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		<title>Investment Advisor Receives more than Link</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Liberty Tree Lantern readers should also be advised that The China Syndrome might cause the imminent collapse of The Matrix, financial core meltdown, even sooner than forecasted; should they decide to sell out American debt and dollars to protect themselves from the imminent collapse of the programming of our minds, known as our economy based on Monopoly Money that we call The MATRIX. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jared:</p>
<p> I am pleased that you enjoy <a href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/08/27/for-what-purpose-is-obama-building-civilian-defense-force/">The Liberty Tree Lantern</a>. </p>
<p> As you are aware, if you are reading my blog, I stated that our economy is experiencing a Supernova Effect where the market skyrockets up to at least 11500 and perhaps even as high as 16,000 over the next few months.  I was forecasting that in January of this year based on the multiple TRILLIONS of printed out of thin air monopoly money that The Fed has and is continuing to inject into The MATRIX (our “perceived” economy).</p>
<p> Nobody seems to fully understand “why” the market is going up so far and so fast.  Banks are not lending their money out to business or the public in general.  So what’s going on?  No banker is so stupid as to let good money just sit there, doing nothing, even though they are wise enough to not lend it out in the middle of The Great Recession.  Therefore, the Trillions are “seeping” into the markets.  This process will eventually lead to super heated economic growth and millions of people getting re-employed and some even making more than ever before.  When this happens, over the course of the next 9 – 18 months, this is when you know that the end, a new BLACK FRIDAY, is close at hand.  This is a very close facsimile as to what happened in 1929 and we all know what happened on a particular Friday “after” the weeks when most everybody in America thought that everything economically was on the mend and slept well and awoke to almost everything being lost.</p>
<p>  So, if you know what you are doing, go dancing in the market, have fun making a killing, BUT BE OUT before BLACK FRIDAY of 2011 probably Q2 or Q3 when the U.S. Government admits that they have to start collecting MASSIVE additional taxes from the working classes to pay for Social Security, Medicare, Socialized medicine (public option) and all manner of Constitutionally contemptuous legislation in the form of UNCONSTITUTIONAL Socialism passed by scofflaws since 1913 which has led us down that path to the valley of darkness known as a green “hybrid” of Socialism, Communism and Fascism in the form of a U.N. style one world despotic BIG BROTHER welfare police state.  A new world where there is nowhere on Earth to run from tyranny and oppression or the IRS Agents of The MATRIX.  In the new world that is coming, should We The People become cowards and not fight hopefully peacefully but in any case anyway necessary to protect our way of life, INDIVIDUAL liberty, freedom, rights and property, we Americans will realize that government “free stuff” leads only to the equal distribution of misery, poverty and ultimately slavery via Socialism.</p>
<p> The MATRIX, our economy based on our minds being led through Mass Behavior Modification that a dollar is worth 100 cents, when in the “real world” it is actually worth 2 – 3 cents, will come to an end, just as it almost did in the last quarter of 2008, due to the natural forces of the universe; the inescapable physics of “natural law” (<strong>God&#8217;s Law</strong> of which under the Universe was created).  Gravity, for example, is a “natural law” of the universe which cannot be avoided forever.  In this case, for example, only God and the labor of man can create wealth.  Printing TRILLIONS of dollars of nearly worthless paper and ink, supported by almost nothing, with almost no collateral to speak of, and being able to take those pieces of paper with ink on them and buy homes, cars, trucks, boats, skyscrapers, pay labor, refrigerators, furniture, etc, etc, etc, with nothing more than pieces of paper printed from a glorified computer printer at the office of the cartel of twelve privately held banks called THE FEDERAL RESERVE “SYSTEM”,  is shear madness.</p>
<p> The Fed has thrown the financial ball of doom up into the air, it is being propelled by fuel we call monetary supply, but there is no way to reach escape velocity; soon the &#8220;Natural Law&#8221; of gravity (God&#8217;s Law) will start to pull down The MATRIX (our economy) that only exists in our minds and the dollar will be revalued <strong>by the world</strong>, in panic selling, down to its true value outside of The MATRIX (outside of our minds in the real global world) to 2 – 3 cents.  When this process starts to happen, I would estimate in Q2 or Q3 2011 coinciding with MASSIVE income tax increases on the middle class; <strong><em>Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, because Kansas, , ,   is going bye, bye! </em></strong></p>
<p><em><strong><span>The result of all of this:  &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..   &#8221;Hyper-Inflation&#8221;.</span></strong></em><em><span>  What does that mean?  What if a single gallon of gasoline cost $80.00?  What if your MONTHLY utility bill went up to $5,323.00?  What would happen if a loaf of bread costs $80.00?  What if a gallon of milk cost $150.00?   -  -  -  -  -    Total &#8220;System&#8221; failure.  The MATRIX, this economy that we live in, because we have been programmed &#8211; &#8220;mass behavior modified&#8221; to believe that a dollar is worth 100 cents &#8211; when in reality it is worth only 2 &#8211; 3 cents, </span></em><strong><em><span>will be shut down</span></em></strong><em><span>, that is what it means.  And mark the words of ol&#8217;Capt. Karl, Obama is just waiting for this Crisis to implement the means to his ends of a one world government with totalitarian control over every living soul in the world and nowhere to run for rights or freedom:</span></em><span> </span></p>
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<p><em> (Liberty Tree Lantern readers should also be advised that <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">The China Syndrome</span></strong> might cause the imminent collapse of The Matrix, financial core meltdown, even sooner than forecasted; should they decide to sell out American debt and dollars to protect themselves from the imminent collapse of the programming of our minds, known as our economy based on Monopoly Money that we call The MATRIX.  Unfortunately ol&#8217;Capt. Karl cannot read the Chinese minds so I cannot predict if or when this might happen.  But it is important that we all keep our ear on the rail to listen for signs that the Chinese are selling out of our debt so we don&#8217;t get caught with our financial pants down and our assets in the middle of a total market collapse.) </em></p>
<p>Obama and his Communist / Socialist / Fascist cohorts knows this.  And this is why he is building a <a href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/08/27/for-what-purpose-is-obama-building-civilian-defense-force/">National Civilian Defense Force </a>of conscripts made up of our 18 – 25 year old sons and daughters who are now “required” by law to undergo basic training (which includes “behavior modification and adjustment”) “<span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>that is as strong, powerful and well funded as the military</strong></span>”.</p>
<p><strong><em> </em></strong>I’ve taken a look at your website and find it of value.  I would be pleased to exchange links with you.</p>
<p> Very truly yours in FREEDOM,</p>
<p> <strong>Capt. Karl</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/">The Liberty Tree Lantern</a> &lt;hotlink</p>
<p><strong>How is Barack Obama going to sell the one world currency and later the one world government, (I call it &#8220;The Final Ultimatum&#8221;).  See the following video as a glimpse into the future, when the &#8220;merciful&#8221; Obama gives us &#8220;The Final Ultimatum&#8221; to &#8220;temporarily give up the Constitution&#8221;:</strong></p>
<p><strong>1.      </strong><strong>in favor of a one world currency so that financial and monetary markets can be stabilized. </strong></p>
<p><strong>2.     </strong><strong>So he and the Government can provide shelter, food and a job for us in these &#8220;desperate financial times&#8221;.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>3.     </strong><strong>The U.S. combines with other so called “free western nations” to work together as a World Wide Union to restore our financial viability for not only people in America but to work together with people from around the world, for the common good of all.  (A green “hybrid” of World Socialism / Communism / Fascism where there is nowhere on Earth to run for individual freedom, rights or prosperity.  Total Control under a U.N. style government.)</strong></p>
<p><strong>DON&#8217;T FALL FOR IT, PEOPLE!  It is a trick to further their interests of TOTAL POWER and WORLD domination that, through INCOME TAXES that they have been using against us and OUR LAWS in The Constitution since 1913, in favor of Socialism, Communism and Fascist &#8220;hybrid&#8221; where there are no INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS and NO God.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>God, individual freedom and individual rights are unreservedly connected. </strong></p>
<p><strong>It is going to get hard when The MATRIX collapses, but we must endure it to restore our individual freedom, our individual rights, and our individual prosperity.  We must restore our right to work, earn and KEEP for ourselves whatever we aspire to keep and earn.  We must also have the RIGHT and the dignity to give from our earnings, freely, as WE decide and as we feel right in our own situations.  Government must never take that dignity and right away from us.  But we must all realize that freedom is going to cost us the hardship of the collapse of The MATRIX (our “perceived” economy).  We are going to have to be hungry and work and survive on our own without a lot of services.  If we are to ever restore our freedom, liberty and individual prosperity it is something we are just going to have to deal with; because we must REJECT OBAMA’S ‘Final Ultimatum’ in favor of Freedom and individual prosperity IN THE LONG RUN.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>How long must we endure hardship and hunger (and perhaps a Re-Revolutionary War if it comes down to that) until WE The People restore our individual prosperity and have an unbelievably great economy with the Federal Government out of our lives (which is the MEANING OF FREEDOM as defined by our Founding Fathers) and our individual sovereign States taking care of all the things that are not authorized in the &#8216;enumerated&#8217; list of SEVENTEEN things, by the Constitution (See: <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#A1Sec9">9th and 10th Amendments </a>and also THE enumerated list of SEVENTEEN powers: <strong><a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#A1Sec8">Section 8 &#8211; Powers of Congress</a></strong>), for the Federal Government to handle?  I would speculate it would take about five years.  The first two will really be tough as so many of us Americans have become wimps.  But we will be all the better AND individually <strong>prosperous </strong>for it.</strong></p>
<p><strong>After The <em>MATRIX</em>  collapses w<em>e</em> will learn to help each other and to give of our own free will to help and love our neighbors.  We will learn to pray to God for our blessings and NOT get down on our knees to pray to our Government, nor to THE FEDERAL RESERVE &#8220;SYSTEM&#8221; to print paper &#8220;blessings&#8221; out of thin air from which to buy food, shelter and clothing.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>How did we ever get so far from our roots?  (Public Schools that are &#8220;Government&#8221; sponsored.  That has got to come to an end.  That and Main Stream Media owned by the Trilateral Commission (<a href="http://www.trilateral.org/">www.trilateral.org</a>) who are a creature founded by THE FEDERAL RESERVE banking companies, is what programmed our minds to be so perverted  away from freedom, the prosperity that only it can produce and our God who blessed us with it.)</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Can you be brave enough to suffer for five short years, after the collapse of our economy, for the Godly glory of individual freedom, liberty, and prosperity?  If not, , , </span> than all Americans, our children and their children&#8217;s children will suffer a thousand years of darkness under a worldwide Socialist, Communist, Fascist &#8220;hybrid&#8221; U.N. style welfare BIG BROTHER, IRS Agent police state with nowhere to run;  Where there is no hope to get out from under the EQUAL DISTRIBUTION of misery in poverty and individual slavery for &#8220;The Masses&#8221;.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>Benjamin Franklin said; </strong><em><span style="color: #0000ff">&#8220;Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.&#8221;</span></em></p>
<p><strong>How could you be so cruel as to choose Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Final Ultimatum&#8221; that is coming in the near future, rather than suffer only five years of hardship, for freedom?  How could you live with yourself choosing to place your own children and grandchildren in a slavery as horrendous as that under the <strong>Pharos</strong>?</strong></p>
<p><strong>And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin&#8217; to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they&#8217;ll never take&#8230; OUR FREEDOM!<br />
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<p><em>Here is your glimpse into the future of how Obama is going to sell his ‘final ultimatum’:</em></p>
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<p>God help us if we choose to give up on freedom and OUR Constitution in favor of Obama’s promise of shelter, food and a job.  It will soon come to that, in less than three years, folks.  Watch for ‘The Final Ultimatum’ and remember that ol’Capt. Karl told you that this was coming; <strong>but more importantly have the fortitude to reject it, so that the vast majority of average common Americans can become wealthy once again through courage, their own hard work, risk, freedom, liberty and the blessings of our creator; in a world where all of us get to prosper and keep, save and invest our earnings from our own labor, live and make our own daily decisions to live and do as WE the average working class, and all classes see fit as FREE Americans.</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff"><em>&#8220;GIVE ME A COUNTRY, A FREE COUNTRY!&#8221;</em>  </span> &#8230;. John Adams</strong></p>
<h3><span style="color: #ff0000">Obama and his minions of Socialist / Communist / Fascist cohorts have the answers to DESTROY our country!  </span></h3>
<h2>Here are the answers to rebuild it:</h2>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louis Johnson, briefly Truman’s secretary of defense, had sought to close down the Marine Corps altogether and dismantle as many army divisions as he could — all thought to be superfluous in the new postwar age of strategic air power and nuclear weapons following the defeat of the Axis powers. Admirals were up in arms over massive cancellations of shipbuilding and the mothballing of their fleets.

