Posted on 08/29/2009 12:53:25 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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FYI...my thoughts on this pivotal point in American history.
Good post! Inspiring.
Make sure each man is trained in 'active protest' and has all the tools required to 'protest effectively'.
I am forming my team.
Mark for later...
We have acted like sheep while our country is bankrupted and our government is directed by communists and radicals of all stripes. We are truly at a crossroads and the road back will NOT be easy, but liberty is worth fighting for. May God give us strength as we battle the tyrants who wish to turn this once great nation into a bannana republic.
Thanks Laz and all.
Join us in our petition for constitutional redress. We hope to take hundreds of thousands, if not millions of names to DC next Spring or Summer before the elections and put these pols and appointed officials on notice. We hope tens, if not hundreds of thousands join with us in going there as a follow up to the 912 events.
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Again...thanks, Jeff...
Occasionally -- no, often, people say to me, "But the early Church didn't practice civil disobedience." Didn't they? You don't know your history again. When those Christians that we all talk about so much allowed themselves to be thrown into the arena, when they did that, from their view it was a religious thing. They would not worship anything except the living God. But you must recognize from the side of the Roman state, there was nothing religious about it at all -- it was purely civil. The Roman Empire had disintegrated until the only unity it had was its worship of Caesar. You could be an atheist; you could worship the Zoroastrian religion... You could do anything. They didn't care. It was a civil matter, and when those Christians stood up there and refused to worship Caesar, from the side of the state, they were rebels. They were in civil disobedience and they were thrown to the beasts. They were involved in civil disobedience, as much as your brothers and sisters in the Soviet Union are. When the Soviet Union says that, by law, they cannot tell their children, even in their home about Jesus Christ, they must disobey and they get sent off to the mental ward or to Siberia. It's exactly the same kind of civil disobedience that's represented in a very real way by the thing I am wearing on my lapel tonight.
Every appropriate legal and political governmental means must be used. "The final bottom line"-- I have invented this term in A Christian Manifesto. I hope the Christians across this country and across the world will really understand what the Bible truly teaches: The final bottom line! The early Christians, every one of the reformers (and again, I'll say in A Christian Manifesto I go through country after country and show that there was not a single place with the possible exception of England, where the Reformation was successful, where there wasn't civil disobedience and disobedience to the state), the people of the Reformation, the founding fathers of this country, faced and acted in the realization that if there is no place for disobeying the government, that government has been put in the place of the living God. In such a case, the government has been made a false god. If there is no place for disobeying a human government, what government has been made GOD.
Caesar, under some name, thinking of the early Church, has been put upon the final throne. The Bible's answer is NO! Caesar is not to be put in the place of God and we as Christians, in the name of the Lordship of Christ, and all of life, must so think and act on the appropriate level. It should always be on the appropriate level. We have lots of room to move yet with our court cases, with the people we elect -- all the things that we can do in this country. If, unhappily, we come to that place, the appropriate level must also include a disobedience to the state.
If you are not doing that, you haven't thought it through. Jesus is not really on the throne. God is not central. You have made a false god central. Christ must be the final Lord and not society and not Caesar.
I believe that the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble and their ideological issue (children) have gained more than they ever hoped for -- and they did it without inciting a race war or similar violence, their preferred revolutionary but failed method of the 1960s.
Arguably the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble have become "the Establishment."
Americans are waking up and they are not happy as they realize that their very liberty and their very opportunity to achieve and excel are being robbed from them.
MSM pundits have tried to compare today with the anti-government revolt of the 1960s not so!
Today is a rescue effort.
The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble and their ideological issue (children)-cum-Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) are not going to play by the rules and go peacefully.
(That ain't name calling. The Sixties Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble really have taken over the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party. Under the hail of "neo-con" taunts many Democrats fled the Party.)
All the skullduggery and violent suppression that they alleged Bush was planning is their plan. IMO.
I took all three oaths like you. Oaths are forever. Oaths are worth dying for. Just ask the eleven Apostles, and those in the cemeteries at Arlington and Normandy.
An ill wind is blowing. The choice is up to American people. As President Reagan said, freedom is only one generation from extinction. All I have to say is: not on my watch.
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The Obama Administration has an illustration of them czarring and fettering us.
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I stand with you brother!
I have always cringed when I hear them call themselves that and when media refers to them as that.
You sir, are the Thomas Paine of our generation. Your words have struck a chord in me and as an Oath Keeper I will be proud to pledge my life, my fortune and my sacred honor to protect and defend our Constitution. The lines in the sand are drawn and true patriots will do their duty. Semper Fi.
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