On Calvinism

On Calvinism

"Turn to your Bible and read for yourself in the only two chapters in which this word predestinate or predestinated is found. The first is Romans 8:29-30, the other chapter is Ephesians 1:5 and 11. You will note that there is no reference in these four verses to either heaven or hell but to Christ-likeness eventually. Nowhere are we told in scripture that God predestinated one man to be saved and another to be lost. Men are to be saved or lost eternally because of their attitude towards the Lord Jesus Christ. Predestination means that someday all the redeemed shall become just like the Lord Jesus"

"D.L. Moody used to put it very simply the elect are the 'whosoever wills' the non-elect 'whosoever wont's'. This is exactly what scripture teaches, the invitation is to all, those who accept it are the elect. Remember, we are never told that Christ died for the elect".

"Whosoever means, whosoever." Only a biased theologian, with an axe to grind, could ever think that it meant only the elect."

--H.A. Ironside

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More:

Calvinism on the March
http://www.wayoflife.org/files/169aa1723c4aa2b62518aea3937a55eb-185.html

“The Calvinism Debate”
http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/calvinismdebate.html

Dave Hunt’s Refutation of Calvinism
http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/davehunt-calvinrefutation.html

“Calvin’s Camels”
http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/calvins-camels.html

TBC Resources on Calvinism
http://www.thebereancall.org/topic/calvinism

Your Best "New Age" Life Now

Joel Osteen's New Age Life Now?
By Brannon Howse
"Whatever you conceive you can achieve."

With this favorite karma-changing promise, New Agers believe you need only use the "unlimited" power and consciousness of your mind to bring about all your dreams, desires and wishes.

Cloaked in a "Christian" package, Joel Osteen's Your Best Life Now, bears an uncomfortable and dangerous similarity to this most popular of New Age claims. Sample a few of the Osteen versions:

• "You will produce what you're continually seeing in your mind. If you foster an image of defeat and failure, then you're going to live that kind of life. But if you develop an image of victory, success, health, abundance, joy, peace, and happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you." (page 5)

• "You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it." (page 6)

• "You must look through your 'eyes of faith' and start seeing yourself as happy, healthy and whole." (page 15)

• "What you will receive is directly connected to how you believe." (page 22)

• "We receive what we believe." (page 72)

• "Learn how to conceive. Keep the image of what you want to become in front of you. You're going to become what you believe." (page 81)

Osteen now travels the country, packing out stadiums with his happy-talk. But I'd like to see Osteen pay a visit to China, preach his "your best life now" drivel, and see how Christians there respond. Let Osteen look into the eyes of Pastor Lei who has been repeatedly arrested and beaten for preaching the Word of God in his church-a church not licensed by the Chinese government. How would the American's best life work out for Pastor Lei and his congregation? Perhaps their jail time for the Gospel would give them time to assess Rev. Osteen's claims.

Have these and countless other persecuted Christians been beaten, jailed and murdered because they "received what they believed," or did these terrible things happen to them because they did not "develop an image of victory, success, health, abundance, joy, peace, and happiness"?

Were eleven of Jesus' disciples martyred because, "they received what they believed"? Were the disciples living under a "curse of poverty and defeat" as Osteen says of so many? Here's a role call of questions I'd like to ask Mr. Osteen. Why is it, Joel, that:

• Paul and Matthew were beheaded?
• Barnabas was burned to death?
• Mark was dragged to death?
• James, the less, was clubbed to death?
• Peter, Philip, and Andrew were crucified?
• Thomas was speared to death?
• Luke was hung by the neck until dead?
• Stephen was stoned?

How would these disciples take to the best-life message?

Yes, I know. Joel's promises sound so much better to American ears than all those warnings of Jesus about being hated by most people for His sake. But it remains that in large measure, Joel's offering can be described as nothing less than blasphemy.

On page 36, he claims, "God has a big dream for your life." On page 56: "God sees you as a champion. He believes in you even more than you believe in yourself!"

And on page 110: "God has confidence in you."

Osteen does not provide a single Bible verse to back up these statements…because there are none. Nowhere in the Bible do we read that God believes or has confidence in us. He loves us, but does not believe in us. On the contrary, He knows all too well how unbelievably fickle and untrustworthy we humans actually are. It's not like Joel describes on page 57:

"Believe it or not, that is how God sees you, too. He regards you as a strong, courageous, successful, overcoming person."

Furthermore, God does not define our success in materialistic terms as Joel does. God is interested in our obedience above all. On page 63, Joel writes:

As long as you are pressing forward, you can hold your head up high, knowing that you are a "work in progress," and God is in the process of changing you. He's looking at your last two good moves.

Joel, where in the Bible do you read that God is not looking at our last two bad moves but our last two good moves? Isaiah 64:6 says that even our righteous deeds are like filthy rags or wickedness to God because He is so holy. Even if God did look at our last two good moves, He would still see filthy rags.

Or how about this Osteen gospel gem from page 95:

"Be the best you can be, then you can feel good about yourself."

Where in the Bible do we find this teaching? What if your best is getting drunk just once a week instead of twice a week? Should you still feel good about yourself?

But wait. I've saved Joel's most outrageous statement for last (drum roll please). On page 144, Joel elevates us to the heavenlies by pointing out that:

"You may even need to forgive God."

Whoa! And exactly what would we be forgiving God for? As I recall, forgiveness is for sins-or at least mistakes. But which of those has God made? Not a one according to any Bible I've ever read.

Oswald Chambers offers a perspective on the kind of thing the Osteens of the world do to Christians: "Satan's great aim is to deflect us from the center. He will allow us to be devoted to the death to any cause, any enterprise, to anything but the Lord Jesus."[1] Hebrews 13:9 instructs us to not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings (deflected from the center) but sadly, that is exactly what is happening for many at the hand of Joel Osteen.

Instead of pursuing our best life now, we should pursue the things of the Lord so we can have our best life later. I fear that for many who follow Joel's false teaching, this life is the best they will get. The false gospel proclaimed by Joel Osteen and accepted as truth by millions may allow many to achieve what they can conceive of the things in this world, but true to Jesus' promise, they may lose their souls in the pursuit.

Distributed by www.worldviewweekend.com

What’s Wrong with the Rorschach?

Psychologists continue to believe in the Rorschach [ink blot test] for the same reasons that Tarot card readers believe in Tarot cards, that palm readers believe in palm reading, and that astrologers believe in astrology: the well-known cognitive illusions that foster false belief.


What’s Wrong with the Rorschach?

"The answer to the question asked in the title of the book under review here is simple: Pretty much everything that can be wrong with a test. Anyone who has even cursorily followed the Rorschach debate over the past years would be aware that the test is neither reliable nor valid. What readers of this excellent and comprehensive review of the history of (and literature on) this famous test will be surprised to learn is how truly terrible the Rorschach is and how shoddy the evidence is for its continued use. . . .

"It was noted above that the great majority of scores generated by a Rorschach are invalid. This does not necessarily mean that the test simply generates random results. In fact, one of the most serious problems with the Rorschach, especially with Exner’s system of scoring, is that it significantly overpathologizes—it classifies as psychologically disordered a large percentage of individuals who are normal. Since the test has been and continues to be widely used in such vital decisions as which parent gets custody of a child, whether a child has been sexually abused, whether a prisoner should be allowed out on parole, etc., it is hard to overemphasize the seriousness of this characteristic of the test. Specifically, "Research suggests that the Comprehensive System misidentifies about 75 percent of normal individuals as emotionally disturbed" (259). This is an absolutely horrendous result. Imagine a test for some type of cancer that classified 75 percent of people who were cancer free as having cancer. No ethical practitioner would even consider using such a test, let alone publicly advocating its continued use. In fact, Gregory Meyer, a proponent of the Comprehensive System, actually claims that it can "predict the occurrence of cancer" (244).

