It's STILL AMNESTY! ... J. D. Longstreet

It's STILL AMNESTY!
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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It matters not a whit what you call it -- it still amounts to amnesty for eleven million illegal aliens in America. 
This "new" immigration reform from both the US Senate and the US President is utterly ridiculous.  But in the end, it will be rammed down the throats of the American public simply because the US government has gone rogue and is no longer responsive -- nor responsible -- to the US citizenry.  (And some people still wonder WHY Americans are arming themselves???)

The Heritage Foundation released the following statement on January 30th, 2013:

"America’s heritage of immigration has fueled our nation’s strength and diversity, yet our immigration system has become so politicized and dysfunctional that it causes untold personal tragedies, strains the fiscal capacity of public services in many states, and prevents many from pursuing the American Dream. Complex, comprehensive legislation based on back-room deals never works, and the Senate immigration proposal announced this week and echoed yesterday by President Obama—to the extent that it repeats the mistakes of the past—will further polarize Americans, fail to solve the real policy problems, and make matters worse.

Immigrants come to our country for freedom and economic opportunity. We are concerned that many aspects of the framework for comprehensive reform will undermine the very foundations that make for America’s exceptional success. Policymakers should refrain from committing to such broad statements before the actual legislative language is available for public review. A proposal that would grant individuals who are in this country illegally a pathway to citizenship violates the rule of law and is unfair to those who have obeyed our immigration laws.

The Heritage Foundation believes that America’s immigration system must be reformed through an open and public step-by-step, problem-solving approach that unites Americans and creates a system that welcomes immigrants, protects our sovereignty, encourages assimilation, and expands opportunities for everyone. Once such common-sense reforms are in place and working, lawmakers can determine how to respond in a fair, compassionate, and constitutional way to those who have come to our country illegally." SOURCE:  http://blog.heritage.org/2013/01/30/heritage-foundation-statement-on-immigration/?roi=echo3-14403859543-11190034-1b80b2b425f4c1aef7d244951acffbfe&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

Let's just blow away some of the smoke and call it what it is:  What we have here is a HUGE payoff by the Obama Administration to the Hispanic community for their vote in the November election.  That's one side.  On the other side is the GOP trying like hell to convince the Hispanic vote to shift to their side by offering them citizenship in the country they broke into.

If you, like me, don't like what the Senate and the President are proposing, well, stuff it!  It doesn't matter. The decision has been made -- and a bill WILL be passed to offer illegals amnesty. 

Look.  The poor, hapless, dumb, republicans cannot, for whatever reason, understand that the GOP has lost (if they ever really had) the Hispanic vote.  Heck, the Hispanic vote is a "natural" for the Democrat/socialists, anyway ... always has been.    The republicans cannot get it through their heads that agreeing to and passing this comprehensive immigration reform simply adds eleven million NEW VOTERS to the democratic side of the tally sheet.  It is lose, lose, for the republicans.  And it is lose, lose, for America as that will place the democrat/socialists in a position to rule America in perpetuity... forever!

Oh, and don't count on the border being secured, either.  Yes, I know it is supposed to be a key part of the Senate bill.  But here's the thing:  How are you and I going to know the border is secure?  Take their word for it, huh? 
Consider this for a moment:  The only way that the American borders are going to be sealed is when a rogue US government decides to seal them  -- not to keep illegals out -- but TO KEEP US CITIZENS IN!!  Then -- and ONLY THEN -- will the US borders be sealed.

America's old hippie government, years ago, bought into the globalist "world without borders" agenda and they will never agree to securing America's borders. But they WILL lie to America and swear the borders are secure when, in fact, they are not.
That part of the Senate bill means absolutely nothing.  Obama's "proposed" bill doesn't even include a provision for securing the border first. 

Those of you who support open borders do not, I repeat, DO NOT try to beat us about the head and shoulders with the old saw that says America is a nation of immigrants.  See, we already know that -- because our ancestors were immigrants, too.  Mine came into the country, legally, in 1789 through what was then Charles Town Harbor and were assigned a place in the 96th precinct of the state of South Carolina.  Notice - they came into this country LEGALLY!  That is all we expect of any who want to immigrate to America.  Do it legally and we will welcome you with open arms. Do it illegally and we want you caught and deported forthwith!  Unless, of course, you are a prospective democratic voter. 

America’s biggest problem with illegal immigration is not with those who illegally break into our country and help to bleed it dry, but with our government which refuses to uphold the laws already on the books.  Had those laws been enforced we would not be in the situation we find ourselves today.  Plus, the problem of what to do with these 11 or 12-plus million illegal aliens would not be a problem, at all, if the government would simply follow the laws on the books today.

The bottom line for Americans to ponder is… what do we do with a government that refuses to uphold/enforce the nation’s laws and tramples on the constitution at will? 

Well, let me ask you - suppose you had a business and an employee consistently refused to follow the rules of the workplace.  What would you do to that employee?  See?  The answer used to be simple. You'd toss them out at the next election.  Unfortunately, our elections have become something of a pro forma showcase these days.  Just going through the motions while the results are fore ordained.  Nowadays "the fix" is in before the first ballot is dropped into the box.  The ONLY way we are ever going to get relief from this problem is to clean the house in Washington.  But, how to do that now? Huh? When your vote no longer counts, how, exactly, do you do that?   

