INSTRUCTION ON THE EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's
The Church's Year

The Introit of the Mass reads: INTROIT We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple: According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice. Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his mountain. (Ps. XLVII.) Glory be to the Father, etc. COLLECT Lord, we beseech Thee, mercifully grant us the spirit to think and do always the things that are right: that we, who can not subsist without Thee, may by Thee be enabled to live according to Thy will. Through etc. EPISTLE (ROM. VIII. 12-17.) Brethren, We are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the spirit you mortify the deed of the flesh, you shall live. For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba (Father). For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit, that we are the sons of God. And if sons, heirs also: heirs indeed of God, and joint heirs with Christ. Who live according to the flesh? Those who follow the evil pleasures and the desires of corrupt nature, rather than the voice of faith and conscience. Such men are not guided by the Spirit of God, for He dwells not in the sensual man, (Gen. VI. 3.) they are no children of God, and will not inherit heaven, but eternal death. But he who is directed by the Spirit of God, and with Him and through Him crucifies his flesh and its concupiscence, is inspired with filial confidence in God. by the Holy Ghost, who dwells in him, and by whom he cries: Abba (Father.) Prove yourself well, Christian soul, that you may know whether you live according to the flesh, and strive by prayer and fasting to mortify all carnal and sensual desires that you may by such means become a child of God and heir of heaven. ASPIRATION Strengthen me, O Lord, that I may not live according to the desires of the, flesh; but resist them firmly by the power of Thy Spirit, that I may not die the eternal death. GOSPEL (Luke XVI. 1-9.) At that time, Jesus spoke to his disciples this parable: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for now thou canst be steward no longer. And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me my stewardship? To dig, I am not able: to beg I am ashamed. I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord? But he said: A hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty, Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: A hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and write eighty. And the Lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generations than the children of light. And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity, that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings. Who aye represented by the rich man and his steward? The rich man represents God, the steward is man - to whom God has confided the various goods of soul and body, of grace and nature: faith, intellect, memory , free will; and five senses, health, stregth of body, beauty, skill power over others, time and opportunity for good, temporal riches, and other gifts. These various goods of soul and body God gives us not as our own, but as things to be used for His honor and the salvation of man. He will therefore demand the strictest account of us if we use them for sin, luxury, seduction, or oppression of others. Why did Christ make use of this parable? To teach us that God requires of every man a strict account of whatever has been given to him, and to urge us to works of charity, particularly alms-deeds. What friends do we make by alms giving? According to St. Ambrose they are the poor, the saints and angels, even Christ Himself: for that which we give to the poor, we give to Christ. (Matt. XXV. 40.) And: He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord, and he will repay him. (Prov. XIX. 17.) "The hands of the poor," says Peter Chrysologus, "are the hands of Christ," through whom we send our riches to heaven before us, and through whose intercession we obtain the grace of salvation. Why did his lord commend the steward? Because of his prudence and foresight, but not for his injustice; for he adds: The children of this world are wiser than the children of light: that is, the worldly-minded understand better hove to obtain temporal goods than do Christians to lay up treasures for themselves in heaven. Why is wealth called unjust? Because riches are often massed and retained unjustly, often lead man to injustice, and because they are often squandered, or badly used. SUPPLICATON Grant me the grace, O my just God and Judge, that I may so use the goods of this earth confided to me by The e, that I mad make friends, who at my death will receive me into eternal joys. ON THE SIN OF DETRACTIONAnd the same was accused unto him. (Luke XVI. 1.) The steward in the gospel was justly accused on account of the goods he had wasted; but there are many who lose their good name and honor by false accusations, and malicious talk! Alas, what great wrongs do detracting tongues cause in this world! How mean a vice is detraction, how seldom attention is paid to its evil, how rarely the injury is repaired! When is our neighbor slandered? When he is accused of a vice of which he is not guilty; when a secret crime is made known with the intention of hurting him, or when our duty does not require us to mention it; when we attribute an evil intention to him or entirely misconstrue his actions and omissions; when his good qualities or commendable actions are denied or lessened, or his merits underrated; when we remain silent, or speak ambiguously in cases where praise is due him; when we lend a willing ear to detractions, and make no effort to stop them; and lastly, when joy is felt in the detraction. Is detraction a great sin? Yes, for it is directly opposed to the love of our neighbor, therefore to the love of God, hence it is, as St. Ambrose says, hateful to God and man. By it we rob our neighbor of a possession greater than riches, (Prov. XXII. 1.) and often he is plunged by it into want and misery, even into the greatest vices; St. Ambrose says: "Let us fly from the vice of detraction, for it is altogether a satanic abyss, full of deceit." Finally, detraction is a great sin, because it can seldom be recalled, and the injury done by it is very great, and often irreparable. What should we do when we have committed this sin? We should retract the calumny as soon as possible and repair the injury done to our neighbor in regard to his name or temporal goods; we should detest this sin, regret it, and be cleansed from it by penance, we should daily pray for him whom we have injured, and in future guard against the like fault. Are we ever allowed to reveal the wrongs of our neighbor? To make public the faults of our neighbor only for the entertainment of idle people, or for the sake of news, and to satisfy the curiosity of others, is always sinful. But if after having reproached or advised our neighbor fraternally, without obtaining our end, we make known his faults to his parents or superiors for the sake of punishment and reformation, far from being a sin it is rather a duty, against which those err who are silent about the sins of their neighbor, when by speaking they could prevent the sin and save him much unhappiness. Is it a sin to listen willingly to detraction? Yes, for we thus give the detractors occasion and encouragement. Therefore St. Bernard says: "Whether to detract is a greater sin than to listen to detraction, I will not decide. The devil sits on the tongue of the detractor as he does on the ear of the listener." In such cases we must strive to interrupt, to prevent the detracting words, or else withdraw; or if we can do none of these, we must show in our countenance our displeasure, for the Holy Ghost says: The northwind driveth away rain, so doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue. (Prov. XXV. 23.) The same demeanor is to be observed in regard to improper language. What varieties of detraction are there? There is a certain detestable kind of detraction which degrades and ridicules others by witty and sneering words. Still worse is that detraction which carries the faults of others from one place to another, thus exciting those who are on good terms to hard feeling, or making those who are living in enmity more opposed to each other. The whisperer and the double tongued, says the Holy Ghost, is accursed, for he bath troubled many that were at peace. What should deter us from detraction? The thought of the enormity of this sin; of the difficulty, even impossibility of repairing the injury caused; of the punishment it incurs, for St. Paul expressly says: Calumniators shall not possess the kingdom of God, (I Cor. VI. 10.). and Solomon writes: My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and have nothing to do with detractors; for their destruction shall rise suddenly. (Prov. XXIV 22.) SUPPLICATON Guard me, O most loving Jesus, that I may not be so blinded, either by hatred or, envy, as to rob my neighbor of his good name, or make myself guilty of such a grievous sin. CONSOLATION FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM DETRACTION If your good name has been taken away by evil tongues, you may be consoled by knowing that God permitted this to humble you, to exercise you in patience and free you from pride and vain self-complacency. Turn your eyes to the saints of the Old and the New Law, to the chaste Joseph who was cast into prison on a false charge of adultery, (Gen. XXXIX.) to the meek David publicly accused by Semei as a man of blood, (II Kings XVI. 7.) to the chaste Susanna who was also accused of adultery, tried and condemned to death. (Dan, XIII.) Jesus, the king of saints, was called a drunkard, accused and condemned as a blasphemer, a friend of the devil, an inciter of sedition among the people, and like the greatest criminal was nailed to the cross between two thieves. Remember besides that it does not injure you in the sight of God, if all possible evil is said of you, and that He, at all times, cares for those who trust in Him; for he who touches the honor of those who fear God, touches, as it were, the pupil of His eye, (Zach. II. 8.) and shall not go unpunished. St. Chrysostom says: "If you are guilty, be converted; if you are innocent, think of Christ." PRAYER O most innocent Jesus, who wert thus calumniated, I submit myself wholly to Thy divine will, and am, ready like Thee, to bear all slanders and detractions, as with perfect confidence I yield to land care my good name, convinced that Thou at Thy pleasure wilt defend and protect it, and save me from the hands of my enemies.

