is in serious trouble because so much of
our citizenry has been so successfully and unwittingly subverted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Nowhere is this brought
into full relief in so pronounced a fashion than the so-called "Black
Church." Once bastions of morality and spiritual growth, our churches have
renounced objective Biblical revelation in favor of a social and racial
identity gospel obsessed with "Breakthroughs" as opposed to
discipling and teaching the moral tenets of a sovereign God. More occupied with
spreading self help than the gospel of Christ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">You can attend some black or
liberal churches for years and never hear a sermon denouncing abortion or the gay
agenda one time--hard to speak against these things from the Holy Bible while
you are standing in the pulpit encouraging support for the party most actively engaged in furthering
those causes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Many pastors are not
recognizing the gospel they preach is another gospel, reducing God to a genie
in a bottle granting wishes <i>if</i> believers have enough "Faith," praying
their own will be done instead of His will! Ignoring Scriptures like <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"He
is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words,
whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of
men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is
godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great
gain." 1 Timothy 6:4-6</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Socialism is one of the
most pernicious forms of mammon and much of our nation has made their choice as
to whom they serve whether they are aware of it or not--The election of Barack
Obama, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">twice</i>, bears witness to that
fact. Most of these </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">splendid dupes</span></span> have no idea they are socialists, I have said
before, American socialism is a newer mutation of the
same bacillus, just renamed "Progressivism." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Socialism by it's very
nature is ungodly, not only because it is needful to undermine belief in a Creator God,
(The state becomes your god in socialist societies) but because it cannot exist
apart from force! The God of the Holy Bible teaches personal responsibility and
free will concerning charity, or the decision to follow Him. Nowhere does it
teach dependence upon the largesse of men and man's constructs. When God is
your source, you make for a poor "Progressive" because you have
chosen to serve the Creator and not the creation.<br />
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The establishment leadership of the Republican Party is largely on the left
side of the political divide as well in modern America. This is "We the People's" fault, we have been less than
vigilant and poor stewards of what God has given us, squandering what the founders of this once proud nation established! We've
exchanged faith and freedom for “Hope”, “Change” and “Progress” without
understanding you can’t have the high-minded ideals of the latter three without
the virtue that is the product of the former. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We are seeing the utter lack of virtue derived from hope, change and progress becoming detached
from faith and freedom. In fact, virtue itself is seldom celebrated today. How can your ideas be thought progressive when they
have lead only to more dependence upon government?<br />
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The only hope the left’s ideas encourage in people is that the state’s coffers
don’t run dry before they get their entitlements. Surely not a hope in a
brighter tomorrow—How can your tomorrow be brighter if you do not control your
own affairs, without the self-respect that comes from independence?<br />
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That isn’t the “Change” I want, not for me and certainly not for my children.
What I hear from today’s youth is the parabolic opposite of hope. When you see
students interviewed at leftist protests, you see despair, they have no confidence in what can
be accomplished by them in the future.<br />
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All they want to do is tear down without regard to replacing what they have
razed to the ground. What will fill the void of the system they find so revolting
even as they rush to consume the iPhones, lattes and computers that system
makes possible? Who will innovate in the future when there is no capital to
fuel ideas? What motivates those dependent upon government to innovate at all
apart from force? How good is forced innovation apart from natural inspiration
flowing from the possibility of self-advancement?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">As the establishment
Republican leadership breaks their collective backs bending over to compromise
with an unyielding and determined left, here is food for thought, followed by a
question: The socialist’s </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">splendid dupe/useful idiot</span></span> so prevalent on TV, in Hollywood, academia and right
next-door could not have been an effective tool without the passive somnambulance
characterizing the right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The right passively
sleepwalks past the socialist teaching his kids to subtly and often overtly
hate America. Which is more catastrophic for our future?<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“For
when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon
them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” I
Thessalonians 5:3</i></b></span></div>
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</style><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I hadn’t intended on
commenting on the Donald Sterling, Los Angeles Clippers story in any meaningful
way…until the NBA issued a life long ban on the tragically unenlightened Mr.