"One important question is why, given the overwhelming evidence that the Rorschach is essentially useless, some psychologists continue to believe so strongly that it reveals important aspects of personality. Wood et al. discuss this issue at some length, and the answer will not be surprising to Skeptical Inquirer readers. Psychologists continue to believe in the Rorschach for the same reasons that Tarot card readers believe in Tarot cards, that palm readers believe in palm reading, and that astrologers believe in astrology: the well-known cognitive illusions that foster false belief. These include reliance on anecdotal evidence, selective memory for seeming successes, and reinforcement from colleagues. So, again, the parallel between the Rorschach and other pseudoscientific and paranormal beliefs is clear. There is also a financial interest at work here. If the proponents can convince others that the Rorschach is a legitimate psychological tool, then third-party payers will pay for Rorschach interpretation. This is not a trivial sum; given the time involved, the charge would be around $350"

(excerpted from the Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 53-56)

N.J. Pastor Tells Church Leaders to Get Off Facebook

Thu, Nov. 18, 2010 Posted: 07:02 AM EDT
www.christianpost.com

A New Jersey pastor is requiring all married church officials to delete their Facebook accounts in the wake of increasing marital troubles in his church.

The Rev. Cedric Miller of Living Word Christian Fellowship Church told The Associated Press that he has been in extended counseling with many couples because of problems posed by Facebook – namely a spouse connecting with an old flame.

"What happens is someone from yesterday surfaces, it leads to conversations and there have been physical meet-ups. The temptation is just too great," he told AP.

Church leaders have until Sunday to permanently sign off Facebook or resign from their positions. Miller also plans to delete his account this weekend.

Miller isn't the only one seeing Christian couples run into trouble because of the popular social networking site.

Texas pastor Kerry Shook of Woodlands Church told The Christian Post earlier this year that he has seen at least one marriage break up over connections made with a past girlfriend or boyfriend on Facebook.

"When you start playing around with that kind of thing, you think it's no big deal. 'They friended me. I'll find out what's going on with them.' [When] you start down that path, you know where that path ends," the megachurch pastor stated then.

At Living Word Christian Fellowship Church, Miller said the misuse of Facebook has posed problems for 20 couples.

Miller plans to warn his entire congregation this weekend about the dangers of Facebook. The mandate to delete one's account, however, won't apply to the congregation.

He told Asbury Park Press that though some may see his action with the church staff as controlling, he's more concerned about saving families and marriages.

Living Word Christian Fellowship Church is more than 20 years old and draws some 1,100 attendees.

Audrey Barrick
Christian Post Reporter

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http://www.christianpost.com/article/20101118/nj-pastor-tells-church-leaders-to-get-off-facebook/

Leftwing Evangelicals Twist Scriptures for Dictators

Remember the movie “Team America”? I don’t know about you – but I’ll never forget those Hollywood puppets appeasing Red Korea and working with Kim Jong Il.

Sad to say, leftwing evangelicals have a history of acting like tools for bloodthirsty dictatorships too. Michelle A. Vu of the Christian Post is reporting on a new move by non-representative Christian leaders to (wait for it) meet North Korea on their talk-therapy grounds. She types:

An array of evangelical leaders, including megachurch pastors and college presidents, are not only supporting the Obama administration’s push to reduce nuclear weapons, but are calling for the U.S. government to exert even more effort to negotiate with hard-to-deal-with rogue states.

Supporters of the Matthew 5 Project are urging the Obama administration and members of Congress to engage in negotiations with Iran and North Korea – two countries that the United States has no direct diplomatic relations with. Both countries, however, are suspected of building nuclear weapons, and – given their history of erratic behaviors – may use the weapons once they obtain them.

Similarly, megachurch pastor Rick Warren thinks the United States should talk to North Korea.

“I am not a politician. I am a pastor,” said Warren after North Korea’s missile tests in July 2006. “But I do know that in any conflict – whether in a marriage, in business or between nations – as long as the parties keep talking, there is hope. My plea to everyone involved in this diplomatic process is to please, keep talking.”

So Jesus was in the wrong for giving His enemies the silent treatment? To the best of my knowledge, Warren isn’t jumping on the latest appease-the-enemy bandwagon, but he isn’t retracting his laughably unbiblical statements either. The truth? As a forensic Protestant, I know the Bible praises silence in many cases, from the New Testament’s excommunication policies to the Old Testament’s just war theories. And I don’t recall prophets promoting talk-therapy campaigns for wolves.

From a theological perspective, there’s no way a Bible-first pastor would promote appeasement through the Neville Chamberlain art of talk-therapy. Why? Because Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” He never said, “Blessed are the pretend peacemakers.” May I also remind the Religious Left that Jesus told the prostitute to sin no more, not the Centurion. What’s more, he praised Rome’s supposed warmonger as a great man of faith.

Does Pastor Warren remember WWII? In “Team America,” Hollywood’s stuck-up stars are so spiritually invested in their talk-therapy powers that they lose perspective. I just wish Warren was with me when the communist Red Koreans were launching long-range ballistic missiles over my head in Japan.

If ObamaCare is so great, why so many waivers?

If ObamaCare is such a good idea, then why are there 111 companies on the waiver list?

GatewayPundit highights the segment’s central charge:

“The bottom line here is that they gave out waivers is an admission of guilt. Basically they’re saying, “You’re right. We screwed up.” That’s the bottom line here. They did not create a law that benefits all of us.”

Further, GatewayPundit’s analysis of the 111 names turns up some familiar names — like SEIU and other unions:

#12– UFCW Allied Trade Health & Welfare Trust
#14– IBEW No.915
#19– Asbestos Workers Local 53 Welfare Fund
#33– Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 123 Welfare Fund
#35– UFCW Local 227
#52– UFCW Maximus Local 455
#55– Local 25 SEIU
#60– UFCW Local 1262
#78– Local 802 Musicians Health Fund
#83– Local 17 Hospitality Benefit Fund
#89– International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT)
#91– Transport Workers
#92– UFT Welfare Fund (United Federation of Teachers)

The New York Times:

As Obama administration officials put into place some of the new rules that go into effect under the federal health care law, they are issuing more waivers to try to prevent some insurers and employers from dropping coverage and also promising to modify other rules because many of the existing policies would not meet new standards.

Last month, federal officials granted dozens of one-year waivers that were aimed at sparing certain employers, including McDonald’s, insurers and unions who offer plans that sharply limit the coverage they provide. These limited-benefit plans, also known as “minimeds,” fail to comply with new rules phasing out limits on how much policies will provide in medical care each year.

Concerned about the potential disruption that would be created by enforcing the new rules, the administration has granted dozens of additional waivers and also made clear that it would modify other rules affecting these policies. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services issued more guidance, saying it would use a different method of calculating spending for these plans so they would be able to meet new regulations dictating how insurers should use the premium dollars they collect.

Meantime, Michelle Malkin notes that “Soros monkeys” are attacking “Republican repeal mongers” like crazy:

Even as the Obama administration concedes failure and continues to approve temporary repeals of the federal mandates to company after company after union after union.

Here’s the “repeal monger” attack:

Health Care for America Now executive director Ethan Rome says advocates must make it clear what repealing the law or its major provisions would really mean. “The law gets the insurance companies off the backs of the consumers,” he says. “The Republican repeal mongers want to give health care back to the insurance industry. That is what it boils down to.”

Malkins conclusion: Guess we are all “repeal mongers” now, eh?

Full List of waives:
http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regulations/approved_applications_for_waiver.html

Full article here:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/lots-of-unions-are-on-the-hidden-list-to-receive-obamacare-waivers/

United Nations Declares Rachel's Tomb to be a Mosque

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decided [the week of October 25] to relabel as an Islamic mosque the tomb of Rachel, one of Israel's matriarchs, and demanded that Israel remove the site from its National Heritage list.

UNESCO also said Israel had no right to add the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, where most of the rest of Israel's patriarchs and matriarchs are buried, to the National Heritage list.

