Public schools teach the theory of evolution as if it’s settled science. But by definition, a theory is not settled science, it is an unproven idea. So under the guise of settled science, evolutionary theory denies the existence of God and assumes that all life is the result of random events and chance. Many Christian parents are concerned about the corrosive effect of evolutionary theory on the faith of their children.
The truth is, evolutionary theory is a form of religion because it requires faith to believe an unproven theory is true. Because evolutionary theory is a faith based world view, and it’s promoted by public education, it equates to a State religion that violates the first amendment. So evolutionary theory should only be taught in public schools within the context of world religions.
Fortunately, scientists like Douglas Ell are using science to disprove the theory of evolution. Mr. Ell is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His undergraduate studies were in physics and mathematics, followed by graduate studies in theoretical mathematics. As a child he believed in God, but as he progressed in his scientific studies, his belief in the Bible as the source of truth ceased. But at age thirty his first child was born, and at the baptism, he noticed that Christians possessed a quality of life he lacked.
The Christian life sparked his curiosity but he could not believe in God unless his existence was supported by science. So he embarked on a search for God that included molecular biology. After reading how proteins combine with amino acids to produce cells, he did a quick calculation to determine the possibility that this could occur by chance. He discovered that the chance creation of a cell was virtually impossible, and he could no longer doubt the existence of God.
As Mr. Ell continued his studies, he documented many recent scientific advances that demonstrate the existence of God and disprove evolution, i.e., the notion that life and matter have occurred by chance. Check out this interview with Douglas Ell where he discusses his book “Counting To God”. MIT invited him to speak about his book, and none of the attending scientists could dispute the science he used to prove that random events could not have produced life as we know it.
Andrew Wommack runs a large Christian ministry based in Colorado. He did a series on creation vs. evolution which includes interviews with Dr. Carl Baugh and Dr. Grady McMurtry. Both are former atheists who believed in evolution, but like Douglas Ell, they eventually realized that scientific evidence supports the existence of God and creation.
Dr. Baugh has doctorate degrees in education, theology and biblical archaeology. Dr. McMurtry has a science degree from UC Berkeley and a doctorate in Divinity. The following link has the first five shows from Andrew Wommack’s series “Observing All Things”. The three shows dated July 16-18 have interviews with doctors Baugh and McMurtry, who present compelling scientific evidence supporting creation. Dr. McMurtry’s website is Creation Worldview and Dr. Baugh’s is Creation Evidence.
As children, many people believed in God, but after entering the university system, belief in God seemed contrary to reason. Those who doubt the Bible is true will find Jim Warner’s story particularly helpful. Jim graduated from UCLA and became an LA detective specializing in cold case homicides. As a staunch atheist hostile toward Christianity, he eventually had to admit he’d never taken an honest look at the evidence.
After applying the rules of evidence used to solve homicide cases, Warner came to believe the Bible was true and accepted Christ as his savior. Now he pastors a church and gives interviews like this one on the Leon Fontaine Show. During the show, Jim explains how rules of evidence used to build a legal case, can actually prove that the Bible, and New Testament in particular, are true.
Another good source for believers and skeptics alike is Ravi Zacharias. He combines apologetics with evangelism in order to “make thinkers believe and make believers think”. Mr. Zacharias is asked to speak at the world’s most prestigious universities where belief in Jesus Christ is ridiculed. So students often thank Ravi for bolstering their faith by helping them answer difficult questions.
You can find a number of Ravi’s videos at itbn, Trinity Broadcasting Network’s video on demand website. As a young evangelist, Mr. Zacharias helped spark a Christian revival in Vietnam. Many years later, while living in Toronto Canada, he received a call from the Vietnamese interpreter who traveled with him in Vietnam. They hadn’t spoken to each other in seventeen years and he told Ravi the following story.
After the communist takeover, the interpreter was accused of being a spy and imprisoned. The only books allowed were Marx and Engels and nothing written in English. As time passed, he began to lose faith in Christ. The day after he decided to give up prayer, he was ordered to clean out the latrines. While removing a bucket of feces and paper, he saw English words on a piece of paper and put it in his pocket. Back in his cell, he cleaned off the paper and it was a page from the Bible, specifically, chapter eight of the book of Romans. He began thanking God for not letting him go a single day without prayer. Hungry for more of God’s word, he volunteered to clean the latrines, and each day he found a few Bible pages the commanding officer had used for toilet paper.
Eventually he was released and decided to try escape the oppression in Vietnam. One day, four communist soldiers confronted him and accused him of planning an escape. He lied and they left. Feeling guilty for lying, he prayed a pray he hoped would never be answered. He said to God, if you want me to tell the truth, send the soldiers back and I will confess. Well, the soldiers returned, roughed him up, and again accused him of trying to escape from Vietnam. The interpreter confessed and to his surprise, the soldiers wanted to join him. During the boat ride to freedom, a great storm arose, and if not for the expert seamanship of the soldiers, they all would have died. When he called Ravi, he was in California planning to marry a beautiful Vietnamese girl. God is good, all the time!
Proverbs 6:16-19 lists seven things that God hates. The seventh is “he that soweth discord among brethren”. Most preachers don’t call attention to false teachers because Christ desired unity among his followers. The apostle Paul also encouraged unity among Christians. But both Christ and Paul called attention to those who attempted to deceive God’s people, and in some cases, they named names. So we should not pursue unity if it means being silent while brethren are being deceived.
Many television preachers are teaching false doctrine for financial gain, and one pastor challenging false teachers is Leslie Hale. Listen to his sermon titled “This is not the gospel, this is garbage”.
Don’t be fooled by pastor Hale’s humble appearance. His knowledge of God’s Word is exceptional and God has used him to build a ministry worth more than 30 million dollars.
The greatest threat to America and the church is not from without, it is from within. This is evident when the President of a prominent Christian university supports China’s torture of Christians.
Nazi war criminals were executed for the crimes being committed by Chinese officials. In 2012, a Congressional Commission exposed the Chinese government’s heinous crimes against women and children. There aren’t enough wives for Chinese men because 100 million girls have been killed by sex selection and forced abortion policies. Commission Chairman Frank Wolf said China has jailed many Catholic bishops and protestant pastors, and cited Chinese dissident Yu Jie who said “China is a greater threat than the Soviet Union ever was”.
Yu Jie had been tortured and said America needs a leader like Ronald Reagan who will stand up to the Communist dictators. Congressman Smith said Americans need to become much more aware of the “systematic use of torture” in China, which is a “dictatorship” with “no due process of law”. In the following interview, Reggie Littlejohn cites Chinese officials who “proudly say they’ve eliminated 400 million lives” via forced abortions.
China’s Communist government recently said they’re changing the one-child policy to a two child policy. So now they will start murdering children after parents have more than two children. In spite of this continuation of a massive crime against humanity, many American leaders characterize the two child policy as a moral victory. In the following interview, Reggie Littlejohn reveals the horrific truth about China’s new two child policy.
Unfortunately, many Christian leaders focus on Muslim persecution of Christians while ignoring communist China’s crimes against Christians, women and children. This is strange because in the past sixty years, China’s communist regimes have imprisoned, tortured, and killed more Christians than all Muslim terrorists combined.
During the following interview, pastor Fu said Gao has been tortured so badly “he cannot speak one complete sentence”. Christian media hype the horror of Islamic terrorists beheading Christians, but would you rather be beheaded or tortured until you are unable to speak one complete sentence?
Li Jing also testified before the Congressional Commission. Her husband is a Christian professor serving a ten year prison sentence for promoting democratic reforms in China. Click on the next link to hear Li Jing’s testimony and Rep. Smith responding by saying, China’s communist regime is holding “tens of thousands of political and religious prisoners”. There is a shocking contrast between pastor Fu’s interview on WORLD OVER and Billy Wilson’s positive portrayal of China’s brutal regime.
Billy Wilson is President of Oral Roberts University (ORU) in Oklahoma. Five days after pastor Fu’s interview, President Wilson hosted an ORU video about China and Chinese Christians. His pro China commentary could have been a propaganda piece put out by China’s communist government. Mr. Wilson’s politically correct white wash of China’s brutal abortion policies, and torture of Christians, was repulsive. He never mentions forced abortion or torture but refers to it as “pressure” that’s good because it’s “purifying” the church.
What would President Wilson do if his wife and children were subject to forced abortions, imprisonment, and torture for their faith? Would he say, “I love you and am praying for you, but I will not help you because torture is purifying your soul.” This would be a cruel and sadistic response to a loved one in need, and yet, that’s President Wilson’s response to Chinese Christians enduring brutal persecution.
Billy Wilson’s report on China was in stark contrast to Pastor Fu’s, who fled persecution in China and now runs China Aid, an American foundation that helps Chinese dissidents. Pastor Fu demonstrates the proper Christian response to China’s persecution of Christians. He spent three years traveling the U.S. and Europe seeking support for the release of Gao Zhisheng. Pastor Fu said 150,000 people of conscience signed a petition calling for Gao’s release and abolition of torture in China. Fu cited Americans who died in the Civil War to free the slaves and said, “we must not forget the virtue of those who fought for freedom”.
President Wilson repeatedly says “pressure” is purifying the Chinese church. But he never mentions China’s torture or forced abortions, let alone opposition to them. If he believes torture and forced abortion are justified because they purify the Chinese church, I shudder to think what he would support in America.
President Wilson’s video is approximately 28 minutes long. A little after 11 minutes Mr. Wilson says China has been “overtaken by capitalism”. This is a blatant lie as the communist government owns a controlling interest in most major industries. The following paragraph is an excerpt from a Financial Times article titled, “Hu rejects calls to reform state’s role”.
China’s President Hu Jintao rejected calls for change to the state’s dominant role in the world’s second-largest economy on Thursday in an address to past and present leaders of the Communist party. With just one week to go before he steps down as the party’s general secretary, Mr Hu insisted China would “unswervingly” adhere to “the basic economic system in which public ownership is the mainstay and economic entities of diverse ownership develop together”. In his speech to mark the opening of the Communist party’s 18th National Congress, he also said the party and government “should steadily enhance the vitality of the state-owned sector of the economy and its capacity to leverage and influence the economy”.
Christian media rightly describe Islamic terrorism as evil. But few in Christian media describe the deeds of communist China’s regime as evil. Why not? Political correctness. It’s not politically correct to call the actions of China’s regime evil because partnering with them generates huge profits for US companies. While Muslim persecution of Christians is condemned, the US rewards China with “free” trade deals that funnel Trillions of dollars to communist dictators. And because of large trade deficits with China, domestic U.S. industries are sold to the government of China.
If US leaders sold large chunks of the U.S. to Iran’s Islamic government, it would be considered treason. So why isn’t selling U.S. industries to a communist government considered treason? Republicans oppose U.S. government ownership of domestic industries, but they support foreign government ownership. Hmmm? And China’s government continues to make large acquisitions of hard assets in America. Because of a Supreme Court decision regarding campaign finance (Citizens United), China’s Communist Party can influence U.S. elections and legislation.
Raymond Arroyo is the EWTN host that interviewed pastor Bob Fu. Raymond said we hear a lot about Muslim persecution of Christians, but little about the “savage” persecution of Christians in China. This media bias seems intentional because in the past 60 years, China’s government has imprisoned, tortured and killed more Christians than all Muslim countries combined. Even though Chinese dissident Yu Jie said “China is a greater threat than the Soviet Union ever was”, Pat Robertson’s 700 Club continually reports Muslim brutality while ignoring China’s crimes.
Billy Wilson and Pat Robertson are staunch supporters of Israel. As such, they would denounce anyone saying terrorism directed at Israel is good because it’s purifying the Jews, so why the double standard when it comes to Chinese Christians? The New Testament apostles said trials and tribulation refine our faith, but Wilson’s cover up the communist regime’s evil deeds demonstrates deceit and tacit support. Mr. Wilson’s tacit support for China’s brutal policies should concern American Christians because he’s “educating” young people at ORU.
The governments of Iran and North Korea sponsor terrorism directed at America, and both are client states of China. In fact, China is arming both countries with nuclear and chemical weapons. Evidence of this came out in a Senate hearing to confirm the US ambassador to China. You can find links to the Senate hearing in this post: US TRADE SUBSIDIZES CHINA’S FORCED ABORTIONS AND TORTURE OF CHRISTIANS.
Why are Christian media silent when communist China uses Iran and North Korea to threaten America? Telling the truth would threaten “free” trade with China and the economic interests of companies like Apple. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, recently admitted he’s gay and said, “I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me”. In today’s world, free markets and free trade mean a global economy free from God’s law. The Bible says it best in 1 Timothy 6:10, the love of money is the root of all evil.
The love of money also affects Christian media analysis of the War on Terror. They rightly criticize Obama for not linking Islam to terrorism, but never mention that Saudi Arabia, a US ally, is the primary sponsor of ISIS and al Qaeda. Western governments (and Christian media) play down the connection between Saudi Arabia, its Wahhabist faith, and jihadism, whether of the variety espoused by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda or by al-Baghdadi’s ISIS. There is nothing conspiratorial or secret about these links, 15 of the 19 hijackers on 911 were Saudi and all were Wahhabis, as was Bin Laden and most of the donors who funded the operation.
The former head of British intelligence, Richard Dearlove, says Saudi Arabia is the primary source of funding for ISIS and al Qaeda.
Media misinformation is pervasive. Most portray Iran as the primary sponsor of Islamic terrorism. Iran does sponsor terrorism, but being Shiite, Iran is at war with Sunni jihadists. And nearly all terrorism since 911 has been perpetrated by Sunni groups with close ties to Wahhabism, the Saudi government’s official sect. Sunni terrorist groups include the Muslim Brotherhood, al Shabaab, Boko Haram, al Nusra, ISIS, al Qaeda, and the Taliban.
