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Our valor and our patriotism have become his
burden. How can we, as veterans, share the weight of his
tragedy until he is old enough and wise enough to understand?
Unwittingly and faultlessly he has paid the price of freedom
and now he has become one of us. It is our sworn duty to
insure that he understands and inherits the true freedoms and
the sovereignty of one nation under God, indivisible, with
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Men Ain’t Supposed to Cry!
I’m an old Seabee, 65 years old Seabee to be exact. But I
wasn’t always an old Seabee. I’ve been many things at
various times along the road of life. In my young years I was
innocent and in my later years I was guilty as hell! I was
unlucky at love and I was even more unlucky at success. I was
a hobo, I was a carpenter, I was a drunk and I was a drugie. I
was a poor excuse for a husband and a mediocre father. I was a
businessman. I was an activist. I wrote news paper columns. I
hosted radio and television shows. I was pretty cool at times
and a total jerk at others. I was a fool. I am a veteran! I am
a very fortunate person.
You may have surmised by now that my life has been, at
best, very unsettled. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not
complaining. I have nothing to complain about. Life has been
very kind to me. Through all of this there was a single thread
that was the only consistent thing in my life, my tears! I
remember the exact moment they started. I had just come home
from the war. I was in a roadside café
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| New York,
it was 8:30 PM, I had to leave because I started crying for no
apparent reason. I sobbed profusely for what seemed to be an
eternity before I could come to grips with the situation. I
don’t remember the second time but I do remember there was a
second time. I would be alright for short and sometimes long
periods of time. One instance that stands out in my mind is
when an American solider was chained to a flag pole in a
hostile middle eastern nation. I saw the fleeting image on a
grainy black and white television screen. I closed the door to
my room and was not compatible with the rest of the world for
several days.
I am, as you may surmise, much older now and am a bit more
suited to analyzing situations. The one that gets me is why I
cry at Football games. I think when that ball is delivered
into the end zone I realize that there are countless numbers
of young soldiers who were denied the opportunity to carry
that pigskin across the goal line because of their patriotism.
They made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the freedoms we
all take for granted.
Today I was in the grocery store and observed an old black
man wearing a well decorated Vietnam Veteran’s cap. He was
struggling to get a box of grape soda from the top shelf when
he noticed my attention. He was bent and broken and not quite
the man he once was. I think that embarrassed him a little. As
I pulled the case of soda from the top shelf I asked,
"What’s that hat all about, is that yours?" Not
knowing the extent of my prejudice at that point, he looked me
square in the eye and said "Yes!" As I placed the
hefty load in his basket I simply said "Me too" he
hugged me and said, "Thank you for your kindness"
and I chocked back yet another tear.
Why do I cry? Any clinical psychiatrist might tell you that
it stems from a genetic abnormality caused by a latent complex
as a result of being dropped on my head as a baby. Hogwash! I
am starting to understand why I cry. I cry because I am one of
the more fortunate ones. Why do I cry? Was it the death, was
it the loss of fellow soldiers, was it the atrocities leveled
on the civilian population of old men, women and children or
was it "D" all of the above. In my little community
and in my time I was one of three young boys that went off to
war. Flags waving, bands playing and mothers proclaiming their
grief. I was the only one to return! After all these years I
can still feel the anguish of the mother that wondered why her
son wanted to "Join up", as she prayed every moment
for his safe return and as she accepted his remains just three
months later.
What a price she has paid on our behalf. In deep contrast
to our bad days coming few and far between, some 40 years
later, her good days are still nonexistent. Her life sentence
can not be pardoned, commuted or abolished by Presidential
decree. It can only be soothed by our actions. We must carry
on and survive to bring this and countless other Mothers the
realization that their gift was not in vein. Our gift to them
is our survival, to let them know that another Mother will not
suffer the life long loneliness and daily grief of a child
they can not hold in their arms.
I understand that a disproportionate number of modern day
veterans returning from the wars of today are successfully
suicidal. This old Seabee will be the first to tell today’s
vets that the burden is heavy and enduring. Every soldier in
every war since the beginning of time has sustained unique
wounds. Some emotional some physical and some both. Nurses
will tend, doctors will diagnose, family and friends will pity
and you will cry. As thousands of old vets die off every day
we need you to take our places in support of the veterans of
tomorrow. You are part of the strongest brotherhood ever to
plague mankind. No color, no creed, no race, no religion, just
a veteran. If you feel you cant go on, if you don’t yet
understand your tears, if you are dismayed, disillusioned and
disconnected, find one of the only people that truly
understand, an old war veteran, tell him your story and listen
very carefully as he says, "Me too!"
