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The Second Amendment - An Evangelical and Biblical Perspective

M. Baker — 30 Jan 2013 22:17:44 GMT

The tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has generated a huge amount of traffic to this site, not surprisingly, as Christian people are looking for answers in response to the issue of gun control and the Second Amendment. The predictable response to the tragedy is an overarching push by radical, far-Left elements in society and government to ram through draconian gun control and registration schemes, to even calls to repeal the Second Amendment.

The times are not unlike the Clinton era and the run-up to the Millennium. Y2K hysteria was rampant and countless alarmists and fear hustlers had many whipped into a state of irrational worry. I remember it well and was fortunate to be involved in aiding a much needed counter to the extremes of those times. Self-defense and Second Amendment issues were one subject I was involved in.

The reason why this site has seen such a resurgence in search engine generated traffic? Many of the resources generated during those radical times during the Clinton years still remain on this site and are turning up in search engine results. Questions like "a Christian response to gun control," "a biblical perspective towards gun control," and, "biblical basis for gun ownership." Serious minded Evangelical Christians are obviously out looking for credible answers to these questions from valid informational sources. My friends and I are honored to once again be equipped to answer the call.

In recent weeks I have gone back through my Second Amendment area to restore dead research links and update the site to prepare for current trends. As the Spirit-filled, Book of Acts Church in America is engaged in their clear latter days mission and purpose—the heralding of the Gospel to this nation and world—it is imperative we do all we can to maintain Americas unique heritage and identity as the adversary seeks to muzzle and hobble that. In these resources, I believe you will find, as I have, more direction today for the way forward. May we have, and move, with a sense of urgency in evangelism, in 2013 and beyond.

SalemTheSoldier.us - Author's Current Global Assessments

16 Jun 2012 03:23:53 GMT

As Syria comes further unglued, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated, "We are witnessing what is taking place in Syria where a slaughter of civilians pure and simple is transpiring. We see these horrifying pictures of children and aged people. This slaughter is being perpetrated not only by the government of Syria; Syria is being aided and abetted by Iran and Hezbollah. The world needs to behold the focused axis of evil: Iran-Syria-Hezbollah. The true face of the axis of evil is exposed in all its hideousness."

As Assad and Syria - proxy against the West for Iran, China, and Russia, starts to feel the heat of NATO pressure, Iran and the Revolutionary Guard elements operating in Syria will seek to draw Israel into a wider war in a bid to leverage base Arab anger to save his regime.

If Assad or Hezb'Allah use chemical weapons against the Jewish people, Damascus will be totally destroyed. (Isaiah 17:1)

Meanwhile, here in the U.S. I believe we will see parrallel Islamist inspired terrorist attacks in our citys. Our security services have been pretty good up till now stopping terrorists threats against the homeland since 9/11, but degradation in vigilance since then due to the smothering political correctness throughout our society and and penetration of the current administration by Islamist elements like CAIR and the MSA has left us extremely vulnerable.

It is imperative at this time the Spirit-filled church in America pray for our pastors and teachers, and our leadership in all forms , to be prepared for the times ahead.

The Last Crusade?

11 Jul 2011 22:12:19 GMT

Let me share with you some things, for history's sake, for those of you from outside this area and stop by here regularly. I have had a link to Harvest Christian Fellowship and their Crusade site on my front page since the late 90's. The upcoming 2011 Harvest Crusade's schedule, now in their 21st year, brought back some memories for me, memories from back in the early 1980's.

The standard Harvest Crusade history published by the church usually states that the first crusade outreach was at the Pacific Amphitheater in Costa Mesa, California, in 1990. "Officially," yes. But that wasn't where it all really started. The seeds for this were initially planted many years previously.

I recently had opportunity to talk with a few people who were involved with this ministry in the late 70's. They reminisced about the very early years of this church and evangelical events they were involved in, including Hawaii. But most agreed the first notable events were when Pastor Greg Laurie and senior staff at that time took the initiative to engage in a more overt outreach to the local community here in Riverside and put together summer musical/evangelical events at Anza Narrows Park down the street from the church.... [Read more...]

The Muslim Brotherhood [Egypt]

Jon Christian Ryter — 8 Jun 2011 03:20:31 GMT

It was on Jan. 29, 2011 that a radical anti-Jewish Muslim group which calls itself the Answer Coalition held an anti-Hosni Mubarak protest outside of Barack Hussein Obama's temporary abode at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. Since it appeared to be just one more idiot protest in the nation's capital, not too many beltway-and-beyond spectators paid much attention to it. There were just too many homegrown economic problems here to worry about without getting entangled in the family feuds of the feudal lords of the Mideast. Particularly since anyone in America who has spent five minutes studying Islam know there is no such thing as independent, freethinking freedom in Sharialand. But, it's also a safe bet that almost no Americans�even those who were watching the protests in Egypt and who knew that Mubarak's family had fled Egypt three days before�realized this was an omen of very bad things to come.

They should have. Not only should it have told them that there was real trouble brewing in Egypt, but anyone following the dots should have run across the Muslim Brotherhood in their quest to learn who, or what, the Answer Coalition really was since the DC protest was organized by the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslims used the stage to warn the US news media that the unrest in Tunisia and Egypt would spread across the entire Mideast�and the protesters would topple Arab governments that are currently allied with the United States.

Egypt was phase two of what the Muslim Brotherhood actually reiterated during the Washington protest that those behind the protests would overthrow every pro-western Muslim government in the Mideast. The US government, through the Kenyan-born, Indonesian-raised interloper in the White House who favors Islam, failed to hear the message, or ignored it. He chose, instead, to champion the anti-American protests from the podium of the Oval Office as a "democracy movement" in the Mideast. Following the lead of the White House, the mainstream media did the same. Especially when the fluid "democracy protests" flowed into Libya and it appeared to those who are accustomed to being told what they believe, that freedom-minded civilians were attacking the Islamofascist government of Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi. The media, of course, hyped it as a good thing. It may well prove, in the long run for the non-Muslim world, that it was not.

