Monthly Archives: September 2018

FATHER, FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THE DO…


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Those words of Jesus, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” are germane to today’s Democratic Party and their nonsensical pursuit of Socialism, Open Borders, Abortion on Demand, and shredding the Constitution.  I cannot believe they truly understand the “can of worms” and the “demons” they are unleashing in their pursuit, so I pray that prayer.  However, if they know and are doing it willfully and intentionally I have a different prayer as identified in Romans 16:20.  I pray, “Lord, our God of Peace, please crush Satan under your feet and do it quickly.”

Some time back, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) wrote an article for VOX explaining the movement’s objectives which included ENDING CAPITALISM and BRINGING ABOUT RADICAL CHANGE TO AMERICA.  An extension of Barack Obama’s desire to “fundamentally transform” this Republic into something other than the Constitutional Republic established by our Founders and Framers.  That article and declaration, in normal times, would not elicit much notice coming from a fringe party, but in today’s political climate, it demands notice.  WHY?  Because people within the Democratic circle including Bernie Sanders, and their new proclaimed face of the party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez touting the virtues of Socialism it bears watching.  Include in that number the DNC announcing that Ocasio-Cortez is the new face of the party, it bears watching.  Polls have been released that indicate that 57% of Democrats prefer Socialism to Free Market Capitalism yet only a smidgen of them can define either, it makes it important to note.

Bernie Sander’s brand of Socialism in 2016 caused me to take note of the incredible support he received from Democrats across the board and had it not been for the corruption of the DNC and the Clinton campaign he might have won the nomination and possibly the election.  THAT MAKES IT SIGNIFICANT and worthy of watching.  The VOX article was a ‘manifesto’ of sorts for the Socialist and is being embraced by the Democrats on a national level.  Megan Day, a member of the DSA took exception to the MSM attempting to identify the Democratic Socialism as simply a rebranding of New Deal Liberalism.  She openly declared that unlike the New Deal Liberalism the Socialist want to END CAPITALISM!  She stated, “Social democratic reforms like Medicare-for-all are, in the eyes of DSA, part of the long, uneven process of building that support, and eventually overthrowing capitalism.”  WOW!  No more hiding, I guess, and we will see how this plays out in November and beyond.  I pray that America will reject Socialism regardless of what package it is wrapped in and recognize the inherent dangers and failures of that product.

Ocasio-Cortez expressed an amazingly illogical and dangerous ideology, “capitalism has not always existed in the world, and it will not always exist in the world.”  In their attempt to win acceptance of Socialism, Sanders, Day, and Ocasio-Cortez must use the tactic that engenders them to basic human greed and envy – Redistribution of Wealth.  They have for a very long time, attempted to paint anyone with money as being inherently evil, uncaring, and failing to pay their ‘fair share.’  They ignore the reality that those at the upper echelon of the tax bracket pay the lion’s share of all taxes and are the providers of jobs for those on the lower end of the spectrum.  The idea that someone will “take from the rich and give to the poor”, a Robin Hood of sorts, appeals to human greed, envy, laziness, and a sense of entitlement.

Not only do the Socialist and many of the Leftist Democrats want to end Capitalism they have little regard for our American Republican System of Government or any Democracy for that matter.  In fact, there are hints from this bunch that they are going to drop “democratic” from their name and simply be known as Socialist or American Socialist.  Ms. Day, is a writer for the New York-based Socialist magazine called “Jacobin”.  Why is that significant?  The Jacobins were the most violent and radical political group of the French Revolution.  They were led by Maximilien Robespierre and executed anyone their so-called Committee of Public Safety deemed insufficiently loyal.  HOW DOES THAT GRAB YOU?  I hope it grabs you by the neck, shakes you and causes you to wake up and say NO, NO, NO!

History indicates that almost 40,000 people were killed by these self-proclaimed enforces of societal safety.  They purged those who disagreed with them or posed a threat.  I hope that is sounding eerily familiar and you connect some dots as to what is transpiring, or the groundwork is being laid.  The play, “Dialogues of the Carmelites” is a moving true story of the Carmelite nuns who refused to denounce Christ at the peak of the Reign of Terror. The French Revolution was essentially anti-Catholic and many churches were closed and reopened as “Temples of Reason” presenting the Jacobin propaganda.  The nuns were beheaded and just before the guillotine dropped, they displayed the power of God’s love by singing hymns and renewing their vows.  I am not Catholic but am moved by anyone naming the name of Christ demonstrating that resolve, faith, and commitment.  Another account in Christopher Hibbert’s “The French Revolution” the Jacobins charged a woman with the heinous crime of weeping at her husband’s execution and was forced to lay several hours with the blade of the guillotine suspended over her dropping her husband’s blood on her before they killed her.

