Islam's Most Successful Campaign

Prior to September 11, 2001 most Americans knew little of the second largest religion in the world, Islam, outside of the fact that most Muslims lived in foreign countries. In the decade since we have been acutely aware of Islam's role in the world, almost all of which has been negative in scope.

The term Jihad was not known or understood and for the most part Muslims were seen through Western eyes which provided a distorted view at best. Distorted because we tend to view the world as if it is an extension of our own perceptions. We try and imagine Muslims as "being just like us." Americans tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. When we see conflict we try to invent a cause that puts people in the best light, often excusing behaviors we would otherwise deem unacceptable.

This has caused us to see Muslims as not much different from ourselves. After all, they, like us, are human beings so how different can they be when we get right down to it?

With the rise of various terrorist organizations we have had no choice but to attempt to understand Muslims and get a grasp of just what Islam is. This in itself is a very difficult task seeing as how there appears to be as many views of Islam as there are people trying to explain it. But one thing is certain, we are more aware now than we have ever been that we share a planet with a culture vastly different from ours.

Since its founding in the 7th Century, Islam has been on a campaign of self-promotion. More recently, it has had a great deal of help in public relations as many strive fiercely to make excuses for actions made in the name of Islam, either on behalf of their Prophet Mohammed or their god Allah.

One of the first things that happened following the events of 9/11 was that government agencies began to shape our perception of Islam. Airport security, such as it was before that fateful morning, was instructed not to profile Muslims for special attention. This in itself caught many of us  by surprise seeing as how the 19 hijackers that took the lives of 2,996 Americans, were all Muslims.

In the events that have occurred since then we have seen a refusal to acknowledge even the participation of Muslims even when it was the first obvious conclusion that could possibly be drawn.

Upon taking office as president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has made it a personal mission to erase obvious connections with Islam when terrorist attacks happen whether here or abroad. Terms like "Islamic terrorism" or "Muslim terrorist" have been removed from official documents in efforts to cover-up connections even a child could make.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been forced to change its training methods that singled out Muslims even though 99% of all the world's terrorist activity is Muslim-related.

The actions of Army Major Nidal Hassen on November 5, 2009, though he shot and killed 14 including an unborn child on the Fort Hood Army base and wounded over 30 others while shouting "Allahu Ackbar," was called "workplace violence" by the Obama administration in efforts to hide the Muslim connection, as obvious as it was.

This attack wasn't the first to happen on American soil. For that one would have to go back to April 14, 1972 when ten Muslims, members of a mosque in New York city phoned in a false alarm only to ambush responding police officers, killing one and injuring three.

A police officer were also killed and another wounded by Muslims on January 19, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York when he responded to a robbery at a sporting goods store where they were trying to steal weapons.

Since then we have had Muslim terrorist attacks in cities across the country, such as Bethesda, MD, three times in Washington, DC, Berkley, CA, eight times in Oakland CA, Ingleside, CA, Savou, IL, St. Louis, MO, Tuscon, AZ, New York City, NY, Langley, VA, Lompoc, CA, and in Atlanta, GA all prior to September 11, 2001. These attacks killed 45 and injured another ten. Most were never reported honestly.

Since September 11, 2001 there have been 32,580 separate deadly Islamic Jihad attacks worldwide as of February 21, 2018. Today the entire world is aware of the Islamic threat, though too often excused or downplayed by the media or government agencies.

But these attacks or campaigns, against the non-Muslim world do not include the most successful Islam has perpetrated since its inception. Here are some contenders:

Jihad today has its roots in both the actions of Islam's Prophet Mohammed and in their Holy Scripture, the Qur'an. For Mohammed's part, when he entered Medina there were three tribes of Jews. As Mohammed's political power grew he began to take the property of those Jews, killing some and exiling others. When he finally dealt with the last tribe he lay siege on them for twenty-five days. Upon their surrender, the women were sold as sex slaves to raise money for his continued Jihad, the children were placed into Muslim homes to be raised as Muslims and 8oo men and boys who had reached puberty were beheaded in the marketplace as their bodies fell into a trench dug for that purpose. This however, was not Islam's most successful campaign.

Following the Battle of Khaybar Mohammed established a new form of status, the Dhimmi. Realizing that a dead Jew brings only so much material and monetary reward, Mohammed created a class of people who were to be granted certain rights. They could, should they choose to, remain a Jew and continue to worship in their religion, although with many very restrictive regulations and if they agreed to pay the jizah, a tax equal to about half their income. They continued to work the land as farmers or operate as businessmen as they had before so they could pay the heavy tax. Of course, not accepting this arrangement meant death. This form of oppression was the last great political creation to rule the world. However, this was not Islam's most successful campaign.

There were many Muslim leaders over the centuries. One such ruler was Al-Hakim (996-1021) who served as Caliph in Egypt. It was under his rule that a special department was created for the sole purpose of keeping track of all the property he confiscated from his murdered victims for the ten years of his reign. Christians and Jews were directed to wear special clothing so they could not be mistaken for Muslims. Many Christians converted to Islam to escape the oppression and his destruction of holy sites and murder of Christians were a part of the reason for the Crusades years later.  He built the House of Science, the first real Islamic university and he was notorious for his regulations on behavior. Chess, musical instruments, gambling, wine, beer, grapes, honey, some vegetables and some fish, singing, the wearing of jewelry by women, and even their leaving the house were all forbidden. Dogs were slaughtered and a hatred for dogs persists until this day by Muslims. He even murdered members of his family, high-ranking officials and drowned his concubines. His power was almost unequaled yet this was not Islam's most successful campaign.

Tamerlane became an Islamic ruler in 1370 and was widely known for his building of citadels, baths, gardens, and markets, much of which still exists today. His military campaigns saw the entire area of Central Asia under his control. In Afghanistan he was known to have removed the heads of his enemies and built them into his towers with the faces turned toward the roads as a warning of any with the idea of resisting his rule.

When one of his garrisons was destroyed he countered by killing one city's entire population of 70,000 including a delegation of children sent to appease him. Later he killed 50,000 Hindu captives as retaliation in a single bloody hour. Still this campaign was not the most successful of Islamic conquest.

