by Miki BoothSource: Miki Booth is an American Grand Jury member. This article is reposted from the Post & Email website.

THE OBAMA REGIME STOKES THE FIRES OF 1776

When Barack Hussein Obama spoke from his “bully pulpit” and proclaimed that America was not a Christian nation, he stirred the ire of a country and provoked its citizens yet again with a lie so outrageous as to be beyond belief.

At the end of the “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington on Saturday, many attendees left a little disappointed that they werenʼt told, where do we go from here? What was accomplished? Whatʼs the next step? When reading all the newspaper accounts of the event, people were further disillusioned with the negative reporting of the liberal media.

To many, the event itself was its own reward, and their faith in a good and loving God strengthened or restored. However, mostly we were there to show solidarity of a citizenry outraged at the destructive practices of a tyrannical government.

The “sleeping giant” is still in a coma despite reports that the TEA party movement has become a force to be reckoned with. Obama and his communist czars are perplexed as well with this phenomenon of a rag-tag collection of modern- day revolutionaries instilled with the spirit of our country’s founders ready to bear arms to protect life, property and our very liberties.

The “sleeping giant” is being deliberately prodded on a daily basis with outrageous actions by Obama and his “puppet masters” to get the giant to snap and create chaos and crisis to implement police and military action. No doubt Obama “got out of Dodge” to the safety of Martha’s Vineyard to watch a potential playing out of the plan they so persistently lay out with provocations. All the elements were there: mass numbers of white racists on one side and black militant marchers led by a race-baiting preacher on the other. If that wasn’t enough to start a crisis they could pounce upon, they stirred the pot by adding illegal alien pardons, back-door amnesty and reporting charges of human rights violations to the United Nations. And maybe for good measure allowing the Mexican government to put its soldiers on American soil to protect their illegal citizens from hate crimes in a New York borough.

Try as they might, nothing happened, and now their heads are spinning wondering what went wrong. They don’t get it now and they never will. This isn’t about anger at a black president. This is about Americans with honor in their hearts and a fierce desire to live our lives as free people. Glenn Beck provided the time and place for Americans to reaffirm their relationship with God, strengthen family ties and do what is right for America, and that is to take our country back from an out-of-control government that never errs of the side of decency.

There will be a million stories that come out of the Restoring Honor event, and unfortunately the liberally-biased ones will be most prominent. Two days later I still haven’t found one that tells the story I saw, so I’m writing it myself. I watched the rally from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial looking at the back of the jumbo-trons and stage rigging along with thousands of others. From our vantage point we could see the crowd stretching all the way to the Washington Monument. Although unable to see or hear the program, we were happy to be there and share a spirit of patriotism for our country and pride of knowing we are carrying the baton of liberty passed to us by our founding fathers as we prepare to pass it for our posterity.

The media has chosen to bill the Sharpton rally as the more significant of the two events aimed at honoring Dr. Martin Luther King but fails to convey what their message was, so here I am compelled to describe what I saw. And that was a group of angry blacks and a few whites screaming, “Justice now! Justice now!” while we stood scratching our collective heads and asking, “Justice for what?!” Their marchers assembled on a street behind police solo-bikes and amassed an estimated 200 or so protesters. They blocked access to people leaving the Beck rally, and even though they shouted ugly epithets, no one took the bait. We politely walked through their ranks saying no more than, “Excuse me” or “Can I get through?”

There was the incident where paramedics were working on a person prostrate on the ground surrounded by crowds unable to disperse because of barricades or more people when a mounted policeman angrily rode his horse into the crowd yelling, “Make a hole! Make a hole!” It was evident to those witnessing this that the cop was not happy to be there. Was he having a bad day and taking it out on his horse by kicking him and jerking the bit around in his mouth or just being among people he didn’t like? His actions were entirely unnecessary and worthy of discipline. He wasn’t even needed – the paramedics were already there.