History records that the Jacobins eventually turned on their leader, Robespierre and executed him.  I guess it is possible that this tyrannical despotic group known as the DSA with followers such as Bernie Sanders, Margaret Day, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Keith Ellison might find they implode as the pressure to fulfill their promises caves in on them like an old mine shaft.  All, I can say for certain is that if America is so foolish, misguided, ignorant, and/or greedy as to elect Socialist to Congress or the White House, we deserve what we get.  NO, I will never vote for them and pray that you will not either.  However, if the Never Trump Crowd, and the Republicans that choose to stay home because they don’t like the candidate or Trump succeed in their efforts allowing the Leftist to reclaim power, we just might get that very thing.  Hate me if you please.  Call me any name that you find in your vocabulary, but know please THINK ABOUT IT.  Consider the Cost of Withholding your Vote and by that action allowing the Leftists to regain control.  My prayer is simple – WAKE UP AMERICA!  My hope is clear – A CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT where the Rule of Law is followed, and the Constitution kept intact.

May God bless you and God bless America!

TWO WARS IN AMERICA…


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No, I am not referring to Iraq and Afghanistan, I am on a completely different front and realize that some will call me an alarmist in what I will address, but I believe it is current reality and a future danger.  We had a literal Civil War in America between 1861 and 1865 and from all historical accounts, it was horrific and incredibly divisive.  In fact, for some, it still divides today and that is tragic.  We have had more than a few volatile civil uprisings in America since that war including some during the 1960s that pressed us dangerously close to a full-blown race war and had the potential of becoming a second Civil War.  Thankfully, they did not escalate to that point.  In more modern times, since the election of Donald J. Trump, there have been groups such as Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, ANTIFA, and Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.  It has, largely, been one-sided but the heat of anger, the fire of animosity, and blindness of prejudice are being exploited by those who want to inflict a ‘death blow’ to our Constitutional Republic, the United States of America.  Sadly, we are anything but UNITED and have ceased to be “One Nation under God, indivisible…”  Some would argue that is because there is not “liberty and justice for all.”  But, those arguments are frequently rooted in a blind bias, prejudice, and hate rather than concrete realities.  That makes the issue even more dire.  When facts and truth take a back seat to prejudice and hate, there is usually no resolution short of bloodshed.  THAT I DO NOT WANT!  I RESIST THAT with all that is within me.

The Two Wars of which I refer are The Coming Civil War and the Spiritual War that is now being waged in my beloved America.  The original anarchist, rebel, and protester was Lucifer (the devil or satan) himself.  From the time of his eviction from heaven and fall to the earth, he has waged war against the children of God, God, and everything right, good, and moral.  He is, as is reflected in numerous passages of Scripture (Genesis 3:4-5; John 8:44; 2 Corinthians 11:3, 14; Ephesians 6:11; Revelation 12:9; Revelation 19:20 to list a few).  Paul warned in 2 Timothy 3:13, “But evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”  The scripture of the blind leading the blind comes to mind because in this hour we are witnessing the deceived deceiving.  No wonder both Jesus and Stephen could pray, “Father, forgive them…”  Jesus added, “for they know not what they do.”  You may not believe in God and consider those of us who do, as fools, but ONE DAY, you will come face to face with the reality that GOD IS.  It may come after you have experienced the destruction of Evil and suffered loss beyond your imagination.

I believe the devil, the great deceiver, has gained inroads into the minds of men and women, most of whom would be appalled at the idea they are being used by the devil.  They have been indoctrinated by the media, politicians, Hollywood, and most of all through our Educational System.  That tool became readily available to the destroyers because WE SLEPT when we should have been CAREFULLY WATCHING.  Parents for the past several generations placed unwarranted trust in the Educational System and failed to carefully filter their children’s education or indoctrination.  NO, I am not declaring that ALL TEACHERS are bad, they assuredly are not.  BUT I AM declaring that the objective of far too many within the System has been to reshape the thinking of generations and thereby achieve the stated objective of Barack Obama, “fundamental transformation” of America.  Not only have parents been negligent but so has the CHURCH or more specifically the CLERGY.  Much of the Church world bought what the liberal, progressive, globalist was selling and took a “hands-off” approach to matters of government or politics.  We sat silently as the curriculum shifted to a revisionist position, stripped our schools of any offering of moral foundation and biblical truth.  Too often, we lamented the change to our congregations but offered no clear-cut warnings or pathways to combat the atrocity we were witnessing, and our children have been deceived.

