I've found it interesting that while the world watches the party in Berlin on this 20th anniversary of the fall of not just the wall, but of communism, our own political leaders are doing everything they can to bring America under the old commie ideals. I thought I'd post some of Ronald Reagan's speech here for this anniversary. Due to it's length, I won't post the whole speech, but you can read the whole thing here.
While many worked hard and were passionate about bringing peace to the world, to those who lived under the iron fist, it brought so much to so many. That said, it is sad that peace has never been really achieved through human endeavors- there will some day be true and everlasting peace through Jesus Christ. So many people have given their lives to bring about something better for others, to follow the moral choice in which all can live in freedom from oppressive authorities- much like Jesus, who, maybe not in the world's view of freedom, offered Himself so all the world could be free, not just in this life, but for eternal life. I pray that you will take up Jesus on His offer, so that the excitement of those who were there 20 years ago, tearing a concrete wall, you can have that same excitement of an eternity of peace, fellowship and love of Christ!
Ronald Reagan:
Our gathering today is being broadcast throughout Western Europe and North America. I understand that it is being seen and heard as well in the East. To those listening throughout Eastern Europe, a special word: Although I cannot be with you, I address my remarks to you just as surely as to those standing here before me. For I join you, as I join your fellow countrymen in the West, in this firm, this unalterable belief: Es gibt nur ein Berlin. [There is only one Berlin.]
Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the Baltic, south, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs, and guard towers. Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same--still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state. Yet it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly; here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the world. Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar.
President von Weizsacker has said, "The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is closed." Today I say: As long as the gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind. Yet I do not come here to lament. For I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in the shadow of this wall, a message of triumph.
In this season of spring in 1945, the people of Berlin emerged from their air-raid shelters to find devastation. Thousands of miles away, the people of the United States reached out to help. And in 1947 Secretary of State--as you've been told--George Marshall announced the creation of what would become known as the Marshall Plan. Speaking precisely 40 years ago this month, he said: "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos."
In the Reichstag a few moments ago, I saw a display commemorating this 40th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. I was struck by the sign on a burnt-out, gutted structure that was being rebuilt. I understand that Berliners of my own generation can remember seeing signs like it dotted throughout the western sectors of the city. The sign read simply: "The Marshall Plan is helping here to strengthen the free world." A strong, free world in the West, that dream became real. Japan rose from ruin to become an economic giant. Italy, France, Belgium--virtually every nation in Western Europe saw political and economic rebirth; the European Community was founded.
In West Germany and here in Berlin, there took place an economic miracle, the Wirtschaftswunder. Adenauer, Erhard, Reuter, and other leaders understood the practical importance of liberty--that just as truth can flourish only when the journalist is given freedom of speech, so prosperity can come about only when the farmer and businessman enjoy economic freedom. The German leaders reduced tariffs, expanded free trade, lowered taxes. From 1950 to 1960 alone, the standard of living in West Germany and Berlin doubled.
Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany--busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of parkland. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance--food, clothing, automobiles--the wonderful goods of the Ku'damm. From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on earth. The Soviets may have had other plans. But my friends, there were a few things the Soviets didn't count on--Berliner Herz, Berliner Humor, ja, und Berliner Schnauze. [Berliner heart, Berliner humor, yes, and a Berliner Schnauze.]
In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you." But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind--too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.
And now the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be coming to understand the importance of freedom. We hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and openness. Some political prisoners have been released. Certain foreign news broadcasts are no longer being jammed. Some economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state control.
Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures, intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace.
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
I applaud President Reagan's efforts, along with others who have promoted life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness which is in our own founding documents.
However, I say again, that humans may try, only One can give life, liberty and the pursuit- and our founders knew... from Almighty God, our Creator. Won't you trust in Jesus so you may receive the Blessings of true Peace and security?
Monday, November 9, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
A God Thing
I have written before about those times when you're reading the Bible, and you have one of those "slap me in the forehead" moments. I had another one.
My friend and brother in Christ, David Jeffers has been doing an incredible series on his blog over at Salt and Light (see it in the side bar here and go check it out) . He's been teaching on the importance of Biblical principles, the founding documents and voting on these foundations. Voting for those who hold our values as dear as we do- those who don't separate their Biblical principals and their political asperations.
I have been having a big anger issue for quite a while about those in Washington (NO! I don't say!) While there is nothing wrong with being angry about dishonest and corrupt politicians, and those who are railroading the people, I have found lately that I am no better than those I see who are so hateful towards Biblical conservatives such as myself. I read the comments on so many political sites and some of the language is enough to curl your hair, some of it violently angry. Although I haven't been quite that bad, I have gotten to the point where I call people names and such, but it makes me no better than those who do the same or worse.
After reading Davids articles and devotions this week, and seeing such hatred from people on all sides of the political spectrum, I realized my sin and asked the Lord to help me. To help me not sin in my anger, to help me keep things in perspective.
I know that He is in control, and that all things- good and bad, He is working for His purpose. I'm not saying that He is pulling stings on anyone, and especially not those in power, but those in our capital and around the world in working for their own power, glory and ideals are in fact playing into what the Lord has already told us about. Unless you are a Biblical Christian and know the signs the Bible tells us about, you wouldn't understand how close we are to the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He laid out all the signs for us to follow so we would be prepaired. If you've read any of my prophecies series you would see how many of these are comming to pass before our eyes.
This is what I meant when I asked to keep things in perspective. Now, am I allowed as a Christian to get angry when I see a group of "elites" running this country into the ground and hurting millions of people in the process? Yes. Am I allowed to speak out at what I see as corruption and power plays at the expense of not only our citizens but also those of the world who are effected? You betcha.
What I can not do however is stoop to their own level in my anger, and I must be like Christ when dealing with these things. I need to pray (which I do) for them, that they would know Jesus as their savior, and that we can find Biblical minded people to run for the next elections- whether we have a few days left before Jesus comes or years before He comes. I need to keep on praying for those in power, I need to keep praying that our country will come back to the foundations on which God blessed so richly in the beginning.
Now, for my slap me in the forehead verses which I read last night.
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.
Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
do not fret—it leads only to evil.
For evil men will be cut off,
but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
A little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look for them, they will not be found.
But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy great peace.
The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them;
but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.
The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy,
to slay those whose ways are upright.
But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.
Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked;
for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Amen and Amen! Maranatha!