Iran allowed US planes in Iranian airspace during the invasion of Afghanistan because Iran opposes the Taliban. And Iranian backed militias are fighting ISIS in Iraq. Furthermore, Iran could not threaten the West without support from China, and communist China could not support Iran without Trillions of dollars of US investment capital. What a tangled web they weave… In his farewell speech, President Eisenhower warned Americans about the military industrial complex.
America has been fighting Saudi backed terrorists for more than ten years. During that time, tens of thousands of Americans have been maimed and killed, and we’ve spent Trillions of dollars only to see Islamic terrorists grow in number and strength. How is this possible? The only rational conclusion is that perpetual war is the goal. Why is perpetual war the objective? During a state of war, tyrants can force citizens to give up liberty for security.
The War on Terror is a means to an end, i.e., global tyranny. All around the world, terrorism is used as a pretext to continually erode individual liberties and consolidate power in despotic governments.
It’s not unusual for tyrants to play both sides of a war. For example, Saudi Arabia is a US ally in the War on Terror, but Saudi Arabia funds ten thousand Islamic schools in Pakistan that produce graduates “perfectly prepared for a career in jihad”. So America sends troops to fight terrorists produced by their Saudi ally. Saudi and US leaders are playing both sides of the War on Terror.
Their motive is simple, acquire power and wealth to advance globalization, a.k.a., GLOBAL COMMUNISM. The spoils of war used to go to the victors, not so in the War on Terror. CNBC reported that STATE OWNED companies from China and India are mining a Trillion dollars of minerals in Afghanistan, and much of Iraq’s oil is going to communist China.
Like legalized abortion, the purpose of the War on Terror is to destroy our nation’s soul, and destroy the souls of those who falsely believe they’re fighting to protect America. Most Bible believing Christians openly oppose abortion based on their belief in the sanctity of life. But the same Christians blindly support every US war. This blind support for war is an example of political correctness silencing Bible believing churches and causing them to call evil good.
The Bible clearly supports the right of self defense for individuals and nations, but murder is sin. Fighting terrorism begins with holding US leaders accountable for aiding the Wahhabist enemy.
The religious aspect of terrorism will be used to restrict the preaching and teaching of Christianity. Why? True Christians believe Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation, and this is characterized as intolerant and therefore responsible for fomenting conflict. So if religion leads to World War III, in the interest of “peace”, Christianity as defined by the Bible will be illegal.
But the greatest threat to America and Christians is not Islamic terrorism or communist China. An even greater threat is bipartisan leaders who hide their antichrist agenda behind a Christian facade. And the greatest threat to America is a church that’s deceived and silent while America is destroyed by evil masquerading as national security, free trade, and social justice.
The Posse Comitatus Act is the United States federal law (18 U.S.C.§ 1385, original at 20 Stat.152) that was passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction and was updated in 1981. Its intent (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) was to limit the powers of Federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce the state laws. In order to circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act, under the guise of improving security, the Federal government has passed legislation giving it ever more control over local and state police.
The vast majority of police officers are honest, hard working individuals who put their life on the line while protecting and serving the people. However, at the highest levels of Federal, State, and local government, there’s an organized attempt to militarize the police and consolidate power in the hands of a few.
So it’s imperative that citizens support law enforcement officers who are taking a stand for the Constitution. The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) is an organization that’s informing the public and standing up for our rights. Please check out CSPOA to inform yourself and support their work.
President Obama’s Fast and Furious program put2500 firearms in the hands of known criminals. This included AK 47s and 50 caliber sniper rifles. I’m raising this issue to shine light on some of the heroes working in U.S. law enforcement. Three brave Alcohol Tobacco and Firearm (ATF) agents blew the whistle on Fast and Furious when one of the illegally trafficked guns was used to murder U.S. Border agent Brian Terry. Listen to the ATF agents opening statements during a Congressional investigation into Fast and Furious.
After the 911 attack, the Patriot Act and Homeland Security gave the Federal government broad powers over State and local police forces. Ben Franklin said, People willing to trade liberty for safety deserve neither. If you believe the government narrative justifying the exchange of freedom for security, check out the post on Saudi financing of terrorism. The consolidation of power in the Federal government, especially the executive branch, is a trend that will result in a dictatorial police state.
The leadership of both political parties support the concept of a unitary executive, which is the ideological basis for the trend toward an imperial presidency. In order to move their dictatorial agenda forward, they must divide the public and promote violence as a pretext to restrict individual liberties. The New American recently reported that Justice Department grants are linked to a rap video glorifying the murder of police.
Judge Andrew Napolitano had a popular show on Fox News, until he started getting too close to the truth, i.e., both political parties are sabotaging the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Judge Napolitano recently appeared on The World Over, a television show that airs on the Catholic network EWTN. During the interview, he talked about his new book titled Suicide Pact, which documents the radical expansion of presidential power in America.
The first half of Suicide Pact covers presidential abuse of power from George Washington to Bill Clinton, and the last half of the book covers the rapid move toward an imperial presidency under George W. Bush and Barak Obama. Judge Napolitano’s interview is a must see for those concerned about unchecked violations of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. For more info check out the Judge’s website at judgenap.com.
Business Insider reported on a “black site” in Chicago where citizens are detained and treated like terrorists. The following paragraph is an excerpt from the article:
Chicago’s police department is detaining US citizens for days on end in a secret compound where suspects have no contact with the outside world, the Guardian reports today. Lawyers compare the off-the-books interrogation warehouse in Chicago’s Homan Square neighborhood to the CIA’s so-called black sites offshore that are used to interrogate terrorists. Police at the site in Chicago reportedly carry heavy military gear, and huge armored tanks are parked outside.
Check out this article from the legal journal of the American Bar Association (ABA). It raises some important points about the militarization of America’s police force. I don’t agree with everything it says, but truth is not exclusive to the left or the right, it’s usually found somewhere in the middle. The following are the first three paragraphs of the article.
Are cops constitutional? In a 2001 article for the Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal, the legal scholar and civil liberties activist Roger Roots posed just that question. Roots, a fairly radical libertarian, believes that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t allow for police as they exist today. At the very least, he argues, police departments, powers and practices today violate the document’s spirit and intent. [Roots writes], “Under the criminal justice model known to the framers, professional police officers were unknown,”
The founders and their contemporaries would probably have seen even the early-19th-century police forces as a standing army, and a particularly odious one at that. Just before the American Revolution, it wasn’t the stationing of British troops in the colonies that irked patriots in Boston and Virginia; it was England’s decision to use the troops for everyday law enforcement. This wariness of standing armies was born of experience and a study of history—early American statesmen like Madison, Washington and Adams were well-versed in the history of such armies in Europe, especially in ancient Rome.
If even the earliest attempts at centralized police forces would have alarmed the founders, today’s policing would have terrified them. Today in America SWAT teams violently smash into private homes more than 100 times per day. The vast majority of these raids are to enforce laws against consensual crimes. In many cities, police departments have given up the traditional blue uniforms for “battle dress uniforms” modeled after soldier attire.
The Christian mission is twofold: 1) surrender our life to Christ who then lives in us and through us. 2) Share the gospel with others and teach them what it means to make Christ the Lord of our life, i.e., bring our thoughts, words and deeds into obedience to Christ who leads us via the Holy Spirit. This is only possible if we seek God with all our heart, pray, and study of God’s word. Then by God’s grace, Holy Spirit leads us and empowers us to become followers of Jesus Christ. The following You Tube video is the first of three where Ken E. Hagin teaches us how to be led by the Holy Spirit.
Because Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden, all of humanity has been born with a sinful nature. Romans 5:18Therefore as by the offence of one (Adam) judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one (Jesus Christ) the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Sin, suffering and death came into the world because of Adam’s sin. But God immediately made a promise to redeem humanity. Genesis 3:15 (God was speaking to Satan) And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
God put enmity between the seed of Satan and the seed of the woman. The seed of the woman is a reference to the genealogy of Jesus Christ. But the world became so corrupt, it could have destroyed the genealogy that was to produce the Savior. So God flooded the world to preserve Christ’s genealogy through Noah. Then God called Abram (Abraham), who by faith produced a son (Isaac) whose descendants (Hebrews/Jews) God used to fulfill his promise of redemption.
John alluded to the fulfillment of God’s promise in 1 John 3:8 …for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God (Jesus) was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. The apostle Paul also referenced God’s promise of redemption in Romans 16:20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
In the process of fulfilling His promise to Abraham, God gave the law to Moses as a holy standard meant to steward God’s people until the coming of Jesus Christ. Most people know about the ten commandments (laws) given through Moses, but there are 613 laws. And the law is not a smorgasbord from which God’s people can pick and choose. If we break one law, we’ve broken them all.
Fortunately, Christ fulfilled the law and now we are commanded to love one another, including our enemies. Galatians 5:14For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. The apostle Paul defines what it means to love our neighbor as ourself in 1 Corinthians 13. The King James version of chapter 13 substitutes the word “charity” for love.
Even good people have sinned, so Christ lived a perfect life for us, died on the cross for our sins, was resurrected from the dead, and sits at the right hand of God where he intercedes on our behalf. All we have to do is believe this good news and make Jesus Christ the Lord of our life. Romans 5:19 For as by one man’s (Adam’s) disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one (Jesus Christ) shall many be made righteous.
So God’s son, Jesus Christ, came to earth as a man, was tempted like us, and kept all God’s laws perfectly. This qualified Jesus to become a sacrifice for all the world’s sins, and on the cross, he took all our sins on himself. As a result, all God’s righteous judgement fell on Jesus Christ, and all the demands of the law were fully met, fully paid by Christ on the cross. Whoever believes Jesus Christ died for their sins and was resurrected from the dead, is in right standing with God. Romans 10:9 if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
In order to escape God’s judgement, one has to obey the law perfectly like Christ. But the Pharisees refused to admit their failure to be perfect under the law, as a result, they refused to believe that Jesus came to free them from the curse of the law and give them a free gift of righteousness.
Applied grace is believing in our heart that we have exchanged our sin for Christ’s righteousness, which frees us from the bondage of fear and condemnation. Applying grace in our lives enables us to walk into a holy, sanctified life in Christ. Titus 2:11-12 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Regarding law and grace, the apostle Paul warns us about two pitfalls:
Is Jesus saying lawbreakers will enter the kingdom of heaven? All have broken the law, but those who receive the gift of righteousness by faith in Christ, will enter the kingdom of heaven.
The law is holy and righteous, but it cannot bring salvation because only Christ was able to keep the law perfectly. In the Old Testament, a system of sacrifice was set up to atone for sin and the sacrifices had to be performed regularly for atonement. But Jesus Christ offered himself as the perfect sacrifice, which was payment in full for all past, present, and future sins of the world. So everyone who believes in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior stands righteous before God and inherits the gift of eternal life in heaven. This is the good news of the gospel. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Pastor Charles Stanley does a great job explaining the difference between a Sunday Christian and a true follower of Christ. Whether you are a believer or not, please watch Pastor Stanley’s message on what it means to be saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Then enjoy Ken Hagin’s uplifting teaching about fighting the good fight of faith.
Without the Holy Spirit living in us and leading us, accomplishing the mission set before us as Christians would be impossible. Before Adam sinned, the Holy Spirit led him by spiritual revelation. After sinning, Adam was separated from the Holy Spirit, so he was led by information that came to him through his five senses. Jesus Christ came to redeem us and reclaim our bodies as temples for the Holy Spirit. After the fall of Adam, Jesus was the first born man who was also the temple of God. This was foreshadowed by Zechariah when he wrote about Zerubbabel rebuilding the temple, which represents the future Body of Christ, a.k.a. the church.
The intimacy we can experience with our heavenly Father, can only be fully realized when we understand what it means to have our conscience sprinkled with the blood of Christ. Even though we still sin as Christians, we can stand boldly in the Father’s presence with a clean conscience. This grace wherein we stand, also transforms our bodies into vessels of honor fit for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Jesus emphasized the importance of receiving the Holy Spirit, which empowers us to be witnesses for Christ. The disciples had walked with Jesus, been taught by him, had seen him perform miracles, and had spent time with him after his resurrection. But in order to be effective witnesses, Jesus said they must receive the Holy Spirit because, (John 14:20) At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
God sent the Holy Spirit to live in us, through us, and do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, i.e., be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. Romans 8:29 For whom he (God) did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Walking in the Spirit means living moment to moment in submission to our Lord Jesus Christ. This requires a sensitivity to the Holy Spirit which enables us to be obedient to his initial promptings. For example, when we’re tempted, the Holy Spirit will guide us into obedience. All relationships require time and commitment to develop, so be patient and faithful while getting to know the Christ within you. We wake up everyday with three enemies: 1) the antichrist world system 2) our carnal mind which is inclined to fulfill the desires of our flesh 3) Satan. But with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us, we can live each day in victory. 1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Taking time everyday to seek God seems impossible while trying to raise families and pursue careers. But we should consider daily time spent with God as a tithe, for our lives have been purchased with the blood of Jesus Christ and we have no life outside of Christ. If we acknowledge that we owe God some time each day, and take a leap of faith, the time we yield to God will bring more blessings than the perceived loss of time. John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Abraham waited twenty four years, and was nearly one hundred years old when God blessed him with a son whose descendants produced the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Regarding promises, God is never early or late, he’s always right on time. It’s up to us to have faith and patiently wait on God. In Romans, the apostle Paul explains that Abraham received God’s promise based on faith, not because he kept the law. Abraham lived before God gave Moses and Israel the law, so for all nations to be blessed through God’s promise to Abraham, we too receive redemption through Christ Jesus by faith alone. Acts 13:39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
During the 1980’s and 90’s, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund made loans contingent upon a nation’s ability to uphold the rule of law. These financial institutions defined lawless nations as those where financial elites had achieved exemption from the rule of law and created a culture of corruption.
