RICK WARREN: DANIEL PLAN DOUBLE CHIN; WORKING WITH & LEARNING FROM CATHOLICS; REAFFIRMING AUGUSTINE'S "IN ESSENTIALS UNITY" HERESY; ECUMENICAL NON-DOCTRINAL SOCIAL JUSTICE CAUSES; WATERING DOWN THE BIBLE FOR MASS APPEAL

RICK: THE "ROOTS" OF OUR FAITH 

ARE NOT IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH!

RICK WARREN INTERVIEWED BY CATHOLIC "EWTN" CHANNEL;

STILL WATCHES & WORSHIPS WITH RE-RUNS OF 

MOTHER ANGELICA OF THE POOR CLARES;

ENTERTAINS 35 EUROPEAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS AT SADDLEBACK CHURCH;

MOST ADMIRED HERETICS ARE 

MOTHER THERESA, BILLY GRAHAM, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., 

AND POPE JOHN PAUL II

World Over - 2014-04-10 - Rick Warren Part II with Raymond Arroyo:

MOTHER ANGELICA: EWTN Religious Catalogue- Divine Mercy Tapestry & Divine Mercy Stained Glass 4/21/14:

World Over - 2014-04-03 - Mental Health Conference 

with Catholics, Interview of Rick Warren with Raymond Arroyo:

Published on Apr 4, 2014

RICK WARREN, pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California, and MOST REVEREND KEVIN VANN, bishop of Orange, California on their recent collaboration on the Gathering On Mental Health.

FROM DAVID CLOUD'S "WAY OF LIFE" WEBSITE:

RICK WARREN CALLING FOR UNITY WITH ROME (Friday Church News Notes, April 25, 2014, www.wayoflife.orgfbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - This month, Rick Warren of Saddleback Church gave an exclusive interview with Catholic television channel EWTN, complete with effusive praise for the Catholic Church and the popes and a call for unity with Rome. He praised the works of Catholic contemplative “saints” such as St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, calling their books “great classic devotional works,” ignoring the fact that they held to a false sacramental gospel and venerated Mary as the Mother of God and the Queen of Heaven. Warren said that Saddleback uses Roman Catholic contemplative prayer methods such as the very dangerous “centering prayer,” and Saddleback’s “spiritual director” was trained by a Roman Catholic named Jean Vanier. (See “Silence vs. The Silence” at www.wayoflife.org.) In fact, he said that when he was writing The Purpose Drive Church he would get up in the morning, light candles, and start writing. He called Pope Francis “our pope” and said, “For authenticity, humility, Pope Francis is the perfect example. He is doing everything right.” Warren said that Saddleback recently received a delegation from the Vatican consisting of about 30 Catholic bishops to study the church’s “style of evangelization.” Warren said, “I fully support the Catholic Church’s New Evangelization,” which is a program to regain lapsed Catholics to the false Catholic faith and which is centered around veneration of Mary. When asked by EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo, “What is keeping Christians apart from the unity that John Paul II and all the recent popes have called for?” Warren replied: “I think we need to go back to the words of St. Augustine. ‘In the essentials we have unity; in the non-essentials we have liberty; in all things we show charity.’ I think this is really true. I think as the world, particularly the western culture, becomes more secular, more anti-Christian ... it is really incumbent on all Christians of every brand and stripe that we join together on the things that we share in common” (Rick Warren, EWTN, “World Today,” Apr. 10-11, 2014). Rick Warren is one of the most influential Christians on earth and also one of the most dangerous. He is enthusiastically building the end-time, one-world church.

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Warren Endorses Catholics Come Home Book

 by Mike Gendron of proclaimingthegospel.org:

Catholics Come Home: God's Extraordinary Plan for Your Lifeis the name of a new book that is taking Rome and the world by storm, with the following incredible endorsement by Rick Warren. "The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this new evangelization project." In an interview on the Catholic EWTN Network he said his favorite TV show is Chaplets of Divine Mercy. He also talked about how he loved a headline in a local newspaper that said, "If you love Pope Francis you will love Jesus."

Mike's Comment: Rick Warren's endorsement of a book calling Catholics home to an apostate religion that shuts the gates of heaven to those wanting to enter is a grievous offense. He either does not know the exclusivity of the Gospel of grace or he does not know how Roman Catholicism has corrupted and perverted it. 

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RICK WARREN, RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND CATHOLICS AND EVANGELICALS TOGETHER

at: http://www.understandthetimes.org/commentary/c145rickwarren.shtml

or

at: http://www.understandthetimes.org/commentary/c145_pf.shtml
Rick Warren's Ecumenical 
Path to Rome Continues
 

Commentary by Roger Oakland
Understand The Times International: Roger Oakland Ministries
www.understandthetimes.org
1.800.689.1888

CHRISTIANITY ACCORDING TO RICK WARREN

RICK WARREN, RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND CATHOLICS AND EVANGELICALS TOGETHER

It is a well-known fact based on Bible prophecy that the Last Days One World Religion called the “harlot” will be a counterfeit to the true church which is called the Bride of Christ. Bible scholars who take this position believe the ecumenical gathering of religions together for the cause of peace will be the prerequisite. One of the key events bringing this about is when a declaration is made that the Reformation is over, and the “separated brethren” will be welcomed back into the fold.

