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1-800-RELIGION / BILDERBERG UPDATE / NEW WORLD ORDER
“WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT? ARE YOU SERIOUS?”
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THE WHEELS OF WAR
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RELIGION, MORALITY AND THE DEATH OF LIBERTY
Informing and Equipping Americans Who Love Freedom
But 75% say American society would be better off if more Americans were religious
Allan Erickson, The Western Center For Journalism —It don’t matter if we stop going to church.
• Poll shows fewer Americans think traditional morality is relevant
It don’t matter if we stop reading the Bible.
• Restraint and self-control becoming things of the past
It don’t matter if we take Christ seriously and make service the center of our national life.
• Study finds benefits of being selfish
It don’t matter if we ignore the Scripture and kill babies in the womb, cheapening life and hardening hearts.
• Students killed in school massacre
• Youth opens fire on women and children during Mother’s Day parade
It don’t matter if we stop teaching sexual responsibility according to traditional values.
• Man rapes toddler in Alaska
• Man imprisons women for 10 years in Ohio
• Female teacher has sex with student
It don’t matter if we prohibit Christians from sharing faith in the military and silence chaplains setting moral standards.
• Report: 22 soldiers commit suicide everyday
• Sex scandals rock the military
• Men assaulting men account for most military sexual violence
It don’t matter if we remove prayer from school.
• Bullying and girl gang fights in schools, epidemic
• Coach accused of sexually abusing students
• Students ‘hook up,’ recreational sex drives increase in STDs
It don’t matter if we ignore what Scripture says about family.
• Fatherlessness directly linked to exploding prison populations
• Single mother households usually mean poverty
• Domestic violence against women increases
• Number of homeless youth increasing
It don’t matter if we post and read the Ten Commandments.
• Crime rates soar in the cities
• Young people no longer respect parents
• Adultery and predation have become lifestyles
It don’t matter if we follow scriptural wisdom concerning relations between the sexes.
• Men and women alienated, fewer marry anymore, divorce and broken homes at all time high
It don’t matter if we heed what the Bible says about raising children.
• Youth shoots baby in the face
• Youth flash mob, stealing enmasse
• Latch Key Kids at greater risk
It don’t matter if we take God out of the public square.
• Government corruption, officials lying, rampant throughout government
It don’t matter if parents hold themselves accountable to godly authority.
• Study shows child abuse and neglect on the increase
It don’t matter if people pray and ask for power to love and do good works.
• Headline: the more government takes over, the less individuals take personal responsibility
It don’t matter if we follow the God of love and his prescriptions for handling money.
• U.S. faces bankruptcy and depravations on an unheard of scale
It don’t matter if we seriously pursue truth.
• Study shows younger generations believe truth is relative, a matter of personal choice
It don’t matter if we prefer man’s wisdom to God’s.
• Atheist regimes responsible for killing 100 million men, women and children last century.
We once understood the connection between virtue and liberty, cultivating the former to preserve the latter. Now, most people have fallen for the lie that doing anything you want to do is freedom. In truth, that belief leads to chaos, violence, and tyranny. There is only one place to find the power that fosters virtue, and that one place is not the human mind. » Full Article
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FBI EXPERT: QURAN IS ‘REVEALED WORD OF GOD’
Agency Sterilizes Records To Satisfy Muslim Critics
Bob Unruh, WND — The FBI has censored and modified hundreds of pages of materials to satisfy Muslim critics, including a change that was made because an agency “expert” insisted the Quran “is the revealed word of God.”The details come from Judicial Watch, which obtained documentation of the hundreds of pages of FBI memos, training documents and other paperwork that the agency purged on the demands of Muslims.
“The FBI is rewriting history in order to help al-Qaida,” said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “This shows that the law enforcement agency is in need of serious top-to-bottom reform.”
Fitton said a lesson learned from the Boston Marathon terrorist attack is that the country is less safe when it allows radical Muslim organizations to tell the FBI how to train its agents and do its job.
“The FBI’s purge of so-called ‘offensive’ material is political correctness run amok, and it puts the nation at risk,” he said. “The Obama administration needs to stop putting the tender sensibilities of radical Islamists above the safety of the American people.”
The organization recently released hundreds of pages of documents from the FBI that demonstrate the effort to purge from anti-terrorism training materials and curriculum anything that a number of unidentified “subject matter experts” deemed “offensive” to Muslims.
For example, according to Judicial Watch, one expert insisted that a particular slide in a training program describing the Quran as the teachings of Muhammad be removed or changed.
The reason?
“The Quran is not the teachings of the prophet,” wrote the expert, “but the revealed word of God.”
According to Judicial Watch, another criticism was leveled against a particular article because it “inaccurately argues the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization.”
