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Battlefield America: The War On The American People
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.”—John Salter
We have entered into a particularly dismal chapter in the American narrative, one that shifts us from a swashbuckling tale of adventure into a bone-chilling horror story.
As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, “we the people” have now come full circle, from being held captive by the British police state to being held captive by the American police state. In between, we have charted a course from revolutionaries fighting for our independence and a free people establishing a new nation to pioneers and explorers, braving the wilderness and expanding into new territories.
Where we went wrong, however, was in allowing ourselves to become enthralled with and then held hostage by a military empire in bondage to a corporate state (the very definition of fascism). No longer would America hold the moral high ground as a champion of freedom and human rights. Instead, in the pursuit of profit, our overlords succumbed to greed, took pleasure in inflicting pain, exported torture, and imported the machinery of war, transforming the American landscape into a battlefield, complete with military personnel, tactics and weaponry.
To our dismay, we now find ourselves scrambling for a foothold as our once rock-solid constitutional foundation crumbles beneath us. And no longer can we rely on the president, Congress, the courts, or the police to protect us from wrongdoing.
Indeed, they have come to embody all that is wrong with America.
For instance, how does a man who is relatively healthy when taken into custody by police lapse into a coma and die while under their supervision? What kind of twisted logic allows a police officer to use a police car to run down an American citizen and justifies it in the name of permissible deadly force? And what country are we living in where the police can beat, shoot, choke, taser and tackle American citizens, all with the protection of the courts?
Certainly, the Constitution’s safeguards against police abuse means nothing when government agents can crash through your door, terrorize your children, shoot your dogs, and jail you on any number of trumped of charges, and you have little say in the matter. For instance, San Diego police, responding to a domestic disturbance call on a Sunday morning, showed up at the wrong address, only to shoot the homeowner’s 6-year-old service dog in the head.
Rubbing salt in the wound, it’s often the unlucky victim of excessive police force who ends up being charged with wrongdoing. Although 16-year-old Thai Gurule was charged with resisting arrest and strangling and assaulting police officers, a circuit judge found that it was actually the three officers who unlawfully stopped, tackled, punched, kneed, tasered and yanked his hair who were at fault. Thankfully, bystander cell phone videos undermined police accounts, which were described as “works of fiction.”
Not even our children are being spared the blowback from a growing police presence. As one juvenile court judge noted in testimony to Congress, although having police on public school campuses did not make the schools any safer, it did result in large numbers of students being arrested for misdemeanors such as school fights and disorderly conduct. One 11-year-old autistic Virginia student was charged with disorderly conduct and felony assault after kicking a trashcan and resisting a police officer’s attempt to handcuff him. A 14-year-old student was tasered by police, suspended and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and trespassing after he failed to obey a teacher’s order to be the last student to exit the classroom.
There is no end to the government’s unmitigated gall in riding roughshod over the rights of the citizenry, whether in matters of excessive police powers, militarized police, domestic training drills, SWAT team raids, surveillance, property rights, overcriminalization, roadside strip searches, profit-driven fines and prison sentences, etc.
The president can now direct the military to detain, arrest and secretly execute American citizens. These are the powers of an imperial dictator, not an elected official bound by the rule of law. For the time being, Barack Obama wears the executioner’s robe, but you can rest assured that this mantle will be worn by whomever occupies the Oval Office in the future.
A representative government means nothing when the average citizen has little to no access to their elected officials, while corporate lobbyists enjoy a revolving door relationship with everyone from the President on down. Indeed, while members of Congress hardly work for the taxpayer, they work hard at being wooed by corporations, which spend more to lobby our elected representatives than we spend on their collective salaries. For that matter, getting elected is no longer the high point it used to be. As one congressman noted, for many elected officials, “Congress is no longer a destination but a journey… [to a] more lucrative job as a K Street lobbyist… It's become routine to see members of Congress drop their seat in Congress like a hot rock when a particularly lush vacancy opens up.”
As for the courts, they have long since ceased being courts of justice. Instead, they have become courts of order, largely marching in lockstep with the government’s dictates, all the while helping to increase the largesse of government coffers. It’s called for-profit justice, and it runs the gamut of all manner of financial incentives in which the courts become cash cows for communities looking to make an extra buck. As journalist Chris Albin-Lackey details, “They deploy a crushing array of fines, court costs, and other fees to harvest revenues from minor offenders that these communities cannot or do not want to raise through taxation.” In this way, says Albin-Lackey, “A resident of Montgomery, Alabama who commits a simple noise violation faces only a $20 fine—but also a whopping $257 in court costs and user fees should they seek to have their day in court.”
As for the rest—the schools, the churches, private businesses, service providers, nonprofits and your fellow citizens—many are also marching in lockstep with the police state. This is what is commonly referred to as community policing. After all, the police can’t be everywhere. So how do you police a nation when your population outnumbers your army of soldiers? How do you carry out surveillance on a nation when there aren’t enough cameras, let alone viewers, to monitor every square inch of the country 24/7? How do you not only track but analyze the transactions, interactions and movements of every person within the United States? The answer is simpler than it seems: You persuade the citizenry to be your eyes and ears.
It’s a brilliant ploy, with the added bonus that while the citizenry remains focused on and distrustful of each other, they’re incapable of focusing on more definable threats that fall closer to home—namely, the government and its militarized police. In this way, we’re seeing a rise in the incidence of Americans being reported for growing vegetables in their front yard, keeping chickens in their back yard, letting their kids walk to the playground alone, and voicing anti-government sentiments. For example, after Shona Banda’s son defended the use of medical marijuana during a presentation at school, school officials alerted the police and social services, and the 11-year-old was interrogated, taken into custody by social workers, had his home raided by police and his mother arrested.
Now it may be that we have nothing to worry about. Perhaps the government really does have our best interests at heart. Perhaps covert domestic military training drills such as Jade Helm really are just benign exercises to make sure our military is prepared for any contingency. As the Washington Post describes the operation:
The mission is vast both geographically and strategically: Elite service members from all four branches of the U.S. military will launch an operation this summer in which they will operate covertly among the U.S. public and travel from state to state in military aircraft. Texas, Utah and a section of southern California are labeled as hostile territory, and New Mexico isn’t much friendlier.
Now I don’t believe in worrying over nothing, but it’s safe to say that the government has not exactly shown itself to be friendly in recent years, nor have its agents shown themselves to be cognizant of the fact that they are civilians who answer to the citizenry, rather than the other way around.
Whether or not the government plans to impose some form of martial law in the future remains to be seen, but there can be no denying that we’re being accustomed to life in a military state. The malls may be open for business, the baseball stadiums may be packed, and the news anchors may be twittering nonsense about the latest celebrity foofa, but those are just distractions from what is really taking place: the transformation of America into a war zone.
Trust me, if it looks like a battlefield (armored tanks on the streets, militarized police in metro stations, surveillance cameras everywhere), sounds like a battlefield (SWAT team raids nightly, sound cannons to break up large assemblies of citizens), and acts like a battlefield (police shooting first and asking questions later, intimidation tactics, and involuntary detentions), it’s a battlefield.
Indeed, what happened in Ocala, Florida, is a good metaphor for what’s happening across the country: Sheriff’s deputies, dressed in special ops uniforms and riding in an armored tank on a public road, pulled a 23-year-old man over and issued a warning violation to him after he gave them the finger. The man, Lucas Jewell, defended his actions as a free speech expression of his distaste for militarized police.
Translation: “We the people” are being hijacked on the highway by government agents with little knowledge of or regard for the Constitution, who are hyped up on the power of their badge, outfitted for war, eager for combat, and taking a joy ride—on taxpayer time and money—in a military tank that has no business being on American soil.
Rest assured, unless we slam on the brakes, this runaway tank will soon be charting a new course through terrain that bears no resemblance to land of our forefathers, where freedom meant more than just the freedom to exist and consume what the corporate powers dish out.
Rod Serling, one of my longtime heroes and the creator of The Twilight Zone, understood all too well the danger of turning a blind eye to evil in our midst, the “things that scream for a response.” As Serling warned, “if we don't listen to that scream - and if we don't respond to it - we may well wind up sitting amidst our own rubble, looking for the truck that hit us - or the bomb that pulverized us. Get the license number of whatever it was that destroyed the dream. And I think we will find that the vehicle was registered in our own name.”
If you haven’t managed to read the writing on the wall yet, the war has begun.
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Let's really fuck the U.S up royally this time around, let's put another black man with zero skills and Hilary in the White house! We deserve it!
And the sheep keep voting in these fucks. I am fucking tired of this shit, and Scotty..... Beam me up. There is no intelligent life down here.
The sheep will be the death of us all.
Clueless Eireann,
Wake up. The Right is at least as bad as the Left and their supporters are equally bad.
The down-votes by the problem-causers begin.
Well he is a trained animal who is now is on the hunt to persuade us to hold the line of freedom.
