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By TPATH Contributor
RoseAnn Salanitri
October 31, 2014 ~TPATH~
A good argument can be made that America has been on a downward slide since the middle of the 20th century. Thanks to people like
Lyndon B. Johnson
, who robbed churches of their political voice with the
1954 Johnson Amendment
; and
Margaret Sanger
, the founder of Planned Parenthood who fought for the legalization of abortion and her cohort
Mary Calderone
of SIECUS, America's spiritual and moral decline escalated without much opposition. The problems that resulted and their root causes are now a part of America's historical record. Those who choose to evaluate the causes of our downward spiral will find many benefactors of evil in addition to the ones named that legitimately deserve blame. But when push comes to shove, the fault of our decline is not resting squarely on the shoulders on
the man now occupying the
White House
or his evil predecessors. It rests on ours.
Of course there have been many villains in the battle to destroy America and through the years there have been many heroes as well. For the most part, these heroes fought valiantly but they fought with an army substantially smaller than the times demanded. And if the truth be told, with all we have suffered as a nation,
it is only by the grace of God that we are still standing
. But God requires more of a people He has blessed and that believe they are called according to His will. He requires they stand strong in the face of adversity. He requires that they overcome. And my dear friends and patriots, that's where we as a people have failed. We have failed to stand in unison and say NO to the powers that would rob us of our liberties and reduce this nation to a godless society. If you search the Holy Scriptures and the course of the Great Awakenings in America, you will find that the battles for the soul of America were first fought in the heavenly realm but then they manifested in the physical realm. AND…the same people who fought on their knees rose to take a stand. Today it seems that We the People have been lulled into a hectic lifestyle that is anesthetized with entertainment - leaving little time for introspection and less time to stand against the assaults on God's nation. If we are to survive, that must change.
The good news is that it is changing.
We the People of These United States have created an
online petition
to be circulated nationwide that has been designed to unite our voices to say NO to the Administration's intolerable decision to send our troops to Ebola infected regions. Of course there are other atrocities that need to be and should be addressed but this is one that is urgent and can be the first in hopefully a new movement: a movement by We the People to take back America and take away the power of Mr. Obama's pen. The purpose of the petition campaign is to flood the halls of Congress with both hard copy petitions that strongly reflect the voice of the American people; online petitions that will provide a rough count of how many voices have risen in harmony; and faxes that will obnoxiously insist that our voices be heard. It will give us an all important and much needed mechanism to say NO to the absurd assaults on our liberties and our Constitution.
In order to accomplish this goal, the American people 13 years old and older are being asked to
go to the
Facebook page Troops for Defense Only.
There you will find instructions and more information and you will be asked to do four things:
1. Sign the online petition that will send you to the following link:
Download a hardcopy of the petition
that will be available on the Facebook page and TPATH with instructions to send it directly to Speaker of the House John Boehner at his office in the capital building. If enough petitions are sent, this alone should create quite a stir and make it impossible for the voice of the American people not to be heard. Just imagine the halls of Congress being filled with stacks of petitions representing the voices of Americans - and in an election year besides!
Fax the Speaker the downloaded copy of the petition.
This will burn up his fax lines and once again demand that he and members of Congress pay attention to the petitions.
4. Like the page and share it with just about everyone you know - through social media, through your personal databases, through your churches, and through just about every organization you know of and are a part of.
This petition campaign is more than a petition drive;
it marks the birth of a new movement
a movement where the American people have stood in unison to say NO to the insanity we are seeing in the Administration and in Congress. However, it needs to have as extensive a reach as humanly possible to come to fruition. Somehow we have failed to realize the power we still have when we unite our voices and today we can do that quite easily through our social networking and personal contacts.
My dear friends, patriots, and Christian brothers and sisters, it's time to save America. Will you rise to the occasion?