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Taqiyya and Kitman: Then no Arab, Christian or otherwise, can ever really be trusted

Mike Baker — 20 May 2011 04:36:09 GMT

Did "Son of Hamas" Mosab Hassan Yousef dupe the counter-jihad movement?

Few have missed the online cluster that has ensued between well-known "ex-terrorist" Walid Shoebat and Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of jailed Hamas terrorist leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef. Both are high-profile converts to Christianity, live in the United States, and well-known as speakers in Evangelical Christian forums. I have heard them both speak.

The tumult ensued when Shoebat, writing at PajamasMedia.com, citing largely circumstantial evidence (old video interviews), basically accused the young believer Yousef of being a fraud and "double agent." The requisite sinister picture of Yousef accompanying the article rounded out the solemn tone of Shoebat's article.

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The Holocaust Yet To Come

Moshe Feiglin — 13 May 2011 00:30:45 GMT

"There is life after America. Put it on stickers. Blog it. Write it on your social media. Broadcast it at rallies and wherever you can. We do not need American aid. All that we need is to return to our tried and true Jewish identity."

Why Allah Can't Fight For Himself

Paul J. Tetreault, Jr., Esq. — 10 May 2011 23:33:14 GMT

This is a .PDF file I recently found on an old computer of mine. It was produced in 2002 by then online friend, Paul J. Tetreault, Jr., Esq. It was originally produced to be printed out as a pamphlet to be handed out. It shows, from the Koran, why in Muslim's minds, killing infidels (unbelievers) is logical and merciful, than shows from the Bible the proper response of Christians to this. An excellent resource!

Unfortunatly, CitizenSoldier.org is now defunct. A little content from the original site can still be found at the Internet Archive (www.Archive.org.)

"IRANIUM" - The Movie

19 Jan 2011 19:03:43 GMT

The Iranian regime has and continues to threaten the United States, Europe and the world at large. Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has actively executed, supported and funded acts of aggression against U.S. and Western interests worldwide. These actions are clearly outlined in the preamble of the Iranian constitution:

"An Ideological Army in the formation and equipping of the country's defense forces, due attention must be paid to faith and ideology as the basic criteria. Accordingly, the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps are to be organized in conformity with this goal, and they will be responsible not only for guarding and preserving the frontiers of the country, but also for fulfilling the ideological mission of jihad in God's way; that is, extending the sovereignty of God's law throughout the world (this is in accordance with the Koranic verse "Prepare against them whatever force you are able to muster, and strings of horses, striking fear into the enemy of God and your enemy, and others besides them" [8:60])."

Iran has proven through its actions and the actions of its proxies that it intends on upholding the words of their constitution.

Separating Terror from Terrorism [STRATFOR]

By Scott Stewart — 1 Jan 2011 19:09:27 GMT

This is an excellent article to start out the new year. The folks at STRATFOR communications deliver a concise blow to the alarmists and the fear-hustlers who continue to abandon objectivity and impartiality dealing with security threats to employ hysterical hyperbole and lurid media content to advance their own self-serving agendas. This is usually revenue generating blog traffic, or in the case of the TSA, further dehumanizing treatment of the innocent flying public.

Leave it to the true professionals to present balance and perspective, those whose reputation is built on objective truth concerning terrorism.

Into the Valley of Death... The courageous final run of Ladder 118

New York Daily News — 11 Sep 2011 18:34:39 GMT

Was there any photograph that did more to show the courage of the Bravest on that day?

Ladder 118 - six men of courage - captured as they head at speed across the Brooklyn Bridge and into the inferno with the blazing towers of the World Trade Center loomed clearly across the river.

That instant - the final run of Ladder 118, captured by amateur photographer Aaron McLamb still serves as an inspiration and a comfort to the dead men's loved ones 10 years later.

"He knew what was ahead, he knew what he was getting into, and he still went," said VinnieCarla Agnello, whose husband, Joey, rode the ill-fated rig.

"He loved his job, and he loved his guys," the widow said, her eyes filling with tears. "I just wish I could have said goodbye." [Read More...]

Denied, Disrupted, And Diverted - Detoured �Off Mission� in perilous times.

M. Baker — 12 Dec 2010 03:27:45 GMT

The encroachment of Islam in America culture is just another, although more overt, symptom of our national decay, taking root in the rot of already decades present progressive liberalism and religious pluralism�and these present in our own churches! That�s our fault. The one feature of Dr. Hammond�s writing is he puts the burden of responsibility where it belongs�on the Spirit-filled Church; as I argued in A Rear-guard Action, Islam once again a power the Lord providentially permitting on His Church as a prod/correcting force ever since the 7th century.

Rather, put thirty million Evangelicals on American streets, testifying the Gospel message. We already have them. Put thirty million Evangelicals with a Biblical worldview, working outward from well funded churches and seminaries bankrolled by finances not diverted into secular “activist� organizations and useless politician�s campaign coffers. Put thirty million Evangelicals on the streets with a first century book of Acts worldview, rededicated to the transformative power of the Word of God, “declining neither to the right hand, nor to the left� (II Chronicles 34:2 - Proverbs 4:27) engaging the culture and this world with the truth. Give it a year. See what happens. [Read more...]

Holden in the Gap II - Off Mission

Michael A Baker — 13 Oct 2010 04:03:01 GMT

11 October, 2010, personal lecture notes for Evangelism and World Religions class at Veritas Evangelical Seminary.

Holden in the Gap - An Evangelical Response to the Rise of Islam in America.

