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And why aren't the Republicans speaking out about this?

Thanks, I appreciate that. I have no agenda other than a free republic!

Good one!

Not sure what your problem is humblegunner. I READ other peoples’ posts, I POST my own. Am I supposed to post someone else’s work? I haven’t made a post in 2 1/2 months, but I’ve been a regular reader on this site. If I’ve broken a rule, say so. If not, then comment on my post or submit one of your own. But stick to the purpose of this site and stop harassing me.

The IRS is Obama’s KGB – their agents and the armed goons that they employ to enforce their arbitrary will. And the IRS isn’t the only agency Obama uses to bludgeon Americans into surrendering their freedom. The EPA has been particularly egregious in depriving honest citizens and businesses of liberty and property over some ill-conceived environmental regulation. The Labor Department has persecuted businesses who defy labor union demands, and the Education Department has used taxpayer dollars to bribe, with the threat of cutting off, states who don’t accept their idea of how to indoctrinate our kids. His Department of Health and Human Services has been ramming Obamacare down our unwilling throats despite our moral and religious objections, while his HHS Secretary tries to shake down private companies to pay for it. He’s turned our military into a gigantic social experiment and used our intelligence agencies to spy on law abiding Americans without a warrant. And this is only a partial list. All this from a president who recently warned college graduates to reject voices that warn of government tyranny. He’s right in one respect. No warning voices needed; the tyranny is already here.

Make no mistake – Obama is the person responsible for the IRS lawbreaking, not some low-level rogue bureaucrats. Please don’t tell me that there is no evidence that Obama personally ordered the IRS to harass conservative and religious groups. He didn’t have to give a direct order any more than Nixon had to give one when he got impeached for the same crime. Obama, by his own admission, is the visionary for everything that happens on his watch, and his vision is a very different one than most Americans have of their country. No matter where you work, everyone knows what the boss wants. The boss never has to explicitly order anything, because even if his direction is not understood with a wink and a nod, he’s more likely to communicate his intentions through the corporate culture and values he himself exhibits. Obama has made it clear that conservatives, Tea Partiers, and Republicans are the enemy. He has never acknowledged their legitimacy, even after the 2010 mid-term elections, and he never misses an opportunity to demonize them. Any IRS manager would view this as a green light to punish those who disagreed with the Chosen One. This is the man who promised to fundamentally change America, and he has done his best to force-fit that change. What change was he talking about? Changing us from a Constitutional republic to a Marxist state. There is no point in mincing words – that is, and has always been, precisely his goal. Obama’s allies in the media have been adept at hiding who he really is – a Marxist revolutionary – although it has been very evident to those that have been paying attention.

So what now? This is government corruption and lawlessness, pure and simple. The Obama administration simply can't be trusted to follow our own laws and the Constitution, and if they can't be trusted to do that, they have no legitimacy. We understand that the facetiously-called Justice Department is investigating. If that doesn’t strike you as equal parts laughable and scandalous, then you are really out of touch. You mean the same Justice Department that illegally sold guns to Mexican drug cartels that have killed scores of people, just so they could justify more gun control laws? You mean the same Justice Department that refused to prosecute a Black Panther for an obvious case of voter intimidation? You mean the same Justice Department that virtually ignores Democrat voter fraud and even protects it by striking down state laws intended to eliminate it? We would trust that Justice Department as much as we would trust former police officer Drew Petersen to investigate domestic violence. If the Republicans have any guts, they would impeach Obama and prosecute all those who had any part in using political power to punish freedom-loving Americans. And while they’re at it, they should ignore the media’s almost-certain call for moving past this issue quickly. There can be no mitigation, when those who govern attempt to intimidate and silence the opposition contrary to the First Amendment. Every person who speaks out or writes a column like this one already knows they have reason to fear retaliation. As Thomas Jefferson said, “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” This is America, not a third-world dictatorship, no matter how much Obama admittedly wishes it were.

Jennifer Carroll was the first female elected Lt. Governor of Florida and the firs African-American elected statewide in 2010. For the past two years, you couldn't find her picture or any articles on her in the media, including a total blackout during the campaign of 2010 when her running mate Rick Scott was elected governor. But now that she's mired in some kind of controversy, the media comes out of the woodwork to cover her. Think it has something to do with the fact that she's a black Republican? Of course, the media is only interested in Republican scandals.