"He just wants personal order. Rebuke Him!" -Smoke on the Water Backmasking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObciNQ2kkRI&list=UUWPqHHekIv1TE9yUKyvhheg
“Right vs. left” – you actually believe in that ‘story’? What differences of substance do you see in regard to ‘democrats’ and ‘republicans’ respectively? I know: ‘gay rights’, ‘gender issues’, ‘abortion’ and other ‘symbolic’ areas are thrown to the forefront whenever a new round of theatre (election) is started. But what are the differences concerning the important issues: democracy, control of money/banking, the rule of law, the rights of people, war, empire etc.?
The all serve their bankster masters.
I down-votes you for your display of ignorance – that you don’t see the ‘problem-causers’ as the PTB (and no, the power is not held by the president or any of the ‘branches of government’ – they’re mere servants of the powers to be) but some (imaginary) sheeple on ZH.
You just shot at someone in your own team.
And Tyler, pop ups when making comments now?
pods
Telling comment. Define the ‘teams’ you see?
I know ZH is divided in many fractions (some are blind adherents to the intellectually inferior/theoretically challenged version of anarchism predominant in US (libertarianism), some are adherents to the Austrian School of economics, some are liberalists, some are conservatives, some actually identifies with one of corporate Americas parties (democrats or republicans) etc. – and even a few are socialists. I, myself, is a left-wing anarchist. Left-wing in the sense that I see both the power of the state AND the power of accumulated wealth as the problem. Right now the two are indistinctable – the power of the state is the power of accumulated wealth). What ‘team’ does that place me in (I’m curious)?
The same team as Anusocracy, who sees this power of the collective as dangerous, if you have read anything that he/she as written.
Why do you feel the need to fit people into little boxes?
pods
You, and labels, and needless cuntery.
It's not helping, either.
It's all about using leverage, so that a minority can control the majority.
Divide & Conquer. Dilute & Pollute a culture and country. That's how an invasive culture/species works.
Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am
Stuck down the rabbit hole with you
Sometimes I wonder if it might have been better just to take the blue pill and chill with the muttonheads...
Scatocephalocracy:
Rule by shitheads.
History clearly shows us who's running the world, articles like this only leads me to believe it's just propagand designed to keep the people ignorant... Learn some real American history people, seriously! ~ https://youtu.be/7qIhDdST27g
We are being ushered into cattle tagging (e.g. Biometric / RFID Implants) & cashless societies by the Elite (Fact).
http://galeinnes.blogspot.com/2014/06/preparing-for-cashless-society.html
There is an old Book that describes all of what is happening and how it ends. It is not turning or shrugging.
Correct you are, that's definitely one of the biggest books in my library too. ^.^
Scatomicrocephalocracy:
Rule by tiny-brained shitheads.
Fixed it for you.
Cue music....
Presented for your approval, a "democracy" where the president comes from one of two families. A country whose army fights for "human rights" in countries abroad while those rights are taken away from its citizens at home. A place where "medicine" is not health, where "food" is not nutrition, where courts do not provide justice. It is the middle ground between facism and liberty, between socialism and capital, and it lies between the pit of Caligula's Rome, and the summit of the Enlightenment.
This is the US today. A world we call, 'The Twilight Zone'.
But you dont like looking in the mirror and telling yourself lies, so the blue pill is revealed for the false option it is
"You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?
[Takes a bite of steak]
Ignorance is bliss"
"Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right
Here I am, Stuck down the rabbit hole with you"
Sorry, Bugs, but I don't consider myself a wabbit. Neither should you. Fight the Machine.
Anusocracy
Thank you, from an ex-Democrat (10 presidential cycles).
Don't bother too much with these trolls who post on every fear-porn, race bait, age bait, gender bait story, 24/7.
They think nobody here knows UNIX...or their single ip that leaves a trail to multiple profiles....
Others use DNS servers, DHCP servers or multiple NICs and PCs.
Its really sick to think that these treasonous sellouts call themselves "Americans"...like the banksters.
I think my older brother used to use UNIX.
If you mean the progressive right is as bad as the progressive left then yeah, very true.
There is hope in the constitutional conservative right if it can be found somewhere. And it might be.
Americans are pissed off. Progressive oppression on the American people will not continue to be tolerated, oppressors like Hillary and Jeb Bush do not stand a chance. Hillary made a big mistake coming out of hiding and will face charges and prison time for her crimes. She should have exiled herself to Burma or Laos when she had the opportunity. Jeb Bush is a total joke.
Americans are hoping Rand Paul, Walker and Cruz will have the constitutional conservative nuts to stand up against the progressive corruption machine.
Quite a few of the obombatron assclown progressive drones have figured out the progressive stupid burns. There will be not be Clinton or Bush type progressive oppressors voted in this time.
Grimaldus
If you got raised in the US, got fed toxic food, had to drink fluoride in your water, got lied to by your press, got lied to by your politicians, got taught in school not to think critically and became a sheep because a lot of time and effort went into making you one you might wonder how it is that you are to blame for being a sheep..... Blame the criminal banksters that are controlling the brainwashing machine rather than the sheep that it produces.
Why can people not get it thruogh there stupid heads , we do not have a president we have a CEO of a corp , and people still vote, how stupid can you get.
The problem is government itself. Everything else is misdirection.
Corporations are not part of your genetic make up, authority is.
To paraphrase E. O. Wilson:
The human mind evolved to believe in authority. It did not evolve to believe in corporations.
Other than perhaps tribal/familial hierarcy, I might disagree. Even the familial hierarchy had to be supported by Moses and his fucking book (honor thy father and thy mother).
Some say The Prussian style school system was developed to command the obedience of future soldiers and factory workers. To convince the individual that the needs of the State was superior to the needs of the individual (Fucking Spock!!!), and that the Collective within some non-existent white lines on a map, was superior to any Collective outside of those non-existent white lines on a map.
/rant -off
your post cannot be voted
When you begin a post with italics, it screws up the voting thing. You have to highlight the area before the arrow then tab over till you get a ` to the left of the arrow then hit enter.
No, we have an Emperor who serves at the pleasure of the "Court Jews".
Fuck you, google the term, and they disoroportionately *are* still Jews.
But the Bankers g0d is Debt.
Feds buying 95,000 rounds with maximum ‘stopping power’
http://govtslaves.info/feds-buying-95000-rounds-with-maximum-stopping-po...
"And the sheep"
You are "the sheep".
Hitlery 'Eva Peron' Kliton
Hillary "Madame Defarge" Clinton
Yesterday someone posted a truly scary thought: that Nudelman is bucking for the Sec. of State position, in a Kliton Admin.
Shiver me timbers!
delete duplicate.
(hit Send a 2nd time, after ZH did not respond)
I don't know how much more I can drop out of society.
I don't know how much more I can drop out of society.
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
Let me guess...you are a whoring politician? Shit, Harry Reid, is that you?
Long time ago I used to watch them do that at rt.
It's interesting which ones they hit and there hard.
Yea I got to where I despised them less and less as I learned to listen to what they were saying as in what needed to be spammed. What they hit I found more interesting than the actual nuisance of them hitting things as the pleasure I found looking into their minds.
It's something of official status spam.
If $7K/mo is all a whoring politician can make, perhaps they should seek employment elsewhere?
Who would sell their souls for a paltry $7K/mo? More like $7K/day.
"Let me guess...you are a whoring politician? Shit, Harry Reid"
Nope, more like The Project for the New American Century, or the Koch Brothers Foundations.
Why do you think there are so many TROLLS here?
But I guess you knew that.
How many "profiles" are you up to now?
Nothing like a "consensus" of opinion, right? Keep fucking Freedom, you're a real prince.
A Fucking Sheeple is the most Dangerous animal of all!!!
with two fucking speeds
stand,and Stampede!
"A Fucking Sheeple is the most Dangerous animal of all!!!"
Yes, you are.
Hook, line and sinker.
Good little trash fish.
And if you're the Ruling Oligarchs, the one thing you fear the most is an Intelligent, Informed, Engaged and Organized Populace.
Cause... how the hell are you supposed to use them as Knaves, Serfs and Slaves, and further your agenda of a perpetual lifestyle of a luxury and excess?
Why not Hillary? She's certainly more than willing to sell the American people down the river, just look at how she supported NAFTA and GATT, she supports the TPP, she voted in favor of the idiotic war in Iraq, and she used to be on the board of directors for Wal-Mart. Best of all, she's an utterly brilliant deadpan comic, just watch her campaign announcement where she looks straight into the camera and says how she wants to be the champion of everyday Americans. I laughed my ass off for 45 minutes straight when I first saw that, I laughed so hard I nearly puked twice - what a brilliant comedian!
If Shrillary becomes President then people will start disappearing on a grand scale. Conservative spokesmen like Rush will be silenced one way or another. Military "exercises" like Jade Helm will go live and WalMart stores will not be used for retail sales any longer.
It saddens me to see so many ZH’er who actually believe it will make any difference if the president is democrat or republican, white, brown, yellow or green, man or woman etc. etc.
It’s all one big theatre. They ALL SERVE THE SAME MASTERS – and if they don’t you’ll never hear about them (in the MSM).