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Thank You, Houston
Commentary By
TPATH Contributor
Ms. RoseAnn Salanitri
October 23, 2014 ~TPATH~
Recently the town council of Houston added its name to a long list of constitutional bullies. It recently attempted to infringe upon its citizens 1st Amendment rights by conducting a witch hunt against Houston's churches in an attempt to find something that will justify removing their tax exempt status. But its actions may have proven that the proverbial last straw does actually exist when it comes to assaults against our rights to worship freely. Not only have Houston's churches refused to submit to politically correct bullies; they have done what churches around the country should have been doing since 1954. When Lyndon B. Johnson subversively attached the Johnson Amendment to a piece of IRS legislation and silenced the political voice of the churches, the churches remained silent. But not this time. This time Houston may have gone too far and forced the churches to finally take a stand. And for that, we thank you, Houston!
Unfortunately, there is a long list of assaults against our constitutional rights that go unnoticed, and when noticed make the news momentarily but are quickly forgotten. It would be a gross understatement to say this country is in dire straits. And until now and the situation in Houston, little has been accomplished against the many assaults against our rights. But before trying to figure out how to take our lead from the churches that are finally taking a stand, let's try to understand the full breadth of our fall by taking a look at some of the other assaults that have taken place against our liberties.
The encroachment upon our rights by the United Nations alone is enough to make one's head spin.
On page 115 of his book,
International Merger by Foreign Entanglements,
Arthur Thompson lists the gamut of man's life and activities impacted by UN initiatives. They are as follows:
Fundamental Rights: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Banking, Economics, and Monetary Policy: International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations Economic and Social Council
Trade: World Trade Organization
Industry: United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Education: United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Women: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women
Birth Control, Abortion, Population Control: United Nations Population Fund
Private Ownership of Firearms: United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (heavy UN regulation of privately owned firearms-not yet ratified by Congress. Obama supported ratification but ran into heated opposition in Congress.)
Oceans and Their Tributaries: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, International Seabed Authority, and International Maritime Organization (Ocean tributaries means the rivers that flow out of all countries and their tributaries within the interior of the countries.)
Courts That Can Supersede American Courts: International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court
Labor: International Labor Organization
Agriculture: Food and Agricultural Organization, International Fund for Agriculture Development and World Food Programme (sic)
Environment: United Nations Environmental Programme (sic) and Global Environment Facility
Tourism: United Nations World Tourism Organization
Unfortunately, the list above is not comprehensive. Thompson did not include treaties that are pending ratification by our Senate, such as:
Parental Rights: The United Nations Rights of the Child with Disabilities Treaty and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
While some may think that aspects of the treaties above sound beneficial, a closer examination of each reveals that they stealthily usurp our personal rights as well as surrendering our national sovereignty to councils that for the most part are populated with thugs and mass murderers. If common sense ruled the world, these nations would be surrendering their sovereignty to us. Unfortunately, common sense is not all that common.
Regrettably, the picture is bleaker still when you consider that our own government has infringed upon just about every right they swore to protect in our Constitution, as well as those that our Founders never in their wildest imagination thought they would have to protect in our Bill of Rights, such as education or parental rights. Although most conservatives are aware of the assaults our own government has made against our god-given and civil rights, for the sake of thoroughness I will list the most obvious: Common Core education that usurps parental rights regarding educational standards and gives them to the federal government; firearm regulations that infringe upon our right to keep and bear arms; bully and hate speech legislation that deems moral and religious issues to be a matter legislated by the state and infringes upon our freedom of speech and right to worship as we see fit; uber environmentalism that infringes upon our property rights (think Nevada and the Bundy ranch); the right to choose your doctor and your health care plan (think Obamacare); eminent domain laws that exceed the intent of our Founders (think Agenda 21); destruction of voter integrity; failure to protect our borders; failure to protect our troops with proper equipment and issuing absurd Rules of Engagement that prevent them from protecting themselves; failure to run our economy in a responsible manner, failure to…well, you get the picture.
Depressed? You should be.