Michael A Baker — 16 Sep 2010 01:17:51 GMT

In a microcosm of the national debate over the rise of Islam in America and the proposal to build a mosque at Ground Zero, the debate is likewise modeling itself on a smaller scale in the Temecula Valley, Riverside County, California. I received an email from an associate mentioning a lecture that was to take place on 02 September, 2010, in Murrieta. It was to be hosted by Murrieta's Calvary Chapel Bible College (CCBC), in conjunction with the Veritas Evangelical Seminary, which is currently based there.

This lecture was initially a response to the local community's request for Calvary Chapel Bible College and Veritas Evangelical Seminary's position on the mosque that is being proposed by the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley (ICTV) on a piece of land on Nicolas Road near a Baptist church. With the national opposition to the Ground Zero mosque forcefully opposed by a vast majority of Americans, this local issue likewise generated some understandable resistance as well.

Likewise, in the wake of ongoing incidents of domestic terrorism like the attack at Fort Hood (many more stopped short by vigilant Police work), people are justifiably aware, very irritated, and there is a tremendous amount of "push-back" by sensible people against Progressive liberalism's endless blind lecturing on tolerance and religious plurality in the face of reality today. Yet, some Christians have come to accept that anything less than aggressive and violent confrontation with Muslims is "liberalism," "compromise," and weak. This is plain nonsense and these need to dial it down a few notches. Contemporary progressive liberalism is not synonymous with Biblical grace and compassion! In this agitated environment it is the loud and surly who are thus far dominating the discourse.

A Rear-guard Action

Michael A Baker — 29 Jul 2010 01:52:54 GMT

"...Any other method or effort to stop the spread of political, expantionist Islam in America, whether the growth of Muslim "enclaves," Shariah law and the development of "parallel Islamic societies," or the building of the Cordoba Mosque at Ground Zero, will simply be ineffective. They will build that mosque at Ground Zero, regardless of national protest, and what if they don't? They'll just build fifty more someplace else. Does anybody have any real credible ideas to halt the spread of this hostile ideology? I just read another article, one of thousands like them, bluntly titled "Islam Must Be Stopped In America." Seriously? In today's crippling PC socio-political environment?...." [Read the rest...]

Bias against Israel in 'Foreign Affairs' [CFR]

6 Aug 2010 03:25:51 GMT

This is one of my postings at Free Republic, after being emailed by a Jewish friend. Concerns on the content of the latest copy of Foreign Affairs put out by the Councilon Foreign Relations:

""In the current issue of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, the foreign policy journal put out by the Council on Foreign Relations, this full page, color ad appeared on the inside back cover. Look at it carefully. See who is designated as "Resistance" and who is designated as bring "Stability" to the situation. In the upside down, topsy-turvy world of double-speak this is being promulgated via every library in the U.S. as well as in every University and college library.

NOTE: The "transportation link" which effectively bisects Israel into two parts, making it even more vulnerable.

No mention as to who this group is, or who funded this ad? It wasn�t cheap.

PASS THIS ALONG!"" [Read The Rest...]

The Point of No Return

Jeffrey Goldberg — 13 Oct 2010 04:05:16 GMT

For the Obama administration, the prospect of a nuclearized Iran is dismal to contemplate� it would create major new national-security challenges and crush the president�s dream of ending nuclear proliferation. But the view from Jerusalem is still more dire: a nuclearized Iran represents, among other things, a threat to Israel�s very existence. In the gap between Washington�s and Jerusalem�s views of Iran lies the question: who, if anyone, will stop Iran before it goes nuclear, and how? As Washington and Jerusalem study each other intensely, here�s an inside look at the strategic calculations on both sides�and at how, if things remain on the current course, an Israeli air strike will unfold.

Should Israel Bomb Iran? - Better safe than sorry

29 Jul 2010 01:57:58 GMT

By: Reuel Marc Gerecht (The Weekly Standard)
There is only one thing that terrifies Washington�s foreign policy establishment more than the prospect of an American airstrike against Iran�s nuclear-weapons facilities: an Israeli airstrike. Left, right, and center, “sensible� people view the idea with alarm. Such an attack would, they say, do great damage to the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, where Tehran would counterattack, punishing “the Great Satan� (America) for the sins of “the Little Satan� (Israel). An Israeli strike could lead to the closing of the world�s oil passageway, the Strait of Hormuz; prompt Muslims throughout the world to rise up in outrage; and spark a Middle Eastern war that might drag in the United States. Barack Obama�s “New Beginning� with Muslims, such as it is, would be over the moment Israeli bunker-busting bombs hit.

An Israeli “preventive� attack, we are further told, couldn�t possibly stop the Islamic Republic from developing a nuke, and would actually make it more likely that the virulently anti-Zionist supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, would strike Israel with a nuclear weapon. It would also provoke Iran�s Revolutionary Guard Corps to deploy its terrorist assets against Israel and the United States. Hezbollah, the Islamic Revolution�s one true Arab child, would unleash all the missiles it has imported from Tehran and Damascus since 2006, the last time the Party of God and the Jewish state collided. [Read the rest...]

New Special Report: If Israel strikes Iran�s nuclear facilities

28 Jun 2010 02:59:55 GMT

In "The Israeli Threat; An analysis of the Consequences of Israeli Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Facilities", Sam Gardiner examines one possible and increasingly likely outcome of the Iran-West controversy.

If Israel were to decide that it had no choice but to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, what would be the consequences? This is the question Sam Gardiner tackles in this Special Report.

Israel seems to be losing confidence in the commitment of the Obama Administration to protect its interests with respect to Iran. As tensions with the U.S. increase on this and other issues Israel is arguably pushed in a direction that could lead to an attack against Iran sooner rather than later. [Read the rest....]