Obama a British subject ? Look in Britain

• OBAMA’S KENYAN BIRTH RECORDS DISCOVERED IN BRITISH NATIONAL ARCHIVES

WHERE LIES GO TO DIE – Evidence discovered shows British Protectorate of East Africa recorded Obama’s birth records before 1963 and sent returns of those events to Britain’s Public Records Office and the Kew branch of British National Archives.

  Sometimes we need to go outside the controlled American media to discover the truth about what is really going on. This seems to be one of those times.

http://socialismisnottheanswer.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/obamas-kenyan-birth-records-discovered-in-british-national-archives/

Obama birth certificate fight coming to a head.

I have been saying for close to 2 years now that Obama is NOT the president and needs to be removed from office and charged with his crimes.  It seems now many people are starting to question his credentials. It is not possible to impeach an imposter president. He simply needs to be removed from office, arrested like a common criminal and put in jail awaiting his trial.

This is probably the worst fraud ever perpetrated against the people of America, with the possible exception of the  fraudulent fiat money system and the federal reserve.

Paul Stramer

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Date: Friday, July 20, 2012, 2:32 AM Trump renews demand for Obama records College application with place of birth 'would be very interesting' Published: 7 hours ago  by Bob UnruhEmail  Link: http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/trump-doubles-down-on-demand-for-obama-records/ Billionaire Donald Trump, who repeatedly has challenged Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president, is doubling down on those remarks, telling radio show host Sean Hannity that it would be very interesting to see Obama’s college applications. He said on yesterday’s show that probable GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney should demand to see Obama’s records in return for meeting Democrat demands to release his tax records. Trump said Obama probably is more scared of releasing his own documentation than he is of releasing all the information about the Fast and Furious gun scandal perpetrated by his administration. Trump’s comments come in the wake of another news conference by Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., on Obama’s eligibility. His Cold Case Posse team of investigators released documentation Tuesday they believe is proof the Obama birth certification posted online by the White House in 2011 is fake. “The fact is Sheriff Arpaio is, in my opinion, correct,” Trump told Hannity. “Nobody was ever in the hospital by the name of his mother … and a lot of crazy things.” He pointed out, however, the nation’s unwillingness to address the issue, including the role of the mainstream media in attacking anyone who challenges Obama. “If that were a conservative, let’s say a George Bush or somebody, he would have been out of office already,” he told Hannity. “Nobody has more sealed records than this president. So many of his applications … are sealed. He spent $3 million to keep everything sealed. You can’t find out anything about his college. I’m not talking about his marks. I’m talking about his application. It would be so interesting to see,” Trump said. Obama’s college records for Occidental, Columbia and Harvard all remain out of the public view, protected by legions of attorneys fighting in court against any release. He noted that Obama supporters, including news media, “label anybody that brings up the fact that he wasn’t born here or whatever – they label those people as morons or worse, as insane people.” “But you look at the facts … the fact is Sheriff Arpaio is, in my opinion, correct.” He also ridiculed the idea that it was a “mistake” that led a book publisher to promote – for years – Obama as an author who was born in Kenya. “The word ‘Kenya’ doesn’t get messed up with the word ‘United States,’” he said. Listen to the interview: Trump told Hannity that if Romney demanded Obama’s records in exchange for his tax information, “all this talk about tax returns would stop.” “The last thing Obama wants to do is show his college applications, how he got in, his place of birth. Sheriff Arpaio, whether you like him or not, is a serious person. He did a major investigation. The investigation is horrendous as to its results and what it shows,” he said. Arpaio said this week, as WND reported, that the investigation results should be forwarded to the federal government after Cold Case Posse lead investigator Mike Zullo said new information confirms the document presented to the American public in April 2011 is fraudulent. Arpaio told WND he intends to move the investigation and the new information to a higher authority within the federal government because of what he calls an imminent threat to national security and U.S. immigration laws. The threat is posed by a flaw in Hawaii’s law discovered by his investigators that allows a foreigner to obtain a Hawaii birth certificate. “Although I am having a difficult time deciding who to forward this information to given the fact that the obvious choices report directly to the president, I cannot stand by and hold on to information that threatens to weaken national security,” Arpaio said. Arpaio said he intends on keeping a case file open if more information surfaces or if federal authorities decide to ignore the case. Zullo explained that along with new information discovered regarding the birth certificate since the posse’s March 1 press conference, his team has discovered Hawaii provides easy access to a birth certificate, even if the child wasn’t born in the state. Join with Sheriff Arpaio in his work to uncover the truth by donating to the Cold Case Posse expenses, or contribute to a fund that supports investigations by both WND and the sheriff. Under Hawaii Revised Statute 338-17.8, a person only has to be an established resident of Hawaii, not necessarily a U.S. citizen, and pay taxes there for one year to be able to register an out-of-state or foreign-born person with an official Hawaii birth certificate. “If a nation’s security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble,” Arpaio said in a statement. “Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation’s immigration policy.” Among the new findings presented by Zullo: The sheriff’s investigators have learned of a birth certificate coding system that indicates the White House document has been altered. An interview with the Hawaii official who allegedly signed the Obama document in 1961, Verna K.L. Lee, provided further confirmation of the coding anomalies. Investigators were troubled to find key information missing on the verification document Hawaii provided to Arizona’s secretary of state in May. Hawaii’s deputy attorney general, Jill T. Nagamine, confirm the state has a birth document on file for Obama. But she would not confirm on the record that the White House document matched what was on file with the Hawaii Department of Health. The sheriff’s investigators interviewed three persons of interest who have provided additional information in the case. Arpaio’s investigation was initiated last October when 250 Maricopa County citizens approached him for help because they believed the electronic document presented by the White House to the American public was a forgery. Arpaio said he went ahead with the probe with the intent of being able to clear the president and put the matter to rest. But he explained the investigation found too many inconsistencies on the birth certificate. “We also looked into the president’s Selective Service registration card and found that it, too, appeared to be fraudulent,” Arpaio said. Investigators since then have traveled to Hawaii and have interviewed more witnesses, the sheriff said. Trump earlier told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that if his network reported accurately on  Obama’s eligibility, its ratings might be better. “Obama does not like the issue of where he was born,” he told Blitzer. “There’s something that bothers Obama very much. I will tell you: It’s not an issue that he likes talking about, so what he does is use reverse psychology on people like you … He does not like that issue because it’s hitting very close to home. You know it, and he knows it – but you don’t report it accurately.” Trump then became the target of a conversation between former New York Gov. David Paterson, now a talk radio host, and NBC Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd. Paterson suggested it’s possible Obama is ineligible and “got away” with it. Paterson also linked the idea of treason with Obama’s actions. The two were discussing how Romney should have distanced himself more from Trump and his view of Obama’s eligibility. “Even if he wasn’t born in the United States at this point,” Paterson said. “It’s kind of like he got away with it.” He continued: “A lot of people get away with a lot of things.” Paterson compared Obama’s actions to those of Richard Nixon. “We learned later that Nixon spied on Johnson’s Paris peace talks,” Paterson said. “That was actually an act of … uh … I mean it was against the interests of the U.S. government. You’ve got to say that before you would say it’s treason. But he got away with it. Decided it wasn’t a good thing to bring up at that particular time. Not only did he get away with it, he won the election.” Trump, whose publicly expressed doubts about Obama likely were part of the reason that the White House released the online image of a Hawaiian birth certificate for Obama in April 2011, said it was the report of the 1991 Obama book bio stating he was born in Kenya that revived the issue for him. “It was brought up by somebody releasing a statement from the 1990s by Barack Obama, when he was not even thinking in terms of the presidency, and strongly stated that he was born in Kenya and that he was raised in Indonesia,” Trump told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren. He said it appears Obama himself made the Kenya claim. “He made that statement himself. And the publisher wrote it, and he wrote it down, and he – it was – it was going to be part of a brochure to sell a book. That’s a pretty strong statement. And that was made by somebody that wasn’t running for president and probably had no intention of ever running for president. So I think it probably a very honest statement.” Trump continued: “I can tell you that this is not an issue, despite what he says, that President Obama likes. This is hitting very close to home. This is not something that he enjoys.” As WND reported in March 2011, Trump suggested Obama’s presidency could be “illegal” if legitimate proof is not provided demonstrating he is indeed a “natural born citizen” of the U.S. Trump also wondered why no doctors or nurses have come forward to announce their presence at Obama’s birth. In March and April of 2011, Trump staged a weeks-long public campaign questioning Obama’s eligibility to be president – and he rose to the top of the pool of potential candidates for the 2012 GOP nomination as a result – saying he believes the “birth certificate” released by the White House is forged. “I always said I wanted to know if it was real,” Trump told WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi, author of the best-seller, “Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama is Not Eligible to be President.” During their conversation, Trump told Corsi his own computer expert told him that the image posted online was a computer-generated document. More on the Obama birth certificate scandal.  This is rocking the political world and will eventually cause a constitutional crisis of epic proportions in the US and around the world because when it is admitted that he was never a legitimate president all of his actions will need to be recinded. Every bill he signed, every appropriation, every executive order, every penny he spent were all null and void and must be recovered, and if he is NOT the president, then the Democrat National Committee nominated an ineligible person for the office. The legal consequences of this will be staggering. All of Obama care will be unlawful. Think about it. Where the hell is Romney or Ron Paul for that matter. Why does it take a Joe Arpaio and a Donald Trump to expose this? Paul MORE TRUTH COMING…..things that will shock you to the CORE…… The heat's on now......people who don't want to be prosecuted will be coming out of the woodwork to tell the truth.....THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE.....what else has our government been hiding from us???? JACKIE  :) Hawaii official now swears: No Obama birth certificate Date: Thursday, 19-Jul-2012 11:14:33         Hawaii official now swears: No Obama birth certificate         Signs affidavit declaring long-form, hospital-generated document absent         http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/arpaio-live-event-sign-up-page/         -----------------------------         Obama’s birth certificate forger has been found, now what GOP?         By Coach Collins, on July 8th, 2012         On his first day on the job, Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13489 that prevents disclosure of any of his records. “The sealing of the President’s records appears to have been carried out to an exceptional and costly degree.”         (Wouldn’t President Richard Nixon loved to have issued such an Executive Order.)         http://www.coachisright.com/obamas-birth-certificate-forger-has-been-found-now-what-gop/