My friend and fellow blogger, Alan Caruba, recently said in his piece entitled “A Crisis of Governors:"   “What, in fact, Americans are witnessing is a failure of government at both the state and federal level. The nation has managed to elect too many people to public office that are so clearly inept, incompetent, and untrustworthy, it poses a threat to the republic.”  SOURCE:  http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2009/07/crisis-of-governors.html  

Alan, as usual, is spot on.  America’s most dangerous enemy, at the moment, is its own government! I would add that, in my opinion, America’s second worst enemy, at the moment, is its own ignorance. It was through the ignorance of the American electorate that these pitifully inept, power hungry, politicians were elected to office to begin with.
Not to worry.  The democrat/socialists are going to get their eleven million new voters.  Count on it.  And it makes absolutely no difference what YOU think!

J. D. Longstreet

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LEAGUE OF THE SOUTH ‘S Statement on Firearms and Self Defense

(The following is a statement issued by The League of the South reference Firearms and Self Defense)  
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LEAGUE OF THE SOUTH NEWS SERVICE
17 January 2013
LINK:  http://dixienet.org/rights/2012/firearms_and_self_defense.php

Re: Firearms and Self Defense

For immediate release

On 16 January 2013, President Barack Obama issued a series of twenty-three “executive actions” designed to control “gun violence” in America.

The League of the South, the premier Southern nationalist organization, issued the following statement from its President, Michael Hill:

“We encourage all Southerners to defend their God-given right to self defense. To defend oneself and one’s family, real property, and rights presupposes having the means to do so, and in our day that means firearms ownership and the right to keep and bear such arms whenever and wherever necessary.

We encourage our Southern State governments–the lesser magistrates–to employ the doctrines of Nullification, Interposition, and Secession to protect their citizens from unlawful encroachments by the government of the United States.”

This is just the latest example of the abandonment of the principles upon which government was established on these shores. The Declaration of Independence clearly established that we as citizens “are endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights” And just as importantly: “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Over the years the primary purpose of government – to guarantee our God-given rights – has been lost upon the corrupt and power-hungry officials in Washington, DC. This Founding principle is now looked upon as “extreme” from both sides of the aisle.

Therefore, should the U.S. government, or our State governments, decide, as did King George III in 1775, to confiscate our weapons and ammunition, then like our ancestors we shall have no choice but to declare it an act of war and meet it with a morally justifiable, righteous, and manly armed resistance.

The only way to stop this madness is for you–the citizens–to let these corrupt government officials understand that you are ready to withdraw your consent. We urge you for the benefit of your children and grandchildren to join with us in the League of The South.

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LINK:  http://dixienet.org/rights/2012/firearms_and_self_defense.php

The Economy is a Lot Worse Than You Think ... Alan Caruba

The Economy is a Lot Worse Than You Think

By Alan Caruba

Most Americans know the economy is in bad shape even if a majority voted to reelect the man most responsible for making a bad economy worse. And, no, it was not George W. Bush who is responsible for the 2008 financial crash. It was the government with its housing programs that encouraged giving mortgage loans to those who could not afford them and then bundling those “toxic assets”, and selling them to banks who then found themselves in trouble for investing in them.

Another partner in the nation’s financial woes has been the Federal Reserve, a banking cartel given the right to literally print money. The Fed recently released the fact that its holdings in U.S. government debt has increased by 257 percent since President Obama took office! Those holdings are at an all-time record of $1,696,691,000,000 at the close of business on Wednesday, January 23. The other major holder of our debt is China at $1,170,100,000.000.

It’s worth taking a few minutes to see how the policies of President Obama, whether a deliberate effort to ruin the economy or just the result a lack of understanding of how the U.S. economy works, has put the U.S. on the precipice of failure comparable to what is occurring in Europe. It is a global, as well as national problem as the central banks of the EU desperately transfer billions among themselves to stave off a catastrophe that will destroy the wealth of their citizens.

The federal government ran a deficit (the difference between what it owes and what revenues it takes in) of $292 billion for the first two months of fiscal year 2013—October and November 2012—amounting to $4.8 billion of borrowed money every day. The Congressional Budget Office reported that federal revenues rose by $30 billion—a ten percent increase over last year—but spending increased even more, going up by $87 billion (16%).

Spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security was about 7% higher--$8 billion than last year. For years, Congress has resisted reforming these “entitlement” programs and Obamacare has only exacerbated the problem. In order to fund its establishment, the Obama administration took $716 billion from the Medicare funds. The Social Security funds have been “borrowed” by Congress for years while the numbers of eligible senior citizens has steadily increased as “baby boomers” come of age.

The call for higher taxes on “millionaires and billionaires” has fallen hardest on the middle class, in reality increasing taxes on them. The reality is that the middle class taxpayer pays 25% of their income in federal income tax these days, but when you add in 13.3% in the federal Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes, it adds up to 38.3%. According to the Tax Foundation, the average state’s income tax rate on the middle class is 4.82% (not all states have an income tax in addition to the federal government.) That brings the total to $43.12% of middle class income drained off to pay taxes.

Add in all the other taxes we pay on gasoline, telephones, and other necessities, and the middle class is being tapped for half their earnings.

The Republican Party, in power in the House of Representatives, has offered legislation to bring some relief to middle class and other taxpayers. It has sent annual budgets to the Senate where they have died for the past three years.

All this has been happening during the first term of the Obama administration. In a January 25th commentary posted on AmericanThinker.com, Steve McCann noted that “As of the end of 2012, the United States has experienced the worst five-year period—which includes, as the end of the final four years, Obama’s first full term—since 1928-1932 and the start of the Great Depression.”

McCann cited that fact that, since January 2008, the employment age population has increased by 11.7 million, yet there are 3.0 million fewer Americans employed. “Factoring in the population growth and 2008 labor participation rate, the unemployment rate for December 2012 would be 11.4% as compared to 4.9% in December of 2007.”

