It is unbelievable what is happening in America.  The slow erosion of freedom, integrity, honor, and decency has changed to mass wasting of these characteristics.  Apparently we have become a nation of fools who think that servitude, immorality, dishonor, and indecency are an improvement to our country.  It seems that every chance we have to correct the course of America, we choose not to.

It is a given that the Democratic party presidential candidates are anti-Christian and anti-American, but there was a viable Republican candidate in the race that had proven in the Senate and in his campaign that he solidly stood for Christian principles and the Constitution.  Instead of getting behind this man of ability and integrity, the majority of Republican voters chose to disregard these characteristics.  Apparently for the majority of Americans, many of those professing to be Christians, and even some pastors, character and honor is not an essential element in choosing a president.

President Obama’s legacy is ending on the note that he wants girls and boys, men and women to use the same bathrooms and showers; a continuation of his desire for the destruction of America.  Our congressmen and senators are too dignified or are of the same mindset to throw him out on his ear and give him his just punishment for all his crimes, while the majority of Americans are too materialistic to recognize the visible and invisible attack we are under.  The framers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution would be appalled at the caliber of many in our government offices, pulpits, and positions of leadership.  The Puritans laid the foundation of liberty in this land, which is the rock of ages, Jesus Christ.  They would be ashamed and devastated at what we have become.

If freedom is to be passed to our children, we must rebuild upon the foundation of freedom; upon the solid Rock.  As a building on a poor foundation will develop fractures and eventually collapse under its own weight, our country is collapsing upon us because we have stopped building on the Rock.  Therefore we have to tear down the structure of hedonism that has been built upon the foundation of deceit.  Freedom is found in Truth.  Let us realize that the unparalleled prosperity and protection of the United States was possible because of that Truth and the form of government that He blessed us with, which is found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

To read more about the outrageousness of the the president and something we can do about it, go to:

http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/05/atheists-christians-unite-for-common-sense/#!

The recent flooding in the deep south serves as a reminder of the overreach of our federal government. Its socialistic motto is, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Uncle Sam is Johnny on the spot to pass money out locally that belongs to tax payers nationally.

Who can blame those struggling to make ends meet for taking off from work and sacrificing earned wages to accept unearned wages that far exceed what they would have made had they stayed at work? The economy is far out of kilter and the government is out of bounds when the people can have more income not working than if they do.

Inflation and excessive taxation are the chief causes of our skewed economy, and unconstitutional governing has caused these problems. Inflation was non-existent under the Constitution. It began after the Federal Reserve was formed in 1913 when the authority to coin money (Article 1, Section 8) was forfeited by Congress and illegally given to the Federal Reserve. In the same year under President William Taft, Congress and 42 states saddled U. S. citizens with the income tax by the 16th Amendment.

Control of the value of money by a few individuals and virtually unlimited taxation was a death sentence to individual freedom. Now Americans work for the state because of undue taxation, and are controlled by certain individuals in the Federal Reserve that determine the worth of their income and savings.

Perhaps the coming Republican convention and subsequent election will mark a turning point in our nation when we throw off the burden of socialism and retake the freedom that the God of the Bible blessed us with in the Declaration and Constitution. Perhaps we will see crews across the country dismantling the wall of lawlessness to let loose liberty once again.

For an excellent read on the Federal Reserve go to:

https://archive.org/stream/CreatureFromJekyllIslandByG.Edward-G.EdwardGriffin#page/n23/mode/2up

Americans have an opportunity this year to elect a president that may dust off the Constitution, read it, study it, and abide by it. Next to God’s law, the Constitution is the ultimate law of our country. Any law contrary to God’s law or the Constitution is no law at all; it is a non-law.

There are many non-laws that have been passed in Washington, one being Obamacare. Because this non-law forces funding for the murder of babies, it violates God’s law that tells us murder is wrong; it violates the Declaration of Independence, where in its second paragraph it states that one of our unalienable rights is life; it violates the preamble of the Constitution which declares the reasons for ordaining and establishing the Constitution: to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Under Obamacare, these reasons for ordaining and establishing the Constitution have been denied to our unborn citizens. Since Obamacare violates God’s law, it also violates the First Amendment to the Constitution, which declares the right to the free exercise of religion. These are only some of the reasons it is unlawful. Obamacare contradicts God’s law, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, the ultimate laws of our country, therefore it is a non-law.

