Do you believe modern society has become “so complex and productive, the technical skills to run it so rare, that has called forth a new class of highly educated officials and cooperators in an ever less private sector” and that “identity always trumps?” Or do you believe that marriage, children, religious practice and the yearning to rule ourselves rather than be ruled by others is the foundation of American life?

In an extensive intellectual analysis, Angelo M. Codevilla, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University sets the stage of the current and coming civil war in America.  It is today’s incarnation of the Federalist Papers defining the county in classes and what can be expected from each.

Everyone should read this analysis.  The conflict has begun and it is time to decide what fate your family and the nation will follow.  The American Spectator July 2010 – August 2010 edition carries Codevilla’s work titled, “America’s Ruling Class – And the Perils of Revolution” and you can click here for a direct link.  The wisdom and accuracy is significantly advanced and well served by deliberate beginning.  In short, Codevilla makes the case that both the Republican and Democrat Parties have contributed to betraying Liberty as established by the Constitution of the United States in America.

Once you have considered Codevilla’s analysis, return here and post your comments.  Your must register to comment, but registration is free.  Codevilla’s article and the underlying principles it outlines will be discussed on The David Arnett Show on AM 740 and FM 102.3 news talk KRMG this coming Saturday from 4 to 6 pm. 

Op-Ed:  July 1, President Barack Obama spoke of the immigrants who helped build our country—such as my great-grandparents.  They passed through public health screening, obeyed the law, worked hard, and never got welfare benefits.  They learned the English language and American history.  Some even carried the Constitution of their beloved adopted homeland in their pocket throughout their lives. They asked only for the opportunity to contribute.

Should we, as Obama suggested, break down the bureaucratic barriers that hinder such people?  Absolutely.  That is not what the controversy is about. 

The issue is illegal immigration—lawbreaking. Controversy is inflamed by marches of angry people, aggressively waving a foreign flag, insulting Americans in a foreign language, and demanding to “take back” the property and earnings of Americans.

Illegals circumvent public health screening, bringing once banished foreign organisms with them. The most serious one is probably multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, which one can catch on a bus. Head lice are far more common than previously in schools. Dengue has reached the continental U.S. and the parasite that causes Chagas disease now infests more than 40 percent of the kissing bugs found near Tucson, compared with only 4 percent in 1964.

Then there’s property and environmental destruction in the Arizona desert. Ranchers’ land is trampled, and strewn with tones of garbage and human excrement.

Worse, there are guns—including military assault rifles. Americans are warned to stay out of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge because it is occupied by heavily armed invaders, who smuggle drugs and humans.  Phoenix, Arizona, is perhaps the kidnapping capital of the world, with heavily armed contingents invading homes and carrying off people for ransom.

While proclaiming that we are “a nation of laws,” Obama didn’t mention how the U.S. federal government encourages lawlessness.  One way is by forcing the private sector to care for illegals free of charge, through the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).  Physicians on a hospital staff are required to serve these patients immediately—even if they have scheduled surgeries or an office full of waiting patients.

When hospitals in border states complained that this unfunded mandate could cause them to close (as many actually have), the federal government offered some reimbursement for services provided under EMTALA to illegals.  Hospitals, however, could not inquire about immigration status—they had to somehow divine it without asking, and file a claim without telling.

Doctors owe a duty of confidentiality to their patients.  The Oath of Hippocrates states:  “All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or outside of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and never reveal.”

Some things, however, ought to be revealed, and by law physicians must report them.  These include certain infectious diseases, gunshot wounds, suspected abuse, and evidence of an impending crime.  While the government demands access to more and more sensitive information about citizens from their health records, including illegal drug use, sexual preference, psychiatric history, and gun ownership, one is not allowed to ask basic questions about immigration status. This is a double standard.

Doctors are not law enforcement agents.  Their duty is simply to treat patients—even known enemy combatants or criminals.  They may not, however, help people evade the law.

Federal law may actually encourage them to do so. According to anonymous reports, “community health centers,” which are generously funded by federal tax dollars, not only provide treatment to illegals but also may help them obtain many other welfare benefits to which they are not entitled. Bending or violating the law might keep enrollments expanding and the federal dollars flowing and the staff paid. Immigration officials look the other way, and anyone who dared to raise questions would likely be branded as a “racist.” (“ObamaCare,” by the way, will expand the reach of such centers from about 5 percent to 10 percent of the population.)