“At the end of 2007, the median household income was $54,489 (inflation adjusted); at the beginning of 2012, it had dropped to $50,020—a decline of nearly 9%.” During this same time, while incomes were eroding, the cost of living increased 20% from December 2007 to September 2012.

There are other stark statistics that the mainstream media tends to under-report. In December 2007, there were 26.5 million Americans on food stamps at a cost of $30 billion. By December 2012, 47.4 million were using this program and the federal government was running advertising to get more to apply for it. During Obama’s first term, food stamp recipients increased at a rate of 11,133 per day!

No matter how one measures the U.S. economy, the news is bad and holds little promise of improving. Economic growth is anemic as Obama increased debt $50,521 per household in his first term, more than the first 42 presidents in 53 terms combined.

An excellent monthly publication, Budget and Tax News, published by The Heartland Institute, is a very good way to gain the information and insight you need to understand these issues.

No need to wonder why Obama wants to increase the debt ceiling and no need to wonder why his policies continue to cripple the economy, whether it’s the failure to approve the Keystone XL pipeline or to rein in an avalanche of economy-killing regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency. Obamacare contained 18 hidden taxes when it was passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress that didn’t even read its more than 2,000 pages.

At some point this combination of increased taxes, low employment, and stagnant economic growth has to implode. That outcome can be avoided, but the nation is running out of time.

© Alan Caruba, 2013
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Obama Pushing American People closer to Armed Resistance ... Sher Zieve

Obama Pushing American People closer to Armed Resistance
by: Sher Zieve
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Each and every day now Obama and his syndicate government are pushing harder and harder for the removal of all of our liberties, in order to place us into slavery and create a permanent police state. Even the most dense on the far Left are now aware—some only vaguely—that things are not as they should be. However, the further Left one goes, the more perverse and unstable one becomes.

Luciferianism—Marxist, Nazi, Fascist or otherwise—is and has always been the End Goal of the power-maddened once-human would-be masters and oppressors of the human race. And nation by nation, they have been practicing this tyranny for a very long time.

Members of the Obama syndicate and the growing New World Order globalist elites long ago came out into the open with their plans.

From Agenda 21 (to steal all private property and move humans from rural environments to urban centers where their movements and population numbers will be easier to manipulate and control), through the removal of all human rights (while the “overseers” say they are actually installing them)—in America that’s nullifying the US Constitution and substituting it with ObamaLaw—and replacing the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with the worship of Lucifer (also known as atheism and Islam), our planned overseers are now daily stripping us of everything we have and punishing our beliefs if they do not subscribe to the worship of both their malevolent vision and dark lord. This is what’s occurring. It’s directly in front of us, now, and in our faces.

The atrocities of the current US government and its leaders are truly too many and too vast to itemize here. However, my own columns since 2008 to the present have warned what would happen if Obama was elected to his first term as POTUS and addressed the majority of major abominations he and his lackeys have committed since Obama has been in office. There are, also, multiple books outlining his tyrannical plans and their implementation, including his expert use of the Cloward-Piven Strategy, which teaches overwhelming the US system on every level. I will not and cannot address them all here. However, Richard Poe is also one who writes about this insidious plan in his 2005 article The Cloward-Piven Strategy: “Their article called for “cadres of aggressive organizers” to use “demonstrations to create a climate of militancy.”

” Intimidated by threats of black violence, politicians would appeal to the federal government for help. Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of “a federal program of income redistribution,” in the form of a guaranteed living income for all—working and non-working people alike. Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline. They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it. With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act.”

For the past several years, the Obama syndicate has created one “emergency” after another that had to be addressed “immediately” with no time to take a look at what his syndicate members were actually doing. Because of this, we lost the arguably best health care system in the world to the debasing and not-about-health ObamaCare. It’s tyrannical, taxation with no representation and anti-human reality are only now coming to the surface, while Obama and his adherents laugh loudly at us with champagne and $300-400 per pound Kobe steaks at the still ongoing White House Obama Parties. Did you know that clothing is now charged an additional ObamaTax because ObamaCare states your personal clothes are “medical devices?”

Obama has been summarily firing and replacing US Constitution-upholding Generals and Admirals in the US military with those who will, instead, swear their allegiance to Obama and the United Nations group. Note: Multiple source links to these are available in my past columns.

It strongly appears that Obama may also be creating massacre scenarios, in order to confiscate law-abiding citizens’ legally owned firearms—”never let a crisis go to waste” even if you have to create it? Was the latest the tragedy and horror perpetrated at Sandy Hook? At first—and second—glance I dismissed the information and videos stating that this was all part of the Obama coup to remove our weapons. However, there are so many anomalies, exposed intentionally provided false directions and openly (again…in our faces) faked media footage that it presents us with the necessity of asking questions.

There were many who legitimately lost their children and other loved ones from the madman who slaughtered so many innocent lives. For those people, nothing but God and time can help their real pain. But, at least a few of the victims who supposedly lost their children on that horrid day are shown relaxed and smiling just before their “press conferences” when they visibly change their expressions. Note: To date I have not seen these “debunked” (links below) nor even addressed by the debunkers.

Some also seem to have been “victims” at other recent massacres. Also, in all three recent shootings—Colorado theatre, Oregon Mall and Sandy Hook—multiple witnesses report additional shooters who seem to have gotten away. Debunking these ostensible “conspiracy theories” originally presented a full time job for many leftist and at least one conservative site. But, not all of them have been debunked. We will have to make up our own minds but, we need to consider all of the evidence. We certainly should have learned by now that, with regards to the actions coming from the Obama syndicate, there are no coincidences. One thing, however, that we do know with certainty is that in each of these circumstances, the shooters were taking anti-depressant psychotropic drugs…drugs that, over the years, have proven to have caused multiple suicides and homicides enacted by patients ingesting them.

