Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.

G. Washington.

Most days I feel like I’m the only one going through hard times.  I hear talk about how most people are feeling the financial pressures these days.  I see the high unemployment rate.  But everyone’s still driving nice cars, wearing the latest fashions, and enjoying the amusements of life.

I don’t see food lines, unemployed people looking for work, or good hardworking people on the streets.  I guess it’s because today we have government assistance programs that puts a façade on the suffering and enables those of us experiencing the Second Great Depression to hide behind food stamps and unemployment compensation.

The result is that no one really sees the true magnitude of how bad things really are, and an increased dependency on the government to provide for our daily needs.  Tragically the silent consequences are also broken marriages, depressed individuals and increased suicides in people between the ages 40 and 64.

No, I’m not considering suicide, but I do go through times of depression and my marriage is on the rocks.  I’ve got a nice resume that includes management with a well known company, I have an MBA, I’m a hard worker, yet I’m working 3 jobs and earned less last year then I’ve earned in the past 20 years.

I understand that economies are cyclical and that perhaps part of the problem is just bad luck of being born and raising a family when the economy moved into a natural cycle.  But I think the greatest catalyst has been progressive fiscal and monetary policies from our federal government and the Federal Reserve.  Both political parties are to blame.  Power hungry permanent political class who care more for their carries than for our liberty is the problem.

Thus I guess the beginning of the solution is to vote ALL these arrogant and selfish idiots out of office and replace them with Patriots.  The road to health individually and as a nation is a long hard one.  I’m willing to walk it, if you’ll walk beside me.
 

Never Forget!

A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates, when asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. ‘Very few people were true Nazis,’ he said, ‘but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care.. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.’

We are told again and again by ‘experts’ and ‘talking heads’ that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march… It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ‘silent majority,’ is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were ‘peace loving’?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.

Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and  many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts — the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and send it on – before it’s too late.

Emanuel Tanay, M.D. 2980 Provincial St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104

*Dr. Emanuel Tanay MD

A well-known forensic psychiatrist who has been an expert witness in many famous cases. He has served as an officer or committee member on the Michigan Psychiatric Society, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and others. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and of the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry and a distinguished fellow of the APA and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFC).

A Holocaust survivor himself, Dr Tanay coauthored a book about the survivors of the Holocaust and was asked by the German government to consult on just compensation for the Holocaust survivors. Dr. Tanay has served on several journal editorial boards, authored many publications, and presented countless times on forensic medicine. His efforts have also produced many awards and commendations from groups such as the Michigan State Medical Society, APA, the Detroit Institute of Technology, and AAFC, among others.

"Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."

Abraham Lincoln – September 11, 1858

In this case, President Obama will solve the Bush Administration’s problem in Guantanamo which was “hasty” “based on fear” “poorly planned” “setting principles aside” “ad hoc legal system that is neither effective nor sustainable” with his own fear based, hasty, poorly planned as hoc legal system that sets the rule of law and principles aside.

Pat Condell "Wake Up America!"

I am fortunate to have been able to participate in what I consider is the second patriot movement in

I arrived in Dulles.  I looked around.  The shirts people were wearing were silkscreened with things like ”American Patriot” “Don’t Tread on Me”, “You Lle”,  “I marched on Washington”, “Tea Party Alabama”, “Don’t Mess with Texas”, etc.

The feeling was growing.  We came to make our voices heard.  I knew someone in Pennsylvania that had organized 11 buses.  I knew another person in Michigan that organized 7.  Georgia organized buses, Maryland, Florida, Texas, Connecticut, Alabama, and others.  In all, 460 buses came to DC.   I had to fly cross country.  I knew there were 20 people coming from VenturaCounty.  We were meeting for dinner as a group Friday night in Arlington, Virginia.

Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs said he didn’t know about our march or who we were.  The President made a choice to leave DC and go try to sell his vague, yet government reaching healthcare program yet again to a group of union members gathered in Minnesota…  Yes, they both were forewarned about the event when it became a plan about 8 months ago.  But, somehow the open discussion President Obama has requested works best for him if it is a controlled discussion.  The police in WashingtonDC were more informed than the President’s office about our gathering.  They were planning for a large group. 

There was a seminar held by doctors, which discussed the potential difficulties of the healthcare proposal.  They were part of the approximately 75% of doctors that don’t agree with the AMA’s position on this legislation and other items that the AMA supports. These doctors could have easily given a different insight to the Congress, and the President.  But they weren’t asked.   Speakers on Friday discussed the origins of the Constitution, and the need to follow the path the writers and signers designed.  The 56 signers gave all including their lives and fortunes.  We reviewed capitalism, alternatives to healthcare reform, and even Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged writer).  There were also “Meet and Greet events, where people could make signs and make friends.

The Tea Party Express bus came in at 8:30 Friday evening, and thousands gathered to meet it.  That is probably where the speculation was that the group would be tens of thousands in size.