In contrast to Obama’s examples, like Jews fleeing Eastern Europe, this time we’re not facing just a migration, but an influx having many hallmarks of a foreign invasion.  Individual illegal residents may be oppressed refugees or simply, as President Obama says, people seeking a better life.  Sympathy for individuals—some of whom might even be hostages or human shields— must not, however, blind us to the threat to our country from harboring at least 11 million “entrants” who have defied our laws.

The system is set up to distribute benefits of lawbreaking.  Not just to President Obama’s “unscrupulous businesses” but also to politicians who expect to get the immigrant vote, and to bureaucrats, medical professionals, and other citizens who draw taxpayers’ money from the welfare state.

If the United States cannot or does not enforce its laws, Lady Liberty’s lamp will no longer beckon to the people throughout the world who are “yearning to breathe free.”

 

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About the author:
Jane M. Orient, M.D., Executive Director of Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, has been in solo practice of general internal medicine since 1981 and is a clinical lecturer in medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Arizona, and her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the author of Sapira’s Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis; the fourth edition has just been published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. She also authored YOUR Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Health Care, published by Crown. She is the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a voice for patients’ and physicians’ independence since 1943. Complete curriculum vitae posted at www.drjaneorient.com. Additional information on health-related issues: www.aapsonline.org and www.takebackmedicine.com.
 
Dr. Orient’s position on Obama’s healthcare reform:  “The Obama plan will increase individual health insurance costs, and if the federal government puts price controls on the premiums, the companies will simply have to go out of business. Obama makes promises, but the Plan will deliver higher costs, more hassles, fewer choices, less innovation, and less patient care.”
 
Doctor Orient resides in Tucson, AZ and can be reached at  (520) 323-3110 or jane@aapsonline.org.
 

Elitist have no idea what they have done.  They have made the choice clear and destroyed the Democrat Party by driving it to anti-American positions.  Now the independents have had enough.  It has become a “wait-just-a-damn-minute” moment in history.

Do you believe a better world is built by powerful people directing others or is the human condition better advanced by free people in liberty?  Decide: then ask others to answer.  If people believe in the powerful, they ignore all human history which clearly shows elitists eventually place everyone else in slavery (a good gig for those in charge).  Absolute power corrupts. Continue reading →

Op-Ed:  When clergy knowingly become involved in an unscriptural heresy called Social Justice, they have sinned against God.  It does not matter what denomination is tainted by this false theology, the results will be the same.  The Bible says there will be a falling away from God’s truth, which many believe is taking place now:  "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition" (2 Thessalonians 2:3).

Worldly-minded ministers who get caught up in this "progressive" movement do so for many reasons, including power and political gain.  They knowingly misrepresent the Word, and do not appropriately tend their congregations. Among other things, they’re intentionally obsessing their parishioners with Mother Earth (environmentalism).

God sent His Son to save the human race from sin.  He died so that we could have life eternal with Him.  It is an individual decision not a collective enforcement.

Unfortunately, progressive pastors are not interested in being about their Father’s business of saving souls for Christ’s sake.  They are very content to let big government dole out "social justice" and provide greenhouse churches to worship complete with solar panels and all.  Such slothful and unconsecrated frauds will eventually stand before the Throne of God and answer to the Almighty for leading others astray and not teaching the everlasting gospel.

The unrepentant pastors will find that their chickens have come home to roost.  They’ll reap what they have sown: "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch" (Malachi 4:1).

These false pastors embedded within America’s churches want to destroy the gospel of Christ and replace it with Marxism.  They are pandering a scheme that involves big government programs and a myriad of things that have nothing to do with the command to finish the work and preach the Good News.

God’s relationship with man is one of love.  He wishes for us to obey Him freely through love. The Almighty gave mankind the gift of free will and the knowledge of how Christians should relate to each other, including the poor.  Jesus never said give more money to Rome to provide for the poor.

Americans are good and generous people who have always risen to meet the needs of the poor.  We entrust our churches with our tithes and offerings.  We give freely of our time and money to charitable organizations.  The Bible does not mention one word about forced redistribution of wealth, or intrusive government programs for bringing about coercive "social justice."

Charity is a desirable human tendency that comes from our relationship with our Lord.  It’s an action God never forces.  God "loves a cheerful giver."  However, the Obama administration has enticed some well-known denominations with "pay for play."  Become a lover of the Green Earth and your church will receive special favors.