My friend and brother in Christ, David Jeffers has been doing an incredible series on his blog over at Salt and Light (see it in the side bar here and go check it out) . He's been teaching on the importance of Biblical principles, the founding documents and voting on these foundations. Voting for those who hold our values as dear as we do- those who don't separate their Biblical principals and their political asperations.
I have been having a big anger issue for quite a while about those in Washington (NO! I don't say!) While there is nothing wrong with being angry about dishonest and corrupt politicians, and those who are railroading the people, I have found lately that I am no better than those I see who are so hateful towards Biblical conservatives such as myself. I read the comments on so many political sites and some of the language is enough to curl your hair, some of it violently angry. Although I haven't been quite that bad, I have gotten to the point where I call people names and such, but it makes me no better than those who do the same or worse.
After reading Davids articles and devotions this week, and seeing such hatred from people on all sides of the political spectrum, I realized my sin and asked the Lord to help me. To help me not sin in my anger, to help me keep things in perspective.
I know that He is in control, and that all things- good and bad, He is working for His purpose. I'm not saying that He is pulling stings on anyone, and especially not those in power, but those in our capital and around the world in working for their own power, glory and ideals are in fact playing into what the Lord has already told us about. Unless you are a Biblical Christian and know the signs the Bible tells us about, you wouldn't understand how close we are to the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He laid out all the signs for us to follow so we would be prepaired. If you've read any of my prophecies series you would see how many of these are comming to pass before our eyes.
This is what I meant when I asked to keep things in perspective. Now, am I allowed as a Christian to get angry when I see a group of "elites" running this country into the ground and hurting millions of people in the process? Yes. Am I allowed to speak out at what I see as corruption and power plays at the expense of not only our citizens but also those of the world who are effected? You betcha.
What I can not do however is stoop to their own level in my anger, and I must be like Christ when dealing with these things. I need to pray (which I do) for them, that they would know Jesus as their savior, and that we can find Biblical minded people to run for the next elections- whether we have a few days left before Jesus comes or years before He comes. I need to keep on praying for those in power, I need to keep praying that our country will come back to the foundations on which God blessed so richly in the beginning.
Now, for my slap me in the forehead verses which I read last night.
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.
Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
do not fret—it leads only to evil.
For evil men will be cut off,
but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
A little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look for them, they will not be found.
But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy great peace.
The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them;
but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.
The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy,
to slay those whose ways are upright.
But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.
Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked;
for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Amen and Amen! Maranatha!
Friday, October 16, 2009
If it Looks Like a Duck, Walks Like a Duck....
You've all heard that little ditty, and most of you have most likely read the Biblical saying that you are who you are acquainted with.
Even though the lame stream media tried their hardest to keep such things from the public, we all know about Obama's ex pastor- rabid Black Liberation, anti Semitic, anti American Joe Wright. We also know about Obama's friendship and working relationship with domestic terrorist turned University professor (gee, imagine that!) Bill weather underground Ayres.
OK, now I know you're thinking, yeah, well that's old news. Tell us something new why don't you.
I'm working something out now, which will show how much this occupant of the oval office has such hatred for America and the founding documents including the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. It all boils down to who he is by his associations.
A few months ago, I wrote about the Czars. Remember, these people are non elected henchmen for the president, who never went through any vetting process, nor ever had to appear before congress or the senate. These people hand picked by Dear Leader have as much power as Dear Leader himself, but are answerable to no one but him. So who are these folks and why does it matter?
Lets do a quick rundown shall we. First off there was Van Jones. Thanks to people from everywhere but the mainstream media, Jones was exposed as a 9/11 truther nut among other crazy ideas- so before he could be quietly let go by Dear Leader, he stepped down as "Green" Jobs Czar.
We have more than 30 of them. Most of them are as crazy as Jones if not more frightening. So who are these people? According to Donna Brazile, a CNN contributor and Democratic strategist, "President Obama is assembling the best and the brightest to help transform our economy to ensure that we can adapt to the new conditions that face us each and every day," she said. "These are people with special expertise."
Special expertise?! Due to space, I will only do a quick look at each.
Energy czar Carol Browner-
Worked on the Socialist International's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which argues that the global community must work collectively to address environmental policies .
Urban czar Adolfo Carrion, Jr.-Has undergraduate degree in world religions from Kings College; became an associate pastor at a Bronx church; earned his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College, he was an active campaigner for Obama, travelling across the country to speak on his behalf. He focused particularly on states with large Hispanic populations. The NY Daily News reported numerous developers made tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations to Carrión around the same time he was considering approving their projects in the Bronx
Science Czar John Holdren - Is an outspoken advocate of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and believes the United States should sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. In a 2008 New York Times op-ed, Holdren called climate change skeptics “dangerous” members of a “denier fringe.” In 1971, co-authored a paper in Global Ecology suggesting "some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century." He is also a proponent of population control through forced abortion a la China.
Regulatory czar Cass Sunstein - In his 2004 book, Animal Rights, suggested that animals ought to be able to bring suit, with private citizens acting as their representatives, to ensure that animals are not treated in a way that violates current law. A man who's academic specialties include constitutional law, administrative law, and regulatory policy , he is a scary proponent of unconstitutional ideas such as repealing or severely restricting the 2nd Amendment, for population control through methods such as forced sterilization and abortion. He also stated "the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone's permission." Now if that doesn't give you the creeps, you have no heart.
You can go here for the full list.
Now, we also have other minions who surround the Dear Leader. Who are some of these people? Well, the latest, and also interestingly enough will be "leaving" her post at the end of the year, is Anita Dunn. For those of you who have never heard of her, she is the Communications Director for the Obama Admin. She is also the one who recently stated that " If we went back a year ago to the fall of 2008, to the campaign, that was a time this country was in two wars that we had a financial collapse probably more significant than any financial collapse since the Great Depression. If you were a Fox News viewer in the fall election what you would have seen were that the biggest stories and the biggest threats facing America were a guy named Bill Ayers and a something called ACORN."
She adds, "The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. And it is not ideological... what I think is fair to say about Fox, and the way we view it, is that it is more of a wing of the Republican Party."
Funny how Fox back then was reporting on ACORN, considering that non of the Dear Leader's news stations were silent about ACORN's exploits at least until this past summer when the corruption got so outrageous they had to have a fly by. Interesting side note, that although congress vowed to take away funding for Dear Leader's favorite community organizers, that was only a temporary stay- they will, unless people melt phone lines, be re funded starting on Midnight of Oct. 31.
