I believe in Freedom of Speech for everyone!  Not just those I agree with.  I believe that all of our inalienable rights come from God, not the government!  I believe that everyone has the right to think what they please and express it.  I would hope they find it within themselves to do so civilly, non-personally, and peacefully.  If they do not, then they may find themselves violating the constitution and thereby the laws of the land.

Now to my title, “Kick me to the curb if…”  If what?  Thank you for asking.  In Amos 3:3, we read the declaration, “Can two walk together, except they are agreed?”  That could be a rhetorical question but let me answer it this way before I get to the if of my title.  Can two people walk together?  In Hebrew, the word for walk is ‘yalak’ which conveys the idea of literal walking as well as working and fellowship or pursue the same purposes.  The word together is the Hebrew ‘yachad’ which means united and is from a root word that means to become one.

In that light, the answer is No!  If there is no agreement in purpose, principle, and ideology, two cannot walk together.  However, I believe that the Bible teaches, and life is filled with examples of two people, not in agreement on many things being able to work together up to a point.  So, in that sense, the answer is Yes!

Now to my title statement and the if contained therein.  What is the if that ‘if that transpires’ I suggest or invite you to kick me to the curb or withdraw from me?  The if, cannot be defined in one statement but requires a very extensive list of things political, religious, social, economic, etc.  However, I will only focus on the political but everything I say and do is directly connected to my core convictions of faith.  Therefore, there is and will be overlapping between the political and religious.

If you support Abortion and Abortion on Demand, we have no basis of agreement from which to work or walk together.  I believe that life begins in the womb!  No, I believe that Life begins in the heart of God but as soon as that baby is conceived the purposes of God are set in motion and any violation of that plan is wrong.  I believe that life, all life, is valuable to God and therefore should be to us.  I believe that killing an innocent unborn baby is as reprehensible as any murder.  It is genocide and infanticide and that is foreign to my faith and therefore my politics.  If you believe that abortion is acceptable then you might want to kick me to the curb, because I believe it is murder. 

If you support Gay Marriage and believe that ministers and churches should be forced to perform those ceremonies with no regard for their core religious convictions, we have very little area to find common ground.  Let me make a statement that some may find compromising or confusing, but it is how I see things at this juncture of my life.  If two people of the same sex want to get married in a civil ceremony, they can or should be able to.  I believe their sexual preference and practice are violations of God’s moral and natural law. 

I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.  If you believe that ministers and churches should be legally forced to perform ceremonies for same-sex couples, then you might want to kick me to the curb, because I believe that is a violation of biblical truth and the Constitution.  You have the right to believe what you believe and what you do in your own home in privacy is a matter between you, your conscience, and God but if you drag me into it, you have violated my rights and we have no common ground.

If you support gun control, gun bans, or gun confiscation stripping legal law-abiding citizens of their constitutional and biblical right of self-defense we are on opposite sides of the issue and have no common ground.  The 2^nd Amendment was not written to protect hunting or with hunting in mind.  It had nothing to do with deer but the right and obligation of citizens to defend their homes and families and to give the citizens a means to defend against a rogue tyrannical attempt of the government. 

If you insist on calling the AR-15 an assault rifle, when it is nothing of the sort, we have no common ground.  A military assault rifle has the capability and capacity to be either one bullet at a time or fully automatic.  The AR15s that citizens can legally own do not have that capacity. 

The statistical data does not support the need to ban long guns and the constitution prohibits banning all guns.  We have imposed laws that restrict and limit the ability to own a fully automatic weapon.  Your diatribe, rhetoric, and paranoia will only lead to more crime, more gun violence, and render citizens targets from abuse.  If that is your position, as is held by politicians such as Robert Frances O’Rourke the would-be next governor of Texas, we have no agreement. 

If you believe that it is justifiable to punish people for success and tax citizens into oblivion in order to provide entitlements and freebies for many who are unwilling to work, we have no common ground.  I begrudge no person anything they have earned or inherited.  If you were fortunate or misfortunate enough to have inherited a fortune that is your lot in life.  It is not mine and you owe me nothing. 

However, if I have earned it, developed it, and amassed it, or inherited it, I want no one and no government taking it.  They have no right to even one nickel of it without my consent and without proper representation for that money taken.  If you support the toxic liberal view of taxation, then you might as well kick me to the curb we have no path to walk together.

If you support allowing people who are not legally qualified to vote to cast a ballot in our elections, then we are polar opposites on that spectrum.  A deceased person is not a legitimate voter.  A person that is not a legal citizen is not a legitimate voter.  A person that is underage, a felon, or otherwise disqualified from voting is not a legitimate voter.

A person should be able to vote if they meet the qualifications such as identification and citizenship.  They should be able to vote in their state or precinct ONCE not dozens of times in various precincts or states.  If you find that acceptable then we have no common ground to walk together.

If you believe, as Joe Biden stated, that ANTIFA is just an idea and that the riots, looting, mayhem, and destruction over the past months if not years by BLM and other activist groups is justified, we have no agreement.  If you support the censorship being practiced by Big Tech, we have no common ground.  If you support the repeated attempts to make everything that disagrees with the Liberal Ideological position hate speech and banned, then we have no common ground. 