Israel responded on Wednesday by suspending all cooperation with UNESCO. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said the suspension will remain in place until UNESCO reverses its decision.

In a statement released last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office decried the ludicrous nature of the UNESCO decision:

"The attempt to detach the Nation of Israel from its heritage is absurd. If the nearly 4,000-year-old burial sites of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the Jewish Nation - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah - are not part of its culture and tradition, then what is a national cultural site?"

Sites such as the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb (which sits on the edge of Bethlehem) present an inconvenient truth for the pro-Palestine movement and its supporters, who want to claim that the Jews have no historic ties to this land.

Once again, the UN has shown itself to be anything but an impartial broker by ignoring historical evidence and embracing Muslim revisionism.

Full article:
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=22169

The Coming Persecution of Christians in the One World Government

by Paul McGuire

My spiritual mentor, Dr. Francis Schaeffer, who has been called the greatest Evangelical theologian of the last 100 years, warned that as the anarchy increased in our world due to moral relativism, that totalitarianism would rise to control the chaos. Schaeffer issued that warning over 30 years ago and said we had a brief window in which to preserve our religious freedoms. Dr. Schaeffer believed that the greatest contributing factor to the rise of totalitarianism was the fact that the Evangelical Church was accommodating to a growing humanist culture and not standing for Biblical truth. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the “Emergent Church Movement” and in the “Seeker-Friendly Movement,” but it is epidemic in the Evangelical culture as a whole. Tragically, what Schaeffer predicted would happen in the church and the culture is now happening before our eyes. Schaeffer stated that it did not matter whether or not the totalitarianism came from the left or the right because the results would be the same.
With tears in my eyes, the words of Dr. Schaeffer reverberate in my mind, as I watch the rise of a global totalitarian state and the great apostasy that the Apostle warned about in II Thessalonians. For the most part the Evangelical Church in America and Europe is the Laodecian Church that Christ warned of in the Book of Revelation. It is this the same Laodecian Church that existed in Nazi Germany before the Third Reich took control. The result of the Laodecian Church is the explosive growth of a humanist and world socialist government. This “Fourth Beast” which Daniel warned about will persecute true Bible believing Christians in America, Great Britain and around the world before the Tribulation begins. The Church is raptured before a literal Seven year Tribulation Period, but prior to that time there will be worldwide persecution in a manner that I do not believe most Evangelical Churches and their leaders are prepared for.

In the United States, The Department of Homeland Security issued its “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” Report. In addition, in many States, like Missouri, “Fusion Centers” have been set up based on the MIAC Strategic Report – The Modern Militia Movement. This Government Report alleges that a violent “rightwing extremist” movement is trying to take over the nation. According to the definitions in these reports, Bible believing Christians are labeled as “rightwing extremists.” The two reports appear to be anti-Christian propaganda created by left-wing and militant humanist “think tanks.” Their strategies are reminiscent of Adolph Hitler’s “Enabling Powers” laws which the occult Third Reich used after the “Reichstag (Parliament building) was burned down by “terrorists. These “Enabling Powers” gave Hitler the legal power to profile and arrest anyone who was even suspected of being critical of the Nazi Party. Through using the “Enabling Powers” laws to profile anyone as a potential terrorist, Hitler was able to grab dictatorial control of Germany in a matter months and killing 6-10 million Jews and Christians.

Many civil liberties groups such as the ACLU and the Rutherford Institute headed, by the Attorney John Whitehead have of expressed grave concerns about the increasing “Police State” powers that began with the Bush Administration under the guise of anti-terrorist legislation. Today a vast array of government agencies are using a wide range of anti-terrorist legalization to profile and track law abiding citizen’s in something out of George Orwell’s novel “1984” which warned of the danger of totalitarianism built on the fear of terrorism. Orwell who was connected with the British Intelligence Agency MI5 saw the dangers of a global intelligence apparatus and attempted to warn the world about it before it was too late.

The DHS “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” appears to target and profile taxpaying and law abiding Americans who are conservative, populist politically, or Christian in their religious faith. The Report profiles all American’s who disagree with plans for world currency and a new world order. Millions of American’s are being profiled as terrorists, bomb-making militia members and white supremacists simply because they are critical of certain institutions that are technically completely separate from the American government. For example, American’s who express criticism of world government, the new world order, the United Nation, the North American Union, the Federal Reserve, RFID technology and foreign nations like Russia, India and China can be profiled as “rightwing extremists,” even though all of these things are theoretically separate from the U.S. government. In addition, even if these entities did have something to do with the U.S. Government, U.S. citizen’s have a Constitutional right under the First Amendment to peacefully, and in a law abiding manner exercise their freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press without fear government interference.

In addition, in a manner very similar to the Hitler Youth, the Congress of the United States is passing a bill that is referred to as “Obama Youth Bill.” This bill will put millions of young people in the streets of America to act as agents for Obama. Yet, in the legal language of the bill there are many passages which forbid any young man or woman who is a practicing Christian and attends church, volunteers for church ministries, attends or leads worship services and Bible studies or shares his or her faith in Christ from being part of this “Obama Youth” or national service corps. In other words, practicing Christians are not allowed to become a part of the national service corps. Based on the history of the Hitler Youth, it is not difficult to understand why this is put in the national service corps bills.

For all the Evangelical Pastors who promoted President Obama, look carefully at the language of the bill. This bill’s title is called “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education” (GIVE). It forms what some are calling “Obama’s Youth Brigade” and his goal is to enroll over one million youth. But, look at the anti-Christian nature of the bill.

The Bill would forbid any student in the brigade to participate in “engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization.” That means no church attendance or sharing your faith.

Here is part of the HR1388 Bill’s wording:

SEC. 1304. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS.
Section 125 (42 U.S.C. 12575) is amended to read as follows:
SEC. 125. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS.
(7) Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization.

In other words Christians would not be allowed to be part of this Obama Youth Movement. Why do you think that is? Dr. Orly Taitz, is a female attorney who lives in Mission Viejo, California. She is also a dentist and speaks five languages. According to an interview she gave in WorldNetDaily, she was born and raised in Kishinev, the capital of the Republic of Moldova, a country in Eastern Europe that was formerly part of the Soviet Union. She compares the “Obama Youth Bill” to the Soviet Union which used children for slave labor and indoctrination.

Dr. Taitz said, “Parents were not allowed to home school their children. They were forced to enroll them in government schools. From the age of 6, all children were required to become young communists. You had to send your child to school, and your child had to be a member of the young communists,” Taitz said. “There were no children who were not members. You had to do it. If you were one of the best, you become a member of the Communist Party. It was constant brainwashing. There was no choice, and people resented that. They were scared to speak up.”

There are parallels between what happened in the Soviet Union and Nazi, Germany and what is happening in America now. Bible believing Christians are being profiled as dangerous “rightwing extremists.” In Communist China churches and Christians are not allowed to preach or teach on Bible prophecy. In the same way Christians who believe in “end time’s prophecies” are to be profiled. The same thing is now happening in America.

These “unnamed” “rightwing extremists, a term which is used over 47 times appears to profile any taxpaying U.S. citizen who may hold one or more of the following beliefs and could be classified on an elaborate government computer network as a “rightwing extremist, militia member or terrorist. Any one of the following beliefs could classify an individual or groups as a terrorist:

•Pro-life
•Critical of the United Nations
•Critical of the New World Order
•Critical of the Federal Reserve
•Homosexual marriage
•Oppose the North American Union (which officially does not exist)
•Critical of the income tax
•Oppose illegal immigration
•Fear foreign powers such as Communist China, Iran, Russia and India
•If you are concerned that China and India are prospering economically while America is on the down turn
•Critical of any of President Obama’s policies ( abortion, homosexual marriage. etc. )
•Concern about RFID chips
•Belief in Bible prophecy or “End Time Prophecies”
What is interesting about the above list is that a great deal with it has to do with things that have nothing to do with the individual nation. The only possible reason any national government would be concerned about its citizen’s objecting to things like new world order, world government, the United Nations, homosexual marriage, a regional global government like the North American Union, abortion, RFID chips and belief in end times prophecies is because this is what they are planning to promote in the near future. Otherwise why be bothered about it?

