Race and Economics – Patriot Update

Race and Economics – Patriot Update

Words of Wisdom

"The country that forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten."--Calvin Coolidge

Six Boys and 13 Hands

This is absolutely a must read!!!!

(Written By A Teacher From Wisconsin) SIX BOYS AND 13 HANDS Each year I am hired to go to Washington , DC , with the eighth grade class from Clinton , WI where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation's capitol, and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially memorable.  On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history -- that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima , Japan , during WW II.  Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, 'Where are you guys from?'  I told him that we were from Wisconsin . 'Hey, I'm a cheese head, too! Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.'  (It was James Bradley who just happened to be in Washington , DC , to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night to his dad, who had passed away. He was just about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us, and received his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in Washington , DC , but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we          received that night.)  When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that night.)  'My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo, Wisconsin . My dad is on that statue, and I just wrote a book called 'Flags of Our Fathers' which is #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list right now. It is the story of the six boys you see behind me.  'Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He enlisted in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team.. They were off to play another type of game. A game called 'War.' But it didn't turn out to be a game. Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I don't say that to gross you out, I say that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old - and it was so hard that the ones who did make it home never even would talk to their families about it.  (He pointed to the statue) 'You see this next guy? That's          Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find a photograph...a photograph of his girlfriend Rene put that in there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. It was just boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima . Boys. Not old men.  'The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank.. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called him the 'old man' because he was so old. He was already 24. When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say, 'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country' He knew he was talking to little boys.. Instead he would say, 'You do what I say, and I'll get you home to your mothers.'  'The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian from Arizona . Ira Hayes was one of them who lived to walk off Iwo Jima . He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told him, 'You're a hero' He told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?'  So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing everything together. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind. Ira Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk, face down, drowned in a very shallow puddle, at the age of 32 (ten years after this picture was taken).  'The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from Hilltop, Kentucky . A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the cows couldn't get down. Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows crapped all night.' Yes, he was a fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19. When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into the morning. Those neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away.  'The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John Bradley, from Antigo, Wisconsin , where I was raised. My dad lived until 1994, but he would never give interviews. When Walter Cronkite's producers or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little kids to say 'No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he is coming back..' My dad never fished or even went to Canada .. Usually, he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell 's soup. But we had to tell the press that he was out fishing. He didn't want to talk to the press.  'You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn't see himself as a hero. Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad knew better. He was a medic. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a combat caregiver. On Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died on Iwo Jima , they writhed and screamed, without any medication or help with the pain.  'When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.' 'So that's the story about six nice young boys.. Three died on Iwo Jima , and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time.'  Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero. Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless.  We need to remember that God created this vast and glorious world for us to live in, freely, but also at great sacrifice  Let us never forget from the Revolutionary War to the current War on Terrorism and all the wars in-between that sacrifice was made for our freedom...please pray for our troops. Remember to pray praises for this great country of ours and also ...please pray for our troops still in murderous places around the world.  STOP and thank God for being alive and being free due to someone else's sacrifice.  God Bless You and God Bless America .  REMINDER: Everyday that you can wake up free, it's going to be a great day.  One thing I learned while on tour with my 8th grade students in DC that is not mentioned here is . . that if you look at the statue very closely and count the number of 'hands' raising the flag, there are 13. When the man who made the statue was asked why there were 13, he simply said the 13th hand was the hand of God.  Great story - worth your time - worth every American's          time.

IF.......

IF…. 
 
 If any other of our presidents had doubled the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
 If any other of our presidents had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
 If any other of our presidents had criticized a state law that he admitted he never even read, would you think that he is just an ignorant hot head?
 If any other of our presidents joined the country of Mexico and sued a state in the United States to force that state to continue to allow illegal immigration, would you question his patriotism and wonder who's side he was on?
 If any other of our presidents had pronounced the Marine Corps like Marine Corpse, would you think him an idiot?
 If any other of our presidents had put 87,000 workers out of work by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling on companies that have one of the best safety records of any industry because one foreign company had an accident, would you have agreed?
 If any other of our presidents had used a forged document as the basis of the moratorium that would render 87000 American workers unemployed would you support him?
 If any other of our presidents had been the first President to need a Teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
 If any other of our presidents had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take his First Lady to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
 If any other of our presidents had reduced your retirement plan holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
 If any other of our presidents had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
 If any other of our presidents had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
 If any other of our presidents had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought it a proud moment for America ?
 If any other of our presidents had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have approved?
 If any other of our presidents had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
 If any other of our presidents had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?
 If any other of our presidents had stated that there were 57 states in the United States , wouldn't you have had second thoughts about his capabilities?
 If any other of our presidents would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in his home town, would you not have thought he was a self important, conceited, egotistical jerk.
 If any other of our presidents had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, wouldn't you have winced in embarrassment?
 If any other of our presidents had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?
 If any other of our presidents' administrations had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?
 If any other of our presidents had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
 If any other of our presidents had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America , would you have ever approved.
 If any other of our presidents had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
 So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? 