This commentary deals with aspects of the Rick Warren-Raymond Arroyo EWTN interview that provided some clues indicating this scenario is presently underway. I am making reference to a portion of the interview that dealt with the topic of religious liberty.  In fact, it was revealed that Rick Warren may have a plan laid away for the future of promoting a “religious liberty movement” that will be the equivalent of the “civil liberties movement” of the past. When asked by Arroyo what Warren thought about the separation of church and state and how the Supreme Court would rule on this topic in the future, Warren responded:

Now it’s interesting that phrase today means the exact opposite of what it meant in Jefferson’s days. Today people think it means keeping religion out of government, or out of politics. But actually, the separation of church and state was we are going to protect the church from the government. I believe that religious liberty may be the civil rights issue of the next decade. And if it takes some high profile pastors going to jail, like Martin Luther King did with civil rights, I’m in. So be it. I mean, as Peter said and the apostles that we must obey God rather than men.[1]

It may seem surprising to some that “America’s Pastor” would be so outspoken and willing to take such a strong stand for religious liberty - especially when he shows his passion for this topic by stating he is personally willing to go to jail for such a cause. These are strong words. Does this mean that the Purpose Driven Church model may have a broader agenda than previously advertised?

Arroyo’s next question is also very revealing. This is what he asks Warren:

Do you think events like this, moments like this, are actually sources of unity and moments of unity, particularly for Catholics and Evangelicals?

When I first listened to Warren’s response I was a somewhat surprised by what he said. However, after thinking about it further and comparing his answer with other statements

Warren has made in the past about his willingness to work together with “various faiths” for the “common cause of good,” his response made perfect sense. Warren stated:

Well, obviously we have so much in common in protecting our religious rights—and really the religious rights of other people who we disagree with on beliefs and behaviors. Muslims, for instance, don’t drink alcohol. If all of a sudden they made a law that said every Muslim restaurant has to serve alcohol. I would be there protesting with that. If they made a law that said every Jewish deli in New York City has to sell pork. I’m going to be there protesting. I don’t have a problem with pork. But I am going to protest that. If they make a law that says every Catholic school has to provide contraceptives, if you’re morally convinced you shouldn’t have contraceptives, I stand with you, firm with you on your belief on that because you have a right to train your children the way you want to.

It is difficult to challenge Warren’s argument as he states his case. Religious freedom is a major pillar that America was founded upon. To attack religious freedom or rights could well spark a religious liberty movement if this is the direction political leaders are headed.

However, it is also possible that a so-called “religious liberty” movement championed by America’s Pastor, who is willing to go to jail for standing up for the religious rights of all religions,  could be a stepping-stone to something else. Especially when it is so obvious this would be another important way to join evangelicals and Catholics together, a common trend of our day.

While it may be a stretch to suggest Warren will become the pied piper that unites all the world religions for a common cause, it is certainly within the realm of possibility that Warren could be a major spokesperson for persuading evangelicals to join together with Roman Catholics. This whole movement has been in place for some time and has received endorsements from such well-known leaders as Bill Bright, J. I. Packer, and Charles Colson.

Warren has previously made numerous statements about his willingness to join forces with Rome in order to establish the kingdom of God here on earth. At a message Warren gave at the PEW Forum in Key West Florida, May 23, 2005, he stated:

Now when you get 25 percent of America, which is basically Catholic, and you get 28 to 29 percent of America which is evangelical together, that's called a majority. And it is a very powerful bloc, if they happen to stay together on particular issues… I would encourage you to look at this evolving alliance between evangelical Protestants and Catholics. [2]

Without question, Warren’s “evolving alliance” with Rome has come a long way since he made this statement in June, 2005. The interview with Raymond Arroyo of EWTN is proof that this is the case. When a pastor of Warren’s stature and influence refrains from warning his followers about the dangers found in the extra biblical teachings of Roman Catholicism, I cannot remain silent. This series of commentaries based on the Warren- Arroyo EWTN interview will hopefully make some aware of the coming alliance that is laying the groundwork for the strong delusion that sets up the Last Days apostasy the Bible foretells will happen before the return of Jesus.

[1] Transcript[2] Rick Warren, PEW Forum, Key West, Florida, May 23, 2005, http://pewforum.org/events/index.php?EventID=80

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"Rick Warren, Jean Vanier 

And The New Evangelization":

From: 

http://www.understandthetimes.org/commentary/c146rickwarren.shtml

Rick Warren's Ecumenical Path to Rome Continues
 

Commentary by Roger Oakland
Understand The Times International: Roger Oakland Ministries
www.understandthetimes.org
1.800.689.1888

RICK WARREN, JEAN VANIER, AND THE NEW EVANGELIZATION

The Warren- Arroyo EWTN interview that aired on YouTube April 11, 2014 provided many insights regarding the “New Evangelicalism” that is presently unfolding. Rather than lines being drawn in the sand, walls are coming down and ecumenical unity is being established. If Rick Warren and his followers represent the direction many former “Protestants” are headed, it is only a matter of time for the coming One World Ecumenical Religion to be established. The Jesuit plan to bring the “separated brethren Home to Rome” will have been accomplished. Those who refuse to follow will be singled out and considered “heretics.” Is it possible that persecution for these “resistors” is in store?

One revelation that came out of the interview was the fact that Warren and his Saddleback Church had hosted a delegation from Rome to discuss the New Evangelization Program. Apparently a number of Roman Catholic delegates were observing the Warren-Saddleback Purpose Driven Program in order to gain ideas and insight for the Roman Catholic New Evangelization Plan initiated by Pope John Paul II and continued by Pope Benedict and Pope Francis.

The following question was asked by Raymond Arroyo:

The Vatican recently sent a delegation here to Saddleback—the pontifical council—the academy for life. Tell me what they discovered and why did they come? This is a sizeable group. [1]

Warren’s response was immediate and enthusiastic. He said:

It was. They were about 30 bishops from Europe. One of the men had been actually trained and mentored by Jean Vanier, which is an interesting thing because we have a retreat center here and my spiritual director, who grew up at Saddleback, actually went and trained under Jean Vanier too. So I am very excited about that. [2]

While the term “spiritual director” or the name Jean Vanier may not mean much to you unless you are versed on contemplative mystical spirituality, this admission by Warren provides conclusive evidence of his endorsement of Roman Catholic monastic mysticism and all that goes along with it. The fact he mentions he has his “own” spiritual director located at Saddleback who was trained under the leadership of Jean Vanier is even more significant.