I would suggest to you that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled far faster than most of us realize and that this why governments around the world are concerned about these things.

Make no mistake about it across the U.S., Europe, Australia and other regions, Bible believing Christian are going to be persecuted before the Tribulation Period. However many Christians and Christian leaders think that if they “give up land for peace,” they will be left alone. That does not work for Israel and it will not work for the Church. Getting up and apologizing on national television for supporting traditional marriage as some American ministers have done, is not going to earn you acceptance from the world. Anymore than Israel giving up land for peace has brought about an end to terrorism. The answer is to obey the words of Jesus Christ when He tells us to “occupy until I come.” This is not a plea for a kind of Christian reconstructionism, it is simply Jesus telling us to faithfully proclaim the truth in season and out of season until He comes for His Church. Maranatha!

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Confused about gender? Sadly, some are

Kelly Boggs
Posted on Nov 12, 2010

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation," said Edward R. Murrow. Though the famed broadcast journalist died in 1965, his quip adequately describes life in our post-modern world.

Consider the following: ESPN reported recently that "a female-to-male transgender member of the George Washington University women's basketball team wants to be identified as a man this season."

"I didn't choose to be born in this body and feel the way I do," said Kye Allums, formerly known as "Kay-Kay." "I'm trying to help myself and others to be who they are." She later added, "My teammates have embraced me as the big brother on the team.

For now, Allums will just be changing her name and any pronoun references -- coaches and teammates will call her "he" instead of "she." No drug protocols or surgery are expected this season.

Robert Chernak, George Washington senior vice provost, said the university "supports Kye and his right to make this decision."

I have a question: If Allums believes so strongly that she is male, why doesn't she go compete with the boys? Why does she want to remain on the women's team?

Allums and George Washington University simply reflect an emerging reality. In a post-modern world, you are whatever sex you believe or feel that you are.

In fact, there are some post-modern adherents that insist sexuality and/or gender should be fluid. In other words, individuals can feel like a male one day and believe they are female the next. I'm not sure this is what country singer Shania Twain had in mind when she sang, "Man, I feel like a woman."

In an attempt to explain post-modern thought, social critic Os Guinness wrote:

"The old story of three baseball umpires provides a simple summary of such radical relativism. 'There's balls and there's strikes, and I call them the way they are,' says the first umpire (speaking with a traditional and Christian view of truth).

"'No, no,' says the second. 'There's balls and there's strikes, and I call them the way I see them' (speaking with a moderately relativistic view of truth). 'No, no, no,' says the third (speaking with a post-modern and radically relativistic view of truth). 'There's balls and there's strikes, and they ain't nothing until I call them.'"

So, you see, in a post-modern world there are males and females but a person is whatever sex they say they are. And, in some cases, that might even change with the wind.

The only trouble with post-modern thought, especially when it comes to sexuality, is that it denies reality. And, when people pursue a perceived "truth" without regard to reality, there are real consequences.

There are some individuals who embraced the post-modern belief that they are whatever sex they feel they are. Some have followed the path to sex reassignment surgery and later regretted it.

Perhaps one of the most famous transgendered individuals was 1970s professional tennis player and ophthalmologist Renee Richards. In a 1999 interview with "Tennis" magazine, Richards expressed some regret over having had a sex change operation.

"As far as being fulfilled as a woman, I'm not as fulfilled as I dreamed of being," Richards said. "I receive letters from people who are considering having this operation ... and I discourage them all."

Another high profile individual who embraced the post-modern idea of sexual confusion was British millionaire Charles Kane. He had sex-change surgery in 1987 and lived as a woman for 17 years.

Five years ago Kane came to the conclusion he had made a mistake and had surgery to once again become a male. He announced recently that he is getting married as a man.

"People who think they are a woman trapped in a male body are completely deluded. I certainly was," Kane told Britain's "Daily Mail." newspaper. He continued, "I needed counseling, not a sex change operation."

There are those who will argue that many people who believe they are transsexual do undergo counseling prior to sex reassignment surgery. However, post-modern counseling only helps a person confirm feelings about his or her feelings. There is no concern with the absolute truth of male and female reality.

ABC News, on its website, recently recounted the story of Los Angeles Times sportswriter Mike Penner who in 2007 announced he was a woman. Penner became Christine Daniels.

In 2008, Penner missed his former life. He tried to return to his wife, but she rejected him. Shortly thereafter, Penner committed suicide. Sadly, post-modern sexual confusion ended tragically for Mr. Penner.

In her book, "The Death of Right and Wrong," Tammy Bruce challenges the idea that sex-change surgery can transform someone into the opposite sex. "A woman's identity comes from her complete history.... Ironically, the idea of becoming a woman through surgery and hormones could only appeal to men who are truly clueless about what it means to be a woman." The same could be said of women wanting to become men.

The radical relativism of post-modern thought has produced a female who feels she is really a male but still wants to play on the women's basketball team. Further, the whole situation is endorsed by the university she attends. If you're not confused, you are simply not paying attention.

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US Campuses Hotbeds Anti-Semitism

Israel National News
by David Lev

“I've been to hundreds of high schools and university campuses talking about Israel over the years, but the reception – and the aftermath – of my visit to the Austin campus of the University of Texas was the worst example of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agitation I've ever seen,” Noam Bedein told Israel National News

"It elucidated for me the perception that hatred is alive and well, and that the line we mention in the Passover Hagaddah, 'In each generation they try to destroy us,' is a reality,” Bedein says.

Full Article:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140508

Obama Needs OKC Bombing

Note that the OKC bombing came conveniently after the mid-term elections in Clinton's first term in office.

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
November 6, 2010

Former Clintonite and Democrat operative Mark Penn says Obama needs an OKC bombing to regain his popularity.

“Remember, President Clinton reconnected through Oklahoma, right?” said Penn on Chris Matthews’ Hardball show on Thursday. “And the president right now seems removed. It wasn’t until that speech [after the bombing] that [Clinton] really clicked with the American public. Obama needs a similar” defining moment, according to Penn.

Clinton realized a boost in his popularity ratings after the attack. On the day of the attack, April 19, 1995, Clinton had a 46 percent approval rating. A few days later, after delivering a speech on the attack, a Time/CNN poll revealed his approval had jumped to 60 percent. It subsequently slipped to 42 percent the following month.

In July, another former Clintonite, Robert Shapiro, said the only thing can preserve Obama’s increasingly tenuous grip on power is a terror attack on the scale of Oklahoma City or 9/11.

“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” said Shapiro, writing for the Financial Times. “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”

“Shapiro is clearly communicating the necessity for a terror attack to be launched in order to give Obama the opportunity to unite the country around his agenda in the name of fighting terrorists, just as President Bush did in the aftermath of 9/11 when his approval ratings shot up from around 50% to well above 80%,” writes Paul Joseph Watson.

No terrorist event occurred prior to the election and establishment Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives and increased their influence in the Senate.

Earlier this year, Obama claimed America can “absorb” a terror attack. “We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever… we absorbed it and we are stronger,” Obama told intelligence operative and prized Operation Mockingbird asset Bob Woodward in July.

In April, Clinton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer he was worried that anti-government rhetoric would lead to violence and another Oklahoma City. He said he was concerned about people opposed to the government using the internet.

