"Why be politically correct,
when you can be right?"
Joe Bartlett
A BRIEF LESSON IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Of course, anyone my age or older (or perhaps, even, slightly
younger) already knows the truth. We were taught it in
school as
children. Here are the facts.
The United States of America was founded by Christians,
as a
Christian nation. Back in those days, England had an
"established"
religion (actually, an established denomination of Christianity).
That word right there "established" is very,
very important.
It carries very serious religious/political/legal implications,
because
it appears in the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments
to the U.S.
Constitution"). The word's great importance lies not
only in what it
means, but also in what it does not mean; because the
tyrants
presently in power have twisted the meaning from its
original
context. Momentarily, we'll take a look at the exact
meaning of
"establishment of religion" within its context in the
1st Amendment.
We'll offer documentation as to its original intent.
But first let's backtrack a little. As we noted above,
before this
nation was founded on Christianity, England had an official,
national denomination, the Church of England. The government
supported this denomination with tax monies. But that
wasn't the
problem. The problem was that with England having an
officially
recognized brand of Protestantism, other denominations
were
illegal; and their members were persecuted.
So these dissident Protestants left their European homeland
behind
forever and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in little,
wooden ships,
among the earliest of which was the Mayflower, which
landed at
Plymouth in 1620. English-speaking Roman Catholics soon
followed
to set up permanent colonies. Of course, Catholic explorers
and
missionaries reached these shores more than a hundred
years before
any regular colonists. I haven't heard it or seen it
written anywhere,
but I assume the state of Maryland was named after Mary,
the mother
of Jesus; because it is a known fact that Maryland, as
a colony, was
founded as a religious haven for Roman Catholicism. We'll
offer
documentation of that fact shortly.
So there you have it, folks. The United States of America
was
originally settled and founded solely on the right of
religious freedom.
But wait a minute! Bear in mind, now, it wasn't just
any old religious
freedom. No, no, no! It was only the right to worship
Jesus Christ
according to the dictates of a man's denominational conscience.
Well, of course it was so! Everybody was a Christian,
unashamed
of the gospel. They believed Jesus, who said:
"I am the way, the truth, and
the life. No man cometh
unto the Father
but by me." John 14:6
thus establishing that Christianity is the one and only
true religion.
They all believed it, mutual exclusivity being a basic
tenet of all
Christian denominations at that time (and even today
among devout,
true believers). So when they spoke of freedom of worship
in those
days, they were only concerned with keeping one Christian
denomination from persecuting other Christian denominations.
But it was taken for granted that you were one or another
kind
of believer in Jesus Christ.
That's how it was in the beginning, and that's the way
it was all
along in America for hundreds of years (even until within
a relatively
few years ago ) even within my short lifetime. Oh, sure,
I grew up
in a good neighborhood, in the suburbs, but I can remember
when,
as a lad, if a new kid moved into the neighborhood, one
of the first
questions we asked him was: "Are you Protestant or Catholic?"
I
assumed he was one or the other.
Even as a young adult in U.S. Navy boot camp, in 1969,
when I met
other young men from all walks of life and all parts
of the country,
we asked each other: "Are you Catholic or Protestant?"
In those days,
in boot camp, the U.S. Navy required that every recruit
attend either
one or the other of the two Christian divine services
(or mass) every
Sunday.
Every Sunday morning our Company Commander, Mr. Edwards,
came into our barracks yelling. He was a nice guy, though.
Once
he asked for a volunteer to stow a locker for a sailor
who had gone
to the hospital, and I did it for him. He was always
nice to me after
that, but privately said: "Don't ever volunteer for anything.
You
might die."
"Sir, yes sir! But what if the thing is worth dying for, sir?"
Afterwards, if I made a mistake, he acted like he didn't
notice. One
night, after he'd gone home, I pulled a stunt in the
barracks he didn't
particularly appreciate. The next morning, at muster,
he brought it up.
I raised my hand to confess, but he acted like he didn't
see. So when
I started openly waving my hand he spun around with his
back to
us and said: "Don't do it again." And that was the end
of it.
I didn't mean to get off the subject. But when Mr. Edwards
came
in on Sunday mornings he yelled: "ALL RIGHT, PROTESTANTS
LINE UP ON THIS SIDE (pointing) AND CATHOLICS LINE UP
ON THIS SIDE (pointing to the other side of the barracks).
ALL OTHERS, FLIP
A COIN!"
Then the two factions were marched off to their respective
service
or mass.
Where did I learn all this American History, and that
the founding
of this nation was based on the right to practice Christianity?
