Black Democrat Pastor brought “hundreds” to the polls for promise of payment, exposes alleged massive voter fraud, vote buying operation by Cochran campaign.
The Ruling Class is the Ruling Class – whether MarxoFascist Democrat or Republicrat, willing to do anything including breaking the law to hold onto power by any means possible. Apparently now this is now the standard operating procedure for the GOP Leadership to make sure the TEA Party doesn’t derail it’s ‘leadership’.
One wonders aloud if Mitch McConnell, Karl Rove and John Boehner had a hand in any of this? At minimum, I think it behooves us to learn: what did they know….. and when did they know it?
Cochran should be immediately removed from office, his ‘election’ invalidated and his person arrested on charges of voter fraud. Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and Karl Rove should be served with warrants as Accessories to the Crime if this pans out which given some evidence – looks pretty incriminating.
According to the work of Charles C. Johnson and Joel S. Gilbert, what we thought was just a racist campaign to get people out to vote in the Cochran vs McDaniel Mississippi Senate race was the tip of the iceberg. It now appears to be a vote buying scandal right out of the office of Thad Cochran himself.
Reverend Stevie Fielder, associate pastor at historic First Union Missionary Baptist Church and former official at Meridian’s redevelopment agency, says he delivered “hundreds or even thousands,” of blacks to the polls after being offered money and being assured by a Cochran campaign operative that Chris McDaniel was a racist. “They [the Cochran campaign] told me to offer blacks fifteen dollars each and to vote for Thad.”
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Text messages released to Got News and a recorded interview with Reverend Fielder confirmed that Saleem Baird, a staffer with the Cochran campaign and current legislative aide to U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, and Cochran campaign manager, Kirk Sims, were involved in a $15 per vote cash bribery scheme to target members of the black community.
“They said they needed black votes,” said the Reverend Fielder on the phone. He says Baird told him to put “give the fifteen dollars in each envelope to people as they go in and vote. You know, not right outside of the polling place but he would actually recruit people with the $15 dollars and they would go in and vote.” Fielder said he received thousands of dollars in envelopes from Baird and distributed them accordingly. Fielder also says he went to the campaign office on another occasion to pick up $300 in cash and was among a room full of people who were doing the same thing he was.
It seems Lois Lerner and Obama’s InJustice Department officials met in the fall of 2010 when Justice was looking into prosecuting Conservative 501(c)(4)s that they say may have been breaking rules by overly engaging in political activities — details Republican investigators found in emails handed over by the Justice Department.
We also learned that over a million documents sent from Lois Lerner at the IRS to Obama’s DOJ , according to the admission from the DOJ, “contained legally protected taxpayer information that should not have ever been sent to the Justice Department“ and in addendum to that, Lerner’s attorney let it slip that those records obtained illegally were REQUESTED by Obama’s Justice Department back in 2010 and not initiated by Lerner as the initial story was told.
I imagine the next sound we will hear will be crickets as the evidence of corrupt mob-style criminal acts that goes right to the White House itself.
In a recent Politico interview (publish date 6/27/14) with the Lois Lerner’s attorney William Taylor III an interesting aspect is buried midway through page #2.
During part of the interview Politico author Rachel Bade inquires about the 1.1 million pages of documents Lerner sent to the Department of Justice that became an issue when discovered by the House Oversight Committee on June 9th 2014. BACKSTORY HERE.
The documents were sent from IRS to DOJ on a series of 4 discs (CD ROMS) and, according to the admission from the DOJ, “contained legally protected taxpayer information that should not have ever been sent to the FBI“.
Why the DOJ waited to inform congress, and why they only did so after Daryl Issa found out about their existence, was a matter congressional consternation but no-one made a big deal about it.
Indeed all prior details and media reports of the interaction have been framed around the substance of legality, and illegality, for the IRS to actually send the confidential taxpayer data. This is indeed a concerning aspect – but we think we’ve uncovered something considerably more alarming about both the timing, and the substance.
Inside the Politico article is an explosively revealing defensively framed answer from attorney Taylor. He is specifically and directly stating it was NOT Lerner who initiated the inquiry:
…” […] Taylor said Lerner didn’t know [about the unlawful confidential aspect] and sent them because Justice requested the documents”…
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Politico [Page 2] Taylor also responded to Oversight GOP reports that Lerner and Justice officials met in the fall of 2010 when Justice was considering the possibility of prosecuting 501(c)(4)s that may have been breaking rules by overly engaging in political activities — details Republicans found in emails handed over by the Justice Department.
Again, he said she was just doing her job.
“We should hope the two are talking to each other,” he said, because Justice and the IRS both bring tax charges and should be on the same page, he said.
Emails summarizing the meeting also show that Lerner apparently expressed skepticism that the (c)(4) issues were a criminal, rather than a civil, matter.
Oversight GOP has also hit Lerner for giving 1.1 million pages of tax return data about 501(c)(4) organizations to the FBI just before the 2010 midterms — 33 tax returns that included unlawfully disclosed private taxpayer information.
Taylor said Lerner didn’t know and sent them because Justice requested the documents: “She [understood] the donor information on Schedule B had been removed. In some cases, we later learned, it may not have been.”
The IRS has acknowledged that the 33 returns were not scrubbed of taxpayer information as required by law. (cont.)
In all prior reporting -on the initial revelation of Lerner’s submission of the documents to the DOJ- the assumption included within the articles was that Lerner was the initiator of the inquiry.
Apparently she wasn’t.
This latest interview with her attorney would dispute that assumption, and indicate the DOJ was the group making the inquiry – not the IRS. The IRS was responding to the request from the DOJ.
{Pause – Repeat} The IRS (Lerner) was responding to the request for information from the DOJ !
Naturally this means there was a preceding email from DOJ to the IRS.
The IRS (Lerner) emails around this incident were found by the House Oversight Committee and are included in both this article , and the pdf below.
However, if what Lerner’s attorney is saying to Politico is truthful, there’s more.
Where is the originating email from the DOJ? ….And more importantly WHO SENT IT AND WHY ?
FIRSTLY – This becomes quite possibly the smoking gun trail from DOJ (Eric Holder – underlings) to the White House.
SECONDLY – At the very least this makes the DOJ investigation into the IRS illegality fraught with conflict of interest. A conflict because the “impetus” of the inquiry itself, from the DOJ to the IRS becomes the more unlawful part.
How can the DOJ conduct an investigation into unlawful aspects of the IRS targeting of specific 501(c)(4) groups, when the DOJ is the initiating body for the illegality they are seeking to investigate ?
The U.S. Government is now a Beast, promoting evil, punishing the righteous it hates and declaring war on the people. Do we sit idle and allow ourselves to be subjugated?
