Charleston Voice: Why Christians Should Not Recite the Pledge of Allegiance

by Laurence M. Vance

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all.”

There are three holidays that cause otherwise sound-in-the-faith evangelical, conservative, and fundamentalist Christians to lose their religion.

I am referring to Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, and Veterans Day.

One of these holidays doesn’t even have to fall on a Sunday for some churches to go wild with celebration.

County sheriff: power to protect… ” But, make no mistake, as the duly-elected sheriffs of our respective counties, we will enforce the rights guaranteed to our citizens by the Constitution. No federal official will be permitted to descend upon our constituents and take from them what the Bill of Rights – in particular Amendment II – has given them. “

By Chuck Baldwin

The local FOX affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah, has reported that the Utah Sheriff’s Association has written a strongly worded letter to President Barack Obama regarding any potential federal laws that would restrict the citizens of the State of Utah from practicing their Second Amendment rights.

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The letter was signed by every sheriff in the State of Utah except one. The letter reads in part:

“With the number of mass shootings America has endured, it is easy to demonize firearms; it is also foolish and prejudiced. Firearms are nothing more than instruments, valuable and potentially dangerous, but instruments nonetheless. Malevolent souls, like the criminals who commit mass murders, will always exploit valuable instruments in the pursuit of evil. As professional peace officers, if we understand nothing else, we understand this: lawful violence must sometimes be employed to deter and stop criminal violence. Consequently, the citizenry must continue its ability to keep and bear arms, including arms that adequately protect them from all types of illegality.”

The letter also states: “We respect the Office of the President of the United States of America. But, make no mistake, as the duly-elected sheriffs of our respective counties, we will enforce the rights guaranteed to our citizens by the Constitution. No federal official will be permitted to descend upon our constituents and take from them what the Bill of Rights – in particular Amendment II – has given them. We, like you, swore a solemn oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and we are prepared to trade our lives for the preservation of its traditional interpretation.”

More Oregon sheriffs say they won’t enforce new gun laws

PRINEVILLE, Ore. (AP) — More Oregon sheriffs are joining the chorus saying they would refuse to enforce any new federal gun law they believe are unconstitutional.

 

Crook County Sheriff Jim Hensley said Tuesday he sent the same letter to Vice President Joe Biden that was sent Monday by Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller.

 

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Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin reiterated that viewpoint in his own letter released after President Barack Obama announced his gun control plan.

 

More People Sacrificed to Destructive Thinking by Butler Shaffer ~ (“How convenient for our political overseers: there has been another mass-shooting …Taking the advice of the neo-Machiavellian Rahm Emanuel – that “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste” – the victims in Connecticut will join those in the Oregon shopping mall, Columbine and Aurora, Colorado, and elsewhere, to be exploited on behalf of disarming Americans.”)

How convenient for our political overseers: there has been another mass-shooting – this time at a Connecticut grade-school – in which many adults and young children were murdered. Members of the mainstream media, politicians, and other government officials are being turned loose to share their lack of critical thinking with a public conditioned to await their direction.

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With the kind of frenzy exhibited by a monkey that has been bitten by a scorpion, establishment sock-puppets quickly respond with proposals to further enhance state power while, at the same time, shrinking individual liberty. Taking the advice of the neo-Machiavellian Rahm Emanuel – that “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste” – the victims in Connecticut will join those in the Oregon shopping mall, Columbine and Aurora, Colorado, and elsewhere, to be exploited on behalf of disarming Americans.

Are We In the Final Days of Marijuana Prohibition?

“There’ a rising tide of acceptance of the fact that people are going to smoke marijuana, and it’s like the prohibition against alcohol in the 1930s. There’s a recognition that perhaps the laws are causing more harm than the drugs themselves,” says Rick Steves, author and travel host.

 

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Steves and others attended “The Final Days of Prohibition” conference in downtown Los Angeles in early October. The conference was put on by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), and Reason TV was on the scene to ask about the future of marijuana laws in the U.S., particularly in the upcoming election where the states of Oregon, Washington, and Colorado all have marijuana legalization initiatives on the ballot.

 

Romney Camp Removing Rules Committee Members

 

Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:24:54 PM by CedarDave

 

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I just got off the phone with a concerned Florida activist, Laura Noble, who informed me that both of Florida’s Rules Committeemembers, Peter Feaman and Kathleen King, have been removed from the Rules committee and replaced with Romney-appointed delegates.

 

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OBAMA STAGES “CHANCE” MEETING WITH VETS AT OREGON DINER!

