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Monday, February 6, 2017

THE MANDATORY "TWO MINUTE HATE" OF ORWELL'S DYSTOPIAN FUTURE HAS ARRIVED~"LOVE TRUMPS HATE"~AND IF YOU DISAGREE, WE'LL KILL YOU!

 “Love Trumps Hate!” — And if You Disagree, WE’LL KILL YOU!
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"LOVE TRUMPS HATE"~AND IF YOU DISAGREE, 
WE'LL KILL YOU! 
BY WILLIAM F. JASPER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
“Love Trumps Hate! Love Trumps Hate!” This mantra has been ricocheting noisily through our streets for the past several months, usually interspersed with other anti-Trump chants including: “Not My President!”; “No Trump! No Fear! Refugees Are Welcome Here!”; and “No Trump! No KKK! No Fascist USA!"
So chanted the belligerent throngs of Disrupt J20, as they engaged in KKK/Fascist-style tactics and linked arms to illegally block American citizens — men, women, young people, and children, including military servicemen in uniform — who had journeyed to Washington, D.C. on January 20 to peacefully attend the inauguration of President Donald John Trump. “Love Trumps Hate!” screamed the mob of “protesters,” as one of their number reached through the crowd with a lighter to set a young pro-Trump girl’s hair on fire. The criminal terrorist act was caught on video, but like most of the other violent acts of the disrupters, it was not considered newsworthy by the mainstream media (MSM). It would have disappeared unreported down the memory hole if not for social media and the many alternative news websites that are now daily exposing the lies and propaganda of Big Media. The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and the rest of the controlled media herd that continuously bleated and brayed during the entire election cycle about alleged violence by a few Trump supporters have ignored this example of violence and hate, as they have the hundreds of other violent acts by anti-Trump disrupters during the inauguration.

Thankfully, the video has gone viral, and various police agencies, reportedly, are looking for the woman arsonist/assailant and her accomplice(s) who covered for her. Setting someone on fire is felony assault and battery, an immoral, criminal act that deserves public condemnation as well as prosecution.
All throughout the campaign and the post-election period, the media moralists have called upon the Trump side to “dial down” the inflammatory rhetoric, while the anti-Trump, pro-Hillary side was not merely engaging in verbal pyrotechnics but actually setting cities ablaze. All throughout the campaign and the post-election period, the media moralists have condemned Trump and Trump supporters for alleged “hate crimes” and “hate speech” against various minorities, citing unsubstantiated, hearsay accusations as proof. Invariably, these highly publicized “crimes,” have turned out to be hoaxes, fabrications of anti-Trump fanatics. If this had happened only a few times, the media organizations might plead incompetence or lack of due diligence and apologize for getting “punked”; blame it on the deadline rush. However, when it happens repeatedly, ad nauseum, as we have seen, and when the same “news” organizations repeat coverage of the hoaxes even after they’ve been publicly and admittedly discredited for days or weeks, it bespeaks willful deceit on the part of the “journalists” involved.
And when this is coupled by a willful blindness on the part of the media moralizers toward the multiple acts of real, actual, verifiable violence and hate on the part of the anti-Trump extremists — captured in flagrante delicto on video (see here, here, and here) — it becomes clear that we are dealing with something even more serious than obvious institutional “liberal-progressive” bias. We’re dealing with real “pants on fire” liars, plain and simple, who are raving ideological leftists to boot, who will censor and deny all facts and acts that defy their preferred narratives.
(The following video contains vulgar language and violence.)

