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Quick question, isn't this what we have drones for? We've taken out Al Qaeda terrorists for less.
A suspect in a 1987 bombing that wounded six American soldiers in
Honduras is leading a group of migrants demanding entry into the United
States. Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa organized a march of
approximately 100 migrants to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, Mexico, on
Tuesday, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Ulloa delivered a letter
to the consulate on behalf of the migrants, asking for either entry into
the U.S. or a payment of $50,000 per person.
And so we have a suspect in a bomb attack that wounded 6 American soldiers delivering a letter to our consulate.
Ulloa has lived in Mexico since 1987 after fleeing Honduras in the
wake of a bombing that wounded six soldiers. Ulloa was suspected of
planting a bomb in a Chinese restaurant, but received asylum from
Mexico, whose government described the suspected terrorist as a “freedom
fighter.”
Ulloa posted a lengthy diatribe about the 1987 bombing to Facebook in June 2017.
In the post, Ulloa again denied any role in the bombing, though he
admitted to being a member of Popular Revolutionary Forces-Lorenzo
Zelaya — a now-defunct left-wing group whose members claimed
responsibility in 1982 for hijacking a plane and taking hostages,
including eight Americans.
The Marxist-Leninist terror group was a spinoff of the Honduras Communist party and had been trained by the Cubans.
Since American soldiers obviously don't matter to the Left, a New York
Times story of the period also mentions that it injured Honduran
civilians.
"A bomb exploded at a restaurant in a
town north of Tegucigalpa Saturday evening, seriously injuring six
American soldiers and six Honduran civilians, officials said today.
The bomb, made from about 12 sticks of dynamite, exploded about 7:30
P.M. Saturday in the town of Comayagua at a restaurant popular among the
1,200 United States soldiers stationed at Palmerola Air Base, about 12
miles to the south."
The Left would call those Honduran civilians, collateral damage.
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ARLINGTON, Va. —A father in Virginia says that his
son was stopped from speaking last week as he took his Bible to school
for show-and-tell to share with his classmates about what he had been
reading in the book of Daniel. In the article, “Preferred Gender Pronouns Required in Virginia’s Public Schools. The Bible? Not Allowed,”
published by PJ Media on Tuesday, commentator John Ellis outlined that
his eight-year-old took his Bible to school last week for the
show-and-tell segment, unbenounced to him. He learned of the situation
later. “The teacher stopped me from speaking, and went on to the next
person. I didn’t get to tell them about Daniel,” his son advised. Ellis
said that his son was both disappointed and confused as to why he wasn’t
allowed to proceed. “You see, my son had been reading the book of Daniel and wanted to
tell his friends about it. It was important to him,” he explained. “What
he didn’t realize is that the Bible, no matter how important to his
identity, is verboten in the brave new world of progressive tolerance.”
Ellis said that his son learned the hard way that “[t]he Bible and
those who take God’s Word seriously are not allowed a platform in
leftist America.” He contrasted the situation with the recent firing of West Point High School teacher Peter Vlaming,
who was terminated last week by a unanimous vote of the school board
after he refused repeated requests that he refer to a female student who
identifies as a boy with masculine pronouns.
Vlaming had said that the request violated his Christian convictions,
and felt like “a specific worldview is being imposed upon me.”
“If my son had been allowed to proceed, no other kid in that
classroom would have been under any obligation to listen to or care
about what was being said about the Bible. They most definitely wouldn’t
have been under any compulsion to agree with the Bible or convert,”
Ellis wrote.
“On the other hand, if a girl believes that she is a boy, it’s not
enough to allow her to believe what she wants; others are required to
accept and promote her belief, even if it violates their own faith
identity,” he lamented.
Ellis said that he believes the way his son was treated, versus the
way that the “transgender” student was treated, is “a harbinger of
things to come.”
“Make no mistake: the left has zero interest in allowing people to
express themselves. Protecting important aspects of a person’s identity
is not universal. That protection only extends to the ideology that the
left wants to promote. Anyone who gets in their way will be silenced,
like my son, or have their livelihood ripped away, like Peter Vlaming,”
he wrote. Read the article in full here.
As previously reported, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the
Declaration of Independence and vice-president of the Bible Society of
Philadelphia, once said, “The only means of establishing and
perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal
education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the
Bible.”