If you believe that America should coddle despots and terrorists hoping to appease them, then we have no common ground.  If you believe that pastors should be forced to submit their sermons to some government oversight board for approval before preaching, then feel free to kick me to the curb, we are in total disagreement. If you believe that being white is a mortal sin, then kick this Caucasian to the curb.  I will not apologize for my ethnicity.  God decided it and I celebrate who I am, and you should celebrate who you are.

If you believe that citizens must live under a mandate to satisfy the unverified claims of the Climate Change alarmists, then we have no common ground.  If you believe that America should adopt the United Nations Agenda 21 plan and embrace the Sustainable Development ideology, then we have no place for agreement. 

I believe that God created a very sturdy and viable planet and He knew all that we could and would do.  We should be good stewards of the environment, but it is not fickle as the alarmist would have us believe.  Fossil fuels are not the enemy but a blessing from God.

If you believe those things, I do not wish to strip you of the right to believe those things and will discuss them with you so long as that is done civilly, without personal insults and name-calling.  If you resort to insults and call for my destruction physically, emotionally, politically, and economically, we have no basis for agreement.  If you truly want to find common ground, we can discuss the matter but if you want me to cede to your views we cannot continue. 

As long as I have breath, I will stand for Faith, Family, and Freedom!  I will defend your right to enjoy your inalienable rights and not seek to censor you.  I will seek to defeat you at the voting booth and fight for legislation that protects and defends our inalienable rights.  I am willing to allow you to live your life and ask that you to allow me to live mine without having to fight a war to achieve that objective.  I have only scratched the surface and there are dozens of other things I could and probably should include.

God bless you and God bless America!

Yes, I said it! Now let me explain what I am talking about and attempt to explain my fears, concerns, suspicions, and reasons for making that statement.  I have read and heard via various mediums that President Joe Biden fully embraces the fallacious Critical Race Theory.  That is one of his many failures and shortcomings, but 2021 America is filled with things that do not make sense.

The fallacious idea that America is systemically racist is deeply rooted in the misguided arguments that the white majority is subconsciously racist.  Of course, those on the Left and the Woke Crowd who are white are magically exempted.  It is only conservatives and Christians who do not embrace the views of toxic liberalism that are deemed white supremacists.  Since I am both a Christian white male and do not support the Left’s toxic ideology and agenda, I guess that means I am a white supremacist and racist.  I contest that view and declare that I am neither!

I do not feel guilty that I am white male or Caucasian.  I did not choose that, God did, and I do not believe God makes mistakes.  Therefore, I contend that no person, regardless of their ethnicity should be ashamed of their ethnicity or feel guilt for being whatever skin color they are.  God chose my nationality, my parents, and knew me before I was conceived in the womb.  He has a plan for my life, and it is my task to both discover that plan and follow it.  It is my assignment to be obedient to His will and part of that is embracing who I am and demonstrating His love to everyone.  That is no small undertaking.

The Left, including Joe Biden, believe they can eliminate what they call subconscious racism via Executive Order and Legislation.  If there is subconscious racism, it is a heart issue and the only one who can change the heart is God not the government.  It is axiomatic that government cannot eliminate subconscious racism.  On the other hand, it is demonstratable that the government can be incredibly effective in fomenting racism and discord.  History is replete with examples, too numerous to list. 

Sadly, the Democrats and Joe Biden are committed to pressing this flawed theory to the limit and thereby destroy American Constitutionalism and strip from us our Freedoms and Liberties in the name of equality.  Evil in the human heart has never been eradicated by, laws and legislation nor will it ever be!  There is no Utopia on earth, even though groups like BLM, Antifa, the Socialists of the New Democratic Party, and the Oligarchs in Washington attempt to sell that idea or ideal.  It does not nor can it exist!  The Kool-aid is flowing freely, and multitudes are drinking it like a life-giving elixir that will cure all ills.

Government Reprogramming is not a conspiracy theory, it is real.  They have voiced their support of it and if allowed will seek implementation in various forms.  In 1963 Anthony Burgess broached this subject in his novel “A Clockwork Orange.”  If you have not read it, it is a story about an incorrigible criminal who was redeemed using science.  The experiment, in the novel a would be the life case failed miserably. 

His story is a mirror of what the Leftists in America are desirous of pursuing.  They deliberately obfuscate the horror of government reprogramming.  America we are headed down a path that has no U-turns and the dead-end is a precipice that plunges into nothingness and ends in destruction.

In a 2012 essay, Burgess explained what he had tried to express in his fictional novel.  He said, “I had read somewhere that it would be a good idea to liquidate the criminal impulse through aversion therapy; I was appalled…. What I was trying to say was that it is better to be bad of one’s own free will than to be good through scientific brainwashing…. I have been derided and rebuked for expressing my fears of the power of the modern state—whether it be Russia, China, or what we may term Anglo-America—to reduce the freedom of the individual…. The behaviorist approach to man, of which Professor Skinner is a great exponent, sees him moved to various kinds of action by aversive and non-aversive inducements. Given the right positive inducements… we shall all become better citizens, submissive to a state that has the good of the community at heart. We must, so the argument goes, not fear the conditioning. We need to be conditioned in order to save the environment and the race. But it must be conditioning of the right sort….”