 Every statement and action in this email is factual and directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama. Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable.
 I WONDER HOW MANY OF YOU WILL FORWARD THIS ? 
"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

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Excellent and Insightful Read

April 23, 2011

Elected and Appointed U.S. Government Officials Who Violate Their Oath of Office and the Constitution Must Resign

National Call to Action Series

By Paul E Vallely

As the Declaration of Independence states:

“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.”

The arrogance of entrenched power and gross incompetence in Washington has indeed become destructive, it has ignored the will of the people, and it operates without their consent, with impunity. I therefore protest in the strongest terms possible. Elitism and wasteful spending of tax-payers’ dollars can no longer be tolerated. The people should abolish the current government now, and begin anew. We cannot wait for the normal election cycle because the damage is too great now, and will only be worse if we delay.

Each member of the House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and even the President of the United States place their hands on the Bible, raise their hands to the square and swear on their sacred honor to protect, defend, and serve the people of the United States. Sadly, we see them in obvious violation of their oaths. They know who they are as do the people. We should see a massive resignation demand on the steps of the capital and the call for the Impeachment of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

They should be groveling before the people they are supposed to represent who instilled their faith and trust in them by electing them to public service. They should be seeking our forgiveness. At a minimum, most have violated the Constitution of the United States and many are guilty of outright treason. Fraud and corruption is rampant in the use of the peoples’ money. They have stolen a large portion of the people’s net worth through their actions and by the actions they condone by the private bank that is the Federal Reserve System. A massive fraud has been perpetrated on the country, and each should be held accountable for their involvement.

Additionally, BERATING and CONDEMING the United States before the world, overseas, and in the United Nations is a flagrant violation of our Trust. Disloyalty to the people of the US and our Constitution is unconscionable, and can no longer be tolerated. The people do not want or desire to be part of a new world order, we demand to remain independent.

We the people have had enough of this current Government, elected officials, and appointees. They (not the American People) are on a progressive socialist suicide march. WE, the people have watched the President and his Cabinet, Congress and other bureaucrats defile our founding documents and sacred principles for several years now with no end in sight.

In 1789, Thomas Jefferson was overheard saying to Madison:

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories."

In Lincoln’s 1861 Inaugural address, he issued this warning to his peers:

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world”.

IMPEAHMENT, DEMAND RESIGNATION, AND RECALL must be conducted by the People of those elected and appointed political leaders who have violated the Constitution which states in Article One, Section Five, Clause II:

“Each House may determine the Rules of its’ Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of a 2/3 vote, expel a member.”

The Constitution and the States, state that the people have the right and authority to do either of the following:

• Per the 10th amendment - to decide domestic matters within individual states, also grants the right to the state to refuse federal aid and to sever from the Federal Government’s authority entirely;
• or per Article Two, Section Four of the Constitution: “The President, Vice President, and ALL CIVIL OFFICERS of the United States shall be removed from office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

The current oath of office was enacted in 1884: The Oath of Office is administered to:

·     The President;

·     The Vice President;

·     All members of the Federal Judiciary;

·     And each member of Congress

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

When a young man or woman enlists in one of the armed forces, he or she takes an oath to protect and defend the United States of America. When an officer in any of the armed services raises his hand and takes an oath to protect and defend his or her country, the Officers are expected to keep the vow, or face harsh punishment. Why not the same for any member of the United States Government, but especially those that are elected by the people?

If the impeachment and resignations do not occur now then the American people must do their duty to God and Country and use the power of their voice and votes to remove the violators from office. Many loyal office holders do exist, but for the good and general welfare of the country, ALL should go so that we may begin anew. Proven loyal office holders should then be part of the renewal, from scratch, as we also seek out others who have the loyalty and strong desire to see America continue as created and designed by our Founding Fathers. It may be difficult to start over, but it will certainly be better than destroying the Constitution and the foundations that created the best country the world has ever seen.

The majority of American people, and/or those who actually pay taxes, have lost trust and faith in those they have elected to serve the country because they have abrogated their oaths, and given aid and comfort to the enemy, both foreign and domestic.

America, Act Now for our survival as strong and trusted nation is in great jeopardy.

Paul E. Vallely – Chairman of Stand Up America

Paul E. Vallely MG, US Army (Ret)