He also wrote in a letter to John Adams in 1807, “By renouncing the
Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects.
Our Saviour in speaking of it calls it ‘Truth,’ in the abstract. It is
the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published. It
contains a faithful representation of all its follies, vices &
crimes. All systems of religion, morals, and government not founded upon
it, must perish, and how consoling the thought!—It will not only
survive the wreck of those systems, but the world itself. ‘The gates of
Hell shall not prevail against it.’”
(Read here from the National Archives.)
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ROME —The leader of Roman Catholicism, Jorge
Bergoglio, also known as “Pope Francis,” delivered a homily on Wednesday
in recognition of the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a day
surrounding the claim that Mary appeared to an Aztec Indian in the
1500’s and left her image imprinted on his cloak. The observance is said
by Christians to be unbiblical and that such practices should be
examined in the light of the Scriptures.
“She walked to Tepeyac to accompany Juan Diego and she continues
walking the continent when, by means of an image or holy card, of a
candle or a medal, of a rosary or a Hail Mary, she enters a house, a
prison cell, a hospital room, an old age home, a school, a
rehabilitation clinic, to say: ‘Am I not here, who am your mother?'”
Bergoglio stated during evening mass at St. Peter’s Basilica.
“She more than anyone knows how to draw near. She is a woman who
walks with the delicateness and tenderness of a mother; she feels at
home in family life; she unties one knot after another of the many
wrongs we manage to generate; and she teaches us to remain on our feet
in the midst of the storm,” he said, according to a translation from the Catholic News Service.
As previously reported, Roman Catholic legend teaches that in 1531,
Mary appeared to a peasant farmer named Juan Diego on Mexico’s Tepeyac
Hill and requested that he petition the bishop for a church to be built
that “your people may experience my compassion.”
“All those who sincerely ask my help in their work and in their
sorrows will know my mother’s heart in this place. Here I will see their
tears; I will console them and they will be at peace,” she is reported
as stating.
As the bishop did not believe Diego’s story and asked for a sign, he
returned to the spot where he saw Mary and was told to pick the flowers
on top of the hill. The tale states that Diego found Castilian roses in
bloom when he reached the destination, even though it was December. He
gathered the flowers in his tilma, or cloak, and took them to the
bishop.
Roman Catholic legend then states that when Diego opened his cloak to
present the roses to the bishop, an image of Mary was imprinted upon
it. Mary also purportedly appeared to Diego’s uncle, Juan Bernardino,
who was sick, and his illness left him.
“Call me and call my image Santa Maria de Guadalupe,” she instructed.
The cloak stated to belong to Diego is on display at The Basilica of
Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, a location where Roman Catholics
make pilgrimages every year. In 1945, Pope Pius XII declared the Lady of
Guadalupe the “Patroness of all the Americas,” and a feast day was set
on the liturgical calendar for Dec. 12.
“The night before, millions of Catholics across … Mexico, Latin
America, the United States, and the globe, will pray to her and for her;
they’ll sing to her; they’ll walk on their knees toward her at her
Mexico City shrine; they will petition her for her intercession; they
will thank her for the blessings that they attribute to her; or they
simply will stand or sit in her presence basking in the warmth of their
faith during the midnight vigils at churches and homes,” reports Ernesto Portillo, Jr. of the Arizona Daily Star.
On Wednesday, Bergoglio posted a tweet
urging Catholics, “Let us beg the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe,
to continue accompanying and protecting the peoples of the American
continent. #VirgendeGuadalupe”
He also delivered a homily that evening, in which he stated that many
life lessons about attitude and conduct can be learned from “Mary’s
school.”