Sterling, with the intent of forcing him to sell his franchise. This is
extremely dangerous in an Orwellian sense. I’ll be brief.<br />
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The NBA Commissioner Adam Silver stated: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The
views expressed by Mr. Sterling are deeply offensive and harmful. That they
came from an NBA owner only heightens the damage and my personal outrage.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">What the adulterous
Sterling said in confidence to his equally adulterous paramour is indeed
offensive to me as well, though it does me no personal harm—his racist views
are no more so because he owns an NBA team. I am personally more disturbed by
the reality that what I say in a private moment can be recorded and then used
to strip me of my property. This is a direct assault on Constitutionally protected free speech and property rights.<br /><br />I freely confess to not knowing whether there are provisions in NBA ownership agreements that may have been violated by Mr. Sterling when his private words were made manifest--As an American, I am suspect of this sort of force. <br />
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It is an easy thing to protect speech we agree with, however, the nation’s
character is best defined by how we react to speech we disagree with. This is
the plumb line that trues the worth of a totally free society. There is no
inherent right not to be exposed to the repugnant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">If we look at the
history of American professional sports with an honest eye, beginning with
Kenny Walker breaking the color line in the National Football League and then
Jackie Robinson a year later in Major League Baseball, do you think all those
owners bigotry dissolved after those moments? The other owners followed suit
because it made economic sense to do so, not because they suddenly saw how despicable
they had been.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">There are very real
consequences to all of our actions, but let us not be hypocrites! I have heard
just about every black person I know say some very racist things about whites
in private conversation—things they would not like their employers in corporate
America to be privy to, including at times similar views on interracial
relationships.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I have no problem with fines, but the consequences in the
aftermath of Donald Sterling’s loathsome private views made public concerning ownership, should be
decided by just that, the public. Not through bureaucratic force, but rather
the marketplace. If you are sincerely outraged or “Damaged” by Sterling’s
views, don’t go to Clippers games while he is the owner.<br />
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If the Staples Center is empty whenever the Clippers are in residence, or
whenever they play on the road people stay away in droves, the marketplace will
speak firmly: <i>“Bigotry is profoundly frowned upon by decent folk.”</i> If the
marketplace does not respond by staying away, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that </i>will in fact speak even more loudly of where the nation is on interracial
romantic relationships and our tolerance for racist ideology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">If Sterling had said
these things publically, it would indeed be damaging for the NBA. But that a
bigot exists in professional sports is not the least bit shocking. Bigotry,
without regard to race creed or color is symptomatic of man’s fallen nature and
if you have prejudices like those expressed by Sterling in your heart it is a
sure sign of being a reprobate.<br />
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This is true whether it manifests as Sterling’s brand of overt racism, or a more subtle overall
obsession with your racial identity to the point it blinds you to the faults within
yourself or your own group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">If you don’t like what
Sterling said don’t tune into Clippers playoff games, don’t go to the games. If
the best players choose to take a large salary to play for him, the money is
more important to them than their principles. If the best players of any race refuse
to play for him, if people don’t support his team—he will have to sell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">That is how you decide
how your speech should be regulated, not by bureaucrats, but by the public’s
actions—simply banning him for his wrongheaded beliefs takes away a person’s
right to hold wrongheaded beliefs—no change will occur, just more bitterness.<br />
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The NBA’s reaction to Sterling’s private comments made public reminds me of the
Words of the Lord: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside
of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and
wickedness.” Luke 11:39</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don’t know that there is anyone in God’s little acre more devoted to a brand than I am to Coca Cola. That being said, the nation’s soda of record almost drove me into the far less potable arms of Pepsi Cola after seeing the dreadful Super Bowl ad they inflicted upon the world last night. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coke hit exactly the wrong note! Now before I am dubbed the Grand High Shahu of Xenophobia—I can assure you I am one who delights in all manner of ethnic diversity! However, if I may wax in the vernacular: “Last time I looked, this here was the United States of America!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sort of leftist propaganda the carbonated corporate giant indulged in with their new ad, is precisely the rhetoric playing a key role in the growing racial unrest unfortunately sweeping the whole of Europe and the United Kingdom as group after group refuses to be engrafted—The woefully wrongheaded notion that multiculturalism must denounce an expectation of assimilation. It makes one wonder why they left their native lands if they do not want to be a part of the land they immigrated to? It really is the apex of conceit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The official language of the United States and the language of commerce are English. It is entirely possible to celebrate the wonderful unity our nation engenders under a flag that proudly waves above anyone who wishes to be a part of her, without enabling those unwilling to learn a common tongue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A mélange need not lose it’s savor, as it blends in, it enhances the whole—homogenization brings differing elements together, makes them stable and keeps them from separating. This is the beauty of American republicanism!