Communism and Socialism

There are 5 “named” Communist countries where the state owns the means of production.  These are China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba. 

Venezuela and other countries where the government owns major industries are close to being Communist. South Africa elected their Communist Party to govern the country. Many other countries have the Communist Party listed as a registered party.

There are many countries that have socialist policies that take many forms.  European countries have socialized medicine, restrictions on voters and liberty, plus government pension plans. 

In all countries throughout history, the family has been the basic unit of every economy, not thee government. The freedom to attain self-support is required by all governments to give to all of its citizens. This requires the freedom to own property, businesses and homes.  This is best done in a free market economy where the consumers control the prices by exercising the law of supply and demand. If the price of beef goes up, we buy chicken until the price of beef goes down.

The US has Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps and many other forms of Welfare and wealth redistribution. US Healthcare and Education costs are unsustainable, because they receive excessive tax subsidies that have replaced consumer control of prices.

The US is well positioned to replace welfare with work. This will put US workers on the path to self-support.  Privatizing all unconstitutional functions should be pursued to reduce our unsustainable costs for healthcare, education and government. Our path to prosperity is small, well equipped government with limited powers. Government needs to return everything the private sector can absorb back to the private sector to lower consumer costs.  Subsidies, grants and giveaways need to be methodically reduced. Government Bureaucracies need to shrink.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-12-10/can-you-name-five-remaining-communist-countries-world

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

Government Corruption in the US

When republicanism died and how to revive it

by Bob Livingston

The government with all of its propaganda and police power is at war with the American people. Governments always make silent war on their own citizens behind a propaganda front so as to alert as few people as possible. The less resistance from the people, the better it is for government.

One of the fastest ways to clear the mental fog is to realize that the two-party political system is only one. Anyone clinging to the illusion of two parties will be deceived to their grave. America has become a fascist state, and the whole Congress supports the agenda of the state. Any dissent expressed by the political class is frivolous pandering. Any expressed concern for the complaints of the people is feigned and contrived.

The election process in America has become a disguise for corruption that attracts the corrupt. When men and women go to Washington, they pretty soon learn that they are paid by the federal government and, therefore, they are in the hire of the federal government. But they are truly beholden to their corporatist masters and moneyed interests that fund their campaigns and promise six- and seven-figure lobbying/consulting gigs once their time in government is past. No allegiance to their constituents is necessary and, as a matter of fact, there is very little pretension — at least until election time.

If Americans could restore their power over so-called elected representatives, this could cut out the smoke and mirrors of politics. I think the hour is late and even too late, but let’s try to reverse all the perks that our “elected representatives” have bestowed upon themselves. To do this we must first turn back the clock to see when and how republicanism died.

The year 1913 was a terrible one for human liberty. The 16^th and 17^th Amendments were ratified that year, and the Federal Reserve central bank was established. The Federal Reserve created a fiat money system of theft for the benefit of the banksters and the moneyed elites. It is designed to impoverish the people. The 16^th Amendment established a progressive income tax that the U.S. Supreme Court failed to strike down. The 17^th Amendment changed the way Senators were selected, taking the appointing power from State legislatures and placing it in the hands of voters.

That removed the final nail holding the checks and balances the States had in place over Federal power. Most of the nails were removed in 1861 when Abraham Lincoln shredded the Constitution, stripped Americans of their strongest check against Federal tyranny and invaded the secessionist States.

The result is that in 1913 the U.S. government was taken over once and probably for all time by moneyed power.

Many of the Founders — particularly the Anti-Federalists — feared a powerful central government. So they established in the Constitution that each state’s legislature would choose its two senators as one of the checks against a strong central government.

Depending upon their point of view, Founders either hailed or lamented the fact that, by simply refusing appoint senators, the states could see the central government “destroyed” (William Richardson Davie) and “put an end to” (Samuel Johnston). Or, as Alexander Hamilton (who actually wanted a U.S. system similar to British mercantilism) opined: “It is certainly true, that the State Legislatures, by forbearing the appointment of Senators, may destroy the National Government.”

The 17^th Amendment was proposed ostensibly to correct a procedural problem that cropped up when divided State legislatures were unable to agree on a senator to send to Washington, D.C. This would leave states unrepresented.