The objective supposedly was to secure equal opportunity for everyone.  What I cannot fathom is how people seem incapable of grasping the reality that you do not abolish evil, racism, or any of the other diagnosed ills in America by legislative or executive edict.  The only thing that cures hate, dispels racism and counters evil is LOVE, namely God’s LOVE!  Fear never overcomes hate but engenders and expands it.  Fear breeds distrust and distrust relegates solutions to the shadows.  Love, on the other hand, enables one to find the good and trust others rather than assuming the worst in every situation.

In the COVID-19 pandemic paranoia and panic resulted in what could be called a ‘dark church’ transfer of authority to the secular state and stripped citizens of their rights and power to decide.  I was and still am amazed at how quickly, broadly, and easily Americans yielded their liberties to Big Brother and like docile sheep placed their trust or compliance in the government and its experts.  I am amazed because many if not most Americans are familiar with George Orwell’s book but fail to see the connection.

Burgess acknowledged that the title of his novel was derived from “…an old Cockney slang phrase, implying a queerness or madness so extreme as to subvert nature, since what notion could be more bizarre than that of a clockwork orange.”  Millions of Americans are lining up to willing be absorbed into the dead machine of a Totalitarian government.  Burgess reflected on the reality that when the governing machine becomes impersonal and inhumane.  It takes our money for purposes and ventures we do not desire nor approve.  It treats us as abstracts, controls an army, supports a state police force whose function is not always protective. 

The modern government has too much power and it is not unwarranted for people to fear it.  We have and are enduring prenatal and infantile conditioning that has made the slaves content in their discontent and imprisonment.  They are seeking to scientifically reprogram and recondition us to being the beings they desire.  They are shaping the thinking through non-thinking. A condition produced in the educational system. It is a mind conditioned to be predisposed to obedience to the edicts of the government. That mind or person is easily shaped and controlled.  If we are not there, we are headed in that direction and only one or two generations dying off will make it a fully realized reality.

Joe Biden has contended that he has a “mandate to achieve racial justice and root out systemic racism in this country.”  What mandate?  He and they do not give us a clear definition of what the term means or how they plan to eradicate it.  He said, “Again, I’m not promising we can end it tomorrow, but I promise you we’re going to continue to make progress to eliminate systemic racism, and every branch of the White House and the federal government is going to be part of that effort….”  No, Joe, not tomorrow or in any cumulative tomorrows.  You cannot do it for two reasons.  One, it does not exist and two, legislation could never achieve it.

America, we have a political party in power who believe they have the right, mandate, and authority to ‘fundamentally transform’ America into a nation of their liking where only their ideological views are acceptable.  Truth, facts, and reality are inconsequential to them.  They have a flawed view, a flawed theory, and a quest for total control.  If we survive this administration, I will be surprised but we must never stop attempting to restore America to the Republic our Founders created.

God bless you and God bless America!

Many things come to mind when I ask or am asked that question and I’m sure that each one has a different perspective and idea.  As I have been in prayer and musing on America, where we are, where we have been, and where we are going some agonizing thoughts have come to mind.  When I witness, what in my mind, is an assault on our American foundation, the pillars of freedom, and the principles upon which America was founded, I become agitated! 

I wish I could say that it was always ‘righteous indignation’ but sometimes it is unadulterated blood boiling anger that could easily morph into hate and I fight against that with a passion.  I do not want hate to fill my heart and although I hate sin and the result of sin, I do not want to hate the sinner.  I hate the attempts to dismantle and unravel our constitutional framework and diminish the principled fabric of our society, but I do not want to hate those who disagree with me about what is best and the direction we should take. Hate will never produce genuine and lasting victory and progress!

“What is the greatest need of America today?”   I believe it is national HEALING!  You may not agree and that is your right and privilege.  I will not argue that there are not some incredibly imposing and threatening dangers facing our republic, there are!  Yet, I know from the Bible and history that a house divided against itself cannot stand, become incredibly weak, and open to an invasion of ideologies and forces that would dismantle and destroy us.  I do not believe most want that!  The Bible offers us a prescription for Healing in 2 Chronicles 7:14, “and My people, who are called by My Name, humble themselves, and pray and seek (crave, require as a necessity) My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear [them] from heaven, and forgive their sin and heal their land.”  [Amplified].

I have watched some of the presentations by the media, political pundits, activists, and protesters over the past year.  The riots that broke out when Donald J. Trump was elected in 2016 have not occurred in 2021.  No, I am not discounting the events of January 6^th, but I am saying that those of us on the Right do not conduct ourselves in the same way as the followers of the toxic liberal ideology of the Left.   I believe there were so many abnormalities if not outright fraud and criminality during the election that I cannot be called legitimate.  However, it is what it is, and we must deal with the reality of where we are.

If we allow ourselves to focus on our particular ideology, pet agenda, personal preference, or pet peeve we will expand the divide.  If we allow ourselves to be drawn into hate and continue to fan the flames of discord, we will fail as a nation and thereby will suffer individually and collectively.  I continue to believe what Donald J. Trump said in his inaugural address in 2017.  I believe it is a view that is vitally important for us to focus on.  He said that UNITED, America is Unstoppable!  He said other things about setting aside our prejudices, biases and realizing that we are All Americans and America should be first not personal preference.