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The left seems to prefer Babel, a lack of linguistic understanding as they promote by indulging those who refuse to make an effort to learn English, serves only to repel—it makes it much easier to divide and conquer, to keep groups apart! How do you sow understanding if people are not on the same page? How can we be on the same page if we can’t communicate? How do you build trust?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coke could have made a wonderful statement simply by having all of those various peoples unite in a common language and desire to indulge in that most lovely of elixirs—Have them all in English saying: “Hi, have a Coke and a smile!” You then celebrate diversity in a way that promotes the nation’s variety without discord! Harmonious voices—“Enjoy Coca Cola,” not a cacophony!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>“Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.” Romans 12:16</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Today I shall be brief
as I have my wits about me! When I see the President of the United States of
America stating:<br />
<br />
<i>“As has been well documented, I smoked
pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from
the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my
adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.”<br />
<br />
</i>My parental head explodes! Firstly, allow me to establish that this posting
is not an invitation to debate the legalization of pot rendered to every
leftist Liberal and or Libertarian plying their trade across the Internet. I am
not interested in your opinion on the subject in the least—I have heard the
arguments!<br />
<br />
This is I, as a parent, expressing my contempt for a President who would disembowel
all the efforts made to keep our children away from drug experimentation. I do
not want my children smoking pot!<br />
<br />
When you say: <i>I don’t think it is more
dangerous than alcohol. </i>You are half right, you in fact don’t think! As for
the actual science regarding marijuana use, your whitehouse.gov website as
recently as the 27<sup>th</sup> of this month featured an article submitted by
the US government’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) in support
of the National Association of School
Nurses' Position on the Legalization of Marijuana<b> </b>which states
without equivocation: <br />
<br />
<i>Given research indications that marijuana
is harmful to the developing brain<a href="" name="_ftnref1">, [1]</a> we are
especially concerned about the repercussions of use on the health, safety, and
education of adolescents. On January 27, 2014, based on overwhelming scientific
evidence, the <a href="http://www.nasn.org/">National Association of School
Nurses</a> (NASN) Board of Directors adopted an official position <a href="" name="_ftnref2">statement [2]</a> outlining the negative impact of marijuana
legalization on the health of students. ONDCP supports NASN in bringing
attention to this issue.</i><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<a href="" name="_ftn1"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">1. </span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> Meier MH, Caspi
A, Ambler A, Harrington H, Houts R, Keefe RS, McDonald K, Ward A, Poulton R, Moffitt
TE. Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from
childhood to midlife. <i>Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A</i>. 2012, Aug 27.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">2. It is the opinion of
the NASN that marijuana is properly categorized by the DEA under Schedule 1 of
the Controlled Substance Act. NASN recognizes the overwhelming evidence that
“any change in the legal status of marijuana, even if limited to adults, could
affect the prevalence of use among adolescents.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This article has now
been wrongheadedly removed because the White House is now more concerned with
backing the ill-informed statements of the President than its charge to render
sound, useful information on the truth about substance abuse to the American
public.<br />
<br />
The NASN’s position is bolstered when you consider the Democrat Governor of
Vermont’s <a href="http://governor.vermont.gov/newsroom-state-of-state-speech-2013">State of
the State Address</a> was almost entirely focused on the increase in opiate use
in his state. This is the same Governor who signed the law last June
decriminalizing pot use in Vermont. Lets just ignore the whole gateway drug
argument though right? Even though the good Governor stated:<br />
<br />
<i>• In 2013, there were twice as many
federal indictments against heroin dealers than in the prior two years, and
over five times as many as had been obtained in 2010. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">• Last year, we had nearly double the number of
deaths in Vermont from heroin overdose as the prior year. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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So when you, the so-called “Coolest President Ever” says regarding legalization
in Colorado and elsewhere: <i>“it’s
important for it to go forward because it’s important for society not to have a
situation in which a large portion of people have at one time or another broken
the law and only a select few get punished."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">And that pot is <i>no more dangerous than alcohol</i>, what
kids hear is the President saying pot is no big deal effectively throwing
parental warnings against a harmful substance given in concern for their
children under the bus.<br />
<br />
As for the POTUS on pot, well I for one will thank you to think before making
statements unsupported by actual facts on an issue as important as drug use Mr.