 

Obama staged a fake “unscheduled stop” with 3 veterans who just happened to be at an Oregon diner he decided to stop at by chance.

 

President Barack Obama addresses the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Prison Planet.com » Oregon Officials Use Fear to Coerce Parents into Vaccinating Their Children

In Oregon, parents have opted out of vaccinating their children in such large numbers that researchers are growing concerned.

A new study concluded that infants on alternative immunization schedules are growing from 2.5% in 2006 to 9.5% in 2009.

While fewer babies in the Northwestern state are being vaccinated, parents are being admonished to stick to the recommended schedule of regular vaccines.

The Oregon ALERT Immunization Information System, used to track children born between 2003 and 2009 in Portland, Oregon found trends displaying anti-vaccine attitudes from parents in this metropolitan area.

53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida

I have learned that Florida election officials are set to announce that the secretary of state has discovered and purged up to 53,000 dead voters from the voter rolls in Florida.

How could 53,000 dead voters have sat on the polls for so long? Simple. Because Florida hadn’t been using the best available data revealing which voters have died. Florida is now using the nationwide Social Security Death Index for determining which voters should be purged because they have died.

Bill Ayers to University Students: America‘s ’Game Is Over‘ and ’Another World’ Is Coming

Bill Ayers spoke at the University of Oregon last week on the subject of teaching and organizing for “social justice.” His speech was not free of the radical sentiments he is well-known for espousing (especially in the company of America’s youth). Case in point: he spoke of the end of America, a new world, and what our role ought to be in all of it.

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Almost as interesting as Ayers’ speech itself, perhaps, was how the leftist radical was introduced by the university students. One girl, who described herself as a doctoral student at the university, spoke of the privilege they would have with their honored guest, in an “evening [of] radical imagination.”

Two others, an associate professor at the university and a graduate student, remarked: “Most of us have in one way or another acknowledged the sovereign authority of the U.S. government– or the state of Oregon– in order to be here tonight, either admission to the university, applying for a job, or just paying the parking meter. We have not, however, asked permission of the [Native Americans] whose ancestral home this is, and to fail to acknowledge that this remains disputed territory would in effect be taking sides, [and] reinforce the erasure of indigenous history and indigenous peoples.”

Jim R. Schwiesow — Eight Lonely Souls

Recently eight duly elected and active Oregon and California county sheriffs’ addressed, in a public forum, federal and state intrusions upon the unalienable rights of their citizens and the unconstitutional (illegal) incursions of warrantless state and federal endeavors in their jurisdictions. By their testimony these fine sheriffs’ verbally documented the assault on sovereignty and the abridgement of individual rights by the despotic strives that they have personally witnessed.

Most disturbing was the fact that federal encroachments were aided and abetted by state politicians who were willing to bargain away state sovereignty and the exclusive right to local control in exchange for federal dollars; a disturbing development given that states ought to employ a barrier against unconstitutional federal trespass upon the personal liberties of their people.

If you became aware of this event, via the mass media, friendly reader you were indeed a rare exception as the particulars of the forum had all of the earmarks of being a closely guarded secret by a media that totally eschews any moral obligation to apprise the public of other than sensationally motivated, politically correct, or politically actuated and patronage-directed substance.

She Flumoxed the Great Gas-Bag, Rush Limbaugh

Usually Limbaugh takes calls from dissenters to promote his gospel and provide him with a showcase, or “teaching moment”. Listen as ‘Sarah from Oregon‘ defends Ron Paul‘s positions and calls out Limbaugh for his lies and deceit Pay attention as elrushbo goes from from lip-smacking to sighing to sputtering, to yelling at her, then hanging up.

We are winning.

January 11, 2012

Betty Freauf — Ron Paul Remains Consistent

While current front runners in the plethora of GOP debates continue to flip flop, I am amazed at how as a general rule Ron Paul remains consistent with his Libertarian message running only slightly behind depending on what poll we see. He’s consistent right down to introducing again a bill to legalize Hemp.

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This disturbs conservative Christians but alcohol, cigarettes, pharmaceutical drugs and hospitals cause more medical problems and deaths than Hemp. The federal government sends regular shipments to an Oregon woman for her medical condition. And if the federal government didn’t step in with all its entitlements, e.g. rehab, people would still be held responsible for the costs of their own behavior.

READER RESPONSE: GUNNY G…~ Oregon Judge Rules Blogger Is Not Journalist

Bloggers, big and small, are the pamphleteers, town criers, the Tom Paines, etc.—the media of today!