According to a research paper by Wendy Schiller from Brown University and Charles Stewart III from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in about 2 percent of cases the state legislatures were deadlocked and unable to resolve their differences and select a Senator. However, it did occur from time to time — even occurring in the very first Congress, when the State of New York went without senate representation for three months.

The direct election of senators by the people ended that problem, but created a whole new problem in which senators are now bought and paid for by the banksters and lobbyists.

It is this system that explains why the Republican elite are all in for amnesty for illegal aliens — which is pushed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and big corporations — but vehemently opposed by the majority of Republican voters. It also explains why Republican congress-weasels have failed to provide funds for building a wall on the southern border.

The 17th Amendment played a key role in suppressing the voice and will of the people and elevating the fascist system under which we currently suffer. Every election cycle there is hue and cry about the need for campaign finance reform. And there’s no question that moneyed interests control the process.

Repealing the 17^th Amendment would take the money out of senate elections on the Federal level. Senators would be beholden to their state legislatures rather than the corporatist class which lines their pockets and finances their re-election campaigns.

We can also turn the clock back toward human liberty by doing one simple thing and that is by limiting the terms of representatives and senators and eliminate their federal pensions. Also they should be put under the Social Security and the same Obamacare healthcare system as the American people! There should be no privilege associated with elected office.

Their ability to vote for themselves pay raises, their tenure and pension perks, their liberal, special low-cost health perks not available to citizens, their immunity from the laws they pass on the people, their retirement plans paid for by the government (read: the people) and their lack of term limits must all be removed. Their salaries should be paid by their respective states.

John McMullin, a lawyer who has written extensively in law literature about the 17^th Amendment, believes that repealing the 17^th Amendment would give State legislatures a greater say in the Federal political process in several ways. Among them, it would have the effect of elevating State legislatures from that of lobbyists to that of partners in the political process. The States would have the ability to decentralize Federal power when appropriate. It would also give States more influence over the selection of Federal judges and much greater say in the power of the Federal judiciary.

To this end, McMullin has proposed an amendment to repeal the 17^th Amendment. It reads:

AN AMENDMENT TO REPEAL THE SEVENTEENTH AMENDMENT AND RELINK THE STATES TO THE FEDERAL POLITICAL PROCESS

SECTION ONE. The Seventeenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

SECTION TWO. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, selected by the legislature of each State. Each Senator shall serve a six year term and may be reappointed. Each Senator shall have one vote.

SECTION THREE. Among the duties of each Senator is the primary duty to represent the government of their State, and in particular, their State’s Legislature, in the Senate. For the purpose of maintaining communications with its Senators, each State Legislature shall establish a liaison committee and shall specify the duties, procedures, and method of appointment of that committee. This committee shall work with its United States Senators in evaluating the impact of federal legislation on their State. All legislation proposed by Congress, and all treaties proposed, shall be submitted to each State’s liaison committee.

SECTION FOUR. Senators are subject to removal by the State Legislature. Removal of a Senator requires a majority of each House of the State Legislature.

SECTION FIVE. Congress is precluded from enacting any legislation affecting the senatorial selection process. Each State Legislature shall enact rules and procedures, consistent with this amendment, related to the selection and removal of Senators.

SECTION SIX. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislatures.

Alert readers over the years have also sent various forms of the following bill that, if passed, would also help to end the fascist system and restore republicanism:

Congressional Reform Act -

·       Term Limits. Twelve years only, one of the possible options below…

·       No Tenure/No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay from government when they are out of office.

·       Congress members (past, present and future) participate in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

·       Congress members can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

·       Congress members will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of the consumer price index or 3 percent.

·       Congress loses their current healthcare system and participates in the same healthcare system as the American people.

·       Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

·       All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective Jan. 1 the year following passage of this act. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

·       Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

o   Two Six-year Senate terms.

o   Six Two-year House terms.

o   One Six-year Senate term and three Two-year House terms.

I would also add two more proposals: 1) Representatives and senators should remain in their states at all times.