The Trump victory in November — which defied the predictions of virtually all the lamestream media “experts” and their pollsters — showed that the American people are repudiating the MSM in droves. The annual Gallup Poll regarding the media last year found only 32 percent of Americans trusted the major press. However, the level of public trust in the corporatist media is even a great deal more dire than the Gallup survey indicates. According to a study by the Media Insight Project, a partnership of the Associated Press and the American Press Institute, released in April of 2016, “Just 6 percent of people say they have a lot of confidence in the media.”
Six percent! And that was before much of the worst media misbehavior, during the final months and weeks of the Clinton-Trump presidential run. And, of course, that misbehavior — by the anti-Trump media and the leftist "protesters" — is continuing. “Love Trumps Hate!,” the #J20 protesters in Washington, D.C. shouted, as fellow #J20 protesters were running amok with hammers, rocks, and other weapons, smashing cars and windows, terrorizing inauguration-goers, hitting police officers and passersby with metal poles, and setting a limousine on fire, which sent smoke clouds (along with some anxiety and panic) along President Trump’s inaugural parade route.
Ironically, the destroyed limo was owned by a Muslim immigrant, Muhammad Ashraf, who was not a Trump supporter. And his driver, who was in the limo when it was attacked and suffered injuries that required hospital attention, is a Hispanic employee, Luis Villaroel. Of course, one of the other anti-Trump mantras alternating with “Love Trumps Hate!” is “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here!” But if some immigrants get in the way of the righteous Marxist-Leninist Trump haters, well, hey, that’s acceptable collateral damage, for as Lenin reputedly quipped, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.”
Much of the havoc, hate, rioting, violence, and vitriol aimed at Donald Trump for the past several months has issued from unidentified “activists” participating in rent-a-mob actions funded by George Soros, the Ford Foundation, and other deep-pocket funders. And many of the assassination threats and vile, obscene attacks on Melania, Ivanka, Barron, and other Trump family members, Vice President Mike Pence, and presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway have been made by anonymous Internet assailants or ordinary Twitter users without any previous claim to fame. However, during this past election cycle we have witnessed an unprecedented outpouring of hateful, malicious, intolerant, and even murderous rhetoric from anti-Trump celebrities, prominent individuals, and public figures. The following are but a tiny fraction of the hateful acts by the “Love Trumps Hate!” folks:
• Pop diva Madonna told the global audience to the Women’s March on Washington, “Welcome to the revolution of love” — before announcing that she’d “thought a lot about blowing up the [Trump] White House,” and then blasting opponents with F-bomb vulgarity.
• Fellow Hollywood persona Ashley Judd delivered a vitriol-drenched rant to the Women’s March, insulting President Trump with the usual name calling: racist, Nazi, fascist, KKK, misogynist, etc.
Ted Kornblum, Founder and CEO of the Magnatone guitar amplifier company, posted, on January 30 on his personal Facebook page:  “Rest easy people, it’ll take only 100 days till Trump gets a bullet in the head!” He later deleted the post and offered a tepid apology for what he said was a “frivolous, insensitive political post” and a “careless mistake.”
Ted Kornblum post
• Matt Harrigan, CEO of tech company PacketSled, posted a series of Facebook threats after the election, including: “I’m going to kill the president. Elect.”; “Bring it secret service”; “Nope, getting a sniper rifle and perching myself where it counts. Find a bedroom in the whitehouse that suits you [expletive]. I’ll find you.”; “In no uncertain terms, [expletive] you America.” (We can’t reproduce all of his posts here because Harrigan insists on lacing his vile comments with X-rated verbiage.)
CEO Matt Harrigan Facebook threat
• Don King, a senior banker with international megabank BNP Paribas Tweeted: “Rape Melania then decapitate the [expletive]. Cmon ISIS where you at when we need you.” (The “Rape Melania” theme appeared around the country on posters carried by anti-Trump protesters.)
• Monisha Rajesh, a London-based writer for the establishment-Left Guardian of Great Britain, Tweeted: “it’s about time for a presidential assassination.”
Monisha Rajesh tweet
• Hussam Ayloush, spokesman for CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations), the militant Muslim lobby, issued a Tweet calling for the overthrow of the U.S. government, following the announcement that Trump had been elected. “Ok, repeat after me: Al-Shaab yureed isqat al-nizaam. (Arab Spring chant).” The second line of the tweet is Arabic, which translates as: “The people want to overthrow the regime.” As, Ayloush himself points out parenthetically in his tweet, this was the “Arab Spring” regime-change chant that was used by the mobs during the Obama/Clinton/Soros-orchestrated overthrow of Middle East governments, which resulted in the installation of new anti-American Muslim Brotherhood/ISIS/AlQaeda jihadist regimes throughout the region.
CAIRs Hussam Ayloush tweet
• Andrea Bocelli, Italy's immensely popular blind tenor backed out of performing at the Trump inauguration festivities due to death threats, it appears. Initially, it was widely reported he had declined as a result of fan backlash, but according to the UK Daily Mail, Bocelli's security detail convinced him the threats made attendance too dangerous. In light of the enormous outpouring of vicious and threatening rhetoric and violent actions from the anti-Trump camp, the death threat explanation sounds more plausible. Similarly, the "tolerance" folks bullied and threatened all other invited inaugural performers, causing many to decline the invitation or to back out after accepting, including Dreamgirls singer Jennifer Holliday, who intially said she would perform despite the orchestrated anti-Trump campaign against her doing so. Rather than condemning this bullying, the Hollywood set and their media pals triumphantly celebrated the sabotage and hypocritically pointed to the absence of "A-list" entertainers as a supposed confirmation of President Trump's unpopularity and illegitimacy.
• Actor David Harbour, in accepting a Screen Actors Guild award on January 29, delivered a fiery anti-Trump “call to arms” that drew the SAG members to their feet cheering, and in which he bellowed: “we will, as per Chief Jim Hopper, punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the weak and the disenfranchised and the marginalized!” The "peace, love, and unity" crowd appeared to be wild with ecstasy at the thought of punching in the face people they disagree with.
• Ethan Fedida, director of social media at the California-based news website Ozy.com and a writer for the liberal-left pro-Obama/pro-Clinton Huffington Post, Tweeted: “Looking on the bright side: the stress of the presidency should help kill @realDonaldTrump faster…”  
• Joss Whedon, director of the Avengers movies and donor of $1 million to a pro-Hillary Clinton SuperPAC, Tweeted this coup-sounding comment after Trump had been legally elected: “This is simple: Trump cannot CANNOT be allowed a term in office. It’s not about 2018. It’s about RIGHT NOW.” And how is Trump to be denied a term in office without engaging in insurrection and sedition? And how do Whedon and other members of the PC Choir square this seditious talk with their claim that, like Hillary, they were absolutely "horrified" when Trump said that he would not necessarily concede defeat immediately after the election, if informed that Clinton had won. His response was entirely reasonable, if taken in the proper context, inasmuch as it reflected a "wait and see" approach that recognized the need to be sure that a proper vote count had been taken and any voting "irregularities" or vote fraud had been investigated. But here we are nearly three months after the election, and after multiple post-election efforts by the "horrified" folks to derail the Trump presidency, the "progressives" who prattled endlessly about "peaceful transferal of power" are still waging a scorched-earth war.
Have any of the privileged miscreants uttering these threats or inflammatory, vulgar remarks been held to account? Not that we can see, although a few of them have been, reportedly, visited by the Secret Service. And some, after being shamed by the alternative media (certainly not by the MSM hypocrites) have quietly removed their offensive Tweets and Facebook posts. But few of the high-level offenders have been forced to clean out their desks and resign.
By way of contrast, it may be recalled that Mozilla (Firefox) CEO Brendan Eich was forced to resign in 2014, but that was because he had been found guilty of the truly abominable crime of … offending the LGBT Lavender Lobby. How so? It was “discovered” that several years before, Mr. Eich had donated $1,000 to (Oh, the horror!) California’s Prop 8 initiative, the voter-approved state constitutional amendment that declared only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. Such unpardonable bigotry! So, according to the current dictates of our morally disoriented intelligentsia, it is a righteous thing for the likes of Eich to be hounded from his job for exercising his right as an American citizen to oppose the now-sacred “right” of same-sex “marriage.”
But merely publicly threatening the president of the United States with assassination, wishing his untimely death, or urging revolution and insurrection, well, that’s OK, not even worth a tsk-tsk from the media moralizers. We have seen no reports that Kornblum, Harrigan, Ayloush, Whedon, or Fedida have suffered any employment retribution, and certainly none of the lynch-mob treatment from the media that would assuredly be meted out to any similar language directed at Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or other icons of the Left.
A few low-level anti-Trumpistas have suffered loss of employment for their uncivil and unwise Internet postings, as, for instance, the burlesque dancer in Kentucky, Heather Lowery, who Tweeted this loving message: “If someone was cruel enough to assassinate MLK, maybe someone will be kind enough to assassinate Trump.” What would be laughable, were it not so deadly serious, is that Lowery’s wish for murderous kindness includes: “#bekind #trump #lovetrumpshate.”
Heather Lowery
A few other privileged offenders have had their wrists (lightly) slapped, but have gotten a pass from their comrades in the commentariat. Katie Rich, a comedy writer for Saturday Night Live (NBC), went way over the line when she targeted President Trump’s 10-year-old son, Barron, in this nasty tweet that suggested he would be a mass-murderer: “Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter.”
Katie Rich tweet
Even NBC recognized that Rich had gone out of bounds with this ugly comment, but only temporarily “suspended” her. No media outrage over this. In fact, as the Media Research Center reported, Rich’s confreres in the media bent over backwards to spare her. The New York Times and Associated Press, for instance, both soft-pedaled the story, intentionally failing even to quote, let alone reproduce, Rich’s child-abusing tweet.
The Times reported that Rich had been suspended for tweeting "a widely criticized post she made Friday on her personal Twitter account in which she mocked Barron Trump, the 10-year-old son of President Donald J. Trump." That’s all, just a “widely criticized post” that “mocked” the president’s son. The AP reported that Rich was suspended “after tweeting a poorly received joke about Donald Trump's 10-year-old youngest son, Barron.” No, nothing serious here, just a “poorly received joke.” Clearly, the Times, AP, and the rest of the mediameisters that followed suit did not want any of the outrage that they have been so assiduously trying to gin up toward Trump to be diluted or redirected toward any other target.
Another example: “Journalist” Julia Ioffe — a writer for Politico and a columnist for Foreign Policy — got into (somewhat) hot water for an especially vile X-rated Tweet (which we will not reproduce) speculating on incest between President Trump and his daughter Ivanka. Ioffe, whose writings have appeared in much of the “prestige press,” was in the process of leaving Politico for a new position at The Atlantic when she Tweeted. As a result of her controversial tweet, Politco announced it had “accelerated” her departure. Her new employer, The Atlantic, however, didn’t flinch, merely stating that Ioffe “made a mistake today on Twitter, which she regrets and for which she has publicly apologized.” They expressed confidence that she would adhere to The Atlantic’s standards. Those “standards,” apparently, fall well below those of  Va Va Vixens, the Louisville dirty-dancing company that fired the aforementioned dancer Heather Lowery “the moment we were informed of this incident.”
“We have a zero tolerance policy for such,” the owners of the burlesque establishment said in a statement. “It’s no secret that we are in the midst of a divided nation. With so much hate and anger in the world, our hope is to be a sanctuary that welcomes all walks of life with open arms,” they stated. The management at the New York Times, The Atlantic, NBC, Saturday Night Live, and the rest of the MSM anti-Trump lynch mob could take some “zero tolerance” pointers from the management of Va Va Vixens.
And what about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Corey Booker, and Nancy Pelosi? Have they denounced the incendiary rhetoric and violent demonstrations? To the contrary, in their speeches they have poured gasoline on the fires and helped further incite the extremists. Have the moralists of the lamestream media named and shamed the advocates of assassination and violence? Have the media moralizers, who repeatedly demand that Trump and the Republicans “tone down” the rhetoric, made the same demands of these Democrat Party leaders, whose followers are the only side engaging in mass violence?
Hah! The mavens of Big Media have instead covered for these "progressive" Democrat leaders, just as they have covered for their violent followers, and have continued to stoke the anti-Trump atmosphere that guarantees a continuation of the vicious “Love Trumps Hate!” hypocrisy.
Or perhaps “Love is hate!” would be a better catch-phrase, echoing the 1984 Orwellian slogans “War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery,” and “Ignorance is strength.”
Is that not where we now stand? Is it not truly Orwellian when masked, violent “protesters” sporting communist hammer-and-sickle flags and anarchist emblems chant “This is what democracy looks like!” — while physically blocking peaceful citizens from the inauguration of a democratically elected president? And when they chant “Love trumps hate!” — while viciously, physically attacking fellow citizens with whom they disagree? Is it not truly Orwellian when the “Ministry of Truth” media hypocrites side with the attackers and accuse the victims of provoking the violence?
One of the most frightening features of Orwell’s dystopian future was the mandatory daily ritual known as the Two Minute Hate, in which propaganda films were used to work the inhabitants of Oceania into a mass frenzy of rage and hatred against the “enemy” — creepily similar to the actions of the mindless, screaming, hateful lunatic fringies attacking President Trump (and anyone who disagrees with them) while proclaiming “Love Trumps Hate!”