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Voting, telephoning your congress-crittur, demonstrating is all fine as far as it goes—not far—but blogging is what our pseudo-reps in the district of criminals, and elsewhere, HEAR and FEAR!!!!!

Now is the time for all reaL Americans (Not AINOs) to go online, get a free blog, and start blogging daily!

Why do you think “they” are doing their damndest to get rid of us, and the entire internet for that matter—the I’Net is practically all that is left of that “gd piece of paper,” as one noted politician put it, and our Bill Of Rights, as well.

Get Blogging while ya still can!

NWV News — Oregon Sheriff Gil Gilbertson Continues Stand Against U.S. Forest Service

Josephine County, Ore. — Two months ago Gil Gilbertson, the sheriff of this rural county in southern Oregon, drafted a 10-page report exploring the origins and extent of federal power within a state and emailed his findings to various parties, asking for comment.

Since the report was in rough-draft form he was somewhat surprised that it went viral, but it shows there are a lot of people hungry for information about how much power (particularly law-enforcement power) the federal government actually wields within a state, where that power comes from, and the limits to that power.

Gilbertson continued his research and recently completed a 13-page revised and updated version, retitled: Unraveling Federal Jurisdiction within a State. It is highly footnoted with references to statutes and court decisions.

This a “must read” for anyone concerned about infringements against the 10th Amendment and federal encroachments in general – like road closures, Wild Lands and Monument designations, mining and other resource uses. In other words, this is for anyone and everybody with an interest – no matter how casual — in accessing the public lands, either as a “resource user” (a rancher or miner) or simply a casual vacationer who enjoys weekend camping.

Prison Planet.com » DHS Secret Police Make Arrests at OWS Portland

Kurt Nimmo

PriosnPlanet.com

November 17, 2011

Demotix has posted photos showing that the Department of Homeland Security now operates as a secret police force that arrests people at political events, the hallmark of all totalitarian governments.

The Federal Protective Service (FPS) arrested a photographer at Portland’s Terry Shrunk Plaza, which is adjacent to both City Hall and the Edith Green-Wendall Wyatt Federal Building.

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The Department of Homeland Security describes the FDS as “a federal law enforcement agency that provides integrated security and law enforcement services to federally owned and leased buildings, facilities, properties and other assets.”

The location of Portland’s Terry Shrunk Plaza accounts for why FPS officers may have participated in the arrests, since the jurisdiction of the plaza is shared by both local and federal authorities, according to Rick Ellis, writing for the Examiner.

Jim R. Schwiesow — Eight Lonely Souls

Recently eight duly elected and active Oregon and California county sheriffs’ addressed, in a public forum, federal and state intrusions upon the unalienable rights of their citizens and the unconstitutional (illegal) incursions of warrantless state and federal endeavors in their jurisdictions. By their testimony these fine sheriffs’ verbally documented the assault on sovereignty and the abridgement of individual rights by the despotic strives that they have personally witnessed.

Oregon Police Fear ‘Occupy’ Protesters Arming Themselves for Looming Confrontation

Oregon Police Fear ‘Occupy’ Protesters Arming Themselves for Looming Confrontation

Associated Press, via FoxNews.com ^ | November 11, 2011 | AP

Posted on Saturday, November 12, 2011 9:38:10 AM by ETL

PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland police believe that some protesters inside the Occupy Portland encampments are building shields and makeshift weapons — including nails hammered into wood — in preparation for when authorities attempt to clear the parks this weekend, police said Friday.

Occupy Portland organizers have repeatedly said the movement is nonviolent and have appealed to demonstrators to resist peacefully when the camps close at midnight on Saturday. They planned public marches and a potluck dinner before the deadline and hoped the public would take part.

OBAMA-ENDORSED GROUP SINGS “F*** THE USA”

Earlier today in Portland, the Barack Obama- and Nancy Pelosi-endorsed “Occupy the World” movement featured this edifying musical contribution:

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The Democrats are crazy to identify themselves with these people, but the fact that they are willing to do so tells us a lot about what they really think. More here.

UPDATE: The unionized public employees of Oregon are among the major supporters of Occupy Portland. It’s nice to see how much they appreciate the taxpayers who pay their salaries.

Via Verum Serum .

via OBAMA-ENDORSED GROUP SINGS “F*** THE USA”.