“In Mary, the Lord silenced the temptation to give protagonism the
strength of intimidation and power, to those who scream the loudest or
who assert themselves on the basis of lies or manipulation,” Bergoglio
said. “With Mary, the Lord watches over believers so that their hearts
do not harden and that they might constantly know the renewed and
renewing power of solidarity, capable of hearing God’s pulse in the
hearts of the men and women of our peoples.” IS IT BIBLICAL? Gendron“Many
Catholic feast days and traditions stand opposed to the supreme
authority of God’s Word and this one is no different,” Mike Gendron of
Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries told Christian News Network. “God’s Word warns us not to believe every spirit, but to test the
spirits to see whether they are from God (1 John 4:1). Testing the
spirits is of utmost importance because apparitions either have a divine
origin or a demonic origin. Satan can disguise himself as an angel of
light (2 Cor. 11:14),” he said. Gendron stated that the story behind the feast day rather directs
attention away from Christ to Mary, and such is the aim of the enemy of
souls. “One of his goals is to lead people away from a pure devotion to the
Lord Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 11:2). He does this very effectively with
‘another Mary,’ who appears to deceive the world and steal the glory
that only God deserves,” he outlined. “Since the Mary of the Bible
exalted God her Savior, she would not direct Juan Diego to build a
shrine for her. We also know that the end times lyings signs and wonders
will be used by Satan to deceive the world (Matt. 24:24).” When asked about the devotion that is given to Mary during the feast
day, such as described in the Arizona Daily Star, Gendron said that it
is unbiblical for men to seek intercession from Mary as there is only
One who serves as mediator between God and men.
“When millions of Catholics across the globe pray to Mary, we see how
effective Satan’s strategy has become. Throughout the Bible we do not
see any God fearing man or woman praying to anyone other than God. We
also know that May cannot intercede for anyone because they is only one
mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus (1 Tim. 2:5),” he
explained.
“I am grieved when I see so many Catholics zealous for their
religious traditions and feast days,” Gendron continued. “As a former
Catholic, I was never exhorted to test every spirit and to test every
man’s teaching with the supreme authority of God’s Word. This is why so
many Catholics are easily deceived. The nature of deception is that
people do not know they are deceived unless they have an infallible
source for truth. God has given us His inspired, authoritative Word to
be just that.”
Gendron, who identified as a Roman Catholic for over 30 years, now
leads a ministry to help point Roman Catholics to the Word of God and to
teach others how to do so.
“It is my prayer that every born again Christian will realize the
huge mission field the Roman Catholic Church represents,” he said. “Let
us sow the imperishable seed of God’s Word in the hearts of every
Catholic we know.”
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Editors
Note: New Jersey readers if you had not turned in all your standard gun
magazines, that hold more than ten (10) rounds, by December 10, 2018,
the state of New Jersey has made you a felon. You are now a criminal
under the law.
New Jersey's Standard Capacity Magazine BanNew Jersey – -(AmmoLand.com)-
Gun rights attorney and Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol
Clubs board member Evan Nappen, Esq. has issued legal guidance on how to
handle potential efforts by police to enforce the Murphy magazine ban.
Entitled
“Knock! Knock! Show Us Your Glock,” the insightful guide by Nappen
covers what to expect and how to protect yourself if the unthinkable
happens. Click here to view the guide online. Please share this link far
and wide among gun owners.
In the meanwhile, Association of New
Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs is gearing up for further appeal of the
legal challenge against the Murphy mag ban. Please watch for upcoming
alerts on the litigation as it continues.
Knock! Knock! – Show Us Your Glock
What to Expect & How to Protect Yourself from the Murphy Magazine Ban By Evan F. Nappen, Attorney at Law
The Murphy Magazine Ban WILL be enforced. It is only a question of what degree it will be enforced against honest gun owners.
“The
New Jersey State Police corresponded with Breitbart News on December 11
and refused to rule out house-to-house enforcement of the state’s “high
capacity” magazine ban.”
Possession of any magazine
holding over 10 rounds that works in a semi-automatic firearm is now a
felony-level offense with a penalty of up to 18 months in prison. There
is no “grandfather clause.” If you are convicted, you lose your gun
rights for the entire United States. These standard capacity magazines,
which have been turned into contraband, are commonly being called
“Murphy Mags.” There are four basic levels of potential
enforcement. The question is how aggressive the anti-gun-rights Murphy
administration is going to be in enforcing the Murphy Mag ban. Here are
the four possibilities:
Police Raids: House-to-house searches of suspected possessors.
Police Investigations: Interrogation of suspected possessors.
Demand Letters: Intimidating official letters sent to suspected possessors.
Random Prosecutions: Randomly prosecuting anyone caught possessing.