Back to Ms Dunn. Not only is she not a fan of Fox News- did you know she is a fan of Mao! How about this, Mao is one of her favorite philosophers! Her husband is lawyer Robert Bauer, who tried to get the DOJ to prosecute conservative critics and punish TV stations for running an ad critical of Obama’s relationship with Weather Underground Bill Ayers. Her own firm did the ads for disgraced ex gov. Rod Blagojevich in Illinois in 2002 and 2006.
You can see her stirring pro Mao speech here.
We can be sure there will be more to come in following months. I just pray we won't be too late to do something about this. Make no mistake people. With the healthscare bills which promote elderly death counseling, abortion across the board, more govment involvement in people's private lives and this administration's tactic of cutting down and trashing critics- Marxist doctrines are running rampant in the White House.
More to come as news breaks. Until then, I will be working on our Constitution and how dear leader and his lackeys are doing everything they can to work against it.
Even though the lame stream media tried their hardest to keep such things from the public, we all know about Obama's ex pastor- rabid Black Liberation, anti Semitic, anti American Joe Wright. We also know about Obama's friendship and working relationship with domestic terrorist turned University professor (gee, imagine that!) Bill weather underground Ayres.
OK, now I know you're thinking, yeah, well that's old news. Tell us something new why don't you.
I'm working something out now, which will show how much this occupant of the oval office has such hatred for America and the founding documents including the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. It all boils down to who he is by his associations.
A few months ago, I wrote about the Czars. Remember, these people are non elected henchmen for the president, who never went through any vetting process, nor ever had to appear before congress or the senate. These people hand picked by Dear Leader have as much power as Dear Leader himself, but are answerable to no one but him. So who are these folks and why does it matter?
Lets do a quick rundown shall we. First off there was Van Jones. Thanks to people from everywhere but the mainstream media, Jones was exposed as a 9/11 truther nut among other crazy ideas- so before he could be quietly let go by Dear Leader, he stepped down as "Green" Jobs Czar.
We have more than 30 of them. Most of them are as crazy as Jones if not more frightening. So who are these people? According to Donna Brazile, a CNN contributor and Democratic strategist, "President Obama is assembling the best and the brightest to help transform our economy to ensure that we can adapt to the new conditions that face us each and every day," she said. "These are people with special expertise."
Special expertise?! Due to space, I will only do a quick look at each.
Energy czar Carol Browner-
Worked on the Socialist International's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which argues that the global community must work collectively to address environmental policies .
Urban czar Adolfo Carrion, Jr.-Has undergraduate degree in world religions from Kings College; became an associate pastor at a Bronx church; earned his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College, he was an active campaigner for Obama, travelling across the country to speak on his behalf. He focused particularly on states with large Hispanic populations. The NY Daily News reported numerous developers made tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations to Carrión around the same time he was considering approving their projects in the Bronx
Science Czar John Holdren - Is an outspoken advocate of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and believes the United States should sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. In a 2008 New York Times op-ed, Holdren called climate change skeptics “dangerous” members of a “denier fringe.” In 1971, co-authored a paper in Global Ecology suggesting "some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century." He is also a proponent of population control through forced abortion a la China.
Regulatory czar Cass Sunstein - In his 2004 book, Animal Rights, suggested that animals ought to be able to bring suit, with private citizens acting as their representatives, to ensure that animals are not treated in a way that violates current law. A man who's academic specialties include constitutional law, administrative law, and regulatory policy , he is a scary proponent of unconstitutional ideas such as repealing or severely restricting the 2nd Amendment, for population control through methods such as forced sterilization and abortion. He also stated "the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone's permission." Now if that doesn't give you the creeps, you have no heart.
You can go here for the full list.
Now, we also have other minions who surround the Dear Leader. Who are some of these people? Well, the latest, and also interestingly enough will be "leaving" her post at the end of the year, is Anita Dunn. For those of you who have never heard of her, she is the Communications Director for the Obama Admin. She is also the one who recently stated that " If we went back a year ago to the fall of 2008, to the campaign, that was a time this country was in two wars that we had a financial collapse probably more significant than any financial collapse since the Great Depression. If you were a Fox News viewer in the fall election what you would have seen were that the biggest stories and the biggest threats facing America were a guy named Bill Ayers and a something called ACORN."
She adds, "The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. And it is not ideological... what I think is fair to say about Fox, and the way we view it, is that it is more of a wing of the Republican Party."
Funny how Fox back then was reporting on ACORN, considering that non of the Dear Leader's news stations were silent about ACORN's exploits at least until this past summer when the corruption got so outrageous they had to have a fly by. Interesting side note, that although congress vowed to take away funding for Dear Leader's favorite community organizers, that was only a temporary stay- they will, unless people melt phone lines, be re funded starting on Midnight of Oct. 31.
Back to Ms Dunn. Not only is she not a fan of Fox News- did you know she is a fan of Mao! How about this, Mao is one of her favorite philosophers! Her husband is lawyer Robert Bauer, who tried to get the DOJ to prosecute conservative critics and punish TV stations for running an ad critical of Obama’s relationship with Weather Underground Bill Ayers. Her own firm did the ads for disgraced ex gov. Rod Blagojevich in Illinois in 2002 and 2006.
You can see her stirring pro Mao speech here.
We can be sure there will be more to come in following months. I just pray we won't be too late to do something about this. Make no mistake people. With the healthscare bills which promote elderly death counseling, abortion across the board, more govment involvement in people's private lives and this administration's tactic of cutting down and trashing critics- Marxist doctrines are running rampant in the White House.
More to come as news breaks. Until then, I will be working on our Constitution and how dear leader and his lackeys are doing everything they can to work against it.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
I Am Salt!
I can't say this any better. It's what I have talked (Preached?) about for years. Read on if you are SALT!
