My friend and almost constant companion who goes by the name King Oliver is my two and one half pound Chihuahua, and he has the paper work from the American Kennel Club to prove his qualifications. It has been a normal routine to let him out several times a day to run around in the front yard where he spends a few minutes marking his territory and other things that doggies do. I always stand on the porch to make sure he doesn’t go into the road where those big automobiles that sometimes drive by doesn't get the opportunity to run over my little friend. My neighbor across the street also has a Chihuahua but I had never noticed before that it was a young lady. Maybe I’m wrong about her being a lady.
Friday while King Oliver was out making sure the markings of his territory were still intact, she ran across the street and introduced herself. “Hi big boy, are you in the mood for a little romance?” She asked. The King perked up at hearing this and…well…the two of them went into this tight little dance, side by side, nose to tail around and around for a few minutes becoming thoroughly acquainted. It was about then the mean old Ogre…that’s me…decided that the King should come back inside and not get involved with this promiscuous little hussy.
It wasn’t long before King Oliver…insisting that his new friend was not a promiscuous little hussy, wanted to go back outside. He whimpered and cried, insisting that he really needed to go outside. He was so insistent, even threatening to poop on the floor if he didn’t get his way.
Finally giving in, even though it was already dark outside I thought I could keep him in the range of my front porch light. Well…I was wrong. He disappeared into the darkness and refused to return when I called. I finally sent out a search party and he was nowhere to be found. I couldn’t imagine where he might be but it was a sure thing that he was somewhere he wanted to be but not to be found.
A few hours later, the lady of the house across the street brought him to my front door telling me she found him in her small storage building whining and shivering…the temperature outside had fallen a little below freezing. Why he didn't come home on his own after his little hussy went inside I don't know. Maybe he thought she would return soon and they could continue where they left off. I can only imagine that they were just doing what comes naturally.
I remembered my youth and compared the storage building to the old barn on the our farm. Out behind the barn was where I got my education when I was young. There’s a song about that and I just wish I could remember the lyrics. His little escapade brought back to mind that song entitled “Out Behind the Barn.” Most of us southern country boys got our education out behind the barn. Smoked our first cigarette out behind the barn. Kissed our first girl friend out behind the barn. A lot of things went on out behind the barn that we didn't want ma and pa to know about. That's life.
All day long today, Valentines day 2015, my little King has been whining wanting to go back out behind the barn but all to no avail. I’m a mean old Ogre and insisted he stay in the yard and be a nice little boy, after all, he’s only two and a half years old. And has plenty of years ahead of him to find a nice girl, fall in love and get properly married before he starts a family. At least that’s what my mama always said to me when I was young.
I received an email from a friend in South Carolina telling me that there was a terrorist training camp in York County, S.C. York county occupies an area of 696 square miles in the North East part of S.C. not far from Charlotte, N.C. It has a population of 226,073 as of the 2010 census. The Clarion Project website lists it as lists it as Islamville with the address of Islamville Way, York County, S.C. 29745. Formed in 1982. They boast of having the first Islamic Shrine in America.
A call to the Sheriff Department of York County, I was told that no such place exists. They admitted to having an Islamic commune with peaceful Muslims living there that bear no threat to anyone. That’s the official story. However, I found a website of Holy Islamville, Home of the Baitun-Noor Holy Khangah. Supposedly a part of the MOA (Muslims of America) proclaiming peaceful intentions in establishing harmony between them and other religious faith of America. They emphasiz that their focus is on similarities with other peoples of the “Book” and not their differences. They go by the name Jamaat Al-Fuqra in the United States.
The following three paragraphs from WDN explain things a little differently:
“According to the FBI, there are at least 22 Islamic paramilitary communes in the US. These communes are operated by the Pakistan-based group Jamaat al-Fuqra and its main US front group, Muslims of the Americas. Pamela Geller, author of the Atlas Shrugs blog and the book “Stop the Islamization of America,” has been following the militant training compounds since 2007.
Gilani’s group operates a slick website in which a female narrator in one promo video waxes beautifully about how the group has rescued many young Americans from a life a crime, drugs and poverty. The group claims to focus on a ministry to “indigenous American Muslims.” One would never guess from the video that the group trains young men and women in the use of small arms and military tactics.”
