<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332</id><updated>2012-02-25T09:42:14.018-08:00</updated><category term='using the schools'/><title type='text'>Earl Lofland</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>42</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-820399514859638712</id><published>2012-02-25T09:31:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-25T09:42:14.027-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Where is this Place called "A Nest of Pirates"</title><content type='html'>Where is this place called "A Nest of Pirates"&lt;br /&gt;By Earl Lofland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FOREWORD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am a pirate, My family were also pirates! And I still go vacation at the location that all started our homes to be called the "Nest of pirates" every year with my family! Where is it? If you thought it is somewhere in the Caribbean you don't know Early-American history, prior to the rape that was done in Washington, DC on February 21,1871 that turned Washington DC into a Corporation- One cons-piracy by the 41st Congress to enslave us back to the Crown of England again. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://api.ning.com/files/LNcVVBK4WiUcrFblTqiRAB0rq-Au1fdfmWfUuV3VvWMEhL6iajP6apMJGoFiVnyp5QjiwLy2xc38pxB0nLnMfilZKPIiwS6Z/homepaage.jpg" target="_self"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many will stand accused as co cons pirateers for voting for the same cons-pirateers which have continuously facilitated acts of violence, with malice against the human race. Will you be one of those who stands and thinks you are so patriotic as you remove your hat and put your hand over your heart; while the Star Spangled Banner plays before the next game you attend; While being so quick at placing your finger on a lever in a booth, or to punch a hole in a card-- deciding to select the same factions which sold this nation back to the very crown and country that bombarded Ft McHenry Baltimore MD. as Mr Francis Scott Key and John Stuart Skinner where held captive and forced to watch in horror onboard the HMS Surprise and later back on HMS Minden?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the British dubbed the city of Baltimore a "Nest of Pirates", because of the Chesapeake having so many Privateers fighting against the Crown for the nations liberty from tyranny. Let it be known that this "Nest of Pirates" were the towns of men and women whom fought and died so, so you can stand at your cherished ball game, and shed a tear as you hold your hand over your heart to listen to some half wit pop artist hack up the song of a nations plight for liberty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/62c2906f-fe67-4c94-a17d-ee554d273091.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/62c2906f-fe67-4c94-a17d-ee554d273091.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The image is the marker at St Michaels Maryland where 29 British soldiers were killed and 0 Militia Patriots lost their lives. Date: August 10, 1813&lt;br /&gt;One of the battle locations that outraged the British troops so much they deemed the Chesapeake bay and Baltimore, MD a "Nest of Pirates"Location St. Michaels, Maryland&lt;br /&gt;I vacation and tour the Miles River every year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The Star Spangled Banner&lt;br /&gt;Francis Scott Key&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O! say can you see by the dawn's early light,What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;And where is that band who so vauntingly sworeThat the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,A home and a country, should leave us no more?Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.No refuge could save the hireling and slaveFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall standBetween their loved home and the war's desolation.Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued landPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-820399514859638712?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/820399514859638712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2012/02/where-is-this-nest-of-pirates-by-earl.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/820399514859638712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/820399514859638712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2012/02/where-is-this-nest-of-pirates-by-earl.html' title='Where is this Place called &quot;A Nest of Pirates&quot;'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-1687791196163773051</id><published>2012-02-24T15:55:00.005-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-24T18:26:03.538-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Two sides of TWEA.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/images/US/abc_gas_price_1_ll_120222_wblog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 386px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 350px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://abcnews.go.com/images/US/abc_gas_price_1_ll_120222_wblog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to financial news published this year by Reuters and AP, we are exporting as much as three times more of our refined products overseas due to an excess of inventory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something to think about; maybe we should stop exporting that first. Or, maybe we have a back room deal that is made between corporations and government, again doing GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION COMMON WITH SOCIAL FASCIST GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amazing the energy companies are whining they need to sell the oil overseas due to the low demand in the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe the low demand is due to the inflated prices? And they expect sympathy from us consumers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This once again proves supply has nothing to do with prices., and the price of oil and fossil fuels are all driven by speculators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, will you let me explain to you what you already know; or should know? Without calling me a Conspiracy theorist or some radical threat?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Probably not, but I am going to put it out here anyway, so when it comes time that history researchers reflect back on what went wrong, someone can say; look, there were still some signs of intelligence among some Americans. (The history researchers will probably be speaking in either Arabic or an Asian language though.))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt; Get rid of the spectators, who make a mint off the ever increasing piracy of price jacking in commodities like crude oil and other commodities, including food supplies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt; End the politics of borrowing from a bank that is a foreign entity of the US Government, that controls its currency, and thus controls the ability to regulate the price of goods; interest rates; employment, and or unemployment and every aspect of individuals right to life liberty and the right to own property, especially real estate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt; End the politics of following the same two party's who are to blame for the bankruptcy of this nation that occurred a long time ago, (dating back to the first Civil War Act), and debtors (foreign bankers) never being paid back and an accrued interest consecutively added annually. Now, I am going to give you something that many can't handle so they are excused to go back to the bar to get drunker and pass out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt; Elect a President, and members in Congress who will End the wall street boy racket; End the banker boy racket, and that will stop all the woes of Corporate global domination that goes to a group of nine banks owners' who have clearly, continuously been violating Trading With The Enemy Act of 1917, and have no concern about your constitutional rights, yet are always able to buy politics, with hundreds of millions of dollars at a time; giving to politicians and their campaigns, like Billionaire &lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-sheldon-adelson-might-give-100-million-to-help-gingrich-20120221,0,823323.story"&gt;Sheldon Adelson announced&lt;/a&gt; he may do, and others have done in the past, instead of these billionairs who have made their profits off of others slavery, using their profits by investing in solving the problems more realistically with contributing their wealth outside of political campaigns, for people like Newt, Romney, Obama and many others who are wanting to run government in the best interest of corporations, and these Billionaires doing their philanthripical work, without the government telling them they should, and without doing these good Samaretan deeds only to make them feel less guilty, or privy them to having something named after them for their good deed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Now that is a free market concept that comes right out the Values of some of the Founding fathers, (I say some, because it was not the expressed opinion of all), allowing individuals to be free and independent -liberated while protecting Constitutional value too. (That thought will never be given too much attention. That would require the ones who have the ability to do good, to believe in caring for your neighbor as you do yourself.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This law (TWEA) is an effectively permanent law that allows the president, by declaring an emergency, to assume the role of dictator. Just as Franklin D. Roosevelt done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, every law has two edges to it, and the TWEA can also be used to liberate America from the dictatorship we have been under when FDR used it to put us under the rule of the Federal Reserve Banking System (a foreign entity that I will get explain more about in a moment).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The TWEA was used to bring the bankers vacation about that brought in the Federal Reserve Banks having total control of the US CURRENCY. And can be used to destroy their vile power as well.&lt;br /&gt;The president may designate agencies of his choice to investigate, regulate, and license any transaction of any person (enemy) within the United States, by means of rules and regulations he may prescribe in accordance to Sec. 5(b) of the TWEA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Using an executive order was how the system of governance was brought in and that foreign governance can be taken out the same way, with the approval of a body of Congress that would support a president who would do such action. But people have to elect a body in Congress that would not contest his actions.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sec. 2(c) of the act defines "enemy" as foreigners and countries who were at war with the United States. It specifically excluded American citizens as enemies. Sec. 5(b) specifically excluded transactions of the American people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Public Law No. 65-91&lt;br /&gt;(40 Stat. L. 411)&lt;br /&gt;October 6, 1917&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CHAP. 106. - An Act To define, regulate, and punish&lt;br /&gt;trading with the enemy, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Sec. 2(c) - Such other individuals, or body or class of individuals, as may be natives, citizens, or subjects of any nation with which the United States is at war, other than citizens of the United States, wherever resident or wherever doing business, as the President, if he shall find the safety of the United States or the successful prosecution of the war shall so require, may, by proclamation, include within the term "enemy."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now do you understand what is required; And are you willing to stop Pansy panting around with the same politicians and political party system that supports America being governed by the Federal Reserve a foreign entity of off shore banks?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sec. 5(b) - That the President may investigate, regulate or prohibit, under such rules as he may prescribe by means of foreign exchange, export or earmarkings of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency, transfers of credit in any form other than credits relating to transactions to be executed wholly within the United States..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the event there is any lingering doubt concerning the nature and effect of the Trading With the Enemy Act, it is suggested that you read Senate Report 93-549.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;From Senate Report 93-549&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A majority of the people of the United States have lived all their lives under emergency rule. For almost 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought in force by states of national emergency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;You were sold out voters, by the Democrat and Republican Party, to an enemy, a foreign body! the Federal Reserve Banks are not part of the US Government, therefore it is operating as a foreign entity!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These banks known as the FEDERAL RESERVE Are actually off shore banks which are required to follow the laws of Admiralty or Maritime Laws. (You know these laws today is the Uniform Commerical Code in part dealing with securities and their transactions under Art. 8 and Art. 9 of the UCC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, it is up to you to share this if you care about how to fix the problems. Or you can ignore it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'You are free to do as you wish. But remember with your freedom, the actions you choose, there also comes responsibility, to accept the consequenes for your actions (or inactions).'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(that is something a wise old Native American once said.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-1687791196163773051?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/1687791196163773051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2012/02/two-sides-of-twea.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/1687791196163773051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/1687791196163773051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2012/02/two-sides-of-twea.html' title='The Two sides of TWEA.'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-8408555814833868386</id><published>2012-02-16T08:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-16T09:58:33.011-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Visitor from the Past</title><content type='html'>Last evening Brittany Overton coordinated an event, the "LIBERTY FUNDRAISER" which was held at Film Brothers Studio in Wilmington Delaware.&lt;br /&gt;Individuals were invited from Delaware and elsewhere who boast of being called "Tea Party Patriots"  Many guest speakers were also invited. Sadly, there were only 4 speakers who volunteered their time and efforts to speak at the event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the opening of the Liberty Fundraiser, Brittany read the history of the Constitution Party and  followed with a poem written by Thelen Paulk, "A Visitor From The Past."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A total of five people decided to come to the event.&lt;br /&gt;Many were invited, But nearly everyone invited were too preoccupied to even give respect to the coordinator who spent so much time and effort coordinating the event, so others could listen to speakers explain their thoughts on the condition of the country our State and how we can work together to understand and solve the problems that are faced today by most Americans. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the speakers was Democrat, and the others were either members of the Libertarian Party or Constitution Party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will be video footage of each of the speakers posted on facebook and youtube&lt;br /&gt;however, after witnessing such a poor turnout for this event. I will say to all those invited and were able to attend but refused to do so, including the hypocrites who dare to even eual themselves to Tea Party Patriots like Nathan Hale,  (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) abusively and insultingly plagerizing the title of  "Tea Party Patriots"; May the spirit of Captain Hale visit you in your sleep and give you a fright that makes even your soul melt in horror for fourteen days, the number of days Nate had volunteered to go behind enemy lines and report on British troop movements for you to have Liberty until he was hung for the charge being an illegal combatant.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Earl Lofland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2004_winter_spring/images/nathan-hanging.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 312px; height: 330px;" src="http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2004_winter_spring/images/nathan-hanging.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Visitor from the Past&lt;br /&gt;by Thelen Paulk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had a dream the other night, I did not understand&lt;br /&gt;A figure walking through the mist, with flintlock in his hand&lt;br /&gt;His clothes were torn and dirty;&lt;br /&gt;As he stood their by my bed, he took off his three cornered hat&lt;br /&gt;And speaking low, he said,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We fought a revolution to secure our Liberty&lt;br /&gt;We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny&lt;br /&gt;For future generations this legacy we gave&lt;br /&gt;In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep&lt;br /&gt;But tyrants labored endlessly, while your parents were asleep&lt;br /&gt;Your freedom gone - Your courage lost - Your no more than a slave&lt;br /&gt;In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You buy a permit to travel, and a permit to own a gun&lt;br /&gt;Permits to start a business or to build a place for one&lt;br /&gt;On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent&lt;br /&gt;Although you have no voice in choosing, how the money's spent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your children must attend a school, that does not educate&lt;br /&gt;Your Christian values can't be taught, according to the State&lt;br /&gt;You read about the current news in a regulated press&lt;br /&gt;You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the IRS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your money is no longer made of silver or gold&lt;br /&gt;You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled&lt;br /&gt;You pay for crimes that make your nation turn from God in shame&lt;br /&gt;You've taken Satans number, as you traded in your name&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You've given government control to those who do you harm,&lt;br /&gt;so they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm&lt;br /&gt;and keep our country deep in debt,&lt;br /&gt;put men of God in jail, harass your fellow countrymen&lt;br /&gt;While corrupted courts prevail&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oath they swore&lt;br /&gt;Your daughters visit doctors, so their children won't be born&lt;br /&gt;Your leaders ship artillery and guns to foreign shores,&lt;br /&gt;and send your sons to slaughter, to fight other peoples wars&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you regain your freedom, for which we fought and died,&lt;br /&gt;or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride&lt;br /&gt;Are there no more values for which you would fight to save,&lt;br /&gt;or do you wish your children, to live in fear and be a slave&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sons of the Republic, arise and take a stand&lt;br /&gt;Defend the Constitution, the supreme law of the land&lt;br /&gt;Preserve our great Republic, and teach each God given right,&lt;br /&gt;and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-8408555814833868386?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/8408555814833868386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2012/02/visitor-from-past.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/8408555814833868386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/8408555814833868386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2012/02/visitor-from-past.html' title='A Visitor from the Past'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-2825733125322122246</id><published>2011-08-01T13:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-01T14:00:16.334-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Only fools obey the rules made by fools</title><content type='html'>General Thomas "Stonewall Jackson" said&lt;br /&gt;My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to always be ready, no matter when it may overtake me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHY are we in LIBYA?&lt;br /&gt;It started March 19, 2011. costing over a BILLON dollars. $40 million a day. People have been thinking the Republicans were actually going to do anything about reducing federal spending???  , I have a hat for them.. With the word DUNCE on it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Why did people think voting Republican would change things for the better?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Why did people vote Democrat thinking it would change things for the better?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Henry David Thoreau once said &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"The government never confronts a mans' sense of intellectual or morals. Only his senses - his body. They are not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I was not born to be forced!" .&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The Tea Party promoted by Fox with Glen Beck started back in 2008.  And I heard Republican candidates often address the crowds  with the opening line &lt;br /&gt;"Hello Patriots"!!! &lt;br /&gt;(sigh)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;There is a time for everything as the Passage in Ecclesiastes 3 says... And it is now time to speak with my highly obnoxious and highly offensive personality I have always been known for.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Time to answer the question, Which one are you ? A Tea Party Patriot; or, a Freedom Fighter? &lt;br /&gt;There's a vast gap between the two. &lt;br /&gt;Democrats promised that we would be out of Iraq in 6 months after the 2008 elections. And that the Republicans were waging a 100 year war. Nut cases that voted for them in 2008 were suckers and even waged wars against people who opposed their cookie sheet Peeps.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Just like the people who voted for Republicans in office in 2010 was suckered into voting for them on the Abolish Obama Care and the "Budget Cut" Promises made by the Republicans. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Thomas Jefferson once said (I am paraphrasing)&lt;br /&gt;The tree of liberty is watered by the blood of tyrants. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Maybe that tree can use a little fertilizer too!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/01/iraq-withdrawal-decision-_n_914694.html?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk1%7C220640&amp;ref=fb&amp;src=sp"&gt;Iraq Withdrawal Decision Threatens Transition &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;People marched on DC to oppose the "Obama care Bill" and all the things that was being done. But what did those people do after the bill was passed into law? They went and voted for Republicans, and took up opposing something else. Never finishing the first task! Sarah Palin Quit her post.. and they too are nothing but a bunch of QUITTERS! Bird of the same Flock!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the Republicans ran on the promises they would repeal that, and cut government spending and a bunch of other things that people, like myself said would not happen if you elected Republicans back in power.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;So what did the Republicans do?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;They Compromised,  Raising the debt ceiling, and the cuts they agreed to still will not save the AAA Rating we have in borrowing money. The cuts are a mere drop in the bucket. One trillion dollars over 10 years for the 14 trillion borrowed and adding another 2 trillion to that 14 trillion the spent in one year. That isn't even a symbolic gesture. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Then there is the Bank Bailouts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What did the Democrats and Republicans do again?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Here is your shovel ready government plan for bailing out the Banks. If they can't sell it they aren't giving it to you either. And to think you were suckered  into believing what they  told  you...,That the racketeers in government was about defending the Constitution- Life liberty and Property .. &lt;br /&gt;Theirs maybe.. NOT YOURS!!!!&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/bulldoze​-way-foreclose-102000063.html"&gt;Bulldoze: The New Way To Foreclose&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I have attended Tea Party rally's that were taking place all over, and watched what was said and done carefully. I even offered advise.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Remember, I said the real tea party started long before 2008. Well, If you can view videos on youtube. Look at this protest rally that took in 1993. Learn a little lesson on the what the real freedom fighters are about and  what they do when these criminals in office pass laws that are unconstitutional. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Then you will know why I didn't really give a flip whether you voted for me or not in 2010 or even if you agreed with me! And I often said, Look in my blue eyes, and tell me if you see either word:&lt;br /&gt; I, or Care in them.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I am about fighting for freedom not playing games with false teeth and tye dyed hair. I have full understanding that my religious theology may not be what you agree with. And I also refuse to put it aside while running for office. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Again, I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU THINK OF MY FAITH, AND MY EXERCISING IT FREELY. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I am free to think on my own, and act accordingly, to the principles and the faith I believe in as being true doctrine. &lt;br /&gt;It is your right to agree, or disagree with me. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It's also not really important if you oppose a bill while it is being debated most times, As I hope you have learned now; THEY DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU THINK, while they are in the process of shoving dictates and authoritative brute-totalitarian force upon you.&lt;br /&gt;What is more important; to stand and fight against that bill after it has been passed as if your very life depended upon it Because it does!!! and your childs life!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is how bills get abolished not by quitting, And surely not by voting for the two evils to remain in power!!! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;There aren't enough prisons to lock every protestor up, They tried that with Outlawing Alcahol. And when people make the government liable, it stops these assholes dead in their tracks. Or allows for the next stage of a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sd-XHD_GuM"&gt;protest&lt;/a&gt; to begin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some may believe that the Tea Party has awoken the masses, and that is what is needed; to wait for the masses. to be woke up. If that is what you believe, then you are just as much to blame for the problems as the criminals who are usurping power while holding an elected  or appointed office and abusing the rights of the people. You may as well wait for hell to freeze over. Or sand to become a top selling item in the Mojave Desert. That kind of thinking gets nothing accomplished or is more harm than good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;" ....the government cannot make any objective standards for helmets without taking on liability, and since they are expressly forbidden from &lt;br /&gt;taking on any liability, they can never make an objective standard &lt;br /&gt;for helmets. There it is.&lt;br /&gt;Without an objective standard it all becomes ad hoc and arbitrary -Ad hoc and arbitrary is the foundation of vague law -Vague law is Unconstitutional."&lt;br /&gt;- Richard Quigley&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;How does this quote apply to other laws? the foundation is laid under prima facie tthe government cannot make any objective standards for any laws without taking on liability, and since they are expressly forbidden from  taking on any liability, they can never make an objective standard. Meaning tax law? is objective because it sets a "Standard: Health Care; sets a standard. and all other social agendas that are funded by tax payer dollars are included in this. Seat Belt Laws, Helmet laws. .. And what do you do? comply to their standards by complying to their rules! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. &lt;br /&gt;Henry David Thoreau&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Earl Lofland&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-2825733125322122246?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/2825733125322122246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/08/only-fools-follow-rules-mad-by-fools.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/2825733125322122246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/2825733125322122246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/08/only-fools-follow-rules-mad-by-fools.html' title='Only fools obey the rules made by fools'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-7178420453330994792</id><published>2011-07-30T14:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-30T14:41:34.454-07:00</updated><title type='text'>You voted for these nutsacks!!! Not ME!!!!</title><content type='html'>Allen West (R-FL), "I'm ready to drive the car." Where off the cliff?Posted by Dr. Rich Swier on July 30, 2011 at 8:44am&lt;br /&gt;Send Message View Dr. Rich Swier's blog&lt;br /&gt;.Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner, in an effort to rally the troops approved the showing of a clip from the movie "The Town". According to CBS News, "The 2010 flick is about Boston bank robbers, and the scene that House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., played to the House GOP caucus depicts two characters about to go beat people up."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that's a good idea. NOT!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now this part sounds Nancy Pelosian. CBS News reports:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KoE1R-xH5To" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In that scene, Ben Affleck's character says, "I need your help. I can't tell you what it is. You can never ask me about it later." In its reporting, the Post left out Affleck's next line: "We're gonna hurt some people."&lt;br /&gt;The character played by Jeremy Lee Renner replies, "Whose car we takin'?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After viewing the clip, Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., replied, "I'm ready to drive the car."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;West's office confirms that the Tea Party-backed congressman did give that spirited reply and still backs Boehner's deficit reduction plan. [My emphasis]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does this not sound like the infamous statement by Pelosi, "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy." Here is Pelosi making this statement:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the video clip from "The Town":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ub792aeMjlM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To say I am disappointed in Rep. West is an understatement. Some have called Rep. West a "defector". According to my souces a million texts messages againt the Boehner bill was sent to every cell phone in Washington, D.C. This effort caused Speaker Boehner to delay the floor vote until Friday. Had Rep. West stuck to his guns, as some have said, until the Friday vote he would have been looked upon as a hero. Now many of his supporters are questioning his metal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is an interview with Rep. West and Laura Ingraham about his vote and support for the Boehner plan:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bw10euwJY3g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For him to "drive" the effort to raise the debt ceiling flies in the face of his pledge on Cap, Cut and Balance. Has he lost his way or was he bribed by Speaker Boehner with funding and support for his reelection bid in 2012? We shall see.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-7178420453330994792?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/7178420453330994792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/07/you-voted-for-these-people-not-me.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7178420453330994792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7178420453330994792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/07/you-voted-for-these-people-not-me.html' title='You voted for these nutsacks!!! Not ME!!!!'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/KoE1R-xH5To/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-1135518769782493555</id><published>2011-07-09T23:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-10T11:52:11.522-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The continued  theater for independence</title><content type='html'>Constitution Party of Delaware (CPoD)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We the members of all alternate parties have witnessed the agenda behind the political science our General Assembly members have embarked upon from what some may consider both sides of the Aisle. Others consider them a basket full of fruit falling from the same poisonous tree, &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In the upcoming presidential campaign, as in the past, the experiences in attitude and acceptance of any options for an alternate candidate have been at very least, less than favorable, and most times completely ignored by the GOP.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I have studied the phenomena of the Ron Paul movement for years. And my conclusion is thus;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Ron Paul will not be confirmed. Because of the rules the GOP used in the past. Yet the GOP will continue to use Mr. Paul as a tool of leverage as long as he remains with the GOP. To repel any potential risks or threats from alternate party candidates and their supporters having an opportunity to be elected, where selecting a candidate that would have a different view than is currently held in the politcal theater of government is less likely to ever occur without abandoing the GOP all together. Supporters for Paul will continue to focus on having him nominated, while the main body of the GOP continues to work its witchcraft. Funded by Banks and special interest PAC's including the Tea Party PAC's which are often times selecting GOP candidates over any althernate party candidates to endorse, Which contiues to feed the GOP's march, in lockstep with its agenda to continue with absolute despotism.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As Jubal Anderson Early expressed was occuring before the War and expressed would continue in a matrix that has embodied the entire spetrum of real politik today when we wrote of these atrocities in his &lt;a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=wA4TAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PR3&amp;source=gbs_toc_r&amp;cad=3#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false"&gt;book in 1867&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have long stated that neither side have any intentions of yielding power, (if you are one who views them as being any different). And they will use any opportunities  available to obtain intelligence; to distract; deter and divide, in order to ultimately achieve victory in conquering each election cycle with their own pre planned candidates.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;On the outside of the spectrum of the Politico theaters, things are seen as giving  the people their ability to perform their patriotic choice in selecting who best represents their voice. Yet on the inside of the Politico-machine, the very mechanics or sciences which are moving the machine ahead are pre programmed. So it functions with continual inertia, with little to no maintenance required for the machine to continue its pre-destined course of action.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Some people call it business as usual. Others call it absolute despotism; Totalitarianism; Communism; and a plethora of other titles. Some even label the actions taking place as treasonous.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This week celebrates a very interesting week in American history,  most have forgotten about, or have neglected to teach this generation.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The Battle of Montocacy and the battle at Fort Stevens. July 8-12 1864&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;These battles took place starting just outside of Washington DC Lt. General Jubal A. Early came within sharpshooters distance to Abraham Lincoln on July 11 and 12 186,where Lincoln witnessed personally the dedication of a Commander who was only under Robert E. Lee, and prior to his death at Chancelorsville, General Thomas Stonewall Jackson. Lt General Early frightened Lincoln, and his administration that week. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If Early had been able to muster enough provisions to continue his advance on Washington it is likely Early would have been able to repel the Union forces enough to initiate Grant to commit additional forces to defend DC than had originally been done.  Both battles Early was able to escape capture from the Union unskathed and with minimal losses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Whereas, without any doubt to anyone who knows the details of these battles, also recognize they humiliated the Lincoln administration, General Grant and the Union forces. It also proved to Lincoln the defeat at Gettysburg was not decisive that would eliminate the risk of Lincoln and the Capture of Washington DC out of the reach of the Confederate Army.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In closing, I will leave you with a brief caption out of Lt Generals Book.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=wA4TAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PR3&amp;source=gbs_toc_r&amp;cad=3#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false"&gt;A memoir of the last year of the war for independence&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"In regard to my own services all I have to say is that I have the consciousness of having done my duty to my country to the very best of my ability and whatever may be my fate I would not exchange that consciousness for untold millions I have come into exile rather than submit to the yoke of the oppressors of my country but I have never thought of attributing aught of blame or censure to those true men who after having nobly done their duty in the dreadful struggle through which we passed now that it has gone against us remain to Bhare the misfortunes of their people and to aid and comfort them in their trials on the contrary I appreciate and honour their motives I have not sought refuge in another land from insensibility to the wrongs and sufferings of my own country but I feel deeply and continually for them and could my life secure the redemption of that country as it has been often risked so now it would be as freely given for that object There were men born and nurtured in the Southern States and some of them in my own State who took sides with our enemies and aided in desolating and humiliating the land of their own birth and of the graves of their ancestors Some of them rose to high positions in the United States Army and others to high civil positions I envy them not their dearly bought prosperity I had rather be the humblest private soldier who fought in the ranks of the Confederate Army and now maimed and disabled hobbles on his crutches from house to house to receive his daily bread from the hands of the grateful women for whose homes he fought than the highest of those renegades and traitors Let them enjoy the advantages of their present positions as best they may for the deep and bitter execrations of an entire people now attend them and an immortality of infamy awaits them As for all the enemies who have overrun or aided in overrunning my country there is a wide and impassable gulf between us in which I see the blood of slaughtered friends comrades and countrymen which all the waters in the firmament above and the seas beneath cannot wash away Those enemies have undertaken to render our cause odious and infamous and among other atrocities committed by them in the eifbrt to do so an humble subordinate poor Wirz has been selected as a victim to a fiendish spirit and basely murdered under an executive edict founded on the sentence of a vindictive and illegal tribunal Let them continue this system they are but erecting monuments to their own eternal dishonour and furnishing finger posts to guide the historian in his researches They may employ the infamous Holt with his Bureau of Military Justice to sacrifice other victims on the altars of their hatred and provost marshals and agents of the Freedman's Bureau may riot in all the license of petty tyranny but our enemies can no more control the verdict of impartial history than they can escape that doom which awaits them at the final judgment."...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;... "The civilized world will find too late that its philanthropy has been all false and its religion all wrong on this subject and the people of the United States will find that under the pretence of saving the life of the nation and upholding the old flag they have surrendered their own liberties into the hands of that worst of all tyrants a body of senseless fanatics.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;When the passions and infatuations of the day shall have been dissipated by time and all the results of the late war shall have passed into irrevocable history the future chronicler of that history will have a most important duty to perform and posterity while poring over its pages will be lost in wonder at the follies and crimes committed in this generation."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lt. General Jubal A. Early &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Known as General Robert E. Lee's "Bad Old Man" 1816-1894 &lt;br /&gt; Senator John Warwick Daniel, who served on Early's staff, eulogized him thusly: "Virginia holds the dust of many a faithful son, but not of one whom loved her more, who fought for her better, or would have died for her more willingly."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/275845_1041864894_6178053_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 214px;" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/275845_1041864894_6178053_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earl Lofland, &lt;br /&gt;CPoD&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-1135518769782493555?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/1135518769782493555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/07/constitution-party-of-delaware-cpod-we.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/1135518769782493555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/1135518769782493555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/07/constitution-party-of-delaware-cpod-we.html' title='The continued  theater for independence'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-3091642326587222454</id><published>2011-06-17T10:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-17T11:34:41.736-07:00</updated><title type='text'>1 to 9 is more than 536 and  50</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/203214_1041864894_7978975_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 154px;" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/203214_1041864894_7978975_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently news reports have been released on what has been called a hit list for executives .. However, DHS spokesman Chris Ortman said in an email that there is no evidence of an imminent attack, but he confirmed DHS is monitoring. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/16/feds-send-alert-after-al-qaeda-linked-site-posts-hit-list-us-targets/#ixzz1PYQ1vhqN"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the media promotes the implications on why a department that violates every principle and the virtue of what was created in 1776, the media continues to be in total blackout on more dangerous problems surrounding the imminent threats of a disaster equal to, or worse than what recently occurred at the  Fukashima Japan Nuclear Power Plant.  According to this &lt;a href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/06/17/us-orders-news-blackout-over-crippled-nebraska-nuclear-plant/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pakalert+%28Pak+Alert+Press%29"&gt;report&lt;/a&gt;, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant suffered a “catastrophic loss of cooling” to one of its idle spent fuel rod pools on 7 June after this plant was deluged with water caused by the historic flooding of the Missouri River which resulted in a fire causing the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) to issue a “no-fly ban” over the area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you were to give someone who handles Federal Reserve Notes continuously they could tell almost immediately whether or not it is counterfeit money And the same principle applies to this bogus war on terror as well. After being around it long enough, I have been capable to tell the difference in the real threats to my Rights and the counterfeit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And most of the threats that are being generated are from the very people who are supposed to be doing all they can to ensure American people are not having their rights infringed. Violating the very vows they made to a Creator of the Universe, and the people who entrusted them to support and defend the Constitution. By being elected to protect it from all of its enemies, they have become the enemy to it.&lt;br /&gt;Last election, I ran a very generic campaign, which drew the interest of some and drew a conclusive point that I was their enemy for their choice to not fulfill their solemn oath. &lt;br /&gt;Now the time has come, where people are attempting to flock to their favorite man or woman on the GOP in hopes that others will be persuaded in what is nothing less than a big lie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have become a democracy of Mob Rules and this all began to shape in 1860. It continued on over the course of 66 years, until the Globalist bankers and corporate psuedo elite became even more determined to subjugate the powers  left to the people through using the electoral process and their wealth to entice those seeking power to run for office and do their work in bringing bout despotism. Some realize that the Bolshevik Revolution was funded by the Wall Street boys and they used our troops to further bring about Stalinism.  Others, though they know will attempt tofalsely accuse those who reveal this . &lt;br /&gt;I have been called everything from a Constitutional Nut/ Conspiracy Nut, to Un American for revealing historical data to the public on what has been occuring over the last 150 years. Most times, it is by the very ones who are seeking to retain power of the two party Mob which has been continuously delivering injury for answers to the pleas for redress by the people that are not willing to capitulate to the Socialistic Totalitarian Agenda of the Psuedo Elite, controlling the people thorough robbing them of their Rights. While accusing those who expose this danger as the perps who are robbing votes from their party to give to the other Majority faction, all what I recently labeled as Cotton Candy Politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cotton candy is a sugary strings that are filled with air giving it the appearance that there is a lot of content in such a large bag. After eating it, you have to wash your face and hands to keep from spreading a disaster all over your home or in your vehicle. You are left with a sense of hyperactivity for a short while that provides no nutritional value, and leaves you with being dehydrated, hungry, and holding a bag of sticky syrup that is good for nothing but putting trash in.&lt;br /&gt;I warned of the dangers, and gave logical solutions how to correct the problems during the campaign. Here are some ideas that was brought up back in the 1930s, that I promised I would  revise and re-introduce.&lt;br /&gt;1 The McFadden Act &lt;br /&gt;2 impeach Presidents Herbert Hoover-Obama , also introduce a resolution bringing conspiracy charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and seize all assets that were of any of their estates. to pay off the National Debt. Demand all foreign countries including china pay their loans to the US from WWI- 1929. &lt;br /&gt;Mr Mcfadden introduced House Resolution No. 158, articles of impeachment for the Secretary of the Treasury, two assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and the officers and directors of its twelve regional banks I proposed this resolution should be revised and updated to include every Sec of Treas from this HR158  forward. Then, follow all the prescribed ideas from Chapter 4 War Is A Racket by Major Gneral Smedley D. Butler USMC (Ret) 2 x congressional Medal of honor recipient. &lt;br /&gt;STOP poking a stick in the hole of a hornet nest for political grandstanding, and do something that will actually benefit the people and revise our economic stability. Do away with the FED and seize all the Board members secretary of Treasury and directors of each of the regional banks private estates under Violating the Trading with the Enemy Act. And use those funds to pay off the national debt and give the soldiers, Veterans and their families who were either killed or maimed by these criminals actions dues and medical care they are rightfully entitled to.&lt;br /&gt;Earl Lofland&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-3091642326587222454?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/3091642326587222454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/06/1-to-9-is-more-than-535-and-50.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/3091642326587222454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/3091642326587222454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/06/1-to-9-is-more-than-535-and-50.html' title='1 to 9 is more than 536 and  50'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-5236608079949980870</id><published>2011-06-10T07:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-10T14:13:39.951-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Democracy is alive and rules in the US</title><content type='html'>By Earl Lofland&lt;br /&gt;I don't expect most people to get this. In fact most have no clue as to what was spoken in the Bible about the Wheat and Tares. &lt;br /&gt;Florida is the first state that is now going to require drug testing for welfare receivers. Some are happy thinking this is the right thing to do, and making inaccurate comments of those whom see this action as unconstitutional. Asking How is this unconstitutional, on the basis that it is completely legal a company  who hires  employees have to pass a drug test to get a job. And that is to support those on welfare. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They also go farther by saying If you disagree, you must have something to hide!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people are taught only half the facts on what this country is, By stating it is a Constitutional Republic. This can be blamed on the Dept of Educations limitation on the other part of what this Repubic is.... &lt;br /&gt;China, France, Russsia, Czech Republic. Poland, Iraq even Iran and North Korea are a Constitutional Republic. So if we are only that we are no different than the very countries the people are to beleive are against what we stand for.&lt;br /&gt;So what exactly is our country? a Democracy? Theocracy? No, it is not supposed  to be. It is a Republic but it is a Cofederated Union. This something that many have abandoned after the Second Revolution in 1865.