Obedience to a non-law that is contrary to God’s law or the Constitution is disobedience to God, since He tells us in the thirteenth chapter of the book of Romans to not resist governing authority. In the United States of America, the governing authority under God is the people. The Constitution begins with “We the people…do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Through their representatives, the people established the Constitution as the ultimate law second only to God’s law. We know that our government is based on God’s law because the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence refers to the “separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them.” Likewise, the second paragraph makes clear the truth that our unalienable rights are given to us from our Creator. God’s law cannot be changed, but the Constitution can be changed by the people. Therefore, the order of authority is God, the people, and then the Constitution. Our government officials are merely servants of the people, to be respected and honored, but given a duty to serve the people.

Our obedience to authority requires obedience to laws, not non-laws. We have been negligent in allowing many non-laws to be passed and enforced. We should now work to remove these and be in obedience to the true laws. While this may present us with great opposition from those who are deceived or are willing to abide by and enforce the non-laws, this is our duty.

To read the Declaration of Independence go to: http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=25685

To read the United States Constitution go to:  http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=36438

To read the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, and the other amendments to the Constitution, go to:  http://www.ushistory.org/documents/amendments.htm

What began in troubled times seems to be ending in troubled times.  The document that marks the beginning of the United States of America contains a long list of grievances that justifies the unanimous decision of the original thirteen colonies of our country to, in essence say, enough is enough.  They would take no more abuse and usurpation from the government that they were under, and relying on God’s protection, they were willing to make great sacrifices to break free.

 

There was another beginning long before this, when certain European Christians likewise decided to get out from under oppression.  They were called Puritans, Separatists, and Pilgrims, and they went to great lengths to attain freedom.  They risked their lives and their families in order to obey the God of the universe.  They came to the wilderness of America for freedom to follow the truth of God’s Word.  The actual beginning of our self-government was in a document they signed aboard the vessel that brought them to America.  In this document, the Mayflower Compact, they pledged their endeavor to be “for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith.”

 

Their desire was for freedom and to free others from their bondage of ignorance of God’s Word.  As it is written, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4: 6).  They knew from reading the Bible that the king or any government was not who bestows rights.  They knew that God gives rights and is the standard of what is good and righteous.  They were the first to print Bibles in English so that others would know the truth that had been hidden from them by those in power.  Through God’s providence we have reaped the harvest of blessings from those who sowed in righteousness before us, but we as a nation after them have sowed unrighteousness and are now reaping curses.

 

Our situation now is much like that of our founders in the thirteen colonies.  There are and have been leaders in our nation, and those who follow them, who have corrupted our country and brought us now to the brink of destruction, but there are many others who would have us return to morality, righteousness, and common sense.  This feat seems impossible, and is impossible for man alone, but not for God.  “For nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1: 37).  “He brings one down, He exalts another” (Psalm 75: 7).  The government, the media, the educational system, the financial system, even much of what is supposed to be the church, has been taken piece by piece by those seeking to debase our country.

 

There is much similarity in the grievances put forth by the colonists in the Declaration of Independence to grievances that we can put forth today.  While their grievances were directed at the king, government, and people of England, ours is toward our federal government and those who usurp authority over the Constitution and the people.  Christianity is the foundation of our government and our Constitution is derived from Christian principles.  Freedom, prosperity, and peace are some of the fruits of these Christian principles.

 

The following are the grievances of the original thirteen colonies listed in the Declaration of Independence that justified their separation from England, and the correlation to our grievances today against our own federal government:

 

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

 

The president and the Department of Justice have refused to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, our immigration laws, and have opposed states that attempt to enforce these laws.  The president and Congress have foolishly wasted vast sums of tax payers’ money in countless ways, but particularly on so called stimulus packages that have done little if any to stimulate anything except debt.

 

He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

 

            There are many issues now facing our nation that are of immediate and pressing importance, including the killing of unborn and newborn children, immigration and border protection, health care, and education.  When a state acts upon issues such as these because of the inaction or erroneous action of the president or the federal government, it is forbidden to do so by them, and action is taken against that state to prevent any sort of state control of these issues.

 

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.  

 

            Our federal government has established voting districts that accommodate the election of anti-constitutional candidates and their agendas.  Between such gerrymandering and rampant voter fraud, the right of representation has been severely compromised.

