The Tennessee Nation is not a new concept. We were an independent nation for forty-three days in 1861 – the period between our secession from the United States and our admission into the Confederate States of America.
The abuses and excesses of the current Columbian Empire are cause enough for Tennesseans to exercise their rights as “free and independent people” and cast off the chains of slavery which have so subtly been forged on us. I call it the Columbian Empire because it is most certainly not American. The term American in all its connotations is antithetical to the actions and intentions of the tyrants in the District of Columbia. The district of Columbia is the viper pit from which the Columbian Empire springs.
This blog is to emphasize the legitimate reasons for a free Tennessee Nation.
The report comes from the Empire's HQ across the Potomac that the u.s. Defence Department has classified the Fort Hood shooting as "workplace violence." The fact that the shooter/MURDERER is a radical MUSLEM seems to have escaped their understanding.
Senator Susan Collins of Maine called them on the carpet today for their stupidiy (that's my word, not hers). See the news article here.
One wonders who the "Defence Department" is defending.
With an Empire that works as well as this one, it won't be long before we will have a Free Tennessee.
Was just reviewing some of the figures in S.1867, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012.”
From my reading it appears to authorize an active and reserve personnel strength of the Empire’s military at approximately two and a half million.
According to the Census Bureau, there are 234.5 million of us aged 18 and older. With a little simple math, that breaks down to one soldier for every 94 people living in the 50 States (both legals and illegals).
That number of paid military personnel seems to be unusually large, especially since every able bodied man eighteen and older is by definition a member of the militia. The militia is unpaid and nearby, in order to protect the average citizen. The Empire’s paid forces are scattered across the globe protecting our “vital” corporate interests.
Let’s bring our men and women home and give them honourable service here.
I was interviewed last summer while attending the national conference of the League of the South in Abbeville, South Carolina. Had forgotten about it, until a couple of days ago. Here it is.
According to a report in Nashville’s Tennessean yesterday, the Hutton Hotel in Nashville has cancelled its contract to host a “Preserving Freedom conference” organized by the Tennessee Freedom Coalition.
The conference planned for 11 November was to highlight the dangers of Shariah law. Apparently the hotel had received “complaints” which a hotel spokesman said indicated a Muslim response which might endanger their staff and patrons.
The “peaceful” religion of Islam is doing its mighty work again. Any right of the public to hear a less than favourable opinion (make that truth) about Islam cannot be tolerated.
The organizers of the event vow that it will happen. Already knowing what I do about Islam, I probably would not have attended, but now I will make every effort to support them. I don’t like blatant intimidation of a legitimate group attempting to raise legitimate concerns about a dangerous “religion.”
The Tennessean reported, “Amir Arain, spokesman for the Islamic Center of Nashville, said the hotel made the right decision. He said the conference was promoting bigotry and had no place in Nashville.” The conference is to offer the message that Islam is a religion of hate and death, pure and simple. It does not intend to intimidate or harass anyone. Only the Muslims have done that!
It is sad to see people like those at the Hutton cower under intimidation. Where are real men and women who will stand against such.
I hope no one expects me to attend any function at the Hutton in the future. I will politely decline.
Once again, the nations of the West have followed a path of self-destruction. By means of the NATO alliance, Libya has fallen into the hands of dedicated Muslims.
From today’s London Telegraph, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its "basic source".
It is interesting that the first Gadhafi era law which Abdul-Jalil immediately lifted was the prohibition of polygamy. (Sharia law allows up to four wives.)
As the elite in Washington have done for over two decades, they continue to side with Muslims against any stable regime which has protected Christians. They did it in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and now in Africa.
As a Christian, my first allegiance is to Christ and my citizenship is in heaven. It is becoming more and more difficult to have any appreciation for the united States when the Empire’s leaders (while professing to be Christians) actively destroy the Church.
Give me a Free Tennessee, away from such hatred of Christ.
I am impressed. The Obama administration was unusually restrained in their hunt for and assignation of Muammar el-Qaddafi. According to vice-chancellor Joseph “the plagiarizer” Biden the Columbian Empire only “spent $2 billion total and didn’t lose a single life.”