Newspaper sues government to reveal ‘secret’ Patriot Act interpretation

The New York Times is suing the U.S. government for refusing to divulge how its law enforcement interprets the Patriot Act.

After a series of Freedom of Information requests were declined to reveal the classified interpretation of the Patriot Act — a description that Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Mark Udall (D-Colorado) described as “deeply disturbing” — the newspaper sought to battle it out in the courts.

Some months ago, it was found that the Patriot Act was being interpreted by government departments in a way to aid their ongoing investigations, leading to calls that there was a “classified” element to the counter-terrorism law.

The two senators, members of the Senate intelligence committee, have access to the secret interpretation of the law, but are bound by secrecy laws and cannot disclose it publicly. They believe that how law enforcement interprets the Act greatly differs from how the general public believe the federal government interprets the law; leading to the vast majority of the public not knowing how the law is actually used.

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via Newspaper sues government to reveal ‘secret’ Patriot Act interpretation.

A Marine Among Us

Friends:

Tom Moore and I held a bash recently to celebrate the event of former LCpl Mike Smith showering Jane Fonda with tobacco juice. At that event were former Marines from Texas, Oregon, and Washington State, Marines from Pfc to bird colonel. Lots of locals. Mike received these accolades with the humility which marks him as a sincere and devoted Marine, a Marine who spoke (spat) for us all as an expression of disdain for one who should have been tried for treason and imprisoned.

In April Jane Fonda had a book-signing session in a bookstore in Kansas City. In the line of worshipers waiting to get Fonda to sign her new book was one former CAP Marine who did not share the enthusiasm of the crowd. After about 90 minutes he got to the table where sat Jane Fonda, basking in the admiration of her misled left-wing following. Mike placed the book in front of her, gathered up the oral pressure needed, and blasted her with a mouthful of tobacco juice. Instantly gaining the respect of hundred of thousands of Vietnam vets who had been demeaned and abused by Fonda’s actions supporting the enemies of America, he quickly left the store, walked about fifteen feet beyond the door and waited for the inevitable arrest by the cops.

I have heard some criticism from others who didn’t like the idea that he “ran” from the store. My friends, he didn’t run. He is 60% disabled. But he knew every person in that store was a supporter of Hanoi Jane, so he quickly — as quickly as he could — left the store to avoid whatever might have been in store for him from a hostile crowd.

He was arrested by

via Gunny G’s Marines History and Traditions: A Marine Among Us.

Did the Hawaii Health Department Director Really “Leave the Island?”| The Post & Email

ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFICE’S STATEMENT PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC CONTRADICTS INFORMATION FROM AN OAHU RESIDENT

by Sharon Rondeau

Loretta Fuddy was appointed Hawaii Health Department Director by Gov. Neil Abercrombie

(Jul. 23, 2011) — The following request is being sent to Hawaii Department of Health Director Loretta J. Fuddy with a copy to the Hawaii Office of Information Practices:

July 23, 2011

Ms. Loretta J. Fuddy, A.C.S.W., M.P.H.

Director, Hawaii Department of Health

1250 Punchbowl St.

Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

Dear Ms. Fuddy:

On July 15, 2011, a resident of Oregon called the office of Assistant Attorney General Jill T. Nagamine and was told that she was “on leave” and that you had “left the island.” While those statements might have been true, I would like to ascertain it for myself. Therefore, under Hawaii’s UIPA law, Chapter 92F of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, I am requesting a copy of your public work calendar for the time period July 11 through August 8, 2011.

There has been a report that you were in your office in Honolulu the week of July 18 and that you have a full schedule there the week of July 25, 2011. Perhaps you were away the week of July 11 when the inquiry was made.

via Did the Hawaii Health Department Director Really “Leave the Island?”| The Post & Email.

Agents Question GM Free Car Insurance Deal With MetLife Auto

Independent insurance agents are raising concerns over a General Motors promotion that offers car buyers in the Pacific Northwest a year of free liability and damage insurance from MetLife Auto & Home.

Hoping to put more drivers in Oregon and Washington behind the wheels of its late model cars, General Motors last week announced that drivers in these states who take delivery of a new 2010, 2011 or 2012 GM car, truck or crossover before Sept. 6 will receive a year’s coverage from MetLife Auto & Home, a company which does business through independent agents.

(Excerpt) Read more at insurancejournal.com …

via Agents Question GM Free Car Insurance Deal With MetLife Auto.

Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com

Alex Jones‘ Prison Planet.com

Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com:

“Oregon Senator Reveals Secret Government Surveillance Grid

In an interview with Wired, Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, adds yet more confirmation to what many of us have known for years – the government has built a secret surveillance structure far more portentous and dangerous than anything devised by the PATRIOT Act now up for renewal.

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Posted by Gunny G at Thursday, May 26, 2011

via BLOGGER.1984.GUNNY.G: Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com.

Tsunamis Today, 323, Worry Watchers ~ By Captain Eric H. May

Tsunamis Today, 323, Worry Watchers

By Captain Eric H. May

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HOUSTON, 3/23/2011 — With aftershocks from Japan‘s 9,0 3/11/11 killer quake still alarming Pacific nations, some will be delighted to discover that FEMA, NOAA, et al., scheduled tsunami drills at least three months ahead of time.

For others, though, the coincidence of a 9.0 Pacific earthquake and tsunami, scheduled to strike near Oregon today in the exercise scenario, is cause for real alarm. They point out that the U.S. HAARP facility in Alaska, able to create super storms and killer quakes, suddenly cranked out incalculable energy from 3/9, when a 7.2 quake struck Japan, through 3/11, when the big one hit.

Will HAARP be participating in todays exercise? Will the CIA, which is part of secretive training at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas this week? For more about the CIA exercise, refer to my article of yesterday, 3/22 Radioactive Questions for Barack Obama. Are the tsunami drills and the Leavenworth drills connected?

There are plenty of question and few answers. Here are the basic official stones:

Earthquake and tsunami hits Oregon … not really

“Coincidental to the horrific earthquake, tsunami and the subsequent cascading incidents that devastated large portions of Japan this past weekend, the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program Warning Coordination Subcommittee is preparing for a series of preparedness exercises in this country.”

CARIBE WAVE/LANTEX 2011 Exercise

“Tsunami exercise is being conducted to assist tsunami preparedness efforts throughout the Caribbean region. The purpose of the exercise is to improve Tsunami Warning System effectiveness along the Caribbean coasts.”

A Loving Letter

May, are you still feeding off of fear motivation and delusions of how the joos are out to get you? You live for recognition, and when you don’t beat your chest about your qualifications (which suck), someone is doing it for you. In your condition you need the help of a fist. You are sick, Monkey Mind.

School bus driver fired over Confederate flag

GRANTS PASS, Ore. AP — An Oregon school bus driver fired after he refused to remove a Confederate battle flag flying from his pickup truck has enlisted the help of a conservative civil liberties group in hopes of getting his job back.

The Rutherford Institute of Charlottesville, Va., sent a letter Wednesday to First Student Bus Transportation Services demanding that Ken Webber of Medford, Ore., be reinstated.

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via School bus driver fired over Confederate flag.

Ore. bus driver suspended for Confederate flag

MEDFORD, Ore. AP —

An Oregon school bus driver has been suspended for refusing to remove a Confederate flag from his personal vehicle.

The Mail Tribune reports that 28-year-old Ken Webber of Medford says he’s worked for four years at First Student School Bus Transportation Services, a contractor for the Phoenix-Talent School District in the Medford area.

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Warmist Tom Friedman endorses $10 per gallon gas tax to be used to buy our vehicles, which would be crushed and piled in a mountain as a monument to 9/11?

TOM NELSON

Feb 9, 2011

Hot, flat, and crowded, page 262- Google Books

Warmist Tom Friedman endorses $10 per gallon gas tax to be used to buy our vehicles, which would be crushed and piled in a mountain as a monument to 9/11?Warmist Tom Friedman endorses $10 per gallon gas tax to be used to buy our vehicles, which would be crushed and piled in a mountain as a monument to 9/11?What Obama’s Reading, President Obama Book List – Barnes & Noble Often seen with a book in hand, President Obama has been shaped by such notable reads as Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman2009:

over Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard reading list Referring to a September 2008 news report in which Obama discussed Thomas L. Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Samuel P. Jacobs wonders why the president brought the book to Martha’s Vineyard. No word from the president, but Friedman told the Daily Beast in an email: “Given the pressure of a campaign, I doubt that the President got to read anything cover to cover. And for most of his presidency, the Great Recession has really swamped debate and discussion about climate and energy. So, I was very pleased to hear that he is diving into it again. …”

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Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano wants to set free Oregon Christmas tree bomber

Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano wants to set free Oregon Christmas tree bomber. On last night’s O’Reilly Factor, prominent judge and libertarian thinker Andrew Napolitano was on as a guest to discuss his controversial, to say the least, opinion on what to do with the 19-year-old Christmas tree bomber in Oregon.

