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US Army to Soldiers: Don't Say 'Christmas'
Newsmax ^ | December 24, 2013 | Joe Schaffer

Posted on 12/25/2013 7:01:52 AM PST by ZULU

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To: ZULU

Say “Allah Akbar!” and you’ll be trained.


21 posted on 12/25/2013 8:30:16 AM PST by onedoug
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To: ZULU
So exactly what the hell is the American solider fighting for if it is not the American way of life? These liberal F-ing morons are going to have to fight some battles themselves if they keep this $hitt up.

Merry Christmas to all my fellow VETS. Spread these words to every vet and vets family you know.

Screw the liberal A-holes.

22 posted on 12/25/2013 8:36:28 AM PST by oldenuff2no
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To: ZULU
A military diversity training officer instructed a group of U.S. soldiers at Camp Shelby, Miss., not to use the word "Christmas"

What is the name of that Camp Shelby diversity training officer, because no one but a traitor would instruct a group of U.S. soldiers not to use the word "Christmas".

Until contrary evidence is offered, we can presume that the diversity officer was acting on orders from the Camp Shelby Commanding Officer, Col. William B. (Brad) Smith, Jr.

We need some housecleaning in the military.

23 posted on 12/25/2013 8:52:29 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: ZULU

I was involved with military equal opportunity programs before such a role became diversity commissar. So glad to be long retired.


24 posted on 12/25/2013 8:53:47 AM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 13 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: ZULU

This is the second incident out of Camp Shelby involving political based obamanonsense.

What the hell is going on over there?

RLTW


25 posted on 12/25/2013 9:00:10 AM PST by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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To: ZULU

Went to Trader Joe’s the other day, and the cashier said “Happy Holidays” as he gave me my change. When I replied “Merry Christmas”, he enthusiastically replied back “Merry Christmas”.

All conservatives to do this where ever they go/shop, since the customer is always right!

We wish our Christian Brothers and Sisters, in and out of the military, a very Blessed Christmas.

Side note—we are Jewish and we are not squeamish about Christmas, just because we do not celebrate it. We greatly respect the Christian roots of this country, who took in our ancestors, when they were desperate and being persecuted by totalitarian regimes.
(montag’s wife)


26 posted on 12/25/2013 9:03:56 AM PST by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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bttt - my Savior is a Jewish carpenter


27 posted on 12/25/2013 9:06:29 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: ZULU

Obama is workiing to turn the military into a democrat voting bloc by converting it from a fighting force into another wealth redistribution center for democrat victim groups.

He is driving out patriots to make room for unemployable minorities, democrat butt kissers, homosexuals, lesbians and other liberal females.


28 posted on 12/25/2013 9:14:56 AM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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To: Carl Vehse

I would like to see an investigation made (no demand)into who initiated or authorized not to use the word Christmas.

What would they do if “ALL” the soldiers at Camp Shelby got together and shouted “MERRY CHRISTMAS”. Think that this would make the news?


29 posted on 12/25/2013 9:19:31 AM PST by hapnHal (hapnHal)
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To: Carl Vehse

A fish stinks from the head.


30 posted on 12/25/2013 9:19:45 AM PST by ZULU (Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama the Doctor Mengele of Medical Care)
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To: Iron Munro

Yes. That is exactly what he is doing. Like all Marxists, he understands that only by rejecting the Judaeo-Christian Foundation of America and western civilization can society be recreated in the Marxist mold. Employing maniac Muslims in the process of doing this is just a tool of convenience.


31 posted on 12/25/2013 9:22:58 AM PST by ZULU (Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama the Doctor Mengele of Medical Care)
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To: ZULU
On another thread today, NKP Vet posted, "President John Quincy Adams stated in Newburyport, July 4, 1837:
"In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior...It forms a leading event in the Progress of the Gospel dispensation...

Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth?

That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Saviour and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets 600 years before."

Since the late 1800's, so-called "liberals," or "progressives," have waged an effort to "fundamentally change" America from its revolutionary foundations in Creator-endowed liberty backward into the Old World and later Marxian ideas of control by imaginary human grantors and protectors.

Perhaps an answer to the once-asked question here on FR: "Why does Christianity 'scare' . . . ?" may lie in the degree to which the foundation ideas upon which America's Declaration of Independence were laid and from which the concept of Creator-endowed individual liberty and the Source from which that liberty is derived have been removed from "the American mind" (Jefferson).

The same Jefferson "progressives" love to cite on a coercive "separation of church and state" notion also penned our Declaration of Independence which included references to God in four distinct manifestations.