A brief look at Jean Vanier will provide important insights. Vanier (b. 1928) is the Canadian Catholic founder of L’Arche, which is a humanitarian community for disabled people. It is L’Arche where Catholic priest Henri Nouwen spent the last ten years of his life. Vanier is a contemplative mystic who promotes interspiritual and interfaith beliefs, calling the Hindu Mahatma Gandhi “one of the greatest prophets of our times”[3] and “a man sent by God.”[4] In the book Essential Writings, Vanier talks about “opening doors to other religions” and helping people develop their own faiths be it Hinduism, Christianity, or Islam.[5]  The book also describes how Vanier read Thomas Merton and practiced and was influenced by the spiritual exercises of the Jesuit founder and mystic St. Ignatius.

To learn through Rick Warren’s interview with Raymond Arroyo that Warren’s own “spiritual director” was trained under Jean Vanier is, at the very least, a key to understanding many of Warren’s actions and words in the past where he has expressed support for contemplative mystics and ecumenical/interspiritual efforts.

The New Roman Catholic Evangelization

If the delegation sent to Saddleback from Rome consisted of 30 Bishops, obviously this was a very significant event. What were the delegates discussing with Warren and his team? Warren provides the answer to that question in his interview:

[T]hey were talking about the New Evangelization and Saddleback has been very effective in reaching secular mindset. Our church is 33 years old. Easter 2014 at Saddleback is our 34th anniversary. And in 34 years, we’ve baptized 38,000 adults. Now, these are adult converts. People with no religious background. People who say, “I was nothing before I came to Saddleback.” So we figured out a way to reach that mindset. And I fully support your Catholic Church’s New Evangelization which basically says we’ve got to re-evangelize people who are Christian in name but not in heart. And they need a new fresh relationship to our Savior.[6]

While Warren provides his stamp of approval on the Roman Catholic New Evangelization Program and makes it sound like the purpose is to win converts to Christ, there is much more to the picture than Warren describes. The Roman Catholic New Evangelization program is dedicated to win converts to the Roman Catholic Eucharistic Christ and obedience to the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church. While Warren may call this “a new fresh relationship to our Savior,” he is overlooking what Catholics must believe in order to be a member of the Catholic Church. Either he is oblivious to this fact or he is willingly ignorant.

In a previous commentary we wrote called Mysticism, Monasticism and the New Evangelization, we were able to document that contemplative mysticism provides the catalyst for the New Evangelization. Thus, Rome and Babylon join together to form a new form of ecumenical Christianity that fits the description of the harlot, the counterfeit bride, described in the book of Revelation, chapter 18.

The facts stare us in the face. Warren’s path to Rome is not only dangerous, it is biblically prophetic. Why do so few recognize what is happening? Do you know someone who is caught up in the deception but does not see what is going on? Maybe this would be a good time to pray God’s grace would open their eyes and they would see the truth of God’s word.

Video Interview with Rick Warren Part 4 - Rick Warren, Jean Vanier And The New Evangelization
 

Transcript of Series 4 - Rick Warren, Jean Vanier And The New Evangelization

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RICK WARREN AND THE CHAPLET OF DIVINE MERCY
Rick Warren's Ecumenical Path to Rome Continues
 http://www.understandthetimes.org/commentary/c147rickwarren.shtml

Commentary by Roger Oakland
Understand The Times International: Roger Oakland Ministries
www.understandthetimes.org
1.800.689.1888

Some who have read the previous four parts to this series dealing with Rick Warren’s interview with Raymond Arroyo of EWTN may still be asking the question: Why would Understand The Times spend so much time and energy on this topic? What is wrong with “America’s Pastor” expressing his support for the Roman Catholic Church and many of their beliefs and practices?

The answer is simple. Bible-believing Christians are called to “contend for the faith” [1] . When a Christian leader publically makes statements or endorsements by saying or doing things that contradict the Bible, the leader needs to be addressed in a public manner so those who have been influenced can be put back on track.

While many professing Christians who embrace full blown ecumenical unity with Rome remain silent and see no harm with the direction Warren is headed, we are compelled to sound the alarm. In the previous four commentaries we have addressed several critical topics indicating Warren is headed down the road to Rome without hesitation. Some of these include:

• Endorsement of Catholic saints and mystics and their methods
• Endorsement and praise for Pope Benedict – who Warren calls “our Pope”

Unity with Catholics and other religions for the cause of “religious liberty”

• The PEACE Plan and the “faith sector” working together with all faiths
• Warren and his “spiritual director” and the connection with Jean Vanier
• The New Evangelization delegation from Rome to Saddleback

Now, in this commentary we will address what I consider the most blatant endorsement of Roman Catholicism revealed in his entire interview with EWTN. It was so revealing that even Raymond Arroyo expressed surprise when he asked Warren to comment on the following topic:

Tell me about your—the little breather you take in the day when you watch television. When we first met, you came up to me afterwards—I can’t believe you watch Chaplet of Divine Mercy. [2]

In response to Arroyo’s comment, Rick Warren expounded:  

I’m an avid fan of EWTN. I make no bones about it. I probably watch it more than any Christian channel. Well, you know what? Because you have more, more, uh, shows that relate to history. And if you don’t understand the roots of our faith, that God had been working for 2,000 years, regardless of what brand of believer you are, God has been working for 2,000 years in His church. And if you don’t have those roots you’re like the cut flower syndrome. Or you’re a tumbleweed. [3]

Warren’s main reason for watching the Roman Catholic Eternal Word Television Network is to gain a knowledge and understanding of Christian history, then there is no question he is getting a biased one-sided view. While I admit I do not watch EWTN as much as Warren apparently does (and certainly not for the same reasons), I do know that a major part of Christian history dealing with the Reformation and the Counter-reformation is not one of the favorite topics presented. Perhaps a quick review of Fox’s Book of Martyrs would be a good balance for Warren and a reminder what happened to Christians who stood up against the pope of Rome and his Jesuit enforcers in the past for believing the Word of God rather than the word of man.