Obama. Educate yourself so you can serve the people and not your ideology—Until
then, please keep your benighted, adolescent choom addled opinions to yourself
President Toke!<br />
<br />
<b><i>Woe
unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and
light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe
unto them that are wise
in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20,21</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lifting the suspension on Phil Robertson and the Gay Lobby losing their bid to
see him silenced--the liberal media has begun framing the aftermath, leading
with: <i>"...comments made by Robertson about AFRICAN AMERICANS and
homosexuality..."</i> </span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Suddenly black folks are
getting the lead emphasis, when before, the Duck Dynasty star’s comments about
race in the GQ Magazine interview which sparked the controversy, where rarely
mentioned, if mentioned at all, but never first. When Robertson’s ham-fisted
and misguided observations on the Jim Crow South were referenced, it was an
aside: <i>"And don't forget what he said about black folks."</i></span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Racism against black
folks, ever the fallback position for leftists when the more important issue to
them has failed to achieve the desired result. Of the two groups, the one
currently enjoying primacy on the left is obvious. Particularly when you
consider President Obama, the head of the party, has spent far more time and
energy addressing the LBGT agenda, than the issues plaguing the black
community.</span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you Google: “Obama
addresses LGBT,” You will actually get an untold multitude of results with
titles like: <i>“President Obama Addresses LGBT Youth While on Higher
Education Tour” – “Obama Addresses 3,000 LGBT Advocates in Video Message.” –
“Days after his historic inaugural speech, Obama addresses national conference
for LGBT equality.”</i></span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We even see: “<i>Obama
Addresses LGBT Community During Morehouse College Graduation.”</i><b> </b>It
seems, as pointed out by The Huffington Post; <i>“President Barack Obama
made sure that his speech during the spring 2013 commencement ceremony at
Georgia's Morehouse College was inclusive.</i></span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Atlanta-based
historically black private college is exclusively for men, but Obama
spontaneously referenced gay and lesbian Americans, as The Advocate notes.”</span></i><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So even while delivering
a commencement speech at a historically black college, the President fit the
LGBT agenda into the mix—but I didn’t find references to the issues hampering
the advancement of the black community peppered into his exclusive addresses to
the LGBT community. Heck, you will even see: <i>“First Lady Michelle Obama
To Address LGBT DNC Luncheon.” </i>These were all pulled from the top of
the results and all just from 2013.</span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you Google: “<i>Obama
addresses the black Community” </i>You find him telling Black Enterprise
Magazine: <i>“I’m not the president of black America.” – “Obama Needs A
Plan To Help Black America, Say Activists, Economists” – “President Obama to
Address Frustrated Congressional Black Caucus”</i></span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 13.5pt;">At the bottom of the page
I found: “</span><i style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 13.5pt;">Obama addresses 'crisis' of absent fathers in the
black community,” </i><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 13.5pt;">an article appearing on The Grio dated 2009—But
it was not a specific address, just a mention made in the midst of an address
given on the importance of fatherhood in America in general, not the
pandemic illegitimate birth rate that has achieved the status
of "New Normal" in the black community.</span><i style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 13.5pt;"> </i><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 13.5pt;">It’s also
worth noting this web hit came ironically after one entitled: </span><i style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 13.5pt;">“Obama
Addresses Homophobia, Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia Among Black Americans</i><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 13.5pt;">”—You
can’t make this stuff up.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Full disclosure, I
Binged instead of Googled, but Binged has not yet reached the same status in
the American Lexicon.)</span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He may not be the
president of black people, but he sure does appear to be the president of LGBT
people! If nothing else, they seem to represent a percentage of America he
seems more interested in uplifting and advocating for than any other.<br />
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Here’s the point of this article and it is meant primarily for Black Democrats.
The President is in fact not the president of black people exclusively—nor do I
wish him to be. However I do not think anyone would begrudge the first black
president the unique opportunity to use his influence to actually go and
specifically address an audience of black folks and speak frankly about our
issues. Especially our youth!</span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don’t mean a sound bite
in the midst of his usual soaring rhetoric on conceptual inequality and social
justice delivered before the General Assembly—I mean visiting schools in the
inner city from time to time, in problematical urban centers, the President
vis-à-vis<b> </b>the youth, admonishing them to stop attacking people in
the street, educate themselves, cease haphazardly making babies—Put a halt to
the behavior grinding our communities into self-perpetuating misery pits.</span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just the attempt would be
appreciated—I’ll take the rhetoric at this point in lieu of indifference or
leftist solutions, if it is targeted. The President can't offer real answers,
because the only answers on a scale great enough to address and effect real and
lasting “Change” in the inner city, or even the country on the whole, run counter
to his ideology—The ideology incidentally most responsible for the very issues
he would be confronting.</span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The real solutions have a
spiritual and moral foundation—without which you can’t ”Hope” to
find temporal answers. That sort of thinking is anathema to Democrats and
leftists in general. Hence the reason so much stress is made on advancing the
LGBT agenda—it's one more brick removed from our nation’s moral foundation. The
LGBT agenda represents another thumb in the eye of the Immutable Source
undergirding our Republic’s values.<br />
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A strong foundation means less grievance and more personal responsibility,
which means less dependency, which means less power for the left. Forgetting
that strong foundation inescapably leads to more corruption and a weak nation.