Abdul Hamid II was quoted as saying "I will soon settle those Armenians. I will give them a box on the ears that will make them smart and relinquish their revolutionary ambitions." His perception of the Armenian reform that he feared would take place caused him to be true to his word. In 1984, at the sound of a bugle to signal the planned attack, mobs of Muslims and troops attacked Armenian headquarters. Men were murdered in the streets, women were raped, property destroyed and when it was said an done over 200,000 were dead, although the number has been given as high as one million. The world stood silent and scarcely reported the massacre. Still this was not Islamic most successful campaign.

Jihad against the non-Muslim has survived to this day, taking a total of 270 million lives in the process over the past 1400 years. Of those murdered by Islamic Jihad, 120 million were Africans, 60 million were Christian, 80 million were Hindus, and 10 million were Buddhists. But these campaigns were not the most successful for Islam.

The most successful campaign of Islamic advancement and progression began quietly in 1996 when the Runnymede Trust created the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia. The following year in their report entitled "Islamphobia, A Challenge for Us All", Islamophobia, which some believe has been around for decades, took on a more defined face. It was explained to be "an outlook or world-view involving an unfounded dread and dislike of Muslims, which results in practices of exclusion and discrimination."

To describe it in more detail, the report went on to say that Islamophobia is the "dread or hatred of Islam and therefore, [the] fear and dislike of all Muslims." Since that time the term has become so widely used one would think it has been with us for centuries. It has effectively stifled and muzzled any critical view of Islam. It has make it easy for anyone who questions Islam or Muslims in general, to be labeled an Islamophobe and therefore even their comments are forever deemed unworthy of even addressing or replying to. The term has incorrectly been expanded to mean "racist" and this stigma further shelters Islam from any critical review. The opinion of a Islamophobe is considered one which sees no value in Islam either culturally, socially, economically or even in the public forum. Therefore, it is to be disregarded and not worthy of note, no matter how pertinent or important it might otherwise be.

Once identified as an Islamophobe, nothing that person has to say ever reaches the mind of the listener for in fact, they cease to listen at all. Important issues are never intelligently discussed. Debate is impossible when one party refuses to acknowledge the validity of the opposing point of view.

Smearing one person or a whole group of people with the term Islamophobia, effectively silences their opinion. Curiously, personal growth only comes when one is open-minded to other possibilities other than the ones they currently hold. Using the Islamophobia brush to paint anyone or any group has dangerous consequences. It hides the truth and even when it is a matter of life and death.

Like a child holding his or her hands over their ears as they chant "La La La La La La" to drown out he speakers voice, the term Islamophobia has become a childish act to silence dissent and even the asking of important questions. Good people with their hearts in the right place, who seek to warn others of the terrible consequences of their ignorance and lack of knowledge, are not heard.

That is the true purpose of this word, to obscure the truth and protect it from being exposed. In today's world groups like ISIS work their most atrocious evil and for fear of being called Islamophobic, we are subdued into silence. Things that must be said are kept inside. For fear of being called a racist, a bigot, a hater, in other words Islamophobic, good people, with good questions or necessary observations, cower quietly in the corner. The term Islamophobia has won another victory and the evil that should have been displayed for all the world to see is hidden once again from sight, even if it is in plain view.

The creation of the term Islamophobia and its acceptance into our culture is the most successful campaign Islam has ever won. Every time you hear the term used, whether by a talking head on TV, a speaker at a university, in front of the green wall at the United Nations or from the podium of the President of the United States, be assured that Islam just won another victory and their campaign to cloud the issue and hide the truth of what Islam is and what its goals actually are, remain unseen.

That is the most successful campaign Islam has ever engaged in. It will be the most successful tool in Islam's arsenal used to spread its oppression, racism, bigotry and evil across the face of the globe, because we help wield it for them.

Glen Spicer

WHILE WE SLEPT

While We Slept

“But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” Matthew 13:25 (KJV)

Is this what we are witnessing with the advent of Barack Hussein Obama on the world stage? I think so. Christians have been lulled to sleep by flowery rhetoric and smooth promises, just as has the rest of the world when it comes to Obama. Far from being the unifying force he promised to be, he has become the most divisive president to ever hold the office. He has divided America in the areas of religion, race, family, social interactions, economy, and anything else he touches.

His alignment with the Muslim Brotherhood is no secret but his continued advancement of it escapes many. Islam's influence is far reaching and aided by Obama and the mindset that put him in power. Illinois Democrat, Andre Carson, is the second Muslim that has been elected to Congress. The ideology that causes one to identify himself with Islam should have ruled him unacceptable to hold any office in America, especially in this post 9/11 era. But instead of awakening us to the dangers imposed by Islam in the United States, which should have become apparent on that Tuesday morning when almost 3,000 Americans lost their lives due to Islamic Jihad, America has been lulled back to sleep as if nothing had happened or it were only a scary dream. "Move along. Nothing to see here" could be the cry of the day.

When we think of Chicago we often think of corruption in government, past and present, and the misfits that it has spawned like Eric Holder, Rahm Emmanuel and Barack Obama. Now Chicago has become the birthplace of an Islamic organization under the direction of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO). If there is anything that is incompatible with the ideal that is America, a Muslim political organization tops the list.

In reality, Islam is more political than religious but it takes advantage of every religious freedom it can grasp. The religion of Islam is the matador's cape that hides the spear designed to kill the bull. Political Islam is that spear. We focus on the red cape and are unaware of the dangers it hides through its political side. I have often stated that if Islam were treated like the political organization it really is, we would chase it from our shores.

Consider this easy explanation of the difference between religious and political ideology. Most religions say, "Here is what I believe. You are free to choose it or not." Political Islam says "Here is what I believe. You have two choices, convert to my belief system or die. Your choice."

However, it appears that now Islam is becoming openly political, especially with the formation of this new political group with the aid and assistance of President Obama himself. It seems I gave America too much credit. We aren't even paying attention.

A stepping stone for this came in 2014 when Sabri Samirah, a Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood member, was allowed into the United States by President Obama. He had previously been banned from the US for 11 years.  He immediately began the groundwork for this political organization to influence politics in America to be more in tune with what Islam's goals for the country are. Yes, while we slept, Obama helped sow weeds in America's wheat field.

Known as the UMMA, it is registered as a "non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to promoting the public and political empowerment of the American Muslim community as well as serve its interests".  One can only imagine what those interest are in light of Islamic desire to see the entire world submitted to Allah and Mohammed's Islam.