Then came the Communist-inspired effort to topple Greece and Turkey, the Communist takeover of China, the war in Korea, the brutal Soviet suppression of liberation movements in Eastern Europe, and the massive expansion of the Soviet Union’s conventional and nuclear forces. Only the rearming of the United States in the early 1950s, along with the new policy of containment and foreign aid, stopped the Soviet advance and saved millions from Communist takeovers.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>September 2, 2009 4:00 AM</p>
<h3>Grueling war, promises of peace, new attack — are we about to repeat this tired cycle?</h3>
<p>By Victor Davis Hanson</p>
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<td valign="top"><strong>B</strong>y 1930 Verdun had been transmogrified almost into a dirty word in French schools. Throughout the late 1920s, the First World War was increasingly reinterpreted in the West as a futile bloodletting. International “Merchants of Death” and greedy capitalists, not the Kaiser’s aggressive Prussian militarism, were now seen as the true causes of that recent horrific war. A punitive Versailles Treaty — and not the failure to invade, occupy, democratize, monitor, and transform a defeated Germany — was seen as the real mistake on the part of the victors.Britain and France all but disarmed. The Maginot defensive line, England’s island status, the new and welcomed art of appeasement (originally, lest we forget, a suitably liberal and humane idea), growing socialist movements, the League of Nations, and a new pacifism were all seen as substitutes for Neanderthal notions like deterrence and military preparedness. Perpetual peace was supposed to follow — and not another war with Germany a mere 20 years after the last one. Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, and the rest begged to differ.</td>
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<p>After the Second World War, the United Kingdom and the United States once again disarmed at an astonishing rate. By June 1950, even tiny Communist North Korea had access to better tanks and jets than were available to nearby American occupation troops in Japan. Only the threat of a nuclear response kept Stalin’s divisions from walking into postwar Western Europe — mostly disarmed despite efforts to forge a conventional NATO deterrent.</p>
<p>Louis Johnson, briefly Truman’s secretary of defense, had sought to close down the Marine Corps altogether and dismantle as many army divisions as he could — all thought to be superfluous in the new postwar age of strategic air power and nuclear weapons following the defeat of the Axis powers. Admirals were up in arms over massive cancellations of shipbuilding and the mothballing of their fleets.</p>
<p>Then came the Communist-inspired effort to topple Greece and Turkey, the Communist takeover of China, the war in Korea, the brutal Soviet suppression of liberation movements in Eastern Europe, and the massive expansion of the Soviet Union’s conventional and nuclear forces. Only the rearming of the United States in the early 1950s, along with the new policy of containment and foreign aid, stopped the Soviet advance and saved millions from Communist takeovers.</p>
<p>By the mid-1970s the United States was weary again. Vietnam had nearly wrecked the American military and had sent millions into the streets at home. Accommodation and détente — not the rollback of Communism — were the preferred way of dealing with an ascendant, but now supposedly more moderate, Soviet Union.</p>
<p>After the Nixon years and Watergate, the evangelical Jimmy Carter called for defense reductions and an end to our “inordinate” fear of Communism. He put confidence instead in the United Nations, good will among men, and a new emphasis on global human rights, rather than, yet again, reactionary deterrence.</p>
<p>But after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Communist intrusions into Central America, the rise of radical Islam, and the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran, Carter ended his presidency in disillusionment about the efficacy of the United Nations, and about the supposedly benign intentions of the Soviet Union and radical Islam.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, Ronald Reagan was considered a cretin for once again massively rearming and waging an ideological war against the “evil empire” created by the Soviet Union, as well as for engaging in provocative acts like bombing Libya and invading Grenada. Reagan spent eight years enlarging all branches of the military, creating new strategic weapons, and opposing Soviet adventurism almost anywhere it was identified. Soon after he left office the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended.</p>
<p>George Bush continued these policies during the four years of his administration, but then, as if on cue, Bill Clinton reversed course and announced a “peace dividend.” He reduced the number of army and marine divisions and of air wings. The military shrunk radically in size. New weapons programs were put on hold. We settled into the 1990s prosperity of the dot-com boom. The talk was all about twentysomething college dropouts making millions in ground-floor stock options by brainstorming for brilliant new concerns like AskJeeves or America Online. Little Silicon Valleys were going to sprout up everywhere.</p>
<p>By 1999 Americans were focused on whether their president should be merely censured or impeached for engaging in sex acts with a White House intern in the Oval Office. Occasional radical Islamic attacks such as the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the murder of U.S. servicemen in their Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the destruction of three of our East African embassies in 1998, and the assault on the U.S.S. <em>Cole</em> in 2000 were all considered police matters that did not warrant a full-fledged military response. It was the global American hegemony and support for Zionist Israel, not existential hatred for Western freedom and liberality, that provoked these outbursts from an exasperated radical Islam.</p>
<p>Then came 9/11, and the belated catch-up inevitably followed. A new Department of Homeland Security was created with bipartisan support. Both houses of Congress passed the Patriot Act. A majority of Democratic senators voted with the Republicans to authorize two wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq. President Bush enlarged the defense budget. In the dark days after 9/11, Americans praised the FBI, CIA, and armed forces for keeping us safe.</p>
<p>Indeed, for the next eight years there was no repetition of the September 11 massacres, despite terrible suicide bombings abroad. For all the tragedy of the occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq, both the Taliban and Saddam Hussein were removed, and ensuing constitutional democracies continued to survive. Tens of thousands of al-Qaeda terrorists flocked to Iraq and were killed there. Their leadership remains attrited and scattered in the wilderness of Waziristan. Dozens of terrorist plots in America were broken up while still in the planning stages. The message went out that if another American city were to be attacked, an unpredictable but angry United States would go after any nation that had supported, housed, or subsidized the terrorists, even if only tangentially.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Tories and Loyalists&#8221; Behold America Awakens to Defend The Constitution!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socialists, Communists and Fascists behold as American's across the expanse of our UNION of FREE, INDEPENDENT and SOVEREIGN States Awaken to the clarion call to protect and defend Our Constitution that We The People wrote, established and ordained as a set of LAWS upon our Federal Government;  A set of LAWS that 'ENUMERATES' the written list of only SEVENTEEN powers that by our INDIVIDUAL but united authority, bestowed upon us by our creator, we borrowed to the Federal Government, meaning both houses of Congress, The Obama and all Administrations and The Supreme Court, for the 'privilege' of handling ONLY these things listed in Our Constitution.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Socialists, Communists and Fascists: </span></p>
<p><span>Behold; American&#8217;s across the expanse of our UNION of FREE, INDEPENDENT and SOVEREIGN States Awaken to the clarion call to protect and defend Our Constitution that We The People wrote, established and ordained as a set of LAWS upon our Federal Government;  A set of LAWS that &#8216;ENUMERATES&#8217; the written list of only SEVENTEEN powers that by our INDIVIDUAL but united authority, bestowed upon us by our creator, we <span style="text-decoration: underline">borrowed</span> to the Federal Government, meaning both houses of Congress, The Obama and all Administrations and The Supreme Court, for the &#8216;privilege&#8217; of handling ONLY these things listed in Our Constitution.</span></p>
<p><span>Witness and behold, enemies and Constitutional scofflaws in Congress and King Obama, as We The People continue to rise up in ever greater and greater numbers to stop the usurpation, tyranny and corruption that you and y0ur enablers in The Federal Reserve and The Apollo Alliance with all its divisions, subdivisions and minion thugs in Unions and Corporations thrust against us common folk, for we shall stand to protect our INDIVIDUAL rights, earnings, personal property and our Constitution.</span></p>
<p><span>We know that you and your minions are as the <strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Tories and Loyalists</span> </strong>of old to the powers of the King, Obama, as was with King George of England years back;  And, your usurpations and injury to our way of life, freedom and liberties be just as heinous.  We await your continued strikes against us by way of healthcare &#8220;reform&#8221; and Cap-n-Tax legislation formulating into taxation through massive additional withholding on our paychecks and hidden taxation in our utility bills and inflationary costs on our sustenance and life needs.  We stand aware of your efforts to force us to accept a One World Currency and following a One World Government, so we have nowhere on Earth to run for sanctuary from you and the sunshine of  freedom, Godly righteousness and our individual unalienable rights and prosperity.</span></p>
<p><span>One day soon, you shall see the Glory of the coming of We and our God, who bestowed upon us our rights and authority of which you usurp.  The words enshrined in our Constitution shall be conversed amongst the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps.</span></p>
<p><span>After you have executed your utter Constitutional contempt through the passage of the healthcare bill and Cap-n-Tax and you then add insults to injury through the massive <strong>imminent</strong> increases in all manner of tyrannical taxation enforced through coercion of the IRS and its raiding SWAT teams on our common folk small businesses and personal residences, who have been so blessed by God, then shall rise from the fruited plain, the brave from the vintage of God where the grapes of wrath are stored.</span></p>
<p><span>Watch and behold, all you <strong><span style="color: #ff0000">TRUE</span> </strong>domestic enemies of OUR Constitution in the form of Socialists, Communists and Fascists within and out of the Federal Government and all of their enablers / <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>&#8220;</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>TORIES &#8220;</strong></span>, , ,   the swelling ranks of millions of our fellow countrymen rising at the ceaseless Tea Parties, Town Halls and in gatherings under Liberty Trees all across our Union.  </span></p>
<p><span>Don’t push our backs against the wall.  Our God doesn’t like it.  And, it was by his hand and grace that OUR <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.Htm"><strong><span>Declaration of Independence</span></strong> </a>was drafted.</span></p>
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		<title>Devout Muslim Parents Set to &#8220;Honor&#8221; Murder Their Little Girl in Ohio</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["They have to kill me. My blood is now halal which means because I am now a Christian, I am from a Muslim background, it is an honor. If they [my family] love god more than me, they have to kill me"]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the blog: <strong>Atlas Shrugs</strong></p>
<p>Tuesday, August 11, 2009</p>
<div id="entry-6a00d8341c60bf53ef0120a53dd91c970c"><strong><em>PLEASE</em> HELP SAVE THIS TEENAGE GIRL:</strong> &#8220;They have to kill me. My blood is now halal which means because I am now a Christian, I am from a Muslim background, it is an honor. If they [my family] love god more than me, they have to kill me&#8221;</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px"><strong><span style="font-weight: 700;color: #009900;border-bottom: #009900 1px solid;font-style: normal;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;text-decoration: underline">The sight</span> of her father makes the teen &#8220;frantic and hysterical,</strong>&#8221; <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-ohio-teen-convert-custody-dispute-081009,0,4993216.story" target="_blank">Rosa Gonzalez, the attorney for Rifqa Bary, told Orange Circuit Judge Gail A. Adams.</a> The teen is in fear for her life, Gonzalez said.</div>
<p>This is happening in America. Listen to her cry. This is here now. WATCH THIS VIDEO. It is the most compelling plea I have ever seen.</p>
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<p>This is so tragic, so frightening &#8211; we must act. Can someone get the name of this girl&#8217;s lawyer? Experts must testify on her behalf. We will raise <span style="font-weight: 400;color: #009900;border-bottom: #009900 1px solid;font-style: normal;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;text-decoration: underline">the money</span> to fly scholars on Islam <span style="font-weight: 400;color: #009900;border-bottom: #009900 1px solid;font-style: normal;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;text-decoration: underline">to Orlando</span> to speak for the veracity of this girl&#8217;s claims. Please contact me off line if you know anything.</p>
<div><em>Please. Quickly.</em></div>
<div><em><span style="font-weight: 400;color: #009900;border-bottom: #009900 1px solid;font-style: normal;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;text-decoration: underline">The court</span> does not know what it is dealing with: the obfuscation and lies of the propaganda wing of Islam. Florida took emergency jurisdiction until the court can confirm, but Ohio will take over the case and investigate&#8230;&#8230;..<em>&#8220;the child should be returned to Ohio&#8221;</em>.</em></div>
<div><em> </em><em> </em></div>
<div><em> </em><strong>Girl Says Family Wants <span style="font-weight: 700;color: #009900;border-bottom: #009900 1px solid;font-style: normal;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;text-decoration: underline">To Kill</span> Her For Being <span style="font-weight: 700;color: #009900;border-bottom: #009900 1px solid;font-style: normal;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;text-decoration: underline">Christian</span> </strong></div>
