Monday, February 25, 2013

QUIT CONSENTING!


Distasteful.  Shameful.  Ignorant.  Those are a few words that come to mind when I hear or read about this kind of CRAP in the media.

MacFarlane joke that didn't land well: "The actor who really got inside Lincoln's head was John Wilkes Booth."

Very funny….MORON!  This just proves the ignorance of Americans, especially when it comes to HISTORY and Hollywood! 

I am SO TIRED of the “racist card” being played!  It is ignorance that is the problem.

Let me tell you a story about a little colony in Africa that is known today as Liberia.  This colony was “land” PURCHASED AND OWNED by our American government.  More specifically, it was a small 36-mile strip of land called Cape Mesurado near current day Monrovia. This land was to be used for the sole purpose of a political project to “colonize” free blacks OUT of the United States, to Africa.  Many white members of American society thought that African Americans could “not succeed” in living in "their" society as free people.  Some considered blacks physically and mentally inferior to whites, while others believed that the racism and societal polarization resulting from slavery were insurmountable obstacles for integration of the races.

Relations between colonists and natives were contentious from the founding of Liberia, and eventually led to the overthrow of the Americo-Liberian regime in 1980.  From the beginning, the colonists were attacked by indigenous peoples, such as the Malinké tribes.  In addition, they suffered from diseases, the harsh climate, lack of food and medicine, and poor housing conditions.  Basically, Liberia has been a country in a state of civil war since about the 1820’s. 

Since the 1840s, Lincoln had been an advocate of the American Colonization Society program of colonizing blacks in Liberia.  In an October 16, 1854, a speech at Peoria, Illinois (transcribed after the fact by Lincoln himself), Lincoln points out the immense difficulties of such a task are an obstacle to finding an easy way to quickly end slavery.

Lincoln wrote:  “My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia,—to their own native land.  But a moment’s reflection would convince me that whatever of high hope (as I think there is) there may be in this, in the long run, its sudden execution is impossible.”

Lincoln mentioned colonization favorably in his first Emancipation Proclamation, and continued to support efforts at colonization throughout his presidency.

The first such colony by Lincoln was attempted in late 1862, and consisted of an attempt to colonize the Chiriquí region of Panama, then a part of Colombia.  Lincoln signed a contract with businessman, Ambrose Thompson, the owner of the land, and appointed Kansas Senator, Samuel Pomeroy to administer the project, with plans to send tens of thousands of African Americans out of the United States to this “colony”.  The plan was suspended in early October 1862 before a single ship sailed though, apparently due to diplomatic protests from neighboring Central American governments and the uncertainty raised by the Colombian Civil War (1860-1862). Lincoln hoped to overcome the latter complication by having Congress make provision for a treaty for African American emigration, much as he outlined in his Second Annual Message of December 1, 1862, but the Chiriquí plan appears to have died over the New Year of 1863 as revelations of the corrupt interest of his acquaintance Richard W. Thompson and Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher likely proved too much to bear in political terms.

In December 1862, Lincoln signed a contract with businessman Bernard Kock to establish a colony on the Ile a Vache near Haiti. 500 freed slaves departed for the island from Fort Monroe, Virginia, though the project proved to be a disaster. Poor planning, an outbreak of smallpox, and financial mismanagement by Kock left the colonists under-supplied and starving, requiring the rescue of survivors by the United States Navy after only a year.
Lincoln also created an agency to direct his colonization projects.  In 1862, he appointed the Rev. James Mitchell of Indiana to oversee colonization, and established a Bureau of Emigration under his head at the Department of the Interior.

In addition to Panama and Haiti, Mitchell's office also oversaw attempts at colonization in British Honduras and elsewhere in the British West Indies.  Lincoln believed that by dealing with the comparatively stable British Government, he could avoid some of the problems that plagued his earlier attempts at colonization with private interests.  He signed an agreement on June 13, 1863, with John Hodge of British Honduras that authorized colonial agents to recruit ex-slaves and transport them to Belize from approved ports in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.  Later that year the Department of the Interior sent John Willis Menard, a free African-American clerk who supported colonization, to investigate the site for the government.  So, in reality, Lincoln was looking at the colonization of freed American slaves in Liberia, Haiti, Panama, Honduras, and other Caribbean Islands.