A Mosque At Ground Zero? Forsaking Israel? What�s Next...A Nuclear Iran?

19 Jun 2010 02:00:45 GMT

Ilario Pantano is running for North Carolina�s 7th Congressional District.

"Cordoba Center" sounds comfortably Latino and almost familiar in a multi-ethnic city like New York. The name�s Spanish origin has a little bit of history too: the Cordoba Mosque in Spain symbolized a gateway to Muslim conquest of Western Europe - a conquest that today is unfolding in real time. But as disturbing as the sharia invasion of the European Union might be, my concern is the new $100 million mosque that will sit smugly just 600 feet from Ground Zero in New York City.

This new Cordoba Mosque will occupy a building that was literally struck by pieces of an exploding passenger aircraft deliberately piloted into the World Trade Center by martyrs shouting “Allahu Akbar.� The suggestion that this mysteriously funded mosque is anything other than a permanent demonstration of Islam�s march on the West is na�ve at best.

This Cordoba Mosque is not benign. It is not about reconciliation or understanding. It is about marking religious, ideological and territorial conquest. This mosque is a martyr-marker honoring the terrorists who less than a decade ago killed thousands of us just two blocks away, and it must be stopped.

[Read the rest....]

How radical Islam might defeat the West: A reprise

20 Mar 2010 01:17:41 GMT

This was published today in Asia Times. The choices continue to get harder. As Barack Obama is, and will prove to be, a weaker president than Jimmy Carter, this only leaves Israel to shoulder the hard choices and take the lead in saving [if it is indeed still worth saving] Western civilization.

"A decade ago I argued that radical Islam might horrify the West into submission through the mass sacrifice of Muslim lives. During the past two weeks Iran has virtually invited a nuclear exchange with the West, in a series of statements that blend a deranged sort of bluster with malevolent calculation.

Iran's Kayhan press service warned last week, "If the US strikes Iran with nuclear weapons, there are elements which will respond with nuclear blasts in the centers of America's main cities." Meanwhile, Behzad Soltani, the number two man at Iran's Atomic Commission, proclaimed last week, "Iran will join the world nuclear club within a month in a bid to deter possible attacks on the country," adding, "No country would even think about attacking Iran once it is in the club." ..." [Read more]

Imagining an Israeli Strike on Iran

31 Mar 2010 21:05:54 GMT
"In 1981, Israel destroyed Iraq�s nuclear reactor at Osirak, declaring it could not live with the chance the country would get a nuclear weapons capability. In 2007, it wiped out a North Korean-built reactor in Syria. And the next year, the Israelis secretly asked the Bush administration for the equipment and overflight rights they might need some day to strike Iran�s much better-hidden, better-defended nuclear sites.
They were turned down, but the request added urgency to the question: Would Israel take the risk of a strike? And if so, what would follow? [New York Times - Read More]
Editor's Note: That this was printed in the New York Times should give one pause. I believe the global political/cultural arena is being primed to face the eventuality of an Israeli strike on Iran, as I have been saying for years.

(Fort Hood) Mark Steyn: Shooter exposes hole in U.S. terror strategy

7 Nov 2009 21:28:33 GMT
"Thirteen dead and 28 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, it is not merely a "tragedy" (as too many people called it) but a glimpse of a potentially fatal flaw at the heart of what we have called, since 9/11, the "war on terror." Brave soldiers trained to hunt down and kill America's enemy abroad were killed in the safety and security of home by, in essence, the same enemy � a man who believes in and supports everything the enemy does.
And he's a U.S. Army major...."

USS New York (LPD-21)

4 Nov 2009 19:25:04 GMT
USS New York (LPD-21)
A notable day in this generational war against Islamic terrorism.
Don't fail to see the historical symbolism!

Statesmanship and Its Betrayal - Mark Helprin

2 Nov 2009 01:01:03 GMT
I first read this in 1998; forwarded by an elder statesman on one of the many email lists I was on in the eve of the Clinton administration. It is more relevant today - the need for reform in Washington and American politics - than it was then.
Sarah Palin haters have little to throw against her but third-grader school yard insults and empty ad hominem attacks against her and her family. The vaccuous, empty substance of progressive liberalism continues to be laid bare before society.
But the most vile attackers are the staus-quo, corrupt old derelicts of the GOP, from Newt Gingrich, to McCain backers, and on down the line. The biggest threat a Palin campaign - and the return of true statesmanship - is to them. As it should be. The PDF file is here.

The Moral Compass Of The Nation

13 Jul 2009 01:23:10 GMT
Bill Barnstead was an online friend of my associate, Jon Christian Ryter. He recently passed away and Jon has written an excellent obituary for the man. I took the liberty of reposting one of Bill's more notable commentaries on the site. It has to be one of the most concise summations of the recklessness and treachery of elitist Republican decision making, offered in the wake of the GOP decline.
In my interpretation, a "Conservative" is someone who seeks to conserve the values and ethics which many of the older generation � those which built this country � held, and do hold dear. Bill Barnstead was one of those older generation whose lives and worldview I personally continue to uphold and study.

"...The Election of 2006 was more than just a repudiation of a president who tarnished the mantle of the Reagan legacy. It was a repudiation of globalism. It was a repudiation of unsecured borders. It was a repudiation of amnesty for illegal aliens. But most of all, it was a repudiation of an Administration that sold it's soul for 30 pieces of silver. That is the reason the voters could not overlook the corruption by Republicans when they ignored even worse corruption by Democrats. Conservatives are supposed to be the good guys. They are required to have integrity�and all of the other Christian qualities that are needed to make good citizens....[Read more....]

