Party Before God and Country?

We have seen very strong evidence in recent times of those in politics, those in positions of leadership, and those in the news media, selling their souls, so to speak, for political or personal gain. Commitment, loyalty and support of the "club" or party takes precedent over anything else and it is felt that this will secure both approval of other "club" members and will result in personal gain. This goes so far that it even takes precedent over God and country. This "club" mentality becomes so powerful through self sustaining group approval that many never stop to even think that they are effectively selling their souls.

 

Nowhere was this more evident than in the recent attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya where a U.S. Ambassador and 3 other brave Americans were left abandoned for sure death while under attack. Yet previously well respected Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, and CIA Director, General David H. Petraeus, and others, knowingly participated in lies and cover up in order to protect the "club", while truth, God and country were set aside.

 

Kathleen Sebelius, U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, purports to be a Catholic yet she supports unrestricted abortions, including partial birth abortion. She in fact is the prime mover behind forcing Catholic Institutions and Catholic personnel to offer contraception and early abortion medication in violation of the Catholic faith, and even the First Amendment to the Constitution concerning freedom of religion. She has placed the "club", the party, over her faith.

 

At the recent Democratic Convention an honored speaker was Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, an organization that takes the lives of over 350,000 children per year. As an honored speaker? During this same convention an acclamation vote had to be taken in order to decide whether or not the word "God" should be included in the party platform. Think about it. The actual acclamation vote resulted in the desire to exclude God, but was overridden since it would be an obvious embarrassment...for votes, not based upon religious belief. The reality is, God HAS been excluded from the Democratic Party in recent times as demonstrated in positions and actions...over and over.

 

Massachusetts is the most prominent example of the "club" or party taking precedence over everything else. It is clearly a one party state, not only at the state level, but from the ground up including every town and city's elected (and appointed) positions. Many are very good people, family people, community oriented...and many are Catholics. They attend Catholic Mass regularly. When you watch them interact they seem to delight in each other, yet at the same time there is a sense of ownership of the state. And they like the power. Yet they seem to sense that in order to keep the power and to continue to progress in their political careers that they have to do what is necessary to get votes, and to be "politically correct". This is where the selling of their soul comes in through rationalization and the "club" mentality that takes over. They then routinely violate their faith through supporting abortion, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, same sex marriage, and even the Sebelius initiative of forcing Catholic Institutions and Catholic personnel to offer contraception and early abortion medication in violation to the Catholic faith since it is the party line. Essentially selling their soul in order to preserve their "club" membership.

 

On the national level the "club" becomes not only the party, but the ideology. Members of Congress, members of the administration, and most of the media clearly place the ideology over everything else...certainly over God and country. Any clear thinking intelligent person can see that our country is in a shambles, actually on the brink of ruin. All the attempted good words and headlines, all the propaganda that is given to the American people, doesn't change this fact. The record, facts, and numbers are all right there in front of us, one has to be blind not to see them. On the international front, it is the same. The Mid East is not only unstable, but on fire. There is a threat of nuclear war; it is so bad that could easily erupt into World War III. Yet throughout Congress, throughout our administration in Washington, and throughout the media it is evident that many have placed the party, or the ideology first over God and country. The "club" rules.

 

It is not wrong to be affiliated with a party and to be loyal to it. It is not wrong to believe in a certain ideology. What IS wrong, however, is to place the party, the ideology, the "club", over God and country. We have plenty of examples throughout our American history of people who have placed God and country first. They were our heroes. More than ever today...we need more heroes in positions of leadership in our country.

 

Benghazi MUCH Worse Than Watergate

On September 11, 2012 the United States of America was attacked. According to international (and U.S.) rule, our consulate in Benghazi , Libya represents a sovereign state, any attack is considered an attack on the country it represents. Further, a high official of the United States was murdered, as well as 3 other Americans. This was a serious affront to our country that could have very easily been considered an act of war. It was that serious.