Most importantly for the Democrats, it means you are placing your faith in
faithless men and government instead of the sustaining power of that Holy,
Immutable and faithful God.</span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></sup><b><i><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A good man out of the
good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man
out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of
the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.</span></i></b><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And why call ye me, Lord,
Lord, and do not the things which I say?</span></i></b><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whosoever cometh to me,
and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:</span></i></b><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He is like a man which
built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when
the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not
shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.</span></i></b><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.5pt;"><i><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica;">But he that heareth, and
doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the
earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell;
and the ruin of that house was great. Luke 6:45-49</span></i></b></div>
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</span></i></b><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A <i>good man</i> does
not advocate tirelessly for behavior God calls sin, while virtually ignoring
the other sins he finds too mundane, or problematical to address. Sins tearing
the inner cities apart. When will the black community wake up to the realities
of the soft, ever eroding ground the Democrats build on? How much more decay in
our communities do you have to see? Does the house need to collapse on our
heads before we realize it’s time to get out?<br />
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Digital Publius</span><span style="color: #464646; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Earlier this week, on Facebook I posted this status update: <br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If you are prone to using terms like
Moochelle when referring to Mrs. Obama, or President Zero, Odumbo, Obummer or
any other names other than President or Mr. Obama--I will thank you not to do
so on my wall or in one of my threads--I am no fan of President Obama and his
policies, but I strive to conduct myself in a manner above that sort of thing.
I don't have time to waste explaining your ignorance whilst doing battle with
the ignorance on the left.<br />
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I would remind those who would say stupid things like: "The liberals don't
keep it civil so why should I?"</i><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Make
no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest
thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul." Proverbs 22:24,25<br />
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</i></b>That is a passage I find myself employing more and more these days, both
for a reminder to myself and in conversations with nice people now very angry
as the left’s policies wreak havoc across the American landscape. It is
exceedingly difficult to maintain civility in the face of the Democrats and the
left in general’s epic indifference to the concept. Later in the tread I
posted:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">"Bless them that curse you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you." Luke 6:28</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That IS a hard saying--but it is what the
Lord called Christians to do--It doesn't mean we should not fight against our
enemies--We are to “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">be angry, but sin
not!”</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The Holy Bible clearly
teaches there’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A time for war and a time for peace a time to kill and a time to
heal.” </i></b>The trick is in making war without hating your enemy—without <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">becoming</i> your enemy!<br />
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An FB friend named Keith asked this question later in the virtual conversation:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Okay, so SAY I agree with you. Where
exactly does that get you in the fight to save the republic? I think we need
swords not saucers. What think you?”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Those who have followed
Digital Publius for a while know, that on occasion I will turn a discussion I
had somewhere online into <a href="http://digitalpublius.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-lose-more-friends-that-way.html">a
subject I will share here</a>—This generally occurs if I find my answer to
someone’s question takes more than a couple of paragraphs in a comment section,
followed by the inspiration the subject is important enough to share more
broadly. Such was the case with Keith’s very good question. My response:<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br />
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I am a big fan of swords Keith</span><span style="font-family: "N Helvetica Narrow"; mso-bidi-font-family: "N Helvetica Narrow";"></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">, but I know I don't have to debase myself when using one when
battling the enemy! I don't have to lower myself to be like them, to hate like
them! I actually own swords (And in this day more importantly guns,) But my
Sword of choice is the living Word of God--it is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sharper than any two edged sword</i></b>
and as the kerfuffle with Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson proves, is far more
offensive to the enemy than any insult my severely limited brain can throw at
them. (Incidentally, the Scriptures as Phil paraphrased don’t merely equate
homosexuality with bestiality, they also equate plain old-fashioned fornication
and adultery with that repugnant act, GLAAD seemed to miss that.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">What do you think the
left hates more--someone calling the President Obummer or showing them where
President Obama's policies conflict with the teachings of God? The left takes
your use of Obummer, laughs at you and calls you an idiot and racist--but it
cuts them to their very souls and makes them blow a gasket when you tell them
they are against God. Nothing provokes the left like comparing their morality
with God’s truth revealed in the Holy Bible. This loses power though when you
then turn and act as they do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jim Crow laws were ended
not because those fighting against them used better insults in an attempt to
demean the enemy. Let the enemy demean themselves then highlight it. As long as
we act like they do, there is no way for people to discern a difference between
our conflicting paradigms--as it stands right now you have people in the middle
who see both sides acting and looking exactly the same. Hard to examine results
coldly and logically for bystanders, when both sides are equally revolting in
their behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The left makes pictures
of George W. Bush in the image of Adolf Hitler, so what do people on the right
do in response? Make pictures of Barack Obama in the image of Adolf Hitler. At
best all one can hope for is an impasse—That’s not good enough for me, I don’t