I would never suggest anyone abandon their convictions or principles.  I would never do that, but I do suggest that we need to resist and reject hate!  I do suggest we seek common ground through which we can work together for the good of America and Freedom at home and abroad.  If you hate me or I hate you based on the color of skin, we both lose.  If I hate you or you hate me based on personality, we both are reduced to incredibly small people.  If I hate you or you hate me based on which side of a political issue we stand, we dig a chasm that will prevent us from finding a solution to our nation’s problems. 

I have seen the signs held by those protesting over the past year and one of those from 2016 until today was, “Love Trumps Hate.”   That is the truth, but when a sign next to that sign called for the assignation or some other incredibly vile act of violence and hate it diminishes the sentiment.  LOVE does triumph over HATE!  However, we dare never forget that Hate and Love do not flow out of the same fountain or heart at the same time. 

America’s greatest need, in my mind, is HEALING!  I am convinced that Healing can only truly come from God.  I was appalled when Barack Obama won in 2008 and significantly discouraged when he won again in 2012 but I did not stop being an American and wanting what was best for America.  Did I oppose Mr. Obama?  Yes, I did.  Was I vocal?  Yes, I was. 

Am I disturbed that Joe Biden is the President?  Yes, I am.  But I have not nor will I call his murder, the rape of his wife, or seek to destroy the framework of our society, government, commerce, or community.  I found almost nothing good in the policies of Mr. Obama. You may find nothing good in the policies of Mr. Trump.  But if we love America and are willing to suppress our prejudices, biases, and resist the tendency to HATE that which is different we can not only survive but thrive as a nation.  HEALING is America’s greatest need and it is my greatest need as a human being. 

I hate the message and actions of Islamic jihadism.  I hate the murder of innocent babies in the womb.  I hate the attempts to strip all references and mention of God from our public stage.  I hate the fundamental transformation of America into something other than the nation we were established to be and the principles upon which we were formed.  I hate the works of evil no matter what form that comes.  HOWEVER, I do not want to be filled with HATE and thereby prevented from having LOVE for my fellow man.  I want to be a part of the HEALING of our Nation not a part of the perpetuation of division. 

I know that my sermon (that is what some will call it) will not be well received by a segment of society, but I hope you hear my heart.  I DO NOT want anyone to abandon their principles and discard their core convictions.  I want you to protest what you believe is wrong but do so in a civil, peaceful, constitutional, and legal manner.  I want all of us to be able to stand for what we believe is right but to do so as rational and mature people.  I am praying for HEALING in our land and am committed to interceding for America.

It is my prayer and desire that we return to God and become a people who “seeks FIRST the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.”  I pray that we become a people who understand that just as the human body has many different parts the Body of Christ does as well.  I pray that we realize that we are all descendants of Adam & Eve and that although we have different ethnic backgrounds and skin pigmentation, we are all part of the Human Race.  I pray that we will allow our differences to be aired peaceable and stop focusing on our victimization and pursue peace.

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

Go ahead and yell at your computer and call me names, but the 2020 election was so fraught with fraud, corruption, irregularities, and illegalities it can only be called a ‘stolen election.’  Yes, I said it and if you disagree, that’s your prerogative.  You have the right to believe what you believe as do I.  You do not have to issue pejoratives and insinuate that I am both an idiot and out of touch with reality.  I believe that I have a clear understanding of what has transpired, what is transpiring, and what will transpire over the next days, weeks, months, and years in my beloved America.  I bring this up halfway through the first year of the Biden administration because AMERICA NEEDS TO KNOW THE TRUTH and We need to ensure fair elections in the future.

I have been asked if I think that many who voted for Joe Biden, like some that voted for Barack Hussein Obama the first time, will acknowledge their mistake.  My answer is, “almost none will.”  I believe that those so adamantly anti-Trump will find it beyond their ability to admit the error of their hate and acknowledge Biden is and will be a disaster.  Nope!  They are content to label Donald Trump and his supporters as evil, Neanderthals incapable of reason and clear thinking.  Those in the religious ranks that joined that movement claim they are the ones standing on biblical principles when virtually everything Biden and the Left is advancing is anathema to biblical truths.

I have acknowledged numerous times, that leading up to Trump winning the nomination in 2016, Trump was not my first choice.  My choice was eliminated.  The more I listened to Trump I was drawn to him.  When I realized he was going to be the nominee I threw my support behind him.  I am not ashamed to say, “He surprised me.”  He kept his promises as best he could with ZERO Democratic support and precious little GOP backing.  The Establishment on both sides remained thorns in his side for the entire four years he was President.  What could we have achieved if the GOP had had the backbone and constitutional fiber to have backed the agenda?  There would be no Joe Biden in the White House!

As a minister, a veteran, a patriot, and a lover of Freedom, I have been amazed at how much people ‘compartmentalize’ virtually everything.  Our naval vessels are constructed to provide numerous water-tight spaces.  This is designed to aid in survival.  If the crew did their jobs and properly sealed the vessel then only a few spaces would be flooded and increase the chance of staying afloat exponentially.  If they failed it would be a quick trip to Davey Jones’ Locker for them.