However, all is not lost. Our problem in fighting these many assaults lies in our failure to realize that we have been engaged in a spiritual battle for the very soul of America. Therefore we have made the mistake of fighting this battle on the devil's terms. If we want to win, we must change strategy. You can't win a fight against any demon in a court of law or even in an election booth. Of course we must continue supporting candidates that understand that government's role is to protect and preserve our constitutional rights and not solve our problems, but there is more we can do. We can take our lead from the churches in Houston and stand up to the bullies in government that have not only infringed upon our rights but have somehow managed to convince a great number of people that they have done it for our own good. The Houston 5, as they are referred to, did not just refuse to submit to the intimidation and comply with the bully request, they are launching an offensive and going after the bullies in court.
To be sure, this is a spiritual battle; therefore, standing up also means kneeling down. Do all you can to stand, but while standing, kneel prayerfully and with the realization that only God can save America. At this point in time, when we consider just how far we have fallen and how much we have lost, we should realize that our demise has been orchestrated in the pits of hell. However, the good news is that our Redeemer lives and no demon in hell or on earth can withstand His power. Houston is proving that and we should embrace it. The battle may have escalated and we may have lost an incomprehensible amount of ground, but it can still be won - not by might, nor by power but by His Spirit. Can I hear an "Amen!"
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Commentary by
Dwight Kehoe
October 17, 2014 ~TPATH~
Over the past 5 years this country has endured some of the most outrageous, incompetent, racially divisive, unbelievably stupid and downright incomprehensible actions that even the most cynical among us could ever have imagined.
Until these past several months, the arrogance, the childish blaming of his mistakes on others, the likeness comparison of a street thug to his own non-existent child, his declaration that people had not built their own businesses, his uninformed remarks about a policeman acting "stupidly", the asinine comment that a group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria are not Islamic, the total mishandling and outrageously embarrassing rollout of Obamacare, his Mom jeans, his girlie first pitch at the ballpark and his awkward handling of a shotgun, were comical, bewildering and certainly portrayed American leadership, in the eyes of the world, as less than qualified. The damage done to America by these episodes could be diminished by time and not that enduring.
Then of course there was the more perilous event and ideological buffoonery which, as a consequence has caused the lives of many innocent people. We reference the handing over of massive amounts of assault weapons and ammunition to drug cartels in an effort to subvert America's 2nd Amendment. Many of those weapons are still in the hands of murderers and everyday more lives are lost as a result.
Putting the country in an economic black hole with Quantitative Easing, which created trillions of dollars out of thin air, his unsustainable spending which has indebted our children to over $17 trillion, the stifling of our energy development and the hundreds of regulations which have put countless companies out of business and millions of people out of work, his support for and handing billions of dollars to ripoff green energy hucksters who cash the checks and then declare bankruptcy. These are just a few of the more serious problems instituted by the usurper in our White House.
As audacious a mix of comedy and seriousness his first years at the helm were, it all pales in comparison to the avalanche of dangerous and treasonous actions being hoisted upon the American people at this very moment.
ISIS, the murdering terrorist butchers who decapitate Westerners, murder and rape Christians, slaughter captured soldiers by the hundreds, are where they are today, in power, strength and brutality for one reason. That reason? Mr. Barack Insane Obama. To appease the leftist fools who supported him, every American life lost, every mangled limb left behind in the bloody sand trenches of Iraqi battlefields, have been relegated to naught. For this, history will never forgive him. Nor will the loved ones of those who have sacrificed everything.
While the families and friends mourn the loss of those heros, Mr. Barack Insane Obama continues his relentless attack on the culture, the productiveness and the health of the American people. His announcement of open southern borders to all who show up, parentless or otherwise, has created an onslaught of illegals with blood diseases, tuberculosis, and various other forms of dangerous infections. Making certain that every part of this country be subjected to these illnesses, these children were shipped to every state in the Union, without notification to many of the states.
And now for the worst of the worst.
Such outrageously incompetent and apparently intentional treachery would find not one publisher in the entire world who would accept a novel written with a theme which followed what we are experiencing now. To imagine that the so called leader of a country, would stand by and allow his fellow citizens to be put in danger by one of the most deadly viruses known to modern man, is so unbelievable it can only be described by one word. Insanity.