I am, Allen, W.J 685-64-13, BUR3, United States Navy
Seabees, 1962-1968. I am a Veteran. |
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God Can’t Live in America
Separation of church and state is a political
and legal doctrine that government and religious institutions
are to be kept separate and independent from each other. The
key word there is doctrine, a doctrine refers to a belief held
or taught by any given establishment. In the united states the
government has adopted a stance that the word God should be
stricken from all public lands and government buildings. It is
also launching a movement to have the phrase "In God We
Trust" removed from the coin and legal notes provided as
currency or money to the general citizenship. This perplexes
me because in reading the constitution I find no passage or
amendment that prohibits either the word or concept from
appearing in public or on any building or currency owned by
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Who's watching the Devil while we fight over GOD?
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be? What happens when God, the word, is removed and separated
from government? Remember, we are dealing with the
"word" God, not the spiritual God that is usually
associated with Christianity or a religious science that
believes in a supreme being, "God". We will inevitably
tie the two together but for now we will address God the legal
term.
To understand why God can’t live in America we’ll have
to take a step back and look at the constitution and the so
called framers of that document. Were they God-fearing men?
Given the times and the accounts of their general conduct, I
believe they were. Were they perfect? Given the times and the
accounts of their general conduct, I believe they were far
from perfect. They were simply good men and great thinkers.
Then why would they lay the future of their children, and
their children, in the hands of an unseen and somewhat
doubtful "God".
The constructors of this profound blueprint of freedom
named the citizens of America as the highest authority in the
land, "We the People". The people were in authority
over all things, great and small. As authoritarians they
bestowed privileges on a group of people that would become
known as "The Government". They were privileged to
carry on the business of running the country as outlined in
the constitution and at the will of the people. The founding
fathers understood the perils of their proposal and warned us
repeatedly to be vigilant of the men we placed in the
permissive role of governing. Things went well for about four
years and then government started to usurp the constitution
and assume rights they had not been given by the higher
authority. Fortunately our third president, Thomas Jefferson,
corrected the usurious acts of his predecessor and put America
back on the right road of government, the constitution.
The framers were also mindful of a future oppressive
government questioning the people’s authority. Who gave this
highest authority to "We the People", Thomas
Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James
Madison? These men although pioneers in their own right, had
no sustainable authority to give. The question was. How would
the poor and ambiguous citizens retain their rights when faced
with a government that would become richer, more powerful and
insatiably corrupt with each new administration? We’ve
already discussed that the founding fathers were dedicated and
great thinkers. I can’t imagine it being too long before one
of them declared with an undeniable amount of wisdom that, the
people derive their unalienable rights from a higher source.
God, himself, has bestowed this authority upon us and there is
no higher power to rebut this authority. "God given
rights" genius, pure genius.
Were they referring to an angelic entity that had created
heaven and earth and held mankind in the balance? I don’t
really know but I don’t think so. I’m sure that they
revered their god as the creator and looked to him in a
spiritual and biblical sense, but, given what they had already
achieved I can’t help but imagine they were after a legal
big brother. We derived our rights from God, trump that!
Someone has been trying to "trump that" every day
since the constitution was signed. The fact that they have yet
to succeed lends testimony to what a powerful idea that was.
Let us not grow too confident in the efforts of our
forefathers. There are new players and new strategies in the
game and they may be holding the trump card. The emerging
strategy is to ban God from America. Not the supreme being of
all religions, not the God depicted in the bible and all of
the scriptures and certainly not the God worshiped by the many
sects living in the country today. Instead the trump card
being played deals with the legal or highest authority God. If
God can be erased from our legal system, washed from the face
of our money, scratched from the walls of our buildings and
buried beneath our hallowed fields then there will be no legal
God. With no legal God there is no higher authority. With no
higher authority there is no constitution. With no
constitution there is no republic, no freedom and ultimately
no America.
Are you starting to get the message? The key is a higher
authority. If you’re an atheist should you pursue removing
God from our money, no! From our government, no! If you remove
the authority granted by the legal God, you will no longer be
free to worship, as it were, as an atheist. Government
sanctioned religion is a reality in this world. If we lose God
even atheists will have no basis for their beliefs.