This is a tremendous value to those who enjoy seeing one dictator toppled in favour of another. Playing chess with third world countries is such fun for the mad-men in Washington.
I say Qaddafi’s demise is a value in comparison to how much the Empire has spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. Emperor George “W is for win at any cost” Bush’s war on Hussein’s Iraq has cost the taxpayer over 800 BILLION dollars and 4400+ lives of our sons and daughters, fathers and mothers. All with the result of crushing the Christian Church in Iraq and providing for the eventual rise of a more virulent Muslim dictator (can anyone say Iran?).
In Afghanistan, the Empire’s cost has been 1665+ lives and 466 BILLION dollars. The end isn’t even in sight there! But our hopes are raised with the fact that getting embroiled in war in Afghanistan led to the end of the British Empire and the Soviet Empire.
Sweet ending to a sad song…the Columbian Empire may very soon see its demise.
The Associated Press has reported that the 11th u.s. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has blocked a portion of Alabama's strick immigration law.
The Court decreed that Alabama state schools cannot ask for verification of citizenship status of students wishing to use their free services. Thomas Perez, head of Obama's Justice Department's civil rights division believes that attempting to discover if a person is violating the law is a violation of their civil rights. If that is the case, why are prisons over-crowded? ...shouldn't the inmates be released because their civil rights were violated when they were arrested and indicted?
Better yet, let's just get rid of the free-services magnets which are drawing the illegals into our States. We could start by dispensing with free Statist education! The State schools haven't been doing a good job of educating kids for some time now, so why continue their funding? (I do have a perverse sense of pleasure seeing that the illegals will have their children dumbed down with the rest.)
The Empire has asked an appeals court to stop enactment of the new Alabama immigration law.
Their argument is that it discriminates against foreign-born citizens and legal immigrants. By that argument, all criminal law should be abolished because it discriminates against law-abiding citizens.
The Department of Justice has lawyers who live in "Never-Land." We need to be free of them.
The problem as reported? Too many evaluations of teachers cause the teachers to be more focused on evaluations rather than teaching students.
The real problem? The statist educational system is a bureaucratic monster. It consumes an inordinate amount of every person’s labour through excessive taxation. It is managed primarily by bureaucrats more interested in showing they are invaluable to the system. The management is accomplished through constant evaluation of the mechanism rather than the supposed purpose which is producing educated men and women.
Which thought leads us to another truth – government does not produce anything. Government merely uses the productive efforts of others (again through taxation). Evaluating teachers via bureaucratic methods will never provide for better education. Government cannot and never will produce an educated man or woman. It is against its very nature to do so.
The only true education is one which is motivated by and thoroughly immersed in the Christian faith.
The [District of] Columbian Empire has finally morphed into the worst of Empires by employing terror as a chief means to its ends – total control of the world.
On Friday, 30 September 2011, two citizens were executed without indictments and without trial as they were traveling in Yemen. Anwar Awlaki and Samir Khan were murdered in a “drone attack” as they traveled with others. Government sources use the word “convoy” when reporting how the two men were traveling to imply military purposes. Please understand that a “convoy” is any three or more vehicles traveling together. I have traveled in many a “convoy” to business and church events that had nothing to do with any military purpose.
I would like to accuse Obama of the crime, but I must remind myself that he is only following the philosophy and methodology of his predecessor GW Bush. Bush, too, was not the author of using his office as a means to control those who disagreed with him. I was recently reminded that LBJ utilized new IRS rules to silence his critics in Christian pulpits. We can go all the way back to the Master of American-born Emperors, one Abraham Lincoln.
Last Friday was a sad day for those who adhere to constitutional government. Paul Craig Roberts has called it “The Day America Died.” I will disagree with him, for I believe it died years ago. 30 September 2011 is the day that the Constitution was buried.
Great article in the Tennessean this morning about CAFOs (concentrated/confinement animal feeding operations) which points out some of the problems inherent in the attempt to side-step the rules of nature and nature's God.