This post contains evidence that US financial elites and their bipartisan cronies have achieved exemption the rule of law. The resulting culture of corruption is evident to all who’ve been paying attention. For example, Congress voted to exempt themselves from insider trading laws.
For those who think this post is a leftist attack on Wall Street bankers, you should know that the CEO’s of JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are registered Democrats. And based on the information in this post, they’re hardcore socialists. In fact, insiders have given Goldman Sachs the name “Government Sachs”.
The Congressional Budget Office says it will cost taxpayers 8.6 Trillion to prop up banks after the 2008 financial crisis. Some politicians say the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) caused the crisis because it forced banks to make home loans to poor people. But most of the subprime loans were originated by lenders exempt from the CRA.
It’s important to remember that many Wall Street banks were buying subprime mortgages on the secondary market, not lending to homeowners who could not repay their loans. No government agency forced Wall Street banks to buy worthless loans, securitize them, leverage them 50 to 1, and sell them around the world with fraudulent Triple A ratings.
Simon Johnson is a former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund and a current member of the CBO council of advisers. He wrote a book titled “13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown”. During a presentation on CSPAN, Mr. Johnson said the six largest banks have “captured the State” and have power to “extort” money from government.
President of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, Thomas Hoenig, gave a speech on Obama’s finance reform (Dodd-Frank). He said it didn’t eliminate the threat of future Wall Street bailouts, and Too Big To Fail banks are “inconsistent with the concept of capitalism.” Mr. Hoenig is calling for the reinstatement of Glass Steagall as a means to break up big banks and reduce the threat of future bailouts.
In 1933, Glass Steagall was enacted to curb bank speculation that caused the 1929 market crash and Great Depression. However, President Clinton repealed Glass Steagall in 1999. It only took nine years to repeat the crash of 1929 and Great Recession.
During a Congressional hearing, Rep. Brad Sherman said Dodd-Frank’s Resolution Authority gives the Executive Branch (Obama) authority to spend Trillions on future Wall Street bailouts, without a Congressional vote. This eliminates one of our core Constitutional rights, i.e., no taxation without representation.
Presidents Bush and Obama said the 2008 financial crisis was unforseen and could not have been prevented. They lied. Phil Angelides was Chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which concluded the crisis was preventable. Listen to 7 minutes of Chairman Angelides speech starting at 7min/55sec. The left blames George Bush for the financial crisis, but the PBS documentary The Warning puts most of the blame on President Bill Clinton.
The Warning demonstrates that the policies of Clinton and Greenspan laid the foundation for the financial crisis. And President Bush went along with Greenspan’s elimination of underwriting standards, which created Trillions of dollars of home mortgages, without proof of income, job, or assets. Oops! Greenspan admitted his flawed ideology contributed to the crisis, but now the Fed is praised for it’s QE to infinity, which is an ongoing Wall Street bailout.
Also watch CNBC’s House of Cards. It demonstrates that ratings agencies used fraudulent computer models to give junk securities Triple A ratings. The models were inherently fraudulent because they were based on the notion that house prices would increase 6% per year, forever. Historically, this notion is false, so the fraud inherent in the models seems to be intentional.
President Obama said Wall Street’s actions leading up to the financial crisis were “legal”. He lied. William Black was Deputy Director of the Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation during the 1980’s financial crisis. He helped obtain a 1000 criminal convictions of “elite” bankers. Mr. Black says public losses from the 2008 financial crisis are “70 times greater” than the Savings and Loan meltdown, but despite compelling evidence demonstrating Wall Street fraud, there have been few criminal prosecutions.
During this radiointerview, Black said in 2004, the FBI testified before Congress about an epidemic of mortgage fraud and predicted it would cause a financial crisis. In 2006, all major lenders were warned that “liars loans” had a 90% incidence of fraud. But the mortgage industry increased subprime lending to the point that 1 in 3 loans were liars loans when the bubble burst in 2008. Mr. Black said this constitutes one million cases of fraud per year by the industry.
The interview with Mr. Black includes securities law expert Lynn Stout, who disagreed with Black’s position on the prosecution of bankers. She wrote an article explaining the role of derivatives in the financial crisis. It’s fairly short, requires little knowledge of financial markets, and provides important information regarding the prevention of another derivatives related meltdown.
If you watch The Warning, listen to the interview with William Black, read Ms. Stout’s article, and watch this short clip on naked credit default swaps, you’ll have a solid understanding of the financial crisis. The clip is Michael Greenberger, former director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Greenberger and Stout explain how British common law successfully regulated derivatives for 200 years, and returning to the old regulations may prevent another crisis.
Neil Barofsky was Special Inspector General for TARP, the 700 billion dollar bailout program. Regarding the nine largest banks, he said“it didn’t matter if they were cooking the books on their balance sheets, Treasury was giving them money anyway, in fact, if they had even larger holes on their balance sheets due to FRAUD, that would’ve been only more reason for Treasury to give them money.”
Mr. Barofsky had spent the prior eight years prosecuting bank fraud, and when he made the statement about Wall Street fraud, he did not qualify it by saying alleged fraud. And yet, Obama’s Justice Department has not prosecuted a single executive of the nine largest banks. During debate over TARP, Rep. Marcy Kaptur said “high financial crimes have been committed…these criminals have so much political power, they can shut down the normal legislative process of the highest law making body of this land.”
Rep. Brad Sherman led a bipartisan revolt against the TARP bailout bill because much of the money was going to foreign banks. During an interview with Larry Kudlow on CNBC, he said “the bank of Shanghai can transfer all of its toxic assets to the Bank of Shanghai in Los Angeles, its subsidiary, which can sell them the next day to the Treasury”. He continued saying “foreign markets are being told they are getting the money….assets now held in China and London can be sold to U.S. entities on Monday and sold to the Treasury on Tuesday”.
During debate in the House, Sherman said some members were told the U.S. would be placed under martial law if TARP was not passed. Sounds like extortion to me. Rep. Paul Ryan was also on Kudlow with Brad Sherman. It’s interesting that Ryan, a Republican, was for the TARP bailout which allowed government to pick winners and losers rather than the market. Oops!
The banks Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were allowed to fail. They were holding 6.3 TRILLION of toxic assets and liabilities when they collapsed and were dumped on taxpayers in 2008. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) investigated the collapse of Fannie and Freddie. Commissioner Byron Georgiou said both institutions were “cooking the books”, and lobbyists on both sides of the isle protected the banks while they engaged in illegal activities.
The FCIC concluded: 1) the financial crisis was preventable. 2) Regulators looked the other way rather than take action to prevent the crisis. 3) Big banks took irresponsible risks and taxpayers are stuck with bill.
In order to cover up the cost of toxic assets dumped on taxpayers and Trillions still held by banks, Congress pressured the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to relax mark to market rules. These rules were put in place after Enron’s collapse and require large companies to mark balance sheet assets to current market value. But now, the relaxed rules allow gov’t and banks to falsify the value of toxic assets on their balance sheet. Small business owners would be charged with fraud for engaging in similar accounting practices.
Desmond Lachman is a former Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund. He said, ”if the Federal Reserve balance sheet is marked to market, the Fed would have an enormous negative position”. Systemic fraud is the new accounting standard for government and Wall Street.
Political leaders say cutting spending is a priority for restoring fiscal soundness. But if my accountant is cooking the books and embezzling from my business, I can cut spending to zero and still go bankrupt. So the first priority is holding Wall Street and bipartisan criminals accountable, then cut spending.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) did a partial audit of the Federal Reserve’s response to the financial crisis. It revealed that 16 TRILLION has been lent at near 0% interest, much of it to foreign banks, meanwhile, the U.S. economy is starved of capital and investment. The link will get you to Table 8 on page 131 of the GAO report.
The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate: 1) Price stability 2) Full employment. These mandates apply specifically to the domestic U.S. economy, not the global economy. But as noted below, the Bank of International Settlements says US banks are one of the largest providers of credit to foreign markets like China.
Investors Business Daily ran an article saying “…despite the commitment of nearly 20 TRILLION in taxpayer funds to prevent another crisis, lending has stalled or shrunk”. So while bailed out banks are starving the U.S. economy of capital, they’re lending to emerging markets.
The absolute numbers for big foreign banking systems’ exposure to China are as follows:
President Obama never mentions the 8.6 Trillion needed to prop up failing banks. Why? According to Open Secrets, Wall Street is one of his biggest campaign contributors. And in return, Wall Street has never had it better, the stock market has nearly tripled in value while economic growth is stagnant.
The Fed’s money printing (QE) policies are driving up the stock market, but it also devalues the dollar so our dollars are worth less, which means we pay more for goods and services. Economists define this inflation as a tax, so when the Fed purchases 40 Billion per month of toxic mortgage backed securities to prop up Wall Street banks, it’s really a tax.
President Obama and the Fed’s policies have dramatically increased income inequality in America, and the top 1% have never had it better. So the Democrats alleged desire to reverse this trend demonstrates their grotesque hypocrisy.
President Obama and bipartisan leaders say economic policies are intended to grow the domestic economy. But it’s not growing. Is this just another oops moment? The evidence indicates otherwise. US policies are designed to subsidize the global economy, a.k.a., globalization. Why?
Bipartisan and corporate leaders prefer China’s totalitarian model. Evidence of this can be found in a Wall Street Journal article titled China’s Superior Economic Model. The article is written by Andy Stern, former President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and the premise of the article was based on comments by Andy Grove, founder and Chairman of Intel.
When Brad Sherman was Chairman of the House Foreign Relations subcommittee on trade, he said US trade with China is “the most unbalanced trade relationship in the history of international trade”, and this “cancerous” trade relationship is driven by “enormous corporate power”. Mr. Sherman forgot to mention union leaders like Andy Stern who also prefer China’s totalitarian economic model. Under the guise of free trade, US leaders are transferring American capital, technology and jobs to communist China.
Rep. Sherman also talked about trade deficits resulting from trade with China, and the effect on the U.S. debt. He said, “you have to have some really bad policies to take the most productive nation in the world with the best workforce, and I mean the United States, and turn it into the greatest debtor nation in history. And by God, we’ve had bad trade policies that have achieved that objective.”
It’s worth noting that Rep. Sherman used the word “objective” when describing the catastrophic effects of free trade. Even Warren Buffet said trade deficits are changing America from a shareholder economy to a sharecropper economy, where foreigners own us and we work for them. Free trade and globalization are an attack on U.S. sovereignty and unalienable rights. Contact your elected officials and tell them so.
Wall Street and their bipartisans cronies have structured the global economy (globalization) in a way that subsidizes China with U.S. capital and technology. The decline in growth resulting from free trade and de-industrialization was masked by the subprime bubble. Given a 2003 warning that Fannie and Freddie posed a systemic risk to financial markets, and the 2004 FBI warning that mortgage fraud would cause a financial crisis, it’s difficult to believe financial and political leaders did not foresee the crisis.
It’s possible the subprime bubble was intentionally created to cover up the economic contraction caused by free trade and outsourcing. When the bubble burst, average citizens were blamed for living beyond their means, but the structural decline resulting from free trade and de-industrialization wasn’t mentioned.
Some say the electronic trinkets produced in China would be too expensive if manufactured in America. But virtual slave labor has always existed in foreign countries, and before free trade, America’s economy thrived without exploiting cheap labor abroad. Many leaders say government should be run more like a business. Well, multinational corporations spend billions implementing policies that PROTECT their market share and global competitiveness. They even engage in corporate espionage to gain competitive advantages that US leaders give away via free trade.
Businesses don’t engage in anything remotely resembling free trade. Why? Because providing the competition with capital and technology guarantees failure. Doing so would cause shareholders to demand criminal prosecution of the Board of Directors and top officers, which is what should be done to politicians who have intentionally traded away America’s economic future. Manufacturing is the engine of economic growth, so outsourcing manufacturing in exchange for cheap trinkets is like the Native Americans selling their sovereignty for beads and blankets.
American history teaches the concept of manifest destiny. But how many fur traders, homesteaders and gold miners were thinking about manifest destiny when they moved West? Few if any, they didn’t even know what the phrase meant. Manifest destiny is the language of ruling class elites, i.e. merchant bankers and industrialists. They moved common folk across the American West like pawns on a chess board. Ruling class elites wanted conflict with the Indians so they could call in the cavalry and manifest their destiny.
The new frontiers for today’s ruling class are Communist China and emerging markets. Free trade is preparing the way for the global cavalry and final phase of manifest destiny. For all intents and purposes, US financial elites and industrialists have seceded from the Union. They’ve allied themselves with China’s totalitarian regime and are engaged in economic terrorism against the United States. Media and politicians support this treasonous alliance and they exploit class and race divisions as part of a divide and conquer agenda. They want divided Americans to blame each other and fight over the economic crumbs left behind by free trade and the financial crisis. We’re all Indians now.
During a hearing on Dodd-Frank’s Resolution Authority, Republican Don Manzullo said it’s a safety net for “you guys that screw up on Wall Street”. Economist Jeffery Miron replied saying the Resolution Authority is a “blank check” for future bailouts, and it will “institutionalize TARP” for bank holding companies.
Dodd-Frank gives the F.D.I.C. resolution authority. The FDIC is under the jurisdiction of the executive branch so future bailouts can be made without Congressional approval. The Constitution states that all spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives, the branch of government most accountable to the people. So allowing the executive branch to spend Trillions without Congressional approval violates a core Constitutional principle, no taxation without representation.