I found another web site showing a very lengthy PDF File“Identifying the Links between White Collar Crime and terrorism. On page 21 of this you will find a list of Fuqura criminal activities. On Appendix B you will find “Suspected Fuqra Activities, Training Compounds and Activities, by State”. On Appendix C, you will find “White-collar Crimes Used to Support Terrorist Activities.” It’s a 92 page file so it will take some patience to read through the whole thing.
Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani claims to have between 10 and 15 thousand followers in America with a presence in 22 of the American states. He also says:
“These are the end times and the carpet is being rolled up”. He also tells his followers to “Act like a friend, and then kill them, just like from the book.”
Sheik Gilani started in 1980 recruiting Islamists for the war between Afghanistan and Russia and at the same time he apparently started recruiting Islamists for his training camps in America.
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl went to Pakistan to interview Gilani about the shoe bomber, Richard Reid but Gilani thought Daniel Pearl was there to target him and an assassination team would be sent in to kill him. Gilani claims no responsibility in Daniel Pearl execution.
Several covert paramilitary training compounds exist within some of the communes. Law enforcement are aware of seven training facilities in the ROCIC (Regional Organized Crime Information Center). His followers are referred to as the Soldiers of Alla, SOA.
Most of the recruits living at these communes are African-Americans who converted to Islam while doing hard time in state or federal prisons, Geller says. They have operated “under the not-so-watchful eye” of the FBI since the early 1980s, she says, but few Americans are aware of their existence all these years later.
However, another website from Hancock, N.Y. gives a video which show military training in progress including their recruitment. The U.S. headquarters in Islamberg, the group, headed by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani operate communes in mostly remote areas of California, Georgia, South Carolina, New York, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan, Tennessee and other states.
They seem to be operating low key to keep from arousing too much suspicion from the police and the government agencies, they are stealthy in their terrorist training. While Home Land Security as well as the FBI are supposedly keeping watch on their activities, they seem to be growing in numbers. One person said there were more than two dozen, another said their were about thirty such camps in at least 22 states. They seem to be taking advantage of our freedoms of speech, political correctness and freedom of religion while they train to overthrow our government and us as a free people.
The most informative explanation of the training camps I found was a 35 minute documentary on You Tube which tells pretty much the whole story as it is described in the Koran. It is apparent that Islam’s goal is to conquer the world for Allah, the United States is included.
Have you
ever wondered how New Years became a celebration and resolutions to do better
or be better or something along those lines became a part of the tradition? Me
too, I got curious and decided to do a little research and came up with the
following bit of trivia which I hope informs and entertains you.
The celebration of the New Year is the oldest of all holidays. It was
first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the years around
2000 BC, Babylonians celebrated the beginning of a new year on what is now
March 23.Greeks chose to celebrate on the Winter Solstice, At that time in
history the Roman calendar only had ten months with March being the first
month. That would give each month 36 and a half days.
Numa Pompilius, the second king, of Rome, divided the year into twelve lunar
months by adding the months of January and February giving the months 29 days
each. The months now only had 349 days each. New Years was shifted to January 1
as it marked the beginning of the civil year in Rome.
The
tradition of New Year's Resolutions goes back to 153 B.C. Janus, a mythical
king of early Rome was placed at the head of the calendar. With two faces,
Janus could look back on past events and forward to the future. Janus became
the ancient symbol for resolutions and many Romans looked for forgiveness from
their enemies and also exchanged gifts before the beginning of each year.
Julius
Caesar was pretty smart. He figured that since a year had 365 days, each month
should have 30 or 31 days except for February which had 28 or 29. That
was the beginning of the Julian solar calendar. That 29 came much later as a
leap year addition but Julius came real close to the real deal.
There
have been arguments about calendar when to celebrate what just about since the
calendar begun. Medieval Europe the celebrations were considered pagan and
unchristian like and in 567 A.D. the Council of Tours abolished January 1 as
the beginning of the year In various places through out Medieval Europe,
December 25 the New Year was celebrated along with the birth of Jesus, March 1,
March 23, the Feast of the Annunciation and Easter.
So, for
40000 years, we humans have been celebrating some date as the beginning of the
new year, and using it as a reason to drink and be rowdy then make some kind of
resolution to not make the same mistakes again in the next year, Yeah…sure we
do...Have a Happy New Year and keep those
resolutions simple.