<p style="margin-left: 40px">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8212; An Ohio girl ran away to Orlando because she said her family threatened to kill her for converting to Christianity. Rifqa Bary, 17, said she was threatened by her family because she converted from Islam to Christianity.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px">&#8220;What did your father say to you?&#8221; WFTV reporter Mary Nguyen asked.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px"><em>&#8220;He said he would kill me!&#8221; replied Bary. </em></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;color: #c00000;font-family: Georgia"><em><strong>They have to kill me. My blood is now halal which means because I am now a Christian, I am from a Muslim background, it is an honor, if they love god more than me, they have to do this.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;color: #c00000;font-family: Georgia"><em><strong>This is not just some threat. This is reality. This is truth. This is reality.</strong></em></p>
<p>This is to break the heart. The status hearing is set for next Friday. Something must be done. You can hear the cries of Amina and Sarah, Aqsa, Rand &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. all of those girls, you can hear them in her voice.</p>
<p>I beg you to help this child. This girl is in real trouble. The court <span style="font-weight: 400;color: #009900;border-bottom: #009900 1px solid;font-style: normal;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;text-decoration: underline">does not</span> understand. They will buy into the Muslim lies. Apostasy is death in Islam. If this girl is sent back to her family, they will ship her off to Sri Lanka and we will never hear from her again.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the backstory: <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/08/she-got-away.html" target="_blank">She got away! </a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px">A week or so ago I blogged about a missing Muslim girl who converted to Christianity. I wrote: <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/08/fathima-rifqa-bary-i-hope-she-got-away.html" target="_blank">Atlas Shrugs: Fathima Rifqa Bary: I hope she got away. </a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px">Police had been looking for information about Rifqa,  a central Ohio teenager who vanished nearly three weeks ago.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 80px"><strong>The teenager&#8217;s <span style="font-size: 13px;color: #009900;border-bottom: #009900 1px solid;font-style: normal;font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;text-decoration: underline">cell phone</span> has been turned off and her Facebook account deactivated, Kocot reported.</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left: 80px">According to police, the girl&#8217;s friends told detectives that it was possible she ran away because of conflicting religious beliefs in her home.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px"><em><strong>She&#8217;s alive! </strong></em>And in court in a custody battle that could send the girl to her death. I pray they have experts who know about honor killings testify. </p>
<p>The West&#8217;s abject failure:<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/03/honor-killing-islams-gruesome-gallery.html" target="_blank"> the gruesome gallery of honor killings <em>in the West.</em></a></p>
<p><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/02/said_sisters1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/images/2008/12/02/said_sisters1.jpg" border="0" alt="Said_sisters1" width="500" height="412" /></a></p>
<p>Posted by Pamela Geller on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 07:38 PM in <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/dhimmitude_north_american_style/" target="_blank">Creeping Sharia: American Dhimmitude</a>, <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/honor_killings_islam_misogyny/" target="_blank">Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny</a>, <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/rifqa-bary-slow-motion-honor-killing/" target="_blank">Rifqa Bary: Slow Motion Honor Killing</a>, <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/women/" target="_blank">Women and children</a> | <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/08/please-help-save-this-teenage-girlthey-have-to-kill-me-my-blood-is-now-halal-which-means-because-i-a.html" target="_blank">Permalink</a> <a title="ShareThis via email, AIM, social bookmarking and networking sites, etc." href="void(0)">ShareThis</a></p>
<p><strong><em>Comments from The Liberty Tree Lantern: </em></strong> <span style="color: #800000">Folks, what you MUST understand is that while a huge number of Muslims are good and peaceful people the ones who are &#8220;devout&#8221; who subscribe to every word in The Koran and take it literally HAVE TO kill all infidels who can&#8217;t be converted to the Muslim faith and be forced to comply with Shariah Law.  They also have to work to take over the entire world.  Failure by a devout Muslim to do any one of these things is utter blasphemy to their God and they certainly have no chance to get to heaven.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000">You need to see the inherent evil of these &#8220;devout&#8221; Muslims.  &#8220;Devout&#8221; Muslims don&#8217;t even think twice about killing their own children when they become Christians or any other faith they consider an infidel.  They also believe that &#8220;especially&#8221; if their child is a &#8220;good&#8221; devout Muslim these parents believe it is an &#8220;honor&#8221; to strap bomb vests on them, make them a &#8220;martyr&#8221; </span><span style="color: #800000">and blow up infidels (That means you, me and all our children).  They call their little children F-11s.  They liken their children to American fighter jets and see their children&#8217;s legs as the number 11 -a.k.a. F-11.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000">Surely you see the nightmare evil in these devout Muslims.  Devout Muslims subscribe also to &#8220;The Caliphate&#8221; a theocracy ORDERED by the Koran that is to take over the entire world under the twelfth Imam.  </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000">Also see this current entry in The Liberty Tree Lantern: <a title="Permanent Link to Obama Appoints 2 Devout Muslims to Homeland Security Posts" rel="bookmark" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/08/20/2630/">Obama Appoints 2 Devout Muslims to Homeland Security Posts</a></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #800000">The Liberty Tree Lantern has been writing for years that we have <strong>two enemies</strong> and TWO evil battle fronts that are trying to take away our unalienable rights and in some cases our very lives.  Those enemies to the Constitution and ourselves are in all three branches of The U.S. Government, who has usurped powers far beyond the SEVENTEEN we borrowed them the &#8220;privilege&#8221; to handle for us as we The People wrote, established and ordained in our Constitution, making them heinous scofflaws with IRS guns on us, and a second enemy The Caliphate &#8211; literally &#8220;terror-ists&#8221;.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #800000">Therefore, people, we can ill afford to take our eyes off of either enemy while we are dealing with the other; for when and if we do, if we lose our vigilance toward either one of these deadly enemies our freedom and liberty and, perhaps the beating of our hearts, the right to exist, will cease to exist.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000">As we are out at our Tea Parties battling our tyrannical enemies let us keep an eye on the other. </span> <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>Remain vigilant.</strong>  And above all never doubt the existence of The Caliphate.  The little girl in the video above knows all too well about The Caliphate that her parents subscribe to&#8230;</span></p>
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		<title>50 NIGHTMARES Why We The People MUST STOP the &#8220;Public Option&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Capt. Karl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[50 nightmares that will become realitiy by LAW should we allow the Constitutional scofflaw despots in both houses of Congress to pass the "Pubic Option" Socialized Healthcare bill.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you thought rationalized healthcare was bad for America before you knew what was in the bill, it is even worse than you thought now that we are beginning to know what it actually includes. Is this the change you wanted for yourself? your family? Do you really want the Government deciding what is best for you and your family? Speak Out America and Do It NOW!</p>
<p>50 nightmares that will become realitiy by LAW should we allow the Constitutional scofflaw despots in both houses of Congress to pass the &#8220;Pubic Option&#8221; Socialized Healthcare bill:<br />
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1) Pg 22 mandates that the Government will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure. So every employer in the United States will be subjected to a health insurance audit just as all taxpayers are subject to audit. Of course, we will have to pay for an entire new bureaucracy to do this&#8211;the Internal Health Revenue Service?<br />
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2) Pg 30, Sec 123 states that there will be a government committee that decides what treatments you are allowed and what your overall benefits are.<br />
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3) Pg 29, lines 4-16 basically mandates the rationing of health care as is being done in Canada.<br />
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4) Pg 42 recognizes the power of the Health Choices Commissioner to determine your health benefits. You will have no choice.<br />
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5) PG 50, section 152 states that free, taxpayer-paid health care will be given to the 30 million non-citizens in the USA, even illegal aliens.<br />
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6) Pg 58 states that government will have possession of all your health care records &amp; history including finances and you will have to have a National ID Healthcard.<br />
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7) Pg 59, lines 21-24 gives direct access to your banks accounts to compel you to pay any out-of-pocket or premium costs electronically without your previous consent.<br />
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 <img src='http://captkarl.blogivists.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> PG 65, sec 164 provides for a political payoff from the Democrats and Obama; a special subsidized plan for retirees and their families in unions community groups like ACORN.<br />
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9) Pg 72, lines 8-14 creates a Health Care Exchange to bring private health insurance plans under government control. This part of the bill reveals Obama&#8217;s lies about being able to keep your plan if you like it. Any health insurance plan which does not completely rework itself to conform to these regulations will be dropped from the exchange and those insured will have to pick one of the plans in the exchange. This is why the Congressional Budget Office determined that over 20 million will lose the coverage they are now enjoying if Obamacare is implemented.<br />
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10) PG 85, line 7 provides specifics for benefit levels for all health plans, giving government the right to ration everyone&#8217;s healthcare.<br />
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11) PG 91, lines 4-7 mandates that doctor&#8217;s offices, clinics and hospitals provide language-appropriate services, basically ordering them to hire translators at the expense of the American taxpayer.<br />
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12) Pg 95, lines 8-18 allows the government to hire non-profit community groups like ACORN and Americorps to sign up people for the government health plan.<br />
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13) PG 85, line 7 provides for specifics on benefit levels for Medicare recipients, basically rationing the care of every senior citizen I the United States.</p>
<p>14) PG 102, lines 12-18 mandates that all Medicaid eligible will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid based upon income and insurance status. No choice.<br />
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15) Pg 124, lines 24-25 states that no private company or individual can have the right to sue the federal government for medical price fixing, basically eliminating your right to seek redress in the courts regarding your medical care.<br />
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16) Pg 127, lines 1-16 dictates doctors&#8217; payment and therefore income which will reduce what doctors earn and lead to greater shortages of doctors and more rationing of care.<br />
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17) Pg 145, line 15-17 any employer not currently insuring their employees must enroll employees into public plan option, with no choice of private insurance allowed.<br />
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18) Pg 126, lines 22-25 mandates that employers must pay for health insurance even for part-time workers and their families, which will certainly lead to massive layoffs.<br />
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19) Pg 149, lines 16-24 all employers with an annual payroll bigger than $400k who does not pay to enroll employees in public insurance option will pay an 8% tax on all payroll.<br />
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20) Pg 150, lines 9-13 mandates that employers with an annual payroll between $251K &amp; $400K who does not pay to enroll employees in public insurance option will pay a 2-6% tax on all payroll.<br />
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21) Pg 167, lines 18-23 any individual who is self-employed and does not have health insurance will be taxed 2.5% of income and forced to accept public health insurance. So paying for health care out of pocket will be banned from the face of the earth.<br />
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22) Pg 170, lines 1-3 exempts non-resident aliens from the individual health care taxes, so Americans citizens will pay for these aliens, legal and illegal alike.<br />
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23) Pg 195 officers &amp; employees of the new Health Care Administration will have access to all Americans personal financial records and accounts.<br />
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24) PG 203, line 14-15 actually says that &#8220;The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.&#8221; Yes, it says that.<br />
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25) Pg 239, line 14-24 mandates that available physician services will be reduced for Medicaid recipients. Many poor people including many seniors will be affected.<br />
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26) Pg 241, line 6-8 mandates that all doctors receive the same pay, regardless of specialty. This will vastly reduce the number of specialists available in the United States, a common problem where medicine is socialized like Canada.<br />
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27) PG 253, line 10-18 allows the federal government to set the value of doctor&#8217;s time, professional judgment.<br />
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28) PG 265, Sec 1131 mandates and controls the productivity of all health care providers including surgeons!<br />