Our government plans to bypass Congress through administrative edicts of the EPA.  And if your church embraces climate change — well, let’s say good things will happen.  At the peril of the entire country, progressive churches will promote Cap and Trade.  Yes, Democrats want Christians and others faiths to become titillated about saving the globe.

While all this clever chicanery is going on, however, Christians are to be led by God’s Holy Spirit.  We’re to live a righteous life — to be set apart.  All believers need to understand their role in the world.  We are the children of light. We’re not to be led by those who try to bring us into bondage and spiritual darkness.

Recently, writer Erik Rush addressed the growing movement of progressive socialists among those professing Christianity.  Below are excerpts from his article "The apostasy of ‘social justice Christians‘":

"Revelations concerning people who call themselves ‘social justice Christians’ have recently become a cause célèbre among conservative commentators. Initially, I was disinclined to tackle the subject, since there have been several worthwhile articles and programs addressing it as of late. However, since the phenomenon so closely resembles another upon which I have expounded with regularity, I reasoned that some elucidation thereupon would be accommodating to civic-minded Americans.

"’Social justice Christians‘ are those who profess Christianity, but who adhere to politically entrenched concepts of equality and redistribution of wealth. These ideas are ostensibly rooted in their faith, but in truth, they have been incrementally and insidiously insinuated into many American churches by Marxists, progressive politicians, and pastors whose religion has been tainted by the aforementioned parties.

"How can this be? Well, through the misrepresentation of Gospel messages in the areas of charity and egalitarianism, such Christians have been led to believe that:
•    Government has a right to enforce religious doctrines (such as those of charity and egalitarianism); and
•    Jesus Christ, as a threat to the existing paradigm, was the "first radical" and essentially commanded this in His teachings.

"A preposterous extrapolation, to be sure, but that’s what they espouse. And of course, government only has the right to enforce the religious doctrines of which these folks and their leaders happen to approve.

"Organizations such as the Sojourners (founded by communist ‘reverend’ Jim Wallis) and other SJC entities have been flexing their collective muscle since the election of Barack Obama as president. Most recently, a public service announcement campaign led by the Hollywood Adventist Church (don’t laugh; this is serious stuff) via New Name Pictures and entitled "I’m a Social Justice Christian" hit the Web, provoking the condemnation of those who, well, see social justice Christianity for what it is.

"Why do I bring this up now — other than because social justice groups have been flexing that muscle lately? Because the methodology in play is precisely how the left corrupted the black community — through their pastors and their churches. In the 1960s, the church was still the bulwark of the black community. Marxists subverted black pastors, then interwove their (social justice) dogma into the Gospel.

"It is the same creed that destroyed black families and the character of black Americans; now, the political left is mobilizing deluded Christians in the general population to do their malevolent bidding. President Obama’s "organizers" are capitalizing on the raw sensitivities of a largely white middle-class subgroup that has been browbeaten with charges of racism for years.

"According to SJ Christians, in addition to oppressing minorities (though it remains a mystery as to precisely how), we are destroying the planet; these issues must be addressed decisively and with all due speed — by the federal government. First, it was necessary to advance the notion that the Earth’s atmosphere was going to flash off into space imminently, hence the climate-change fear-mongering.

"In addition to the discredited (and therefore dubious) evidence supporting climate-change theory, adherents to "environmental justice" wholly ignore the fact that we have managed to engineer automobiles that are exponentially more fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly than those produced in the 1970s, when the last environmental panic occurred. American industry has done likewise across the board, and environmental consciousness and our sense of stewardship of the Earth is at record levels across the political spectrum in America." Full Article

When Christians become aware that their own denominations have been infiltrated by progressives, they’ll probably not get very far contacting the church’s conference offices or hierarchy. Those in charge are most likely involved and will simply turn a deaf ear.  Most of Christendom will worsen as liberal ideas — such as same sex marriage, global warming, and evolution — continue to creep into the church.

When godly people of faith see the changes taking place, it’s time to leave and start afresh in a church where the Word is not being compromised. I’m afraid there will be very few places where a soul can find refuge, yet God will always have a people who will hear His voice.

And as President Barack Obama proceeds to purposely destroy America, he wants to create a new paradigm that will eventually diminish Christianity, so our country can continue down the path of secularism, along with a thrashed interpretation of our Constitution.