Do Something Worthy of Persecution
By Dave Welch
At the risk of offending all the sensitive pastors and young evangelicals who are so anxious not to be the "Religious Right," I would like to propose that it is time they do something worthy of persecution. I had the privilege of being in a meeting with Open Doors USA President Carl Moeller last week and heard about the incredible work they are doing to support our persecuted brethren in countries where it really means something.With the passage – again – of hate-crimes legislation in Congress last week as Democrats deviously leeched it onto the Defense Appropriations bill, the noose continues to tighten on biblical Christianity in America.Also last week, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, our ACLU activist-turned-judge, postulated that as a resolution to the "unconstitutional" situation of a cross as a veteran's memorial in the Mojave National Preserve, the federal government "remove the cross, then sell the land back to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which originally built the memorial 75 years ago."(A side note – Justice Ginsburg is late to the game … the "Market-Driven Church" has already "sold the cross.")To cap the week off, our president reaffirmed his commitment to destroy marriage and family by removing barriers to open gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, etc. practices in our military and overturning the Defense of Marriage Act.Not exactly a banner week for Americans who hold to traditional values and Judeo-Christian principles as espoused by 400 years of our forefathers. But then again, We, Those People, are really the problem anyway, are we not?According to British theologian and author Os Guinness, the "Religious Right" is the cause of the militant gay-rights movement, and we repeatedly hear major neo-evangelicals apologizing for and distancing themselves from the religious conservatives who have fought for the sanctity of life, the protection of the family and God's design of marriage.Let me give some good news to those of the "new" evangelical paradigm: Very few of you are in danger of immediate persecution through hate-crimes legislation, the pro-sexual diversity tyranny of the Obama administration, the global elites of the major media or even proponents of Islam and "inter-faith dialogue" on "social justice."Why? These evangelicals are no threat to them because they don't preach from the pulpit or speak publicly anything that raises a standard of significant opposition but rather placates the American Christian church into a state of spiritual, moral, cultural and political neutrality.The clear truth is that not even the most hardened secularist of the cultural or political left will attack a pastor for feeding the hungry, clothing the naked or sheltering the homeless. It is also clear that our Lord directs we do those things IN HIS NAME.The problem is that the social side of the Gospel is only of value if it is inseparably linked with the spiritual side of the Gospel and the "hard truth" of our sin nature with redemption only through Jesus Christ. His name is the offense, not the actions of religious conservatives.The message of our day for Bible-believing citizens is to feed, clothe and shelter the needy, but don't do it in Jesus' name; shut up and let us continue to steal your children, kill the unborn, glorify sexual perversions and force you to declare that all religions are equally true.Not on my watch.Those of us who refuse to parse our faith in that blatantly unscriptural manner are indeed going to be targets of various types of "persecution," but it is time we just say, "Bring it on!" I must bow with shame before my brothers and sisters in nearly every Asian, Middle Eastern, African and South American country who truly suffer and often die for simply following Christ.The American Christian church is largely an embarrassment to 2,000 years of our forebears not because we have stood too strongly but because we have not lived and practiced "holy living" as described by Dr. Moeller as the primary reason Chinese Christians explain the revival there under Communist tyranny.We have reveled in our comfort and blessings, sought peace rather than righteousness and fallen down before the evil in our land. The God-given duty to govern righteously was thrown off of the biblical bandwagon decades ago by the evangelical church to focus on "spiritual matters."There are two basic biblical reasons for persecution, both found in Matthew 5, and I will leave you to consider which we legitimately can claim in this country today:
Option 1: "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me" (Matthew 5:10, 11).
Option 2: "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men" (Matthew 5:13).Pastors in particular need to remember the warning by Mordecai to Esther as she was considering whether to risk her life to speak out:
"For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?" (Esther 4:14)Paul Middleton, one of my early mentors and a pro-life champion from Washington state, used to quip that it was his goal to either help bring about renewal and revival or "be first in line for the firing squad." How about you?
A little end note by Carolyn:
I don't want to get in people's faces, and I'm not going to intentionally provoke with anything I write or post. However, I will never shy away from teaching and writing the Truth of Christ, and since it is Christ's Name in which is offensive, I know that it may be that I will find myself in touble some day because of other people's version of tolerance. I am NOT politically correct, and I am NOT soft on opinion and truth. People are tolerant of all sorts of lifestyles, religions and speech these days UNLESS it is a fundamental Bible believing Christ follower.
All I can say is if you need to persecute me for my faith in Jesus Christ- Bring it on.
Do Something Worthy of Persecution
By Dave Welch
At the risk of offending all the sensitive pastors and young evangelicals who are so anxious not to be the "Religious Right," I would like to propose that it is time they do something worthy of persecution. I had the privilege of being in a meeting with Open Doors USA President Carl Moeller last week and heard about the incredible work they are doing to support our persecuted brethren in countries where it really means something.With the passage – again – of hate-crimes legislation in Congress last week as Democrats deviously leeched it onto the Defense Appropriations bill, the noose continues to tighten on biblical Christianity in America.Also last week, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, our ACLU activist-turned-judge, postulated that as a resolution to the "unconstitutional" situation of a cross as a veteran's memorial in the Mojave National Preserve, the federal government "remove the cross, then sell the land back to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which originally built the memorial 75 years ago."(A side note – Justice Ginsburg is late to the game … the "Market-Driven Church" has already "sold the cross.")To cap the week off, our president reaffirmed his commitment to destroy marriage and family by removing barriers to open gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, etc. practices in our military and overturning the Defense of Marriage Act.Not exactly a banner week for Americans who hold to traditional values and Judeo-Christian principles as espoused by 400 years of our forefathers. But then again, We, Those People, are really the problem anyway, are we not?According to British theologian and author Os Guinness, the "Religious Right" is the cause of the militant gay-rights movement, and we repeatedly hear major neo-evangelicals apologizing for and distancing themselves from the religious conservatives who have fought for the sanctity of life, the protection of the family and God's design of marriage.Let me give some good news to those of the "new" evangelical paradigm: Very few of you are in danger of immediate persecution through hate-crimes legislation, the pro-sexual diversity tyranny of the Obama administration, the global elites of the major media or even proponents of Islam and "inter-faith dialogue" on "social justice."Why? These evangelicals are no threat to them because they don't preach from the pulpit or speak publicly anything that raises a standard of significant opposition but rather placates the American Christian church into a state of spiritual, moral, cultural and political neutrality.The clear truth is that not even the most hardened secularist of the cultural or political left will attack a pastor for feeding the hungry, clothing the naked or sheltering the homeless. It is also clear that our Lord directs we do those things IN HIS NAME.The problem is that the social side of the Gospel is only of value if it is inseparably linked with the spiritual side of the Gospel and the "hard truth" of our sin nature with redemption only through Jesus Christ. His name is the offense, not the actions of religious conservatives.The message of our day for Bible-believing citizens is to feed, clothe and shelter the needy, but don't do it in Jesus' name; shut up and let us continue to steal your children, kill the unborn, glorify sexual perversions and force you to declare that all religions are equally true.Not on my watch.Those of us who refuse to parse our faith in that blatantly unscriptural manner are indeed going to be targets of various types of "persecution," but it is time we just say, "Bring it on!" I must bow with shame before my brothers and sisters in nearly every Asian, Middle Eastern, African and South American country who truly suffer and often die for simply following Christ.The American Christian church is largely an embarrassment to 2,000 years of our forebears not because we have stood too strongly but because we have not lived and practiced "holy living" as described by Dr. Moeller as the primary reason Chinese Christians explain the revival there under Communist tyranny.We have reveled in our comfort and blessings, sought peace rather than righteousness and fallen down before the evil in our land. The God-given duty to govern righteously was thrown off of the biblical bandwagon decades ago by the evangelical church to focus on "spiritual matters."There are two basic biblical reasons for persecution, both found in Matthew 5, and I will leave you to consider which we legitimately can claim in this country today:
Option 1: "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me" (Matthew 5:10, 11).