care for stalemates, never have. I like winning—Call it a character flaw on my
part if you must. <br />
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It wasn't Malcolm X’s "By any means necessary" that won the Civil
Rights movement if I may again use it as an example. It was people highlighting
the bestial cruelty of the Jim Crow laws and the hideous visage of those who
maintained the institution, in strong contrast to those taking the high road
that won out. It may not be as much fun or as viscerally appealing, but it damn
sure takes a great deal more intelligence and courage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I am a firm believer in
the idea of fighting fire with fire. However, your fire does not have to be the
same as the fire employed by the enemy. We ought not limit our definition of
equal or greater force to the same kind of force. I would argue; Godly
integrity is the greatest force we can bring to bear in this battle for our
nation’s soul—It’s like pitting their sticks and stones against an A-bomb. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I would much prefer
losing a temporal battle that by its very definition is temporary, than to lose
the spiritual battle that has eternal consequences for all involved. Whatever
the outcome, I like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">our</i> chances in
the end standing before my God after having taken the high road.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">"Having your conversation
honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers,
they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of
visitation." I Peter 2:12</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br /><br />You would be hard
pressed to find a more tender hearted man of God in all the Holy Bible than the
Prophet Elisha—His ministry was marked by a persistent message of God’s love
and the kindness of our Savior. Nevertheless, there is a passage recorded about
Elisha that skeptics delight in and incites those who would place their own morality
above the morality and wisdom of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">It seems not long after
the passing of Elisha’s Master Elijah —Elisha heads for Bethel. He was
confronted on the way by a group of young men, the Bible says they shouted at
Elisha: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Go on up, you baldhead!”</i></b> they taunted. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Go on up, you baldhead!”<br />
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Elisha then does something out of character, he turns and curses the youth in
the name of the Lord and two bears come out of the forest and maul forty-two of
the youths. The Bible doesn’t say whether they were killed, but it does say
they were mauled.<br />
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It’s worth noting this had to be a very large gathering of young men if the
bears managed to get forty-two of them. This may seem harsh to those who do not
understand the context and the culture of the near East at this time in
history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">You see, young men had
the responsibility of contributing to their families’ welfare and survival—they
didn’t have idle time enough to hang out in huge packs on roads between towns doing
nothing other than taunting travellers. These youths were on their own and
likely assaulting and robbing travellers —The East did not take kindly to
idlers and took robbery very seriously, much more so than we do today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">That they were a gang
not unlike the ones we see contemporaneously is likely but not a statement that
could be dogmatically made based only on the text. It is highly likely however,
given an understanding of the cultural manners and customs of the time and
place, particularly when you consider they were on the road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">That being said, this
was more of a spiritual attack on Elisha and therefore God than a physical one.
This is apprehended when one considers the taunt employed by the young men: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Go
on up, you baldhead!”</i></b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">As noted earlier, this
took place right after the passing of the Prophet Elijah—Baldheads were not the
custom of Israelis, it was an act of morning to shave one’s head. The Bible
says Elisha was so distraught at losing his Master he rent his clothing, another
custom of the day. When the boys said “Go on up…” They were referring directly
to the passing of Elijah. The Bible records Elijah being taken up into heaven
by a chariot sent by God before Elisha’s eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This was a case of
rebellious youth so depraved they mocked Elisha whom everyone knew to be a
Prophet and God by inferring the incident was not true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The Holy Bible
admonishes people to be mindful of the company they keep and the incident
recorded in II Kings concerning the fate of this gang of youths is an abject lesson
of the wisdom of heeding it.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The
fear of the LORD <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> the
beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> understanding.” Proverbs 9:10<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Today we see gangs of
young men no less callous than those of Elisha’s day. Yet we treat them much
more gently, then wonder why these gangs persist. The “Knockout Game” newly
discovered by the mainstream media, is a reminder of the effects on society
disaffected, unengaged youth can bring. <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And,
ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the
nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4</i></b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">These young black men
preoccupied with causing misery and pain are the result of our men failing to
instill Godly values in the fruit of our loins. We scatter our seed to the winds
without a care as to how that seed is cultivated and then look for others to
blame when what is produced is so sickeningly bitter.<br />
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<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/26/teen-arrested-in-alleged-knockout-attack-of-boy-12/#comments">I
read an article</a> chronicling a knockout attack on a Jewish boy of twelve and
the subsequent arrest of a thirteen-year-old boy for the assault. I was struck
by the words of wisdom the victim offered regarding his attackers: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I think this could have all been
prevented,”</i> the boy said<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. “The boys
and teens would know that there’s always a God watching them, and they wouldn’t
only be afraid of the police,”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Indeed. The mouth of a
babe can bring forth wisdom instead of taunts when he receives the proper
instruction. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will
not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 </i></b>The article states the Jewish boy
attends Yeshiva where he is given spiritual learning along with his temporal
education.<br />
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You can be sure the Jewish student knows the story of the gang God dealt with
on behalf of Elisha. The triumph of Satan through his agents on the left has
been to remove as much of God from the American culture as possible, most
notably from the public schools. The victim’s father says in the article the