The seething rage of Christian and liberty-minded Americans is now boiling. The outrageous testimony of John Koskinen, director of the IRS last week sealed it for me. He essentially declared that the laws they impose on the people, the government is exempt from following. You have an admission that the government can punish those it chooses with impunity. His testimony – ( and the entire IRS scandal) is as pure and raw a declaration of tyranny as any ever uttered by a public official upon those this regime has publicly declared are their enemies.
The evidence of what is being prepared against us is overwhelming. – What more proof do we need to understand that something MUST be done?
But what?
Do we submit and surrender to this despotism, or do we fight back? And if we fight back HOW?
I contend based on history and human nature that you cannot stop tyranny and tyrants by civil means. PERIOD. The plea we can ‘just vote for more Republicans’ is as absurd and it is stupid.
The entire election process is as corrupted as the IRS and other agencies of the government. The GOP is as complicit as the Democrat MarxoFascists for imposing and supporting this tyranny upon us and what is at work right now is the silencing and rendering into irrelevance, the voice of Conservative Americans.
This commentary from Francis W. Porretto at Liberty’s Torch makes a case that we all must acknowledge. After the essay – I have my own thoughts to post below the article about WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO ABOUT IT?
Good morning, Gentle Reader. Have you been disturbed by the most recent news? Thinking that things really aren’t as bad as that, because they’re actually worse? Wondering if you’ll ever manage to unravel that knot in your stomach short of hauling stakes and “going Galt?”
If the above applies to you, turn off the television — those patent medicines won’t do a damn thing for you and you know it — and address this most important question with me:
What the hell are we going to do about it?
I’ve been perched at the edge of outrage for some time, but then, I’m a freedom weenie, and a hard-core one at that: the sort that believes passionately in individuals’ God-given rights to their lives, liberty, and honestly acquired property; that believes that the Constitution means exactly what it says, with neither “penumbras” nor “emanations” nor bits written in invisible ink; that believes that for a federal official to defy the Constitution is an act of treason punishable by death. Some of Liberty’s Torch’s devotees are similarly inclined, but not all. Why, my vast and frighteningly efficient intelligence apparatus tells me that there are even one or two liberals who read this rag…probably for the humor pieces, though they might disagree about which ones those are.
But left, right, or center, pacifically inclined or maximally belligerent, if you’ve been keeping up with the news anddon’t feel as if it’s time to lock and load, check your pulse: you may have died and not noticed.
War has been declared against us.
Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor changed a lot of thinking about modern warfare. One of the agreements implicit in the Westphalian system of nation-states was that wars would be conducted by sovereignties against other sovereignties, and with prior notice: open, formal declarations of war conveyed from one to the other through diplomatic channels. The unheralded attack on America’s naval base was shocking not merely for its devastation, but because every significant military conflict for more than two hundred years had been preceded by a prior declaration of war.
Contemporary thought on such matters downplays the formal declaration of war, by reason of the importance of the first strike in a time of intercontinental ballistic missiles equipped with nuclear warheads. The whole development is massively unfortunate, and not merely because weapons of mass destruction make it likely that a major war will rack up a Biblical body count. A formal declaration of war makes explicit who will be fighting with whom; therefore, any parties not named are omitted from the festivities, and — in theory at least — can sit back and pass the popcorn. In the absence of such a declaration, no one can relax; once the lead starts to fly, every nation on Earth, and all of Mankind, are potentially at risk.
The best we can do today, if we’d like some assurance that our carcasses won’t be among the ones dragged away by the bulldozers, is to assess the available data continuously, as carefully and critically as possible. So let’s have a look at some of the most recent developments in that light.
In broad daylight, with no fear of being seen, a group of Honduran girls — some as young as 14 — cross illegally into the United States.”Because I want to see my parents in Austin,” one tells CNN.
Moments later, another group of Hondurans admits crossing the Rio Grande to get here, McAllen station, a border crossing into the United States. “Thank God nothing happened,” they say of the perilous journey.
This group quickly grows to 22. Most are children who traveled without any adults.
Unlike other stories of illegal immigration across a porous border, these immigrants aren’t sneaking in. They’re showing up and announcing themselves.
“We are seeing hundreds turning themselves in daily. And I mean hundreds at a time,” said Chris Cabrera, a leader of the local chapter of the National Border Patrol Council, a labor union representing U.S. Border Patrol agents.
Many of the immigrants use rafts to cross the Rio Grande, equipped with instructions to follow the river until reaching the Border Patrol site to surrender.
“They know that once they get to the station, we are going to give them paperwork and we are going to set them free into the United States,” Cabrera says.
U.S. law prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from immediately deporting the children if they are not from Canada or Mexico. Instead, the children are turned over to Department Health and Human Services supervision “within 72 hours of DHS taking them into custody,” an official said.
“Most of the time, they’re getting released to relatives in the U.S.,” Cabrera said. “There’s nowhere to put them, so they’re released on their own recognizance and have a pending court date. I’d say between 95 and 97% of adults or youths don’t show up for court.”
The numbers are staggering. He estimates that more than 60,000 unaccompanied juveniles will cross in 2014 and that the numbers will rise from there.
This is the direct, easily foreseen consequence of the Obama Administration’s non-enforcement of our border, coupled to its refusal to deport illegal aliens who are minors under our standards. But note that these children are predominantly not Mexican; they’re from Central American countries south of Mexico, and therefore crossed the entire length of that nation to reach the United States. How?
There is only one plausible answer: their travel here was facilitated by persons with the necessary means, confident that when they’d finally crossed into the U.S., they would be permitted to stay. More, it’s impossible that the Administration is unaware of this. Resourceless minors do not traverse a thousand miles of hostile territory on their own initiative, nor without experiencing tragedy.
Surely none of this is surprising to you. If there’s any surprise to be had from it, it’s that the popular reaction against it has been so muted. But the salient point is this: Given the Administration’s openness about the relevant policies, the consequences were easy to foresee. Therefore we must conclude that those consequences, and their devastating effects upon the border states where Obama is so unpopular, were what the Administration wanted.
Next up we have yesterday’s fusillades in the House of Representatives:
And:
I cannot remember an exchange between an appointed Cabinet official and an elected federal legislator that’s remotely comparable to these. Commissioner Koskinen’s arrogance and defiance are unprecedented. He appears unconcerned with what might follow his open refusal to cooperate with the investigation, the most important such since Teapot Dome. No appointee concerned with his tenure in his position would exhibit such an attitude except after having secured assurance of protection against any significant penalty. Such protection could only issue from higher up in the Administration: specifically, from the White House.
The politicization of the Internal Revenue Service, which has extraordinary powers over American citizens, is a far graver matter than corruption of specific individuals. It sets the most feared and fearsome agency of the federal government at war with the citizenry. Indeed, given its routine guilty-until-proven-innocent practices, under which it may seize a citizen’s assets on arbitrary charges, thus denying him the resources required to defend himself against them, even members of Congress must feel a tremor or two at the thought of openly going up against the IRS. That’s why the charge in the bill of particulars against Richard Nixon that data from the IRS was provided to the White House to be used against Nixon’s enemies was so serious.