Since 2009, Obama has been using military helicopters to fly over US cities and tanks and other heavy artillery in “training exercises.”

These cities include but, are not limited to Boston, Los Angeles, Miami and Boulder. This is a first in our history as a nation. The populations are not warned ahead of time, in order to create the maximum amount of fear of their government. Obama used the helicopters to fly over residents in Worchester, Massachusetts and literally dive-bombed residents homes waking them up at midnight and his latest escalation in Obama’s ongoing war against US citizens was a fly-over and joint military-local police exercise conducted this month in Miami, FL. This time, however, gunfire was added to make it seem more real. The citizenry was not warned ahead of time and many ran for cover. This, my friends, is your government at work…working, that is, to either force you into submission (better give those guns up or else!) or begin the second US Civil War. After all, Obama has now had plenty of practice at doing so—with both his Egypt and Libyan excursions. You didn’t really think those were about democracy, did you? They were about installing Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood as the rulers of those countries, while he used their populations to practice on how to affect his total takeover of the USA…for himself and Islam.

We didn’t vote him out of office and I do realize “the fix was in” so that all too many of our votes against Obama weren’t counted. Therefore, he is now in the process of stepping up his destruction of this country and its population. Or, you can choose to be slaves. That is always a possibility. If you do not want to, again, be a free people and take the responsibility of taking back our country, the freedom to worship our God and ridding ourselves of our oppressors—predominantly in Washington D.C.—you may choose to die slowly. These are now the only 2 options left.
　
Obama’s war—the War against America—has already begun in earnest. This far, our military and too many local police are training to bring us down.

May God bless all who choose to fight and bring back the Republic.

    36 “And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.”

    37 “Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all”—Daniel 11:36-37

The origin of Marxism is within a Satanic mystery cult:
Neo-völkisch movements (Nazi and Fascist Satanism):
Agenda 21 Eco-Cities Built for Permanent Population Control:
Richard Poe on Cloward-Piven Strategy:
Sandy Hook Explained:
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/01/fox-news-director-wchris-phillips-sandy-hook-2546394.html”>Sandy Hook – ‘Second Shooter In Custody’ : Fox News Director W/Chris Phillips:
Holmes had help: Aurora shooting:
‘More than one shooter’ on scene at Oregon mall - Reports:
Robbie Parker Recalls 6-Year Old Daughter, Newtown Shooting Victim Emilie Parker:
CNN video of police charge at Sandy Hook is not Sandy Hook:
Massachusetts Citizens frightened by Military Exercises at Midnight:
Machine gun fire from military helicopters flying over downtown Miami Fl.:
OBAMA CARE IMPOSES AN ADDITIONAL TAX ON CLOTHING!:
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Sher Zieve is an author and political commentator. Zieve’s op-ed columns are widely carried by multiple internet journals and sites, and she also writes hard news. Her columns have also appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Sacramento Sun, in international news publications, and on multiple university websites. Sher is also a guest on multiple national radio shows.

Sher can be reached at sherzieve@bajabb.com

Is a Political Balance of Powers “Unconstitutional?” ... JB Williams

Is a Political Balance of Powers “Unconstitutional?”

By JB Williams

jb.uspu@gmail.com

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It’s an ironic and not so funny world which can see the extraordinary efforts of our nation’s Founders, to create a system of checks and balances, a balance of political and governmental powers, each to forever keep watch on the other in protection of the people’s inalienable rights as itself, an “unconstitutional” act. But this is the world we live in today…

Last week, the Mississippi State Legislature was the first to introduce The Balance of Powers Act currently sweeping across all state legislatures, in their effort to protect and preserve the rights of the State and the people currently under direct and extreme assault from their federal government.

In HB490, members of the Mississippi legislature grabbed the lead in a nationwide rush to shut down the “unconstitutional” acts of an increasingly tyrannical federal government. Within hours, local leftist news reporters had dragged out a couple “law professors” to quote in opposition, using the same old false claims of unbridled and unchecked federal supremacy to attack any state legislator brave enough to dare challenge the almighty Fed.

A day later, well-known leftist blog Daily KOS was busy regurgitating the blatant hogwash that a constitutional balance of powers is “unconstitutional,” and just in case the people are too smart to fall for that line of nonsense, it’s “racist” too. In the immortal words of Gomer Pyle, “surprise-surprise”… These so-called “experts” were about to prove Thomas Jefferson right…

“The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine our Constitution from a co-ordinate of a general and special government to a general supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet. … I will say, that “against this every man should raise his voice,” and, more, should uplift his arm …” — Letter to Thomas Ritchie, Sept. 1820

193 years later, “expert law professionals” and their leftist blogosphere minions would prove Jefferson dead right, as they worked to convince American citizens that the constitution itself is “unconstitutional.”

Robert McElvaine, professor of history at Millsaps College, said all this bill will accomplish is to put Mississippi up for ridicule. “ ‘The Neutralization of Federal Law’?” he said. “I am astounded to see such a measure introduced in the 21st century. Do the authors of the bill see Mississippi as part of the United States?”

Of course Mississippi legislators see their state as part of the United States, which means they see themselves as a party to the compact which establishes the United States, the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The question is -- what does the good professor think the Founders meant in the Tenth Amendment? – “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.”

Does Professor Robert McElvaine understand that the Mississippi bill does not seek to neutralize “constitutional acts” of the federal government, but rather the “unconstitutional acts” only? Or does the professor think that all federal acts are “constitutional?” Or does the professor really think that the Charters of Freedom died at some point in history, becoming nothing but a relic?