Complete article:
http://www.infowars.com/clintonite-obama-needs-okc-bombing-to-reconnect-with-the-american-people/

Military Lab Rats

by Oliver North
www.humanevents.com

During his presidential campaign, Mr. Obama frequently promised he would reverse the U.S. military’s long-standing “policy” prohibiting homosexuals from serving in our military. Last October, at a Human Rights Campaign dinner, he said “I'm working with the Pentagon, its leadership and the members of the House and Senate on ending this policy…I will end ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell.’ That's my commitment to you."

Last week, tucked into the closing paragraphs of his State of the Union address, the president said, “this year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are.” Set aside the disingenuous rhetoric -- it’s not about “who they are,” it’s really about “what they do” -- we now know the “repeal” process is already well underway.

Unasked and unanswered are “where do we go from here” questions the Senators should have posed: If Congress changes the law and allows overt, practicing homosexuals in the ranks, should NAMBLA members be allowed to serve? Will those who advocate abolishing “age of consent” laws be allowed to don a uniform? Will the military have to acknowledge “same sex marriages?” Will military chaplains be required to perform such rituals? Will “same-sex couples” be entitled to military housing? Will these “couples” be allowed to serve in the same unit or aboard the same ship?

Congress should not wait to decide this issue and become party to potentially irreparable damage to our military. Congress controls the purse strings of the Pentagon. Both houses should go on record now so “We The People” know who favors treating America’s Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Guardsmen, and Marines like lab rats in Mr. Obama’s radical social experiment.

Full article here
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=35491

Same Song Different Verse 2 of 2

By Dave Hodges
October 31, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

The End Game

"Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature" --Anonymously commissioned Georgia Guidestones

For what purpose would the police state apparatus be installed especially when it flies in the face of American traditions, civil liberties and Constitutional prohibitions?

While the reader ponders the answer to this question, one should also consider that researchers (e.g., Gary Franchi, Campfema) have documented the elaborate construction of a multitude of FEMA prison camps which presently lies dormant. FEMA claims the camps serve as a safety valve in the unlikely event that millions of foreign immigrants were to suddenly forced to flee to the United States to escape some unknown calamity. This explanation flies in the face of common sense since 30 million illegals already inhabit the United States and not one of them occupies space inside of this covert prison system.

The elite did not manufacture a false flag event in order to provide a pretext to gut the Constitution, implement an elaborate surveillance grid and build a network of FEMA prisons for nothing. Clearly our present police state apparatus is about control, but control from what? Sociologists claim that the global elite maintain control over the masses through a combination of five methods:

(1) Controlling ideas
(2) Controlling information
(3) Controlling technology
(4) Eugenics
(5) Genocidal depopulation

The global elite have already gained control over ideas, information and they thoroughly control technology through their military industrial defense complex. The establishment of an extensive surveillance grid, unconstitutional and unwarranted detainment policies (e.g., the Patriot Acts) and a massive covert prison system has largely been achieved. Eugenics and genocidal depopulation are the only two variables of control which have not been fully implemented. The elite, through their puppet organization, the United Nations, have repeatedly attempted to implement their brand of eugenics but have failed miserably. That leaves only the specter of genocidal depopulation.

It is not likely that the global elite will hand us the smoking gun which demonstrates their intent to depopulate. However, many of the elite have spoken quite clearly on the topic of depopulation.


An Historical Perspective on Deliberate Depopulation

The notion of creating and implementing an intentional and systematic depopulation scheme is not a new phenomenon. The global elite have long advocated for draconian population reductions over the past several centuries. For example, Thomas Malthus argued that the population growth, by the poor, inevitably outstrips food production and leads to a massive retaliation from Mother Nature. His infamous "Malthusian Controls" which are taught to every first year sociology student, has become a cornerstone belief for many modern day globalists who advocate population control by any means necessary. Further, Malthus believed that higher wages and welfare should be withheld from the great unwashed because he believed that these two factors would allow the poor to survive and exponentially breed, thus compounding the overpopulation problem.

Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, enthusiastically promoted the Malthusian philosophy in the United States as she stated "The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."

Unfortunately, the beliefs of Malthus and Sanger and other population control advocates did not die with them as it is clear that eugenics and genocidal depopulation is a reoccurring theme as revealed by the personal words of several global elite, both past and present.


Historical Views of Eugenics and Subsequent Depopulation

"…Sir or madam will you be kind enough to justify your existence…if you're not produciing as much as you consume or perhaps a little bit more then clearly we cannot use the big organizations of ousr for the purpose of keeping you alive. Because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself." --George Bernard Shaw

"..the world community of our desires, the organized world community conducting and ensuring it's own progress, requires a deliberate collective control of population as a primary condition." --H.G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy, 1935

"Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind" --Theodore Roosevelt, 1908

"Just as the sun worship of the Aztecs demanded the painful death of thousands of human beings annually, so the new scientific religion will demand its holocausts of sacred victims. ....Perhaps by means of injections and drugs and chemicals the population could be induced to bear whatever its scientific masters may decide to be for its good." --Lord Bertrand Russell, The Scientific Outlook, 1931


The Environmental Extremists

"Malthus has been vindicated; reality is finally catching up with Malthus. The Third World is overpopulated, it's an economic mess, and there's no way they could get out of it with this fast-growing population. Our philosophy is: Back to the village." --Dr. Arne Schiotz, World Wildlife Fund Director of Conservation, 1984

"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill…. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap oof mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself." -- Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider - Founder and Secretary, respectively, The Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, pgs 104-105, 1991.

"I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox." --Dave Foreman, Sierra Club and co founder of Earth First


Contemporary World Leaders and American Governmental Figures

"We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage." -- Mikhail Gorbachev

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. --Dr. Henry Kissinger New York Times, October 28, 1973

Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries." --Dr. Henry Kissinger

"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac," and "The elderly are useless eaters" --Dr. Henry Kissinger

"World population needs to be decreased by 50%" --Dr. Henry Kissinger

"In South America, the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women to be sterilized and they are funded by American tax dollars to do this." --Mark Earley in The Wrong Kind of Party Christian Post 10/27/2008

"The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes." --Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of." --Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"There is a single theme behind all our work–we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it…." "Our program in EEl Salvador didn't work. The infrastructure was not there to support it. There were just too goddamned many people…. To really reduce ppopulation, quickly, you have to pull all the males into the fighting and you have to kill significant numbers of fertile age females…." The quuickest way to reduce population is through famine, like in Africa, or through disease like the Black Death…. --Thomas Ferguson, State Department Office of Population Affairs

"Women in the Netherlands who are deemed by the state to be unfit mothers should be sentenced to take contraception for a prescribed period of two years." --Marjo Van Dijken (author of the bill in the Netherlands) in the London Guardian 11/04/2008

"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." --Prince Phillip, Queen Elizabeth's husband, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund


The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries' shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits." --Obama's Science Czar John P. Holdren: From a book he helped write titled Ecoscience

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." --David Rockefeller


The Academic and Business Community

"War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years." We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine." --Dr. Eric Pianka, University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert, showed solutions for reducing the world's population to an audience on population control

Cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people…. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symmptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions. --Stanford Professor Paul Ehrlich in The Population Bomb

"…. the global population is heading towardds 9 billion, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services (abortion), we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 per cent." --Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft


The United Nations and the Environmental Movement

"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation." --David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations

"The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity, cannot be answered by future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception, sterilization and abortion, but must be met in the present by the reduction of numbers presently existing. This must be done by whatever means necessary." --Initiative for the United Nations ECO-92 EARTH CHARTER

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing." --David Brower, the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club

"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized nations collapse. Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" --Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme

Are these simply the idle musings of demented individuals? Or, should we take these past and present global elite at their word?


A Warning from the Past

"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent." --Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviet Union

Who lives and who dies, has become the central organizing principle of the 21st century. Will the final push to depopulate consist of Ebola, nuclear war or a plague? Does it really matter? Dead is dead and it is likely that you do not have a seat reserved on the bus traveling to some safe haven. There will very soon come a day when you will likely have to decide if you are going to passively be led to the slaughter or choose to fight like a man and die free.

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Same Song, Different Verse 1 of 2

By Dave Hodges
October 3, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

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

The tragedy of 911 is now an historical event. Yet, the implications and ramifications of 911 are very much with us today and are conveniently providing the pretext to both conquer and subjugate the American people through the systematic destruction of their civil liberties.

All totalitarian governments begin their invasion into civil liberties with the promise of safety from the dangers posed by whoever plays the convenient role of the "boogey men" of the day. In Nazi Germany, the original boogey men were the communists who allegedly burnt down the Reichstag and then the scope of who conveniently played the role of boogey men kept expanding until anyone who was considered an enemy of the German State needed to be controlled and eliminated. Today, the totalitarian state promises to "Let us protect you from yourself" and these Trojan Horse promises ring loudly and clearly through the halls of Congress and in the Oval Office. True to the Hegelian Dialectic, America's present day "boogey men" are the terrorists of 911 and anyone who faces east when they pray. In reality your individual chances of being victimized by these so-called boogey men are infinitesimal. However, the dangers posed an ever-increasing totalitarian government are growing exponentially by the day.

Following the events of 911, the country sang the national anthem a little louder at baseball games while the perpetrators of 911 were busy dismantling the country's time honored Constitutional liberties.

The world has been down this slippery slope in the past and the consequences were catastrophic.


Gun Control

There is nothing as dangerous to a totalitarian regime as an educated and well-armed populace.

Private ownership of guns is the necessary component needed to fulfill the Jeffersonian mandate for self-defense against one's own country. Yet, increasingly and reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the United States government is incrementally chipping away at private citizens right to own a gun. Why? FBI statistics clearly show that 90% of the guns used in the commission of a crime are stolen! Does the government really believe that criminals, both American citizens and illegal aliens, as well as terrorists, are suddenly going to perform their civic duty and immediately register or turn in their guns? How is America better-served if the only ones who don't have access to guns are the law-abiding citizens? So, one must ask who are the gun control laws designed to protect and why?

How quickly we forget the lessons of history. Gun control and gun confiscation has preceded every instance of genocide in the 20th century. If we ever allow government to subvert the second amendment, we very well could be witnessing a prelude to an American genocide. Before we strip away our last line of defense from a fully entrenched totalitarian government by acquiescing to the United Nations and American advocates for gun control, perhaps we should examine the end game resulting from past gun control efforts:

1. In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves against their ethnic-cleansing government, were arrested and exterminated.

2. In 1929, the former Soviet Union established gun control as a means of controlling the "more difficult" of their citizens. From 1929 to the death of Stalin, 20 million Soviets met an untimely end at the hand of various governmental agencies as they were arrested and exterminated.

3. After the rise of the Nazi's, Germany established their version of gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, and others, who were unable to defend themselves against the "Brown shirts," were arrested and exterminated.

4. After Communist China established gun control in 1935, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves against their fascist leaders, were arrested and exterminated.

5. Closer to home, Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayans, unable to defend themselves against their ruthless dictatorship, were arrested and exterminated.

6. Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves from their dictatorial government, were arrested and exterminated.

7. Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million of the "educated" people, unable to defend themselves against their fascist government, were arrested and exterminated.

The total numbers of victims who lost their lives because of gun control is approximately 60 million people in the 20th century. The historical voices from 60 million corpses speak loudly and clearly to those Americans who are advocating for tighter gun control legislation. Gun control works, just ask Hitler, Stalin or any other despot.

Frighteningly, American gun control legislation is imitating Hitler's Nazi Germany gun control legislation. Consider the key provisions of the Nazi Weapons Act of 1938 and compare it with the United States Gun Control Act of 1968. The parallels of both the provisions and the legal language are eerily similar.

After the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 people, America has been plunged into an ever-increasingly unsafe world, and our citizens are about relearn the lessons of history that they failed to grasp in their United States History classes.

The lesson of the 20th Century genocides can no longer be dismissed as something that could never happen in America. The logic of personal self-defense should be hitting home as our country plunges deeper into the depths of fascist totalitarian control (e.g., Patriot Acts 1&2, Detainee Bill, etc.).

Americans may be on the verge of committing "National Suicide by Gun Control". The gun control advocates are positioning themselves and their gun-grabbing policies to be perfectly timed to influence people during this window of opportunity given the war on terror.


National Identification Cards

In Nazi Germany (July 1938), only a few months before Kristallnacht (i.e., the night of the broken glass) in which Jewish businesses were targeted by the infamous "Brown Shirts" for destruction, the notorious "J-stamp" was introduced on National ID cards and then later on passports.

The use of the "J-stamp" ID cards by Nazi Germany preceded the yellow Star of David badges which led to the subsequent deportation of Gypsies, Jews and political dissidents to the infamous Nazi death camps. In Norway, where yellow cloth badges were not introduced, the J stamped ID card was used in the identification of more than 800 Jews deported to death camps in Eastern Europe.

Identification cards, in Rwanda, were a key factor in shaping, defining and perpetuating ethnic identity. Once the 1994 genocide in Rwanda began, an ID card with the designation "Tutsi" constituted a death sentence at any checkpoint. No other factor was more significant in facilitating the speed and carnage of the 100 days of mass killing in Rwanda.

National ID cards of all kinds are controversial. In recent years in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Australia have developed proposals for introducing national ID cards which have subsequently raised serious questions about governmental control, privacy issues and ultimately citizen safety concerns. Classification of ethnic, racial or religious groups on ID cards, however, is a distinctively different issue because of the past use of ID cars used to perpetrate the targeting of "undesirables" for possible detention or death. Of course, an American national ID card would not categorize any citizen for potential abuse, wouldn't it? Before you answer, consider that 1933 Germany was a modern, civilized nation with a constitution.

Although it is true that Americans today do not have a formal National Identification Card. However, a de facto card is thrust upon the United States. New regulations on passports, identification requirements need to access public transportation and, of course, the ubiquitous use of Social Security cards as an ID card has significantly "nudged" us in that direction.

The resulting dangers of any form of a "papers please" National Identification card are self-evident.


The First Patriot Act

Many legal scholars and average American citizens decried the passage of the Patriot Act as an affront to constitutionally protected civil liberties. When the Patriot Act was passed, many compared it to the Nazi policies of 1935. The critics point was well-taken. In defense of the Nazi Enabling Act and the modern day American Patriot Act, consider the following two very similar arguments made in both of their behalves: "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." The second statement of justification argues that "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve." The first statement is a quote from Hitler's main henchman, Hermann Goering, testifying at his war crimes trial how easily he and his fellow Nazis seized control of Germany's democratic government. The second statement is a quote from President Bush's former henchman, John Ashcroft, who was fervently defending the Patriot Act and explaining that dissent will no longer be tolerated in the age of terrorism. If that doesn't make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, nothing will.

Section 206 of the Patriot Act allows the government to obtain roving wiretaps without empowering the court to make sure that the government as certain that the conversations being intercepted actually involve a target of the investigation. The Patriot Act's "sneak and peek" provision is about lowering standards for sneak and peek warrant. Section 213 of the Patriot Act allows notice of search warrants to be delayed for an indefinite "reasonable time."

Section 215 modifies the rules on records searches. Post-Patriot Act, third-party holders of your financial, library, travel, video rental, phone, medical, church, synagogue, and mosque records can be searched without your knowledge or consent, providing the government says it's trying to protect against terrorism. The statute authorizing the use of "national security letters" (NSL's) as amended by the Patriot Act 505(a) contains no judicial oversight. The statute allows the government to compel the production of financial records, credit reports, telephone, Internet, and other communications or transactional records. In a report published by the Bill of Rights Defense Committee an Inspector General Report delivered to Congress found that there were 143,074 NS Letters requested in two years, between 2003 and 2005. Another disturbing fact from the same report states that From the 143,074 NSLs requested, there was only 1 confirmed terrorism-related conviction. So, in actuality, who is the law really designed for?

Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act states that any violation of Federal or State law can result in the "enemy combatant" terrorist designation


The Second Patriot Act

The Second Patriot Act has been called The First Patriot Act on steroids. Through the principle of totalitarian incrementalism, the Second Patriot Act greatly expands the over-reaching powers of the First Patriot Act and annihilates all of the firewalls (e.g., the Bill of Rights) between governmental tyranny and the United States Citizenry.

SECTION 103 allows the Federal government to use wartime martial law powers domestically and internationally without Congress declaring that a state of war exists.

SECTION 106 states that government agents must be given immunity for carrying out searches with no prior court approval. This section throws out the entire Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.

SECTION 109 allows the newly created secret courts to issue contempt charges against any individual or corporation who refuses to incriminate self and/or others. This section obliterates the Fifth Amendment.

SECTION 123 restates that the government doesn't required search warrants and that the investigations can be a giant dragnet-style sweep (e.g.,Total Information Awareness Network). One passage in this section reads, "Thus, the focus of domestic surveillance may be less precise than that directed against more conventional types of crime."

SECTION 127 allows the government to takeover coroners' and medical examiners' investigative operations whenever they choose. This is reminiscent of Bill Clinton's special medical examiner he had in Arkansas who ruled that people had committed suicide when their limbs had been severed.

SECTION 128 allows the Federal government to place gag orders on Federal and State Grand Juries and to take over the proceedings when things are not going the Feds way.

SECTION 129 destroys any remaining whistleblower protection for Federal agents which effectively eliminates any and all oversight from within the government.

SECTION 201 of the second Patriot Act makes it a criminal act for any member of the government or any citizen to release any information concerning the incarceration or whereabouts of detainees. Therefore, when you are detained for what were formerly legal protest activities, you and your family will be unaware of your whereabouts when you suddenly disappear.

SECTION 205 allows top Federal officials to keep all their financial dealings secret, and anyone investigating them can be considered a terrorist. Pelosi and Reid can engage in money laundering, similar to Bush 41 and his endless stream of CIA front companies that he ran prior to his presidential nomination. Timothy Geitner's Turbo tax serial evasion schemes are not subject to legitimate review because he and all federal officials are now above the law.

SECTION 501 expands the Bush administration's "enemy combatant" definition to all American citizens who "may" have violated any provision of Section 802 of the first Patriot Act. Section 501 of the second Patriot Act directly connects to Section 125 of the same act. The Justice Department boldly claims that the incredibly broad Section 802 of the First Patriot Act now permits a new, unlimited definition of terrorism in order that all dissidents can be imprisoned without due process. Therefore, under Section 501 an American citizen engaging in lawful activities can be grabbed off the street and thrown into a prison never to be seen again.

SECTION 311 federalizes your local police department in the area of information sharing. Peacekeepers, like Greg Evensen and Joe Arpaio now stand alone

SECTION 313 provides liability protection for businesses, especially big businesses that spy on their customers for Homeland Security and the FBI, violating their privacy agreements. It goes on to say that these are all preventative measures. Have you ever heard of Infraguard?

SECTION 321 authorizes foreign governments to spy on the American people and to share information with foreign governments. Big Brother is going to creep up on us one peep at a time.

SECTION 322 removes Congress from the extradition process and allows officers of the Homeland Security complex to extradite American citizens anywhere they wish.

SECTION 312 gives immunity to law enforcement engaging in spying operations against the American people and would place substantial restrictions on court injunctions against Federal violations of civil rights across the board.

SECTION 402 is titled "Providing Material Support to Terrorism." The section states that there is no requirement to show that the individual even had the intent to aid terrorists.

SECTION 403 expands the definition of weapons of mass destruction to include any activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce.

SECTION 410 creates no statute of limitations for anyone that engages in terrorist actions or supports terrorists. Reminder: Any crime is now considered terrorism under the first Patriot Act.

SECTION 411 expands crimes that are punishable by death. Again, they point to Section 802 of the first Patriot Act and state that any terrorist act or support of terrorist act can result in the death penalty. Reminder: Any crime is now considered terrorism under the first Patriot Act.

SECTIONS 427 sets up an asset forfeiture provision for anyone engaged in alleged terrorist activities. In typical Mafia fashion, the Feds must get their cut.

Several times, in each subsection, the Second Patriot Act states that its new Nazi-type powers will be used to fight international and domestic terrorism (e.g., 911) and other types of crimes. Again, the government has already announced in Section 802 of the First Patriot act that any crime is considered domestic terrorism. Political protests, being a Ron Paul supporter, being a veteran, an ardent supporter of the Constitution and many other patriotic behaviors have already been deemed to be the actions of a terrorist. Really, you say? Surely you have heard of the MIAC Report. I voted for Ron Paul in 2008, have written editorials, I have done talk shows espousing the many virtues of the Bill of Rights and I am a registered Libertarian. In the eyes of the Feds, I am unquestionably a terrorist and am subject to any and all of the provisions of the Patriot Acts, One or Two. Where does this place you?


The Military Commissions Act

America is walking down this same slippery slope with the recent passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, also referred to as the "Detainee Bill."

Most Americans may be unaware that Presidents Bush and Obama, like Hitler, came to power legally. Hitler and his Nazi Party were elected democratically in a time of great national turmoil and crisis. They themselves had done much to cause the turmoil, of course, but that's what makes the Bush/Obama comparisons so compelling.

On its face, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 appears to protect Americans from the dangers associated with terrorists. However, many who have examined the recently passed law have grave concerns over what this law will mean to average American citizens. For example, Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman states in the L.A. Times, "(this legislation)....authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. Once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights." Along the same lines, legal scholar and professor, Professor Marty Lederman, explains: "this [subsection (ii) of the definition of 'unlawful enemy combatant'] means that if the Pentagon says you're an unlawful enemy combatant, using whatever criteria they wish. Then, as far as Congress and U.S. law is concerned, you are one, whether or not you have had any connection to 'hostilities' at all."

Most Americans would not express sympathy for their fellow countrymen who would dare to betray our country and provide aid and comfort to the enemy, nor do I. However the Government is not just talking about enemy collaborators; they are talking about you if you dare to criticize the government, its leaders and its policies. Subsection 4(b) (26) of section 950v.of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 discusses crimes prosecutable by the various military commissions. This includes the following definition: "Any person subject to this chapter, who, in breach of an allegiance or duty to the United States, knowingly and intentionally aids an enemy of the United States, or one of the co-belligerents of the enemy, shall be punished as a military commission under this chapter may direct." Under this law, you have an implied duty to demonstrate allegiance and a sense of the duty to the United States and its government. This offense is punishable by death. If a journalist dares to challenge the official version of 911 are they, in effect, giving aid and comfort to the enemy? When journalists challenged the veracity of the claims for presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, as a questionable pretext for war, would these journalists now be considered to be in a material breach of their duty as a United States citizen? The current definition of "enemy combatant," to whom the law would apply, broadens its reach from those who "engaged in hostilities against the United States" to those who "purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States." Material support is a vague concept that can be, and has been, applied to lawyers and interpreters assisting clients. Should lawyers who are United States citizens, acting within the boundaries of the United States and plainly protected by the Constitution, be subjected to trials before a military tribunal rather than a criminal court? The vagueness of the law seems to say yes. Further, for an individual to hold an allegiance or duty to the United States they need to be a citizen of the United States. Why would a foreign terrorist have any allegiance to the United States to breach in the first place? Several constitutional scholars concur that this law clearly applies to United States citizens. This is indeed frightening!

Further actions that result in the classification of an individual as a terrorist include the following.

• Destruction of any property, which is deemed punishable by any means of the military tribunal's choosing.
  
  
• Any violent activity whatsoever if it takes place near a designated protected building, such as a charity building.
  
  
• A change of the definition of "pillaging" which turns all illegal occupation of property and all theft into terrorism. This makes squatters and petty thieves enemy combatants.
  

The Detainee Act does much more than broaden the definition of an enemy combatant and demand allegiance to the United States government and its officials. For example, Habeas Corpus is gone as the new law declares "No court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the United States who has been determined by the United States to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant or is awaiting such determination."

With the passing of the German Enabling Act of 1933, Hitler removed the last vestiges of democratic pretense in pre-Nazi Germany. Article two of the Enabling Act stated that "Laws enacted by the government of the Reich may deviate from the constitution as long as they do not affect the institutions of the Reichstag. The rights of the President remain undisturbed." Ultimately, what the Enabling Act meant was that the executive branch of the German government was empowered by the legislature to decide what the law was. Hitler was permitted to ignore the German Constitution and neither the courts nor the legislature would have the means to check his new found executive power. Today, the United States government has the American version of the Enabling Act; Patriot Acts One and Two.


NSPD 51 and HSPD 20

The combined directives of NSPD 51 HSPD 20 grants unprecedented powers to the Presidency and the Department of Homeland Security, thus overriding the foundations of Constitutional government. NSPD 51 allows the sitting president to declare a "national emergency" without Congressional approval. The adoption of NSPD 51 would lead to the de facto closing down of the Legislature and the militarization of justice and law enforcement:

NSPD 51 grants extraordinary Police State powers to the White House and Homeland Security (DHS), in the event of a "Catastrophic Emergency." The President, alone, decides what constitutes a national emergency which could lead to the implementation of martial law.


John Warner Defense Act of 2007

Public Law 109-364, The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, was signed into law in a private Oval Office ceremony. It allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere within America. No doubt that NORTHCOM was created for the enforcement of this eventuality. This act also permits the President to take control of all state based National Guard units without the consent of the state's governor in order to "suppress public disorder." Further, Section 1076 of this Act, entitled; Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies and Section 333 Major Public Emergencies which could include any interference with State and Federal Law, says that the President may use the forces at his disposal when he alone determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that a State is incapable of maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination thereof or conspiracy to commit these acts against the United States." This quote does not require any elaboration.


FEMA CAMPS and REX 84

Hitler persuaded President Hindenburg to sign Article 48, an "emergency" decree authorizing Hitler to suspend all civil rights, arrest and summarily execute any person who was designated as being a person who was deemed "suspicious" by Hitler and his cronies. Subsequently, a reign of terror ensued in which thousands (communists, social-democrats, labor union leaders) were arrested and sent to prison, or worse. To maximize Nazi influence, the non-Nazi press was outlawed. And so began one of the darkest chapters in human history.

In 1999, the Federal government has entered into a no bid contract with KBR to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railroad cars equipped with shackles, purportedly to transport "detainees" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Who will inhabit these secretive prisons? Author Naomi Wolf, contends that the National Counterterrorism Center holds the names of roughly 775,000 "terror suspects" with the number increasing by 20,000 per month. Another relevant clue about who may eventually inhabit the FEMA prisons may lie in the now infamous MIAC report. According to the MIAC report, if you oppose any of the following, you could qualify for being profiled as a potential dangerous militia member or terrorist designation: The United Nations, the New World Order, Gun Control, the Federal Reserve, the Income Tax, The Ammunition and Accountability Act, The North American Union, Universal Service Program, the use of RFID's, anti-abortion and illegal immigration. You may also be considered a terrorist if you are any of the following: A Ron Paul supporter, espouse pro-constitutional beliefs, are a member of any fringe political parties (e.g., Libertarian and Constitution parties), pro Second Amendment and amazingly if you are a veteran. Under the Patriot Acts and all the myriad of police state legislation, following 911, we are all at risk. What's in your wallet?


Summary

The government states that they must look at everything to "determine" if individuals or groups might have a connection to terrorist groups. As you can now see, you and I are guilty until proven innocent.

1. Secret CIA prisons is a known fact

2. The use of Gestapo-like torture has been defended by our top governmental officials

3. Spying on all American citizens is legal and has been fully implemented for a long time.

4. Arrests and indefinite imprisonment without trial are now a legal reality.

5. The plain site existence of the omnipresent imperialistic militarism and corporate-benefiting wars of conquest are a part of the national fabric and the daily operating philosophy of the government.

6. Secret and unlawful detention has been committed against American citizens.

7. Denial and restriction of habeas corpus. Remember: The Constitution is just a "G--d--- piece of paper."

In a poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemller (1892–1984) regarding apparent inactivity of German citizens following the Nazi rise to power and their subsequent persecution of their chosen target groups.

"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out"

As it was with the German people of the 1930's, Americans did not act to prevent the coming holocaust when they possessed the power to do so by peaceful and legal means. Elections are now virtually meaningless thanks to Diebold. In the end, it doesn't matter who is elected and no election result can derail the impending train wreck which will soon confront the American people. The American people can still challenge some minor political and social issues as we continue our slide into revolution and anarchy. However, make no mistake about it, the train we are riding on has an appointment with destiny, and the other train which we will soon meet head on is run by the globalists and they have a definitive genocidal agenda which is largely unknown to the masses. You can embrace for impact, but you will not be able to avoid what is to be, and make no mistake about it, there is absolutely nowhere you and your family can hide.

Americans do not live in an emerging police state; All Americans now live in a fully developed police state. From the false flag event, 911, to the development of the most thorough and technologically equipped police state the world has ever seen, one has to wonder what's the "endgame"?

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Court Weighs Whether Christian Couple Can Foster

Mon, Nov. 01, 2010 Posted: 09:12 AM EDT

A Christian couple in England has made several attempts to provide foster care to children but has been blocked because of their views on homosexuality.

Eunice and Owen Johns were scheduled to face the High Court on Monday and their attorneys say the outcome of the case could impact the future of Christian foster carers and adoptive parents.

"It may not be long before local authorities decide that Christians cannot look after some of the most vulnerable children in our society, simply because they disapprove of homosexuality," the Christian Legal Center said in a statement.

The Johns applied in 2007 to be respite carers for children between the ages of five and 10. A social worker visited their home in Derby, England, every two weeks as part of the assessment process. During one of the visits, the social worker mentioned that if a child came from school and told the foster parents that he or she is homosexual, the parents would have to tell the child that it's OK.

Eunice Johns responded, "As a Bible-believing Christian, I don't think I can do that."

With that, the Derby City Council halted the application process. The Johns then faced a panel of at least a dozen people and affirmed again that they refuse to tell a child that it's OK to be a homosexual.

"I told them that I know they're not going to let me foster ... but there's no way I can do that as a Bible-believing Christian and I should not be made to say that," she said.

A week later, the couple received a letter from the council stating "thank you for withdrawing your application."

The Christian Legal Center pointed out the irony in the matter in that the Johns previously served as foster parents for the same Derby council for approximately 12 years.

"The Johns are a loving Christian couple, who have in the past, and would in the future, give a wonderful home to a vulnerable child," said Andrea Minichiello-Williams, director of the center, according to U.K.'s Telegraph.

The Derby City Council reinstated the couple's application and were asked by the Christian Legal Center to clarify their policy on the suitability of foster carers with traditional views on sexual ethics. The council's adoption panel failed to make a final decision about the Johns' application.
As the case faces the High Court, the Christian Legal Center says "this is a vital case for Christian freedoms."

"The council has an obligation to respect the Johns' religious beliefs, but also to comply with equality law, which prohibits discrimination because of sexual orientation. The case will decide whether the Johns will be able to foster without compromising their beliefs," the center explained.

U.K.'s new Equality Act came into effect last month. The law consolidates nine pieces of anti-discrimination legislation into one statute and covers areas such as pay, gender, disability, and religion and belief. The new law is aimed at preventing discrimination in a broad range of sectors including the workplace, education and services.

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