It is my firm belief that without divine intervention we are witnessing the demise of our Republic.  YES, I believe it is critical that we get out the vote, go to the polls and cast our ballots, inundate our elected officials with email, text, faxes, letters, and phone calls expressing our desires.  YES, I believe it is vital that we speak to everyone we have any influence with and to those with whom there is a door of opportunity, presenting truth, facts, and reality with civility.  YES, I believe it is imperative that we demonstrate a willingness to listen and have an open discussion regarding issues, problems, and solutions.  BUT, I do not believe that we currently have the level of involvement, enlightenment on a large enough scale, or the manpower to stem the tide of evil WITHOUT God’s divine intervention.  That may sound “doom and gloom” to some, and all I say rejected as a result.  BUT, please, please, please, HEAR ME – I believe that we win this war if we follow some basic guidelines.

First, those who are given to prayer must become INTERCESSORS.  Without prayer, we will find that our efforts are like rain on a tin roof, noise with little substance.  Prayer energizes with supernatural strength, endurance, courage, and wisdom like few other things we can do.  Therefore, the first step in turning this tide is PRAYER!

Second, we must INVEST ourselves in the war.  We will not do that until we fully believe there is a war and grasp the intensity and reality of that war.  I declare to you, that if the Left succeeds in the Mid-Term Elections they will immediately come after your Liberties and Inalienable Rights including Freedom of Speech, Right to Keep and Bear Arms, your Right to follow the Convictions of your Faith and demand at the threat of prison or worse unless you COMPLY.  I sometimes feel that my warnings are falling from my lips or my pen and going no further than my lips or the page upon which they have been written.  You are not simply becoming involved in politics but the Fight for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.  This is the Second American Revolution and could become the Second Civil War if the spiritual forces of darkness are successful in heating the pot to the point of boiling over.

Third, we must RETURN to our founding principles and our national moral moorings.  Parents, you must reassert your parental authority and assume your parental responsibilities.  You are mandated by God to oversee the upbringing of your children.  In fact, Proverbs 22:6 instructs parents to “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it.”  That is not the government, the educational system, or the community’s job IT IS YOURS!  Likewise, Pastors, you must once again become “Watchmen on the Walls” and SOUND THE ALARM when there is a danger.  You must not only inform of the danger but detail a strategy and provide a shelter for the people to run to and to stand firm against the flood tide of darkness that is coming.  NO, we are not to hide behind the four walls of the church but take up the armor and weapons of spiritual warfare and STAND using those weapons to pull down strongholds.  Again, some will take exception to this strategy, but it is what I believe and if it resonates with you embrace it and join those of us fighting for America and for Faith, Family, and Freedom!

I do not vote for the Republicans simply because I believe them to necessarily be godly or of impeccable moral character.  I vote for them because when I view the platform of the Democratic Party, I find it impossible to reconcile my faith or my patriotism with that party platform.  If it were only the issue of abortion, that would be enough to repel me and prevent me from voting for the Democrat, but if you want any hope of limited government, secure borders, Freedom of Speech, Religion, and the Right of Self-Defense, you cannot vote Democrat.  If you have any desire to see the federal bureaucracies brought to a place of accountability you cannot vote Democrat.  I pray that the blindness that has afflicted many will be healed and the scales and blinders removed.  My prayer has been for a long time, “God expose the corruption in Washington.” 

Please forgive me for this lengthy article which some will call Roy’s Rant, but please take to heart the dangers we are now facing in America and join the fight for freedom.  America needs her patriots more today than possibly anytime in history.  WHAT IS YOUR FREEDOM WORTH?

God bless you and God bless America!

WHAT ARE THE THREATS FOR AMERICA and OUR REPUBLIC???


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Clearly, I cannot name them all or do an exhaustive treatise on every threat that our Republic faces but I would like to list a few and hope they will resonate with you and cause you to step up your involvement in the fight for Faith, Family, and Freedom.  If I succeed in securing that response, I have been highly successful and achieved a much needed and greatly desired objective.

Someone said, “Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean that somebody is not out to get you.”  That is funny but incredibly accurate, especially in today’s political climate and condition of ‘resistance’ and ‘agitation’.  America has faced some incredibly ominous threats in her short history since our founding in 1776.  Throughout the 19th century we faced threats from the nation from which we won our freedom, Great Britain and in the 20th century we faced grave threats from the Nazis, Imperial Japan, and the nuclear-armed Soviets not to mention the threats in the latter part of the 20th and thus far in the 21st centuries from Islamic Terrorism and Despotic Regimes lead by deranged heads including Iran and North Korea but dare not omit the Peoples Republic of China.  The external threats are very real and cannot be ignored but are they the most serious threats we face in this hour? 