But, if its not insanity, then it must be hatred. Because even though white America has tried to leave racism behind and voted for him, Mr. Barack Insane Obama has not and will never leave it behind. The American people are not the ones he feels kinship to or responsibility for. Those he does, reside not on this continent. He told us this just the other day. So is there a mystery as to why he has not stopped infected Africans from coming to our shores?
This may seem to be harsh or even unfair, but if there is anything else that could explain it, we'd like to hear it. Anyone with an ounce of common sense would see the danger in allowing, even if only remotely possible, a virulent virus capable of killing hundreds, thousands or even millions of people, to get a foothold in his country, is either insane or filled with hate. Quite possibly, both.
As we hear pundit after pundit demand that Obama remove his order to the CDC which ran contrary to Federal law, a law which calls for the quarantine of travelers to America from countries where epidemic or plague is on the loose, we all must understand that, even if Obama cared about this country, which he clearly does not, he can not now close the borders to Ebola countries because that would be admitting that he should have done so, right from the start. And we all know he has never admitted any wrongdoing or error. Except by George Bush.
So then, the title of this commentary "Who's To Blame?", by the listing of the catastrophic and potentially disastrous directions Mr. Barack Insane Obola has placed us in and the fact that we described a few of them above, the answer one might surmise, is Mr. Barack Insane Obola. Well, yes and no.
The culpability for these things which have been wrought and those yet to come, while they may be worse than many of us who took the time to find out who and what this Barack guy was, the simple fact remains, that our Founding Fathers knew more about Mr. Barack Insane Obola then the mainstream media, the Republican Party, so called conservative talking heads, and those who profess to judicialism.
The incontestable reality is, that Mr. Barack Insane Obama, by clear and concise language and requirement of the Constitution is not eligible to hold that office. The Honorable John Jay requested of George Washington and it was accepted, that except for the persons who fought the Revolution, all others henceforth who sought the Presidency of the United States would have to be Natural Born Citizens. The reason they used the term "Natural Born Citizen" is because it was an accepted and legal term used at that time.
The Founding Fathers tried to protect America from the likes of Mr. Barack Insane Obama and they would have been successful if the Republican Party, judges and conservative talk show hosts were not more frightened at being called racist then they were at the prospect of aiding and abetting the end of our Republic.
If the phony hypocrites who fashion themselves experts and protectors of the Constitution were more protective of it than themselves, if Republicans stood together, in one voice and said, no Mr. Barack Insane Obama, you sir are not eligible under our Constitution to hold the office of the Presidency, none of this mess, the economy on the verge of collapse, 50 million people unemployed, the world stage about to blow, borders open to the diseased, criminals and Islamic terrorists, and this contagious viral nightmare called Ebola, which is rolling like an ominous black cloud over our country, would be happening.
Who's to blame? Here's a clue. If this commentary pisses you off, my friend, it might just be you.
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Satan's 1st Amendment Perversion
By TPATH Contributor
Ms. RoseAnn Salanitri
October 16, 2014 ~TPATH~
Our Founders' experience with a government that had exceeded its logical, moral, and spiritual authority greatly influenced the Constitution they would eventually design. In our
Declaration of Independence
they expressed their reasons for declaring their independence from tyranny along with their belief that government's primary role was to protect our God-given rights. Our Constitution and form of government was based on those basic beliefs about what government should be and how it should be limited in order to protect our God-given
right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Immediately after ratification of the Constitution, our Founders agreed that they needed to amend the Constitution in order to protect our rights as citizens in addition to limiting government. And so the first 10 Amendments that are referred to as our
Bill of Rights
were born. The name The Bill of Rights appropriately became the reference for these first 10 amendments because that's what they were: amendments to protect our rights as distinguished from the Constitution that was designed to limit government.
Although the language in the Bill of Rights is clear, its meaning can still be twisted and misused. The 1st Amendment specifically states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government (sic) for a redress of grievances. (Emphasis added)
The section being discussed herein is emboldened above and was the very first part of the 1st Amendment that was agreed upon by our Founders and ratified by the states. There have been many writings built around this particular phrase which rightly rely on the understanding that this portion of
the Amendment was written to protect the church from the state, and not the other way around.