The UMMA also endorses candidates, 85 % of which are Democrat and 15% Republican. This reinforces the fact that even some Republicans nowadays don't know where they stand when it comes to the Constitution of the United States. The Democrats are no surprise.

A list of donors to the political ambitions of Andre Carson's who have Islamic ties brought him $33,911.00. While Carson denies he is doing anything against America's interests, accepting money from CAIR, ICNA, ISNA and MPAC clearly have strings attached and would serve as a red flag to anyone paying attention.

Political campaigns usually begin to gain momentum about two years before an election. Does anyone think it is a coincidence that Obama lifted this ban on this Muslim's entrance into America to become politically active two years before the 2016 presidential election? Being naive is one thing. Being willfully ignorant is another.

Since the UMMA promises to galvanize the Muslim community for political reasons, it is a given that shaping the 2016 election was the plan all along.

Remember when President Obama told the people of the world during his UN speech “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”? It appears he thinks it needs to belong to those who follow him instead.

He also stated that “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” For a man who professes to be a scholar when it comes to the Constitution, this sounds like an outright deception aimed at promoting Islamic acceptance in the America, something he does on a regular basis.

And, of course, it takes only a casual glance at any real world news to see that "dignity for all human beings" is not Islam's strong suit.

How much influence the UMMA will have upon our political system is unknown but based on their dedication and those high in government who are giving them a helping hand, it promises to be considerable. Working within the system of a country it seeks to conquer is the Islamic way. Islam's Prophet Mohammed directed Muslims to "not offer peace when you have the upper hand". Muslims now in America do not have the upper hand, but with government assisted immigration from Islamic lands by President Obama, the trend of increasing Muslim population is well underway. Seventy-five thousand are expected to arrive from Syria in the next five years alone. Step by step a goal is achieved.

America can't be conquered from the outside because we are too powerful a military force. But as Abraham Lincoln and others since warned, it is vulnerable to attack and ever destruction, from the inside. Every mosque that dots our changing landscape is a headquarters to that very end. Every militant training camp in America (the estimates are near 35) is a headquarters from which to spearhead those attacks. That is obvious to anyone with their eyes open.

However, with the aid of people like Muslim Congressmen Andre Carson and Keith Ellison, and the president himself, the eating away of America has already begun and that appears to be escaping the notice of most Americans.

As it always does, Chicago is not content to keep its corruption to itself but is determined to export it as we have seen with Obama and numerous politicians connected to him and that city. Every destructive cancer always has a place where it started and although small, it grows, especially when left unchecked and unnoticed. Islamic influence in America is a cancer that will, as cancers tend to do, destroy the host. This Islamic cancer is growing and left unchecked, will send America to the dust bin of history as it has other cultures throughout the centuries.

Turkey used to be called Anatolia, a Greek and Christian nation, now about 97% Muslim. When Islam annihilates a culture, it changes the name to erase everything that came before Islam. Egyptian culture has vanished and replaced with Islam. The face of the Middle East in particular has changed from freedom-loving nations to enslaved by Islam. America will be its crown jewel and it makes its mouth water.

Yes, while we slept, our enemies crept in and sowed weeds and slipped away unnoticed, content in the fact that the seeds they planted will do what military force could not do, infiltrate and saturate. It took 400 years for Greek/Christian Anatolia to become Muslim Turkey. How long will it take for the United States to be no longer recognizable? At the speed with which we are assisting in our own destruction, in will be sooner than later.

I find it interesting that the Arabic word for tare is tarhah  and refers to something discarded, from taraha meaning to reject. If anything in America is considered worthy of being discarded and rejected, it is Islam.

The time to deal with unwanted weeds is when they first stick their heads above the soil. It is much easier before they get established. With the new creation of the UMMA and the acceptance of such organizations as CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, USCMO, MSA and others along with the Muslim Brotherhood as valid organizations free to operate openly within our borders, unchecked, sadly America has more years behind her than ahead of her. These destructive weeds need to be dealt with now, decisively and with prejudice. It is America's only hope for survival.

Glen Spicer

It Is Time We Remembered

It is time we remembered, because there are those who wish us to forget. They cloud our memories and deny the truth of our past. Remember where we came from. Remember the vision we were designed to move toward. Remember what inspired our creation and the future we were meant to claim. It is time we remembered the true America.

The history of the world is a continuous record of hardship, oppression and distress. It is a record of tyrants, dictators, monarchies that repressed the human spirit and promoted the self-interest of the powerful.

Individual rights were subservient to the needs of the collective, whose existence was only tolerated in order that the elite thrive. No country in the world truly valued civil rights or individual liberties. It was time for a change.

From this dark environment God saw fit to establish a light to obliterate the darkness and for the first time, allow man to breathe free air. His inspiration took root in the hearts of great men, the likes of which the world had never seen before. From this Divine Inspiration was born the United States of America and mankind, and humanity, would never be the same.

The citizens of Malborough, Massachusetts aptly proclaimed, "A free-born people are not required to submit to tyranny!" and for all the generations that followed America's first generation, we have proudly claimed to be free people.

As it often does, prosperity and good fortune finds an enemy. Our first Americans found their enemy in the person of King George III who set out to control this new land and keep it under his unjust rule. And as will happen once people taste what it is to be free, these early Americans refused to live under the thumb of a tyrant across the ocean.

In 1764, only four years after assuming the throne, his likeness of King George was burned in effigy from a tree in Boston, later named the "Liberty Tree". Decree by decree, Great Britain's hand became too heavy for men who wanted to be free to tolerate. The American Revolution was the outcome of their resolve and every generation since has proudly proclaimed the title of American.

Today, the passion of the men we revere as our Founding Fathers that birthed this nation, is under attack once again. The Liberal Progressive mindset seeks to erase their contribution to our nation's beginning. It is time we remembered who they were and what they gave us.

One recent study found that 86% of our children's school texts had deliberately omitted the Godly influence that guided these men to separate us from the government Samuel Adams described as having "lost all sense and feeling of morality" and was "governed by passion, cruelty and revenge".

Re-writing of history is the Liberal's only way to deny the influence of "Divine Providence" in our nation's founding. Ignore the truth, refuse to tell the real story, and in a generation or two no one will even know that our Founding Fathers valued the hand of God in all they did.