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The Union that the original 13 states formed was confederated from bearing allegiance to any other countries in the world. This was an experiment that has drawn other countries to mold similar constitutions that are based upon what was ratified in 1787 by the central government. The Federation of the States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without going into a long discussion on history and the various forms of government. The theory of forcing a person to undergo a drug test before being qualified for a state program like food stamps, welfare or even medical assistance is a direct violation of the rights of individials protected under Amendment IV and  V . While some suggest that it is a an entitlement, that is provided by funds that are obtained by the tax payer. The issues still surround the question whether or not this is a Democracy or a Republic. And based upon the facts that welfare programs and state assistance provisions were set in place under the New Deal, it does not matter whether or not this was intended to be a temporary or permanent program. The program while in effect, must comply with the the rights of individuals being protected who use the service provided by the State. Again, this is not a Democracy where the majority of people have control over the minority who are using state aid, And the rights of one person must be protected from the majority of those who refuse to recognize their rights. This does not imply that Welfare is a Right. Yet the program while it is im place, does have to comply to ensuring the rights of those who use the programs are not infringed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While it seems politically correct by some to chastise someone who is on a state program it does  not make that decison right. If it were right, then why stop there? Let the government demand you to serve a certain denomination or arrest you for practicing your faith. Let the Government come and bust in your door and destroy your property because you defaulted on a Student Loan. &lt;br /&gt;There are people who are on the system and are not using illegal drugs nor doing anything illegal. There are some who have paid state taxes and are now faced with needing this program to assist  in feeding their family. Yet if the government tells them they must give up their right of privacy or not obtain state funding, that is no different than the State creating a Danger by the very laws that wer put in place causing the economic disaster that has resulted in many families now needing the state programs, only to be exploited  for the hardship that the government knowingly was accountable for causing, and then telling its victims that they are less entitled to any rights than even the Slaves who were denied their right to vote or to sit in the back of a room or bus of a business. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would there be an outcry if those on welfare were also denied the right to vote while they are on Welfare? And what would prevent that from occuring? If you give the government an opportunity to take away one right you are saying it is open season for every right to be taken away. And that was the exact danger that the Fathers sought to prevent when they debated on the Natural rights and enclosed provisions in the Constitution, to protect Every US Citizens Rights under the Constitution and Bill of Rights.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-5236608079949980870?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/5236608079949980870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/06/democracy-is-alive-and-rules-in-us.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/5236608079949980870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/5236608079949980870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/06/democracy-is-alive-and-rules-in-us.html' title='Democracy is alive and rules in the US'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-3445762711533090289</id><published>2011-06-07T09:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-07T10:58:26.231-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Separation Day</title><content type='html'>We are soon to celebrate "Separation Day" in Delaware. On June 11, In Old New Castle Delaware The people will celebrate when Delaware's General Assembly passed a Resolution to throw off the old guard and fight for independence 235 years ago. The setting will have colonial rein actors present as well as  a day filled with historical events, including seeing DNG's Regiment today in the Delaware 1st Regimental Militia colonial military colors.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I come from a long line of citizenry that has been residents of these three counties of Delaware, even before it was a state. (1740 approx) I also come from a long line of citizens who are from the State which was called the Palmetto State, and gave the Continental Militia the Gadsden Flag . South Carolina was requested by the Continental Army to levy moneys from the people of South Carolina to fight against despotism and join in a union of several states, that was known as the Confederated Republic, forged in 1776.  While many today listen to Sarah Palin and her recantations on Paul Revere's ride. It brings to the forefront exactly why history and heritage was told to family members, from generation to generation in the Palmetto State, for the true reasons of throwing off the old guard ,and establishing a new, and a why the War Between the States was actually the Second Revolutionary War,  where the first cannon fire was by the Citadel Cadets on Ft Sumter, South Carolina  in 1861. &lt;br /&gt;Not so surprising though, is how those who have been attempting to force the evil of despotism back upon the citizens are attempting to rewrite history.  Even as I write this, people have been on Wikipedia who support Mrs. Palin, and are attempting to rewrite history according to her recantations. Though they can change books, they can’t change the memories of those who passed that heritage down from generation to generation. Family member to family member have through the ages been responsible for ensuring that their sons and daughters knew factual history and heritage to prevent those in power from having the ability to pervert and subvert  actual accounts in history. Those who have argued about the War Between The States, as being to free slaves have mislead and attempted to pervert the events that led up to Georgia, South Carolina,  Mississippi, Virginia, Alabama, Louisana, and yes;  Delaware and Maryland’s General Assembly to debate  whether to secede. There is a very reflective path that has occurred since the Confederate States of America Disbanded from the Confederated Republic formed in 1776. Yet what the Southern States experienced was not nearly as bad as what the citizens have today. Absolute despotism has now embedded itself within every level of government, and the People - the citizenry who have elected individuals into this democracy, who continue there actions are now faced with having to decide whether they will throw off this evil or continue on in hope that the democracy that was created around 1812 would stop their totalitarian forms of despotism .&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In 1860 the States were not faced with the all the abuse of despotism. The central government at that time was not abusing the “General Welfare” Clause. Today, even this has been absolutely abused and excused as being  properly exercised. The citizens have had  thrust upon them by  their respective States, through capitulating to the same political factions controlling the central government, and the States elected factions are demanding this democracy to be enforced, which was created over 170 yrs ago. Many do not comprehend the history and rich heritage of South Carolina. Therefore, it the duty of those who have long family ties to that state, to educate the rest. The Continental Army sought the aid of South Carolina in the fight against despotism and absolute tyranny from the King of England and his parliament. South Carolina, knowing  full well what was being done by a tyrant  in England, they were equally concerned that a central government formed here would be any better, or possibly worse, in refusing to recognize the States and the people of the States rights. For this reason is why there were provisions made before South Carolina would agree to raising any funds to the cause; to ensure that States rights and the respective people of the State would not be infringed. Later the Amendments IX and X were also ratified when the Reprsentatives met at the federal convention in 1787. However, that promise to the States was not long lived, before the powers of majority rule began to institute unfair tariffs and tributes to the Northern states and Norther Business owners were given special entitlements while the southern agricultural industry was enslaved to be nothing more than a district of the Northern States, forced to pay tribute for being in a union that was giving entitlements unjustly to the Northern business owners to enjoy their luxurious and lavish lifestyles. While those same northern business owners were employing children and entire families; forcing them to working in sweat shops and coal mines under harsh and cruel conditions, the northern citizenry were treated unfairly, and often times far worse than the “slaves" working in the Southern Agricultural industry.  Yet the northern business owner’s abusive actions were never considered as abuse and despotism, as a form of slavery. Still the farming industry of the south continued being forced to pay for the operations of an ever expanding government and the southern states constant inability to recover from the failed economic depression that began in 1819, which ultimately was the cause for the States to be forced to secede. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, this week, I hope people will remember those who have fought, and died for liberty in the proper light, not in the way that the tyrants of absolute despotism have attempted to make you believe.&lt;br /&gt;Earl Lofland, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Justifying Causes of Secession. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In justification of the passage of an ordinance of Secession, the Convention of South Carolina adopted two papers, one reported by Mr. R. B. Rhett, being styled The Ad-dress of the people of South Carolina, assembled in Convention, to the people of the Slaveholding States of the United States," and the other, reported by Mr. C. G. Memminger, being styled "Declaration of the causes which justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union." As these official papers have historic value, they are inserted in full.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The former of these two papers is as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is seventy-three years, since the Union between the United States was made by the Constitution of the United States. During this time, their advance in wealth, prosperity and power, has been with scarcely a parallel in the history of the world. The great object of their Union, was defence against external aggressions; which object is now attained, from their mare progress in power. Thirty-one millions of people, with a commerce and navigation which explore every sea, and with agricultural productions which are necessary to every civilized people, command the friendship of the world. But unfortunately, our internal peace has not grown with our external prosperity. Discontent and contention have moved in the bosom of the Confederacy, for the last thirty-five years. During this time, South Carolina has twice called her people together in solemn Convention, to take into consideration, the aggressions and unconstitutional wrongs, perpetrated by the people of the North on the people of the South. These wrongs, were submitted to by the people of the South, under the hope and expectation, that they would be final. But such hope and expectation, have proved to be vain. Instead of producing forbearance, our acquiescence has only instigated to new forms of aggressions and outrage; and South Carolina, having again assembled her people in Convention, has this day dissolved her connection with the States, constituting the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one great evil, from which all other evils have flowed, is the overthrow of the Constitution of the United States. The Government of the United States, is no longer the Government of Confederated Republics, but of a consolidated Democracy. It is no longer a free Government, but a Despotism. It is, in fact, such a Government as Great Britain attempted to set over our Fathers; and which was resisted and defeated by a seven years� struggle for independence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Revolution of 1776, turned upon one great principle, self-government,�and self-taxation, the criterion of self-government. Where the interests of two people united together under one Government, are different, each must have the power to protect its interests by the organization of the Government, or they cannot be free. The interests of Great Britain and of the Colonies, were different and antagonistic. Great Britain was desirous of carrying out the policy of all nations towards their Colonies, of making them tributary to her wealth and power. She had vast and complicated relations with the whole world. Her policy towards her North American Colonies, was to identify them with her in all these complicated relations; and to make them bear, in common with the rest of the Empire, the full burden of her obligations and necessities. She had a vast public debt; she had an European policy and an Asiatic policy, which had occasioned the accumulation of her public debt; and which kept her in continual wars. The North American Colonies saw their interests, political and commercial, sacrificed by such a policy. Their interests required, that they should not be identified with the burdens and wars of the mother country. They had been settled under Charters, which gave them self-government; at least so far as their property was concerned. They had taxed themselves, and had never been taxed by the Government of Great Britain. To make them a part of a consolidated Empire, the Parliament of Great Britain determined to assume the power of legislating for the Colonies in all cases whatsoever. Our ancestors resisted the pretension. They refused to be a part of the consolidated Government of Great Britain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Southern States, now stand exactly in the same position towards the Northern States, that the Colonies did towards Great Britain. The Northern States, having the majority in Congress, claim the same power of omnipotence in legislation as the British parliament. "The General Welfare," is the only limit to the legislation of either; and the majority in Congress, as in the British parliament, are the sole judges of the expediency of the legislation, this "General Welfare" requires. Thus, the Government of the United States has become a consolidated Government; and the people of the Southern States, are compelled to meet the very despotism, their fathers threw off in the Revolution of 1776.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The consolidation of the Government of Great Britain over the Colonies, was attempted to be carried out by the taxes. The British parliament undertook to tax the Colonies, to promote British interests. Our fathers, resisted this pretension. They claimed the right of self-taxation their Colonial Legislatures. They were not represented in the British parliament, and, therefore, could not rightly be taxed by its legislation. The British Government, however, offered them a representation in parliament; but it was not sufficient to enable them to protect themselves from the majority, and they refused the offer. Between taxation without any representation, and taxation without a representation adequate to protection, there was no difference. In neither case would the Colonies tax themselves. Hence, they refused to pay the taxes laid by the British parliament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so with the Southern States, towards the Northern States, in the vital matter of taxation. They are in a minority in Congress. Their representation in Congress, is useless to protect them against unjust taxation; and they are taxed by the people of the North for their benefit, exactly as the people of Great Britain taxed our ancestors in the British parliament for their benefit. For the last forty years, the taxes laid by the Congress of the United States, have been laid with a view of subserving the interests of the North. The people of the South have been taxed by duties on imports, not for revenue, but for an object inconsistent with revenue�to promote, by prohibitions, Northern interests in the productions of their mines and manufactures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is another evil, in the condition of the Southern towards the Northern States, which our ancestors refused to bear towards Great Britain. Our ancestors not only taxed themselves, but all the taxes collected from them, were expended amongst them. Had they submitted to the pretensions of the British Government, the taxes collected from them, would have been expended in other parts of the British Empire. They were fully aware of the effect of such a policy in impoverishing the people from whom taxes are collected, and in enriching those who receive the benefit of their expenditure. To prevent the evils of such a policy, was one of the motives which drove them on to Revolution. Yet this British policy, has been fully realized towards the Southern States, by the Northern States. The people of the Southern States are not only taxed for the benefit of the Northern States, but after the taxes are collected, three-fourths, of them are expended at the North. This cause, with others, connected with the operation of the General Government, has made the cities of the South provincial. Their growth is paralyzed; they are mere suburbs of Northern cities. The agricultural productions of the South are the basis of the foreign commerce of the United States; yet Southern cities do not carry it on. Our foreign trade, is almost annihilated. In 1740, there were five ship yards in South Carolina, to build ships to carry on our direct trade with Europe. Between 1740 and 1779, there were built in these yards, twenty-five square rigged vessels, besides a great number of sloops and schooners, to carry on our coast and West India trade. In the half century immediately preceding the Revolution, from 1725 to 1775, the population of South Carolina, increased seven-fold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No man can for a moment believe, that our ancestors intended to establish over their posterity, exactly the same sort of Government they had overthrown. The great object of the Constitution of the United States, in its internal operation, was, doubtless, to secure the great end of the Revolution�a limited free Government�a Government limited to those matters only, which were general and common to all portions of the United States. All sectional or local interests, were to be left to the States. By no other arrangement, would they obtain free Government, by a Constitution common to so vast a Confederacy. Yet by gradual and steady encroachments on the part of the people of the North, and acquiescence on the part of the South, the limitations in the Constitution have been swept away; and the Government of the United States has become consolidated, with a claim of limitless powers in its operations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not at all surprising, such being the character of the Government of the United States, that it should assume to possess power over all the institutions of the country. The agitations on the subject of slavery, are the natural results of the consolidation of the Government. Responsibility, follows power; and if the people of the North, have the power by Congress�"to promote the general welfare of the United Staten," by any means they deem expedient�why should they not assail and overthrow the institution of slavery in the South? They are responsible for its continuance or existence, in proportion to their power. A majority in Congress, according to their interested and perverted views, is omnipotent. The inducements to act upon the subject of slavery, under such circumstances, were so imperious, as to amount almost to a moral necessity. To make, however, their numerical power available to rule the Union, the North must consolidate their power. It would not be united, on any matter common to the whole Union�in other words, on any constitutional subject�for on such subjects divisions are as likely to exist in the North as in the South. Slavery was strictly, a sectional interest. If this could be made the criterion of parties at the North, the North could be united in its power; and thus carry out its measures of sectional ambition, encroachment, and aggrandizement. To build up their sectional predominance in the Union, the Constitution must be first abolished by constructions; but that being done, the consolidation of the North, to rule the South, by the tariff and slavery issues, was in the obvious course things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Constitution of the United States, was an experiment. The experiment consisted, in uniting under one Government, peoples living in different climates, and having different pursuits and institutions. It matters not, how care fully the limitations of such a Government be laid down in the Constitution,�its success must at least depend, upon the good faith of the parties to the constitutional compact, in enforcing them. It is not in the power of human language to exclude false inferences, constructions and perversions in any Constitution; and when vast sectional interests are to be subserved, involving the appropriation of countless millions of money, it has not been the usual experience of mankind, that words on parchments can arrest power The Constitution of the United States, irrespective of the interposition of the States, rested on the assumption, that power would yield to faith,�that integrity would be stronger than interest; and that thus, the limitations of the Constitution would be observed. The experiment, has fairly made. The Southern States, from the commencement of the Government, have striven to keep it, within the orbit prescribed by the Constitution. The experiment, has failed. The whole Constitution, by the constructions of the Northern people, has been absorbed by its preamble. In their reckless lust for power, they seem unable to comprehend that seeming paradox�that the more power is given to the General Government, the weaker it becomes. Its strength, consists in the limitation of its agency to objects of common interest to all sections. To extend the scope of its power over sectional or local interests, is to raise up against it, opposition and resistance. In all such matters, the General Government must necessarily be a despotism, because all sectional or local interests must ever be represented by a minority in the councils of the General Government�having no power to protect itself against the rule of the majority. The majority, constituted from those who do not represent these sectional or local interests, will control and govern them. A free people, cannot submit to such a Government. And the more it enlarges the sphere of its power, the greater must be the dissatisfaction it must produce, and the weaker it must become. On the contrary, the more it abstains from usurped powers, and the more faithfully it adheres to the limitations of the Constitution, the stronger it is made. The Northern people have had neither the wisdom nor the faith to perceive, that to observe the limitations of the Constitution was the only way to its perpetuity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under such a Government, there must, of course; be many and endless "irrepressible conflicts," between the two great sections of the Union. The same faithlessness which has abolished the Constitution of the United States, will not fail to carry out the sectional purposes for which it has been abolished. There must be conflict; and the weaker section of the Union can only find peace and liberty, in an independence of the North. The repeated efforts made by South Carolina, in a wise conservatism, to arrest the progress of the General Government in its fatal progress to consolidation, have been unsupported, and she has been denounced as faithless to the obligations of the Constitution, by the very men and States, who were destroying it by their usurpations. It is now too late, to reform or restore the Government of the United States. All confidence in the North, is lost by the South. The faithlessness of the North for a half century, has opened a gulf of separation between the North and the South which no promises nor engagements can fill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It gannet be believed, that our ancestors would have assented to any Union whatever with the people of the North, if the feelings and opinions now existing amongst them, had existed when the Constitution was framed. There was then, no Tariff�no fanaticism concerning negroes. It was the delegates from New England, who proposed in the Convention which framed the Constitution, to the delegates from South Carolina and Georgia, that if they would agree to give Congress the power of regulating commerce by a majority, that they would support the extension of the African Slave Trade for twenty years. African slavery, existed in all the States, but one. The idea, that the Southern States would be made to pay that tribute to their Northern confederates, which they had refused to pay to Great Britain; or that the institution of African slavery, would be made the grand basis of a sectional organization of the North to rule the South, never crossed the imaginations of our ancestors. The Union of the Constitution, was a union of slaveholding States. It rests on slavery, by prescribing a Representation in Congress, for three-fifths of our slaves. There is nothing in the proceedings of the Convention which framed the Constitution, to shew, that the Southern States would have formed any other Union; and still loss, that of they would have formed a Union with more powerful non slaveholding States, having majority in both branches of the Legislature of the Government. They were guilty of no such folly. Time and the progress of things, have totally altered the relations between the Northern and Southern States, since the Union was established. That identity of feelings, interests and institutions, which once existed, is gone. They are now divided, between agricultural�and manufacturing, and commercial States; between slaveholding, and non-slaveholding States. Their institutions and industrial pursuits, have made them, totally different peoples. That Equality in the Government between the two sections of the Union which once existed, no longer exists. We but imitate the policy of our fathers in dissolving a union with non-slaveholding confederates, and seeking a confederation with slaveholding States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Experience has proved, that slaveholding States cannot be safe, in subjection to non-slaveholding States. Indeed, as no people can ever expect to preserve its rights and liberties, unless these be in its own custody. To plunder and oppress, where plunder and oppression can be practiced with impunity, seems to be the natural order of things. The fairest portions of the world elsewhere, have been turned into wildernesses; and the most civilized and prosperous communities, have been impoverished and ruined by anti-slavery fanaticism. The people of the North have not left us in doubt, as to their designs and policy. United as a section in the late Presidential election, they have elected as the exponent of their policy, one who has openly declared, that all the States of the United States, must be made free States or slave States. It is true, that amongst those who aided in his election, there are various shades of anti-slavery hostility. But if African slavery in the Southern States, be the evil their political combination affirms it to be, the requisitions of an inexorable logic, must lead them to emancipation. If it is right, to preclude or abolish slavery in a Territory,�why should it be allowed to remain in the States? The one is not at all more unconstitutional than the other, according to the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. And when it is considered, that the Northern States will soon have the power to make that Court what they please, and that the Constitution never has been any barrier whatever to their exercise of power�what check can there be, in the unrestrained counsels of the North, to emancipation? There is sympathy in association, which carries men along without principle; but when there is principle�and that principle is fortified by long-existing prejudices and feelings, association is omnipotent in party influences. In spite of all disclaimers and professions, there can be but one end by the submission of the South, to the rule of a sectional anti-slavery government at Washington; and that end, directly or indirectly, must be�the emancipation of the slaves of the South. The hypocrisy of thirty years�the faithlessness of their whole course from the commencement of our union with them, shew that the people of the non-slaveholding North, are not, and cannot be safe associates of the slaveholding South, under a common Government. Not only their fanaticism, but their erroneous views of the principles of free governments, render it doubtful whether, if separated from the South, they can maintain a free government amongst themselves. Numbers with them, is the great element of free government. A majority, is infallible and omnipotent. "The right divine to rule in kings," is only transferred to their majority. The very object of all Constitutions, in free popular Government, is to restrain the majority. Constitutions, therefore, according to their theory, must be most unrighteous inventions, restricting liberty. None ought to exist; but the body politic ought simply to have a political organization, to bring out and enforce the will of the majority. This theory may be harmless in a small community, having identity of interests and pursuits; but over a vast State�still more, over a vast Confederacy, having various and conflicting interests and pursuits, it is a remorseless despotism. In resisting it, as applicable to ourselves, we are vindicating the great cause of free government, more important, perhaps, to the world, than the existence of all the United States. Nor in resisting it, do we intend to depart from the safe instrumentality, the system of government we have established with them, requires. In separating from them, we invade no rights�no interest of theirs. We violate, no obligation or duty to them. As separate, independent States in Convention, we made the Constitution of the United States with them; and as separate independent States, each State acting for itself, we adopted it. South Carolina acting in her sovereign capacity, now thinks proper to secede from the Union. She did not part with her Sovereignty, in adopting the Constitution. The last thing, a State can be presumed to have surrendered, is her Sovereignty. Her Sovereignty, is her life. Nothing but a clear, express grant, can alienate it. Inference is inadmissible. Yet it is not at all surprising, that those who have construed away all the limitations of that Constitution, should also by construction, claim the annihilation of the Sovereignty of the States. Having abolished barriers to their omnipotence, by their .faithless constructions in the operations of the General Government, it is most natural that they should endeavor to do the same towards us, in the States. The truth is, they, having violated the express provisions of the Constitution, it is at an end, as a compact. It is morally obligatory only on those, who choose to accept its perverted terms. South Carolina, deeming the compact not only violated in particular features, but virtually abolished by her Northern confederates, withdraws herself as a party, from its obligations. The right to do so, is denied by her Northern confederates. They desire to establish a sectional despotism, not only omnipotent in Congress, but omnipotent over the States; and as if to manifest the imperious necessity of our secession, they threaten us with the sword, to coerce submission to their rule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Citizens of the slaveholding States of the United States! Circumstances beyond our control, have placed us in the van of the great controversy between the Northern and Southern States. We would have preferred, that other States should have assumed the position we now occupy. Independent ourselves, we disclaim any design or desire, to lead the counsels of the other Southern States. Providence has cast our lot together, by extending over us an identity of pursuits, interests and institutions. South Carolina, desires no destiny, separate from yours. To be one of a great Slaveholding Confederacy, stretching its arms over a territory larger than any power in Europe possesses�with a population, four times greater than that of the whole United States, when they achieved their independence of the British Empire�with productions, which make our existence more important to the world, than that of any other people inhabiting it�with common institutions to defend, and common dangers to encounter�we ask your sympathy and confederation. Whilst constituting a portion of the United States, it has been your statesmanship which has guided it, in its mighty strides to power and expansion. In the field, as in the cabinet, you have led the way to its renown and grandeur. You have loved the Union, in whose service your great statesmen have labored, and your great soldiers have fought and conquered�not for the material benefits it conferred, but with the faith of a generous and devoted chivalry. You have long lingered in hope over the shattered remains of a broken Constitution. Compromise after compromise, formed by your concessions, has been trampled under foot, by your Northern confederates. All fraternity of� feeling between the North and the South is lost, or has been converted into hate; and we, of the South, are at last driven together, by the stern destiny which controls the existence of nations. Your bitter experience, of the faithlessness and rapacity of your Northern confederates, may have been necessary, to evolve those great principles of free government, upon which the liberties of the world depend, and to prepare you for the grand mission of vindicating and re-establishing them. We rejoice, that other nations should be satisfied with their institutions. Contentment, is a great element of happiness, with nations as with individuals. We, are satisfied with ours. If they prefer a system of industry, in which capital and labor are in perpetual conflict�and chronic starvation keeps down the natural increase of population�and a man is worked out in eight years�and the law ordains, that children shall be worked only ten hours a day�and the sabre and bayonet are the instruments of order�be it so. It is their affair, not ours. We prefer, however, our system of industry, by which labor and capital are identified in interest, and capital, therefore, protects labor�by which our population doubles every twenty years�by which starvation is unknown, and abundance crowns the land-by which order is preserved by an unpaid police, and many fertile regions of the world, where the white man cannot labor, are brought into usefulness by the labor of the African, and the whole world is blessed by our productions. All we demand of other peoples is, to be let alone, to work out our own high destinies. United together, and we must be the most independent, as we are among the most important of the nations of the world United together, and we require no other instrument to conquer peace, than our beneficent productions. United together, and we must be a great, free and prosperous people, whose renown must spread throughout the civilized world, and pass down, we trust, to the remotest ages. We ask you to join us, in forming a Confederacy of Slaveholding States.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-3445762711533090289?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/3445762711533090289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/06/separation-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/3445762711533090289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/3445762711533090289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/06/separation-day.html' title='Separation Day'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-1102408909881207946</id><published>2011-06-01T09:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-01T10:28:30.200-07:00</updated><title type='text'>They still not grasp Amendments II, IX and X.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ui8b8U7Wa4E/TeZ2tUHNHqI/AAAAAAAAAC4/yh9DSdvTmFg/s1600/CPofDelaware.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ui8b8U7Wa4E/TeZ2tUHNHqI/AAAAAAAAAC4/yh9DSdvTmFg/s320/CPofDelaware.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613304506429021858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below is an article that was published in today's Delaware State News.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In reading the article I found several problems that should be addressed.&lt;br /&gt;Just because Delaware State Police Captain does not see a problem with the Federal government denying a person from owning firearms. Does not mean that the threat will be there. The State should be providing protection against a Tyrannical Threat of a Federal Injunction to deny a person their right. Whether it is for an hour, day, Month or years. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are measures that can be done for states to have access without the federal government being involved. Yet, this poses a risk for more a larger central government to be in place. It also has a clear evidence that the State politicians are too eager to surrender your rights to a central government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And anyone of the Members in General Assembly who decide to pass any part of HB 95 is violating their oath to defend your rights protected under the State Consitution and US Constituiton. Will Delawareans oppose this measure? And when it is passed how do you reverse the damage that will be in place?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the major flaws include Combat veterans who are at risk of being denied their right protected under Amendment 2 of the US Constitution and Article 1 §6, as well as Article 1 §20. Right to keep and bear arms&lt;strong&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt; Section 20. &lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;A person has the right to keep and bear arms for the defense of self&lt;/em&gt;, family&lt;/em&gt;, home and State, and for hunting and recreational use&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earl Lofland&lt;br /&gt;State Chairman &lt;br /&gt;Constitution Party of Delaware&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uf7SEL33ztU/TeZ2PDb5KEI/AAAAAAAAACw/K-nuTWioKFM/s1600/gun-control.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 295px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uf7SEL33ztU/TeZ2PDb5KEI/AAAAAAAAACw/K-nuTWioKFM/s320/gun-control.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613303986556315714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Senate OKs Gun-control Database bill.&lt;/strong&gt;Authorizes agencies to provide information on mentaly ill individuals&lt;br /&gt;DOVER- One of four gun-control bills introduced  by legistators and Governor Jack Markell in February passed in the Senate Tuesday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   House Bill 48 would authorize  state agencies to provide information on mentally ill individuals to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Delawre is one of 10 states  that have provided  no information on mentally ill individuals to the federal database. The Bill passed with 11 senators voting yes, eight voting no, one not voting and one absent.&lt;br /&gt;Current Delaware law prohibits the state from sharing information with the federal database, said Sen Patricia Blevins, D-Elsemere, the Senaate floor sponsor of the bill. &lt;br /&gt;Several legislators expressed  concerns about the bill.&lt;br /&gt;Sen. David Lawson, R. Marydell., a former gunshop owner, said he agrees  that the information should be provided to the federal database but disagrees with how HB48 attempts to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HB 48 will abolish the states existing firearms transaction program once the new system is established. Sen. Lawson said he feels this program should remain intact.&lt;br /&gt;"I find that our state folks are doing a much better job of keeping guns out of the hands of bad guys. than the feds," he said also felt the bill should not eliminate the state Firearms Transaction Approval Program (FTAP).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If thge bill just delt with the mentally ill issue, then, I'd Support it." he said.&lt;br /&gt;While the state system is effetive Sen Blevins said it doesn't go far enough.&lt;br /&gt;"I agree the state does a wonderful job, but it does it for Delaware and the other 49 states do not have access to the information," she said, "This information needs to go to other states.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Delaware State Police Capt. Jason Sapp said the federal and State processes are repetitive , and if the federal government takes over firearms approval practics there's no need for the state to retain one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main focus is on ensuring that the federal government has all the information," he said of HB 48. "Our process is 100-percent duplicative of the federal one Lawson said he thinks it is neccessary to ensure that the rights of Delawareans are not in jeopardy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If an individual is denied the right to purchas a firearm and appeals that decision at the state level they have a response within a few days. This process is lengthened by a few months or even years at the federal level, Sen Lawson Said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sen. Bushweller, D-Dover, expressed a similar concern to Capt. Sapp.&lt;br /&gt;"A right delayed is a right denied for the time that a righis is delayed, he said, That a Concern for me."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of 432 Transactions in 2010, Capt Sapp said there were 65 denials based on mental health records and and 81 denials that were rescinde. He told members of the Senate Tuesday that he doesn't anticipate this number rising too significantly it the federal system takes over for the state system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I have no reason to believe that by moving to this model, we'll see  a huge upswing in people denied. from purchasing weapons," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sen. Lawson Argued that the bill's sponsors should consider rescinding the original bill that prohibits the state from releasing information to the federal system insteand of creating a new law.&lt;br /&gt;"Keep FTAP in place so our citizens are better served by the state" he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HB 95 passed with one Senate amendment, which correcteed technical errors. and will now head back to the HOuse for final approval with that amendment.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-1102408909881207946?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/1102408909881207946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/06/they-still-not-grasp-amendments-ii-ix.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/1102408909881207946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/1102408909881207946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/06/they-still-not-grasp-amendments-ii-ix.html' title='They still not grasp Amendments II, IX and X.'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ui8b8U7Wa4E/TeZ2tUHNHqI/AAAAAAAAAC4/yh9DSdvTmFg/s72-c/CPofDelaware.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-8194678301779501095</id><published>2011-05-31T07:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-31T20:59:20.215-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A CHALLENGE FOR PALIN AND HER POLITICAL PIMPS</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://static01.mediaite.com/med/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/rolling_thunder.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 202px;" src="http://static01.mediaite.com/med/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/rolling_thunder.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photograph Rolling Thunder spokesperson Ted Shpak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the past weekend news was on Sarah Palin attending the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally in Washington DC. before any negative remarks are made on this blog I will challenge you to answer one vital question; How many times in the past 25 years has Sarah Palin attended ROLLING THUNDER? Also, before anyone makes remarks about why I think she should not be permitted to attend. &lt;br /&gt;Answer another question, Why now for her desire to mingle with attendees of a somber gathering were over on million bikers attend the memorial for POW/MIA's . &lt;br /&gt;The very appearance of her actions are sacreligious to the purpose of Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The spokesperson Ted Shpak made &lt;a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pro-veteran-spokesman-is-unhappy-that-sarah-palin-is-stealing-his-rolling-thunder/comment-page-1/#comments"&gt;valid point&lt;/a&gt; that should be recognized ... RTMCR is a non profit organization. It is open for anyone to attend. Yet whenever political public figures come to the event and they come riding on the back of someone elses motorcycle that is nothing more than what the Motorcycle Community label as a WANNABE!.  She come as a POSER. Looking like a biker but not really a biker at all. wearing black jeans and designer rock star glasses. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another question to be asked: If she was really interested in the the purpose of event, other than letting her pimps use it for a photo op. Why didn't she go to a local motorcycle dealership, rent a motorcycle, and drive there herself?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FGIwki9A0uE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have attended many Veteran memorial services in my lifetime. Even Funerals of the fallen. Ethics, Honor and Integrity demand these events should not be used to exploit those who served for a personal gain. Yet this weekend that is exactly what the pimps of Sarah Palin done by setting up her attendance to the Rally and then broadcast it on the media in the way it was done- taking away from the real purpose of the Memorial Service. It is not about her! Nor whether or not she attended she has all right to attend. It is about how she was marketed at the event. Which is no better, (actually worse) than taking little children, and exploiting them sexually for entertainment and finanical gains. Whether you agree with her or not, Sarah Palin was pimped out to the public this weekend and many of those in the motorcycle community know this, and know why. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have never been very good at sugar coating exploitation and adultry. And that is  what Sarah Palin and her Pimps done when they arrainged for her to attended the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally.  If she wanted to support the organization that has put on this memorial since 1987. She should put her money where her face was this weekend! Donate her money to the Fund the late Jack Wheeler founded. Which gave Vietnam Veterans the Wall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John "Jack" Parsons Wheeler III was a chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tTNUH3ID26c/TeW4GbR8_lI/AAAAAAAAACY/SNlMt8aICIw/s1600/wheeler_file.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tTNUH3ID26c/TeW4GbR8_lI/AAAAAAAAACY/SNlMt8aICIw/s320/wheeler_file.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613094931128974930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HqBW9KUxctc/TeW4-ZfoCgI/AAAAAAAAACg/7vGOSxaRGOM/s1600/Rollingthunder.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HqBW9KUxctc/TeW4-ZfoCgI/AAAAAAAAACg/7vGOSxaRGOM/s320/Rollingthunder.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613095892722125314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-8194678301779501095?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/8194678301779501095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-for-palin-and-her-political.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/8194678301779501095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/8194678301779501095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-for-palin-and-her-political.html' title='A CHALLENGE FOR PALIN AND HER POLITICAL PIMPS'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/FGIwki9A0uE/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-3050759714368130038</id><published>2011-05-09T16:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-09T18:24:35.662-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Luigi's Fears</title><content type='html'>For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.&lt;br /&gt;- Mark 13:16&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many who have described the passages discussing when the antichrist will come and the passages and describing  he how that person is revealed inside the Book of Revelations and when that time will come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For ages people in the world have refused to study the scriptures and trusted others to teach them what the Holy Spirit teaches all and yet they have been blindly led to beleive they are spiritually sound in their beliefs while often times making remarks on who is the antichrist will be in the end times. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will not go into a lengthy discussion to prove my case. It is up to you to decide whether or not you will choose to research the scriptures yourself and seek the Guidance of the Holy Spirit- accepting facts, or continue to believe in pagan fairy tales and false teachings that have come straight out of the mouths of devils, who for ages have decieved many who follow those in power who claim they and their laws are above God and Christ Jesus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have ever wondered who the antichrist will be that is spoken of in the Revelations of John in the New Testiment. You have been decieved by those who have taught you a false doctrine and are in jeapardy of eternal damnation. &lt;br /&gt;Read the book of Revelations, nowhere does the book mention the antiCcrist. It mentions Kings of the earth, the beast the false prophet and the mother of whores or adultress. Yet to find the the antichrist you must look elsewhere in the bible. It has been in the world even during the days of John the apostle. The antichrist is a spirit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Revelations 13 you read of a beast that has ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. But you will not find it mention the antichrist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The recent news on Obama releasing what he attests as his long form birth certificate shows that his father a Citizen of Kenya, and a British subject disqualified him to seek the office of president and for 2 years now, one of those heads has suffered a deadly wound. In two more years the fullness of what is described in Revelation 13:3 will occur: &lt;br /&gt;(3) And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what is it that occured? Simply put the head of this government (one of the 7 heads) sustained a deadly wound when power was usurped by a person who is not legally permitted to be in charge of the country.&lt;br /&gt;This also has occured with the papacy of the Catholic Church. And any churches which follow any of the false doctrines that were brought about through the False Prophet the spirit of antichrist took up residence within the Vatican which continued to gain domination on a global scale through deceiving others to participate in practicing false doctrine that is mixed with pagan worship and Gods very commands. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the papacy of the Roman empire took the same dietys they used in their pagan worship, only changing their names to the saints.  Then telling followers that they were to comply with rituals that were not based upon the worship of Christ Jesus. But giving a mortal man acknowledgement tht is is equal to Christ, the spirit of antichrist prevailed over taking part in the deceptions that Paul prophesied would occur in 2 Thesalonians 2:3,4,6-9, 11,12&lt;br /&gt;3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-3050759714368130038?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/3050759714368130038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/05/luigis-fear.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/3050759714368130038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/3050759714368130038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/05/luigis-fear.html' title='Luigi&apos;s Fears'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-7430648331590892938</id><published>2011-05-05T17:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-05T17:41:50.090-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/228164_10150564940900174_821750173_18430622_7760285_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 720px; height: 540px;" src="http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/228164_10150564940900174_821750173_18430622_7760285_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Constitution Party National Committee Urges&lt;br /&gt;Virgil Goode To Seek Its Presidential Nomination!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Constitution Party National Committee Urges&lt;br /&gt;Virgil Goode To Seek Its Presidential Nomination!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Virgil Goode&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The National Committee of the Constitution Party, meeting in Harrisburg, PA, has, by unanimous resolution, adopted on April 30, 2011, put itself on record urging former Virginia Congressman, Virgil Goode, to seek the Presidential nomination of the Constitution Party!