Other stories relate disappointments such as that it got boring or that Beck didn’t deliver. They were expecting a miracle or a revelation that Obamaʼs hidden records have been revealed and impeachment processes have begun or LTC Lakin was a surprise guest on the agenda and we could all unite in support and move forward with a cohesive plan to fight his court-martial and get discovery of documents for his defense. None of these things happened, and although Beck continues to gather followers, he continually loses those of us who recognize how he falls pathetically short of having the courage to bring up the question of eligibility.

As I stood on the steps of the memorial and looked out over the hundreds of thousands of people, I witnessed something extraordinary. I wasn’t quick enough to capture it on my camera but it’s etched indelibly in my mind’s eye, a v-formation of geese flying long and low over the reflecting pool from the stage toward the Washington Monument. Not a miracle by a long shot but a symbol of hope and direction.

The miracle happened but it was so subtle as to go almost unnoticed by most. I saw it, though, and that’s why I had to write my story. Glenn Beck’s rally exposed Obama’s most outrageous lie. A million people came together and proved we are a Christian nation.

Miki Booth is Founder of the Route 66 TEA Party, FairTax Community Coordinator, Patriotic Resistance OK Dist. 2 Coordinator, and District Leader for GOOOH as well as a former Candidate U.S. Congress. She was recently featured in an article at WorldNetDaily.

Comment by American Grand Jury:

Although American Grand Jury doesn’t actively sign up members these days we still have over 2,500 people in our database who have made history with us. Miki Booth is one of them. Miki is best known in our history book for being one of the American Grand Jury members who attended the Columbia Trial with Dr. Manning in New York City.

Miki, thanks for the article — it is well done.

Regards,
Bob Campbell
Editor
American Grand Jury

Greetings everyone — I don’t normally post letters from our readers, however, this one was different. It was from the heart and it says that many in this Country can still make a difference, no matter how bad things get.

From Jim and PJ Seigfreid in North Georgia:

Restoring Honor 8-28-2010

In case you missed it, we just finished watching Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally live on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This should have been required attendance for all members of Congress and the White House. It was NOT a political rally. It was a call to a return to faith, hope and charity, and restoring honor to a nation by returning to our founding principles and the Founders’ reliance on “Divine Providence.”

The “political rally” was held by Al Sharpton (imagine that!) a short ways away, where he completely twisted the words of Dr. Martin Luther Kings Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech of August 28, 1963, and then tried to blame Glenn Beck for smearing King’s legacy. I’m surprised he managed to forget to include George Bush in that, too. (This was from news reports-no mention of this at the rally.)

AOL Online estimated the crowd at 750,000. I’d say it was at least that. The online viewer-counter went up to over 130,000, which is rather misleading; that’s only counting computers, not the number of people behind them! Beck honored our troops specifically, and has managed to raise, through the grace of God, $5.5 million for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. SOWF was founded by soldiers and their families whose fallen comrades have left behind families of their own, and children who still must be raised and sent through college, etc. This, just in itself, was astounding, and incredibly moving.

The event was chock-full of our Founding Documents and history, with much attention focusing on our religious heritage, and the call to return to God and our Faith, whatever that might be, as Christians and Jews from all walks of faith. And, the number of children, teenagers and young adults was incredible. There is still HOPE!! Somewhere in that throng, awaits another Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin….

It was basically a 3 and a half hour patriotic prayer service, and was probably the most incredible thing PJ and I have ever watched. From gospel, to country, to Amazing Grace (and the history behind the man who wrote it) played on bagpipes (not a dry eye in the house) this was in our eyes, evidence once again of the Hand of God in our affairs. Whether you like Glenn Beck or not, this was not about him. He actually spent very little time on stage. Sarah Palin, Dr. Alveda King, MLK Jr.’s niece, who has been under attack and actually threatened by some in the “civil rights” community, like Sharpton, et. al., for being involved in this, literally hundreds of ministers, pastors, priests, rabbis from all over the country, and many, many of our injured heroes from WW2 up to Iraq, were all represented and honored. Dr. Alveda Kings’ father, MLK’s brother, was also murdered during that struggle.