I came across a video of the Communist Party USA this morning which offended my sensibilities as well as my intelligence. Watch it below and read my comments if you will.
I hear more cries from the Unions and other people every day that we need to do away with Capitalism. They make statements such as: “Capitalism steals your money via politicians, taxes, products, services, shops, food, fuel, musicians, celebrities, films, sports, banking, TV, the internet, etc.”
Under the Communist Manifesto, supposedly written by Karl Marx although Friedrich Engels has often been credited in composing the first drafts. There were ten statements as follows:
Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Abolition of all right of inheritance.
Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of the population over the country.
Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form and combination of education with industrial production.
The implementation of these policies would, as believed by Marx and Engels, be a precursor to the stateless and classless society. In a controversial passage they suggested that the "proletariat" might in competition with the bourgeoisie be compelled to organize as a class, form a revolution, make itself a ruling class, sweep away the old conditions of production, and in that step have abolished its own supremacy as a class. This account of the transition from socialism to communism was criticized particularly during and after the Soviet era.
All well and good but it didn’t work out quite that way.
Then along came Vladmir Lennin.
Born to a wealthy middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin gained an interest in revolutionary leftist politics following the execution of his brother Aleksandr in 1887. Expelled from Kazan State University for participating in anti-Tsarist protests, he devoted the following years to a law degree and to radical politics, becoming a Marxist. In 1893 he moved to St Petersburg, and became a senior figure in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). Arrested for sedition and exiled to Siberia for three years, he married Nadezhda Krupskaya, and fled to Western Europe, where he became known as a prominent party theorist. In 1903, he took a key role in the RSDLP schism, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Briefly returning to Russia during the Revolution of 1905, he encouraged violent insurrection and later campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletariat revolution. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar, he returned to Russia.
Lets just call this news clip an obituary:
Nicholas II abdicated his throne in 1917 as revolution swept Russia. He and his family were placed under house arrest in Tsarskoe Selo, then evacuated to Tobolsk in the Urals in August that year.
The Bolsheviks came to power in October 1917 and by March 1918 the family were forced to live on soldier's rations.
The next month, the Red Army moved the Romanovs to Yekaterinburg. There were plans to put Nicholas on trial, but these were scuppered (I would have used the word scuttled here,) when the city became the target of the rival anti-communist White Army.
The Bolsheviks decided to shoot the entire family on July 18 so they could not be rescued by the White Army.
They woke them, told them to get dressed and pretended they were being moved from Yekaterinburg away from the oncoming battle.
They were shot in a basement and their bodies buried in a pit near the city. Their remains were reburied in 1998 by the Russian government, who gave them a state funeral.
Lenin, along with Leon Trotsky, played a senior role in orchestrating the October Revolution in 1917, which led to the overthrow of the Provisional Government and the establishment of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. Lenin was elected to the position of the head of government by the All-Russian Congress of Soviets. Under Lenin's leadership the new government nationalized the estates and crown lands. Homosexuality and abortion were legalized; Lenin's Russia was the first country in the world to establish both of these rights. Free access was being given to both abortion and birth control. No-fault divorce was also legalized, along with universal free healthcare and free education being established. Lenin supported world revolution and immediate peace with the Central Powers, agreeing to a punitive treaty that turned over a significant portion of the former Russian Empire to Germany. The treaty was voided after the Allies won the war. In 1921 Lenin proposed the New Economic Policy, a mixed economic system of state capitalism that started the process of industrialization and recovery from the Civil War. In 1922, the Russian SFSR joined former territories of the Russian Empire in becoming the Soviet Union, with Lenin as its head of government. Only 13 months later, after being incapacitated by a series of strokes, Lenin died at his home in Gorki.
After his death, there was a struggle for power in the Soviet Union between two major factions, namely Stalin's and the Left Opposition (with Trotsky as de facto leader). Eventually, Stalin, whom Lenin distrusted and wanted removed, came to power and eliminated any opposition.
