The demagogues of multiculturalism are at it again! On Monday afternoon, the Nashville Scene’s website reported on a law signed by Governor Bredesen. “Were talking about legislation that basically requires anyone who talks or looks like a foreigner to carry documentation proving they’re in this country legally.”
The ACLU’s director Hedy Weinberg referred to the law as “un-American and warned it would lead to racial profiling.”
THE TRUTH?
Monday (28 June 2010), Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen signed into law HB670/SB1141. It reads:
When a person is arrested for any offense and is confined, for any period, in the jail of the county or any municipality, a reasonable effort to review documents in the possession of the prisoner shall be made to assess the citizenship status of the person so confined. If the keeper of the jail or other officer cannot determine the lawful status of the prisoner from the documents in the possession of the prisoner or if it is determined that the person is not lawfully present in the United States, pursuant to the federal Immigration and Naturalization Act…the keeper of the jail or other officer shall notify the United States department of homeland security by facsimile transmission or other appropriate means.
What’s the problem? 1) The person has to have been jailed for breaking a law, and 2) It is the jailer, not any policeman, who has to review any documents.
This is the same procedure which has been in use in both Nashville and Memphis for a couple of years!
I believe I am being more than kind in saying Weinberg is a demagogue—someone who uses the passions or prejudices of the populace for their own interests; an unprincipled popular orator or agitator.
Gov. Bredesen has criticized Arizona’s anti-illegal-immigration legislation, and refused to sign the Tennessee legislature’s resolution “praising Arizona.” He called it “political chest-thumping.” He did the right thing in signing HB670/SB1141. It is limited in its scope and specific in its application.
HB670/SB1141 is a step in the direction of establishing a Free Tennessee.
This next Sunday, the 4th of July, in churches across the states congregations will be led in singing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The song has a catchy chorus, but it is a malicious and anti-Christian. It has no place in a true house of worship.
You can read a complete explanation of the problems with the “Battle Hymn” here.
There are some who think that I over-react to the use of the song. Many pastors will hear or read the truth about the “hymn” and belittle the truth about it. It is simply blasphemy against the truths of the Christian faith.
While waiting for the worship service to begin yesterday morning, I read from Malachi:
“And now, O priests, this commandment is for you.
If you will not hear,
And if you will not take it to heart,
To give glory to My name,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“I will send a curse upon you,
And I will curse your blessings.
Yes, I have cursed them already,
Because you do not take it to heart.” (2:1,2)
We who wish to live peacefully in a Free Tennessee should not think that we have the luxury of offending the Lord of Hosts. His promise of turning our blessings to curses is not the kind of promise any of us wants to see fulfilled.
This December marks one hundred fifty years since South Carolina led the way out of the Union by seceding. Most people (especially politicians) will laugh about the possibility of secession today. We have been taught in government schools and in private and Christian schools as well that we live in “one nation under God, indivisible.” A socialist creed, but not the attitude of the Founding Fathers and certainly never Christian!
In April 1861 Tennessee Governor Isham G. Harris called a special session of the Legislature to respond to Lincoln’s unconstitutional call for troops to invade the States which had legally seceded. On 25 April, he delivered a message which has these lines:
"we are… dissolving our connection with the Federal Union. As established by our fathers, that Union no longer exists. However much we may have cherished it heretofore, no intelligent and candid man can deny that it has ceased to be a blessing, and has become a curse; that it is no longer a high and sacred means of protection, but an engine of oppression; that is has ceased to be a bond of brotherhood, and has become a hateful connection between communities at war."
"The Federal Union of the States, thus practically dissolved, can never be restored; or if ever thus restored, it must, by the very act, cease to be a Union of free and independent States, such as our fathers established. It will become a consolidated, centralized Government, without liberty or equality, in which some will reign and others serve--the few tyrannize, and the many suffer."
Governor Harris correctly understood that should the Yankee North prevail in the coming war, we would no longer have the Union which the Founding Fathers had worked so hard to establish.
As school-children, we are taught to reflect on the Republic and Constitution delivered to us from 1787. As adults, we should recognize that a Union which must be imposed by force is no union at all.
Under Muslim law, a wife is not allowed to leave a marriage. The husband may humiliate her, beat her, and even kill her, but she has no rights. Under Christian law, there are limits to authority in the home, and avenues for escape. Which is that type of government which you will want ruling us in the twenty-first century?
As for me, give me Christianity and a Free Tennessee.
Here is an example of nullification and civil resistance from Tennessee’s own history. This account is taken from A History of Tennessee, an elementary level public school textbook first published in 1899.
“In 1797 it was charged against William Blount in the United State Senate that he had entered into a conspiracy to take Louisiana and Florida away from Spain and transfer them to England, as he thought England would be a better neighbor than Spain.
On this charge William Blount was expelled from the United States Senate July 8, 1797. A United States officer was sent to Knoxville to arrest him and take him to Philadelphia to be tried for high crimes. But the whole affair was as bad a failure as the attempt to try Sevier for treason. Blount would not go; the officer alone could not take him by force, and when he summoned men to help him they very politely refused to do so, and told him that Blount had done nothing wrong and could not be carried out of Tennessee for trial.