Our nation is being taken apart, inside out, by radical forces who abuse their powers.  Obama and his Democrat cronies are seeking to destroy America and then rebuild it in their own image.  The president has ignored the will of the people, and has forced upon every citizen an insidious socialized healthcare plan.  Social Justice Christians stood by his side, aware of the ugly outcome of his actions.

Resolve now to vote them out of office. Let us begin humbly but boldly, as we move ever forward. We will take back the country, a nation founded upon Judeo-Christian beliefs.

Related Readings:

American Thinker: What Exactly is ‘Social Justice’?

American Thinker: The Ugly Side of Social Justice

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About the author: 

Marie Jon is a political/religious-based writer and founder of www.DrawingClose.org — a sister website to RenewAmerica.  Marie’s writings have appeared on many sites, including ABCNews.com, USATODAY.com, The Huffington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.com, to name a few. Marie brings a refreshing and spirited point of view that is reflected in her writings. Marie is a nurse, a lay student of the Bible, and a patriot. She is an advocate for American troops serving abroad, as well as the Blue and Gold Star Mothers of America and their families.

New Orleans television and radio talk show host and pundit Jeff Crouere recently excoriated President Barack Hussein Obama over his delay in addressing the gulf oil emergency, suggesting in closing that “he made George Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina seem downright timely.”

But Crouere failed to include a more pressing question.  Why was the 1994 Federal response plan for such offshore disasters not followed?  Where were the fire booms to burn off the oil as the plan outlined?

Mobile Press-Register writer Ben Raines brought this boom-flaming failure to national attention when he wrote May 03, “If U.S. officials had followed up on a 1994 response plan for a major Gulf oil spill, it is possible that the spill could have been kept under control and far from land.”

The "In-Situ Burn" plan produced by federal agencies in 1994 calls for responding to a major oil spill in the Gulf with the immediate use of fire booms.

Raines wrote, “But in order to conduct a successful test burn eight days after the Deepwater Horizon well began releasing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf, officials had to purchase one from a company in Illinois.

“When federal officials called, Elastec/American Marine, shipped the only boom it had in stock, Jeff Bohleber, chief financial officer for Elastec, said.

“At federal officials’ behest, the company began calling customers in other countries and asking if the U.S. government could borrow their fire booms for a few days, he said.

“A single fire boom being towed by two boats can burn up to 1,800 barrels of oil an hour, Bohleber said. That translates to 75,000 gallons an hour, raising the possibility that the spill could have been contained at the accident scene 100 miles from shore.”

Click here to read Ben Raines story.  Click here to read Jeff Crouere’s piece.

The real issue for Americans is the long-term multi-party Federal failure to accomplish specific work – in this case, following a plan and securing equipment necessary to address reasonably anticipatable disasters.  It is only the most recent example.

In the housing and financial crisis, Congress failed to accurately monitor and regulate.  In the health control bill, Congress acted unconstitutionally in requiring product purchase by individuals not utilizing public facilities or services.  And, above all else; the Democrat Party, the Court System, the Lame-stream Media have allowed a government takeover funded by international criminals, facilitated by criminal gangs and union thugs, led by a narcissistic philandering race bating often-drunk anti-American who still refuses to prove he is qualified to serve as President of the United States of America.

Yes, I have long been a critic of Barack Hussein Obama.  I wrote in May of 2008 that he appeared to be a Socialist.  An October 2008 piece provided even more detail in “Obama’s Most Significant Statement.”  In October 2009 I outlined reasons why life under Obama is dangerous in “Flame on What Why America”  I have also questioned conservative stars in “Questioning Beck and Palin” posted in March of this year.

However, in this case, it is not President Obama’s fault. 

In fact Federal government doesn’t work and it continues to avoid accountability for failure.  Former-President George W. Bush learned the same thing when he sent representatives of the various institutions to Iraq to “help them organize.”  But government is not organized in America beyond its own self-indulgent fiefdoms so, when exported, is obviously incoherent to others.

Oklahomans have drilled for oil everywhere since the industry began.  We had high tech here before New York, LA, or Washington DC knew the term – that’s how we powered the industrial revolution.  We drilled for oil in Sherwood Forest as the Nazis bombed London.  We lived in Arab countries and taught them skills to harvest what God and the good earth provide.

Saturday between 4 and 6 pm on the David Arnett Show on AM 740 and FM 102.3 news talk KRMG, I want to hear if you agree or disagree on this and other local, state and national issues.  Local oil industry experts are  welcome.  You can join the show by calling 460-KRMG (460-5764).  You may also post comments below – registration is free.