The US ‘democracy’ have been hijacked 100 years ago. When the power of ‘money’ (fiat) was privatized (the FED created). Since then all ‘democratic’ elections have been a farce – an illusion to keep the docile masses at bay.
“God save the Queen – it’s a fascist regime!”
We are screwed no matter who gets elected the TPP is a done deal. You no lets pass it to see whats in it.
Say what you will, but it appears Obama had the balls to stand up to AIPAC, the Jewish Lobby, and the threat of Israeli false flags or other unpleasantness and kept us, for the moment, out of a needless war with Iran premised on absolute fucking lies about non-existant nukes and deliberately mistranslated quotes.
You can bet that the Zionist lobby and their sayanim embedded in State, etc. have it as job number 1 to start that war with Iran.
On the other hand, he appears to be adhering to the "Grand Chessboard" strategy of his other puppet masters. These fucking twats have telegraphed their intentions for so long, the US is assured of defeat.
Yes - defeat. If the US gets into it conventionally in Ukraine, let alone Russia, it will have its ass handed to it. Shades of Israel in Lebanon when they had to face more than teens with rocks or unguided homemade rockets.
Which is why nuclear war is possible. Stupidity combined with resistance that knows the Anglo-American Zionist Banking empire wants to enslave and rob all.
Counterpunch "Say what you will, but it appears Obama had the balls to stand up to AIPAC , the Jewish Lobby"
"Appears" is the deceptive word in your comment. They are both on the same team.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/11/12/now-its-payback-time-why-obama-s...
Who in the hell told you *that*?
Theres more than one team in the Deep State. there's overlap, but the Zbig faction is focused on Russia, and would play Iran against Ivan, while the Zionist want to smash Iran, annex Lebanon and Sinai, expel the Palis, and generally follow the Oded Yinon plan.
With any luck, the election exposes more friction between them. but I dont have any hope that the patriots amongst the pols and spooks will make any moves.
9/11 is the key. those who know should be taken and made to talk.
Then, and likely only then, American Loyalists have a chance.
Of course, I may be wrong about some or even much of this, of course. it is impossible to know for certain what is going on other than the msm being bullshit, lousy with cia minders using clumsy psyops, and the physical impossibility of those 3 buildings having been destroyed in that fashion by those two remote controlled planes.
9/11 is the key, but what can be done when 'conspiracy theory' and 'antisemite' are such effective mind control over so many? I don't know how to break those spells.
Do you?
I would submit that our President is a Bill Ayers protégé with a Cloward Piven agenda.
+42 for @Counterpunch Wed, 04/22/2015 - 00:58 | 6017190
Well written, accurate and nice use of a term more ZHers need to learn: 'SAYANIM'.
Are you so fucking woefully retarded that it actually matters who you vote for?
If so then you really are thicker than a concrete block.
In fact you might exchange your head for a concrete block because your IQ would immediately rise into double digits.
READ MY LIPS FUKKFACE.
THE PRESIDENT IS A FUCKING STOOGE, AN ACTOR AN EMPLOYEE. HE HAS NO POWER. CONGRESS AND THE SENATE ARE THERE TO RUBBER STAMP DECISIONS MADE BY THE MEN WHO OWN THE FED AND WHO RUN THE WORLD (AT LEAST THEY WILL FOR A SHORT WHILE LONGER)
YOU FUCKING RETARDED COCKSUKKERS WILL OF COURSE DUE YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY AND CONTINUE TO VOTE ADDING CREDIBILITY TO THIS BULLSHIT BECAUSE YOU ARE FUCKING DONKEYS WHO NO MATTER HOW OBVIOUS IT IS YOU ARE BANING YOUR HEAD AGAINST A WALL -- WILL JUST CONTINUE TO DO THE SAME THING FOREVER
HUMANS ARE EASIER TO CONTROL THAN RATS BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY ARE FREE AND SMART WHEN REALLY THEY ARE FUCKING IDIOTS. AT LEAST THE RAT DOESNT ATTEMPT TO THINK
You got a nice bout of Righteous Indignation going on -- I get that. :-)
The rat part... I'd say that the rat most certainly 'thinks'. But it does not pretend to be smarter than other rats. After it figures out what it needs to do, it just (fucking) does it. Unlike humans.
"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTcBgs2huRo
I swear the reason they put a feckless black man and a corrupt, conceited woman in office is so that "white fragility" liberals could feel better about themselves, and that "red team" conservatives could use these visuals to throw all the blame on black people and women.
Then when the "red team" over reacts and some dumb hick takes out a govt official, or the "blue team" liberals (like Jamie Dimon) do something to crash the market, they'll use it as a reason to take away the guns.
rutherford and ron paul and rush limbaugh are all part of the tyranny. the hero we are allowed, is fake. This age is owned by the masonic order and their controllers.
"ron paul = rush limbaugh"
Ya, Right.
so, who exactly are we supposed to kill? This war is one sided, and riling up folks is to no avail. rutherford would like us to give the waiting assasins a job to do. Your a lawyer john, file a federal case. simple to do. The last generation of american men were not fucking typists. They were treated to 2 kennedy killings and then had repeated moon landings shoved down their throats. And they knew it. It is over. Done. Antagonists are just another form of enemy. They are all over the american mens ears these days pointing fingers and no solutions or leadership. We only have no leaders and an army of inflammers. Thanks john.
I don't think I want you on my side.
I know I don't want you in my foxhole.
If you really want to make points put a one armed McStain into the white house where he can sell the entire country down the tubes. With him it is genetic.
This is the dickless wonder that wanted Russians dead in Ukraine. He is a one armed Nuland without the dick and the cookies....
More people need to watch the Alex Jones interview of the late Aaron Russo
"Reflections And Warnings - An Interview With Aaron Russo {Full Film}"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAaPjqdbgQ
In an historic final interview, filmmaker and music promoter Aaron Russo goes in depth on the insider-knowledge given to him by a member of the Rockefeller family. Russo was told-- prior to 9/11-- of plans to stage terror attacks, invade foreign nations, and kickstart a high-tech police state control grid that would track the populations' every move with implantable RFID microchips.
This information-packed presentation is filled with never-before seen footage. Throughout the film, Alex Jones breaks down the latest activities of the New World Order and how it ties into what Russo predicted.
Aaron explains how the elite created the women's liberation movement to break up the family and tax working women. Russo breaks down the deception of democracy-- which is nothing more than mob rule guaranteed to produce tyranny.
Russo also exposes the IRS & Federal Reserve. He blasts the unconstitutional and predatory institutions that have crippled the American Republic and crushed the people with bogus taxes, inflation and loss of privacy. Russo explains that he himself was persecuted in the late 80s by a criminal 'retroactive' tax scheme that attempted to levy new taxes on years already passed.
As night falls on the Republic, Aaron Russo delivers a powerful call for the forces of liberty to rise and crush tyranny. Only then can the Republic be restored.
===
Aaron Russo -- Libertarian Freedom Fighter. 'The Good Jew', opposed to Fascism and Zionism. A man of conscience, decency, freedom and civil courage. Shunned by Hollywood since 2001. RIP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Russo
"Buying health insurance is just a "tax" imposed on the volks in order to provide you with the brutal security forces you've come to expect from the state to keep you safe." - John Hussein Freisler
Now, how twisted is that?
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Just in case someone doesn't get the connection between law & tyranny.
John Roberts, Barack Hussein Obama & Roland Freisler ;-)
Keep the CHANGE.
Out of HOPE...
The good news is it's all downhill from here..........
Unfortunately, I have found in life that once one hits rock bottom, there still is further down one can go.
Yea but down is the new up!
Sure hasn't helped with the recovery.
"Fearful money" doesn't invest very well in my view.
Certainly no jobs recovery to speak of.
And I think a "snap shot" where someone just kicks off a nuke is very real right now.
We were all talking "off ramps" just a year ago...instead forces are building and the rhetoric...Iran excepted "iranically"... Just gets hotter.
World War I looks calm in comparison right now.
The tocsins of war are beating, and the armies of darkness have been assembled. Yet there remain enough awake Americans to turn the tide. Remain vigilent and ready should your 'red lines' be crossed.
Pray for the death of David Rockefeller in May of 2015.
I apologize beforehand for being a jerk because I could have just posted a link, but fuckit...I'm gonna just copy and paste it here anyway.
Fascism Anyone?Fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for.
By Laurence W. Britt
We are two-and-a-half generations removed from the horrors of Nazi Germany, although constant reminders jog the consciousness. German and Italian fascism form the historical models that define this twisted political worldview. Although they no longer exist, this worldview and the characteristics of these models have been imitated by protofascist1 regimes at various times in the twentieth century. Both the original German and Italian models and the later protofascist regimes show remarkably similar characteristics. Although many scholars question any direct connection among these regimes, few can dispute their visual similarities.
Beyond the visual, even a cursory study of these fascist and protofascist regimes reveals the absolutely striking convergence of their modus operandi. This, of course, is not a revelation to the informed political observer, but it is sometimes useful in the interests of perspective to restate obvious facts and in so doing shed needed light on current circumstances.