The anti-Trumpistas have already announced and demonstrated that they intend to keep the chaos going. The blocking of airports by the self-designated “disrupters,” in protest over President Trump’s executive order restricting refugees and travelers from seven designated countries, and the riot at the University of California Berkeley indicate they do not intend to let up. The huge banners they carried at UC Berkeley — “This is War” and “Become Ungovernable” — belie their faux alternate appeals for “love,” “peace,” “unity,” “diversity,” and “tolerance.” The photo below of the UC Berkelesy riot, from a Tweet by Occupy Oakland, gives a clear “clue” as to the  communist pedigree and direction of the melee organizers. For the past several years Occupy Oakland has been one of the most radical of the violent Occupy groups plaguing cities all across the country. (See here, here, and here.)
Occupy Oakland
The leaders of the ongoing havoc are bent on destruction, and their allies who are sitting in key political offices and in influential posts of the prostitute press are assisting them in this seditious process. It’s up to us — you, me, and all Americans who are truth lovers — to name and shame those that are sowing discord and promoting violence, and to expose those who are aiding, abetting, funding, and encouraging them.
Photo at top of graffiti left by anti-Trump protesters in Berkeley, Calif.: AP Images
Hat tips to: Alex Jones, Infowars.com; Jim Hoft, thegatewaypundit.com; Joe Newby, conservativefiringline.com; Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com; Newsbusters.org; Breitbart.com.
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MISSISSIPPI TOWN RALLIES AFTER ATHEIST COMPLAINT RESULTS IN REMOVAL OF CHRISTIAN FLAG