We’ve been getting Becks’ free newsletter for some time now, but we went to his website www.glennbeck.com and signed up for the Insider Extreme, which is what you had to do to watch this miracle take place, as there was no MSM coverage. We were a little skeptical at first, but that didn’t last long. From the prayer service last night to today’s rally, this has been an incredible experience, and was worth every penny (if WE could afford it right now, anyone could!) Insider Extreme also offers an incredible array of information and discussion.

So all, message for today: “…with a firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.”

God Bless you all, and GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Jim & PJ Seigfreid

Comment by American Grand Jury:

Nice letter Jim and PJ. You got 110% of my attention when I read your letter. God Bless you and your family.

I know in my heart God’s people are going to win the war — Obama and his creeps have yet to face the wrath of the Lord — I may not see it in my lifetime but I will get a front-row seat in due time. I walk on the “right” side of the isle — the “left” be damned!

Bob

By Monty Pelerin

Obama’s election was supposed to transform America, at least in his mind.

This country’s first socialist president strode into office confident that he would remake this country. Fortunately for the country, the timing of his election was twenty, if not fifty, years too late. Socialism has failed in its pure form wherever it has been tried. Now it has failed in its modified form. While much of the world realizes this, President Obama is either ignorant or has more sinister plans for the country.

In the 1920s, Ludwig von Mises demonstrated via economic reasoning why socialism could not work. His argument was that without market prices, there was no way to properly allocate resources. About ten years later, Friedrich Hayek supported Mises’ conclusion from a different angle. He approached it as a “knowledge problem” and argued that no central authority, regardless of how intelligent, could possess enough information to make proper and efficient decisions for tens of millions of people and businesses.

History validated the theory of the two Austrian economists. Russia, China, Eastern Europe, Cuba, and North Korea produced inevitable the misery, poverty, and brutality. The two countries that continue the system are amongst the poorest countries in the world, held together only by totalitarian rule and outside economic support.

With the recognition that socialism did not work, “do-gooders” changed their efforts to a system that would be part capitalism and part socialism. They believed that capitalism could be used for resource allocation while the “caring nature” of socialism could ensure equitable distribution of wealth. President Clinton expressed interest in what was then referred to as a “third-way.” Western Europe had adopted this approach decades earlier.

Interestingly, Mises argued that a “third way” could not work, either. In the 1940s, Mises demonstrated that one intervention begets additional interventions. A so-called mixed system is nothing more than capitalism with interventionism imposed. Mises showed that any such system eventually degenerates into full-fledged socialism.

In a collection of essays entitled “Planning for Freedom,” Mises concluded:

There is no other alternative to totalitarian slavery than liberty. There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work. There is no other means to attain full employment, rising real wage rates and a high standard of living for the common man than private initiative and free enterprise.

The countries of Western Europe have, as Mises predicted, deteriorated into social welfare states likely never imagined or intended at their inceptions. As full-blown socialism approached, these countries became insolvent. Soon all will be forced to either dismantle their welfare states or incur sovereign defaults. The U.S., while never formally adopting either socialism or the mixed system, drifted into the mixed system by gradually adopting many socialist programs. As a result, the U.S. faces the same future of insolvency as its European counterparts.

In terms of history, the mixed system dates back only to Bismarck in the 1880s. It was initiated in a few countries in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Its widespread acceptance occurred after World War II, when several countries chose not to return to the decentralized economies that existed prior to the war. England was the prime example. Industries nationalized for the war effort remained nationalized after the war. England rapidly devolved into a third-rate economy as a result. Prime Minister Thatcher reversed the decline by re-privatizing most of these industries.

It took only about fifty to seventy years for the mixed systems to fail. That is literally a moment in terms of history. Many people are still reluctant to admit that socialism is a failure despite the theoretical warnings and the actual failures themselves. With socialists, it is never the system and always the people that are the cause of failure. “If only we had better leaders.” As Hayek and Mises pointed out, it has nothing to do with leadership. There is a fatal flaw in the concept.

As a result of attempting to extend the socialist myth, governments and their populations are now burdened with debt, much of which will never be paid. We are on the verge of a worldwide depression that will hit as governments run out of resources. It is likely that politicians will continue to play the game of “extend and pretend.” But we have reached Ms. Thatcher’s end-point: “The problem with socialism is that you run out of other people’s money.”

How ironic that President Obama’s first major achievement was ObamaCare. In May, Greece was ordered to privatize its health care system. This month, it was reported that England was going to overhaul their health care system. England was frequently referenced as a model of affordable, efficient health care by ObamaCare advocates. Apparently, the English government and its people view it differently.

These instances are not one-time events. Nor will they be limited to health care. The welfare states of Europe will soon be dismantled in part or whole. So too will the entitlement programs in the U.S. The laws of economics and physics are immutable. They are above legislation. Countries do not have the resources necessary to honor their commitments, period!

Our Founding Fathers, without using the term socialism, designed a Constitution to protect against such incoherent schemes. Over time, the Constitution was vitiated by “living document” interpretations, penumbras, and other nonsense. Now, the U.S. stands on the precipice of failure just as Western Europe. It is insolvent, and there are no other alternatives than to default or dismantle.

The world is at a very dangerous inflection point. We are about to enter a depression. Politicians are not going to back away from socialism willingly. They and large numbers of other beneficiaries will do whatever they can to retain the status quo. Despite the unequivocal failure of the modern welfare state, it is unlikely to disappear quietly. The status quo is always difficult to change. It becomes especially so in desperate economic times and for people who believe they are entitled to be taken care of by others.

The welfare state is headed for the dustbin of history. That is certain because it is no longer sustainable. The critical question is what will replace it. As Mises pointed out, there are only two alternatives: freedom or totalitarianism. There is no middle ground. There is no political compromise that can bridge this gap.

Regardless of which side of the issue you are on, the battle will be bitter and likely last a decade or more. Economically, everyone will be hurt, including many of the “well-off.” Whether our moral and ethical code is strong enough to get through this together is moot. We are not like our ancestors in the sense of their strong commitment to community, responsibility, forbearance, and integrity. We are the pampered generation, entitled to gratification now and willing to cut corners to get it.

In many ways, this problem is more serious than that faced by our Founding Fathers. After all, King George had little control over their lives or fortunes. Yet these principled men risked both rather than accept even a little bit of tyranny. Theirs was a fight of principle; ours is one of survival. The fight is made more important when it is coupled with a depression. We know what monsters rose to power during the last depression and their effect on the world.

We will either get liberty or totalitarianism. There is no middle ground. For me, the choice is clear and was stated by Patrick Henry more than two centuries ago:

“Give me liberty or give me death.”

I am willing to sacrifice just as much as our Founding Fathers did so that my grandchildren and their grandchildren can live in the same country I grew up in. I hope enough others feel the same.

Comment by American Grand Jury:

Great Editorial from Monty Pelerin at the American Thinker. I hope you enjoyed it.

Have a great Sunday!

Blessings,
Bob Campbell

Opening comment: Yahoo News is notoriously liberal. This is an informative article but in my opinion it is being posted to frighten the liberals and inflame the press. Still, I love the idea. Heck yes! Every State needs to have a strong Militia and National Guard to protect their home turf!

Here’s the story:

OKLAHOMA CITY – Frustrated by recent political setbacks, tea party leaders and some conservative members of the Oklahoma Legislature say they would like to create a new volunteer militia to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty.

Tea party movement leaders say they’ve discussed the idea with several supportive lawmakers and hope to get legislation next year to recognize a new volunteer force. They say the unit would not resemble militia groups that have been raided for allegedly plotting attacks on law enforcement officers.

“Is it scary? It sure is,” said tea party leader Al Gerhart of Oklahoma City, who heads an umbrella group of tea party factions called the Oklahoma Constitutional Alliance. “But when do the states stop rolling over for the federal government?”

Thus far, the discussions have been exploratory. Even the proponents say they don’t know how an armed force would be organized nor how a state-based militia could block federal mandates. Critics also asserted that the force could inflame extremism, and that the National Guard already provides for the state’s military needs.

“Have they heard of the Oklahoma City bombing?” said Joseph Thai, a constitutional law professor at the University of Oklahoma. The state observes the 15th anniversary of the anti-government attack on Monday. Such actions could “throw fuel in the fire of radicals,” he said.

But the militia talks reflect the frustration of some grass roots groups seeking new ways of fighting recent federal initiatives, such as the health reform plan, which requires all citizens to have health insurance. Over the last year, tea party groups across the country have staged rallies and pressured politicians to protest big government and demand reduced public spending.

In strongly conservative states like Oklahoma, some legislators have also discussed further action to fight federal policies, such as state legislation and lawsuits.

State Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, a Republican candidate for governor who has appealed for tea party support, said supporters of a state militia have talked to him, and that he believes the citizen unit would be authorized under the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

The founding fathers “were not referring to a turkey shoot or a quail hunt. They really weren’t even talking about us having the ability to protect ourselves against each other,” Brogdon said. “The Second Amendment deals directly with the right of an individual to keep and bear arms to protect themselves from an overreaching federal government.”

Another lawmaker, state Rep. Charles Key, R-Oklahoma City, said he believes there’s a good chance of introducing legislation for a state-authorized militia next year.

Tea party leader J.W. Berry of the Tulsa-based OKforTea began soliciting interest in a state militia through his newsletter under the subject “Buy more guns, more bullets.”

“It’s not a far-right crazy plan or anything like that,” Berry said. “This would be done with the full cooperation of the state Legislature.”

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The meaning of Easter is Jesus Christ’s victory over death. His resurrection symbolizes the eternal life that is granted to all who believe in Him.

The meaning of Easter also symbolizes the complete verification of all that Jesus preached and taught during His three-year ministry. If He had not risen from the dead, if He had merely died and not been resurrected, He would have been considered just another teacher or Rabbi. However, His resurrection changed all that and gave final and irrefutable proof that He was really the Son of God and that He had conquered death once and for all.

However, Easter did not always symbolize Christ’s resurrection from the dead and the meaning of Easter was quite different than what Christians celebrate today. The feast day of Easter was originally a pagan celebration of renewal and rebirth. Celebrated in the early spring, it honored the pagan Saxon goddess Eastre. When the early missionaries converted the Saxons to Christianity, the holiday, since it fell around the same time as the traditional memorial of Christ’s resurrection from the dead, was merged with the pagan celebration, and became know as Easter. The meaning of Easter was also changed to reflect its new Christian orientation.

Today, the meaning of Easter, for million of Christians, is that of honoring and recognizing Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead, and His glorious promises of eternal life for all who believe in Him.

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American Grand Jury wishes every person who truly celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ a memorable and joyous Easter.

During my stay in the Orient I was able to have some Chinese Embroidery custom made for American Grand Jury. We call it the “Patriot Series.” These are the only ones of their kind to my knowledge. This is just one example of our artwork. These are completely handmade. Each art embroidery takes a lady anywhere from 4 to 5 weeks to complete.

We hope you enjoy this one with Jesus overlooking the American Flag. We will take a number of these works of art with us on the American Grand Jury 20-State Tour to show those who are interested. Between now and our start date of May 9th I will display other embroidery scenes for you to enjoy in different postings on our website. Be on the lookout for them!