I believe that the internal threats are being coupled with the external threats somewhat like adding glycerol to concentrated nitric and sulfuric acids to form nitroglycerin a highly explosive mixture.  Political Correctness, Toxic Liberalism, Progressivism, Socialism, Racism, and the intense Hatred that is now being boiled in the Caldron of public relationships and politics is about to boil over and chaos ensue that is impossible to contain.

What are some of the threats facing America as the Free Constitutional Republic?  You would have to include the Politicians who are greedy, duplicitous, and corrupt, Radical Islam, the Fake News or the MSM that is nothing more than a propaganda arm of Liberalism, and Identity Politics including Political Correctness.  You must also add, the assault on Christian values, the Second Amendment, the Opioid epidemic, the decimating of our military under the former administration, Illegal Immigration, and Education.  But, I have become convinced that the single greatest threat to our Constitutional Republic and our Form of Government is APATHY or INDIFFERENCE.  That is not a new condition and one that I hope is being eliminated but I continue to meet people who tell me, “I don’t worry about politics, I just leave that to the politicians.”  SERIOUSLY?  Would you leave the care of your children to a known pedophile?   Would you leave an alcoholic in charge of the local pub?  Would you leave a rapist in charge of the dressing room of the girl’s gym?  Would you leave a serial killer in charge of the local gun store?  HEAVEN FORBID! 

Leaving Politics to Politicians would be like leaving the rules of family life and discipline to your pre-teen and teenagers.  Would you leave the bank funds in the hands of a habitual gambler or undisciplined shopper?  There are polls and surveys available for viewing today that suggest that almost 70% of all Americans admit to losing sleep worrying over their finances and potential retirement woes.  Yet, those same Americans find time to recreate, work, follow their hobbies but ALMOST NO TIME for Politics?  If you understand that Politics and the result of the actions of Politicians affects our bottom line and every other detail of life, you will realize that it is sheer insanity to attempt to extract yourself from the Political.

The Educational Threat is very real and foreboding yet often ignored.  We (collectively) have contented ourselves with allowing the Educators to shape our children’s thinking, philosophy, and ideologies.  That is disastrous, and we are paying a very high price and that price will result in the loss of Liberty and Freedom if we do not wake up and become involved in the political.  The Progressive Liberal Leftists on the Democratic side of the aisle know the importance of the Educational System.  Unfortunately, we have become too accustomed to a microwave world and taking the easy road.  We have, too often, failed to become involved in the curriculum being taught our children and not paid enough attention to the moral values or lack thereof they are being taught in school.  Hillary Clinton once said, “It takes a village to raise a child.”  That embraces the view of the Leftists that the government knows more and better how to raise our children that we the parents.  That is contrary to the biblical view and the view that Americans have held for hundreds of years.  The basic responsibility of our children is us, the parents.

A caller called into the Rush Limbaugh show shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated and said, “You have Trump for a short time; we have your children (then broke out in a maniacal laugh).”  I find that so disturbing I can hardly contain my anger and frustration.  For decades our high school students have been taught little to no history and even less patriotism.  We have all seen the street interviews where young people (and some not so young) which demonstrate the complete ignorance regarding basic historical facts that most of us learned in elementary school decades ago.  One of the greatest dangers our Republic has been and is an uneducated and uninformed public who then are charged with electing those who will serve in Congress.

I don’t have time to detail the dangers of Illegal Immigration, the Homeless problem, and the increasing violence in many of our larger cities under the governance of Liberal Leftists Democrats.  San Francisco now has funded “poop patrols” to pick up the feces left on the streets by the homeless.  Los Angeles is spending almost ½ Billion dollars on the homeless and Los Angeles County alone plans to spend almost $400 Million.  Violent Crime is reaching an epidemic level in cities like Chicago where almost 700 were killed by homicide in 2017 and thus far in 2018, almost 400 have already been documented.  Gun control is being pushed by the leftists, but Chicago has some of the most stringent gun laws on the books of any city in the world and is at the top of the list for gun violence.  The Leftist have no clue how to deal with the problem because it is a heart and head problem, not a gun problem.  It is a moral and spiritual problem and so long as there is the continued assault on Bible-based morality and the family while ignoring the real problem, the human condition it will only grow worse.