As James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers in 1787, "Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm". He knew the dangers that come with the establishing of any new government. With added power comes the opportunity for corruption, and it will only be held in check by men of conscious and morality. Efforts for us to return to an form of government that recognizes God and a standard morality, in the eyes of some, must be diminished and discredited. Movement toward that goal is fully underway today.

A teacher asked the children to draw what they thought Christmas was. While Santa Claus, Christmas trees and elves were permitted, one child soon learned that the manger scene she drew was not acceptable. What is Christmas if not a manger scene?

As a young student I remember when the Gideons would come yearly to our school and see that every child who wanted a pocket New Testament would get one, free of charge. Don't expect to ever see that gift being made available in today's federally funded school system.

A declaration of love of God is now seen as bigoted against anyone who doesn't hold that view. It is permissible to be proud of being Gay, for example, but to proclaim that you are a Christian believing in Biblical principles, or an organization who gives freely to traditional marriage groups, often gets you labeled as a hater. The God of Love is now the God of hate.

Cries for the "Separation of Church and State" assault us from coast to coast, but is that what our Founding Fathers' really believed? Setting the record straight requires we understand that such an idea is found nowhere in the Constitution of the United States.

The "wall of separation" Thomas Jefferson spoke of in a personal letter was about keeping government out of religion, not religion out of government.

The First Amendment reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

This amendment was designed to tie the hands of the government from setting religious guidelines, a job best left up to the people themselves. It was rather, designed to tie the hands of government, not the hands of the people.

Today, freedom "of" religion is being promoted as a freedom "from" religion. It is time we remembered the truth.

During the first observed national Thanksgiving Ceremony in 1791, John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts said, "In consideration of the many undeserved Blessings conferred upon us by God, the Father of all Mercies; it becomes us not only in our private and usual devotion, to express our obligations to Him, as well as our dependence upon Him; but also specially to set apart a Day to be employed for this great and important Purpose. . . . And above all, not only to continue to us the enjoyment of our civil Rights and Liberties; but the great and most important Blessing, the Gospel of Jesus Christ: . . . . that all may bow to the Scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the whole Earth be filled with his Glory."

That proclamation hardly sounds like a leader who wanted God left out of our government or society. Hancock and John Adams, the second president, together stated, "We recognize no sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus."

"The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence," wrote Adams, "were the general principles of Christianity... I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God."

Patrick Henry put it this way, "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."

Noah Webster, acclaimed as the Father of American Education, would not recognize today's school system, one so determined to keep God off school property and out of the classroom. He wrote, "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 in 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."

I wonder just how free Webster would see us today based on his belief thus expressed. As our freedom to even speak the name of Jesus or to mention God is being restricted with ever-increasing frequency, so is our overall freedom as guaranteed by the First Amendment. There is a reason that freedom was listed at the very first of the very First Amendment. It was considered that important.

Benjamin Rush, founder of Dickinson College wrote, "By removing the Bible from the schools we would be wasting so much time and money in punishing criminals and so little pains to prevent crime. Take the Bible out of our schools and there would be an explosion in crime." After a generation without the Bible being honored in our schools, Rush has been proven correct in his prediction.

George Washington, our first president stated, "No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States." He felt that we, above all other peoples, should clearly recognize the hand of God upon this nation. His message is being silenced today. It is time we remembered.

Washington's first official act as president was to lead a small group of people to a tiny church that still stands today near New York City's Ground Zero, to pray for the future of America. Does that sound like a president who wished for God to remain nameless and unmentioned? It is time we remembered.

And what of the tendency to deny that prayer has a place in public arena? Washington's own personal prayer book, written in his own handwriting, is full of prayers he prayed morning and evening, incidentally in the name of Jesus Christ. To quote him exactly as he concluded one Sunday evening prayer, "These weak petitions, I humbly implore Thee to hear, accept and answer for the sake of Thy Dear Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen."

Countless quotes and examples could be cited to remind us that the demands for silence about God and Jesus in the public square are without merit, except in the minds of godless men who deny His Divine influence in the creation of the very country that allows them the right to demand that silence.

God ordained the establishment of the government of the nation of Israel and I believe he ordained the creation of the United States of America. What man has done with that gift must sadden Him as we have lost respect for the treasure we were blessed with.

God is not anti-government and government need not be anti-God. People today are itching to remove the phrase "under God" from our Pledge of Allegiance. Some wish to remove the pledge to our nation all together and replace it with a Pledge to the World, to further dismiss the recognition of both God and America. Those words were placed there to remind us that this wonder we call the United States of America was not an accident, and neither was it made by the hand of man alone.

The motto "In God We Trust" is constantly being attacked as having no place in anything remotely related to America by atheist groups, as are crosses marking the graves of fallen soldiers who died defending the right to honor God opening.

As Jesus Himself said, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." Gratitude for the hand of God in the creation of America, as well as the acknowledgement of the sacrifice of devout, believing men He inspired, should come easily to us. It will, when we remember the truth. It is time we remembered.

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It's Time To Shore Up, Not Neglect, America's Foundational Values

Our Founding Fathers knew that the decision to pledge their lives, liberty and sacred honor for the opportunity to birth the greatest nation in mankind's history, could cost them their lives. To them it was something worth dying for. Those values which spurred them forward are still the foundation of America over 237 years later.

The question we must ask ourselves today is the same one they asked of themselves two centuries ago: Are we willing to pledge our lives, liberty and sacred honor in defense of the country they gave us? The reality is that unless we switch our mentality from one that simply allows us to enjoy the liberties of America, to one which demands we protect those freedoms, we will surely lose them.

No different than the foundation upon which we build any structure, the soundness of that foundation will determine whether the house built on it continues to stand or falls. The cracks we see in America today are the result of stress, strain, and pressure being exerted upon that foundation. Foreign regimes, inhumane philosophies, and corrupt political practices at home are chipping away at it. Its erosion will inevitably affect the nation and influence its ability to survive.

Foundations are built first, before any actually building of the structure can begin. America's foundation is essentially the fundamentals that have shaped the country from the beginning. One can tell much from looking at a foundation, how large and expansive the building will be, how tall it can go and how well and for how long it will be supported.

In 2008, when then Senator Barack Hussein Obama, proudly proclaimed his intention to change those fundamentals, he was declaring his plan to stop building on the foundation and start dismantling America. Changing the foundation changes the final outcome, what is to be built upon it.