Also, another document “inaccurately states” that al-Qaida “is responsible for the bombing of the Khobar Towers and that AQ is ‘clearly linked’ to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.”
Judicial Watch got the materials in two deliveries earlier this year following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that was filed last July. The original request for the documents, made March 7, 2012, asked for records regarding a Feb. 8, 2012, meeting that FBI Director Robert Mueller set up with various Muslim organizations.
Judicial Watch wanted “any and all records setting criteria or guidelines for FBI curricula on Islam or records identifying potentially offensive material with in the FBI curricula on Islam.”
Judicial Watch explained: “During the February 8 meeting, Mueller reportedly assured the Islamic groups in attendance that the agency had ordered the removal of presentations and curricula on Islam from FBI offices around the country that were deemed ‘offensive.’ As reported by NPR: ‘The FBI has completed a review of offensive training material and has purged 876 pages and 392 presentations, according to a briefing provided to lawmakers.’”
The Washington Examiner noted that while the Muslim Brotherhood is not on the U.S. State Department’s official list of international terrorist organizations, some of its offshoots, including the Palestinian group Hamas, are.
In fact, Mueller himself has described the Muslim Brotherhood as the inspiration for terror in the U.S. and overseas.
Mueller’s comments came in a 2011 House committee hearing, when he was joined by other Obama administration intelligence and law enforcement officials to discuss the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Brotherhood’s motto is: “Allah is our objective. The prophet is our leader. The Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
The Muslim critics also didn’t like a statement in the FBI training material that “young male immigrants of Middle Eastern appearance” fit a terrorist profile. Another document, the objected, “seems to conflate ‘Islamic militancy’ with ‘terrorism.’”
The FBI also acted on a claim from one of its “experts” that the anti-terror training needs to accommodate “the current political context.”
It’s just the latest example of the Obama administration’s accommodation of Muslims, critics say.
The administration also has launched a series of Muslim Outreach Summits so that Muslims can tell federal officials how they better can serve their community.
The administration also is holding educational outreaches to let people know that Internet postings that violate civil rights are subject to federal prosecution.
Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, has scheduled an appearance at an American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee meeting to “provide input on how civil rights can be violated by those who post inflammatory documents targeted at Muslims on social media,” according to the Tullahoma News in Tennessee.
“This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion,” he said. “This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are.”
Killian said everyone needs to understand that Internet postings that violate civil rights are subject to federal jurisdiction.
He asserted that while some Muslims may blow up buildings, hijack airliners and kill thousands, there are terrorists of other religions as well.
Oklahoma City bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols “were both Christians, as was the guy who shot up the Sikh temple” in Wisconsin,” Killian claimed.
The federal strategy made Judicial Watch’s “Corruption Chronicles” feature.
“In its latest effort to protect followers of Islam in the U.S. the Obama Justice Department warns against using social media to spread information considered inflammatory against Muslims, threatening that it could constitute a violation of civil rights,” the organization said.
Judicial Watch noted that the Obama administration already has reached out to personally reassure Muslims that the DOJ is protecting them. In that unprecedented move, Attorney General Eric Holder assured a San Francisco-based group called Muslim Advocates, which urges members not to cooperate with federal investigations, that he is grateful to have Muslims with whom to partner.
The Obama administration also has hired a special Homeland Security adviser, Mohamed Elibiary, who openly supports an Islamist theologian who condemns U.S. prosecutions of terrorists, Judicial Watch said.
In addition, the president has ordered NASA to focus on Muslim diplomacy, and officials with Homeland Security covertly have met with extremist Arab, Muslim and Sikh groups to talk about national security matters.
The State Department lent its weight by sending anti-American imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on a trip to the Middle East for outreach to Muslims.
Explained Judicial Watch: “Over the years, the Obama administration has embarked on a fervent crusade to befriend Muslims by creating a variety of outreach programs at a number of key federal agencies.”
Tullahoma News said Killian wants to let people know about Muslim culture and civil rights laws.
“We want to inform everybody about what the law is, but more importantly, we want to provide what the law means to Muslims, Hindus and every other religion in the country,” he said.
“It’s why we came here in the first place,” he continued. “In England, they were using Christianity to further their power in government. That’s why the First Amendment is there.”
WND reported last week on the “Muslim Outreach Summits.”
WND initially discovered documents referring to the Muslim summits while examining a U.S. Department of Education procurement of data-gathering and report-writing services.
The services are specific to information being assembled by the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, or WHIAAPI, which Obama created via executive order in 2009.
Upon closer inspection, however, WND learned that the Education Department explicitly will direct the selected contractor to chronicle findings and recommendations gleaned from the Muslim Outreach Summits.