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29) PG 268, Sec 1141 regulates the rental &amp; purchase of power driven wheelchairs.<br />
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30) PG 272, Sec. 1145 regulates the operation of certain types of cancer hospitals, again rationing the care of cancer patients.<br />
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31) Page 280, Sec 1151 allows the government to penalize hospitals for what is deemed to be preventable readmissions. So instead of being sued for malpractice, the government will be the punitive body when mistakes are made.<br />
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32) Pg 298, lines 9-11 mandates that if a doctor treats a patient during initial admission and that result in a re-admission, the doctor will be subject to federal penalties. Gee do you think that&#8217;s going to drive up the cost of malpractice.<br />
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33) Pg 317, lines 13-20 will create prohibitions on ownership and investment in the health service industry for doctors.<br />
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34) Pg 317-318, lines 21-25, and 1-3 will prohibit the expansion of all hospitals.<br />
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35) pg 321, lines 2-13 allows hospitals apply for an exception to the expansion rule but they must seek community input first!<br />
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36) Pg335, lines 16-25, Pg 336-339 mandates the establishment of outcome based health care and insidious idea that actually limits the treatment choices made by patients with their doctors, based upon the patient&#8217;s health and condition. This will result in the oldest, weakest and sickest patients being denied treatments simply because the statistics for success in their demographic category are poor! This is a form of health care rationing that will save money at the expense of seniors to help buy insurance for the uninsured, most of whom are young and healthy!<br />
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37) Pg 341, lines 3-9 allows the government to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans and HMO forcing people into the government run public plan.<br />
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38) Pg 354, Sec 1177 will arbitrarily restrict the enrollment of special needs children and adults.<br />
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39) Pg 379, Sec 1191 mandates the creation of even more bureaucracy in the Telehealth Advisory Committee.<br />
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40) PG 425, lines 4-12 mandates &#8220;Advance Care Planning Consultation,&#8221; another insidious vehicle to save money by encouraging seniors who are in poor health to be more accepting of death rather than fighting to stay alive and healthy and with their loved ones.<br />
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41) Pg 425, lines 17-19 mandates that all senior patients will be consulted regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney.<br />
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42) PG 425, lines 22-25, 426 lines 1-3 provides an approved list of end of life resources, to help guide seniors about the process of dying!<br />
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43) PG 427, lines 15 mandates program for orders on the end of life, actually giving the government a say in how your life ends!<br />
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44) Pg 429, lines 1-9 dictates the frequency with which an Advance Care Planning Consultant will have to meet with patients as their health deteriorates.<br />
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45) PG 429, lines 10-12 give an Advance Care Planning Consultant the power to order end of life plans for a patient.<br />
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46) Pg 429, lines 13-25 will only allow certain doctors, not necessarily your own physician, to write an end of life order.<br />
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47) PG 430, lines 11-15 allows the government to decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life.<br />
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48) Pg 469 mandates &#8220;Community Based Home Medical Services&#8221; through non profits like ACORN. Happy yet that we elected a community organizer to the White House?<br />
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49) PG 489, Sec 1308 force taxpayers to pay for Marriage &amp; Family therapy under the public insurance plan.<br />
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50) Pg 494-498 allows government to define mental illnesses and what services will be allowed to treat, again rationing this care.</p>
<h3>Here is a video that well represents our fellow countrymen and our child marching toward the hangman’s noose of Socialism in this Healthcare bill and so many others like Cap-n-Tax:</h3>
<p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AfoJUe9mmmU&#038;fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AfoJUe9mmmU&#038;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><em>Behold, our fellow countrymen are marched out in chains of slavery to the beat of tyranny and oppression of the economic hangman of taxation.  How will we feel when our own children and grandchildren climb the stairs to the gallows as they look up at their own economic noose, or should they fight for their God given unalienable rights a real one, and, as the IRS Agent lifts him or her on the barrel,  sing his or her last song for Freedom?  <a title="Permanent Link to HOW MANY DID COMMUNIST / SOCIALIST REGIMES MURDER?" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/03/15/how-many-did-communist-regimes-murder/">HOW MANY DID COMMUNIST / SOCIALIST REGIMES MURDER?</a></em></p>
<p><strong>The <strong>Brethren </strong>will still be looking here to us, in Wisconsin, to the Black Pearl to LEAD AND for need (of encouragement).  And what will they see?  Frightened bilge rats floating on a derelict ship?  No!  NO they will see FREE  MEN!  And FREEDOM!</strong>    And what the enemy will see is the thrash of our hands, they will hear the ring of our swords <strong>AND THEY WILL KNOW</strong> <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">WHAT WE CAN DO!</span></strong>  <strong>By the sweat of our brows and the strength of our backs and <span style="text-decoration: underline">the courage of our hearts</span>!</strong>     GENTLEMEN,  ,  ,  ,      </p>
<h1>HOIST THE COLORS!   </h1>
<p> <span style="color: #0000ff"><em>-   Capt. Karl</em></span></p>
<p> <span style="text-decoration: underline">They will pay for their treason, usurpation and tyranny</span> against our laws that <strong>we the people did establish</strong> and ordain in The Constitution <span style="text-decoration: underline">on them</span> and the death of our children’s and grandchildren’s economic future!     <strong>The Seas and the LAND be OURS ;  ;   ;</strong>  <strong>Where   <span style="text-decoration: underline">WE   WILL</span> ,   ,   ,   ,  WE  roam!</strong>   <strong><span style="color: #ff0000">We shall NEVER DIE!</span></strong></p>
<h1> Ready on The Guns!</h1>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline">Important Links On What to Know and What YOU can Do:</span> </h3>
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<li><a title="Permanent Link to “ENUMERATED” Powers Clauses in Constitution Do NOT Authorize Federal Gov. to Handle Healthcare" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/07/30/enumerated-powers-clauses-in-constitution-do-not-authorized-federal-gov-to-handle-healthcare/"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small">“ENUMERATED” Powers Clauses in Constitution Do NOT Authorize Federal Gov. to Handle Healthcare</span></a></li>
<li> <a title="Permanent Link to Exploiting Public Ignorance" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/07/30/exploiting-public-ignorance/"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;color: #0000ff;font-size: small">Exploiting Public Ignorance</span></a></li>
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<h2><a title="Permanent Link to WISCONSIN “RECESS RALLY” in Green Bay, WI and Other Rep. Offices" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/07/30/wisconsin-recess-rally-in-green-bay-wi-and-other-rep-offices/"><span style="color: #0000ff">WISCONSIN “RECESS RALLY” in Green Bay, WI and Other Rep. Offices</span></a> &lt;Coming to a Congressional Office Near You!</h2>
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		<title>9/12 mania: Massive tea party storms D.C.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Our mission is to present a unified voice of concern over the current administration's policies regarding taxation, our economy, foreign and domestic policy, as well as our individual constitutional rights as American citizens," said Grassfire national coordinator Darla Dawald in an open invitation to the public to join the Sept. 12 taxpayer march in Washington, D.C. "America is in trouble, the problems and issues are broad and complex and it will take a monumental effort to stop, change and reverse the destructive course that this administration and Congress has put us on. Together, We the People can effect that change!"

"People want to do this," he said. "The people who have been protesting around the country want to come to Washington and do this in D.C. In a lot of ways, they are being ignored and the media is underrepresenting them and their numbers. They want to come together for one big event and send a very clear message."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Patriots take fight for America directly to Capitol Hill</p>
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<p>Posted: July 13, 2009<br />
8:27 pm Eastern</p>
<p>By Chelsea Schilling<br />
© 2009 WorldNetDaily</p>
<p>Thousands of taxpayers from across the nation are planning to descend on Washington, D.C., to take their fight against excessive spending, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103412" target="_top">bailouts</a>, growth of big government and soaring deficits to the <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103412" target="_top">front door</a> of the U.S. Capitol – and they say lawmakers can&#8217;t hide from their loud and clear message.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.the912project.com/">Fox News&#8217; Glenn Beck has been promoting the 9-12 Project</a> to bring citizens back &#8220;to the place we were on September 12, 2001.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The day after America was attacked we were not obsessed with Red States, Blue States or political parties,&#8221; the 9-12 <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103412" target="_top">Project</a> website states. &#8220;We were united as Americans, standing together to protect the values and principles of the greatest nation ever created.&#8221;</p>
<p>On his show, Beck called Americans to forget about party politics and fight for the return to basic principles upon which the nation was founded.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our economy is tanking. It doesn&#8217;t show signs of improving,&#8221; Beck said. &#8220;There are people losing <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103412" target="_top">jobs</a>, and it doesn&#8217;t look like there is more help on the way there; there are more cuts on the way. People around the world are taking to the streets. Our government responds with bailouts, and when you call them up and say &#8216;What are you doing?&#8217; you don&#8217;t get any response. They&#8217;re not listening to you.&#8221;</p>
<p>The White House has not responded to WND&#8217;s request for comment.</p>
<p>Beck continued, &#8220;Ponzi scheme crooks get away with millions, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103412" target="_top">tax</a> cheats are getting promotions, terrorists are on the run, and you just want your family safe. You just want your children to grow up in a sane country, and you don&#8217;t want anybody indoctrinating your kids when they get to school. I think a lot of people feel like they&#8217;re alone and they just want to give up. I&#8217;m here to tell you something important, and that is: You are not alone.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Beck said Americans were busy &#8220;burying our heads in the sand&#8221; or &#8220;playing politics&#8221; on Sept. 10, 2001.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was about Republicans or Democrats,&#8221; he said. &#8220;On 9/11, we were freaking out and no one knew who attacked us. … On 9/12, no one in the government had to tell us what to do. We just did it. … We gathered our families together. We prayed. We were the people that our grandparents were, and nobody had to tell us.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then the political parties got involved, he said, and Americans went back to their partisan squabbling.</p>
<p><span><a href="http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/03/24/mission-statement/"><img src="http://www.wnd.com/images/9-12.jpg" alt="" width="501" height="185" /></a><br />
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<p align="center"><a href="http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/03/24/mission-statement/"></a></p>
<p>The 9-12 Project challenges Americans to recommit themselves to the following principles:</p>
<ol>
<li>America is good.</li>
<li>I believe in God and He is the Center of my life.</li>
<li>I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday</li>
<li>The family is sacred. My family and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.</li>
<li>If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.</li>
<li>I have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.</li>
<li>I <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103412" target="_top">work</a> hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.</li>
<li>It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.</li>
<li>The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.</li>
</ol>
<p>And the project also emphasizes the following 12 values:</p>
<ol>
<li>honesty</li>
<li>reverence</li>
<li>hope</li>
<li>thrift</li>
<li>humility</li>
<li>charity</li>
<li>sincerity</li>
<li>moderation</li>
<li>hard work</li>
<li>courage</li>
<li>personal responsibility</li>
<li>gratitude</li>
</ol>
<p>&#8220;Become a 9-12er,&#8221; Beck said. &#8220;Forget about arguing about the parties. … Forget about it. It is a waste of time, and I really believe time is running out.&#8221;</p>
<p>Above all, he said, the No. 1 principle Americans must stand for is re-establishment of the Constitution.</p>
<p><a href="http://912dc.org/"><img src="http://www.wnd.com/images/taxpayermarch.jpg" alt="" /></a><a href="http://www.wnd.com/images/taxpayermarch.jpg"></a></p>
<p>In a major movement unaffiliated with – but inspired by – Beck&#8217;s 9-12 Project, called <a href="http://912dc.org/">the National Taxpayer Protest</a>, thousands of Americans are answering the call and booking travel arrangements to make their voices heard at Capitol Hill on Sept. 12.</p>
