Discovering the Biblical Kingdom of God, Jesus & Holy Spirit
America's Choice: Constitutional Republic or Democrat-Socialism?
"Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants." (Benjamin Franklin)
Wise Warnings Against Tyranny
Restoring the Constitutional Republic for which it stands
Will American citizens prevent Democrat-Socialists from "fundamentally transforming America" from "We the People" into "We the serfs" by voting to undermine our children's freedom and liberty?
Can't say we weren't warned. How will our children reflect on our efforts to preserve the Greatest Nation?
"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." --James Madison (1788)
Distinguishing between Patriots and cowards
Contents:
- Upfront - "Progressive" Consequences
- Anti-Christ, Anti-Republic "Progressive" Agenda
- "The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"
- Restoring the Constitutional Republic
"Progressive" Consequences
H.W. Prentiss created an outline for nations that described a progression "from bondage to spiritual faith, to courage, to liberty, to abundance, to selfishness, to complacency, to apathy, to dependence, back to bondage."
Are We the Byzantines? The Byzantines never woke up in time to understand what they had become. So far neither have Americans. - By Victor Davis Hanson - ...The last generations of Byzantines had inherited a global reputation and standard of living that they themselves no longer earned. They neglected their former civic values and fought endless battles over obscure religious texts, doctrines, and vocabulary. They did not expand their anemic army and navy. They did not reunite their scattered Greek-speaking empire. They did not properly maintain their once life-giving walls. Instead of earning money through their accustomed nonstop trade, they inflated their currency and were forced to melt down the city's inherited gold and silver fixtures. The once canny and shrewd Byzantines grew smug and naive. Childlessness became common. Most now preferred to live outside of what had become a half-empty, often dirty, and poorly maintained city. Meanwhile they underestimated the growing power of the Ottomans who systematically pruned away their empire. By the mid-15th century, Islamic armies were ready to exploit fatal Byzantine weaknesses.
"...The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly ... Heaven knows how to put a price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. ...There are persons, too, who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy, if he succeed, will be merciful. It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf, and we ought to guard equally against both." --Thomas Paine: "The American Crisis"
John Witherspoon - "Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue."
Thomas Jefferson, Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge, 1779 - "The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibits..."
"It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children; but it is our duty to leave liberty." --John Dickinson
"This nation will remain the land of the free only so
long as it is the home of the brave."
"The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it."
-- Elmer Davis
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." --James
Madison
"Indeed I tremble for my country when reflect that God is just: that his justice
cannot sleep for ever:" --Thomas
Jefferson
"A Republic, if you can keep it." ..."Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants." --Benjamin Franklin
Will the Declaration of Independence continue to evolve into a Declaration of Dependence upon Government?
Anti-Christ, anti-Republic "Progressive" Agenda
o "Progressive" Selective justice
o "Progressive" Selective tolerance
o "Progressive" Selective diversity
o "Progressive" Selective discrimination
o "Progressive" Selective science
o "Progressive" Selective free speech
o "Progressive" Selective mandates
o "Progressive" Selective ethics
o "Progressive" Selective history
o "Progressive" Selective biology
p "Progressive" Selective "Rights" due to a preferred and complete absence of self-discipline and attempting to ignore, demean and bury the premise of "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God."
"Bonds" and "cords" are indicative of restriction and confinement. These are those who despise the moral law of Scripture when it clashes with their wants and desires. They redefine sin, reinterpret God's Word, and reassure themselves that the behavior they engage in is just fine with God. They think they have effectively cut the cord to holiness in the name of going all-in on "love." They are wrong and God holds them in derision.
The last three years in American politics have borne this out, hasn't it? The last presidential election had far more to do with bursting the bonds and cords of God's design and will than it had to do with Trump and Clinton. The Russia hoax, Mueller, the Kavanaugh hearings, and impeachment are only superficially about the president and the last election. At its bottom, it's all about casting off the great shadow of God's perfect holiness. 'He who sits in the heavens laughs'"
The great takeaway from Psalm 2 is this: no one can thwart the plan or the will of God and His Anointed One. You cannot do it because you don't like it. You cannot do it by redefining Scripture. You cannot even do it by murdering the Son! And just because you convince yourself that you have effectively reimagined and reinterpreted God's Word and will (breaking those bonds and cords) doesn't mean God has to adopt your "progressive" view.