Another front in the battle to terminate God is being waged
in the classrooms of America. Remember when every day started
with the pledge of allegiance to the flag, followed by the
Lords Prayer? Where did that fundamental practice go? Why was
it abolished? Was it to separate church and state? A wild idea
was introduced into the developing minds of our youth. It was
proposed by an adult mind that the adolescent mind of school
aged children may be offended or confused by hearing of God in
the classroom. By the way, this same adult mind has introduced
"Gay Day" to the educational system. A day that
celebrates gay, bisexual and trans-sexual behavior in our
time. No chance of being dazed and confused there! But, that’s
a topic for another day and another article. Back to basics.
Removing the pledge and the prayer from the classroom is not a
play for immediate results. It is however a long term attack
on the legal God, on yet another front. If this absence of the
connection between God and country persists long enough from
the minds of the country’s youth the legal God will be
dismissed and only the spiritual or religious God will
sustain. A generation of that and our God given rights will be
gone for good. The higher authority will be removed and
"We the People" will lose our greatest Allie in the
fight to retain our republic, our freedom and to fight
tyranny. Lets send God to school, with the constitution and a
flag in hand. Let’s invite God back, to live in America. |
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Nationalized Health Care
For many decades, if not generations,
the American worker has stood by and helplessly watched as our
government brought the greatest industrialized nation in the
world to it’s knees. Subsidies, tax breaks and incentive
programs were used to entice American companies to move their
operations off shore.
The feds post the unemployment rate at
9.4%. That’s a contrived number. I think the real nationwide
number is at least 20%.
The State of California suggests 11.5% in
July, a 25 year high.
Unemployment figures posted by the
government in my county, San Bernardino, CA., stand at 13%. I
believe that number is grossly understated. If one were to do
the math, dissect the numbers, interview the people and take
an actual head count, the number would be 30%, if not higher.
Remember, this is my opinion. My opinion is
based on a tool repair business that is dependant on the labor
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Don't Worry!
It's Standard Government Procedure........ |
In the best of times the Hi-Desert region of Southern
California is listed as an economically depressed area.
Business is off more than 50% over the last two years. Does
that mean that unemployment in this neck of the woods is 50%?
Could be, but if everything was taken into consideration it
could be 60%. Consider the people that don’t have jobs but
don’t qualify for unemployment insurance. Consider the
workers who’s benefits have run out but they are still
unemployed. What about workers that have been given a drastic
cut in hours or sent home until the next job starts. Or the
throw-away portion of the American population that has been
consigned to unemployment or to jobs that don't pay a living
wage. There are a great number of reasons, including legal
issues, that render a person un or under employed. I know that
if you gathered up all the able bodied workers in this town, 6
out of 10 of them would be looking for a job.
So, are these the people to be given
nationalized health care? Am I one of those people? Are you
one of those people? Do you want free care? Sure, it’s human
nature. Everyone wants something for nothing. The real
question is, what are you willing to pay for it and can you
really afford to get something for nothing? Everyone on the
dole from a government that has no shame. Is that what you
want? Not me!
A tariff on all imported goods, an excise
tax on all exported goods and the same incentives offered to
companies to come back to America that drove them away in the
first place. That’s what I want! Give me a job, I’ll take
care of my own health.
Nationalized health care? Thank you for the
offer but no thank you!
I’d rather die in the arms of the
republic than by the hand of a Socialist government that
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| The Pledged
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of
America and to the democracy for which it stands.... Wait a
minute, the United States of America are not a democracy, they
are a republic!
Yes, it's the United States of America are, not the United
States of America is. But that's another topic for another
day. At this point we need to understand the difference
between a democracy and a republic. It all has to do with what
rights you have and where you derive those rights from. It
also has to do with what rights can be voted away from you by
a majority of the voting public.
In a democracy any or all of your rights including those
derived through your ownership of property can and eventually
will be voted away. In a republic you have certain unalienable
rights along with rights you obtain from ownership of property
those rights can not be voted on, questioned, amended or
usurped by any branch of government or any voting body. You
are the highest authority in matters concerning any or all of
your property. Be it as insignificant as a pencil in your
pocket or as considerable as the home you live in. You are the
highest authority.
The United States of America has many problems and
challenges today, these challenges are being compounded by an
unconstitutional government. The answers are in the
constitution! We the people must read and discus the
constitution and it's supporting documents as a starting point
to reaffirming it's powers, it's privileges, and returning The
United States of America to the republic it was born to be and
for which it stands.