The consulate was inadequately protected on September 11, 2012 even though previous terror acts had occurred, and consulate people, and others requested more protection. This failure falls directly on the shoulders of the Obama administration and the State Department.

On the day of the attack there was no public protest on the streets, Ambassador Christopher Stevens had even walked on the streets prior to the attack. During the attack there was live communication, several E-mails, and even a video, showing that it was an organized terrorist attack with heavy weapons. It is clear that the Obama administration knew it was a terrorist attack.

Yet, for apparently political purposes, the next day and for several days (even weeks) thereafter, even though there was more than enough information to know this was a terrorist attack and not just a street uprising, President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, Press Secretary Jay Carney, UN Ambassador Susan Rice (repeatedly) told the American people either by direct statements, or by inference, that the attack on the consulate was caused by an obscure anti-Muslim video on YouTube. The American people were lied to and there was an attempted cover up.

Matthew G. Olsen, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told the investigating Congressional Committee flat out that it was known to be a terrorist attack.  For this, for telling the truth before a Congressional Committee, he was severely reprimanded by the Obama administration!  What should this tell us?

Equally alarming, many of the major media sources helped cover up the truth about the attack on our country, the murder of Americans, and the deception / cover up by our government.  

Recently in his campaign for re- election President Obama said "trust matters". The truth and facts on what happened on September 11, 2012 need to be fully brought out and those who have lied to the American people and covered up this murderous attack on the United States need to be held accountable.

 

A Need to Reassess - Bring Back a Respect for Life

In the past when a person died, even of old age or natural causes, there was deep mourning by family members, relatives, friends, and even the community at large. It was considered a deep and sad tragedy by everyone...the loss of a life.

 

Yet today, this respect for life appears to be lost. There are now over 16,000 murders per year in the United States, about 45 per day. In Chicago alone murders in 2012 are on track to reach 504, approximately 43 per month. There is hardly a pause for sadness. Approximately 4,500 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq and over 2,000 in Afghanistan. Yet they appear to be reported as "numbers" without the deep sadness over the loss of human life, most of them young people who had everything to live for.

 

Across the world there is even deeper tragedy in regard to the loss of life. In the Sudan the slaughter of Christians goes practically unnoticed and unreported, yet goes to lengths that are difficult to comprehend. Houses are burnt; churches are leveled; women are raped and mutilated. Children and whole families are murdered. Since 1983 over 2.5 million Christians have been slaughtered and it goes mainly unnoticed and unreported. The holocaust continues to this day. Nobody seems to care, 2.5 million!

In Pakistan, a beautiful and bright 14 year old young girl, Malala Yousufzai, is fighting for her life after she was shot by the Taliban as she was returning home from school. The reason? She was promoting the education of girls. Militants who oppose the education of girls in Afghanistan were responsible for the recent poisoning of over 100 girls. This was preceded by the throwing of acid in the faces of school girls in Afghanistan. Young boys are used by radical Muslims as suicide bombers where they have blown themselves up while killing thousands of innocent men, women, and children. Terrorists continue to launch thousands of rockets into Israeli civilian populations. Our society has come to the point where hundreds of billions (even trillions) of dollars are being spent for security at airports, train stations, and at other public transportation sites. The reason, someone may try to plant a bomb that will kill innocent people. This is what we have come to in regard to the respect for life. Yet most all religions have some rule about not killing people, although some apply it only to their "faithful". Nonetheless we are headed down the path of an increased propensity to kill others. Life is losing its' sacredness.

 

Since 1973, in America alone, over 50 million lives of helpless, innocent, beautiful children have been taken through abortion, the worst holocaust of humankind. Yet the president of Planned Parenthood, an organization that takes the lives of over 350,000 children a year, was an honored speaker at the 2012 Democratic Convention. What have we come to? The slippery slope of euthanasia in on the ballot in Massachusetts, and so it goes.

