The Slow Bloodless Coup 04/14/2012
smellthetruth.com Dr. David M. Berman Throughout history there have been many revolutions. Most of the time, they are bloody and involve internal fighting, insurgencies, or outright civil war. For the last 80 or so years we have been living in a slow bloodless coup. Slowly, culturally, and systematically we have been experiencing this in the proverbial old “frog in a pot” scenario in which our entire basis of philosophical thought has been captured and slowly thrown in prison. In every institution including much of the Church, the coup has taken place in front of our very eyes. How has this happened? It happened through generations neglecting their responsibility to teach the next generation the principles of liberty. The Constitution is often portrayed as some sort of difficult document that needs “professors” and “Constitutional experts” to interpret for the average citizen. It is not. It is a very straight forward document that anyone can understand. Over time the citizenry simply stopped caring about knowing, understanding, and passing on the principles of liberty to future generations and instead relied upon the “experts” to tell us what is and is not “constitutional.” This neglect has had grave consequences starting with F.D.R. who instituted massive federal government control with his so called “New Deal” socialist Trojan horse. This mindset continued as we get to the 1960’s and President Johnson comes up with his misnamed “war on poverty” big government socialist economic enslavement policies. Particularly since Johnson, we have been in a steady decline concerning personal liberty and responsibility. This has slowly turned us into a culture of entitlement as our young people believe they deserve a living for just showing up. Some believe they deserve a living even if they do not show up. The leftist, big government Marxists have largely won this bloodless coup over time because they systematically convinced large amounts of the population through controlling education, entertainment, and the news media, that socialism is “fair.” They do not call it socialism, they call is “social justice.” There has been a death of logic, and a death of common sense. Our culture is now motivated not by long term principled thinking but rather by short term gain that leads to long term loss. Our tyrannical [Alleged] President Obama, has made it clear that he wants to, as he put it, “fundamentally change America.” His idea of changing America is quite clear. He desires a nanny state in which the power is in the hands of the government elite rather than in the hands of the individual citizens. He desires to place as many people as he can under the enslavement of government power in order to fundamentally change us from an individual liberty and responsibility society to a collectivist society (otherwise known as Marxist). People often scoff at those of us who call [Alleged] President Obama a socialist/Marxist however the facts speak clearly. The definition of socialism is: A theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. This is exactly what [Alleged] President Obama believes in. Does anyone doubt that if given the chance, he would nationalize everything he could? [Alleged] President Obama is not just a man that is in over his head, he knows exactly what he is doing. He wants America to no longer be a free enterprise, individual liberty, limited government society. He wants Marxist theory to prevail in America and that is what Obama Care is really all about. Once the government can control your healthcare, they can tell you what to do in everything since they can express their “right” to govern your every more because as they put it; “The commerce clause gives us this power.” If the government uses the commerce clause to govern your healthcare, they can then regulate everything you do because everything you do can be related to your possible need for healthcare. There has been a long train of abuses by the federal government. For many years they have confiscated land, taxed without equal protection under the law, ruled with an iron fist and the power of their agencies. Interfered with private contracts, and used the intimidation of their power against the individual. The presidents have abused their authority. Article I, Section 1 of the United States Constitution is concise in its language: "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives." Rather than being a representative Republic where our representatives legislate under the strict limited powers of the Constitution, we have Presidential power like a king who can use so called “executive orders” to pronounce just about any decree any president wishes. Here are some examples: • EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President. Shocked yet? Here are some more: • EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 12148 created the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that is to interface with the Department of Defense for civil defense planning and funding. An "emergency czar" was appointed. FEMA has only spent about 6 percent of its budget on national emergencies, the bulk of their funding has been used for the construction of secret underground facilities to assure continuity of government in case of a major emergency, foreign or domestic. • EXECUTIVE ORDER 12656 appointed the National Security Council as the principal body that should consider emergency powers. This allows the government to increase domestic intelligence and surveillance of U.S. citizens and would