In his second term as president, on April 11, 1865, Lincoln gave a speech supporting a form of limited suffrage extended to what Lincoln described as the more "intelligent" blacks and those blacks who had rendered special services to the nation.  To his dying day, Lincoln did not believe that harmony between white and black was feasible, and viewed resettlement of the blacks as the preferable alternative to race conflict and continued to hold to that vision.  Lincoln’s assassination ended that vision, thereby ending the colonization project of freed Black American Slaves. 

Translation:  Every single freed Black American slave, man, woman, and child, would have been put on a ship, deported from the United States, and sent to any one of these “colonies” to live out the rest of their natural lives.

Instead, the political body came up with “Negro Suffrage” which progressed over the years into other programs of charity based on “white guilt” for minorities. 

H.H. Chalmers wrote in his 1881 essay “The Effects of Negro Suffrage”:  “The enfranchisement of so large a mass of new electors, and the instant elevation of so much of ignorance and pauperism to complete equality with wealth and intelligence, was never before, in the history of the world, wrought by a single legislative act. In several of the States it put the representatives of that race who alone knew anything of public affairs, or of private virtue, in a hopeless minority as compared with that race who had ever been barbarians save when they were slaves, and who were destitute alike of property, education, or morality. Whatever may have been the motives of those who inaugurated the scheme, -- whether they were prompted by considerations of patriotic devotion to the public good and by a sense of justice to the helpless blacks, or whether they sought the perpetuation of partisan supremacy, -- it must be admitted by their most devoted adherents that they took the risk of a tremendous political experiment. Desperate indeed must have been the ills that afflicted the body politic to justify a treatment so heroic.” 

Ray Stannard Baker wrote in his 1910 Essay “Negro Suffrage In A Democracy”:  “…no one can prophesy how far a democracy will ultimately go in the matter of suffrage. We know only the tendency. Thus the line has been constantly advancing, but with many fluctuations, eddies, and back-currents--like any other stream of progress.  As the weight of responsibility upon the popular vote is increased, it becomes more and more important that the ballot should be jealously guarded and honestly exercised.  It becomes a more and more serious matter every year to be an American citizen, more of an honor, more of a duty.  If he (the Negro) fails voluntarily to take advantage of the rights he already has, how shall he acquire more rights?  Democracy does not consist in mere voting, but in association, the spirit of common effort, of which the ballot is a mere visible expression.  When we come to know one another we soon find that the points of likeness are much more numerous than the points of difference. And this human association for the common good, which is democracy, is difficult to bring about anywhere, whether among different classes of white people, or between white people and Negroes.  With such a division on new issues the Negro will tend to exercise more and more political power, dividing, not on the color line, but on the principles at stake.”

Then you add in all the benefits afforded to “black minorities” over the rest of the American populace, to include Native Americans, and you cannot help but wonder why there is still so much ignorance and pauperism among that specific racial class.  There are educational scholarships and grants specifically for blacks.  There are financial aid programs specifically for blacks.  There are “all black” organizations, which is something that is forbidden and frowned upon greatly for “whites” to have.  There are “all black” TV shows and entertainment channels and magazines; again another thing that is forbidden and frowned upon greatly for “whites” to have.  There are job opportunities afforded to blacks that were not even thought of 30-40 years ago.  There are black politicians.  There are black CEO’s and CFO’s and CIO’s.  There are black officers serving in ALL branches of the military, not just enlisted.  So, why the constant chest-pounding and drum-beating iterations and clamoring that the “white man” is “keeping you down”?

I believe these men, Chalmers and Baker, knew the dangers of giving free hand-outs instead of instilling personal responsibility, education, and good work ethics.

The way I see it, the only thing that “keeps you down”, REGARDLESS of your race, creed, or religion, is your own choice to stay there, “down”.  You choose to do drugs.  You choose to join gangs.  You choose to collect welfare instead of getting a job.  You choose to drop out of school and remain uneducated.  You choose to have unprotected sex and have 15 children by 5 different men and then blame “the system” for not “paying” for you and your children.  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bavou_SEj1E)

I submit to you Chris Gardner!  Now there is a MAN (yes, he is black) of ethics, morals, education, perseverance, drive, and most importantly, INTEGRITY AND DIGNITY!!!  And there are MANY MORE like him, black men and women who MADE THE CHOICE to not let anyone stand in the way of their dreams.