Despite the implications for the further use of the IRS as a weapon against anyone it chooses to target, the Administration is just fine with it. They want us to know…and to fear.
Gun retailers say the Obama administration is trying to put them out of business with regulations and investigations that bypass Congress and choke off their lines of credit, freeze their assets and prohibit online sales.Since 2011, regulators have increased scrutiny on banks’ customers. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2011 urged banks to better manage the risks of their merchant customers who employ payment processors, such as PayPal, for credit card transactions. The FDIC listed gun retailers as “high risk” along with porn stores and drug paraphernalia shops.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department has launched Operation Choke Point, a credit card fraud probe focusing on banks and payment processors. The threat of enforcement has prompted some banks to cut ties with online gun retailers, even if those companies have valid licenses and good credit histories.
“This administration has very clearly told the banking industry which customers they feel represent ‘reputational risk’ to do business with,” said Peter Weinstock, a lawyer at Hunton & Williams LLP. “So financial institutions are reacting to this extraordinary enforcement arsenal by being ultra-conservative in who they do business with: Any companies that engage in any margin of risk as defined by this administration are being dropped.”…
“We’re being threatened with a regulatory regime that attempts to foist on us the obligation to monitor all types of transactions,” Richard Riese, a senior vice president at the American Bankers Association, said in the April 28 issue of American Banker. “All of this is predicated on a notion that the banks are a choke point for all businesses.”
In an interview with The Times, Mr. Riese said the cost of doing business with gun retailers outweighs the benefits for some banks, given that regulators deem the industry as “risky,” state laws vary on the sale of guns and ammunition, and the Justice Department’s enforcement.
A regulatory process is being used, without statutory authority and outside all possibility of correction by judicial action, against institutions disfavored by the Obamunist regime. FDIC’s authority to audit and scrutinize financial institutions chartered under its auspices is largely noncontroversial. The desirability of the FDIC’s insurance provisions being as high as it is, few (if any) American banks exist outside that orbit. Thus, the weight of regulatory scrutiny can inhibit banks from making credit available to any business the regime wants to discourage: a perfect weapon to use against gun rights, which have been increasingly successful in the federal courts.
A military strategist will tell you: your first strike should always be aimed at the enemy’s weaponry. Once you have denied him the power to harm you, your plan of conquest can proceed in confidence.
Is there any other way to interpret the above strikes on the American firearms industry — at this time, one of the few unabashedly profitable and growing sectors of American enterprise?
War has been declared against us, the American people. The declarer is the federal government. Indeed, many state governments are its tacit allies. Several declarations are presented above; there are many more of subtler impact.
So whatcha gonna do about it, tough guy? Not one damned thing, that’s what. The entire rotten edifice of American government is rife with this sort of thing. Opportunities for amoral corruption is what government is; it’s what it does. Government is little more than a jobs program for incompetent, greedy bums who could never survive in a competitive, free-market environment…which is just one of many reasons to keep it small, under close supervision and tight restriction.What we have now is very nearly the precise opposite of what the Founders envisioned. This is but a small representation of that essential, inescapable truth.
The war has been declared. The battle lines are sharp and bright. No American can call himself a noncombatant; no American can be confident that he’s off the battlefield. And there’s absolutely nowhere to flee.
Will we surrender meekly, or will we stand and fight?
So what do we do? March on Washington armed to show them we mean business?
STUPID. Don’t even think about that. It would be a slaughter and it would give the justification for what this regime already intends to do to us. We do NOT give them the justification.
So do we just bend over and take it? Throw up our arms and submit to The Beast?
Many will.
But for those of us who understand history, who have a faith in the scriptures and Jesus Christ – we already have an answer.
FIRST: THE LAW OF GOD IS SUPREME. God Is Sovereign, above the laws of men – and His Commandments and Laws are our first loyalty as Believers. Our Liberties come from this truth. Our freedoms are rooted in the fact our government was established ONLY for the purpose of protecting our right to follow God as He leads us.
SECOND: Civil magistrates and government is only empowered to rule in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
THREE: Once civil government contravenes the Word of God, or becomes destructive to the civil society and laws laid down to UPHOLD liberty – then the government ceases to have any legitimacy. Indeed our own Declaration of Independence makes this truth plain:
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…
…A (government) whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
So what do we do?
The model that God blessed is already before us in our own history.
FIRST – we repent of our own sins, shortcoming and lukewarm attitude about our faith. Keeping God in a box at church that we only open once a week is nothing less than a dereliction of your calling as a Christian.
SECOND – We recognize that this federal government no longer has any legitimate authority over us. It is ILLEGITIMATE. It has abandoned any pretense of justice and righteousness. It is become nothing but a Beast who demands we put it’s ‘mark’ in our thoughts and actions. It contravenes the laws of God and is rewriting morality to make God’s Laws an evil – while declaring abominations – good.
THIRD – We refuse, we defy and we RESIST complying with it. It has no authority over us. All it has is the end of a gun to force us to submit.
For when a righteous people who have God as their Sovereign REFUSING to comply with a tyranny – the tyrant always yanks off the mask of it’s legitimacy and right to rule. It will use terror and force in order to press compliance – and in doing so – reveals itself to be the evil and tyranny that a Christian people MAY NOT SUBMIT TO. For in accords with our Founders – submitting to tyranny is BREAKING the First Commandment. For a tyranny will not suffer any rival of allegiance and such tyrannies of men are deemed to be gods over men.
Do not take the mark of this beast. Refuse. Defy. And when they come to force themselves upon you, to punish and destroy you – you will not have any doubts as to what you should do.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He is seen as the harbinger for the coming Islamic Mahdi. From Egypt, to Yemen, to Libya, to Iraq – Obama lends his hand to establishing a global Islamic Caliphate.
While Conservative Christians reel with the onslaught of daily attacks on our liberties while Obama rules by executive decree, there was an offhand comment made by an Obama DHS appointee that has gone nearly unnoticed by the alternative media. In a week we were told that amnesty for Mexican insurgents and illegals is ‘inevitable’ – so also we are told that an Islamic Caliphate is ‘inevitable’, at the same exact time that Iraq is falling to Al Qaeda Jihadists.
Welcome to ‘fundamental transformation’.
Back in 2009. I wrote a warning essay about how the Islamic world was viewing Obama after his Cairo speech and reading the signals he clearly sent to them.
Americans have by and large decided to ignore these fruits, cognitive dissonance to an extreme – refusing to acknowledge the fact that Obama is a Trojan horse for our enemies and is working towards our destruction while the evidence is right in front of our faces.