restrict the freedom of movement within the United States and granted the government the right to isolate large groups of civilians. The National Guard could be federalized to seal all borders and take control of U.S. air space and all ports of entry. Because of the natural tendencies of people in positions of authority to power grab, our nation has always had those who wanted more power than the Constitution granted them. From President Andrew Jackson who tried to use executive powers to force the law-abiding Cherokee Nation off their ancestral lands, to President Lincoln who used executive orders to suspend trial rights and closed down newspapers. Many presidents have used so called executive orders to usurp the power of the people and dictate what they wanted like a king. “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” Now we have all three branches of government who simply ignore the Constitution. Yes a coup has taken place slowly. The usurpation of rights has happened. It is no longer the America that our founders envisioned and left to posterity. The Declaration of Independence says: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpation's, 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” We Americans must wake up and throw off this tyranny. If we do not it will be future generations that suffer even more despotism, and they will lament our unwillingness to protect our heritage of liberty that we have the responsibility to pass on to them. Obama must go, the Democrats must go, and the Republican establishment must go! We must forge a new movement that will not settle for the “lesser of two evils” because the lesser of two evils is still evil! Indeed there has been a slow bloodless coup that has overthrown our Constitution. I fear that only a bloody one will restore the principles of liberty to our beloved country. My fellow patriots; speak out, teach, stand for liberty, and do not allow those in both parties to play you any longer. Stand up and say it “Don’t tread on me!” and “no king but Jesus!” Add Comment Provided courtesy of the Committee for American Resource Self-Reliance Fort Worth Star-Telegram The Environmental Protection Agency had "no legal basis" to disapprove a Texas plan for implementing federal air-quality standards, a federal appeals court said. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the agency to reconsider the Texas regulations and "limit its review" to ensuring that they meet the "minimal" Clean Air Act requirements that govern state implementation plans. "If Texas's regulations satisfy those basic requirements, the EPA must approve them," the court said in its 22-page ruling this week. The EPA rejected Texas' rules on minor new-source review permits in September 2010, saying they didn't meet Clean Air Act requirements. The Texas attorney general, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and businesses sued the EPA, challenging the ruling. The EPA failed to identify any provisions of the law that the Texas program violated, the appeals court said. The agency also missed a deadline to rule on the Texas permit plan, the court said. Read this story at star-telegram.com ... "Every word employed in the Constitution is to be expounded in its plain, obvious, and common sense, unless the context furnishes some ground to control, qualify, or enlarge it. Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness or judicial research. They are instruments of a practical nature, rounded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings. The people make them, the people adopt them, the people must be supposed to read them, with the help of common-sense, and cannot be presumed to admit in them any recondite meaning or any extraordinary gloss." -- Joseph Story, Constitution (5th ed.) 345, SS 451. "Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." -- Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789 The government is operating under a flawed understanding about human nature. theTrumpet.com February 22, 2012 by JOEL HILLIKER Crucial question: Do you think human nature is fundamentally good—or evil? The difference between these two opposing views forms the heart of a crisis in the United States right now. The common liberal view of human nature is that it is fundamentally good and should be given room to flourish. The biblical and realist view is that it is fundamentally evil and must be conscientiously governed. Thankfully, America’s Founders took the latter view. As a result, the system of government they created has stood for over two centuries and done much to guarantee the nation’s success. They realized that government is necessary in order to check the evils of human nature in society. They also recognized—having fought and bled in order to free themselves from a tyrant—that firm limits on power are needed in order to check the evils of human nature within the government. . . . . In the Constitution, the American Founders established a system that successfully governs the government. . . . . Read this story at thetrumpet.com ... Tom Hoefling 2012 tomhoefling.com "Just as 'good fences make for good neighbors,' good government is mainly about knowing where the legitimate boundaries are, and having the courage to defend those borders forcefully. This is true in terms of the defense of our territory, our security, and our national sovereignty, of course, but it also applies to the imperative duty all of those in government have to equally protect the God-given, unalienable rights of each individual person, their sacred obligation to stay well within the Enumerated Powers of our Constitution, and of the role government must play in balancing the competing rights and interests of the American people." -- Tom Hoefling, 2012 presidential nominee of America's Party An 'honor killing' exemption? 02/24/2012