While CAFOs seem to have lowered the relative expense of meat, eggs and milk in the Empire, the hidden costs are beginning to reveal themselves.
But the system also has created disasters such as the August recall of half a billion salmonella-tainted eggs. Critics say the consolidation of food production has led to environmental damage, the loss of millions of small independent farms, rising health-care expenditures and billions in tax-funded subsidies to produce cheap animal feed.
Read the whole article (click here) then join the Tennessee League of the South (click here) in its efforts to restore the viability of small family farms in Tennessee. When you know your farmer, you can know your food is safe.
Last week, on 21 September, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve System issued a press release. The second paragraph reads,
Measures of underlying inflation are currently at levels somewhat below those the Committee judges most consistent, over the longer run, with its mandate to promote maximum employment and price stability. With substantial resource slack continuing to restrain cost pressures and longer-term inflation expectations stable, inflation is likely to remain subdued for some time before rising to levels the Committee considers consistent with its mandate.
Just a couple of hours later, I attended a seminar hosted by the Nashville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The speaker was Michael F. Bryan, vice president and senior economist in the research department of the FRB Atlanta. He explained the FOMC statement, but I never got past the double-speak.
The Fed believes that it has a "mandate" to encourage inflation and thereby promoting "maximum employment and price stability." The question raised in my mind is, How does inflation equal price stability?
Reference was made to a speech given before the National Economists Club on 11 November 2002 by Ben Bernanke entitled, "Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here." (full text here)
Apparently the only thing the FED fears worse than prices that don't go up, is prices that go down. The solution to all our problems according to Bernanke is...print more money.
It would be wonderful if we all had a printing press to solve our every desire both great and small, but we are bound to live by the productivity of our own hands. The Empire operates on a different system-it creates the means to spend out of thin air.
More of the green paper available for the same amount of goods means that the price of the goods goes up - that is inflation! More paper means the paper is worth less.
How does inflation equal price stability? Sorry, but I just can't find the answer. Maybe I'm just not sound enough in my reasoning...or perhaps, it just ain't so!
In reading Economics in One Lesson again, I am amazed at what a jewel this little book is. Henry Hazlitt was truly a teacher of the first magnitude!
I have given copies of this book away to home educators for over fifteen years, but in the course of those years forgotten just how much information in packed into so few words. I will continue to give copies of it away with a renewed enthusiasm for its content.
Each chapter focuses on a different topic, such as Taxes Discourage Production, Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats, Saving the X Industry, and Minimum Wage Laws. All are only five to a dozen pages long and so arranged as to make even the most difficult concepts simple to understand.
At the end of a chapter on "Stabilizing" Commodities, Hazlitt writes:
...if the planners succeed in tying up the idea of international cooperation with the idea of increased State domination and control over economic life, the international controls of the future seem only too likely to follow the pattern of the past, in which case the plain man's living standards will decline with his liberties.
Every action of the government to manipulate the economy will eventually affect every citizen. Nothing can be done in a vacuum and every area of the economy is ultimately linked to every other area of the economy. Any government action which benefits one will penalize another.
If you are serious about living in a truly free society, you need to read Economics in One Lesson.
The Nashville Tennessean reports that this Sunday, seven Tennessee pastors will "bait" the IRS by endorsing candidates from the pulpit. (see the article here) The Alliance Defense Fund based in Arizona had encouraged approximately one hundred pastors nationwide to do so this Sunday.
The ADF has apparently previously sent audio or videotape of sermons to the IRS with no response other than a standard response of restating IRS rules for exemption.
Seems to me the IRS is doing a good job of bluffing! Their rules state that "a church" cannot make an endorsement of a candidate. A pastor can do his personal endorsements all day long and it does not violate their rules. But the IRS doesn't like to make any clarification when they already have 99.9 percent of white pastors groveling in fear of jail time.
