donttreadonmeHundreds of thousands of Americans came together in more than 300 locations across the nation to shout, “Enough government!” They met on Tax Day to protest the expanding government apparatus and big government spending.

Thousands of protesters – some dressed in colonial wigs with tea bags hanging from their eyeglasses – showed up in states from California to Kentucky to Massachusetts, holding signs and reading speeches in protest of the Obama administration’s tax-and-spend policies.

It was probably the largest grass-roots organized event in the history of the republic. The governor of the state of Texas openly accused the federal government of “overturning the rights we had one by one, making choices that would leave our Founding Fathers scratching their heads.” Gov. Perry spoke to the crowd of thousands who turned out for the Dallas tea party.

Perry went so far as to remind Washington that Texas retains the right as a republic to secede from the Union. Don’t tread on me.

But as far as much of the mainstream media were concerned, it all might just as well have happened on the dark side of the moon. The New York Times completely ignored a nationwide anti-government protest in favor of a demonstration in Afghanistan.

What mainstream attention the effort did get was heavily propagandized. CNN openly mocked the tea parties and their thousands of participants as if they were all morons. MSNBC launched an all-out effort to marginalize it as a GOP political operation.

Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, said the media coverage was “insulting.”

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Bozell said. “The oral sex jokes on (CNN) and particularly MSNBC on teabagging … they had them by the dozens. That’s how insulting they were toward people who believe they’re being taxed too highly.” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the White House was “amused” by the tea parties, but that “nobody out there is making $250,000 a year” – as if that were somehow relevant.

President Obama said that he was “completely unaware” of the tea party protests. How can it be that the president could be “unaware” of a grass-roots protest movement of this size and scope? Doesn’t he have a TV?

Actually, it was possible to watch the news of the day and scan the daily headlines and never know anything about the protests, unless one took place near your house.

Those news organizations that did take notice of the events around the country presented them as a Fox News-promoted, GOP-affiliated non-event that drew pockets of Obama-haters.

Only days before, the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin to law-enforcement officials warning of the dangers posed by “right-wing extremists” that, according to the government definition from the bulletin, were the very people that showed up for the tea party demonstrations. Specifically cited were “those who … reject federal authority in favor of state and local authority.” (Like tea party protesters?)

I couldn’t help but notice the fact that, despite the size of the crowds and the depth of their feeling, there was not a single recorded instance of violence.

There was not a single riot among all those thousands of protesters in those hundreds of cities. Nobody’s windows were smashed. Nobody was injured in clashes with police. Nobody was killed. It was astonishing to watch. Tens of thousands of Americans gathered together for no other purpose except to have their voices heard.

They stood up … only to discover to their shock and dismay that their own government now considers them to be enemies of the state and that the allegedly unbiased mainstream media marginalized them as nut jobs – or ignored them altogether. One would never have dreamed it possible in America.

But that was before The Change That You Can Believe In. Now, it seems, anything is possible. -Hal Lindsey

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 07 Apr 2009 @ 8:41 PM 

obamafootinmouthSome of the most double minded sayings of this new century are: “I support the troops, but not the war”; “I am against abortion, but for the woman’s right to choose an abortion”; “I believe that Christians, Jews and Muslims all worship the same god”; and “the United States is not at war with Islam. In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject.” All of these have been uttered by the man who now occupies the Oval Office and the last one is a direct quote before the Parliament of Turkey. Facts are: The leaders of Islam have called for the complete destruction of America and Israel; they have declared war on America and Israel.

 The man who now occupies the Oval Office went on to say, “We seek broad engagement based upon mutual interests and mutual respect. We will listen carefully, bridge misunderstanding, and seek common ground. We will be respectful, even when we do not agree. And we will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world for the better – including my own country. The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans.” We must ask: Can there be mutual interest and common ground with those who seek to destroy you? How can the so-called Islamic faith be appreciated when it foments death wherever it takes root?
 