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He who tampers with the currency
Robs labor of its bread................ Daniel Webster
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"Chase"ing The Money
Chase bank, the recipient of billions of tax dollars in the biggest
transfer of wealth the country has ever known, the great Obama bail
out! In the great bail out boondoggle Chase acquired Washington
Mutual. I don’t understand why Washington Mutual rolled over, but it
gave Chase the opportunity to gouge hard working tax payers with their
own money. One of the first things Chase did was to raise the interest
rate on WAMU credit cards to 29.99%. Why didn’t they just hit us in
the head and pick our pockets while we were unconscious? The current
administration may have frowned on that and it wouldn’t have given
politicians the chance to spout rhetoric about stopping the banks from
gouging the public, but that will take some time because water
boarding is taking center stage and all of the resources.
If you call Chase Bank to inquire about the new rate you will
immediately be connected to a hard to understand representative
somewhere in India. They will politely greet you and introduce
themselves with their American name, Ralph, Jeremy, Sheila, Susan or
some other name they can hardly pronounce. Next they will ask for your
account number, your social security number, your date of birth and
your mothers maiden name. The questions you may ask yourself at this
point might be, why am I giving this stranger my critical information
and is there really someone in India naming their children Ralph?
Now it dawn’s on me that while we are staggering under the weight
of a faulty economic recovery plan, Chase Bank is using American tax
payer money to employ people in India! This suddenly brings to mind a
question that Mr. Obama should be asking Chase Bank. With 14 million
unemployed people in this country, you can’t find anyone to answer
the phone?
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Don’t get caught up in the blame game.
Democrats would have you believe that they inherited these problems
from the Bush administration. Republicans say this administration is
at fault and they don’t know what they’re doing. Blaming the
previous regime puts the current regime in the clear because they’re
not at fault! Another pit fall will come in the form of a statement, "You
can’t go back to the constitution!". Back being the operative
word. And that is correct, we can’t go back in time. I don’t think
we’re going back to the constitution, we’re going forward to the
constitution!
If you find yourself in a conversation with an idealistic person
that wants to point out the mistakes of the other party, you will be
unable to carry on a meaningful conversation. There is plenty of blame
to go around and every point has a justifiable counter point and the
conversation goes nowhere. Don’t waste your time trying to place
blame, the problem is government. Not any particular part but every
part of government is broken, corrupt, mismanaged, over funded and
praying on the misfortunes of the people it was meant to protect.
Having stated the problem the solution becomes very clear.
The people of this nation must rise up in a peaceful revolution
that will reassert the sovereignty of our nation and it’s people. We
must abolish the rule of the rich and powerful and return it to the
people at the most basic level.
How do we do this, by joining together serious and like minded
people to discus the predicament and formulate a strategy that will
empower the people and embody the country.
Start a group today! Become a chapter of The Constitutional Guard.
Contact the Fundamental Press, we’ll help you get started. Support
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Taxation
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"No Taxation Without
Representation!"
............. Reverend Jonathan Mayhew 1750
The pact between
the governed and the government is a delicate instrument
that is predicated upon trust. That "trust" has
been shattered and replaced by an open tyranny that knows no
bounds. Today we have pyramid schemes of federal, state and
local taxes that stager the mind and crush the imagination
of all but the most connected and the most determined. In
these various governments, there are now only a handful of
people who still attempt to represent their constituents -
all the rest only represent themselves.
Today, Taxation Without Representation Is
Still Tyranny
I, an American Veteran and Patriot, Can
Not Be a Party to the Destruction of My Country.
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Avoid falsehoods like the plague except in
matters of taxation, which do not count, since here you are not
lying to take someone else's goods, but to prevent your own from
being unjustly seized
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Bill Allen
editor@fundamentalpress.com
Yucca Valley, CA
Seabees, 1962-1968
Date Posted: 02/28/2009
Topic:
The Stimulus Theory
Opinion:
The current government claims to be shoring up the economy by giving
large amounts of money to banks, corporate executives and other, already
fat cats at the top. A lifetime spent in the construction industry has
taught me that you never shore up anything from the top. You should
always start repairs at the foundation. You always shore up anything
from the bottom.
In my county alone (San Bernardino County, CA.) over 500,000 homes are
in foreclosure. A helping hand may be to give homeowners the opportunity to defer 3 mortgage
payments a year to the end of the contract, without penalty, for 5
years. It will work for the people that deserve it with out misuse of
taxpayer monies. |
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