This is the kind of stuff that will start the next civil war in Amerika

Florida cops kill innocent man at his own home

http://rt.com/usa/news/florida-man-police-kill-325/

http://libertycrier.com/front-page/florida-cops-kill-innocent-man-at-his-own-home/

Hearing a knock on his door at 1:30 am, a perplexed Florida man answered the door to see what kind of unannounced visitors were outside. Holding a gun for security, 26-year old Andrew Scott was instantly shot dead by police after he opened the door.
It took the Lake County Police Department an hour and a half to realize they had killed an innocent man.
“There’s things I would have done differently, but you never know when you wake up out of a sleep and somebody’s knocking on your door,” a neighbor told Fox 35 News. “You don’t know what’s going on.”
The police had been searching for Jonathan Brown and an accomplice, who had attacked a man in the street and attempted to smash a cinder block on his head before being stopped by a passerby. Being pursued by deputies, the attempted murderer escaped, and Florida police began their search.
Seeing Brown’s motorcycle parked outside of Scott’s building, they quietly approached, refraining from announcing themselves outside of the wrongly suspected attacker’s door to avoid scaring him off. Upon seeing the man’s gun, the police opened fire, leaving multiple bullet holes in his door as they killed the innocent man. Neighbors awoke to the sound of gunfire and screams from the victim’s girlfriend.
“I was in bed and heard about seven or eight gunshots. Got up, looked outside the window, by that time you heard a woman screaming,” a neighbor told Fox 35 News.
After realizing their mistake, police found 31-year old Brown in the building next door and arrested him.
Neighbors said Scott was a nice guy, and find the mix-up a sad mistake. The police department says it would not have opened fire if the man had not been holding a gun, but neighbors want to know why the authorities didn’t identify themselves at the door.
But Scott was just one of many victims of police pursuits each year. In the U.S., innocent bystanders account for a third of those killed in police chases, according to USA TODAY. Each year, 360 people are killed in high-speed chases. While Scott was killed in another manner, his death shows the level of carelessness sometimes found in police departments while pursuing a suspect.

Think (unregistered) July 18, 2012, 10:05

Your giving them LEAVE? THEY can't even read the address correctly! FIRE THEM! They Did NOT Follow PROCEDURE! THEY DID NOT Announce Themselves as POLICE, THEY KILLED A INNOCENT MAN! This isn't 'BIZARRE', THEY are INCOMPETENT! TAKE THEIR GUNS! The man had every right to answer his door with a gun. They wear Black and Strapped with GUNS, 1:00 in the morning! Aggressively Moving Toward the INNOCENT man, with guns drawn. There HAS to be a TRIAL! We Have to start testing Cops for COMPETENCE, CHARACTER, PERSONALITY TRAITS! 'Trained' to know? I was AMAZED How MANY COPS Had Killed INNOCENT PEOPLE when I searched 'Police killed innocent Man'!!!! In Cali a 19 yr old was killed when they asked to see his $2 ticket! They shot him in the back and neck and then let him bleed to death! And an 81 yr old man chased some cops off his lawn thinking they were drug dealers and the police Shot Him! Where DID the Counties, State, Federal get these Idiots From? THOSE WHO HIRED THEM ARE ON THE BLOCK TOO. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE as well and need to PAY for the INSTABILITY of the people THEY have HIRED! Heads need to roll here!