The 2014 budget is another example of taxation without representation because bipartisan members of Congress admitted they didn’t read the bill. If they’re not reading spending bills, they cannot be representing the interests of their constituents, i.e., taxation without representation. The following text and next paragraph are from an article in USA TODAY: The nearly 1,600-page spending bill includes all 12 of the individual annual spending bills packaged into a $1.012 trillion “omnibus” spending bill. The bill will have gone from unveiling to law in just six days, while the normal appropriations process is structured to take months and allow for more lawmaker input.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., holding up the thick bill on the House floor, criticized the House for voting on a bill “that nobody has read.” McGovern cited a concern held by lawmakers in both parties that the details of the omnibus are likely to trickle out after the bill has become law. ”I’m willing to bet in a week or so we’re going to read an article about something being in the bill that nobody knew about,”. Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, characterized the bill as a “monstrosity.” She said ”while Americans suffer the consequences of Obamacare, Congress is trying to rush through another massive bill before reading it,”
The key principle of our founding documents is equality before the law, which means no one is above the law. But the U.S. is becoming a nation of women and men who can impose their tyrannical aspirations on sovereign citizens. Criminal elites have created a legal double standard and placed themselves above the law. This was the fundamental problem facing American colonists before the Revolution.
Thomas Jefferson addressed this problem in the Declaration of Independence, which was a criminal indictment of King George that provided a moral and legal basis for the Revolution. The founders ended with these words: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor”.
America’s founders understood the price of freedom, and if we are going to preserve the rule of law they fought and died for, we must be willing to commit time and resources to restore the rule of law. Business Insider reports that Congress has legalized the use of domestic propaganda, which was used to legitimize Germany’s Nazi regime.
This website provides evidence for a criminal indictment of US leaders, however, I’m not advocating for armed rebellion as a remedy. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are still the law of the land, and the law is on the side of “We the People” who believe in unalienable individual rights. We need to create a groundswell of support that will force our public prosecutors to take legal action against criminal elites.
Media and politicians cover up the effect of the financial crisis on the national debt. Check out the post Fraud and the Federal Debt for evidence of the cover up. Use the evidence compiled in the website, share it with your friends, business associates, local prosecutor, Sheriff, State Attorney General and U.S. Attorney.
Alcohol Tobacco and Firearm (ATF) agents testified before Congress about Obama’s Fast and Furious program. They said 2500 firearms, including AK 47s and 50 caliber sniper rifles, were allowed to “walk” into the hands of known drug cartel members. One of those weapons was used to murder U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
The three ATF whistleblowers were all veteran law enforcement officers. They said walking guns into the hands of known criminals was something they had never seen before, or after, Fast and Furious. But has Obama or other gun control advocates expressed concern about Fast and Furious? Not that I’m aware of. Given this blatant double standard, Obama appears to be using the children murdered at Sandy Hook for political gain.
The opening statements of ATF whistleblowers demonstrate Obama’s gross hypocrisy on the issue of gun control. Agent Forcelli said the Department of Justice and Arizona’s US Attorney approved of Fast and Furious, and “we weren’t giving guns to people who were hunting bear, we were giving guns to people who were killing other humans”.
Contrary to the left’s portrayal of gun dealers, Agent Forcelli said they helped the ATF make a lot of cases, but dealers objected to Fast and Furious because it encouraged the sale of guns to criminals. ATF agents made it clear that existing laws could have prevented all 2500 weapons from getting into the hands of criminals. Concerned citizens should email this post to local attorneys, prosecutors, Sheriffs, State Attorneys General and U.S. Attorneys.
The Bismarck Tribune ran an AP article about Mexican citizens who’ve taken up arms to protect themselves against drug cartels. They’ve done so because their government has been unable to protect them. In spite of the Mexican government’s ban on citizen ownership of guns, the article said they have “hunting rifles, old pistols, and small bore shotguns”.
Guess what kinds of weapons the drug cartels have? According the the Fast and Furious hearing, drug cartels have heavy caliber, fully automatic machine guns and sniper rifles. Organized crime is a growth industry in America and all around the world, so why would U.S. citizens want to put themselves in the same position as these poor Mexican citizens?
Free societies cannot exist without the right of self defense. That’s why the States refused to ratify the Constitution without a Bill of Rights that included a second amendment, which established self defense, not hunting, as an unalienable right. Self defense is the ability to defend oneself, family, and property, independent of government. There have always been corrupt elites who want to enslave the people and it’s up to citizens to stand up for their rights.
America’s founders acknowledged the persistent threat of tyranny in the Declaration of Independence, which was a criminal indictment of King George III and his cronies. They said when a government fails to secure the unalienable rights of its citizens “it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute a new government”. For those who support the second amendment, suicide rates, murder rates, school shootings, etc., are not legitimate reasons to infringe on our unalienable right to bear arms. This article demonstrates sound judgement of private citizens holding permits to conceal and carry hand guns. It says only .0002266% of permit holders have been involved in crimes defined as “mass shootings”.
The education systems of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union produced great scientists and engineers, but there was no liberty for the individual. Education can be used to promote tyranny or liberty, so societies based on democratic and republican principles should use schools to frame all knowledge in the context of our founding principles. And the framers of the U.S. Constitution drew heavily on Judeo-Christian values when drafting America’s founding documents.
In William Federer’s book titled America’s God and Country, he documents references to God in the original charters of the colonies, State Constitutions, and other historical documents. His work proves that Christian values were an integral part of American government, and they are the moral foundation making limited government possible. We must restore the framers intent regarding the first amendment, i.e., freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Kelly Shackelford is president and CEO of First Liberty Institute, the largest legal firm in the nation dedicated exclusively to protecting religious freedom for all Americans. But nearly all attacks on religious liberty are against Christians.
Dr. Charles Stanley had Kelly speak to his congregation. He gave the people insight into his work by laying out the cases he took on over a two week period. It was amazing, and Kelly received a standing ovation for his hopeful message. You won’t find a more informative and encouraging presentation, please watch it.
The principles codified in the Constitution and Bill of Rights did not fall out of the sky in 1789. The framers of the Constitution were students of history. They drew upon 2500 years of Western tradition beginning with ancient Greek democracy, the Roman Republic, the English Magna Carta, and Enlightenment. Most had read books by Plutarch, Cicero, Montesquieu’s “Spirit of Laws”, John Locke’s “Second Treatise on Government”, and Adam Smith’s books “The Wealth of Nations” and “The Theory of Moral Sentiment”.
Legitimate representative government depends on the informed consent of the governed, so the Constitution and Bill of Rights should be taught K-12. Schools should use interactive video games to teach children about the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the need to preserve second amendment rights as a bulwark against tyranny.
High school seniors should be able to write about, and articulate the ideas expressed in books written by Montesquieu, Locke and Adam Smith. This would produce High School graduates prepared to utilize the public’s investment in higher education. And high school graduates would be far more informed than most of the people currently holding political office. If we had such a well informed citizenry, I don’t think we’d be experiencing the current problems with education and tyrannical government.
The video game and entertainment industries target children with products exhibiting the most irresponsible, immoral use of guns imaginable. So in fifth and sixth grades, incorporate interactive gun safety training into video games as an antidote to the barrage of gratuitous media violence. Interactive video games can simulate any situation and teach the proper response to home invasions and school shootings. Do this in conjunction with martial arts training that teaches discipline and restraint with regard to the use of force.
In order to limit school massacres, have marksmenship training in high school and involve top student marksmen (seniors) in a conceal-carry gun program with teachers. Students and teachers with conceal-carry permits should train with law enforcement and prepare a planned response to a school shooting.
Some say school sports build character and benefit society. To some degree that’s true, but in spite the huge public investment is sports, our society continues to decay. Money from traditional sports programs should be used to finance the aforementioned programs, including martial arts. For those who think seniors are too young to be involved in a conceal-carry program, let’s remember that students could be in Afghanistan shortly after graduation.
Implementing these educational programs would create a population trained in self defense and grounded in natural law and Constitutional rights. They would also deter most individuals who might consider shooting children in schools. It’s also preferable to the NRA proposal, i.e. police in every school, as this only leads us further down the road to a police state.
Bringing a child into this world is an inherently risky proposition, we need to accept this fact and teach our children to be self reliant. That’s why Native Americans sent young boys, on their own, into the wilderness as a rite of passage to adulthood.
Framing education in the context of Constitutional principles will require taking control of local school boards, and that will require community organizing, which has been given a bad name by the left. But the left’s commitment to community organizing is why they’ve been successful, so those who want a return to limited Constitutional government must do the same.
The founders ended the Declaration of Independence with these words: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor”. They understood the price of freedom, and if we are going to preserve the Republic they fought and died for, we must commit time and resources to restoring limited Constitutional government.
The term “assault weapon” is misleading because it simply refers to the cosmetic appearance of a weapon. In other words, you can put the body of Corvette on a Prius, but it doesn’t change the performance of the vehicle. The focus on assault weapons is a backdoor attempt to eventually ban all semi-automatic weapons. Regarding high capacity clips, if a couple of armed individuals break into someone’s home, the homeowner will need a semi-automatic weapon and a very large clip to defend his/her family and property.
The Sandy Hook shooter stole weapons from his mother, so no amount of background checks would’ve saved the children he murdered. And only 2% of people killed by guns are killed by “assault weapons”. More people are killed by bats and clubs. Obesity probably kills more people than guns, so should we ban the forks and spoons that deliver those evil food bullets to the body? Unfortunately, gun control advocates don’t seem to care about facts or rational arguments. Instead, they hide their tyrannical agenda behind safety issues, and “protecting the children”, while chipping away at individual liberties.
When President Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize, he said his first responsibility was to “protect the American people”. President Bush used this same phrase to justify the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, and indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without due process. And President Obama has doubled down on policies that eviscerate the Bill of Rights. The oath of office says a President’s first responsibility is to uphold, protect, and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, not the American people.
The world was just as dangerous when our founders created this oath, so why didn’t they write an oath that focused on protecting the people instead of the Constitution? It’s because the “protect the people” argument can be used to endlessly chip away at the Bill of Rights until we live in a virtual dictatorship. And that’s exactly what despotic bipartisan leaders are doing, meanwhile, they’ve partnered with China’s communist regime and turn a blind eye to the global network of Islamic extremism funded by Saudi Arabia.
Democrats tend to use environmental, gun control, and healthcare issues to chip away at individual liberties. Republicans use national security to advance tyrannical policies. They’re like tag team wrestlers, so no matter which party is in power, they can always find an issue to justify their incremental march toward despotism. That’s why K-12 Constitutional curriculum should emphasize the States refusal to ratify the Constitution without a Bill of Rights.
Specifically the tenth amendment which states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” For more possible solutions based of America’s founding principles, check out the post, The Boston Tea Party, It Wasn’t Just About Taxes.
Another interesting source is the book Godonomics, which illustrates the Biblical principles behind private property rights and market economies based on moral principles.
In the following short video, President Reagan encourages Americans with the following words:
“Let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength, and let us renew our faith and our hope. It is time to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We will again be an exemplar of freedom, and a beacon of hope for those who do not have freedom. We are a nation under God and I believe God intended us to be free.”
There is hope for America if we put first things first. So if you’re not sure of your salvation, stop reading and listen to Dr. Charles Stanley explain what it means to be saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Because as Christ said, we can do nothing without him.
Jesus Christ said his kingdom was not of this world, but Romans 13 says God has ordained the rulers of this world to be a force for good. And God ordained America as a government of, by, and for the people, i.e., we the people are the rulers and we elect public servants to represent our interests.
As a Constitutional Republic, our government makes decisions based on the consent of U.S. citizens. And because America is a nation ruled by the consent of the governed, it’s our God ordained duty NOT to consent when our government sanctions evil. Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Many Christian leaders say government is not the solution and changing peoples hearts with the Gospel will change America. This is true, but if a neighbor is beating his wife and children, should we allow him to continue abusing his family because government (law enforcement) is not the solution?
In other words, if a neighbor’s wife comes to our door, battered by her husband, asking us to call the police, do we send her home to tell her husband about Jesus because government is not the solution? The apostle Paul said we are created to do good works. Working to uphold Godly standards in government could only be a good work. James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Most of the sexual content and profanity on television today was illegal in the 1950’s. Why was it illegal? Because the filth on television today is a major cause of the corruption of our nation, especially children. All things are possible with God, so I believe Christians can restore the moral standards of the past. It’s about living up to the standards Jesus taught in the good Samaritan parable. For example, many of our neighbors do not carefully monitor what their children watch. So by making the filth on television illegal, we are effectively watching out for our neighbor’s children.
When addressing corruption in society, Christian media tends to focus on the gay agenda, which is understandable because there is an attempt to redefine the family. But the Bible focuses more on heterosexual sin, i.e. any sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman. Jesus raised the standard to include looking lustfully upon others.
Under the guise of social justice, bipartisan leaders implement laws designed to bankrupt America morally and financially. Business and political leaders commit crimes with impunity. If they are not held accountable, the people will bear the consequences of their leaders crimes.
Criminals are running America’s government, so if citizens do not hold them accountable under the law, evil reigns supreme. In a letter to Timothy, the apostle Paul said the law is to be used on the lawless.
Jesus said we should love our enemies, so when our enemies are criminals, enforcing the law is an act of love because one purpose of the law is to bring people to repentance and Christ.
Christians must examine themselves, pray, and be humble before God, but they should not assume responsibility for crimes they have not committed. When Elijah believed he was the only godly man left in Israel, God said there were 7000 who had not bowed their knee to Baal. So in a corrupt nation, God does not include the faithful among transgressors.
When applying 2 Chronicles 7:14 to America, we must consider the biblical context. The verse was spoken by God to King Solomon, and the key words are “my people” and “their land”. Long before Solomon became king, God commanded the Israelites to possess the land by driving out the ungodly inhabitants. And it did not become “their land” until God’s commandments, statutes, and judgments were imposed via government.