Option 2: "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men" (Matthew 5:13).Pastors in particular need to remember the warning by Mordecai to Esther as she was considering whether to risk her life to speak out:
"For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?" (Esther 4:14)Paul Middleton, one of my early mentors and a pro-life champion from Washington state, used to quip that it was his goal to either help bring about renewal and revival or "be first in line for the firing squad." How about you?
A little end note by Carolyn:
I don't want to get in people's faces, and I'm not going to intentionally provoke with anything I write or post. However, I will never shy away from teaching and writing the Truth of Christ, and since it is Christ's Name in which is offensive, I know that it may be that I will find myself in touble some day because of other people's version of tolerance. I am NOT politically correct, and I am NOT soft on opinion and truth. People are tolerant of all sorts of lifestyles, religions and speech these days UNLESS it is a fundamental Bible believing Christ follower.
All I can say is if you need to persecute me for my faith in Jesus Christ- Bring it on.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Just a thought
While I always feel for people who lose a loved one, and I feel sympathy for the Kennedy family, I have a few things to point out about Sen. Kennedy. Not wanting to speak ill of the dead, but we can be sure that as I write this, liberals are getting together, happy for the perfect timing of Kennedy's demise so they can use it, soak it and wring it for all it's worth to try and pass healthcare reform. Kennedy was a far left liberal- and an avid fighter for socialized medicine.
Please though- think about this. If Kennedy was under the healthcare plan the socialist obama government is trying to force on the rest of us- He would have died a lot sooner. Either he would have been denied treatment because of his age and the severity of the disease, or he would have had to wait so long for treatment, he'd never have had made it this long.
I'm not trying to be mean spirited- just speaking the truth, which those who are running Washington feel we needn't know.
Please though- think about this. If Kennedy was under the healthcare plan the socialist obama government is trying to force on the rest of us- He would have died a lot sooner. Either he would have been denied treatment because of his age and the severity of the disease, or he would have had to wait so long for treatment, he'd never have had made it this long.
I'm not trying to be mean spirited- just speaking the truth, which those who are running Washington feel we needn't know.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Borrowed this one from Alan Caruba- Yes,
A picture does say a thousand words, and then some.
Keep on speaking the truth people. The community organizers in the White House don't like it one bit!
“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.."
Barack Obama 2008
“And if they tell you that, ‘Well, we’re not sure where he stands on guns.’ I want you to say, ‘He believes in the Second Amendment.’ If they tell you, ‘Well, he’s going to raise your taxes,’ you say, ‘No, he’s not, he’s going lower them.’ You are my ambassadors. You guys are the ones who can make the case,”
Too bad as usual the libs, er, I mean progressives don't take the first Amendment seriously either, unless of course, they are the ones using it.
A picture does say a thousand words, and then some.
Keep on speaking the truth people. The community organizers in the White House don't like it one bit!
“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.."
Barack Obama 2008
“And if they tell you that, ‘Well, we’re not sure where he stands on guns.’ I want you to say, ‘He believes in the Second Amendment.’ If they tell you, ‘Well, he’s going to raise your taxes,’ you say, ‘No, he’s not, he’s going lower them.’ You are my ambassadors. You guys are the ones who can make the case,”
Too bad as usual the libs, er, I mean progressives don't take the first Amendment seriously either, unless of course, they are the ones using it.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
The Great Czar Invasion
This may be one of the last posts I do, unless people start paying attention and waking up to the truth of what is going on in this country and in the world. I have been so burned out over the past few months- trying to warn people, show people, inform and spread the truth. No one seems to be listening. So much about this present administration has disturbed me greatly, and it seems as though I can't keep up with everything. I am grateful for other bloggers who continue to spread the truth of the ungodly mess this elitest power in Washington is bringing on the world- and who have been showing also, the Truth of our Lord Jesus Christ, who warned through His Word that these times would be coming on stronger as birth pangs.
I have and will continue to answer any questions relating to anything political or Biblical.... I just pray that people will start thinking and learning.
"The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States." -- Sen. Barack Obama, March 31, 2008
I know the idea of having czars is not limited to the OOO (occupier of the oval office) as other presidents have had such as "drug czars", "education czars" etc. However with the obami administration's highering of multiple czars, last I counted there were 32 of them!
Now think for a minute. These people are placed by the adminstration, but they are accountable to no one BUT the obami administration. These people are forming and suggesting policies which no one of the public can question. They are not elected, they are not a part of congress or the senate. They are unelected yet have as much, if not more power than the legislative branch of our government. They are not subjected to Senate confirmation or congressional oversight and therefore are a huge threat to our system of checks and balances. To me, this is a frightening prospect considering the socialist mindset of those running Washington.
Just who and what are these czars anyway? Well, just for starters, we have : A Mideast peace czar (not to be confused with the Mideast policy czar), a Sudan czar and a Guantanamo closure czar. Then there's the green jobs czar, the energy czar, the technology czar, an urban affairs czar, the Great Lakes czar or the WMD czar, the terrorism czar. The stimulus accountability czar, the TARP czar, the government performance czar, the information czar. We have a science czar, health czar and a pay czar. We had a car czar, but he stepped down after some sort of controversy. Gee, if everyone in Washington would step down over a controversy, I doubt there'd be anyone left!
Anyway, that's just the main ones. There are more. Gotta love big bloated government expecially when the private sector are losing their businesses and jobs.
So, let's look at one of these people, dear leader OOO has brought into his fold. If it doesn't raise the hair on the back of your neck like it does mine, well you're a much stronger person than I.