 

Blessed Pope John Paul II called our current era, what we are becoming, as the "culture of death". Very profoundly Mother Teresa said that "the fruits of abortion are nuclear war". By that she meant that if there is no respect for the life on an innocent child, then that will escalate to the lack of respect for ALL life, ultimately leading to nuclear war, the most destructive of all weaponry for eliminating life. If we stop for a moment, and look around us, listen to the news...it is very evident that human life is no longer sacred.

 

Life may not be sacred to many today....but it is to God and that will never change. Those that are wise should see it coming. We had better change course before it is too late.

Benghazi MUCH Worse Than Watergate, Unreported

On September 11, 2012 the United States of America was attacked. A U.S. embassy or a consulate has a special status, and any attack is considered an attack on the country it represents. Thus, the United Sates was attacked in Benghazi, Libya on September 11. A high official of the United States was murdered, as well as 3 other Americans, This was a serious affront to our country that could have very easily been considered an act of war.

Prior to September 11 there was plenty of prior warning and full knowledge that Benghazi, Libya was a danger zone. State Department officials have given testimony that they had asked for increased security. Testimony from the head of an elite security force in Libya said that he expected an attack and the U.S. was the "last flag flying" in Benghazi. Middle East expert, Michael W. Hanna, said radical Salafi groups had been planning for weeks to demonstrate at U.S. embassies and consulates on Sept. 11. These plans were hardly secret. Eric Nordstrom, the regional security officer in Libya, referenced a State Department document detailing 230 security incidents in Libya between June 2011 and July 2012 that demonstrated the danger there to Americans. Nordstrom told the Congressional committee that he sent two cables to State Department headquarters in March and July 2012 requesting additional diplomatic security agents for Benghazi, but that he received no responses. There was more, but common sense alone should have told us that with the upcoming September 11, 2012 that security should have been strengthened. It was not, Americans were clearly left abandoned in harm's way.

On the very day of the attack it was known within minutes that this was a terrorist attack and not a street uprising. Heavy weapons were used in a highly organized attack. Also within minutes members of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi were in communication with Washington in regard to the ongoing attack. There is little question that this quickly spread to the CIA, the National Security Administration, the Sate Department, the Department of Defense, to NATO, and to other intelligence agencies...and certainly to the White House. There are also reports that a live video of the attack exists but for some reason this is being kept under wraps, not even allowing a Congressional Committee to see it. All of the organizations above within a very short period of time knew that this was a terrorist attack. Yet during this attack on the United States of America the Obama administration did nothing. The attack on the consulate that lasted 6 hours resulted in the murder of 4 Americans. They were (let's name all of them, they were real people and Americans): Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty, and Sean Smith. The United States did nothing, just watched the destruction of our consulate and the murder of 4 Americans, didn't even try to scramble military jets, or any other means of defense.

After this attack on the United States of America President Obama left Washington to go to Las Vegas to campaign.

The next day and for several days (even weeks) thereafter, even though there was more than enough information to know this was a terrorist attack and not just a street uprising, President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Press Secretary Jay Carney, UN Ambassador Susan Rice (repeatedly) told the American people either by direct statements, or by inference, that the attack on the consulate was caused by an obscure anti-Muslim video on YouTube. They even apologized for it. Yet it was KNOWN that it was a terrorist attack. The American people were purposely lied to. To compound the lie even further, in a recent Vice Presidential debate, VP Joe Biden said they had no knowledge of the threats to the consulate prior to September 11, and that "intelligence" told them that it was due to an uprising, and it was only later that they found out it was a terrorist attack.

 

Since the real truth has been forcing its way out, primarily through Congressional testimony, the Obama administration has back tracked, but unbelievably still remains fuzzy, on the fact that it was indeed, a terrorist attack.

 

Benghazi is MULTITUDES greater and worse than Watergate. It shows a major failure in leadership. It shows a failure of the Obama Mid East foreign policy. It shows a lack of competency in the assessment and protection of U. S. territory, our consulate. It shows a failure to act in defense of our country that was attacked. It shows outright lies to the American people and a cover up by the Obama administration, apparently for political purposes.