But worse, how can an American president ever claim that the so-called Islamic faith shaped the United States for the better? This is sheer disillusionment. Were the Founding Fathers born from or converted of Islam? Did Islam stop capturing Africans and selling them into slavery? Did Islam advance health and medicine in America? Was Islam the driving spirit behind entrepreneurship and free enterprise? Did Islam suffer the rights of women to vote? Did Islam stand for a free and independent Israel? Did Islam spread in our prisons and contribute to crime against Americans? Did Islam perpetrate terrorist attacks killing innocent Americans? Where did Islam shape America for the better?
 
It is one thing to try to improve relations that have been damaged over the years. It is yet another to make statements that not even those who are hearing them believe to be true. But the same concepts with this man hold consistent. This is the man who believes America can spend its way out of debt. He believes that free enterprise can be saved by nationalization of industry. And he believes that Islam—who kills the innocent, enslaves women and children, and sells drugs to fund the spreading of its religion–shaped America for the better. James 1:8 says, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” And Jesus said in Matthew 24:4, “Take heed that no man deceive you.”
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 04 Apr 2009 @ 8:13 PM 

margsangclinicWell, I guess I have to…congratulate…Hillary Clinton? Recently, she was given Satan’s highest honor- The Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood.

What’s the significance, you ask?

Margaret Sanger was a socialist, anarchist who abandoned her family for a  perverted, promiscuous lifestyle, including a sexual relationship with one of Hitler’s high-rankng officers which began her obsession with extermination of the species (human beings). Eventually she published writings that were so pornographic in nature that she was threatened with imprisonment and fled the country.

Before leaving, she published another writing that encouraged women to perform Lysol douches as an abortion.

Under the tutelage of the Malthusians in England, Margaret learned the “science” of eugenics (Ethinic cleansing).

She returned to the US and opened a back-alley abortion clinic to “service” New York immigrants. She began publishing The Birth Control Review, calling for coercive sterilization, mandatory segregation, and concentrated rehabilitative camps for all “dysgenic stock”. In her book, she urged the elimination of “human weeds”, the “cessation of charity”, the segregation of “morons, misfits, and the maladjusted” and the sterilization of “genetically inferior races”.

In 1942, the American Birth Control League, founded by Sanger, changed names in an effort to better disguise their attempt to create a superior race. The new name? Planned Parenthood.

Shortly after, Margaret unraveled into occultism and addiction. She died in 1966, but she was the master fundraiser and policy underwriter of Planned Parenthood’s racist policies. She was quoted as saying, “Exterminate the negro population”!

Today, almost 80% of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are located in minority neighborhoods. Recently, a pro-life organization did an undercover story on the eugenics praticed by Planned Parenthood. They called and asked if they could donate designated money “to kill a black baby”. Planned Parenthood accepted with no questions asked- confirming that it would, in fact, be earmarked for a black baby.

Only 13% of American women are black, but they submit to 35% of abortions performed. In America, as many black babies are killed as are born. This is completely attributed to Sanger’s war on minorities! She shared Hitler’s dream of creating a “superior” race!

Planned Parenthood has since killed over 3 million babies! And swallows almost $400 million of our tax dollars a year to do it.

So, Planned Parenthood commemorated Hillary Clinton’s war on the unborn by giving her the Margaret Sanger Award?

Hillary Clinton’s “finest” moment.

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 02 Apr 2009 @ 10:32 PM 

Go to fullsize imageWorld Net Daily featured a post today by David Welch that I thought was appropos. Christian or not, there are many issues we need to be fighting for to maintain the civility of our nation, and tax protests are just the beginning!

The growing outrage over the unprecedented explosion of federal spending, proposed tax increases, expansion of government authority and blatant hypocrisy of all three branches of our federal government is certainly understandable.
 
Even the socialist/Democrats in Congress are becoming nervous about the rising tide of reaction to the unbridled, aggressive tentacles of Washington, D.C., reaching to the farthest corners of our lives, fortunes and sacred honor.
 
The “tea parties” birthed of this crisis and financial market commentator Rick Santelli’s viral launch against the inane financial policies of this administration are certainly commendable. Almost any time citizens finally get a clue and get involved is positive.
 
Unless, however, we are “tea’d off” for the wrong reasons and protesting against the wrong perpetrator.
 