You won’t see it on the mainstream media because they cover for Obama, but it’s public record. See below:

http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/obamas-doj-targets-religious-freedom-again/

News Item: Department of Justice says homeschooling is not a fundamental right.

Excuse me? Is this legal arm of our United States Government really taking the position that we don’t have the right to determine how we educate our own children? Fundamental rights are those that we get as a result of being alive – you know, like life and liberty – and are bestowed by God, not government. If ever there was a fundamental right, it is the right to raise our children the way we want without interference from government, absent abuse of course. That right was not given to us by government, and it cannot be taken away by government. We are a self-governing nation, i.e. the ultimate power in our Republic rests with the people. When it is the legal position of our federal government that parents have no fundamental right to educate their own children, then it is up to the people to rise up and put government back in its place. To do any less, is to assure future tyranny. Anyone who has attended school knows that if you don’t deal with a bully at the first incident, they will grow bolder and meaner and make your life even more miserable. James Madison said as much when he opined, “It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.” We are way past the first “experiment” and are almost at the point of no return when it comes to our fundamental rights. We, the people, have allowed this to happen due to our ignorance and complacency about what it takes to preserve freedom.

That brings us back to the news item. What prompted this news flash was the political asylum case of a German family that fled to the United States because they were prohibited, like most families in that country, to home school their children. They were initially granted political asylum. But then our own government appealed the decision based primarily on the notion that this family was not denied any fundamental right, and therefore did not deserve political asylum. If they are forced to return to Germany, they face fines, jail, and loss of custody of their children. This, despite Germany having signed human rights treaties that guarantee parents the right to educate their children apart from government schools. Apparently, this nation is reverting to the World War II Nazi view that children belong first to the state before they belong to their parents. Hitler outlawed homeschooling in 1938.

In America, however, there should be no excuse for any government agency to act this way, nor take the position that the government has priority over parents when it comes to their children. Yet, in arguing this case before the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, that is exactly the position our government has taken. This flies in the face of decades of American jurisprudence saying otherwise. This should be no surprise to followers of the Obama administration, as they are Marxist in philosophy to the core. In their view, the state is God, no matter what the Constitution says. This is a lawless administration and they do what they want, and defy anyone to stop them. Some states aren’t much better, as there have been numerous instances where they’ve have abused and persecuted home school parents as if the state did in fact own the children. With the federal government now formally taking this same position, the abuse of homeschoolers is likely to get worse unless the government is put in its place.

The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child was one attempt to circumvent parental rights that is still looming out there like the proverbial 800 pound gorilla. This treaty was signed by Bill Clinton, but has never been ratified by the Senate, although it keeps coming up for a vote every few years. Obama has called our failure to ratify this treaty “embarrassing” and promised to revisit it. It has been opposed by every conservative family organization, and supported by those who view the government as the ultimate authority. That should tell you everything you need to know about it. It will effectively end parental rights to raise our children as we see fit in every area of their life, not just education. All it would take is 67 Senate votes to ratify this evil treaty and our fundamental right to raise our children as we desire would be gone. So with the United Nations, and now the federal government arrayed against American families, we have the fight of our lives ahead of us. It is a fight we cannot afford to lose.

Amen!

So now, Barack Obama (I refuse to use the word “president” because that would imply leadership) has distanced himself from all responsibility for releasing illegal alien criminals upon us because of the pending sequestration budget cuts. Apparently they found a low-level scapegoat to "fire," but that lie was exposed when it was revealed he put in for retirement weeks ago. The story now is that the order to release these inmates was given by Homeland Security last week. Make no mistake – this was a planned, purposeful scare tactic by Obama to avoid government cuts, using the New York Times as their messenger boy, and it literally stinks from corruption. If the Republicans (I refuse to use the word Congressmen because that would imply leadership) had any guts, they would impeach him for this. The cuts have not even happened, and may not happen, but he is punishing us ahead of time because we, the people, have not put enough pressure on Congress to cave in to his demands. It’s kind of like the old adage, “The beatings will continue until morale improves.” Even the liberal Bob Woodward called his antics “madness.”