It would seem to be a simple procedure to gets the facts before reacting. This all reminds me of the annual eMail (it used to come by snail mail) that we must all write/eMail the FCC because the atheist Madelyn Murray OHare is trying to get all religious broadcasting banned from the airwaves (even though she has been dead for nearly two decades)! Uninformed minds are a certainty to make for really stupid action. And that is something the Church just doesn't have enough of.
The pastoral reaction to IRS intimidation certainly doesn't remind one of Daniel's confidence in divine protection as he was lowered into the lions' den. Haven't any of these profits (certainly not prophets) noticed that black pastors make endorsements all the time? They are not disciplined by the IRS not because they are black (or liberal), but because they haven't broken any rules in the first place!
So this Sunday a total of SEVEN Tennessee pastors will enter their pulpits and display their bravery in the face of the Empire by doing what the Empire already allows them to do.
O Lord, please look favorably upon You Church and bless us with pastors who are both wise and brave.
Last evening I heard Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Mike McWherter give a campaign pitch to the Nashville Chapter of the Tennessee Firearms Association. He tried desperately to prove he was a supporter of the Second Amendment (because he is a member of the NRA and hunts), but when pressed could not give his interpretation or understanding of "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
McWherter stated support of a ban of guns where alcohol is served revealing his obvious lack of knowledge that carry permit holders are prohibited from drinking while carrying.
He also did not know what the "Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act" was. Even though he had been questioned about it months earlier, he had not bothered to research the issue or read the law, but immediately asserted that every gun ought to be registered.
My question was of a different nature and is stated here:
Tennessee used to be known as the "Hog & Hominy State," but not it is recognized as one of the most heavily regulated states in the Union. A number of the most profitable farm products (such as milk, beef, eggs and pork) cannot be sold direct to the consumer. A family with 10 acres and a small dairy herd could gross over $100,000 per year, yet Tennessee's Department of Agriculture and the Tennessee Farm Bureau have put the small farmer out of business. Will you support the elimination of Tennessee's agricultural regulations?
After having earlier extolled his virtues as a farmer and small businessman, McWherter claimed not to know of any restrictive regulations. After some brief comments back and forth, he never answered the question to any degree of satisfaction.
Looks like November will be a good time for a vacation. We certainly have no acceptable candidate for Governor of Tennessee.
I am constantly amazed at the utter lack of knowledge possessed by elected officials at every level of civil government. I sincerely doubt that more than one out of a thousand have within the last year read a single book about economics or the philosophy of government. Yet they will freely make the most appalling decisions about your finances and your business in an instant.
Decided recently to re-read a book entitled Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. It is a classic in every sense of the word. First printed in 1946, it has never been out of print. It contains twenty-five chapters of absolute precious truth.
I can be rather confident in saying that no one in the past several administrations of the Columbian Empire has ever read it...or paid attention to what they read. As proof, I offer a portion of a paragraph from Chapter VI.
The advocates of government-guaranteed mortgages also forget that what is being lent is ultimately real capital, which is limited in supply, and that they are helping identified B at the expense of some unidentified A. Government-guaranteed home mortgages, especially when a negligible down payment or no down payment whatever is required, inevitably mean more bad loans than otherwise. They force the general taxpayer to subsidize the bad risks and to defray the losses. They encourage people to "buy" houses that they cannot really afford. They tend eventually to bring about an oversupply of houses as compared with other things. They temporarily overstimulate building, raise the cost of building for everybody (including the buyers of the homes with the guaranteed mortgages), and may mislead the building industry into an eventually costly overexpansion. In brief, in the long run they do not increase overall national production but encourage malinvestment.
Nuf said. We have problems because those running the show are uninformed idiots. We have those idiots creating the problems because Joe Plumber won't get off his throne long enough to learn anything himself. Joe enjoys electing politicians whose education stopped at "How to Get Elected."
Give me a people yearning to be free. Give me a people who will not be satisfied with a diploma, but desire to be educated. Then we will have a Free Tennessee.
We have come to the point in our culture in which practically every problem is countered with the question, "What is the government going to do about it?" or with the statement, "There ought to be a law!" Down to the most mundane and minute problem, most people expect the "government" to fix it.