I honestly do not think most pastors and practicing Christians still understand just who that perpetrator is, so I’ll include a quote I have referenced before. Listen to James Garfield in a nominating speech for John Sherman at the 1880 GOP National Convention that was so enthusiastically received he was substituted and received the nomination instead:
 
Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. … If the next centennial does not find us a great nation … it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.
 
Who then, are those who “represent the enterprise, the culture and the morality of the nation”? I suggest that would be we, the people of Christ who for decades bought further and further into the line that church and politics don’t mix, that we have no redemptive responsibility for our cities and nation, and we should not “waste our time” on such drivel.
 
Don’t miss “Silent No More,” Rod Parsley’s no-holds-barred analysis of American society’s moral and spiritual decay
 
The majority of the evangelical church tragically adopted what pastor and author John Chalfant calls “Abandonment Theology” led by “Abandonment Clergy.” We have not been losing because the forces of evil have somehow achieved superiority over God – we simply walked away and left the battlefield for the hearts and minds of God’s people to the enemy.
 
Rev. John Witherspoon, mentor to an astounding number of our Founding Fathers and statesmen of that era as president of Princeton, asserted that:
 
In free states where people have the supreme power in their own hands and must be consulted on all great matters, if there be general corruption of morals, there can be nothing but confusion … beyond a certain point even the best constitution will be ineffectual and slavery must ensue.
 
The men who handed to us the torch of liberty and freedom we now mourn as nearly lost clearly understood their foundations rested not upon an effective e-mail campaign, a dynamic lobbying effort or even simply electing the “right” people.
 
Those in both church and national leadership believed that this morality and virtue must be birthed in a knowledge of and reverence for God and His laws that are given life in a “reborn” individual by the redemptive work of eternal salvation through Jesus Christ.
 
Can the liberties or the institutions dependent on those virtues prosper or exist as they decay and collapse?
 
No revolution, including the American War of Independence, nor even the Protestant Reformation, is entirely pure from defective motives or methods. Tea Parties, Underground Railroads, protest marches and prayer vigils like the one held last week in Houston, Texas, outside of Planned Parenthood’s national conference as they honored Hillary Clinton with the Margaret Sanger Award, are all worthy actions to shed light on tyranny, injustice and evil.
 
(On a side note, imagine if a conservative or Republican was given an award named after a person with direct linkage to eugenics, racism, the Ku Klux Klan and millions of deaths?)
 
The critical point for us to understand, however, is that we would be rejecting the tenets of our own faith and demanding the impossible if we do not turn our focus inward to the church, especially to the pulpits, and ask why we are not producing the same fruits of personal, cultural and political redemption as those of at least 1,800 years of our ancestors.
 
It was fascinating, and somewhat typical, that I received alarmed or even hostile responses from last week’s column in which I referenced what is accepted as the “Cultural Mandate” in Genesis described by D. James Kennedy. The fear of “dominion theology” espoused by some combined with the “abandonment theology” held by most has fostered an atmosphere in the church that results in paralysis.
 
The truth is that if pastors would simply restore the primacy of making disciples by thoroughly, systematically and intentionally imparting a comprehensive biblical exegesis and worldview in just a core of churches in this country, the resulting “shock and awe” of Christians humbly, lovingly and boldly changing our nation from the inside out and bottom up would register 15.0 on the cultural Richter scale.
 
Christ came not to be served but to serve, and in doing so created the model for our personal and corporate roles. What we must remember is that neither the first century followers of Christ nor the most influential Christians who came behind them took the escapist position, but assumed responsibility for both caring for the needy and standing against evil, injustice and tyranny.
 
When we take up our cross daily, die to self and follow Him (Matthew 16:24), we are given His power to be changed and to bring change. The order of the first is vital and the inclusion of the second is essential.
 
Have your tea parties, but let’s accept the challenge that to build and sustain the right change we must do it in the following order:
 
Person – A true disciple
Parent – Home and marriage must be strong
Pulpit – Preach the Word
Parish – Empower the church
People – Influence the community
Politics – Choose godly leaders to do justice and righteousness
 
When we are as tea’d off about the culture of death, demise of marriage and family, abuse and trafficking of women and children and general immorality as we are about our tax bill, our God just may respond and restore His blessings.
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