Is America Destined to Become Like Sodom and Gomorrah? - By Larry Tomczak - ...Sodom and Gomorrah were real cities and real people lived there. These were notoriously sinful cities that God warned but eventually destroyed because of their wickedness (Gen. 19:24). These cities, infamous for their debauchery and homosexuality, are mentioned 23 times in Scripture. When Jesus taught about judgment, He referred to Sodom and Gomorrah (Matt. 10:15). Historians acknowledge them; Muslims and Jews record their existence along with their decadent behavior. Billy Graham told us, "If God doesn't judge America, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah." Before the annihilation of Sodom and Gomorrah by a rain of fire and brimstone (sulfur), God sent two angelic individuals to advise good people to leave but, except for one righteous man, Lot, who took his family and departed, masses ignored the coming peril and suffered with their lives. These men were welcomed into Lot's home, but the depravity of the city was manifested when a group of Sodomites descended on the residence saying they wanted to engage in homosexual activity with the guests. God mercifully spared the righteous ones by striking blind the gay men enabling Lot's family to evacuate. Across America what do we now see? "LGBTQ Celebration! Gay Pride! Drag Show! Trans Festival! Same Sex Wedding! Pride Nite! Lesbian Filmfest! Gay Parade! Queer Cruise! Campus Pride Week!" The current bombardment often includes public displays of seductive attire. "They parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it" (Isa. 3:9). "They not only continue to do these various things [homosexuality & lesbianism] but also approve of those who practice them" (Rom. 1:32b).
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because you have rejected knowledge..." Hosea 4:6
Ezekiel 12:2 - Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house."
Jeremiah 6:10-19 - To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear
is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto
them a reproach; they have no delight in it. ...For from the least of them even
unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the
prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely. ...Were they ashamed
when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither
could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time
that I visit them they shall be cast down, says the LORD. Thus says the LORD,
Stand in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way,
and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will
not walk therein. Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of
the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. Therefore hear, ye nations, and
know, O congregation, what is among them. Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring
evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not
hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
Psalms 2:1-5: Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the
rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder,
and cast away their cords from us. He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then
shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Hosea 4:6-10: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will
also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten
the law
of thy God, I will also forget thy
children. As they were increased, so they sinned
against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. They eat up the sin
of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. And there shall be,
like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them
their doings. For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit
whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the
LORD.
2 Timothy 3:1-7: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall
come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of
those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than
lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from
such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead
captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning,
and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Jeremiah 9:5-9: And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they
have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know
me, says the LORD. Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt
them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? Their
tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his
neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait. Shall I not visit them
for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation
as this?
Patrick Henry: "There is no retreat but in submission and
slavery. Our chains are forged. ...It is natural to man to indulge in the
illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth - and
listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this
the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are
we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having
ears hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For
my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the
whole truth; to know the worst, and the provide for it."
Thomas Jefferson: "When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility
of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring
its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil."
Concerning the important issues of judicial authority and government, he said:
"But when their morals were corrupted, the more power they were possessed of,
the less prudent was their conduct; till at length upon becoming their own tyrants
and slaves, they lost the strength of liberty, to fall into the weakness and
impotency of licentiousness."
Samuel Adams - "Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say,
'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?'
... If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of
servitude than the animating contest of freedom...crouch down and lick the
hands, which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity
forget that ye were our countrymen!"
James Madison: "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the
people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and
sudden usurpations."
James Madison: "If Congress can do whatever in their
discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the
Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an
indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions."
John Adams: Novanglus and Massachusettensis, Addressed to the
inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay "The nature of
the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more
and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The
revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people
grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more
corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants,
until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the
objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness,
meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society."
Thomas Jefferson: "I place economy among the first and most important virtues,
and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our
independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run
into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and
in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the
government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring
for them, they will be happy."