Saturday Morning was “D” day.  People started gathering at FreedomPark as early as 7:30.  A mile away, they were setting up stages at the Capital steps.  They put speakers at different locations along with screens that people could view, as they would be too far to actually see the stage.  It was a good thing, as we would see later on.

Freedom Park, the starting point, was packed by 8:30.  We weren’t asked to arrive until 9.  The march was to begin at 11.  I was with 5 people, and assumed we would meet the others there, as they were going to congregate by state before the march.  I was wrong.  I was separated from two of them by the crowd, never to find them again.  One group tried calling me to see where we were, but since we were squeezed by the stage and crowd, I told them to forget it.  It was loud, full of energy, a bit scary (because of the crowd compression), but amazing .  We had great country music, a wonderful day, and some great starting speakers.  Because of the growing size of the crowd approaching FreedomPlaza, the DC police decided to state that the march must begin early.

Thus came the announcement, “The march to the Capitol is beginning.”  A chill of anticipation went through the crowd.  We waited for the woman in the wheelchair, and the mother with the stroller.  But actually, it took about 5 minutes before we could take a step.  People were crowded to capacity around the blocks, and down the streets.  It reminded me of the beginning of a marathon when you are in the back. But this was much bigger than a marathon.  We began quietly, carrying our flags, and our signs.  Some dressed as patriots, and other more creative people dressed their attitudes including parodies of the President,   People had bullhorns, and we would be amused at their declarations.  Groups in office towers looked down, dancing and being engaged with us.   Someone started singing “God bless America.”  It became a song up and down the street.  There was a few second delay, depending on where you were with this monstrous crowd.  We erupted in “U.S.A., U.S.A”.  We were all here for a job.  Our job was to make people listen to our message.  Our message would become clear. 

I took photos and video.  After all, this was probably the only time I would be involved in something this large.  Every once in a while, I choked up just from the pure emotion of the meaning of the gathering.  I wished all my family could have come.  I was wearing a shirt that identified I was a patriot from VenturaCounty.  There were many people from California.  We were all happy that we had made the effort to come.  One man came up to me and said, “Carla?”  He had been to a event, and recognized me.  He was in DC for business and felt he had to make the event.  I met people from Fresno, Modesto, Bakersfield, Santa Maria, San Diego, and cities in Northern California.  We were told every state in the Union was represented.  People told me that driving from North Dakota was something they would never forget, because so many cars and vans had signs on them such as “DC or bust.” 

This event has not really been broadcast for what it was. This is truly a grass roots movement.   It was an eclectic group, drawn together for a common cause.  There were some, previously called Democrats, some, previously called Republicans.  There were some, previously called Libertarians.  There were some, previously called immigrants, blacks, whites, Latinos and Asians.  But no more will those names be used for our group.  Because now we call ourselves Patriot Americans.

 We know that our nation was founded with Christian principles.  We want that to remain in our history, and  the freedom to state this in our current history.  We were, and are “One nation under God”.   Our cause is to take back the reverence for the Constitution.  It is to take back our power from this overreaching government.  We want our elected officials to have less interference in healthcare.  We want them to stay away from enslaving our country and jobs via the cap and trade restrictions and exorbitant taxes.  We want tax reductions.  We want the government to give back our jobs, and stop converting our private jobs to government jobs. Union members do not have more rights than business owners.  We want to drill for oil off our shores, instead of allowing Russia and China to take all our oil by drilling off the shore of Cuba.  We want less federal government in our schools, so that locally we can manage our education.  We will follow through with this movement until we have politicians that will speak for us.

We were there for over 8 hours.  We stood holding our flags and signs.  We all were tired, but had energy that came from within.  We didn’t leave early.  We barely wanted to leave after the last speaker.  The numbers of our group?  We were told by DC Capitol police that the estimate was 1.2 to 2.1 million.  We later used the photos taken of the total areas we contained to verify this by using mathematical calculations to give crowd numbers to the locations that we filled to capacity.  This was the same way of determining the group attending the Presidential inauguration.  It was announced to the crowd when the police estimated 1.2 million.  Then they revised the number to 1.5 to 2.1.   ABC reported this amount of attendees, and so did British news.  If you decide to take a very conservative estimate we were hundreds of thousands. 

The media decided to say we were tens of thousands.  It shows they have no mathematicians in their group.  When we heard this downplay of the event, and lack of coverage of the largest conservative group ever to gather in D.C., we were simply angered.  I will give you a fictitious example of writing that would influence the history of an event.   “Our group went to a park on a nice sunny day.  We had a great time, and it was warm and refreshing.  We left energized.”   Reported revisionism, “The group went to a park, however the weather was inclement.  It was raining and dark.  The group was discouraged and left.”  This revisionism must be stopped in our nation’s reporting of events. 

 I am begging our media, “Please, can we have some true reporting in this nation?  Can articles please be reported without a strong bias?”  If millions are at an event, check it out, and then report it.  Don’t simply use talking points from other in media.

 In closing,”Thank you to all, (or y’all) from a fellow Patriot American.”

 Carla Bonney

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America’ crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O’Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

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