Alan Keyes counters 'religious freedom' claim regarding contraceptive mandate WorldNetDaily.com Alan Keyes In my WND column last Friday, I pointed out that “every assertion of a fundamental human right necessarily relies in turn upon an assertion about what is right.” Today this fact is more often than not ignored, even by Americans who profess to be ardent defenders of the liberty America’s founders intended to establish and preserve. Madison succinctly summarized the founders’ understanding when he said that “Justice is the end of government, it is the end of civil society. …” But the Declaration of Independence makes clear that the end or aim of the institution of government is to secure God-endowed unalienable rights. (“To secure these rights governments are instituted among men. …”) Justice is thus identified with the security (safe existence) of unalienable rights, because both are identified as the singular end or aim of government. (If A=C and B=C, then A=B.) This appears even more plainly when we recall that the root of justice (Latin “iustus”) is right (Latin “ius” or “ious”). But in the context of the Declaration’s stated purpose for government, God endows right (i.e., He provides the “income” that establishes it; He determines what goes into it; He is the source of its conceptual substance or meaning). In the Declaration America’s founders declare that the colonies “are, and of right ought to be free and independent States. …” Their free condition is thus identified as a matter or right, a consequence of the substance or meaning which God endows their nature. By invoking their natural right they invoke the authority of the Creator, which is its source and substantiation. Since the founders’ assertion of freedom invokes the authority of the Creator, the validity of the assertion depends on its conformity with the substance or meaning of right established by that authority. But this dependency has a consequence. It restricts the assertion of freedom within boundaries determined by this conformity to God-endowed right. Freedom is therefore not an unlimited potential for action. The assertion of freedom is valid only for action in conformity with the substance or meaning of right as established (endowed) by the Creator. By this straightforward logic Abraham Lincoln was bound to conclude that one cannot have the right to do what is wrong. If it is wrong, for instance, to murder innocent people, one cannot claim to do so as a matter of right. If it is wrong, by enslaving them, to violate their God-endowed liberty, one cannot claim to do so as a matter of right. Read this story at wnd.com ... Tom Hoefling unveils Citizen Review Board to examine constitutionality of all U.S. public policy 02/24/2012
tomhoefling.com Hoefling Names J.D. Ellis as NCCRB Chairman "We the People Must Reestablish the Plumb Line of Principle" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media contact: tomhoefling@gmail.com February 20, 2012  Des Moines, IA – This morning, America's Party presidential nominee Tom Hoefling announced the formation of a National Citizen Constitutional Review Board (nccrb.com) to examine the constitutionality of every facet of American public policy. In a written statement, Hoefling laid out his vision for this citizen-led effort: "It has become clear to all sensible Americans that the federal government has grown far outside the limits of the Enumerated Powers spelled out in our Constitution, and it has become equally clear that the leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties have no intention of doing anything about it. How can you trust those who created the problem to fix it? "When discussions were taking place about the choice of my running mate, J.D. Ellis of Tennessee, I made it clear to everyone involved that one of the primary functions of my choice for Vice-President throughout the campaign will be to facilitate a thorough, organized citizen review of every current program, agency and activity of our existing federal government. And, if we are elected, to take the lead in helping enforce the judgment and the will of the American people on Washington. I'm sick and tired of politicians who pass the buck on constitutionality, and judges who think they are a law unto themselves. "That's why I have chosen my friend J.D. Ellis to be the first NCCRB Chairman. He understands clearly that the people themselves are the only ones who can possibly reestablish our political plumb line of principle. "As the 2012 America's Party nominees for President and Vice-President, J.D. and I are seeking one million patriotic, principled, committed Americans -- men and women who understand the critical need for an immediate return to the principles of our nation's founding -- and the absolute need to put this massive federal beast back within the boundaries of the Tenth Amendment. "Together, let us strive to restore America’s moral, economic, and physical strength, in order to fulfill the ultimate stated purpose of our Constitution: ‘to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity.’ "We have an obligation to our children and grandchildren to take back our political system from the money and media interests, and to put the power back in the hands of We the People. "Please sign up now at NCCRB.com (or tomhoefling.com) if you would like to participate in this critically important Citizen's Review process. You will receive regular email updates and additional information on what you can do from your own front porch to help put America back on its proper foundations and return us to principled, constitutional government of the people, by the people, for the people.” ### All Hail King Barack Obama? 02/10/2012
