Will Religion Intimidate Our Government?

It is time we stopped the religious demagogues from mixing religion with government.  Religious people have screwed up every country they ever took over, including the Holy Roman Empire.   In almost every country in Europe, the Church called the political shots and had to approve every leader, every judge, etc.; they could overrule the government in all matters, especially sanctuary. 

Eventually, severe religious oppression brought about a spontaneous explosion of mass violence in  Europe called the French Revolution, which liberated most of Europe from the oppression of religion as practiced in the Holy Roman Empire..

The founding father of Democracy, President Thomas Jefferson, established a political doctrine called the “Wall of Separation” between our government and religion.   The ignorant fundamentalist demagogues called “religious leaders”  have been busy trying to erode that great doctrine ever since.


https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0167

Nowadays, many elected politicians want to be addressed as "Reverend" instead of their political title. The New Testament made it clear that there was to be a separation of the Christian church and state; Jesus expressed that in his "render unto Caesar" statement.  Matthew 22:2.  There are many theocracies around the world, mostly Muslim, and invariably they practice much oppression, especially to women. We need to avoid that incursion into our own Government.

The court antics of former judge and church cleric , Willie Singletary, a former Philadelphia traffic court judge (recently convicted for multiple cases of corruption) is a blatant example of how much abuse so-called religions leaders foist upon our government, especially the court system.  Our spineless leaders need to call them out every time they invoke their religion as a defense against charges of malfeasance. 

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150320_Former_Traffic_Court_Judge_Singletary_gets_20_months_for_lying_to_FBI_agents.html

The Real Collusion Starts to Find Daylight

This week we found out that former FBI Director Comey, before Trump fired him, actually wrote a letter to Hillary clearing her of all her breaches of national security (by making up some new laws that suddenly declared that "intent" was an essential element to build a case of breach of national security).  Comey sent Hillary the letter TWO WEEKS before she actually came before his committee to testify regarding the server emails and her compromises of national security.  Then, when she appeared before his committee (and was never sworn in for obvious reasons), she obviously knew all of Comey's questions beforehand because she already had Comey's  letter clearing her from all allegations in advance of the "hearing."  These farcical "hearings" were taking place at the same time Bill Clinton met Loretta Lynch, (the attorney general who held Hillary's fate in her hands) on the tarmac at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix (no doubt to remind Lynch of all the outstanding political IOUs he and Hillary had on Lynch's boss, Obama).

So, after all the political dust begins to settle, we learn that the actual collusion with Russia turns out to be between Hillary with Vladimir Putin.  Hillary very recklessly sold Putin 20% of our uranium supply for a pittance, but her Clinton Foundation became $120 million richer.  Some foreign geographical territory to the North seems to somehow have gotten involved, or tricked into, a circuitous routing of money into the Clinton Foundation. Uranium is the base source of fuel for nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, and we have never had so much of it that we can afford to sell it to Communist countries. Russia supplies other rogue nations, including North Korea,  with nuclear supplies and technology. 

All of these false stories about Republican "collusion" seems now to have been smokescreens behind which Obama and Hillary carried on bad deals with Russia while giving up much of our defense supply of uranium. It now also appears that the democrat (and media) strategy to keep all its colleagues out of jail is to keep Trump on the defensive with false charges of one kind or another and try to buy enough time to where everyone forgets all the facts.  The fog is starting to clear up, and it appears that Anthony Weiner may be the first to be hoisted by the democrat petards, but lets hope he will not be the last.  Democrats prefer stonewalling together and not making scapegoats of anyone because scapegoats tend to become whistleblowers. A corrupt government like Obama's cannot go on fooling the American public forever.  Republican President Abraham Lincoln said "You can fool all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time; but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration

Bush 43 Laments Emasculated Legacy by Attacking President Trump

I am re-publishing this in my blog because I cannot feel secure that it will be published on Topix Forums.  It did not immediately show up, which means it is probably getting reviewed by editors due to certain word-triggers that show that it is not sympathetic to democrats.

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George Bush (Bush 43) probably never wrote a speech, but he can read one fairly well, as he did today on TV in his criticism of President Trump. The jackal-like Bush perceives Trump as (media-) wounded game that can now be criticized without fear of repercussions –because he can do it with the blessing of the corrupt media--with which he has chosen to collude.   

Bush 43 is finally trying to give us the impression that he has grown a pair--after boasting for 8 years that he did not criticize his successor (Obama) as some some kind of "matter of principle."  He had neither that, nor intelligence.  The truth is that Bush recognizes his inarticulacy, and was scared witless at the thought of being called a racist--even for Obama's non race-related malfeasance--and that explains his giving Obama a pass on every subversive, atrocious thing he chose to do.  Such pusillanimity helped Obama almost destroy the Republican Party and the country's borders and immigration laws.  Oh yeah, while he was president. Bush took credit for sending the Gang of 8 to hammer out that famous amnesty that  "was not an amnesty," which, in fact, would have been the most generous reward ever given to immigration law-breakers.  

Is Bush cunning or what?  Wait...are we not talking about the same president 43 that sent  a message to "friends" in the Saudi Government, a few days after 911, and asked them to join his "Crusade" against the Taliban?  How can you get through Yale without knowing the anathema of that word to a Muslim?

This is that same incompetent excuse for a "leader" that  was asleep at the wheel when his Saudi Arabia "friends" (he boasted a special, close friendship with the Saudi bin Laden family) were sending scores of unqualified peon visitors to the U.S. for "pilot training"--and Bush's network of intelligence sycophants never noticed that these ineligible, insolvent,  lower-class "visitors"demanded "flight training" courses that would only enable them to turn a plane 180 degrees in air and guide it back to a designated building, including the Pentagon, and therein crash it. No one noticed that these unqualified, peon "visitors" were not interested in learning to  take off or land any planes.  Oh, yeah, they did learn how to disconnect the transponders on planes so that their plane's flight course could not be tracked with certainty by FAA radar. 

This is not a case of the pot (Bush) calling the kettle (Trump) black; it is a case of a turd called a golden chalice a spittoon.  No one will ever read a real, truthful biography about Bush 43 because it would be so astoundingly absurd as to defy reason.  And whoever would visit the library of a president who can be demonstrably shown to have never read a book.

President Trump Deftly Passes the Buck

Did Donald Trump just pass the buck to Congress, or what?  What a cowardly way to solve the problem of the DACAs.  Obviously, Trump plans for the illegal aliens that Obama illegally smuggled into the U.S., transported and harbored, called “DACAs,” to get amnesty—but he wants Congress to persuade the people of the U.S. to swallow dictum without getting any blame for himself.  If the GOP rank and file let Trump get away with this (The Democrats love it—for it executes the will of their party—opens borders and grants amnesty for all), then they may as well have elected Hillary on November 8, 20-16. Reporters are saying that Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer have made a back room deal whereby they  essentially are willing to take the heat in order to help Trump save his image as a law and order president (while Schumer gloats up his sleeve).

Here is the law showing how POTUS Trump dodged the DACA issue and is trying to palm off the blame on Congress:

8 USC 1103 (a) “The Attorney General shall be charged with the administration and the enforcement of this Act [The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 as amended—the Act that our Government presently operates under] and all other laws relating to the immigration and naturalization of aliens, except insofar as this Act or such laws relate powers functions and duties conferred upon the President, the Secretary of State, the officers of the Department of State, or diplomatic or consular officers: PROVIDED HOWEVER, that determination and ruling by the Attorney General with respect to all questions of law SHALL BE CONTROLLING....”  (uppercase letters added for emphasis.)   Therefore, only Attorney General Jeff Sessions can issue legal directives on what to do with the DACAs and the other estimated 20 million illegal aliens in the U.S.  Trump, however, has already taken steps to weaken the image of Sessions by excoriating him for (wisely) recusing himself from participating in the investigation of collusion between the Trump Administration and Russia.   After essentially illegally stripping  the Attorney General of his Constitutional authority, Trump has assumed the role of “decider” with  what to do about the DACAs, but he wants to make it appear that Congress is to blame—for they surely will “solve the problem” with yet another amensty—the fourth in the past thirty years. That is the only thing they are empowered to do by Article One of the Constitution.

8 USC 1103 (a) goes on to describe the duties and authorities of all Department of Justice employees with regard to the enforcement of the Immigration and naturalization laws. They are available in their entirety at the Cornell Law web site.  You can read the law in its entirety and nowhere does it say that Congress has one whit of authority to enforce immigration laws.  That authority lays strictly under the purview of the President. Like most the politicians in the polluted swamp he says he is going to drain, Trump is playing a shell game.

So how should this slight of hand by Trump make any thinking conservative feel about the President’s  sincerity of enforcing immigration laws—the issue that ignited his base during the election of 2016?  Congress can do only one thing with immigration laws that might make it appear that President Trump is not shirking his duties: that is to grant  amnesty to illegal aliens, especially those called “DACAs”.  Congress cannot deport anyaone and they never have. That is the President’s exclusive responsibility, as set forth above in the first paragraph,  and his enforcement policies are to be carried out by the Attorney General whose orders and policies are CONTROLLING.

I have always thought that Trump is the consummate globalist president.  He owns more property abroad than any president ever, and  If he ends NAFTA, as he promised, he will replace it with something worse, for he has so much as said so.  Before he is finished, the Democrats will love him, but they will continue to assault him because he is not a democrat, even if our sovereignty is titally gone by the end of his presidency. . 

Sanctuary Has Become a Euphemism for Unlawful Activity

The Unitarian Universalist Church is looking more and more like a mob of racketeers.  They are heavily engaged in harboring illegal aliens, as well as aiding and abetting them to enter and remain in the United States in defiance of federal laws.  It bears little resemblance to a conventional “religion” as we perceive them, for they admit they have no creed, and, essentially, “anything goes.” Atheists are welcome as members.

The charade of the mobsters in the UU are using America’s historical Constitutional freedom and protection of religion as an abusive maneuver to justify their trafficking in illegal immigration--by calling it a “sanctuary movement.”  In fact, its members’ motive is similar to that of many other pseudo religions in the U.S. today that try to build up their membership and their political and economic power by increasing their numbers through illegal immigration. They are part of the radical left-wing political movement in this country that has no loyalty to our Constitution, our country’s sovereignty, or to its future as a free nation. Pseudo religion is becoming an unprecedented danger to our continued existence as a free nation. At present, the UU is reportedly, boldly planning defiance of immigration law enforcement in Colorado under the guise of a so-called “sanctuary movement.”

For the record, “church sanctuary” ended as an international legal practice in 1806 with the end of the Holy Roman Empire.  For a thousand years (from Charlemagne to Napoleon), the Roman Catholic Church enjoyed immunity from all political leaders of the HRE while engaging in the practice of harboring fugitives from justice.  

Needless to say, there were, and still are, dangers in harboring fugitives from justice. The practice of sanctuary involves secrecy. We never know what other atrocities these felons commit when we allow them to pick and choose what national laws they wish to obey. If we recognize their self-described “sanctuary,” we recognize their autonomy as a microcosm, or enclave, of a government.  Obviously, it is in the best interest of pseudo religions to cover up what goes on in a sanctuary.  David Koresh covered up his evil doings for a long time before the Government finally mustered the courage to call his hand. So did Warren Jeffs and so do many other charlatans presently engaging in pseudo-religion. No church has the ability to vet applicants for sanctuary and protect themselves from the liability and dangers of harboring real and potential felons.  Nor do they really want to protect themselves; often criminals are behind the movement and they may engage in it to satisfy their own perverted interests—as did the “Reverend” Jim Jones before the massacre at Jonestown, Guyana.  Engaging in perversion is what distinguishes these de facto governmental separatists from bona fide religions. If they were on the up and up, they would have nothing to hide (as the word “sanctuary” implies); but too often what they are trying to conceal is criminal activity behind a screen of pseudo religion. As shown by the above examples, religion, particularly one engaged in illegal “sanctuary” is often a shield for criminal activities as well as political activism.  