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MISSISSIPPI TOWN RALLIES AFTER ATHEIST COMPLAINT RESULTS IN REMOVAL 
OF CHRISTIAN FLAG 
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

RIENZI, Miss. — Over 100 residents from a small Mississippi town rallied on Saturday after a complaint from a prominent professing atheist organization that took issue with a Christian flag being displayed in a public park resulted in the removal of the banner.
The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent a letter on Jan. 20 to Rienzi Mayor Walter Williams to assert that the flag, which had been flown in Veterans Memorial Park, was unconstitutional. It said that it had been contacted by a local resident—who was not named—to advise them of the flag’s presence.
“We write to ensure that the town remove the Christian flag from its memorial garden in order to avoid unconstitutional religious endorsement,” the letter read. “We appreciate that the town of Reinzi is attempting to memorialize [veterans’] sacrifice. But as numerous government entities have already discovered, honoring those who have served their community and country does not override the need to remain neutral toward religion.”
FFRF urged Williams to utilize a completely secular display instead, and noted that it can be “quite costly” to ignore their request as another city settled with FFRF in 2015 for $500,000.

“There are countless ways to recognize the sacrifice of our veterans and military members without also endorsing one religion over all others in violation of the Constitution,” it said. “By flying a Christian flag over the memorial, Rienzi sends the message that the town values the service of minority religious and nonreligious service members less than their Christian counterparts.”
As a result of the letter, Williams had the flag removed.
“I never dreamed that something like this would have happened in a town this small, but it happened,” he told local television station WREG. “We’re gonna fly that flag again and I’m hoping it’s not going to be long.”

On Saturday, more than 100 residents from the small town of 300 held a rally in support of the flag, some themselves bearing the emblem.
“We’re not gonna let other people, or a foundation, or anybody else up in Wisconsin tell us that we can’t fly our flag!” organizer Kevin Nelms proclaimed to those gathered.
“My whole point behind this [is], you’re gonna take one down, we’re gonna put a hundred back up,” he added to reporters. Supporters ran another Christian flag up the flagpole during the event.
Nelms and his group rode from the VFW on their motorcycles to Veterans Memorial Park, flying the flag as they went.
“As a proud American, but number one as a proud Christian, I came today to stand up for the Lord and stand up for our freedom,” participant Susan Woodruff stated.
Williams says that he has hired an attorney and further discussion about the matter will be held at its next board meeting on Tuesday. He was among those who attended the rally on Saturday.
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 Rienzi, Mississippi Christian Flag Rally (2/4/17) 
 Published on Feb 4, 2017
A crowd of people waving Christian flags descended on the Veterans Memorial in Rienzi on Saturday after the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter to the town. The letter stated, “A religious memorial, like any other religious display endorsed by the government, is unconstitutional.” The town removed the flag for the time being, but Rienzi Mayor Walter Williams hopes the Christian flag can fly again at the site soon.
 SHOULD A MISSISSIPPI TOWN HAVE TO REMOVE A CHRISTIAN FLAG?
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
By Jake MacAulay
February 8, 2017
NewsWithViews.com
The United States Code refers to the Declaration of Independence as the “organic law” of the United States. And the Declaration clearly claims that there is an Almighty Creator God, that our rights come from Him, and that the purpose of civil government is to protect and defend the God-given rights of the people. The Declaration makes reference to the Bible, God’s Word, as the source of earthly, legal authority.

Civil government includes federal, state, and local city governments like the town of Rienzi, Mississippi, where this past weekend more than 1/3 of the town’s population showed up to a rally in defense of a Christian flag flying over their Veterans Memorial Park.
It seems the Freedom from Religion organization wrote a letter that threatened a half-million-dollar lawsuit against the small town of 300 people if the flag wasn't taken down.
Some folks like organizer Kevin Nelms responded like Americans, declaring, “We're not gonna let other people, or a foundation, or anybody else up in Wisconsin tell us that we can't fly our flag! You're gonna take one down; we're gonna put a hundred back up.”
Unfortunately there were city government leaders showing a bit more bewilderment and naiveté. Believing that he had no choice in the matter, Rienzi Mayor Walter Williams pulled the flag down, saying, "I never dreamed that something like this would have happened in a town this small, but it happened.”
I am sure this mayor is shocked that the First Amendment, which states, “Congress shall make no Law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” would be used as a legal threat by an assailing organization that hates God.
So, the legal question I present to you is whether the city has broken the law by flying a Christian flag, among others, at a Veterans memorial? In other words, does flying a flag equate to Congress making a law, the effect of which is to establish an official United States religion?
Well, the answer seems to clearly be “NO” for at least two very simple reasons:
1. The city of Renzi is NOT “Congress”
2. A flag being hung is not a “law”
In order to find that a flag hung in Mississippi (or anywhere else) is a violation of the Establishment Clause, the first thing you have to conclude is that the city of Renzi is, in legal contemplation, the Congress of the United States.
Crazy, you say?
I agree. But this is exactly the conclusion that some maintain through a “legal fiction” the courts call the “Incorporation Doctrine.”
 George Washington, our First President, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces that won the war for our independence, and the President of the Congress that gave us our Constitution and the First Amendment, insisted:

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and citizens.”
In other words, George Washington would have called dysfunctional organizations like the Freedom from Religion “un-Patriotic” and therefore “un-American”! So along with the city of Renzi, let’s be Patriots and hang our Christian flags!
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TRUMP'S DEFENSE SECRETARY MATTIS WARNS NORTH KOREA: U.S. RESPONSE WILL BE "OVERWHELMING"

TRUMP'S DEFENSE SECRETARY MATTIS WARNS NORTH KOREA: U.S. RESPONSE WILL BE "OVERWHELMING"
 
Published on Feb 2, 2017
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warned North Korea that any use of nuclear weapons by the North on the United States or its allies would be met with what he called an "effective and overwhelming" response.
U.S. defense secretaries have long offered assurances to South Korea and Japan that its nuclear "umbrella" will protect them, but Mattis's statement was perhaps more pointed than most. He made the remarks during an appearance with his South Korean counterpart, Defense Minister Han Min Koo.
"North Korea continues to launch missiles, develop its nuclear weapons program, and engage in threatening rhetoric and behavior," Mattis said with Han standing at his side and U.S. and South Korean flags at their backs.
"We stand with our peace-loving Republic of Korea ally to maintain stability on the peninsula and in the region," he added. "America's commitments to defending our allies and to upholding our extended deterrence guarantees remain ironclad: Any attack on the United States, or our allies, will be defeated, and any use of nuclear weapons would be met with a response that would be effective and overwhelming."

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ADDRESS AT MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, TAMPA BAY

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ADDRESS 
AT MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, TAMPA BAY 
 

NATHAN LEAN OF GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY CALLS FOR "PUBLIC UPRISING" TO OVERTHROW TRUMP

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NATHAN LEAN OF GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY CALLS FOR "PUBLIC UPRISING" TO OVERTHROW TRUMP
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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Georgetown’s Nathan Lean is a supreme example of how academia has become a radioactive desert of hard-Left indoctrination and opposition to the freedom of speech. He is supposedly an expert on “Islamophobia,” which really means that he is an expert on character assassination of those whom he deems “Islamophobes.”
A longtime foe of the freedom of speech, Lean has dedicated his life to defaming and lying about anyone and everyone who dares to utter a critical word about the religious ideology that guides Islamic jihadists and incites them to commit mass murder. His targets have included Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz and me, and in every case, Lean plays fast and loose with the facts, cheerfully purveying falsehoods even when he has been shown that they are false (the images are gone from that old post, but it still conveys the substance), so desperate is he to clear away all obstacles to the advance of jihad terror. Not content to defame his targets over their opposition to jihad terror, he stalks them elsewhere: I was scheduled to speak several years ago at an education conference that had nothing to do with Islam, but Lean mounted a defamation campaign that intimidated a cowardly Catholic bishop, Jaime Soto, to cancel the event (it was held at another location) because of my work on Islam.
Lean is not content to spread lies about those whom he hates; he is also the lowest kind of thug, and has repeatedly tweeted out links to what he thinks is my home address and places that I frequent (he was wrong in both cases, but that’s beside the point), in an obvious attempt either to frighten me into silence or to signal to his jihadi friends and allies where I can be found and killed. He is an expert, practiced hater — a look at his Twitter feed shows that he regularly revels in crude and vicious abuse of those who dare to say the slightest negative word about the Religion of Peace. As he claims to be opposing “haters,” he is easily one of the most hateful individuals I have ever encountered in my entire life.
And now he has shown his true colors. This is sedition. Will Georgetown University continue to employ someone with such contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law? Of course they will, because the Saudis remunerate them handsomely.
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 Islamophobia in America: Causes, Challenges, and Solutions with Nathan Lean
 

EXPOSED: INSIDER COUP TO SABOTAGE TRUMP

 Exposed: Insider Coup to Sabotage Trump
EXPOSED: INSIDER COUP TO SABOTAGE TRUMP 
 Coup designed to protect Clintons
BY JEROME CORSI
 