One thought before I introduce you to our science czar. I was talking with my husband about this earlier. I said normally if someone were to claim the things I'm going to show you, we'd be labled as lunitics. It sounds too fantastic to be real, and sounds totally like a conspiracy theory, but let me assure you, these are not normal times. These are not some back woods wierdos. These are highly educated people, people with a very disturbing ideal, which, if you've read any of my blogs, tells me that the times of Biblical prophecies are coming on quickly.
Who is the science czar? His name is Eric Holdren.
In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that:
• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
• The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation's drinking water or in food;
• Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
• People who "contribute to social deterioration" (i.e. undesirables) "can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility" -- in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
• A transnational "Planetary Regime" should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives -- using an armed international police force.
Here are some direct quotes from his book, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment
"The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being,”
"Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society"
" If a single mother really wished to keep her baby, she might be obliged to go through adoption proceedings and demonstrate her ability to support and care for it. Adoption proceedings probably should remain more difficult for single people than for married couples, in recognition of the relative difficulty of raising children alone. It would even be possible to require pregnant single women to marry or have abortions, perhaps as an alternative to placement for adoption, depending on the society. "
"Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock. "
"A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men. ... The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births."
On the new world order:
"Perhaps those agencies, combined with UNEP and the United Nations population agencies, might eventually be developed into a Planetary Regime—sort of an international superagency for population, resources, and environment. Such a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable...."
"If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization. "
Michelle Malkin recently wrote about him saying, " Well, I did read one of Holdren's recent works. It revealed his clingy reverence for, and allegiance to, the gurus of population control authoritarianism. He's just gotten smarter about cloaking it behind global warming hysteria. In 2007, he addressed the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. Holdren served as AAAS president; the organization posted his full slide presentation on its website. In the opening slide, Holdren admitted that his "preoccupation" with apocalyptic matters such as "the rates at which people breed" was a lifelong obsession spurred by Harrison Brown's work. Holdren heaped praise on Brown's half-century-old book, The Challenge of Man's Future, and then proceeded to paint doom-and-gloom scenarios requiring drastic government interventions to control climate change. Who is Harrison Brown? He was a "distinguished member" of the International Eugenics Society whom Holdren later worked with on a book about -- you guessed it -- world population and fertility. Brown advocated the same population control-freak measures Holdren put forth in Ecoscience. In The Challenge of Man's Future, Brown envisioned a regime in which the "number of abortions and artificial inseminations permitted in a given year would be determined completely by the difference between the number of deaths and the number of births in the year previous." Brown exhorted readers to accept that "we must reconcile ourselves to the fact that artificial means must be applied to limit birth rates." If we don't, Brown warned, we will face a planet "with a writhing mass of human beings." He likened the global population to a "pulsating mass of maggots." When I pressed Holdren's office specifically about his relationship with Brown, spokesman Rick Weiss told me he didn't know who Brown was and balked at drawing any conclusions about Holdren's views based on his homage just two years ago to his lifelong mentor, colleague and continued inspiration, Harrison Brown."
So it would seem that Holdren hasn't changed his views on the progressive's favorite topics- eugenics and environmentalism. He's only changed the way he speaks publically about them.
Recent statements by the White house and Holdren's staff "When asked whether Mr. Holdren's thoughts on population control have changed over the years, his staff gave The Washington Times a statement that said, "This material is from a three-decade-old, three-author college textbook.
Dr. Holdren addressed this issue during his confirmation when he said he does not believe that determining optimal population is a proper role of government. Dr. Holdren is not and never has been an advocate for policies of forced sterilization." ... The White House also passed along a statement from the Ehrlichs that said, in part, "anybody who actually wants to know what we and/or Professor Holdren believe and recommend about these matters would presumably read some of the dozens of publications that we and he separately have produced in more recent times, rather than going back a third of a century to find some formulations in an encyclopedic textbook where description can be misrepresented as endorsement."
While they might distance themselves now that these views have come to light, they can not deny that Dr. Holdren favors government control over population growth and Holdren himself has never renounced and disavowed the contents of Ecoscience.
When under questioning, Senator David Vitter asked Holdren " In 1973, you encouraged "a decline in fertility well below replacement" in the United States because "280 million in 2040 is likely to be too many." What would your number for the right population in the US be today?
John Holdren: I no longer think it's productive, Senator, to focus on the optimum population of the United States. I don't think any of us know what the right answer is. When I wrote those lines in 1973, uh, I was preoccupied with the fact that many problems the United States faced appeared to be being made more difficult by the greater population growth that then prevailed. I think everyone who studies these matters understands that population growth brings some benefits and some liabilities; it's a tough question to determine which will prevail in a given time period. I think the key thing today is that we need to work to improve the conditions that all of our citizens face economically, environmentally and in other respects. And we need to aim for something that I have been calling ‘sustainable prosperity.’”
What has changed? Well, when he co authored the text book, he was not being considered for a high powered, president appointed position. He was a liberal writing for a liberal University. He was not being interviewed when he was able to speak freely, knowing only like minded progressives would be reading.
"To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated. For example, under the United States Constitution, effective population-control programs could be enacted under the clauses that empower Congress to appropriate funds to provide for the general welfare and to regulate commerce, or under the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Such laws constitutionally could be very broad. Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society. Few today consider the situation in the United States serious enough to justify compulsion, however."
"Social pressures on both men and women to marry and have children must be removed. As former Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall observed, "All lives are not enhanced by marital union; parenthood is not necessarily a fulfillment for every married couple." If society were convinced of the need for low birth rates, no doubt the stigma that has customarily been assigned to bachelors, spinsters, and childless couples would soon disappear. But alternative lifestyles should be open to single people, and perhaps the institution of an informal, easily dissolved "marriage" for the childless is one possibility..."
"Individual rights must be balanced against the power of the government to control human reproduction. Some people—respected legislators, judges, and lawyers included—have viewed the right to have children as a fundamental and inalienable right. Yet neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution mentions a right to reproduce. Nor does the UN Charter describe such a right, although a resolution of the United Nations affirms the "right responsibly to choose" the number and spacing of children (our emphasis). In the United States, individuals have a constitutional right to privacy and it has been held that the right to privacy includes the right to choose whether or not to have children, at least to the extent that a woman has a right to choose not to have children. But the right is not unlimited. Where the society has a "compelling, subordinating interest" in regulating population size, the right of the individual may be curtailed."
This man is frightening. But more so when we consider something seemingly unrelated. Swine flu.