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Immediately upon conclusion of Virgil Goode's speech; one in which he extolled the virtues of  protecting America's national sovereignty, condemned foreign aid and demanded the the United States start taking care of America's problem first instead of meddling in the affairs of the rest of the world, providing a rousing climax to the 2011 Spring National Committee of the Constitution Party;  a motion from the floor was made, urging Goode to seek the Constitution Party's Presidential nomination.  Th motion was quickly seconded and was passed unanimously by the party's national committee. &lt;br /&gt;(The full text will be available in a later edition)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This resolution should not be confused with a nomination (which can only be made by the national convention--the highest authority of the national party) nor even an outright endorsement, however it can certainly be viewed as a statement of deep appreciation for Virgil Goode's activities in the Constitution Party over the past two years and may equally be viewed as a clear statement that the National Committee views Virgil Goode as an excellent choice to be the Constitution Party nominee for President of the United States and for that reason strongly encourages him to seek its nomination.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Goode has made it clear to members in private and public comments at the meeting and prior thereto that he has a strong interest in seeking the party's nomination, though he has made no public announcement to that effect as of yet. Many Constitution Party leaders are hopeful that Goode has a strong campaign well underway by the time of the Constitution Party National Convention in mid-April of 2012, and it was hoped that this resolution would encourage him to take the steps necessary to become a full fledged candidate.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;By every measure...attendence...energy and enthusiasm....reception for the speakers....and simply in terms of overall accomplishment...the Spring 2011 Constitution Party National Committee Meeting and Conference in Harrisburg was considered a major triumph!  Many said it was the best they ever attended, though travel for many of the members coming from the South and Midwest got off to a very rocky start due to storms across much those parts of the country.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Once everyone was finally assembled--and even before some arrived-- the meeting hit a positive stride on Friday morning with dramatic presentations by Ohio's Robert Owens, and Pennyslvania's Peg Luksik on Friday morning followed by a tour of the beautiful Pennsylvania State Capitol Building.  On Friday afternoon John McManuns, president of the John Birch Society, provided a sobering picture of the history of the United Nations and Chelene Nightingale put the magic of her dynamic personality on display during a powerfully motivational address where she reviewed her 2010 campaign for Governor in California and exhorted everyone to continue to make the greatest possible effort to build the Constitution Party.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The Friday Night banquet featured a lively auction conducted by Midwestern StatesCo-Chairmen, Randy Stufflebeam (IL) and Scott Bartlett (SD) which raised money for the national committee's operational fund.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The featured speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack received a thunderous standing ovation after he completed his address on the role of the County Sheriff in saving our Republic.  Mack endorsed numerous Constitution Party candidates in 2010,   It is certainly hoped that he will not be a stranger at Constitution Party  events in the future.  Many at the meeting voiced a hope that he would play a high profile role for the Constitution Party in the upcoming 2012 election. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Also highlighting the banquet were two awards presented to three term national CP chairman, Jim Clymer--the America First Award presented on behalf the the Constitution Party's National Veterans Coalition and the Excellence in Leadership Award presented on behalf of the Lancaster (PA) County Committee of the Constitution Party.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The energy remained at a high level on Saturday the 3oth.  The morning was kicked-off with an informative and entertaining portrait of Pennsylvania provided by Jim Panyard, former President of the Pennsylvania Manufacturing Association, followed by an intriguing and warmly received review of the current political situation, including the work of the so-called Human Rights Tribunals, provided by Victor Chiasson a political conservative from Ottawa Canada with very close ties to the Constitution Party.  Without a doubt, Dr.Taylor Haynes of Wyoming, who secured about 8% of the vote as a write-in candidate for Governor in 2010 was one of the real crowd favorites.  A newcomer to the Constitution Party, Dr. Haynes is a man of enormous personal accomplishment--any one of the items on his lengthy resume' would probably thrill most us--yet great humility.  His discussion of the 2010 campaign, which he centered on the Constitution and the Ten Commandments, inspired everyone in attendance.  Darrell Castle provided an information packed overview of the situation in the Middle East raising very justifiable questions concerning the role that has been played by the United States over the years in the part of the world.  His presentation brought specific praise from the last speaker, former Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode who, as noted above said that it is time that America start taking care of its own serious problems rather than trying to cure the rest of worlds ails.  The general consensus was that it was Goode's finest and most powerful address since he first started attending Constitution Party national meetings in 2009  and was a portent of great things to come.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The following is gallery (&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150168436552887&amp;set=oa.217835941562135&amp;type=1&amp;theater#!/media/set/?set=oa.217835941562135"&gt;of admittedly tiny photos&lt;/a&gt;) collected from the Constitution Party's official Facebook page.  These and many more are available on that Facebook page and in larger dimensions, too.  It looks like you may have to guess which names go where.  (We tried, but the sub-titles seem to get scrambled on transmission)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;            ------------------------------------------------------------              &lt;br /&gt;                     &lt;br /&gt;Indiana Constitution Party State Organization Meeting&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Saturday, May 14 · 12:00pm - 4:00pm&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Ryan's Steakhouse&lt;br /&gt;655 N. Shadeland Ave.&lt;br /&gt;Indianapolis, IN&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Please plan to arrive by 12:00pm noon Eastern Standard Time to enjoy lunch with others from our state party (cost of lunch is at your expense). Pay for your meal and then check-in at the check-in table in the back room where we are meeting. Then you are free to get your lunch and fellowship with others from our party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Official meeting to begin shortly after 1:00pm. Schedule includes election of officers, approval of by-laws, discussion of state party platform, candidacy/ballot access laws, publicity, fundraising and more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only members who have filled out their membership applications and have paid their membership dues will be eligible to vote. Must be present to vote. Membership applications will be posted on our website or e-mailed to those on our e-mail list two weeks before the meeting. Guests are allowed to attend and observe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More details coming soon so stay tuned. Please put this important meeting on your calendar now! If you would like to carpool with others from your area, please e-mail us at info@cpindiana.org&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If you have friends or relatives in Indiana please encourage them to support this event with their attendance.  Our new Indiana contact, Audrey Queckboerner, has done a magnificent job in bringing the Constitution Party out of the doldrums and the shadows in Indiana and into the light of energetic political activity.  She is greatly deserving of everyone's support!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;2011 Georgia Constitution Party &lt;br /&gt;State Convention This Saturday! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Georgia Constitution Party &lt;br /&gt;State Chairman, Ricardo Davis&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Atlanta - Radio talk show host and religious liberty activist Dr. Jody Hice stated, "The problem of lawlessness, injustice, and graft in our government is rooted in a cultural rejection of God and His moral law. The belief in God calls each of us to a higher authority than ourselves. When our elected officials reject this truth then they are only restrained by negative press that would impact their re-election campaign." Dr. Hice will be one of the leaders addressing the 2011 Constitution Party of Georgia State Convention in Austell on May 7th.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;State Chairman Ricardo Davis, who represented the state Georgia at the recent 2011 National Committee Meeting in Harrisburg, PA,  noted, "Morality and ethics rooted in the message and Gospel of Jesus Christ was at the foundation of America's system of law and government. It reminds us that elected officials are but stewards of unalienable rights and will stand accountable to Him. Dr. Hice understands that for our state and local government to remove itself from accountability to God is to say they can 'do what is right in their own eyes.' Because Dr. Hice has been a public champion in defense of our liberties we have asked him speak at our convention on why the Gospel must be the foundation of our efforts to restore the American Republic."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Dr. Hice has been at the forefront of some of the cultural battles here in Georgia. In the area of religious liberty he was one of the leading spokesmen in Barrow County's fight with the ACLU over the right to post the Ten Commandments at the courthouse. During that time he founded Ten Commandments Georgia to inform citizens in Georgia of the moral issues facing Georgians and illustrate the legal, political, and spiritual consequences of inaction. He also hosts a daily radio program entitled "The Jody Hice Show," an outreach of Let Freedom Ring Ministries, a program dedicated to informing listeners of the moral, Constitutional and religious liberty issues facing our nation.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Davis continued, "The Constitution Party of Georgia is the only political party that in its platform 'gratefully acknowledges the blessing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as Creator, Preserver and Ruler of the Universe and of these United States.' Some political parties want the unalienable rights that serve as the foundation of our Constitution but suppress the fact memorialized in the Declaration of Independence that these rights are given to us by our Creator God to whom our Founders were accountable. Others give lip service to such an acknowledgement but by their actions they reject the Creator's moral law and trample on our rights."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Other speakers include Michael Griffin, Legislative Director of Georgia Right to Life, and Jeff Rayno, former Chatham County Commissioner and Coordinator of the Coastal Empire Constitution Party. The State Convention will be held May 7th at Calvary Baptist Church, 4780 Flint Hill Road in Austell. The cost is $10/person or $30/family. The convention starts at 9 a.m. and ends 4:30 p.m. For more information call 404-671-8502 or visit www.gaconstitutionparty.org&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contact Information: &lt;br /&gt;Candy Wallace  &lt;br /&gt;404-248-7537&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;And, last but definitely NOT LEAST.....&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;HELP BILL ATKINSON WIN IN ALABAMA!!  GIVE HIM YOUR CALLS, YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND YOUR PRAYERS!!!  Contact Josh Cassity--Alabama CP Chairman to find out how you can help NOW...&lt;br /&gt;jcassity@cpalabama.org&lt;br /&gt;Phone: 334-341-7165&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;EVERYONE!! PLEASE!! TODAY!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-7430648331590892938?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/7430648331590892938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/05/constitution-party-national-committee.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7430648331590892938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7430648331590892938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/05/constitution-party-national-committee.html' title=''/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-6536841080043823227</id><published>2011-05-04T16:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-04T16:42:34.685-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It is what it is; But it proves our point even more.</title><content type='html'>There is more evidence the suggests what occured in Pakistan was a false flag operation,  than an actual S.E.A.D. operation to find Usama Bin Ladin. (This is the correct spelling in accordance to FBI and Intel records)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yea, "Conspiracy Theory"....... I know, Guess what?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is information that is based on several top advisors and world leaders, as well as reports published throughout the years stating Bin Ladin died long before 2011&lt;br /&gt;Most recently a statement from  Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations, (Nixon, Ford and Carter), while also working under Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of Defense. Dr Pieczenik also served in the US Navy holding the rank of Captain. Dr. Pieczenik also achieved two prestigious Harry C. Solomon Awards at the Harvard Medical School as he simultaneously completed a PhD at MIT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Just one added note for all you Tom Clancy Fans:The character of Jack Ryan, who appears in of  the Tom Clancy novels and the Charachter played by Harrison Ford in the popular 1992 movie Patriot Games; that was also based on Dr. Steve Pieczenik). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Pieczenik stated Osama Bin Laden died in 2001. He is also prepared to testify in front of a grand jury how a top general told him directly that 9/11 was a false flag inside job. &lt;br /&gt;Don't expect the government to challenge him though. if anything, they will just do as they have done in the past to paid staff members who actually go rouge and can't be &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/08/earlyshow/saturday/main7225804.shtml" target="_blank"&gt;recalled&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pieczenik said that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001, “Not because special forces had killed him, but because as a physician I had known that the CIA physicians had treated him and it was on the intelligence roster that he had marfan syndrome,”  The US government knew Bin Laden was dead before they invaded Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was going to post some medical reports that are public record on Usama earlier. But thought, what's the use? People are going to believe what they want. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, I can't let Bush or Obama be awarded any credit for something NEITHER RIGHTFULLY DESERVE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfan_syndrome" target="_blank"&gt;Marfan syndrome&lt;/a&gt; is a degenerative genetic disease for which there is no permanent cure. The illness severely shortens the life span of the sufferer. This is only one of many chronic medical problems Osama has suffered with.  Even during his tenure as a paid operative for the CIA under the Carter years. when We were attempting to take over Afghanistan, (wait! you told it was to liberate Afghanistan). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what actually occured in the assault? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Someone was obviously murderd, in Pakistan, according to the reports where the man was unarmed; in cold blood as well&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Who? We can presume whoever it was matched the discription of Ladin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6'-4" about 190 lbs Dark black-gray hair olive colored skin, Walks with a gait, due to injuries he sustained in an auto accident where his Chrysler went into a cul de sac  when he was about 18 old. inter alia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was it a Pakistan Citizen? We won't know the body was dumped off the side of a ship withouth any other independent proof other than the US Governments saying it was Osama. (Who knows? Maybe the guys name was Osama, and not Usama we won't know that now the evidence is somewhere in the belly of a fish or on the bottom of the ocean.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; It may be just some ordinary old man, a grandfather? a peson sitting in their upper room just relaxing when Double BOOM BOOM . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't expect people to understand all this unless they have even a remote understanding of what occurs in the human body during this type of mission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This administration should be held accountable for any actions that were done in violaton of International laws. Just as Bush should have been &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;War Crimes! for falsifying reports that sent US Military into Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not the fault of the Seal Team for this either. The Blame goes right to the top! just as it should have been done with Bush&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put them all in a bucket shake um up and you won't see any difference in the two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Team VI followed orders as they were to believe came from someone other than an usurper of the positon Commander in Chief. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(evidence based upon SR 511 and His recent actions just days prior releasing a document showing his father was not a US Citizen). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Why was the body dumped off the side of a ship? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It shold have been handed over to a Mosque. Given the same Rights as was given to Saddam Hussein. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And for those who do not know; Osama was never officially charged by the FBI for the Sept 11, attacks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is too many conflicting reports on what happened during the operation. that the average ordinary person putting themselves in the investigation seat: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if you are under investigation for a criminal activity by the police and give conflicting reports what happens?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-6536841080043823227?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/6536841080043823227/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/05/it-is-what-it-is-but-it-proves-our.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/6536841080043823227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/6536841080043823227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/05/it-is-what-it-is-but-it-proves-our.html' title='It is what it is; But it proves our point even more.'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-6649840803503134006</id><published>2011-05-03T14:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T15:56:59.570-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The body with a mortal wound</title><content type='html'>Over the past two days what I will define as the Main Green Moos has been reporting more on the topic of Osama Bin Laden . When I describe the odds of Osama Bin Laden living 14 years on a dialysis machine It seems people attempt to catagorize the evidence as a "Conspiracy Theory".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To define this as a "Conspriacy Theory" is actually a moot issue. The simple fact remains the conpiracy to destroy the United States from within has been proven and the Constitution Republic of the 50 states of these United States was completely destroyed on Jan 20, 2008. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the Moot topic of Bin Laden is still just a well thought out devise to cause diversion, shifting  attention from Americans away from the real problem the people in the 50 states are now faced with. promoting deniablity as a plausible option. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A body with a mortal wound to its head that will be revived in 2012.  (Where is that spoken of again? Revelations?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Americans have witnessed a deadly problem that has been ongoing since 2008, much worse than the 14 plus trillion dollar deficit that our country owes. Much more dangerous than the broken promise of cutting spending and the size of goverment. &lt;br /&gt;More dangerous even, than the Patriot Act and TSA; The Federal Reserve giving 5 or more billion dollars to LIbya; or China deciding to stop purchasing T Notes and OPEC's decison to cut back oil production All this combined is but a small spec on the chart that defins a "Conspracy" or better labled as the Destruction of the United States from within. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just days prior to the news of Navy Seal Team 6 being involved in a firefight in Paakistan crossing over the border of a soveriegn country to inaugerate an act of war upon a country with nuclear weapons of Mass Destruction. Something was proven. beyond a shadow of doubt!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The US was overtaken in Jan. 2008 by a foreign entity&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While you sit ranting and chanting about the elite team who has been trained to preserve the Constitution attacked some crippled old man who was less likely to walk anywhere let along be alive! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the Psyop teams escalated himto a so called Gigantic King Pin of terror, who was never officially charged with having any involvment with what occured on Sept 11, 2001. Who by all rights when you read his medical history, has been dead for over 10 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't like Bush, Any more than I liked Obama for President, but Osama died during his administrations tenure and not Obama. Bin Laden either died in the attacks at Tora Bora, or died from kidney failure, Lung Cancer and or Congenative Heart Congestion based upon the well publicised medical records of OBL's Past dating back to when The US was an officially paid operative of the US Government along with his militia known as the "Afghan Freedom Figthers" who led a fight and assisted in conjunction with the US Government to set  up the Taliban in Afghanistan in the mid 1980's in the first place!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the recent document Mr Obama Jr relesed, Mr Barrak H. Obama Sr. was born in and was a citizen of Kenya (UK) making BH Obama Jr (AKA Barry Soetoro) a Dual Citizen.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To further add more conclusive evidence to this issue, When Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain, III were running for President, in accordance to the very Senate Resolution  Mr. Obama and every US Senator voted in the affirmative on (SR 511) It states, to be eligible for the office of POTUS a person must be:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 Born in the United States or one of its territories that has no allegience to another country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Born of Two US Citizens (NOT ONE! BUT TWO)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore Mr. Obama when he stated that this recent document was his LONG FORM Birth Certificate. and it was time to stop the silliness because we have more important things to address.  We now have a very important problem that Maybe, since everyone is so intelligent to think those they called "Birthers" were nothing more than a bunch of Conspiracy theorists.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets hear from the peanut squad; how they plan to figure out what to do to fix this Major Screw UP that Most Americans can share the blame for causing and not fixing until it is now most likely too late! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Obama just gave the conclusive evidence to the entire world, proving he is at very least a Dual Citizen. And If the records related to his adoption with Lolo Soetoro were brought out in public. Obama AKA Soetoro may actually be in the US Illegally, and illegally seated in the WH. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not me saying this, this is what has been reported by the Associated Press and other news agencies, only confirming what "Birthers" have investigating and demanding answers on. &lt;br /&gt;That in fact his father  B.H. Obama Sr was attending Harvard while he was a Citizen of Kenya and a subject of the British Crown. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Hey! Whats the big deal right? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man that your tax dollars under Carter Reagan Bush were funding to operate and train the M'jahadeen later to became "The Toilet" (arabic for al Quaeda). And to put in power the Taliban is more important than something like the US Constitution&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-6649840803503134006?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/6649840803503134006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/05/body-with-mortal-wound.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/6649840803503134006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/6649840803503134006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/05/body-with-mortal-wound.html' title='The body with a mortal wound'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-5747305578477123542</id><published>2011-04-26T17:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T18:06:26.832-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Constitution Role of County Sheriff</title><content type='html'>In response to the deceptive propaganda currently circulating around Sussex County [Delaware] regarding the role of the Sheriff, I offer the following points:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The term, Conservator of the Peace, as originally intended in the Delaware Constitution, Article XV, section 1, means that the Sheriff is a Peace Officer vested with broad law enforcement powers (inherent in the public trust of the office) that historically preceded police departments and other executive-branch law enforcement agencies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The concept of an elected chief law-enforcement officer, responsible to the People (instead of the executive) of the County in which he resides is a critical constitutional check and balance to prevent governmental abuse of power in a “free society”. Accordingly, the Delaware Code statutory limitation against admitting Sheriffs and Regular Sheriffs Deputies to the Delaware State Police Academy is irrelevant in the definition of a “law enforcement officer”, as any given statute, ordinance or policy is legally subordinate to state and federal constitutions. Furthermore, 11 Del C, section 8401(5) as embedded, does not explicitly define a law enforcement officer per se. It only specifies categories of candidates for eligible for admission to the academy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same County Council that arbitrarily limits Free Speech (public participation policy),turns a blind eye toward illegal immigration, approves zoning of a low-income housing development over a known toxic waste dump (Jackson’s Pit) in utter disregard of public health and safety; and who penny-pinches our duly-elected Sheriff, Jeff Christopher over proper uniforms and side arms (risking the lives of our lives of our deputies) is not in a strong moral, legal or intellectual position to supercede the Delaware Constitution in any way, shape or form. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the citizens of Sussex County in these troubled social and economic times (largely brought about by politicians and special interests afraid of independently-elected law enforcement officers) ask yourself:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a real emergency, whom would you rather call … your County Councilman or the Sheriff???    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wolfgang von Baumgart,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;State Chairman,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Independent Party of Delaware&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Millsboro DE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ipodosc@yahoo.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(302) 945-2646&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-5747305578477123542?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/5747305578477123542/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/constitution-role-of-county-sheriff.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/5747305578477123542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/5747305578477123542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/constitution-role-of-county-sheriff.html' title='Constitution Role of County Sheriff'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-2350551062771287392</id><published>2011-04-26T09:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T11:05:34.024-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Choose your poison well in twenty - Twelve</title><content type='html'>Last election cycle, I was telling everyone I had a chance to speak with; that voting for the same two parties would be an economic disaster to the country maybe the final nail in the coffin for America. Yet many people went and voted for the same two factions who have been sitting in control. Just as in 2008 the only two choices people were being told they had was Obama or McCain. Nevermid the other candidates who had a very sound platform, not bought and paid for by bankers lobbyists, Nuclear Power Lobbyists. Planned Parenthood, ACORN, the Military Industrial Complex and others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During one of the debates I was lincluded at, I addressed problems and gave viable solutions on correcting the dangers we face. The country being in debt- This was a much bigger threat to our national security than al quaeda.  My remarks were not taken well by some who stated my commnets were very "Un-American... People want to hear how strong our country is, and how we are a world power." Not that we are about to be destroyed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What occured in 2010 though voters were told to believe a lie. A vote for an alternate party candidate was a vote for the other side, Actually they were correct in a way. But not for the Democrat or Republican side, (Some know that choosing Democrat or Republican is not tow different sides.).  The accusation that we are a lost vote is a remark resembling the stereotypes motorcyclists receieved from the political hogs in the 60s and 70s.. "They're a bunch of rouges- vagabonds, They wear Purple fuzzy seat covers on there motorcycles.. and don't take baths. They are a bunch of 'unamerican' commies, and many other remarks. What is even more remarkably stupid in the lies that people believed, many of those 'commie motorcyclists'? were Veterans who served in the US Military in Korea, WWII and Vietnam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this what we have become?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A run the muck beligerant raving old madmen? Who are equally as uncivilized as those who the established Factions label as being evil?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/mccain-says-kill-gaddafi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 550px; height: 343px;" src="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/mccain-says-kill-gaddafi.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, we shouldn't expect any less from a country has leaders who decide it is a good law that kills hundreds of thousands of innocent babies a year.  Who for decades of reducing the value of human life to the point where baby killing is a legal and then paid-for-with-your-tax-dollars outpatient procedure, American leaders have no qualms about  assassinating those they disagree with. They even put US citizens who disagree with them in Prison. and pass insane laws like the Patriot Act and then haggle about other bills like  THE ENEMY BELLIGERENT INTERROGATION, DETENTION, AND PROSECUTION ACT. &lt;br /&gt;It should more rightfully be titled  THE ANTI AMERICAN CONSTITUION INFRINGMENT DEGRADATIOON AND PERSECUTION ACT .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It is clear John McCain doesn't like Muammar Gaddafi and he says "kill him!". But that is only because the Banks can't control Colonel Gaddafi. and McCain, like Obama and most of the thers are bought and paid for by the Banking cartel.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Senior western leaders called for NATO to adopt an assassination policy against Col Muammar Gaddafi to salvage the bombing campaign in Libya from a descent into stalemate. The calls came as Col Gaddafi was reported to have strengthened his grip on power by repatriating billions of dollars in overseas assets that should have been frozen by UN sanctions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Sunday, there was growing pressure on Coalition forces to directly target Col Gaddafi with military strikes.&lt;br /&gt;Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican member of the Senate Armed Services committee, said that the quickest way to end the emerging stalemate was to “cut the head of the snake off”. He said: “The people around Gaddafi need to wake up every day wondering, ‘Will this be my last?’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Senator John McCain, who visited Libya at the weekend, also said that the Libyan dictator should be targeted but argued that it was more important to increase American firepower over Libya. He said: “It’s pretty obvious to me that the US has got to play a greater role on the air power side. Our Nato allies neither have the assets, nor frankly the will – there’s only six countries of the 28 in Nato that are actively engaged in this situation.” source – &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8471337/Libya-western-leaders-call-for-Nato-to-target-Gaddafi.html"&gt;Telegraph UK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When does the madness end? Choose your poison carefully !! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dreamstime.com/poison-bottles-with-poison-symbol-thumb15657944.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="http://www.dreamstime.com/poison-bottles-with-poison-symbol-thumb15657944.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the IMF forecast, whoever is elected U.S. president next year will be the last to preside over the world’s largest economy. &lt;br /&gt;We have lived in a world dominated by the U.S. since 1890, when America overtook Great Britain as the world’s leading economic power. There isn't anyone who remembers anything else.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And both those countries live under very similar rules of constitutional government, respect for civil liberties and the rights of property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; China has none of those. The Age of China will feel very different. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  decline of America, is the biggest story of our time. You can see its implications in the factories no longer operating in the Midwest, soaring costs of oil, food and other commodities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Ralph Gomory, research professor at NYU’s Stern business school stated, "There are two systems in collision,” "What we have done is traded jobs for profit. The jobs have moved to China. The capability erodes in the U.S. and grows in China. That’s very destructive. That is a big reason why the U.S. is becoming more and more polarized between a small, very rich class and an eroding middle class. The people who get the profits are very different from the people who lost the wages.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, the last time the world’s dominant leader lost its ability to run things singlehandedly was early in the past century. That’s when the U.S. and Germany surpassed Great Britain. That resulted in World War I, and didn’t turn out well either. After WWI we ended up going on into the Great Derpssion, and that marched  into another World War that developed a nuclear monster that has continued to march in lock step towards the prophetic end game. Far worse than any other time in the history of man.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-2350551062771287392?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/2350551062771287392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/choose-your-poison-well-in-twenty.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/2350551062771287392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/2350551062771287392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/choose-your-poison-well-in-twenty.html' title='Choose your poison well in twenty - Twelve'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-8268620748424456068</id><published>2011-04-20T19:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-20T19:05:37.679-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A RESOLUTION</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;RESOLUTION NO.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A RESOLUTION TO SHOW ELIGIBITY OF A CANDIDATE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt;, James Madison (1751-1836) who attended the college of New Jersy which would become Princeton, graduating in two years. He was studied in subjects ranging from Latin to geography to philosophy; Whom called for the Constitutional Convention of 1786, Whom wrote most of the US Constitution at the Constitution Convention in 1787; Whom once the Convention ended, along with John Jay and Alexander Hamilton wrote the Federalist Papers. Whom became the 4th President of the United States and is attributed  to stating the following Two (2) quotes, (1) “Every word of the Constitution decides a question between power and liberty.” (2) “Do not separate text from the historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt;, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), his scientific achievements helped him earn respect at home and abroad. While in England, he also received honorary degrees from St. Andrews and Oxford. Whom attend the Second Continental Congress that met from 1775-1776 where he helped draft and signed the Declaration of Independence. Whom attended the Constitution Convention of 1787 and signed the Constitution, so ratifying the same the seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty. Whom in a letter dated December 9th, 1775 (12 years prior to the ratification of the Constitution) wrote the following : “I am much obligated by thinking present you have made us of your edition of Vattel. It came to us in good season, when the circumstances of a rising state make it necessary frequently to consult the law of nations. Accordingly that copy, which I kept, (after depositing one in our own public library here, and sending the other to the College of Massachusetts Bay, as you directed,) has been continually in the hands of the members of our Congress, now sitting, who are much pleased with your notes and preface, and have entertained a high and just esteem for their author. Your manuscript “Indee Sur le Gouvernement et la Royaute” is also well relished, and may, in time, have its effect. I thank you, likewise, for the other smaller pieces, which accompanied Vattel. “Le court Expose de ce qui s`est passe entre la Cour Britannique et les Colonies” bc. Being a very concise and dear statement  of facts, will be reprinted here for the use of our new friends in Canada. The translations of the proceedings of our Congress are very acceptable. I send you herewith what of them has been farther pubished here, together with a few newspapers, containing accounts of some of the successes Providence has favored us with. We are threatened from England with a very powerful force, to come next year against us.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt;, John Jay (1745-1829) whom served as Chief Justice of the SCOTUS from 1789-1795, (contributor to Federalist Papers) in a letter dated 25 July, 1787, wrote the following to George Washington, “Dear Sir, Permit me to hint whether it would not be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of foreigners into the administration of our national government; and to delcare expressly that the command and chief of the American Army shall not be given to, nor devolve on any but a natural born citizen.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt;, Fifty-five (55) days after the above cited letter from John Jay to Washington dated July 25th 1787, the Constitution for the United States was ratified containing Article I § 8 CL. 10, “To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations”, Also Contained therein, occurs Article II § 1 CL 5, “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President, neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt;, Vattel’s the “LAW OF NAITONS”, which Franklin stated in 1775 “has been in the hands of the members of Congress now sitting,” and also stating, “when the circumstances of a rising stat make it necessary frequently t consult the law of nations”, contains Book I, Ch. 8@ 212 and natives, “The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or NATURAL BORN CITIZENS, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of citizens those children naturally follow the conditions of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation, and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the father is therefore that of the children, and THESE BECOME TRUE CITIZENS merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their own coming of to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe the society in which they were born. I say that,  IN ORDER TO BE OF THE COUNRY, IT IS NECESSARY THAT A PERSON BE BORN OF A FATHER WHO IS A CITIZEN, FOR IF HE IS BORN THERE OF A FOREIGNER, IT WILL BE ONLY THE PLACE OF HIS BIRTH AND NOT HIS COUNTRY.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt;, there appears no other “strong check against the admission of a foriegner’ as to the Commander in Chief of the Army within the Constitution beynd the Article II § I CL 5 requirements, it is surely the original intent that only that specific type of citizen the “natural born citizen” described  by Vattel and well understood by the Framers of the Constitution, as is demonstrated within this resolution by citation of historical record, is to lawfully hold the position.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt;, John Binham 1815-1900) served as US Representative from Ohio from 1855- 1863 and again from 1865-1873 was appointed judge-advocate. Mr. Bingham on 9 March, 1866, speaking on the House floor stated’ “[I} find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United State of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen…”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt;, John Marshall (1755- 1835) whm attended the ratification convention in Virginia and spoke on the new constitution, was appointed secretary of state by Adams in 1801, became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court until 1835, whom in 1814, serving the SCOTUS in that year along with Bushrod Washington (1762-1829) William Johnson (1771-1826) Gabriel Duvall (1752- 1844) and Joseph Story (1779-1845), descided &lt;em&gt;The Venus, 12 USC 9 Cranch 253 253 (1814&lt;/em&gt;). Nearly all these men either participated in the American Revolution, or there fathers did. These men being men who were intimately associated with the American revolution Bushrod Washington was George Washington’s nephew and heir. William Johnson’s father, mother and elder brother were revolutionaries, who served as statesman, rebel, or nurse/ assistance to the line of troops, respectfully. Henry Brockholst Livingston, during the Revolutionary War, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the New York Line and an aide-de-camp to General Benedict Arnold, before the latter’s defection to the British. Thomas Todd served 6 months in the Army against the British and participated in 5 Constitutional Conventions from 1784-1792. Joseph Story’s father took part  in the original Boston Tea Party. Being witnesses and heirs of the Revolution, they understood what the Framers of the Constitution had intended.&lt;br /&gt; In the Venus Case, Justice Livingston, who wrote the unanimous decision, quoted the entire § 212 paragraphs from the French edition, using his own English, on p 12 of the ruling: “Vattel, who though not very full to this point, is more explicit and more satisfactory on it than any other whose work has fallen into my hands says; “The citizens are the members  of the civil society, bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. Society not being than any other whose work has fallen into my hands says&lt;br /&gt;The citizens are the members  of the civil society; bound t this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. Society not being able to subject and to perpetuate itself but by  the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.”&lt;br /&gt; The inhabitants, as distinguished from citizens are strangers who are permitted to settle and stay in the country. Bound by their residence to the society, they are subject to the laws of the state while they reside there, and they are obligated to defend it because of its grants ~ p 12 US 290&lt;br /&gt;“them protection, though they do not participate in all the rights of citizens. Then enjoy only  the advantages which the laws or custom gives them. The perpetual inhabitants are those who have received  the right of perpetual residence. These are a kind of citizen of an inferior order, and are united and subject to the society, without participation in all its advantages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt;, in the majority opinion delivered by the Supreme Court in &lt;em&gt;Minor v Happersett, 88 US. 162 (1875)&lt;/em&gt; it is stated: The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt;, on p 168-9 of the record within US v Wong Kim Ark, 169 US. 649 (1898), Justice Gray states: “At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution where familiar, it was never doubted that all children, born in a country of parents who were its citizens, became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt;, on 30 April 2008, the United States Senate (in toto), the 110th Congress unanimously agreed with Senate Res. 511( one of those which sponsored the resolution was the now sitting President of the United States, Mr Obama from Illinois). The sole purpose of Senate Resolution 511 is to apply the set of birth requirements which give interpretation of “natural born citizen” s applied to the United States Constituton Article II § I CL 5.&lt;br /&gt; Within that Resolution, at the last paragraph and the statement of the resolution is the following: “Whereas John Sidney McCain III, was born to American Citizens on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone, in 1936; Now, therefore, be it Resolved. That John Sidney McCain, III is an ‘natural born Citizen’ under Article II § I, of the Constitution of the United States.”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;Whereas&lt;/strong&gt;, it is clear from the forgoing paragraph that the statements “Wereas John Sidney McCain III, who ws born to American citizens…” offered the 110th Congress (in toto) within SR 511 agrees with the historical background provided withing this instant Resolution that one requirement for “natural born citizen” status of citizenship is to have been born of two (2) American citizens. Furhtermore, it is apparent from the same 110th Congress that there pose is that John Sidney McCain III was born under the jurisdiction of the United States agrees with historical background tat a second birth requirement is that a “natural born citizen” status citizenship requires the birth to take place at a place where the jurisdiction of the United States by the completion of the statement “… on an American military base in Panama Canal Zone in 1936“.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resolved,&lt;/strong&gt; That the United States Constitution Article II § 1 Cl 5 “natural born citizen” is any human being born (A) within the country of the United States, or on soil which is  under the sole and complete jurisdiction of the United States, and also (B) born of “Two (2) biological parents, who at the time of birth, are both legal United States citizens andnot owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-8268620748424456068?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/8268620748424456068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/resolution.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/8268620748424456068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/8268620748424456068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/resolution.html' title='A RESOLUTION'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-7239582641402032262</id><published>2011-04-20T08:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-27T15:44:18.350-07:00</updated><title type='text'>They all are to blame</title><content type='html'>I have been listening to the poltial grandstanding from some Republicans who are attempting shift away from the fact the  the entire political powers have abanded the problems of our southern border.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;A few weeks ago, Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever made headlines when he claimed that the Federal Government had ordered the Border Patrol to stop arresting illegals entering the country and simply turn them back to the border.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And actually this may be something good for the American people. It proves that Jan Brewer has been telling the truth. That every Administration dating as far back as Nixon has been promising tougher border security on their way to the WH. Only to turn their backs on the problem after they were elected. This is not only presidential elections this goes out to the Body politics that have been usurping power forthe good of their own best interest, over and above serving to provide for the good of the country. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the kind of lunacy we have come to expect though from the political powers that reign in government making and sometimes breaking the law. .  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They send Border Patrol agents into gunfights with heavily armed drug smugglers, telling them to use “bean bag” guns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I can run a page of past history of how this problem has been neglected. Yet we should epxect this to come from the Democrat Side. What about the ones who are suppsed to be conservatives? Why is it that many are not standing in support of Jan Brewer on this problem? It is also important to understand that the Sheriff has more power in his own county that the President of the United States. So instead of Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever ranting about what the President has done, Why doesn't he do what he has the authority to do? Hue and Cry! or Muster himself an irregular militia that is an "All Voluntary" group that would be serving as his Deputy Sheriffs just as a private citizen is entitled to do under the Constitution of the United States. The Federal Government is openly showing the people they are in control of this problem But they aren't coming out and telling them. Otherwise the people who are actually in charge of this country would be conducting that which was granted to them in the first place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you read the Two most important claims related to the powers of a County Sheriff. You find that the United States Supreme Court decided the Sheriff has the authority over deciding whether the people of his county must comply any federal laws that are passed. Even so, the Sheriff is also able to muster a group of volunteers who would be acting under his authority to ensure that criminal activities are not violated in his county. That includes the issues related to anyone who violates the US Codes or State and County Laws related to crossing into the United States by any other means execpt through border patrol Stations..  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Confederacy is where you have two or more political factions that do what is in their own best interest and not in the best interest of the country as a whole.