This kind of behavior, assuming people are paying attention, tells us more about the man Obama than anything else he’s done. Since he is now pulling no punches, I won’t either. He’s proven himself a cold blooded Communist who will do anything to get his way. He was raised and mentored by Communists, a fact the mainstream media ignores, and now that he has no re-election looming, he doesn’t have to answer to anyone. How many murders and rapes of Americans will be attributed to this latest release of illegals? None will ever be acknowledged by the lapdog government agents who call themselves journalists, but rest assured that illegals commit thousands of such crimes every year. No one, including the spineless Republicans, are holding these people to account for these crimes because they’re afraid of being called racist. Every one of these crimes should be hung around Obama’s neck just like Willie Horton was hung around Mike Dukakis' neck.

Like a true Communist, Obama has used every legal, and many illegal, means to further his agenda. It is a revolutionary agenda, as he has admitted, to fundamentally change America. The fundamental change for which he campaigns (not leads) is to turn this country from a free nation into a Communist society. I’m sorry, but that is the plain, brutal truth, and the sooner the American people wake up and realize it, the sooner we can deal with this cancer. If you doubt what I’m saying, then just review the facts. He hates the free market, i.e. the notion that people should be free to make their own economic decisions without government interference. Obamacare, the monstrous government takeover of the health care system, is the most obvious piece of evidence, but by no means the only piece. He is well on his way to seizing control of the financing and curriculum of our educational system so that it continues to indoctrinate mindless, obedient little world citizens. He is the most pro-union, anti-business elected official ever to occupy his office. He has saddled businesses with thousands of new regulations that punish success and reward inefficiency, while at the same time giving away our hard-earned tax money into labor union coffers. He has refused to enforce cases of obvious voter fraud and intimidation, and looked the other way while his supporters illegally rigged thousands of ballots to get him re-elected. He refuses to enforce existing immigration laws and any others he disagrees with, like the Defense of Marriage Act. While destroying the country from within, he’s also doing his best to render us defenseless from threats without, by not securing our borders, negligently or purposely not defending our embassy, allowing Muslim radicals in sensitive national security positions, and unilaterally disarming our missile defense capability.

He has not been shy about his complete disdain for our Constitution and our heritage, which is no surprise given his Communist roots, and he has made no secret of his love for a dictatorship-style government such as China. Freedom, liberty, and self-reliance are not in his vocabulary. He has spent our money like no other chief executive in history, and assured us a future of poverty and misery. He has done his best to assure as many people as possible are on government assistance, so that there is a perpetual pool of useful idiots to keep him and his cronies in power. He has ignored any law he doesn’t like, as well as the letter and intent of the Constitution, by issuing executive orders, using our military for unauthorized wars, and using his drones to kill American citizens and innocent children abroad, and spy on us domestically, either without explicit authority of Congress or with their tacit approval.

The only threat to this plan is when a blip on the radar screen appears, such as the meager automatic cuts due to take place from sequestration. Be assured that he will punish anyone who gets in the way of his plan to tax those who have (all of us, not just the wealthy) and redistribute to those who don’t. And in the best tradition of Chicago politics, he has threatened any legitimate news media in general, and Bob Woodward in particular, for telling the truth. In his mind, we are under-taxed, and he needs more money to further his agenda. But even more than that, he cannot let citizens get used to the idea that actual cuts can be made to the federal budget, a fear that he shares with the media and the Republican establishment. That’s why we get “the sky is falling” routine every time even token reductions are made. They all know that these are not serious cuts (the government will spend more next year even if the cuts are made), but they sure don’t want to give power back to the people, who are getting awfully restless about all this profligate spending. So who will win this culture war - the tyrants who want to suck the life and morality out of our nation and continue a lawless dictatorship, or liberty-loving patriots who will rise up, refuse to be silent, and take our country back? The latter are a minority now, so we pray they will be a loud and persistent minority.

I meant repentance as a nation, which obviously doesn’t apply to individuals who are already living a moral life.