Be very careful professor, if the Constitution and Bill of Rights no longer exist, then the people and the states have no obligation to the federal government at all, including an obligation to follow any of its laws or pay any taxes. So, which way do you want it professor? It exists, or it doesn’t exist?

The local news report gets this part right – “The proposed Joint Legislative Committee on the Neutralization of Federal Law would review existing federal laws and executive orders and recommend those to be “neutralized.” If the majority of lawmakers back the recommendation, Mississippi “and its citizens shall not recognize or be obligated to live under the statute, mandate or executive order.”

Imagine that… A State could neutralize any “unconstitutional act” of the runaway federal government, based upon the State’s Rights protected by the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights. Is the Tenth Amendment “constitutional?” Let’s ask another “expert…”

George Cochran, professor at the University of the Mississippi School of Law, said – “it’s obvious the bill is unconstitutional.” - “It all boils down to the same completely discredited argument,” he said. “When John C. Calhoun and South Carolina attempted to nullify federal law in the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson forcefully rejected the concept.” – said Cochran.

Is the professor suggesting that states do not have Tenth Amendment Rights? Is he suggesting that the states have rights, but no right to enforce those rights? What are these so-called “experts” saying? Are they saying that the Bill of Rights is no longer in force or in affect? If they are, I’m sure this will come as a surprise to even many of their leftist minions, who have fought for Constitutional and Civil Rights under the Bill of Rights for more than 200 years now…

Oh wait, we have a Civil Rights “expert” weighing in…

Civil rights veteran Leslie Burl McLemore said the bill strikes him as “grandstanding.”

Director of the Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy at Jackson State University, McLemore said, “In subtle and not so subtle ways in Mississippi — and a good bit of the South — we fight the Civil War every day. The drum-beating, rabid right-wingers long for those years, but we won’t revisit those years any time soon.”

So, the Balance of Powers established by the US Constitution and Bill of Rights is not only “unconstitutional,” – it’s an act of Civil War era “racism” too? We may revisit those years sooner than you think Director McLemore. What do you think happens in American once you convince the American people that their Constitution and Bill of Rights no longer exist? Why do you think Americans will refuse to be disarmed by your left-wing friends in the White House?

Has anyone noticed that all of these so-called “constitutional experts” are Democrats, fully supportive of the Democratic Party’s current Democratic Socialism and the right of their runaway federal government to run roughshod over the states and the people at will?

Is it the constitutionally grounded text of the Mississippi Balance of Powers Act designed to enforce existing state and individual rights that the “expert” left-wing nuts object to so vigorously? Or is it the Bill of Rights itself?

One need look no further than the current massive assault on all state and individual rights coming from the Democratic Left today, to understand that it is in fact the Constitution and Bill of Rights they object to, going so far as to directly attack the Second Amendment Rights of all law-abiding citizens while arming known terrorists all over the world.

To fully grasp the anti-American agenda of the political left today, look no further that Rahm Emanuel’s recent blackmail letter to our nation’s largest banks, in an effort to stop banking relations with gun manufacturers, cutting off the supply line to American citizens as the federal government buys up record stockpiles of weapons.

The people are witnessing with their own eyes, why states like Mississippi are rushing to protect all state and individual rights with the passage of The Balance of Powers Act. They are also witnessing the extreme left-wing “experts” like those quoted here today, who will kill the Constitution and Bill of Rights by simply declaring both “unconstitutional,” in their scholarly “expert” opinions.

Not so fast though…

Numerous other states are working on their own versions of the Model Legislation.

Not so long ago, left-wingers thought Michigan would never become a Right to Work state, as ground zero for corrupt labor unions.

A Federal appeals court just ruled Obama’s “recess appointments” unconstitutional and thereby, illegal, demonstrating that not all members of the law profession have dismissed the constitution.

Times, they are a changing… Necessity is the mother of invention my friends. It wasn’t until the federal government started behaving in tyrannical fashion, shredding the Constitution and Bill of Rights in a thousand assaults on state and individual rights every day, that the states found it necessary to take matters into their own hands with The Balance of Powers Act.

The “experts” seem to have forgotten that the US Constitution and the Federal Government exists at the pleasure of the states which created it and gave it limited authority. They seem to have forgotten that it is the union of the sovereign states that make up The United States and that as Joseph Story reminded everyone in 1833 – “In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.”

The current federal administration has not only sought to unconstitutionally seize control over every aspect of individual lives and the economy, they have acted to destroy the Charters of Freedom altogether. They have also driven our nation to more than $16 trillion in federal debt.

But that is a drop in the bucket to their financial woes if in fact, the “legal experts” are right. If the Constitution and Bill of Rights no longer exist in force or affect, then the union and the federal government itself no longer exists, or at least, no citizen or state is obligated to abide by any of the laws, regulations and taxes that can only exist under the terms and conditions of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Clearly, it is not possible for the Bill of Rights to be “unconstitutional.” So, the strategy of the left is to discredit and belittle anyone who attempts to uphold and defend the Constitution and Bill of Rights as “not knowing what they are doing.”

Thankfully, our Founders wrote the Charters of Freedom in plain simple English, so that any 3^rd grader could read and comprehend its true meaning without the help of any so-called “experts.” As a result, even if legal beagles don’t know what the Founders meant by “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” -- And “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.”— Citizens with above a 3^rd grade reading comprehension level do.

Leftists want to attach the Constitutional Balance of Powers Act to the “nullifiers” they have already successfully labeled “crackpots.” Why not… The Balance of Powers Act covers a thousand “nullification” bills and then some. Of course those who want to leave the Constitution and Bill of Rights in the dust bin of historical relics will use any means to do it.

