On several occasions as I watched the president give a speech I began to wonder if he knows what he is there in that great office to represent. I wondered if he understands the true history and legacy of this great land. Not a head knowledge but a heart knowledge. I wondered if he felt the true weight and responsibility to maintain the status of the United States in the world. Does he understand the importance of individual freedom and liberty both to be and to do? After all, does not the Creator of the universe himself believe in free choice ? Does not our unalienable rights emanate from the Creator? Or perhaps the framers greatly erred and we should strike that out so no one will be “offended”? No! he made me to be free.

I watch him and it is like an actor on a stage, playing a role, moving as the director directs and saying what the script says to say. If all we needed was a good looking actor who can give a good sounding speech, we could have elected Denzel Washington. Talking is not doing. And this: what has he done for anybody, anywhere that we may see that he even knows what he is doing? Tell me please!

Does he know who he is supposed to be? Well the apology tour was one indication that he has misunderstood what America’s role in the world should be. Yes we can be arrogant, yes we can be boastful,yes some of us are greedy, yes we have made mistakes, but should he stand before people who want to kill us and say these things.Is it the president’s role to humble us before the world ? And yet he speaks not so despairingly of himself. The president cannot even accept criticism without whining. You better believe that the world needs America to be America. Why? Who comes in disasters to help with humanitarian aid the most. What country offers the promise of rags to riches to immigrants from far flung parts of the world ? Where are you allowed, to worship any deity, stick or stone without threat of death? Or you may believe in no god at all. America that’s where. At least for now.

He will not praise this country without condemning it. He will not extol our virtues over our vices, he will not raise his voice and proclaim that America is the land of the free and the home of the brave before the world. Why? because that is not what he seems to believe we are or maybe should be. His vision of America is not what we have been known to be. Governmental control, extravagant giveaways, speech police, food police, media police and “social justice” is where he is leading us.

We no longer have public servants but royalty in congress. Little kings and queens who will tell us what to and how to do it with the promise of something “free” to lure us in. We must obey them because after all they know better how to run our lives than we do.I almost feel like we will soon be asked to bow when they come into the room.

Hate speech laws are being enacted to keep any one from saying anything, to offend any group, anywhere, doing any hideous thing they can think of. Although Christians and conservatives will not be a protected group. I promise you. Gags will be placed on the mouths of religious people who believe that there is such a thing as sin and wrong and right.All judeo- christian symbols will be removed from the public square. The history book writers for school children are already wiping the country’s religious heritage from the pages. No longer should it be told why the pilgrims came here or that our laws are based on the bible. Hatred of America and everything it stands for is festering in the halls of academia and a new revisionist story is told of how we are the constant perpetrators of evil in the world. This will not be an America fit to live in if it continues this way.

I do not want to be here when the destroyers of liberty, religious freedom and self determination are done with this country. Our leaders are becoming a counsel of idiots and deceivers and it is distressing to see. Those who rise up and stand for truth, for right and for liberty will have to pay a price, yes they will and some are already paying it. But the price is not too great nor the sacrifice too large to keep this a free republic.

What about the children ? What about the future? What about our standard of living? What about the survival of freedom in the world. What about it friend ? Are you standing up or sitting down with your hands over your eyes just hoping the storm passes you by?

Please let’s not get weary now. Let’s Fight on and let’s fight hard.

The event was acheduled to run until 2 pm. I saw no media whatsoever until we were leaving at 1:40. Thunderstorms were rolling in, and ABC Local 10 was JUST ARRIVING.  I think it is great that  ”dozens” where still there when Joan Murray of CBS 4 Miami reported…after all, if she was reporting “LIVE” at 6 pm, the official party had been over for FOUR HOURS!

To be sure, I was there from 10:30 to about 1:40, and though the turnout was not as high as 4/15 there were more than “dozens” of Tea Partiers. My guess would be 1,000 – 1,300 after all was said and done.