Thanks to technology, the “people’s business” could be carried out via teleconference. There is no need for them to reside in Washington. Having the congress-weasels working from their own districts and states would help insulate them from the controlling interests in the District of Corruption. 2) That anyone serving in Congress should be banned from lobbying the Federal government or Congress at least for a period of no less than 20 years from the date of their retirement.

This will have to be done by the American people. You can imagine that power-hungry elected officials and the corporatocracy will oppose any move to limit their power.

It must be a bottom up grass roots effort beginning at the local and state level. Citizens need to force their elected officials to introduce the Congressional Reform Act and repeal the 17^th Amendment. We must act now to take America back!

But be wary of a Convention of States, which many on the right are advocating for. A Convention of States would quickly be co-opted by the same moneyed interests that currently control Washington. We saw it in action when they took over the Tea Parties.

Nothing good can happen to America without major economic and political reform. Can you see it? The rule of law must return to America.

https://boblivingstonletter.com/alerts/republicanism-died-revive/?fbclid=IwAR1ZbA5DuTE5ZXCtTMuUr6hghX3yoCIlJJykbIVT1O8lYAsywrwgRk4PgLs

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I have suggested that we reform campaign finance laws to restrict all contributions for political campaigns to VOTERS ONLY.  The only legal campaign contributions would come directly from voters to the candidates that appear on their ballot.  This would reduce campaign expenses and end all PACs and Special Interest donations.  Candidates would be expected to post their full resumes, their voting records and their positions on all issues on their websites. They would also need to raise enough to travel across their district. Beyond that, they would need to purchase yard signs.  There would not be enough money for attack ads on TV. There would be no money coming from outside their district. Until we do this, nothing will change. If we do this, candidates will understand that they work for their voters and nobody else.

Special Interests, Unions and Corporations would be able to exercise their rights to political speech on their own websites.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

Ukraine Ship Seizure Debacle

This is all about where International Waters intersect with sovereign National Waters around Crimea.  If the Russians screwed up, they should admit it and end the charade.  If the Ukraine entered Crimean waters to provoke Russia, they should admit it and stop doing that.   

The Latest: Trump, Erdogan talk about Russia-Ukraine dispute, by AP Moscow, 11/28/18.

The Latest on raised tensions between Russia and Ukraine:

U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have spoken on the phone to express their concerns about the Russia-Ukraine clash in the Kerch Strait and Russia's detainment of three Ukrainian ships and 24 crew members.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the two spoke on the phone Wednesday about Sunday's incident in which Russian border guards fired on the Ukrainian vessels and seized the ships. She says the two leaders agreed to meet later this week at the Group of 20 meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to discuss this and other issues.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claims that detained Ukrainian officers from a boat confiscated by Russian forces secretly sought to break through the Russian-controlled Kerch Strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Russia's top diplomat spoke Wednesday at a briefing with his Swiss counterpart, Ignazio Cassis, after a bilateral meeting in Geneva, where Lavrov was attending a U.N.-backed conference on Afghanistan.

Lavrov said Russian border agents and interrogators turned up documents that "clearly show that these ships had been ordered to not inform the authorities of Kerch Strait and to try and break into the Sea of Azov secretly."

Ukraine on Wednesday listed the exact location where its three ships were in international waters when they were seized Sunday by Russia.

Turkish officials say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discussed tensions between Russia and Ukraine during a phone call with President Donald Trump.

The officials from Erdogan's office said that the Turkish leader on Wednesday briefed Trump about separate phone conversations that he held with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine earlier in the day.

The Turkish and U.S. presidents also discussed bilateral ties and agreed to meet during a Group of 20 meeting in Buenos Aires this week. The officials provided the information on condition of anonymity, in line with government rules.

Tensions between Russia and Ukraine flared on Sunday, when Russian border guards fired on three Ukrainian vessels and seized the ships and the crew. --By Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey.

Turkish officials say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged the presidents of Russia and Ukraine to overcome their dispute through diplomatic channels.

The officials from Erdogan's office said that the Turkish leader held separate telephone conversations on Wednesday with Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

The officials said that during the phone calls Erdogan "listened to both sides" and expressed Turkey's concerns over the standoff in the Black Sea that has raised the specter of a major conflict. Russian border guards on Sunday fired on three Ukrainian vessels and seized them and their crews.