 

Most discouraging of all it shows the corruption of the major media sources in America. The attack on our country, the murder of Americans, and the deception / cover up by our government SHOULD have been front page news over the past month. It was not.

 

Our country was attacked. Four Americans, including a high level government official were murdered. Major lies and a cover up were given to the American people, not facts and the truth.

The Shift of the Democratic Party

The Democratic Party of 2012 is drastically different than the Democratic Party of 1960 during the era of President John F. Kennedy. In the past it was known as the "party of the people" and genuinely cared about people and those in REAL need. However, the party platform today, either written or unwritten, includes approval of abortion, euthanasia, and the marriage of two people of the same sex. A key speaker at the Democratic Convention was the President of Planned Parenthood, an organization that takes the lives of over 350,000 children per year. (Imagine!) It includes a strong strain of socialism, something that we considered evil during the Cold War. At the recent Democratic Convention they had to vote on the inclusion of God, and the recognition of Israel. The acclamation vote actually appeared to be more in favor of exclusion, rather than inclusion. For appearance purposes it was forced to look like the vote was for inclusion, but to even raise the question if God and Israel should be mentioned or excluded should be an eye opener for everyone.

The party convention had a speaker who represented the need for free contraception for women as part of "women's rights", and if you are against this, you are against women. The Party seized upon this, in direct violation of the Constitution, to force Catholics and Catholic institutions to offer contraception and early abortion medication contrary to the Catholic faith.

 

The party today believes that you don't have to balance a budget and that a massive debt of over $16 trillion fast approaching $20 trillion is not a problem that needs urgent addressing. It believes in strong federal government control over all aspects of American life. The party believes in distribution of wealth, where money is taken from those who are wealthy, and those who have worked hard all their lives and given to those not only in real need, but to those who choose not to work and who, by choice, wish to be dependent upon the federal government. Dependency on government, not individual initiative and responsibility seems to be a party theme.

 

It does not believe in American exceptionalism, on the contrary, it believes in "mea culpa" that the United States is a major source of the world problems and that we should apologize for our failures. The Democratic Party believes that the United Nations should play a stronger role, not only in the world, but in reference to laws that place the people of America under the UN jurisdiction. Yet this runs contrary to the U.S. Constitution and is a threat to our sovereignty as a nation. The party believes in vastly reduced military strength and presence.

 

Welfare, disability, and voter fraud are allowed to thrive under the current unwritten party platform, as well as illegal immigration. The party also believes that American citizens should pay for the education, healthcare, and living expenses of those who are here illegally where in many cases even American citizens do not receive these benefits.

 

The party does not believe in identifying the #1 threat to the United States and to the world....radical Islamic terrorism. The belief seems to be if it is not mentioned or identified that it will just go away. This places the United States in great jeopardy.

 

The party wishes to force America into expensive and inadequate energy sources while at the same time, not only ignoring, but actually preventing, the realization of readily available domestic energy sources that will lead to complete energy independence.  This would lower costs for all Americans, create millions of jobs, and greatly strengthen our national defense.

 

The Democratic Party today supports union bosses, but not union members. There is a movement underway to take the (sacred) secret ballot away from union member voters, allowing bosses to have a strong intimidation lever. This is only one example of the concentration of more dictatorial power and wealth in the hands of bosses at the detriment of union members. Nowhere has the devastation of union bosses been more detrimentally felt than in education. Through their strong opposition to charter schools (choice), and their disallowance of any type of educational or teacher performance rating, education in the United States has alarmingly deteriorated. Many of our public schools are simply out of control.

 

The Democratic Party today inflames racism and division as a means to divert criticism, and as a means to attempt to rally minorities to the party, it's platform agenda...and for their vote.

 

The Democratic Party of today has moved from being considered the "party of the people" to the party of government and union boss control, and to the party of dependency, not of individual initiative and responsibility.

 

Those that have been life long Democrats and always vote accordingly should think long and hard about voting "Democrat" today.