I submit that when society reverts back to self-responsibility and accountability and eschews blame-shifting, there will be a boom in the American economy like no other in our history.  A sense of pride in our Nation like never before will explode.  Self-pride (the good kind) comes with a sense of accomplishment; knowing that you did the task at hand and without hand-outs or free ride and you worked hard for it.  You DID IT!

Some of you are probably quite confused and wondering what the “history lesson” at the beginning has anything to do with the ending.  Let me put it to you this way.  Had Lincoln NOT been assassinated, your ancestors would have been put on a boat and sent to some foreign land and not allowed back in America for a long time.  You wouldn’t be voting.  You wouldn’t be getting benefits and subsidies from the government.  You wouldn’t be able to serve in the U.S. military.   You wouldn’t be as educated as you can be here in America.  You wouldn’t have corporate offices.  Lastly, you sure as hell wouldn’t have achieved the highest political office America has to offer, President of the United States.

So, quit pounding your chest and touting how the “white man is keepin’ me down”!  No matter what your color, creed or religion, YOUR LIFE is about the CHOICES YOU MAKE!  Eleanor Roosevelt said “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”  So, QUIT CONSENTING!!!

Thursday, February 7, 2013

The Sixth of November

(a parody of the original poem "The Fifth of November" - c. 1870)


The Sixth of November

    Remember, remember!
    The sixth of November,
    The discriminatory election and fraud;
    I know of no reason
    Why this historic blunder  
    Cannot be undone!

    Obama and his companions
    Did the scheme contrive,
    To destroy the Country and Constitution
    And American lives.
    Three and one score executive orders, he signed in show,
    Hence the Country’s Constitution to overthrow.

    But, by God's resolve, him we will impeach,
    With a petition, the People beseech!
    To protest this Fake
    For Freedom's sake!
    If you won't give me one,
    I will fight,
    The better for us,
    So to mend this blight.

    A jolt, a jolt, to revive the Patriots,
    A day of resistance to shock him,
    A House full of zealots,
    And a Senate to convict him.
    Holloa, all! holloa, all! Make Liberty’s bells ring!
    Holloa, all! holloa, all! God save the U.S.A.!
    Hip, hip, hooray!

by: Veritas, 8 February 2013

Monday, February 4, 2013

My Pledge....

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

The 55 delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention were a distinguished body of men who represented a cross section of 18th-century American leadership. Almost all of them were well-educated men of means who were dominant in their communities and states, and many were also prominent in national affairs. Virtually every one had taken part in the Revolution; at least 29 had served in the Continental forces, most of them in positions of command.

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

Two of them became presidents of the United States, and among the others were future vice presidents, senators, and governors. But not all were so fortunate.

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. 
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. 

Two lost their sons in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured. 

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.

Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, and Gwinnett. They died poor.

Thomas Heyward Jr., Edward Rutledge, and Arthur Middleton, three members of the South Carolina delegation, all suffered the destruction or vandalizing of their homes at the hands of enemy troops. All three were captured when Charleston fell in 1780, and spent a year in a British prison.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. He had raised $2 million for the patriots' cause on HIS OWN personal credit. The government never reimbursed him, and repaying the loans wiped out his entire estate.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.

“These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."”

“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek NOT your counsel, NOR your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” – Samuel Adams

I have served my country, faithfully, for over 20 years, DEFENDING America’s Freedoms, KNOWING that should my life be required of me to secure these freedoms for my children and my children’s children, I would gladly have laid it down for such a cause. And still would today! 

President John F. Kennedy said “Ask NOT what your country can do for you, but what YOU CAN DO for YOUR COUNTRY.” Apathy and lethargy have DEFINITELY taken hold of TOO MANY American’s, ESPECIALLY Christians. (I am equally guilty.) It is time to take a stand and take control again of “big” government (elected officials), reminding them who is truly in charge as “We, the People”. Too many seek handouts and “entitlements”, not wanting to or caring to EARN their own way. Blaming circumstances, instead of character. Blaming society, instead of self. 

Socialism has creeped in, slowly evolving our government, our work place, our media, our schools, our homes, and our families. Ideals slowly delivered over time since the 1950’s (Ezra Taft Benson speaking of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, 1966 -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2D4JX-E8XQ) have desensitized us to these evils we are now facing. A few noticed, but in silence they stood. This has been done so much so that a recent poll says that about one-third of American’s FAVOR socialism (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/53-of-democrats-have-a-positive-view-of-socialism-gallup-poll-claims/); FAR too many have been deceived for FAR too long and they call themselves “educated”.

"... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson 

Go ahead, call me a “Racist, Terrorist, Tea-Bagger, Threat-to-National-Security, Birther, Traitor, Conspiracy Theorist, Anti-American, Religious Fanatic, War Monger, Homophobe, Greedy Capitalist SEPARATIST”! It won’t be the first time, and it sure as heck won’t be the last either. However, that is a mouthful. So, here is a word that you can call me that SUMS IT ALL UP………. PATRIOT!!! 

Therefore, as SO VERY MANY of my brothers- and sisters-in-Arms before me have gone, I will continue to fight for the freedoms of America, AS OUTLINED in our Declaration of Independence AND our Constitution until my last dying breath. So help me God!

The current military oath of enlistment which I took for the first time in September 1988 and have taken four more times since:

"I, Veritas, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." 

Let’s not forget the United States Pledge of Allegiance, that so many youth today do not even know the words:
“I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for ALL.”

No one could articulate any better the way I feel about defending America’s Heritage than Patrick Henry…..“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” - Patrick Henry to the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1775

What are you willing to give up that you may keep your Freedom? What are you willing to sacrifice? What are you willing to do for YOUR COUNTRY?

America is our HOME; there is no place else to go...


There is no where else to go!

A great brainwashing process to change the ideology of America has been taking place  over the last 45+ years.  We have been warned repeatedly.

According to Ezra Taft Benson, the Secretary of Agriculture of the Eisenhower administration, Nikita Khrushchev said, "You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have communism. We won't have to fight you, we will so weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands."  He also said that Khrushchev proclaimed, Communists would "bury America without firing a shot.  Your children's children will be living under communism."

James Paul Warburg said on February 17, 1950: “We shall have World Government - whether or not we like it.  The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”

In 1987, Jesse Helms stated during a speech to the Senate:  "A careful examination of what is happening behind the scenes reveals that all of these interests are working in concert with the masters of the Kremlin in order to create what some refer to as a 'New World Order'.  Private organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Trilateral Commission, the Dartmouth Conference, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, the Atlantic Institute, and the Bilderberg Group serve to disseminate and to coordinate the plans for this so-called new world order in powerful business, financial, academic, and official circles."

KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov, said this "brainwashing" is a slow process divided into 4 basic stages:

1.  Demoralization (15-20 years) - Patriots will not be tolerated and will be executed.
2.  Destabilization of the Nation (5-10 years) - destabilize the economy, eliminate the free market, establish clearly defined classes of society.
3.  Crisis (about 6 weeks) - cause a crisis that will force the people to look to the government for resolve.
4.  Normalization (indefinite) - CHECKMATE!  Inform the people that "THIS" is the "NEW normal" and continue to reiterate that, using force if necessary.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3nXvScRazg&sns=fb  <--well worth watching!)

Bezmenov said "we (Americans) are in a state of undeclared TOTAL war" against the "system" to maintain and save American Patriotism.  "The time-bomb is ticking."

The current 'president' and his administration are bringing to fruition the finalization of the League of Nations, which is now the United Nations, as a visible Global World Government complete with legislative, Military (NATO), and Judicial (World Court) branches.

Communism without a firing a shot?  Your children's children living in America, under communism??  Yes.

There are only two things we, as Americans, can do to protect ourselves.

1.  Educate yourself.
2.  Prepare!  Prepare to defend yourself and your family, and prepare to survive.

"There is NO other place on this planet to "defect" to." - Yuri Bezmenov.

Not a Christian Nation??


America was founded by righteous men upon Judeo-Christian principals.  Bible law was built into our laws.  God has promised that, ”Righteousness will exalt a nation, while sin is a reproach to all people.”  (Proverbs 14:34)

"Biblical ideas were crucial in both the Declaration and the Constitution. Nearly 80 percent of the political pamphlets published during the 1770s were reprinted sermons."

"The influence of the Bible on the Constitution was profound but often not appreciated by secular historians and political theorists. Two decades ago, Constitutional scholars and political historians (including one of my professors at Georgetown University) assembled 15,000 writings from the Founding Era (1760-1805). They counted 3154 citations in these writings, and found that the book most frequently cited in that literature was the Bible. The writers from the Foundering Era quoted from the Bible 34 percent of the time. Even more interesting was that about three-fourths of all references to the Bible came from reprinted sermons from that era."

Read the whole essay here: