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Panem et Circenses: Why the People Won't Turn On the Water

"Sacramento, CA: Hundreds of California farmers, ranchers, loggers and truckers will join an estimated 50,000 people to protest the court-ordered shutoff of water to the state’s Central Valley farmland: All to protect a minnow."~Canada Free Press
Many farms and orchards are dying because of the water being shut off to lessen the endangerment of a fish. My main concern with this is that nobody cares to do anything about it. The best thing the locals have decided to do is to protest.

Hey, now that's workin' like a charm, isn't it?

We finally became so uninvolved and distant from reality that we will suffer such disgusting acts of tyranny and oppression as this, but only as long as we get our "panem et circenses" (Latin for "bread and circuses")?

"… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses." ~Juvenal (Roman poet)

As long as we get our preseason football games in HD, and McDonald's doesn't take so long with one's order as to warrant a 911 call, we can forget all about that whole "freedom" thing, right?

I am ashamed that the best thing they've thought to do about the water being shut off is to hold a "tea party".

Why isn't there anyone in that part of the country man enough to forcefully turn on the water? I don't even mean in an armed manner; just overwhelm by sheer force of numbers wherever the valve is that controls the water supply, and turn it on! Wars have been fought over lesser offenses!

Perhaps this country, as a whole, doesn't deserve freedom any more; after all, it is only a Republic for as long as we can keep it.

O, We Privileged Few

According to this news report about public housing in Missouri, "...the House Financial Services Committee adopted an amendment to allow guns in public housing projects."

"Allow"? What do you mean by "allow"? How can a right be "allowed"?

A right cannot be "allowed", but a privilege can; that is exactly what Americans are indoctrinated to believe. Take for example the oft used phrase,"Driving is a privilege, not a right." What makes it a privilege? Why are we required to purchase licenses and permits for so many things? Concealed Carry Permits are supposed to be a hard-won victory by the American gun owner, despite some areas of the country revoking them, yet is it now necessary to buy one's rights from the government?

This fits right along side Sotomayor's confirmation hearing, in which, during the opening remarks by Senators, one Democrat mentioned "the right to bear arms" in a list of laws that are less than clear in their possible interpretations.

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." ~Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Such ambiguity! There is, for some strange reason, so much debate over this sentence that the same offices that once instated this law, under new management, now reject it.

"On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry
ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect
the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning
may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the
probable one in which it was passed." ~Thomas Jefferson

I have carried myself back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, I have recollected the spirit manifested in the debates, and I have conformed to the probable meaning in which it was passed.

And, in so doing, I hold to be a truth that the Second Amendment does not grant the right for individual, private citizens to keep and bear firearms without government interference on any level; rather, the Second Amendment guarantees it! No legislation can, by definition, grant any right, only declare it; rights lay dormant in every human being; nation, creed, or gender notwithstanding. One merely needs to exercise their rights for them to be made manifest.

Today, the intense corruption in our government has eroded beyond recognition our right to keep and bear arms, and we now subscribe to privileges, that may be regulated at a whim by a majority of non-representatives.

I now refer you to a spewing forth of opinion, left on a newspaper's website by an author unknown, the topic being a local ban on smoking in public. The full quote as written follows:

"It's a privelige.  Most of everything you have and do is not a right... Did anyone in Emporia actually finish school?"

This is the product of over one hundred years of compromising our standards and rights to appease tyrants and their misled progeny. The National Rifle Association, for instance, prides itself on compromise, and its members never question the fact that compromise includes "giving-in" from both sides of an argument.

I would suggest that our supposed privileges are few and far between, yet our rights are so many, that they border on being innumerable. We must stop compromising our freedom away, or we will face the consequences of tyrannies that are already upon us. Privileges are for subjects, but rights are for a free people.

What's That Rumbling Noise?

I think it's about 1.5 million American patriots rolling over in their graves.

Why have we reached such a state of depravity that we are forced to choose between a Fascist and a Socialist for president? Why must we have a government made up of professional politicians and career-long criminals? Why has my country and its people crawled, walked, skipped and jumped down the path of moral depravity?

How is it that we have broken every rule and principle of Freedom, proudly defending every institution of modern slavery?

I don't even know what America used to look like; I'm too young to even know what it was like to live in a truly free society.

"'Republic': I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober how ever they choose. Some words give you a feeling; 'Republic' is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat."... Some words can give you a feeling that make your heart warm; 'Republic' is one of those words."
~ John Wayne, in "The Alamo"

Too few people even know what "Republic" means. Too often, governments opposed to the idea of a free Republic use the word to describe their own country. (People's Republic of China, for one.)

What we have is a Federalized Constitutional Republic, but most Americans falsely call it a "Democracy". Only our elections are democratic.

A Democracy is rule by the people, but a Constitutional Republic is rule by law through representatives.

But, nobody cares. Nobody wants to care, anymore. There would be a national outcry if the voting on "American Idol" was rigged, but not if our own national elections were.

Those who realize the truth may only turn to God for the answer; others will turn to destruction.

Obelius

Please, get her out of my state! Is it too much to ask for change?

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius revels in killing innocent children, banishing the God-given right to protection, and eliminating hunting in general. She also attended Bilderburg last year.

Obama and Sebelius are equally yolked.

If The Obamanation of Desolation has any heart, he will free Kansas of its gubernatorial burden, and choose Sebelius the Terrible as his VP pick.

Oh yeah...Ron Paul for Governor of Kansas!

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Rights Not Enumerated

In 2004, it was Kansas law that one must have a “Bowhunter Education Card” to get a license to hunt with a bow legally. To attain such a card, one must attend the “Bowhunter Education Course”. The courses ran for 10 to 12 hours, and took place in a classroom.

So, attend I did. My Dad and I both went to the Hunter Indoctrination Center to become good subjects of the crown.

For 10 to 12 hours (everything went blank for awhile, so I’m not sure.), we sat and listened to the instructors explain how nobody knows how to hunt, only professionals; nobody knows anything about the outdoors, only trained personnel; nobody knows anything about “Shot Placement”, only Medical Doctors and Anatomists.

Ignorant though we were, we received professional help to overcome our stupidity and unethical tendencies.

“Redundancy” was their motto (no joke; I‘m dead serious.), and with this motto, they admittedly and deliberately said the same thing over and over and over, to break through the wall of our stubbornness.

Thank you for being there, my loving Government! I could have never hunted the right way without you!

*Brainwashing wearing off*

In 2007, it became no longer necessary to take the Bowhunter Education Course to go hunting.

To think: I could have waited.

Oh well, at least nobody else has to take that bad old course, right?
Not so fast, you rebellious snippet!

It is now required to take a “Hunter Education Course” in order to attain a Hunting License for anyone 16 years or older. Courses are required to last at least 10 hours, with some averaging 12. Having taken a Bowhunter Education Course and owning a Bowhunter Education Card, I don’t have to take the course, do I?

Yes, I do. Anyone between the ages of 16 and 50 must have a Hunter Education Card to get any Hunting License; Bowhunter Education Card notwithstanding.

I may be attending the very same building that I did for Bowhunting, when I turn myself in for indoctrination.

I’m going it alone this time, as my Dad does not have to attend. I’ll take notes while I’m there, for blogging purposes.

They may try to parent me while I’m there, and act like I'm their child, but I’ll just tell them I already have a Father and he already taught me how to hunt.

As I’m dragged into the indoctrination room, perhaps my compatriots-in-arms and I will be singing “America, the Beautiful”, as a final insult to their Socialist scheme.

If I don’t return, remember my final words:
“Avenge me, boys -- AVENGE ME!!!”

UPDATE: 8/12: I have decided to take a detour on the Road of Misery, and will be purchasing an Apprentice License, which exempts me from taking a course. Said license may only ever be purchased once, and lasts only until the end of the year. There will be no local Hunter Education classes until October, and I'm going dove hunting in September, so I'm all but forced to do this! You will have to wait until next year to get the full report of the Hunter Indoctrination class, as I will not be attending.

It's Only Natural

“And [God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;” ~Acts 17:26

My faith is Christian, my book is the Bible; no more is necessary for daily life than this.

Many are confused about the meaning of the term “race”; the modern usage usually refers to the “color” of the skin. But, the original usage referred more generally to what might be called “people groups”. For example, one might speak of the Irish race as opposed to the “white” race, with the implication of both general appearance and national character.

It is natural for a nation of people to share common traits such as appearance and a general value system. It only makes sense.

When a nation doesn't maintain an all around consensus of these commonalities, a division is made, usually resulting in war or other cultural issues.

What we have in America isn’t natural; there are too many cultures here for one nation.
While the problem is helped by the decentralization of power in government, it isn’t solved.

It has gotten to the point where one cannot even read a simple product label at the store because he can’t find his own language. That’s a serious problem.

One nation should have one culture; every empire that has had more than one culture has fallen.
The divisions among nationalities are natural as well as biblical; God destroyed the tower of Babel because of man’s desire for world government: one tongue, one people, one government.

National divisions are God inspired.

It is natural for immigrants from their own land to come to another land and adopt the culture, but it is not natural for ten, twenty, or thirty different cultures to exist in one land.

My culture is American, my race is American, my creed is American.

I accept no other nation’s culture. This is natural.

My skin is not “white”, for if it was, I would be in the hospital.

All men are different shades of brown. All men. This is a scientific fact.

Some darker, some lighter; I'm somewhere between.
It matters not to me what shade a person is.

The answer to our cultural problems is not a “colorblind society”, but a Christian society; the kind of society spoken of by the founders of our country, and the Founder of my faith.

Generations ago, my ancestors came from the Celtic Nations, and over a couple hundred years came to be settled in the Ozarks region of America.

Over time, generation after generation, gene pool mixed with gene pool, and a set of characteristics and traits became that of my entire family. Black hair, blue eyes, these are just some of the family traits.

Why, I’ve got English, Irish, Spanish, Norwegian, Scottish, and Cherokee blood coursing through my veins, and still, I am of one blood.

Many nations, one blood.

But none of it matters, I have no sense of pride or prejudice.
I’m a Christian American, that's all that I am, and that's all that matters.
I don’t really care for anything other than my God, my family and my country; little more, nothing less.

Political Correctness and the promotion of race has ripped my nation apart, and I do not wish to further discuss my personal "race" or people group, and I do not wish for others on this blog to discuss their "race" or people group. The only mention of "race" you will see here is how our enemies use it against us as Christians and Americans.

We are all descendants of Adam.

I don't care what color a person is, I really don't.
I don't subscribe to that kind of group mentality, as it takes away from one's sense of individualism.

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]." ~Ephesians 6:12

This is the object of my faith, and this is the object of this blog.

Vindicated!

The unfortunate events that occurred on November 14th of last year sent a grandfather before a grand jury and two Colombians sadly to eternity.

Joe Horn spoke to a 911 dispatcher while he watched his neighbor’s home get ransacked by two illegal aliens. Speaking to the dispatcher, Horn indicated fear and anxiety over the robbery in progress, not knowing when the police were going to arrive to apprehend the felons.

Nearing the end of this nightmare, Horn expressed urgency about the situation, because the burglars were almost ready to escape.
Joe Horn was asked thirteen times not to go outside, but not being one to sit idly by and watch the crime pay off, he grabbed his shotgun and nervously walked outside. His voice can be clearly heard on the 911 tape as he gives a warning: “Move, and you’re dead!”.

The next things heard are three gun blasts and Joe’s voice asking the dispatcher for the squad cars to hurry up and get there, because he downed one of them and the other took off running.

Both of the house thieves died.

Horn said the criminals rushed at him, and this was verified by investigators.
This, however, wasn’t good enough for Civil Rights attorneys, falsely so called.
They, with others, began shouting “Racist!”, because the Colombians had more melanin in their skin than Joe Horn.

Well, welcome to the U.S.S.A! One may not defend his neighbor’s home from burglary without being charged with racism and murder? The two would have made off with two thousand dollars worth of valuables, had this man not stopped them. What if the family was home? They may have been massacred.

The men were part of a local crime ring, it was discovered, so it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch of the imagination to envision these men striking again.

This man has been called a vigilante, but what is that supposed to mean?
Does it mean someone that goes around packing heat, looking for litterbugs to persecute?
If it does, we’ve got a lot of badged vigilantes that are waiting to strike.

The point is, the police weren’t there, but an ordinary citizen was. He did exactly what any law enforcement agent would have done in his place. Think about it.

On the 30th day of June, 2008, a Grand Jury decided not to indict Joe Horn. Huzzah!

In Their Own Words

"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

"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

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." ~From The National Educator, K.M. Heaton

"A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal." ~Ted Turner, in an interview with Audubon magazine.

"National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing of a new world order." ~Adolph Hitler

"Under Socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not the character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner. . . . [This is compassionate liberalism.]" ~Bernard Shaw, in his Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, 1928

"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?" ~H.G. Wells, The New World Order 1939

"We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the rule of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders." ~President George Bush, 1991

"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all." ~Strobe Talbot, President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, 1992.

"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." ~Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991

America: 1776-1984

The Supreme Court is going to rule Monday* on whether or not the Constitution counts anymore. Of course, we can make an educated guess on how they’re going to rule.

Interestingly enough, they chose to wait and rule at the last minute before the summer dismissal to rule. I would imagine that most of them will be out of the country. Smart move on their part.

We can expect quite a big response to this. Some will be whining about it, but I'm sure most will be defending the decision. The Brady Bun--…er…Campaign will probably be parading in the streets, but only if they get a permit to exercise their First Amendment Right.

Free Speech is a privilege, not a right. Otherwise, why would you have to get a permit?

Freedom against unreasonable searches and seizures is a privilege, not a right. Otherwise, why would the Strike Teams break into houses after natural disasters and take away any protection against looters or ask to see your papers at unlawful roadblocks, for no apparent or lawful reason.

Powers delegated to the States or to the people are privileges, not rights. Otherwise, why would the Federal Government -- among other things -- remove thousands of National Guard troops from border states, while the state legislatures beg them to allow the “National Guard” to “Guard the Nation”.

So, why should the Second Amendment be any different?

[UPDATE] 6/26: The Supreme Court has ruled against the D.C. Gun Ban. Huzzah!


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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” ~Johann Goethe

"The answer to 1984 is 1776." ~Alex Jones

Has it Become Destructive of These Ends?

I never like to just post a link to a story, but I feel that there is a time and place for everything.

I would only like to say that this is sensitive topic that no one seems to care about, which makes it all the more serious.

And I feel words alone cannot describe the sobering emotions that things such as this bring into one's mind.

Never in America?

Just Shoot Me

Many moons ago, Glenn Beck said that if someone put a gun to his head and asked who he was going to vote for, he would answer Mitt Romney. Glenn Beck’s stand-in Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo said that if someone put a gun to his head and asked “Obama or a third Bush term?”, he would answer Bush.

I wish I could be a stand-in for Glenn Beck, if not for any other reason than to say: “If someone put a gun to my head and said: ‘Obama, McCain, or a third Bush term?’, I’d say ’Shoot!’

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State of the Republic Announcement

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right – a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit." ~ Abraham Lincoln, (speech in Congress January 1848).

This defines the American ideology of absolute freedom. As the farmer of old tossed the reigns of his plow horse about his back and shoved the plow through the sod, so does mankind bind himself to his government. As it is man’s prerogative to plow his fields, it is also his prerogative, as it says in the Declaration of Independence, that:

“...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

As I see it, the Declaration of Independence is our nation’s “official reason of existence”, and if the truths in said document be not truths, then we have no right for existence as a nation. But if it be so true, and if God has favored our cause for absolute freedom, then the Constitution, as the supreme law of the land, must be followed, and that according to God’s word.

But a matter has arisen regarding the portion of the Constitution know colloquially as the 2nd amendment; some feel that the law should be changed to fit their own personal opinions. This would be disobedience to God, because He says to submit to the higher powers, and the powers don’t get any higher than the Constitution in this country.

Now, every state in this Union of States has a "state constitution", each one being unique.
Some state constitutions have guarantees that if the state legislature voted to leave the Union, they could do so. When such a thing was pulled off in the 1860's, though, it was met with absolute hostility, and the most insane war this nation has ever seen ensued.

Now, the Sovereign State of Montana is threatening secession if the Supreme Court of the United States of America rules against the United States Constitution. More than forty politicians, including the Secretary of State, are saying that secession would be their response, because Montana’s statehood hinged on the 2nd amendment when it first became a state.

This, I feel, is the best response that any state in the Union could give to tyrannical despotism.
No bloodshed, no civil riots, just a quiet bowing out.

But what do you think?

Take the poll on the right side of the screen, and if your answer isn’t there, or you want to explain your answer, please place your comments on this post.

[UPDATE] The poll has ended in a tie.

Thomas Jefferson: In Heaven or A Heathen?

A very confusing thing: one minute I could swear that good ol’ Thomas Jefferson was a bona fide Christian, the next minute he looks like a Deist, and then again he looks like an all out Heathen! I find such a trend with several of the Founding Fathers.

Heaven knows I have no lack of respect and admiration for the men that instituted such an unrivaled system of governance (despite the state of peril it is in today), but it is a discomforting feeling to think that the very men whom (nearly) every citizen of the United States admires could have possibly been in direct personal rebellion against God. Here’s how I’m looking at it.

It seems to me that Thomas Jefferson was not a Christian for the most aggravating of reasons: he saw little to no difference between the Catholic Priesthood (read: Monopoly, or Monarchy, or Despotism), and the truly Bible-Believing Christians. I see this non-distinction a lot today. These are a collection of quotes that lead me to this conclusion about him:

“But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State." --- Thomas Jefferson to S. Kercheval, 1810

In this quote, I thought, when he says “those who professed to be his special servants,” he was speaking of the apostles, but I now wonder if he was directly referring to the Catholics, especially when he uses the term “special servants,” and, certainly, the apostles never referred to themselves as anything other than “glorified dust,“ if you will.

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"It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one. But this constitutes the craft, the power and the profit of the priests." --- Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1803

Here, I am still quite puzzled, as the Trinity is quite biblical, and not a specifically Catholic held belief. This shows, clearly, that Jefferson was not a reader of the bible, therefore, not a true Christian. Again, he was so blinded by a dislike of Catholicism that he removed himself from that area of his life to the point of disbelief in God, so I assume. I think he could have understood the Trinity by this simple analogy: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial; three branches, one Government.

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"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose." --- Thomas Jefferson to Baron von Humboldt, 1813

Obviously speaking of the Catholic monopoly over men’s very lives. I share his opinion.

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"But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country, was Jesus of Nazareth. Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its luster from the dross of his biographers, and as separable from that as the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of man. The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this benevolent morality, and the rescuing it from the imputation of imposture, which has resulted from artificial systems, invented by ultra-Christian sects (The immaculate conception of Jesus, his deification, the creation of the world by him, his miraculous powers, his resurrection and visible ascension, his corporeal presence in the Eucharist, the Trinity; original sin, atonement, regeneration, election, orders of the Hierarchy, etc.) is a most desirable object." --- Thomas Jefferson to W. Short, Oct. 31, 1819

Well, this sums it up in a nutshell; Jefferson was apparently morally upright, apparently well intentioned, and apparently misled by his own worldly mind. This, to me, shows that without the Bible, no one knows God’s truth from Man’s untruth. As far as I can see, he never believed in Jesus as the Son of God, he only admired him as a man.

While Jefferson was not a Christian, at least he was good enough to help make it a law to allow others to be Christians.

Good man morally, Great man politically, pitiful man Spiritually.