(OREGON STANDOFF) Parents of standoff suspect respond to son's arrest (Jake Ryan)

On Thursday morning, the parents of Oregon standoff suspect Jake Ryan responded with two hand-written statements delivered to the Clark Fork Valley Press.....

"How long do we set in our cozy homes, our secure jobs, our fake securities, while a few faithful honest men try to educate us on what is coming down in our nation? Words seem so useless, as our prisons fill with political prisoners. Are we so stupid, so blind, so lazy that we can't get out of our apathy chair, and stand for something. Has it been so long since 'we the people' stood for anything, that we've forgotten how to? We once shouted for freedom, now we whimper for security. Wake up people, before it's Too Late, for none are more enslaved then those who falsely believe they are free. My son, Jake believed this and now he sits in Fed. prison with so many others. Some would say 'It's better for now he is safe.'

"Maybe if more of us were like my son Jake who actually committed to stay at the Malheur Refuge to try and make a difference, some corrupt power seekers could be put behind bars where they belong and some honest family men who have done no harm to anyone could go home and raise their families."

Coming for the Hammonds was at the end of a long-term process to deprive "we the people" of our God endowed personhood.

The term 'person' originated in Christian theologies developmental struggle to comprehend the nature and experience of the transcendent, personal Triune God:

"The derivative concept of human personhood is a gift of the Christian faith to culture…” (Stephen P. Stratton, Chapter 14, p. 247, The Self, Paul Vitz & Susan M. Felch, Editors)

Vishal Mangalwadi, India's foremost Christian scholar affirms that the Christian gift of personhood gave birth to the "belief in the unique dignity of human beings," and this is,

"...the force that created Western civilization, where citizens do not exist for the state but the state exists for the individuals. Even kings, presidents, prime ministers, and army generals cannot be allowed to trample upon an individual and his or her rights." (Truth and Transformation: A Manifesto for Ailing Nations, pp. 12-13)

The Constitution therefore, recognizes the divine nature of man's creation, that man is a person endowed by his personal Creator with spiritual property, a divine right to life and liberty, and the means of acquiring and possessing property:

"It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated." (James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention, December 2, 1829)

"How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law." (Martin Luther King, Excerpts from his Letter from the Birmingham Jail, Apr. 16, 1963)

In keeping with Christian thought, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin connect personhood, virtue and self-control with individual freedom:

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." Benjamin Franklin, quoted in Born Liberal Raised Right, p. 15)

Conversely, they implicitly connect rejection of our Creator (hence our personhood)to lack of self-control and man's sin nature (pride, covetousness, lying, etc) issuing in corruption, anarchy, and barbarism:

"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shalt not covet" and "Thou shalt not steal" were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free." (John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787, patriotpost.us)

By replacing our Creator with science and evolution, "we the people" have been reduced to bio-machines--accidental emergent products of unseen forces acting on matter. Likewise, the Law of God is reduced to nothing, thereby relegating the Constitution to the dustbin of history. As Fyodor Dostoevsky said, if the true God is dead then all things, no matter how evil, are possible.

What epic words!

We need to get back control of our schools from the Leftic Radicals, and these epic words need to be part of one paragraph in a chapter on our decade in our history books!

I am a big time investor - and for the first time, I am not making this up folks - an investor analyat I was listening to said for the first time I have ever heard such at the risk of the government coming after him, that his strong advice is things are going to be so bad when the debt crisis hits the fan that he advices us all to buy guns and ammo now because the police won’t be able to be there for us when we turn into Baltimore in the economic turmoil.

Safety? Part of real safety is your freedom to be your OWN safety for you and your family. And the enemies are not only already here, but being brought in by hordes by the agendists - the Leftic (cultic, like Islamic who they are in an unholy alliance with) who want to bring about the cultural genocide of America. They also promote the time bomb and the land mines meant to purposely blow up our economy like a terrorist bomb.

Trump is so right - a very bad, very, very bad recession is coming unless we stop them.

>>Trump is so right - a very bad, very, very bad recession is coming unless we stop them.

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“I think it’s a great time to start a mortgage company,” Trump told a CNBC interviewer in April 2006, adding that “the real estate market is going to be very strong for a long time to come.”
“who knows more about financing than me”
--Donald Trump
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That Trump?

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