&lt;br /&gt;When two political factions control the government, not tend to the problems the country faces; serving their own best interests looking out for the good of the country; it becomes no different than when they usurp power away from the body of the entire union. Putting at risk the entire tree to be spoiled&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If any member should attempt to usurp the supreme authority, they could not be supposed to have an equal authority and credit in all the confederate states. Were he to have too great influence over one, this would alarm the rest. Were he to subdue a part, that which would still remain free might oppose him with forces independent of those which he had usurped and overpower him before he could be settled in his usurpation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Should a popular insurrection happen in one of the confederate states the others are able to quell it. Should abuses creep into one part, they are reformed by those that remain sound. The state may be destroyed on one side, and not on the other; the confederacy may be dissolved, and the confederates preserve their sovereignty. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"As this government is composed of small republics, it enjoys the internal happiness of each; and with respect to its external situation, it is possessed, by means of the association, of all the advantages of large monarchies.''&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-7239582641402032262?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/7239582641402032262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/they-all-are-to-blame.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7239582641402032262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7239582641402032262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/they-all-are-to-blame.html' title='They all are to blame'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-1393466942177116738</id><published>2011-04-19T05:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-19T10:26:59.978-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Political coat of many colors</title><content type='html'>By Earl Lofland&lt;br /&gt;On the day that the Revolutionary War began It is only fair to express some ideals about how our country was designed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The founding generation&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At first, there were no parties in the nation; however soon factions formed around dominant personalities such as Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who opposed Hamilton's broad vision of a powerful federal government. Where, Jefferson objected to Hamilton's flexible view of the Constitution;  Hamilton stretched to include a national bank. When the government is only as good as those who are in control of it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the beginning of this country, George Washington feared the country would be divided along party lines because people would trend to vote or act in concert with whichever party they belonged to at the time. instead of seeking the good of the country. George Washington eventualy being villified by members of the Republican party as if he were King George. &lt;br /&gt;Parties could also become tyrannical if one became too strong for any other to resist. John Adams felt he would rather go to his grave than become a member of a political party.  Although he was looked to to be the head of the Federalist party , even though he believed in the cause they advocated. &lt;br /&gt;Jefferson was a Democrat-Republican, meaning he was against a strong federal government and devoted to the cause that he actually undermined John Adams' presidency behind the scenes even as he was Adams' vice-president. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Body of politic that the founding generation designed was constructed in such a delicate fashion that it balanced the  powers of the government so as each branch of the federal government did not have too much power over the other. While at the same time the States of the union  were recognized having rights - allowing them to have powers that were numerous and indefinate. So as they were able to provide a system of governmen within their state that would create order and give the citizens of that State individual liberties in their lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order for this body of politic to properly function the founders also recognized, as Thomsas Jefferson stated: "&lt;em&gt;I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men … where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James Madison and many others also expressed this view (Federalist 10) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Often times people ask what should be done in this failing economy and the political struggles that are happening today, As many attempt to give an alternate view with very powerful evidence, yet time and time again those seeking answers continue to hold on to their coat of color like it will keep them a afloat in choppy seas, or give them power over death itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;em&gt;The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State&lt;/em&gt;". James Madison Federalist No. 10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alexander Hamilton explained citing &lt;em&gt;Spirit of Lawa,'' vol. i., book ix., chap. i.&lt;/em&gt; the threat of giving too much power and how to quell that usurpation through having a body of many members to ensure that one or two may not be able to control the entire union. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;em&gt;If a single member should attempt to usurp the supreme authority, he could not be supposed to have an equal authority and credit in all the confederate states. Were he to have too great influence over one, this would alarm the rest. Were he to subdue a part, that which would still remain free might oppose him with forces independent of those which he had usurped and overpower him before he could be settled in his usurpation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Should a popular insurrection happen in one of the confederate states the others are able to quell it. Should abuses creep into one part, they are reformed by those that remain sound. The state may be destroyed on one side, and not on the other; the confederacy may be dissolved, and the confederates preserve their sovereignty. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"As this government is composed of small republics, it enjoys the internal happiness of each; and with respect to its external situation, it is possessed, by means of the association, of all the advantages of large monarchies.&lt;/em&gt;'' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alexander Hamilton Federalist No 9.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Judging on how government is run today between the two parties, the ones who opposed political parties were correct in their fears. We have witnessed where the Major Parties will battle it out amongst themselves to gain control of the body of poitics in the governments (Municiple, County, State and Central body's)while all at the same time, the also will fight together to retain their power from being stricken by any other voices who studies are showing are vastly a majority of voters. Most who are voting along the lines of the majority than voting for the good of the country, even when it is a voice that may not be a member politic that is seated in power.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-1393466942177116738?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/1393466942177116738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/political-coat-of-many-colors.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/1393466942177116738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/1393466942177116738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/political-coat-of-many-colors.html' title='Political coat of many colors'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-4865830918001285743</id><published>2011-04-17T20:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-18T05:36:12.353-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The PCA Today</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Legal Question Does a federal law agencies presence or a Special State Police task force violate the Posse Comitatus Act?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Earl Lofland&lt;br /&gt;To properly examine whether the federal government or state government has violated the posse comitatus Act, first the definition of the Posse Comitatus must be examined and the history behind the term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. The ‘Posse’ as it was known in 16th century England was derived from two latin words Posse is defined in scholastic Latin to mean “potentiality, capability” (US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. and Comitatus is the plural for committee, board in the plural comitātus (genitive comitātūs); m, fouth declension, meaning company of soldiers the word &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;comitatus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; etiology is from another latin word comes meaning companion the etiology of the word comes (genitive comitis); m,f is a companion, comrade, partner. A Count or an Earl the plural form of this &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;comitatus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is defined as: &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;a group of warriors or nobels accompanying a king or other leader&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The phrase &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Posse comitatus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;sheriff's posse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is originally a common-law or statute law authority of a county sheriff to conscript any able-bodied males t assist him in keeping the peace or to pursue and arrest a felon In accordance to &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Winchester, 13 Edw.I cc. 1 and 4, (1285)&lt;/span&gt; anyone, either a Constable or a private citizen, witnessing a crime shall make “&lt;em&gt;hue and cry&lt;/em&gt;”, and that the hue and cry must be kept up against the fleeing criminal from town to town and county to county, until the felon was apprehended and delivered to the sheriff. All able-bodied men, upon hearing the shouts, were obliged to assist in the pursuit of the criminal. Hue and Cry was the original concept for the phrase posse comitatus The word Posse Comitatus .Originally found in English common law, it is generally obsolete; however, it survives in America, where it is the law enforcement equivalent of summoning a militia for military purposes&lt;br /&gt;See Oxford English Dictionary s.v. "posse n. 2, posse comitatus.&lt;br /&gt;(See &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All the Posse of Hell, cannot violently eject me&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;." T. Fuller, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Thoughts in Bad Times (1645) I. xv. 39&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;A whole posse of the young lady's kindred—brothers, cousins and uncles—stood ready at the street door to usher me upstairs." W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beckford Portuguese Jrnl. 10 June 1787, p. 72.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the early stages of the &lt;em&gt;English Civil War (1642)&lt;/em&gt; local forces were employed everywhere by the Crown for all able bodied males. They produced valid written authority, inducing them to assemble as a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Militia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is what would be considered as an &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All Volunteer Militia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; today. A body of men who were not a part of a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;regular army&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; nor paid by the Crown as such. Different than what is defined today as the &lt;strong&gt;National Guard&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Reserves&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Active members of any branch of the US Military&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sheriff was a royal official responsible for the keeping of the peace (“a reeve” for the Shire or county on behalf of the Crown. The Sheriff in the Definition of the States Constitution is defined an elected office working for the people of a County, with a paid salary and, a skeleton staff preventing the government from having to levy heavy taxes, for the sheriff to perform his official duties.&lt;br /&gt;In the event criminal activities occurred, the sheriff would then muster a “Posse” to apprehend the criminal. This posse was an all volunteer body, under the authority of the Sheriff and the government to quell any violence or felonious criminal activities. Once the criminal was apprehended and handed over to the Sheriff, the Posse was then disbanded, and the judicial due process of laws would commence for the accused; where they were then brought before the magistrate and their charges would be tried by a jury of their peers. These peers were also made up of the body of citizens whom were within the jurisdiction where the crime occurred.&lt;br /&gt;The powers of sheriffs for posse comitatus were codified by &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;section 8 of the Sheriffs Act 1887 Section (1):&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Every person in a county shall be ready and apparelled at the command of the sheriff and at the cry of the country to arrest a felon whether within a franchise or without, and in default shall on conviction be liable to a fine, and if default be found in the lord of the franchise he shall forfeit the franchise to the Queen, and if in the bailiff he shall be liable besides the fine to imprisonment for not more than one year, or if he have not whereof to pay the fine, than two years.”&lt;/em&gt;See &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Section 8 (1), Sheriffs Act 1887&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though Posse Commitatus was established under civil law. It also would apply in the event the government required able bodied men to be mustered for a war or acts of treason against the Crown.&lt;br /&gt;on June 18, 1878, after what was known as the Reconstruction era, with the intention of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government and its use of the military for law enforcement. Posse Comitatus Act was passed and signed into Law. This in Combination with the The on June 18, 1878, after what was known as the Reconstruction era, with the intention of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government and its use of the military for law enforcement. Posse Comitatus Act was passed and signed into Law. This in Combination with the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Insurrection Act of 1807&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is the set of laws that govern the US President’s ability to deploy troops within the United States to put down lawlessness, Insurrection and rebellion . The combination of these laws are chiefly contained in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;10 USC §331-10 USC §335&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are to limit Presidential power as much as possible, relying on state and local governments in accordance to the principles related around the Kentucky Virginia Resolution and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Amendments IX and X&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for response in the event of insurrection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coupled with the Posse Comitaus Act the powers of the President for law enforcement are theoretically to be limited, and delayed.&lt;br /&gt;In in 1956 the Posse Comitatus Act was Amended &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;18 USC § 1385&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;em&gt;Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both&lt;/em&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Act prohibits members of the Army and Air Force from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police or peace officer powers that maintain “law and order” on non-federal property (States, counties and their municipal divisions) within the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2007 The Defense Authorization Bill was passed, with over $500 billion allocated to the military, and contained changes to the Insurrection Act of 1807, by a bipartisan majority of both houses of Congress: 398-23 in the House and by unanimous consent in the Senate.&lt;br /&gt;For military forces to be used under the provisions of the revised Insurrection Act, the following conditions must be met: the Bill read:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(1) The President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to--&lt;br /&gt;(A) restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that--&lt;br /&gt;(i) domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order; and&lt;br /&gt;(ii) such violence results in a condition described in paragraph (2); or&lt;br /&gt;(B) suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy if such insurrection, violation, combination, or conspiracy results in a condition described in paragraph (2).&lt;br /&gt;(2) A condition described in this paragraph is a condition that--&lt;br /&gt;(A) so hinders the execution of the laws of a State or possession, as applicable, and of the United States within that State or possession, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State or possession are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or&lt;br /&gt;(B) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though the Bill was repealed in 2008 the 2008 bill amended the original wording of the Act required the conditions as worded in Paragraph (2), above, to be met as the result of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new wording of the Act, as amended, still requires the same conditions as worded in Paragraph (2), above, but those conditions could, after the changes, also be a result of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and only if&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Though this has been repealed completely in HB 5122&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is still &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;10 USC § 332&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority “&lt;em&gt;Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.&lt;/em&gt; ”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does an employee of the federal government constitute the definition of “Standing army?”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;“The President isn’t required to need a state of emergency to call out federal forces. In fact NORTHCOM has “maturing relationships with agencies inside our country, the FBI for instance.”&lt;/em&gt; (See &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Mullen Praises Northern Command’s Interagency Efforts&lt;/span&gt; by Jim Garamone &lt;em&gt;American Forces Press Service&lt;/em&gt; March 11, 2008&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NORTHCOM&lt;/strong&gt; includes a task force which consists of active, Guard and Reserve military members drawn from all service branches, as well as civilian personnel, who are commanded by a federalized National Guard general officer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;“The Posse Comitatus Act is often cited as a major constraint on the use of the military services to participate in “homeland security”, “counterterrorism”, “civil disturbances, and similar domestic duties”. It is widely believed that this law prohibits the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps from performing any kind of police work or assisting law enforcement agencies to enforce the law. This however, is not exactly correct. The biggest error is the common assertion that the Posses Comitatus Act was enacted to prevent the military services from acting as a national police force."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;em&gt;What is correct is that new rules are needed to clearly set forth the boundaries for the use of federal military forces for homeland security. The Posse Comitatus Act is inappropriate for modern times and needs to be replaced by a completely new law&lt;/em&gt;.” (See &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;The Posse Comitatus Act and Homeland Security&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;John R. Brinkerhoff&lt;br /&gt;February 2002&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Brinkerhoff went on to say; “&lt;em&gt;Sinnreich, Trebilcock, Bolduc, and most commentators who opine on this law are wrong. The Posse Comitatus Act was not, as they assert and as most people believe, enacted to prevent members of military services from acting as a national police force. It was enacted to prevent the Army from being abused by having its soldiers pressed into service as police officers (a posse) by local law enforcement officials in the post-Reconstruction South&lt;/em&gt;.” &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Id. The Posse Comitatus Act and Homeland Security&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;John R Brinkerhoff Feb 2001&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the Ronald Reagan Years (1981 to 1983) Colonel John Brinkerhoff was acting associate director for national preparedness of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), (Reagan Administration), a career senior executive in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. His last position before leaving OSD to joint FEMA was as acting deputy assistant secretary for reserve affairs. He was also director of manpower programming, director of intergovernmental affairs, and special assistant to the deputy assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs. Before joining the civil service, Mr. Brinkerhoff served in the US Army for 24 years where he retired in 1974 of 24 years of active commissioned service in a variety of troop assignments: Korea, Germany, Vietnam, and the United States. He also served two tours on the Army Staff and two tours in OSD. From 1997- 2002 he was an adjunct research staff member of the Institute for Defense Analyses working on a variety of issues including Homeland Defense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to define what constitutes a Standing Army compared to a ‘militia’ the history of the word Militia must be examined.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To have an understanding whether a federal employee of an agency such as the FBI, ATF or other agency would be considered a Standing army the word Militia must be properly defined, and what differences there are in a ‘regular military unit; and irregular militia and a “&lt;strong&gt;Regular Army&lt;/strong&gt;”.&lt;br /&gt;Militia derives from two Latin words:&lt;br /&gt;• &lt;em&gt;miles&lt;/em&gt; /&lt;em&gt;miːles&lt;/em&gt;/ : soldier&lt;br /&gt;• &lt;em&gt;-itia&lt;/em&gt; /&lt;em&gt;iːtia&lt;/em&gt;/ : a state, activity, quality or condition of being&lt;br /&gt;In a book, &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Certain Discourses Military&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by Sir John Smythe (1590) it was definded as:&lt;br /&gt;a military force; a body of soldiers and military affairs; a body of military discipline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In England the word Militia derives from a common law tradition, and dates back to Anglo-Saxon times. The tradition was that all able-bodied males were liable to be called out to serve in one of two organizations. These were the posse comitatus, an ad hoc assembly called together by a law officer, (such as a Sheriff), to apprehend lawbreakers, and the fyrd which was a militia mustered from the districts threatened with attack. Service in the fyrd only had a short duration and the participants were expected to provide their own arms and provisions. Something recognized as volunteer service. The origins of the fyrd can be traced back to the Late 1500’s to early 1600’s. (See &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;A History of the British Army, volume I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; J.W. Fortescue,). The militia become an important institution in English life. It was organized on the basis of the shire county, and was one of the responsibilities of the Lord Lieutenant, a royal official (usually a trusted nobleman or Sheriff).&lt;br /&gt;Each Deputy Lieutenant (equivalent to a Deputy Sheriff) of the county hundreds, were responsible of who relayed orders to the justices of the peace or magistrates. Each parish furnished a quota of eligible men, whose names were recorded on muster rolls. Likewise, each household was assessed for the purpose of finding weapons, armor, horses, or their financial equivalent, according to their status. The militia was to be mustered for training purposes from time to time. Just as was written in Federalist No 29 for a militia in these Several States of America during the era of our founding generation. In 1820 the militia was transformed into a volunteer force seen as an alternative to the “&lt;strong&gt;Regular army&lt;/strong&gt;”. Men would volunteer and undertake basic training for several months at an army depot. Afterwards, they were to return to civilian life. In the United States, a &lt;em&gt;militia&lt;/em&gt; dates back the colonial era, and the American Revolutionary War. American revolutionaries took control of the militia system. Regulation of the militia was codified by the Second Continental Congress with the &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Articles of Confederation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. The revolutionaries also created a full-time &lt;strong&gt;regular army&lt;/strong&gt;—the &lt;strong&gt;Continental Army&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Due to manpower shortages, the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;militia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; provided short-term support to the regulars in the field throughout the war. (See "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Mobilizing Armed Force in the American Revolution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;" John Shy, and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;The American Revolution: A Heritage of Change&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;(Minneapolis, 1975),&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pp. 104–5 John Parker and Carol Urness,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;em&gt;militia&lt;/em&gt; was also distinguished from the “Regular Army and “military service” whereas the latter was normally fixed commitment for a period of time to last at least a year, and would include a salary. Compared to the &lt;em&gt;militia&lt;/em&gt; was mustered only in times to meet a threat, or prepare for an imminent threat, and would usually last for very short for periods of time. Militia persons normally provided their own weapons, equipment, and supplies, however at times they would be compensated for losses or expenditures. This would make the &lt;em&gt;Militia&lt;/em&gt; acting in the spirit of what defines &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;volunteerism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,(In general terms, volunteering is the practice of people working on behalf of others or a particular cause without payment for their time and services).( See &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;The Right of the People or the Power of the State Bearing Arms, Arming Militias, and the Second Amendment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Valparaiso Law Review, vol. 26, number 1, page 131 (1991)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the 1780s, James Madison helped convince the political leaders to call for a convention to replace the Articles of Confederation. Madison, due to his overall influence historians consider him the "&lt;em&gt;Father of the Constitution&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;Madison was elected to the United States House of Representatives when the Constitution was ratified, from his home state of Virginia, serving from the First Congress through the Fourth Congress. He like Thomas Jefferson was a member of the &lt;em&gt;Democratic-Republican Party&lt;/em&gt; during his final term in the House. In 1798 and 1799, While most members of Congress, the President, John Adams, along with the majority of US Supreme Court members were &lt;em&gt;Federalists&lt;/em&gt;. The central government decided to pass into law &lt;strong&gt;The Alien Seditions Act&lt;/strong&gt; , whereas Thomas Jefferson, then elected as Vice President of the United States and James Madison wrote the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kentucky-Virginia Resolutions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; not to abide by the Act due to a constitutional question arising to argue that the Acts were unconstitutional and therefore void, and in doing so, they argued for states' rights and strict constructionism of the Constitution. They also seen this Act targeting the members who belonged to the minority party at the time, the Democrat-Republican Party who opposed the &lt;strong&gt;Quasi- war&lt;/strong&gt; being funded by Congress, without actually declaring a war in Congress controlled by the Federalist body. Years later While Jefferson was the President, he removed nearly all of Mr. Adams' "&lt;em&gt;midnight judges&lt;/em&gt;" from office, which led to the Supreme Court’s decision in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Marbury v. Madison&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. This was done under the Constitutional Clause of Judges acting not acting in “&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Good Behavior&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;” outlined in &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Article III § 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of the US Constitution. Jefferson also began, and won the First Barbary War (1801–1805)Where, &lt;em&gt;prior to the inauguration of Jefferson as President, Congress passed naval legislation that provided six frigates that ‘shall be officered and manned as the President of the United States may direct.' . . . In the event of a declaration of war on the United States&lt;/em&gt; by Yusuf Karamanli, the Pasha (or Bashaw) of Tripoli, the powers of Barbary., (In 1800, Federal revenues totaled a little over $10 million.) Putting his long-held beliefs for cessation of the tribute being demanded by Karamanli This ideal was also supported by George Washington and others. With the American navy in 1794 being re-commissioned and the resulting increased firepower on the seas, by 1801 it became increasingly possible for America to refuse paying tribute. However this long-standing ideal of paying tribute would continue until 1801 where President Jefferson refused the demand. Consequently, that May, the Pasha declared war on the U.S., in the customary Barbary manner of cutting down the flagstaff in front of the U.S. Consulate. Algiers and Tunis did not follow their ally in Tripoli. &lt;em&gt;'The ships commissioned, ships were to 'protect our commerce &amp;amp; chastise Tripoli’s insolence — by “sinking, burning or destroying their ships &amp;amp; Vessels wherever you shall find them.&lt;/em&gt;'".&lt;br /&gt;During the Quasi War Congress authorized the president to seize vessels sailing to French ports. But President Adams, acting on his own authority and without the sanction of Congress, instructed American ships to capture vessels sailing either to or from French ports. Whereas the US Supreme Court Later ruled that. A Captain of the US Navy could indeed be sued for damages in the case. "In short," writes Louis Fisher in summary, "congressional policy announced in a statute necessarily prevails over inconsistent presidential orders and military actions. Presidential orders, even those issued as Commander in Chief, are subject to restrictions imposed by Congress." (See &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Little v. Barreme&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;6 U.S. 2 Cranch 170 170 (1804)&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Federalist No 69, Alexander Hamilton explained the president's war powers and authority, it &lt;em&gt;"would be nominally the same with that of the King of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first general and admiral of the confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war, and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies; all which by the constitution under consideration would appertain to the Legislature."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1812, Having helped to win the nation’s independence American Civilians were again called upon by Congress and the President James Madison to defend their country. As the militia in the war of 1812, most notably in the siege and battle of new Orleans, which culminated on January 8, 1815. In that battle, General Andrew Jackson commanded not only &lt;strong&gt;regular military units&lt;/strong&gt;, but also an &lt;strong&gt;irregular force&lt;/strong&gt; composed of &lt;strong&gt;state militia&lt;/strong&gt; from several southern states, &lt;strong&gt;New Orleans uniformed&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;irregular city militia&lt;/strong&gt; mustered en masse from the City residents, a battalion of free men of color, frontiersmen, volunteers, Choctaw &lt;strong&gt;Indians, and a group of Baratarian Pirates (Privateers) fighting under Jean Lafitte&lt;/strong&gt; See Robert V. Remini, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America First Military Victory 2, 59, 133&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, (2001))&lt;br /&gt;Although the performance of some untested irregular units were flawed, the irregulars marksmanship, local knowledge and other skills were proven invaluable as Jackson Defeated a much larger force of British Regulars (See &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Id. At 116, 146, 153-54, 162&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eerily Abraham Lincoln famously explained the principle this way:“&lt;em&gt;Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose — and you allow him to make war at pleasure…. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after you have given him so much as you propose. If, to-day, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, "I see no probability of the British invading us" but he will say to you "be silent; I see it, if you don't&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Bassett Moore, born in Smyrna, Delaware, graduated at the University of Virginia in 1880, and admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883 took the first full professorship of international law at Columbia University explained the principle this way:&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;em&gt;There can hardly be room for doubt that the framers of the constitution, when they vested in Congress the power to declare war, never imagined that they were leaving it to the executive to use the military and naval forces of the United States all over the world for the purpose of actually coercing other nations, occupying their territory, and killing their soldiers and citizens, all according to his own notions of the fitness of things, as long as he refrained from calling his action war or persisted in calling it peace&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1898, during the Spanish American War an all volunteer militia known as the Texas Militiamen joined Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, (A Regular Army) The Texas Militia was formed during the Texas Revolution in 1836. Following the war, some of the militia units reorganized into what is known today as the Texas Rangers, originally was a private, volunteer effort for several years until it became an official organization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following the Spanish–American War of 1898, that demonstrated weaknesses in the militia, and in the entire U.S. military. The &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Militia Act of 1903 (32 Stat. 775),&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (also known as the &lt;strong&gt;Dick Act&lt;/strong&gt;), was initiated by United States Secretary of War Elihu Root. According to the constraints and definitions of a Militia this Act violates the principles of a militia as the principles though out the history of a militia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this usage, a militia is a body of private persons who respond to an emergency threat to public safety, usually one that requires an armed response, but which can also include ordinary law enforcement or disaster responses. The act of bringing to bear arms contextually changes the status of the person, from peaceful citizen, to warrior citizen. The militia is the sum total of persons undergoing this change of state. Whereas “[v]olunteers were formed in militia units who came under the command of professional, usually British, officers and served in regular military units. While a few militias were organized into recognizable units, these militiamen rarely fought as members of defined units, nor were they expected to.” (See &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;The Citizen-Solider under federal and State Law&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; by James Biser Whisker, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;West Virginia Law Review 94 (1992): 949&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An examination of the Militia and Army Clauses was undertaken on the eve of World War II by Frederick B. Wiener, a professor of law at Harvard University. [5] In that article, Wiener traced the history of militia and army [Page 949] relations, and gave an overview of the history of militias. Wiener was heavily influenced by the anti-militia military writings of Brevet Major General Emory (See &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Id. at 947, 949&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Frederick B. Wiener, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Militia Clause of the Constitution, 54 HARV.L.REV. 181 (1940).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elbridge Gerry, delegate from Massachusetts and later a leading Anti- Federalist, objected, arguing that the last clause might be used to disarm certain religious minorities. When proposed to the states the amendment read, "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the common defense, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."(See &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;1 ANNALS OF CONG. 451 (Joseph Gales ed., 1789)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 2008 decision District of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Columbia v. Heller (554 U.S. 570 (2008)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;), ruled by the US Supreme Court, the &lt;em&gt;de jure&lt;/em&gt; definition of "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;militia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;" as used in United States jurisprudence was discussed. The court's opinion made explicit, in its obiter dicta that the term "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;militia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;", as used in colonial times in this originalist decision, included both the federally-organized &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;militia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;citizen-organized militias&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the several States: "... the '&lt;em&gt;militia&lt;/em&gt;' in colonial America consisted of a subset of 'the people'—those who were male, able-bodied, and within a certain age range" (7) ... Although the &lt;em&gt;militia&lt;/em&gt; consists of all able-bodied men, the federally organized militia may consist of a subset of them"(23).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt; Any agent or government official operating in the capacity of a federal agency other than those who are limited their powers, in time, and duty under Article 1 § 8 of the US Constitution i.e. FBI, ATF, IRS inter al. are considered a “Standing Army”, and Whereas the presence and operation of such agents and their agencies within a State is in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, and the Insurrection Act of of 1807.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-4865830918001285743?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/4865830918001285743/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/legal-question-does-federal-law.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/4865830918001285743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/4865830918001285743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/legal-question-does-federal-law.html' title='The PCA Today'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-24218670467544076</id><published>2011-04-15T10:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-15T15:12:49.520-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I do not suport HB 95 Delaware's Lid Bill</title><content type='html'>I can not support Delaware's HB95. While I believe any manditory helmet laws and seat belt laws are unconstitutional. I can't support this bill on the technicality of the wording inside the Bill. The SYNOPSIS of this bill states that it&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eliminates the requirement that a person must have a safety helmet in their possession while operating or riding on a motorcycle"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This may sound like something that is good for liberty riders. However this is not the problem I have with the wording.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This bill does not change the age requirement in Title 21 of the Delaware Code; from a person "&lt;strong&gt;up to 19 years of age being told they "must wear a safety helmet while operating or riding on a motorcycle".&lt;/strong&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bold texted is the wording that I have a problem with!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Delaware citizens at the age of 17 (with their parents consent) is permitted to join the military and die for the government. But that same government says you must be 19 before you get to choose whether or not to wear a lid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bill should be worded to "Repeal" Title 21 and the Section related to this bad law-Title 21, Repeal it and not amend it.. Then amend the repeal to reflect individuals who are 17 with the parents consent or over age 18 years of age &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MOTORCYCLES&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Section 1.  Amend §4185(b), Title 21 of the Delaware Code by deleting the language “shall have in that person's possession a safety helmet approved by the Secretary of Safety and Homeland Security (hereinafter “Secretary”) through the Office of Highway Safety and” as it appears in subsection (b).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I understand the reason for the sponsors of HB 95 for introducing this Bill, at this time. Motorcyclists have been fighting for their right of choice for over 30 years and this wording is all wrong. For a true Liberty Rider to agree to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It isn't about voters having liberty to choose at all. If so,  it would have included repealing the manditory seatbelt law as well!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; So, what is this bill actually about? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a political maneuver from the so called Two Party System who have not done their jobs correctly in serving the People! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This bill is about putting a breadcrumb on the table of a starving family (motorcyclists) to buy these political tricks, making motorcyclists believe the Two party's seated in the State General Assembly is  doing something for people. And suggesting that a little  is better than nothing at all. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is to get motorcyclists votes in the upcoming elections. All for a bill that is actually no better than the current law that is already on the books.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HB 95 should not be needed at all. Instead of it reading "&lt;strong&gt;This bill eliminates the requirement that a person must have a safety helmet in their possession while operating or riding on a motorcycle. This bill does not change the ...requirement in Title 21 of the Delaware Code that a person up to 19 years of age must wear a safety helmet while operating or riding on a motorcycle.":&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A New Bill should be drafted instead that reads: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;146th GENERAL ASSEMBLY&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOUSE BILL NO. 95&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MOTORCYCLES.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Section 1.  Repeal §4185(b), Title 21 of the Delaware Code, the language “shall have in that person's possession a safety helmet approved by the Secretary of Safety and Homeland Security (hereinafter “Secretary”) through the Office of Highway Safety and” as it appears in subsection (b).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amend §4185 with the language (b) every person up to 18 years of age, or up to 17 with the parents or guardians consent, operating or riding on a motorcycle shall wear eye protection and a motorcycle helmet approved by the Secretary of Safety and Homeland Security (hereinafter "Secretary") through the Office of Highway Safety by the Secretary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SYNOPSIS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This bill repeals the requirement that a person must have a safety helmet in their possession while operating or riding on a motorcycle.  This bill amends the requirement in Title 21 of the Delaware Code that a person up to 18 years of age or 17 with the parents or guardians consent must wear a safety helmet while operating or riding on a motorcycle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;The biggest problem with this bill is the age requirements &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You only have to be 17 with the parents consent to enlist and die for the government, Yet the government says you have to be 19 before you are allowed decide whether or not to wear a a lid if this bill were to be passed!!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Repeal §4185(b) and amend the Bill to reflect under the age of 18&lt;/strong&gt;- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Change the wording in this bill to reflect this matter.Otherwise I can't support the Bill.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason for this process I urge is due to the General Assembly showing in good faith they seek to provide liberty to those who are voting age.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-24218670467544076?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/24218670467544076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-do-not-suport-hb-95-delawares-lid.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/24218670467544076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/24218670467544076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-do-not-suport-hb-95-delawares-lid.html' title='I do not suport HB 95 Delaware&apos;s Lid Bill'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-5239827750533701399</id><published>2011-04-13T14:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T09:43:24.407-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Constitution Question; Amendent II</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;The Constitutional Question: Does the rights protected by the Second Amendment include Citizens owning Fully Automatic Firearms?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Earl Lofland&lt;br /&gt;April 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On April 12, at 4:30 AM the South Carolina Militia mustered  Cadets from the Citadel also known as South Carolina Military Academy, who launched an attack upon Ft Sumter with cannon fire lasting for 32 hours, until the commander; US Army Maj. Robert Anderson surrendered the fort to South Carolina, marking the beginning of the “War Between the States”. Many school books teach the War was about freeing Slaves. Yet there are many more issues that were involved besides just the topic of slavery among the several States in the Union, dating as far back as 1798.&lt;br /&gt;If you ask people today where the first shots were fired that started the War, and who fired the first shots, an alarming amount of people answer with the Federal government fired the first shots on April 12. And some believe the first battle was the Battle of Gettysburg.  Disturbingly because many people were uninterested in American history in school, almost two centuries have passed, where States have had to endure a standing army, that has lead up to people today growing so accustomed to a standing federal military force. They rally around at celebrations waving flags; shouting slogans, and wearing logos saying:  “Support the Troops”. However, when you look at the reason the Second Amendment was created the threat of a standing army was one of the most dangerous concerns the people of the States seen as threat to either diluting or ultimately eliminating their individual liberty.  In 1798 Congress and the President, John Adams first began to take these dangerous steps - an encroachment of the rights of the people of each State, when the Union Congress passed, and President Adams signed into law; the Alien Seditions Act, leading to Vice President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison retaliating with the Kentucky Virginia Resolutions, later to be known as the ‘Principles of 98’ or the “Nullification Crisis”. &lt;br /&gt;The Citadel Bulldogs as they are known today. From the city of what used to be known as Charles Town South Carolina, (today known as Charleston, SC) were among the members of that States militia. After Major Anderson surrendered the fort to the Citadel and State of South Carolina's militia on April 13, 1861, the Union Army was then permitted to leave the fort without the threat of being harmed or captured. Outraged by South Carolina's arrogance and the embarrassment of the Union Army being physically removed from the State, Republican President Mr. Lincoln ordered the Secretary of War, Mr. Simon Cameron to muster 3 regiments from each of the States in the Union of States in retaliation against the seven states who were now called seditionists, for  deciding to separate themselves from  an overpowering and unbalanced government, that since 1798 had continuously encroached upon the rights of the people of the States . Five days later; on April 17, 1861, Virginia also voted and seceded from the Union. &lt;br /&gt;In a Letter to the Secretary of War the Governor of Virginia wrote:&lt;br /&gt;Executive Department, Richmond, Va., April 15, 1861. Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War: Sir: I have received your telegram of the 15th, the genuineness of which I doubted. Since that time I have received your communications mailed the same day, in which I am requested to detach from the militia of the State of Virginia "the quota assigned in a table," which you append, "to serve as infantry or rifleman for the period of three months, unless sooner discharged." In reply to this communication, I have only to say that the militia of Virginia will not be furnished to the powers at Washington for any such use or purpose as they have in view. Your object is to subjugate the Southern States, and a requisition made upon me for such an object - an object, in my judgment, not within the purview of the Constitution or the act of 1795 - will not be complied with. You have chosen to inaugurate civil war, and, having done so, we will meet it in a spirit as determined as the administration has exhibited toward the South.&lt;br /&gt;– Respectfully, John Letcher&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; In the following weeks Maryland and 6 other states voted on secession where Just before April 29, The Secretary of War ordered the US Army to go into Maryland to detain each member of the Maryland General Assembly who would vote in favor of secession.  This was an further encroachment on States rights.  Which prevented the people of Maryland from leaving the Union as it was known would happen if all the member s of Maryland’s state Convention had been permitted to vote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The principles of nullification was originally accepted in 1814 by the Hartford Convention of New Englanders as well as many in the south, who recognized the Kentucky Virginia Resolutions as a protection against federal encroachments on their rights, and remained a point of contention; eventually leading to the crisis that erupted in 1832 with the Unions passage of The Tariff of 1832. Despite pleas from Southern representatives, who failed to moderate the protective barriers erected in earlier legislation, South Carolina called a state convention that passed a decision to nullify both, the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 within their borders, and threatened to secede if the federal government attempted to collect those tariff duties. This struggle between the business owners and people of the several States which formed a Union in 1787 went back and forth until 1860 when the predominantly agricultural states finally were threatened by seeing their economy collapse under the unbalanced tariffs which were leveraged to appease the industrial northern states business owners from paying an equal share in the operations of the central government. Robert Hayne (of Webster-Hayne Debate fame) resigned from the Senate to run for governor of South Carolina, and John C. Calhoun resigned as vice president, to take Mr. Hayne’s seat in the Senate. Both men spearheaded the nullification drive. Making the issue a real possibility of secession and the very threat of war was now seen.