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NEW YORK – Acclaimed Haitian-rights activist Ézili Dantò, who endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2016, has alerted Infowars.com of an attempt to sabotage from within Trump’s campaign pledge to be the “champion” of repairing damage Haitian activists claim the Clintons have done.
The Clintons were reportedly stealing possibly billions from the relief effort organized in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake through the State Department, while Hillary was secretary of state, and the Clinton Foundation.
Specifically, Dantò is concerned Omarosa Manigault, director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump administration is organizing a delegation to travel to Haiti on Monday to witness the inauguration next Tuesday of president-elect Jovenel Moïse.
 Dantò and other prominent Haitian activists in the U.S. that voted for Trump consider Moïse to be another corrupt candidate hand-picked by the Clintons to perpetuate their crime syndicate grip upon their beloved homeland.
At time of publication, Infowars.com is waiting for a response to an inquiry placed with the White House press office for comment.
Former president of the Haitian Senate, Bernard Sansaricq, issued a blistering statement last September that was posted  on the Trump campaign website accusing that Bill and Hillary Clinton used the 2010 earthquake disaster as an excuse “to steal billions of dollars from the sick and starving people of Haiti.”
The Clintons’ financial exploitation of Haiti is discussed at length by Peter Schweizer in his 2015 bestselling book, “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.”
In my 2016 book, “Partners in Crime: The Clinton’s Scheme to Monetize the White House for Personal Profit,” can be found documentation that after the 2010 earthquake, President Clinton formed the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund and raised $16.4 million from individual efforts for immediate relief efforts.
Yet on the Clinton Foundation website there is no documentation an IRS Form 1023 application to form the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund had ever been filed, nor is there any documentation of an IRS letter determination granting the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund tax-exempt status.
In 2016, the pages of the Clinton Foundation annual reports and website remain peppered with photographs of the Clinton family members mixing with the Haiti people.  The Clinton Global Initiative prose waxed eloquently with praise for the philanthropic good Bill and Hillary Clinton have accomplished in Haiti.
The Clinton Foundation 2013-2014 annual report mentions Haiti 48 times, with the section entitled, “Clinton Foundation in Haiti: Investing in sustainable economic growth,” displaying on pages 38-39 the text against a two-page spread of full-page color photographs showing smiling Haitian children at their desks in a schoolroom, being instructed by a smiling teacher at the chalkboard at the front of the class.
Yet, as noted by Breitbart.com in an article published July 27, 2016, reports persist that “black lives don’t really matter to Bill and Hillary Clinton when it comes to Haiti,” as the evidence persists that the Haitian people continue to live in essentially the same misery as they experienced in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, while billions of dollars in aid money went missing as it funneled through the Clintons’ grasp over Haiti.
Also of concern was that Hillary’s brother, Tony Rodham, “landed a lucrative and historically rare Haitian ‘gold exploration permit’ while Clinton Foundation donors, including Digicel mobile phone company founder Denis O’Brien, were winning multi-million dollar contracts that would siphon massive profits from the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.”
Omarosa gained fame as a guest appearing during Season One of Donald Trump’s NBC reality-television show, “The Apprentice.”  Yet her roots are solidly in the Democratic Party.
Her job history shows she worked for Vice President Al Gore in the White House, despite a controversial history of supposedly being banished from four jobs in two years with the Clinton administration, according to a report published by People Magazine in 2004.
The 2004 story in People Magazine reported that Omarosa “was asked to leave as quickly as possible, she was so disruptive,” according Cheryl Shavers, the former Under Secretary for Technology at the Commerce Department, where Omarosa worked several weeks in 2000. “One woman wanted to slug her,” Shavers said, according to the magazine article.
Evidence suggests Omarosa traveled to Haiti in 2007 with the Haiti Support Project – a group founded by Dr. Ron Daniels, the president of the Black World 21st Century, an organizer of the Black World Conference.
 

APPLE 6'S NEW "EYE OF SAURON": HOW THE CASHLESS SOCIETY WILL TRACK YOU EVERYWHERE

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HOW THE CASHLESS SOCIETY 
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Alex Jones discusses the move towards a cashless society and reveals how digital currency is designed to track and analyze humanity.
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CRAZY LADY KICKED OFF FLIGHT FOR HARASSING TRUMP SUPPORTER SEATED NEXT TO HER

CRAZY LADY KICKED OFF FLIGHT FOR HARASSING TRUMP SUPPORTER SEATED NEXT TO HER
REPORT BY MARK DICE 
 Published on Jan 24, 2017
A lunatic liberal was kicked off a flight for harassing a passenger sitting next to her when she found out he was a Trump supporter. Media analyst Mark Dice has the story. Full video here: https://www.facebook.com/scott.kotesk...