Mike (unregistered) July 18, 2012, 07:34

It's really sad that we as Americans need to protect ourselves from the police. I cringe everytime I hear the saying America the free, how can any American still believe that we are a free nation? We live in a police state and have been for quite a few years now and if we the American people don't do something about it very soon, you all think Nazi Germany was bad? If cops can get away with murdering innocent people now, think about it! Millions of Americans will be slaughted by our government.

Mike (unregistered) July 18, 2012, 07:0

That could have happened to anybodies son or father. What these cops did is unforgiveable! that could have been my 26 year old innocent son, and if it was me I would hunt those cops down like the animals they are! How do you bang on a door unannounced not sure if you have the right apt. and shoot an innocent man who brought his gun to the door for protection never in a million years thinking it was cops? They better be held accountable!!

Fred Kelly Grant to Sheriffs

This article is written by the same Fred Kelly Grant that has endorsed Steve Curtiss for commissioner of Lincoln County Montana here: 

http://www.mtbus.com/curtissforcommissioner.htm

Message to Sheriff’s Meeting in Del Norte County

on July 14, 2012

July 14, 2012----------by Fred Kelly Grant

Many weeks ago I gladly accepted Sheriff Dean Wilson’s invitation to appear today at this event. I have the deepest respect for Sheriff Wilson, and for his wife Mary, both of whom work as hard as humanly possible to protect our God-given rights. Beyond price in dollars is their work in spreading the word about how local officials can step up the pace to regain the traditional American way of life that is eluding our children.

I respect just as deeply the Sheriffs appearing today: Mike Poindexter of Modoc, Dave Hencratt of Tehama, Mike Downey of Humboldt, Tom Allman of Mendocino, Jon Lopey of Siskiyou, and of course Gil Gilbertson of Oregon’s Josephine County. The (sic) have taken a giant step forward to defend the rights of their citizens---they have used the “coordination” authority granted them by federal and state laws to take a meaningful role in preventing usurpation of property rights by bureaucratic government agencies.

They recognize and put into practice the traditional constitutional authority of the office of Sheriff, the primary law enforcement officer with the responsibility of providing for the peace of the community. They take a proactive role in working for the economic stability of their communities and the citizens within: without economic health, there is insufficient revenue base to support necessary public safety and health services. So, they urge re-creation of the logging projects that support schools and other services necessary to care for the public health and safety. They take a proactive role in preventing the close (sic) down of the forests through travel management plans, knowing that public health and safety requires open travel. They take a proactive role in developing policy regarding the dams on the Klamath River because they know the adverse impact on the rural economy of destruction.

These Sheriffs have created a new ray of hope for citizens long oppressed by arbitrary agency actions. The agencies are required to respond and work with the Sheriffs by federal and state laws.

I back them fully, and hope that this meeting is a great success in gaining strength of support for them. I pledge to them that I will help them in every way that I can.

I am terribly upset that I had to break my commitment to Dean Wilson to attend this meeting. There is work that I am involved with to defend the coordination concept from a movement to create new legislation in Congress dealing with coordination and “cooperating agency” status. You all know the problems that “cooperating agency” status can get you into---some of our well meaning friends do not “get it”, and their efforts at legislation could afford the extremist environmentalists the opportunity to limit or extinguish the coordination mandate. The urgency of this issue prevents my being there. But, I am there in spirit, and I offer my most sincere apologies to Sheriff Wilson and to you all.

I have now retired from active daily coordination work; I have left in the capable hands of Trademark America the daily work that can help move along the efforts at regaining the rightful power of local governments. I will still be helping the Sheriffs in developing their concepts and implementing them. And, I will be looking for one BIG PROJECT THAT CAN CAUSE DC TO SHAKE. Nominations are open for that Project!

I want to tell you what I predict is going to happen over the next few months, and into the new year after the November elections.

We are in for an overwhelming onslaught of new and more severe regulations. Right now, and until November, you can expect to see concession after concession to extremist environmental groups and causes. The Secretary of Interior withdrew lands from uranium mining exploration in northern Arizona. He did this as concession to Bruce Babbitt and his environmental friends at the Grand Canyon Conservancy, as a long promised blow to uranium mining. The lands withdrawn contain the source for 40 percent of all the domestic uranium we use to support nuclear energy plants in the nation. The action will cause BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in economic losses to eight counties in northern Arizona and southern Utah. This action was take EVEN THOUGH PROOF PROVIDED BY THE SECRETARY’S OWN PERSONNEL SHOW THAT THERE IS (sic) AND NEVER HAS BEEN CONTAMINATION OF THE WATER BY THE URANIUM MINING.

I am convinced that had it not been for the coordination efforts by Siskiyou County, the Secretary would have made his decision to move ahead with destruction of the dams on the Klamath River.

The Forest Service has engaged in close-downs of roads and trails in every forest in the country. Only the actions of sheriffs and county officials through the coordination process have prevented complete shut-downs.

The BLM and Forest Service have combined to begin planning for the protection of the Sage Grouse on a regional basis, to prevent particular counties from using their coordination authority to protect against an end or limitation to livestock grazing.

The owl habitat plans for northern California and the northwest will do away with what logging is left.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Corps of Engineers is simply waiting for the appropriate time to release and enforce their “Clean Water” regulation that will implement the failed Clean Water Act Restoration. The regulation will extend federal control to every body of water in the United States, including “dry desert potholes”, and every piece of land that adjoins, is near, or is affected by any body of water----do you get that? The federal government will control every parcel of land in the United States and subject it to Corps of Engineers permitting.

The Environmental Protection Agency is waiting to release its dust control regulation----that will make it impossible for every dry land farmer in the nation to continue in operation. Agricultural experts tell us that there is no possible way to comply with the regulation throughout the great middle western and high plains farming states.

The Environmental Protection Agency is waiting to release its boiler control regulations---that will make it impossible for any steam boiler manufacturer to warrant that its product will meet the regulation. The regulation will kill the manufacturing and production companies that are left. The regulation was slated for release earlier, but President Obama ordered it retracted “for the time being”. Don’t you imagine that the day after the November results are final will end “the time being”, and the regulation will be issued?

Down through the lines we could go-----with each regulatory agency that can harm our western, rural economies-----no, not “harm”, “destroy”.

If President Obama wins the election, the regulations can roll out, free from the worry by the administration of political fall-out (sic); if he loses, the regulations will roll out quickly over the next two months before the new administration takes office.

I believe that the two months between early November and mid-January may be the most crucial two months in our history; personal liberty and private property rights are in dire jeopardy.

Congress can’t stop it, even if there was a will to do so. Congress is broken!!! The grid-lock is pathetic. And some congressmen are even suggesting that the Founders intended for gridlock to occur. How ridiculous to believe that those brave Americans risked their lives and freedom for gridlock!!! I still maintain that every person elected to Congress should have to pass a test showing that they understood every provision of the Constitution, and the history of the Constitutional convention that led to the final document. I believe if that test were given today, we would see a massive exodus from the Capital.

Fortunately for you folks, you have the prospect of a new Congressman in Doug LaMalpha (sic) who does understand, who “gets it”. And you have the incumbent Congressman Tom McClintock who stands firm with your local officials in their efforts to intervene for your property rights.