For the purpose of this perspective, I will consider the following regimes: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia. To be sure, they constitute a mixed bag of national identities, cultures, developmental levels, and history. But they all followed the fascist or protofascist model in obtaining, expanding, and maintaining power. Further, all these regimes have been overthrown, so a more or less complete picture of their basic characteristics and abuses is possible.
Analysis of these seven regimes reveals fourteen common threads that link them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power. These basic characteristics are more prevalent and intense in some regimes than in others, but they all share at least some level of similarity.
1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. From the prominent displays of flags and bunting to the ubiquitous lapel pins, the fervor to show patriotic nationalism, both on the part of the regime itself and of citizens caught up in its frenzy, was always obvious. Catchy slogans, pride in the military, and demands for unity were common themes in expressing this nationalism. It was usually coupled with a suspicion of things foreign that often bordered on xenophobia.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights. The regimes themselves viewed human rights as of little value and a hindrance to realizing the objectives of the ruling elite. Through clever use of propaganda, the population was brought to accept these human rights abuses by marginalizing, even demonizing, those being targeted. When abuse was egregious, the tactic was to use secrecy, denial, and disinformation.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. The most significant common thread among these regimes was the use of scapegoating as a means to divert the people’s attention from other problems, to shift blame for failures, and to channel frustration in controlled directions. The methods of choice—relentless propaganda and disinformation—were usually effective. Often the regimes would incite “spontaneous” acts against the target scapegoats, usually communists, socialists, liberals, Jews, ethnic and racial minorities, traditional national enemies, members of other religions, secularists, homosexuals, and“terrorists.” Active opponents of these regimes were inevitably labeled as terrorists and dealt with accordingly.
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism. Ruling elites always identified closely with the military and the industrial infrastructure that supported it. A disproportionate share of national resources was allocated to the military, even when domestic needs were acute. The military was seen as an expression of nationalism, and was used whenever possible to assert national goals, intimidate other nations, and increase the power and prestige of the ruling elite.
5. Rampant sexism. Beyond the simple fact that the political elite and the national culture were male-dominated, these regimes inevitably viewed women as second-class citizens. They were adamantly anti-abortion and also homophobic. These attitudes were usually codified in Draconian laws that enjoyed strong support by the orthodox religion of the country, thus lending the regime cover for its abuses.
6. A controlled mass media. Under some of the regimes, the mass media were under strict direct control and could be relied upon never to stray from the party line. Other regimes exercised more subtle power to ensure media orthodoxy. Methods included the control of licensing and access to resources, economic pressure, appeals to patriotism, and implied threats. The leaders of the mass media were often politically compatible with the power elite. The result was usually success in keeping the general public unaware of the regimes’ excesses.
7. Obsession with national security. Inevitably, a national security apparatus was under direct control of the ruling elite. It was usually an instrument of oppression, operating in secret and beyond any constraints. Its actions were justified under the rubric of protecting “national security,” and questioning its activities was portrayed as unpatriotic or even treasonous.
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together. Unlike communist regimes, the fascist and protofascist regimes were never proclaimed as godless by their opponents. In fact, most of the regimes attached themselves to the predominant religion of the country and chose to portray themselves as militant defenders of that religion. The fact that the ruling elite’s behavior was incompatible with the precepts of the religion was generally swept under the rug. Propaganda kept up the illusion that the ruling elites were defenders of the faith and opponents of the “godless.” A perception was manufactured that opposing the power elite was tantamount to an attack on religion.
9. Power of corporations protected. Although the personal life of ordinary citizens was under strict control, the ability of large corporations to operate in relative freedom was not compromised. The ruling elite saw the corporate structure as a way to not only ensure military production (in developed states), but also as an additional means of social control. Members of the economic elite were often pampered by the political elite to ensure a continued mutuality of interests, especially in the repression of “have-not” citizens.
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated. Since organized labor was seen as the one power center that could challenge the political hegemony of the ruling elite and its corporate allies, it was inevitably crushed or made powerless. The poor formed an underclass, viewed with suspicion or outright contempt. Under some regimes, being poor was considered akin to a vice.
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts. Intellectuals and the inherent freedom of ideas and expression associated with them were anathema to these regimes. Intellectual and academic freedom were considered subversive to national security and the patriotic ideal. Universities were tightly controlled; politically unreliable faculty harassed or eliminated. Unorthodox ideas or expressions of dissent were strongly attacked, silenced, or crushed. To these regimes, art and literature should serve the national interest or they had no right to exist.
12. Obsession with crime and punishment. Most of these regimes maintained Draconian systems of criminal justice with huge prison populations. The police were often glorified and had almost unchecked power, leading to rampant abuse. “Normal” and political crime were often merged into trumped-up criminal charges and sometimes used against political opponents of the regime. Fear, and hatred, of criminals or “traitors” was often promoted among the population as an excuse for more police power.
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption. Those in business circles and close to the power elite often used their position to enrich themselves. This corruption worked both ways; the power elite would receive financial gifts and property from the economic elite, who in turn would gain the benefit of government favoritism. Members of the power elite were in a position to obtain vast wealth from other sources as well: for example, by stealing national resources. With the national security apparatus under control and the media muzzled, this corruption was largely unconstrained and not well understood by the general population.
14. Fraudulent elections. Elections in the form of plebiscites or public opinion polls were usually bogus. When actual elections with candidates were held, they would usually be perverted by the power elite to get the desired result. Common methods included maintaining control of the election machinery, intimidating an disenfranchising opposition voters, destroying or disallowing legal votes, and, as a last resort, turning to a judiciary beholden to the power elite.
Does any of this ring alarm bells? Of course not. After all, this is America, officially a democracy with the rule of law, a constitution, a free press, honest elections, and a well-informed public constantly being put on guard against evils. Historical comparisons like these are just exercises in verbal gymnastics.
Maybe, maybe not.
"When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag." - Huey Long
the fascism is glatzism ( a term i coined)---globalist nazism.
and one of the rampant attributes you left off the list was
TYRANICAL DISENGENUINE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, INCLUDING THE BRAINWASHING OF THE PUBLIC ON HOMOPHILIA, RACE BAITING EVERY ISSUE, CREED BAITING EVERY ISSUE (INCLUDING BOTH MONOTHEISTIC AND ATHEISTIC BAITING AS WELL AS THE OLD SCHOOL COMMUNIST/CAPITALIST BAITING)- , AND FINANALLY FEMINISM BAITING , in particular the complete ridiculous concept of 3rd wave feminism that is actually a masked attempt at surpressing human beings that are women by tricking them into their identity politics as distraction.
this is a very important dynamic to understand of the new neoliberal glatzism that uses creedism/racism/feminism/ and other isms to distract from the mass theft, and and mass tyranny that is going on by duping the sheeple to begin blaming it on red herrings or ingore it altogether.
From a medical perspective, it is necessary to add that the American people are not well. The diet they consume, the daily routine which society today offers to them (sitting at a desk, on the couch, at the dinner table or in the car) is causing premature, accelarated aging process which is contributed to by the poor quality of food and beverages.
GI tract - from presbyesophagus (slow motility found in old people) fatty liver disease (nonalcoholic cirrhosis and liver failure in the eventual outcome) in 20 year olds. And this was only found in heavy drinkers a couple decades ago.
Kidney failure - dialysis is a sure thing. and that is a busy place, the dialysis clinics. Big money. Sick patients who cannot be in public for fear of infection. Gallstones...also an old people's disease is showing up in teens. On down to the outlet is also taking a battering and it's not from penis, constipation is off the charts, and seems to be ending in what is called diverticula, in patients as young as 40 - Wall elasticity is failing. Perforation and abscess can result (andy warhol died of perforated diverticulum and subsequent sepsis after it was diagnosed while he was in hospital postop for gallbladder removal, I believe). Resection of the segment of bowel is eventually required.
Austism, vitamin deficiency, early osteopenia from lack of weightbearing exercise, sports and work overuse resulting in early arthritis/joint replacements, on and on.
You see the doctors just riding the wave, counting their money at their desks, all those 000s. and the public is dragging around from one energy drink to another, trying to behave what the media tells them to.
I would like to say that this is the cruelest, most painful observation in my life. Those who designed this plan are extraordinary in that they have selected the most destructive means to end the US of A and neutralize their citizens. The amount of attention paid to small details is becoming more evident. The disturbed minds who sat around in circles and conjured up visions of men, women, children, the old and handicapped, the babies experiencing agonizing humiliation, discomfort and hopeless defeat are not men I would want to run the show.
Burning it all down is preferable to allowing this to happen, and I do mean that. These incompetent, self-adoring thieves are mentally deranged and we all know it. Burn the house down. Leave them the ashes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWj0CiM8WU
Bunny - great points and something we ought to think about more. sugar is killing us, and exercise and a reasonable diet would eliminate the need for many, maybe most cholesterol scripts, mild/mod depression scripts, etc.