&lt;br /&gt;President Jackson immediately offered his thought on this matter, that nullification was tantamount to treason, following the same path that occurred in 1798 with the passage of the Alien Seditions Act, ordering the dispatch of naval ships to the Charleston harbor and began deploying US military to Fort Sumter and other federal fortifications. This outraged the people of many States, reminding them of a similar action which occurred not but 70 years prior- leading up to the States forming a union and ultimately Declaring war against Great Britain and the English Army. The Unions Congress supported President Jackson however and passed a Force Bill in early 1833 authorizing Jackson to use a standing army to enforce the tariff measures. A standing army continued to occupy the States up until the outbreak of the War in 1861. US Forces were continuously marching against the will of the people of the States just as what occurred during the 1700's with the King of England and the British Army.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile Henry Clay again took up his role as the Great Compromiser. On the same day the Force Bill passed, he secured passage of the Tariff of 1833. This latter measure provided for the gradual reduction of the tariff over 10 years down to the level which had existed in 1816. This compromise was acceptable to Calhoun who was not yet successful finding other states to support nullification. President Jackson signed both measures. South Carolina repealed its nullification measure, but then nullified the Force Bill and Mr. Jackson ignored this action. Though the issue died down, the outrage of a standing army and the other problems related to tariffs did not entirely go away, where they gradually morphed into the principles of States Decisions of nullification eventually leading to the secession of seven Southern states and the formation of the Confederacy.&lt;br /&gt;In 1861, just one month before Mr. Lincoln took over the WH the SenatePassed the Morrill Tariff only possible because many low-tariff Southerners had left Congress after their states declared their secession.  Historian Reinhard H. Luthin documented the importance of the Morrill Tariff to the Republicans in the 1860 presidential election where Abraham Lincoln's was recognized as a protectionist and supporting the Morrill Tariff bill. Reinhard noted, this bill helped Lincoln to secure support in the important electoral college states; Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Lincoln carried Pennsylvania handily in November, as part of his sweep of the North.&lt;br /&gt;Still as all these issues were occurring in Congress the people continued to find disinterest in what President Jackson had created in 1832 and Congress nor any president after Jackson had yet decided to repeal a standing army in the several states.&lt;br /&gt;The Second Amendment, like other provisions within the Constitution, was born of a combination of compromise and necessity, where the people of the founders generation had become acutely aware of the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation, particularly those which established a tragic deficiency in the system of national defense which the States were the primary source in providing this role. The Constitutional Convention was called to seek redress in the potential risks of an encroachment on the Rights of the People outlined within the spectrum of the Articles of Confederation. The Framers experience with Great Britain made them all to aware of the dangers a large standing army posed to encroach individual liberty, while there was a broad agreement that a stronger federal military was needed, there was insight that a large and permanent National Armed Force would be met by the people with strong resistance. In accordance to the Emerson Case; “The primary shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation was that the central government it provided for was too weak” “ US v. Emerson 270 F 3D 203, 236 (5th Cir. 2001)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an Americus Curiae filed by Several Retired Officers of the US Military in the case District of Columbia  et. Al vs. Heller  554 US 570 (2008) counsel wrote:&lt;br /&gt;“The Second Amendment, which enshrines the preexisting right to personal firearm ownership in the Constitution, offered a solution agreeable to all concerned. For those (Primarily Anti-Federalists) Concerned with the threat posed by a large national army to domestic tranquility, guaranteeing the right to “keep and bear arms” in the Constitution ensured that the People could act as a direct check against any tyrannical impulses this national army might harbor. As both James Madison and Alexander Hamilton explained in the Federalist Papers, the national army, no matter how fierce, could never overtake a body politic armed and trained to defend its liberty.”&lt;br /&gt;The Framers ensured that the people could act as a direct check on any threat to domestic tranquility that a standing army might present a federal army would be powerless against citizens trained to carry arms. The size of any standing army would not “exceed one hundredth Part of the whole number of souls; or “twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms or approximately twenty-five or thirty thousand men” (Federalist No. 46 James Madison).&lt;br /&gt;The framers also understood the what threats a large standing army imposed upon the people whereupon they articulated this in the Militia Clause of ART. I, § 8 CL. 15 allowing the federal government  to call upon the people to defend the nation in times of need, thus reducing the demand for a massive federal army. &lt;br /&gt;US v. Emerson 270 F 3D 203, 236 (5th Cir. 2001)&lt;br /&gt;(“[F]ederal militia powers obviated the need for, or (at least) minimized the likelihood of, a large standing army being kept in existence”)&lt;br /&gt;Citizens role in each State, in defense of liberty, whether threatened domestically or from an enemy abroad, thus is necessary and depends on citizens having ready access to arms and those arms being equal to any arms a federal Standing Army would be issued. These citizens were recognized as fully voluntary not enlisted or hired by any State or federal militia. These citizens arms also are to be considered adequate to arms which any standing army would be issued.&lt;br /&gt;(See The Federalist No. 29 (Alexander Hamilton) ). “To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss. It would form an annual deduction from the productive labor of the country, to an amount which, calculating upon the present numbers of the people, would not fall far short of the whole expense of the civil establishments of all the States. To attempt a thing which would abridge the mass of labor and industry to so considerable an extent, would be unwise: and the experiment, if made, could not succeed, because it would not long be endured. Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should The Government impose Any Limits To What Arms Citizens Should Be Entitled To Own?  &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Publication: A Democratic Federalist, Pennsylvania Herald Oct. 17, 1787 asked: “What then will there be to oppose to their encroachments? Should they ever pretend to Tyrannize over the people, their standing army will silence every popular effort….” The founders recognized  and ensured through the Second Amendment  the citizens could act as a direct check on any threat to domestic tranquility that a standing national army my represent; an army created by the central government would be powerless against the people of the States who were trained to arms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In US v. Miller the “Sentiments of the time strongly disfavored standing armies” and the court ruled that the weapons that a person owned, in order to be constitutionally protected under the Second Amendment; the arms had to be used by and distributed to the US military. In the case of Miller, the question involved the possession a sawed off shot gun. Though the lower court ruled against Miller it was later reversed in Prinz v US.  The question arose if a Sawed off shot gun was a government issued weapon prior to Miller; the answer is yes.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In American Munitions 1917-1919 Benedict Crowell, Assistant Secretary of War (1919) Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.. pp. 185–186. It states:&lt;br /&gt;"When American troops were in the heat of the fighting in the summer of 1918, the German government sent a protest through a neutral agency to our Government asserting that our men were using shotguns against German troops in the trenches. The allegation was true; but our State Department replied that the use of such weapons was not forbidden by the Geneva Convention as the Germans had asserted. Manufactured primarily for the purpose of arming guards placed over German prisoners, these shotguns were undoubtedly in some instances carried into the actual fighting. The Ordnance Department procured some 30,000 to 40,000 shotguns of the short-barrel or sawed-off type, ordering these from the regular commercial manufacturers. The shell provided for these guns each contained a charge of nine heavy buckshot, a combination likely to have murderous effect in close fighting. "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The story in the Miller case began with the National Firearms Act of 1934, the first federal law regulating firearms. Prior to the NFA, it was believed the Constitution did not grant the federal government this power.&lt;br /&gt;The new law levied a prohibitive $200 dollar tax on machine guns and sawed off shotguns. Government officials passed this law under the argument they were the weapons of choice for the criminal gangs during prohibition. This law was enacted during a period when the central government was in a determined effort to expand federal police powers at the expense of the States. (See The strange case of United States v. Miller Dr. Michael S. Brown (2001) Enter Stage Right - A Journal of Modern Conservatism.)&lt;br /&gt;United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939), was reversed in Prinz v US, where the court determined  the District Court's invalidation of the National Firearms Act, enacted in 1934. In Miller, they determined that the Second Amendment did not guarantee a citizen's right to possess a sawed off shotgun because that weapon had not been shown to be "ordinary military equipment" that could "contribute to the common defense." Id., at 178. Though the Court did not attempt to define, or otherwise construe, the substantive right protected by the Second Amendment. It is clear the right of a person to own firearms that equate to those used as “Ordinary military equipment”  or contribute to the common defense” today would be inclusive of the right for the people to own a wide variety of arms,  used by the military today. &lt;br /&gt;The militia consisted of the people bearing  “Their own arms when called to active service” by the central government, “Arms which they kept and hence knew how to use” (See  US v. Emerson 270 F 3D 203 at 235 (5th Cir. Ct. 2001). And by guaranteeing this right, citizens would have the skill needed to usefully bear them in defense of the nation, should the need arise.  (US v Miller 307 US 174, 178-79) &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Several Presidents also have recognized the need for the people to own military equipment grade arms, One during the time he commanded the Allied Forces, during WWII.  General Dwight D Eisenhower observed “Any young man that has ahead of him prospective Service in the armed forces will  do well to learn all he can about the military rifle… expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized”  Letter from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Commander in Chief Allied Force Headquarters To Dr. M.J. Damlos Clevland Civilian Marksman Ass’n  Aug 16,1943 (5A)&lt;br /&gt;Individual gun ownership has a direct national security benefit; deterring foreign aggressors of attacking the United States. Those inclined to attack this country realize that for such an invasion to succeed, they would not only be forced to defeat a first rate military, They would also be required to defeat a people equally armed, trained, and prepared to defend its sovereignty . This principle has been passed down from the founders generation involving the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, The Spanish American War WWI and the Hawaiian Islands December 7, 1941. Each time the people of the States have proven that contributing to the defense of this nations defense depends upon owning and knowledge of how to use arms. Without the command or blessing from the Several States. &lt;br /&gt;Another World War II veteran and president also attested civilian marksmanship was important “through competitive matches and sports in coordination with the  (NBPRP), The National Rifle Association fills an important role in our national defense effort, and fosters in an active and meaningful fashion the spirit of the Minuteman. Letter from: John F. Kennedy, President of the United States. To: Franklin L. Orth Executive Office Presidnet, national Rifle Assoc. (March 20, 1961 (11A)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are there any studies which show proof Citizens should be entitled to own the same arms as the Military?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a recent Rand Corp. report they discovered that training periods i.e Basic Training, are not as effective at elevating performance quality as much as lifelong training . “Many studies suggest that it is the accumulation of training over a lifetime that has the largest effect on individual performance, rather than simply training in the previous six months” It was also reported those with previous experience or training in a variety of military-oriented tasks would have a better performance than the novice.&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Kavanagh, Rand National Defense Research Institute, Determinants of productivity for Military personnel; A Review of findings on the Contribution of Experience, Training, and Aptitude to Military Performance (2005)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an earlier report published by Rand Corporation they noted that even the trainees with no previous experience assigned to units with a high number of experienced shooters showed a higher numbers of qualified marksman in their scores . This report explained that this was most likely due to Marksmanship instructors not needing to spend as much time with the experienced shooters, and or those with prior experience  shared  their knowledge and were providing additional coaching to the inexperienced shooters.&lt;br /&gt;(See  Restructuring Military Education and Training: Lessons from Rand Research 1 (1997) by John D Finkler And Paul S. Steinberg. The court also ruled that; “An effective Militia requires not only that people have guns, but that they be able to shoot them with more danger to their adversaries than themselves Silveira v Lockyer 328 F3D 567 (9th Cir 2003)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONCLUSION:&lt;/strong&gt; Evidence proves through Court decisions; Research reports; letters from Presidents and military officers; and writings by those who birthed this country with having expressed the people should be capable to preserve their liberty- that the Second Amendment should not be interpreted in such a way that the government encroaches upon the right of the people to own firearms of their personal choice. As long as the arms are  “ordinary military equipment” which is “used for the common defense”.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-5239827750533701399?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/5239827750533701399/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/constitution-question-amendent-ii.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/5239827750533701399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/5239827750533701399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/constitution-question-amendent-ii.html' title='Constitution Question; Amendent II'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-5157920774380617874</id><published>2011-04-10T09:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-10T12:53:30.389-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Who Won?</title><content type='html'>Despite the establishment's fear mongering, if the government "shut down,” the Treasury Department would continue to sell debt, the printing presses would have rolled on, the IRS would still have seized your hard-earned property on time (currency), They would have been able to gain more interest on what you paid in to the IRS, because you would not be getting any back on schedule, But they would still be imposing late fees for you if you didn't pay them on time!!! The POLICE state would still have cameras and boots on the ground to conduct surveillance on you, the TSA would have remained in airports to sexually assault you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS OH MY The government is shutting down! Help .. I had so many people calling me with these comments: &lt;br /&gt;Pick up the phone!!! Help.. I have a question!!! &lt;br /&gt;Dread Fear!!! &lt;br /&gt;TERROR!!! TERRROR!! I am Afraid!!!!! &lt;br /&gt;THE GOVERNMENT IS SHUTTING DOWN!!! The Government is shutting down. OH NO!! TERROR..... I kid you not!!!!!!! It reminds me of Chicken Little; &lt;br /&gt;THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People .. People.. Lets be logically here ok? These so called “leaders” (More like the Grand Whizz ards or are they the lizards? of Oz), they were not serious, It was all hyped up on a sugar high hoax to make you afraid!!! Or they would: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Audit the Federal Reserve, They would Investigate and press charges on those that have been treasonous! Ending the Federal Reserves ability to control our economic future without any accountability or oversight. &lt;br /&gt;Then they would abolish the Federal Reserve!!!. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- They would cut $900 billion from the budget. &lt;br /&gt;This year. And that would only be for starters. Doing away with all the Initialized Agencies that are making the decisions in government. That the Congress is supposed to be doing! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They would pass an Act titled "The Balanced Budget ACT, A Statute and not another cumbersome Amendment) An Act with legitimate spending restrictions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They would allow us to make our own health care decisions by downsizing the Dept of Health until it was all operated under each state and these bureaucrats that hold positions of Secretary, Directors, Under Secretary's, Advisors, etc. They all would be looking for a job in the private sector. and the operation of the State Health Care system would operate through legislation passed by the State and US Elected officials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The implementation of a program to force Americans to buy bureaucrat-approved insurance should END (should never have started in the first place)!!!! And put elected officials in government responsible for doing the job they were ELECTED to do themselves! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They would strengthen our national security. One way would be to place an ultimatum on the table.... Either Obaman to recall all our ground- and air forces from foreign countries and for all military installations to be transitioned  and reinstituted over to to their respective State militia. Or, Congress would demand Impeachment hearings to begin on Reagan, Bush I Bush II Clinton And Obama for the illegal use our military to police the world, nation-build, and enforce the United Nations' dictates. and begin dimantling NATO,But none of that will happen until you unseat both the Democrats and Republicans from Power. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Repeal the Patriot Act, and annul the TSA, and ending the many other ways government intrudes into our personal lives. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surgically dismantle the Social Security System; In such a way it would not harm those who have paid in or are on the system now, at the same time stop manditory seizure of a persons property under the Social Security Agency. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The list of what is not being addressed could go on and on, which further proves how the vast majority of both Republicans and Democrats are ignoring their oaths to defend the Constitution. And actually doing everything they can to destroy Individual citizens Liberty. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Government doesn't need a tune-up. It's time for a complete overhaul, which is why a real shutdown was needed. Actually unseating the Democart and Republican Party would be a step in the right direction. (but that is only one step) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead, America is in for more posturing for the cameras glamour, blame game and how much their Partys won (both of them using that one Guess that means it was a tie and no one realy won)! – &lt;br /&gt;These are all traits more expected of Kleptocrats than elected officials. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America's debt crisis is a natural consequence of a system so infested with statist ideals that less than $39 billion in cuts to a multi-trillion dollar budget nearly brings these kleptocrats in OUR government to their knees cowering on facts that the 100 billion dollar promise that was later expressed after the elections as only a symbolic move, that ended up with so little in cuts it is nothing more than proving both Established Sides are just that. So deeply rooted with the same goal of bigger government targeting stripping citizens of their rights that they even go out warning you if you pull that tree up, there will be a huge hole. People think. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, that hole left there will only take a little hard work and dedication from Americans to fill in the gap with individualism... INDEPENDENCE Something the Founders recognized and wanted to create - a government that would not infringe on that! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet you go and vote every two years, for out of control legislators and their dangerous policies under the disinformation you need them (like an abused spouse needs more abuse) which has brought us to this point in our history. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are Established Party Hawgs all the established deep rooted politics are to be blamed for this. There are many who are not to blame, because they have been fighting to prevent the two established factions from further destroying our country. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not about to stop working for freedom to restore a federal government. Not only limited in its power, but putting back the proper protocols for who has that limited power and its size and how it is actually to function. A federal government which is operating only within the confines of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutions (US and States).  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you will take advantage of these current events to discuss the role of government on the local, state, and federal levels and spread our message to your  family, friends, and neighbors who are constantly bombarded by the establishment's tired rhetoric. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Invite people to join the Constitution Party and help us, by helping yourselves take back All of your lives from the established government's  control. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only in the truest realization of what Liberty is, can we find effective, lasting solutions to these challenges our nation is faced with today, ensuring future generations have something better. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Liberty,&lt;br /&gt;Earl Lofland, State Chairman &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=W7IGqaJQ1t3Wn1g0Xzg7HZHHbZu5fjT3qUAECxyZ4Q4UoxClHGHcsQjBcB4&amp;dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d5863a909c4bb5aeebb52c6e1151bdaa9"&gt;Constitution Party of Delaware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.O. Box 272&lt;br /&gt;Clayton,DE &lt;br /&gt;19938&lt;br /&gt;302 653 7205&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-5157920774380617874?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/5157920774380617874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/who-won.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/5157920774380617874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/5157920774380617874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/04/who-won.html' title='Who Won?'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-6653216933571307193</id><published>2011-03-22T06:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T06:15:04.852-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Riding Down The Road To Ruin</title><content type='html'>By Earl Lofland&lt;br /&gt;March 22, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not interested in liberal nor conserative talking points. and Americans only objective should be to ensure those who take the Oath of office uphold that law, and the other laws of this land, that they are not violated by those in power, (by the way; the oath of office is a US Code, violating it is a violation of the US Code- it is therefore a crime called perjury).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Kerry, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Lindsey Graham, Hillary Clinton, the New York Times and the French Government all support this  attack. Constitutionalist  understand what’s wrong with that picture.&lt;br /&gt;It is obvious as the nose on ones face. They are all the same rotting fruit falling from the same tree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In accordance to the Powers of War Act 1973, this administration has clearly committed war crimes by launching an attack on a sovereign country that posed no threat to the US and who did not properly address Congress, other than sending them a "letter" . This action It is not only a violation of the Constitution. It also subverts the very laws that were passed to preserve and prevent such actions from occuring. A person usurping too much power away from the People and Congress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though Bush did go to Congress, all he obtaines was an "Authorization for the Use of Military Force", rather than a declaration of war. He cited Section 4 of the POWA which gave him 60-90 days to complete the mission. 7 years later we were still involved in Iraq, (Not quite Constitutional I would say), but better than nothing, At least Mr. Bush did go before Congress. Not to say the Iraq War didn't violate the law, but still when Mr. Bush cited section 4 of the Powers of War Act. If memory serves correctly. This gave him 60-90 days to complete the mission. And after that time expired, he was then acting in violation of the Powers of War ACT, until congress decided to pass a resolution to extend the time of our military involvment. Yet he never gave an accurate exit strategy. And that little photo op "Mission Accomplished" was nothing more than subversion of the definition for use of military forces. The entire administration, in my opinion should have been charged with war crimes by Congress. They falsified records, lied before the UN Counsel, and lied to Congress with the doctored letters that did not show the facts that Saddam Did NOT pose an imminent threat to the US. In violation of Section 2 of the Powers of Wars Act. Just as Obama has clearly done in the illegal use of US military and its equipment against a sovereign country that has not posed an imminent threat of attack against the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite having a crushing $14 Trillion national debt, and Congress even thinking about raising the debt ceiling, with a $1.5 Trillion annual budget deficit, and a dire 15.9% unemployment rate (using the real but still underestimated u6 rate); the financial drain to help Japan, Obama committed America to yet  another war in the Muslim world. Our military and national budget are already stretched to the limit and all he seems to think about is playing with military ordinances which goes completely against the very campaign he ran on to be elected. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps the Nobel Peace Priz Committee should also consider giving Obama another Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences since he’s driving the U.S. into insolvency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Kerry, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Lindsey Graham, Hillary Clinton, the New York Times and the French Government all support this duplicitous attack. Conservatives understand what’s wrong with that picture.&lt;br /&gt;The Constitution Party of Delaware openly opposes&lt;br /&gt;America’s involvement in yet another war during these dire economic times. Benjamin Harrison a signer of the Declaration of Independence once said that we are not to be the Police of the world. This includes meddling in a civil war of an Arab country that has little strategic value and for which Congress was not officially consulted. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Benjamin Harrison stated  that America serves the world best not as a policeman (or benefactor), but rather as a beacon of hope, liberty and that comes only through the knowledge of Who Christ Jesus is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None of those missiles and none of those coalition jet pilots will be able to discern the difference between pro-Gadhafi civilians or anti-Gadhafi civilians since they all have weapons. We have no real idea who  the rebels are or their true political agenda; some even having ties to Al Qaeda. Obama like his predicessor has no clear objective, no clear definition of victory and no clear exit strategy .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Former first lady Laura Bush Recently, went public with a plea that foreign aid be spared in pending budget cuts.  Here is the reason why I oppose republicrats. her lavish banquets and hobnobbing does not qualify her to be statesman (woman) anymore than visiting the NASA Center makes her an astrophysicist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like many political insiders, and make no mistake Mrs Bush, you are one, you  like the others with a  D or R behind your name find it easy to give away other people's money. We should remember, the money we give to foreign lands is borrowed, and to be paid back by future generations with interest. Also, let American voters not forget, contributions to foreign beneficiaries by no means is voluntary - They are forcefully collected through taxes.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  As Congressman David Crockett once said Mrs. Bush, It is not yours to give.  feel free to donate all the money you wish to your worthy mission...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."&lt;br /&gt;Originally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," &lt;br /&gt;by Edward Sylvester Ellis.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-6653216933571307193?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/6653216933571307193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/03/riding-down-road-to-ruin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/6653216933571307193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/6653216933571307193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/03/riding-down-road-to-ruin.html' title='Riding Down The Road To Ruin'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-4157419896323543939</id><published>2011-03-07T14:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-07T14:43:28.935-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Science of Deception</title><content type='html'>The Science of Deception&lt;br /&gt;By Earl Lofland&lt;br /&gt;March,7,2011&lt;br /&gt;Explaining what occurred in the 2010 election is intended to enlighten other conservatives about the reason why Christine O’Donnell did not win. The national leadership of the GOP and its financial backers did not have any interest in Christine O’Donnell, nor other candidates like her to be placed in office. It doesn’t matter if they are running for local, county, state, or federal office. The chain of command still applies. Whoever the National Party doesn’t support, the state Party leadership will not support. If the leadership of the state party changes to more conservative views, the national will provide the least amount of support the states candidates. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Conservative voters should ask what marketing firm was behind the making of the advertisement Christine O’Donnell ran; "I am not a witch" It was obvious to many who know the science of Political selections it was aired to drive down her voter approval ratings, and shift  more public interest from the moderate Republican voters to vote for Chris Coons over Christine. Some will find this hard to believe although the evidence clearly shows the National Party and its financial contributors do not hold the same interest as the local conservative voters, especially those in Delaware. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone who studied the science behind political campaigns realizes what occurred with Christine’s campaign, and others like hers. While the majority of their supporter usually work tirelessly, hoping to change things nationally at the state level-- Delaware proved in the 2010 elections,(as well as in 2008) there is little chance to force redirection onto the national party and their financial contributors to side with conservatives on a state level, especially with a state like Delaware and the number of electoral votes it carries in national elections. National leadership always holds higher stakes and thus more leverage in controlling what will occur on the state level in elections especially in Delaware.  And the Republican national party would rather have someone like Chris Coons in office compared to a Christine O’Donnell based on the number of moderate republicans who are in office across the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a political riff between the conservative and the moderate republicans in Delaware due to the political war within Delaware’s Republican Party. The outcome will most likely cause a split in the party, where some members will decide to leave the party. Either to form a new party, or look for another party that best fits their political views. In Delaware, a vast majority of Moderates could end up switching over to the Democrat party in hopes to bring more Blue Dog Democrats in over the social liberal democrats if the Conservative side wins.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;However if the Moderates gained control of the Republican party there will  be some voters who will look for another conservative party to support. If the Conservatives decided to stay with a party controlled by moderates, many new conservative voters would also see the party having a more liberal dialog, not much different than the Democrat party.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-4157419896323543939?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/4157419896323543939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/03/science-of-deception.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/4157419896323543939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/4157419896323543939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/03/science-of-deception.html' title='The Science of Deception'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-5523122859629296085</id><published>2011-02-28T14:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-28T14:39:24.048-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Reality Checks Are Not Based Upon Fiat Money</title><content type='html'>In Bold and or Bold Italics I will Break the article down published in the Delaware State News Titled:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Demonstrators rally to save ‘American dream’ By Jamie-Leigh Bissett"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOVER — About 200 Delawareans rallied on the steps of Legislative Hall in Dover on Saturday to "demand an end to the attack on workers’ rights."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lets put this in a more factual standing. PUBLIC UNION WORKERS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We're here today to stand in solidarity with Wisconsin workers and American families everywhere," said event organizer Ann Nolan of Lewes. "After a devastating recession and hundreds of thousands of jobs lost, regular Americans cannot take another hit." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Point 2 similar as Point 1 And addendum though. The recession and thousands of jobs lost . Unions Do not care about Non Union Members. Attempt to cross a Picket line and work where they are picketing.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Nolan and the hundreds of other demonstrators that included teachers and other public sector workers from the First State said the "Rally to Save the American Dream" was part of a national day of action, with events happening in all 50 state capitals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If they want to save the AMERICAN DREAM Then they should stop indoctrinations of students with all the Ed Programs Death Ed Sex Ed etc. They also should conduct actual model of learning opposed to the Skinner Pavlovian techniques that have been brought in to the PUBLIC Sector  through Non profits like the Carnage Foundation Ford Foundation Rockefeller Foundation et al.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She said the reason behind the demonstration stems from protests in Wisconsin, where workers have been fighting for nearly two weeks against a bill proposed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker that would eliminate a union’s right to collectively bargain for benefits and work conditions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They should feel fortunate that the governor has not taken on a more Constitutional Ideal to Shut down all Public schools and Transit all students into a private learning system of the parents choice Through a rebate to the tax payer of the existing budget that has been allotted for the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.  BY the way If this were to occur in Delaware? It would be Constitutional! And As governor. I would impose such a measure.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gov. Walker said the bill would help solve the state’s nearly $3.6 billion shortfall, while union members believe the bill is a ploy to strip them of their rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;While the Union fights to keep their right of collective bargaining the Students rights parents rights and anyone elses rights who are not a union member is infringed. This is actually illegal! Laws must be for all or none&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Right now, the American Dream is slipping away for millions of us, and we're here today to say enough is enough. It’s time for our government to work for us, and not just corporations and millionaires," Ms. Nolan said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Dream slipped way dating back to the 1980's . The American Dream began right after the WWII and it ballooned and then exploded in the 1980's And ever since Both Democrats and Republicans have been stripping that away Piece by piece. Wake up ! and smell the Hawg slop! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The American Dream became the totalitarian nightmare And Public Unions are as much to blame as the politicians in office.  Tytler gave a description of what occurs after about 200 years and the stages of a Democracy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joanne Cabry, who is a retired teacher from Rehoboth Beach, said even though Wisconsin is hundreds of miles away, their fight is Delaware’s fight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;War is the means to an end, and the end is always governed by Politics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sun Tzu said this! in Art of War. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore if this is a FIGHT. This makes it a war. And that war is Union vs non Union.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere," she said, borrowing a quote from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And I too will borrow a quote from the same man.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this protest right? To answer that; question: is anyone being excluded? Answer: Yes, Non Union workers and students are who are being damaged. Therefore, though it may be popular to mimic the protesting that has occurred the last two years. It may be a safe thing even politic to rally around the very people who support Public Unions (Public Elected officials AKA Politicians) But it does not qualify for being right. Nor does it qualify as a Constitutional RIGHT.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We're all in this together," added Deborah Schultz of Lewes. "It’s all about power to them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Incorrect it is about diverting power away from the government. And Government Public workers is still government! and Not the people!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They’re trying to divert attention away from themselves and turn people against each other. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As I said... They are a diversion and manipulating the facts, and what is actually Constitutional in policy and principle.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the public sector gets less, that doesn't mean the private sector will get more."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And if the public sector gets on board and realizes that the the problem is called FEDERAL RESERVE then maybe we can all do something to actually RESTORE our Constitutional Republic instead of handing it over to Social elites who only wish to demonize those opposed to an Authoritarian Kleptocratic Form of Government.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jon Holland, a pilot living in Dover, said the whole thing "upsets me. It’s not right to demonize people who are trying to bargain themselves a better life, or to blame our problems on one group of people."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He is absolutely right! And when Union workers demonize non union members what is that? A Hypocritical Comment maybe??&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Demonstrators at Saturday’s rally held signs that read, "Cut bonuses, not teachers," "Unions make us strong," and "Like weekends? Thank unions."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show me where the Public Schools have done anything more than cost Taxpayers more money; where they have produced across the board equal education among all races. and where there is not class warfare not being taught in the classrooms. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This was what No Child Left behind was to solve and Race to the Flop as well. And other programs dating back to the Johnson Years. And all of them failed in doing anything other than cost tax payers more while their children and they receive less for their tax dollar (investments)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unions have no place in the publics government. It infringes upon the rights of those who do not wish to be a union member and are forced to send their children to schools that are run by a public Unionized government further indoctrinating them with union propaganda. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who came to the rally were people of all ages and walks of life, which was the point, said John Johnson, himself a Local 234 Transport Workers Union of America member. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All were UNION or family members of Unions or Supporters for something that is Unethical in regards to the principles of the Founding documents. to include ALL not some who may be in a union.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This is not a black issue. This is not a white issue. This is a working-class issue," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Incorrect, It is a UNION ISSUE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edward "Pedro" Miller of Lewes echoed Mr. Johnson’s sentiments, saying "There would be no middle class without unions."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is no middle class!!!! It was destroyed a long time ago! Thanks to the Federal Reserve and laws that public elected officials have passed that destroyed the "Middle Class". You are either wealthy making over $100,000.00 a year or you are poor, and living below the Cost of Living. ThanksReagan and each Congress during all 8years of his tenure for that!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He added that the "American Dream will only be a memory if we don't do something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The American Dream is to restore that which was destroyed, that dates back prior to when anyone at that rally was born! Unless they are as old as Mr. Frank Buckles the Last surviving WWI Vet who just passed away.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"America was once the greatest country in the world. It still can be, but we have to do something about it."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes it was!  But I have to pour cold water on their hopey changy dream there.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanks to both the political parties and their support of Banking Cartel and their Business Plot,that began .. Just about the time of when the War Between the States broke out... Or earlier, all that is now a part of American History that gets very little acknowledgement.  Because it goes against the agenda of the very ones who had created the Business Plot to begin with.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tom Steele, of Newark and an Amtrak 3095 union member, said he is "tired of being manipulated by big business and politicians."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And Americans Private UNION members  AND NON UNION members are tired of being Manipulated &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said he is also "mad as hell" about the attack on union workers, to which the protestors loudly cheered in agreement. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personally I am not against private unions. I realize why they were created. Because of families like the Carnagies and Rockefellers. Fords Getty Schwabs et al would exploit men women and children as slaves to build their empire. That eventually marched on the Campaign platform and on in to local state and federal government seats.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phillip Bannowsky of Newark, who led the crowd in songs like "Union Made," the lyrics of which include, "You can't scare me. I'm sticking to the union ... ’til the day I die," and chants such as, "Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Where did all the money go? Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Union busting has got to go," said those attacking workers’ rights view those not trying to get rich as the enemy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where did all the money go? That is a very good question!!! Again I point back to the Federal Reserve and their illegal henches the IRS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"They view everyone who works for a living as the enemy," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now that is a real joke. Not everyone who works is a UNION MEMBER And again I challenge anyone to cross a Union Picket line to seek work and see what happens!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And though the ralliers on Saturday all strongly believed in what they were fighting for, some, like Skip Paulman of Newark, were disappointed with the turnout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hmm Maybe it is because there are still a lot of people who recognize the real problem? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I expected to see every union worker here today. Where are they? This is our livelihood, man," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe there is a light at the end of this tunnel, and maybe it isn't an oncoming freight train? Maybe some UNION Members realize . Like Martin Luther King said in 1964 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-5523122859629296085?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/5523122859629296085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/reality-checks-are-not-based-upon-fiat.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/5523122859629296085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/5523122859629296085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/reality-checks-are-not-based-upon-fiat.html' title='Reality Checks Are Not Based Upon Fiat Money'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-7371072161119467072</id><published>2011-02-21T00:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T01:45:57.486-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Public v Private and home schooling</title><content type='html'>As Americans are witnessing in Wisconsin, soon this will spread into other states as well. The Protest in Wisconsin is a political struggle between the people of the state vs State union workers who are a part of the state operated education system.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Remember, in all things, where there are two or more oppents it should be recognized as a war:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"War is the means to an end . And that end is always governed by Politics".&lt;br /&gt;Sun Tzu.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Just as a sword has two edges, so does political struggles. And what took place  when Americans marched on Washington DC and to the town hall meetings opposing bigger government, SEIU, and laws that were being passed without reading the bills, gave a  blow to the Train wreck agenda of government attempting to take control over the people.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I am posting a video &lt;a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/4545520/white-house-fanning-protest-flames-in-wisconsin/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;  .&lt;br /&gt;Pay attention to the footage about 45-60  seconds into the news cast, the upper balcony where you will see a flag hanging over the railing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why has someone hung a flag from Puerto Rico over the banister in a Wisconsin Sate Building? &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This protest is being managed by a perspective managment team!&lt;br /&gt;The objective for the flag is to generate racial tension against their opponents. It is a tactic that has been used for centuries. by attacking anyone who opposes this movement as discriminating against hispanics or other minorities in order to achieve giving the public this false perception, there has to be something put in place to persuade their argument. (A False flag- in this case the flag of Puerto Rico).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any governor who faces what is happening now in Madison WI is dedicated at saving their state, he will have to "destroy it in order to save it". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is a war tactic. That I will explain&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The strategy would include dismantling the public school system in the state.  By Placing all the students on a temporary vacation, similar to what FDR done with the Banks during the great depression; through the governor(s) signing several executive orders.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Giving the private schools in their state adequate time to hire ample teachers and other staffing,&lt;br /&gt;Also to begin a transition of state school property either purchased or leased to private schools  (Creating a boost in the private sector job market growth) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taking tax dollars that are already appropriated for state funded schools to operate during this and the upcoming fiscal year and transfering those funds into vouchers, for parents and guardians to use for students to be transferred into a private school of the parent/Guardians choice, with as little harmed in the students education.  &lt;br /&gt;Keeping the Board of Education in the state only in the capacity of supervising state mandated studies required by the state, and  taught in the private charter and home schooling programs. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;State employees funded through the states education system would then be terminated effective immediately (with UI compensation for 26 weeks) and given the responsibility of seeking gainful employment within that 26 weeks in a competitive private market. Instead of contributing to the problems related to the ever growing size of government and forcing the state to continually increase in taxes to help pay for the failing public schools system.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Wisconsin could be the first beta test state for such a remarkable idea, that could build and grow in popularity from state to state. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This would also decrease students being "Fundamentally illiterate" as the recent statistics are showing, where over 59 million people in America who have graduated high school, and are either "semi fundamentally illiterate or Fundamentally illiterate". &lt;br /&gt;It has also been proven students who are taught in private schools are at a higher grade level in learning than those in the public schools. While increasing the students literacy and learning skills, this alo would take on the task to downsize the state government; Decreasing the need for higher taxes; targeting these problems at a state level first. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ground up principles.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This is where Delawareans and other states need to support any governors who would recognize such an idea now. Or, find someone to back as their states governor in 201 who would enact this experiment. It would also be crucial to have an Attorney General who would be supportive of these Governors and this proposed experiment as well.&lt;br /&gt;Earl Lofland&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-7371072161119467072?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/7371072161119467072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/public-v-private-and-home-schooling.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7371072161119467072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7371072161119467072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/public-v-private-and-home-schooling.html' title='Public v Private and home schooling'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-4140760392617616512</id><published>2011-02-19T18:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-19T19:34:16.364-08:00</updated><title type='text'>PROPRIATORY RIGHTS OF THE BANKRUPT</title><content type='html'>These united States entered into bankruptcy in 1933 by Executive Orders &lt;a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14507"&gt;6073&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14611"&gt;6102&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14621"&gt;6111&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14509"&gt;6260&lt;/a&gt; under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, See: &lt;a href="http://www.ncrepublic.org/lib_senatereport.php"&gt;Senate Report 93-549&lt;/a&gt;, pages 187 &amp; 594) under the "&lt;a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/12/95a.html"&gt;Trading With The Enemy Act&lt;/a&gt;" (Sixty-Fifth Congress, Sess. I, Chs. 105, 106, October 6, 1917), and as codified at &lt;a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode12/usc_sec_12_00000095---a000-.html"&gt;12 U.S.C.A. 95a.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;At that time each of the united States pledged faith and credit to the aid of the Federal Government, forming numerous committees, i.e. "Council of State Governments", "Social Security Administration", etc., to manage the contrived economic "Emergency" caused by the bankruptcy. The SSA became Corporations operated under the "Declaration of Interdependence" of January 22, 1937, and published some of their activities in " &lt;a href="http://www.csg.org/"&gt;Book Of The States&lt;/a&gt;."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Robert Bork wrote "we are governed not by law or elected representatives but by an unelected, unrepresentative, unaccountable committee of lawyers applying no will but their own." (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.enotes.com/jax/index.php/works/download/type=encyclopedia/notes=tempting-america-salem/id=tempting-america/"&gt;The Tempting Of America&lt;/a&gt;, Robert H. Bork, pg. 130&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it is more worthy to note that there is  the "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titles_of_Nobility_Amendment"&gt;Original" 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution called the "Title of Nobility&lt;/a&gt;" Amendment that reads: &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"&lt;em&gt;If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall, without the consent of congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them&lt;/em&gt;." &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Senator Philip Reed (MD) proposed the "Title of Nobility" Amendment (&lt;em&gt;History of Congress, Proceedings of the Senate, p. 529-530&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;br /&gt;On April 27, 1810, the Senate voted to pass the 13th Amendment by a vote of 26 to 1; the House voted to resolve the amendment (87 to 3 in the affirmative).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The resolve was then sent to the States for ratification:&lt;br /&gt;Dec. 10, 1812; Twelve of the required thirteen States had ratified the Amendment as follows: &lt;br /&gt;Maryland, Dec. 25, 1810&lt;br /&gt;Kentucky, Jan. 31, 1811 &lt;br /&gt;Ohio, Jan. 31, 1811 &lt;br /&gt;Delaware, Feb. 2, 1811 &lt;br /&gt;Pennsylvania, Feb. 6, 1811 &lt;br /&gt;New Jersey, Feb. 13, 1811 &lt;br /&gt;Vermont, Oct. 24, 1811 &lt;br /&gt;Tennessee, Nov. 21, 1811 &lt;br /&gt;Georgia, Dec. 13, 1811&lt;br /&gt;North Carolina, Dec. 23, 1811 &lt;br /&gt;Massachusetts, Feb. 27, 1812&lt;br /&gt;New Hampshire, Dec. 10, 1812. &lt;br /&gt;Although the War of  1812 began before a thirteenth State could ratify the amendment, interupting the ratification. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The State of Connecticut failed to ratify this original 13th Amendment &lt;br /&gt;on May 13, 1813, leaving it up to Virginia to be 13th required state to ratify the amendment. Whereas Virginia ratified with the March 12, 1819 publication of the Laws of Virginia.&lt;br /&gt;Then Connecticut published this in four separate editions of "The Public Statute Laws of the State of Connecticut" as an amendment of the U.S. Constitution in 1821, 1824, 1835 and 1839. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Without record or explanation the amendment was mysteriously not added to the subsequent editions, just prior to the out break of the War Between the States.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless, Printing by a legislature is prima facie evidence of ratification, and was found printed as part of the Constitution by many of the other states until after the War Between the States and into the Reconstruction period - when it mysteriously disappeared from all subsequent printings. The last official publication found is the 1876 Laws of the &lt;a href="http://www.amendment-13.org/tona/twy76-1.jpg"&gt;Territory of Wyoming &lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.amendment-13.org/tona/twy76-2.jpg"&gt;Amendment XIII&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to understnd the full impact of the constitution&lt;br /&gt;This Amendment,upon receivership of knighthood- a title of nobility from another country nullified the citizenship of the following individuals,thus disqualifying them from being in the the several states of the union legally and hold any office og the States or federal government.(&lt;a href="http://truthin7minutes.com/knighted.php"&gt;Knighted by the Queen&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The Reorganization of the bankruptcy of the United States is located in Title 5 of United States Codes Annotated. The "Explanation" at the beginning of 5 U.S.C.A. is most informative reading. The "Secretary of Treasury" was appointed as the "Receiver" in Bankruptcy.  &lt;em&gt;Reorganization Plan No. 26, 5 U.S.C.A. 903, Public Law 94-564, Legislative History, pg. 5967&lt;/em&gt; Since the bankrupt loses control over his business, this appointment to the "Office of Receiver" in bankruptcy had to be made by the "creditors" who are "foreign powers or principals". &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;On March 17, 1993, Congressman Traficant stated: &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Mr. Speaker, We are now here in Chapter 11. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government."  Vol. 33, pg 1303 Congressional Record&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This applies to "Members of Congress,"; the Secretary of the Treasury (as the "Receiver in bankruptcy"); and all state and federal "officials" who act under the de facto authority of that bankrupt Foreign Corporation known as the United States as trustees (foreign agents) for foreign principals. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Trustees work for the creditors of a bankruptcy as agents for foreign principals. In this case the creditors are the Federal Reserve Banks; the International Monetary Fund (the Fund) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the Bank). It is also worthy of note that an Attorney/Representative is required to file a "Foreign Agents Registration Statement" pursuant to 22 U.S.C.A. 611c(1)(iv), 612 &amp; 613), when representing the interests of a Foreign Principal or Power. ( &lt;a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/376/605/"&gt;Rabinowitz vs. Kennedy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;376 U.S. 605, 11 L. Ed. 2d 940, 18 U.S.C.A. 219 &amp; 951&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Some Economists suggest that the economic Crash of '29 and the Great Depression was caused by the Federal Reserve withholding currency from circulation and raising interest rates after an inflationary easy money policy in the early 1920s. Their FED's fear of excessive speculation led it into a deflationary policy in the late 1920s.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The U.S. economy was well past the peak of the business cycle when the stock market crashed in October of 1929. presenting remarkible evidence the Federal Reserve miscalculated terribly by raising interest rates too much, while catapuliting us into the recession they were hoping to avoid. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This "emergency" created several abuses and usurpations, violating the Constitutionally delegated Powers and Authority as clearly stated in Senate Report 93-549 (1973): &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, [78 years now in 2011] freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have in varying degrees been abridged by laws brought into force by statutes of national emergency."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In accordance to  American Jurisprudence, 2nd Edition, Sections 71 and 82, NO "emergency" justifies a violation of any Constitutional provision. for the sake of argument, "Supremacy Clause" and "Separation of Powers." It is clearly admitted in the  Senate Report No. 93-549 the abridgment occurred.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The federal government persuaded the Conference of Governors to pledge faith and credit of the several States of the Union and their citizenry to aid the National Government on March 6, 1933, (Public Papers And Addresses of Franklin Roosevelt, Vol. II, March 6, 1933 pp. 18 - 24) for what they openly admitted doing. Where they encouraged Mr. Roosevelt to ask for, and use extra-constitutional powers during the "emergency" continuing even to this day.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Justice David Davis Stated in an Opinion&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Time has proven the discernment of our ancestors; for even these provisions, expressed in such plain English words, that it would seem the ingenuity of man could not evade them, are now, after the lapse of more than seventy years, sought to be avoided. Those great and good men foresaw that troublous times would arise, when rulers and people would become restive under restraint, and seek by sharp and decisive measures to accomplish ends deemed just and proper; and that the principles of constitutional liberty would be in peril, unless established by irrepealable law. The history of the world had taught them that what was done in the past might be attempted in the future. The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, [71 U.S. 2, 121]and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its just authority. -– Supreme Court (1866) Ex Parte Milligan &lt;a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/71/2/case.html"&gt;71 U.S. 2 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Justice Sutherland stated in &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/case/us/290/398"&gt;HOME BLDG. &amp; LOAN ASS'N v. BLAISDELL, 290 U.S. 398&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;(1934) &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;'The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism. ...' &lt;br /&gt;Chief Justice Taney, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How, 393, 426, said that, while the Constitution remains unaltered, it must be construed now as it was understood at the time of its adoption; that it is not only the same in words but the same in meaning, 'and as long as it continues to exist in its present form, it speaks not only in the same words, but with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States. Any other rule of construction would abrogate the judicial character of this court, and make it the mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day.' And in South Carolina v. United States, 199 U.S. 437, 448 , 449 S., 26 S.Ct. 110, 111, 4 Ann.Cas. 737 in an opinion by Mr. Justice Brewer, this court quoted these words with approval and said: &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;'The Constitution is a written instrument. As such its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted, it means now. ... Those things which are within its grants of power, as those grants were understood when made, are still within them; and those things not within them remain still excluded.' [290 U.S. 398, 451]   &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Also in Accordance to Blaisdell &lt;br /&gt;"Emergency does not create power. Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted IN a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the Federal Government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency and they are NOT altered by emergency." - &lt;a href="http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/case/us/290/398"&gt;Home Building &amp; Loan Assoc. v Blaisdell 290 U.S. 398 (1934)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This property, (the faith and credit of the citizenry of the several States), was the collateral accepted by the creditors (foreign principals) so the federal government could continue borrowing Federal Reserve Notes while continuing to operate under reorganization. Mr. Roosevelt issued Executive Orders &lt;a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14507"&gt;6073&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14611"&gt;6102&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14621"&gt;6111&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14509"&gt;6260&lt;/a&gt; within days of his inauguration Mar 4, 1933. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Each one unlawful, unless someone other than the people owned the people's possessions.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Yet the people are still being pledged as collateral, secured by UCC commercial liens, which are still monetized as "debt money" by the Federal Reserve Banks, to be surrendered if needed under orders of the bankruptcy, thereby depriving the people of clear title to their property under the guise of a contrived "emergency." &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;These proclamations created 470 provisions of Federal law, and thes statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers that are ordinarily to be exercised by the Congress, affecting the lives of every American citizen in a host of a vast range of unconstitutional powers. Taken together, they confer enough authority to rule the country without any reference to the normal constitutional dur process of law. These powers delegated by mentioned statutes, the President has the power to: Seize property; &lt;br /&gt;organize and control the means of production &lt;br /&gt;Seize commodities &lt;br /&gt;Assign military forces abroad &lt;br /&gt;Institute martial law &lt;br /&gt;Seize and control all transportation and communication &lt;br /&gt;Regulate the operation of private enterprise &lt;br /&gt;Restrict travel and control the lives of all American citizens in numerous other ways. &lt;br /&gt;The several States leaders were either bribed or seduced into this new policy in 1939 when Roosevelted promised  federal grants-in-aid. Federal Revenue Sharing (31 U.S.C. ( 6700 et seq.), the modern version of the grants-in-aid program. In return, the states were to agree to uphold and maintain the pledge of life, labor and property of their respective citizenry as surety for the debts and other obligations to the Federal government. State politicians gladly complied, seeomg this as an opportunity to increase their own political power, while kicking the can down to the next generation of office holders, to worry how to fix the long term consequences of their acts. &lt;br /&gt;In May of 1933 Congressman Louis T. McFadden, brought formal charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank system, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Secretary of the United States Treasury for numerous criminal acts, including but not limited to, CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, UNLAWFUL CONVERSION, AND TREASON. The petition for Articles of Impeachment was thereafter referred to the Judiciary Committee, and has yet to be acted upon. ( &lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/21175933/Louis-T-McFadden-Congressional-record-May-23-1933-motion-for-impeachment-of-US-Federal-Reserve-members"&gt;Congressional Record, May 23, 1933, pp. 4055-4058&lt;/a&gt;.) &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;These individuals fraudulently, knowingly and willfully swore an Oath to uphold, defend and preserve the Constitutioon of the United States, which preserves the sovereignty of the Nation and the several Republican States of the Union, therefore violating their solemn duty and honor to protect the People/Citizens and their Posterity from fraud, imposition, avarice and any malichious encroachments. (See: &lt;a href="http://openjurist.org/260/us/220/united-states-v-atkins-atkins"&gt;Atkins et al. vs. U.S&lt;/a&gt;., 556 F.2d 1028, pg. 1072, 1074, The Tempting Of America, supra, pgs. 155 - 159, also see, 5 U.S.C.A. 5305 &amp; 5335, Senate Report No. 93-549, pgs. 69 - 71, C.R.S. 24-75-101) These basic principles appear be too high a thought concept for our judges, legislators, and public servants, just as "Due Process", "Just Compensation" and "Justice". Honor is earned by honesty and integrity, It is never inherited nor awarded throuh false or fraudulent pretenses. The persons affilitation to a party will not cover-up the usurpations, lies, trickery and deceptions that has occured. Principles such as "Fraud and Justice never dwell together" (Wingate's Maxims 680); "A right of action cannot arise out of fraud."  (Broom's maxims 297, 729; Cowper's Reports 343; 5 Scott's New Reports 558; 10 Mass. 276; 38 Fed. 800) &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If "public officials" represent the people under the Constitution, then they can only collect, use, and be paid in Constitutional money, (gold and silver). And they can only operate at common law in all criminal matters except for Maritime contracts. Federal Reserve Banks are private banks. For proof all one has to do is compare the government and private pages of the telephone book to see where the Federal Reserve Banks are listed. &lt;br /&gt;When "public officials" use Federal Reserve "Notes," or funds reducible only to Federal Reserve "Notes" in public business, they are using non-redeemable, dishonored, impaired, depreciated, interagency, international bills of debt/credit, and have to be operating a de facto government, which is treason to their oaths of office. Also violating their agency obligations to the sovereign people, for foreign principals.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-4140760392617616512?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/4140760392617616512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/propriatory-rights-of-bankrupt.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/4140760392617616512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/4140760392617616512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/propriatory-rights-of-bankrupt.html' title='PROPRIATORY RIGHTS OF THE BANKRUPT'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-8655893766002491267</id><published>2011-02-16T00:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-16T00:57:49.781-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Timing in an objective can help or destroy</title><content type='html'>Feb 16, 2011&lt;br /&gt;Earl Lofland&lt;br /&gt;I support eliminating the SBA in the future. However, Mr. Obama's plan to cut the SBA's Recession stimulus may be a little too much, and premature. The 2012 budget proposal aimed to slash the Small Business Administration funding by 45 percent could be disasterous in providing seed investment and small business loan agreements for domestic small businesses that would provide employment and business opportunities to Americans, to own a business that would ultimately decrease the unemployment and underemployment rates of American workers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though the SBA isn't the only government department that will have to figure out how to do more with less in the 2012 budget, there are other departments that are more likely to be less dangerous to our nations security, through federal defunding. And departments that are less likely to provide opportunities for rebuilding America's economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By reducing lucrative opportunities to Americans to start a small domestic owned and operated business, it also decreases the opportunities to increase gross National Production of goods and services within the borders of the United States. Thus risking the federal government to be in default of its loans to the International banks i.e. Federal Reserve, China, Saudi Arabia, Et al.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That could prove to be more destructive to our national security by being unable to repay all the debts Congress and the last two Presidents already have incurred on the Taxpayers. It is also very probale to add an additional risk to the governmnt repaying future loans that will be added to the already staggering $14 trillion debt, adding an additional $3.7 Trillion debt for this upcoming budget Congress is to decide on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the many less dangerous programs to consider cutting funding to is the Department of Homeland Security, by at least 65% this year, and for Congress to pass legislation with a 2/3 vote to transfer all DHS operations back to the respective departments before it was created. And by the US Congress passing addition legislation do decompartmentalize the other departments would make intelligence gathering for crimes against the states and interstate crimes to be shared with less red tape. This too could be performed through Executive Orders handed down by the President, that focus on the operations of deparments of the government as EO's were originally intended, instead of seizing control of the private sector for the governments use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a crime occurs, crossing state lines ,this could be more efficiently managed by a federal court handling the claim, eliminating many of the many agencies that have created compartmentalizing criminal activities, amd making it more difficult for information to be shared from agency to agency due to seperate rules and regulations that were created by the directors of each sepeate agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most logical measure is to do away with the problems of having several Law Enforcement Acencies i.e. ATF, DEA, FBI, DHS, etc and have them all under one agency The DOJ. All issues related to international cirme be placed under the Dept of Navy and dept of Army. With all crimes against the nations money system returned back to the Dept of Treasury. and all interstan Hiway traffic violations to be placedin the hands of the States unless it involves interstate crimes. This is a topic that could be discussed at a later time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the federal government is going to continue with special entitlement programs the most benificial for the American people would be to cut spending on programs that provide little assistance to those whom are unemployed or underemployed in reestatblishing the economy and providing to the general Welfare of the government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earl Lofland,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ershawgpen.com/index2010.html"&gt;2010 Independent- Constitution Party Congressional Candidate (Delaware at Large)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opinion based upon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama Plans to Cut SBA Budget Almost in Half&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://smallbusiness.aol.com/2011/02/14/obama-plans-to-cut-sba-budg...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-8655893766002491267?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/8655893766002491267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/timing-in-objective-can-help-or-destroy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/8655893766002491267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/8655893766002491267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/timing-in-objective-can-help-or-destroy.html' title='Timing in an objective can help or destroy'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-522115951732528900</id><published>2011-02-15T22:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-15T23:06:24.593-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Constitution Party Editorial "We Told You So"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vo_rZTYDl6A/TVt3Y-K6B9I/AAAAAAAAABo/Skjpm5lp8ds/s1600/CPlogo.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 96px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vo_rZTYDl6A/TVt3Y-K6B9I/AAAAAAAAABo/Skjpm5lp8ds/s400/CPlogo.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574180234690430930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;-Tuesday, February 15th, 2011-&lt;br /&gt;-Editorial-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"We Told You So," Then...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 147px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 179px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574177440797180242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9hHhrYLwMGs/TVt02WG2QVI/AAAAAAAAABQ/INF2_xXCjP8/s400/wshearerbw.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; William K. Shearer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On June 17, 1967 the American Independent Party of California (AIP) was&lt;br /&gt;organized in Los Angeles, CA. [Twenty-five years later, in 1992, the AIP would be&lt;br /&gt;the first, foundational state party to join the new US Taxpayers Party (USTP) which was destined to change its name to the Constitution Party in 1999] The founder of the&lt;br /&gt;AIP (and second national chairman, many years later, of the USTP) was William K. Shearer. Those who worked with Bill Shearer agree that he was one of the&lt;br /&gt;greatest, most unique and exceptional people they ever met. Those who worked against him all agree that he was the most fearsome and able opponent they ever encountered. He was elected to be the first chairman of the AIP on July 8, 1967,&lt;br /&gt;when the work begun at the previously mentioned June meeting was completed. Twenty years later, in the September, 1987, edition of The American Independent,&lt;br /&gt;one of his California Statesman publications, Shearer described the reasons why&lt;br /&gt;the AIP was organized:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"On July 8, 1967, formal organization of California's American Independent Party was completed at a convention held in Bakersfield. A constitution and declaration of principles were adopted, and officers were elected. The declaration of principles proclaimed:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A new party is urgently needed today because the leaders of the two existing parties, Democrat and Republican, have deserted the principles and traditions of our nation's founding fathers. Both of the existing parties have become the proponents of big government, crushing taxation, dictatorial federal power, waste and fiscal irresponsibility, unwholesome and disastrous internationalism, compromise with our nation's enemies, and authoritarian regimentation of the citizens of this Republic. Control&lt;br /&gt;of the government, under the domination of these two existing parties,&lt;br /&gt;has left the hands of the people our government was created to serve."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The declaration pledged the support of the American Independent Party&lt;br /&gt;to "limited constitutional government, with emphasis on the rights of the several states to govern their own local affairs and educational systems without federal bureaucratic or court interference." As to foreign affairs, the declaration stated that "the American Independent Party supports a foreign policy based on America's best interests, not world opinion," and "preservation of our national sovereignty." (emphasis added)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sound familiar? Nothing we face now is really all that new. The issues were defined and the gauntlet was tossed way back then. Yet, for 25 years, many people who should have known better opposed this new party effort, pinning there hopes (mostly) on the Republican Party and CREEPS like Richard Nixon, Globalists like Nelson Rockefeller or (and I know some of you won't like this) the soothing, hopeful, but largely empty rhetoric of Ronald Reagan. To their credit, by 1992, these good people finally decided they had enough and chose to form a new national party which would become the Constitution Party, with which the California AIP gladly joined as a charter member.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And, "We Are Still Telling You So"...Now&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, almost 20 years later (and over 43 years after the formation of the AIP) the Constitution Party is the only national political party carrying the banner for limited, Constitutional government, national sovereignty and an America First Foreign policy. Nevertheless many Americans still seem to pin their hopes on changing one of the existing parties. This is simply an example of the "battered voter syndrome" that Mary Starrett so adroitly identified in one of her articles in 2008. Yet again, as we approach 2012, the siren song is sung for the American people to put faith in the GOP to save us from "Obamanation. So, yet again, apparently, it is necessary to remind Americans of the truth: Neither the Democrat Party nor the Republican Party will solve our problems because...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They ARE Our Problem!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately, Constitution Party National Chairman, Jim Clymer, has proven himself to be more than equal to that task...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iSEobj54M84/TVt1JPzlwfI/AAAAAAAAABY/ePyGGBiSVUM/s1600/Jclymer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 187px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 250px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574177765523309042" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iSEobj54M84/TVt1JPzlwfI/AAAAAAAAABY/ePyGGBiSVUM/s400/Jclymer.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James N. Clymer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That Hope Which Springs Eternal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by James N. Clymer&lt;br /&gt;Chairman, Constitution Party National Committee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest Clung to the hope which springs eternal in the human breast”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These poignant lines from Casey at the Bat speak to the emotions that those of us who follow and cheer our favorite baseball team have experienced countless times. Philadelphia Phillies fans have a reputation for being among the most fervent in professional sports. They can be churlish and cruel, yet they will be loyal to a fault; they exude emotion and expectation yet understand practicality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What most people don’t understand is what made them that way. Growing up rooting for a team that a few short years ago became the only team in major professional sports to have lost 10,000 games in its franchise history develops a sports character that a Yankee, Braves or Red Sox fan could never understand!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Politics has many parallels with baseball. Those who develop team loyalty see everything through the tinted glasses of their team. So if they are Republican,&lt;br /&gt;the GOP can do no wrong and the Democrats can do no right and vice versa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take the vitriol heaped on Barack Obama by most Republicans. He evokes more emotion among the so-called Republican Right than any president in my memory.&lt;br /&gt;He is described by many as the most leftist president in history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, I’ve attended gatherings on more than one occasion during the Bush presidency where loyalist Republicans declared Bush to be the “most conservative president in our lifetime”, in “the last fifty years” or in “the last&lt;br /&gt;hundred years.” I guess you get to pick the absurdity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now don’t get me wrong. I believe the current occupant of the oval office is a Constitutional miscreant of immense proportions. He displays greater infidelity to the Constitution than any president since at least FDR. His lack of fidelity started with his refusal to show that he meets the Constitutional qualifications to be president. They are, after all, quite simple. One must be at least 35 years of age, shall have lived at least fourteen years in these United States and shall be a natural born citizen. Why would one spend what has been estimated to exceed a million dollars to keep secret the long form birth certificate that would settle this question once and for all? But I digress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, George W. Bush showed nearly as much disdain for the Constitution as does Obama. For all the outbursts about Obama trampling on the Constitution and turning us into a socialist state, I wonder what they were smoking while the Republicans controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for four years of the Bush II presidency. Bush’s alleged contemptuous remark that the Constitution is nothing but a “g*d d*mn” piece of paper”, was not merely a blasphemous statement; it exemplified an attitude and a policy. I challenge anyone to name one major fiscal, individual liberty or foreign relations policy area where there is a significant ideological difference between the practice of Bush II and Obama. Remember, I’m not comparing the degree to which the policy is taken but rather the ideological justification for the policy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the cover story of the December 6, 2010 issue of The New American, Charles Scaliger presents a compelling case for how Obama, despite campaign hype to the contrary, continued the war policies of Bush in both Iraq and Afghanistan, continued the course set by Bush in relations with Russia and in calling for an expansion of NATO, along with ever greater accommodations with the United Nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fiscal matters, Republicans have suddenly discovered a verbal commitment to fiscal restraint and constitutional limitations on the power of the federal government, blasting Obama for his socialized medicine capers and stimulus package bailouts. But where were they when Bush was doing the same sorts of things now done by Obama? After all, it was Bush who pushed through the first stimulus package, a $700 billion dollar bank bailout. As soon as Obama got into office, he started pushing for the second one to compound the disaster but it was not significantly less “unconstitutional” or “socialistic” than the one presided over by Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scaliger notes that overall federal spending has increased about ten percent per&lt;br /&gt;year during the first two years of the Obama administration which is about the same annual increases that occurred during the administration of George W. Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obamacare, the gargantuan intrusion of the federal government into the healthcare decisions of every American citizen, is presented as the proof case for Obama’s desire to lead us into socialism. Without disputing the truth of that intent, let’s look objectively at what Bush did in the federal healthcare arena with his massive overhaul of Medicare at an estimated cost of $7 trillion, called “the greatest expansion of America’s welfare state in forty years” by CBS legal correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was George W. Bush who disdained the privacy rights of individuals that the federal government is supposed to protect under the Fourth Amendment by pushing through the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security along with its progeny of new intrusions on the privacy of American citizens. Although candidate Obama decried these violations of the Constitution, once assuming the office of the presidency, he has continued these policies and has authorized even more draconian policies such as installation of new backscatter body imaging machines that electronically undress passengers who merely want to exercise their right to travel. Those who refuse to have the naked features of their bodies viewed by strangers must face an enhanced groping “patdown” that would constitute a felonious sexual assault if done by anyone other than a government agent in a non-medical circumstance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Republicans have gained a substantial majority in the House of Representatives. The pundits are buzzing about the opportunities this new crop of Republicans will have and hope again springs eternal that sanity will be restored in Washington. But if the past is prologue, just as there was no joy in Mudville because mighty Casey had struck out, those pinning their hopes on Republican promises will see their hopes dashed once again. There are already emerging signs that the GOP really only wants to be a better caretaker of the welfare state than the Democrats. I have no confidence that it has any intention of derailing the train to socialism. (emphasis added)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bill Shearer was right in 1967.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jim Clymer is right in 2011&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been said that, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” It has also been said that "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." In 2012 the American voters have an opportunity to prove that they are sane and&lt;br /&gt;that they have finally learned from history by supporting the Constitution Party with their effort and their votes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our job is to make sure that in 2012 Americans all across the nation have an opportunity to: 1) hear about the Constitution Party message; 2) join with and help build the Constitution Party; 3) and, most importantly, vote for Constitution Party candidates for President, Vice-President and other offices across the board.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we move toward the Spring months of 2011 there is much to do in preparation to ensure that the Constitution Party will be in a position to provide the viable alternative political alternative this nation&lt;br /&gt;so desperately needs. Just as a batter cannot hit the ball unless he swings the bat, we cannot achieve our goals unless we are active and involved in supporting the Constitution Party. Americans no longer have&lt;br /&gt;the luxury of sitting on the sidelines watching others lead our country in the wrong direction. They need to stand up and get involved and we must provide that example!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will you make it YOUR priority to support your state Constitution Party affiliate? Will you help it financially, attend its meetings and help to do what is necessary to get it on the ballot, if it isn't already on the ballot. Don't stop there! Support the work of the Constitution Party's National Committee with your financial support and plan on being at the important national meetings in Harrisburg, PA in April and/or&lt;br /&gt;in Spokane, WA in the Fall. There is much to do and time starts to move very, very fast. This is not the time to sit on our hands, this is the time to...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stand Up For America!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you,&lt;br /&gt;Editorial Board&lt;br /&gt;Constitution Party News and Information&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next: Important State Meetings in Delaware, Kansas (2nd notice), Iowa and Pennsylvania.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upcoming: New Information regarding the Spring 2011 Constitution Party National Committee Meeting and Conference in Harrisburg.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9hHhrYLwMGs/TVt02WG2QVI/AAAAAAAAABQ/INF2_xXCjP8/s1600/wshearerbw.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 249px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 106px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574179407441789282" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HqE0ld1N34M/TVt2o0bdgWI/AAAAAAAAABg/1RAiTd8KSn4/s400/CPofD.jpg" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-522115951732528900?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/522115951732528900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/tuesday-february-15th-2011-editorial-we.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/522115951732528900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/522115951732528900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/tuesday-february-15th-2011-editorial-we.html' title='Constitution Party Editorial &quot;We Told You So&quot;'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vo_rZTYDl6A/TVt3Y-K6B9I/AAAAAAAAABo/Skjpm5lp8ds/s72-c/CPlogo.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-7221619965038241722</id><published>2011-02-15T02:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-15T02:43:05.300-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Be Careful of what you support. You just may get it.</title><content type='html'>By Earl Lofland&lt;br /&gt;A US reporter for Jewish World Review publised a warning about the events unfolding in Egypt this week.(See last two pargraphs)&lt;br /&gt;Also an article published in the Asharq alawas by By Abdulsattar Hatitah&lt;br /&gt;The  Egypt overthrow of Mubarak alarmed international observers to fear that radical states in the Middle East may benefit from the results of the Egyptian revolution. This is due to the Muslim Brotherhood appearing on the scene. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asked if Iran has contacted the military council, or any of the parties present in the caretaker government headed by Ahmed Shafik, the Iranian source stated that Iran "is monitoring developments in Egypt at this current time, but  any steps relating to potential rapprochement between the two countries, this is still premature".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 1979  relations between Tehran and Cairo have been severed, due to conflicting viewpoints regarding dealing with the region's issues . For thirty years Cairo has maintained a peaceful relationhip with Israel, and advocates dialogue as a means to solve regional disputes. Tehran doesn'tt recognize Israel, and adopts a radical approach to resolving differences, by sponsoring movements such as Hezbollah and Hamas. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran had been hostile towards President Mubarak's regime for many years, and it gave its blessing to elements of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement, who assassinated former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. Iran also provided refuge for some of its members. Disputes between the two states were renewed approximately two months ago, when Egypt warned Tehran of the consequences of interfering in the affairs of Arab states.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; This deterioration in the relationship came despite the fact that Egypt has refused to sanction a military strike from the West against Tehran, against the backdrop of Iran's controversial nuclear program. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the report by Waller R. Newell in the Jewish World Review; If El Baradei who is not a friend of the U.S. and very hostile to Israel manages to lead the reformers in a coalition, he will be the transitional liberal figure in support of the Muslim Brotherhood theology, who are, focused primarily on creating an Islamist collective rule of law, under the extreme version of Sharia law, an imitation of the Iranian theocracy. &lt;br /&gt;Already, predictably, The Muslim Brotherhood have begun speaking out, about the new Egypt pursuing an aggressively anti-Western, and above all anti-Israel policy. &lt;br /&gt;Aligning themselves with the common cause of their revolutionary partners in Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A senior member of the Brotherhood also announced that their aim will be to "prepare the Egyptian people for war with Israel" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamas chief Mahmoud al-Zahar said on Monday that “in the interest of the nation,” he believes that there are issues that should be looked at again right now, including Egypt’s military presence in the Sinai Peninsula despite it being against the agreements signed with Israel.&lt;br /&gt;Al-Zahar also expressed he hopes now Egypt’s new military leadership will open the Rafah crossing as soon as possible, that opening the crossing would be a way to renew the ties between Egypt and Gaza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another Hamas Leader announced that a newly elected legislature's first duty will be to re-consider the peace treaty with Israel. As a matter of course, as soon as they can, and the goal of the Brotherhood will be to terminate Egypt's tourist industry, one of its chief sources of income and an employer of many of the people demonstrating in Cairo today, because they regard tourists as a foreign taint and their interest in ancient ruins as promoting paganism.  All of these mirror exactly what took place  when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan after the US funded overthrow of the Afghani government, thorough funding Osama bin Laden and the the Mujahadeen, later to become al Quaeda, dating back to 1977, and Carter administration and contined on into the mid 1980s during the Reagan Administration. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Islamist revolutionaries, whatever more palatable image they may choose to present for now, they do not have the slightest interest in raising the Egyptian people's standard of living, because they detest liberal individualism and economic freedom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So when I hear the spin doctors saying no one realy knows what to expect with the recent overthrow of Mubarak and the immediate freeze on Egypts Constitution. I think back a little over 30 years ago and how this all played out with the overthrow of Afghanistan and what reprocussions resulted in 2000. I look back at the overthrow of the Iran Government in 1953 with the assistance of the CIA and then look ahead to 1979 where we were faced with having a hostage negotiation that ended with the death of 8 brave souls and wounding 4 more in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw"&gt;operation Eagle Claw&lt;/a&gt; spearheaded by &lt;br /&gt; Maj. Gen. James B. Vaught&lt;br /&gt; Col. James H. Kyle&lt;br /&gt; Col. Charles A. Beckwith&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-7221619965038241722?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/7221619965038241722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/be-careful-of-what-you-support-you-just.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7221619965038241722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7221619965038241722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/be-careful-of-what-you-support-you-just.html' title='Be Careful of what you support. You just may get it.'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-2144329359138859957</id><published>2011-02-09T15:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-09T17:47:39.408-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Capitis Maximus Diminutio Are You  A  Citizen of the Delaware Coporation USA, INC?</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;Capitis Maximus Diminutio&lt;/em&gt; is ancient Roman law which relates to Corporations&lt;br /&gt;All CAPITAL LETTERS.&lt;br /&gt;Just that alone is a topic of detailed discussion that has been recorded by many others  And I will post several video links at the bottom of this blog for you to watch, so you are more able to understand just how much has been done over the past 155 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amendment 14 was never ratified in accordance to the Articles of the Constitution There were not enough votes to pass this Amendment. Yet we are to believe it is not only legal, we are to believe it has made men free.&lt;br /&gt;First question that needs to be answered is if all men are not free before the Amendment then why is it that in the Declaration of Independence it clearly stated that ALL men (not reflecting sex but humans) we given inelinable rights by their Creator. Some will explain that we had no due process of law before the Amendment. This too is incorrect for in Amendment V it clearly states that you will have the rights of Due Process of Law where the government shall not deny you the right of Life Liberty and the pursuit of gaining property (happiness).&lt;br /&gt;One final question to ask, If you are now free and have Due Process of Law attempt to purchase a good or product and refuse to pay the taxes on that good or property.&lt;br /&gt;You have to enter into a Contract and if you do not enter into the entire contract or agree to the entire contract then that contract is Null and Void.&lt;br /&gt;Apply for a Credit Card or a Loan. It will ask you if you are a US Citizen if you refuse to answer that question you will be denied. If you lie you are also violating the law. So how do you determine who are US Citizens?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look on your bank statements your credit card or any business mail. All corporations names are in Captial letters. This is based upon the Roman Law known as Capitus Maximus Diminutio Only Coproations Dead People and Slaves have their names in Capital letters. Look at your Drivers License your bank statements anything that comes from a business and notice your name. If you go to court and you receieve a Court "DOCKET" Notice the spelling of your name. ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. The reason for this is due what has happening in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA since 1871.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amendment XIV is actually about Incorporating you the individual. It is an illegal Amendent that violates the organic constitution of and for these united States of America. because it was not properly radified by the States.&lt;br /&gt;Admirality Law and Law of the Land are two seperate laws&lt;br /&gt;If you have a Law dictionary Look at the word Bench in Latin it means Banco (BANK) The court is nothing but an adminstrator of the Delaware Corporation UNITED STATES OF AMERICA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below is a liste some of the  Corporations&lt;br /&gt;INTERNAL REVENUE TAX AND AUDIT SERVICE (IRS)&lt;br /&gt;For Profit General Delaware Corporation&lt;br /&gt;Incorporation Date 7/12/33&lt;br /&gt;File No. 0325720 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...FEDERAL RESERVE ASSOCIATION (Federal Reserve)&lt;br /&gt;Non-profit Delaware Corporation&lt;br /&gt;Incorporation Date 9/13/14&lt;br /&gt;File No. 0042817&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY INC. (CIA)&lt;br /&gt;For Profit General Delaware Corporation&lt;br /&gt;Incorporation Date 3/9/83&lt;br /&gt;File No. 2004409&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FEDERAL LAND ACQUISITION CORP.&lt;br /&gt;For-profit General Delaware Corporation&lt;br /&gt;Incorporation Date 8/22/80&lt;br /&gt;File No. 0897960&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RTC COMMERCIAL ASSETS TRUST 1995-NP3-2&lt;br /&gt;For-profit Delaware Statutory Trust&lt;br /&gt;Incorporation Date 10/24/95&lt;br /&gt;File No. 2554768&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SOCIAL SECURITY CORP, DEPT. OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE&lt;br /&gt;For-Profit General Delaware Corporation&lt;br /&gt;Incorporation Date: 11/13/89&lt;br /&gt;File No. 2213135&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC.&lt;br /&gt;Non-profit Delaware Corporation&lt;br /&gt;Incorporation Date 4/19/89 File No. 2193946&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.state.de.us/corp/directweb.shtml&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at #1 the paragraph has a link "click here for status on the web." From there, at the end of the first paragraph "receive a status inquiry on line, CLICK HERE." It takes you to 'General Inform...ation Name Search.') Keep in mind - these are just some of the listings I could found. For example, I tracked down the Bureau of Engraving and Printing - in the state of Texas (foreign corp from the District of Columbia). This means, as 'citizens,' we are assets of the corporation. It doesn't matter who is in office, the board of directors and the shareholders own and run the country - just as in any other corporation. Roosevelt's quote has an entirely different meaning now: "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THIS IS WHY GITMO SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN! and all prisoners Freed!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each of the above CORPORATIONS are an entity that must file State of Delaware tax returns to the Division of Revenue in the state of Delaware. If you were to look at the tax auditors office the Non Profit Corporation known as the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA has not filed a tax return in the state for which it is incorporated (Delaware, The very state I reside in- BTW, I am a retired Tax Professional I am still recognized as such by the Dept of Treasury. EIN 52-20146)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Non Profit Corporation of the Central Intelligence Authority, Inc (CIA) is also a Registered Corporation in the state of Delaware.&lt;br /&gt;If you are not a resident of Alaska Hawaii, or living within the 10 mile track of land known as Washington DC unless you submit a false document, stating you are a US Citizen and reside in these areas, the Corporations Jurisdiction is not applicable to you. And if you have falsified your resident status the contract is also null and void in accordance to Contract Law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Corporations jurisdiction and these agencies also are operating outside their jurisdiction they are operating in violation of the law. &lt;strong&gt;Tresspassing! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question &lt;/strong&gt;: Is Gitmo a recognized Territory of the UNITED STATES OF AMERCIA?&lt;br /&gt;Where is GITMO Located?&lt;br /&gt;Answer:&lt;br /&gt;Location of Gitmo is Cuba, The Answer to is it a recognized Territory of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  NO it is not.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So how could this issue be tresspassing, if Cuba allows the US to operate there?&lt;br /&gt;Gitmo is a hosted site shouldn't the laws of Cuba prevail?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Start a Business and attempt to do business in CUBA. Watch how fast the Corporation UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and its subsidiaries seize arrest you and seize your property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also another test is to see if you actually own anything. stop paying taxes and see how fast the Illegal arm of the corporation comes and seizes the goods you have  purchased.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is illegal to do any business with CUBA! That was also passed into law when the Corporaton USA, Inc. decided to sanction Cuba after the Whole Bay of Pigs thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The easiest way to know if Gitmo is a Territory of the Corporation USA, INC. is to look at who represents it in Congress. Guam has a someone Puerto Rico. the Somoian Islands. But Does Cuba? or Gitmo? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer NO&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Therefore, if Gitmo has no representative(s) in Congress It is an area where the Corp. USA is illegally conducting business  Therefore operating illegally. And tresspassing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of property that is titled to the USA, INC or its subsidiaries, located in each state must pay a foreign Corporation Income Tax or they MUST at very least file a Tax return showing they are not a business that has made any capital gains. i.e property or revenue. &lt;br /&gt;If the entity or any of its subsidities are making a profit, and listed as a 501 Organization Then they have also violated the IRC (Internal Revenue Code related to 501 corporations).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any of the above listed corporations have operated outside their legal jurisdiction their actions MUST Be so ordered by the people to cease and Disist immediately!  &lt;br /&gt;How? A Citizens Grand Jury is one means that is constitutionally entitled to the people. as a protection against an abusive government and its employees, i.e CEO VP board members and administrators of the Corporation USA, INC. &lt;br /&gt;Any individuals who were apprehended by the CIA or any other subsidiary of the Corporation UNITED STATES of AMERICA are being denied their 6th Amendment Rights. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This has recently been determined by the cases of the detainees being tried in a federal court in NY. An entity with adminstrators also operating beyond its jurisdiction (outside of Hawaii, Alaska and DC). &lt;br /&gt;The only place any detainees can be tried are in &lt;br /&gt;Alaska Hawaii or Washington DC  in accordance to operating legally under the ACT of 1871&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you agree that your states rights are under the jurisdiction of the Corporation that was created Feb. 21, 1871 by an Act of the 41st US Congress; &lt;a href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&amp;fileName=016/llsl016.db&amp;recNum=0454"&gt;Section 34 Session III Chapers 61 and 62&lt;/a&gt;, by passing an "&lt;a href="WASHINGTON &amp; GEORGETOWN R. CO. V. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 146 U. S. 227 (1892)"&gt;Act To Provide A Government For The District of Columbia&lt;/a&gt;" also known as The Act of 1871, why is it that each politician will talk of reducting the National debt and yet they refuse to address the problem of removing the very thing that has caused the problems; Known as the Federal Reserve? &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only the people living in territories that became States since 1871 are applicable to being under the jurisdiction of the Corporation USA, Inc. through the Act of 1871 Now do you realize why Sarah Palin has been promoted so strongly?&lt;br /&gt;And why there is so much information on Barak Obama that is not being released by HI?&lt;br /&gt;And why at this time the VP of the Corporation is from the State of Incorporation for The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INC when the state of Delaware committed Treason by allowing the Incorporating of the Non Profit Organiation United States of America?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Delaware UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Non-profit Delaware Corporation&lt;br /&gt;Incorporation Date 4/19/89 File No. 2193946&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY INC. (CIA)&lt;/strong&gt;For Profit General Delaware Corporation&lt;br /&gt;Incorporation Date 3/9/83&lt;br /&gt;File No. 2004409&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to State of Delaware's Tax Auditors ofice records last researched; the Non Profit Corporation UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS IN DEFAULT OF PAYING STATE TAXES TO THE State of Delaware's Division of Revenue. Yet no legal action has been demanded by the states Governor Tax Auditor General Assembly County Sheriff Court of Chancellory et al.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is paramount that you know the difference between the Organic Constitution and the Corporate Constitution that was illegaly passed; without a CON CON, and did not abolish the Original Constitution of the 13 Colonies! &lt;br /&gt;Look at the Declaration of Independence. Note the spelling the united States of the Thirteen Colonies. &lt;br /&gt;The spelling is NOT A TYPO it is ancient ROMAN LAW called &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Capitis Maximus Diminutio&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Then look up how corrupted the Judicial system has become. &lt;br /&gt;Judges are appointed to sit on the BENCH. In latin that word Bench is Banco (BANK) That means they are nothing more than the administrators for the coporation who are in charge of the revenues. And if the administrators they are negligent in filing the Tax Returns required by the Internal Revenue Codes in the US Code and Delaware Code.&lt;br /&gt;If you do enough research, you will also discover the courts are operating under Maritime Law. And the administrators and the very teir that is to proect your rights are no a court that recognizes the Laws of the Land. &lt;br /&gt;This is the reason you see the Yellow fring that is around the US Flags and has been placed on them illegally since the end of WWII.&lt;br /&gt;Admirality Law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are supposed to recognize individuals rights and State rights in accordance to Amendments IX and X! Yet, it is argued that the 10th amendment is null and void due to Amendment XIV. Which was never "Ratified in accordance to the Articles in the Constitutio (rules of adding an amendment to the Constitution).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some state that the politicians must be made aware of this that they surely do not understand what has happened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for them not understanding the system. &lt;br /&gt;Actually the Esquires in this country who have been elected are counting on and attempting to distract the people from understanding this treasonous Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is something that most do not realize. &lt;br /&gt;In accordance to the Articles of the Constitution, No person holding an office of the government is permitted to be awarded a title of nobility from a King or other country.&lt;br /&gt;This wold include Knighthood and other titles and deeds. Benjamin Franklin was offered a seat in Parliment and refused it. This was because it was an act known as conflict of interest, that would later be deemed, when the Colonies delcared Independence from GB as someone who held a dual allegiance to another country besides the interests of the people of the colonies. &lt;br /&gt;Colin Powell, Ted Kennedy and many others including Geo HW Bush have been awarded Knighthood there are governors who also have recieved this title as with othertitles form other countries. Even Barak Obama recieved an eligal title of Nobilty, The Noble Peace Prize a title of recognition from another country, that must be approved by Congress for the person recieving it to accept it. (Congress, wo is supposed to be the respective voice of the people.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why didn't any member in Congress demand these titles be refused, and returned back to the country of origin after they were awarded? Why is it that the announcements on the Congressonal Floor that these indiviuals were recieving these titles and deeds, recieved staning applauds from all members of our Congress?&lt;br /&gt;No, They clearly show, they know what they are doing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The majority of members in congress are titled Esquires, and that too is a title of nobility  (English Law) and is illegal for a person to hold and be a member of the government that is of the people by and for the people .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We should do away with the Federal Reserve! And we should get back to the Organic Constitution! &lt;br /&gt;We wouldn't have Standing Armies on our own soi more than 2 years. and we should not be sending our military to follow a flag for corporations dating back to the Spanish American War. &lt;br /&gt;If we were not under this treasonous Bankers ACT known as the Act of 1871.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-2144329359138859957?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/2144329359138859957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/capitis-maximus-diminutio-are-you.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/2144329359138859957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/2144329359138859957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/capitis-maximus-diminutio-are-you.html' title='Capitis Maximus Diminutio Are You  A  Citizen of the Delaware Coporation USA, INC?'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-7197146749950446523</id><published>2011-02-03T11:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T14:22:54.002-08:00</updated><title type='text'>War has  political risks and the end governs the politics</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;War has Political risks and the end always governs the politics&lt;/strong&gt;By Earl Lofland&lt;br /&gt;Feb 3, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"War is the means to an end. and the end is almost alaways governed by politics."&lt;br /&gt;Sun Tzu Art of War&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the 2008 presidential campaign many warned the dangers of voting for Mr. Obama, that he was a supporter of radical muslim ideals. Yet his supporters decided to discredit these warnings as being racially motivated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After his election, voters slowly began witnessing evidence revealing the startling warnings were being conveyed, and showing they were not racially motivated. When he appointed Retited UM Marine Corps General Jones as his National Security Advisor, Based upon his knowledge of the Ottoman empire, some recognized this as more evidence he was positioning himself in support of radical Muslim ideals and was planning to abandon the Judea Christian beliefs in supporting Isreal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later, Americans witnessed Mr. Obama bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia, and his supporters once again accused those who questioned this as false racially motivated accusations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, during his visit to Egypt and Turkey, Mr. Obama presented evidence that he was about to abandon Isreal and was alignining himself to support the radical ideals that are held by the Muslim Brotherhood, stated; America was no longer just a Christian Nation. Often times he has reflected the views that could be seen as representing the ideals of any other religion besides those that support the Judea Christian values, yet he has often professed himself to be a Christian. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To know whether a person belongs to a certain faith you only have to look at their personal life. A fig tree will not produce thisles, and a Sage bush will not produce grapes. During the Presidential election Mr. Obama ran his campaign to gain support from the Jewish community and this, (in part), was how he was able to be elected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The topic I am about to discuss, many will disagree with and they have that right equally as much as I have the right to disagree with their views on the US should discontiue providing support to Isreal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are voters in the US demanding the government end all aid to every country. &lt;br /&gt;In part I agree, however there are parts that I disagree with as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When countries go to war the victor gains ownership and control of all the territory, nd the victor is then who is entitled to decide what to do with the spoils of the battle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A little history on the territory that is now known as the state of isreal,that from Circa 135 AD became known as Palestinia by a decree from Hadrian, after the Bar Kokhba revolt. and Before that was known as Israel &lt;br /&gt;in 1,000 BC  King David conquered the city of Jerusalem. This land was gained through a series of battles and wars where David became victor. As they had done before,the children of Israel turned away from God and thus other kingdoms and empires gained control of the land. From the Babylonian Empire to the the Medes and Persians. and around 324 BC Alexander the Great overthrew the Persian king Darius III and conquered the entirety of the Persian Empire which included Jerusalem and the land now known as &lt;em&gt;Eretz Yisra’el&lt;/em&gt; (the Land of Israel), .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;324BC to 63BC Kingdom of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter"&gt;Ptolemy I Soter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 63 BC-313 AD Roman The Roman army led by Titus conquered Jerusalem, destroying the Second Temple in 70 AD. The Jewish people then exiled to the Diaspora. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 132, Bar Kokhba organized a revolt against the Roman Empire, but was killed in a battle in Bethar in Judean Hills. This led to the Romans decimating the Jewish community, renamed Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina and Judea as Palaestina to obliterate Jewish identification with the Land of Israel (Palestine, and the Arabic word Filastin originate from this Latin name). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The remanants of the Jewish community moved to northern towns in the Galilee. Approximantly 200 AD the Sanhedrin moved to Tsippori (Zippori, Sepphoris). The Head of Sanhedrin, Rabbi Yehuda HaNassi (Judah the Prince), compiled the Jewish oral law, Mishna.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;313-636 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire"&gt;Byzantine&lt;/a&gt; (Romania) &lt;br /&gt;636-1099 Arab Dome of the Rock was built by Caliph Abd el-Malik on the grounds of the destroyed Jewish Temple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1099-1291 Crusaders The crusaders came from Europe to capture the Holy Land following an appeal by Pope Urban II, and massacred the non-Christian population. Later Jewish community in Jerusalem expanded by immigration of Jews from Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1291-1516 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk"&gt;Mamluk&lt;/a&gt; (Turks)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1516-1918 Ottoman During the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566) the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem were rebuilt. Population of the Jewish community in Jerusalem increased.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1917-1948 British Great Britain recognized the rights of the Jewish people to establish a "national home in Palestine". Yet they greatly curtailed entry of Jewish refugees into Israel even after World War II. They split Palestine mandate into an Arab state which has become the modern day Jordan, and Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The Ottoman Turks controlled the area known as Isreal prior to WW1, and the Brits gained control of that territory Whenthe Ottomans fought against the allies, siding with the Germans they lost control of that land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the creation of a state of Isreal there have been conflicts with A who have attempted to seize control of a land they lost in placing stakes in allying with Adolf Hitler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Obama appears to be involved in political gambling with the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood"&gt;Muslim Brotherhood&lt;/a&gt;, in hopes the Arab mobs supported by the  who have wagged a campaign of killings in Egypt after World War II to oppose British rule. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Muslim Brotherhood established underground links to the Nazis that began during the 1930s and remained during the Second World War. Thise links involve aggressive agitation against the British, Jewish immigration to Palestine, espionage and sabotage, as well as support for terrorist activities orchestrated by Haj Amin el-Hussaini in British Mandate Palestine, as a wide range of declassified documents from the British, American and Nazi German governmental archives, as well as from personal accounts and memoirs from that period confirmed.&lt;br /&gt;See Ian Johnson, A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA and Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010); Matthias Küntzel, Jihad and Jew-hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 (New York: Telos Press, 2007); Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers, Halbmond und Hakenkreuz: Das 'Dritte Reich', die Araber und Palästina (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006), and Klaus Gensicke, Der Mufti von Jerusalem und die Nationalsocialisten: Eine politische Biographie Amin el-Husseinis (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Brotherhood has been an illegal organization, tolerated, since 1954 when it was convicted of the attempt to assassinate &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser"&gt;Gamal Abdel Nasser&lt;/a&gt;, head of the Egyptian government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a historic move, Mr. Obama has “humiliated and betrayed his best ally in the Arab world.”  says Middle East analyst Dr. Guy Bechor of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ben-Eliezer, former Army General, Labor Party Chairman and Cabinet minister states “We learn from history. We remember what was said when Carter proposed that the Shah of Iran give up nicely and allow Khomeini to take his place. In Gaza, too, when the Americans came in, they supervised the democratic elections [via which Hamas came into power]. If there are elections in Egypt the way the Americans want, I will be surprised if the Muslim Brotherhood does not win… This will be a new Middle East – radical, Islamic and extremist.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On November 24, 2008, the government obtained guilty verdicts against the Holy Land Foundation and five individual defendants of giving more than $12 million to support the Palestinian militant group Hamas,  the US designated as a terrorist organization in 1995,  making it a crime to support the Hamas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The five convicted were Ghassan Elashi, former CEO Shukri Abu-Baker, Mufid Abdulqader, Abdulrahman Odeh, and Mohammad El-Mezain &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is impoartant to recognize about &lt;a href="http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/10/fbi-cair-is-a-front-group-and.html"&gt;300 individuals&lt;/a&gt; or entities  were also named as co-conspirators in the HLF trial. The document gave scant details, but prosecutors described CAIR as a present or past member of "the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee and/or its organizations." The government listed the Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust as "entities who are and/or were members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-7197146749950446523?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/7197146749950446523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/war-has-political-risks-and-end-governs.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7197146749950446523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7197146749950446523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/02/war-has-political-risks-and-end-governs.html' title='War has  political risks and the end governs the politics'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-6201802191464240150</id><published>2011-02-01T12:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T15:39:03.833-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Money Masters</title><content type='html'>I had a dear friend and fellow follower of Christ Jesus ask me to share the Video "The Money Masters"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is one video that should not be neglected though that is not party of this series but has a very important message that shows the directions that have been taken. Also, a news wire out of out of WASHINGTON reports the Republican Party is $23 million in debt and has cut a third of the staff the new Party Chairman  "inherited from his predecessor" Michael Steele.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE CORPORATE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNTIED STATES and the ACT of 1871&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lVsMUpPgdT0" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you have one or more party's that take a very unwise decision to go in debt and promot having members run on platforms promoting reducing the National Debt. A habit of borrowing money from Banks always  leads those very people being enslaved and controlled by the very system that is destructive to the country. And when you have special interests making contributions to a body of politics again there is enslavement and control that dilutes and even destroyes the very fabric of Liberty and Freedom is about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Galatians 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lXb-LrVkuwM" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yI3ueFy1N4E" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-7634785554482542990</id><published>2011-01-31T16:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-31T16:31:21.905-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Who Murdered John Wheeler III and Why?</title><content type='html'>Good afternoon,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I am Earl Lofland, The Kent County Chairman for the Constitution Party and This past election I was the Fusion candidate on the Independent Party of Delaware ballot for United States Congress&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Since Jan. 1, 2011 I have been watching news and reading comments posted on Mr Wheelers murder. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110131/NEWS01/301310004/Wheeler-s-family-offers--25-000-reward"&gt;John Wheeler's family offers $25,000 reward for tips in his death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, I extend my prayers to the family members that the Lord bless them with a peace beyond all understanding. And that who ever murdered Mr Wheeler be found and tried for their crime(s).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The more I read, suspicions increase that US tax dollars maybe be inappropriately used on a program that may have be back online MKULTRA&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;There were several deaths associated with the Project MKULTRA, most notably Frank Olson. Olson, a US Army biochemist and biological weapons researcher, was given LSD without his knowledge or consent in November,1953 as part of a CIA experiment, Mr Olson  died under "suspicious circumstances" a week later.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It is my personal observation the murder of Mr Wheeler should be investigated on a state level as well as a federal level, in accordance to the UCMJ protocols, and the possibly for a congressional investigation on his death.&lt;br /&gt;I  base this on the High Security Clearance  Mr. Wheeler had and his close affiliation with the DoD.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Here are some of my thoughts and observations from my extensive research on the murder of Mr. John Wheeler,III also his profile.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Like many others, I have been watching the news on the murder of John Wheeler III&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Days ago, the News Journal stated &lt;a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110129/NEWS01/101290341/John-Wheeler-investigation-Former-Pentagon-official-was-beaten-to-death"&gt;John Wheeler was beaten to death&lt;br /&gt;John Wheeler investigation: Former Pentagon official was beaten to death &lt;/a&gt;| delawareonline.com | The News Journal &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In that article the ME's office revealed his death was not due to any chemicals according to toxicology testing. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;My first questions would be: &lt;br /&gt;How extensive where the ME's Toxicology tests? &lt;br /&gt;What exactly were they looking for when they conducted the Toxicology testing? &lt;br /&gt;And could there have been something they didn't test for, that may have contributed to his murder in anyway?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It would be interesting to know exactly what the ME did find in their Toxicology report. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Also, has anyone found the briefcase he stated was stolen from him?&lt;br /&gt;My hunch: if you find what he had in his briefcase you will find not only the motive but the murder(s) &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It would be interesting to know why if the Wheeler's have not obtained this . Why shouldn't their attorney file a FOIA to obtain the ME's findings and the video footage, that the police are not releasing to the family. The footage being shown to the family could be useful in determining if it was infact Mr Wheeler. Who would know Mr. Wheeler better than his own family?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;And I would file an injunction for independent toxicology tests be conducted to include chemicals that may not have been included in the initial exam. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Personally, I would be looking to see whether a trace test for Agent 15 had been done;  A-15 is believed to be the same as or similar to BZ that is an Iraqi truth serum. BZ 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-quinuclidinyl_benzilate "&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-quinuclidinyl_benzilate  &lt;/a&gt; or one of the many other "Truth Serums" that are on the market. I would also include Savlia D or Salvia A a psycoactive drug that studies have been done on its effects by the DEA since May of 2010. (et al.?) &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;BZ and many other serums are odorless and nonirritating. and is able to be applied through an aerosol spray container similar to mace spray.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Both BZ and Agent 15 have delayed symptoms that take affect many hours after contact.[1] In the field the only immediate indications of its use may be the white smoke.that would be in the isolated location where it is dispersed (like a dispenser  used to spray mace)  Detection methods have been developed for BZ, they are not standardized and limited to laboratory analysis or specialized monitoring in industrial facilities (Toxicology testing).&lt;br /&gt;There are other toxicology tests that I would even look at. Saliviurm A or D&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The reason is due to the governments activities through the CIA with experiments using civilians in studies for psychoactive drugs and their how effective this form of Chemical and Biological warfare was in overthrowing hostile governments of the US (Google Cathy O'Brian and MK Ultra)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=d-us-4Wv7DwC&amp;pg=PA38&amp;lpg=PA38&amp;q=&amp;hl=en#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false"&gt;CIA off campus: building the movement against agency recruitment and research&lt;/a&gt;By Ami Chen Mills&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/"&gt;Science Technology and the CIA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf"&gt;New York Times Project Ultra, The CIA's Program in research of behavioral modification &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf"&gt;The Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Foreign and Military Intelligence&lt;/a&gt;". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Church Committee report, no. 94-755, 94th Cong., 2d Sess&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.. Washington, D.C..: United States Congress. 1976.&lt;strong&gt; p. 392&lt;/strong&gt;. http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/book1/html/ChurchB1_0200b.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chapter 3&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/ohre/roadmap/achre/chap3_4.html"&gt;Supreme Court Dissents Invoke the Nuremberg Code: CIA and DOD Human Subjects Research Scandals&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.aschemansmith.com/salvia-divinorum-or-salvinorin-a-now-illegal&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;My personal conclusions:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This is not just some random mugging.,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Combined with the knowledge that the government was involved in activities related to biological and chemical experimentation on the effectiveness in a military atmosphere such as but not limited to Cocaine. LSD, Marijuana, inter alia as a Biological and Chemical weapon of war, under MK Ultra. And knowing Mr Wheeler was opposed to the use of biological and chemical weapons even to the extent of witting a report on the subject during his tenure in the DoD. And just from understanding Johns background; this is obviously so clear to me, (and to others) it is not just the ordinary run of the mill guy who was "drunk"  and in the bad part of town only to be mugged.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;He was in good health obviously. And I am not positive but It might even be safe to say he had a good record of health for the most part. &lt;br /&gt;Also with Mr Wheeler serving in the Military as a commissioned officer and West Point Graduate!!! With a high security clearance.He also was part of the advisory counsel for chemical weapons.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;(By the way &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-quinuclidinyl_benzilate"&gt;BZ&lt;/a&gt; is controlled under schedule 2 of the Chemical Weapons Convention.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The toxicology tests show chemicals were not the cause of death. But what other substances were found in their tests? And exactly what did they test for?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Such as did they search for traces of 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate (BZ) maybe? BTW Production of  &lt;br /&gt;It is also an odorless military incapacitating agent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BZ is odorless and nonirritating with delayed symptoms several hours after contact. In the field the only immediate indications of its use may be the white smoke emanating from delivered weapons. Though detection methods have been developed for BZ, these have not been standardized for field use and are limited to laboratory analysis or specialized monitoring in industrial facilities &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want my guess  John was incapacitated in Wilmington, The perp(s) searched for documents that he had in his breifcase . His body taken to Newark as a distraction and to pollute the investigation with distance between the crime scene and any locations between where he was dumped and where he would be found.See More&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;On September 28, 1994 U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report , stating from 1940 - 1974, DoD and other national security agencies studied thousands of human subjects in tests and experiments involving hazardous substances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The study :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Working with the CIA, the Department of Defense gave hallucinogenic drugs to thousands of "volunteer" soldiers in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to LSD, the Army also tested &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Quinuclidinyl_benzilate"&gt;quinuclidinyl benzilate&lt;/a&gt;, a hallucinogen code-named BZ. (Note 37) Many of these tests were conducted under the so-called MKULTRA program, established to counter perceived Soviet and Chinese advances in brainwashing techniques. Between 1953 and 1964, the program consisted of 149 projects involving drug testing and other studies on unwitting human subjects...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-7634785554482542990?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/7634785554482542990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/01/good-afternoon-i-am-earl-lofland-kent.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7634785554482542990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7634785554482542990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/01/good-afternoon-i-am-earl-lofland-kent.html' title='Who Murdered John Wheeler III and Why?'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-7433642616171861774</id><published>2011-01-30T15:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-30T17:07:31.500-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Is This The Final Cut?</title><content type='html'>I have heard many veterans who supported the "Tea Party" (Not the Real Tea Party) now becoming outraged by what is taking place with veteran benefits and coming from someone labeled as a "Tea Party Favorite"&lt;br /&gt;Bachmann plan would cut veterans benefits (Army Times)&lt;br /&gt;I have seen comments pouring in&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We can give $1.5B in foriegn aid to Egypt, to be spent on their military, and you want to cut $4.5B from our Veterans"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Congresswoman Bachman, if you're going to send our men and woman overseas to fight for their country then you damn sure better take care of them when they return!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bringing to light my personal analysis of what is happening today in the geopolitical realm, and how it important it is in seeing what is taking place in Egypt  reveals a conclusion this leads to what is mentioned in Luke 21:20-24. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I look at what is happening in Egypt, the more I see reflections to what happened 30 years ago when Mubarak was the Vice President under Anwar El Sadat who in 1981 agreed to the Israel Peace Treaty. It also has reflections of &lt;br /&gt; Iraq, with the toppling of Saddam - Chalabi in Iraq was tied with Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, strategists who have had long been an advocate of regime changes in that region and around the world. &lt;br /&gt;Compare the profile of Ahmed Chalabi  with Mohamed ElBaradei  Chalabi studied and a University of Chicago Grad &lt;br /&gt;Baradei a NYU Grad &lt;br /&gt;This has markings of Burson-Marsteller or the John Rendon Group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are strong signs Egypt will undergo a change in power. Just as it did when Mubarak was the VP of Egypt during the &lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8637635634221819002#docid=-5582257455640891798"&gt;assassination&lt;/a&gt; of Anwar El Sadat&lt;br /&gt;Some reflect on the current geopolitical structure as being an oppression of the people of Egypt. And the people of Egypt like Tunisia revolted against the powers that be.&lt;br /&gt;The Muslim Brotherhood and Iran have been seen propagating support for Mohamed El Baradei. And Egypt has often times opposed supporting Hamas Back in 2009 iman Tahu was a spokesperson for Hamas negotiating a ceasefire with Israel during Operation Cast Lead.&lt;br /&gt;At that meeting was the State Department Envoy (Mitchell and possibly H.C. who had traveled to that region that week as well.&lt;br /&gt;Tahu after leaving the negotiations was caught with 11 Million Dollars attempting to cross the Egypt border. 8 M was USD and 3 was EUD.&lt;br /&gt;Published: 02/05/09, 6:47 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129801"&gt;Hamas Returns from Cairo with Illegal Cash, No Deal &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then just weeks later the &lt;a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/161229"&gt;US agreed to Pledge $900 Million to Gaza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reported: 05:31 AM - Feb/24/09&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BTW Egypt did not return the 8 million USD and 3 M EUD . to who provided it to Tahu either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently all the the signs are pointing to a transfer of power and it could reflect ElBaradei would be replacing Mubarak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would be the long term repercussions in this?&lt;br /&gt;Oil and other goods l that is supplied to the US (Oil from the OPEC Arab states) &lt;br /&gt;With our support to Egypt dating back to the construction of the Suez Canal has provided the US with access to transport not only oil but other supplies from that region through the least expensive route. The Suez Canal. It also allows us a less expensive route to provide supplies and naval support for Troops deployed in IRQ and AFGHN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The moment the US looses access of this canal for shipping traffic there will be a huge increase in products that come from Pakistan, India. from Computer and auto parts. To Clothing and crude oil that provides everything from gasoline and diesel fuel heating oil and cosmetics and paints.&lt;br /&gt;This has a much bigger plan than most probably realize.&lt;br /&gt;By a Muslim Brotherhood having control of the Suez will bring the US government to be forced to capitulate to their demands in order to keep goods from hyperinflation due to the costs to have them shipped by a route that will add at least 2 weeks to the delivery and add an additional hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel expenses to go around the Cape of Good Hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will also give more leverage for Israel to be surrounded by armies Iran will be leveraged to impose its demands through the brotherhood on the US in Nuclear Proliferations. Saudi Arabia will be at risk of having its powers toppled As well as Yemen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And When the US no longer supports Israel. the country will be left to defend itself And you will have Egypt (using supplies provided by the US for 30 years) Lebanon. Gaza. Syria surrounding Israel under a harsh environment. Then you will also have the US blocked in by Syria and Turkey all these are also showing a weakening of support for Israel.&lt;br /&gt;This will all be in lines with what the prophets had said would have to take place just before the coming of the Lord.&lt;br /&gt;Jesus even stated that when you see this Yerusalam that the people of Judah were to flee to the Mountains and not carry nothing with them. &lt;br /&gt;And we who are in Christ Jesus are to Look up for our redemption draws near. Behold!!! It is even at the door!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We give 1.5 B to Egypt because we have most of our goods shipped in from Pakistan India. Saudi Arabia Oil products Computer products Auto parts cosmetics are an oil base product. gasoline and heating oil diesel fuel has to be shipped th...rough the least expensive route the Suez Canal. &lt;br /&gt;Imagine the cost for these goods to be delivered to the US if shipping was forced to go around the Cape of Good Hope. &lt;br /&gt;Gasoline at the pump would go up to 10 a gallon and you would see hyper inflation combined with the shrinking of a US Dollar.And employment reaching and possibly exceeding 40%.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-7433642616171861774?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/7433642616171861774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-have-heard-many-veterans-who.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7433642616171861774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/7433642616171861774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-have-heard-many-veterans-who.html' title='Is This The Final Cut?'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-680613674989010492</id><published>2011-01-23T17:46:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-23T20:23:39.824-08:00</updated><title type='text'>STAYING FOCUSED ON THE BIG PICTURE</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TTz4X2XVfxI/AAAAAAAAAA0/bmtEUyzjpfI/s1600/CPofDelaware.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TTz4X2XVfxI/AAAAAAAAAA0/bmtEUyzjpfI/s320/CPofDelaware.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565596328137162514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Forward:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier this week an article was published on the Constituiton Party National Web Sites news section.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the 2010 campaign, I received questions why I sought the seat in the  US House of Representatives, pointiong out how important this seat is to managing our governments fiscal budget, federal funding and defunding for all government business are decided, according to our constitution in the United States House of Representatives and in order to focus on any vialble and feasible strategy-assuring that "politics as usual" would not take place on the Beltway. voters needed someone  in office who was not part of the same politics nor involved with the political structure that has been bringing the country down this very road we have traveled. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The disarry of disfunctional and failed plans promoted to correct the economy; The continual funding additional agencies and increasing the size of government 7 times the amount it was before President Johnson, The continues overspending in a military industrial complex that has neglected to providing aid and support to disabled veterans who have medical needs. Many having 4-6 deployments in combat zones and no or little treatment for theirs or their families needs in adiquite medical care -- causing a plethora of difficult backlashes needing to be properly addressed and corrected. Not only on troop cohesion, and medical treatment for the veterans, also issues releated to the handling of detainees, what court venue they should be tried in and if they are to be tried for any crimes; Who should and should not be held as Prisoners of War, or if they are to be listed as civilian criminals. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we have to look at the problems with our failing education system; Healthcare; social security, Corporate Bailouts; Stimulus funding;  Earmarks; The rights of the American people regarding their security in their homes; and illegal search and seizure rules; Abortion; Marriage; Borrowing practices; Anti Trust Laws;  Funding that comes from other countries- opening a wide door of opportunities for those countries to demand capitualiton of our government almost in what has recently been seen as a mockery for what politicians have permitted. Increaing the dangers of our nations security in their bad politics, while blaming those who expose their actions as treasonous, (WikiLeaks); Protecting our religious freedoms- not to be infringed upon, while also focusing on the political errors that escalated to creating a pandemic of mistakes Americans finally realise has surfaced, that began well over 50 years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without any doubt, like myslef others agree: The true sense of the people having the right to assembling together and demanding redress from their government - and the direction for todays politics, is not about a Republican Party victory in the US House. &lt;br /&gt;It will determine how this Majority party elected into Congress will approach the important issues which the American people demand to be corrected.  And if they are not corrected by those they elected in 2010. We must ask ourselves: What will the next approach be in 2012 and beyond? &lt;br /&gt;Will the people be disappointed enough by both parties to decide the time has come to throw off the old guards of the two party politics and elect an alternate party to have the presence of individuals outside of the two party politics in our government that has to parties so staggeringly close to each other it is hard to discern which Politician belongs to which of the two parties.&lt;br /&gt;Earl Lofland, Constitution Party of Delaware&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.constitutionpartyofwa.com/graphics/cptitle2-webr4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 904px; height: 148px;" src="http://www.constitutionpartyofwa.com/graphics/cptitle2-webr4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chairman, Constitution Party of Washington &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a new year begins and a new Congress comes on the stage promising reform, fiscal accountability and a return to conservative principles, I’ve got to remind us all to stay focused on the big picture. Too often, our attention is diverted from the real and weighty issues that determine the future of our country, our liberty and our prosperity. Like the illusionist who diverts our attention from what is really going on, the political powers that be, along with the dominant media and political pundits, direct our attention to whatever is being billed as the major political battle of the day. But more often than not, those battles are being waged over what amounts to minutia or only minor differences in policy when compared to what I consider to be the big picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A CASE IN POINT&lt;br /&gt;The recent battle over extending the Bush tax cuts is a good case in point. Both Democrats and Republicans decried each other’s position as disastrous, ruinous, or downright evil. Both told their supporters that they were here to save them from the other party. Conservative commentators told us that the Democrats would destroy the economy and crush us under an unbearable burden of increased taxation. When the dust settled and the Republicans claimed victory, conservative leaders engaged in an orgy of self congratulation patting themselves on the back for ushering in the new age of conservatism that will save the country from the liberals. The casual observer would think it is now safe to go back to sleep confident that small government, low taxes, Tea Party Republicans are in charge now and all will be well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But was the extending of the Bush tax cuts the epic struggle for our economic survival that it was billed to be? Or was it a distraction that diverted our attention from the big picture? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During that debate we were inundated with plenty of minutia from political pundits and talking heads discussing whether the Bush tax cuts increased GDP, decreased federal revenues, or increased the federal deficit and by what percentage of GDP adjusted for inflation as based on CBO projections for the year 2018 and how that will effect couples filing jointly with 2.3 children and a medical insurance co-payment of . . . . . blah, blah, blah, ad infinitum, insert endless stream of baffling BS here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately, there were really only two relevant questions; 1) How much of our personal income is being taken for the cost of government and; 2) Exactly how much did the Bush tax cuts reduce that burden for the average American? With that in mind, I set out looking for answers and found the following. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.constitutionpartyofwa.com/graphics/boston-tea-party.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 526px; height: 300px;" src="http://www.constitutionpartyofwa.com/graphics/boston-tea-party.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OVERALL TAXATION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is known as the ’Bush tax cuts’ is actually a collection of various changes in federal tax laws, rates, rules, etc, assembled into two different bills passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in 2001 and 2003. To see exactly how much these tax cuts directly affected our lives and our standard, the following gives a sampling of what percentage of gross income the average American paid in taxation (local, state and federal combined) during the last 10 years. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2000   32.98%   Last year of Clinton Presidency &lt;br /&gt;2004   28.53%   First year that all Bush tax cuts were fully implemented &lt;br /&gt;2006   31.16%   Last year of Republican controlled Congress &lt;br /&gt;2008   28.99%    Last year of Bush Presidency &lt;br /&gt;2010   26.89%   Current rate under Obama and Democrat Congress &lt;br /&gt;(source: http://www.taxfoundation.org) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TOTAL COST OF GOVERNMENT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The actual cost of government is considerably higher as it takes into account total spending, fees (not counted as taxes) and the cost of complying with government regulations. According to Americans for Tax Reform (www.costofgovernmentday.com), in the last decade, Cost of Government Day, the day at which Americans stop working to pay for the cost of government and start keeping what they earn, has fallen on: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2000   June 29   Last year of Clinton Presidency &lt;br /&gt;2004   July 10   First year that all Bush tax cuts were fully implemented &lt;br /&gt;2006   July 10   Last year of Republican controlled Congress &lt;br /&gt;2008   July 16   Last year of Bush Presidency &lt;br /&gt;2010   Aug 19   Current Cost of Government Day &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the above, while taxes may have gone down by as much as 3% during the time of the Bush tax cuts, the cost of government went up. In other words, our standard of living didn’t really change, but we did acquire a lot of new debt, over $4trillion during the Bush Presidency. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE DISTRACTION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all, the battle over extending the Bush tax cuts was not really about lowering taxes, it was about maintaining the current level of taxation. And it wasn’t a battle over the whole 3% that those tax cuts appear to have represented, seeing as Democrats already planned to retain most of those cuts. The ’Great Battle’ was over one element of the Bush tax cuts that was directed at individuals earning over $200,000 per year. To win this ’Great Victory,’ Republicans acquiesced to nearly $1 trillion in new spending (i.e. debt), $313 billion of which their own budget point man concedes is unnecessary. By the way, all of this was done to gain only a two year extension, after which time we’ll be watching this movie all over again. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While everyone was paying attention to the Republican versus Democrat battle being waged over extending that one element of the tax cuts, we were all successfully distracted from looking at the big picture – the fact that regardless of which party is in power, over half of all that we produce continues to be devoured by the government behemoth (63% currently and about 52% under Bush and the Republican Congress). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It isn’t that the extending of the tax cuts doesn’t matter. It’s that issues like this often manage to distract us and cause us to lose sight of the bigger picture. Our party of preference wins the battle of the day and we all go back to our homes singing the victory, oblivious to the fact that taxpayers continue to lose the war as the establishment maintains the status quo. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE BIG PICTURE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2011, let’s not get distracted by the minutia offered up by party leaders, political pundits and the 6 o’clock news. Let’s stay focused on the big picture – the weighty issues of life, liberty, property, the clear limits placed on government by the U.S. Constitution, the 63% of all our income that is being consumed by government, the $3.5 trillion per year being spent by the federal government and $1.2 trillion per year in new debt that is being heaped on the backs of the next generation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Republicans in Congress want to claim to represent Tea Partiers, Constitutionalists and traditional conservatives, they need to step up to the plate and wage a real war to rein in out of control spending and put the federal government back in its Constitutionally prescribed box. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2011, the big picture is the fact that the Republican controlled House of the 112th Congress has it within their power to rein in most of the federal government’s un-Constitutional activities (by defunding them), end deficit spending and balance the budget. You see, Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution states that “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.” In other words, the federal government cannot, and will not, spend a penny more than what the controlling party in the House (the Republicans) decides it will spend. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you may be thinking “Oh my, the Democrats would scream bloody murder – there would be gridlock – the government could shut down.” Yes! You’re catching on! That’s exactly the idea and it’s exactly what the framers of our Constitution intended. They intended for the people’s direct representatives (the House) to be able to hold the rest of the government in check by holding the purse strings and thereby be able to “compel the Senate to agree to a reasonable measure, by withholding supplies till the measure is consented to,” as James Iredell argues in connection with the Constitution ratification debates. As for a “reasonable measure,” I think balancing the budget and denying funding for any activity or agency not clearly authorized under the U.S. Constitution is quite reasonable. The next reasonable measure that I would like to see, is to get the total cost of government (local, state and federal) back to its 1910 level of 5% of income as opposed to the current 63%. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If, in the coming two years, under a Republican controlled House, even one un-Constitutional program receives funding or one dollar is added to the deficit, or Cost of Government Day comes any later than January 19 (as it did in 1910), it will not be because Republicans are powerless. It will not be because of ’the big bad liberals.’ It will be because the Republicans in the House want it that way. The only other possible explanation would be that we the people have elected to high office weak-kneed, limp-wristed, panty-waists who are afraid of a fight. No, I didn’t call the Republicans panty-waists, I said we’re going to give them two years to show us whether they are or not. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A CALL FOR TRUE GRIT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the remake of one of my favorite movies in mind, True Grit, I have to ask, where are the national leaders with grit? Men who without fear for their popularity or political careers, will stand up to the criminal violators of our Constitution, take the reins in their teeth and a gun in each hand and charge at the oppressing oligarchs who seek to tax us into oblivion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh for a handful of national leaders with True Grit! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;__________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you agree with the content of this article, please forward, post and publish far and wide. If you don’t, who will? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;© Robert W. Peck&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-680613674989010492?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/680613674989010492/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/01/staying-focused-on-big-picture_23.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/680613674989010492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/680613674989010492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/01/staying-focused-on-big-picture_23.html' title='STAYING FOCUSED ON THE BIG PICTURE'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TTz4X2XVfxI/AAAAAAAAAA0/bmtEUyzjpfI/s72-c/CPofDelaware.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-9108142341621492071</id><published>2011-01-23T17:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-23T17:48:27.790-08:00</updated><title type='text'>STAYING FOCUSED ON THE BIG PICTURE</title><content type='html'>01/20/2011 &lt;br /&gt;STAYING FOCUSED ON THE BIG PICTURE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Robert W. Peck &lt;br /&gt;Chairman, Constitution Party of Washington &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a new year begins and a new Congress comes on the stage promising reform, fiscal accountability and a return to conservative principles, I’ve got to remind us all to stay focused on the big picture. Too often, our attention is diverted from the real and weighty issues that determine the future of our country, our liberty and our prosperity. Like the illusionist who diverts our attention from what is really going on, the political powers that be, along with the dominant media and political pundits, direct our attention to whatever is being billed as the major political battle of the day. But more often than not, those battles are being waged over what amounts to minutia or only minor differences in policy when compared to what I consider to be the big picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A CASE IN POINT&lt;br /&gt;The recent battle over extending the Bush tax cuts is a good case in point. Both Democrats and Republicans decried each other’s position as disastrous, ruinous, or downright evil. Both told their supporters that they were here to save them from the other party. Conservative commentators told us that the Democrats would destroy the economy and crush us under an unbearable burden of increased taxation. When the dust settled and the Republicans claimed victory, conservative leaders engaged in an orgy of self congratulation patting themselves on the back for ushering in the new age of conservatism that will save the country from the liberals. The casual observer would think it is now safe to go back to sleep confident that small government, low taxes, Tea Party Republicans are in charge now and all will be well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But was the extending of the Bush tax cuts the epic struggle for our economic survival that it was billed to be? Or was it a distraction that diverted our attention from the big picture? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During that debate we were inundated with plenty of minutia from political pundits and talking heads discussing whether the Bush tax cuts increased GDP, decreased federal revenues, or increased the federal deficit and by what percentage of GDP adjusted for inflation as based on CBO projections for the year 2018 and how that will effect couples filing jointly with 2.3 children and a medical insurance co-payment of . . . . . blah, blah, blah, ad infinitum, insert endless stream of baffling BS here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately, there were really only two relevant questions; 1) How much of our personal income is being taken for the cost of government and; 2) Exactly how much did the Bush tax cuts reduce that burden for the average American? With that in mind, I set out looking for answers and found the following. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OVERALL TAXATION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is known as the ’Bush tax cuts’ is actually a collection of various changes in federal tax laws, rates, rules, etc, assembled into two different bills passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in 2001 and 2003. To see exactly how much these tax cuts directly affected our lives and our standard, the following gives a sampling of what percentage of gross income the average American paid in taxation (local, state and federal combined) during the last 10 years. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2000   32.98%   Last year of Clinton Presidency &lt;br /&gt;2004   28.53%   First year that all Bush tax cuts were fully implemented &lt;br /&gt;2006   31.16%   Last year of Republican controlled Congress &lt;br /&gt;2008   28.99%    Last year of Bush Presidency &lt;br /&gt;2010   26.89%   Current rate under Obama and Democrat Congress &lt;br /&gt;(source: http://www.taxfoundation.org) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TOTAL COST OF GOVERNMENT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The actual cost of government is considerably higher as it takes into account total spending, fees (not counted as taxes) and the cost of complying with government regulations. According to Americans for Tax Reform (www.costofgovernmentday.com), in the last decade, Cost of Government Day, the day at which Americans stop working to pay for the cost of government and start keeping what they earn, has fallen on: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2000   June 29   Last year of Clinton Presidency &lt;br /&gt;2004   July 10   First year that all Bush tax cuts were fully implemented &lt;br /&gt;2006   July 10   Last year of Republican controlled Congress &lt;br /&gt;2008   July 16   Last year of Bush Presidency &lt;br /&gt;2010   Aug 19   Current Cost of Government Day &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the above, while taxes may have gone down by as much as 3% during the time of the Bush tax cuts, the cost of government went up. In other words, our standard of living didn’t really change, but we did acquire a lot of new debt, over $4trillion during the Bush Presidency. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE DISTRACTION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all, the battle over extending the Bush tax cuts was not really about lowering taxes, it was about maintaining the current level of taxation. And it wasn’t a battle over the whole 3% that those tax cuts appear to have represented, seeing as Democrats already planned to retain most of those cuts. The ’Great Battle’ was over one element of the Bush tax cuts that was directed at individuals earning over $200,000 per year. To win this ’Great Victory,’ Republicans acquiesced to nearly $1 trillion in new spending (i.e. debt), $313 billion of which their own budget point man concedes is unnecessary. By the way, all of this was done to gain only a two year extension, after which time we’ll be watching this movie all over again. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While everyone was paying attention to the Republican versus Democrat battle being waged over extending that one element of the tax cuts, we were all successfully distracted from looking at the big picture – the fact that regardless of which party is in power, over half of all that we produce continues to be devoured by the government behemoth (63% currently and about 52% under Bush and the Republican Congress). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It isn’t that the extending of the tax cuts doesn’t matter. It’s that issues like this often manage to distract us and cause us to lose sight of the bigger picture. Our party of preference wins the battle of the day and we all go back to our homes singing the victory, oblivious to the fact that taxpayers continue to lose the war as the establishment maintains the status quo. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE BIG PICTURE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2011, let’s not get distracted by the minutia offered up by party leaders, political pundits and the 6 o’clock news. Let’s stay focused on the big picture – the weighty issues of life, liberty, property, the clear limits placed on government by the U.S. Constitution, the 63% of all our income that is being consumed by government, the $3.5 trillion per year being spent by the federal government and $1.2 trillion per year in new debt that is being heaped on the backs of the next generation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Republicans in Congress want to claim to represent Tea Partiers, Constitutionalists and traditional conservatives, they need to step up to the plate and wage a real war to rein in out of control spending and put the federal government back in its Constitutionally prescribed box. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2011, the big picture is the fact that the Republican controlled House of the 112th Congress has it within their power to rein in most of the federal government’s un-Constitutional activities (by defunding them), end deficit spending and balance the budget. You see, Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution states that “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.” In other words, the federal government cannot, and will not, spend a penny more than what the controlling party in the House (the Republicans) decides it will spend. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you may be thinking “Oh my, the Democrats would scream bloody murder – there would be gridlock – the government could shut down.” Yes! You’re catching on! That’s exactly the idea and it’s exactly what the framers of our Constitution intended. They intended for the people’s direct representatives (the House) to be able to hold the rest of the government in check by holding the purse strings and thereby be able to “compel the Senate to agree to a reasonable measure, by withholding supplies till the measure is consented to,” as James Iredell argues in connection with the Constitution ratification debates. As for a “reasonable measure,” I think balancing the budget and denying funding for any activity or agency not clearly authorized under the U.S. Constitution is quite reasonable. The next reasonable measure that I would like to see, is to get the total cost of government (local, state and federal) back to its 1910 level of 5% of income as opposed to the current 63%. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If, in the coming two years, under a Republican controlled House, even one un-Constitutional program receives funding or one dollar is added to the deficit, or Cost of Government Day comes any later than January 19 (as it did in 1910), it will not be because Republicans are powerless. It will not be because of ’the big bad liberals.’ It will be because the Republicans in the House want it that way. The only other possible explanation would be that we the people have elected to high office weak-kneed, limp-wristed, panty-waists who are afraid of a fight. No, I didn’t call the Republicans panty-waists, I said we’re going to give them two years to show us whether they are or not. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A CALL FOR TRUE GRIT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the remake of one of my favorite movies in mind, True Grit, I have to ask, where are the national leaders with grit? Men who without fear for their popularity or political careers, will stand up to the criminal violators of our Constitution, take the reins in their teeth and a gun in each hand and charge at the oppressing oligarchs who seek to tax us into oblivion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh for a handful of national leaders with True Grit! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;__________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you agree with the content of this article, please forward, post and publish far and wide. If you don’t, who will? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;© Robert W. Peck&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-9108142341621492071?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/9108142341621492071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/01/staying-focused-on-big-picture.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/9108142341621492071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/9108142341621492071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/01/staying-focused-on-big-picture.html' title='STAYING FOCUSED ON THE BIG PICTURE'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-5053134770914726544</id><published>2011-01-05T13:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-05T15:03:55.235-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Gematria and Binary code Crop Circles and The Cannon Wheel</title><content type='html'>This is day 5 in the Year 2011 and 29 T'vet 5771 in the Hebrew Calendar I should do this in a word or PDF and publish it online. Some of this work was inspired by a friend who is a computer programmer that began an exercise on the binary numbers for this year. A special Thanks goes to John Edwards.&lt;br /&gt;Earl R. Lofland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please watch this video &lt;a title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sZND7XHrms&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded" feature="player_embedded"&gt;Amazing Crop Circle with code, 22nd May, 2010 - Wilton Windmill, Wiltshire UK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5sZND7XHrms?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5sZND7XHrms?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The image below reveals the &lt;a title="http://www.biblewheel.com/Canon/SevenfoldCanon.asp" href="http://www.biblewheel.com/Canon/SevenfoldCanon.asp"&gt;sevenfold symmetric perfection&lt;/a&gt; of the Holy Bible&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.biblewheel.com/images/BibleWheel_Color_550.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 537px; HEIGHT: 527px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.biblewheel.com/images/BibleWheel_Color_550.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is day 5 in the Year 2011&lt;br /&gt;All the verses in the Bible with Sum = 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean. Lev 14:20&lt;br /&gt;That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. Jos 9:2&lt;br /&gt;In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee. 2 Ch 1:7&lt;br /&gt;Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD. Ps. 144:15&lt;br /&gt;Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. Isa 34:15&lt;br /&gt;The Hebrew Calendar date is 29 Tivet 5771 ( it is 5 yrs two months and one day from being 5777 - If you add the 5+7+7+7= 26&lt;br /&gt;The Hebrew Greek Gematria for 26 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: Deuteronomy 6.&lt;br /&gt;The Holy Name (YHVH) is integrated with Elohim (God, &lt;a title="http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_86.asp" href="http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_86.asp"&gt;86&lt;/a&gt;) and Ho Pater (The Father, &lt;a title="http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_559.asp" href="http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_559.asp"&gt;559&lt;/a&gt;) in the &lt;a title="http://www.biblewheel.com/gr/GR_Unity.asp" href="http://www.biblewheel.com/gr/GR_Unity.asp"&gt;Unity Holograph&lt;/a&gt;. It is the personal Name of God that carries the connotation of he who is. It is based on the verb hayah - meaning to be. It is closely related to God's memorial name I AM THAT I AM (&lt;a title="http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_543.asp" href="http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_543.asp"&gt;543&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;Binary dates of 11-11-11 Last Saturday was 01-01-11, next Tuesday is 01-11-11in October we will see 10-01-11, 10-10-11 and 10-11-11 thenin November 11-01-11, 11-10-11 and 11-11-11&lt;br /&gt;Binary Number 111111&lt;br /&gt;The Decimal value is calculated by 2^6-1 = 2^3 x2^3 - 1 = 8x8-1 = 64-1 =&lt;br /&gt;The number 63 is the Digital equation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something of interest to think about:&lt;br /&gt;the number 9 goes into 63 7 times.&lt;br /&gt;The Hebrew Green Gematria number 63 is also one that is astounding.&lt;br /&gt;The Number 63 Prophet Navia&lt;br /&gt;The Voice of the Lord (Ord) [Ps 29.3] Kol YHVH&lt;br /&gt;I see (Ord) [Zech 4.2] Rathi&lt;br /&gt;Lead Guide Exo 32:34 Nachah&lt;br /&gt;Exodus 32.34&lt;br /&gt;Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”&lt;br /&gt;So what else is there bout the number 9&lt;br /&gt;Among others may be mentioned (1) that the sum of the digits which form its multiples are themselves always a multiple of nine; e.g., 2 x 9 = 18 (and 1+8=9); 3 x 9 = 27 (and 2+7=9); 4 x 9 = 36 (and 3+6=9); 5 x 9 = 45 (and 4+5=9), etc., etc.; and so with the larger numbers: 52843 x 9 = 475587 (and 4+7+5+5+8+7=36, and 3+6=9). (2) The sum of its multiples through the nine digits = 405, or 9 times 45.&lt;br /&gt;It is akin to the number six, six being the sum of its factors (3x3=9, and 3+3=6), and is thus significant of the end of man, and the summation of all man's works. Nine is, therefore, the number of finality or judgment.&lt;br /&gt;The Number of Finality or Judgment&lt;br /&gt;Nine is a factor of 666, (9 x 74 =666).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The digital equation of 63; reducing the number down to a single digit. break the number 63 down to a single numerical digit by adding 6+3 it totals 9&lt;br /&gt;The number 9 in Greek is Θθ Theta z in our alphabet is valued as the greek sybmbol Ωmega Ωμέγα the which is actually the 24th letter in the greek lettering chart.&lt;br /&gt;The letter Ωμέγα depicts the last letter which refers to the density of the universe, also called the density parameter and Ω In the Greek numeric system, valued @ 800. The word literally means "great O"8 in the bible signifies new beginnings. and with a double Ωμέγα could In Revelations Jesus say he is the first and the last. the Alpha άλφα and Omega Is this the Ωμέγα the new beginning of two previous ends 8 0 0? Some beleive that there was a pre-Adam man age and it is signified in the verses Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 (binaray code 111 and 1110)(Are we in the age of 1110 1111?) 100000 = 8 0 0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the most powerful alignments began and what a pattern it will create! &lt;a class="st_tag internal_tag" title="http://www.2011astrology.net/astrology/saturn" href="http://www.2011astrology.net/astrology/saturn" rel="tag"&gt;Saturn&lt;/a&gt; will square Pluto and the &lt;a class="st_tag internal_tag" title="http://www.2011astrology.net/astrology/moon" href="http://www.2011astrology.net/astrology/moon" rel="tag"&gt;Moon&lt;/a&gt; and Venus will join Pluto in a septile arrangement. To add to this, the &lt;a class="st_tag internal_tag" title="http://www.2011astrology.net/astrology/sun" href="http://www.2011astrology.net/astrology/sun" rel="tag"&gt;Sun&lt;/a&gt; septiles &lt;a class="st_tag internal_tag" title="http://www.2011astrology.net/astrology/saturn" href="http://www.2011astrology.net/astrology/saturn" rel="tag"&gt;Saturn&lt;/a&gt;, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is 5 planets. that creating 52 degree V patterns with each other. V is the roman Character for the number 5&lt;br /&gt;There is also another math anamoly the acute number of 52 Degrees is 38 the square rt of 38 is 6.1644140029689764502501923814542 (6)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Care to go deeper?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A friend of mine who is a computer programmer stated:&lt;br /&gt;Last Saturday was 010111, next Tuesday is 011111in October we will see 100111, 101011 and 101111 thenin November 110111, 111011 and 111111. Aside from a few similardates in 2010 these are but a few very rare Binary Dates in whichnothing but zeroes and ones are used. Tuesdays Binary Equivalent is a decimal value of 32, a lucky number...!&lt;br /&gt;Oh and Monday is 011011 but these really are rare, can you think of any others I missed? Only Zeroes and Ones are allowed.For the Glory. What Decimal Number is Equivalent to the Binary number represented by next Mondays date using this convention?Can you calculate the Decimal Equivalent of the Binary Number 111111?&lt;br /&gt;His answer was below&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Binary number of 1 1 1 1 1 1 has a decimal equivalent the formula is&lt;br /&gt;111111 = 2^0+2^1+2^2+2^3+2^4+2^5 = (2^6-1) = 32+16+8+4+2+1 = 63&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Biblical Meaning of The Number One&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;There can be no doubt as to the significance of this primary number (One). In all languages it is the symbol of unity. As a cardinal number it denotes unity; as an ordinal it denotes primacy. Unity being indivisible, and not made up of other numbers, is therefore independent of all others, and is the source of all others. So with the Deity. The great First Cause is independent of all. All stand in need of Him, and He needs no assistance from any. "One" excludes all difference, for there is no second with which it can either harmonise or conflict&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We just entered the 1st year of a new decade in the year 21st century. 2010 was the 10th year of the first decade Ten &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Or the Eleventh Year of the 21st Century.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The number 10 marks the perfection of &lt;a href="http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_Ten.asp"&gt;Divine order&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Eleven is an addition to it, subversive of and undoing that order. If twelve is the number which marks the perfection of Divine government, then eleven falls short of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So that whether we regard it as being 10 + 1, or 12 - 1, it is the number which marks, disorder, disorganization, imperfection, and disintegration.Interesting that you bring this up have you seen what is going on in the heavens? I posted something on my wall moments ago regarding what has been happening since 01-11 Today is the 4th and fouris the biblical number of CreationOne is the number of Unity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twenty one times in the Book of Kings it is said that Jeroboam the son of Nebat "made Israel to sin":—1 Kings 14:16, 15:26, 30, 34, 16:19, 26, 21:22, 22:52; 2 Kings 3:3, 10:29, 31, 13:2, 6, 11, 14:24, 15:9, 18, 24, 28, 17:21, 23:15. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The history of Nulla or Zero (0) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This digit signifys nothing and was not recognized until around 9 AD.the digit zero is, after all. Just a symbol of something that doesn't actually exist. And in this sense, it t isn’t a number at all, but ...rather a symbol of an idea, rather than something truly quantifiable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In Computer Programing the binary code is a sequence of 0= off and 1 = on in certain order 0 is to signfy turning off or stopping a command, and 1 is to turn it on. Let's say we had 8 lightbulbs, and they were set up like this:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Off Off On On Off On Off Off.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We write the binary code like this : 00110100. The number zero is a good stepping stone into understanding the basic concepts behind the math of such ancient thinkers as Euclid and Pythagoras. While their mathematics were surely impressive (especially for their time), they held a different purpose and meaning than they do today.To these ancient scholars, mathematics tended toward very practical applications – how to find the area of a triangle, how to determine pi, how to use geometric proofs to find unknown quantities. These were elements of mathematics that can be used in architecture, engineering, accounting, and many other applications, but never in such matters, where actual, physical things are being measured and counted, would one find the need to quantify nothingness. An engineer designing a building who ends up with a length of zero, chances are good that something wrong with a measurement somewhere.This being said, the very idea of zero being considered a number sent the ancient Greeks into a fit of philosophical (and even religious) arguments and disputes over what exactly constitutes a number, and whether numerical status can really be applied to a representation of nothingness.The establishment of zero opened the door to all sorts of mathematical strangeness – negative numbers, irrational numbers, decimals and imaginary numbers, all of which certain mathematicians (specifically Pythagoras) railed harshly against.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year the binary codes for the sequence of 1 and 0 would have been; 01-01-10 off on off on on off and 01-10-10 and off on on off on off10-01-10 on off off on off and 10-10-10 on off on off on off. All equal commands of on and off sequences. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This year however, the shift is turning; instead of the binary code being equal sets of 1 and o, they are now shifted to a positive level of most of these binary days as being commanded to be in the on position. 01-01-11 two off commands and 4 on commands&lt;br /&gt;Next Tues 01-11-11 one off and 5 on commands. October 10-01-11 the code starts in the on positon for the first time in the 11th year of the 21 century and there are 4 On commands.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;10-10-11 This is the first of a 4. Then the very next day, the repeat of what occurrs on January 11, 2011- a sequense of 5 on commands with 10-11-11 . In November 11-01-11, on on off on on on ; 11-10-11 on on on off on on. And on Novermber 11 11-11-11 the first sequence of 6 on or positive commands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So we have a binary code turning something on 4 5 and 6 with the most powerful command happening on November 11, 2011 6 times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The number 4 in the bible signifies the number of Creation; 5 signifies the number of Redemption or Grace; and 6 has to do with man; it is the number of imperfection; the human number; the number of MAN as destitute of God, without God, without Christ. God created all things! Even calculus and the numeric systems used in charting everything from the astrological plains to the Ocean voyages even the synthetic binary codes used in microchips. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-5053134770914726544?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/5053134770914726544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/01/gematria-and-binary-code.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/5053134770914726544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/5053134770914726544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2011/01/gematria-and-binary-code.html' title='Gematria and Binary code Crop Circles and The Cannon Wheel'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-1161599906671940809</id><published>2010-12-09T09:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-09T11:17:28.256-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='using the schools'/><title type='text'>Using schools to turn the U S into a socialist nation</title><content type='html'>Good morning,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carnegie Corporation’s published little volume on education entitled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Charles Scribner’s Sons: N.Y. 1934) With $340,000 funding,this little book called for using the schools to turn the United States into a socialist nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To extinguish the free will&lt;br /&gt;is to strike the conscience&lt;br /&gt;with death, for both have&lt;br /&gt;but one and the same life.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;– &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING&lt;br /&gt;(AMERICAN MORALIST, UNITARIAN&lt;br /&gt;CLERGYMAN AND AUTHOR, 1780-1842)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I write to you today with some very important news every parent; every grandparent; every teacher; every student should be made aware of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For over 30 years the US Dept of Education has been operating under the Pavlovian/Skinnerian Theories. This has proven to be nothing more than destructive models for our children's education, and caused the dumbing down of American intellect for at least 2 generations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As more states pay tax money into the federal government, where their money is then redistribute back into their education system, with strings attached, more problems in the quality of a child's education occur. Is this because of the lack of federal funding? Or, is it because of the destructive models that are used within the education system, which states education systems are forced to use under the US Dept. of Education?&lt;br /&gt;If it were the lack of funding; why is it, each time an increase in funding to the education system — from the federal government was increased the quality of education decreased and students were leaving high school less educated? How many students today can recite the Declaration of Independence? Or know more than 15 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Though Delaware only has 3 county's how many students today know at the names of at least 10 of their states governors? During the 1940s, The North Carolina School system required students to know the name of each county and the county seat. How many students today can do that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the Pavlovian/Skinnerian formulas were introduced into the school curriculums there has been an abundance of failures in students achieving a higher standard of learning.&lt;br /&gt;Instead of aborting these programs — only changing the names they continue with the same Pavlovian/Skinnerian formulas that result in the same destructive, low quality education system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Einstein once said; "Insanity is repeating the same failure over and over again, expecting a different result." By changing the name of the problems does not qualify for changing the failure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I was campaigning for US Congress, one of my biggest issues; a very major topic was our current education system. I expressed that I was in support of charter schools and the voucher programs, until I discovered how dangerous this is to the fundamental building blocks of our country and even to our very national security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what has made me change my mind about Charter Schools?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It isn't the charter schools that I oppose as much as it is the way our education system is manipulated--coerced into complying with federally mandated programs that have for decades a long-proven failed track record that began the “radical behavioral modification” in the 1960's—over 50 years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several years ago George W. Bush introduced the "Faith Based Initiative Program". During that time I was a tax professional, I also attended several CPE (Continued Professionals Education) courses, where some focused on Faith Based Programs and Non-profit organizations. The seminars were very informative, revealing "Faith Based Programs" — non-profit churches were being denied if they had a name revealing they were a “Christian” organization or a denominational church. Funding would more likely be awarded to organizations with names such as The Guiding Light or the Candle of Life over organizations that had Denominational names such as (City name) Church of Christ. etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do faith-based initiative programs funding correlate with the education system?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many faith based programs received funding approvals and were required to comply with guidelines-- outlined by the federal agencies which Congress appropriated moneys into. Agencies like the US Dept of Education. Charter schools are required to comply with the US Dept of Education funding requirements. Otherwise lose their charter status.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though charter schools may have good programs—focused on students who need more attention, and achieving a higher quality of education, The charter school must comply with all the rules and regulations and the US Dept of Educations study guidelines and models creating the dangers of charter schools being no different in their education programs than the state funded programs that have been falling short on education quality, and continuing to hold a strategic objective to universalize our national education into a "universal" program with outcomes that have shown to be patterned after communist outlines and create "Class warfare". As well structuring the breaking down of teachers ability to actually teach over indoctrinate, while at the same time targeting and training the teachers on how to be more involved with breaking down the family structure and values. Through "radical behavioral modification programs” that are part of the Pavlovian/Skinnerian performance-based workforce training agenda, which began through “Selected readings with an emphasis on group development.” (Human Relations in Curriculum&lt;br /&gt;Change(Ed. Kenneth D. Benne and&lt;br /&gt;Bozidar Muntyan, The Dryden Press, Inc., NY).)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://authorityresearch.com/File%20Article%20Pictures/Benne%20Human%20Relations%20in%20Curriculum%20Change.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 230px; HEIGHT: 327px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://authorityresearch.com/File%20Article%20Pictures/Benne%20Human%20Relations%20in%20Curriculum%20Change.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most works—written by social scientists and philosophers of-the-day—appeared in publications during the 1940s decade; some included references dated from the 1930s decade. Human Relations in Curriculum Change discusses “social engineering” (theory, methods); “re-education of personnel in knowledge, skills, and attitudes”; schools as potential laboratories for “experimental social science”; “human engineering”; “group thinking”; “change agents”; Kurt Lewin’s “change process” theory; “consensus”; and more&lt;br /&gt;“Human Relations in Curriculum Change&lt;br /&gt;[Ed. Kenneth D. Benne and Bozidar Muntyan, The Dryden Press, Inc., NY, 1951] describes the process of behavior modification, the process of socialization, conscientization, democratization,&lt;br /&gt;etc. Using group dynamics, the pressure of peer rejection or approval, to generate tension between what one believes, his prior standards, and his desire to participate in group activities. This ‘oppressed knowledge’ is given permission to be expressed, ‘liberation’ before the group, and once expressed, if approved by the group, through dialogue, producing a ‘dialogical consciousness.’ Trust in ‘oppressed knowledge’ liberates each individual from their prior cultural standards, re-educating them to the group life, group think experience, called brainwashing.”&lt;br /&gt;– DEAN GOTCHER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Important and revealing excerpts from Conclusions&lt;br /&gt;and Recommendations for the Social Studies&lt;br /&gt;“The Commission was also driven to this broader conception of its task by the obvious fact that American civilization, in common with Western civilization, is passing through one of the great critical ages of history, is modifying its traditional faith in economic individualism [free enterprise], and is embarking upon vast experiments in social planning and control which call for large-scale cooperation&lt;br /&gt;on the part of the people…” (pp. 1-2) “. . . &lt;em&gt;Cumulative evidence supports the conclusion that in the United States and in other countries the age of ‘laissez faire’&lt;br /&gt;in economy and government is closing and that a new age of collectivism is emerging&lt;/em&gt;.” (p. 16)&lt;br /&gt;Project MUSE &lt;a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/sewanee_review/v118/118.2.richardson.html"&gt;- Sewanee Review, Vol. 118, No. 2, Spring 2010&lt;/a&gt;, The John Hopkins University&lt;br /&gt;Press. Accessed 10/2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Sticht—a close associate of Spady’s, later named to the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving&lt;br /&gt;Necessary Skills (SCANS)—also served as an associate director at the National Institute of Education (NIE) at the same time mastery learning was implemented in the D.C. schools. The Post article quoted Sticht extensively, verifying that he and Spady were deeply involved in the implementation of the new mastery learning curriculum. Later in 1982, The Washington Post again paraphrased Sticht as follows: “&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Many companies have moved operations to places with cheap, relatively poorly educated labor. What may be crucial, they say, is the dependability of a labor force and how well it can be managed and trained, not its general educational level, although a small cadre of highly educated creative people is essential to innovation and growth. Ending discrimination and changing values are probably more important than reading in moving low income families into the middle class&lt;/strong&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;THE ABOVE QUOTE EXPLAINS HOW AND WHY YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE TRAINED IF YOU DON’T KEEP THE RE-INVENTING SCHOOLS COALITION OUT OF YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“. . . &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a key feature of operant conditioning: IT WORKS! Not to ‘educate’ your children, but to ‘train’ them. Operant conditioning does not allow for any real thinking processes to take place. It works to the same extent that animal training works. Stimulus / response; reward / punishments&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We want one class of persons to have a liberal education and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forego the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;– &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;WOODROW WILSON, THEN-PRESIDENT OF&lt;br /&gt;PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, ADDRESS TO THE FEDERATION&lt;br /&gt;OF HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS (QUOTE PUBLISHED&lt;br /&gt;IN “CONSUMER ADVOCATES IN THE CLASSROOM” BY&lt;br /&gt;JEAN PATTON, T.I.S. PUBLICATIONS, P.O. BOX 1998, BLOOMINGTON, IN 47402).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;D&lt;/span&gt;uring the last presidential campaign everyone became familiar with the campaign slogan "&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hope and Change&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;" But how many understand what "&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Change agents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;" are? Their role in the education system and developmental programs known as "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Values Clarification&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;"— programs that are found in higher education programs in Community Colleges, Universities as well as inside the state funded public school systems throughout the United States.&lt;br /&gt;Something every parent of a school age student should read is a book titled, "&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Innovations in Education; A Change Agents Guide&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; By Ronald Havelock&lt;br /&gt;I also encourage you to research Charlotte Iserbyt former Senior Policy Advisor in the US Dept of Education during the Reagan years. As well as holding positions in education, and many other titles that required her to travel throughout the world.&lt;br /&gt;She has spoken out extensively about the destruction being done in our school systems since the 1960's using the totalitarian Pavlovian/Skinnerian performance-based workforce training. I urge every parent, every teacher and every student to read the articles (posted below) as well as some of the supporting links .&lt;br /&gt;If you care about the well being of your children—having solid family structure; seek to reverse the increased Suicide rates and murders among school aged students k1-12. If you seek to reverse the ever increasing divorce rate and promote solid morality for the next generations to come. I strongly urge you to help me.&lt;br /&gt;I come out of the school system that was working under these programs and I personally found them destructive. Then and more-so in the 1990’s when I had step children attending public schools. It was a socialist form of education that worked on merit systems and not on actually teaching students. And since then I am confident to also speak out against the way our children are being taught with the evidence of our society broken down and restructured — with unwed mothers — more people seeking entitlement programs — higher divorce rates— Suicide— crime— as well as a lower class of people who are selectively educated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.infowars.com/2010/12/i/media/Death%20of%20Free%20Will_Iserbyt.pdf"&gt;Death of Free Will Pt 1 (REINVENTION SCHOOLS COALITION)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt December 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LINK 1: &lt;a href="http://www.reinventingschools.org/resources/the-risc-approach-to-schooling/"&gt;Re-inventing Schools Coalition&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LINK 2: Back to Basics Reform or. . .OBE . . .Skinnerian International&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/"&gt;Curriculum and the deliberate dumbing down of america&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LINK 3: Jed Brown on Behavioral Conditioning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBloomergal#p/u/0/Cfb6yNEs8hs"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBloomergal#p/u/0/Cfb6yNEs8hs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LINK 4: Educators Push Back Against Obama’s “Business Model” for School Reform&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/3/educators_push_back_against_obamas_business"&gt;http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/3/educators_push_back_against_obamas_business&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-1161599906671940809?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/1161599906671940809/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2010/12/using-schools-to-turn-u-s-into.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/1161599906671940809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/1161599906671940809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2010/12/using-schools-to-turn-u-s-into.html' title='Using schools to turn the U S into a socialist nation'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971904924390648332.post-1346227010317455643</id><published>2010-11-23T05:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-23T07:28:39.919-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A War that never ended</title><content type='html'>In an early morning attack, an ire resemblence of what started the US Involvments of the reunification war of Korea commenced . Elevating the US in yet another crisis that could result with military involvement of US forces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The attack began when Pyongyang warned S. Korea to halt military drills in the area, When Seoul refused, the north began shelling the South Korean-held island of Yeonpyeong. which is a military installation.&lt;br /&gt;"A S. Korean Military Official stated: We were conducting usual military drills and our test shots were aimed towards the west, not the north."&lt;br /&gt;"Despite our repeated warnings, South Korea fired dozens of shells.... and we've taken strong military action immediately"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the &lt;a href="http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2928751"&gt;Korea JoongAng Daily&lt;/a&gt; reported whether a war would be declared that Defense Minister Kim Tae-young replied "Didn't it start already? we must stop it from expanding."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The exchange of shelling is a sharp escalatin in the attacks that flare up along the long disputed border between N. Korea and S. Korea. Also known as the 38th Paralell. Which was laid out by Colonel Dean Rusk and Colonel Charles H. Bonesteel,III divided the Korean pennisula after having to decide quickly the US Korean Zone of Occupation had to have a minimum of two ports. Rusk explained the decision; "even though it was further north than coud be realistically reached by US forces, in the event of Soviet Disagreement... we felt it important to include the capital of Korea in the area of responsibility of American Troops" ..."faced with the capcity of US forces immediately available, and time and space factors, which would make it difficult to reach very far north, before Soviet troops could enter the area".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United States has more than 28,000 troops stationed in South Korea. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called on North Korea to "halt its beligerent action" and that the US was firmly committed to the defense of South Korea, and to the "maintenance of regional peace and stability". China is North Koreas political and financial benefactor also appealed to both sides to remain calm and "to do more to contribute to peace and stability on the penninsua (Hong Lei, Foreign Ministry Spokesman- China).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both the North and South Korean states have remained in a technical state of war for over 60 years because their three year conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty in 1953.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To better understand the reasoning behind this. You have to understand what developed in the region at the end of World War II.&lt;br /&gt;During the Potsdam Conference (July-August 1945), Korea was divided by the allies, (Russia and The United States) without consulting theKoreans, contradicting the &lt;a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/korea/20-2-1/toc.htm"&gt;Cairo Conference&lt;/a&gt;. (pgs 3, 15, 381, 545, 771, 719) On September 8, 1945 , LtG John R Hodge,USA) arrived in Incheon to accept the Japanese surrender south of the 38th Parallel (see Cairo Conference link North to Nakltng south to Yalu). as Governo9r of The United States Army Military Government in Korea General Hodge and the USAMGIK refused to recognize the provisional government of the Peoples Republic of Korea (PRK); these policies voiding popular sovereignty, provoked the civil insurrections and guerrilla warfare. "&lt;a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/P&amp;amp;D.HTM"&gt;United States Army in in the Korean War. Policy and Direction: The First Year pg 3, 18&lt;/a&gt;)" James F. Schnabel. This combined with excluding the Koreans from the talks at the Moscow Conference (1954) The Korean Populace revolted; in the south, some protested , and rose in arms (&lt;a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/P&amp;amp;D.HTM"&gt;sic&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;In 1949 US Troops withdrew from Korea, and the Soviet Union left Korea in 1948, On Christmas eve 1949 South Korean Forces killed approx 87 people in the Mungyeong Massacere, blaming the crime on the cmmunist marauding bands.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/971904924390648332-1346227010317455643?l=earllofland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/feeds/1346227010317455643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2010/11/war-that-never-ended.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/1346227010317455643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/971904924390648332/posts/default/1346227010317455643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://earllofland.blogspot.com/2010/11/war-that-never-ended.html' title='A War that never ended'/><author><name>Earl Lofland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04371576001246749532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3dEIq380ReM/TQE90XrXcwI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/sOgB9tstGHU/S220/2010_09180039.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