That principle is utilized by our intelligence agencies.  There is what is called, “informational compartmentalization” to prevent the leak of information or should one of the assets be capture limit the amount of possible information extracted.  The need to know comes into play in many aspects of military life.  I was made keenly aware of that in Vietnam and the value of not allowing everyone to know everything.  That most assuredly includes the media.

I read something that I had heard in various forms before regarding the Diffusion of Responsibility.  It was the protocol for firing squads.  The quote:  “…Sometimes, one or more members of the firing squad may be issued a weapon containing a blank cartridge. In such cases, members of the firing squad are not told beforehand whether or not they are using live ammunition. This is believed to reinforce the sense of diffusion of responsibility among the firing squad members.”  And “…In more recent times, such as in the execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner in the American state of Utah in 2010, one rifleman may be given a “dummy” cartridge containing a wax bullet instead of a lead bullet, which provides a more realistic recoil.”

That provides an out for the members of the firing squad to embrace the perception, if not the hope, that it was not him or her that actually killed the person being executed.  Is it possible that the dual usage of Compartmentalization and Diffusion of Responsibility transpired simultaneously in the 2020 election?  Is it possible that those low-ranking players in the various swing states or cities had no knowledge of the overall plan only what they were doing?  Is it possible that they thought this was an isolated occurrence affecting their locale, not the entire nation?   I have watched people compartmentalize their lives and I tell them, “You are not a cat you do not have nine lives; you have a life!”

If that was the case, that only the top brass in the organization knew the overall plan and people in Georgia, Detroit, Philadelphia, etc. were discovered it would be like a low-ranking little informed soldier or sailor being capture in war.  They could not reveal much and thereby would not pose a threat to the Establishment.  The information they could provide would not be deemed sufficient to change the outcome of the election and thereby give the courts an out and the politicians plausible deniability. 

If you recall, they bragged about doing it in a Time Magazine article in January 2021.  The brazenness and feeling secure in the belief that they were and are insulated from prosecution, screams that they did it and are beyond dangerous.  But we are asked to dismiss the claims of fraud and deemed sore losers and eaters of sour grapes. 

Constitutionally, America has the ‘right to know’ what transpired in the election and what is happening in the attempts to create a voting system that will forever destroy the integrity of our elections.  We have that right!  We have the required security clearance constitutionally as citizens to KNOW.  But, those in control of the government say, as does the military and other agencies from time to time, “You do not have the need to know.”  They decide what we need to know and what we do not.  If we knew what they had done and are doing, we would be up in arms and they know it.  Therefore, we must be kept in the dark and silenced. 

I can predict, with no fear of having to eat my words, which I would gladly do if proven wrong, the Biden presidency will prove to be far worse than we feared and far sooner than most expected.  They are determined to eradicate our borders.  They are determined to shut down our oil and gas industry.  They are determined to force political correctness upon us.  They are determined to make all conservative, constitutional whites pay for our conservatism, constitutionalism, and ethnicity.  Even the illustrious Governor of New York’s brother declared that he was ‘black on the inside.’  WOW!

Let me make a statement that is intended to be sarcastic but true.  Sir, if you or anyone else is ‘black’ on the inside you have a very serious health issue.  I am not saying, black as having an ethnicity but black as being the color of your internal organs.  I know that was not what he meant, but if he can make a stupid statement, I can make an equally dumb retort. 

If we survive until the mid-terms in 2022 and can somehow wrest the control of Congress from the Leftists, we must do so with people who have the courage and constitutional ideological principles to DO WHAT IS RIGHT!  We cannot simply replace Establishment Socialist Democrats with Establishment Republicans.  That is what has produced the problem we now have.  We must return to the founding principles and return to God if we are to save the republic.  We must make stealing, cheating, and fraud costly.

God bless you and God bless America!

Before I begin my discussion of the subject of inalienable rights let me say, “Thank You” for the many prayers you prayed for Bonnie before her homegoing and for me and the family since. Today marks two-months that she has been gone. She went to heaven at 12:15 AM on Sunday, April 11, 2021. I miss her more than words can say and in keeping with my calling from God, my love of freedom, and her expressed desire, I continue to stand as a Watchman on the Walls. THANK YOU!

I do not want to sound like a broken record or beat a dead horse, but the Democrats, Liberals, Leftists, Globalists, Socialists, Progressive now in control of our government are waging war on the Inalienable Rights of Americans.  Let me rephrase that, they do not believe than any of us who oppose their agenda should have any rights.  They desire and are pursuing total totalitarian authoritarian control and are willing to do whatever is required to achieve that objective.

The Executive Orders, the Legislation, and the intended actions they have announced and implemented will result in anyone who is not part of the Woke Crowd, Cancel Culture Left having NO RIGHTS!  They do not care that those rights are protected by the American Constitution and God.  If allowed, they will render the American Constitution meaningless.  In many ways, that has already transpired, but at this juncture, the Constitution is still intact although ignored and bypassed frequently.

The assault on American history and the revisionism that has been transpiring has resulted in a state of dangerous historical ignorance in America.  Few, and I know that may be offensive, but few Americans truly know American history.  They know the sanitized and skewed versions or tidbits of history but have no ability to connect the dots and understand what we were given in the Revolutionary War and the subsequent establishment of American and the enacting of our Constitution. 