Somewhat surprisingly, the judge actually wants to set free the terrorist Mohamed Osman Mohamud because he argues that the US government coerced the lad into wanting to kill Americans at Oregon’s tree-lighting ceremony.

However, the judge may actually be on the wrong side of the law on this very shocking issue since the Supreme Court has ruled that coercion or entrapment is not a valid defense if the accused wanted to commit the crime.

Excerpt Read more at examiner.com …

Support Your Local Army of Occupation by William Norman Grigg

Support Your Local Army of Occupationby William Norman Griggby William Norman GriggRecently by William Norman Grigg:

Blowback, Provocation, and Perpetual War

“Wouldn’t it be great if it were like this all the time?” commented a pleasant middle-aged gentleman as the two of us contemplated the large gathering of armed men in camouflage who had materialized in Payette’s Centennial Park.

“I feel really secure with these guys around.”"Actually, I’d feel much more secure if the guns were in the hands of people who aren’t government employees,” I replied, prompting a puzzled look from my new acquaintance.Centennial Park is located just inside the Snake River boundary separating Idaho from Oregon. For reasons I’ve yet to learn, every time I visit the park to do calisthenics and sprints – regardless of the hour of day – I’ll receive a visit from at least one police officer, who will typically do a very slow pass by my little exercise area while I’m huffing and sweating.

On this particular afternoon, however, the park was literally swarming with camouflage-clad “police” from the Malheur County Sheriff’s Department Emergency Response Team, in the company of at least one Payette County officer. They arrived in a caravan of more than a half-dozen vehicles, one of which was pulling a trailer carrying a large motorboat.”Are you guys doing a training exercise?” I inquired of one fellow as he unpacked what appeared to be an AR-15.”We’re just playin,’” he replied with a perfunctory smile.

That response was quite similar to the description offered by SWAT team member Michael Hale of a training exercise conducted just a few weeks earlier just outside of Vale, Oregon.

Thomas R. Horn — Forbidden Gates, Part 7

SATAN’S JURISDICTION

There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan. —C. S. Lewis

During our formative years in ministry, few people more profoundly influenced our theology and practical Christianity than pastor and theologian Dr. Robert Cornwall. Bob—or simply “Cornwall,” as his friends knew him—had a photographic memory, and in order to pay his way through Bible college as a young man, he had gotten a job proofreading books for a publisher of scholarly works. As a result of maintaining this job for years and having an uncanny propensity for recalling facts, Cornwall retained the majority of material he read and became one of the most well informed and brilliant thinkers we ever had the privilege of knowing or being mentored under. Cornwall was also a great storyteller and could thrill audiences at churches and in conferences by weaving details of true-life events with deep theological propositions.

A particular story that raised profound spiritual-warfare implications revolved around one of the first churches he pastored as a young minister in a sleepy little town near the Oregon coast. As described by Cornwall himself at Redwood Family Camp meeting in the 1970s, he had barely settled into leadership at the church when strange things began to happen for which he had no explanation. Objects in the building seemed to move around on their own, especially overnight when the building was supposed to be unoccupied. He would hear the piano playing and go into the sanctuary to find nobody there. Doors would slam, pews would be discovered positioned backward against the wall, and his notes would disappear—then reappear.

Members of the church reported similar phenomena, and Cornwall eventually learned that the activity had been going on for years.One night, hours after he had gone home to bed, Cornwall’s telephone rang and the police chief was on the other end of the line. He wanted to know what kind of party Cornwall was sponsoring at the church.“What do you mean, a party?” Cornwall asked.“Neighbors are calling. They say it’s so loud they can’t sleep. We thought maybe the youth group was having an overnight event that was getting out of hand.”

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1% Trasaction tax?!?!?!

Forgive me if this is previously posted…. I just can’t believe they are going to try this crap.I checked this out and it is true.

There will be a 1% transaction tax on any financial transaction with the exception of purchase and sale of stock. If we make a $500 ATM withdrawal, we will pay $5 tax, and $300 on a $30,000 car purchase.

I checked this out on Truth or Fiction and it is true. The bill is HR-4646 introduced by US Rep Peter deFazio D-Oregon and US Senator Tom Harkin D-Iowa. It is now in committee and will probably not be brought out until after the Nov. elections.Suggest that you pass this along and also to your state senator and representative and US Congressman and Senators.One percent transaction tax is proposed President Obama‘s finance team is recommending a transaction tax.