Ever wonder how a free society manages to deteriorate into a totalitarian police state? How do people willingly submit to tyranny after they have known freedom? Well, it’s not complicated. It just takes a little time. The first, and most essential step, is to gain control of the information that people see, hear, and read. Notice I said “control.” Virtually all of the books, literature, documents, movies, etc. that were produced during the first 150 years of our Republic are still available, but fewer and fewer people are using them as information sources. Instead, those who have grown up during the past generation receive more and more of their information from television, movies, and the news media. In the first 150 years we were a free people who went to church, read the Bible, sang patriotic songs in school, learned sound values from our parents and teachers, and shared a common heritage. Both Hollywood and the news media reinforced those values in their TV, movies, and broadcasts. But everything changed, starting in the late 1950s and early 1960s. An all-out assault on morality was conducted by the Kinsey Report, the Vietnam War, the availability of birth control, the proliferation of drugs, the Great Society programs, and the college student uprisings, coupled with the explicit permission of the self-appointed educational elite. Consequently, there was a meteoric rise in STDs, unwed pregnancies, welfare dependency, drug addiction, crime, disrespect of our institutions, and lawlessness that still has not abated.

How has such a radical change in our society occurred in just one generation? It is because those in Hollywood, the news media, and the government have carefully controlled the informational dialogue, so that only their world view gets seen and heard. It starts with the schools. We’ve educated an entire generation in all of the wrong things. They know nothing about our exceptional heritage, our founding documents, and the values and principles that makes a free society possible. They have been taught that they are nothing but a biological cosmic accident of nature, unaccountable to anyone but themselves, and thus owe their loyalty to those who selfishly promise them the most. It then follows that they have no respect for life other than their own. They possess a total ignorance of economic fundamentals, as reflected in their personal decisions as well as their voting patterns. The history they’ve been taught has been re-written to reflect an evil America that must be changed into the image that the radical left envisions. Diversity, multiculturalism, gay pride, and phony environmental stewardship have been elevated to Diety status.

When these students come home, they see more of the same on TV and the nightly news. Movies are targeted to the teen audience with the same message. As they grow old enough to vote, they hear the same narrative from pandering politicians, for whom they are more than willing to vote because they have the same world view. All of their allegiance now belongs to those who think like themselves, and they willingly submit to the restraints of the nanny state. The transformation is now complete. They will soon be enslaved by those who promise to take care of their food, clothing, shelter, and health care needs. Without the backbone of individual responsibility, their lot in life is now in the hands of someone else. Their failures will be blamed on the privileged, and their successes will mandate that they share their privilege with those who have failed. Not being able to think for themselves, they accept the authority and mandates of the state without question. Self control has given way to state control, and self-government has been replaced by statism and totalitarianism.

If the media had been the government watchdog the First Amendment envisioned it to be, we would still be a free republic. Instead, the media has been completely corrupted by politicians who share their vision of a socialist America, subservient to a world government. Their corruption is so complete that they submit their stories to the White House for editing before they publish them, in order to remain in Obama’s good graces. Together, they completely control the messages that the government-educated masses see and hear, while at the same time censoring and belittling all dialogue to the contrary. Abortion is called “pro-choice,” conservative free speech is called “hate speech/intolerance,” and those who question Obama’s past are called “birthers,” and marginalized. The media only practice journalism when a conservative is in power. When the government listens to phone conversations, reads e-mails, seizes property, and assassinates Americans with drones in the name of fighting terror, they say nothing. Yet they are perfectly happy with laws (McCain-Feingold) that limit everyone’s free speech but theirs. They don’t even understand that they are merely useful idiots that the current dictator will quickly discard when tyranny is complete. When dissent is silenced for one, it will eventually be silenced for all.

All of this was not an accident. Obama and his revolutionaries have been planning this for decades. Hollywood and the media have been his willing accomplices. They have managed to successfully control the narrative the American people see and hear, and have silenced all dissent with bullying and political correctness. There are few national figures who are willing to stand up and tell the unvarnished truth, for fear of being marginalized as fools. Welfare is now the largest item in the federal budget. The national debt will result in trillions of transfer payments from those who have to those who have not, and we will all end up poor - except for the ruling elite that caused this mess of course. Our only hope is to repent and begin to practice the moral, political, and spiritual principles that we have preached as conservatives. We are now a minority, but remember that the leftists were once in the minority also. Just as they gained control of the national dialogue, we must band together and re-gain control of the same by protesting long and loud at every infringement of our liberty. Our passion will give others courage to join us. Now is not the time to hide. Now is the time for the second American revolution – a revolution of morality and commitment to freedom.

Excellent point!

I walked a mile to my elementary school when I was a kid, a mile home for lunch, a mile back in the afternoon, and a mile home after school. Four miles total every school day, rain, snow, or shine. No, I am not trying to say how tough it was when I was in school. I’m trying to illustrate that these days, no parent in their right mind would let their kids walk a mile to school by themselves in any neighborhood unless they had no choice. It would be considered dangerous and irresponsible to not either drive their child to school, or have a trusted adult hover over them until the school bus arrives. My point is that we can’t live in the past, and we have to change with the times as society changes. When I was a kid, there were no school shootings, even though kids brought guns to school and left them in the principal’s office so they could hunt squirrels on the way home. In fact, when I was in college, we kept handguns and rifles in our rooms with the full knowledge and permission of school officials, and not one round was ever fired on school grounds. We can argue all day about why we have so many evil wackos who decide to kill innocent children, but we’re stuck with them for the present, and pretending they’re not out there is playing a foolish and deadly form of Russian roulette. Yet that is exactly the game gun control advocates insist that we play by mandating that all schools be gun-free zones.

What has changed since I went to school? Not the gun. As I pointed out earlier, guns were even more prevalent in schools back then, yet there were no shootings. What has changed is the kinds of people that roam our society. It’s a fact that about 80% of these mass murderers were under the influence of psychiatric drugs – a fact that the news media tries to ignore. If we’re looking for a common factor in these shootings that was not present a generation ago, look no further than the over-prescribing of anti-depressant medications. So why are we trying to regulate the gun? The cities and states that have the strictest gun control laws also have the highest rates of gun violence, and the states with liberal concealed carry laws have seen the greatest drop in violent crime. That is the inconvenient truth, and the statistics are too often lost in this emotional debate. An armed populace is a deterrent to violent crime, not the reason for it.

And it should be clear to anyone who has a brain, that in every one of these shootings, the shooter broke multiple gun laws, which illustrates yet another obvious point – criminals don’t obey gun laws. All gun control laws do is disarm law abiding citizens, which makes the criminal’s job that much easier. Even many countries that prohibit gun ownership entirely have high rates of gun violence because (repeat after me) CRIMINALS DON’T OBEY THE LAW, and they will always be able to get guns just like they can always get illegal drugs. So if gun control is not the problem, they why do the usual suspects demand more gun control before the dead victims’ bodies are even cold? It’s because their real agenda is not child safety at all, but disarming the public. If you doubt that, just listen to what the leftist elites say when they’re being honest (a rarity), and they’ll readily admit this. Notice, however, that they don’t think these rules should apply to them, as evidenced by the bodyguards who regularly accompany the media anchors and Hollywood celebrities, and of course, the Secret Service agents assigned to our top government officials.

So what’s the answer? I’ll answer that by asking a simple question: Why do these shooters head for schools instead of police stations when they want to commit mass murder? The answer is obvious, although the news media will try to hide even the obvious. Case in point – Did you hear about the shooting in a San Antonio movie theater two days after the Sandy Hook shooting? Probably not, because it is one of many instances, including the Ft. Hood shooting, and the Colorado Springs church shooting, where a single armed good guy (or in these three instances, a good girl) with a gun, stopped a bad guy with a gun. Clearly, all of these mass murderers have one thing in common - they choose targets where they know they will meet no resistance, i.e. a gun-free zone. Arm and train school personnel and/or station private armed security/police in our schools and you will change the equation. Don’t tell me we can’t afford it, because most middle and high schools already have school resource officers there full time, and we spend much more federal money on other useless education nonsense like Race to the Top stimulus funds. Many school districts have already implemented this policy without any additional funds. And don’t tell me teachers and principals can’t defend their schools with guns, because they’ve been doing it very effectively for years in Israel and Thailand, where they face down determined terrorists, not just the occasional wacko.