<p><a href="http://912dc.org/"></a>Several organizations have united to help organize the tea party movement&#8217;s descent on the Capitol, including: Freedom Works, Grassfire/ResistNet, Tea Party Patriots, National Taxpayers Union, Club for Growth, Americans for Tax Reform, Young Americans for Liberty, Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, Our Country Deserves Better, Campaign for Liberty, Leadership Institute, Free Republic, Young America&#8217;s Foundation, the National Association of Rural <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103412" target="_top">Land Owners</a> and Smart Girl Politics.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Our mission is to present a unified voice of concern over the current administration&#8217;s policies regarding taxation, our economy, foreign and domestic policy, as well as our individual constitutional rights as American citizens,&#8221; said Grassfire national coordinator Darla Dawald in an open invitation to the public to <a href="http://912dc.org/">join the Sept. 12 taxpayer march in Washington, D.C</a>. &#8220;America is in trouble, the problems and issues are broad and complex and it will take a monumental effort to stop, change and reverse the destructive course that this administration and Congress has put us on. Together, We the People can effect that change!&#8221;</p>
<p>On Sept. 10 and 11, the groups will host grassroots training seminars and Sept. 11 &#8220;We&#8217;ll Never Forget&#8221; memorial. The taxpayer march is scheduled to begin at the Lincoln Memorial at 10 a.m. Sept. 12 and culminate with a rally at 1 p.m. in front of the Capitol.</p>
<p>The National Taxpayer Protest website offers <a href="http://912dc.org/getting-here/">detailed information on travel and hotel accommodations</a>, including directions to the event. <a href="http://912dc.org/event-registration/">Tea party attendees may RSVP there as well</a>.</p>
<p>More than 9,000 people have already registered through the protest <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103412" target="_top">website</a>, and the number is growing rapidly.</p>
<p>&#8220;Obama managed to have 4 million show up at the Capitol grounds,&#8221; Dawald told WND. &#8220;We need to do the same if not more. The financial situation is dire, but as one gentleman said, &#8216;If I have to sell my belongings and crawl there, I will – because it&#8217;s that important!&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Jenny Beth Martin of <a href="http://teapartypatriots.org/">Tea Party Patriots</a> told WND the groups are focused on &#8220;protecting the values and principles that have made America the greatest nation for future generations.&#8221;</p>
<p>She said a confirmed list of speakers and performers will be released soon.</p>
<p>Brendan Steinhauser of <a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/">FreedomWorks</a> said the movement is gaining momentum as taxpayers plan trips to Washington to join the fight against big government.</p>
<p>&#8220;People want to do this,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The people who have been protesting around the country want to come to Washington and do this in D.C. In a lot of ways, they are being ignored and the media is underrepresenting them and their numbers. They want to come together for one big event and send a very clear message.&#8221;</p>
<p> <img style="border: 0px" src="http://www.wnd.com/images/090705washdcteaparty.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p>
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<p>Meanwhile, <a href="http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/03/24/mission-statement/">Beck&#8217;s 9-12 Project mission statement</a> explains:</p>
<p>We want to get everyone thinking like it is Sept. 12, 2001, again. Ask yourself these questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Do you <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103412" target="_top">watch</a> the direction that America is being taken in and feel powerless to stop it?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Do you believe that your voice isn&#8217;t loud enough to be heard above the noise anymore?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Do you read the headlines everyday and feel an empty pit in your stomach … as if you&#8217;re completely alone?</li>
</ul>
<p>If you&#8217;ve answered YES, then you&#8217;ve fallen for the Wizard of Oz lie. While the voices you hear in the distance may sound intimidating, as if they surround us from all sides – the reality is very different. Once you pull back the curtain, you realize that there are only a few people pressing the buttons, and their voices are weak. The truth is that they don&#8217;t surround us at all.</p>
<p>We surround them.</p>
<p>As part of his own challenge to America, Beck asked patriots to get together with friends and talk about the country, its values, principles and Founding Fathers&#8217; original purpose. He said to stay focused in the quest to take the America back.</p>
<p>&#8220;Believe me America, I am as tired as you are. I love my country,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not the parties or anything else. It&#8217;s the principles behind this country. Stand up and fight for them.&#8221;</p>
<p>WND readers have been sending information on other upcoming tea parties. <a href="http://www.teapartypatriots.org/Default.aspx?state=Alabama">Tea Party Patriots also lists events by state on its website</a>, including the follwoing:</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Alabama</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:Wetumpkateaparty@yahoo.com"><strong>Wetumpka</strong></a>– Saturday, September 5, time to be announced, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103412" target="_top">Gold</a> Star Park, Shelby Street, downtown</p>
<p align="center"><strong>California</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><a href="mailto:info@bostonianteaparty.com"><strong>Redding</strong></a>– Friday, July 17, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., location to be announced</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Florida</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:billie@ceoservicebureau.com"><strong>Jacksonville</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, time to be announced, Riverwalk</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Georgia</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Albany</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Bishop&#8217;s Albany office, 235 Roosevelt Avenue Albany Tower</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Athens</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Broun&#8217;s Athens office, 3706 Atlanta Hwy.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Atlanta</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, at Rep. Lewis&#8217; district office, the Equitable building, 100 Peachtree Street, NW</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Augusta</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Barrow&#8217;s Augusta office, 925 Laney Walker Blvd. </p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Brunswick</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Jack Kingston&#8217;s Brunswick office, 805 Gloucester Street</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Canton</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Price&#8217;s Canton office, 100 North Street</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Columbus</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Bishop&#8217;s Columbus office, 18 Ninth Street</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Dalton</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Deal&#8217;s Dalton office, 415 E. Walnut Avenue</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Dublin</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Marshall&#8217;s Dublin office, 503 Bellevue Avenue</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Evans</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Broun&#8217;s Augusta/Evans office, 4246 Washington Rd.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Gainesville</strong></a> – Friday, July 17,12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Deal&#8217;s Gainesville office, 500 Jesse Jewel Pkwy</p>
<p><a href="mailto:teapartytownscounty@live.com"><strong>Hiawassee</strong></a> – Saturday, July 18, line up at 9:45 a.m., parade starts at 11 at 20 Main Street (Hwy 76) in parking lots behind bank and McConnell Memorial Church</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Jonesboro</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Scott Jonesboro&#8217;s office, 173 North Main Street</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Lafayette</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Deal&#8217;s Lafayette office, 108 W. LaFayette Square</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Lawrenceville</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Linder&#8217;s district office, 75 Langley Drive</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Lithonia</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Johnston&#8217;s district office, 5700 Hillandale Dr.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Macon</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Marshall&#8217;s Macon office, 682 Cherry Street</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Marietta</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Gingrey&#8217;s Marietta office, 219 Roswell Street</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Newnan</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Westmoreland&#8217;s district office, 1601-B East Highway 34</p>
<p><a href="mailto:Jimric314@gmail.com"><strong>Peachtree City</strong></a> – Saturday, July 18, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., at the Gathering Place, 203 MacIntosh Trail</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Rome</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at Rep. Gringrey&#8217;s Rome office, 600 East First Street</p>
<p><a href="mailto:devore@mindspring.com"><strong>Roswell</strong></a> – Saturday, Sept. 12, 11:30 a.m.to 1 p.m., Old Historic Square, Hwy 9 and Hwy 120</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Sandersville</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Barrow&#8217;s Sandersville office, city hall, 141 West Haynes Street</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Savannah</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., 450 Mall Boulevard</p>
<p><a href="mailto:marolynoverton@yahoo.com"><strong>Savannah</strong></a> – Friday, July 31, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Rousakis Plaza, Historic River Street</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Thomasville</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Bishop&#8217;s Thomasville office, 137 East Jackson Street</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Toccoa</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rep. Broun&#8217;s Tocca office, 194 Remsdale Street</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Tucker</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., Rep. Johnston&#8217;s district office, 3469 Lawrenceville Highway</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Valdosta</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., Rep. Jack Kingston&#8217;s Valdosta office, Valdosta Federal Bilding, 401 N. Patterson St.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gateapartypatriots@gmail.com"><strong>Vidalia</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., in front of Rep. Barrow&#8217;s Vidalia office, 107 Old Airport Rd.</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><strong>Illinois</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="mailto:teaparty.patriots.central.il@gmail.com">Peoria</a> </strong>– Friday, July 17, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Aaorn Shock&#8217;s office at the federal courthouse, 100 Monroe St.</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Massachusetts</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:dlrapoza@comcast.net"><strong>New Bedford</strong></a> – Friday, July 17, 3 p.m., outside Rep. Barney Frank&#8217;s office, 558 Pleasant St.</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Missouri</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:EurekaTeaParty@charter.net"><strong>Ellisville</strong></a> – Saturday, July 18, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Bluebird Park, 225 Kiefer Creek Road</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Montana</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:MontanansUnite@gmail.com"><strong>Great Falls</strong></a> – Saturday, Sept. 12, 1 p.m., Park Drive and Central Avenue</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Nevada</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:rickcrain2000@yahoo.com"><strong>Mesquite</strong></a> – Tuesday, July 14, 12 p.m., Mesquite City Hall</p>
<p align="center"><strong>New Jersey</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:gardnerfam4@hotmail.com"><strong>New Brunswick</strong></a> – Thursday, July 16, 4 p.m., Rutgers University&#8217;s Voorhees Mall between College Ave and George Street</p>
<p align="center"><strong>New York</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:statenislandtaxteaparty@gmail.com"><strong>Staten Island</strong></a> – Saturday, Aug. 2, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., Conference House Park &#8211; Tottenville</p>
<p align="center"><strong>North Carolina</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:tl862@bellsouth.net"><strong>Goldsboro</strong></a> – Saturday, July 18, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Goldsboro Commons, 200 S. Center Street</p>
<p><a href="mailto:carla_harper@bellsouth.net"><strong>Maydan</strong></a> – Saturday, July 25, 7 p.m., Washington Mills Bridge in Maydan, meet in bridge parking lot</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Ohio</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:wwilliam@insight.rr.com"><strong>Columbus</strong></a> – Saturday, Aug. 1, Ohio statehouse, corner of Broad and High Street</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Texas</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:lchwhiteford@aol.com"><strong>Houston</strong></a> – Saturday, Sept. 12, 10 a.m, Norris Convention Center, I-10 and Beltway 8 Southeast corner</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Virginia</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:teapartypatriots@richmondteaparty.com"><strong>Chesterfield</strong></a> – Saturday, July 25, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., Chesterfield County Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Rd.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:shenvalleyteaparty@comcast.net"><strong>Staunton</strong></a> – Saturday, Aug. 1, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Gypsy Hill Park Bandstand, Thornrose Avenue</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Washington, D.C.</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:darla@grassfire.org"><strong>Washington, D.C.</strong></a> – Thursday, Sept. 10, 8 a.m., Capitol</p>
<p><a href="http://912dc.org/"><strong>Washington, D.C.</strong></a> – Saturday, Sept. 12, march on the capitol</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Wisconsin</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:oolongruby@gmail.com"><strong>New Richmond</strong></a> – Saturday, July 18, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., New Richmond Heritage Center, 1100 Heritage Drive</p>
<p><em>For more information on these events, or to RSVP, visit the <a href="http://www.teapartypatriots.org/">Tea Party Patriots website</a>.</em></p>
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From Washington and New York on the East Coast to Los Angeles and Monterey on the West Coast and all points between, Americans had their say yesterday about bailouts, cap-and-trade bills and new federal spending programs that they believe are mortgaging their children's futures and robbing them of personal freedom. 