However, leftists are not the only “constitutional experts” in America.

If the left-wing nuts really want a public debate over the constitutionality of The Balance of Powers Act, I hereby challenge them to just such an event.

Any left-wing legal propagandist willing to publicly assert that the Balance of Powers Act is in any way “unconstitutional” can contact the research team made up of legal professional that drafted it by using the contact button at The North American Law Center. They will be happy to arrange an open debate on these matters, videotaped and published for ALL American citizens to view and draw their own conclusions.

I doubt any of the legal propagandists will dare show for such a debate, but what a wonderful event that would be… Instead, they will attack individuals involved in preserving the Constitutional Republic - make false claims that the Bill of Rights is somehow “unconstitutional” - or no longer in force or affect.

I warn these folks one last time to be careful what they wish for… You are not going to like how a lawless society no longer committed to a compact with the federal government they created, manage those who assault their rights. You will come armed with your precedents and procedures, but the people will be armed with their Second Amendment. This is not a fight you want… Such things are better settled peacefully.

For more information on passing the Balance of Powers Act in your state, contact The North American Law Center.

JB Williams
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www.VeteranDefenders.org
www.ThePatriotsNews.com

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Gun Owners Against Christ? ... J. D. Longstreet

Gun Owners Against Christ?
Tell It To Jesus!
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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Obama and those leftist democrats have now dealt the religion card in their manic drive to snatch weapons from gun owners in America.

Have they NO SHAME -- ANY?  At ALL?

I suppose separation of church and state only applies when  Christians attempt to place a copy of the ten commandments or a Christmas creche on a courthouse lawn.  But it DOES NOT APPLY when the political left, the progressives, democrats, socialists, Marxists, and communists in our government  -- and, yes,  in the pulpits of the mainline religious denominations in America -- feel it is impeding their Marxist agenda.

Senator Feinstein, herself descended from Polish Jews and grandparents who were of the Russian Orthodox faith and self describes her faith as Jewish, ought to brush up on her New Testament before she allows hauling the "cross," a distinctly Christian emblem, into her anti-gun extravaganzas.

Look.   I am sick, ad nauseum, of the mainline religious denominations in America and across the globe, sticking their self righteous noses into my political ideology.

Heck, it is my firm belief that Christian churches have no business, whatsoever, involving themselves in politics -- at any level.  (Frankly, I an very uncomfortable with churches allowing polling places on their premises.)   In fact, if they were doing the job they were given by Christ, Himself, they would not have time to make fools of themselves belittling others and rolling around in the filth of politics.

I refer, of course, in the paragraph above to "The Great Commission," that with which the Christian church is directly charged by Jesus, Himself, to make its work on earth.  It is simple and to the point -- and -- if carried out the church would find itself entirely too busy to become involved in those things that are Caesar's business.

This is The Great Commission: 

Matthew 28:18-20
Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (NIV)   

"As Sen. Dianne Feinstein D-Calif. opened her press conference on gun control today, she invited Dean of the National Cathedral Rev. Canon Gary Hall to offer a prayer.

Hall spoke briefly before the prayer, calling for Washington lawmakers to stop fearing the gun lobby and fulfill their “moral duty” to restrict guns.

"Everyone in this city seems to live in terror of the gun lobby," Hall said. "But I believe that the gun lobby is no match for the cross lobby."

Hall said that he could no longer justify a society that allowed ordinary citizens to keep and bear "assault weapons."

During the prayer, Hall asked God to “bless our elected leaders with the wisdom and the courage needed to bring about the changes that the people demand.”   Source:  http://washingtonexaminer.com/sen.-dianne-feinstein-opens-up-anti-gun-presser-with-a-prayer/article/2519581#.UQPnAvJ0jTg 

This is exactly the kind of leftist political stunt that caused me to walk out of TWO mainline denomination churches a number of years ago --  and I have not allowed my shadow to darken the door of one since.

When a body of believers, gathered together as a church, becomes an apostate church, Christians are commanded to "come out from among them."  That's what I did -- and I highly recommend it for those in fear of the final resting place of their souls.

The whole thing strikes me as the height of hypocrisy anyway.  I mean,  the democrats/socialists screaming about the separation of church and state.  If you want to see overt, in you face, conjoining of religion and politics simply watch the democrats parading into the pulpits of black churches across the nation during a political campaign season. Somehow, THAT is perfectly fine.

OK, I get it:  It's not wrong WHEN THEY DO IT, right?

We have known the Obama machine is going to use every tool they can lay their hands on to attempt to shame gun owners into surrendering their weapons. (Make no mistake.  The final goal of this entire gun control campaign is to TAKE YOUR GUNS ... to disarm Americans.  They only need to complete two easy steps ... registration and then confiscation. Register your weapon and they know what it is, who has it, and where it is.  They next step is to TAKE it from you.)

Gun owners in America are going to be called every dirty name in the book in ad campaigns over the next weeks and months. (Think anti-smoking ad campaign.) Leftist columnists will write stinging tomes concerning our low morals, and our lack of respect for human life. You name it and if it is low-down and dirty enough, American gun owners will be labeled as such.

Right now, though, we are E V I L !   That's why we are seeing the limp-wristed useful idiots of the leftist clergy paraded out to condemn us.

In the words of the ancient prophet Joel:

"...  Prepare for war!
Rouse the warriors!
    Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
 
10 Beat your plowshares into swords  and your pruning hooks into spears.
Let the weakling say,
    “I am strong!” --  Joel: Chapter 3

 And finally, before our leftist "Christians" get too intolerably pious on us and begin preaching that Jesus would want us to turn in our guns,  Allow me to disabuse them of that bit of deceit.