In
grade school and high school, that's where. You may want
to ask:
"But you must have gone to a Catholic school or some
other
parochial school, right?" Wrong! I attended only public
schools
supported by tax dollars! I'm not making this up; I have
documented
proof right here! Not just proof of these historical
facts, but proof I
learned them in the public school system!
Shortly after the U.S. Marshals transferred me here to
Ashland,
I had a weird sensation with time passage perception.
Examining
the library here for the first time, I saw a big, thick
book lying on
the counter. It had a gold, blue, and black cover with
an eagle on
the front. The title: History of a Free People. It was
published by
the MacMillan Company in 1967. The authors were Henry
W.
Bragdon and Samuel P. McCutchen. It looked so familiar.
Surely
I'd seen it before. It was so familiar it seemed I should
be the owner!
Picking it up and leafing through it, I found myself
so familiar with
all the details in the maps, charts, graphs, illustrations,
and photos,
that I felt as if I must have studied that book fairly
recently. Surely,
I'd seen it within the previous five years. Where? Struggling
to
remember, suddenly it dawned on me. No wonder it was
so familiar
I'd carried that book back and forth to school and studied
it every
night...twenty-three years earlier, in my junior year
of high
school! It was my American history textbook.
At the time I was kicking around an idea about writing
a historical
novel about the American Revolution of the 1770's. So,
needing
to do some research, I tried to check it out, but there
was no card
affixed inside the cover. I asked the inmate librarian
how I could
check it out, and he just told me to take it with me
and bring it
back when I was finished. ( I've had it ever since )
three and a
half years. (I'd been in custody two and a half by the
time they
transferred me here).
As I began re-reading the text, I was astonished, as I'm
sure you
will be, to be reminded of where we came from and how
far we
have fallen in such a short period...less than a quarter
of a century.
Let me share just a few excerpts. I couldn't list all
the references
my high school textbook made to Christ, Christianity,
Protestantism,
Catholicism, and their roles in founding this country
and defining
what our nation stood for. But here are a few brief passages.
Pg. 6 (under
a section on the Spanish colonies:)
Although the Indians were subdued
and put to work for their
conquerors, their interests were guarded
by the Roman Catholic
Church. As worthy of remembrance as
any conquistador was
the Spanish priest Bartolome de Las
Casas, who devoted most
of his ninety-two years to defending
Indians from his own
countrymen. Las Casas was only one
among thousands of
missionaries who regarded the Indians
primarily as souls to be
saved. The missionaries influenced
the kings of Spain to issue
orders defending Indians from oppression.
Page
10, under a section on the French colonies:
French missionaries, like those
of Spain, devoted their lives
to the conversion of Indians to Christianity.
Undaunted by
starvation and torture, Jesuit priests
made heroic journeys
far into the middle of the continent.
Page
13:
Rivalry with Spain was only one
of several reasons for English
colonization in America. Clergymen
hoped to bring "savages from
the Devil to Christ."
Page
14:
Avoiding the mistake of the French
in excluding the Huguenots,
the English government allowed men
to worship in the colonies
in ways forbidden at home. Most of
the settlements made before
1640 were led by men who came to America
to worship as
they pleased.
Page
14:
A generation after the first
settlement of Massachusetts, a
Salem clergyman could exult about
the success of the young
colony as follows; "Look on your habitations,
shops, and ships
and behold your numerous posterity
and great increase of blessings
of land and sea... Lord, thou has
been a gracious God, and
exceedingly good to thy servants...We
live in...more comfort...
and plent[y] than ever we did expect."
Page
21:
Protestant ministers regarded
the Indians principally as souls
to be brought to knowledge of Christ.
...The variety of religious
beliefs in the English colonies was
almost as great as in western
Europe. In the south the planter aristocracy
usually belonged to
the Church of England, but there were
also Roman Catholics,
Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians.
In New England the
great majority of the people were
Congregationalists, but there
were small groups of other Protestant
sects. The middle colonies
had the greatest variety. Dutch and
German Lutherans, Mennonites,
Quakers, Presbyterians, and members
of the Church of England.
In most colonies a single official
church was "established" that is,
supported by taxes.
Page
22
...in Maryland the Toleration
Act of 1649 granted liberty of
worship to (all) Christians, and later
Pennsylvania welcomed
people of all Christian sects.
In the back of the book there is an appendix listing the
original
thirteen colonies and the purposes of their founders.
For several,
the purpose is listed as being a haven for this or that
branch of
Christianity.
It says the purpose for founding Maryland was:
To found a feudal state and a haven for Roman Catholics.