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<p>WASHINGTON – More than 2,000 tea parties from coast to coast attracted hundreds of thousands tax and Big <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103126#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">Government</span></span></a> protesters on Independence Day – perhaps the biggest July 4 political event in America since the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence.</p>
<p>From Washington and New York on the East Coast to Los Angeles and Monterey on the West Coast and all points between, Americans had their say yesterday about <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103126#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">bailouts</span></span></a>, cap-and-trade bills and new federal spending programs that they believe are mortgaging their children&#8217;s futures and robbing them of personal freedom.</p>
<p>The turnouts that defied traditional July 4 diversions, heat and rain encouraged organizers looking forward to the next scheduled tea party events Sept. 12 in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>Nearly 5,000 people turned out in Oklahoma City at the state Capitol building. That protest was one of 32 in Oklahoma alone.</p>
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<p>In San Antonio, Texas, between 3,000 and 4,000 gathered in intense heat throughout the day at the Rio Cibolo Ranch. Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as &#8220;Joe the Plumber,&#8221; was one of the featured speakers along with Gov. Rick Perry, who became the first elected official to sign the &#8220;Contract with the Constitution,&#8221; a document that espouses 10 principles including limiting the role of the federal government, protecting the right to bear arms and amending the Constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman.</p>
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<p>In Washington, D.C., the center of expanding federal powers, about 2,000 small-government advocates rallied to express their outrage at the trillion-dollar &#8220;stimulus&#8221; plans.</p>
<p>&#8220;They are wasting all of our money,&#8221; said Sean Albert of Richmond, Va. &#8220;They&#8217;re not running our government like we would run our own checkbooks. When I&#8217;m out of money, I stop spending the money.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hundreds also rallied in Atlanta where event organizer Bob Frady told a crowd, &#8220;It&#8217;s time that we take our country back.&#8221;</p>
<p>At Miller Park in Marietta, the Cobb Independence Day Tea Party continued yesterday into a second day with more than 2,000 people in attendance.</p>
<p>Some 2,000 people gathered in Morristown, N.J., to mark the nation&#8217;s birth with and protest the growing size of government. Some signed their name on an oversized version of the Declaration of Independence. Signs in the crowd read: &#8220;Save our Constitution&#8221; and &#8220;America&#8217;s no longer free.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Another dozen rallies were planned yesterday in New Jersey.</p>
<p>&#8220;The truth of the matter is that our government has gone out of control,&#8221; Vermont attorney Steven Howard told an assembled crowd in Burlington. &#8220;We have let loose the leash and now it is running rampant.&#8221;</p>
<p>In Louisville, Ky., where some 1,500 turned out, Wendy Caswell, president of the local tea party organization, said: &#8220;We&#8217;re definitely for upholding the Constitution, what our forefathers laid out for us, so it was an honor for us to do it on Independence Day.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just trying to teach people about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. A lot of what&#8217;s going on in Congress wouldn&#8217;t stand up to the Constitution,&#8221; said Bernard Hargenrader at the Houma, La., tea party, where some 200 gathered at the downtown county courthouse.</p>
<p>In Huntsville, Ala., a young medical student wore a Barack Obama mask carrying a sign that said: &#8220;Do you really want me to make medical decisions on your behalf? Just say no to government-run <a id="KonaLink2" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103126#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">health </span><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">care</span></span></a>.&#8221; The Huntsville rally was one of 11 scheduled in that state.</p>
<p>Similar rallies took place in West Palm Beach, Fla.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Bozeman, Mont.; Bloomington, Ill., and Syracuse, N.Y.</p>
<p>At the East Texas tea party in Lukin, organizers gave out the White House telephone number and urged attendees to call Obama and tell him: &#8220;We are not happy, and we are working to make Texas free from his legislation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Texas&#8217; former Solicitor General Ted Cruz, told the crowd that America is &#8220;facing the single greatest threat to our liberty that we&#8217;ve ever seen. I believe that President Obama was elected because we failed to lead. But I also believe that his greatest legacy as president will be that he inspired a new generation of conservatives to rise up and defend our liberty.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cruz is running for state attorney general.</p>
<p>&#8220;I like to think of Texas as America on steroids,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;It is a spirit that says &#8216;give me a horse, a gun and an open plain and I can conquer the world.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>In Olympia, Wash., about 1,500 turned out for a rally on the Capitol campus. In Hawaii, tea party protesters draped American flags and placards along the Kaahumanu Highway in Kona. In Montgomery, Ala., some 500 protesters gathered at Overlook Park sporting signs that said: &#8220;No Obama heath care&#8221; and &#8220;What would Jefferson do?&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;It is a day when we celebrate the independence of our country and not that it is a democracy, it is a republic,&#8221; said Pat O&#8217;Malley, organizer of the Clearwater, Fla., tea party. &#8220;And the powers that be are trying to turn it into a democracy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama was a source of <a id="KonaLink3" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103126#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">irritation</span></span></a> for tea party attendees in Fayetteville, Ark. Joan Phillips carried a sign that read: &#8220;Washington: Where&#8217;s your common sense?&#8221; She was not talking about George Washington. She said Obama is trying to make the country socialist.</p>
<p>&#8220;He is selling us down the drain,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I decided to get up off my fanny and hold my sign here.&#8221;</p>
<p>Organizers around the country expressed their delight with turnouts.</p>
<p>In Reno, Nev., organizer Debbie Landis put the crowd at 3,000.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was in the middle of a conversation and I turned around and saw all these people – it filled me with joy that this many people care,&#8221; Landis said. &#8220;We&#8217;re deeply concerned about this administration and previous administrations&#8217; frivolous spending. We&#8217;re afraid what will happen if cap-and-trade [is passed].&#8221;</p>
<p>About 300 turned out in Asheville, N.C., where signs read: &#8220;When <a id="KonaLink4" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103126#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">taxes</span></span></a> rise, freedom dies&#8221; and &#8220;Taxation without representation is no 4th of July picnic.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We felt we couldn&#8217;t sit back anymore and not say anything,&#8221; Jan Sherlock said. &#8220;We just do not want to go to socialism.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bill O&#8217;Connor, the organizer for the event, came dressed as Patrick Henry.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re on our way to declaring independence from an oppressive government,&#8221; O&#8217;Connor said. &#8220;The main thing is citizens are going to speak today who have deep concerns about things going on at all levels of the government.&#8221;</p>
<p>In Lansing, Mich., Joan Fabiano shouted into the microphone: &#8220;We are tired of the out-of-control spending, tired of the socialization of our government, tired of the erosion of our personal liberties.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not about the freedom anymore,&#8221; said Justin Bovee at a rally in Twin Falls, Idaho. &#8220;It&#8217;s about the power. They can get away with tax fraud while we go to prison.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Tread on Me&#8221; flags were in evidence at many of the tea party rallies, including one at Southfork Ranch, Texas. Some in the crowd there wore shirts supporting independence for the state of Texas.</p>
<p>Signs from <a href="http://shop.wnd.com/store/subdept.asp?SUBDEPARTMENT_ID=247">the WND &#8220;tea party store&#8221; – including &#8220;Where&#8217;s the birth certificate?&#8221; – were in evidence at many rallies.</a></p>
<p>In Grandville, Mich., Ida Pettibone carried a sign that read: &#8220;Give me liberty, don&#8217;t give me <a id="KonaLink5" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103126#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">debt</span></span><span> </span></a>.&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;To stand for liberty is to stop the growth of government,&#8221; said Pettibone, 65. &#8220;Our government is in so much debt, and we need to stop it.&#8221;</p>
<p>There were still more rallies in Plantes Ferry Park, Idaho; Starkville, Miss.; <a id="KonaLink6" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103126#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">Lincoln</span></span><span> </span></a>, Neb.; Nanuet, N.Y.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Temecula, Calif.</p>
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<p>In Tallahassee, Fla., attorney Pace Allen, organizer of the event, explained: &#8220;It is a rally against wasteful, excessive government spending. Excessive bailouts, handouts and entitlements are bankrupting our country.&#8221;</p>
<p>To the south in Pensacola, about 100 turned out to express fears about socialism and government spending.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am tired of the direction the administration is taking the nation,&#8221; said Greg Sutton, 44. &#8220;Socialism does not work. It never has worked. It never will.&#8221;</p>
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<p>More than 2,000 turned out in Yuma, Ariz., where Dan Shooter said: &#8220;I think this is a message to Washington. We&#8217;re coming. We&#8217;re coming.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the Phoenix rally, Daniel Medina, 36, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve been talking a lot about the Constitution today. We wanted to exercise our free speech. We&#8217;re coming together as patriots, not as one political party or another. We&#8217;re being taxed and taxed and taxed.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Our children and grandchildren are going to be taxed out of their gourds,&#8221; said Frank Giordano at the Augusta, Maine, rally. &#8220;It&#8217;s young people that elected Obama. But they don&#8217;t realize how much they&#8217;re going to have to pay (in taxes) because of him.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thomas Tabback, an author and inspirational speaker, told an audience in Quincy, Ill., to remember what the nation&#8217;s independence is all about.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is one of the most important Independence Days in a long time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a huge power grab going on and still, many average Americans out there don&#8217;t realize how many of our freedoms are at stake.&#8221;</p>
<p>In Tyler, Texas, Kevin Hard said, &#8220;I think what we&#8217;re really finding here is that all of the people here are united in a cause, and we all understand that we&#8217;re all on the same page. The number one issue of the day is the out-of-control government spending. If we could harness that in, there (are) a whole lot of other issues that could work themselves out. We&#8217;re very concerned, especially for our children and grandchildren, the generations to come. We want to leave this a great place just like we had it when we were kids.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nearly 2,000 turned out in Tyler.</p>
<p>Elected officials were few and far between at the tea parties, but Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., addressed a crowd of 300 in Omaha, explaining that Democrats &#8220;love to tax. They love to spend.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Taxation is the taking of our freedom,&#8221; Terry said. &#8220;Today, we celebrate the freedoms that are inherent to being an American.&#8221;</p>
<p>The tea party concept is both a remembrance of the original Boston Tea Party and an acronym that stands for &#8220;Taxed enough already.&#8221; In Wichita Falls, Texas, they brough both ideas together by reading the Declaration of Independence aloud.</p>
<p>&#8220;Many people have never read it before, or they read the first two paragraphs then stop,&#8221; one organizer explained.</p>
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<p>In Stafford County, Va., Dylan Stefl held a sign almost as big as he is. It read &#8220;7 and already <a id="KonaLink7" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103126#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">in </span><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">debt</span></span></a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re banking on his future today,&#8221; said Pat Stefl, Dylan&#8217;s father. &#8220;And we&#8217;ve had enough of too many taxes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some 700 turned out in Altoona, Wis. Organizer Micah Stofferahn said, &#8220;It cost us about $1,000 to put on this event. &#8230; If the government would have put it on, it would be $65,000 at least.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rallies also took place in Memphis, Tenn.; Beaufort, S.C.; Greensboro, Ga., and Odessa, Texas.</p>
<p>About 1,500 turned out in <a id="KonaLink8" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103126#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">Columbia</span></span></a>, S.C., where Republican Sen. Jim DeMint addressed the crowd. In Salina, Kan., several hundred gathered to sing patriotic songs, read the Declaration of Independence and sound off against taxes and national health care.</p>
<p>In Joplin, Mo., hundreds listened to state Rep. Jim Guest say, &#8220;I believe we have a government that is out of control and ignoring the wishes of the people.&#8221;</p>
<p>Guest has sponsored a resolution that reclaims Missouri&#8217;s sovereignty under the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s 10th Amendment and would have told the federal government to &#8220;cease and desist&#8221; all mandates &#8220;beyond the scope of &#8230; constitutionally delegated powers.&#8221; The resolution passed in the House but stalled in a Senate committee.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our 10th Amendment protection is slowly slipping away,&#8221; Guest told the crowd Saturday, saying he would raise the resolution again next year and that it would likely enjoy more Senate support the second time around.</p>
<p>Hundreds turned out in Del Rio, Texas, and more than 500 in Norwich, Conn.</p>
<p>But several thousand gathered in Ventura County, Calif., where signs read: &#8220;We Are In Hot <a id="KonaLink9" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=103126#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">Water</span></span></a>,&#8221; &#8220;One Nation Under God&#8221; and &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Fix Stupid, But You Can Vote Them Out.&#8221; Among the speakers was Ted Baehr, founder of Movieguide, a magazine that analyzes movies from a biblical perspective. Baehr said because of the burden of the growing national debt and higher taxes, the United States was &#8220;on the road to serfdom&#8221; with a tax burden that would have people working six months a year to cover taxes.</p>
<p>He also said the true national debt was heading toward $56 trillion, most current estimates peg the total at about $11.5 trillion.</p>
<p>Baehr also touched on the new &#8220;cap and trade&#8221; proposals that would create a system of controlling pollution by setting a cap on total emissions, but also allowing for companies to trade emission credits so that cleaner companies can sell their credits. It would also tax polluters, which could mean the cost would be passed onto consumers.</p>
<p>&#8220;It means there will be a carbon tax, so are we going to be taxed for our breathing?&#8221; he asked.</p></div>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. 