Also lost in the emotion of this debate is why citizens need to be armed in the first place. The 250 million people who were killed by their own government in the 20th Century could answer that for us if they could talk. Thanks to Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, and other dictators who believed in gun control, those quarter billion folks will not be here to testify. That’s about five or six times as many people killed in all of the wars of that century by the way. In other words, citizens should rightly fear their own government more than a foreign invader. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment recognizes an individual right to bear arms, but the right of self-defense precedes even the Constitution. However, the Second Amendment is not about self defense or even hunting, even though those are legitimate reasons for owning firearms. The Founders made it abundantly clear that the Second Amendment was about preserving freedom by assuring that the government of the people and by the people would stay that way. Guns were to be our insurance policy against tyranny by our own government, and no less a liberal than Hubert H. Humphrey admitted the same. Whenever this particular argument against gun control is raised, it is usually dismissed for the reason that gun owners wouldn’t stand a chance against the might of the American military. For those who believe this, I would simply submit two close-to-home examples: the American Revolution and the Vietnam War. History is filled with many other grass roots uprisings where a small, outnumbered and outgunned, but determined populace, overcame enormous odds to overthrow what they perceived as an unjust government. I am not suggesting we should start a revolution, because other options are available, and that is always the last option. But thanks to the Second Amendment, it is an option.

It’s also a darn shame you missed the entire point of the article. Are you really suggesting we’re better off now in our schools and our society than we were in 1962? If you are, you are completely clueless. If you agree that we’re not, then what do you attribute to the decline? There’s no question, like the article said, that this decline is a moral problem, not a political one. Morality is at the root of every problem we have. And causation of moral problems? Let’s see ... yeah, that might have something to do with rejecting God and doing things our own way.

It’s also a darn shame you missed the entire point of the article. Are you really suggesting we’re better off now in our schools and our society than we were in 1962? If you are, you are completely clueless. If you agree that we’re not, then what do you attribute to the decline? There’s no question, like the article said, that this decline is a moral problem, not a political one. Morality is at the root of every problem we have. And causation of moral problems? Let’s see ... yeah, that might have something to do with rejecting God and doing things our own way.

Sorry you had to do all that typing for nothing, because you completely missed my point. My article wasn’t about school shootings, it was about OFFICIALLY rejecting God by prohibiting OFFICIAL sanction of prayer and Bible reading in our schools. You’re not really foolish enough to suggest that our education system and our society is better off now than in 1962 are you? I didn’t think so. So how are all those court decisions taking God out of the public arena working out for us?

Editor’s Note: The following article was written before the recent elementary school shootings in Connecticut and was withheld out of respect for the victims and their families, and is in no way intended to imply that this senseless shooting was God’s doing.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge…. Proverbs 1:7

What is truly detestable about the state of public schools in this country is how far they have strayed from their historical roots. We have been beat over the head repeatedly by the media manta that there must be a constitutional separation of church and state, to the point where this myth is taken by the public as fact. And the activist Supreme Courts of the 50’s and 60’s haven’t helped matters either, twisting the First Amendment into incoherence, making legal reconciliation by subsequent Courts difficult. So how’d all that “separation of church and state” business work out for us? The truth is, since school prayer was banned in 1962, there has been a meteoric rise in the rates of violent crime, drug abuse, pre-marital sex, teen pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases in our schools and society. If you look at the statistics for these categories and plot them on a graph, during the years prior to 1962 the line was flat or declining. After 1962, the rates increased exponentially - 400-600% for each of these categories for the next 25 years with no signs of slowing down, even after factoring out population growth.

During this time period, our country chose to officially reject the authority of God in matters of public discourse. No living, breathing, red-blooded American can objectively conclude that our country has been better off since. In fact, every survey continues to show that the American people overwhelmingly feel we are going in the wrong direction.