Joan Murray of CBS 4 Miami also said “this rally is part of ‘dozens’ happening nationwide…” By all accounts from online alternative news operations, there were at least 800 going on around the nation on July 3rd, 4th and even the 5th.  Some even reported upwards of 2,000.

The only thing Joan Murray of CBS 4 Miami got right is when she said: “Protestors say this really isn’t about a Democratic or Republican principle, instead it’s a non-partisan way to have their voices heard…it wasn’t the first Tea Party and it won’t be the last..” (emphasis mine)

Over to the South Florida Sun Sentinel:

Apparently their writers and editors did not watch the coverage by Joan Murray of CBS 4 Miami, otherwise they would not have printed this caption for a picture accompanying an article by Georgia East in the South Florida Sun Sentinel online article dated 5:47 PM EDT, July 4th, 2009:  “This was one of many Republican-led protests against taxes, modeled after the Boston Tea Party (in spirit, anyway; there are no ships of tea to unload) demonstration against taxes keyed to the holiday.”  (emphasis mine)

Really…I don’t know where these people went to journalism school, but they should demand a refund, because their money was wasted.

Have you run across similar articles/evidence of incompetence? Make sure to comment here!

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Update: “JustNews.com” WPLG channel 10  states: “About 200 people gathered in Fort Lauderdale to rally against higher taxes, big government spending, and universal health care.” http://www.justnews.com/news/19950609/detail.html

Looking forward to summer vacation!

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But I was shocked as one scholar declared there is no issue with any of five Constitutional Clauses that might be applied in this case. Now I have had to play this interview back several times to see if I should pick my jaw up off my desk and get on with my day or not. 

When asked if the Due Process Clause applied to the issue, Bruce Fein replied:

“Absolutely not. Remember there’s a rational relationship between the tax and the facts of the case that led to the bonus, mainly, the reason why your’re taking it back is because the government’s money was what created the ability of the companies to pay the bonus. It’s rational to say since we created the ability to pay, we’re entitled to get it back.”

Think about it. Did you hear what he said? He said quite literally:

“What the government giveth, the govenrment has the Constitutional right to taketh – and without due process!”

This is a man who was associate deputy attorney general under the Reagan Administration, but was very critical of George W. Bush for – in his opinion – trouncing on civil liberties when implementing the terror surveillance program in order to protect the U.S. I don’t know if this guy has ever been a judge, but I hope he never becomes one. He would, unfortunately, be the Obama ideal.

I don’t know. It is all very worrisome to me.

Click here to see the interview.

The “Establishment” clause reads:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

The current courts’ interpretation has twisted this clause in such a way that the clause is anathema to itself.  It’s like that commericial that is on TV… Guy walks into a dry cleaner with a shirt and tells the attendant “I want it starched and not starched.” The attendent asks, “what part do you want starched and what part do your want not starched?” The man replies “All of it.”

What are these people thinking? You can’t have it both ways and all of it at the same time!

One article on the subject of Separation describes it this way:

“During the last generation, the courts, at all levels, have ruled in ways that essentially guarantee the freedom from religion, instead of the freedom of religion.” ChristainAnswers.net

Establishment -

This word can be used as one of the following, depending on the context*:

1. the act or an instance of establishing. (literal)
2. the state or fact of being established. (literal)
3. the recognition by a state of a church as the state church.

So that begs the question: Has government been ruled out of the business of legislating…

1. …the act or an instance of establishing a religion?
   I think as a literal phrase and in the context of the evacuation of England by our country’s first founders and citizen, this makes sense.
2. …the state or fact of religion being established?
   No, the founders were overwhelmingly religious. They were determined to have their churches. They would go on to excercise their religious freedom by establishing churches, having been unfettered by the tinkering of the government. This was the point of the clause. 
3. …the recognition by a state of a church as the state church.
   The founders prayed in private, public, and yes, even government gatherings. The first community schools used the Bible as one of their primary subjects of study. These acts on the part of the founders and early citizens did not constitute recognition of a state church then. 

 Anathema. You can’t have it both ways.