In the same appendix, under a column headed Important
Events
or Developments:
1649: A Toleration Act
gave freedom of worship to all who
believed in the Trinity.
[TBR note: emphasis added. Their concept of freedom of
worship
only included Christians! It had nothing to do with whether
false
(non-Christian) religions could be followed.]
Page
59 (in a section explaining the Declaration of
Independence):
"Equal" does not mean "equal in abilities" nor "equal
in
circumstances, "but simply "equal in rights." As all
men
are equal before God, so they are equal in God-given
rights.
[TBR note: emphasis theirs! Yes, that's right - that's
what my
class's textbook in a tax-financed, public school said.
You may
be wanting to ask: "How did they get away with it?" To
which
I would ask you: "Get away with what" It wasn't unconstitutional,
that's how they got away with it. It wasn't unconstitutional
then
and isn't now, not really. It only means that now
we are ruled
by tyrants who are openly hostile to our faith and to
the faith
and ideals of those great men who founded this nation.]
Page
23:
The New England Puritans believed that citizens should
learn
enough English to read the Bible and understand the laws
of the
country. The famous Massachusetts General School Act
of 1647
stated: "It being one chiefe project of the oulde deluder
Satan, to
keep men from the knowledge of the scripture...it is
therefore
ordered, that evry township...after the Lord hath increased
them
in number to 50 householdrs shall appoint one to teach
all such
children as shall resort to him to write and to reade."
Aside from spiritual matters, it is told on page
47 how, while the
American colonies were still under the sovereign rule
of Great Britain,
the British Parliament passed several acts which were
oppressive
toward the colonies. The Americans called these new laws
)) can you
believe it? Intolerable Acts! Hey, Bill, hey Hillary,
hey you left-wingers,
that's where my people and I got the idea of being intolerant.
We're just
following a proud American tradition.
Ethan Allen of Vermont was the local commander of a band
of armed
American patriot guerrillas known as "The Green Mountain
Boys."
There is a profile of him on page 51. It begins thus:
On May
10, 1775, Ethan Allen surprised Fort Ticonderoga
and told the
sleepy British commander he must surrender.
Asked by what
authority he made such a demand, he replied,
"In the name
of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress."
Yes, that's right; I learned all these things in the public
education system
only 23 years ago. At that time it was important to remember
where this
nation had come from 200 years earlier. But now it is
important also for
us to remember where we were only 23 years ago. See,
gentlemen, this
generation, i.e., you and I, can still remember, easily
remember, when the
United States of America was still a great Christian
nation. But if we remain
idle until this generation is passed, the next one will
have no recollection of
the U.S. except as a wicked nation. Either that, or the
Great Tribulation will
come, and God will pour His wrath out on the world.
The horrible, Great Tribulation will come when it does
because of a
cowardly, lukewarm "Christian" generation.
Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
Proverbs 14:34
These are dangerous words that I write; but I write them
anyway,
because I know it would be even more dangerous not to
write them.
I was listening to a Christian radio talk show many months
ago
(I can't bear to listen to them anymore, due to their
cowardice,
compromise, and their focus on irrelevant issues.) The
guest was
telling of a discussion he had had with a U.S. Congressman.
The
Congressman was an attorney who, in law school, had specialized
in Constitutional law. They were talking about government
oppression,
or some such thing, when the Congressman had asked: "What
about
'separation of church and state?'"
The preacher told the congressman that the U.S. Constitution
doesn't
say anything about "separation of church and state" ))
that those words
do not appear anywhere in the Constitution. I don't remember
the
Congressman's exact words, but he said something like:
"Look you're
a preacher, and I'm a Constitutional attorney; and you're
going to try to
tell me the 'separation of church and state' isn't in
the U.S. Constitution?"
The preacher stood his ground and suggested they look
it up, to which
the Congressman agreed. Here's what it says:
AMENDMENT
I (1791)
Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press...
So the Congressman said: "I'm embarrassed..." and went
on to explain
that, in law school, the law professors never required
the students to
actually read the Constitution
for themselves, but simply lectured them
on what they wanted the students
to believe the Constitution meant.
So there you have it, folks. You don't have to go to law
school to
understand the meaning of the 1st Amendment. All you
need is basic
reading comprehension of the English language to see
that it was
enacted as a safeguard to prevent the "government" from
persecuting
us. But, more and more, they're using it as an excuse
to persecute us
and hound belief in God and the Bible.
In the back of my high school textbook, the glossary of
terms offers
this definition:
Established Church: A church supported by the civil government."