Now, because Obama is the defacto dictator, he has dropped many pretenses and masks about his intents and plans. Which is how and why one of his advisors is stating that the return of the Islamic Caliphate is now ‘inevitable’. Thanks in large part to Obama himself.
As ISIS rolls through Iraq vowing to re-establish the global Caliphate, an appointee of President Obama is telling us that the return of the Caliphate is “Inevitable.” John Rossomando reports for the Investigative Project on Terrorism:
A member of President Obama’s Homeland Security Advisory Council known for controversial Twitter posts that seem to support the Muslim Brotherhood wrote Friday that it is “inevitable that ‘Caliphate’ returns.”
He previously praised the late Muslim Brotherhood ideologueSayyid Qutb, whose ideas have undergirded the modern jihadist movement – especially his call for violent jihad and for the purification of Islam from the forces of unbelief – on Twitter.
Qutb believed that if the Caliphate – abolished in 1924 – ever were to be re-established, that a vanguard would need to replace the regime of one country with an Islamic state
Baghdad, the object of the current ISIS offensive, was, Rossomondo reminds us, the capital of the Assabid Caliphate from 762 until 1258. In the Muslim world, memories of the Caliphate are highly potent.
Now, here’s a great connect-the-dots essay that chronicles all of Obama’s actions with what is actually taking shape by Obama’s design.
It is not hard to understand why our Dear Leader wanted Dinesh D’Souza in jail and came at him with the full force of the Justice Department. A so-called routine review of his campaign donations unearthed an irregularity, and Mr. D’Souza was prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Who has their campaign contributions routinely reviewed anyway? Perhaps if he had been an illegal immigrant, or a Democratic operative like Jon Corzine, his crimes would have been overlooked. But he was neither and is now convicted. However, in President Obama’s eyes, Mr. D’Souza’s real crime was not illegally funneling money to Republican politicians–it was exposing the President’s dark agenda. For you see that in D’Souza’s movie, 2016: Obama’s America, he exposed for the world to see that Obama wanted to create a Muslim Jihadist caliphate across North Africa and the Middle East. For this, D’Souza had to be prosecuted.
Many on the Left laughed at D’Souza’s claims. Even many on the Right thought he was a little “out there.” But as I have written on these pages many times, the results speak for themselves, no matter what you believe about President Obama. If you are intellectually honest, I don’t believe you can look at the evidence and come to any other conclusion but that D’Souza was right.
So let’s take a look at the evidence. First, let’s start with the so-called Arab Spring. Here, you had a chain reaction of events where dictatorial leaders across the Muslim world were violently thrown out of positions of control. However, if you examine these events with a critical eye, what you see is that strongmen had held in check Sunni Muslim jihadists with a boot on their neck for decades. When this restraint was removed, the Muslim Brotherhood and other similar groups came to power. In Egypt, for example, after Mubarak’s ouster, there began a march towards Sharia Law. Why do you think the U.S. government was so angry when the Egyptian military threw the Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi out of office, put him in jail, and outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood across the country? Is there any other explanation except that Obama wanted the Brotherhood in control?
In Libya, the strongman Gaddafi was removed from power and killed in a movement backed by NATO forces in 2011. In the ensuing power vacuum, Islamic jihadist extremist elements are filling the void. In fact, once again, the military has launched operations against these Al Qaeda-backed forces to remove them from the country. Why do you think we really don’t know what happened in Benghazi? Why do you think this administration is going to such lengths to cover up how four American’s died? In Hillary’s words, “What difference does it make?” I think if the truth ever comes out, we will find that America was supporting jihadists in the country to allow them to rise to power, in spite of their terrorist links. Obama cannot let this get out.
In Iran, we have well-documented evidence that the Obama administration has been hellbent on allowing Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. Yes, they are a Sharia state, which historically have been at odds with the Sunni majority in the Muslim world. However, I believe that if the Islamic community sees the opportunity to create a pan-Asian Islamic caliphate, as they obviously do, they will put aside their differences. What will be the consequences to Israel and the United States when Iran has the bomb? Obama’s animosity to the security concerns of the Jewish State are well documented.
In Syria, Obama was begging for a reason not to attack the Assad regime after they used chemical weapons against their own citizens, deciding to desperately accept a Russian-backed deal that would force Assad to destroy his chemical stockpiles. Well, that was a year ago; and Assad has used chemical weapons fourteen times since against the opposition.
In Iraq, we have seen the Islamic State in Iraq (ISIS) defeat and occupy the northern cities on its march to Baghdad. Why do you think the Obama administration was so intent to remove American forces from the region? “See you in New York,” was a recent comment from a terrorist commander in-country as they beheaded thousands of Iraqis that worked with the Americans to defeat the jihadists under President Bush. Sunni fighters now control an area from Syria to the border of Iran, creating a terrorist state in the Middle East that will be much more dangerous than Afghanistan ever was. And now, we see the American presence being removed from that country as well.
In Turkey, Obama initially established a warm relationship with Islamist Prime Minister Ergodan until reports of his supporting Al Qaeda elements crossing Turkish territory back and forth from Europe to Syria forced Obama to publicly cool the relationship. Read that again. Obama supported a Turkish leader who allowed terrorists to travel from Syria to Europe through Turkish territory. Turkey is a member of NATO. Shocking.
As I have written before on these pages, the Obama administration’s agenda is not the buttressing of American power and ideals in the Middle East. It is about creating an environment where Muslim countries can install religious governments to create a Islamic caliphate across the Middle East and South Asia. The evidence of results on the ground as we look at it today is just too obvious. Enjoy the show, folks; you’re watching history. The Ottoman Empire is being reborn under our noses and is supported by our own government. I fear for our children’s future.
Anti-Islam Youtube Video created by a patsy agent of Obama’s Justice Department, intended as a pretext to criminalize anything critical of Islam in the United States.
“Anti-Islam Rhetoric ‘Must Be Rejected’ By All Who Respect Our Common Humanity” – Barrack Obama, September 25, 2012
Why make and repeat that insistence out front without anyone making an insinuation?? No one accused them of doing so – yet both of them vociferously stated it. WHY?
Well, I contend that Obama’s regime WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING THE VIDEO. A stooge patsy Muslim, coerced into working for Obama’s Justice Department, portrayed himself as a Coptic Christian and made the video probably at the Behest of Obama – FOR THE PURPOSE OF CRIMINALIZING ANYTHING CRITICAL OF ISLAM.
It also turns out that the official terms of Nakoula’s parole in 2009 was bogus, and that the administration used his parole as leverage to help him with their agenda: To create a climate for non-Muslim governments to enact laws that make criticism of Islam a criminal offense.
Sound far fetched? Well then I guess you haven’t heard about the ‘Istanbul Process’ meetings Hillary went to in Turkey as Secretary of State that were designed to help facilitate the creation of a “climate for non-Muslim governments to enact laws that make criticism of Islam a criminal offense.”