Frederic Bastiat: "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state.
They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone."
John Dickinson:
(Committee to the Representatives in Assembly of Pennsylvania & signer of the Constitution):
"It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children; but it is our duty to leave liberty."
"I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the properties
class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal." --
Roger Baldwin, leftist, anarchist, and Communist, was born in Wellesley MA and
co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under
the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist
program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how
it happened." -- Norman Thomas, Socialist Party Presidential Candidate
in 1940, 1944 and 1948, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
George Washington,
in an address to the officers of the army, March 15, 1783
- "For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments
on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that
can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom
of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to
the Slaughter."
James Monroe, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
-
"How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the
best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check
and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and
countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it
were by an irresistible fate of despotism."
John Adams, letter to Mercy Warren, 1776:
"Men must be ready, they must pride
themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and
interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they
stand in competition with the rights of society."
...How will America's freedoms be lost? Alexis de Tocqueville predicted how
Americans would lose their freedom a little at a time (Democracy in America,
Vol. 2, 1840, The Second Part, Bk 4, Ch. VI): "I had noted in my stay in the
United States that a democratic state of society similar to the American model
could lay itself open to the establishment of despotism with unusual ease ... It
would debase men without tormenting them ... Men, all alike and equal, turned in
upon themselves in a restless search for those petty, vulgar pleasures with
which they fill their souls ... Above these men stands an immense and protective
power ... It prefers its citizens to enjoy themselves provided they have only
enjoyment in mind. It restricts the activity of free will within a narrower
range and gradually removes autonomy itself from each citizen ..."
Alexis de Tocqueville continued: "Thus, the ruling power, having
taken each citizen one by one into its powerful grasp ... spreads its arms over
the whole of society, covering the surface of social life with a network of
petty, complicated, detailed, and uniform rules ... It does not break men's
wills but it does soften, bend, and control them ... It constantly opposes what
actions they perform ... It inhibits, represses, drains, snuffs out, dulls so
much effort that finally it reduces each nation to nothing more than a flock of
timid and hardworking animals with the government as shepherd... a single,
protective, and all-powerful government ... Individual intervention ... is ...
suppressed ..."
Alexis de Tocqueville added: "It is ... in the details that we run
the risk of enslaving men. For my part, I would be tempted to believe that
freedom in the big things of life is less important than in the slightest ...
Subjection in the minor things of life is obvious every day ... It constantly
irks them until they give up the exercise of their will ... and enfeebles their
spirit ... It will be useless to call upon those very citizens who have become
so dependent upon central government to choose from time to time the
representative of this government ..."
Alexis de Tocqueville concluded: "Increasing despotism in the
administrative sphere ... they reckon citizens are incompetent ... It is ...
difficult to imagine how men who have completely given up the habit of
self-government could successfully choose those who should do it for them ...
The vices of those who govern and the ineptitude of those governed would soon
bring it to ruin and ... revert to its abasement to one single master."
President Calvin Coolidge warned in a speech at the College of William and
Mary, MAY 15, 1926: "But there is another ... recent development ... the greatly
disproportionate influence of organized minorities ... Artificial propaganda,
paid agitators, selfish interests, all impinge upon members of legislative
bodies to force them to represent special elements rather than the great body of
their constituency. When they are successful, minority rule is established ...
"The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"
Natural Law: The Ultimate Source of Constitutional Law - Natural law is the basis for
Jefferson’s assertions in the Declaration of Independence.
- "Man ... must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator.. This will of
his Maker is called the law of nature.... This law of nature...is of course
superior to any other.... No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to
this: and such of them as are valid derive all their force...from this
original." - Sir William Blackstone (Eminent English Jurist)
The Founders DID NOT establish the Constitution for the purpose of granting rights. Rather,
they established this government of laws (not a government of men) in order
to secure each person's Creator, endowed rights to life, liberty, and property.
Only in America, did a nation's founders recognize that rights, though endowed
by the Creator as unalienable prerogatives, would not be sustained in society
unless they were protected under a code of law which was itself in harmony with
a higher law. They called it "natural law," or "Nature's law." Such law is the
ultimate source and established limit for all of man's laws and is intended to
protect each of these natural rights for all of mankind. The Declaration of
Independence of 1776 established the premise that in America a people might
assume the station "to which the laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them.."