Sadly, too many Americans cheered the prospect. Ignorance of those fundamentals by too many voters secured for him the opportunity to begin the demolition process. It still continues today and too often it is not effectively challenged.

America is not the physical structures that dot the landscape or the soil within its boundaries, but the people themselves. "We the people" still defines America and that places the burden of protecting it squarely upon the shoulders of the people, all people, We must resist those who work tirelessly to chip away at all that is good and replace it with a patchwork of defective ideals.

When we sit idly by and allow fundamental changes to be made to the America God has blessed us with, we indirectly aid in the process. There will always be some in America, a remnant, that still cherishes the values which define us and set us apart from an ever-collapsing world. But the silent rarely make much of a difference in anything, and the silent are ineffective in preserving America as well.

"The squeaky wheel gets the grease" still holds true. The ones that demand it are the ones that have their issues addressed. Wishing and hoping doesn't get it done. Wishful thinking is an exercise in futility. Every country in the history of man that eventually fell at the hands of evil designs, had within it a remnant of people who saw the mistakes being made but were made powerless to stop it by their own apathy and/or inaction.

Sometimes corrupt and oppressive regulations or laws made their resistance ineffective and as such should not have been allowed to be implemented in the first place. The confiscation of weapons makes a populace weak and has always preceded the eventual take over of a country by men with evil intentions, whether at that point in their history or one not far into their future.

 Likewise, the erosion of our First Amendment, giving us Freedom of Speech, will limit our ability to confront any corruption while debate is still an effective tool. Remove it and an entire nation of people can be bullied into submission. Civil, honest debate is the first line of defense against evil taking a foothold. Once that is eliminated, defense becomes an uphill battle.

 The job of preserving America lies with those who wish it strongly enough to get their hands dirty, to pitch in and make their voices known, demanding attention be paid to them. America belongs to the ones with the strongest determination to win. There is a battle going on for the soul of America. There will be a winner and there will be a loser. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking.

In almost every sport we have seen a team with the best record going into a game feeling they cannot lose and yet walk off the field two hours later with heads hung in defeat. "It can't happen to us" is not an effective defense and doesn't allow for the implementation of a successful offense. America's survival cannot be left in the hands of an "It can't happen to us" mentality. The history of the world has proved that repeatedly.

A generation grew up knowing the threat Russia imposed upon the United States and it shaped our actions and defined our cautiousness. More recently, Islam brought its Supremacist ideology to our side of the world and in a day we saw landmarks fall and almost 3,000 lives erased. Instead of recognizing that enemy, we embraced their philosophy in the causes of Diversity and Tolerance and became determined to welcome and understand it and we work today within the parameters shaped by that ignorance.

Now we are being assaulted from the inside by an administration eagerly chipping away at the foundation that we have depended upon to exist. More dangerous than that is the mentality that cheerfully placed that leadership in power and continually hides their agenda, defending even their most aggressive attacks upon our liberties. Unless that tide is reversed no one but the disconnected powerful will approve of the result.

President Obama sees his goal of fundamentally changing America more important than the Constitution. He sees it as his duty to go around the Constitutionally empowered law-making body to get his way. It displays his contempt for and a lack of understanding of the very system that put him in power. He will effectively burn the bridge behind him which others will one day seek to cross to be legitimate servants of the people.

He is a game-changer whose first step into politics will forever be a dark day for America, looking back. Whether history will hold him accountable remains to be seen. He certainly hasn't been held accountable for very much in the past four years.

What one doesn't value will eventually leave his/her life. That works the same for countries as it does for personal and business relationships. What we neglect to value and protect will leave, and the door will remain open for other liberties to follow. Once lost, they are rarely given back, a lesson we would do well to never forget. Preventing loss of freedom can be more effective than trying to reinstate it once it has been stripped away.

We cannot solve the massive problems we face using the same people that add to them. The mindset that created many of the challenges we abhor cannot be successful in eliminating them. We need fresh blood. We need fresh ideas. We need a fresh commitment to return to the foundational truths that gave birth to America. We need to replace the politicians in Washington, who call themselves Conservative, that have settled into a lifetime position of ease but do little to advance the cause they were sent to Washington to promote, old men who wake up in the morning closer to the Liberal philosophy than they were when they went to bed.

Becoming governed by the politics of popularity and keeping their jobs, they inch toward the Left to get votes. Compromise is sometimes necessary in politics but it appears that only Republicans submit to compromising. That is little more than betrayal. Soon there will be no telling the parties apart. We don't need another Democratic Party nor do we need to expand upon the existing one by adding members calling themselves Republicans. There must be a clear and distinct difference, obvious to all Americans, between Democrats and Republicans.

The answer is not to form a third party, which would in effect only guarantee future Democratic election wins, but to regain control of the only party that stands between them and total control. Understanding what built America and returning to that foundation is the only hope of saving America from being devoured from the inside out.

Fighting back is the only solution we have to the rising tyranny we see today. For a century there has been the desire by some leaders to move us toward Socialism and they made sure we were creeping in that direction. There exists now, however, politicians not satisfied with watching America creep toward anti-American ideals but who insist we race toward them. It is the new twisted "patriotism" when it is anything but patriotic.

Waiting to win the next election is not a viable option. Watching to see who comes along that can upset the Liberal apple cart is not a definitive strategy. We must live in a state of action, not reaction. We must choose an offensive movement and not simply settle for being on the defensive. Defense is needed to stem off some attacks upon our freedoms but, as in any game, defense doesn't put points on the scoreboard. The desire to win must be greater than just the desire not to lose.  
There are many liberties being assaulted in America today. First and Second Amendments are under attack. Fiscal responsibility is being neglected. Success is being demonized. Religious freedoms are being eroded. All Americans are encouraged to choose one or two freedoms dear to their hearts and get behind efforts to rescue them before the are relegated to the dust bin of history. If the future does indeed belong to the fittest and the strongest, we cannot allow our efforts to come up short.

The time for timidity is past. Apathy is as much an enemy to America's survival as evil agendas are. Failure to resist the destruction of our foundation will result in the collapse of the nation that rests upon it. Cracks need to be repaired and weaknesses shored up. Too much is at stake for us to engage in wishful thinking. Only effective, determined action can guarantee America's survival.