Most Americans believe we are a majority-rule democracy.  We are not! We are a Republic with a representative form of government.  In that sense, we are a Representative Democracy.  Our wise founders and the framers of the constitution carefully guarded against America becoming a direct democracy and sought to install an incredible system of checks and balances in the formulation of three branches of government.  They staunchly defended ‘States Rights’ and the ‘Inalienable Rights’ of the citizens.  They believed, rightly, that there are certain inherent rights of all people that come from God not government.  They sought to guarantee that the government could not infringe upon those rights. 

The Lexington Minutemen were the epitome of the American spirit and devotion to Liberty and Freedom.  On April 19, 1775, a group of farmers, tradesmen, and other “Minutemen” led by Captain John Parker, gathered on Lexington Commons to express umbrage, at the British Crown’s illegal attempt to confiscate Colonial Weapons.  Captain Parker told his comrades, “Stand your ground.  Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here.”  I believe that we are facing a similar seminal moment in America.

It is almost impossible to determine who fired the ‘first shot’ in that encounter but it became known as the “shot heard round the world” and the de facto beginning of the American Revolution.  There were many causes of the war but one of the key elements was the desire, intent, and attempt of the British Crown to ‘confiscate firearms’.  That is what the Democrats desire and intend to do through various means.  They will use both the front and back door approach and attempt to strip us of our God-given right of self-defense.  I predict that will result in another revolution.  It may be short-lived, but it will transpire.

The current Vice President Kamala Harris, while serving as a Senator from California, acknowledged that she was willing to send the police to our homes to take our guns. We dare not be sanguine thinking she and they can never get away with infringing upon that 2^nd Amendment Right.  I believe as did many of our founders and subsequent historians that the 2^nd Amendment is the inalienable right that secures all the other Rights.

The current Supreme Court seems to embrace an aberrant view regarding the 2^nd Amendment. They seem to believe that it is not on the same level as all the other Amendments in the Bill of Rights.  They are wrong! Texas Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee, who often speaks as if she is functionally illiterate is a strong advocate of infringing upon our 2^nd Amendment Rights.  She is joined by the would-be Governor and filed Senatorial and Presidential Candidate, Robert Francis O’Rourke.  His infamous declaration, “Hell yes we will take your AR-15s” should be remembered by all Texans.  He is a liberal leftist of the Socialist Communist ideological ilk and were he to become governor of Texas my beloved state will be neck-deep in the stuff that horses leave behind after eating.

The Houston Congresswoman has proposed some far-reaching and dangerous legislation to ‘grab our guns’ that has been put forth to date.  If you are not aware you should make yourself aware of H.R.127 – Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act. 

§ 932. Licensing of firearm and ammunition possession; registration of firearms
“(a) In General.—The Attorney General, through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, shall establish a system for licensing the possession of firearms or ammunition in the United States, and for the registration with the Bureau of each firearm present in the United States.

Here is an excerpt from it:

“(b) Firearm Registration System.—
“(1) REQUIRED INFORMATION.—Under the firearm registration system, the owner of a firearm shall transmit to the Bureau—
“(A) the make, model, and serial number of the firearm, the identity of the owner of the firearm, the date the firearm was acquired by the owner, and where the firearm is or will be stored; and
“(B) a notice specifying the identity of any person to whom, and any period of time during which, the firearm will be loaned to the person.

The Democrats control the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and thereby the courts, so what can we do before the mid-term elections?  The States MUST use all measures to hold the line on the 2^nd Amendment.  Sadly, some State Governors and Officials have gone full-on dictatorial and are in lockstep with the Left and want to strip us of our right, to ‘keep and bear arms.’

I am encouraged when a liberal state such as New Mexico where 30 of 33 county sheriffs signed a letter pledging to refuse to enforce several gun-control measures supported by the Democrats in Santa Fe.  There are also more than two dozen counties in that state who have enacted “sanctuary” resolutions backing the sheriffs and affirming that no tax dollars in their jurisdictions should go to enforcing those proposals.  Is that enough?  No, but it is a start.

I am concerned that the ATF and FBI will soon be thrown into the mix and the clash between locally elected sheriffs and federal law enforcement will result in citizens being drawn into the clash.  We will witness such disasters such as the Waco, Branch Davidians debacle.  I am not defending David Koresh or any other groups such as that, but I am saying that the attempt to strip the law-abiding of their inalienable right of self-defense places the law-abiding at a disadvantage against criminals and a nefarious governmental overreach.

America, our Inalienable Rights, if you are a non-follower of the toxic liberal ideology, are in their crosshairs.  If the 2^nd Amendment falls, all the other rights will follow.  This is a war for the Republic.  You can discount my argument and call me a kook or a mindless conspiracist but one day you may see that I am spot on in my warnings.

God bless you and God bless America!

This is our first Memorial Day without Bonnie.  Fifty days ago, she made her transition from Earth to Heaven and into the arms of our Lord Jesus.  Her mother was killed in an automobile accident on Memorial Day. It was caused by a person driving under the influence and Memorial Day was both special to her because of her love for America, her gratitude for all who served and died, and difficult because it was the anniversary of her mother’s departure from earth.  This will be a most difficult day but a day of remembrance for me and the family. 