With the Main Stream Media, Hollywood, the Activist, and Leftist Politicians waging 24/7/365 war on this President, everything Conservative and Constitutional any hope of a resolution is remote, at best.  It is important for people to be INFORMED but dangerous for them to be INDOCTRINATED with a twisted and distorted version of Truth and Facts.  So long as there is avarice and greed in the human heart and politicians are allowed to prey on the clueless, enslave the weak, and distort reality we will continue down the road to destruction.  Can we Prevent the apparent Doom and Destruction?  YES!  We can, BUT ONLY IF we wake up and become involved at every level of government and life.  From the School Board to the White House we have a responsibility and duty to be informed and involved.  Government affects our Lives, therefore it is our RESPONSIBILITY to oversee the government and fire them when they don’t do what we hired them to do.

Will, you wake up and join me in this Fight for Faith, Family, and Freedom and VOTE NO ON THE LEFTIST in November?  I pray that you will and if you do we can begin the process of Restoring the Republic to its lofty and rightly place.  

 God bless you and God bless America is my desire and prayer!

TRANSPARENCY – Democrat Transparency???


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I am angered and amused by the hypocrisy of the Liberal Leftists on the Democrat side of the political ledger.  They are clamoring for TRANSPARENCY with Judge Kavanaugh and talking about the great travesty of our political and constitutional system if EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT connected to him in any manner is not revealed.  Before you scream, “What’s wrong with that?” I ask you to turn back the pages of history just a few years and consider the position of the Democrats.  For example, Senator Durbin you are attempting to make it sound like not having every single document regarding Judge Kavanaugh the end of the world.  However, your position regarding Benghazi, Hillary’s emails from an unsecured server to a foreign government was possibly nothing more than her signing up for Yoga. I’m not sure what foreign government she would have needed to contact for that purpose, but alas that was the position of the Left.  NOW, it is the difference between life and death if EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT is not brought to the light and the time required by the Left to peruse them would be years, not months.  THERE YOU HAVE IT, that is the plan – DELAY, DELAY, DELAY. If the Democrats had a history of TRANSPARENCY I could accept their diatribe and rhetoric now, but they have not been.

Senator Durbin had the audacity to say to Judge Kavanaugh, “If you believe that your public-service record is one that you can stand behind and defend, I hope that at the end of this you will ask this Committee to suspend until we are given all the documents, until we have the time to review them, and then we resume this hearing.  What I’m saying to you is basically this: if you will trust the American people, they will trust you.  But if your effort today continues to conceal and hide documents, it raises a suspicion,” Durbin said.  “For the sake of this nation, for the sanctity of the Constitution that we both honor, step up.  Ask this meeting, this gathering, to suspend until all the documents of your public career are there for the American people to see.”  HYPOCRISY is too kind a word, but I don’t use profanity so it’s the best I can muster for Senator Durbin and the Leftist howling that is taking place.  His qualifications are not their focus but his UNWILLINGNESS to be a Leftist Political Activist on the Court that troubles them.  His stance on the Constitution that is similar to Justice Antonin Scalia is what troubles them.  His belief that Judges are not players, but umpires troubles them.  In short, he is not one of them, so he is unacceptable and unqualified in their minds.  Their hypocrisy over how they treated Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the nominees of the former president reflect their true view of transparency.

Now regarding the much-discussed New York Times’ release of the so-called White House Senior Official Memo I have several observations.  First, if this a real memo from a real person who is a Senior Member of the Trump White House, the person is a liar.  Before you lose your cookies over that statement let me explain.  That person, presuming it is a man, if he is, in fact, a Senior Member of the Trump Staff, he had to LIE to the President regarding his political position.  If you are okay with a person doing that to gain an inside track to shipwreck this president, then you are devoid of the very things you accuse Trump of lacking – Character and Integrity!  Get mad at me if you please, and unfriend me on Facebook, stop reading my blogs, and don’t give me the time of day, that’s your choice.  I do not believe that “the end justifies the means.”  This person acknowledged themselves as being part of the ‘resistance’ and ‘Deep State.’  If you can applaud the desire to unconstitutionally overthrow a president in a political coup then you need to pause and rethink your position.  Do you really want to open that can of worms?

I do not believe any president would employ a person that is adamantly against him as a Senior Member of his staff.  That would be suicidal politically, and I don’t believe any of our former presidents wanted to commit political suicide.  Second, the assertions or allegations are laughable and could have been written by anyone and would not require Insider Information.  They are generalities, for the most part, and parroting of the Liberal Leftists talking points.  The president is painted as being ‘amoral’ with no discernible moorings to ‘first principles.’  The assertion that he is anti-trade and anti-democratic is amusing.  He has helped trade and if anti-democratic is being Anti the Leftist Democrats I can buy that be if the assertion is that he is Anti our system of government that is absurd.  This so-called memo brings up the favorite song of the Democrats regarding Trump and would sing that song about any Republican President who did not dance to their tune, THE 25TH AMENDMENT.  The lines that are the most troubling are, “Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So, we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.”   That last sentence is more than a little troubling it is alarming!  The claim that their effort to overturn and overthrow a sitting president is not the work of the Deep State but the work of the Steady State is astounding.  Steady State?  This individual, if he/she exists, deems him/herself as the guardian of democracy and the Real America resisting Tyranny and like Mighty Mouse, rushing to save the day.