The Turkish officials provided the information on condition of anonymity in line with government rules.

The U.S. special envoy for Ukraine says Washington sees no reason to doubt information from Kiev that its vessels were operating in line with international maritime rules when they were fired on and seized by Russian border guards.

Kurt Volker told reporters in Berlin on Wednesday that the Ukrainian vessels were on their way back to Odessa "when the Russian vessels then pursued them and attacked them."

He says "there's no conceivable justification that we can think of for the use of force in this scenario."

Ukrainian authorities have released what they say is the exact location where the ships were fired on, indicating they were in international waters.

Volker says he does not have an independent U.S. assessment, but that "the data the Ukrainians have provided is quite clear."

The European Union is insisting that Russia restore freedom of passage in the disputed Kerch strait between Russia and the annexed Crimean peninsula to guarantee eastern Ukraine a sea opening into the Black Sea and beyond.

EU Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said Wednesday that "international law obliges the Russian Federation ensures unhindered and free passage of all vessels through the Kerch Strait. Therefore we expect Russia to restore the freedom of passage."

Russia has begun prosecuting the crew of Ukrainian navy vessels it captured over the weekend in a confrontation off Crimea, which the EU and Western allies still recognize as Ukrainian. Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for Sunday's clash in the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Dombrovskis called the Russian action "unacceptable, and we expect Russia to immediately release the vessels and the crew and ensure the needed medical assistance to the Ukrainian servicemen."

Russian President Vladimir Putin has laid the blame for a standoff with Ukrainian vessels in the Black Sea on the Ukrainian president and his desire to get re-elected.

It is the first time that Putin has commented on the incident near Russia-occupied Crimea on Sunday that raised the specter of a full-blown conflict between the two neighbors.

Putin said in a televised speech on Wednesday that the incident was entirely provoked by the Ukrainian vessels, which refused to communicate with Russian border guards. 

Putin laid the blame on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, saying that he ordered the navy to provoke the standoff with the sole purpose of scoring political points and getting re-elected next year.

Putin also said the Ukrainian vessels violated the territorial waters off southern Russia — which is the internationally recognized border. This appears to run counter to the claims of the Ukrainian government, which said the ships were approaching from another direction and were firmly in international waters.

Estonia has summoned the Russian ambassador to Tallinn over Russia's use of military power against Ukrainian sailors and vessels in the Kerch Strait.

The Estonian Foreign Ministry says Aleksandr Petrov was told that Russia must immediately return the three vessels and release the crew.

The ministry said Wednesday that under international law, Russia must ensure that vessels from any countries can pass through the strait unhindered.

Estonia, a former Soviet republic, has reacted sharply to the events near Crimea, with President Kersti Kaljulaid saying Tuesday the attack constitutes "war in Europe."

After Moscow's annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine, Estonia, like its Baltic neighbors Latvia and Lithuania, fear that they and other former Soviet republics could be next.

Ukraine has released what it says is the exact location near Crimea where its vessels were fired on and seized by Russia over the weekend, showing that they were in international waters.

The statement by Ukrainian officials contradicts Russia's argument that it was chasing the ships because they were violating its territorial waters. Russia considers Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, part of its country.

The Ukrainian ministry in charge of occupied territories on Wednesday published what it claimed were the exact coordinates of where the military vessels "Berdiansk", "Nikopol", and "Yany Kapu" were when they were attacked by Russia, putting them outside the 12-mile zone of territorial waters.

Russian border guards have captured the vessels and the crews. Officials say they will try the seamen for violating the Russian border and that they do not consider them prisoners of war.

A military official says Russia will boost the defense of the occupied Crimean peninsula with more anti-aircraft missiles.

The Interfax news agency on Wednesday quoted Col. Vadim Astafyev, the top Defense Ministry official in Russia's south, as saying that Russia will add one S-400 anti-aircraft missile system to the three already deployed in the peninsula.

The announcement comes three days after Russian border guards fired on three Ukrainian vessels and seized them and their crews. The first overt military confrontation between the two neighboring countries has raised the specter of a major conflict.