The White House views this year’s venues as an extension of a previous outreach to “new immigrants and refugees – some of the most underserved in the AAPI community,” according to a document titled “WHIAAPI 2013 Faith-Based and Community Engagement.”
Complementing the prior effort will be the three “regional convenings,” tentatively scheduled June 15 in Chicago, June 22 in San Francisco and June 29 in New York City.
“These cities are main AAPI immigrant hubs and entry points for new immigrants/refugees,” according to a related document, “Questions Received from Vendors: Development and Preparation of the AAPI Annual Report to the President.”
“Each convening with [sic] include panel discussions/workshops with federal officials on key issues impacting the community and also an open-dialogue session to hear directly from the community about issues of concern.”
Sometime after the three Muslim Outreach Summits, the chosen contractor will develop and then present its summary report to the president and to newly appointed WHIAAPI commissioners.
The contracting action – the first of its kind since its inception in 2008 – will help lay the foundation for the initiative’s future work, the document says. » Full Article
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HERE ARE 4 OF THE MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS FROM TUESDAY IRS HEARING
Becky Gerritso of the Wetumpka Tea Party
“I’m not here as a serf or a vassal,” she said, starting to tear up. “I’m not begging my lords for mercy. I’m a born-free American woman, wife, mother, and citizen. And I’m telling my government that you’ve forgotten your place.”
“It’s not your responsibility to look out for my well being and to monitor my speech. It’s not your right to assert an agenda. The post that you occupy exists to preserve American liberty. You’ve sworn to perform that duty and you have faltered.
“I’m not here as a serf or a vassal,” she said, starting to tear up. “I’m not begging my lords for mercy. I’m a born-free American woman, wife, mother, and citizen. And I’m telling my government that you’ve forgotten your place.”
“It’s not your responsibility to look out for my well being and to monitor my speech. It’s not your right to assert an agenda. The post that you occupy exists to preserve American liberty. You’ve sworn to perform that duty and you have faltered.
Becket Adams, TheBlaze — Congress for the second time this week held a hearing on the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups on Tuesday.But unlike previous hearings on the matter, no government official appeared on Tuesday to testify on the IRS’ stifling of grassroots organizations. Instead, the House Ways and Means Committee called on the leaders of six conservative groups that were allegedly targeted by the IRS.
From left, Kevin Kookogey, founder and president, Linchpins of Liberty; Diane Belsom, Laurens County, S.C. Tea Party; John Eastman, chairman, National Organization for Marriage; Karen Kenney, San Fernando Valley, Calif. Patriots; Sue Martinek, Coalition for Life of Iowa; and Becky Gerritson, Wetumpka, Ala. Tea Party. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The lineup of witnesses included John Eastman (National Organization for Marriage), Diane Besom (Laurens County Tea Party), Becky Gerritson (Wetumpka Tea Party), Karen Kenny (San Fernando Valley Patriots), Kevin Kookogey (Linchpins of Liberty), and Sue Martinek (Coalition for Life of Iowa).
Here are four of the most memorable moments from Tuesday’s hearing:
4. It’s the Tea Party’s Fault?
Rep. Jim McDermott (Democrat-Washington) (AP)
Amazingly enough, a few U.S. lawmakers say the IRS scandal could have been avoided if only conservative groups hadn’t applied for tax-exempt status.
Congressman Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) is one such lawmaker:
Jim McDermott: Tea Party Believes They Should 'Be Free Of Any Scrutiny' From The IRS
Unfortunately for McDermott , Rep. Paul Ryan (Republican-Wisconsin) wasn’t about to let him get away with his “blame the victim” strategy:
IRS Hearings: Paul Ryan Nails it !!!!!
3. Standing Tall: ‘I’m a Free-Born American’
Becky Gerritson of the Wetumpka, Ala. Tea Party testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Becky Gerritso of the Wetumpka Tea Party in a moving and passionate speech on Tuesday reminded members of Congress that she is a free American.
“I’m not here as a serf or a vassal,” she said, starting to tear up. “I’m not begging my lords for mercy. I’m a born-free American woman, wife, mother, and citizen. And I’m telling my government that you’ve forgotten your place.”
“It’s not your responsibility to look out for my well being and to monitor my speech. It’s not your right to assert an agenda. The post that you occupy exists to preserve American liberty. You’ve sworn to perform that duty and you have faltered.”
Becky Gerritson gives testimony to Ways and Means Committee
on IRS targeting her Tea Party group
on IRS targeting her Tea Party group
2. The IRS Is in the Business of Protecting Planned Parenthood?
Sue Martinek of Coalition for Life of Iowa, right, accompanied by Karen Kenney, San Fernando Valley, Calif. Patriots, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Sue Martinek, President of the Coalition for Life of Iowa, made some pretty shocking allegations regarding the IRS’ handling of her group.