Sunday, February 5, 2017

TO SHARON FROM BETHEL CHURCH: A RESPONSE TO YOUR REBUKE

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TO SHARON FROM BETHEL CHURCH: 
A RESPONSE TO YOUR REBUKE 
BY BUD AHLHEIM
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Dear Sharon,
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. Be assured that yours is not the first “rebuke” that we’ve received for what is viewed as an “attack” on Bethel Church, nor will it be the last.
But I would, at least, like to offer a response of my own to you.   I attempted to reply privately to the email address you provided. However, my email was undelivered as the address you provided was invalid.
It is true that I have engaged – and Pulpit & Pen has engaged – in vigorous polemics against Bethel Church. But it has been done as a result of something that you actually mentioned in your email – it’s because “the Bible itself says.
In places like Jude 3, “the Bible itself says” to “contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints.” This is what compels me – and others – to write or speak in a polemical fashion against Bethel. The “faith” that Bethel represents is clearly not the “faith once for all delivered.” (You can review the many assessments about the dangers of Bethel by going HERE.)
I contend not for the sake of winning an argument, but in the hopes that you, and those like you, being deceived by evident and identifiable error, might be prompted to “examine yourself to see if you are in the faith.” (2 Corinthians 13:5)  It’s as a result of a Berean-like comparison (Acts 17:11) of Bethel’s practice and teaching against Scripture that I – and many others – realize that Bethel is a toxic-waste dump spewing spiritual poison at undiscerning, emotions-driven souls.  We contend because those souls matter and Scripture tells us to contend.
The Bible itself says” in Romans 16:17-18 that we are to “watch out” for those who come along with “contrary doctrine” who not only “cause divisions” in the church, but also who, with “smooth talk and flattery,” “deceive the hearts of the naïve.” It’s in those same verses where we are explicitly told to “avoid them.”   But, Sharon, “avoiding them” does not preclude me, or any believer, from warning those caught in the clutches of their deception. To not tell the blind man he’s about to plummet over the unseen-by-him-but-assuredly-approaching precipice would be, as “the Bible itself says,” sin.
“So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.” James 4:17
Like the summertime ice cream truck as it drives by the playground broadcasting child-enticing melodies through its loudspeakers, so too does Bethel appeal with its spiritual charms that offer the exact thing that fallen human nature desires – an experience that empowers us beyond the often mundane realities of our sin-ridden human existence.
It’s not, as you say Sharon, that they “do it different than you” that prompts the polemics. It’s that they do it wrong – not according to my standards – but according to God’s, in His Word.  The “Jesus” lauded by Bethel – though the “Holy Spirit” gets lauded far more often, and as equally illegitimately – is not the Jesus of His Word.  The real Jesus revealed in Scripture is not driving the Bethel ice-cream truck as it plays enticing tunes to the world promising treats for your soul.  The driver of Bethel’s vehicle is far more nefarious, far more deceptive.  The real driver is an imposter who’s favorite alias is “Jesus,” and he’s selling spiritual treats in return for your soul.
It’s because, Sharon, that “the Bible itself says,” in places like Matthew 7:15, that “false prophets” will most certainly plague the church. You said, “I hardly think Satan could be behind such great fruit!”   Again, however, “the Bible itself says” that these false prophets Jesus warned against would come attired not in the garb of the devil. The enemy doesn’t appear with fangs dripping blood and an angry, whipping pointed tail, bearing in his long-nailed clutches a scythe of death and mayhem. Jesus said the agents of the enemy will appear superficially just like the sheep, but that they are “inwardly ravenous wolves.”
Please be reminded also that “the Bible itself says,” in 2 Corinthians 11:14, that “Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” That’s the very logical reason that his deception works. It works because it masquerades as authentic, and those who don’t actually know what “the Bible itself says” are intentionally naïve and vulnerable to false teachers, false doctrines, and eternal destruction.  It is imperative that we know exactly what “the Bible itself says” in order to recognize deception, especially the deception that comes slathered in an appealing veneer of Scripture and Christianese.
“The Bible itself says that it cannot possibly contain everything that could have been written.  There is so much more to Him.”  Sharon from Bethel Church
The Apostle John wrote, in John 21:25, that “there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” But Sharon, your implication about this is decidedly different than that of the Apostle, or, indeed, of the rest of the testimony of Scripture.
John’s intent in writing what he did – by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit – was very clear. “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, and that believing you may have life in his name.” (John 20:30-31)  While there is indeed “so much more to Him,” there is nothing “more” that we need to know in order to arrive at the saving knowledge of Him for which John wrote his inspired Gospel, which happens to be the point of ALL of Scripture.  God did not leave the Bible unfinished and lacking; He gave it as complete, closed, and sufficient.
“I pray that you would not be afraid of the ‘more’ of God, knowing Him, not just His written Word”  Sharon from Bethel Church
The Apostle John did NOT suggest, encourage, advise, or endorse the need for – or the practice of – going beyond what had been written. In fact, God Himself has told us specifically NOT to do this. “The Bible itself says,” in places like Deuteronomy 4:2, that “You shall not add to the Word which I am commanding you.” “The Bible itself says,” in Proverbs 30: 6, “Do not add to His words or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar.” Again, in Revelation 22:18-19, “the Bible itself says,” in a very dire warning, that “if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this Book; and if anyone takes away from” what “the Bible itself says” that “God will take away his part from the tree of life.”
There are many ways we may “add to” or “take away” from Scripture.  To do either doesn’t mean we take actual ink to paper, penning what we presume are missing parts, pasting them in as an addendum to the actual bound book.  We add or take away by failing to comprehend the Book we already have.  We can do it by our professed theology, but, more often, we do it by our behavior.  (Bethel does both, btw.)  We naturally – or, as Paul would say it, “in the flesh” – want to avoid the difficult truths of Scripture while embracing the ones that comfort, console, and encourage us.  This neglect of Scripture, though, is taking away from it.  But, by falsely validating our desired behavior with favorite verses we’ve twisted to fit our ends, we are adding to that Word.
But your comment above is very reminiscent of what the “apostle” Bill Johnson wrote in his Scripture-twisting book, isn’t it?  (No, though C. Peter Wagner referred to Johnson as an apostle, be assured of this: there are NO apostles on the planet today.  If you want to hear from one, read their inspired New Testament works.  They’re still talking today … in the Bible.)
“Those who feel safe because of their intellectual grasp of Scriptures enjoy a false sense of security. None of us has a full grasp of Scripture, but we all have the Holy Spirit. He is our common denominator who will always lead us into truth. But to follow Him, we must be willing to follow off the map—to go beyond what we know.”  Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth
It’s the mixture of truth with error that serves a lethal cone to the undiscerning Bethel ice-cream buyer.  Johnson is correct that “none of us has a full grasp of Scripture.”  And he is correct that for those who are authentically regenerated by Him – and false teachers are NOT among them – “we all have the Holy Spirit.”  The Holy Spirit will lead us into truth.
However, the truth taught by the Holy Spirit is NEVER found by following “off the map” of His inspired Word as Johnson claims.  It is precisely because we have not grasped the fullness of Truth in Scripture that the Holy Spirit drives us deeper into that Word.  The Holy Spirit never, ever, ever takes you off the path of Scripture.