Police Raids Many
gun owners are very concerned that the police will be coming door to
door and searching homes. It is unlikely to happen. The State Police
claim to have “no plans” at this time to do this. However, it is not an
unreasonable fear, considering the extremist left’s fanatical hatred of
gun owners. Ultimately New Jersey’s zealous anti-gun-rights Attorney
General could order the State Police to act. To say it will never happen
would be foolish. Although a search warrant is normally necessary,
house-to-house searches have happened without warrants if there are
“exigent circumstances.” Approximately five years ago, this was done in
Boston when the police were looking for a terrorist suspect. Here are
some reasons/scenarios why it might happen in New Jersey:
Some
highly publicized mass shooting occurs, and the knee-jerk, politically
expedient reaction is to go after Murphy Mag possessors. Murphy’s
failure to aggressively enforce his ban gives his political challengers
the opportunity to call him out on it. There is already pressure on
Murphy to explain how he intends to enforce the ban. Breitbart News also
reached out to Murphy’s press secretary, Daniel Bryan, about
enforcement of the ban. He confirmed that the Governor “…had not ruled
out house-to-house enforcement of the ban either.”
New Jersey
has a computerized database of registered gun owners & their
registered handguns which includes make and model. Many of these
handguns came with Murphy Mags. For example, 15 round magazines came
standard with the Glock Model 19, Beretta Model
92 and SIG Model P226, just to name three commonly possessed handguns.
New
Jersey has a long history of abusing gun owners, creating “gun law
victims” (destroying people’s lives with arbitrary gun laws) and
undermining Second Amendment rights.
New Jersey has a liberal news media which actively acts as the propaganda arm for the anti-gun-rights movement.
New Jersey law enforcement will obey orders and enforce the law, rather than lose their jobs & pensions.
In
1990, the Florio Administration explored going after “Assault Firearm”
owners under the newly enacted “Assault Firearm” law, which included a
“large capacity ammunition magazine” ban. They tried to quietly sneak
through an Administrative Code provision requiring the filing of the
Certificate of Eligibility with the police on private sales of long
arms. This would have cured the break-in establishing the chain of
possession. I helped to kill it by successfully challenging the code
modification as being outside the statutory law. The Florio
Administration abandoned their scheme. Since then, the Murphy
Administration has eliminated private sales via newly passed
legislation. There are other important differences between the Florio Ban of 1990 & the current Murphy Mag Ban:
There
are substantially more, commonly possessed, standard capacity magazines
that hold over 10 rounds, than over 15, that fit readily identifiable,
registered handguns.
There was no reliable pre-existing computer database in 1990.
In 1990, there was not the intense fanatical hatred gun owners that exists today.
There was no windfall of Bloomberg money for anti-gun extremist candidates in 1990.
What to Do If the Police Raid Your Home? A
right given up is a right lost. Do not consent to a search without a
warrant. Never physically resist. Do not sign any documents or
statements without an attorney’s advice. All citizens have a Fourth
Amendment right to a warrant being issued before their person or
premises are searched. Exceptions exist regarding the necessity for a
warrant, and a large body of law exists as to when a law enforcement
officer has probable cause for a warrantless search. However, whether
probable cause for the warrantless search exists or not, one should
never consent to a warrantless search. The key here is never consent.
Warning: Even if you are not home, the police can search your home based
on the consent of your spouse, roommate or a guest. If a law
enforcement officer insists on searching your home, do not resist the
search. Just make it clear that you are not consenting to this search.
Additionally, do not sign any consent form or for that matter any
document without the advice of your attorney. Law enforcement officers
cannot get a warrant simply based on your refusal, nor can they punish
you for not giving consent to search.