“In June of 2009, [IRS Agent] Richards told me verbally that we needed to send in a letter with the entire board’s signatures stating that under penalty of perjury we would not picket/protest or organize groups to picket/protest outside of Planned Parenthood,” Martinek said. “Upon receiving such a letter, she indicated that the IRS would allow our application to go through.”
“[T]he IRS continued questioning us,” she continued. “On June 22, 2009, IRS Agent Richards sent us additional written requests, as follows: ‘Please explain how all of your activities, including the prayer meetings held outside of Planned Parenthood are considered educational as defined under 501(c)(3).”
She added, quoting Richards:
Organizations exempt under 501(c)(3) may present opinions with scientific or medical facts. Please explain in detail the activities at the prayer meetings. Also, please provide the percentage of time your organization spends on prayer groups as compared with the other activities of the organization.So, the IRS allegedly asked her group to promise to leave Planned Parenthood alone and requested that they provide details of “prayer meetings”?:
Please explain in detail the signs that are being held up outside of Planned Parenthood and explain how they are considered educational.
Ways and Means Testimony of Coalition for Life of Iowa President Sue Martinek
1. Serious Accusations
Dr. John Eastman, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage.
John Eastman, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, accused the IRS of intentionally leaking confidential donor information to groups hostile to his organization.
“This just smells and I hope this committee gets to the bottom of it,” he said, adding that his group had “identified that [the leaked information] came from within the IRS.”
The National Organization for Marriage’s “forensic” specialists were able to strip layers from the document and discovered that “the original document that was posted had originated from within the IRS,” Eastman said.
He also said the document has “internal IRS stamps,” which “only exist within the IRS.”
“You can imagine our shock and disgust over this,” he added. “We jealously guard our donors.” » Full Article
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SCOTUS: DNA CAN BE TAKEN EVEN IF YOU ARE WRONGFULLY ARRESTED
Truth Lives Here
“So Bad, So Bad, So Bad, So Bad.”
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled yesterday that police can take DNA from people they arrest and enter it into a national database. They can do this even if the person is wrongfully arrested.
U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights - Amendment 4
'Search and Seizure'
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Shockingly, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled yesterday that police can take DNA from people they arrest and enter it into a national database. They can do this even if the person is wrongfully arrested.
“Taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court’s five-justice majority.
In a scathing dissent, Justice Scalia said, “Make no mistake about it: because of today’s decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason.”
“So bad,” Glenn said. “So bad, so bad, so bad.”
Ted Cruz has denounced the decision. He said in a statement, “Today’s unfortunate U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Maryland v. King, by a vote of 5-4, expands government power, invades our liberty, and undermines our constitutional rights.”» Full Article With Comments
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Indeed, the SCOTUS is almost as anti-american anymore as Obama is. Remember the national bio-metrics database? Here we have it handed unto the administration via the back door and on a golden plate. » GlennBeck.com
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REMEMBERING NON-REVISED HISTORY: JUNE 05, 2013
John Jay
The First Supreme Court Chief Justice of the United States (1789–95)
A Founding Father of the United States
President of the Continental Congress (1778–79)
Signer of the Treaty of Paris
Minister (Ambassador) to Spain, France
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
A Founding Father of the United States
President of the Continental Congress (1778–79)
Signer of the Treaty of Paris
Minister (Ambassador) to Spain, France
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
On 'One Nation Under God'
Biography
John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, signer of the Treaty of Paris, and the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–95).Jay was born into a wealthy family of merchants and government officials in New York City. He became a lawyer and joined the New York Committee of Correspondence and organized opposition to British rule. He joined a conservative political faction that, fearing mob rule, sought to protect property rights and maintain the rule of law while resisting British violations of human rights. » Full Bio
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This Day In History 290 Years Ago
June 5, 1723
Adam Smith, Author of The Wealth of Nations,
is Baptized in Scotland
Adam Smith, Author of The Wealth of Nations,
is Baptized in Scotland
The American Revolutionary War
On this day in 1723, Adam Smith, future author of The Wealth of Nations (1776), a critique of the mercantilist model of trade in the British empire, is baptized in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
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While traveling and tutoring, Smith began writing The Wealth of Nations. In 1767, Smith returned to London just as Lord Townshend was imposing his revenue acts, which taxed goods the American colonies were only allowed to import from Great Britain--including the famed tax on tea. These types of trade relationships were the essence of mercantilism. All goods had to pass through and be taxed by the mother country on their way to and from the colonies. It was precisely this sort of restraint on trade that Adam Smith refuted as detrimental to the wealth of nations in his treatise, completed in 1776. The colonists' objections became a rebellion on July 4 of the same year; their treatise was entitled the Declaration of Independence. » Full Article
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