As a Vietnam Veteran, an American, a patriot, a lover of freedom, and a Christian I never want to miss an opportunity to express my deep gratitude for those men and women who paid the ultimate price for Freedom.  Memorial Day is the day we have set aside to honor those who paid that price in a time of war.  They are deserving of much more than a few words of platitude and their memories must never be tarnished by the rewriters of history and those seeking to dismantle our republic. 

I have never contended or argued that all war is honorable or even necessary but when our nation is threatened our patriots have stepped forward.  That is one of the things that has kept America the Free Constitutional Republic she is and has been.  The weakening of our foundational fabric endangers that through revisionism of history and the anti-American rhetoric bandied about in today’s politics, media, and academia.  We must never forget and never cease to be grateful for the sacrifices made in the interest of freedom.

I saw a list of numbers of the deaths that were aired on a PBS broadcast some time ago.  The numbers may not be 100% accurate but reflect the many who have sacrificed.  In honoring their memories, we need to express our gratitude to the families of the fallen because their pain is also noteworthy.  I can only imagine the pain of losing a loved one in war.  I know some of the pain that my mother endured during my time in Vietnam.  The uncertainty, lack of information, and fear that her son would not come home were deeply traumatic.  I fully believe that her prayers for me kept me alive.

The list of War Time U.S. Military Deaths are as follows:

            Revolutionary War               4.435

            War of 1812                          2,260

            Indian Wars                          1,000

            Mexican War                      13,283

            Civil War                          498,332 (Another estimate was 618,000)

            Spanish-American War       2,446

            World War I                      116,516             

            World War II                      405,399

            Korean War                       54,246 (Another estimate was 36,574)

            Vietnam War                     90,220 (Another estimate was 58,220)

            Persian Gulf War                1,565

            Global War on Terror         6,852

Clearly, some of those numbers are fluid and changing.  Vietnam and other war numbers have changed over the years as new information and discoveries have occurred.  The wartime deaths amount to about 1.2 million American service personnel.  My gratitude is overflowing and my pride in calling myself an American has never been greater. 

During World War II, about 12% of the total U.S. population was a part of the armed forces.  Today we have approximately 1.4 million Americans on active duty and another 860,000 in various reserves.  That is approximately 2.1 million out of the 331 million.  That means that rather than have 12% as in WWII we have less than 1% serving today.  Technology and other changes have resulted in that statistic.  However, I am convinced that were we to enter another global conflict the numbers of Americans volunteering would escalate dramatically.

Each year on the final Monday of May we celebrate Memorial Day.  Originally the title was Decoration Day.  The American flag is supposed to be flown at half-mast until noon, and then raised to full mast until sunset on Memorial Day.  The tradition of wearing red poppies originated in John McCrae’s 1915 poem in Flanders Fields.  A relatively unknown tradition was to eat a picnic lunch on the grounds of a cemetery to honor the fallen heroes.  The placing of American flags on graves has long been a tradition and now under fire by those who seek to obliterate our traditional honoring of the fallen.

“In Flanders Fields”

by John McCrae, May 1915

In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Few know that there is supposed to be a national moment of remembrance at 3 P.M. local time to honor the memories of the heroes of our wars.  The time-honored tradition where thousands of Americans visit Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day was not held in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic restrictions. 

In a time when so little of our true history is known, I urge everyone to gather their family around you and remind them of the greatness of America and the value of our freedoms.  If you have a loved one or an ancestor who died in one of our wars honor their memory and instill in the hearts of the young, they are free because others sacrificed all to ensure their liberty.  Take a moment and thank God for His goodness and mercy.  Take a moment and say, Thank You to those who gave all.  Many of us gave something, but the ones we honor today gave everything.  They gave so that we could be Free!

Memorial Day to me is more than a holiday or a long weekend, it is a reminder of the power of love!  Love for family, love for country, love for freedom, and love for God.  I am reminded of the words of Jesus in John 15:13, “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”  The heroes who paid all did not know me, but they died for me and you.  They died for the Love of Freedom, Family, and Country.  Dare we not honor their memory and prevent any government official from tarnishing that tradition and obligation to REMEMBER? 

God bless you and God bless America!   HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY and THANK GOD WE ARE FREE!

Let me reiterate what I have been saying lately, God must be first and our primary focus or we lose sight of the eternal and most important.  If we focus on the political, we will find ourselves being tainted by the slime of political corruption and lower our standards to the standards of the world.  If we focus on God, His Kingdom, and being the people, He desires us to be we will become salt and light in a darkened world and influence our surroundings and environments.  We should be elements of change for good not influenced by the bad of this world.

In my time of sorrow, I find my focus shifting away from the things of this earth to things eternal.  I miss my angel more than words can express but am trying to do what God has called me to do and be what God purposed me to be.  I want to fulfill my calling and be the man Bonnie wanted me to be and believed me to be.  I want to demonstrate the love of God in all things and at all times.  I want to become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus manifested to the world.  I want to be a man after His own heart and abide in Him and His word in me. 

However, in our focus on God and the things of God we dare not be oblivious or indifferent toward the issues in our world societally, politically, or spiritually.  If we know what is happening, we are better equipped to pray targeted prayers and pull-down strongholds.  Therefore, today I want to offer a reminder and call your attention to some things we can and need to commit to fervent prayer.