And so, in summary, as TBR is convinced it has thoroughly
proven:
since our founding fathers in 1791 were virtually all
Christians
(of various denominations) believing, rightly, that Christianity
is the
one, and only, true religion; and since, at the time
they wrote the
Constitution with its Bill of Rights, they were remembering
how
the earlier pilgrims had come to America fleeing persecution
at the
hands of a different denomination of Christianity; therefore,
when
they wrote into law:
"Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,"
they meant only that government must not officially endorse
one
particular denomination of christianity and exalt it
over others! The
only reason they didn't specify it that way was because
they felt that
that much was already understood, for Christ's sake.
At that time the
American public was almost entirely Christian and always
had been.
The founding fathers were so devout they couldn't have
imagined it
would later become what we see today. So they were obviously
expecting
that it would always be understood that their 1st amendment
was meant to forbid )) above all else )) rulers from
ever suppressing
any general (nondenominational) Christian expression
and/or practice
anywhere at any time...even in a tax-financed public
school!
Yes, I was taught these things right out of the textbook
in just such
a school. But that's not all. In my public school, during
the home
room period before we reported to our first class in
the morning,
the teacher had us stand up, face the American flag which
stood to
the side of the chalkboard, put our right hands over
our hearts,
and recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag, including
the words
"...one nation, under God, indivisible..." [TBR
note: did you know
that the original version did not
have "under God" in it, and that the
U.S. Congress passed a law adding
those two words in 1953? Within
my lifetime!] Do they still
do that in public schools today?
I'm asking that question seriously, not rhetorically,
because I really
don't know. It's hard for me to imagine they still do.
That's not all that happened during home room. In my public
school
the principal came on the intercom and read a few verses
of Scripture
right out of the Bible to the whole school. He didn't
stop there. Then
he said a little prayer out loud IN THE NAME OF JESUS!
Yes, you
read me right )) in a public school )) and, so help me,
I have several
hundred witnesses (my classmates) that I'm telling the
truth.
These things happened in the mid-to-late 1960's; and yes,
I do know
that the "Supreme" (ugh! gag!) Court ruled such conduct
to be
"unconstitutional in 1963 several years earlier! I have
told you the truth
nevertheless. Of course, some of you are my age or older,
so you know
it's true, because you saw it with your own eyes and
heard it with your
own ears.
The fact that my high school principal would conduct himself
like that
as a public educator what did it mean? Did it mean
he was a hard-core,
militantly defiant, right-wing, Christian zealot? No,
not at all. By today's
standards, yes. But by the standards of those days it
just meant he was
an ordinary, everyday kind of guy. That's the way things
had always been,
so we just considered it routine. How quickly and how
far our nation has
fallen!
Let me share just one more piece of Americana with you
before
sharing some U.S. historical archives with you. This'll
give you an
idea of how far we have fallen, and how prevalent Christianity
was
in this country even as recently as the mid-1960's. By
and large,
managers of rock and roll radio stations are liberals,
right? Thank you.
Do you also agree with TBR's position that moral truth
never changes
and that people, attitudes, conduct, and issues should
be appraised by
eternal, unchanging standards? Thank you. You'll be asked
that question
again in a future issue of this journal.
Those who scoff at God, though, don't believe in eternal
standards.
So, measured by today's left-wing (false) standards,
those who operated
rock stations in the mid-60's were a bunch of hard-core,
radically ultra-
conservative, Christian fanatics. Don't laugh, I'm about
to prove it's true.
You can look it up. You might already remember it.
When I was a thirteen year old growing up in a Northern
Kentucky
suburb of Cincinnati in 1964, WSAI-AM was the rock station
in
town. If you were a cool dude you listened to WSAI. In
those days,
of course, rock music wasn't anything like the satanic
stuff they call
"rock" nowadays. In that year the Beetles were the most
popular
band. But one of their members, John Lennon, committed
a faux
pas taken very seriously by the American public. He said:
"We're
more popular than Jesus."
That was all we needed to hear. Immediately, WSAI and
rock stations
all across America imposed a total ban on the Beetles'
music. It was
grudgingly lifted only after the Beetles apologized and
tried to explain
that the comment had been taken out of context.
Following this section will be reprints of some of our
national
archives, historical documents hundreds of years old.
These things
are extremely important! You can be sure they will appear
in the
book which will be compiled from these reports.
You may have read the Declaration of Independence at some
point
earlier in your life. We urge you, we beg you: please
read it again,
because its self-evident truths are more applicable to
you today than
at any earlier time in your life. Please! Don't just
read it, study it
carefully, because this document more urgently needs
to be understood
today than at any other time in our nation's history,
including, even,
that time when it was first written and then signed on
the 4th of
July, 1776.