Notice carefully that Warren not only stated that EWTN was his favorite Christian Television Network he further offered that he had a favorite program he and his wife watch regularly on that network. When I first watched the entire EWTN interview, it was the statement Warren made at this point that became the motivating factor that triggered me to do this series. If Arroyo was shocked by this revelation, the best way to describe my reaction to his response would be astonished and outraged. In Warren’s own words:

One of my favorite shows, which you repeat often is the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, which I love. And when I’ve had a very stressful day, I’ll come home, I’ve got it taped and Kay and I will both, we’ll listen. We’ll put it on and just sit back, relax and worship. And in the time of reflection, meditation and quietness I find myself renewed and restored. So thank you for continuing to play the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. [4]

Arroyo responds to Warren’s statement, “Thank Mother Angelica.” [5]  Warren than echoes, “Thank you, Mother Angelica”.

Mother Angelica, as we have previously documented was the founder of the Eternal Word Television Network. Among the programs making up the daily broadcasting schedule is “The Chaplet of Divine Mercy.” A description of this program provides background information:

The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy is a Christian devotion based on the visions of Jesus reported by Saint Mary Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938), known as "the Apostle of Mercy." She was a Polish sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and canonized as a Catholic saint in 2000. Faustina stated that she received the prayer through visions and conversations with Jesus, who made specific promises regarding the recitation of the prayers. Her Vatican biography quotes some of these conversations. As a Roman Catholic devotion, the chaplet is often said as a rosary-based prayer with the same set of rosary beads used for reciting the Holy Rosary or the Chaplet of Holy Wounds, in the Roman Catholic Church. As an Anglican devotion, The Divine Mercy Society of the Anglican Church states that the chaplet can also be recited on Anglican prayer beads. The chaplet may also be said without beads, usually by counting prayers on the fingertips, and may be accompanied by the veneration of the Divine Mercy image. [6]

Note the reference to “the veneration of the Divine Mercy image” that is an essential component of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Further documentation provides additional information that will clarify that idolatry is the only
way to describe what is taking place:

The earliest element of the Devotion to the Divine Mercy revealed to St. Faustina was the Image. On February 22nd, 1931 Jesus appeared to her with rays radiating from His heart and said, Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature: Jesus I trust in You. I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and throughout the world. (Diary 47) I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over its enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death. I myself will defend it as My own glory. (Diary 48) I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy. That vessel is this image with the signature “Jesus, I trust in You." (Diary 327) [7]

I suppose it would be reasonable to suggest Warren was just “making conversation” with Arroyo when he made the claim that The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy was his favorite “Christian” television program and that he meant it as a joke.
If that is the case then Warren should make a public statement explaining he was not sincere or that that he never views the program. Clearly, if Warren does not, he is defying the God of the Bible and willingly ignoring the commandment in the Bible that states: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth [8].

I took the time to watch several Chaplet of the Divine Mercy programs posted on the Internet. Staring at images of “Christ” or worshipping a monstrance containing the supposed body of Christ while repeating the rosary did not bring peace and relaxation for me as Warren claims it did for him. It does not take a great deal of discernment to realize these unbiblical practices are rooted in paganism. I have decided the best way to confirm this point is to provide an Internet link to an actual Chaplet of Divine Mercy service so you can see with your own eyes what Warren and his wife Kay consider a “Christian” devotional. This is only one of many programs that you can watch that all show the same thing. Please check out this 8 minute video clip of a Chaplet of the Divine Mercy program.

The Bottom Line

The scientific method provides a useful and practical way to gather facts, present a hypothesis, and then draw a conclusion. My background in science has provided a framework to present the facts in order to present my case.
Pastor Rick Warren is on a dangerous path away from sound biblical doctrine towards an ecumenical apostate form of Christianity with Rome that has the potential to lead many astray.

I am not the only one who sees this happening. When others have pointed out the serious consequences of Warren’s departure from the faith, they have been ignored or shunned because of their concerns. Based on the evidence provided by the facts presented in this series of commentaries relating to Warren’s interview with EWTN, I challenge any blind follower of Rome to wake up and consider the consequences.

What does it mean “to earnestly contend for the faith”? If Jude was in our midst today, what would he have written to the church? When he stated that “certain men” had “crept in,” what did he mean? Is sound biblical
doctrine being compromised for the sake of unity in the church today? When a pastor endorses a television program that promotes idolatry, shouldn’t that pastor be called out or at least asked to give a public explanation?

Are pastors today following men primarily for the sake of success and their church-growth methods? Why are pastors who should know better remaining silent and saying nothing?

It was for this very reason I publically departed from the Calvary Chapel movement. After being part of the Calvary Chapel Movement for over 20 years I had to make a decision based on my understanding of Bible and the Last Days apostasy the Bible warns about. You can find numerous articles and commentaries we posted on our web site that fell on deaf ears with regards to the direction Rick Warren was headed then and his affiliation with the emerging church such as “Calvary Chapel and Purpose Driven."

Now, over five years later, the facts presented in this EWTN series confirm we were not unrealistic in the warnings that were sounded then. While not all Calvary Chapel pastors have joined hands with Rick Warren and continue to teach the Word of God faithfully every week, there are those who are highly influential in the movement who are confusing their flocks by their public endorsements.

The facts have been presented and a hypothesis can be formulated that leads to a reasonable conclusion, at least for the present. My prayer is that the damage done to biblical Christianity can be corrected though open repentance and public statements that set the record straight by Warren himself and those who follow him.