smellthetruth.com Dr. David Berman Psalms 2:1-4 “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.” The Obama Presidency is quite bold about the presidents desire to rule as a king. One can only come to that conclusion if his actions are looked at honestly. In his mind, Obama is not the president of a Constitutional Republic. He is the king of a country and makes no apologies for his complete disrespect for the principles of liberty, limited government, the Constitution and rule of law found in it. [Alleged] President Obama is a master of socialist class warfare and a genius in the art of voluntary enslavement of an uninformed citizenry. By “voluntary enslavement” I mean convincing people to put their faith, dependence, and future in the hands of the government. He has proven himself as one who can use language, and policies to ensnare the selfish mindset of those who deem government to be as their father and mother. With all his platitudes he became the president, even promising through his presidency to “heal the planet.” And now with intense class warfare he seeks to put the final nail in the principles of liberty, asking one more term to accomplish his elitist, socialist, Marxist enslavement of America. You got to hand it to him…what the Soviets could not do from the outside, Obama is doing quite well from within. Let us understand something right now. Those of you who read this and are in favor of your “dear leader’s” world view will undoubtedly now point to George Bush. You will say “Bush did this and Bush did that.” You say this with two assumptions: 1) That anyone who does not support Obama must have been a Bush Republican. 2) That one behavior justifies another. Both of these assumptions are simply wrong. I did not support Bush nor did I support his big government socialist institution of new entitlements. I did not support his unconstitutional “no child left behind” nonsense or any other unconstitutional policy of his. The assumption that everyone who opposes Obama is a cheer leader for the Republican Party is a lie. [Alleged] President Obama has blatantly opposed the principles of liberty by forcing individual people to buy a product simply because the government tells them to by virtue of their existence (this he did through “Obamacare”). Then he went on to exempt many of his political allies from the plan that he imposed on the rest of us. Not only did [Alleged] President Obama take over private industry (GM & Chrysler) and put private bond holders out of their money in order to take care of his union supporters, then he goes in to destroy the 4th amendment by signing a bill making it a policy of America to imprison any American citizen with no charges, no trial, and no lawyer indefinably on simple “suspicion” of terrorist activity. Now we see the continued edicts of the “King” in the latest attack on religious liberty. This attack is so blatant that one must come to the conclusion that all-out war is happening against the Bill of Rights. “King Obama” has declared that religious institutions must provide contraception coverage paid for by the religious institution including the “morning after pill.” In doing so, he has defecated on the first amendment of the Constitution. He and his minions of despots have imposed their will on religious people under penalty of law. When a Catholic Bishop recently wrote a letter to priests in the military about this, he was told his letter was “sedition,” Sedition? Sedition means treason, and treason is a strong word. Now we have come to the point where an American citizen has to live in fear of being “suspected” of terrorist activity (that can mean whatever the government wants it to mean), must buy whatever the government orders him to, must obey government edicts concerning how religious institutions act under penalty of law, and must be careful what they say under fear of being intimidated by accusations like “sedition.” [Alleged] President Obama is not an American patriot, he is not a defender of the Constitution, he is an enemy of liberty, the rule of law, and the principles of liberty that have made this country the envy of the world. In fact, we have now come to the place where under “King Obama,” I, an American citizen, a preacher of the gospel, and an out spoken critic of [Alleged] President Obama, his government, and his policies can be taken without due process of law, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. By calling him an enemy of liberty they can say that I am guilty of sedition? Every American should be outraged by this infringement on the first amendment. The government telling the Churches what they have to cover and not cover? What they must do against their religious convictions under penalty of law? Some are defending the President by saying most women use birth control. This completely misses the point. This is not about birth control. This is about the government forcing a religious institution to pay for what they are against. This is a gross violation of the first amendment. This is what we have come to and I for one refuse to be silent concerning it. I will not be intimidated by this administration. This administration