The Plane of Reproach

Wednesday, 02 September 2009

  • A Christian Nation


    Whether the modern man wants to believe it or not, he cannot change the simple fact that this (once) great American nation was founded on a moral and spiritual compass. Even those who did not profess to be Christians - and some of whom even proclaimed themselves anything but - agreed that Christianity namely and morality in general were the saving grace of such a government as they wished to build. The founding fathers of the "greatest nation on earth" believed that self-annihilation of a country would come about when there were no more morals to govern us by.

    Take a look at their words. Still don't believe it? Then let everyone know you are willfully ignorant and stop pretending to argue from a factual position.


    "Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments." -Charles Carroll

    "Without Religion this World would be Something not fit to be mentioned in polite Company, I mean Hell." - John Adams

    "“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” -Patrick Henry

    “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? " - Thomas Jefferson

    "To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. . . . Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them." -Jedediah Morse

    “ It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.”
    “ The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.”  - Thomas Paine

    “ Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” - John Jay

    "For my own part, I sincerely esteem it [the Constitution] a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests." - Alexander Hamilton

    “If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into our world would have been unnecessary.” -Benjamin Rush

    “In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.” -Noah Webster

    "We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!" - John Adams, John Hancock

  • The Storm is Rising


    A few months ago, I was depressed at how few people saw the tyranny taking place right under our noses. Now, every day I see a new blog or report or listen to a radio station declaring that enough is enough and freedom shall not be taken from them. Let the fires burn. War is coming to this land, whether that be literal or figurative. The tighter you squeeze your fist, the more you lose out of it.

    No more, America. Rise up to the task at hand. Let tyranny know that it will not win. Freedom is at hand and we will take it. It is our human and constitutional right.


    "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object 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." -The Declaration of Independence

    "The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams


Monday, 25 May 2009

  • Memorial Day

     

    I don't make much of Memorial Day and haven't in years...I am constantly reminded of everything our soldiers do and have done for us in the history of our country.

    Today, however, I was reminded of the day's portent and angered by the reminder: Obama Observes Memorial Day at Arlington Cemetery.

    This paragraph is what frustrated me: "Last week, a group of about 60 professors petitioned the White House, asking the first black U.S. president to break tradition and not memorialize military members from the Confederacy, the group of Southern states that supported slavery."

    Are you kidding me? Despite modern intrepretation and even despite my own education on the subject of the Civil War, the Confederates were heroes. They weren't fighting for slavery. (Even Lincoln was not fighting against slavery, but merely trying to force the South from seceding.) They fought against an oppressive, freedom-stealing governnment. They nobly gave everything they had for that cause and, when they lost, the rest of the country took whatever was left. The Confederates lost their lives, they lost their freedom, and all they received in return was a broken and barren land. Of course they should be remembered and honored.

     Those "professors" should be ashamed of themselves, not only for keeping a lie alive but also for asking the president to make an emotional decision based on race.

    Remember the Confederates with pride this Memorial Day. Remember the soldiers who are right now giving up their families and lives to protect your freedom to celebrate a holiday at all.

     

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

  • Illegal Violation of the Second Amendment

     

    The Florida legislature has violated the Second Amendment by raiding the concealed weapons and firearm licensing trust fund. They took $6 million of the almost $8 million available from the Division of Licensing Concealed Weapons and Firearm Trust Fund that is intended, by law, to be used solely for administering the concealed weapons and firearms licensing program; they are using this stolen money not for education, health care, or any other important issues, but to build their own "working capital" fund that has already accrued $1.8 billion dollars. Obviously afraid that the Governor would veto these trust fund raids, proviso language was inserted in the bill in a clear attempt to intimidate the Governor, stating that if any portion of the money swept from this and other trust funds does not become law (meaning it is vetoed), that portion of the money shall be deducted from the EDUCATION BUDGET.

    Still think this is somehow not a big deal? EVERY CENT IN THE CONCEALED WEAPONS TRUST FUND CAME FROM GUN OWNERS. Money to administer and run the concealed weapons and firearms licensing program has never come from general revenue, or any other state fund or revenue source or the government at large in any way.  The taking of these gun owner user fees is an unauthorized tax on the exercise of the Second Amendment.

    (Read the full article here.)

    There should be rioting in the streets. Such a clear act of theft by the government should have citizens all over the country in an uproar. Have you heard anything about it? No? Exactly.