But before Nakoula could get the video finished, Benghazi happened and the administration quickly blamed it on that video.
Here’s info about this ‘Instanbul Process’ Hillary sought to implement:
The United Nations, at the behest of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and with the support of the U.S. government, succeeded in passing Resolution 16/18, which requires Western democracies to enact legislation preventing the “defamation of religions”.
The summit meeting on July 15, 2011 between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Istanbul launched what became known “Istanbul Process”. Mrs. Clinton committed the United States to a partnership with the Islamic world for the purpose of implementing the legislative results required by the agreement.
Shortly after the 9-11 attack in Benghazi, the Obama regime hosted a confab to address criminalizing speech and content critical of Islam:
The headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation will host a symposium on “Defamation Acts against Islam: conflict dimensions and perspectives of co-existence between Islam and the West” on Monday 19/11/2012.
Word of this meeting got out as facts about Benghazi were emerging and the OIC scrubbed it’s website.
The OIC has made no secret of its intentions to use the UN and international law to criminalize what they consider to be “defamation of Islam.” But now, no more mention of Anne Casper attending today’s OIC session on banning “defamation of Islam.” Let the cover-up begin!
Are you shocked the Obama regime would attempt to create a situation to implement aspects of Sharia Law by restricting speech that is critical of Islam in the USA? Consider this: Obama himself told the world that free speech should not apply to commentary that can be construed as ‘anti-Islamic’ by Muslims. He did this IN FRONT of the UN in 2012 and essentially reiterated what the Instanbul Process demanded by the OIC:
So what you have here in this picture all the puzzle pieces make, is that Obama and his regime are CREATING pretexts via inciting violence to abolish the American Constitution and your Rights. He did this with Operation Fast & Furious running guns to Mexican drug cartels in order to infringe on the Second Amendment. Now we are learning he attempted it again – by creating a Youtube video insulting of Islam as a pretext for violence so as to implement the Instanbul Process. Obama did this while he was running guns to Al Qaeda in Syria and ultimately intended to use it as an excuse to infringe and regulate the First Amendment that his regime blamed for Benghazi.
He was NEVER a Coptic Christian, rather the producer of the anti-Muhammad video the Obama administration blamed for the Benghazi attacks, is actually an agent of Eric Holder’s Justice Department.
Anyone remember the intent behind the Fast & Furious Gunwalker scandal? That was where Obama and Eric Holder ‘walked’ guns into the hands of Mexican drug lords in the hopes they would incite deaths that would galvanize the American public into accepting draconian infringements on the Second Amendment given the damage American guns were said to have caused?
Now imagine that same methodology being used by ‘walking’ that anti-Muhammed Youtube video as the ‘patsy’ for the Benghazi attack which was a cover to eliminate the evidence of Obama running heavy weapons to Al Qaeda Rebels in Syria. The SAME Al Qaeda Jihadists who now have conquered much of Northern Iraq. The video would serve as a pretext for the ‘need’ for Obama to restrict and regulate internet content given the ‘damage’ it was said to have caused.
It’s a connect-the-dots kind of week as it refers to Obama’s aid and comfort to the Jihadist terrorists in the world for the purpose of dismantling things at home.
In one day – news breaks in the blog from yesterday that the LEADER of the Jihadist group ISIS – WAS SET FREE FROM US CUSTODY in 2009 by Obama. At nearly the same time, news breaks that Obama is “quietly” releasing Jihadist prisoners in Afghanistan. This of course follows Obama releasing FIVE Taliban Generals for ONE slime ball deserter/traitor of the US Army; Bowe Bergdahl.
See a pattern there?
NEFARIOUS can hardly define what is taking place.
At the same time all that news was breaking, Walid Shoebat – a former Jihadist himself – unloaded a trove of evidence both revealed and circumstantial that Filmmaker Yousef/Nakoula not only admitted being Muslim, but was working for the Obama Justice Department. The entire anti-Islamic video was crafted to be a pasty – as a Provocateur for both covering up for the Benghazi operation – and giving the Obama regime an excuse to restrict and regulate the internet.
Tom Clancy couldn’t have written all the intrigue, double-dealing and nefarious invention that Shoebat and Keith Davies have uncovered as it all relates to the crafting IN ADVANCE of the scapegoat video apparently created for the purpose to cover for Obama gun-running weapons to ISIS in Syria and as a two-birds-with-one-stone bonus of justifying content restrictions on the internet.
Earlier this week, we brought you news about the producer of the film that was at the heart of the Obama administration talking points on Benghaziadmitting to being a Muslim, not a Coptic Christian as he had been portrayed to America. Now Walid Shoebat, Ben Barrack and Keith Davies confirm he is an agent of Eric Holder’s Justice Department.
The damning trail of evidence begins when a fictitious narrative was concocted by the FBI to lure the courts that Nakoula (the Filmmaker, aka Yousef) was supposed to help the FBI catch Eiad Salameh, his partner in crimes for many years. Yet, the deal was never fulfilled and Eiad was let go by the Feds in 2011 asShoebat.com revealed in a firsthand account never before reported, including a recorded conversation between Nakoula and Shoebat.com in which the filmmaker defended Eiad, the very man he was supposed to help the FEDS catch!
Bolstering the case (aside from the Feds letting two criminals go) is how the filmmaker became an agent of Eric Holder. After Nakoula’s arrest, there was a very curious development at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, which was handling his case through an Assistant U.S. Attorney who suddenly was pulled off the case and replaced by a full bird – Chief of the office’s Criminal Division, Robert Dugdale.
Nakoula got high-profile attention.
In an article that appeared in the Washington Times, Kerry Picket wrote:
What is curious, though, is the fact that the original Asst. U.S. Atty. Jennifer Williams, who helped prosecute Mr. Yousef’s [Nakoula] bank fraud conviction, is not the attorney Mr. Yousef’s lawyers would eventually deal with. Mr. Yousef’s probation violation case, for no explained reason, was kicked up to Chief Criminal Division prosecutor Asst. U.S. Atty. Robert Dugdale. Dugdale is second in the chain of command below U.S. Atty. Andre Birotte of the Central District of California.
Picket was suspicious, she attempted to get answers from the office’s spokesman, Thom Mrozek:
When I pointed out that AUSA Dugdale was not part of the team of attorneys who did prosecute Yousef’s case and asked why the case was kicked up the chain to AUSA Dugdale, Mr. Mrozek responded, “I don’t comment on staffing decisions.”
The U.S. Attorney over Dugdale – Andre Birotte, Jr. became the local caretaker of a very high profile and high stakes case the Obama administration wanted to control very closely and later was nominated by Obama to be U.S. District Judge for California’s Central District.
Eiad Salameh, Nakoula’s partner in crimes – also beholden to the administration – obtained special favors from doing the Justice Department’s bidding. According to a report by The Smoking Gun just days after the Benghazi attacks, charges against Eiad (who has a proven rap sheet) were dropped in the same year that Canadian authorities picked him up:
It is unclear whether Salameh, whose whereabouts are unknown, has been charged in connection with the bank fraud. Salameh was named in a 2006 federal criminal complaint charging him with felony fraud. That complaint–filed under one of Salameh’s many aliases–was dismissed last year by federal prosecutors. A court docket shows that no filings were made after the initial complaint, likely indicating that Salameh was never apprehended.
But the last sentence is incorrect; Salameh was apprehended.
Jeffrey Mason of the Canadian Peel Police picked Salameh up in January of 2011!
At that time, he should have been wanted in connection with both the 2006 and 2009 cases, assuming he was involved in the Nakoula bank fraud case. Yet, the 2006 case was dropped in either the same month Eiad was arrested or in the months that followed.
Shoebat.com has learned from one retired FBI agent that this doesn’t just happen unless Eiad was providing the Feds with something in return for such treatment.
As Shoebat.com has reported, a timeline provides further evidence that the Obama Administration was in cahoots with these figures in the summer of 2011, during the July-August time frame.
1.) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton co-chaired a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey with the head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). It was to be the first of several meetings that would become known as “The Istanbul Process”. One of the objectives of the OIC has been and remains, to pressure non-Muslim countries to censor speech critical of Islam.
2.) Nakoula began casting for his video.
3.) Eiad Salameh was put on a plane back to Palestine by the Canadians after Eric Holder’s FBI refused to have him extradited and charged.
Eiad was clearly on the hook with the U.S. Justice Department if his 2006 case was dismissed.
FBI’s Benghazi Investigation
When UN Ambassador Susan Rice blamed Nakoula’s video for the Benghazi attacks during her five Sunday talk show appearances on September 16, 2012, it served to anger the president of Libya, who shortly before Rice, had identified the attack as an act of terrorism. Last year, State Department whistle blower Gregory Hicks, the Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya at the time of the attacks, testified about this and said Rice’s comments prevented the FBI from getting to the site of the attacks for weeks.
Based on the FBI’s relationship with Nakoula and Eiad, the longer it took to get to the scene of the Benghazi attacks, the more compromised that scene would become. A compromised crime scene would have served to aid the perpetuation of the video narrative.
Silencing Skeptics
Is it unusual for the U.S. Government to empower informants to engage in a massive scheme and criminal enterprise for the purpose of creating a political climate to help push an agenda? Hardly. In much the same way that the Obama State Department championed the “Istanbul Process” as a vehicle to assault the first amendment, a gunwalking operation was used to assault the second amendment.
In Operation Fast and Furious, multiple federal agencies worked together as part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF). The stated purpose of the operation was to track guns that were being trafficked into Mexico, arrest the bad guys, and confiscate the guns. In reality, as has been clearly demonstrated, the actual purpose was to allow the guns to “walk” into Mexico and make their way into the hands of drug cartels after the ATF – an arm of the Justice Department – mandated U.S. gun store owners sell the guns to bad guys.
The guns would be picked up at crime scenes and American gun store owners would be blamed in a blood libel (sound familiar?). The cover of that operation was blown after the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. An ATF whistle blower named John Dodson came forward and the scandal was exposed.
If blood libel and the collateral damage of innocent human lives in the interest of pushing an agenda like gun control was used to launch an assault on the second amendment, why would it be beyond plausibility to envision the same administration launching an assault on the first amendment using to create the climate for speech control?
Ironically – and perhaps not so coincidentally – the man in charge of the Criminal Division involved in both Fast and Furious and the post-Benghazi prosecution of Nakoula was Lanny Breuer.
….In conclusion, cutting a deal with one criminal to help them catch another it didn’t want brings legitimate questions about how Nakoula’s case was handled by Holder’s Criminal Division, where the possible monies obtained for the film, led at the time nationally by a figure whose claim to infamy is that he wound up as a central figure in the Operation Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal – Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer. Along with Holder, Breuer, Dugdale, Birotte should all be deposed by the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
So should Nakoula and Eiad.
The question should be: Why did the law enforcement bureau Holder led refuse to pick up Eiad when offered on a silver platter by Canadian authorities in 2011. What was the source of the monies spent on the movie? Why was Nakoula given a lesser prison sentence to help the FBI arrest someone it didn’t want, thereby making the plea deal about something else?
In the days after the Benghazi attacks, Nakoula was arrested for violating the terms of his probation. The optics, coupled with the Obama administration’s attempts to blame the video for the deaths, clearly communicated that he was being punished for producing a “crude and disgusting video” that was critical of Islam. Unfortunately, the outrage Nakoula’s arrest generated in conservative circles actually played to the Obama administration’s advantage creating a distraction from the devastating truth.
Based on this explosive development, enough probable cause exists to investigate whether or not Eiad was involved in financing Nakoula’s video production. In this ABC News story filed just two days after the Benghazi attacks, it was revealed that the cost of the video was between $50,000 – $60,000 financed by his family in Egypt.
Just two weeks after Benghazi, Shoebat.com published a report about the claim by Nakoula that his “family” provided him with the funds to produce the video. As we wrote then, this “family” has not been located:
…if an Egyptian by the name of Nakoula Bacile Nakoula is blamed for angering over a billion Muslims, it would not be that difficult to find the entire family in Egypt, to include brothers, cousins, aunts, siblings wife, wives, ex-wives, mistresses, and pets, et. al., especially since the riots that spanned across 30 nations were sparked in Egypt.
In the Middle East, you are known by your clan. Yet, Egypt cannot produce neither this man’s family or his background?
Was Eiad the source of the $50,000 – $60,000? The Feds clearly couldn’t have their fingerprints on the money but two informants who were beholden to the Justice Department could. Is this why he wasn’t taken into custody when the Canadians offered him up?
Providing even further evidence that Nakoula’s video was about agitprop and blood libel are his initial claims about the source of his funding. According to the ABC News report above, Nakoula attempted to say the video cost $5 Million and was funded by a consortium of wealthy Jewish friends. This was clearly lie.
Eiad Salameh is a Muslim fundamentalist who hates Coptic Christians. If Nakoula was a Copt, why would Salameh partner with him? The answer is that Nakoula is a Muslim who used agitprop and blood libel as an agent of the Obama administration and its Justice Department.
Handing 5 Jihadist Generals on over to Islamists for traitor Bergdahl is nothing new for Obama. He released the Al Qaeda ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2009
The hits just keep coming.
An Islamic maniac and point-man for Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi also known as Abu Dua – was once held by the U.S. at Camp Bucca. He was mysteriously released for unknown reasons in 2009 – right after Obama took office. Camp Bucca was the prison camp for the most hardened of Al Qaeda’s operators, but The Obama regime shut down the Bucca prison camp and released its prisoners, including Abu Dua in 2009.
Now we learn that this animal, who often pronounced sentence on his enemies and publicly executed them by beheading, is the leader of ISIS – the Islamic State In Syria And Iraq, the Jihadist group that has conquered Mosul and Tikrit and now threatens to move on Baghdad.
This is also suspected to the be leader of the Jihadist Syrian Rebels against Basher Assad in Syria, a group Obama has been deliberately supporting and funding.
So – connect the dots: this Al Qaeda Jihadist released with others in 2009 on Obama’s orders (because he is the CINC – this would NOT have happened without his direct order), which is in keeping with Obama releasing 5 – count-’em – FIVE– Jihadist Taliban GENERALS for 1 (ONE) traitor and deserter Bowe Bergdahl.
BUT WAIT! Just now Reuters is reporting that Obama is doing the SAME RELEASING AND ‘REPATRIATING’ Of Jihadist Prisoners in Afghanistan that he did in Iraq!!!!!
The Obama administration has quietly repatriated a dozen detaineesfrom a small U.S. military prison in Afghanistan, moving a modest step closer toward winding down the United States’ controversial post-9/11 detainee system.
Does anyone yet see the treason being done here by Obama? Is NO ONE of any importance willing to call Obama out for what he is and what he is doing???
There may be nothing left of this country by the time Obama is no longer in power.
…Well-organised and utterly ruthless, the ex-preacher is the driving force behind al-Qaeda’s resurgence throughout Syria and Iraq, putting it at the forefront of the war to topple President Bashar al-Assad and starting a fresh campaign of mayhem against the Western-backed government in Baghdad.
On Tuesday, his forces achieved their biggest coup in Iraq to date, seizing control of government buildings in Mosul, the country’s third biggest city. Coming on top of similar operations in January that planted the black jihadi flag in the towns of Fallujah and Ramadi, it gives al-Qaeda control of large swathes of the north and west of the country, and poses the biggest security crisis since the US pull-out two years ago…
…“This guy was a Salafi (a follower of a fundamentalist brand of Islam), and Saddam’s regime would have kept a close eye on him,” said Dr Michael Knights, an Iraq expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
“He was also in Camp Bucca for several years, which suggests he was already considered a serious threat when he went in there.”
That theory seems backed by US intelligence reports from 2005, which describe him as al-Qaeda’s point man in Qaim, a fly-blown town in Iraq’s western desert.
“Abu Duaa was connected to the intimidation, torture and murder of local civilians in Qaim”, says a Pentagon document. “He would kidnap individuals or entire families, accuse them, pronounce sentence and then publicly execute them.”
Why such a ferocious individual was deemed fit for release in 2009 is not known. One possible explanation is that he was one of thousands of suspected insurgents granted amnesty as the US began its draw down in Iraq.
Well, Al Qaeda-aligned Jihadist militants have taken over two of the largest cities in Iraq, it’s largest oil field and are pushing to overtake Baghdad.
Of note is that this particular Jihadist group is aligned with the same Jihadist movement in Syria that Obama has been supporting and arming against Basher Assad. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Levant) raises it’s black flag in conquest of a nation that Obama has abandoned after much American blood was spilled in the attempt to secure the nation.
Riding high on their stunning success in seizing Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul, the al Qaeda breakaway group that sent government forces fleeing took over Saddam Hussain’s hometown of Tikrit – and appears to be pushing on, consolidating their territory and fighting their way towards Baghdad.
With Iraq’s key cities falling like dominoes to militants under the black banner of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), experts say the group’s success in the face of minimal resistance from government security forces is encouraging the group to expand its reach.
The portents of this conflict may end up getting Iran involved to save it’s minority Shiite brethren from annihilation. This will go from bad to worse, but worse yet – Obama has demonstrated to the entire world that America CANNOT BE TRUSTED. Our allies cannot depend on us, because we will abandon them, and our enemies know that under Obama, we will surrender.
Since the release of 5 imprisoned Jihadist generals by Obama in exchange for a traitor, the Jihadist movement in the world is suddenly empowered and sensing victory over the West and America. Jihadists have retaken hard-fought ground and cities and claimed them for themselves. Obama has handed the momentum to the Jihadists of the Islamic world onto a silver platter, and as Baghdad falls, watch for much of Afghanistan to follow in short order.
This should be no surprise to us. Obama has given the signal to Jihadists in the world that America was in retreat, and like idiots the war-weary American people lapped it up.
“We’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We’re building a new partnership between our nations. And we are ending a war, not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making”. – Barack Obama December 14, 2011
Of course the Praetorian Media will do everything it can to absolve Obama and his MarxoFascist regime for the fact that he single-handedly surrendered to the ideology that attacked us on 9-11-2001. They will blame Bush for Iraq falling to Al Qaeda and claim that this is all the result of getting involved in the first place.
But for those willing to know the truth – it is good to recall what this regime has said when it claimed Victory in Iraq because of Obama. Joe Biden declared that the troop withdrawal from Iraq will be the Obama Regime’s “Crowning achievement”. See it for yourself:
Did you watch and listen to what Biden said in that clip?
I will tell you that Biden was prophetic in the fact that he just told USAF graduates two weeks ago that “Afghanistan will end up just like Iraq after we leave”.
Yes. Yes it will. Afghanistan will end up just like Iraq. Because this is all by Obama’s design. I contend he is and always was a Trojan Horse for our enemies.
It would be amusing if it wasn’t so damn sad – because while Iraq and Afghanistan fall to Al Qaeda and Jihadists, as Russia takes over the Baltics and China moves to expand in the Pacific – the Obama Regime has insisted that the MOST IMPORTANT THING it is concerned about – and the most important thing to project to the entire world, is that it stands NOT with our allies, but that we stand with Homosexuals celebrating their pride:
The U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, hoisted the homosexual pride flag over the embassy building in Tel Aviv and tweeted the photo with a statement that read:
“Proudly flying the colors. For the first time in history, the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv has raised the Pride flag together with our American flag,” Ambassador Dan Shapiro wrote “We are proud to join with the municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo and its residents in celebrating LGBT Pride Week.”
Nowhere in scripture are we promised worldly ease in return for our pledge of faith. In fact, every single Apostle of Christ received a one-way ticket to prison and/or death by torture.
Rarely do I read anything in the mainstream media that I can actually concur with. That an essay in the Huffington Posts ‘Religion’ section can put an exclamation point on a truth I have recently learned, is stunning to me.
I have long had a major issue with what can be referred to as the ‘Osteenification’ of the American Church; the lukewarm Laodecian self-help/Prosperity Gospel. This doctrine is nothing but a mirror of a culture that has created an entirely new Jesus, crafted in an image of the wealth, prosperity and desires of American Christians.