Ukraine said its vessels were operating in line with international maritime rules, while Russia alleged they had failed to get permission to pass.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-ukraine-ships-international-waters-59463163

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

Caravan Options

Caravan migrants are choosing to go back to Honduras – here’s why they’re doing it, 11/27/18, The Blaze.

According to an MSNBC reporter from Tijuana in Mexico, some of the caravan migrants are choosing to go back to their home countries – and they say it is because they were misled about how easy it is to enter. “They have realized that it is very difficult”

MSNBC’s Gadi Schwartz reported from the migrant encampment where the situation had turned violent on Sunday as migrants tried to force their way into the United States.

“Many of these men tell us that they heard in Honduras that it would be easy to cross into the United States,” he reported.

“Some of them told us that they had heard that there were programs, work programs,” he continued, “that they would be eligible for and so now that they’re here in Tijuana, and they have realized that it is very difficult to get into the United States, especially after what happened on Sunday, some of them are deciding to turn back.”

“In fact,” he continued as the camera swung to a tent, “this is a tent that’s been set up by a bunch of different governmental agencies here in Mexico, but this is where people come if they want to go back to Honduras or Guatemala, or El Salvador.”

“These are people who have decided that it is time to go back and that they don’t have the opportunities that they wanted here,” he concluded.

Schwartz also reported that Mexico is extending humanitarian visas to the migrants and setting up jobs for them.

The San Diego Union Tribune interviewed many migrants who said that they could not afford to continue to stay in Tijuana further, and others said it was not safe in the encampment for them.

Border officials repel migrants with tear gas - On Sunday some migrants attempted to storm into the U.S. by exploiting a weakness in one of the fences, but they were driven back by volleys of tear gas from border authorities. There were reports that some migrants threw rocks at law enforcement officials.

Despite the decision from some to move back to their home countries, Schwartz reports that relatively few have done so – only about 81 on Monday.

On Monday, Schwartz reported that a majority of the migrants were young males who were not seeking asylum, which many saw as a rebuke to narratives advocated by some on the left and in the media about the migrants.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/11/27/caravan-migrants-are-choosing-to-go-back-to-honduras-heres-why-theyre-doing-it

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

Clinton Problems

Liberal Donors Finally Abandon Clintons, by Freedom News 11/28/18. 

Recently released documents show a massive plunge in liberal donations to the Clinton Foundation fueling speculation that the non-profit is nothing more than a pay-to-play scheme.

The Department of Justice has been taking a long look at Bill and Hillary’s presumed international humanitarian organization. In the run-up to the 2016 elections when Hillary ran as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, donors poured $62.9 million into the fund. Dogged by allegations she put national security at risk and failed to send support during the Benghazi Attacks in which insurgents killed Americans, Hillary was trounced by now-President Donald J. Trump in the general election.

On the heels of the historic loss, donations reportedly plummeted by 58 percent to only $26.5 million in 2017. Although the Clintons maintain no correlation exists between their political power and charity, critics have drawn some convincing parallels.

In 2015, the Clinton Foundation suffered a 37-percent drop when allegations surfaced that the political power couple had used their positions to solicit millions from foreign entities. Although the left-leaning media largely avoided reporting on Hillary’s pay-to-play mentality as Secretary of State within the Obama Administration, facts came to light that she approved the sale of 20 percent of American uranium to Russia.

Disgraced Pres. Bill Clinton received hefty speaking fees somewhat connected to the Russia sale and the family foundation reportedly received upwards of $145 million in donations from parties connected to the deal. When allegations of corruption broke, many liberal donors pulled out only to resurface as she made a presidential run.

While everyday Americans were primarily kept in the dark by biased media outlets, several watchdog resources covered what many consider a multi-million dollar scam. The following analysis was reported by the International Business Times.

·       “Under Clinton’s leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation.”

·       “The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration. These extra sales were part of a broad increase in American military exports that accompanied Obama’s arrival in the White House. The 143 percent increase in U.S. arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors compares to an 80 percent increase in such sales to all countries over the same time period.”

·       “American defense contractors also donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and in some cases made personal payments to Bill Clinton for speaking engagements.”