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: blue"><span style="font-size: small">Folks, </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: blue"><span style="font-size: small">This is just about the most embarrassing thing I have ever done.<span>  </span>The following article appeared in Pravda for crying out loud.<span>  </span>YES the same publication that used to be the Soviet Union main stream media propaganda machine of choice.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: blue"><span style="font-size: small">The following article, from the Russians, is a lecture!<span>  </span>It is not a lecture to our U.S. Government or to the U.S. Congress or to the Judicial Activists at the Supreme Court who legislate Government mockery of our cardinal laws written in The Constitution, NO, they are lecturing us, We The People who, through the blessings of our creator, originally INVENTED FREEDOM for the WORLD!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: blue"><span style="font-size: small"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: blue">WHAT<span>  </span>HAVE<span>  </span>WE<span>  </span>DONE?<span>   </span>What have we personally and individually, each one of us, done, OR should I say NOT DONE, to have deserved this righteous criticism that drives a stake right through the heart of John Adams himself who said:<span>  </span><span> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: #c00000">&#8220;Posterity! <span> </span>You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.&#8221;</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: blue"><span style="font-size: small">Oh Mr. Adams, Forgive Us;<span>  </span>There are so many amongst us who have let The Federal Reserve company, a cartel of 12 private banks, owned by only 40 mega-powerful men, and our U.S. Congress and Executive Branches who We The People have let devise our public school curriculum that has purposely avoided teaching us even the one and ONLY meaning of Freedom and, additionally, the INDIVIDUAL responsibilities each one of us has to ENFORCE the LAWS as WE The People did ordain and establish ON our U.S. Government, to protect it.<span>  </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: blue"><span style="font-size: small">Why every day we let our Government and minions of Satan himself destroy our belief and support of our divine creator who bestowed upon us the unalienable rights that are the core of freedom itself.<span>  </span>Forgive us, Mr. Adams, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Madison, Mr. Franklin, and all the rest of our honorable and noble Founding Fathers as well as all of our Minutemen and Militia and Revolutionary War Veterans who so gallantly fought against our own Government, we were all BRITISH subjects before the Revolutionary War started, for the cause of freedom.<span>  </span>Please also, great warriors of liberty and freedom, of all the armed forces who have died since for the very same great, worthy and noble cause, forgive us.<span>  </span>For you did NOT let us down, you laid your lives down for us, and we willingly, as “sheeple” gave our freedom away to the very sort of usurping, oppressive, tyrannical, despots <span> </span>of whom ilk you so courageously fought.<span>  </span>Rest O spirits of honor, for there are brave amongst us who soon will rise from “The Masses” of Marxism, Communism and Fascism and we shall do everything in our power to restore the freedom and liberty that you laid down your lives for.<span>  </span>You did not die in vain!<span>  </span>We shall use every avenue at our disposal to peacefully ENFORCE every single word and syllable of The Constitution upon our Government.<span>  </span>And, if the oppressors and tyrants dare to push us into a corner, we will have the courage to do whatever is necessary to restore the canons of both of our founding documents.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: blue">Rest well my dear Founding Fathers and Patriots.<span>  </span>Our lights in the church tower have been lit and we shall ensure the passage of the torch of the ONE AND ONLY meaning of FREEDOM to our children, one way or the other; for there are those amongst us who </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: blue">And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: blue">And now, folks, look at how pitiful the World, including Russians, now see us for our own individual carelessness of our personal RESPONSIBILITIES to ENFORCE the LAW upon our Government. <span>  </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: #c00000">Have you even bothered to read THE LAW in the Constitution?<span>  </span>Do you have any conception at all of its meaning and why it IS NOT A LIVING DOCUMENT to be changed at the whim of men in Congress or certainly not Supreme Court judges?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: blue"><span style="font-size: small">If you want your prosperity back, <strong>IF</strong> you care one miniscule iota about your children and your grandchildren then by God, you must learn the meaning, reason and spirit of our Founding Documents and the foundation of the essence of God himself that resides in it!<span>  </span>For ONLY THEN will our Godly blessings of prosperity and INDIVIDUAL power over our Government be returned to us, through our own courage and hard toiling work that is now required.  &#8211; -  <em>Capt. Karl</em></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;color: blue"><span style="font-size: small">Read and whimper, people, this article from <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">Russian Pravda</span></strong>:</span></span></p>
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<p>It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.</p>
<p align="justify">True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.</p>
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<p align="justify">Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.</p>
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<p align="justify">First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their &#8220;right&#8221; to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our &#8220;democracy&#8221;. Pride blind the foolish.</p>
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<p align="justify">Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different &#8220;branches and denominations&#8221; were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the &#8220;winning&#8221; side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the &#8220;winning&#8221; side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.</p>
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<p align="justify">The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America&#8217;s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.</p>
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<p align="justify">These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?</p>
<p>These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.</p>
<p align="justify">Then came Barack Obama&#8217;s command that GM&#8217;s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of &#8220;pure&#8221; free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.</p>
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<p align="justify">So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a &#8220;bold&#8221; move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK&#8217;s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our &#8220;wise&#8221; Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.</p>
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<p align="justify">Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper&#8230;but a &#8220;freeman&#8221; whimper.</p>
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<p align="justify">So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set &#8220;fair&#8221; maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.</p>
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<p align="justify">The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.</p>
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<p align="justify">The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.</p>
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<p align="justify"><strong>Stanislav Mishin</strong></p>
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<p align="justify">The article has been reprinted with the kind permission from the author and originally appears on his blog, <a href="http://mat-rodina.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mat Rodina</a></p>
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		<title>Guess who Census banned as &#8216;partners&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Census Bureau, reflecting what apparently is becoming a political position that involves more than one federal agency, has listed "hate groups," "law enforcement" "and "anti-immigrant groups" among those that would be refused permission to become a partner with the 2010 Census. 

The news comes in a series of documents obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act about the census operations. 

WND previously reported when the Department of Homeland Security released an "extremism" report that warned local law enforcement officers nationwide to watch out for "potential terrorists" including those who:

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<p><!-- end head --><!-- deck --><span style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;color: #000000;font-size: xx-small">Agency seeks out ACORN, but &#8216;blacklists&#8217; other groups</span></p>
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<hr size="1" /><span>Posted: May 28, 2009<br />
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<p><span style="font-family: Palatino, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times, serif">By Bob Unruh</span><br />
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<div class="KonaBody"><!-- begin bodytext -->The U.S. Census Bureau, reflecting what apparently is becoming a political position that involves more than one federal agency, has listed &#8220;hate groups,&#8221; &#8220;law enforcement&#8221; &#8220;and &#8220;anti-immigrant groups&#8221; among those that would be refused permission to become a partner with the 2010 Census.</p>
<p>The news comes in a series of documents obtained by <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/">Judicial Watch</a> under the Freedom of Information Act about the census <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=99452#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">operations</span></span></a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=98692">WND previously reported</a> when the Department of Homeland Security released an &#8220;extremism&#8221; report that warned local law enforcement officers nationwide to <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=99452#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">watch</span></span></a> out for &#8220;potential terrorists&#8221; including those who:</p>
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<li>Oppose abortion</li>
<li>Oppose same-sex marriage</li>
<li>Oppose restrictions on firearms</li>
<li>Oppose lax immigration laws</li>
<li>Oppose the policies of President Obama regarding immigration, citizenship, and the expansion of social programs</li>
<li>Oppose continuation of free trade agreements</li>
<li>Are suspect of foreign regimes</li>
<li>Fear Communist regimes</li>
<li>Oppose a &#8220;one world&#8221; government</li>
<li>Bemoan the decline of U.S. stature in the world</li>
<li>Are upset with loss of U.S. manufacturing <a id="KonaLink2" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=99452#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">jobs</span></span></a> to China and India, and more</li>
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<p>At the time, a lawyer pursuing a lawsuit against Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano over the &#8220;extremist&#8221; report said he was not reassured by her later promise to &#8220;reword&#8221; the document.</p>
<p>&#8220;She says, &#8216;Well, we&#8217;re going to reword the document – and we&#8217;re going to make it more precise,&#8217;&#8221; Richard Thompson, president of the <a href="http://www.thomasmore.org/">Thomas More Law Center,</a> told WND. &#8220;That&#8217;s scary because we know they are still going to maintain some kind of targeting for various people that she&#8217;s never apologized to or never retracted [her accusations].&#8221;</p>
<p>At issue is the agency&#8217;s &#8220;Rightwing Extremism&#8221; report called &#8220;Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political <a id="KonaLink3" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=99452#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">Climate</span></span></a> Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.&#8221; WND has posted <a href="http://wnd.com/images/dhs-rightwing-extremism.pdf">the report online.</a></p>
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<p>The report linked returning veterans with the possibility of terrorism and when it was released, created such a furor for Napolitano she has given several explanations for it, including that she would have reworded the report and that it was issued by a rogue <a id="KonaLink4" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=99452#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">employee</span></span></a>.</p>
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<p>Thompson said no apology had been offered to most of the members of the various groups on which the government was painting a bull&#8217;s-eye.</p>
<p>Now come the documents from the Census Bureau, which said it wants to work with groups that &#8220;partnered&#8221; with the census in 2000, various other &#8220;national organizations&#8221; and other groups that &#8220;served one of the &#8216;hard to count&#8217; clusters.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Census Bureau identified those groups as &#8220;the economically disadvantaged,&#8221; &#8220;the unattached <a id="KonaLink5" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=99452#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">mobile</span></span></a> singles&#8221; and &#8220;high density areas with ethnic enclaves.&#8221;</p>
<p>The list of banned groups was found in an e-mail from Barbara A. Harris, the chief of the agency&#8217;s program for partnering with outside groups, to other staff members. She said the &#8220;criteria for NOT partnering with a group&#8221; included a failure to have worked with the organization in 2000, to be a national organization or other factors</p>
<p>Her note then said &#8220;hate groups&#8221; were not eligible, nor were &#8220;law enforcement, anti-immigrant groups, (or) any groups that might make people fearful of participating in the census.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is the Napolitano memo Part 2,&#8221; Judicial Watch chief Tom Fitton told WND.</p>
<p>The documents indicate, &#8220;there may be an ideological agenda at work, in a discriminatory effort to keep conservatives away,&#8221; he suggested. &#8220;What&#8217;s a real slander is to suggest that the Fraternal Order of Police may be the equivalent of a hate group.&#8221;</p>
<p>The census, he said, should be politically neutral, counting numbers, not political opinions.</p>
<p>&#8220;One can be opposed to illegal immigration and you should be able to partner with the government,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It screams out violations of the First Amendment.&#8221;</p>
<p>Census Bureau spokesman Stephen Buckner told WND the list of excluded groups was assembled by Harris, who heads the federal agency&#8217;s <a id="KonaLink6" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=99452#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">partnership</span></span></a> program.</p>
<p><em><a href="http://shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=2455">&#8220;Legalize the Constitution&#8221; bumper sticker</a></em></p>
<p>He admitted the list probably &#8220;unfairly&#8221; lists law enforcement officers along with anti-immigrant groups. But he said the choice of groups with which to work is important, because there are population groups who, for example, don&#8217;t trust law enforcement, or don&#8217;t trust members of &#8220;anti-immigrant&#8221; groups.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to partner with an organization that is blatantly trying to exclude one group (illegal immigrants) for one reason or another,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Bucker told WND the goal is to count every living person in the United States at the time of the census, and &#8220;negative reactions&#8221; from members of the groups to be counted should be factored.</p>