The real problem with America today is the massive overgrowth of the bureaucracy. Just as an overgrown forest is unhealthy, an overgrowth of bureaucratic regulatory restrictions renders liberty unhealthy. Our Founders did not provide a government to be run by bureaucrats. I have a tee shirt that says “The current government is what our founding fathers tried to prevent”. When I wear it, I get favorable comments no matter where I am. America is hungry for relief from bureaucracy.

Now, you all have heard the problems---you have heard the sad news of ever creeping nationalism. What is the solution? You know what it is. It is to have your local governments stand up to the federal and state bureaucrats, take their rightful place in the development of policy and management of their natural resources, and make the Tenth Amendment’s provisions LIVE AGAIN.

My 76 years, my fifty years in the practice of law----working for, with and against the federal government---have convinced me of several premises: there is no longer any hope that Congress will change course, no matter which party controls---Congress is broken;

                There is no longer any hope that the executive administration agencies will change course, no matter which party controls the White House----the change from Clinton to Bush didn’t help, because the bureaucrats protected by civil service are entrenched and their livelihoods depend on continued dominance;

                There is no longer any hope that the Supreme Court will change course, no matter whether conservatives have the 5-4 edge----too much precedence has been set for the Court to completely enforce Tenth Amendment authority;

                There is no longer any hope that state governments will change course, no matter who controls the statehouses----they have become too dependent on federal money with entangling strings, and they have become too dominated by metropolitan urban areas (an example being the redistricting program in California controlled by southern California cities).

But there is hope at the local government level. There is hope as long as local Sheriffs and Supervisors and small towns and service districts and even non-governmental organizations support agricultural and natural resource economies will step forward and exercise the authority granted them by the Tenth Amendment and by federal and state statutes which provide the “coordination” power.

I urge all of you to follow the words of Sir Winston Churchill to Englanders in the darkest hours of the blitzkrieg in 1941:

                “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense”.

Support your Sheriffs and supervisors and all local officials who are willing to follow these words----who are willing to stand tall against overwhelming force of a huge federal and state regulatory onslaught.

The only way we can lose our God-given, constitution re-enforced, rights is by giving in, by giving up!! The Sheriffs who are here today have not given in, they have no intention of giving in. Stand with them. Support them. Your children and grandchildren depend on you to preserve for them the American way of life that you knew as children. Don’t let them down.

Say to the bureaucrats, again, what President Kennedy said just three years prior to assassination:

                “We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.”

As you move forward with the Sheriffs, through your tea party organizations, your central committee activities, your service clubs, your school and church organizations, and as individuals keep in mind the admonition to us all by John Fitzgerald Kennedy:  “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

Do this for your country:  Step up as Americans with your Sheriffs to say to the bureaucratic powers:  “We will not be intimidated, we will take back the America that we knew and loved.”

God Bless all of you. God Bless these proactive Sheriffs. God Bess America.

Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns

"Complete disarmament" of the American people
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, July 16, 2012
The UN Arms Trade Treaty that has been identified by observers as a flagrant threat to the second amendment and which Barack Obama is determined to sign has its roots in a 1961 State Department memorandum which explains how the United Nations will oversee "complete disarmament" of the American people under the ruse of preventing war. The UN Arms Treaty has caused so much controversy because it outlines a plan to target "all types of conventional weapons, notably including small arms and light weapons," according to Forbes' Larry Bell.
Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton also warns that the agreement "is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there is no doubt that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control."
A letter sent last month by 130 Republican House members to President Obama argued that the treaty should be rejected because it infringes on the "fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms". The letter adds that "...the U.N.'s actions to date indicate that the ATT is likely to pose significant threats to our national security, foreign policy, and economic interests as well as our constitutional rights."
Using the rhetoric of the threat post by terrorists, insurgents and "international crime syndicates," the UN is busy trying to imply that all weapons are somehow involved in illegal activity on a global scale and should therefore be controlled and regulated by a global authority.
This is precisely the same language used in a 1961 U.S. State Department briefing which outlined a long term agenda to carry out a "Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World."
Invoking the threat of nuclear warfare, the document spells out a plan to create a "United Nations Peace Force" that would "enforce the peace as the disarmament process proceeds."
While the document initially focuses on scrapping nuclear weapons, it later makes it clear that the only groups allowed to own weapons of any kind would be governing authorities, "for the purpose of maintaining internal order," and the UN "peacekeeping" force itself, which would require "agreed manpower."
"The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited except for those of agreed types and quantities to be used by the U.N. Peace Force and those required to maintain internal order. All other armaments would be destroyed or converted to peaceful purposes," states the document. While the memorandum outlines a broader mandate to destroy national sovereignty, eviscerate national armies and institute the UN as the planet's supreme authority with a world army, the document serves as a stark reminder that the plan for the United Nations to oversee the abolition of the second amendment has been in the works for decades.
As Bell points out in his Forbes article, the threat of the Obama administration relying on a UN treaty to do what successive administrations have tried but failed to accomplish -- taking a huge bite out of the second amendment -- is by no means far fetched.
After all, a plethora of UN treaties and international agreements have already stripped the United States of its sovereignty and its power to decide its own laws. The power to authorize U.S. involvement in wars and conflicts has now been almost completely stripped from Congress and handed to the United Nations.

What price would YOU pay for freedom?

FOR GREATER GLORY is a new movie with Andy Garcia that shows what happens when governments trample on basic God given rights, especially when those persecuted are put to death precisely because they are Christians.
Watch the movie trailer here: 
http://www.fandango.com/movie-trailer/forgreaterglory-trailer/152952/2213421435

And here are interviews of the real Cristeros fighters much later when they are old and remember their days in the service of God.
 http://es.gloria.tv/?media=8121%3Fstoryid%3D14796


Their battle cry was "Viva Cristo Rey",    Long Live Christ the King


Here is the story by wikipedia     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristero_War


Here is the battle hymn of the Cristeros

The Virgin Mary is protector and defender against that we fear

She will vanquish demons with a cry of "Long live Christ King!" (x2)

Soldiers of Christ, let us follow this flag, for its cross points to the army of God

Let us follow the flag and declare, "Long live Christ King!"

Collapse Within Weeks, Ron Paul Presidency? - Bix Weir - Video




http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2396/045/COLLAPSE_Within_WEEKS,_RON_PAUL_PRESIDENCY_-_Bix_Weir_-_Video.html

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Backscatter radiation vans destroy privacy

Here is the real story on vans containing backscatter radar surveillance of your home, car, family or anything else they want to know. If you see one of these cruising by what are you going to do about it?





EPA Using Drones to Spy on Cattle Ranchers in Nebraska and Iowa

http://www.infowars.com/epa-using-drones-to-spy-on-cattle-ranchers-in-nebraska-and-iowa/


Here is the link to 14 different technologies being used to violate your privacy.
 
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/14-incredibly-creepy-surveillance-technologies-that-big-brother-will-soon-be-using-to-spy-on-you?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=14-incredibly-creepy-surveillance-technologies-that-big-brother-will-soon-be-using-to-spy-on-you


And here is the video that exposes the NSA by a former NSA official!

Here is a REAL SHERIFF doing his duty!

This is what a real constitutional sheriff and true Peace Officer looks like.

Ben Stormes had the opportunity hear Sheriff Jon Lorey speak recently at the national Sheriffs’ Conference in Las Vegas.  He personally relates to the following message pertaining the federally mandated “coordination process”  in dealing with our ever increasing water issues as well as ongoing problems with U.S. Forest Service mismanagement of forests.  We, here in Montana need to pay heed to the experiences of Northern California and the manner in which citizens and their elected officials have taken a strong stand, fighting for the rights and livelihoods of citizens who are being undermined by rampantly intrusive government policies, propagandized news media and misinformed, agenda driven environmental organizations. 