Much has been made of the swine flu in recent months. So much so, one would think it was an actual epidemic such as Ebola, the Bubonic Plague or some such actual mass killing infection. While I am not discounting the people who have died from this, in actuality though, this is about as serious as our regular flu pandemics which happen every year with more deaths reported than with this one particular strain. It is interesting however, that the WHO and UN, and some of our world governments have been scrambling to find a vaccine for this particular strain, which, could work against the human immune system such as with many new strains of bacterias which are no longer susecptible to penicillin due to over use.
Consider the past thoughts and statements of people such as Holder, and we have someone who could (not saying would- but we never know) work with the health czar and the UN, on "eradicating" the swine flu by administering flu shots to all populations. Think about it. Not much of a stretch to think they could put some sort of sterilization drugs in these vaccinations. Think about other proponants of eugenics, the fact that people such as Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who believed in abortions for undersirebles such as the poor and those of color. These people really would have no problem going into the poorest parts of the country to administer these shots, knowing it would limit or stop future generations of poor, and in a socialist society, unproductive individuals who are no use to the state. They could also "lovingly euthanize" the elderly with a vaccine. After all, in the socialist society, the elderly are a drain on the government, past being able to contribute to the community, too old to work for the common good.
Sounds like a luny horror movie script doesn't it? Only problem is, is this scenario, as unbelieveable as it sounds could be something the elite environmentalists, those who value the creation instead of recognizing the Creator have no real compulsions about euthanasia, forced abortion or anything that could stand in the way of a utiopia, perfect society which they want to bring about.
The Bible warns us about ungodly practices in the latter days. Those days are here. Our present OOO has surrounded himself with an ungodly people who have to answer to no one. People were warned, but the people also wanted change without thinking of consequences. I have, as thousands of others been sounding the alarm over our government and the Biblical prophecies coming to pass for years. Are you willing to listen now? Our present government is wanting to silence people like me, putting me off as an extremest, bigoted and inclusive homophobic fear mongerer, a birther nutjob. I have been called worse, and will continue to be called all sorts of things.
One thing I have learned, is that when you are coming too close to the truth, those spreading the lies will come at you with everything they can. Some day, soon, those of us who oppose the spirit of the antichrist will be either silenced or removed from this world
by our Savior and Lord Jesus. Will you remember the warnings?
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130645.html
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/More-Holdren-Traditional-family-is-obsolete-50807107.html
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2368
I have and will continue to answer any questions relating to anything political or Biblical.... I just pray that people will start thinking and learning.
"The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States." -- Sen. Barack Obama, March 31, 2008
I know the idea of having czars is not limited to the OOO (occupier of the oval office) as other presidents have had such as "drug czars", "education czars" etc. However with the obami administration's highering of multiple czars, last I counted there were 32 of them!
Now think for a minute. These people are placed by the adminstration, but they are accountable to no one BUT the obami administration. These people are forming and suggesting policies which no one of the public can question. They are not elected, they are not a part of congress or the senate. They are unelected yet have as much, if not more power than the legislative branch of our government. They are not subjected to Senate confirmation or congressional oversight and therefore are a huge threat to our system of checks and balances. To me, this is a frightening prospect considering the socialist mindset of those running Washington.
Just who and what are these czars anyway? Well, just for starters, we have : A Mideast peace czar (not to be confused with the Mideast policy czar), a Sudan czar and a Guantanamo closure czar. Then there's the green jobs czar, the energy czar, the technology czar, an urban affairs czar, the Great Lakes czar or the WMD czar, the terrorism czar. The stimulus accountability czar, the TARP czar, the government performance czar, the information czar. We have a science czar, health czar and a pay czar. We had a car czar, but he stepped down after some sort of controversy. Gee, if everyone in Washington would step down over a controversy, I doubt there'd be anyone left!
Anyway, that's just the main ones. There are more. Gotta love big bloated government expecially when the private sector are losing their businesses and jobs.
So, let's look at one of these people, dear leader OOO has brought into his fold. If it doesn't raise the hair on the back of your neck like it does mine, well you're a much stronger person than I.
One thought before I introduce you to our science czar. I was talking with my husband about this earlier. I said normally if someone were to claim the things I'm going to show you, we'd be labled as lunitics. It sounds too fantastic to be real, and sounds totally like a conspiracy theory, but let me assure you, these are not normal times. These are not some back woods wierdos. These are highly educated people, people with a very disturbing ideal, which, if you've read any of my blogs, tells me that the times of Biblical prophecies are coming on quickly.
Who is the science czar? His name is Eric Holdren.
In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that:
• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
• The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation's drinking water or in food;
• Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
• People who "contribute to social deterioration" (i.e. undesirables) "can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility" -- in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
• A transnational "Planetary Regime" should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives -- using an armed international police force.
Here are some direct quotes from his book, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment
"The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being,”
"Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society"
" If a single mother really wished to keep her baby, she might be obliged to go through adoption proceedings and demonstrate her ability to support and care for it. Adoption proceedings probably should remain more difficult for single people than for married couples, in recognition of the relative difficulty of raising children alone. It would even be possible to require pregnant single women to marry or have abortions, perhaps as an alternative to placement for adoption, depending on the society. "
"Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock. "
"A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men. ... The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births."
On the new world order:
"Perhaps those agencies, combined with UNEP and the United Nations population agencies, might eventually be developed into a Planetary Regime—sort of an international superagency for population, resources, and environment. Such a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable...."
"If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization. "
Michelle Malkin recently wrote about him saying, " Well, I did read one of Holdren's recent works. It revealed his clingy reverence for, and allegiance to, the gurus of population control authoritarianism. He's just gotten smarter about cloaking it behind global warming hysteria. In 2007, he addressed the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. Holdren served as AAAS president; the organization posted his full slide presentation on its website. In the opening slide, Holdren admitted that his "preoccupation" with apocalyptic matters such as "the rates at which people breed" was a lifelong obsession spurred by Harrison Brown's work. Holdren heaped praise on Brown's half-century-old book, The Challenge of Man's Future, and then proceeded to paint doom-and-gloom scenarios requiring drastic government interventions to control climate change. Who is Harrison Brown? He was a "distinguished member" of the International Eugenics Society whom Holdren later worked with on a book about -- you guessed it -- world population and fertility. Brown advocated the same population control-freak measures Holdren put forth in Ecoscience. In The Challenge of Man's Future, Brown envisioned a regime in which the "number of abortions and artificial inseminations permitted in a given year would be determined completely by the difference between the number of deaths and the number of births in the year previous." Brown exhorted readers to accept that "we must reconcile ourselves to the fact that artificial means must be applied to limit birth rates." If we don't, Brown warned, we will face a planet "with a writhing mass of human beings." He likened the global population to a "pulsating mass of maggots." When I pressed Holdren's office specifically about his relationship with Brown, spokesman Rick Weiss told me he didn't know who Brown was and balked at drawing any conclusions about Holdren's views based on his homage just two years ago to his lifelong mentor, colleague and continued inspiration, Harrison Brown."