The Democrats love this because it is a feeble attempt to paint themselves as the true patriots and guardians of liberty who are willing to work with the other side to achieve what is best for America.  Seriously?  Look at how they are dealing with Judge Kavanaugh, and how they have addressed every item the Republicans have presented to Congress.  WILLING TO WORK TOGETHER?  In what world?  When have they done that?  They think bipartisanship is the Republicans signing off on what the Democrats want and even then, they trash the GOP and all of us who do not vote Democrat as more evil than Lucifer himself.  This memo then takes a shot at the millions of us who voted for Donald Trump saying, “The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.”   SERIOUSLY?  Who has stripped the discourse of civility?  Who, The Democrats, the Activist, the Resistance, that’s who!

In my view, and that of some Constitutional Scholars and Legal Experts that I have talked to and read their opinions, this memo constitutes or borders on TREASON.  It is an attempt to overthrow a legitimate president and is a direct assault on our System of Government.  You may disagree, and that’s your privilege but before you call me names, look at the good things that have happened in the first two years of this president and the fact that this was a legitimate election!  The Economy alone should be enough to be thankful Hillary Clinton was not allowed to continue the destructive economic policies of Barack Obama.  There is more, much more, but I will leave it at that.  November 6, 2018, is a day that may well live in Infamy for America.  What we do on that day will determine our Republic’s future.

God bless you and God bless America!

MY COUNTRY, ‘TIS OF THEE…


Blog Post 3 - My Country

The classic written by Samuel Francis Smith in 1831, begins, “My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty…”  It speaks of the land where our fathers died, the land of the pilgrim’s pride and called for Freedom to ring from every mountainside.  It is a song that embodies patriotism and love for America and recognizes God’s hand in our Liberty and Freedom.  It recognizes that Liberty and Freedom are the work of God through inspiration in the hearts of men and women everywhere.  This song, calls upon the Almighty God of Heaven to PROTECT us and to let our land long be bright with Freedom’s Holy Light.   WHAT A PRAYER through song! 

Today, we have politicians, Hollywood liberals, the Media, and Pro-Athletes using such vitriolic language and rhetoric they are inciting violence and fanning the flames of hate to epic proportions.  At the same time, they claim they are the ones who are trying to stamp out the fires of discord.  I suppose they believe they are fighting fire with fire, but the problem is the incessant diatribe is coming from the Left not those on the Right.  I expect to be attacked for that statement, but for the most part, those on the Right have not engaged in the vitriolic nastiness and malevolence of the Left.  Yes, there are some on the Right who want to dive into the same cesspool and wallow therein, but most of us do not want to stoop that low and would prefer an open and honest conversation about the issues.  We will not cave to the demands of Toxic Liberalism and give up our rights or kowtow to the whims of the so-called resistance, but we will discuss the issues and seek viable solutions.

Those on the Left are demanding censorship of any opinion not consistent or compatible with their own while at the same time insisting they are the champions of Freedom of Speech.  If Speech is not Free for everyone it is Free for no one!  If we are to defend the 1st Amendment, then everyone on both sides of the aisle MUST know what it provides.  The 1st Amendment states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”  It is my belief that far less than 50% know what is provided in the 1st Amendment of our American Constitution and therefore cannot argue for or against it intelligently.

Congress has no business in matters of religion UNLESS the practice of that religion endangers the populace and those practicing it.  The Framers and Founders sought to ensure that the Government, unlike that of Great Britain did not establish a national church.  They wanted everyone to have the liberty to follow their conscience and worship according to the dictate of their heart.  They wanted churches to be free to proclaim their faith and that would include churches proclaiming a faith other than Christianity.  We cannot censor anyone without opening the door to censoring everyone!  It is those religions that seek to physically harm or enslave everyone not adhering to their doctrine and method of government and life that require closer scrutiny and may require limitations due to the dangers they present to other citizens.  EVERYTHING must be done PEACEABLY.   Those on the Left have demonstrated a desire to coerce people of the Christian Faith to cede their beliefs and accommodate beliefs and lifestyles that violate their conscience.  That is wrong and violates the Constitution.  Those same people are willing to all the followers of religions such as Islam to refuse services when it violates their doctrinal beliefs.  That is more than hypocritical it is a direct assault on the 1st Amendment Rights of Christians and IT IS WRONG!