<p>However, he declined several opportunities to answer WND questions about the Census Bureau&#8217;s partnership with groups such as ACORN, whose members repeatedly have been accused of illegal election activities, and whether there are population groups in the U.S. who would react negatively toward activities by that &#8220;partner.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;All we&#8217;ve asked ACORN to do is simply share the word,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>But according to Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, among the 126 pages of <a id="KonaLink7" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=99452#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">documentation</span></span></a> obtained from the government is confirmation of the high level of influence that ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has in the 2010 Census.</p>
<p>Judicial Watch said the documents describe 18 different areas of responsibility that ACORN asked to be given.</p>
<p>The Obama administration has downplayed ACORN&#8217;s involvement, saying the organization with which Obama worked earlier in his political career, would be allowed to &#8220;recruit&#8221; census workers.</p>
<p>But the documents show that ACORN also is an &#8220;executive level&#8221; partner with the ability to &#8220;organize and/or serve as a member on a Complete Count Committee.&#8221;</p>
<p>The census documents regarding ACORN also show the organization also signed up to &#8220;encourage employees and constituents to complete and mail their questionnaire; identify job candidates and/or distribute and display recruiting materials; appoint a liaison to work with the Census Bureau; provide space for Be Counted sites and/or Questionnaire Assistance Centers, sponsor community events to promote participation in the 2010 Census.&#8221;</p>
<p>The documents also show the Census Bureau wants ACORN to teach other organizations about the process, Judicial Watch said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Given its history of illegal activity and fraud, ACORN should be nowhere near the 2010 Census,&#8221; said Fitton. &#8220;And shame on the Obama Commerce Department for continuing to demonize conservatives by lumping together law enforcement and anti-immigration groups with &#8216;hate groups.&#8217; This discriminatory policy raises First Amendment concerns. Indeed, these documents provide further evidence that the Obama administration is politicizing the 2010 Census.&#8221;</p>
<p>U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, meanwhile, has called for congressional hearings into ACORN&#8217;s finances that apparently includes a procedure called a &#8220;<a id="KonaLink8" class="kLink" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=99452#" target="_top"><span style="color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400"><span class="kLink" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Serif;color: blue !important;font-size: 17px;font-weight: 400">forensic</span></span></a> audit.&#8221;</div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="left"><strong>The Liberty Tree Lantern and all its posts are founded and grounded in the 28 principles of freedom as written in the book &#8220;The 5000 Year Leap&#8221;. </strong></p>
<p align="left">Subsequently all posts here in should be interpreted as based on the following principles.  If any reader does not see how any post in The Liberty Tree Lantern is not grounded in these principles, please be so kind as to bring such reason to the attention of Capt. Karl, the writer, so that I can either attempt to articulate the intended meaning to show the conformance, to these 28 Principles of Freedom, or alter the post itself.</p>
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<p align="left"><span style="color: #0000ff"><strong>Discover the 28 fundamental beliefs of the Founding Fathers which they said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desired peace, prosperity, and freedom.</strong> </span></p>
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<p align="left"><span class="red">These beliefs have made possible more progress in 200 years than was made previously in over 5,000 years. </span>Thus the title &#8220;<em>The 5,000 Year Leap</em>&#8220;.</p>
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<p align="left">The following is a brief overview of the principles found in <em>The 5,000 Year Leap</em>, and one chapter is devoted to each of these 28 principles.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Principle 1 </strong>- <em>The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is Natural Law. </em></p>
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<p align="left">Natural law is God&#8217;s law. There are certain laws which govern the entire universe, and just as Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence, there are laws which govern in the affairs of men which are &#8220;the laws of nature and of nature&#8217;s God.&#8221;</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 2 </strong>- <em>A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong. </em></p>
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<p align="left">&#8220;Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.&#8221; &#8211; Benjamin Franklin</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 3 </strong>- <em>The most promising method of securing a virtuous people is to elect virtuous leaders. </em></p>
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<p align="left">&#8220;Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who &#8230; will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.&#8221; &#8211; Samuel Adams</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 4 </strong>- <em>Without religion the government of a free people cannot be maintained. </em></p>
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<p align="left">&#8220;Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports&#8230;. And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.&#8221; &#8211; George Washington</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 5 </strong>- <em>All things were created by God, therefore upon him all mankind are equally dependent, and to him they are equally responsible </em>.</p>
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<p align="left">The American Founding Fathers considered the existence of the Creator as the most fundamental premise underlying all self-evident truth. They felt a person who boasted he or she was an atheist had just simply failed to apply his or her divine capacity for reason and observation.</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 6 </strong>- <em>All mankind were created equal. </em></p>
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<p align="left">The Founders knew that in these three ways, all mankind are theoretically treated as:</p>
<ol>
<li class="p1">Equal before God.</li>
<li class="p1">Equal before the law.</li>
<li class="p1">Equal in their rights.</li>
</ol>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 7 </strong>- <em>The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things. </em></p>
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<p align="left">The Founders recognized that the people cannot delegate to their government any power except that which they have the lawful right to exercise themselves.</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 8 </strong>- <em>Mankind are endowed by God with certain unalienable rights. </em></p>
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<p align="left">&#8220;Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as are life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal [or state] laws to be inviolable. On the contrary, no human legislation has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner [of the right] shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.&#8221; &#8211; William Blackstone</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 9 &#8211; </strong><em>To protect human rights, God has revealed a code of divine law. </em></p>
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<p align="left">&#8220;The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the Holy Scriptures. These precepts, when revealed, are found by comparison to be really a part of the original law of nature, as they tend in all their consequences to man&#8217;s felicity.&#8221; &#8211; William Blackstone</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 10 </strong>- <em>The God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people. </em></p>
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<p align="left">&#8220;The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legislative authority.&#8221; &#8211; Alexander Hamilton</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 11 </strong>- <em>The majority of the people may alter or abolish a government which has become tyrannical. </em></p>
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<p align="left">&#8220;Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes &#8230; but when a long train of abuses and usurpations &#8230; evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.&#8221; &#8211; Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 12 </strong>- <em>The United States of America shall be a republic. </em></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America<br />
And to the <strong><em>republic </em></strong>for which it stands&#8230;.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p align="left"><strong>Principle 13 </strong>- A Constitution should protect the people from the frailties of their rulers.</p>
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<p align="left">&#8220;If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary&#8230;. [But lacking these] you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.&#8221; &#8211; James Madison</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 14 </strong>- <em>Life </em><em>and liberty are secure only so long as the rights of property are secure </em>.</p>
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<p align="left">John Locke reasoned that God gave the earth and everything in it to the whole human family as a gift. Therefore the land, the sea, the acorns in the forest, the deer feeding in the meadow belong to everyone &#8220;in common.&#8221; However, the moment someone takes the trouble to change something from its original state of nature, that person has added his ingenuity or labor to make that change. Herein lies the secret to the origin of &#8220;property rights.&#8221;</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 15 </strong>- <em>The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations. </em></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">Prosperity depends upon a climate of wholesome stimulation with four basic freedoms in operation:</p>
<ol>
<li class="p1">The Freedom to try.</li>
<li class="p1">The Freedom to buy.</li>
<li class="p1">The Freedom to sell.</li>
<li class="p1">The Freedom to fail.</li>
</ol>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 16 </strong>- <em>The government should be separated into three branches </em>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">&#8220;I call you to witness that I was the first member of the Congress who ventured to come out in public, as I did in January 1776, in my Thoughts on Government &#8230; in favor of a government with three branches and an independent judiciary. This pamphlet, you know, was very unpopular. No man appeared in public to support it but yourself.&#8221; &#8211; John Adams</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 17 </strong>- <em>A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power by the different branches of government. </em></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">&#8220;It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.&#8221; &#8211; James Madison</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 18 &#8211; </strong><em>The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved if the principles of government are set forth in a written Constitution. </em></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">The structure of the American system is set forth in the Constitution of the United States and the only weaknesses which have appeared are those which were allowed to creep in despite the Constitution.</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 19 </strong>- <em>Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to government, all others being retained by the people. </em></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">The Tenth Amendment is the most widely violated provision of the bill of rights. If it had been respected and enforced America would be an amazingly different country than it is today. This amendment provides:</p>
<p align="left">&#8220;The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.&#8221;</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 20 </strong>- <em>Efficiency and dispatch require that the government operate according to the will of the majority, but constitutional provisions must be made to protect the rights of the minority. </em></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">&#8220;Every man, by consenting with others to make one body politic under one government, puts himself under an obligation to every one of that society to submit to the determination of the majority, and to be concluded [bound] by it.&#8221; &#8211; John Locke</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 21 </strong>- <em>Strong local self-government is the keystone to preserving human freedom. </em></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">&#8220;The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent [to perform best]. &#8211; Thomas Jefferson</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 22 </strong>- <em>A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men. </em></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">&#8220;The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence of others, which cannot be where there is no law.&#8221; &#8211; John Locke</p>
</blockquote>
<p align="left"><strong>Principle 23 </strong>- <em>A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education. </em></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">&#8220;They made an early provision by law that every town consisting of so many families should be always furnished with a grammar school. They made it a crime for such a town to be destitute of a grammar schoolmaster for a few months, and subjected it to a heavy penalty. So that the education of all ranks of people was made the care and expense of the public, in a manner that I believe has been unknown to any other people, ancient or modern. The consequences of these establishments we see and feel every day [written in 1765]. A native of America who cannot read and write is as rare &#8230; as a comet or an earthquake.&#8221; John Adams</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 24 </strong>- <em>A free people will not survive unless they stay strong. </em></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">&#8220;To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.&#8221; &#8211; George Washington</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 25 </strong>- <em>&#8220;Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations &#8212; entangling alliances with none.&#8221;- </em>Thomas Jefferson, given in his first inaugural address.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Principle 26 &#8211; </strong><em>The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family; therefore the government should foster and protect its integrity. </em></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">&#8220;There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America, or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated.&#8221; Alexis de Tocqueville</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 27 </strong>- <em>The burden of debt is as destructive to human freedom as subjugation by conquest. </em></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">&#8220;We are bound to defray expenses [of the war] within our own time, and are unauthorized to burden posterity with them&#8230;. We shall all consider ourselves morally bound to pay them ourselves and consequently within the life [expectancy] of the majority.&#8221; &#8211; Thomas Jefferson</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Principle 28 </strong>- <em>The United States has a manifest destiny to eventually become a glorious example of God&#8217;s law under a restored Constitution that will inspire the entire human race. </em></p>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">The Founders sensed from the very beginning that they were on a divine mission. Their great disappointment was that it didn&#8217;t all come to pass in their day, but they knew that someday it would. John Adams wrote:</p>
<p align="left">&#8220;I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.&#8221;</p>
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