young men celebrated when they hit his son, gleefully shouting: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“We got him.” </i>The knockout game is a
cold victory for secularism.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I lament that we waste so much time and
money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…we neglect
the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of
government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of
Christianity by means of the Bible; for this Divine Book, above all others,
constitutes the soul of republicanism.” “By withholding the knowledge of [the
Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening
moral sensibility in their minds.” – Benjamin Rush, Letter written (1790’s) in
Defense of the Bible in all schools in America<br />
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</i>The Founders understood then what those who make the sacrifice to send
their children to Yeshiva, or Christian schools understand today, even those Founders
considered “Deists” and secularists knew the importance of religion in a
child’s education.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>History</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> will also afford
frequent Opportunities of showing the Necessity of a <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Publick</span> Religion, from its usefulness
to the Publick; the Advantage of a Religious Character among private Persons;
the Mischiefs of Superstition, &c. and the Excellency of the CHRISTIAN
RELIGION above all others antient or modern – Benjamin Franklin, <a href="http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdocs/1749proposals.html">Proposals
Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania Philadelphia, 1749</a><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Morality unattached to a
source you are beholden to greater than yourself, is just opinion and subject
to change with fashion and circumstances.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The leftist, secularist
would argue that religion in school is not allowed by the Constitution and if
it were, the effects would be negligible—To that I would say; Fear of the Lord <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> indeed the beginning of wisdom.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Look at the difference between the
thinking of a little Yeshiva trained boy in Crown Heights, New York expressed
above and that of these roving bands of lost Black youths expressed in their
vile behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Examining their
respective trajectories it is entirely possible the Jewish boy may grow up to
be a lawyer defending his one time assailant in their later lives. Faith in a
Holy and just God guides us and brings hope even in the face of hardship.
Without that faith and fear, why not knock some random stranger out?<br />
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Digital Publius<br /><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Digital Publiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03875031906283264215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2387122188014119814.post-71578555500033653232013-10-19T16:24:00.000-04:002013-10-19T17:31:28.011-04:00The Unbearable Lightness of Heroes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br /><br />Hollywood just doesn’t
get it! Recognizing this fact has forced me into deciding not to
spend my money on Superhero movies anymore. I’m just not that desperate to see
these characters on the big screen if they are not in fact the characters I
want to see.<br />
<br />
If the majority of comic book fans were honest with themselves and others, they
would have to admit down deep they don’t like these films and TV shows either.
What the comic book fan has been reduced to is accepting what they give us in
the movies because we want to see our heroes in live action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Take a film like Iron
Man 3—I don’t know a single comics fan that liked what they did to the
Mandarin—Not one person! What the producers of Iron Man 3 pretty much said was:
“What you’ve liked in the decades since the Mandarin was introduced was silly,
so we will remake him to suit our tastes.<br />
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I’m not certain whether it was laziness, cheapness or utter contempt for the
genre that lead them to realize Iron Man’s most important villain in the
fashion they chose—but it well and truly sucked. That <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am</i> sure of!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The producers robbed the
audience of the opportunity to see something a great deal more interesting and
fun. Instead of giving us a battle between old’ Shellhead and a multi-effect,
ring wielding Mandarin—Impact blasts, electric blasts… We were treated to the
Mandarin as a powerless, washed up actor/dupe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Imagine the Mandarin
using his black light ring to blind Iron Man, then bombarding him with flame
rays alternating with cold waves making the armor brittle—as Stark activates
night vision, the Mandarin starts giving him Karate chops, shattering pieces of
Iron Man’s suit. Iron Man is much stronger than the Mandarin, but the Mandarin
has greater hand-to-hand fighting skill using leverage and speed against the
Golden Avenger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">That would be a lot more
interesting visually and thematically to watch than a bunch of exploding
“Molten Man” rejects who can somehow, (inexplicably) immobilize armor by merely
touching it. How many sets of Mandarin rings do you think Toys “R” Us and Wal-Mart
would have sold?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Conversely, if they had
put Jeremy Renner in a mask playing Hawkeye and had the Black Widow taking out
aliens with her golden (not flat black) Widow’s Bite bracelets instead of a
pair of mundane Glock 26s. They aren’t even cool looking guns, serviceable weapons, but lame. Or if the Widow used her widow's line and the ability she has to climb walls like
Spiderman, a lot more little girls would want to be her and a lot more boys
would want to be Hawkeye on Halloween.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Thematically the
Avengers sucked! I liked the movie because it happened to have enough comedy,
shield slinging, hammer pounding, repulsor ray blasting and Hulk smashing
action to transform me back into a little boy while watching it. But it would
have been a hundred times better for me if they had simply stuck to a truer
interpretation of the characters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Most of the changes they
make are so silly, but each one makes the true fan wince a little—Cap’s shield
is just Vibranium in the movies and not a mixture of Adamantium and Vibranium as created in the comics,
the product of a unique and non-duplicatable accident. Anyone with access to Vibranium can have a shield like Cap's in the Marvel movie universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Why is a Viking warrior
not wearing his helmet in battle? Why would you put Dr. Doom on the ship with
the Fantastic Four and make his armor organic? Why imply Stark’s repulsor
technology was stolen from the soviets? Why not call the “Cosmic Cube the Cosmic Cube?”<br />
<br />
Why make the Joker a guy wearing white makeup with a bad green die job? Why make
Jarvis a computer? Why make Speedy Oliver Queen’s nickname for his non-existent
sister instead of Roy Harper? Why make Hal Jordan fearful?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Why is the Black Canary
someone other than Dinah Lance? Why make Nick Fury black so he can’t be Sgt.