Video Interview with Rick Warren Part 5 - Rick Warren And The Chaplet Of Divine Mercy
 

Transcript of Series 5 - Rick Warren And The Chaplet Of Divine Mercy

 [1] Jude 3

 [2] Transcript

 [3] ibid

 [4] Transcript

 [5] Transcript

 [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplet_of_Divine_Mercy

 [7] http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/image.htm

 [8] Exodus 20:4

WHITE HOUSE: YOUR "CONFRONTATIONAL" CHILDREN COULD BE BUDDING "TERRORISTS"~WATCH THEM FOR PERSONALITY CHANGES!!

LISA MONACO, 

WHITE HOUSE COUNTER TERROR CHIEF:

"CONFRONTATIONAL" CHILDREN 

COULD BE TERRORISTS:

SEE: 

http://www.infowars.com/white-house-counterterror-chief-confrontational-children-could-be-terrorists/;

EXCERPT:

"White House counter terrorism and Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco gave a speech this week in which she urged parents to watch their children for signs of “confrontational” behavior which could be an indication of them becoming terrorists."

Understanding and responding to "homegrown" terrorism(?):

SPECIAL REPORT-White House: 

Your Confrontational Children Could Be "Terrorists":

Published on Apr 18, 2014

David Knight hosting the Alex Jones show presents Alex's special report concerning the growing police state in America and how its reaching a tipping point.
http://www.infowars.com/federal-judge...
http://www.infowars.com/white-house-c...

Homeland Security Says Your Children Are Terrorists:

Published on Apr 19, 2014

White House Counterterror Chief Lisa Monaco says: "Confrontational" Children Could be Terrorists. Monaco said that parents need to be suspicious of "sudden personality changes in their children at home," lamenting the fact that, "The government is rarely in a position to observe these early signals," encouraging parents to act as watchdogs to detect radicalization in line with President Obama's goal of combating homegrown extremism.
http://www.infowars.com/white-house-c...

Cliven Bundy And Supporters Labelled "Domestic Terrorists":

Hidden Agenda Behind Rise Of "Domestic Terrorist Label":

COMMON CORE: KINDERGARTEN TEACHER RESIGNS~JOB WAS NO LONGER ABOUT CHILDREN, JUST DATA COLLECTION

Kindergarten Teacher: 

My Job Is Now About Tests and Data, 

Not Children. I quit.

SEE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/03/23/kindergarten-teacher-my-job-is-now-about-tests-and-data-not-children-i-quit/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Susan Sluyter is a veteran teacher of young children in the Cambridge Public Schools who has been connected to the district for nearly 20 years and teaching for more than 25 years. Last month she sent a resignation letter ( “with deep love and a broken heart”) explaining that she could no longer align her understanding of how young children learn best in safe, developmentally appropriate environments with the testing and data collection mandates imposed on teachers today.  She wrote in part:

I have watched as my job requirements swung away from a focus on the children, their individual learning styles, emotional needs, and their individual families, interests and strengths to a focus on testing, assessing, and scoring young children, thereby ramping up the academic demands and pressures on them. 

Each year, I have been required to spend more time attending classes and workshops to learn about new academic demands that smack of 1st and 2nd grade, instead of kindergarten and PreK.  I have needed to schedule and attend more and more meetings about increasingly extreme behaviors and emotional needs of children in my classroom; I recognize many of these behaviors as children shouting out to the adults in their world, “I can’t do this!  Look at me!  Know me!  Help me!  See me!”  I have changed my practice over the years to allow the necessary time and focus for all the demands coming down from above.  Each year there are more.  Each year I have had less and less time to teach the children I love in the way I know best—and in the way child development experts recommend.  I reached the place last year where I began to feel I was part of a broken system that was causing damage to those very children I was there to serve.

I was trying to survive in a community of colleagues who were struggling to do the same:  to adapt and survive, to continue to hold onto what we could, and to affirm what we believe to be quality teaching for an early childhood classroom.  I began to feel a deep sense of loss of integrity.  I felt my spirit, my passion as a teacher, slip away.  I felt anger rise inside me.  I felt I needed to survive by looking elsewhere and leaving the community I love so dearly.  I did not feel I was leaving my job.  I felt then and feel now that my job left me.

 I asked her to explain exactly what had changed in preschool and kindergarten classes since she started teaching and she sent the following, which by any measure is disturbing. Following this is the complete text of her resignation letter.

 By  Susan Sluyter

When I first began teaching more than 25 years ago, hands-on exploration, investigation, joy and love of learning characterized the early childhood classroom.  I’d describe our current period as a time of testing, data collection, competition and punishment. One would be hard put these days to find joy present in classrooms.

I think it started with No Child Left Behind years ago.  Over the years I’ve seen this climate of data fascination seep into our schools and slowly change the ability for educators to teach creatively and respond to children’s social and emotional needs.  But this was happening in the upper grades mostly.  Then it came to kindergarten and PreK, beginning a number of years ago with a literacy initiative that would have had us spending the better part of each day teaching literacy skills through various prescribed techniques.  ”What about math, science, creative expression and play?” we asked.  The kindergarten teachers fought back and kept this push for an overload of literacy instruction at bay for a number of years.

Next came additional mandated assessments.  Four and five year olds are screened regularly each year for glaring gaps in their development that would warrant a closer look and securing additional supports (such as O.T, P.T, and Speech Therapy) quickly.   Teachers were already assessing each child three times a year to understand their individual literacy development and growth.  A few years ago, we were instructed to add periodic math assessments after each unit of study in math.  Then last year we were told to include an additional math assessment on all Kindergarten students (which takes teachers out of the classroom with individual child testing, and intrudes on classroom teaching time.)

We were told we needed to have “Learning Objectives” for the children – posted in the classroom – for each math lesson.  One list of objectives might read, “I can add two rolls of the dice together and find the sum.  I can move my bear forward the correct number of spaces.  I can split my number up to share hops between two bears.”  Teachers are to write these objectives out, post them for children to see, and read them to the class as expectations for what they should be able to do.  Many of the Kindergarten and PreK children are unable to read those goals, and are not able to understand them as goals anyway.  This task is supposed to enhance learning.  I experience it as enhancing pressure on children.  The message is, “You are supposed to know how to do this, even if you can’t.”