The Domestic Extremism Lexicon

24 May 2009 02:38:12 GMT
My recent letter to the local paper:
While the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) threat analysis on "right-wing extremism" and slander of military veterans has been in the headlines, a lesser known document entitled "Domestic Extremism Lexicon" was also released, and not surprisingly at this point, also recalled by DHS. The document details terminology, one assumes, law enforcement is to be on the lookout for in incidental contact with "extremists."
Although this document was more broad brush in its assault on political thought, the inclusion of the "alternative media" was especially troubling. With the downward spiral of the main stream media into superficiality and propaganda, devoid of impartiality and objectivity, people have had no choice but to turn to the alternative media over the last decade to hold government accountable. Thus, the government monopoly on information has been overthrown.
So First Amendment protected bloggers like Michelle Malkin, Noam Chomsky; web sites like Democrat Underground and Free Republic are now ascribed sinister motives? Is anyone with a clue in charge now at DHS?
At the least, this should wake up the Left to the ideological bent of the Napolitano DHS. At the most, with the collapse of the Republican GOP as a viable bulwark against big government, George Orwell may still be vindicated by his classic "1984," as Big Brother is realized � incredibly � in the American experience.

Now, Seize Freedom!

15 Feb 2009 21:06:07 GMT
Welcome to "Republican Rock Bottom."
Possessed of no vision, no principle, no purpose, and no appeal, we deserved our fate.
Now, seize freedom!
Finally, we are divorced from self-deceits. Dead is the self-indulgent imbecility of "re-branding" -- as if the Republican Party was a corporate product to be repackaged, not a transformational political movement to be led. Despite what the media will tell you, and what so-called "conservative leaders" will discuss ad nauseam during "secret" meetings, this situation is not a crisis. It is an opportunity. Today, we are as the Great Emancipator proclaimed during another time of national trial: unbound by the tired dogmas of the past; and free to think and act anew.
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Enemies of Capitalism

15 Feb 2009 21:09:37 GMT
New Rule: neomercantilists, neoconservatives, and statists are no longer allowed to call themselves "free marketers." People who call themselves free marketers such as Bush, Paulson, Greenspan, and Bernanke are the primary threat capitalism faces. These false prophets of capitalism are the greatest friends that proponents of socialism have.
Many prominent American figures claim to be proponents of free markets but in practice advocate neomercantilist, corporate welfare policies. These policies eventually, and unsurprisingly, lead to disastrous economic and social consequences. These catastrophes are then blamed on capitalism, free markets, and deregulation, at which point, socialists are easily able to convince the distraught public that capitalism is a failed experiment and only massive government intervention in the markets can save them. Such is the way that capitalism dies, eaten away by a cancer from within.
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Another Bush Requiem

6 Feb 2009 04:10:08 GMT
Well, that didn�t end too well.
There have been a few excellent commentaries from Conservative writers in the nascent post-Bush era; a few because of the many already lacking in any productive self-critiquing of the last eight years. Bush went from the highest in recorded Presidential history post-9/11, to some of the lowest in Gallup poll history, competing with Nixon and Truman in the low 20�s when they left office. The Republican Party went from unprecedented control of the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House, at the beginning of the Millennium, to a complete rout in 2008, with losses on the state and local level.
What happened? Let's exercise a little long lost objectivity, braving the inevitable accusation of "Bush Hater," and review the more notable highlights of the last eight years....

From the Church (Mosque) to the Schoolhouse to the White House

David J. Jonsson — 13 Nov 2007 05:18:12 GMT
One might ask why it is important to understand the relation between the Leftist/Marxist � Islamist Alliance and the Emerging Movement among Churches and Mosques. It is because it indicates the movement of a historically conservative church and other organizations into the fold. These Emerging Church and Mosque Movements are the elephants in the pew. The Radical Islamist Movement has realized that the tactical weapons of terrorism and suicide bombing may not be achieving their goal for world domination, and that seduction, economics and political action are more effective in winning the war. In the letter: A Common Word Between Us and You the strategy is apparent in their conference of September 2007 held under the theme of “Love in the Quran.� In this essay, I address how the Leftist/Marxist � Islamist Alliance is approaching the goal of achieving a one religion and one-world government.

The Leftist/Marxist � Islamist Alliance Aligns Against Jerusalem

David J. Jonsson — 28 Oct 2007 17:35:03 GMT
...Failure to adhere to fundamental principles of our Judeo-Christian beliefs will be the signs of weakness that will only strengthen the hands of those who have already declared that we are their enemies.
Four ideologies � Judeo/Christian based on the Bible, Islam based on the Qur�an/Hadith, Mormonism based on the Book of Mormon, and none of the above. They can not all be right, you have to make a decision, the future depends on it�it is crunch time.
Given this equation, any near term trigger event in Egypt would garner at least the same global attention as any other Middle East regional conflict. The red line is not “peace� in our time, but where will the West and Israel stand on Jerusalem and the “Temple Mount�.

The US has been warned, and warned, and warned again

Stan Goodenough — 28 Oct 2007 17:29:43 GMT
The California wildfires, which are slowly being brought under control as I write this, began on October 20, two days after Secretary of State Rice completed a four-day visit to the Middle East.
Bush and Rice are squeezing Israel into making more concessions to please the Palestinian Arabs so that they will go to Annapolis next month.
There the plans are meant to be formulated that will lead to the uprooting of tens of thousands of Jews from their Judean and Samarian homes, the destruction of their property, and the final and irreversible handing over of that territory to the murderous and antisemitic PLO.
As Washington pushes, California burns, and a million Americans have had to flee their homes.
For the Bible believer who takes God at His Word when He promises to deal severely with the nations that hurt His people, it�s legitimate to ask:
Has God allowed the fires that have burned up 700 square miles of American land as a warning to the Bush administration to stop pushing Israel towards a peace that can bring no peace?
And if Rice goes ahead, turns the screws and forces Israel to the negotiating table in Maryland, will something even more devastating come upon the United States?
I am terribly afraid that it will.