I suspect that market forces, rather than a nwo conspiracy engendered our fast food, fast prescription culture, but it likely, with booze and sports, and Hollywood/madison ave pop culture serves to keep the Plebs from asking, or having the curiosity, intelligence, or 'mental energy' to ask too many questions - like how theres no money for schools and roads, but plenty for wars and coups...
Do you have a link for this?
Would like to forward it to others.
I found: http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/britt_23_2.htm
from 2004.
To obey is to reject thinking. To trust is to reject thinking. Our courts are a delusion of justice with a blind Themis deciding. Power corrupts judges, police, bureaucrats and others. Trust enslaves its believers.
Police serve the police. Judges serve judges. Bureaucrats serve bureaucrats. Government serves government. Man cannot serve two masters; government cannot serve two masters. There is no good master.
Somebody needs to make another one of these for Obama's term, nothing much changes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaZnIr-faM
Ms No, that sounds like a good song for a soundtrack in snuff films of captured politicians...
Tim Tebow was signed by the Eagles.
A sign of the apocalypse.
and what did Kim do tonight?
Didn't know he could sing.
Take it to the Limit, Desperado.
Free speech ended with "political correctness". Only here and a few other last bastions of the Internet can one say and read what they please. Not all have to agree but all should be heard...however distasteful it may be.
Not just free speech. Truth can't survive in a PC world either.
Yea that's how always been a fascist Kiki has always played the game since sixth grade in order to parade equality while institutionalize mg her double standard for her blackmail economy.
She was always racist. Can't wear that shit in ur sleeves when ur hunting victims.
Silly, you are mistaken about this site being totally accepting of free speech. Au contraire mon ami...Too many good fellows have been expelled from this site for their speech. i.e. francis sawyer for one.
You are being watched for your own good. Government employees are looking out for your well being. The Police are here to serve and protect. Those who question authority are probably communists or mentally ill. If you are innocent, you have nothign to fear from 24/7 spying. You should welcome the chance for government to confirm your loyalty to them.
Question is, "Who really is THEM", when we speak of Government.
Whi is "THEM?" Those who actually control the Governments of this world?
The obvious answer is the uber-wealthy. The Billionaires (and Trillionaires).
The LOVE of money (greed) is the root of all evil. And it is exactly by wealth (or the apperance of wealth- as in fiat currency) that they rule those who appear to rule the world.
The less obvious answer has to do with who THEIR master(s) is.
That, too is rather obvious, for those with open eyes, hearts and minds:
"Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe." - 2 Corinthians 4:4
the willful blindness of religion won't get you out of this mess, quite the contrary actually.
I genuinely dont mean to seem to be attacking you personally, but religion, dogma specifically, is a huge part of the problem.
The idea that a Supreme Being wrote some text or other (directly or not) is absolute rubbish. Those who rely on it hold humanity down with words penned by very fallible, very ignorant, and ostensibly often very cruel and stupid men.
One can't argue with theists, or atheists, and onr can not hope to penetrate the 'faith' of those who believe 'their' (and no other) holy book is 'the truth'.
But in no other aspect of life do we coddle people know make knowledge claims based on 'faith'. You'd hardly go to a doctor who did no empirical exam but relied on hunches and prayer.
We can not afford anymore to coddle those like you whose prescription pad is the facile words of long dead possibly psychotic men.
If you think a supreme being wrote your holy book you're wrong, and if you think that its "prophecies" have more power than given them by gullible, irrational men, then you are an Enemy of reason, peace, progress, and any chance of a world without war.
Au contraire:
There is nothing fictional about the Bible.
The 66 books of the Bible were written:
On three continents.
In three languages.
By about 40 different people (kings, shepherds, prophets, an army general, fishermen, priests, physician, etc).
Over a period of about 1,500 years.
On the most controversial subjects.
By people who, in most cases, had never met.
By authors whose education and background varied greatly.
Yet it tells a completely cohesive story, all based on the same theme, of mankind’s fall, and the Love God showed by sending His son as a sacrifice to buy the souls of all men wishing to be redeemed.
And what is required to be redeemed?
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16
Only a book breathed by God could meet the above criteria, and there is no other book like it.
It is The Word of God.
There's a they're near my house I enjoyed as a kid. Despite it being torn down during the internet age in 1997, I found only one picture online. And it only included the east wing of the theatre, not the west. In a few decades it will be as if it never existed. History is totally malleable.
Yet you believe this book, translated over centuries, with portions censored by the Catholic Church, with Signs lifted from religions that predate it by centuries (Osiris=Christ, Great Flood, etc) is the accurate depiction of human history???
Yeah... About that. It's bullshit.
Utter hogwash.
It is a well researched and attested to fact that the Bible has been copied accurately and faithfully. On the integrity of the New Testament:
“As with all the previously published New Testament papyri (127 of them, published in the last 116 years), not a single new reading has commended itself as authentic. Instead, the papyri function to confirm what New Testament scholars have already thought was the original wording or, in some cases, to confirm an alternate reading—but one that is already found in the manuscripts” - http://www.dts.edu/read/wallace-new-testament-manscript-first-century/
To date, over one hundred and twenty such New Testament papyri are known. In general, they are considered the earliest witnesses to the original text of the New Testament.” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Testament_papyri
And all are in agreement with one another. The standard practice is to ensure that modern translations adhere to these earliest copies of the papyri. We therefore know that they are faithful replications of what occurred in the first century.
More details here:
http://www.bible.ca/ef/topical-the-earliest-new-testament-manuscripts.htm
https://carm.org/manuscript-evidence
The Old Testament is just as well preserved as the New Testament.
So there is no "problem" with the integrity of the Bible. Nothing has been censored from it.
so you beleive in the easter bunny and the tooth fairy-it fugures
Strawman troll is a strawman.
I am who I am, I say what I say.
Don't put words in my mouth.
PS- If you actually wanted to learn something, you would read those links I provided.
616, the "number of the beast"(from papyrus 115, earliest known fragment of manuscript from Book of Revelation). Or is it still 666?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/616_%28number%29
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16
What is meant by "gave his one and only son"? If you are considering Jesus a "sacrifice", then that is nonsensical. Per the narrative, Jesus supposedly knew what was coming, as he was preaching about having knowledge of future events(omniscience or at least precognition) and was also either partially a deity(1/3) or was a deity(supposed miracles and signs he performed, supernatural powers, etc), and knew he would at least get eternal reward in heaven and be the foundational praised and worshipped figure of billions of followers(Christianity), all after a finite period of suffering, leaving not much to be "sacrificed".
When one gets ETERNAL reward for only FINITE suffering, then nothing is "sacrificed", especially when you supposedly KNOW the outcome.
A completely cohesive story?
5 minutes comparing the edicts of the Hebrew father sky god with Jesus the Nazarene should convince you that there is nothing coherent about it.
As to fiction, apart from the internal inconsistencies, there are a plethora of books and papers describing beyond reasonable doubt ways in which the bible is wrong, or wildly inaccurate.
But - here's the thing - if your mind is only prepared to defend what you already believe is the case, then you are not at all prepared to admit that you may be mistaken, that The Truth is quite other than you believe.
You could start with what Israeli archaeologists have found, in several places, which directly contradict the book of joshua. This is leaving aside the complete absence of evidence of any grand solomonic temple or kingdom [that a leader with a common name existed, there is sparse proof of, but legends and myths are often derived from a kernel of truth amplified and exaggerated over time].
But you will not do so, so there is no value to me in continuing this line of dialogue. What can one do with a person who tells you they are sure that all the world is governed by a silver teapot, hovering behind the moon, and that if we can not see it, that is only because it is invisible?
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/
The burning desire for the power that belief affords is part of our problem as a species. The power to be free from doubt and uncertainty is seductive. To inherit paradise if only you deny yourself in this life is a seductive proposition. Just as seductive as submitting yourself to .gov for that warm blanket of security...
Thankfully, God came down and sent His Son to dumb it all down for us. The only certainty man needs is the certainty that he is treating his neighbor as he wished to be treated.
The Stoicism of the Greeks preached this principal centuries before the time of the Christ myth...
I have no doubt they did. Lots of cultures teach the golden rule.
However, God also sent His Son to chase out the money changers.
he also ordered the Hebrews to rape the young girls whose families they had slaughtered in war. The god of your fairy tale has a pretty flexible morality it seems :-)
In any case, I'd rather stick to discussing the problems of the day as opposed to debating which classical fantasy tale is the most intriguing. Besides I prefer Odin and the Gods of Asgard...
So they say.
<<he also ordered the Hebrews to...>>
That is funny. Now you believe the Bible is true?
I am a Christian and I do not even believe everything that is written in the Bible is true. In fact, I believe most of it is false.
It is not only completely coherent, it prophesied ~600 years in advance every thing that Christ would accomplish, in Isaiah 53: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+53
There are hundreds of other prophecies that He fulfilled, as well: http://www.accordingtothescriptures.org/prophecy/353prophecies.html
Not to mention all the other prophecies that foretold in advance what would occur in what was then the future, take Daniels prophecy of Alexander the Great: https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/869-amazing-prophecy-in-the-bo...
And all the prophecies that foretold events in the end times that we live in today.
As for YHWH and His son, Jesus Christ- there are no inconsistancies there either- just ignorant arguments based on misinterpretation, out of context "reasoning", and a dubious understanding of history and knowledge of what life was like for ancient peoples.
The archeological interpretations that skeptics have used to discredit the Biblical accounts are always proven to be based on a prejudiced view of Biblical history, as will the digs you referenced. There are always alternate interpretations that correlate with Biblical accounts.
And I thought I was subjective ...
Those arn't predictions, those are patterns of human behavior captured in allegory (which in the context, such understanding has more value for the evolution of the spiritualized human entity than your dessicated self referential fix-ation).
History Repeating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLT6_TQmq8
Well, your last paragraph is false. you are a hopeless case.
Thing is, deep down, you know you believe in a fairy story.
Truth seeker, what is truly scary and utterly astounding, is the intellectual gymnastics and hypocrisy and selective amnesia that goes on when people start quoting ancient religious texts.
We DEMAND all sorts of facts, cross-examination or even forensic analysis of Profound Statements, scientific postulate, theories, etc, but... BUT, many are immediately willing to instantly suspend these intellectual demands when it comes to ancient texts. Be they OT, NT, or of another ME faith (Islam).
Bollox! I call Bullshit on these pseudo-intellectuals.
NONE of these texts meet the rigorous criteria of Science, Archeology, or even basic logic of a child. What is packaged, promoted and sold as some "Divine Truth", is in FACT nothing but unsubstantiated hearsay, that was recorded decades or centuries later, by people of unknown education and agenda -- and 'questionable hygiene' (smelly, bad teeth, bad breath). /Yeah, people I really want to listen to and follow. /sarc
The OT has been edited and re-written/re-compiled a number of times. The NT is a SELECT COMPILATION of various ancient texts. This happened in 325 AD, at the Council of Nicaea, and it was called and sponsored by the Emperor himself: Constantine. He did not want a Hodge-podge of flavors of Christianity, but a homogenous version, which would unite the splitting empire. It is not coincidence that the Church's hierarchy mirrored that of the Roman Army: One head (the Pope) reports to the Emperor. It's been that way ever since: The velvet glove over the iron fist of the state, creating compliant masses of sheep. Sheep to be steered, herded, milked, sheared and fleeced.
It is no exaggeration in fact, when I say that my 5th grader knows more than these ancients, and that my 8th grader could do circles around them. And yet... and yet we are somehow supposed to "park our brains" and simply turn into mindless Zombies, and 'Believe'?
Sorry, but I have this medical condition... it's called 'Thinking'.
p.s. To front-run the Future, the Catholic Church not only has its own Observatory, but is now accepting that there might be Space Aliens (ETs) out there, who will one day soon make contact with us. I say 'front-run', because if they don't, their entire business model -- sorry, Religion -- will fall apart. But you know what they say: "The Show Must Go On!" :-)
Kirk out.
Kirk2NCC1701,
Posted yet again (with some minor edits/additions), for your READING pleasure:
(This time READ it, including all the links, to see just how wrong you are! You've got a giant case of confimation bias! There is no way to explain all of the points laid out below- other than a Divine source)
There's good reason for faith in the Bible and its teachings
The 66 books of the Bible were written:
On three continents.
In three languages.
By about 40 different people (kings, shepherds, prophets, an army general, fishermen, priests, physician, etc).
Over a period of about 1,500 years.
On the most controversial subjects.
By people who, in most cases, had never met.
By authors whose education and background varied greatly.
Yet it tells a completely cohesive story, all based on the same theme, of mankind’s fall, and the Love God showed by sending His son as a sacrifice to buy the souls of all men wishing to be redeemed.
And what is required to be redeemed?
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16
Only a book breathed by God could meet the above criteria, and there is no other book like it.
It is The Word of God.
Fulfilled Prophecy:
It is not only completely coherent, it prophesied ~600 years in advance every thing that Christ would accomplish, in Isaiah 53: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+53
There are hundreds of other prophecies that He fulfilled, as well: http://www.accordingtothescriptures.org/prophecy/353prophecies.html
Not to mention all the other prophecies that foretold in advance what would occur in what was then the future, take Daniels prophecy of Alexander the Great: https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/869-amazing-prophecy-in-the-bo...
It also accurately foretold many events hundreds or even thousands of years beforehand, the times we are living in, for example- yes- the end times, all going as foretold.
Proof that the integrity of the scriptures has been preserved:
It is a well researched and attested to fact that the Bible has been copied accurately and faithfully. On the integrity of the New Testament:
“As with all the previously published New Testament papyri (127 of them, published in the last 116 years), not a single new reading has commended itself as authentic. Instead, the papyri function to confirm what New Testament scholars have already thought was the original wording or, in some cases, to confirm an alternate reading—but one that is already found in the manuscripts” - http://www.dts.edu/read/wallace-new-testament-manscript-first-century/
And all are in agreement with one another. The standard practice is to ensure that modern translations adhere to these earliest copies of the papyri. We therefore know that they are faithful replications of what occurred in the first century.
http://www.bible.ca/ef/topical-the-earliest-new-testament-manuscripts.htm
There are over 5,600 different copies of the New Testament text, and by comparing one to the other, it can be shown that they are at least 99.5% accurately transcribed.
https://carm.org/manuscript-evidence
The Old Testament is just as well preserved as the New Testament. For sake of brevity here, I will simply point out that Jesus Christ Himself quoted from 24 books of the Old Testament, and other writers of the New Testament quoted from 34 books of the Old Testament, showing that these were widely accepted as canonical. A comparison of ancient texts of the Old Testament yields very similar results to the accuracy of its transcription.
So there is no "problem" with the integrity of the Bible.
Another reason why the Bible can be believed- its absolute CANDOR:
It does not attempt to paint a rosy picture of most men- in fact, only a mere handful of the Kings of Israel and Judah were spoken of as "good," and even they had their foibles commited to writing. Jesus' own Apostles had huge faults- and they are all attested to in writing.
On the subject of Archaeology:
Prior to modern day archaeological “discoveries”, for thousands of years, Bedouins and other tribesmen routinely gathered treasures and artifacts (and still do) from sites mentioned in the Bible- Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Petra, etc. It should not be surprising, then, that there is a dearth of information that has yet to be discovered in private collections, and much that has been lost forever. However, there is sufficient evidence that the Biblical account of Egyptian bondage found in Genesis and Exodus can easily be confirmed by archaeology:
http://creation.mobi/egyptian-history-and-the-biblical-record-a-perfect-match
http://www.gotquestions.org/evidence-ten-plagues.html
There is likewise strong archaeological evidence for many other events in the Bible, that, for sake of brevity, I have not included here. A web search will reveal all the competing interpretations of archaeological evidence. Archaeology, in any case, is more detective work requiring interpretation than hard science.
Now- On the subject of why only 66 books were included in the Bible, excluding the apocrypha- very good reasons:
https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/asbury-bible-commentary/Canon-Scr...
The proof stated throughout this reply to you is more than enough for a person who is truly intelligent and capable of learning to see that it is absolutely impossible for the Bible to have come into being, to have its integrity preserved, to predict future events, to be written by diverse peoples who did not and could not collaborate, to acheive the stunning coherence, theme, development, conclusion and moral authority of the Bible without Divine guidance and inspiration.
To come to any other conclusion is intellectually dishonest.
PS- On the other subject you raised, briefly- The modern day interest in "aliens" is nothing more than a skewed attempt, due to dismissal of the Divine text, to understand what the Bible explained long ago- there is alien life- they're called spirit creatures. They are God, His son Jesus Christ, Cherubs, Seraphs, Angels, Satan the Devil, and Demons. No need for science fiction.
PPS- On the subject of the Roman church and Constantine- I'm certainly no stranger to what occurred at the Council of Nicaea. I will go on record after ~50 years of research and tell you unequivocally that the ONE thing they got right was the 66 books of the Bible canon. Otherwise, that is where the Great Apostasy (foretold in 2_Thessalonians_2:2-4), away from true Christianity began. The Protestant Reformation cleaned up and addressed only a handful of the errors of the Roman church, and that is true to this day. To summarize- the Protestant denominations are less corrupted than the Catholic church- which is still a far cry from true Christianity as taught in the Bible.
This is comedy gold. But maybe you should stop now? I think I've had enough laughs for one day.
Fuck this is funny, really made my day. Keep going!
hey smartass, consider that deists were largely comprising many of the people who threw off the yoke of the british in america. and as much as people hate on the bolshevisk, throwing off the czars was a pretty bad ass thing to do. bolsheviks were atheists generally but not always.
so i'm not saying you have to believe in god to throw off tyrants, i'm saying you should be a bit more open minded as to what you think people can or cannot believe in while being self educated and thoughtful enough to be part of the solution to your problems ---------
your way is pretty alientating and mypopic towards how the belief in man's search for meaning can manifest in any number of belief systems. the world was never perfected by reason alone. and the worship of reason as an ideology unto itself is another form of idolatry. the stalinists were pretty notorious for their worship of 'reason' and look what that wrought on humanity. an evil hell hole of life delieverd by the god of reason in atheist trappings called communism.
you need to stop focussing on the venn diagram of how things out to be and start opening your mind up a bit.
that inclueds your thoughts on jews and zionists. they are not all the evil puppet masters you think they are. some well are . some are not.