Congress MUST NEVER abridge our Right to our own opinion and the expression thereof publicly or privately.  No, it does not allow for anyone, members of Congress, Activist Groups, the MSM, Hollywood, or any other group to incite riots and call for the physical harm of those disagreeing with their ideology.  That is happening today with the continual calls for violence against any of the supporters of Donald Trump and the Conservative agenda.  They are excused and even invoke the name of God claiming to be messengers of the Creator when their actions and words are converse of the teachings of the Bible, especially the New Testament.

There is, in my view, nothing that President Trump or anyone on the Right can do that would appease the proponents of Toxic Liberalism.  Nothing short of death would appease them and then that would probably only be satisfactory if the death was the result of violence and much pain was incurred in the process.   The song, ‘My Country, ‘tis of Thee’ gives us a pathway and identifies a mindset required for us to have HEALING IN AMERICA!  During the 8 years of Barack Obama, many of us were terribly distraught and discouraged about the direction of our Republic.  There was not the immediate and continued demand that he be harmed, his family harmed, nor the expressed desire for the economy to fail as there is today.  I am stunned at how many express their desire and willingness for America’s economy to collapse simply to harm the President.  What about the millions of Americans that would also suffer?  How is that justifiable and how can that be ascribed as righteous?  IT IS DIABOLICAL.

Let’s look back at the song and consider what it offers and calls for:

  1. My country, ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, from ev’ry mountainside Let freedom ring!

[What a powerful and wonderful attitude and expression.  From every mountainside – LET FREEDOM RING!  But, for Freedom to Ring throughout the Land it must ring for all.]

  1. My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills. My heart with rapture thrills like that above.

[The Love of Country and the awareness of her beauty and provision should prompt everyone to desire and demand that Freedom for All be desired and acquired.]

  1. Let music swell the breeze and ring from all the trees Sweet freedom’s song; Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong. 

[Freedom is sweet music but hate deafens the hearing.  Freedom’s song must be sung by all and for all or it not sung at all.]

  1. Our fathers’ God, to thee, Author of liberty, to thee we sing; Long may our land be bright with freedom’s holy light. Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King!

[This verse identifies what our Founders and the Framers alluded to time and again, the Provision and Providence of God.  Our Rights come from Him, not from government.  Therefore, it is imperative that we cease the vitriolic rhetoric and accept the truth that EVERYONE has certain inalienable rights.]

We can disagree politically, socially, morally, economically, intellectually, and spiritually but we MUST NEVER seek to silence all opposition, THAT IS NOT AMERICA it is DESPOTISM.   I believe that those following the Toxicity of Liberalism expressed in the National Democratic Party are ANTI all that America stands for and I oppose them and will VOTE NO on the Democrats in November.  My Country, ‘tis of thee, I will stand and defend you so long as I draw breath.

God bless you and God bless America!

THE IRREVOCABLE DIVIDE IN AMERICA…


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Yes, I said it, IRREVOCABLE DIVIDE.  I wish I did not believe that were the case but barring divine intervention, America will never be united again because of the unbridled hate, the desire for “my way”, and the diabolical agenda being levied against this Republic.  The hate, the so-called “resistance”, the Never Trump coalition, and the fruit of apathy by too many for too long is reaching a crescendo.  Those adamantly on the side of Dump Trump, in the rank and file, seem to honestly believe the narrative of the Media, the political establishment, and those funding the uprisings.  I don’t want to say they are “ignorant” but UNINFORMED and because of their fondness for the Leftists in Power and their willingness to believe what they read, hear, or see from the MSM, Politicians, and Hollywood they are blind followers of the Leftist Pied Piper.  They will wake up, but I fear that it will too late when that transpires.  There will come a time when they will realize that the “freebies” they were promised comes at a price far beyond what they expected to pay and realize they have become slaves of the state and lament their decision.  They will believe that they were betrayed by both the Right and the Left and that level of distrust will solidify the destruction of the Republic known as the United States of America.