In others of his writings, which "progressives" don't cite, he stated that Jesus "preached philanthropy and universal charity and benevolence," and that "a system of morals is presented to us [by Jesus], which, if filled up in the style and spirit of the rich fragments he left us, would be the most perfect and sublime that has ever been taught by man."

He wrote, "His moral doctrines...were more pure and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers...and they went far beyond both in inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and friends, to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants, and common aids," which, Jefferson said, "will evince the peculiar superiority of the system of Jesus over all others."

Comparing the Hebrew code which, according to Jefferson, "laid hold of actions only," "He [Jesus] pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head."

That Jefferson cut out the statements which he believed to be directly attributable to Jesus, pasted them into a little book which he kept by his bed and, by his own words, read from them daily, might lead one to conclude that his political philosphy probably was influenced by what he considered to be the superiority of the "philosophy" of Jesus.

It is unlikely that any person alive today has read the writings of as many of the great philosophers as Jefferson. His talents and abilities were legend. His devotion to liberty and to the ideas essential to liberty were based on simple principles, some of which, undoubtedly, came from his understanding of the basic law underlying all valid human law: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Perhaps the so-called "progressive" enemies of freedom understand better than those who fancy themselves as "conservatives" that in order to reverse the Founders' ideas of "People over government," and institute "government over People," they must first marginalize and destroy the ideas from which liberty is derived.

The writings of America's Founders are replete with references which rebuke would-be tyrants and cite a Higher Source for life, liberty and rights. Early histories confirm those facts.

As so-called "progressives" have led a movement in forsaking the Founders' "reliance on Divine Providence," and belief that individuals are "endowed by their Creator," they also have forsaken the principles underlying America's Constitution and Declaration of Independence, and are systematically dismantling the greatest protections for liberty ever established for a people.

"Ideas have consequences"(Weaver).

The ideas of 1776 came out of a set of ideas consistent with liberty.

We tend to forget, or have never considered, that other world views existed then, as now.

Unless today's citizens rediscover the ideas of liberty existing in what Jefferson called "the American mind" of 1776, we risk going back to the "Old World" ideas which preceded the "Miracle of America."

There are those who call themselves "progressives," when, in fact, their ideas are regressive and enslaving, and as old as the history of civilization.

Would suggest to any who wish an authentic history of the ideas underlying American's founding a visit to this web site, at which Richard Frothingham's outstanding 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States" can be read on line.

This 600+-page history traces the ideas which gave birth to the American founding. Throughout, Richard Frothingham, the historian, develops the idea that it is "the Christian idea of man" which allowed the philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to become a reality--an idea which recognizes the individual and the Source of his/her "Creator"-endowed life, liberty and law.

Is there any wonder that the enemies of freedom, the so-called "progressives," do not promote such authentic histories of America? Their philosophy puts something called "the state," or "global interests" as being superior to individuals and requires a political elitist group to decide what role individuals are to play.

In other words, they must turn the Founders' ideas upside-down in order to achieve a common mediocrity for individuals and power for themselves.

As Jefferson wisely observed:

"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."

All of which reinforces our conviction that the ideas of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are as revolutionary and objectionable to tyrants as they were in 1776 and 1787!

32 posted on 12/25/2013 9:24:43 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: military cop
This is the second incident out of Camp Shelby involving political based obamanonsense.

What the hell is going on over there?

I'm betting it's the same idiot.

33 posted on 12/25/2013 9:44:23 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: ZULU

DID everybody in room laugh at him?...


34 posted on 12/25/2013 10:03:49 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: ZULU

Christmas is a federal holiday BY LAW!!!!

A “diversity officer” is full of crap if he uses his position TO OPPRESS RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION!!!!!


35 posted on 12/25/2013 10:05:09 AM PST by G Larry
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hapnHal @29: I would like to see an investigation made (no demand)into who initiated or authorized not to use the word Christmas.

What we should see is a court-martial of Col. William B. (Brad) Smith, Jr., or whoever issued the order for the diversity officer to instruct U.S. soldiers at Camp Shelby, Miss., not to use the word "Christmas."

But I don't expect to see it with the current White House regime or under the current Joint Chiefs of Staff.

36 posted on 12/25/2013 10:26:38 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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37 posted on 12/25/2013 10:41:08 AM PST by KeyLargo
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Thanks ZULU.


38 posted on 12/25/2013 11:02:21 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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You know, I’d never suggest fragging an officer...


39 posted on 12/25/2013 11:52:08 AM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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40 posted on 12/25/2013 7:44:56 PM PST by zeugma (Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
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