When God says “my people”, he’s referring to faithful believers. So God does not consider supporters of abortion, gay marriage, and forcing God out of the public square, as “my people”. Romans 9:6-8 …For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: 7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God…
America is not a theocracy so we do not drive ungodly people out of the land, but we must place God fearing men and women in positions of authority who will govern according to the Biblical principles upon which America was founded. This can done peacefully and lawfully when the love of God for all people is the driving force in our hearts.
In William Federer’s book titled America’s God and Country, he documents references to God in the original charters of the colonies, State Constitutions, and other historical documents. His work proves that Christian values were an integral part of American government, and they are the moral foundation making limited government possible. We must restore the framers intent regarding the first amendment, i.e., freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
When Moses set up the first tribal government over Israel, his father in law Jethro gave him this advice. Exodus 18:21Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
The Bible says God raises up, and takes down kings. But it also says men raise up kings apart from God. Hosea 8:4They have set up kings, but not by me (God): they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
In my opinion, the leadership of both political parties are covetous liars who do not fear God. And they raise up virtual kings, but not by God. We can raise up leaders according to God’s will.
Kelly Shackelford is president and CEO of First Liberty Institute, the largest legal firm in the nation dedicated exclusively to protecting religious freedom for all Americans. But nearly all attacks on religious liberty are against Christians. Go to their website and click on “resources” for info on legal cases. The Institute provides free services for clients and works with top law firms whose attorneys “fight for the opportunity to donate their time” to religious liberty cases.
Kelly Shackelford is first and foremost, an outspoken Christian. In the video below, he said his work is about standing up for Jesus Christ, and winning does not require a majority of people, winning requires a committed minority willing to stand up for Jesus Christ. Kelly said they win over 90% of their cases because they operate on principles like those in Joshua 1:9Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee where ever you go.
Dr. Charles Stanley had Kelly speak to his congregation. He gave the people insight into his work by laying out the cases he took on over a two week period. It was amazing, and Kelly received a standing ovation for his hopeful message. You won’t find a more informative and encouraging presentation, please watch it.
Joni Lamb also interviewed Kelly who said, “the only reason we will lose religious liberty in this country is if we don’t stand for them”. Following Christ’s example as a humble servant speaking truth in love is the key to restoring America to a virtuous Republic.
Romans 13:10-14 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. 11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
There are humble Christians speaking truth in love while working to abolish abortion. Reverend Frank Pavone is a Catholic priest and President of the National Pro-Life Religious Council. The website promoting his book Abolishing Abortion states, “The battle against abortion not only can be won, but it must be won. The soul of our nation depends on it.”
Rev. Pavone was a guest on the “Herman and Sharron” show. Herman and Sharron Bailey are Protestants working to abolish abortion, and their interview with Rev. Pavone is a great example of Christian unity. The website and interview provide valuable facts and exemplify the Christ like attitude that will restore America to a virtuous Republic.
With regard to restoring Godly standards in government, American Christians have been told prayer is enough, but prayer without faith, and faith without works, is dead.
Driving the ungodly out of power may seem an impossible task, but God loves doing the impossible through his people because He gets all the glory. Mark 9:23Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.Jesus was talking about our authority to cast out demons, so we certainly have authority to remove corrupt officials from office. When God’s people lead, the leaders will follow.
Many Christian leaders call attention to the moral decay causing America’s decline. But many also talk as if America’s decline is inevitable. They sound like the ten spies (Numbers 13&14) that convinced the Israelites they could not drive God’s enemies out of the promised land. God regarded the Israelites fear and unbelief as rebellion against his will. As a result, God condemned the unbelievers to death and forty years of wandering in the wilderness.
Is that what Christian leaders want for American Christians, i.e., die in the wilderness because we didn’t believe God would help us hold corrupt leaders accountable? God did not tell Joshua to pray and hope the heathens would leave the promised land. The Lord told Joshua to combine his faith with action and drive the enemies out of the land.
Likewise, Ezra and Nehemiahdidn’t pray and then sit around waiting for someone to rebuild the temple and walls of Jerusalem. Nehemiah gave up his comfortable position in the king’s palace and went back to Jerusalem to serve his God and kinsmen. Ezra also took action and helped restore God’s law in Jerusalem’s government and society while rebuilding the temple.
Listen to this sermon titled “There is hope for America”. It’s a fourth of July special by Pastor Michael Youssef. He uses Nehemiah’s example of prayer and action as a template for the American church. Pastor Youssef’s sermon demonstrates how faithful Christians can change America. Let’s encourage each other by sharing this kind of positive message instead of predicting America’s inevitable decline. There is a worldly definition of positive, but Christians are positive because we are children of the God who created heaven and earth.
Furthermore, it’s a tiny minority that’s pushing abortion, God out of the public square, the gay agenda, and paganism a.k.a. environmentalism. Take California for example, a majority of citizens voted to make gay marriage ILLEGAL, but a single judge overturned the will of the people. And yet, Christian leaders talk about America as if it’s Sodom and Gomorrah, which God destroyed because he could not find ten righteous men. There are millions of Bible believing Christians in America who are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
If Christians follow the examples of Joshua, Nehemiah and Ezra, we can restore godly government in America. But Christian leaders must stop promoting unbelief in God’s ability to help us turn America back to God. They must encourage Christians to pray and act on their faith, i.e., pray and stand up for what’s right. All around the world, the economy and government of the United States are being used to lure people into hell. Millions, perhaps billions of souls are at risk if we ignore our responsibility to stand up for Christian values in our government.
By the Providence of God, America is a nation ruled by the consent of its citizens. So NOT consenting to the corruption of America is our duty as citizens. The Body of Christ must do five things: 1) Repent of unbelief 2) Pray 3) Live the Gospel, i.e., act on our faith 4) Organize and vote because less evil is better than more evil 5) Starting at the local level, place Bible believing men and women in positions of authority. Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Jesus Christ came as a servant and said the greatest in the Kingdom of God would be a servant of all. Being a servant includes public service that promotes Christian values in government. America was founded upon Biblical principles and we prospered because those principles were applied in government. If millions of godly servants donate time and money, we can reapply Biblical principles in government and restore America to a virtuous Republic. Praise God!
There are many things we can do. Educate ourselves, families, and friends. Get involved in your local school board or county government. Start a non-profit dedicated to promoting Christian values in public and private life. Support organizations like Obama Zone, which defends local communities from Obama’s attempt to control zoning law. Or Get Liberty, which works for limited government. Whatever you do, lead by example, use your God given creativity, and never give up.
God told Isaiah to call the nation of Israel to repentance. But God also said the people would not listen and the land would become “utterly desolate”. So why did God send Isaiah on a mission that seemed destined to fail? God said a remnant would return to the land, and His promises would be fulfilled through the remnant. We may experience short term failure, but long term, it’s never futile to stand up for godly values in government.
Zerubbabel faced great opposition when trying to rebuild the temple, so God sent an angel to remind them that true power is spiritual, which is contrary to the world’s understanding of power. Zechariah 4: …This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. The Bible predicts global corruption but we can take a stand on God’s Word and say, not on our watch. All things are possible with God, and with his help, America will again be a light in a dark world.
The book of Revelation describes a time in the future when God will judge all people and nations. But God is not yet imputing sin unto nations or individuals, so we must not speak legalistic curses (condemnation) over them. John 3:16 For God so loved the world… God chastens those he loves, but that’s very different from God judging sin and pouring out his wrath.
When God judges the world, the Bible says great tribulation will come upon all nations, including Israel. Revelation 18:1-4 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3For ALL NATIONS have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Many Christians link America’s success or failure to it’s relationship with Israel, as if blind support for Israel will cause God to bless America. They cite Genesis 12:3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee… This was part of God’s promise to Abraham, whose seed God used to bless all the world through Jesus Christ.
But using Genesis 12:3 to curse anyone that does not blindly support Israel, is a perversion of God’s Word. In the Bible, Israel repeatedly went against God’s will, and those who supported Israel during those times, were against God. And the prophets who did not support Israel’s rebellion, were speaking for God.
Matthew 23:34 [Jesus said] Wherefore, behold, I send unto you [Israel] prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: 37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Ruth Graham is the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. While reading a section of her husband’s book describing the downward spiral of America’s morality, Ruth exclaimed, “if God doesn’t punish America, He’ll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah”. Even though Americans give millions of dollars a year to their ministry, the Grahams seem to believe America is as bad or worse than Sodom and Gomorrah, and deserves similar punishment .
The Graham’s attitude toward America was very different from Abraham’s when the LORD told him Sodom and Gomorrah would be destroyed. In spite of the total depravity of those cities, Abraham pled with God to have mercy on them. As a result , God said he would not destroy them if He could find ten righteous men living in the two cities. Apparently, Billy and Ruth Graham did not know ten American Christians who, by grace through faith, are righteous before God in Christ.
Like Abraham who pleaded with God to have mercy on Sodom and Gomorrah, Moses and the apostle Paul made similar pleas for Israel. After the Israelites made a golden calf and worshiped it, God was going to destroy them. But Moses pleaded with God to forgive them and even asked God to remove him from the book of life if He didn’t spare Israel. Exodus 32:32 Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sin–; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn was one of the prophecy experts featured on TBN. His new book allegedly unlocks the mystery of Shemitah, and uses the Shemitah to predict God’s imminent judgement of America. But before jumping on Cahn’s curse America bandwagon, listen to Dr. Baruch Korman’s teaching on the Shemitah.
Dr. Korman is a Jewish believer in Jesus Christ and a Hebrew scholar. He addresses the “sensational” and misleading use of the Shemitah for predicting judgement. Dr. Korman cites scripture that says the misuse of Shemitah is “demonic”. Please watch the following video so you’re not deceived by false teachers. You can find many Biblically accurate teachings at Dr. Korman’s website: Love Israel.org
Those who say the church is under the curse of the law are perverting the gospel. Galatians 3:11But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for the just shall live by faith. 12And the law is not of faith: but the man that doeth them shall live in them. 13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
The following Declaration is being promoted by Andrew Wommack Ministries. Andrew is placing full page ads in major newspapers and asking Christians to sign the declaration as a first step toward re-establishing America’s foundation on Godly principles. You can sign the declaration at Dependence on God.
DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE
UPON GOD AND HIS HOLY BIBLE
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Since our Creator gave us these rights, we declare that no government has the right to take them away. Among these rights is the right to exercise our Christian beliefs as put forth in God’s Holy Bible.
We therefore declare that God grants life at conception and no one has the right to take that life unless it is a direct threat to the life of the mother.
Marriage was instituted by God between one man and one woman. The Lord gave only this family unit the responsibility to have children and raise them in the fear of the Lord.
We therefore respectfully reserve the right to refuse any mandate by the government that forces us to fund or support abortion. We also oppose same sex-marriage, polygamy, bestiality, and all other forms of sexual behavior prohibited by Holy Scripture.
We proclaim that Jesus has provided the cure for all sin and therefore reach out to the sinner in love, but do not embrace the sin, knowing its destructive nature.
Therefore, we, the undersigned– not only as Christians but also believing we have the constitutional right as Americans to follow these time honored Christian beliefs– commit to conducting our churches, ministries, businesses, and personal lives in accordance with our Christian faith and choose to obey God rather than man. (The end) Go to Dependence on God and sign this declaration of dependence on God and His Holy Bible.
This post began with encouraging words from President Ronald Reagan. Today, we do not have a God fearing leader like Reagan to inspire us, so now we must make his words our own, renew our hope and faith in God, and once again make America a light in a dark world.
“Let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength, and let us renew our faith and our hope. It is time to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We will again be an exemplar of freedom, and a beacon of hope for those who do not have freedom. We are a nation under God and I believe God intended us to be free.”
Ephesians 1:2-3 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
Fareed Zakaria has a show on CNN called “GPS”, and each week he does a segment called “What in the world?”. On November 17, 2013, this segment was about “How to ruin an economy”. Fareed went through the following checklist of policies that will ruin a nation’s economy:
Nationalize businesses
Create hyperinflation
Induce a currency crisis
Subsidize, subsidize, subsidize
Create a dictatorship
The segment was actually about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his successor. But the parallels with Obama’s policies are undeniable and it’s possible CNN was using the segment as subtle criticism of Obama’s failing policies. In the past, the socialist policies of Hugo Chavez were held in high regard by CNN and other left leaning networks. So on the surface, this criticism of Venezuelan socialism seems like an ideological shift, but it’s just another example of media hypocrisy.
Regarding Obama the dictator, it’s a historical fact that dictatorial regimes can only take power when there’s support from financial elites. Propagandists on the left say big government is good and big business is bad. Propagandists on the right say the opposite, i.e., big business is good and big government is bad. But history proves that dictatorial regimes are almost always the result of a public-private partnership involving big government and big business.
The 2014 budget is an example of the same tyranny faced by pre-revolutionary colonists, i.e., taxation without representation. The following text and next paragraph are from an article in USA TODAY: The nearly 1,600-page spending bill includes all 12 of the individual annual spending bills packaged into a $1.012 trillion “omnibus” spending bill. The bill will have gone from unveiling to law in just six days, while the normal appropriations process is structured to take months and allow for more lawmaker input.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., holding up the thick bill on the House floor, criticized the House for voting on a bill “that nobody has read.” McGovern cited a concern held by lawmakers in both parties that the details of the omnibus are likely to trickle out after the bill has become law. ”I’m willing to bet in a week or so we’re going to read an article about something being in the bill that nobody knew about,”. Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, characterized the bill as a “monstrosity.” She said ”while Americans suffer the consequences of Obamacare, Congress is trying to rush through another massive bill before reading it,”
If representatives aren’t reading spending bills, there’s no way they can be representing the interests of their constituents, which means there is no representation for taxation.