 

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

 

The president and his cohorts in the legislature have slipped in laws during congressional recesses and placed on the American people regulations decided on in distant global conferences, outside the boundaries of our country and our Constitution.

 

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

 

The president and his appointed attorney general have refused to enforce our laws, particularly the Defense of Marriage Act, our immigration laws, and voting regulations, effectively dissolving our representative houses.  They, along with a majority of legislators, have grossly neglected to protect unborn children from harm, death, and much suffering, thus denying them the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

 

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

 

Having effectively dissolved the rightful legislative body, legislation and its enforcement must come from somewhere, so it rests with the individual states and the people, leaving the country without unity.  The states and the people are left to defend marriage, to defend their own borders, to deal with voter fraud, and to protect the people, including unborn children.  The duty of the federal government is neglected and left to the states and the people.  Then the federal government opposes the states and the people who tend to the neglected issues.

 

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws of naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

 

Population by birth has been hindered through laws discouraging marriage, through inflation, taxes, abortion, and through the encouragement of homosexuality.  For the purpose of undermining unity, the economy, and nationalism, laws of naturalization have been neglected.  The executive branch has refused to enforce naturalization laws and Congress has refused to act upon this disregard of the Constitution.  The influx of indigent immigrants flowing in unmitigated has strained the economy through tax expenditures and job losses for American citizens, and undoubtedly allowed entrance of many with harmful intentions.  Further debilitation of our nation has been through the restriction of lands rich in natural resources so that these needed resources must be imported from other countries, often from those opposed to our ideals and hostile toward us, so that by purchasing these resources from them we are giving aid to our enemies.

 

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

 

The president has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing to enforce laws concerning life, marriage, the right to keep and bear arms without infringement, and immigration.  Congress has allowed this obstruction to continue.  The president and Congress have allowed the courts to overstep their constitutional bounds.  They are allowed to not just make judgments, but to make law, as in the infamous Roe verses Wade case that has resulted in heinous crimes against millions of babies, born and unborn.  Only Congress is permitted to make laws.  Every law must pass constitutional muster. Therefore the president is unlawful in enforcing what is not law, and in not enforcing what is law.

 

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

 

Judges are appointed by the president, not according to their strict adherence to the Constitution, but according to their liberal viewpoints in spite of the Constitution.  They are a law unto themselves and not held accountable by the president or by Congress.

 

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

 

The number of government agencies and bureaucracies has increased greatly under the current administration.  These represent repetition of purpose, burdensome regulations, and wasted tax dollars.

 

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature. 

 

We have intervened in the affairs of other countries militarily, when our nation was not at risk or in danger, resulting in great loss of life, limb, and substance.

 

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.

 

The Constitution gives only Congress the power to declare war.  However, the president orders our troops into combat here or there, with or without Congress’ consent.

 

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

 

European law and Sharia law have been referenced by U. S. courts for reaching verdicts.  Treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agreement have subverted our Constitution.

 

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

 

While our military is being reduced and dismantled, the Department of Homeland Security is stockpiling huge amounts of ammunition, and has thousands of armed agents in place among us.

 

 For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

 

The mock trial known as Roe v. Wade has protected the federal government and others from being held accountable for the torture and murder of millions of babies.  It has paved the way for tax money to fund this macabre mayhem and has given aid to those committing these hideous crimes.

 

 For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

 

Federal taxes, regulations, and policies have created disincentives for manufacturing in the U.S.  This has led to excessive unemployment and lopsided trade.

 

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

 

Through unlawful executive orders such as amnesty for illegal aliens, and unconstitutional legislation, such as the Affordable Care Act, an increased tax burden has been laid upon us without our consent.

 

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

 

Unborn and often newborn babies suffer cruel and unusual capital punishment, without trial by jury, without facing their accusers, or even being accused of a crime.

 

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

 

Instead of being tried overseas, our courts apply foreign laws to cases within our borders, regardless of our constitutional protections.

 

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies:

 

The set system of laws that had served England and the colonies were being disregarded and replaced by tyranny.  Our Constitution is being disregarded by the three branches of our government.  Judges make arbitrary rulings as we are being set up for tyranny, which is ever encroaching.

 

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

 

Our fundamental law, the Constitution, has had parts of its meaning distorted or disregarded.  The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution have been unlawfully usurped by treaties and agreements.

 

For suspending our own legislature, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. 

 

The president has legislated through executive order.  Laws have passed during the absence of much of Congress in a stealthy manner.  Our courts have become legislative bodies.

 

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

 

The president has gone to foreign countries to speak against our country, apologizing to our enemies.  His words and his actions are acts of war against us.

 

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

 

Our seas have been plundered by government confiscation of our oilfields.  Our country has been ravaged from coast to coast through harmful government policies that ruin our schools, our cities, and the lives of our people.

 

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

 

Our borders are left open for our enemies and those who would live as parasites on American taxpayers, to complete the work of destruction that our own government has begun and that was accelerated on September 11, 2001.  Our enemies kill and maim indiscriminately, and our government aids and abets them in an effort to complete the work of death, desolation, and tyranny.

 

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

 

Our military personnel are basically held captive after their enlistment, and being intertwined into their training is the conditioning to attack their fellow citizens.

 

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

 

We see the policies of our government causing racial tension, demonstrations by illegal aliens, and the indiscriminate killing by Muslim terrorists, anti-Christian extremists, and others motivated by these insane policies.

 

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms.  Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury: A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

 

We have also petitioned our three branches of government for redress, to little avail.  Our republic has turned into a tyrannical government much like the one from which the founders and our ancestors gained independence.  The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, so painstakingly drafted, have become sources referenced by the federal government only when misconstrued to serve the purposes of tyranny.

 

Our grievances go beyond those of the colonists to include gross immorality that is promoted by the federal government, and with all the entitlement programs of the federal government, the land of the free has become the land of the freebies. Just as surely as we were being assaulted with bombs and bullets by the British in 1776, we are now being assaulted with policies and programs by the president and his people.

 

Ours is not a call to revolt but a call to recover.  Our heritage has been allowed to be stolen, and now we want it back.  With voter fraud and few righteous candidates for government office, recovery is difficult.  Will we keep following the breadcrumbs of government promises into the trap that is ready to fall, or will we be disciplined enough to say no to the insane policies that are ruining America, and work to regain what has been lost?  We the people are America and those elected to offices of government work for us.  If they don’t do the job, we must terminate their employment and prosecute when necessary.  Every American citizen is called to be vigilant.  We must be aware of the activities of those making decisions for us and spending our money.  We have to take what action we can to preserve liberty for us, our children, grandchildren, and the world.  Freedom is worth fighting for!

 

The inscription on the Statue of Liberty reads, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.  Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.  I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”  Perhaps it should now read, “Ignore our laws and our way of life, flood our country with those who refuse to assimilate into our culture, those who steal, kill, and destroy our nation.   Join with the president, those in Washington and across the country who disdain freedom, that want to make people equally poor, and whose goal is to destroy the Christian foundations that freedom, prosperity, justice, and security are based upon.”

Barack Hussein Obama was honest in claiming that his administration would be transparent.  With his name, words, and deeds it is clear what he stands for and what his goals are.  These are not just his aims, but much of Congress, the Supreme Court, and others share his ambition of transforming the United States and the world into a communistic system of elites and peons wherein there will be no private property, freedom, or God given rights.

One of the latest slithers in their assault on America is bringing Syrian refugees into the country with no way to know if there are terrorists among them.  Overwhelming the states with people who for the most part have no intention of renouncing their false religion or assimilating into the American culture is an important part of their scheme.  True to their method of operation, our enemies in Washington created a crisis to further their cause of fundamentally changing America.  Obama, those following his unlawful orders, and those pulling his strings connived to create a power vacuum in the middle-east that allowed the advancement of the heathens that call themselves the Islamic State and produced the refugees.

May we seek The Father in what we should do individually to help avert the loss of the freedom He gave us.  Perhaps freedom, security, peace, and prosperity was only for a season, but let us do all we can so that we can know that we tried.  God relented from destroying Nineveh when they repented (Jonah 3).  Jesus said in Luke 21: 36, “Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”  Prepare now for what God may allow to come our way.

May God be merciful as our nation repents of killing babies, sexual deviancy, complacency, idolatry, and all other sin; and as we believe in the gospel.  Only He can untangle the knot our sin has put us in.

For common sense views on immigration, go to:  http://www.afa.net/the-stand/immigration/