For those who have done missionary work, or lived in third world slums and hellholes serving persecuted Christians, this essay may help bring to perfect clarity a truth you may have struggled to put into clear understanding. Most of the world’s Christian brethren, live a daily life that will astound, depress and baffle American understanding. The truth is that our own culture has tainted our view of the biblical Jesus Christ.
THIS essay brings to home probably one of the most important false Gospels the American church has crafted, and it is one the entire church in our culture needs to repent of.
….I’ve noticed a trend among Christians, myself included, and it troubles me. Our rote response to material windfalls is to call ourselves blessed. Like the “amen” at the end of a prayer.
“This new car is such a blessing.”
“Finally closed on the house. Feeling blessed.”
“Just got back from a mission trip. Realizing how blessed we are here in this country.”
On the surface, the phrase seems harmless. Faithful even. Why wouldn’t I want to give God the glory for everything I have? Isn’t that the right thing to do?
No.
As I reflected on my “feeling blessed” comment, two thoughts came to mind. I realize I’m splitting hairs here, creating an argument over semantics. But bear with me, because I believe it is critically important. It’s one of those things we can’t see because it’s so culturally engrained that it has become normal.
But it has to stop. And here’s why.
First, when I say that my material fortune is the result of God’s blessing, it reduces The Almighty to some sort of sky-bound, wish-granting fairy who spends his days randomly bestowing cars and cash upon his followers. I can’t help but draw parallels to how I handed out M&M’s to my own kids when they followed my directions and chose to poop in the toilet rather than in their pants. Sure, God wants us to continually seek His will, and it’s for our own good. But positive reinforcement?
God is not a behavioral psychologist.
Second, and more importantly, calling myself blessed because of material good fortune is just plain wrong. For starters, it can be offensive to the hundreds of millions of Christians in the world who live on less than $10 per day. You read that right. Hundreds of millions who receive a single-digit dollar “blessing” per day.
During our year in Guatemala, Gabby and I witnessed first-hand the damage done by the theology of prosperity, where faithful people scraping by to feed their families were simply told they must not be faithful enough. If they were, God would pull them out of their nightmare. Just try harder, and God will show favor.
The problem? Nowhere in scripture are we promised worldly ease in return for our pledge of faith. In fact, the most devout saints from the Bible usually died penniless, receiving a one-way ticket to prison or death by torture.
I’ll take door number three, please.
If we’re looking for the definition of blessing, Jesus spells it out clearly (in Matthew 5: 1-12).
….we ignore it all when we hijack the word “blessed” to make it fit neatly into our modern American ideals, creating a cosmic lottery where every sincere prayer buys us another scratch-off ticket. In the process, we stand the risk of alienating those we are hoping to bring to the faith.
And we have to stop playing that game.
The truth is, I have no idea why I was born where I was or why I have the opportunity I have. It’s beyond comprehension. But I certainly don’t believe God has chosen me above others because of the veracity of my prayers or the depth of my faith. Still, if I take advantage of the opportunities set before me, a comfortable life may come my way. It’s not guaranteed. But if it does happen, I don’t believe Jesus will call me blessed.
He will call me “burdened.”
He will ask,
“What will you do with it?”
“Will you use it for yourself?”
“Will you use it to help?”
“Will you hold it close for comfort?”
“Will you share it?”
So many hard choices. So few easy answers.
So my prayer today is that I understand my true blessing. It’s not my house. Or my job. Or my standard of living.
No.
My blessing is this. I know a God who gives hope to the hopeless. I know a God who loves the unlovable. I know a God who comforts the sorrowful. And I know a God who has planted this same power within me. Within all of us.
And for this blessing, may our response always be,
Indiana treasurer Richard Mourdock warned that the failing economy is pushing the country the way of Nazi Germany
History teaches great lessons and the one of the greatest lessons to learn is that human nature never changes.
Scripture declares it:
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun” – Ecclesiastes 1:9
America’s Founders understood this, which is why they created a Republic with divided Government containing a system of checks and balances intended to LIMIT government and prevent it from becoming a TYRANNY – which human nature teaches is an assured fate. The Founders considered human nature and history and understood that Ecclesiastes was gospel truth and warned the American people repeatedly that they needed to be vigilant in safeguarding their liberties.
But today – this people will be destroyed for a lack of knowledge. It no longer considers the lessons of history. A lifetime of peace and plenty, incredible technology and wealth, the American people, thinking themselves wise, have become fools by accepting the beguiling of the Secular Left and have rested in the false comfort that history and human nature no longer applies.
Most Americans, indeed even most in the Republican Party whom I read, are lecturing themselves that electing more Republicans will restore the Constitution and we will be saved from disaster and the tyranny now being installed that is staring us in the face. They are not even paying attention to what is being SAID and DONE that negates their false hopes. They are not even CONSIDERING the possibility that we already have a defacto dictatorship under Obama.
I contend most Americans have a fatal case of Normalcy Bias.
But scripture and what the Foundners warned us because of their understanding of history and human nature stands in truth and cannot be shaken.
When anyone in a position of influence or political power states a similar warning, watch how they are immediately impugned, castigated and laughed at:
“The people of Germany in a free election selected the Nazi party because they made great promises that appealed to them because they were desperate and destitute. And why is that? Because Germany was bankrupt,” Mourdock said to a crowd gathered at the Indiana Republican Convention on Saturday.
In the 1930’s during the Great Depression and under the pressure of the Treaty of Versailles, the National Socialist Party showered the poor with bread and put millions of unemployed to work with government programs before leading the entire world into war.
“Over the next several years, every time a program began to fall apart, Mr. Hitler’s party was very, very good at dividing Germany by pointing to this group or that group,” Mourdock continued. “First they went after their political opponents. Then they went after the aristocrats. Then they went after the trade unionists. And ultimately, of course, they went after the Jews. They deprived them of their property, their rights, their citizenship, and for millions their humanity. Because they were bankrupt!”
And immediately here come the fools screaming in outrage that such a warning should even be made:
“We are extremely disappointed to learn that Treasurer Mourdock chose to invoke the rise of Hitler and the heinous acts of the Nazis in comparison to America’s national debt,” said Shelby Anderson, president of the Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council. “Such comparisons are highly offensive and trivialize both the suffering and memory of the six million Jews and millions of others who perished under the Nazi regime.”
“[It’s] deplorable to suggest that a nation in debt is somehow one step away from perpetrating crimes reminiscent of Nazi Germany,” vice president of the council Stephen Klapper added.
What is even more deplorable, is that this very same religious block nearly unanimously supports the MarxoFascists under Obama and the Democrats. That they choose to ignore the lessons that their own relatives and people suffered just 70 years ago, when the signs of warning are all around them, is an abject lesson in sheep being led off a cliff.
Sword At-The-Ready 