The explicit point of God’s revelation in Scripture is so that we may KNOW Him and His redemptive Truth in Christ.  The Holy Spirit does not lead us “beyond what we know” through ecstatic experiences but, instead, always leads us to more and deeper knowledge and continually growing understanding of His Truth so long as we “abide in my word.” (John 8:31).  But this knowledge – this understanding- based on Truth, is divinely given as objective and propositional, not subjective and emotional.  Unlike the off-roading Bethel ice-cream truck, the Holy Spirit will only drive you down the narrow path bounded by the guard rails of His inspired Word. (Matthew 7:13-14)
(For some worthwhile verses on the importance of “knowing” from Scripture, consider Colossians 1:9-10, Galatians 4:8-9, Colossians 2:2, Proverbs 2:1-6, Ephesians 4:17-24, Philippians 1:9-11, 1 Peter 1:13, John 17:3)
Sharon, it’s very much worth your study to consider another place where “the Bible itself says” that altering God’s word, adding to it, deleting from it, or seeking for “more” beyond it, brings condemnation, not the life-promising “more” offered warmly by the subtle deceiver of souls. In Mark 7:9-13, “the Bible itself says” that Jesus was engaged in dialogue with some Pharisees. Jesus chided them in Mark 7:9 by saying, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!” This had to be a shock to the Pharisees. They were the experts in the Law. They were the religious elite of the day.
But what did Jesus say about them?   Look at Mark 7:13 … they were “making void the word of God” by their “tradition.” The handed-down tradition of the Pharisees missed the intent of the Law of God and made His Word void. The “tradition,” Sharon, was their behavior. It was how they acted by adding “more” to God’s Word. They demanded behavior and practices un-endorsed by God for the people of God that promised – by adherence to them – righteousness.  The Pharisees were driving an ice-cream truck of legalism that promised “more.”  But, if you’ll look over at what “the Bible itself says” in Matthew 23:15, you’ll find that the “more” of the Pharisees was not positively affirmed by the Lord. Rather, it was condemned.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!   For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.”
Sharon, it’s the “more” that you encourage and seek that is the precise problem with Bethel. There is no “more” that we need, have been given, or are to seek.   In John 8:31, “the Bible itself says” that a disciple of Jesus would be known by one preeminent thing: they would “abide in my word.” It is by abiding in that Word that such wonderful – and authentic – fruit of the Holy Spirit is generated.  As He guides us to grasp more understanding of His biblically-revealed Truth, the more we grow in legitimate spiritual fruit.  That fruit is never found outside the boundaries of that “Word.”
The “more” traditions of the Pharisees, born outside the Word, are no different than the behaviors of Bethel which are also clearly outside the Word. Both bring condemnation – despite how good, spiritual, righteous or ecstatic those behaviors make you feel.  Regardless of how enticingly soul-soothing the melodies of Bethel’s attractions are, its intentional willingness to “go beyond” what God has revealed in His Word will result in a Pharisee-like condemnation by the Lord.
Sharon, when I read your line about the “more of God,” I hear someone who has been deceived by the subtlety of an enemy doing the very same thing he did with Eve in the Garden. It’s the same sin-inducing query of “Hath God said?” He’s appealing to you that there is “more” to be had and that God is holding out.  Sadly, Sharon, for you – and others at Bethel – the subtle echoes of an Eden serpent’s suggestive appeal “What else hath God said and how can you get ‘more?” is being heard – and you are following that voice at your peril.
But Sharon, from the fall of man onward, the deceit of the enemy has always been the subtle suggestion promising “more.”   If he’s not trying to persuade that there is no God, he’s trying to suggest there are many ways to Him and that He is instinctively holding back the good until you get it right.  But “the Bible itself says” that God has given us, by His divine power in the revealed Truth of His Word, “all things that pertain to life and godliness.” (2 Peter 1:3) In fact, the Apostle Peter, a few verses later, in 2 Peter 1:19, said that “we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed” – the “prophetic word” is, by the way, the Bible.   But Peter adds a sobering reminder that “you will do well to pay attention” to that Word.
And that “Word,” Sharon, must always be the “Word” in your hands, consumed by your study, and comprehended by your mind. It is not a voice in your head, an impression in your soul, or a sensation in your emotions. By studying it, we may be “approved unto God,” as the KJV puts 2 Timothy 2:15.  We are not approved to – or by – going beyond it in a destruction-sure pursuit of “more.”  The lure of an Eden-esque “more” always leads away from the “rightly handled word of truth.”  So Sharon, when someone suggests an extra-biblical detour, you should take note and be warned.  The Holy Spirit will NEVER abandon His holy, inspired Word.
We are to “know the truth,” (John 8:32) so that we may be set free; not “feel” the truth.   Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” He didn’t say “I am the experience. Go beyond my word to find “more.”  We do not know Jesus outside His Word.  The presence of His Word, the Bible, is more than a mere clue about how He intends to reveal Himself and His Truth.
The ultimate end of our Christian life is holiness. Though we will only be fully sanctified when finally in His eternal presence, the process goes on here by the illuminating and convicting work of the Holy Spirit. But sanctification – this process of becoming “holy as I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16)– is also not driven by experience nor confirmed by emotions, regardless of how ecstatic. Sanctification is through His Word. “The Bible itself says,” in perhaps the most epic chapter of the entire Bible, that Jesus prayed to the Father for our sanctification.  Note the mechanism highlighted by our Lord for that sanctification.   “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” (John 17:17)  Truth is not experientially apprehended, it is objectively comprehended.  Truth comes not from feelings, but from understanding.  It is found exclusively in “your word.”
It is not the “Holy Ghost gold dust” blowing from Bethel’s air ducts that indicate the presence of God.  The evidence of God’s presence in a believer isn’t experientially spiritual.  Rather, it is propositionally spiritual.  We understand Truth, apprehend it, comprehend it – and that Truth develops within us a renewed mind (Romans 12:2)  and authentic fruit of the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23)  We think differently and, as a result, we act differently, in accordance to the Word, not in addition to the Word.  Spiritual fruit is never grown in an off-the-narrow-path orchard that is beyond the rightly handled Word of God.
Sharon, I’m not trying to win an argument here.  But you have much to lose.  Bethel, by its practice and by its proclamations, goes beyond the explicit, evident, and perspicuous Truth of God’s Word, twisting it to validate its appealing, though illicit, endeavors.
For the sake of your soul, Sharon, please consider that you are being deceived by an appeal from the wide path.  And you can be absolutely sure it is from the wide path because it goes far beyond the boundaries of God’s Word.  And once you fail to heed precisely what “God hath said,” you open yourself up to deception in this life and destruction in the next.  (Matthew 7:13-14)
Sharon, once you are willing to go beyond what “the Bible itself says,” you have opened yourself up to certain deception, for you have nothing against which to compare truth from error. Outside the known revealed Truth of Scripture, you will be deceived by an enemy bent on your destruction.  Warm-fuzzies and ecstatic spiritual “highs” don’t validate truth and those experiences quickly become our goal.  Only knowing what “the Bible itself says” can you, or I, be absolutely certain about our faith, our practice, and our feelings.  Emotional experiences can often deceive; God’s Word never does. Please don’t sell your soul in exchange for such temporal charms.
But, again, thank you for commenting, Sharon.  I will pray for you, and the others caught in the deceptive trap of Bethel.  To body-tackle the blind man approaching the cliff may appear unloving and cruel to one who cannot see the approaching precipice, but for those who see the danger, it’s the most loving thing that could be done.  Such is this, Sharon. Such is this.
God bless you.
Bud Ahlheim
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