Thank you, Fred Grant, for this very informative article.  I hope it gets wide distribution, readership and application, especially as we here in Montana become increasingly in need of it.  Montanans will be depending upon on our County Commissioners and Sheriffs to utilize “coordination” in dealing with federal agencies to provide policies essential to a healthy economy and way of life.

Clarice

JON LOPEY, SHERIFF OF SISKIYOU COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SHERIFF.  HE REPRESENTS THE OLD SCHOOL OF SHERIFFS----THOSE WHO SERVED AS LEADER OF THE PEOPLE’S INTERESTS AND RIGHTS.

July 13, 2012-------------by Fred Kelly Grant

On July 2, Glen Martin wrote and published a post in the Huffington Post viciously attacking Sheriff Jon Lopey of Siskiyou County, in northern California.  Martin accused Lopey of misrepresentation, using “incendiary rhetoric”, overstepping his authority “to an alarming degree”, and apparently coveting the title of “Emperor of Northern California”.

Martin, an environmentalist writer called his assault “Above the Law”.   He is probably protected from the laws of slander and libel because the good Sheriff would now be considered a “public personality”.  Otherwise, Martin would be at the precipice of having gone overboard as to the truth.  Ironically, the post was published on the 2^nd of July----because the independence that emanated from the Resolution signed on that day allows and protects freedom of speech.  As well as I know Sheriff Lopey, I know that he would not object to Palmer’s right to speak freely, even if inaccurately, and neither do I.  What I object to is that such a formidable site as Huffington Post would publish such a story, with no chance for rebuttal being offered to the elected official attacked.

That fact demonstrates the danger of the internet, e.g., it allows publication of articles that have no semblance of truth, that have been written without any effort to learn the truth or written inaccurately with full knowledge of the truth.  But, the Martin article also points out the awesome power of the internet, because it offers the medium for responding with the truth.

During the past two decades of work in helping local governments and elected officials use the “coordination” authority granted to them in federal laws passed by Congress, I  have many times been counseled to ignore attacks like Martin’s.   My friends, often wiser than I am in matters of political niceties, have contended that responses only prolong the impact of the attacks.  But, in my old age, as I settle into retirement, I have decided to ignore that sage advice.  I believe it is important to tell the public about the authority their local officials have to protect them against federal and state agency over-reach.  The knowledge of “coordination” has helped wherever the process is used.  If more people knew about it, understood it, and worked through organizations like Trademark America, the power of DC based agencies would diminish.

So, I choose to respond to Mr. Martin, and I hope that local officials and citizens who have benefited from local government exercise of “coordination” will also respond---with factual articles that help the general public understand that there is a way to diminish the awesome power that has been built up by the agencies themselves.

Sheriff Jon Lopey knows and understands the United States and California Constitutions.  He understands the position of a sworn County Sheriff in California as the chief law enforcement officer for his jurisdiction.  He knows that the primary duty of the Sheriff is to keep the peace, a peace that can be threatened when federal and state agencies take or infringe on private property rights, particularly when the exercise of those rights control whether or not a person can provide for himself or his family.

He knows also that the revenue base of the County has to remain strong if he is to have the funds needed to keep the peace and perform all other duties assigned him by law.   The plans and management actions of the environmental and natural resource agencies greatly affect the County’s revenue base and economic stability.  So, it is certainly within the Sheriff’s duties to help the County’s citizens protect their property rights, the exercise of which keeps them economically capable of paying their ad valorem taxes that produce revenue needed to provide vital County services.

Congress has recognized the importance of the Sheriff’s duties, and has directed federal agencies to “coordinate” with them.   Congress defined the term “coordinate” in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, 43 USC 1712, by directing the Secretary of Interior to “coordinate” with local elected officials to resolve inconsistencies between federal and county operations.   The National Forest Management Act requires coordination by Forest Service with the Sheriff; the National Environmental Policy Act requires the same during all NEPA planning and studying.

The legislative history of FLPMA shows clearly that Congress recognized the adverse impact on a County’s revenue base that would result from the monstrous number of federally non-taxed acres in western counties, and from management actions of the federal agencies that manage those federal acres.  Congress thus mandated that federal agencies and personnel work closely with local officials to insure consistency of policy and management.   The method through which this close work is to be performed is “coordination”.

Moreover,  the agencies themselves understand the burden placed on them by Congress.  The Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Corps of Engineers, the Highway Administration, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Justice all have issued regulations or planning rules setting forth how their personnel must coordinate with Sheriffs throughout the nation.

FLPMA has been interpreted and applied by the federal court in Utah where the Court set aside a Bureau of Land Management plan that was not consistent with the County plan.  The National Forest Management Act has been interpreted and applied in the federal district court for the Northern District of California where the court set aside a Forest Service plan that was not consistent with a state policy as to providing roadless areas in the national forests.   A California state appellate court has ruled that the “coordination” process means and demands far more than mere cooperation and working together.  It means, according to the court, that local officials have a meaningful role in the planning and management process and that federal officials must attempt to reach a mutually acceptable result.

Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama have issued Executive Orders directing all federal agencies to coordinate with local officials in the spirit of federalism that is required by the United States Constitution, particularly the Tenth Amendment.   I have not read any other of Mr. Martin’s writings which, according to his bio, have appeared in Audubon, National Wildlife, The Nature Conservancy Magazine, Sierra, Outside, Trout, Discover, Wired, and Men’s Journal.  But, based on my experiences of the last fifty years, my bet would be that he is not a fan of either federalism or the Tenth Amendment which Sheriff Lopey understands fully.

California’s legislature has also passed over twenty statutes that require California agencies such as the Fish and Game Department to “coordinate” with the Sheriff.  I have not seen the letter from the Fish and Game Director to which Martin refers, but if it says what Martin attributes to it, the Director really needs to bone up on California law, as well as federal laws that apply to him

Martin obviously understands none of the above.   He wrote without even researching the laws forming the base for Sheriff Lopey’s actions and words.  Or, he intentionally ignored the truth.   Had Martin even  one iota of concern for the truth, he would have talked with Sheriff Lopey before accusing him of mis-using his position to gain personal esteem.

Martin attacks the Sheriff because of his opposition to the Klamath Agreement, knowing that most of his readers will not know the mischief that is inherent in that Agreement that calls for destruction of dams on the Klamath River, at least one of which is generating useful electricity that serves most of Siskiyou County.    Putting aside the illegality of the Agreement (It was negotiated and settled in violation of California’s open meeting law), I move to Martin’s suggestion that destruction of the dams will restore to the Klamath “its once-mighty salmon runs.”  What Martin does not tell his readers is that dam destruction will not save the salmon.  It makes no provision for neutralizing the silt behind the dams, silt that contains heavy metal materials that are toxic to fish. 

When dams were destroyed on the Rogue River in Oregon, the heavy metals from the silt killed all the fish in the river, salmon included.  A year ago, Sheriff Gil Gilbertson took me to the River in Grants Pass where a mining expert demonstrated the black, sticky “glunk” of heavy metals that he could pick out of the water with a magnet----analysis showed that it contained more than the amount of some toxins than would be permitted by federal agencies if a private company deposited them.  The environmental study for the Klamath destruction ignored these facts in the agency’s analysis of impacts from destruction of dams.