We now have an entire generation of educators that have a predisposed hostility towards anything religious. This is all the more incredible considering our roots as a nation, and the avowed purposes for which most of our nation’s schools and universities were founded. Noah Webster, one of our nation’s leading educators, said, "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people." Benjamin Rush, a physician, and signer of the Declaration of Independence said, “The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty.” I could go on and quote many of the other Founders, who have said similar things about the relationship between religion, morality, and government. Even William O. Douglas, the most famous liberal Supreme Court Justice in history, said “We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.” Failure to acknowledge God in the public arena because of the Supreme Court- invented myth of “wall of separation of church and state,” is not only an incorrect interpretation and application of law and history, it has had grave consequences for our nation. Incidentally, the phrase “wall of separation of church and state,” is not found in the Constitution as so many people have been led to believe - a point made clear by the dissenting Justice in the Supreme Court’s 1962 case, Engel v. Vitalewhich struck down school prayer. In fact he called the phrase a “metaphor” and its use by the Court irresponsible. What the Constitution does prohibit is the government’s establishment of a state-sponsored religion as well as their interference in one’s free exercise of religion. Many of the Founders have made it abundantly clear that religion and morality are indispensable to the maintenance of a free republic. If the First Amendment truly intended to ban all religious expression from government, including public schools, then why did the Founders’ own well-documented actions and words show that they believed just the opposite? And despite this, we have had open, repeated hostility toward any religious expression in our schools in the form of banning certain student attire, to equal access to school facilities, to censorship of student’s written and oral classroom work, to censorship of valedictorian speeches –events that have become too commonplace to even list them all.

All laws have their roots in moral principles, and our laws are no different. Despite what secularists would have us believe, much of the moral code that existed in this country came from the Bible, which eventually became incorporated into English common law, thus forming the basis of all of our laws. Most of the schools in this country, as well as many of the prestigious Ivy League universities were founded for the sole purpose of educating the populace in the Scriptures. That’s our history folks, like it or not, and it was never considered unconstitutional. In fact, the moral code taught in the Scriptures was considered essential to the preservation of a free society, and I might add, it still is essential for that purpose. We don’t have a political problem in this country, we have a moral problem. Until we officially rejected the authority of God, our kids could walk to school safely, and while they were there, learn respect for our flag, our heritage, our institutions, and our country. When they came home, they could watch any TV program without their parents fearing what they would see or hear. In just one generation, we have turned into an American that most middle aged citizens don’t recognize.

When you read the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, you will find that its principles of personal responsibility, self government, and liberty cannot be separated from the moral and spiritual principles of the Bible. During the latter half of the 20th century, a prosperous America abandoned those principles in their personal lives, and we have been paying the price ever since. This decline in morality was precipitated not so coincidently with the advent of activist judges and a discarding of our Constitutional principles. The fruits of those disastrous rulings by unelected judges, have been irresponsible behavior and lack of personal responsibility and accountability, leading to sexual promiscuity, fatherless children, divorce, poverty, and crime. It has dramatically changed our society within one generation, and by default, changed our schools. So now instead of teaching academics, we are re-educating a new generation to accept this “new norm” in the name of tolerance and compassion. And instead of teaching the value of national unity, the Pledge of Allegiance, and one nation under God indivisible, we are celebrating diversity and group identity. Instead of school prayers each morning reverencing “Our Father in heaven,” students view An Inconvenient Truth reverencing our Mother Earth.

In truth, the decline in American education started long before the sixties. There was a long line of educational “gurus” dating back nearly 100 years that have helped shape America’s education policy, most notably John Dewey, a self-described socialist and father of “progressive” education. It was Dewey, in fact, who was the chief proponent of mandatory public education as a means of undermining traditional values and using the schools as an agent of social change. Much of the philosophy espoused by these educators had its roots in Marxism. Lest we forget, compulsory public education is one of the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto. If you read these ten planks, you would be hard pressed to find the differences between the policies of our own government, and one purposely built from the ground up as a communist government. Purposeful or not, our schools have become brainwashing centers for the political left, at every level. Concepts like liberty, self-government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise are missing in action in today’s curriculum, even though they are the principles that are supposed to form the foundation of our society. An entire generation has been educated to be comfortable with egalitarianism, globalism, feminism, and environmentalism. The struggle for power between this generation of public school students, and other freedom loving individuals in our country will be the defining cultural war of our time.

Amen!