is anti-Christ, pro homosexual, pro baby murder, anti-liberty. Obama is a king who “sets himself against The Lord and His anointed.” I will not be silenced and stand by while this president tramples on the sacred God given rights of the individual under the façade of what is good for the collective. Obama thinks he is king. He repeatedly says “If congress will not act I will.” What he is saying is that if the representatives of the people will not pass what he wants, he will simply make a decree as a king and make it happen by any means he chooses in the executive branch, through his so called “Czars.” This is tyranny, and it is quickly turning from soft to hard tyranny. First it’s threats, then it’s imprisonment. When Obama was elected I wrote an article titled “Obama wins liberty loses” In that article I wrote the following: “History teaches us that Government is the most vicious enemy of liberty. Socialism portrays itself as fair and caring with the idea that it will not allow you to fail. It exalts itself as your protector and provider and yet it cannot be. The truth is that without the possibility to succeed or fail, there can be no liberty! Government exacts its pound of flesh. It will never be satisfied with its power. Government is just as George Washington said it was; "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is a force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." The election of Barak Obama is the culmination of 50 years of liberalism. It is the triumph of radical socialistic ideology spawned in the 1960's.” This is indeed what Obama has done, and continues to do. Increase government central planning and power, Fascist marriage of big business and government, and a dictatorial government that tramples on religious liberty, personal property, and rights of conscience. King Obama is doing exactly as I and so many others warned he would do. 67 million people are now in some way dependent on the central power of the federal government for everything from welfare and food stamps to education and healthcare. King Obama is having his way with us and there is hardly a spoken word to be heard amidst the loud cheers for more government hand-outs. Yes there are some who speak out but this nation has come to the point of dependence that makes it hard to see a real turn back to liberty. Obama is presiding over a plantation. A system whereby the connected in government, education, unions and some big business get to be the house slaves while the rest of us work the fields to support the institution of slavery to government control. You say “What kind of a thing is that to say preacher?” It is a fitting analogy even if it is not politically correct. You see people; I am a student of history. I am a theologian, and a man who understands world view. What the Obama administration is systematically doing it dismantling our way of life as he promised he would. Obama said when running for the office of the presidency; “We are going to fundamentally change America.” One thing we should give Obama credit for is keeping his word. He is doing just that by getting rid of the fundamental principles of: 1) Due process of law. 2) Right to trial, Right to counsel 3) Personal property rights 4) Right to religious freedom 5) Constitutional/Republican form of government 6) Free speech Congressional approval of war Only a narcissistic megalomaniac who rejects the foundational principles that this once great nation was founded on would do what he has done, and continues to do. With no regard for his oath of office he wields the presidency as a king wields his power. From securing a half a billion in government loan guarantees for his political fund raisers at the failed company “Solyndra” to exempting his political allies in the big unions from Obamacare, [Alleged] President Obama has shown his world view, his unethical actions, and his blatant anti American philosophy. It is king Obama that is guilty of sedition, not an American who resists The Obama administration’s tyrannical edicts. Who does [Alleged] President Obama think he is? By what authority does he do such things? By what Constitutional principle does he justify his contempt for the Bill of Rights? By Who? By What? The answer is clear; [Alleged] President Obama thinks of himself as above the rule of law and in doing so he has in effect decreed himself King. As the above scripture says; “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.” The Lord shall have the last word in the final Day of Judgment. There is only one eternal King and that is Jesus Christ. Obama can enjoy his kingdom now but in the end it shall be: Philippians 2:9-11 “Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” There can be only one King and that is why the cry of the American Revolution was “No King But Jesus!” Wake up America, your liberty is being systematically ripped from you under the guise of security and fairness. You want a King? Turn to the King of kings, and Lord of lords. Do not put your trust in a man. Man will find a way to put you under his power for his own good to the detriment of all others. That is what history teaches us. We do well to learn from it. Our trust must not go to centralized human power, but rather to God: 1 Timothy 1:17 “Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.” Obama won and liberty lost. Our chance to get liberty back hangs by a thread. We have almost passed the point of no return. Listen to me Christian: Wake up! Speak out! Stand up! Fight already! | 
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