Lenin remains a controversial and highly divisive world figure. Historian J. Arch Getty has remarked that "Lenin deserves a lot of credit for the notion that the meek can inherit the earth, that there can be a political movement based on social justice and equality". Lenin had a significant influence on the international Communist movement and was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the 20th century. Admirers view him as a champion of working people's rights and welfare. However, others disagree: one of his biographers Robert Service, says he, "laid the foundations of dictatorship and lawlessness. Lenin had consolidated the principle of state penetration of the whole society, its economy and its culture. Lenin had practiced terror and advocated revolutionary unscrupulousness." Time magazine named Lenin one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century, and one of their top 25 political icons of all time; remarking that "for decades, Marxist–Leninist rebellions shook the world while Lenin's embalmed corpse lay in repose in the Red Square". Following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, reverence for Lenin declined among the post-Soviet generations, yet he remains an important historical figure for the Soviet-era generations.
The history of the atrocities committed by these men who thought they knew a better way than Capitalism has filled books, and I do not want to make a book of this blog, but by omitting a lot of known and documented facts about Socialism and or Communism (there’s very little difference between the two no matter what the intellectuals say).
I’ve been told that I’m too long winded as a writer but I hate to omit any thing factual to prove a point. But for the sake of shortening up this (I call it a diatribe where I rant my opinions), I will summarize with a few thoughts.
These Socialist Democrats who are pro worker and anti Capitalism, pro jobs and all the other things discussed in the video included with this blog leads me to question is if there is no Capitalists, then who is going to create the jobs, the government? Hell, we are already broke. The government of all other Socialists countries failed miserably. People in China work for slave wages. Russian citizens make far less money than any American who holds a job. Most Americans can afford to buy a home or rent an apartment. In Russia you are told where to work and where to live. You take what salary is offered and have no one to complain to. There are no food stamps, no welfare but yes there is Socialized medicine and if you are sick you can go to the doctor for free. You may have to stand in line a few days but it’s there for you.
Just out of spite, I would love to see America become socialist for a few years just to show the idiot intellectuals what will happen to their labor party, their jobs and where they are going to have to call their home. But in truth, I love the Constitution and the freedoms it provides for us as Americans. I would really hate to see that go down the drain. I wonder if those socialist democrats have ever thought of losing their freedoms that I’m sure they think they will be able to keep. Or are they taking freedom for granted. Maybe they should get their heads out of their backsides and think about FREEDOM.
Thanksgiving 2014 is nearing and there is so much misunderstanding about this Thanksgiving Holiday I feel compelled to present the true history of Thanksgiving.
The Mayflower, filled with religious separatists from England, was supposed to land at the mouth of the Hudson River, present day New York but after being blown off course by a storm while crossing the Atlantic they made landfall at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts in 1620, To settle there, they would have wait for permission from the King which would take several months. In order to establish a civil society while they waited, they wrote and signed the Mayflower Compact.
The text of the Mayflower Compact is as follows:
"Having undertaken for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together in a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the gen eral good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sov ereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620."
For the next few months many of the settlers stayed on the May flower while ferrying back and forth to shore to build their new settle ment. In March, they began moving ashore permanently. More than half the settlers fell ill and died that first winter, victims of an epi demic of disease that swept the new colony. After the epidemic was over they began a serious effort to build a self sustaining colony.
In March of 1621, they began farming and planting crops in order to provide the colony with a constant supply of food. They were aided a native American named Tisquantum, better known as Squanto, who would become a member of the colony. He taught them how to plant and grow corn. Corn was not native to England. He also taught them where to hunt for wild game. The Pilgrims learned much from Squanto about surviving in this new land.
Squanto knew and understood English because had been kidnapped by explorer John Smith and taken to England where he stayed until he could escape back to his native land. He acted as interpreter and mediator between the leaders of the colony and the native Americans.
In the fall of 1621, after a successful season of planting and harvesting, the Pilgrims shared a meal along with their friends from the Pokanokets tribe that lasted for three days. Even with all the hardships and deaths that settling in the cold northern climate had brought them had no problem thanking God for the His blessings. That was considered the first Thanksgiving.
William Bradford became the first governor of the Plymouth colony and governor for 30 years and penned in his journal:
"Being thus arived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees & blessed ye God of heaven, who had brought them over ye vast & furious ocean, and delivered them from all ye periles & miseries therof, againe to set their feete on yefirme and stable earth, their proper elemente. And no marvell if they were thus joyefull, seeing wise Seneca was so affected with sailing a few miles on ye coast of his owne Italy; as he affirmed, that he had rather remaine twentie years on his way by land, then by sea to any place in a short time; so tedious & dreadful was ye same unto him.