“The word was out to these groups that one of the best ways to gain access and influence with the Clintons was to give to this foundation,” Campaign Legal Center policy director Meredith McGehee reportedly said. “This shows why having public officials, or even spouses of public officials, connected with these nonprofits is problematic.”

Although the Clintons continue to deny claims that they ran a multi-million dollar corruption scheme with the same level of conviction as Bill denied having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, it’s implausible to deny a massive revenue decline. Each dip follows a political power problem for the Clintons, and each rise seems to be on par with political gains. It was not until after Hillary took the presidential loss that the family fund dropped even close to below $100 million annually.

But what many Americans may not be aware of is that the most recent decline is also coupled with an independent investigation of the Clinton Foundation. Before his forced resignation, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions tasked U.S. Attorney John Huber to undergo a complete review of the foundation from outside the Washington, D.C. swamp.

“Mr. Huber with the Department of Justice and the FBI has been having an investigation—at least part of his task was to look at the Clinton Foundation and what may or may not have happened as it relates to improper activity with that charitable foundation, so we’ve set a hearing date for December 5,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows reportedly said.

Although Democrats are expected to attack Huber’s credibility should he unearth even the appearance of impropriety, he has been confirmed by the Senate twice.

Pres. Trump has been vocal about the Clinton schemes since the 2016 campaign and has rallied supporters with the famous chant “lock her up.”

Citing the initial findings of the Clinton Foundation, he tweeted that it “shows that they illegally played the power game” and “monetized their political influence through the Foundation.”

The former liberals who counted themselves as Clinton allies are staying mum and stopped participating in the pay-to-play scheme.

https://freedomnewsreport.com/2018/11/28/liberal-donors-finally-abandon-clintons/

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

Redistricting Case

The Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 in favor of partisan gerrymandering.  Democrats had filed a suit to oppose this and they lost.  The Congressional Districts and State district boundaries will remain in place for 2020.

https://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/in-a-historic-9-0-decision-supreme-court-shreds-democrats-lawsuit/

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

US Problems

Before John F Kennedy Was Shot, He Tried To Warn Americans, by William Federer, 11/24/18.

Warning of the deep state, John F. Kennedy candidly addressed the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, April 27, 1961.

John F. Kennedy stated in his Thanksgiving Proclamation, October 28, 1961:

"The Pilgrims, after a year of hardship and peril, humbly and reverently set aside a special day upon which to give thanks to God ...

I ask the head of each family to recount to his children the story of the first New England Thanksgiving, thus to impress upon future generations the heritage of this nation born in toil, in danger, in purpose and in the conviction that right and justice and freedom can through man's efforts persevere and come to fruition with the blessing of God."

While visiting the home state of his Vice-President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas.

The youngest President ever elected, being 43 years old, he was also the youngest to die, barely serving 1,000 days.

Kennedy was on his way to the Dallas Trade Mart to deliver a speech, in which he had prepared to say:

"We in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, goodwill toward men ..."

He continued: "That must always be our goal - and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago, 'Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.'"

Warning of the deep state, John F. Kennedy candidly addressed the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, April 27, 1961:

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings ...

We are opposed around the world by a ... ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence - on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.

It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed."

Another person addressing the threat to freedom was Lutheran minister Richard Wurmbrand.

In 1948, he was arrested by Socialist Republic of Romania and was tortured 14 years in prison. His wife, Sabina, was sent to labor camp.

After years of persecution and international pressure, the Wurmbrands received amnesty. In 1965, he testified before the U.S. Senate’s Internal Security Subcommittee.

In 1967, Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand formed Jesus To The Communist World, renamed Voice of the Martyrs.

Richard Wurmbrand wrote: "Every freedom-loving man has two fatherlands; his own and America ... America is the hope of every enslaved man, because it is the last bastion of freedom in the world.

Only America has the power and spiritual resources to stand as a barrier between militant Communism and the people of the world.

It is the last “dike” holding back the rampaging floodwaters of militant Communism. If it crumbles, there is no other dike, no other dam; no other line of defense to fall back upon.

America is the last hope of millions of enslaved peoples ...