Hypocrisy and Gun Control Go Hand in Hand

 

Few things bring out the Liberal ire than the mention of the Second Amendment and the Constitutional Right of Americans to own guns. Immediately after their mouth starts to water, the lies, misconceptions and myths start to fly.

An ad depicting the fact that the Obama children are protected by guns all day but that he does little to protect the rest of the nations kids, has been seen as both on-target and vile, depending upon your point of view. Jay Carney, the White House spokesman thought it was unfair to bring the president's kids into a political issue.

The hypocrisy of this administration not to be neglected, Obama himself signs his new gun control demands with four hand-picked children watching on. Maybe Carney failed to give President Obama the memo. Does our president even think of children when he is not pushing an agenda?

As Senator, Barack Obama was the only person with the callousness to actually take the floor and voice his opposition to a bill that would have demanded life support for babies born alive from a botched abortion. Let him use those kids as a backdrop for his disingenuous "protecting the most vulnerable among us" campaign.

No one argues that protecting the children of America must be a top priority but Obama saying it doesn't make it his priority.

During the 2008 campaign he was questioned by Pastor Rick Warrens about his stand on human trafficking, the third largest criminal industry in the world, which often targets young people for the sex trade. Then Senator Obama said, "This has to be a top priority". One solution of his was to be tougher with penalties on those caught.

This is an industry that brings in over 32 billion dollars annually, and enslaves 27 million people of all ages, thousands in the United States. However, when was the last time he stood behind his bully-pulpit and went after those who profit from their innocence? Who champions their cause? Not President Obama in spite of his saying the right words and expressing the right sentiment at public debates when seeking votes. Little has been done to expose the problem by Washington, much less address it.

But when it comes to gun control, an issue that he, both as a Senator and a President, holds close to his heart, President Obama doesn't mind using the bodies of children to make him stand a little taller to get his message heard. No, Jay Carney, that is abuse of children. I thought only Hamas used children as human shields.

Obama believes that to frame the gun control issue as a children's health or protection issue, he will keep opponents from attacking his efforts to negate the Constitutional Right to keep and bear arms. To stand upon your Second Amendment rights, and to demand its protection, he wants you to believe, is to not care about children. Those four students from Newtown, CT were on stage with Obama during his ceremonious signing of orders for one reason, to shield him from criticism.

School shootings are the most horrific events that take place in our world. There can be no mistake about that. But one of the reasons that schools, churches, and malls are chosen by mass murderers as killing fields is because they know they'll find more helpless victims there. Curiously, they never choose a gun show or a cop bar to target. Unarmed victims are the order of the day and what better place to find them than at "No-Gun Zones"?

The misrepresentation of gun violence is promoted by the media in their lack of reporting of incidents where guns were used to actually stop crimes. These cases do not fit their anti-gun agenda, especially in larger cities.

Jacob Tyler Roberts, who shot up the Clackamas Mall in Oregon, stopped his rampage only after he saw a man had him in his sights. His next shot took his own life. Another gun on the scene, even without being fired, put a stop to the killing. Guns do this every day but it isn't reported because it would strengthen the need for more guns, not less, in our culture. So the myths prevail, to our own detriment.

Reporters hiding the truth because it doesn't promote your own brand of facts used to be called "yellow journalism". Now it is business as usual.

While everyone remembers Columbine or Virginia Tech because of the shootings there, few have ever heard of Pearl High School in Mississippi or Edinboro, Pennsylvania. In these two shootings, armed citizens put an end to the rampage but that story didn't make it to the newspapers, much less the TV networks.

These two incidents had the lowest number of victims among mass shooting in recent history simply because the shooter was not the only one with a gun. In these cases armed citizens had the situation under control before the police arrived, which wasn't for 4 1/2 minutes at Pearl High School and a full 11 minutes in Edinboro.

Since 1995 people carrying a weapon have not been allowed within a 1,000 feet of a school but that hasn't prevent armed thugs from carrying out their mayhem. In fact, no law has and cannot stop someone with such evil on their minds. If they could, signs posted on doors would have stopped all such crimes. It isn't that criminals can't read. It is that they don't care.

There have been no studies that show laws deter gun crimes, but in more cases than we are told, other guns do. The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. A repeatedly proven fact.

Gun owners are being demonized in America today as if law-abiding gun owners are behind the terrible acts of violence even though gun and headline-grabbing politicians know that isn't true. Adam Lanza in his shooting of kids and teachers in Newtown, CT, broke 41 laws that day. Laws such as the theft of weapons, transporting them, carrying them into the school, as well as using them on others, existed on the books but did not deter him in committing his insane act.

Diane Feinsten, Senator from California, has proposed reinstating the "Assault Weapons Ban" President Bill Clinton imposed and George W. Bush reversed, though it has not been shown to stop their use in crimes. It was interestingly in effect during the time of the Columbine shooting and did not prevent it. Feinstein herself, not only at one time defended the right of a person to arm his/herself for protection, has for years had a concealed carry permit with "unrestricted pistol" provisions. Hypocrisy in Washington is appalling.

America may have a gun violence problem but it appears Obamaland certainly does. Sixty percent of all gun violence comes from major cities that voted for Obama's style of gun control. The cities with the strictest gun regulations seem to have the highest gun crime rates with Chicago and Washington DC being the worst in America.

Contrarily, cities like Kennesaw, Georgia, where in 1982 by city ordinance, every household was required to have a firearm, tell a different story. Since that bold move, which caused opponents to proclaim there would be gun fights in the streets, which never materialized, crime has fallen 89% while the rest of the state has seen a mere 10% drop.

This is the story all across the nation but since it doesn't fit the anti-gun narrative you won't hear of it. Why it is such a hard pill to swallow, is beyond me. But time and time again it has been proved that more guns equals less crime. Criminals don't want armed victims, they want unarmed, helpless ones and "Gun-Free Zones" offer an endless supply.

An armed citizenry makes for a unsafe working environment for criminals. They will get no apologies from me. It is supposed to.

Traveling the Wrong Road at Full Speed

 

Things are changing so rapidly in America these days that it seems to be happening overnight. Actually it has been a slow, gradual process over the past seven or eight decades. We only seem to be moving quickly in the wrong direct because after the election of Barack Obama in 2008, he accelerated the process.

We all know of people who were being destroyed by cancer long before they knew it. America is being eaten alive by a Liberal Progressivism and we only notice it when signs of the disease manifest themselves.

When then-Senator Obama promised we were "five days away from fundamentally changing the United States of America", the crowd cheered as if it were a great thing. When the fundamentals of anything are changed, nothing stays the same. The fundamentals of America, the greatest nation God has blessed the planet with, do not need to be changed. Our foundation as a nation needs to be protected from radical change, not eroded by it.

Today we can see a range of policies that we never imagined we'd face. Success has been demonized, profits have been criticized, the job-creating successful have been villainized and their accomplishments penalized.

The very system that created the wonderful example of what a nation could be is attacked at every turn from the inside. The foundation is crumbling and power-grabbing politicians continue to swing sledgehammers at it daily. Sadly, with the Liberal mentality they possess, they do it cheerfully, whistling their way to work like the seven dwarfs.

President Obama was so dead-set on raising taxes on the richest that he didn't care that the added revenues would not run the government for more than a week the way he spends money. That didn't matter. "I won the election" manta playing in his mind meant to him that America gave him a mandate to do whatever he wanted to do and it would approve. Powerful egotism sees little else.

Obama's adding a trillion dollars of debt every year he has been in office costs us $50,000 a second in interest alone. Some working people's salary for a year gone in a single second. Not deterred, he thirsts for more ways to spend like he has a decade-long tax-free holiday.

More revenue means one thing to the federal government, more money to spend. Not to pay toward the debt, but spend. Our financial problem, as we should have learned by now, is a spending problem, not a revenue problem. We can't raise enough cash to cover non-stop increases in spending. It's impossible.

Like the man who knew he was in trouble when his wife ordered a set of house plans that included a three-car garage and a loading dock, America knows there is more spending on the way.

We are headed down the wrong road. The road we choose to travel determines the destination we will eventually arrive at. Commonsense says that if we want to go to New Orleans on vacation and we discover after driving four hours that we are heading north instead of south, only stopping and turning around will get us there. Even then we have to work to recover the time we lost. It takes us longer to get where we want to go but the sooner we make the change, the sooner we arrive where we want to be.

Today's Liberal politicians seem to think that stepping on the gas and moving more rapidly in the wrong direction makes up for the mistake of taking the wrong road. It doesn't.

Congress has been of late the most ineffective Congress in decades but that didn't stop Obama from giving them a raise. In their minds they feel like their vain efforts are being rewarded and rewarded behavior is repeated behavior, so expect more of the same.

Our country began with the knowledge that the government was the responsibility of the people. Today, we have surrendered that power and the people have become the responsibility of the government, to control, regulate, oppress and enslave.

Once given power, the powerful rarely relinquish that power. It must be taken from them. Our votes never have been so important and too many lately have been wasted. It is time for a revolution, not a violent one hopefully, but one of accountability, commonsense, honor, integrity and a return to the values that America was built upon.

Unless that happens we will soon be painfully reminded how traveling the wrong road never gets us where we need to be.

As human beings in control of our destinies, history shows that we forget what made us great and we begin to penalize instead of honoring those things and people. We seek to destroy the successful contributors, the only ones who can solve the very problems those in power create. No problem can be solved with the same mentality that created it, but politicians seldom take responsibility for their short-comings and instead double-down on losing bets.

This current administration has nationalized the healthcare industry, the automobile industry, the housing system, the student loan sector with more to follow. More government jobs have been created in the past four years than private ones, the very ones that fund the insatiable, always eating, federal government.

The people who pay the bills, whose industrial enterprise built this nation, are being stripped of their ability to rescue us. That leads only to continued failures and ultimate collapse.

The logic is simple and sound. If private businesses fails to be productive, operate efficiently and profitably, they goes under. It is a matter of life and death and they take it seriously.

When government fails from poor leadership and bad decisions, it just takes more of our money to keep it afloat. It is a losing proposition, as we saw when Obama sent millions of our tax dollars to a dozen "green" energy companies that later folded, flushing the money down the drain.

I still have hope in America, but unless the hands of the individuals who can pull us out of this economic chaos are untied and individuals are encourage to do what only they do best, without unreasonable regulations and hindrances, all hope will be lost.

We may one day recover from the disastrous state that the inexperienced and misguided President Obama has led us into. But we still have a greater challenge, that of dealing with the mindset of the millions that put him in power in the first place.

Socialism has never worked anywhere in the world and America will not be an exception. Individual ingenuity built America. The power of the individual, with their dedication, commitment and innovation, will preserve it. That is unless the entitlement "give-me" state becomes the norm and we are coming dangerously close to that.

This Is Not My America

Most of us remember the Westerns when the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys wore black ones. Telling enemies from friends used to be easier and politicians today do little more than obscure our vision. It is more important than ever to be vigilant in the protecting of our freedoms and rights in America.

As a child I remember students taking turns reading the Bible as we began our school day. Then we cited the Lord’s Prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Children then grew up with a profound respect for America.

During the early years of this country the Bible was the book children learned to read from, along with the New England Primer which taught children the ABC’s based on Biblical truths. The Primer was the second best selling book after the Bible.

Many of our universities were started by preachers. Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, King’s College, Brown Rutgers and Dartmouth were begun by Christians. A quick view of what most universities have become, bastions of atheism, Communism and liberalism, shows they have forsaken the ideals upon which they were created.

Misguided politicians and anti-God activists fight to remove the Ten Commandments from every corner of public life in efforts to negate the role it has played in creating our society.

Somehow we’ve forgotten the sentiment of people like Patrick Henry who said, “The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.” Such people were willing to put their lives on the line for ideals that today we easily discard.

Inscribed in the Lincoln Memorial are his immortal words, “We are highly resolved that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.” Activists who deny our Godly roots seek to abort that celebrated birth of freedom.

This is not my America.

Along with Biblical principles that are being outlawed and demeaned, patriotism is also a causality of the cultural war being waged today. Waving the American flag has always been a sign of respect, appreciation and gratitude for this great country. Being proud to be an American now has become a racist thing to be because some mistakenly feel that to display patriotism will alienate those who do not share that sentiment.

Children wearing shirts designed after the flag are sent home chased by shouts of “racist” and “bigot”. Foreigners who come here proudly display their flag of origin but somehow being proud to be an American is supposed to make us feel guilty. In California the flag of Mexico has been seen flying above the American flag. Not only is it a violation of proper flag etiquette, it shows a contempt for this country that many foreigners have. Such people come here to turn American into another Mexico not to become proud Americans.

Burning the American flag is considered free speech and hailed as an art form. Walking on the flag by Muslims in New York City is considered protected speech. Their calls for jihad against America is considered free speech instead of being viewed as a call for insurrection.

Patriotism is dying and the Stars and Stripes will soon be replaced with a meaningless, multi-colored flag of Diversity. No country in the history of man has survived such a change.

This is not my America.

There is an assault being levied against religion in America. Catholics are told their religious convictions don’t matter and they must endorse and even supply contraceptives in violation of their long-held beliefs. Churches are being threatened with removal of their tax-exempt status if they become politically involved according to their conscience.

Muslim students who freely opted to attend Catholic Universities are demanding that statues of Saints and crosses be removed from the college landscape because it offends them. Pandering to demands of Muslims in America is growing. It is called Dhimmitude in accordance with Mohammed’s establishment of a doctrine demanding compliance from all non-Muslims to Muslim wishes.

This is not my America.

Christians who passed out copies of the Gospel of John to people on the streets of Dearborn, Michigan were forced to stop during last years Arab Festival, even though they were not in the festival area but a full block away. This year, while wearing “Jesus” shirts & carrying posters, Christians were removed from the area by police officers after Muslims began throwing rocks, full water bottles and anything else they could get their hands on at them.

Muslims, from children to adults, shouted profanity-laced slurs at the Christians but were never asked to stop. Instead the police decided to look the other way even with video evidence on hand that they refused to view.

The Dearborn Police Department, in their opinion, felt that if the Christians had not been on those streets in America, no problem would exist. Dearborn is being taken over by a growing Muslim population and Americans are neglected their right to free speech in favor of a Muslim’s right to throw stones as an exercise of their “free speech”. (Speaking to a Muslim about Christianity in an Islamic country is incidentally against the law.)

This is not my America.

The world is faced with the greatest threat to its very survival in the history of mankind, radical Islam. Yet when a devout Muslim soldier kills 14 people, including an unborn baby, wounds 33 others, all while shouting “Allahu Ackbar” (the “God is Greatest” Islamic phrase coined by Mohammed 1400 years ago when the severed head of an enemy was thrown at his feet) it is called merely “workplace violence”.

Recognizing an enemy is the first step in being able to fight that enemy. Islam is an enemy we are unprepared to fight because it is an enemy we are unprepared to call an enemy no matter how much evidence there is to reinforce the fact.

Light and darkness cannot exist together. Even the smallest candle will chase darkness from a room but instead this administration chooses to extinguish our candle in preference to the darkness rather than let it shine.

This is not my America.

We currently have a president whose favorite past time, next to golfing, partying and campaigning, is blaming others for his own ineptness. After almost 4 years in office, increasing the national debt from $9 trillion in 2009 to a staggering $15.5 trillion as of 2012, increasing the food stamp recipients from 23.5 million to 39.5 million, and watching home ownership fall to the lowest point since 1965, Obama has taken no responsibility for having played any role in it. After all this time he claims it is still George Bush’s fault.

John F. Kennedy knew that being presidential meant taking responsibility for what happened under his watch even if it was not his fault. That is leadership. Obama instead thrives on twisting the numbers to see that he is never held accountable for anything from the rising debt to rising unemployment, which is the worse since WWII.

This is not my America.

Almost every drop of gas we pump into our cars puts money in the pockets of countries that hate America. We fund Islamic Jihad against our own selves while having leadership that refuses to allow for more oil drilling so that we can cut the apron strings that bind us to ideologies that seek our elimination. While halting much off shore drilling as unsafe, Obama sent millions of dollars to Venezuela for their off shore drilling endeavors.

George W. Bush increased domestic drilling for oil 116% over his predecessor Bill Clinton. Obama, however, placed unreasonable restrictions on drilling and as a result drilling is down 36% during his term. We are going in the wrong direction if we are to be in control of our own destiny. America needs to be free of foreign countries that demand our money to fund their campaigns against us.

This is not my America.

With a president that has conducted an almost non-ending Apology Tour aimed at the United States, America is rapidly losing the respect of the world. Our enemies see it as weakness and are emboldened, not placated, by it.

Political Correctness did not exist when I was growing up. We “called a spade a spade”, black black and white white. Today there are so many colors of gray that one can hardly keep track of what is to be praised and what should be criticized. In reality, the end zones have been changed like at the middle of a football game. We have changed what we move toward. What was once good and moral is now bad and immoral and soon to be discarded.

Commonsense has always told us that not everything can be tolerated, not everything is good for us and that not everything permitted is beneficial. Commonsense has become a causality of this cultural war as well.

This is not my America.

There is not a single study that shows gun control laws have ever been effective in reducing crime. The bottom line is that “more guns equals less crime”. Citizens owning guns creates a hostile work environment for criminals. It is supposed to and will continue to as long as we legally retain the God-given right to protect ourselves.

President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have both vowed their support for the UN Small Arms Treaty which will in effect, should it be ratified by the Senate, nullify the Second Amendment and our right to bear arms. They are attempting to surrender the sovereignty of America to a foreign organization that has repeated stood in opposition to our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

As Senator, Obama voted against a bill that would give homeowners the right to defend themselves in their own homes with a handgun. As president he has more guns around him daily than any other president. He obviously considers his life more valuable than those of ordinary citizens.

Today 84,999,987 firearm owners did not kill anyone. Read that again. This inconvenient fact is ignored by Liberal gun-control advocates. Commonsense plays no part in their agenda.

Gun control does work, however. Just ask Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Qaddafi, Kim Jong II, Idi Amin. They knew that before they could advance their tyrannical agenda against their people, the citizenry had to be disarmed. (We don't need his college transcripts to know that Obama was present for that class. I imagine he got an A+.)

This is not my America.

For America to survive we must remember our true roots and find the strength, no matter how unpopular it may be, to embrace the principles that made us great in the first place. Once lost, freedoms are rarely ever regained.

Today as I survey this country, this is not my America. But as long as a remnant of people still love America, what it has always stood for and will stand up tall and defend it against all enemies “foreign and domestic,” it can be again.