"But hear I cannot help but stay and make a pause, and stand half amased at this poore peoples present conditions; and so I thinke will the reader too, when he will considers ye same. Being thus passed ye vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as nat be renenber bt yt which wente before0, they had now no friends to welcome then, nor inns to entertaine or refresh their weatherbeaten bodys, no houses much less townes to rapaire too, to seek for succor....."
Thanksgiving did not become an official holiday in 1863 when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of “prayer, thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens” to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November.
All is blackness. I can see no light. All I’m aware of is a splitting headache. I feel that I’m lying on some kind of bed. I come to realize that I have a tube down my throat that’s making me breath. I hear voices in the room with me. I hear the beep of a heart monitor which means I’m not dead yet.
The last memories I have is of lying in my bed snuggled warm and comfortable in my down comforter, my head buried in my pillow. I was sleeping so well. Not a worry in the world. Now my reality seems to have changed.
I hear a man speaking to my wife: “you should considering pulling the plug, his electrocardiogram shows no sign of brain wave activity. He’s been clinically dead for over an hour.”
My wife, crying loudly objects “But doctor, are you sure there is no hope for a recovery.
“The the 38 caliber bullet through his temple has destroyed much of his brain and there isn’t anything we can do to repair it.”
I am unable to speak, move or blink my eyes yet I am aware of everything going on around me. I can’t see nor feel but my hearing is still working. I have become aware of being attached to Intravenous bag filled with something and a mechanical breathing pump which keep my lungs filled with oxygen. I can only guess that it is the only thing keeping my heart beating.
I hear the doctor talking to the police that my death is an apparent suicide. That the only reason I’m alive is the machine that‘s pumping oxygen into my body.
Suicide my ass. I have never even considered suicide. I lead a happy successful life in the suburbs and have no money problems nor problems with my marriage. My business is going well so why would I want to end it all on such a successful note.
I hear as my wife tells the Doctor to go ahead and pull the plug. She sobs loudly as he does. The beep on The heart monitor starts slowing down and eventually stops. The nurses disconnect my intravenous lines and remove the tube from my throat. Now I hope I can speak and let them know I’m not dead but nothing comes from my mouth but the last gasp of breath that was pumped into me by the breathing machine.
I quietly lay there while my wife kisses my face and strokes my hair bidding me a loving good bye. Then I’m aware the sheet is being pulled up to cover my face.
As I lay there in this state called death I wondered why I was still conscious of what’s going on around me. I always thought death was the end and that I would be taking hold of an angel’s hand and led to the promised land. I guess that was all a myth taught me as a child when I attended church regularly.
I was eventually taken downstairs to a refrigerated room where I remained until the undertaker came for my body. I wasn’t aware of the cold, I wasn’t aware of anything except time passing and darkness.
Eventually the undertaker arrived and put me into his van and carried me to his mortuary. There I was placed in another refrigerated vault to await my turn on his stainless steel table.
Later that evening, a mortician pulled me from the refrigerator and he and his assistant placed me on his stainless steel table, removed my hospital gown and started washing my body. After I was thoroughly clean to their satisfaction, they plugged all my body orifices and made an incision under my left arm to get at the artery and vein through which they would exchange my blood for a formaldehyde formula to preserve my remains. They injected formaldehyde into my stomach and chest cavity then they stitched my mouth shut and made sure to glue my eyes closed. Nothing so frightening as a dead person who eyes pop open while people are viewing the body.
A makeup person came in and touched up my now ashen face and hands so they would look somewhat normal to any viewers that came to visit me before burial. I was then dressed in a white shirt, tie and my blue suit, I can only assume because that was my choice long before my death. They gently lay me in a coffin and pushed it back into the cool room until viewing that evening at 9 pm.
Time seems to have lost all meaning now but I keep trying to remember what led to my death. It surely wasn’t suicide so someone must have killed me....murder?...it’s hard to imagine anyone I know wanting me dead, but someone must have.
The next night I was rolled out and placed in a viewing room for friends and family to come by and give their condolences—pretty much as I have done myself in the past. “Sorry for your loss” and all those comments about him being such a good friend. “He will be missed.” I recognized a lot of the voices as they filed by. It was kind of a surprise to me that a lot of my old friends found the time to come by.
Next morning I was carried down to the Mausoleum where a preacher stood by my coffin and delivered a stirring eulogy. Had he only known that I could hear every word he said, he may not have said so many nice things about me.
After the proceedings were finished, the undertakers pulled my coffin around to where my mausoleum was located and slid my coffin in, bolted the door shut and placed a floral arrangement in front of it for the family and friends to come and pay their final respects.
Now all is quiet again. The undertaker left my casket partially open so my body would mummify. That’s the main reason I bought a mausoleum to begin with. I didn’t want to lay in a sealed vault buried six feet under simmering in my own juices for eternity.
As I lay here with only my thoughts to keep me company I wonder how long will this go on. Will I be entombed with my many thoughts for eternity or will I eventually fade away? Only time will tell.
I have a specific ire for Atheists who want the We the People to accept that the First Amendment of the Constitution means “Freedom From Religion.” They even have a foundation called “Freedom From Religion Foundation.” If they had their way we would all be Atheists like them. If they don’t believe in God, why oh why are they so afraid of those who do. Why are they afraid someone might believe in God just by hearing about Him from a Christian. And a second thought crosses my mind: why do they not go after Islam, after all they believe in a god called Allah. They march up and down the streets with signs saying death to the infidels.
I am so dismayed by a group that is so afraid of religion they want God removed from all aspects of pubic life. If they don’t believe in God, what are they so afraid of. Halloween is coming at the end of October and there will be Witches and Goblins. I don’t mind because I don’t really believe in them and they are no threat to me. If I did not believe in God then I would not think He was a threat to me either. These people must have some other agenda other than Freedom From Religion.
The First Amendment says in part: “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment OF religion OR prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”…The rest goes on to protect freedom of speech.
Those who know their history should remember the break with Rome was effected by a series of acts of England's Parliament passed between 1532 and 1534, among them the 1534 Act of Supremacy which declared King Henry VIII to be the "Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England"
Our Constitution was just a promise that the Government of United States of America would not do that to its citizens, but give them the freedom of worship that came with the differing religions of the immigrants who came to America. On the Mayflower in 1620 there were close to 40 members of a radical Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church.
In the ensuing years many differing religions migrated to America; Calvinist, Lutheran, Catholics and Jews . We have Quakers, Amish, Methodists and Baptists. We have more than I can remember so I’m not even going to try and list them all; but suffice it to say we all have the freedom to worship as we see fit according to our understanding of the Gospel. You don’t believe in God, don’t worry about it, apparently you were not meant to, and that is a Biblical statement.
This current ranting, as I call it, was brought about by an article demanding that a poster based on a painting titled “Faith in America” by artist Donald Zolan, which has been hanging in Kenneth Cooper Middle School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for nearly two decades, be removed. The Freedom From Religion Foundation claims it violates the U.S. Constitution.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist activist group, sent a letter to district officials on August 25, 2014 complaining about the poster which features children praying in front of an American flag.
An attorney for the Putnam City Public School District responded to the atheist group September 29, noting that the complaint—reportedly based on a local family’s dissatisfaction with the poster—is the first ever the district has received in its 18 years of displaying the image.
“We cannot agree that the poster displayed in the office is a per se violation of the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution,” wrote attorney Anthony Childers. Though, as you have pointed out, the title given to the artwork by the original artist is labeled ‘Faith in America,’ there is no text displayed with the poster which imputes the artist’s intent, theme, or title.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is hard put to take no for an answer and have written that “in any school context coercion is virtually assumed demanding that the district remove the image to fall in compliance with the U.S. Constitution.” Let me quote Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia:
"For more than 35 years I have written on the topic of America’s religious foundation. I’ve written five books on the subject, dozens of articles, and participated in a debate with atheist lawyer Edward Tabash."
The study of American history will show that the atheists, ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Freedom From Religion Foundation don’t have a constitutional or historical leg to stand on when they file suits against religious displays, sectarian prayers, monuments, or anything else religious as it relates to government. They get away with their legal theatrics because:
(1) the general population is ignorant on the subject and
(2) the courts rule in terms of precedent and not historical verities.
During a speech at Colorado Christian University on Wednesday [October 1, 2014], Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued:
"The U.S. Constitution does not prohibit religious references in public places, including schools. Anyone who says otherwise on the facts of the case is lying."