Sovereign Wealth Funds � a Potential Tool of Asymmetric Warfare

David J. Jonsson — 13 Aug 2007 02:00:28 GMT
Liberal democracy, led by the United States may have emerged triumphant from the struggles of the 20th century. But the rise of the non-democratic powers of Russia, China and the Islamist states utilizing the combined power of control of energy resources and the growth of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) leaves the liberal democracy�s ultimate victory and future dominance in doubt. Overseas investments by Sovereign Wealth Funds have always had the potential to cause alarm in the destination countries. Because they are driven by governments of the totalitarian and Authoritarian Great Powers, they compel countries to take immediate attention.
How powerful Sovereign Wealth Funds decide to invest their vast armory of cash will play a pivotal role in reshaping financial markets in the next decade. These funds are going to have the ability to buy any global company, to create panic in markets if they move too precipitously, even to dwarf the political clout of international financial institutions. They can no longer be ignored.
The Sovereign Wealth Funds are potentially a powerful tool of asymmetric warfare like none we have witnessed before.

Divide and conquer

Ed Lasky — 13 Jul 2007 03:39:03 GMT
This is a blog entry I posted at Free Republic from American Thinker by Ed Lasky. It seems the enemy has set his sights square on tearing down the fortress which is Evangelical support of the Jews and national Israel.

The battle has begun, indeed.

Appeasement � The Liberal-Islamic Strategy

David J. Jonsson — 13 Jul 2007 03:39:00 GMT
The real force behind the Gaza mayhem seems to be, a combined al Qaeda and Iran strategy, strange bedfellows perhaps, but for the time being, closely-linked partners in a common strategic goal to establish "Hamastan" as a forward base for Global terrorism. Al Qaeda's ultimate objective is to destabilize and destroy the moderate Arab nations, first in line post-Mubaraq's Egypt, then the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and finally, the Sunni cradle of Saudi Arabia. A similar aim is Tehran's Shiite Crescent strategy - thus both partners are united, even if their spiritual inheritance differs widely and even conflicts sharply, in their religious deism. See also my article: Caliphatism - Establishing the "Islamic Kingdom of God on Earth".

It should be noted that The Fatah-Hamas differences concern personnel, approaches, and tactics. They share allies and goals. Tehran arms bothHamas and Fatah.

The “moderate� terrorists of Fatah and the bad terrorists of Hamas equally indoctrinate children with a barbaric creed of “martyrdom.� Both agree on eliminating the Jewish state. Neither shows a map with Israel present, or even Tel Aviv.

The Gaza Strip is now firmly in the control of Hamas, a radical terrorist group funded by Iran and Syria.� Some have called Gaza “Hamastan�, expecting that the area will become an Islamic quasi-state akin to Iran where Shariah law is strictly enforced.�The fear is that Gaza will become a Lebanon-like Hamastan, a wasps� nest that in the future will attract al-Qaeda men and extensions of Iran. All of these things are coming to life before our very eyes....

Allies - Standing With Israel In The Coming Storm

Michael Baker - SalemTheSoldier.us — 17 Jun 2007 21:41:41 GMT
"...Professor Daniel Pipes' recent analysis, "Israeli Jets vs. Iranian Nukes," in response to the Whitney Raas and Austin Long's (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) paper, "Osirak Redux? Assessing Israeli Capabilities to Destroy Iranian Nuclear Facilities," is yet again another harbinger of the impending clash between Iran and the West. Professor Pipes postulates that the widest possible dissemination of this paper could deter Iran from proceeding with its nuclear weapons program.
Although that proposition is laudable, it is not probable...."

Nationalization � A Plan for World Domination

David J. Jonsson — 17 Jun 2007 21:35:43 GMT
"The Leftist/Marxist � Islamist Alliance is utilizing the weapons of economics, energy and immigration to wrest control of the Western world. The Alliance through their operatives in the U.S. and the EU has furthered the progress of world domination and Islamization though appeasement, open borders, lack of fiscal disciple and greed among the populous, government leaders, financial advisors and banks seeking near term gains.
The U.S. and its allies need to understand who the enemy is and their goals, and put forward a plan for survival of the freedoms and liberty we enjoy. Commercial interests, and not security, are driving our actions as they did then prior to WW II.
This image will not be improved by elites counted among the Leftist/Marxist � Islamist Alliance who have not only abandoned, but are attacking their own people, selling out their historical legacy to their worst enemies, and muzzling those who object to this. It is going to be interesting for future historians to unveil how many senior Western leaders or bureaucrats, bankers and corporate leaders have been bought and paid by petrodollars. " [Author David J. Jonsson]

U.S. Policy Toward Iran and Russia

21 May 2007 05:00:21 GMT
After September 11, Bush explained that the attacks showed that the friend of your enemy is also your enemy. As he put it last September, “America makes no distinction between those who commit acts of terror, and those that harbor and support them, because they�re equally guilty of murder.�
Bush failed to note the converse of that reality: the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend and ally. Here the distinction generally relates to Sunnis and Shiites. We fail to grasp that just because Shiites and Sunnis are rivals don�t mean that they will join forces with the U.S. to fight one another, or won�t join forces with one another to fight the U.S. to accomplish their goal of establishing the Islamic kingdom of God and return the caliphate. This and the failure to recognize the goals of Russia have and will continue to cause the Americans no end of difficulty. We also fail to recognize that that these forces have also joined with the Leftists.
There is an Arab saying to the effect that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.� While this may be the standard for many countries in the Middle East, it is not the standard by which a democratic nation like the United States can afford to operate.
Equally important is to recognize that Russia and China are also linked with mutual interests � world domination and that Russia is neither the friend of the EU or the U.S.
Unfortunately, these forces have combined into the alliance of the Leftist/Marxist and Islamists � with the common goal of world domination. [Author David J. Jonsson]