The federal government’s own “independent” study and analysis acknowledged that it is only speculative that destruction of the dams will help salmon recovery. When the dams are destroyed, that silt will be moved so far through the countryside that it will almost assuredly affect coastal ports.  It will move so slowly that it will take years and years to settle out, destroying valuable land, wet lands and waterways as it does.   

Even with that environmental destruction assured, environmental organizations support destruction.  The groups for which Martin writes stand ready to cash in on $93 MILLION a year authorized by the Agreement in grants to environmental organizations for salmon projects FOR YEARS FOLLOWING DESTRUCTION.    Amazing that the Administration cannot determine how to stabilize social security and medicare, but can consider such massive expenditures. 

Sheriff Lopey has the obligation to question the Agreement and its implementation.  The economic loss to ranchers who will lose at least one harvest if irrigation storage is lost will have a huge effect on  the economy of the County, and that will have a huge effect on the funds available to the Sheriff to fund keeping of the peace.  Moreover, if the destruction results in economic loss from water loss, the Sheriff will have the duty to keep the peace among people desperate for water.

The Siskiyou County Supervisors, sharing Sheriff Lopey’s concerns about the County’s citizens,  used their “coordination” authority to advise the Secretary of Interior that he had not complied with the law requiring him to “coordinate” with them and take into proper consideration the economic and environmental effects of the dam destruction.  They and the County Attorney were prepared to file a lawsuit to prevent destruction on the grounds, among others, that Congress had never authorized such action on the Klamath River.  At the very time that Supervisors were in Washington DC with representatives of Trademark America Foundation to discuss the Secretary’s action, he backed away, announcing that he would await Congressional authority.  Had it not been for Siskiyou’s elected officials engaging the Secretary’s department through the “coordination” authority, the Secretary’s order would no doubt already have been issued.

Sheriff Lopey is rightfully concerned about his citizens’ losing their water rights because that loss constitutes a deprival of a private property interest.  It is deprivation of a civil right which the United States Supreme Court has held to be one of the most critical to our ordered society.  Martin cautions that the water rights of the Yurok and Karuk Indians “likely supersede those of the ranchers” along the Klamath.    The active word is “likely” because Martin does not know the status of any such rights.   Moreover, Martin ignores the fact that even if their rights “supersede”, the term “supersede” does not equate to “destroy all secondary” water rights.   The Agreement will ultimately deprive ranchers, farmers and municipal populations of water rights----and without the compensation that is required by both the California and United States Constitutions.

Martin also attacks the Sheriff for his efforts to see that logging resumes in Siskiyou County.  Martin says, inaccurately, that there is no viable logging left because the forests were clear cut long ago.  He uses his work in the Forest Service and information from the “70s” as his source.  If Martin is as active with environmental groups as his writing would suggest, he knows this is a completely false statement.   This is 2012, the forests are in sick and dying condition today, not from over-logging, but because of lawsuits and disruptions of logging caused by some of  those for whom Martin writes.  The Forest Service for which he worked even acknowledges that logging is critical today to return forest health.   But obstructionist environmental organizations still work to prevent logging at the risk of seeing the forests die.  Siskiyou County, as others throughout the northwest know that if they had the management decisions for even a portion of the Forests, they could let contracts that would put people back to work, and reduce federal expenditures that are being made in lieu of former logging receipts.  Sheriff Lopey knows this, and it is his duty as the elected law enforcement representative of the County’s citizens to push the agencies toward getting past the environmentalist obstructionism.

Jon Lopey stands tall along with several other California sheriffs who have determined that they will exercise the authority granted them by federal and California law.  Those grants of authority are consistent with the Tenth Amendment’s reservations of sovereign authority of states and local governments in matters related to the “police powers”, that is, those powers necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare.    I am proud to have worked with him.  He serves his citizens well, and is the kind of Sheriff every county deserves.

Obamacare: Nullification, equal protection and important court cases

There's all kinds of political posturing going on from career GOP politicians in the Outlaw Congress. There will be a ceremonial vote this week by the House. Unfortunately, the unlawfully seated Senate is not going to vote to repeal it and even if they did, the impostor in the White House will never sign it. All just another circus. Since Soetoro/Obama was ineligible to run for president in 2008, he never had the legal authority to sign the 2700 page bill into law in the first place......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd542.htm
by Devvy Kidd

LIBOR scandal and silver will end the bankster cabal

Biggest bankster scandal in history!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oV2mI0IYp8

What is LIBOR?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI2M1olG2Oo&feature=player_embedded
Watch this video to understand the largest banking corruption scandal in history. These large banks have stolen money from every single human on the planet. Not one person was left out. Not even YOU! Now that it is exposed there is no going back. We will ALL support the "NO MORE BAILOUT" mantra...


This one will not go away. It was not planned to go away like other "banking scandals". This one will build and build and build until it is known by every man, woman and child on the planet. This is the exposure that will END the bad guys reign.

I've said it over and over: Timing, timing, timing.

The evil vampire banksters have been stabbed in the heart with various stakes in the past few months but this one is by far the largest. (note: the last one will be made of SILVER so be ready for it!)
http://www.roadtoroota.com/public/570.cfm?awt_l=Hj.JM&awt_m=3aquxoPW7V4C85B

Know this: All is going as planned for the Good Guys.

May the Road you choose be the Right Road.

Bix Weir

http://www.roadtoroota.com/

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Is someone inside Montana's GOP secretly working for the Democrats?

I will add my own comments below this well written article by Gary Marbut. I was there as a delegate also, and I can say with no reservation that he is telling it exactly like it is.
Paul

Another attempt to clarify the outcome of the Montana GOP Nomination Convention


Probably for reasons of pride and control, the establishment Republicans, without thinking through the consequences, may have thrown the major Montana GOP candidates under the political bus.

Dear Friends,

I have encountered a number of friends and acquaintances who just don't grasp the reasons for and consequences of the 2012 Montana Republican National Delegate Nominating Convention in Missoula.

This is another attempt to explain the convention and its consequences. As I explain below, my intent is to promote the very best election chances for Denny Rehberg, Steve Daines, Rick Hill, Tim Fox, Brad Johnson, Sandy Welch and Derek Skees. So they will understand this too, I encourage you to forward this email to those candidates.

This is now posted as an addition to the bottom of the page at:

http://www.marbut.com/GOPReport

First, it is essential to understand the psychology and attitude of the Ron Paul supporters attending the convention. These people, who comprised about 47% of the voting strength of the convention have been, up until the convention, the most energized Republicans in Montana. They have been energized by Congressman Ron Paul's message.

THIS IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND. These people known by the label of "Ron Paul supporters" are less energized by the man than they are by his message of individual liberty and constitutional government. Most of these delegates to the convention had pretty much given up hope that Ron Paul could or would become the Republican nominee for President. Yet they continued to pursue the dream and ideals of individual liberty and constitutional (limited) government.

So, to focus this explanation, let's re-name these delegates from "Ron Paul delegates" to "liberty-minded delegates (or "liberty delegates" for short)." This will help the reader to understand the outcome of the convention. The liberty delegates had a common dream of taking their message of liberty to the national level, including to the Platform Convention in Tampa.