So it would seem that Holdren hasn't changed his views on the progressive's favorite topics- eugenics and environmentalism. He's only changed the way he speaks publically about them.
Recent statements by the White house and Holdren's staff "When asked whether Mr. Holdren's thoughts on population control have changed over the years, his staff gave The Washington Times a statement that said, "This material is from a three-decade-old, three-author college textbook.
Dr. Holdren addressed this issue during his confirmation when he said he does not believe that determining optimal population is a proper role of government. Dr. Holdren is not and never has been an advocate for policies of forced sterilization." ... The White House also passed along a statement from the Ehrlichs that said, in part, "anybody who actually wants to know what we and/or Professor Holdren believe and recommend about these matters would presumably read some of the dozens of publications that we and he separately have produced in more recent times, rather than going back a third of a century to find some formulations in an encyclopedic textbook where description can be misrepresented as endorsement."
While they might distance themselves now that these views have come to light, they can not deny that Dr. Holdren favors government control over population growth and Holdren himself has never renounced and disavowed the contents of Ecoscience.
When under questioning, Senator David Vitter asked Holdren " In 1973, you encouraged "a decline in fertility well below replacement" in the United States because "280 million in 2040 is likely to be too many." What would your number for the right population in the US be today?
John Holdren: I no longer think it's productive, Senator, to focus on the optimum population of the United States. I don't think any of us know what the right answer is. When I wrote those lines in 1973, uh, I was preoccupied with the fact that many problems the United States faced appeared to be being made more difficult by the greater population growth that then prevailed. I think everyone who studies these matters understands that population growth brings some benefits and some liabilities; it's a tough question to determine which will prevail in a given time period. I think the key thing today is that we need to work to improve the conditions that all of our citizens face economically, environmentally and in other respects. And we need to aim for something that I have been calling ‘sustainable prosperity.’”
What has changed? Well, when he co authored the text book, he was not being considered for a high powered, president appointed position. He was a liberal writing for a liberal University. He was not being interviewed when he was able to speak freely, knowing only like minded progressives would be reading.
"To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated. For example, under the United States Constitution, effective population-control programs could be enacted under the clauses that empower Congress to appropriate funds to provide for the general welfare and to regulate commerce, or under the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Such laws constitutionally could be very broad. Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society. Few today consider the situation in the United States serious enough to justify compulsion, however."
"Social pressures on both men and women to marry and have children must be removed. As former Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall observed, "All lives are not enhanced by marital union; parenthood is not necessarily a fulfillment for every married couple." If society were convinced of the need for low birth rates, no doubt the stigma that has customarily been assigned to bachelors, spinsters, and childless couples would soon disappear. But alternative lifestyles should be open to single people, and perhaps the institution of an informal, easily dissolved "marriage" for the childless is one possibility..."
"Individual rights must be balanced against the power of the government to control human reproduction. Some people—respected legislators, judges, and lawyers included—have viewed the right to have children as a fundamental and inalienable right. Yet neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution mentions a right to reproduce. Nor does the UN Charter describe such a right, although a resolution of the United Nations affirms the "right responsibly to choose" the number and spacing of children (our emphasis). In the United States, individuals have a constitutional right to privacy and it has been held that the right to privacy includes the right to choose whether or not to have children, at least to the extent that a woman has a right to choose not to have children. But the right is not unlimited. Where the society has a "compelling, subordinating interest" in regulating population size, the right of the individual may be curtailed."
This man is frightening. But more so when we consider something seemingly unrelated. Swine flu.
Much has been made of the swine flu in recent months. So much so, one would think it was an actual epidemic such as Ebola, the Bubonic Plague or some such actual mass killing infection. While I am not discounting the people who have died from this, in actuality though, this is about as serious as our regular flu pandemics which happen every year with more deaths reported than with this one particular strain. It is interesting however, that the WHO and UN, and some of our world governments have been scrambling to find a vaccine for this particular strain, which, could work against the human immune system such as with many new strains of bacterias which are no longer susecptible to penicillin due to over use.
Consider the past thoughts and statements of people such as Holder, and we have someone who could (not saying would- but we never know) work with the health czar and the UN, on "eradicating" the swine flu by administering flu shots to all populations. Think about it. Not much of a stretch to think they could put some sort of sterilization drugs in these vaccinations. Think about other proponants of eugenics, the fact that people such as Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who believed in abortions for undersirebles such as the poor and those of color. These people really would have no problem going into the poorest parts of the country to administer these shots, knowing it would limit or stop future generations of poor, and in a socialist society, unproductive individuals who are no use to the state. They could also "lovingly euthanize" the elderly with a vaccine. After all, in the socialist society, the elderly are a drain on the government, past being able to contribute to the community, too old to work for the common good.
Sounds like a luny horror movie script doesn't it? Only problem is, is this scenario, as unbelieveable as it sounds could be something the elite environmentalists, those who value the creation instead of recognizing the Creator have no real compulsions about euthanasia, forced abortion or anything that could stand in the way of a utiopia, perfect society which they want to bring about.
The Bible warns us about ungodly practices in the latter days. Those days are here. Our present OOO has surrounded himself with an ungodly people who have to answer to no one. People were warned, but the people also wanted change without thinking of consequences. I have, as thousands of others been sounding the alarm over our government and the Biblical prophecies coming to pass for years. Are you willing to listen now? Our present government is wanting to silence people like me, putting me off as an extremest, bigoted and inclusive homophobic fear mongerer, a birther nutjob. I have been called worse, and will continue to be called all sorts of things.
One thing I have learned, is that when you are coming too close to the truth, those spreading the lies will come at you with everything they can. Some day, soon, those of us who oppose the spirit of the antichrist will be either silenced or removed from this world
by our Savior and Lord Jesus. Will you remember the warnings?
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130645.html
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/More-Holdren-Traditional-family-is-obsolete-50807107.html
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2368
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