Religion *is* idolatry. it is the worship of man made fictions.
And it is one thing to posit a Creator, quite another to claim to know Its wishes or its Mind.
I have never, ever said all or even most Jews are anything. But let's be honest, even stating what is blatantly obvious about Jewish per se and Zionist POWER, and their aims for that power is enough to stop people such as yourself from even trying to apply a little nuance.
Your dentist or accountant isnt the problem. your jewish leaders may be, especially when they act primarily to preserve-and-obfuscate WILDLY DISPROPORTIONATE Jewish political, financial, media, and other power, and/or promote Likud Israel's bullshit, Orwellian narrative.
Jews like Richard Perle and Bill Kristol, racist, Jewish Supremacist, dissembling warmongers are sayanim, and traitors, and are to be regarded as such. Israel as a nation state is a parasite on this land, actually, a zombie virus is a better analogy. and it is largely Jewish power which allows it to slowly wipe palestine off the map, amass nuclear and chemical weapons, and it is a Jewish influenced media matrix which, actively 'Zionist' or not, prevents full and fair reporting of Israel's spying, interference, war crimes, and false flag terror. Not to mention its racialist, apartheid colonialism.
When you consider yourself to be "Chosrn" above all others, and develop a ttibalistic ethics that treats others, certainly by fundamentals of the text, as less than fully human, and when you considrr yourself to be incapable of sin, it is not very hard to decline into Machiavellian ethics, with its attendant use of lies, shameless hyoocrisy, and violence without judgment.
So it is not "the Jews" or even all 'Zionists'. But Jewish per se power and influence has allowed a dedicated, ziopathic minority of a minority to set fire to the world. A minority which clings, fundamentally, to the ethos of Torah and Talmud.
It is less controversial to indict a minority of Muslims with the vile portions of the Koran, but then Muslims are now the mercenary proxies and patsies of the Anglo-Zionist Banking Empire, and have nowhere near the power, in media or elsewhere which Jews per se and Zionist ideologues consequently so ostentatiously enjoy.
One good thing about it is it gives Jihadists something to say as they're about to take on a suicidal mission: Allahu Akbar! or "God is Great!"
Japanese soldiers shouted BANZAI as they charged the American positions.
What will the atheists shout on their way to a glorious battefield death?
We need a good slogan... :"DONT TREAD ON ME!" is my battle cry.
Speaking of "Don't Tread On Me"...
Yesterday we were out driving, and spotted some guy with a backpack, Captain America-like outfit (with head and face cover), walking and had the B&W flag flapping from a tall pole, that said "Don't Tread On Me".
He was walking across the freeway overpass, walked to the adjacent shopping center (Costco, Target, etc) and back to the freeway.
(We first spotted him as we approached the Costco exit, and saw him again on the way out.) Funny thing is, my 5th grader seemed to know about the "pre-Civil-War flag", whereas I didn't. Learn something every day. I honked and gave him a thumbs up.
Maybe you've missed it but the argument is that The Word of God is not a religion, but rather a plan that is layed out for all to see (check it vs. history and current events). This plan contains two choices, each with their own outcome. This is not at all complicated but simply casting your lot with God (YHVH and Joshua) and receive eternal life or trusting your reason (that is apriori imperfect and demonstrably so, just look at superposition and understand that we are unable to KNOW if a thing IS or IS NOT at any given time) and go to your doom.
"And it is one thing to posit a Creator, quite another to claim to know Its wishes or its Mind."
Well, we know what GOD wishes for us, see the Bible for it. The problem that comes with knowing the wish of GOD is that you're hold to that standard and some ppl just do not want to do it. That is not a problem, see free will, but you also have to understand that there's consequences for your choice. In the end you postulate that you know better, despite evidence to the contrary throughout the history. Well, good luck with that.
These boards are choke full of militant "rationalists" (nihilists is the better term) that fail to see that they don't know jack shit about anything but gamble their life on their ignorance and their skewed sense of self worth. I count here the nihilist, asteroid and other midgets that attack anyone who does not submit to their "reason".
I noticed a few issues with the level of discorse in the article:
When police are around disorderly conduct got addressed, but no reference to what was meant by 'safe schools' before vs after the community/school administration brought in the police.
The rather odd claim that American tanks have no business being on American soil; like there would never be a foriegn presence on American soil, but Americant tanks should only be produced for use on foriegn soil.
That a problem with people in politics is that they chase corporate money, not that the problem with politics is that people in that system need to be either independently wealthy or constantly after money for use in mass media and campaigning.
Also, here's another (possibly unexpected) source of agreement on some of your criticisms...
Obviously, by best available proximate cause, words written by men were written by men, faith in 'the truth' cannot be penetrated by arguement, and knowledge is not predicated on faith. I would consider knowedge to be predicated on understanding applied to particular circumstances or information. A test of faith might be to believe and observe how cirumstances change, like shown through the plecebo effect in the medical industry accepted under controlled studies or or that 'hearing voices' that appear to have intention outside one's own is a recognized symptom in modern medicine of the mind.
Here are a few suggested questions for you...
Are there any 'intentionalities' beyond the human (Man-kind) mind?
Would those intentionalities respond to Authority?
Where does Authority originate?
Why might we respond in some pre-conditioned manner to Authority, and how is that different than respnding to force (through fear)?
Why does the periodic table of elements show an innate organization of properties when 'squinted-at' in just the right way to be written down by atomic number?
What kind of understanding of circumstances and available information is possible from within the same system one is trying to understand?
I must also say, I believe the psychiatric industry will have authoization to cast stones of in-animate chemicals into our emotion processing centers not even when they can demonstrate understanding by creating a human brain from scratch and have that then act with intention; because they can't also turn energy into matter and subsequently run the lighter elements through stellar cores to make the heavier ones.
I believe God created us all; His Son Jesus the Christ offers a gift of Salvation through faith in God through Himself, and we still today have the gift of God-with-us the Holy Spirit...
But there is an Enemy. When I was young, the methods of Lucifer were explained to me as both an arm of high and low percussion as a 'tamborine', and the arm of a musical instrument. Since .music is the language of emotion - disturbing emotions and beating people high and low to a tempo? They best way to deceive people isn't likely hidding 'the truth', but polluting that with the writtings of men; versus listening to a concience/Holy Spirt.
Also, as long as there is someone willing to try to fight Love, since my God says He is Love, there must be war. One-sided, but war none-the-less. The original article seems a bit disingenuous regarding the protestation against militarization in America. As if that may not be a core belief that is consistantly held, but an idea-vehicle for another agenda. I can't know, though this is a rather small sample to keep consistant, but do believe one Man cannot know the heart (content of the spiritual vessel where our intention is) of another Man. I am not trying to speak to the author's intention but the discernable apearance by the writing sample.
Dream teams of militant atheists with PhDs and Nobel prizes have tried and utterly, completely failed to overcome the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics in order to support spontaneous biogenesis theory. They actually proved the opposite and admitted it.
There is simply no way around the science. But instead of modifying their point of view, or offering a viable alternative, they continue to pretend that a fundamental law of nature and science does not exist. Like you, they cling to 19th century Newtonian dogma and play "make believe" how they think the universe ought to work.
If you really believe in science, reason, peace, and "progress" then all you have to do is is the same thing that atheists have always said and demanded of theists -- "Fucking prove it, you ignorant asswipes!".
We live in a quantum universe and nothing exists without a conscious observer. Get over it.
Thanks a lot for saying that, hard to put it clearer!
I've often noticed how many militant athiests and agnostics are nearly always the equivalant of scientific Amish, for them the world of science ended about 15 minutes before Max Planck posited the idea of "natural units" aka "quanta." As you so clearly and accurately pointed out, "we live in a quantum universe and nothing exists without a conscious observer." It's interesting how, as long as science kept pointing in a direction that indicated a wholly material universe, many held fast to science; once the science began to indicate that perhaps we live in something a bit more complex and subtle, those same people put their fingers in their ears and went "la la la la I can't hear you!"
Counterpunch, let's not get all Religulous, but the difference between Theists and Atheists is that the former have this inner 'need' or drive to believe in a hierarchical system, with an anthropomorphic superman at the top. Whereas Atheists do not have this need, and prefer being Subjects of 'Mother Nature'.
And when an atheist dies, he accepts blessed oblivion, rather than having to kiss the ass of some deity for all eternity. (BTW, this eternal ass-kissing is totally counter to libertarianism, but fully aligned with the mentality of a sheep, a serf, a slave. Coincidence? I think not!)
To quote one of my favorite philosophers... (the late G. Carlin):
"Religion easily, easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it:
"Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time."
"But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs... money. He always needs money. He’s all-powerful, all-present, all-knowing and all-wise, but… Just can’t handle money. Religion takes in billions and billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and somehow they always need money. You talk about a good bullshit story."
If you don't understand it yourself it doesn't mean its not so.
Your ethos is this: in the beginning there was nothing (contradicting the law of conservation of mass), which exploded (coz it got so hot apparently, contrary to the 2nd law of thermodynamics) and starting from simple to complex (contrary to the 2nd law of thermodynamics) coalesced in stars and planets, some of which (Earth alone) had proper conditions to allow the extraordinary leap from non-life to life (life that happened to contain a fully fledged, upgradable and highly configurable genetic code - our very own - while contradicting the 2nd law of thermodynamics) and evolved (contrary to the 2nd law of thermodynamics) into superior organisms climaxing in a sentient being (another extraordinary leap) on which the very existence of the universe depends (see above for explanations about perception/conscience that creates the universe/es around us, in each nano-second, a different universe for each man that ever lived and will ever live).
And you accept that and call yourself a thinker and a skeptic.
On the other hand is the explanation you reject, as follows: In the beginning God created the universe, the Sun, Earth, suitable conditions for life, plant life, man is created and then the animals (im not sure of the order but that is not very important in this discussion). It all had a purpose and it was perfect. Satan steps in and get his ass kicked, dragging MAN with him. To save humanity God sends Joshua to pay the price for our sins, He teaches, is crucified, Resurrection and the promise of eternal life for everyone that accepts Joshua as LORD. At the moment we're to wait for Joshua's return, have faith in HIS word and be saved. In the end GOD prevails, all evil is vanquished and all (believers) live happily ever after.
And you reject that coz you know better (see above). My closing remark is that there's never too late to turn to Joshua and to remember that Joshua has a gift for you (eternal life, free of evil) all you gotta do is accept it. If you think eternal life is too little for you, there's the other path where you can mingle with all the dumb fucks, psychopaths and evil man that ever lived in this world, for like, ever and ever, man.
Random,
FWIW- while I understand the Yeshua/Joshua reference, it's very obscure to the vast majority.
You'd be a lot clearer if you'd use the standard English Jesus, which is instantly recognized.
God bless.
PS- Good post!
Thanks a lot for the reply!
The problem with talking about theists and atheists from one persective, is that if one were to reject religion, as described by G. Carlin (or more completely by Jesus the Christ Himself when He was here as part of the Trinity of the Godhead on the Earth and talking about pharisees or saducees vs a personal relationship with God), that person if onlyrefusing to claim a personal relationship with God because of the example of such money or universal-man-made-rules based examples of theists in the end times produced that choice to reject religion when that individual feels compelled toward being against those two concepts or another (for instance; individuals who believe they know best for you but are unable to explain why) could turn their own 'spiritual head' to discover that the location of their own 'intentionality' is contained in a heart already with God in Heaven, God's home from which He interacts with us and a promised spiritual residence for an Eternal moment. Otherwise to be perfectly interfaced with what is left of creation once all that's not with God in their own heart have finally been ground under the potter's wheel. Heard that ssecond one from J. Cash and just don't know yet which God decided on ahead of time.
Good to also hear other people have also noticed that creation testifies to the glory of God... the Eternal God of Love who doesn't hate people but sin in people who are not His Children and can feel His influence through the Holy Spirit. While I feel for the Jewish people who have been through the 1st covennant of wisdom, which is a promise of a process of learning by certain methods, I am grateful for the gift ahead-of-time of grace and forgiveness, with certain guidelines on an individual basis, and brought to fulfilment by the only part of the godhead trinity that walked the Earth all those many years ago and promised to return at the end times because He is the only worthy judge.
How much mercy must be poured out on us all, but how much will he have for those individuals who are His 1st covennant people and had faith that His mercy is never-ending.
All that being said here by me, and any influence currently allowed to be present with me and is with me, I still feel a need to mention that all the rules, for each and every individual perspective, were handled ahead-of-time (though everyone born of woman is still figuring them out from some other perspective, though not neccisarily from ones own perspective depending on the true foundation of that individual's own faith; at least as long as that faith is truly from before the beginning mentioned in many holy scriptural writings. For me and others, God's word is a living word and his name was Jesus the Christ, since we are here talking about concepts in English that are real and could already be within each of us. Or not.
Them:
Military, police, government clerks and tax collectors = neighbors, relatives and friends ---->
Hired by elected officials voted into office by brainwashed sheep who believe voting makes a difference and greedy sheep who want free crap ---->
Brainwashed/distracted sheep = lazy morons unable to think for themselves who do what they're told
Free society = eliminating all of the above
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,..."
"...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."
I no longer consent, and I never consented to Zion.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
"Why yes, I am a terrorist, as it is my 'right,' and my 'duty.'"
Well written.
Doesn't change anything.
Those who can only destroy all they love and need to survive are (how u say it) kind of suicide by proxy & just waiting to implode.....
Plus u know the monsters one creates from their vicious hearts aren't so easily managed..... Monsters will be monsters.
But u know Kiki if she had to destroy the entire world so that I can find no pleasure anywhere it was well worth it. And lover pâténted is totally with her on that..... Hillary is just as bad no wonder she and Kiki have clicked all these decades and why Hillary just feel in love with Kiki in highschool!
I know they think they are just killing off the street competition they never needed in the first place other than to fight their wars, or be endlessly in debt to go no where as they steal all the good shit... As per the needed torture to steal the minds of the victims for those who are so fucking kill all they touch looking for a way out of the messes they deliberately or accidentally find themselves. But when u destroy the golden gooses egg ur feeding upon as a matter of survival like a jealous monster feasting on the blood of other with an appetite which can never be quenched~ it's really a distant way of committing suicide.
That's why they need the minds of those they intend to extinguish ... But not like they have the soul for the minds they seek as why even Innocense must be weaponized.
Whatever governments suck... America ain't special there!
The change you may desire resides in you, and begins with the word "no."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
A long journey begins with the first step. A Revolution begins with the first "no."
The American Constitution was fatally flawed at inception by not including term limits on elected public politicians.
they thought like washington, that power mad is a vice and political office should be a temporary gig.
At conception, they had a "term limit". They had to go back home to Earn a fucking living.
"At conception, they had a "term limit". They had to go back home to Earn a fucking living."
You are wise.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
But police and soldiers are our heroes they said.
Gun and badge thugs, and mercenaries.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
The irony of a US soldier is that upon taking the oath he has already broken it.
The Department of Defense is looking to keep secret records of bonuses and incentives it paid contractors for delivering a $40 billion counter-ballistic missile system whose performance has been called "spotty at best."
So, who cares! $40 billion is money well spent to protect America, if the contractors got some bonus cash, well, hell they earned it. Even if the system can't shoot a sparrow down, it's not like they didn't give it their best shot. Maybe buy a Russian S-400 system, like China just did.At least we haven't exported our defense industry ti China. $40 billion dollar missile defense systems that don't work still create American jobs-even if most of the money goes to rich people. Actually, it's maybe a blessing that these weapons don't work and are essentially shit. Maybe that will give these psycho Neocons second thoughts about starting WW3 with Russia and China.
yeah each of those jobs cost $50 Million Dollars.
Yea right like anyone could get used to what I have seen and been through .....
Sure I know how to walk towards the bombs to invest but......... Get used to it not ever......
Like saying one can get used to HELL
The baby boomers and their parents need to die off-hardly any of them have any capacity for rational thought -they're selfish. They only care about themeslves and not for future generations -they sit on their ass and believe every bit of stupid propaganda fed to them by the mainstream media/Ministry of Truth. These "christian zionists" are idiots too. Stupidest group of fools I ever saw.
When a nation is full of stupid sheeple, it's easy for the evil elites to do their evil and destroy freedom.
Who the hell are you to say baby boomers & their parents need to die off? You snot nosed little spoiled prick probably praising Obama every damn chance you get. This baby boomer was screaming from the roof tops that Obama was the enemy within, yet all you millennials thought he was the coolest thing since sliced bread. Your generation is lazy, spoiled, selfish little pricks with your heads up your asses. You will not last long when you are responsible for yourselves. You will be begging for some baby boomer or their parents to help you. Let me be the first to say -> FUCK YOU!
My anecdotal experience confirms your observations almost 100%. Not saying I want them to die or hasten their demise, but nothing will change until this massive block of entitlement receivers/voters is no longer the majority.
Can you weld, rebuild an engine, wire a house, read a blue print, run a lathe and plant a garden? Better learn those things before you kill us off. Your future is not secured simply because you have an I Phone app.
I'm a baby boomer myself -I guess some of you who commented and voted down will pull an Ahmadinnejad and attribute my comments as wanting to kill all the old people as Ahmadinnejad was falsely attributed as wanting to wipe Israel off the face of the map (by nuclear attack) No intentions or implications of such should be intended. Nevertheless, the future and hope of our country does not lie in the over 50 crowd who seem far more content with the status quo and are inclined to believe our bought off lying politicians of both parties, as their primary goal seems to be the present preservation of their own wealth and privileges, rather than the health and future prosperity of their children.