Back in December of 2012 I wrote a piece in which I noted the following:  "And yes, dear reader, Jesus' boys were packing. Well, they weren't packing "heat" because "heat" hadn't been invented yet.  I am satisfied that had guns been available -- at least Saint Peter would have had at least one on him.  Concealed carry, of course.

What they had were swords.  Not the broadsword with which Hollywood is so enamored, but a short sword similar in some respects to the Roman Gladius, but more akin to the American Bowie knife. (Named for its inventor, famed American gambler Jim Bowie, who died at the Alamo.)The "sword" the boys of Jesus' posse possessed were "up close and personal" weapons. You could easily kill, gut, and skin an animal -- or a man -- with the same utensil.  It was, to say the least, uh, practical.

Now, you anti-gun types might not want to hear this, but Jesus KNEW they had those swords.  In fact, he directed them to get one, if they did not already own one, even if they had to sell their coats to purchase a sword. 

For the record, here is what Jesus instructed his men:  "And he [Jesus] said to them [His disciples], “But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also a bag, and whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one. For I tell you that this which is written must be fulfilled in Me, ‘And he was numbered with transgressors’; for that which refers to Me has its fulfillment.” They said, “Lord, look, here are two swords.” And He said to them, “It is enough.”  Luke 22:36-38  -- You may read the entire article at: http://insightonfreedom.blogspot.com/2012/12/what-did-jesus-do-j-d-longstreet.html

There you have it.   Makes me sort of wonder if Jesus is, today, " ... numbered with the transgressors."

It all makes me wonder just how long it will be before the gun grabber's slanderous campaign against America's gun owners will backfire in the faces of the masters of knee-jerk hysteria.

© J. D. Longstreet

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The "Chickification" of America ... Alan Caruba

The "Chickification" of America

By Alan Caruba

Rush Limbaugh has predicted the end of the National Football League and sees its demise drawing closer.

Is it really any surprise that Obama is leading the charge to make football “safe”, given that it is a sport where there is a lot of physical contact, often resulting in the occasional injury? Americans do not watch football to see players get injured. They watch because it is a version of war. It is fought in stadiums. The field of battle is well defined. And men outfitted like gladiators engaged in a modified version of combat.

The key word here is “men.” Nobody wants to watch two teams of women play football. 

  

Obama is a girly man. When you think of Reagan, he is astride a horse at his ranch. When you think of Obama, he is riding a bicycle. 

The latest manifestation of an effort that pre-dates Obama, the “chickification” of America, is the decision by the Department of Defense to allow women to engage in battle alongside their male counterparts. There are few ideas more idiotic than this. Forget the usual arguments put forth about upper body strength and such, even the Israeli Defense Force, famous for including women in its ranks, uses them auxiliary functions in order to free up the men to do the actual fighting. 

No civilized nation wants to send women into combat. No military that depends on unit cohesion and morale wants to put the two sexes together in close proximity because the two sexes tend to do what comes naturally in close proximity. 

They’ve been holding hearings in Congress about the problems this has created in our military services. We have, however, compounded this idiocy by opening the ranks to openly gay service members. There have always been gays in the military, but in the pre-Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell days, they kept that to themselves. 

In an earlier era, the roles of men and women were well defined. Women, indeed, had fewer choices and, to the degree that they now have more, that is a good thing. To the degree that they are in the workplace it also means that both marriage and children are impacted in ways that the 50% divorce rate and the numbers of single mothers were predictable. 

It is troubling to me that women in films and on television have been increasingly portrayed in roles where, rather than being the damsel in distress of former times, they are now gun toting, karate smashing characters on a par with men. This undermines traditional values from chivalry to the instinct of men to come to a woman’s aid, to be protective. 

I fully understand that culture is always subject to change, but some aspects of culture are worth retaining and this is particularly true in light of the glaring fact that women are different than men. Even women know that!

What bothers me is the creeping effort to turn men into women in terms of their attitudes. Part of the push to permit gay marriage, an element of the Democratic Party agenda, is the constant pressure on heterosexual men to “accept” homosexuality as “normal”, when it has never been regarded as normal. 

Homosexuals are approximately 3.5% of the population. The Obama administration has made it clear it has no intention to uphold the Defense of Marriage Act and now openly advocates gay marriage. It tears at the sinews of a society that knows that marriage is between a man and a woman.

As I was thinking about the changes occurring in our culture, I was reminded of a list of Communist goals that were read into the Congressional Record by Rep. Albert S. Herlong, Jr, (D-Florida) in 1963. There were 45 of them, based on a book by Cleon Skousens, “The Naked Communist.”

One was “Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as ‘normal, natural, and healthy.’” Another was “Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.” And “Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the ‘common man.’” 

The Communist goals included taking over the nation’s educational system and infiltrating the press as well as gaining control of key positions in radio, television and motion pictures.

If these goals, revealed just over fifty years ago, sound familiar it is because they are being accomplished. They represent life in America today.

 How football is played may seem insignificant. Encouraging gays in the military and women in combat may seem odd at best and idiotic at worse.  

The bigger problem is the way the news and entertainment community, along with the capture of our educational system all conspire to undermine values that worked very well from the days of the U.S. Revolution to around the 1960s when the progressives, the liberals, and—yes—Communists began to gain positions of influence and power. 

In 2008 and 2012, Americans even elected one.