How’s that for ‘gloom and doom’?  I’m sorry to sound so negative but UNLESS those of us who believe in God and are given to prayer begin to fervently intercede for the Republic and the Awakening my prediction will become a reality.  I do believe in God and practice prayer and committed long ago to interceding for America and thereby the world.  I would love to see something transpire where cooler heads prevailed, and we could sit at the table of discussion and work through our differences.  Can that materialize?  YES, but only through either a catastrophic disaster that brings everyone to their knees or a divine move of God on the hearts of men and women everywhere.  Ousting the President from the White House will not cool temperatures but result in something akin to a thermonuclear eruption on all sides.  The proponents for his ouster would not be satisfied because they would not get the person they desired in power and those on the defense of the Republic and this President would not be satisfied because of the illegitimate overthrow of a legal election.  The result would be total chaos and the divide would become impossible to span resulting in the dismantling of our Constitutional Republic and splitting this nation into factions.  The chaos would result in an attempt of martial law and the imposition of an iron-fisted government that would give rise to a despotic tyranny that none should desire.

The idea of the total destruction of a “House Divided” was voiced by the Jesus in the Gospels (Mark 3:25; Matthew 12:22-28; Luke 11:17) and referenced in Galatians 5:15, “But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.”  The Psalmist alluded to it in Psalm 133:1, “…Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!”  Are we brothers?  I answer that question with this question, “Are we Americans?”  In the Bible, Jesus asked, “Who is my neighbor?”  He responded in Luke 10 with the story of the Good Samaritan in contrast to the Priest and Levite who ignored the need, but the Samaritan took care of the injured man.  Jesus then asked, “Which of these do you think was neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”  They had no choice but to acknowledge it was the one who showed mercy.  Abraham Lincoln in his address referred to the division of the Civil War and noted the Bible’s declaration in saying, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”  He continued, “I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.  I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided.”  That is my prayer and desire – UNIFICATION!

We may continue to have differences and that is not unhealthy.  We may desire different things, believe differently, and prefer different pathways in life, that is not unhealthy.  We may become agitated and animated in our discussions but if our singular purpose is the betterment of the Republic and the preservation of our Nation we can UNITE.  Your choice of ice cream may be vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, rocky road, or pistachio and that is okay.  I have no problem with differing preferences and applaud working toward convincing others to embrace your ideology but the one thing that must be central is the Constitution.  The Left believes it is an ever-evolving document that evolves with the changing whims of a particular time or majority sentiment.  That would relegate it to becoming the tool of the devious in a Pure Democratic form of government and Majority Rule would render that document meaningless.  However, our Founders and Framers understood this danger and worded the Constitution sufficiently to ward off ‘knee-jerk’ modifications and insisted that we go through the tedious “amendment process” to alter that document.  THANK GOD THEY DID!

No president, no congress, no court has the authority or right to change that document without the “due process” of a Constitutional Amendment which is ratified by Three-Quarters of the states.  Each state regardless of population has an equal voice in the adoption or rejection of the proposed amendment.  That has safeguarded our Union and Republic for over 240 years and it MUST remain the guiding principle of this nation.

If we allow the caldron of hate to reach the boiling point, we will open the door to such calamity and chaos survival as the Free Constitutional Republic may be impossible.  When I try to talk to some on the Left and present documented factual data to back up my argument, they often and usually become agitated and begin yelling and name calling insisting that I am a racist, bigot, and cultist too ignorant to know the truth if it bit me in the butt.  They offer no factual verifiable data to back up their argument and when confronted with examples of the failures of Socialism and Open Borders they stop listening and want to fight.  That will never resolve differences.  The Bible says, “A soft answer turns away wrath.”  But, it also says in Proverbs 14:7, “Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive not in him the lips (or words) of wisdom.”  In the Book of James Chapter Four, we are advised that the source of quarrels is the condition of the heart, selfishness, envy, and greed.  America, I know we can overcome this divide, but we cannot if we are unwilling to allow our anger to be dampened and temper our words with grace and understanding.  Name calling only further escalates emotions and increases the divide.

My simple request is for everyone on both sides of the current political furor to LISTEN without judgment and try to understand where the other person is coming from.  Present your argument civilly, logically, factually, and with the objective of reaching a working solution in which our nation is preserved not divided.  Is that possible?  It is with many and I am meeting more and more people who see the danger and are trying to learn the art of listening without judgment.  That being said, in the current climate, we cannot allow the control of government to be returned to those on the Left who are driven by an agenda that is dangerous for America and rooted in hate.  THAT WOULD BE CATASTROPHIC.  You may feel that I negated all my plea with that statement.  I believe that should the Democrats regain power, at this time, they would fuel the flames of hate and plunge headlong into an agenda that would greatly hinder if not totally destroy our Republic.  I want to have an honest open discussion at all levels and see America once again become, “One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Join me in prayer and in the fight for Faith, Family, and Freedom!   God bless you and God bless America!