Islamic Economics and the Final Jihad: The Muslim Brotherhood to the Leftist/Marxist - Islamist Alliance

29 Apr 2007 18:08:49 GMT
"In the early months of 2006 as the news of the Dubai Ports World (DPW) (a maritime company controlled by the UAE government) acquisition of Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) and their subsequent control of 24 terminals at six major U.S. ports broke from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a firestorm of controversy broke nationally. The detractor�s response was attacked as “xenophobic hysteria,� bigotry, and racism against Arabs (snarl words usually employed by the radical left against their hapless targets), by free market proponents, yet the majority of Americans, their sons and daughter at war with Islamic terrorism, instinctively sensed a threat. Few were able to clearly articulate why."

"That threat no longer remains veiled. David J. Jonsson, author of 'The Clash of Ideologies - The Making of the Christian and Islamic Worlds' has thoroughly and meticulously exposed the threat in his newest work, 'ISLAMIC ECONOMICS AND THE FINAL JIHAD - The Muslim Brotherhood to the Leftist/Marxist - Islamist Alliance.'"

[My review of author David J. Jonsson's latest work. David J. Jonsson has an ongoing series addressing economics, energy policy, and Islam hosted at Salem The Soldier's Homepage - America At War. David J. Jonsson]

Global Threats Leading to the Leftist/Marxist � Islamist Takeover

David J. Jonsson — 2 Apr 2007 00:03:53 GMT
"...In order to understand the issues faced by the West it is necessary to review history and look at the many factors that are currently leading to the almost intractable solution to the crisis developing worldwide.
The future enemies of Europe and the United States will be a mutation of current and past foes both domestically and internationally. In confronting these forces, knowledge of their ideaologies, objectives and determination will make all the difference. The domestic foes may be either sympathizers or via actual operatives. In the period following the downfall of the Soviet Union, this is the first time that favorable conditions have emerged on the side of the Leftist and Islamists around the world to challenge the hegemony of the West. " [Author David J. Jonsson]

Will Arab Muslim �Allies� Support the West in a Time of Crisis?

David J. Jonsson — 2 Apr 2007 00:02:21 GMT
"...Without diminishing the threat posed by the near term events in the Middle East, it is important nonetheless to recognize that they are a distraction, a deliberate provocation designed to keep our eyes focused on the wrong enemy. The true threat is and always has been the worldwide communist movement, spearheaded by Russia, and Communist China. While the Iraq and Iran crises continues, the strategy of the Grand Chess Masters�Russia the bear and China the dragon, along with their pawns the Leftists, Marxists and Islamists, continue to develop and put in place their strategy for the ultimate goal of world domination. See my article: The Grand Chess Masters�The Bear and the Dragon." [Author David J. Jonsson]

Iraq, Iran, Global Warming and The Apocalypse

David J. Jonsson — 7 Mar 2007 05:06:06 GMT
"...Europe followed by America stand at the precipice, will they succumb to a hedonist Leftist future scenario and then becoming Islamicized either through the actions of Leftist/Marxist � Alliance or nuclear Holocaust or will they reestablish their Judeo-Christian heritage. The loss of Europe and America may occur by virtue of a collapsed population, faith and identity. The center of the Christian Faith is the Lord Jesus Christ who was crucified for our sins and raised for our salvation. Without Christ there is no Christianity. Which will it be? It is not possible to determine the outcome, but YOU, the people living in Europe and America can influence the outcome. Decision time is fast approaching." [Author David J. Jonsson]

Moscow-Tehran Ties

Colonel Oliver North for FOX News — 23 Feb 2007 02:50:12 GMT
"...Last week Mr. Putin told European leaders gathered in Munich "the United States has overstepped its national borders in every way." He claimed that the U.S. is forcing weaker nations to “acquire weapons of mass destruction" and defended Moscow's recent sale of $700 million worth of TOR-M1 anti-aircraft batteries to Iran. And in an effort to sound less like a bear and more like a Democrat running for the U.S. presidency, he declared that “wars, local and regional conflicts, have only grown in number" and charged America with taking "unilateral, illegitimate actions" in Iraq and elsewhere that "have not managed to resolve any problems, but made them worse." "
[Ed. Note: Iran is just a proxy for resurgent Russian aims in the Gulf region. We'll keep an eagle eye on the Bear....]

Using the Oil Weapon and Sanctions to Avert War With Iran

David J. Jonsson — 15 Feb 2007 05:32:56 GMT
"...Little do the people waging "the war against the war" know that, in exchange for a temporary political advantage, they are gravely endangering America�s security and well-being, ultimately even their own. The Fantasy Island seekers will neither speak nor confront the present existence and inexorable rise of systems of government that do not exactly wish to deliver the higher realms of personal, sexual, and want-less liberty the One Worlders envision. America is the magnet for bright and ambitious people. It also makes America a target. The U.S. is also becoming one of the last holdouts of the traditional Judeo-Christian ideology. America takes it for granted, but it is not as available in other countries of the world. Ultimately, it's an issue of culture. The only people who can hurt America are themselves, by losing their culture and will to win. If they give up their Judeo-Christian culture, they will become just like the Europeans. If they lose it, there isn't another America to pull us out." [Author David J. Jonsson]