Janet Miriam Taylor Caldwell author (1900-1985)
- "[H]ow do we know at what point the character of a people
weakens? When they give over to government those duties which they should be
pleased to perform themselves. When they are told they will be fed and sheltered
even when they won't work, when they are promised security from the cradle to
the grave, when they are told the state will take over the supervision of their
children and say what schooling they should receive and where. When they are
told all these things and supinely accept them."
Charles Finney wrote: "The time has come for
Christians to vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics or the
Lord will curse them...Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as
this, and Christians must do their duty to their country as a part of their duty
to God." ..."God will bless or curse this nation according to the course
Christians take in politics."
The men of Marlborough, Massachusetts who took part in the
Boston Tea Party: "Death is more eligible than
slavery. A free-born people are not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to
submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given them to
recover and support their liberties..."
In his Farewell Address, George Washington cautioned of dangers facing America:
..."And of fatal tendency...to put, in the place of the delegated will of the
Nation, the will of a party; - often a small but artful and enterprising
minority ... They are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent
engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to
subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for the themselves the reins of
Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to
unjust dominion ..." ..."Let me now...warn you in the most solemn manner against
the baneful effects of the spirit of Party ... This spirit, unfortunately, is
inseparable from our nature, having its roots in the strongest passions of the
human Mind ... It is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst
enemy ... Domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of
revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has
perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism ..."
..."But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The
disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek
security and repose in the absolute power of an Individual ... (who) turns this
disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty
... Ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part
against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection ..."
President John F. Kennedy:
"Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of
the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people."
Samuel Adams:
"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can
any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On
the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their
Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign
Invaders."
Jedediah Morse stated in Charleston, Massachusetts, April 25, 1799:
"Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our
present republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from
them, must fall with them."
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it
stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may
not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution
should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world." Daniel
Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot
"The house of representatives ... can make no law which will not have its
full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of
society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human
policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them
that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments
have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into
tyranny." --James Madison, Federalist No. 57, 1788
"If there be any among us who would
wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand
undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be
tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their
errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I,
and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Make yourself sheep, and the wolves will eat you."
--Ben Franklin
"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for
humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a
shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of
sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but
its anti-humanity."--American author Eric Hoffer
(1902-1983)
&"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and
silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
--President George
Washington
Complacency and apathy may result in our American descendants
becoming unrepresented UN drones. The choice is either a government of the
people, by the people, for the people, or a government of the
unelected UN Security Council, by the Security Council, for the
Security Council.
& "My ardent desire is, and my aim has
been...to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and
domestic; but to keep the U States free from political connections
with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all,
and under the influence of none. In a word, I want an American
character, that the powers of Europe may be convinced we act for
ourselves and not for others; this, in my judgment, is the only
way to be respected abroad and happy at home."
--Letter to Partick Henry,
9 October 1775 - Reference: The Writings of George Washington, Fitzpatrick, ed., vol. 34 (335)
..."But if we
are to be told by a foreign Power... what we shall do, and what we
shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended
hitherto for very little." ... "There is a rank due to the United
States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost,
by the reputation of weakness." --George Washington
letter to Alexander Hamilton, 8 May 1796 - Reference: The Writings of
George Washington, Fitzpatrick, ed., vol. 35 (40)
"Foreign influence is truly the Grecian
horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence."
and... There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of
a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined
purposes precisely stated in a treaty regulating all the details of time,
place, circumstance, and quantity; leaving nothing to future discretion;
and depending for its execution on the good faith of the parties."
--Alexander Hamilton
Some are now asking that instead of
supporting a blatantly obvious corrupt and weak United Nations where a
consensus on almost all issues appears impossible, that instead, the U.S.
should form alliances with like-minded nations encompassing virtue.
Tis folly in one Nation to look for
disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its
Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such
acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for
nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving
more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real
favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure,
which a just pride ought to discard."