Most media and politicians seem to have trouble distinguishing between Federal budget deficits and the national debt. But I suspect it’s just another attempt to confuse the public. Budget deficits are the annual amount that government spending exceeds income. And America’s national debt is the total of all Federal budget deficits.
When George Bush took office in 2001 the national debt was 5.7 Trillion (treasurydirect.gov). By the end of his second term the debt was 10.7 Trillion. Five years into Obama’s Presidency, the debt was approaching 17 Trillion. It took over 210 years to accrue a 5.7 Trillion debt and only twelve years to triple the debt. So what has caused the national debt to triple in 12 years? The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says it will cost taxpayers $8.6 Trillion to prop up big banks after the financial crisis.
One of the most powerful positions in Congress is Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. This position was held by Democrat Barney Frank until 2010 when Republican Jeb Hensarling became Chairman. During a House debate over the $700 billion bank bailout (TARP), Jeb said the budget deficit rose 800% to 1.2 Trillion, and taxpayers are on the hook for 8 Trillion due to the financial crisis. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says it will cost taxpayers $8.6 Trillion to prop up big banks after the financial crisis.
The Federal Budget went over the fiscal cliff in 2008 because of the financial crisis and resulting “Great Recession”.Simon Johnson is a member of the CBO council of advisers, an MIT professor, and former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund. In the clips below from a Senate hearing, Johnson says budget deficits and debt are driven by a drop in government revenue due to the recession. Budget Chairman Kent Conrad and ranking Republican Judd Gregg did not disagree with Johnson’s analysis of the numbers, only his solutions.
Johnson cites J P Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson who say they expect another financial crisis in “3 to 7 years”. Based on their prediction, Johnson said another crash of “Too Big To Fail” banks represents a short term budget liability equal to 40% of GDP (5.6 TRILLION), and CBO rules require this be scored in the budget. Ranking Republican Judd Gregg replied, “we don’t score a lot of things around here”, i.e., we’re cooking the books.
In response to exploding Federal deficits and debt, the Simpson Bowles Commission and Super Committee were formed to address the fiscal crisis. They both failed so the Budget Control Act was adopted which allowed Bush tax cuts to expire and implemented spending cuts (sequestration) on January 1, 2013.
Taxes will increase and entitlements will eventually be slashed to deal with the after effects of the Wall Street meltdown(s). But the media narrative never frames the fiscal cliff in a factual context, i.e., exploding deficits and debt are primarily due to the financial crisis and resulting Great Recession, not entitlements and tax policy.
The so called conservative media says welfare programs and tax policy are the driving force behind America’s financial woes. I do believe there’s a seditious attempt to create a socialist culture of dependence, but the facts indicate that this is a top down agenda, not grass roots.
The costs of unemployment compensation, food stamps etc., are substantial, but welfare for the financial elite is an existential threat to our economy and Constitutional rights. For example, Obama wants Trillions for future bank bailouts, without Congressional approval. And yet, “conservative” media says big business needs a tax cut. But Republican tax guru Grover Norquist said, “corporations don’t pay taxes, they collect them from you and me…”.
In order to cover up the cost of toxic assets dumped on taxpayers and Trillions still held by banks, Congress pressured the Financial Accounting Standards Board to relax mark to market rules. These rules require large companies to mark balance sheet assets to current market value. But now, the relaxed rules allow government and banks to falsify the value of toxic assets on their balance sheet. Small business owners would be charged with fraud for engaging is similar accounting practices.
Desmond Lachman is a former Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund. During testimony before Congress, he said “if the Federal Reserve balance sheet is marked to market, the Fed would have an enormous negative position”. Systemic fraud is the new accounting standard for government and Wall Street.
Political leaders say cutting spending is a priority for restoring fiscal soundness. But if my accountant is cooking the books and embezzling from my business, I can cut spending to zero and still go bankrupt. And that’s what will happen to America if accounting rules promoting fraud are the standard.
The President of the Kansas City Federal Reserve said Too Big To Fail companies “have the availability of different rules” …. “The United States has been the most successful economy in history…because for the most part over it’s history, it has been bound by the rules of capitalism, which does in fact reward success, but also compels participants in the market to play by open rules…and [participants] are compelled to fail when they make poor decisions”. This keeps markets efficient and creates winners based on merit, not privilege.
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND US DEBT
Some people say the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) caused the subprime bubble because it forced banks to make loans to people who couldn’t repay them. But the CRA was enacted in 1977 and had little to do with the 2008 financial crisis. Most of the subprime loans were originated by lenders exempt from the CRA and regulated by the Federal Reserve. And FED Chairman Alan Greenspan had virtually eliminated underwriting standards for mortgage brokers.
Thanks mostly to Greenspan, when the bubble burst, one in three mortgages required no proof of income or assets. As stated by Republican Don Manzullo in the previous link, the Fed could’ve prevented the crisis because it had authority to reduce risk by setting reasonable underwriting standards. But it did not, so in response to the financial crisis, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was created by Obama’s Finance Reform (Dodd-Frank).
This brings to mind Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former chief of staff. He said we should never let a serious crisis go to waste because it allows us to do things we could not do before.
So the financial crisis was used to create the CFPB, which is under the authority of the Fed, which did not use it’s authority to prevent the last crisis. OOPS! The CFPB is supposed to protect consumers via new banking regulations. But during a House hearing, Republicans blasted Raj Date, the acting Director of the CFPB, which is just another redundant, unaccountable agency.
Raj said the CFPB would make regulation more efficient. But Republican Mike Grimm said “more government is often the problem”, and if you think its going to be more efficient, “you should probably be medicated”. After asking Raj about the role of mortgage fraud in the financial crisis, Grimm said existing laws could have prevented the crisis, but there was a “big lack of enforcement”.
The Inspector General for TARP said fraud by the nine largest banks led to the TARP bailout. During an open House session in 2004, the FBI warned Congress about a pandemic of mortgage fraud. In this radio interview, William Black begins with the FBI warning and lays out compelling evidence of Wall Street fraud. Mr. Black helped obtain 1000 criminal convictions of “elite” bankers after the 1980’s Savings and Loan meltdown.
Republican Sean Duffy grilled Raj about the role of small banks in the financial crisis. Duffy said his small banks and credit unions had nothing to do with the crisis, but they are bearing the brunt of costly new regulations. Duffy said the original intent of finance reform was to “see what went wrong on Wall Street”, but main street is penalized while Wall Street is bailed out. Duffy compared the CFPB to a dictatorship with no accountability.
Another example of the fraudulent media narrative is the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F). When investigating their collapse, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) discovered evidence of bipartisan fraud. But you didn’t hear about it in the news.
When F&F collapsed, taxpayers were forced to assume their 6.3 TRILLION of toxic assets and liabilities, which are off the Federal budget. F&F were Government Sponsored Entities (GSE’s) until they collapsed in 2008 and were dumped on taxpayers. Prior to their collapse, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), had limited authority to regulate F&F.
James Lockhart and Armando Falcon were former Directors of OFHEO. While testifying before the FCIC, James Lockhart said the 1.5 Trillion taxpayer investment in GSE’s “may never be worth anything”. Mr. Lockhart said “there was no debt discipline for these two companies, people didn’t care if they couldn’t put out a financial statement for five years, people didn’t care if they were starting to lose money”.
The evidence demonstrates that bipartisan leaders worked together to cover up Fannie and Freddie’s systemic risk. FCIC Commissioner Byron Georgiou said both companies were cooking the books. Then he addressed the issue of bipartisan lobbyists who blocked oversight while Fannie and Freddie engaged in illegal accounting practices.
Georgiou said“this was an equal opportunity bipartisan lobbying push over the years when Fannie and Freddie were engaging in this practice…there were well connected people who were either former legislators, or former staffers, and others from both parties, who were retained by these institutions to lobby”. This was “a particularly egregious lobbying abuse”.
Fannie and Freddie’s mission was supposed to be affordable housing, which was the justification for their GSE status. But when asked why F&F didn’t take steps to reduce risk, Mr. Lockhart said “the Boards were much more focused on profitability, they felt that was their fiduciary responsibility to shareholders, the mission was a distant, not even second”.
In the same clip, Commissioner Thomas replied, “my assumption is there was virtually no discussion about taxpayers rather than shareholders”. Lockhart laughed and Thomas said “you don’t have to answer that”. Thomas then cites a Barron’s article saying F&F are insolvent and will be bailed out, followed by an e-mail from Treasury undersecretary Steele saying “it’s way above my pay grade to double the U.S. debt in one fell swoop”.
In 2003, Armando Falcon released a report characterizing F&F as a “systemic risk” to financial markets. A few days before the report was released, Falcon received a call from Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines. According to Falcon, Raines “threatened to bring down me and the agency” if the risk report was released.
Then, an official from Treasury called Falcon and said F&F lobbyists were pressuring other agencies to prevent the report’s release. Finally, on the day the report was released, the Bush White House fired Falcon and media focused on his firing while giving “scant coverage” to the systemic risk report. Falcon said this was “the result intended by those who engineered the timing of the announcement of my replacement”.
Who engineered the timing of the announcement? It was the Bush White House who fired Falcon and refused to delay the announcement when Falcon asked them to do so. And national media used the firing to cover up the 2003 risk report. Think about it. On April 9, 2010, Falcon testified under oath that Fannie Mae’s CEO threatened him, and the Bush White House carried out those threats. In this clip, Mr. Falcon recounts the cover up of F&F’s systemic risk and the events leading up to his forced resignation
Fannie and Freddie held 6.3 Trillion of toxic assets and liabilities when they collapsed in 2008, and for the preceding five years, bipartisan leaders in Congress, the Bush administration, and media, covered up the risk to taxpayers. There’s only one reason why this was not a nationwide, front page story, i.e., left, right and center media colluded to cover up the crime. And President Obama’s cover up of this crime makes him an accomplice.
Most of the previous information has been covered up by politicians and media, so it’s important to remember what the financial crisis did to the U.S. economy. Phil Angelides was Chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). His comments below are from a 2011 speech, they start at 7min/55sec and end at 15:00.
“Nearly 26 million Americans are out of work, cannot find full time work, or have quit looking for work. Eleven TRILLION dollars of household wealth and retirement savings has been wiped away, vanished like some day trade gone bad…
The public stewards (government regulators) of our financial system failed us, the CEO’s of financial institutions drove their companies over the cliff and our economy with it…
The greatest tragedy coming out of this crisis would be to accept the idea that no one could’ve seen this crisis coming and thus, nothing could’ve been done. If we accept this notion, I guarantee you, it will happen again”.
Presidents Bush and Obama have both said the financial crisis was unforeseen and could not have been prevented. But the FCIC concluded otherwise, and yet, not one media story calls attention to the presidential cover up.
The left says Bush is entirely responsible for the financial crisis, and curiously, the right doesn’t point out President Clinton’s role, which is exposed by the PBS documentary The Warning. It’s about former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) director Brooksley Born. The CFTC had authority to regulate derivatives and Born tried convincing President Clinton to reign in the 250 Trillion “dark” market. But Fed Chairman Greenspan and Clinton’s economic advisers “shut her down and shut her up”.
Ms. Born predicted the derivatives market would blow up the economy, hence the documentary’s name “The Warning”. Instead of heeding Born’s warning, President Clinton and his cronies decided to repeal financial regulations that had kept Wall Street speculation in check since the Great Depression.
Clinton’s deregulation of financial markets laid the groundwork for the subprime bubble, and President Bush let Wall Street run wild under the guise of creating more jobs and housing. The Warning exposes bipartisan leaders who are ideologically opposed to regulating Wall Street financial fraud.
Dodd-Frank did not eliminate Too Big To Fail (TBTF) banks, so they’re effectively GSE’s backstopped by taxpayers. This is demonstrated by Moody’s rating of Bank of America debt, which is rated five notches above what it would be without government support. In addition to the explicit taxpayer subsidies for TBTF, Treasury is using Fannie and Freddie as a backdoor bailout for Wall Street. President Obama, who allegedly opposes Wall Street fat cats, says nothing about the government backstop for America’s largest “private sector” banks.
It’s also important to remember that nobody forced Wall Street to BUY worthless subprime loans, securitize them, leverage them 50 to1, put fraudulent Triple A ratings on them, and sell them around the world. In fact, the FBI testified before Congress in 2004 and warned that mortgage fraud would cause a financial crisis. In 2006, mortgage industry experts warned all major lenders that “liars loans” had a “90% incidence of fraud”.
But the industry increased the number of liars loans to the point that 1 in 3 mortgages was a liars loan when the bubble burst. That’s why Neil Barofsky, Inspector General for TARP, said fraud by the nine largest banks caused the need for the TARP bailout. William Black helped obtain 1000 criminal convictions of “elite” bankers after the 1980’s Savings and Loan meltdown. In this radio interview, Mr. Black starts with the 2004 FBI warning and lays out compelling evidence of Wall Street fraud, which has not been prosecuted by Obama’s Department of Justice.
Bottom line, bipartisan leaders were complicit in Wall Street fraud and irresponsible risk taking that drove the economy and budget over the cliff. There’s no economic growth on the horizon that will make up for decreased government revenue due to the financial crisis, and we cannot tax our way out of Trillion dollar deficits.
In order to finance the exploding debt, Obama’s Treasury Secretary wants Congress to eliminate the debt ceiling. In addition to removing the debt ceiling, the executive branch wants authority to spend Trillions on future Wall Street bailouts, without approval from Congress. This will be accomplished via Dodd-Frank’s Resolution Authority, the part of the bill that institutionalizes TARP and gives Wall Street a blank check.
Simon Johnson wrote a book titled “13 Bankers, The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Crisis”. During a Book TV presentation, Mr. Johnson said the six largest banks have “captured the State” and have power to “extort” money from taxpayers. Edward Kane is a senior research fellow at the F.D.I.C., he says the financial crisis and Dodd-Frank are examples of regulatory capture.
What does regulatory capture mean? It means multinational corporations, which by definition are loyal to no country, have subverted representative government. They have enough resources to hire the best accountants, lawyers and lobbyists money can buy, and use them to take over the lawmaking process in Congress. That’s why Obama’s Department of Justice does not prosecute Wall Street CEO’s and their bipartisan partners in crime, let alone implement regulations that represent the interests of American citizens.
The Fed’s loose monetary policy, i.e., toxic asset purchases and 0% money for bailed out institutions, is another hit to the U.S. economy as it drives up commodity prices and incentivizes irresponsible risk taking. KC Fed President Tom Hoenig posed the following question: What resource has ever been efficiently allocated when the price is zero? He was referring to the Fed’s near 0% rate on capital.
Like Simon Johnson, Mr. Hoenig also recognizes the budgetary threat posed by Too Big To Fail banks. He says Dodd-Frank widened the Federal safety net to include high risk gambling activities of large banks. Hoenig proposed reinstating the Glass Steagall Act, which was enacted in 1933 as a response to the 1929 market crash.
Glass Steagall removed high risk investment bank activities from the Federal safety net (F.D.I.C.), but President Clinton repealed it in 1999. It took only 9 years to repeat the crash of 1929. Click here and listen to Mr. Hoenigs comments on TBTF banks. If fiscal and monetary policy had focused on limiting home foreclosures and growing the Main Street economy, increased demand and economic growth would be reducing the deficit.
Congressional budget negotiations have nothing to do with getting deficits and debt under control. The 2014 Federal budget is a prime example. The following text and next paragraph are from an article in USA TODAY: The nearly 1,600-page spending bill includes all 12 of the individual annual spending bills packaged into a $1.012 trillion “omnibus” spending bill. The bill will have gone from unveiling to law in just six days, while the normal appropriations process is structured to take months and allow for more lawmaker input.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., holding up the thick bill on the House floor, criticized the House for voting on a bill “that nobody has read.” McGovern cited a concern held by lawmakers in both parties that the details of the omnibus are likely to trickle out after the bill has become law. “I’m willing to bet in a week or so we’re going to read an article about something being in the bill that nobody knew about,”. Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, characterized the bill as a “monstrosity.” She said “while Americans suffer the consequences of Obamacare, Congress is trying to rush through another massive bill before reading it,”
If members of Congress aren’t reading bills, they certainly aren’t writing them. So who is writing legislation? In the case of Obamacare, Dr. Howard Dean said the insurance industry and Democrat staffers wrote the bill (listen to the video in the link). Congress not reading or writing legislation is the MO of Wall Street regulatory capture.
Even Republican tax guru Grover Norquist said, “corporations don’t pay taxes, they collect them from you and me…”. Grover says corporations pass tax liabilities onto consumers by raising the price of their products. But he doesn’t mention that small businesses, which may be corporations, bear the full cost of regulation and taxation because they have limited ability to shift costs to consumers. For possible solutions to regulatory capture, check out the post on the Boston Tea Party.
This highlights the fiscal problem, i.e., large multinationals receive government subsidies while evading tax and regulatory costs. And yet, bipartisan leaders want to lower tax rates for multinationals while raising taxes on small businesses and middle class individuals. No politicians have done more to enrich Wall Street criminals and rob the middle class than Presidents Bush and Obama.
The stock market has nearly tripled in value under Obama while U.S. economic growth is stagnant. Why? Obama and the Fed have given Wall Street everything they want, including near zero percent money and immunity from criminal prosecution. An interesting source is the book Godonomics, which illustrates the Biblical principles behind private property rights and market economies based on moral principles.
TRADE DEFICITS AND THE US DEBT
The fraud that led to the subprime bubble and Great Recession is only half the story behind America’s debt crisis. Pat Mulloy is a member of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He said trade deficits with China will change America from a “shareholder economy to a sharecropper economy”, where China owns large chunks of our economy and we work for them.
In the same clip, Mulloy said the U.S. has run 3 Trillion in trade deficits with China since they were given Most Favored Nation (MFN) status, and it’s “interesting”, China has 3 Trillion in foreign currency reserves. He’s clearly suggesting that U.S. trade deficits contribute to China’s strong cash position. Conversely, trade deficits increase U.S. debt and make America dependent on China for financing the debt.
In the Wall Street Journal article China’s Superior Economic Model, former SEIU President Andy Stern and Intel CEO Andy Grove favor China’s totalitarian economic model. Which means they support China’s use of virtual slave labor, and imprisonment of those who dare speak about democratic reforms. And yet, Obama tells students and union members they’re competing with China. How can students and unions compete with slavery without first becoming slaves?
While U.S. workers and small businesses compete with China, US multinationals have formed partnerships with Chinese State Owned Enterprises. Hmmm? Partners do NOT compete, they work together to achieve common goals. Their goal is a command-control, low wage service economy in America, and global dominance for China’s totalitarian regime.
The origins of treasonous free trade policies can be traced back to Wall Street. Charlie Rose interviewed Jim O’Neill, Chairman of Goldman Sachs asset management, who takes credit for creating the emerging markets, a.k.a. BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China). About 29:45 into the interview, Rose mentioned the shift of wealth and power to China and asked Jim what it means for America, a country “used to being on top”. O’Neill said, “I’d like to hear Obama say, how do we adjust, before he says how do we compete”.
Then O’Neill referred to Obama’s former economic adviser Larry Summers saying, “he understands [China’s] relative advantage in international trade.” The idea that America is competing with China is ludicrous. Outsourcing and free trade in the NFL would be comparable to trading a team’s franchise player for the competition’s water boy. Free trade is designed to pick winners and losers in the global economy and Goldman Sachs, a.k.a. Government Sachs, has picked America to lose.
The Federal Reserve has pumped TRILLIONS of dollars into the economy, and yet, U.S. economic growth is stagnant. Why? During an appearance on CNBC, George Soros cites data from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), which says US and EU banks are the largest supplier of credit to emerging markets. So bailed out banks are financing China’s 8% growth while U.S. growth is stagnant.
April 22, 2010, Rush Limbaugh cited an Investors Business Daily article saying “…despite the commitment of nearly 20 TRILLION in taxpayer funds to prevent another crisis, lending has stalled or shrunk.” So US bank lending to communist China has grown while lending in the U.S. has stalled or shrunk.
The absolute numbers for big foreign banking systems’ exposure to China are as follows:
Some say the electronic trinkets produced in China would be too expensive if manufactured in America. But virtual slave labor has always existed in foreign countries, and before free trade, America’s economy thrived without exploiting cheap labor abroad. Many leaders say government should be run more like a business. Well, multinational corporations spend billions implementing policies that PROTECT their market share and global competitiveness. They even engage in corporate espionage to gain competitive advantages that US leaders give away via free trade.
Businesses don’t engage in anything remotely resembling free trade. Why? Because providing the competition with capital and technology guarantees failure. Doing so would cause shareholders to demand criminal prosecution of the Board of Directors and top officers, which is what should be done to politicians who have intentionally traded away America’s economic future. Manufacturing is the engine of economic growth, so outsourcing manufacturing in exchange for cheap trinkets is like the Native Americans selling their sovereignty for beads and blankets.
American history teaches the concept of manifest destiny. But how many fur traders, homesteaders and gold miners were thinking about manifest destiny when they moved West? Few if any, they didn’t even know what the phrase meant. Manifest destiny is the language of ruling class elites, i.e. merchant bankers and industrialists. They moved common folk across the American West like pawns on a chess board. Ruling class elites wanted conflict with the Indians so they could call in the cavalry and manifest their destiny.
The new frontiers for today’s ruling class are Communist China and emerging markets. Free trade is preparing the way for the global cavalry and final phase of manifest destiny. For all intents and purposes, US financial elites and industrialists have seceded from the Union. They’ve allied themselves with China’s totalitarian regime and are engaged in economic terrorism against the United States.
Media and politicians support this treasonous alliance and they exploit class and race divisions as part of a divide and conquer agenda. They want divided Americans to blame each other and fight over the economic crumbs left behind by free trade and the financial crisis. We’re all Indians now.
Bipartisan leaders said free trade would transition America to a “low wage service economy”, a.k.a., de-industrialization. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, industrialized nations have dominated the global economy because manufacturing is the engine of growth.
Case in point, after WWII the German economy was literally a pile of rubble. But seventy years later, in spite of high labor costs, Germany has the strongest economy in the West. Why? They protect their manufacturing base. Don’t buy the lie that America cannot do the same because, transitioning from the world’s largest manufacturer and exporter to a low wage service economy is by definition, a radical economic decline.
Wall Street and their bipartisans cronies have structured the global economy (globalization) in a way that subsidizes China with U.S. capital and technology. The decline in growth resulting from free trade and de-industrialization was masked by the subprime bubble. In my opinion, the subprime bubble was intentionally created to cover up the economic contraction caused by free trade and outsourcing. When the bubble burst, average citizens were blamed for living beyond their means and the structural decline resulting from free trade wasn’t even mentioned.
WAR AND THE US DEBT
CNBC reported that Chinese State owned companies are currently mining a trillion dollars of mineral reserves in Afghanistan. The guest said Afghanistan is the “Saudi Arabia of lithium”. Lithium is used in batteries for electric cars and battery storage for wind and solar farms. So Afghanistan is the first war for “green” energy and U.S. blood and treasure are subsidizing Communist China’s totalitarian regime.
Green energy is a subsidy for China because lithium batteries and solar panels are produced by Chinese manufacturers. After the Iraq war, most of Iraq’s oil is going to China. The objective is to subsidize emerging markets led by China’s totalitarian regime. This will create a neo-feudalistic world where China is the new home of the Global Military Industrial Complex (GMIC).
The US/China partnership allows the respective governments to play both sides of global conflicts, thereby providing guaranteed profits for the GMIC. Iran, North Korea and Syria are prime examples. The US government classifies North Korea and Iran as state sponsors of terrorism. But the CSPAN clips below demonstrate that China supplies Iran with chemical, ballistic and nuclear weapons, and allows trans-shipments of weapons from North Korea to Iran, which then supplies Syria and Hezbollah.
US leaders condemn the actions of Iran, Syria and North Korea, all client states of China, while turning a blind eye to the fact that they could not be a threat to the West without Chinese support. Link1, Link2, Link3, LInk4, Link5 Compelling evidence of bipartisan treason can be found in these posts on Saudi funding of terrorism and China’s totalitarian regime.
Real solutions for the debt crisis begin with enforcing the rule of law as described in William Black’s radio interview. Then, follow Tom Hoenig’s advice and reinstate Glass Steagall, thus removing Wall Street’s high risk gambling losses from the Federal safety net. Next, begin dismantling free trade agreements and replacing them with protectionist policies that have a two hundred year track record of successfully growing the U.S. economy. For more detail, check out my pdf “Knowledge is Power” and the sections on financial markets and solutions.
This clip is from a Congressional hearing on President Obama’s abuse of power. It begins with Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte’s question to Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, who is a frequent guest on leftist news shows. In spite of voting for Obama, Turley says Obama “has become the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid”. The following three paragraphs are from the clip.
REP. BOB GOODLATTE (R-VA): Professor Turley, the constitution, the system of separated powers is not simply about stopping one branch of government from usurping another. It’s about protecting the liberty of Americans from the dangers of concentrated government power. How does the president’s unilateral modification of an act of Congress affect both the balance of power between the political branches, and the liberty interests of the American people?
JONATHAN TURLEY: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The danger is quite severe. The problem with what the president is doing is that he’s not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. He’s becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid. That is the concentration of power in every single branch. This Newtonian orbit that the three branches exist in is a delicate one but it is designed to prevent this type of concentration.
There are two trends going on which should be of equal concern to all members of Congress. One is that we have had the radical expansion of presidential powers under both President Bush and President Obama. We have what many once called an imperial presidency model of largely unchecked authority. And with that trend we also have the continued rise of this fourth branch. We have agencies that are quite large that issue regulations. The Supreme Court said recently that agencies could actually define their own, or interpret their own jurisdiction. (House hearing, December 3, 2013)
Judge Andrew Napolitano had a popular show on Fox News, until he started getting too close to the truth, i.e., both political parties are sabotaging the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Judge Napolitano recently appeared on The World Over, a television show that airs on the Catholic network EWTN. During the interview, he talked about his new book titled Suicide Pact, which documents the radical expansion of presidential power in America.
The first half of Suicide Pact covers presidential abuse of power from George Washington to Bill Clinton, and the last half of the book covers the rapid move toward an imperial presidency under George W. Bush and Barak Obama. Judge Napolitano’s interview is a must see for those concerned about unchecked violations of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. For more info check out the Judge’s website at judgenap.com.
January 28, 2014, Senator Ted Cruz was on Bill Bennett’s show talking about Obama’s “imperial presidency”. Bennett asked what can be done and Cruz suggested three options: 1) Congress must exercise its Constitutional prerogative, i.e., use oversight authority to restore checks and balances. 2) The media must return to its role as an objective reporter of the news. 3) The people must stand up and demand accountability. The rest of this post will address these three options, and being a conservative, I will focus on what I consider failures of “conservative” media.
When asked what Congress can do, Senator Cruz referenced the select committee appointed to investigate Watergate and explained that select committees have broad investigative powers, whereas regular hearings only give members five minutes to ask questions.
Cruz said the the House of Representatives should immediately appoint two select committees. One to investigate the IRS targeting Obama’s political opponents and a second to investigate Benghazi. He said “Speaker Boehner has the power today to appoint a select committee and I have no idea why he doesn’t”.