© Alan Caruba, 2013
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American Amazons? ... J. D. Longstreet

American Amazons?
Women in Direct Combat
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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Amazon: (From Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)
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" ... the call by men for women to fight in their place is the height of cowardice, and worthy of the strongest possible rebuke."  Source: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thoughtlife/2013/01/women-should-not-be-in-combat-says-a-female-marine-captain/

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Has the Obama administration gone completely nuts? (THAT is a rhetorical question.) One is required to be at least "nominally" sane before one can go INsane.

Now they are going to place the lives of that half of the human species -- able to reproduce life -- directly in harm's way. 

Why?

Have they grown weary of just killing the babies?  Have they now become intent upon killing those capable of producing the babies in the first place? 

Placing women in direct combat teams is so wrong -- on so many levels. 

One thing is for darned sure. I will not recommend my grandson join the US Military.  Not any longer. 

With the advent of gay society into the ranks, and now weakening the war fighting ability of the armed forces by placing women in combat roles, the US military is simply not up to the moral standards -- nor the warrior standards -- to which I would have my son, my grandson, my daughter, or my granddaughter exposed.

The left's social experiments with the US military over the decades has left us with a military that hasn't won a war since the Second World War.  (Desert Storm was basically one huge battle which lasted days.)

As  veteran myself, I am proud of having done the tiny bit that I did for my country in the military.  But that was back in the 1950s when we were marched over to the WAC's barracks at Fort Jackson, South Carolina -- which were fenced off with eight-foot tall fencing -- and we told by our training sergeant  that that was where the women were and if we even went near the place we'd be shot!

I read recently of concerns by some on the political left that America is creating a "warrior class" with our all volunteer military.  Heck, we've had a warrior class since, at least, the War Between the States.  We call 'em Southerners!  When the US decides to go to war, southern males begin lining up and signing up.  Blame our Celtic heritage and ancestry.

President Bush in 1992 created the Presidential Commission on the Deployment of Women in the Military to determine the capability of women severing in direct combat positions. “The Commission showed that women were three times more nondeployable than men, primarily due to pregnancy, during Operations Desert Shield and Storm.” (Hoar 1) The commission used expert medical witnesses and current military policy to show the pitfalls of having potential mothers serving in military units.    SOURCE:  http://www.grossmont.net/musgrave2/Grammar%20Hospital/new%20pages/opponent.example.htm

Look.  Combat is just as mean, just as barbaric, just tough as it has always been. The combat soldier MUST rely on his physical strength, and his mental strength to survive and to aid his fellow soldiers to survive and win the victory.  That is a fact -- period. 

Let's state the obvious here:  Women cannot carry as much as far as fast as men, and they are more susceptible to fatigue.

Women are shorter.  Women have less muscle mass. Women weigh less than men.  This is a great disadvantage when called upon to perform tasks that would require a high level of muscular strength and aerobic capacity, you know, like -- ground combat.  Read more about this issue here: http://www.grossmont.net/musgrave2/Grammar%20Hospital/new%20pages/opponent.example.htm

This just WRONG!  A nation intent upon survival does not, I repeat, does not deliberately place the "life-givers," -- their women -- in danger. It is a basic rule of survival. 

Frankly, I am not surprised. The left places so little value on human life, so little value on human dignity, so little value on the worth of each individual, that, to them, this is just another victory for their progressive agenda. They simply don't care about the consequences.

We've known for many decades that the political left views humankind as a plague upon their Holy Mother Earth.  So, maybe this is just one more way they feel they can rid earth of it's payload of humans and cleanse the planet.
 

Consider the following:  "In "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society,"  Lt. Col. Dave Grossman briefly mentions that female soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces have been officially prohibited from serving in close combat military operations since 1948. The reason for removing female soldiers from the front lines was due less to the performance of female soldiers, and more due to the behavior of the male infantrymen after witnessing a woman wounded. The IDF saw a complete loss of control over soldiers who apparently experienced an uncontrollable, protective, instinctual aggression, severely degrading the unit's combat effectiveness.

However, in 2001, subsequent to the publication of Grossman's book, women did begin serving in IDF combat units on an experimental basis. There is now an all-female infantry battalion, the Caracal Battalion."  SOURCE:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_combat 

Read more about the Caracal Battalion at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracal_Battalion

I came across an article while doing a bit of research recently that I think should be read by everyone -- on both sides of the women in combat debate.  It is entitled:  "Women Should Not Be in Combat (Says a Female Marine Captain)
You will find the article here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thoughtlife/2013/01/women-should-not-be-in-combat-says-a-female-marine-captain/   READ THIS ARTICLE.  

"For those who dictate policy, changing the current restrictions associated with women in the infantry may not seem significant to the way the Marine Corps operates. I vehemently disagree; this potential change will rock the foundation of our Corps for the worse and will weaken what has been since 1775 the world’s most lethal fighting force." --  Capt Katie Petronio  --  SOURCE: http://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/article/get-over-it-we-are-not-all-created-equal

The quote immediately above is from the article entitled:  "Get Over It! We Are Not All Created Equal."  The article was written by Capt. Katie Petronio, a Marine.  You will find the entire article here:  http://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/article/get-over-it-we-are-not-all-created-equal 

Placing women in direct combat war fighting roles within the US military will do nothing to elevate women.  It will, in fact, grind women down even more.

Now that that the ban has been lifted we are left with a fight between facts an leftist ideology.  Women are now caught in the middle of yet another fight in which ideology will trump facts.

No matter how horrible the results of this decision will be for women serving in America's military,  leftists will NEVER admit to being wrong.  So, this disastrous decision will stand while the broken, twisted, and maimed bodies of America's young women, those who would bear our young, those who would rear America's children, will continue to pile up.

© J. D. Longstreet
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