Wakeup America � Understand the Mind of the Jihadist

David J. Jonsson — 27 Jan 2007 01:03:40 GMT
"The war on terror might be lost not on the streets of Baghdad but in the corridors of Congress. A divided America and Anti-Americanism serves our enemies well. Soon we may see a vote in Congress that says, "We can't stop the surge plan, but we don't support it." It is time for America to understand who the enemy is, the murderous ideology that is driving them and their strategy for success. This would be the Islamist's greatest fear.
It is important to understand that the goal of the Jihadists is � following in the footsteps of Muhammad � to create the "Islamic kingdom of God on Earth." The primary goal is not to conquer lands but to Islamize the world. The drive is to instill Islamic law (Shariah) into both Muslim society and the entire world, and ultimately to recreate society under their interpretation of the law. The strategy is to utilize the sword of Islam...." [Author David J. Jonsson]

A rabbi's warning to U.S. Christians

Rabbi Daniel Lapin — 15 Jan 2007 03:40:08 GMT
...If they succeed, Christianity will be driven underground, and its benign influence on the character of America will be lost. In its place we shall see a sinister secularism that menaces Bible believers of all faiths. Once the voice of the Bible has been silenced, the war on Western Civilization can begin and we shall see a long night of barbarism descend on the West.
Without a vibrant and vital Christianity, America is doomed, and without America, the West is doomed.
Which is why I, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, devoted to Jewish survival, the Torah and Israel am so terrified of American Christianity caving in.
Many of us Jews are ready to stand with you. But you must lead. You must replace your timidity with nerve and your diffidence with daring and determination. You are under attack. Now is the time to resist it.

�No Substitute for Victory� - The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism

Web Master — 14 Jan 2007 18:48:16 GMT
This article, by Dr. John Lewis, assistant professor of history at Ashland University and contributing editor of The Objective Standard, was both forwarded to me and posted at FREE REPUBLIC.

It was fascinating because, although he promotes ideas to defeat Islamic totalitarianism founded in a WWII era American militray culture which crushed Japan and smashed the Weirmacht into junk, the fact that American culture today is vastly different than during the 40' a 50's is not addressed.

Specifically, The Objectivist is anti-faith because of their secular humanist foundation. Yet the fact that America's Judeo/Christian culture and heritage had not been severely undermined, as today, as well as the crippling effects of multi-culturalism and other decidedly un-American trends over the years, guarntees American failure in the was against Islamic terror.

The moral relativism rampant in American culture today because Christianity continues to be marginalized by organizations like The Objectivist provides the moral vacuum for Islam to spread as a "fith column" in American culture, and treason from within.

Islamic Economics and Shariah Law: A Plan for World Domination

David J. Jonsson — 21 Dec 2006 04:36:31 GMT
"My goal today is to put you into the mind of an Islamist�to think like an Islamist. It is only possible to understand the events occurring by understanding their thinking and what it would mean to live under Shariah law. There is a well-worn clich� “It�s the economy stupid� that appears around election times. So it is with Islamic Economics and the Clash of Ideologies we are witnessing today. " "It should be realized that the goal of the Islamists, following in the footsteps of Muhammad, is not so much to conquer the land but to Islmanize the populations. In so doing they seek to have the lands come under Shariah law and that the lands become dar al-Islam�the land of Islam and that all non-Muslims accept the status of Dhimmis�subservient to Muslim rule. The Plan involves the incremental acceptance of basic tenants of Shariah law as applied to all aspects of life�the Islamic “Way of Life�. This implies the desire to incrementally change the laws and ultimately the Constitution of the U.S. This requires the population to accept the new laws as equally valid and acceptable. Initially this will result in parallel legal systems and progressing from there with laws that may be applied locally and ultimately nationally. Jihad can be with the pen and the tongue, just as it can be the sword and the spear as Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has said. Knowledge combined with economic control can be wielded with the precision of a sharp sword to effect any desired social/political change necessary for the fulfillment of Islam�s goal." [Author David J. Jonsson]

The Grand Chess Masters�The Bear and the Dragon

David J. Jonsson — 17 Nov 2006 03:24:53 GMT
"While the Iraq crisis continues, the strategy of the Grand Chess Masters�Russia the bear and China the dragon, along with their pawns the Leftists, Marxists and Islamists, continue to develop and put in place their strategy for the ultimate goal of world domination. ... The game has started and the strategies for “Checkmate� are in place. It is time for America and the West to wake up. The “Cold War� has not ended, the nuclear armed totalitarian regimes have united, and this time they have added the Islamists who are willing to die for the cause." - Author David J. Jonsson

Nuclear Proliferation�Options In A Perfect Storm

David J. Jonsson — 12 Nov 2006 15:45:39 GMT
Nuclear proliferation is once again at the top of the U.S. national security agenda, spurred by the progress of weapons programs in North Korea and as the Iranian government announced last week a doubling of its uranium enrichment program. The chief of the judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, praised “the fasting people taking part in the rally [who] are chanting slogans such as �death to America� and �death to Israel.�� His speech was on Quds Day, an Iranian holiday introduced by Ayatollah Khomeini that is marked on the last Friday of Ramadan.... Author David J. Jonsson.

Caliphatism - Establishing the 'Islamic Kingdom of God on Earth'

David J. Jonsson — 12 Nov 2006 15:45:39 GMT
In his short story, “The Metamorphosis,� Franz Kafka described the transformation of a human into a vermin. He could also have written the plot for the mutation of the Christian nations into the coming new caliphate--one world under Islam--a world without borders. After all, Gregor Samsa found himself transformed into an insect one morning. Thus, Samsa lies in a room, examines his new physical state, and considers how he will be able to explain being late for work. Samsa does not waste any time thinking about why he has become an insect and how to escape the situation. Instead, there is only apathy, quiet resignation--the man accepts the undeniability of the surreal situation. He lies quietly with shallow breath--thinking, feeling, and acting as if he were unchanged. ...There is not that much of a difference between the metamorphosis of a person into an insect and that of a group of states into a caliphate. - Author David J. Jonsson