We are now expected to build in more math instruction time each day, with “math blocks” to mirror our “literacy blocks.”  This is kindergarten and PreK.  These are 4, 5 and 6 year olds.  Children this age do not learn well though blocks of single subject academics.  We help them learn best when play is integrated with academics and theme-driven projects extend over time, weaving academics throughout.

Simultaneously, the literacy goals and objectives were changing as well.  We found ourselves in professional development work being challenged to teach kindergartners to form persuasive arguments, and to find evidence in story texts to justify or back up a response they had to a story.  What about teaching children to write and read through the joy of experiencing a story together, or writing about their lives and what is most important to them?  When adults muck about too much in the process of learning to read and write, adding additional challenge and pressure too soon, many children begin to feel incompetent and frustrated.  They don’t understand. They feel stupid.  Joy disappears.

There is a national push, related to the push for increased academics in Early Childhood classrooms, to cut play out of the kindergarten classroom.  Many kindergartens across the country no longer have sand tables, block areas, drama areas and arts and crafts centers.  This is a deeply ill-informed movement, as all early childhood experts continuously report that 4, 5 and 6 year olds learn largely through play.  Play is essential to healthy development and deep foundational learning at the kindergarten level.  We kindergarten teachers in Cambridge have found ourselves fighting to keep play alive in the kindergarten classroom.

Last year we heard that all kindergarten teachers across the state of Massachusetts were to adopt one of a couple of in-depth comprehensive assessments to perform with each kindergarten child three times a year.  This requires much training and an enormous amount of a teacher’s time to carry out for each child.  Cambridge adopted the Work Sampling System, which is arguably a fine tool for assessment, but it requires a teacher to leave the classroom and focus on assessment even more, and is in addition to other assessments already being done.  The negative impact of this extensive and detailed assessment system is that teachers are forced to learn yet another new and complicated tool, and are required to spend significantly less time in the classroom during the three assessment periods, as they assess, document evidence to back up their observations, and report on each child.  And it distracts teachers yet again from their teaching focus, fracturing their concentration on teaching goals, projects, units of study, and the flow of their classroom curriculum.

Then we became an “RTI School.”  RTI is a method of academic intervention used to provide early, systematic assistance to children who are having difficulty learning.  It seeks to prevent academic failure through early intervention, frequent assessment, and increasingly intensive instructional interventions for children who continue to have difficulty.  This sounds good, but it also takes teachers out of the classroom more for assessment and intervention (which can sometimes be done in the context of the classroom, but sometimes not.)  Again, teachers are being called on to divert their attention to another way of looking at and assessing the needs of their children, yet actually preventing teachers from having the necessary time to build relationships, get to know their children and work to build community, safety and structures that allow a teacher to meet the learning and emotional needs of each child in their classroom.

Last year all teachers were required to participate in a statewide Teacher Assessment system that seeks to have each teacher document the evidence that they are performing according to teaching standards laid out by the state.  We were given minimal training on how to maneuver within and negotiate through the new software, and were directed to develop SMART Goals for ourselves.  We needed to start documenting our success in moving toward and accomplishing our goals.  To document our success, we are required to upload many photos providing “evidence” that we are qualified and effective teachers.

Now, I believe there needs to be a system of accountability for teachers and administrators, but I have seen no evidence that this method (though it takes an enormous amount of teachers’ time to fulfill the requirements) would actually show anything about the quality of a teacher’s work within the classroom and with the children.  I remember one Sunday evening when I received an email from the principal of my school letting me know that I was missing one particular document from my assessment site.  The missing document was a photo of a math assessment recording sheet that I had somehow failed to post.  If I could post it by 9 a.m. the following morning, I would recieve “exemplary teacher” status.  If I did not, I would get a label of “needs improvement.”  I remember at that moment thinking, “Seriously?  It has come down to this sort of nonsense?”

Also, last year, all teachers in the state of Massachusetts were informed that over the next few years, everyone would need to take a 45-hour training in English Language Learner education strategies.  It is called the Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) Training and is coupled with the RETELL Training.  It is being mandated by the Justice Department and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.  I was in the first mandated training group in Cambridge last spring.  We were required to meet starting 15 minutes directly after school ended every Thursday for 3 hours from February to June.

Our instructor delivered a three-hour Power Point presentation in each class.  If we were late we were docked points for each 5 minutes.  Additionally, there were weekend online courses we had to take, including readings and course work that sometimes took five to seven hours.  At the end of the course, we were required to hand in four capstone projects and to pass the course.  License renewal is now contingent on having this SEI Endorsement.  Since this course was requiring so much time outside of our jobs, we petitioned to use some of our paid work time to complete some of the requirements.  This, of course, took us away from our work with the children in the classroom, so it was not an easy thing to ask for.  We were given no compensation for the amount of time spent in this course.  Many teachers continue to undergo this training – which is so poorly put together that most teachers I know feel it is almost a complete waste of time, though the subject matter is important.

Kindergarten teachers have, this year, just found out that they will be required to administer a Kindergarten Entrance Assessment to each new incoming kindergarten student two times a year.  This is another extremely time-consuming assessment, and is in addition to the other assessment tools previously mentioned. Teachers will need to perform this assessment at the very beginning of each year, and then again mid-year.  This is for the purpose of early identification of learning issues that might be addressed immediately in kindergarten.  It will require another substantial amount of a teacher’s time and focus to learn how to use the tool, and to actually administer it.