Most recently, we have been faced with major abuse of the financial markets - the government "fixed" it. We have been assaulted with disastrous unemployment - the government is fixing it. We are challenged with run-away medical costs - the government "fixed" it.
Interestingly, closer observation will show that the great majority of our problems are the result of government fixing some previous problem, which was the unintended consequence of an earlier fix to an even earlier problem, which was the unintended consequence of an earlier fix to an even earlier problem, which was ... well, you get the idea!
In the book Unmasking The Sacred Lies, author Paul A. Cleveland offers a question and answer:
What are the sacred lies? The first, and biggest lie, is the notion that the institution of government is capable of successfully and adequately addressing all human problems.
Why have people accepted the BIG LIE?
The process of embracing the sacred lies came about in two ways. Some people actively promoted and perpetuated them because they materially benefited from them. ...Most people, however, come to embrace the lies in a misguided fashion. ...They are largely ignorant of the political process and are too busy with their own affairs to devote time to understanding the problems associated with collectivist action.
President Lincoln introduced effective centralization of the economy in Washington, but it was the Congressional response to the plight of mid-western farmers in the 1880s which became the tipping point. In 1887, the Imperial Congress created the Interstate Commerce Commission to control railroad use. Ever since, the solution to any problem has been the creation of a commission, an agency, a department, or a service.
We must reverse the process if we as a people ever expect to regain our liberty. But "sunset" provisions are rarely heeded, if ever established in the first place. The only real solution is the positive action of the legislatures of the Sovereign States to interpose themselves between the Columbian Empire and the citizens of the States.
We need legislators who will actively promote a Free Tennessee.
We are constantly bombarded with the assertion that we live in the "land of the free." Is it really true, or is it the BIG LIE which is believed only because it is repeated so often?
Over fifty years ago in 1956, Cecil B. DeMille introduced his new film, The Ten Commandments to the world. In his remarks, he said,
The theme of this picture is whether men ought to be ruled by God's laws or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator like Rameses. Are men the property of the State or are they free souls under God? This same battle continues throughout the world today.
Yes, the same battle continues today. There are many within the Empire who truly believe that every living being, every raw object, and everything manufactured or built belongs under their jurisdiction.
In the seat of the Columbian Empire (Washington, DC), there is an agency for everything under the sun. Each exists for the purpose of promoting and propagating their ideals, and planning and perpetrating their sanctions upon the public...all, of course, for our protection from ourselves.
Because the change has been so gradual and because every little bit of our liberty has been given up to a good argument, we have become the property of the State.
The Israelites may have been uncomfortable as slaves in Egypt, but at least they knew they were slaves, today very few Americans can see their shackles. We have become blinded to the chains which bind us because we are allowed to vote for our masters.
As I was growing up, the adults (and even the media) around me would comment on the foolishness of Russians voting for candidates who were part of "the system" and would never make anything better. They were believing in a BIG LIE.
Not since Rick Warren's inaugural prayer to every pagan god under the sun have I heard such sniveling from so many Christians. The men who would burn the Koran are making a legitimate statement that it is NOT a "word of God" but rather the fanciful rantings of a madman. Our Lord Jesus Christ is more than able to protect and defend those who will stand for TRUTH.
Unfortunately, standing for truth is not a popular nor common event in our day and age. We have become much too familiar with the droning waffling of politicians and businessmen who don't want to lose a vote or a sale.
And preachers usually lead the pack in side-stepping a confrontation with truth. Let a single parishioner complain about some point in a sermon and it goes away the next time. A pastor who I overwise respect made a statement a couple years ago while preaching that Christians need to get out of the statist school system because their presence only props up its corruption. I purchased a CD of the sermon, only to find out that it was a recording of the second service's sermon which did not include his bold call to righteousness. Someone got to him between services...maybe someone with deep pockets (we were in the middle of a building program at the time).
Congratulations to those who will stand for TRUTH, even when it is unpopular. When alive, those people are "troublesome." When dead, they are heroes and martyrs.