It has been suggested and I believe rightly so that, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are President Cloward and Vice President Piven with regard to where America is heading governmentally.  If that theory is correct, we are in for a fight beyond all fights we have endured in the history of our Republic including the Revolutionary War.  I believe that we are fighting for survival not just to get through a difficult time politically. 

Let me briefly rehearse the ‘Cloward-Piven’ political strategy so we will all be on the same page in this consideration.  It is a strategy of calculated chaos to achieve a political end.  The theory of Columbia University Professors Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven was published in the extremely far-left news magazine, The Nation in 1966.  Their goal and I believe the goal of this administration and the democrats is to create a chaotic condition politically. That chaotic condition would provide the pathway resulting in legislation being signed into law that would guarantee an annual income believing it would end poverty.  Guaranteed annual income for EVERYONE!  Who would own everything, and everyone were that to become reality?  THE GOVERNMENT!

As I look back over the past year and see the incredibly dangerous seizing of power by the government over the imported Chinese coronavirus, I cringe!  The events directly connected to that pandemic have been questionable elections that, in my view, clearly involved fraud, cheating, and more.  Governmental control in America has shifted to the Left dramatically and the dictatorial actions of local, state, and national officials have been alarming.  It all happened with little protest from the sheep and the only protestors were those rioting because of some real or fictional social injustices.

The Cloward-Piven objective was to create massive chaos and turmoil.  In their own words, “A massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls.”  That is not the end of their objective for they, desired that action to be followed by, “A federal program of income redistribution to elevate the poor en masse from poverty.”  Again, if the government takes all we have and redistributes it to whomever and wherever they deem fit, who owns it and us?

We have witnessed the draconian lockdowns, the closures of businesses, schools, churches, etc.  This has prompted the ruling class to engage in spending trillions of dollars we do not have to alleviate the problem created by the government.  They are attempting to throw monopoly money at the problem and repair the damage they did.  Imagine that!

Much of the ‘so-called’ COVID stimulus package was nothing more than a massive income redistribution effort.  They are seeking to take from the producers and supply sustenance to the non-producers.  The non-producers’ situation is either the result of their own decisions or through the diktats of the powers running various governmental entities.  It is designed to reduce the ‘middle-class’ to a ‘dependency class’ and thereby gain more control of our lives.

In the Cloward-Piven plan, a crisis is defined as, “a publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere.”  The way they plan to create a crisis is to utilize a spontaneous outbreak of violence or through a planned assault using demonstrations, riots, and protests to generate the desired institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to the public square.  It is insurrection and subversion at its core.  They utilize any event to launch their creation of a crisis.

I suggest that the pre-planned event at the Capitol on January 6^th created a false panic, quickly seized upon by the political ruling class to step up their seizure of control.  Congress rubber-stamped an election that should have demanded an investigation due to the known anomalies and disparities in the election and the myriad of sworn affidavits.  All those things demanded a thorough investigation, but to question the election was deemed un-American, insurrectionist, and bordered on treason.  The Democrats desire to decertify the Iowa congressional election won by a Republican was troubling! Hypocrisy?  No, it is beyond that and is diabolical.

Cloward-Piven did not begin with Donald Trump but the idea was given birth during FDR’s New Deal and then given full impetus in the 1960s when it was given a name.  The plan includes Medicare, Medicaid, the Great Society welfare programs.  We have watched as government agencies have strangled the republic destroying innovation and attempting to stymie the Free Enterprise System.  We have engaged in seemingly endless wars, expansion of programs such as food stamps, Medicaid, and other social welfare programs.  We are allowing the destruction of our Republic from within.  Who needs enemies from abroad when we have those successfully cracking the pillars of liberty at home?

Their goal is to have, and we are there, a majority of Americans receiving benefits from the government.  A crisis real or manufactured led to the creation of those programs.  Seniors and the poor were deemed unable to afford their medical care therefore we created Medicare and Medicaid.  They seek to create paranoia and fear at the ballot box and strip people of reason but relegate them to emotional responses and votes.  They have to bring down the current system of economics for their plan to succeed in the total takeover and we are dangerously near that precipice today.

In some ways, it seems that Donald Trump never had a chance and provided an opportunity for the Deep State and Swamp to test their strategies to weaponize the government against all political opposition.  The H.R.1 bill is designed to place the final nail in the coffin of any semblance of free and fair elections in America.  Trump was a speed bump on the Cloward-Piven expressway and now that he is out of their way it is full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes.

We are being ruled, not by elected representation, but by a senile old man who is signing executive orders like they were autographs at a rock concert.  He is signing whatever is placed in front of him and I do not believe he has the mental acuity to know what he is doing if he even cares.  The COVID pandemic has provided a speedway for them to implement their agenda and most Americans have passively complied without voting to stop them or protesting to their elected officials.  That will result in our destruction.

Those who have been the producers will eventually tire of rowing the ship of economics. They will tire of watching the fruit of their labors stolen and given to the non-producers against their wills.  They will tire of watching the ruling class live lavishly while they struggle to make ends meet.  When that happens, the proverbial overweight lady will be singing, and freedom will exit stage left. God help us to awaken from our slumber before it is too late. 

God bless you and God bless America!