Freedom-Fighters Forum

By Dr. Thomas Sowell

“The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date of what President Barack Obama’s America looks like. It is an America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and destroy the lives of those who have sacrificed greatly.

“It is an America where history is rewritten to honor dictators, murderers and thieves. It is an America where violence, racism, hatred, class warfare and murder are all promoted as acceptable means of overturning the American civil society.

“It is an America where humans have been degraded (more…)

William J. Dell
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

Our Founding Fathers stated in the Preamble of our Constitution that one of its purposes was to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” In 1937, Stephen Vincent Benét wrote a short story called The Devil and Daniel Webster. From it I have taken the following quote:

Yes, Dan’l Webster’s dead – or, at least, they buried him. But every time there’s a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, “Dan’l –  Dan’l Webster!” the ground’ll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after awhile you’ll hear a deep voice saying, “Neighbor, neighbor, how stands the Union?” Then you better answer, “The Union stands as she stood – oak-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible!” or he’s liable to rear right out of the ground.

Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American Statesman, Senator and prominent conservative from Massachusetts during the period leading up to the Civil War. He served 29 years in the Congress and as Secretary of State for three presidents. How would We the People answer his supposed query from the grave today? How would we respond to, “Neighbor, neighbor, how stands the Union?” Could we truthfully answer, “The Union stands as she stood – oak-bottom and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible?!” I think not. (more…)

William J. Dell –
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

Well did Thomas Paine say, “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”

After Alexis de Tocqueville, a French Jurist, visited America in 1831, he wrote, “I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there.  Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.  America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

This great nation was founded by those fleeing religious persecution from the tyrannical governments of Europe. Religious liberty was of so great importance to them and our Founding Fathers that they ensured our right to religious freedom as item one in our Bill of Rights. The First Amendment of our Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; . . .” [Emphasis added.]

On 29 January, from the pulpits of every Catholic Parish in the United States, a letter was read (more…)

I was at the corner grocery store buying some early potatoes when I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean, hungrily apprising a basket of freshly picked green peas.

I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas. I am a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes.

Pondering the peas, I couldn’t help overhearing the conversation between Mr. Miller (the store owner) and the ragged boy next to me.

‘Hello Barry, how are you today?’

‘H’lo, Mr. Miller. Fine, thank ya. Jus’ admirin’ them peas. They sure look good.’

‘They are good, Barry. (more…)

By William J. Dell
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

O God, our Father, it is with grateful hearts that we acknowledge Thy hand in all things and recognize; that Thou hast promised us Eternal Life with Thee through our obedience and the Atonement of thy Son, Jesus Christ; that Thou hast given unto us our loving spouses and goodly parents; that Thou hast provided home and clothing to shelter our family from the storms of life and a bounteous harvest with which to provide for our needs; that Thou hast granted unto us personal strength and charity that we might serve Thee and our neighbor, who may be sick or afflicted, poor or needy, or who may have cause to mourn; that Thou through Thine Divine Providence hast granted to us our unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty and Property in this great land of the United States.

Hear now, O God, our prayer for an ungodly nation. Deliver us from deceitful and unjust politicians and send us Statesmen who will honor their oath of office and defend the Constitution which Thou hast caused to be established. Hear the prayers of Thy faithful children as they ascend to Thee that we, as a nation, might remain free and have Thy help to turn us from our wicked ways; that our national sins might be forgiven; and, that Thou might thereby heal our land.

Cleanse our land of the ills of Progressive Ideology that destroys initiative and self-reliance through covetous greed; that bends equal-justice, or opportunity, into social-justice which has already enslaved 47% of our citizens; that creates attitudes of entitlement that rob Thy children of their unalienable right to Liberty; that bend private ownership, Christian charity and brotherly love into the compulsion of state redistribution. Cleanse us from unwise and unsound fiscal policies and laws which deny entrepreneurs and risk takers of the just reward of their labors and have burdened our nation with a $15 Trillion debt. Cleanse us from the genocide of abortion which has murdered more than 53 Million unborn children of God destroying their unalienable right to Life.

Help us, O God, to have the fortitude, courage and faith of our ancestors, our fathers and mothers, they who built, with Thy aid, the greatest nation the world has ever known, a nation that has stood as a beacon of hope to all those chained by tyranny and oppression throughout the world. Grant us now the will and determination to make the hard choices which confront us to restore our Constitutional Republic to that which our Founding Fathers gave us through Thy divine providence. Grant Almighty God, through Thine divine help that we, as a nation, might once again “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

In the blessed name of Jesus Christ, our Savior and the Redeemer of the World. Amen.

May God Bless and Save the United States of America.
Our Constitutional Republic !

MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY

Some belated parental advice to protesters.

Marybeth Hicks
Columnist
The Washington Times
Oct 18, 2011

Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?”

As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement” — now known as “OWS” — whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: “Everything for everybody.”

Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it’s clear there are people with serious designs on “transformational” change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel.

Yet it’s not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I’m the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters’ moms clearly have not passed along.

Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters’ mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn’t, so I will: (more…)

A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night.

As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. (Stay with this…..and pay attention)

The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Co-op.

The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her “services” on credit.

The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel Owner. (Almost done…keep reading)

The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town now thinks that they are out of debt and there is a false atmosphere of optimism and glee.

And that, my friends, is how a “stimulus package” works!

Barack Obama and the Infantilization of America.

By JAMES TARANTO

Here’s ABC News, reporting on the speech the president gave in Fog City: “At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance in America.”

Oh no! Horror of horrors! Obama is the only thing standing between us and having to rely on ourselves! And do you know what they call people who rely on themselves?

Adults.

On October 18, 2011 I posted the following article on Military Healthcare entitled Honoring Those Who Served.

http://www.freedom-fightersforum.org/will%e2%80%99s-opines/forum-2011/honoring-those-who-served/

David Alexander of Reuters had this to say:

U.S. military retirees fret about healthcare feesBy David Alexander

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/02/us-usa-defense-healthcare-idUSTRE7A10K120111102?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=76

FORT WORTH, Texas | Wed Nov 2, 2011

FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – When Wayne Johnson flew missions in Vietnam in the 1960s, one of the allures of a military career was the pledge that those who risked their lives for the United States would be repaid with healthcare in old age.

Now, as the 65-year-old retired Air Force major nears an age when he may need to bank on that promise, support is building in Washington for changes that could make it more costly for military retirees and their dependents to receive healthcare. It is a move Johnson finds worrying. (more…)

President Obama equated the OWS protestors with the Tea Party.

You be the judge!

www.westernjournalism.com/are-occupiers-like-the-tea-party/