Select committees won’t be created without pubic pressure, so contact your representatives and demand the creation of select committees to investigate Obama’s abuse of power. Listen to Congressman Gowdy’s statement during a hearing on the IRS. He exposes Obama’s lie that there’s not a “smidgen of corruption” at the IRS.
This is a link to the hearing on Obama’s abuse of power. If you believe President Obama should be held accountable for abuse of power, the hearing will give you ammunition to educate others. Make clips of the hearing and send them to your attorney, local Sheriff, District Attorney, State Attorney General, and U.S. Attorney. Concerned citizens must get organized and demand a return to Constitutional checks and balances.
The Constitution guarantees our right to representation when being taxed. But the 2014 budget is an example of taxation without representation. The following text and next paragraph are excerpts from a USA TODAY article: The nearly 1,600-page spending bill includes all 12 of the individual annual spending bills packaged into a $1.012 trillion “omnibus” spending bill. The bill will have gone from unveiling to law in just six days, while the normal appropriations process is structured to take months and allow for more lawmaker input.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., holding up the thick bill on the House floor, criticized the House for voting on a bill “that nobody has read.” McGovern cited a concern held by lawmakers in both parties that the details of the omnibus are likely to trickle out after the bill has become law. ”I’m willing to bet in a week or so we’re going to read an article about something being in the bill that nobody knew about,”. Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, characterized the bill as a “monstrosity.” She said “while Americans suffer the consequences of Obamacare, Congress is trying to rush through another massive bill before reading it,”
The hearing on Obama’s abuse of power, the IRS hearing, and the 2014 budget, received little attention from allegedly conservative media hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin. They play meaningless clips that dumb down listeners but ignore hearings that present facts regarding Obama’s abuse of power. Do they think Constitutional principles have been achieved when the people’s representatives don’t read budget bills? If representatives aren’t reading spending bills, it’s taxation without representation.
Why would “conservatives” like Levin and Limbaugh, sweep an official inquiry into Obama’s abuse of power under the rug? Maybe they fear people like Shane Harger, Police Chief of Jemez Springs, NM. He was ordered to disband his Police Department because he attended the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) Convention. The CSPOA provides information and defends the Constitution, so check out their website to inform yourself and support their work.
Obama has committed many potentially impeachable offenses. Lying about citizens keeping insurance policies and doctors under Obamacare, arbitrarily changing the healthcare law, using the IRS to target political opponents, letting Americans die in Benghazi, arbitrarily granting amnesty to illegal immigrants under the guise of “prosecutorial discretion”, and arming drug cartels with his Fast and Furious gun running program. Obamacare probably would not have passed if Obama had not intentionally deceived the American people. Unfortunately, Levin and Limbaugh do not make impeachment a priority.
The House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans and the impeachment process starts in the House. If the House voted to impeach Obama, the Democrat controlled Senate would not convict him, but a special prosecutor would be appointed to investigate all the aforementioned crimes. The investigations could be used to educate and inform the American people.
At some point, we have to defend Constitutional principles, irregardless of the political costs. Homeland Security has said veterans and conservatives who support Constitutional government are a threat to national security. How far down the road to tyranny do we have to go before Rush and Levin call for impeachment?
Like Ted Cruz, Mark Levin is a Constitutional scholar, but he never mentions select committees as an option to check Obama’s abuse of power. If Levin used his legal foundation and radio show to develop legal arguments for impeachment, many conservatives would offer financial support. Michael Connelly is doing what Levin should be doing. Connelly is a veteran and Constitutional lawyer who uses media to build a case for impeaching Obama. He also does pro bono work for veterans losing their second amendment rights due to medical issues.
Go to Michael Connelly’s website and find out what a real conservative is doing to protect and defend the Constitution. I think Levin and Limbaugh’s weak support for impeachment is a betrayal of the men and women fighting and dying to uphold the Constitution.
The Declaration of Independence was a criminal indictment of King George III, and it provided the legal and moral justification for Revolution. If you read the list of grievances, most of them apply to today’s bipartisan tyrants. The Declaration ends with these words: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor”.
Against all odds, they defeated the British empire and drafted the U.S. Constitution, but the States refused to ratify the Constitution without a promise to include a Bill of Rights. The States were willing to dissolve the Union if the Constitution didn’t include amendments protecting their unalienable rights from a tyrannical central government.
The founders, framers, and States understood the price of freedom, and they knew how to protect their unalienable rights from tyranny. If we’re going to preserve the Republic they fought and died for, we must take a stand against the current assault on our founding principles. Our founders and troops put everything on the line in defense of our Constitution, so putting some time and resources into educating ourselves and others is the least we (civilians) can do.
Thomas Paine’s distribution of “Common Sense” was instrumental in building the ground swell of support necessary for the Revolution, and in the age of the internet, we have we have no excuse for not following Paine’s example.
Rush Revere is a character in Rush’s new children’s book. Rush is obviously comparing himself to Paul Revere. But Paul Revere was willing to fight the British tyrants to the death, and Rush has repeatedly said if things get too bad in America, he’s going to haul his cowardly carcass on a plane and go to “Costa Rica” or “New Zealand”. Rush’s cut and run attitude is the same as British loyalists who opposed the American Revolution, i.e., when things got tough, they went back to England and sucked up to the king.
Rush’s cut and run attitude makes a mockery of the sacrifice made by our founders and troops. Rush and Levin support “free” trade that is selling America off to Communist China. And let’s not forget that Rush was a big supporter of the Dubai Ports World deal, which would’ve allowed an Arab government to control U.S. ports. And Dubai is one of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that were funding the Sunni insurgents killing our troops in Iraq.
In my opinion, Rush Limbaugh is nothing more than a prostitute who bends over for wannabe kings and queens in exchange for a bit of glitter. Violating the oath of office is a felony. And trade policies that make America dependent on Communist China are a clear violation of the oath to protect and defend the Constitution.
Mark Levin puts out good information about the Constitution, but like Rush, he’s a big supporter of the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, and indefinite detention of Americans without due process, all of which have the potential to eviscerate the Bill of Rights in exchange for alleged security. I think Levin’s idea to amend the Constitution via Article 5 is an exercise in futility. Why? Because corrupt bipartisan leaders violate current amendments at will, with no consequences. So why would more amendments be effective without first enforcing existing law?
More amendments won’t be effective, that’s why I’ve concluded Levin’s proposal is an attempt to keep Tea Party Indians on the establishment reservation. This will be accomplished via an endless focus on the political process, and not enforcement of the rule of law. The founders created a nation based on equality before the law, not equality of income or outcome, and bipartisan leaders who’ve placed themselves above the law have created a Constitutional crisis. But I rarely hear Levin or Limbaugh advocate for equality before the law.
Another example of a legal double standard is the government’s relaxation of mark to market rules. These rules were put in place after Enron’s collapse and require large companies to mark balance sheet assets to current market value. But now, the relaxed rulesallow government and banks to falsify the value of toxic assets on their balance sheet. Small business owners would be convicted of fraud for engaging in similar accounting practices.
Desmond Lachman is a former Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund. He said, ”if the Federal Reserve balance sheet is marked to market, the Fed would have an enormous negative position”. Systemic fraud is the new accounting standard for government and Wall Street.
Political leaders say cutting spending is a priority for restoring fiscal soundness. But if my accountant is cooking the books and embezzling from my business, I can cut spending to zero and still go bankrupt. And that ‘s what will happen to America if we focus on amending, not enforcing the Constitution and market principles.
Many are calling for a balanced budget amendment, but it wouldn’t do any good because Congress cooks the books with impunity. For example, Fannie and Freddie’s 6.3 Trillion of toxic assets and liabilities were placed off budget when they were dumped on taxpayers. And Too Big To Fail banks, which are Government Sponsored Entities (GSE’s) like Fannie and Freddie, will cost taxpayers 8.6 Trillion. So a balanced budget amendment will not prevent the debt from exploding when politicians cook the books during the next financial crisis.
By law, the public airwaves must be used to serve the public interest. But left and right media deliberately use our public airwaves to misinform and divide citizens. It’s a classic divide and conquer strategy. I’m a conservative, so I’m going to illustrate how phony conservatives like Limbaugh spread divisive misinformation.
For example, when talking about the socialist agenda, he spends 99% of his time talking about food stamps, unemployment benefits and the minimum wage. But that’s only half the story. The other half is the Fed’s Quantitative Easing (QE), which is subsidizing the stock market and big banks with Trillions of dollars at near zero percent interest. And there is no free lunch, QE devlaues the dollar so we pay more for goods and services, economists define this inflation as a tax.
While Republicans work on legislation to cut foods stamps by 40 Billion over the next ten years, the Fed is buying 40 Billion per month of toxic mortgage backed securities from Wall Street. Some people call this crony capitalism, but cronyism has nothing to do with capitalism. Cronyism is socialism trending toward fascism, and it’s a threat equal to or greater than welfare for the poor.
Using crony capitalism to describe socialism only supports the arguments of those like Obama and the Pope, who seek to discredit capitalism. Words matter, so when discussing the failures of socialism, we must make it clear that cronyism is an example of socialist redistribution that causes wealth inequality.
Dodd-Frank, Obama’s finance reform, is an example of crony socialism. It gives Obama authority to spend Trillions on future bailouts of Too Big To Fail banks, without Congressional authority. This is not capitalism. An interesting source is the book Godonomics, which illustrates the Biblical principles behind private property rights and market economies based on moral principles.
The left criticizes corporate welfare, and the right criticizes welfare for the poor. They both tell half truths as a means to support socialism for their respective constituents, divide citizens, and eliminate accountability for bipartisan leaders. It’s a criminal bipartisan scheme to create a culture of dependence, usurp our unalienable rights, bankrupt America, and create a dictatorship.
If citizens take back their public airwaves and force broadcasters to serve the public interest, it would be possible to unite this country based on the facts and restore Constitutional government. For some possible solutions, check out my post on the Boston Tea Party.
Levin recently mentioned a Drudge Report story about the 55 million children aborted in America. But he’s a big support of US free trade policies that subsidize Communist China’s forced abortions a torture of Christians. Cheap labor has always existed in third world countries, and the U.S. economy thrived without outsourcing our industrial base to communist countries. There aren’t enough wives for young Chinese men because the communist government has murdered 100 million girls via forced abortion.
Levin opposes US government ownership of industry, but a company owned by the Chinese government recently bought Smithfield Foods, America’s largest pork processor. While Levin yaps about a “free” market, he says nothing about foreign governments buying up U.S. industry. Ronald Reagan didn’t allow the Soviet Union or Communist China to buy up U.S. assets.
Republicans like Limbaugh and Levin say they support free markets. But based on the “free” market, Aramco, a Saudi State owned company owns half of America’s largest refinery, and the governments of China and Qatar are acquiring U.S. Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) facilities. Apparently, foreign government ownership of U.S. industry is their definition of a free market. The Saudis use their stake in the Motiva refinery as a market for their crude. Is it more efficient to ship crude from Saudi Arabia to the U.S. instead of using the glut of North American oil reserves?
The point is, free markets have nothing to do with market efficiency or freedom from government intervention. The term “free market” is a euphemism for managed global markets that serve the strategic interests of monopolistic multinationals and their political cronies, who despise the notion of sovereign representative governments and unalienable rights. That ‘s why State owned companies, which are fronts for totalitarian regimes, are given free reign in the imaginary free market.
The framers of the Constitution wanted a market economy, not a free market, i.e., a market free from legal and moral Constitutional constraints. By putting the Commerce Clause in the Constitution, they made market principles subordinate to the principles of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. But the ability of the Commerce Clause to interfere in economic activity is limited.
In his ruling on Obamacare, Chief Justice Roberts said the “individual mandate is not a valid exercise of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause,” but he betrayed the intent of the framers and ruled it a Constitutional tax. Likewise, Levin and Limbaugh betray the intent of the framers by supporting the sale of U.S. industry to Communist and Islamo-fascist governments, a.k.a. globalization.
Some say the electronic trinkets produced in China would be too expensive if manufactured in America. But virtual slave labor has always existed in foreign countries, and before free trade, America’s economy thrived without exploiting cheap labor abroad. Many leaders say government should be run more like a business. Well, multinational corporations spend billions implementing policies that PROTECT their market share and global competitiveness. They even engage in corporate espionage to gain competitive advantages that US leaders give away via free trade.
Businesses don’t engage in anything remotely resembling free trade. Why? Because providing the competition with capital and technology guarantees failure. Doing so would cause shareholders to demand criminal prosecution of the Board of Directors and top officers, which is what should be done to politicians who have intentionally traded away America’s economic future.
Manufacturing is the engine of economic growth, so outsourcing manufacturing in exchange for cheap trinkets is like the Native Americans selling their sovereignty for beads and blankets.
American history teaches the concept of manifest destiny. But how many fur traders, homesteaders and gold miners were thinking about manifest destiny when they moved West? Few if any, they didn’t even know what the phrase meant. Manifest destiny is the language of ruling class elites, i.e. merchant bankers and industrialists. They moved common folk across the American West like pawns on a chess board. Ruling class elites wanted conflict with the Indians so they could call in the cavalry and manifest their destiny.
The new frontiers for today’s ruling class are Communist China and emerging markets. Free trade is preparing the way for the global cavalry and final phase of manifest destiny. For all intents and purposes, US financial elites, industrialists, and their political cronies have seceded from the Union. They’ve allied themselves with China’s totalitarian regime and are engaged in economic terrorism against the United States.
Media and politicians support this treasonous alliance and they exploit class and race divisions as part of a divide and conquer agenda. They want divided Americans to blame each other and fight over the economic crumbs left behind by free trade and the financial crisis. We’re all Indians now.