This school year, the Cambridge Public Schools Math Department announced that the math curriculum that had been used for years, with extensive training and professional development for teachers, is being replaced by a new math curriculum that is being toted as “more aligned with the Common Core.”  This new math curriculum, called Singapore Math, is being brought into the system now, and the old TERC Investigations curriculum is being discarded.  This is at a huge expense, and will require many hours of additional teacher time for training. Singapore Math is widely contested, with many having doubts about whether it is an improvement over the TERC curriculum.  As with Common Core, there is little clear evidence of its worth and quality, and seems like another shot-in-the-dark effort to improve education.  Who is making a lot of money from all these product sales?  That is an important question.

All the above-mentioned initiatives and mandates have had the obvious effect of removing teachers from their classrooms for significant amounts of time and fracturing their concentration and ability to teach.  There were many days last year when I felt I had hardly spent any time in the classroom.  It was my assistant teacher with whom the children were more familiar.  She was more in the role of classroom teacher.  I was more in the role of data collector.

The negative impact of all of this on a classroom of young children (or children of any age) is substantial, and obvious to many classroom teachers.  Teachers everywhere are seeing an increase in behavior problems that make classrooms and schools feel less safe, and learning less able to take place.  Children are screaming out for help.  They are under too much pressure and it is just no longer possible to meet the social and emotional needs of our youngest children.  They are suffering because of this.

I have needed to schedule more SST (Student Support Team) meetings, to get help and support in addressing extreme behaviors in my 4, 5 and 6 year olds.  Behaviors I frequently witnessed included tantrums, screaming obscenities, throwing objects, flailing, self-injury, and sadness and listlessness.  Many of these behaviors, I believe, are at least in part due to the inappropriate and ill-informed pressures and expectations on our young children in our schools.

The overall effect of these federal and state sponsored programs is the corrosion of teacher moral, the demeaning of teacher authority, a move away from collaborating with teachers, and the creation of an overwhelming and developmentally inappropriate burden imposed on our children.

 Here is the resignation letter she wrote and sent last month:

February 12, 2014

I am writing today to let you know that I am resigning my position as PreK and Kindergarten teacher in the Cambridge Public Schools.  It is with deep sadness that I have reached this decision, as I have loved my job, my school community, and the families and amazing and dedicated faculty I have been connected with throughout the district for the past eighteen years.  I have always seen myself as a public school teacher, and fully intended to work until retirement in the public school system.  Further, I am the product of public schools, and my son attended Cambridge Public Schools from PreK through Grade 12.  I am and always have been a firm believer in quality public education.

In this disturbing era of testing and data collection in the public schools, I have seen my career transformed into a job that no longer fits my understanding of how children learn and what a teacher ought to do in the classroom to build a healthy, safe, developmentally appropriate environment for learning for each of our children.  I have experienced, over the past few years, the same mandates that all teachers in the district have experienced.   I have watched as my job requirements swung away from a focus on the children, their individual learning styles, emotional needs, and their individual families, interests and strengths to a focus on testing, assessing, and scoring young children, thereby ramping up the academic demands and pressures on them.  Each year, I have been required to spend more time attending classes and workshops to learn about new academic demands that smack of 1st and 2nd grade, instead of Kindergarten and PreK.  I have needed to schedule and attend more and more meetings about increasingly extreme behaviors and emotional needs of children in my classroom; I recognize many of these behaviors as children shouting out to the adults in their world, “I can’t do this!  Look at me!  Know me!  Help me!  See me!”  I have changed my practice over the years to allow the necessary time and focus for all the demands coming down from above.  Each year there are more.  Each year I have had less and less time to teach the children I love in the way I know best—and in the way child development experts recommend.  I reached the place last year where I began to feel I was part of a broken system that was causing damage to those very children I was there to serve.

I was trying to survive in a community of colleagues who were struggling to do the same:  to adapt and survive, to continue to hold onto what we could, and to affirm what we believe to be quality teaching for an early childhood classroom.  I began to feel a deep sense of loss of integrity.  I felt my spirit, my passion as a teacher, slip away.  I felt anger rise inside me.  I felt I needed to survive by looking elsewhere and leaving the community I love so dearly.  I did not feel I was leaving my job.  I felt then and feel now that my job left me.

It is with deep love and a broken heart that I write this letter.

 Sincerely, Suzi Sluyter

CHICK-FIL-A CEO DAN CATHY APOLOGIZES FOR STANCE AGAINST “GAY RIGHTS”

CHICK-FIL-A CEO APOLOGIZES FOR STANCE AGAINST “GAY RIGHTS”
(Friday Church News Notes, April 18, 2014, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - In the last month Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy has twice apologized to the press for his stance on “gay rights.” This month he told USA Today that his public statements against homosexual “marriage” in 2012 and the financial support the company has contributed to fighting it was a mistake. He said, “All of us become more wise as time goes by. ... I’m going to leave it to politicians and others to discuss social issues” (“Chick-fil-A wings in new direction after gay flap,” USA Today, April 8, 2014). Last month Cathy told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Every leader goes through different phases of maturity, growth and development and it helps by (recognizing) the mistakes that you make.” Cathy is positioning the company to expand aggressively from its base in the South into parts of the country that are more liberal-minded, such as Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Instead of moral issues, Cathy indicated that the company will focus on nutrition, environmentalism, and other socially-acceptable concerns, such as antibiotic-free chicken and the removal of corn syrup and artificial ingredients from its products. The homosexual mafia has marked up another win against cowardly people who appear to love money more than Jesus Christ and His Word. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council told Mike Huckabee of Fox News, “I think we’re seeing those in the business community becoming cowards.” Where are the professing Christians in influential places who will “dare to be a Daniel” or who will take the stand that Esther took when she determined to plead with the pagan king for her people and, “If I perish, I perish” (Est. 4:16). In August 2012, shortly after Chick-fil-A Day in which tens of thousands of people showed their support for the company’s stance, Floyd Perkins entered the Family Research Council’s headquarters and started shooting. Angry at the company’s moral stance, his objective was to kill people and then stuff a Chick-fil-A sandwich in their mouths. He had 15 chicken sandwiches in a backpack, but by God’s grace he was stopped by a guard and is now serving 25 years in prison. 