    If you agree with me about this travesty, call or email the governor's office today:

    Phone number: (850) 488-4441 or (850) 488-7146
    Fax number:  (850) 487-0801

    Send your email to the Governor at this address: Charlie.Crist@MyFlorida.com

    It takes five minutes, folks. If we can't stand up for our rights for the cost of five minutes when they are so blatantly taken, we don't deserve any of them. Worse, we won't possess any to protest if this is allowed to continue.

    If nothing else, recommend this post. People need to know. Or are we content with loss of freedom so we can know who dated whom in the celebrity world today?

     

Thursday, 07 May 2009

  • The Savage Follow-Up

     

    If you think only us stupid Americans with our racism and arrogance are upset over Michael Savage's banning, take a look at this prominent British journalist's take on the situation: Not All Brits Are Whiny Liberals.

    I quote: "...whether it's councils using news laws to spy on ordinary residents, the police harassing Austrian tourists taking photos or the Government using hate speech to ban conservatives it doesn't approve of, the threat of "inter-community tension" brings enormous opportunities to authoritarian-minded liberals.

    What must the Americans, who inherited our political freedoms and built a great nation out of them, think of Britain today? We're a joke. Mr Savage, I can only apologise and offer you some belated British hospitality. If you do ever manage to sneak in, come to dinner with me and my wife. In Haringey. I won't tell the neighbours."

    If I was a Brit, I'd help him throw the dinner party.

    Ed West happens to have a lot of fantastic - if scary- things to say. Check them out on the rest of his blog here.

     

  • Savage Outrage

     

    I did not mean to be gone so long. Life has been hectic, to say the least. In wondering what to post, I found this piece of outrage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8035114.stm .

    Go ahead. Read it. And tell me how you can call yourself an American or even a decent human being if you honestly agree with Jacqui Smith. This is wrong in so many ways but it is just another sign of the idiocy of the world and how badly civilization needs a reality check.

    The world and most of the people in it royally suck.

    Make the time to read this article as well: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97198. And if you're as outraged as I am, send that bitch Smith a copy of Savage's book (address below). She needs it. And we need to protect our own.

    Jacqui Smith - Home Office
    Direct Communications Unit
    2 Marsham Street
    London SW1P 4DF

     

Saturday, 18 April 2009

Friday, 17 April 2009

Tuesday, 14 April 2009

  • Rise of the Tea Parties

     

    Check out the resurgence of the event that sparked the American Revolution: click.

    While the article seems biased against the idea to me, I love that it's being reported at all. Taxes today are ridiculous, unwarranted, and some are unconstitutional. It's about time people started revolting against the injustice of government.

    At the end of the article, this caught my eye:

    Leslie Marshall, a nationally syndicated radio host, dismissed the tea party protests. She said the mainstream media are not covering them because they're not worthy of coverage.  

    "It's not sexy. It doesn't bleed," she told FOX News, suggesting the protesters were doing the American Revolutionary a disservice by operating under the "tea party" name. 

    What the hell.  A revolt against unfair taxation is not news-worthy but this is? Not only does this reason defy the Journalist Code of Ethics, which states that "public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues" but it's just ignorant to justify the reporting of news on whether it is sensational or not. Are you deranged or just stupid, Marshall?

    "You have to look at our history. The reason these people revolted is they didn't want to pay taxes that were not presented by elected officials," she said. "Last time I checked, Obama's not taxing you to death -- he is spending to stimulate the economy and he is an elected official." 

    Apparently, you are both. First of all, for the unbiased observer of history, it is more than apparent that the American colonists were not just revolting against "taxation without representation" but that they were fighting against the tyranny and injustice of government itself, an issue so much larger than you claim. Your words are a disservice to history.

    Secondly, by your own words, you admit that Obama is spending...he's spending a hell of a lot that we don't have and it isn't doing a thing for the economy. Where do you think the money for that spending comes from? Oh, thats right: taxation. We're being overly taxed now and it will only get worse the more Obama throws to the wind.

    (See this post for the troubling facts on Obama's helpful spending spree.)

    These tea parties are in the true spirit of the original colonists. Not only do we have every right to fight injustice, that battle has every right to be represented in every news outlet in the country. I applaud those in the tea parties and encourage everyone to seriously consider what they are fighting for.

     

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