If a search is done in
violation of your Fourth Amendment rights, the court will suppress the
evidence obtained, and the State will not be able to use it against you
in a criminal prosecution. When you consent to a search, anything found
may be used as evidence — evidence against you — whether there was
probable cause or not! Although you may feel that you have nothing to
hide, consider that you may inadvertently possess contraband which you
believe to be legal, or that a friend may have left contraband in your
car, house, or borrowed clothing. Police Investigations There
is much more of a chance that the police will investigate based on
information gleaned from the computerized database of registered gun
owners and their registered handguns. It is a relatively simple task for
state or local police to look at their database of registered gun
owners with their registered handguns and start knocking on doors to
talk to suspected possessors of handguns with standard issue Murphy Mags
(such as Glock 19, SIG P226, Beretta 92, etc.). No warrant is necessary
to investigate. Talking to suspected possessors at their homes will
possibly lead to more information justifying a search, seizure, and
arrest. What if the police want to talk to you? If
police knock on your door, do not open the door, ask them through the
closed door if they have a warrant. If they don’t have a warrant, do not
allow them into your home. Do not answer any questions. Simply say “I
do not want to talk to you” and do not talk to the police. The Fifth
Amendment right to remain silent and against self-incrimination is one
of the most important Constitutional rights. By remaining silent, a
person is not assisting the State in its case against him or her. This
is the purest form of self-protection. It is something everyone should
do, whether the person believes him/herself innocent or not. You cannot
be punished for a refusal to answer questions. Basically, only a court
can order you to answer questions. Remember, anything you say can be
used against you. For instance, merely affirming that you still have the
registered handgun, could lead to being searched and arrested. Lying to
the police is a crime, but remaining silent is not. So, stay silent! Not
giving consent is not probable cause for a search. Some people feel
that if they do not consent to the search, then the officer will think
they are guilty of hiding something. Some people are afraid of the
improper question: “What do you have to hide?” The proper question you
should ask yourself is: “Why does this law enforcement officer feel it
is necessary to invade my privacy and conduct a search without a
warrant?” This mindset properly shifts the burden to the police.
Remember, the Fourth Amendment is there to protect our privacy.
Always
remain polite when asserting your rights, but the key is to assert
them. Do not be embarrassed or intimidated into giving up your rights.
If you give up your rights (apart from making defending you that much
harder), you will have substantially increased your chance of becoming
another victim of New Jersey gun law. Intimidation Letters
Law
Enforcement agencies might choose to send intimidating letters
demanding information based on the computerized database of registered
gun owners and their registered handguns. The letters would go to
suspected possessors of handguns with standard issue Murphy Mags. It is a
simple matter today to send letters via a database. This type of
intimidation letter is often used to collect taxes. Any information
gleaned could then be followed up with further enforcement actions. What if you receive an intimidation letter?
Generally,
you have no obligation to respond to questions in a such letter.
Contact an attorney as soon as possible for specific advice regarding
such a letter. Random Prosecutions
There is
no doubt that enforcement will occur by way of random prosecutions.
Police will find Murphy Mags due to Red Flag Laws, Domestic Violence
Laws, Duty to Warn Laws, safekeeping seizures, house fires, home
inspections and the endless other ways that contraband items find their
way to the authorities. You can be sure to see criminal charges on these
Murphy Mags. This is the default setting for minimum enforcement. What if you are the subject of a random prosecution?
If
you are charged with Murphy Mag possession or any other criminal
offense, contact an attorney as soon as possible for specific advice and
representation. Action Items:
Make sure that your friends and family are aware of this potential threat.
Make sure that your friends and family are aware of the implications of talking with the police and consenting to searches.
Make sure that you do not have in your possession any Murphy Mags or other prohibited items.
Make sure that you, your family and your friends have the mindset to stand on your rights
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EUROPEAN UNION ARMY USING ARMORED VEHICLES IN PARIS TO CONFRONT YELLOW VEST PROTESTORS BECAUSE FRENCH POLICE WON'T Armoured vehicles bearing EU flag STORM Paris in sign European Army ALREADY created
ARMOURED vehicles bearing the European Union flag have stormed into Paris as protesters bring the city to a standstill
Published on Dec 11, 2018
The
EU is unashamed to flex their “authority” over sovereign countries that
are members. Now the EU military is assisting with protecting the
streets of France. Alex breaks down the decades long plan by the
globalists to conquer nation states.
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Up before dawn making breakfast for her two sons and daughter, who has
special needs… And that’s all before doctor […] starts her shift in the
Stanford emergency department. The busiest time in the ER, afternoon?
Yeah, evening. Yep. Today, Dr. […] is teaching medical students.
On buy days, she’ll see 15 to 20 patients and do hours of paperwork. If
I work an eight-hour shift, I might spend two hours or three hours in
front of a computer, rather than at the bedside talking to my patients.
I imagine you did not get into the medical field to look at a computer?
No. At night, she’s still catching up on patient charts.
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