After investigation the United States Senate decided that they had no case against Blount. He was immediately elected to the state senate and made speaker of that body…”
The State of Tennessee offered no assistance to this action of the central government. The US Senate had to have someone sent from Philadelphia to take Blount prisoner. This is a legitimate action of nullification; not by action, but by inaction.
This account also show the effectiveness of general public resistance to an act of the central government. Notice that the “United States officer” attempted to deputize several Knoxville residents, but they simply declined to cooperate. This is civil resistance at its finest.
The citizens and the officials of the State of Tennessee knew that the charges against Blount were bogus, thus they acted accordingly. Innocence does not have to be proven in court, only guilt.
When the Feds (agents of the Empire) come calling on some hapless individual, the State and local authorities should have the same conviction to resistance that these men of 1797 had.
To me, ethics as a word and concept has always meant having the ability to tell between right and wrong. Christians have an advantage in making ethical judgments because the Bible is reliable as a resource on what is right and wrong. That is until now.
The Southern Baptist Convention has been struggling for years as its leadership sees the number of consistent and committed adherents shrink. The reason for an evangelical denomination’s decline is generally found in its relaxed (make that dwindling) loyalty to the Truth of God’s Word.
Richard Land, president of their Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, will speak this Sunday to the Southern Baptist’s Hispanic Fellowship. He will be promoting another immigration reform program which magically turns the lawbreakers into law-abiders.
Robert Parham, executive director of the moderate Baptist Center for Ethics in Nashville agrees with him and says that there are Christians (count me as one) who want to penalize illegals because they perceive them to be lawbreakers. Doesn’t illegal = lawbreaker? Aren’t those two terms equivalent?
Apparently ethics no longer has anything to do with breaking the law! At least not for Baptists Richard Land and Robert Parham.
Just as disturbing as his spiritual blindness toward breaking the law, is the apparent reason for Land’s support of the illegals … they make good conservatives!
According to Land, Hispanics “are hard-wired to be social conservatives unless we drive them away. They are family oriented, religiously oriented and pro-marriage, pro-life … tailor-made to be social conservatives.” They will make good Republicans. The stupid party certainly needs all the help it can get.
Sorry, but I just can’t overcome the Christian and Biblical commitment to true ethics.
May God deliver us from such as are attempting to mold Baptist ethics.
Helen Thomas is an 89-year-old journalist who for decades served as a UPI reporter and had a seat of honor in the White House newsroom because of her long tenure. She most recently was employed by the Hearst syndicate as a columnist. She is the lady in red who would end every presidential press conference by standing and saying, “Thank you, Mr. President.” She was such a fixture in Washington that movie makers would ask her to play herself on film.
She resigned (aka was fired) for having an opinion and expressing it. Unfortunately for her it was a politically incorrect opinion! She learned late that "Freedom of the Press" does not necessarily mean freedom for the Press.
She had been asked by Rabbi David Nesenoff what she thought about Israel, at the Jewish American Heritage Month reception held at the White House at the end of last month, and was caught on film saying, “Tell them [Jews] to get the hell out of Palestine” and that they should “go home” to Poland, Germany, America and elsewhere.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs criticized her statements, saying, “I think those remarks were offensive and reprehensible.” The Associated Press quoted the White House Correspondents Association in a rare statement which described her comments as “indefensible.”
Regardless of your opinion of Israel / Palestine / Arabs / occupation and all the possible inter-related issues, the Empire’s Thought Police should not have absolute sway over journalists.
It is unfortunate that Thomas’ career has ended because of a comment which should have been hers to make freely. Sometimes the First Amendment just doesn’t apply. That’s the way it is in the New World of the Columbian Empire.
As for me, give me a free and independent Tennessee.
Great comments from Pastor Steve Wilkins of Monroe, Louisiana.
People often ask, “Do you think the Lord is going to judge America?” And the answer is, “Do you mean, will He continue to judge America?” Truth is, God has been judging America for quite some time. And one of the forms His judgment has taken is economic. Here are some amazing (and distressing) facts about the U.S. economy (from Blacklisted News) that reveal the judgment of the Lord:
– It is being projected that the U.S. government will have a budget deficit of approximately 1.6 trillion dollars in 2010....CONTINUE.
A headline from Sunday’s Nashville Tennessean, “2010 bank closures now total 81.” It wasn’t front page news, just an AP wire “filler” article from Washington. Click here for the article
In case you are having a problem with the math, that’s nearly 4 bank closures every week this year. This time it was a 59 branch regional bank based in Lincoln, Nebraska and two small community banks: one in Minnesota, the other in Illinois. It is interesting that these closings by the Feds always take place on a Friday so that the news either never makes it to the public or is buried in the expanded Sunday editions.
The article notes that the rate of bank failures in 2010 is double that of last year. But we continue to hear the “Part line” from the Empire that “all is well,” “the recession is over.” When companies and individuals cannot repay loans on such a massive scale that banks have to shut their doors, something is still drastically wrong with the economy. The spokesmen for Empire are lying!
When the Feds have to work so hard to cover their backsides, you should know that their houses of cards (credit cards) are falling around them.