No honest person will deny that the process and ballot of the Montana GOP convention was engineered to elect ALL Romney delegates to Tampa, to entirely shut out the liberty delegates. The process was not fair or inclusive (see Website).

For want of a better term to identify those who engineered, allowed or supported this unfair process, I will refer to them as "establishment Republicans."

Some will argue that everything done at the convention was done by the rules, and that the liberty delegates had the democratic (bad word) opportunity to make and support motions to correct the process, and simply failed. That argument is both correct and wrong. It is wrong because it is an attempt to divert the discussion from an important point that must be recognized to actually understand the impact of the convention outcome.

In politics it is admitted that "perception is reality." Anyone who truly wishes to understand the convention impact must be open to hear how the power play by the Republican establishment struck the liberty delegates. What the liberty delegates PERCEIVED from the engineered shutout was that the Montana Republican establishment opposes the liberty delegates' ideals individual liberty and constitutional government.

This is important, so please tolerate my reiteration of this point. What the liberty delegates PERCEIVED from the engineered shutout was that the Montana Republican establishment opposes the liberty delegates' ideals individual liberty and constitutional government.

Whether this was intended or unintended, correct or incorrect, right or wrong, it is a crystal clear summary of how the liberty delegates PERCEIVED the engineered shutout of themselves and their ideals. It is the reality.

Some say, hey, "They should just get over it." Saying that simply won't make it so. They won't.

Others say, "We don't need them anyway. Good riddance."

This gets me to an explanation of why the engineered shutout was such a colossal tactical blunder.

First, understand that if five, ten, or all twenty elected Montana delegates had been liberty delegates, it would make ZERO difference in the outcome in Tampa. That is, the engineered shutout was done for no tactical benefit.

Second, it is helpful for the reader to understand the perception by the liberty delegates of the difference between "At-large" delegate slots and "Alternate" delegate slots. Almost universally, the liberty delegates are not wealthy. Faced with the $3,500 cost of attending the Tampa convention, they would have begged, borrowed and broken open every piggy bank to afford the trip as an at-large delegate. They would NOT have made that sacrifice to be an alternate - to just go to Tampa to party, watch, and sit powerless on the sidelines. Whether the reader agrees or not, and whether the reader likes it or not, the liberty delegates had no desire to be elected as Alternates. None.

Third, don't forget that the liberty delegates were so energized that they worked hard enough, and long enough, to deliver 47% of the voting strength of the convention. That is, they are (or were) clearly the most energized subset of Montana's GOP.

Having been back-handed in the face (how they perceived it) by the Republican establishment in rejection of their ideals of individual liberty and constitutional government (how they perceived it), these people are now VERY demoralized. Their enthusiasm for the GOP is gone.

That is the important point, NOT whether they will show up at the polls this November. They will go to the polls, although about 1/4 of them I believe will vote for third-party candidates. Hey, don't blame me. These people were rejected by the Republican establishment, not me. The remaining 3/4 of them will cast ballots, and for Republican candidates, although many will hold their noses when they do.

Whether or not or how they vote is not important. They are numerically a small group.

The elephant in the room is this. Having been so thoroughly demoralized and rejected by the establishment Republicans, they will fail to volunteer their unique and considerable energies to aiding the seven major Montana GOP candidates, Denny Rehberg, Steve Daines, Rick Hill, Tim Fox, Brad Johnson, Sandy Welch, and Derek Skees. And, their many circles of influence will encompass a LOT of Montana voters.

The absence of the enthusiastic support of the energized liberty delegates and the ripple effect through all of their friends and associates will cost these major candidates some percentage of the General Election vote. Given the likely close races all of these major candidates face, they simply cannot afford to have had the thoughtless establishment Republicans flush percentages of vote down the drain, especially for no tactical benefit.

So, the liberty delegates and their ideals were rejected by establishment Republicans, for no benefit, and at considerable downstream expense to Montana's major GOP candidates. Probably for reasons of pride and control, the establishment Republicans, without thinking through the consequences, may have thrown the major GOP candidates under the political bus.

THAT, is the final result of the Montana Republican Nomination Convention.

A mistake was made, a serious tactical mistake.

Is there any possibility of recovering from this mistake? Yes, but the practical doability of a recovery recedes each day that the establishment Republicans continue to circle their wagons in response to this fiasco.

In historic classical terms, when one person injures another, there are three steps to fixing that mistake. Those injured are primarily the liberty delegates to the convention, and their friends and associates, and secondarily the seven major Montana GOP candidates. These recovery steps are much the same in all major religions, and other moral structures. A person or persons injuring another must:

1) Admit clearly that the person made a mistake;
2) Apologize for the injury delivered (a serious apology, not some whiny 10% apology, delivered to the injured party or parties); and
3) Make an absolute best effort at restitution.

To do this will require the Montana Republican establishment to swallow some pride. It remains to be seen whether pride is more important to the establishment Republicans than the success of the seven major candidates this November.

I predict that the establishment Republicans will choose to tighten the circle of their wagons, make excuses, or at very best, attempt some half-hearted atonement for their poor and tactically-unsound behavior.

However, and for the record, I would dearly love to be proven wrong. I would FAR prefer those who made the mistake to fix their mistake. I would FAR prefer to see the establishment genuinely reach out to the liberty-minded Republicans of Montana - to actually BE inclusive and walk the walk of the "Big Tent." I would FAR prefer to see the seven major candidates sail to victory this November with the energized and enthusiastic help of the liberty-minded Republicans of Montana.

I dread the alternative, but I'm not holding my breath expecting any serious effort of establishment Republicans to correct the huge error made at the convention.

I hope this helps clarify this picture for some who have not understood.

Sincerely,

Gary Marbut
Republican Convention Delegate
Republican Candidate, House District 99

P.S., If I were any of the seven major candidates, I'd rally the others to take the establishment Republicans to the woodshed over correcting this dreadful mistake.

Also see the Massachusetts GOP experience:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzyGtc61Ph8

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All of this begs the question - Has the Republican GOP been secretly taken over by Democrats calling themselves Republicans. Hey, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck..................
We see this at the national level in the GOP big time. This is exactly the reason so many people are supporting Ron Paul. He is not a politician, but a statesman. He does exactly what he says. Over and over he has voted ALONE for freedom and liberty, while the others around him sold us out.
The Republican old establishment could not have picked a better way to alienate the only people in the state who actually get it, and have some solutions for restoring America.  They prefer the status quo, the big money, the power, the fame. They are drunk with power and will take down the ship rather than give it up.
After this kind of insulting behavior I really don't see any way they can redeem themselves in the eyes of the people who gave their best efforts and were willing to promote the whole Republican slate if they would have been given just  a few delelgates.  Come on old guard "Republicans"  Surprise us with some incredible acts of humility now. Here is your opportunity to build "unity" in your party.

Here is some additional evidence from others at the convention.

http://jeffwhiteside.com/2012/06/17/montana-state-republican-convention-the-fracturing-of-the-mtgop/

http://dougwead.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/montana-madness-gop-establishment-shuts-out-ron-paul-supporters/

Paul Stramer
Lincoln County Republican State Committeeman (twice elected unanimously by the Lincoln County Republican central committee)
Member of the Montana State Republican Central Committee
Montana Republican Platform Committee
Montana Delegate to the State presidential convention from Lincoln County

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