The Declaration of Independence was written by the heroically
narrow-minded, heroically intolerant, heroically manly
(left-wing
translation: sexist) Thomas Jefferson, who later became
the third
President of the United States. Can you believe that
such a shameful,
communist, cowardly sissy as Bill Clinton claims to be
ideologically
aligned with Thomas Jefferson?! Clinton doesn't believe
in one single
thing Jefferson believed in!
Thomas Jefferson believed:
"The protection of human life,
and not its destruction, is the
foremost and
only object of good government."
The very centerpiece of the Clinton "administration" has
been the
slaughter of his own people, American babies. They, of
course,
were too young to vote for him.
Thomas Jefferson believed in American independence and
was a
brave enough man to risk his life to bring it about.
Bill Clinton is a
cowardly puppet (and a female puppet, at that) who is
in collaboration
with his bosses of the New World Order to surrender us
to these, our
enemies. He's doing everything within his power to strip
away our
national sovereignty, bit by bit, and to take away our
independence
as a free nation.
Thomas Jefferson believed that:
"The strongest reason for the
people to maintain their right to
keep and bear arms is as a last
resort against tyranny in government."
Whereas Bill Clinton believes in disarming us for that
very reason, so
that American men will not have the means to resist the
tyranny of his
New World Order!
Thomas Jefferson believed that
people "...are endowed by their
creator with
(the) inalienable right (to) life."
In so many words, Jefferson believed that, since the right
to life is
given by God Himself, no human ruler can take it away.
They can't
legally "put a lien" on innocent people's lives. So if
they slay innocent
people it only means they took these people's lives,
not their right to
their lives. It means they violated the dead victims'
intact rights. Bill
Clinton believes just the opposite. He believes he is
doing more than
just merely killing these babies. He believes it is within
his and/or the
"Supreme "Court's power to assume the "authority" to
strip the babies
of their right to life in the first place and then he
kills them!
When a tyrant acts in such a way, Thomas
Jefferson believed
in..."...opposing
with manly firmness his invasion on the
rights of
the people."
And how does Bill Clinton feel about that? Well, for the
moment,
let's forget about the concept as a whole and just look
at two of
the words in the statement:"...manly firmness..." In
your wildest
imagination, can you imagine turning on the TV, seeing
a Bill
Clinton press conference, and hearing such a feminist
sissy uttering
the words "manly firmness" in any context? You'd be thoroughly
shocked, wouldn't you? You'd think you wee in the twilight
zone,
wouldn't you? Well, gentlemen, you'll never hear such
"sexist" words
as "manly firmness" come from the mouth of Willy Clinton,
but you're
in the twilight zone anyway. We're mired in a horrible
tragedy, and it's
up to you to reverse this nightmare. If you don't do
it, the job won't
get done.
But, no, you'll never hear Clinton mention "manly firmness",
it would
be impossible for such a feminist to get the words out,
he'd choke on
them. You couldn't bribe him with two million dollars
to utter those two
words on TV, he'd be scared to death that even one member
of his
anti-God, leftist friends of the National Organization
of (some) Women
might be watching.
As our friend Joe Bartlett would say: "If Clinton is the
answer, it
must be a stupid question."
Folks, I didn't mean to ramble on and on about Clinton,
so, without
further ado, there's the Declaration of Independence
which gave birth
to our beloved Republic. Two summers ago I set aside
five days; and,
working eight hours a day, memorized it word-for-word
from beginning
to end. By the time I'd memorized the complete text,
I was so stirred
up and so proud of the courage of the 56 heroes who signed
it on the
4th of July, 1776, that I memorized all their names,
too. To make it
easier to memorize their names I wrote them in alphabetical
order on
a separate piece of paper, putting a little mark by each
name on the
document as I put it in order. So if my publisher photocopies
it just
as I'm sending it to him, that's why those little marks
are there, in case
you're wondering. Sure, I have a lot of time on my hands,
here in prison,
to memorize long documents like this, so I don't expect
you to memorize
it, verbatim. But please take your time to study it slowly
and carefully,
to absorb and understand the vital truths set forth in
it. It's your duty to
God and country. Do it.
That's it for this issue, folks. Thanks for reading.
Yours-in-Christ,
Johnny
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Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by
man shall his blood be shed:
for in the image of God made he
man.
Numbers
35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are:
for blood it defileth the land:
and the land cannot be cleansed of the
blood that is shed therein, but
by the blood of him that shed it.
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