I have seen fellow-prisoners in Communist prisons beaten, tortured, with 50 pounds of chains on their legs - praying for America ... that the dike will not crumple; that it will remain free."

In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned, from 1945 to 1953.

After intense international pressure, he was released and traveled to Washington, D.C., where he stated June 30, 1975:

"At the height of Stalin's terror in 1937-38 ... more than 40,000 persons shot per month! ...

It is precisely because I am the friend of the United States ... that I have come to tell you ...

Over there people are groaning and dying and in psychiatric hospitals. Doctors are making their evening rounds, for the third time injecting people with drugs which destroy their brain cells ...

I would like to call upon America to be more careful with its trust and prevent those ... using the struggle ... for social justice to lead you down a false road ...

They are trying to weaken you; the are trying to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this fearful threat-one that has never been seen before in the history of the world.

I call upon ... ordinary working men of America ... do not let yourselves become weak."

Dutch politician Geert Wilders was born the year John F. Kennedy was shot.

Echoing Kennedy's admonition that Americans are "watchmen on the walls of world freedom," Geert Wilders gave a speech in New York, September 25, 2008, titled "America, the Last Man Standing":

"The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe ...

Europe ... is changing ... by Muslim mass-migration ... with mosques on many street corners ... controlled by religious fanatics ...Muslim neighborhoods ... are mushrooming in every city across Europe.

These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city ...

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden ..."

Wilders continued: "In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim.

Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities ... In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims.

Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore' ... In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims ... The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity ..."

Geert Wilders stated further: "In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves ...

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II ...

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe ... 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now ...

The numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate ... Half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France.

One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks ... One-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate ...They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar al-Islam ..."

Wilders added: "Much

 of this street violence ... is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries ...

Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored. Mohammed's ... behavior is an example to all Muslims ...

If Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem ...

Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza ...

Islam means 'submission.' Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia.

If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies ..."

Geert Wilders concluded: "There is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing ... With an Islamic Europe, it would be UP TO AMERICA ALONE to preserve the heritage of ROME, ATHENS and JERUSALEM."

Franklin D. Roosevelt had stated on Labor Day, September 1, 1941: "Preservation of these rights is vitally important now, not only to us who enjoy them-but to the whole future of Christian civilization."

Winston Churchill addressed Britain's House of Commons, June 18, 1940: "Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization ...

If we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science."

Though John F. Kennedy was the youngest person "elected" President, it was actually Theodore Roosevelt who was the youngest person to become President.

Roosevelt was 42 years old as Vice-President when President McKinley was assassinated in 1901. Theodore Roosevelt addressed the American Sociological Congress (Fear God and Take Your Own Part, 1916, p. 70):

"The civilization of Europe, America and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization ...victories stretching through the centuries from Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century ...

There are such 'social values' today in Europe, America and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do - that is, to beat back the Moslem invader."

Theodore Roosevelt stated in his Thanksgiving Proclamation, October 24, 1903: "In NO OTHER PLACE and at NO OTHER TIME has the experiment of government OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country ...

Failure would not only be a dreadful thing for us, but a dreadful thing for all mankind ... It would mean loss of hope for all who believe in the power and the righteousness of liberty.

Therefore, in thanking God for the mercies extended to us in the past, WE BESEECH HIM that He MAY NOT WITHHOLD THEM IN THE FUTURE."

On February 9, 1961, President Kennedy remarked at a Breakfast for International Christian Leadership:

"Every President of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God ...

The guiding principle and prayer of this Nation has been, is now, and shall ever be 'IN GOD WE TRUST.'"

A profound message to pastors is that the most important thing is to bring people to Christ; but the second most important thing is to preserve the freedom to do the most important thing.

President John F. Kennedy worded it this way, February 9, 1961: "This country was dedicated to ... two propositions.... The Puritans and the

 Pilgrims of my own section of New England, the Quakers of Pennsylvania, the Catholics of Maryland, the Presbyterians of North Carolina, the Methodists and Baptists who came later, all shared these two great traditions which, like silver threads, have run through the warp and the woof of American History ...

First, a strong religious conviction, and secondly, a recognition that this conviction could flourish only under a system of freedom."

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Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader