Last month, President Obama proclaimed that May 1st would be henceforth known as Loyalty Day in remembrance of our Founding Fathers while Americans take time to “rediscover those ageless truths our Founders held to be self-evident, and to renew them in our own time. We look back to Americans who did the same, from generation to generation — citizens who strengthened our democracy, organizers who made it broader, service members who gave everything to protect it. These patriots and pioneers remind us that while our path to a more perfect Union is unending, with hope and hard work, we can move forward together.”
Correlating with this decree, it is becoming clear that Americans are becoming increasingly convinced that “an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our liberties.”
Dan Cassino, analyst for the poll explained : “The differences in views of gun legislation are really a function of differences in what people believe guns are for. If you truly believe an armed revolution is possible in the near future, you need weapons and you’re going to be wary about government efforts to take them away.”
According to another poll , “61 percent of Americans say they are more concerned about the government enacting new anti-terrorism policies that restrict civil liberties, compared to 31 percent who say they are more concerned about the government failing to enact strong new anti-terrorism policies.”
It may not be such a shock considering that in states like California, state lawmakers have approved a $24 million budget to increase gun confiscations from residents that are on the state-funded database of persons prohibited from owning a gun within state limits.
This database includes person deemed:
• Mentally ill
• Having been arrested for domestic violence
• Having had a restraining order against them
Sheriff Ric Bradshaw was given $1 million in funding from the Florida House and Senate to develop prevention units of specially trained deputies, mental healthcare and case workers to respond to resident calls 24 hours a day, preform a door-to-door campaign and referral service.
Bradshaw has defined the goal as having the residents of Palm Beach County spy on each other and report what they find to these prevention units. It is anticipated that this beta-test will serve as a model for the rest of the nation.
Invoking the Sandy Hook shooting, Bradshaw justified his creation of a Stasi network: “Every single incident, whether it’s Newtown, that movie theater, or the guy who spouts off at work and then goes home and kills his wife and two kids — in every single case, there were people who said they knew ahead of time that there was a problem. If the neighbor of the mom in Newtown had called somebody, this might have saved 25 kids’ lives.”
Bradshaw continued: “We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government, hates the mayor and he’s gonna shoot him. What does it hurt to have somebody knock on a door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’ ”
Meanwhile at the Pine Eagle Charter School in Oregon, a surprise active shooter drill was conducted to shock teachers into learning how to respond in a moment’s notice.
Although the drill was performed when students were not present, it was still frightening to faculty as two masked men with handguns began firing at random.
Principal Cammie DeCastro explained that the surprise drill was “beneficial” because it demonstrated just how ill-prepared teachers would be for such an event.
In 2012, a school in El Paso, Texas was the scene of another surprise terror drill involving teachers and students; while earlier this year the shooting drill at a Chicago high school was explained in advance to faculty and students.
Recently, the Pentagon stated that Christians who are active duty in the US Armed Forces would be court martialed if caught trying to convert fellow soldiers to Christianity because “religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense. . . Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis . . .”
Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), asserted that the US Air Force would begin the court martial process for members who were caught proselytizing beginning on April 23rd because those trying to convert others “are guilty of sedition and treason and should be punished – by the hundreds if necessary – to stave off what he called a “tidal wave of fundamentalists.”
Weinstein continued: “Someone needs to be punished for this. Until the Air Force or Army or Navy or Marine Corps punishes a member of the military for unconstitutional religious proselytizing and oppression, we will never have the ability to stop this horrible, horrendous, dehumanizing behavior.”
Using rhetoric, Weinstein attended a meeting with Pentagon officials to utilize the Air Force Instruction, Standards of Conduct policy , Section 2.11 which states that the US government must remain neutral with regard to religion.
The policy reads: “Leaders at all levels must balance constitutional protections for an individual’s free exercise of religion or other personal beliefs and the constitutional prohibition against governmental establishment of religion.”
Conversely, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC) commented on the Pentagon taking direction on military policy from the MRFF. Perkins said: “Why would military leadership be meeting with one of the most rabid atheists in America to discuss religious freedom in the military,” Perkins said. “That’s like consulting with China on how to improve human rights.”
Perkins began a protest petition to urge Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Defense, to defend the religious free will of soldiers “and not to proceed with the purge of religion within the ranks called for by anti-Christian activists.”
Mainstream media (MSM) are combating this development with propaganda from the DoD. Lieutenant Commander Nate Christensen stated: “The U.S. Department of Defense has never and will never single out a particular religious group for persecution or prosecution. The Department makes reasonable accommodations for all religions and celebrates the religious diversity of our service members. Service members can share their faith (evangelize), but must not force unwanted, intrusive attempts to convert others of any faith or no faith to one’s beliefs (proselytization).”