--George Washington (Farewell
Address, 19 September 1796) Reference: Washington's Maxims, 71.
"I have been happy... in believing that... whatever follies we may be led
into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of
our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming
an arena of gladiators." --Thomas Jefferson,
letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1797
Restoring the
Constitutional Republic
"The republic was not established
by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it."
Elijah Against the World - By Ed Vitagliano - ...Toward the
end of 1 Kings 16, the Bible tells us that Ahab became king and married a pagan
woman – the infamous Jezebel. These two rulers purposefully and rebelliously led
the people into sin, promoting the worship of false gods, most notably Baal
worship. They corrupted an entire culture, opened the floodgates of evil, and
watched with glee as the land filled with darkness. They foolishly declared war
on the God of Israel and thought they would not pay for their insolence.
...God often gently pressures a culture to reconsider its ways, but
when the people persist in their evil, the pressure gets ramped up. Such is the
case in America. As many leaders pioneer newer and newer ways to defy the God of
heaven, the hand of the Lord rests ever heavier on us as a people. Surely
sinners will relent in their sinning? It rarely happens that way, however. Just
as we often see in the Bible, America’s wicked rulers have become obstinate in
their sin. They have doubled down. They don’t just promote sexual deviancy with
their words, they turn on the rainbow floodlights at the White House. They don’t
relax as their ideologies carry the day on college and university campuses, they
are now grasping for the minds of children in elementary schools.
...As a final blow to this false religion, Elijah ordered that it
was now the prophets of Baal who should be slaughtered. “Do not let one of them
escape” (v. 40), Elijah commanded. And none did. With Almighty God, the tide in
history can turn just that quickly. When it appears that all is lost, the decay
and wickedness has gone too far, and evil leaders hold too much power, the Lord
can suddenly and irrevocably destroy the plans of His enemies. How is this
possible? As the people cried out in the days of Elijah, “The Lord, He is God;
the Lord, He is God!”
American Voter Choices
Joseph Story - "Let the American youth never forget, that they
possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of
their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of
transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life,
the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence."
ACLU founder and executive director from 1920 to 1950, Roger Baldwin
wanted to bring socialism to America, but he
knew that to be effective, he had to disguise and mask this goal in terms of
individual rights. He wrote: "Do steer away from making it look like a
socialist enterprise. We want to look like patriots in everything we do. We want
to get a good lot of flags, talk a good deal about the Constitution and what our
forefathers wanted to make of the country, and to show that we are really the
folks that really stand for the spirit of our institutions." (Quoted in William
A. Donahue, Twilight of Liberty: The Legacy of the ACLU - New Brunswick, NJ:
Transition Publishers, 1944, pp.6-7)
American Minute Alexis de Tocqueville compared Christianity vs. Islam,
and predicted how America's freedoms would end! ...Alexis de
Tocqueville continued: "The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and
of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them
conceive the one without the other ... They brought with them into the New World
a form of Christianity which I cannot better describe than by styling it a
democratic and republican religion."
Did Coolidge predict Gov't abuse? - 'having authority over everybody and being
responsible to nobody' By William Federer
The result is an extravagance on the part of the Government which is ruinous to
the people and a multiplicity of regulations and restrictions for the conduct of
all kinds of necessary business, which becomes little less than oppressive.
...No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not
result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline. Of all
forms of government, those administered by bureaus are about the least
satisfactory to an enlightened and progressive people. Being irresponsible they
become autocratic ... .
... Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted it breaks down
representative government and overwhelms democracy. It ... sets up the pretense
of having authority over everybody and being responsible to nobody ...We must
also recognize that the national administration is not and cannot be adjusted to
the needs of local government ...
...The states should not be induced by coercion or by favor to
surrender the management of their own affairs. The Federal Government ought to
resist the tendency to be loaded up with duties which the states should perform.
It does not follow that because something ought to be done the National
Government ought to do it."
Distinguishing between Patriots and cowards, Samuel Adams, said: "Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen,
and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' ... If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility
of servitude than the animating contest of freedom...crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you. May your
chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
--American writer
Elmer Davis (1880-1958)