Trump is the Embodiment of Disloyalty

How can Trump talk about "loyalty," when he has just stabbed his conservative base in the back?  When he granted his executive amnesty to nearly a million illegal aliens called "Dreamers," it wa the epitome of disloyalty. Those million  aliens are already anchors to at least five million more in their extended families who are already joining them. So, add six million more to the 20 million non-dreamers already here waiting for amnesty. Do not believe that Congress will soon pass a law (along with the coming amnesty)  barring amnesty beneficiaries, including Dreamers, from becoming citizens.  That is contrary to existing immigration law and probably unconstitutional, recalling the old "indentured servitude" laws by which many Europeans paid their passage to the British colonies in the 17th century. Indentured servitude was closely akin to slavery.

The Farcical, Democrat James Comey Hearings

The so-called "Comey Hearing" began today with a hostile opening statement by the extremely biased Senator Mark Warner, He proceeded by making statements concluding with a condemnation of President Trump.  Warner twisted his remarks into questions that called for Comey to agree with him with a simple "yes," or "no,|" Warner appears to be an attorney representing James Comey in what is essentially an act of reprisal for his dismissal as head of the FBI. In a court of law, Warner would not get by with these leading statements, containing predicated conclusions disguised as "questions." He was simply using Comey as a mouthpiece to agree with his own hostile opinions. 

I am very troubled by the fact that the "evidence" that Senator Warner believes justifies bringing about this hearing are James Comey's "personal memos," meaning personal notes that Comey admits he made after each meeting with President Trump. At the hearing a few minutes ago, Comey admitted that he did not make notes after meetings with President George Bush (43), or after meetings with President Obama.

I have a serious problem with evidence that originated with the primary witness in allegations of "inappropriate conduct" by President Trump. This hearing centers upon the former FBI Director, James Comey's credibility.  Neither personal notes, nor memos written by anyone involved in an investigation, can hardly be considered probative evidence in an adversarial public airing of a conflict of political views. The Democrat members of the Senate Intelligence Committee lavished praise upon James Come's impeccable credentials, but those are highly subjective evaluations of Comey's credibility.  It goes to Democrat motivation: they see  Comey as a possible tool in their goal of destroying Trump. After all, Comey was the Democrats' ace-in-the hole in saving the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton--with his dubious act of “clearing” her for gross negligence in handling national security information. He did it by misinterpreting or misapplying the law, intentionally or otherwise. 

Those of us not afflicted with Democrat-type selective amnesia will remember that James Comey discovered serious breaches and gross negligence in Hillary Clinton's handling of highly sensitive classified information.  She did it through use of her illegal, personal email server when she was Secretary of State. After his investigation of Hillary Clinton, James Comey went so far as to say that the former Secretary of State would not be eligible for a security clearance that would entitle her to have access to classified information. However, Comey displayed his sympathy with Hillary Clinton by saying he found that she was not prosecutable because of  her"lack of intent" in blatant breaches in handling documents of national security.  This does not speak well for America's method of selecting its Government officials. We must ask how someone ineligible for a security clearance can achieve one of the highest offices in the land and be second in line for succession to the Presidency.  The State Department is the agency that handles the most serious information of a classified nature--such as handling foreign relations where the agency is instrumental in collecting most of our foreign intelligence.

After completely condemning Hillary Clinton's lack of competency and lack of qualification to handle classified information, Comey said that he did not prosecute her because the element of "intent" was missing in her mental state while compromising our national security,  Right there is where James Comey completely destroyed his own credibility.  If the Head of the FBI does not know what the essential elements of building a case of gross negligence in handling national security, he is either a liar or completely incompetent. That flies in the face of Democrat Senator Warner and Risch's glowing description of Comey's credibility. Intent is not an essential element in prosecuting a case of breach of security. This writer, and possibly others, believe that Comey's real motive in clearing Hillary Clinton was that he believed that she would be his boss after Presidential Inauguration Day on January.21, 2017.  The media's election polls certainly indicated that.