Fury and the leader of the Howling Commandos on film? Why does Gwen Stacy have
to be a scientist too? Why is it only one Agent of Shield on the TV show wears
the Shield uniform?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">None of these changes make the stories more interesting nor do they advance the narrative in any appreciably improved way,
they are changes for the sake of change and useful for cutting corners. For example,
putting Doom on the ship with the FF eliminates the need to give Victor Von
Doom an origin story. I would rather you simply have Doom appear whole without
an origin—no one needed to know what happened in Hans Gruber’s past leading to
his attempted robbery of the Nakatomi Plaza.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We saw the introduction
of Sebastian Blood and the Bronze Tiger in the second episode of the new season
of Arrow. They made the same mistake the Agents of Shield TV show is
making—they are taking the fun out of the genre and what you are left with may
as well be a rerun of Knight Rider or the A Team, any 70s-80s adventure TV
show. <br />
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It would have been way cooler to have the Bronze Tiger wearing a CGI Tiger
mask—much more dramatic and visually interesting than Michael Jai White in a
brown leather jacket wielding cestus. He could have gotten some face time
talking to China White between confrontations. Why doesn’t China White wear
white?<br /><br />What would be more fun to see, this? </span></div>
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Or this?<br />
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I can hear the Tinsel-Town besotted and bewitched fan boys saying in unison:
“That would be great for the fans, but not for regular people who don’t know
the characters—It’s not realistic enough.” To that I say: Stuff and nonsense!<br />
<br />
People have no problem with talking werewolves or walking dead—No one ever
complains it’s not realistic when someone crushes the skull of a zombie whose
body should have atrophied to a point of immobility months earlier due to a
dead metabolism. Why do comic book fans accept the Hollywood meme that people will
cluck their tongues at a guy fighting crime in something other than Kevlar
reinforced plate armor?<br />
<br />
This article is not meant for regular people, it is written to the true comics
fan in an attempt to detox us from the alluring Kool-Aid served up by the Hollywood
elite who look down on us to begin with. They always have. And they resent the
power Comicon has grown into.<br />
<br />
The Hollywood types fall into two categories when it comes to these films—you
have the pseudo fans like the Whedons who think their version of the Marvel Universe
is superior and are driven by their overstuffed egos. You then have the types
who do these films and make changes because they don’t like the source
material. These sorts make the films because they make money and are also
driven by their overstuffed egos.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Most of the changes they
make in the name of realism are anything but realistic, at least no more
realistic than what is already presented in the comics. Batman’s cinematic
armor would be a disaster in real life. The comic’s explanation that he wears
the yellow insignia to allure criminal gunfire to his center mass where he does
wear protection makes much more sense.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile a true fighter has to be able to move freely—There has not been one
person in the movie armor that moves like he could defend himself in a real
fight. Most of the people Batman faces are run of the mill gunsels. We see
Jason Bourne or James Bond take out scores of gun and knife wielding villains
while wearing street clothes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">How about the “Arrow”
smearing green makeup over his eyes instead of wearing a domino mask? Which
would be easier to remove if you have to make a quick change between
identities? My true feelings on the subject of “Realism” in these films and
shows is realism be damned! Superheroes by their very nature are not real. If you want realism go see The Hurt Locker or The Butler! <br />
<br />
Iron Man 3 was the last of these films I will pay to see. I’ll watch them, but
I won’t pay to see them. Not as long as they exhibit contempt for the genre and heroes I
have always loved. The days of signaling my approval by mindlessly walking like
Frankenstein’s Monster to the movie theatre and the store to buy these films
the day they come out on video are over!<br />
<br />
It may seem like I’m being petty, but each one of those insoluble changes diminishes
the memories of that little boy I used to be. I’d rather pay to see a film like
Pacific Rim that pays homage to monster movies in a new way, or even a bad film
like Hancock, with it’s version of a superman than to see a bastardized version
of well-established favorites. <br />
<br />
Digital Publius<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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