BLM ABUSE & SLAUGHTER OF BUNDY'S CATTLE~PLUS FENCING & WATER TOWERS DESTROYED

BLM SLAUGHTERED CATTLE 

DURING BUNDY SEIGE 

PLUS PROPERTY VANDALISM:

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/report-blm-feds-slaughtered-cattle-during-bundy-siege/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
AND
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/16/feds-accused-leaving-trail-wreckage-after-nevada-ranch-standoff/

Federal agency could face charges for abuse of animals

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
April 17, 2014

Photo evidence suggests BLM federal agents shot cattle dead during actions targeting Cliven Bundy, a clear violation of a court order which could see the federal agency and those it hired to carry out the operation face criminal charges.

The official Bundy Ranch Facebook page posted images of a prize bull that appeared to have been killed by a gunshot wound alongside the message, “Evidence of cattle that were shot. One of many incidents.” More images of dead cattle are set to be posted later today.

As Fox News reported last night, despite a court order restricting the BLM to only seizing Bundy’s cattle, video shows that federal agents cut holes in water tanks and destroyed fences belonging to Bundy during the operation. According to Bundy, the BLM also killed two prize bulls for no reason. The Bureau of Land Management has failed to respond to the allegations.

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PICTURES OF MURDERED CATTLE, VANDALIZED FENCING, AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY BY BLM AGENTS:

VIDEO: Published on Apr 16, 2014

Federal government terrorists masquerading as Bureau of Land Management employees left a devastating trail of destruction on Bundy Ranch including the murder of two of Cliven Bundy's cattle as well as destroying property as shown in the FOX news video below.

Even the FOX news broadcaster correctly calls these BLM terrorists 'rustlers' as throughout the nation, a call goes out to disarm the Bureau of Land Management while others call to put them out of business completely by disbanding the rogue agency.

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Another image taken from an aircraft shows Bundy’s cattle corralled into small pens. Shortly after the image was taken, the FAA moved to shut down airspace over the ranch, prompting speculation that the feds were attempting to hide evidence that they were mistreating the cattle.

Republican member of the Nevada Assembly Michele Fiore also tweeted out an image of the dead bull, describing it as, “One of many casualties from the #BundyRanch standoff.”

Michele Fiore @VoteFiore

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Graphic Photo - One of many casualties from the #BundyRanch standoff. More to follow soon. #ShameOnBLM

5:16 PM - 15 Apr 2014

“I did post the first picture of one cow [that] was shot in the back of the head from a helicopter,” said Fiore. “I personally helped save a calf who still had an umbilical cord attached to her as she was separated from her mom. It is such a disgusting event … they don’t herd cattle — they slaughter cattle,” she added, referring to the BLM.

“If you look at the stewardship of land, and herding of cattle, first of all these particular cattle that were grazing on 600,000 acres — understand that when the Bundy family would herd their own cattle, there would be water taps to where the cattle would go down to the water and herd them humbly and softly — no cruelty, no abuse, herding them to where the cattle could get injured,” Fiore continued. “We now have an evidenced-based argument with how the BLM cannot take care of that cattle. We have cows giving birth (in the federal pen) where baby calves have been stepped [on] and killed,” added Fiore, accusing the BLM of shooting cows that got out of line while digging mass graves in a botched attempt to bury the carcasses.

In a secret audio recording released earlier this week by Natural News, BLM chief Daniel P. Love denied that the BLM had killed any cattle, a claim to which Fiore responded, “He’s a flat out liar, period.”

Last week, Bundy supporters claimed that BLM agents were bringing in earth moving equipment in order to dig mass graves. On Saturday, the federal agency ceased its operation against Bundy and was forced to return some 380 seized cattle after a tense standoff with Bundy supporters.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

This article was posted: Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 8:06 am

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"DIRTY" HARRY REID: "SUPPORTERS OF BUNDY ARE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS"~CLAIMS SNIPERS SURROUNDING BUNDY RANCH WERE NOT BLM RANGERS BUT RANCHERS

"DIRTY" HARRY REID: 

"SUPPORTERS OF BUNDY ARE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS"

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/harry-reid-calls-cliven-bundy-supporters-domestic-terrorists/;
EXCERPTS:
"“There were hundreds, hundreds of people from around the country that came there,” Reid said. “They had sniper rifles in the freeway. They had weapons, automatic weapons. They had children lined up. They wanted to make sure they got hurt first … What if others tried the same thing?”

Reid is obviously angry after his complicity in the siege against the Bundy family was exposed and became a viral story. Although many news outlets claimed this issue was “debunked,” Reid’s involvement in a solar farm just 35 miles from Bundy’s ranch is documented. Archived files which were deleted from the BLM’s own website confirm that confiscating Bundy’s cattle was necessary in order to clear the way for lucrative solar deals with transnational corporations.

Meanwhile, the BLM has admitted slaughtering two prize bulls belonging to Cliven Bundy during their round up of his cattle. The BLM claims the bulls “posed a safety hazard” but refused to elaborate. Bundy supporters have pointed to photographs which appear to show one of the bulls having suffered a gunshot wound."

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Cliven Bundy blasts Harry Reid 

for accusations of 'Domestic Terrorist' (Apr 18, 2014):

Cliven Bundy And Supporters Labelled "Domestic Terrorists":

Published on Apr 18, 2014

David Knight is joined via phone by Alex to discuss the announcement by Senator Harry Reid that embattled rancher Cliven Bundy and his supporters are "Domestic Terrorists" and what the declaration means for Freedom.
http://www.infowars.com/harry-reid-ca...
http://www.infowars.com/white-house-c...
http://www.infowars.com/cliven-bundy-...

Taking Apart Harry Reid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CWpamAISoY