But ever since the Garden of Eden, Satan has managed to twist and pervert even the simplest statements. He persuaded Eve and subsequently Adam to believe that if they ate of the forbidden fruit of the garden they would become like God. Both Adam and Eve knew what God clearly said, but that didn't stop them from believing Satan's twisted interpretation.
Another example occurs after Christ was baptized and spent 40 days in the desert. During this time of fasting, Satan unsuccessfully tempted Him by accurately quoting the Scripture but twisting its meaning. In Matthew 4:5-7, Satan said:
If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: 'He shall give His angels charge concerning you, and in their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.'
(The emboldened part of the verse was quoted by Satan exactly as it is written in Ps. 91:11-12)
Of course we know that Jesus fully understood not only the word but the meaning of Scripture and quickly replied appropriately. However, it is important to understand that Satan did not misquote Scripture, he just perverted its meaning to suit his means. Such is the case with the 1st Amendment. No one, not even Satan, argues the language contained in the Amendment, but he can and he has managed to pervert its meaning, and consequently, today's Adams and Eves still fall prey to his cunning. (Note: although it is not the subject of this writing, a similar argument applies to the 2nd Amendment.)
Satan's triumph in this case has resulted in him and his minions successfully removing God from every aspect of political and public life
- contrary to purpose of the Amendment. It is quite remarkable that the perverted meaning of the Amendment does not seem to extend to those of the Muslim faith, who are permitted to pray just about anywhere and anytime they are so moved. Reports are beginning to come in that Muslim school children are allowed to pray in school in order to comply with their faith. However, in 1962, Christian and Jewish children lost that right in the nation that is supposed to be "under God." And his perversion regarding Islam does not stop with prayer issues. Satan and his minion have also perverted the meaning of "domestic terrorist" to mean a member of the tea party or constitutionalist while the Maj. Hassan Nidal and the Fort Hood travesty are called "work place violence." This begs the question: if Satan has managed to protest and have the Judeo-Christian God removed from the public psyche in every way possible, including prayer in public, why hasn't he done the same for Allah and those that worship him? In these two instances, the violation of the state to intrude upon the church is also one that remarkably hints at the disparity between the Judeo-Christian God and Allah - where in an ungodly society, one is banned and censored and the other is allowed free reign. When it comes to demonic activity, who is being attacked is as important a consideration as who is not being attacked.
While the 1st Amendment was written by our Founders to protect our right to worship however we deem appropriate, Satan has used it as a tool against every thought of the Creator. Even our public schools censor any data that supports creationism and the Creator, leaving unsuspecting children to believe that science has proven the God of Genesis does not exist. Apparently those who have allowed this to happen in different levels of society are not as savvy about the Bill of Rights as Jesus was about Scripture. You see, nowhere in the 1st Amendment is there any reference to protecting our right to worship as long as it doesn't offend anyone. As a matter of fact, none of the rights listed that this Amendment was designed to protect are conditional. In other words, they are our rights regardless if the government or someone else is offended by them. And the Amendment goes further by prohibiting Congress from inhibiting that right and/or interfering with us as we exercise that right. Shame on us for long accepting that our children cannot pray in school or that churches cannot speak out politically, which is also a violation of our 1st Amendment right of free speech. Our right to establish and exercise our religion is constitutionally protected, regardless of what any misinformed judge may decide. And any judge who has ruled in any manner that inhibits that right should be immediately relieved of his or her position, for they have not proven to be keepers of the law but re-writers of the law.
While we allow this simple and clear Amendment to be perverted by God's enemy, our country that was founded on biblical principles is crumbling before our very eyes. Psalm 11:3 asks: "If the foundations are destroyed, what shall the righteous do?" Perhaps the question for this day and age should be: as the foundations are being destroyed, why aren't the righteous doing something? The righteous may be content to live in their comfortable homes while faith in God and the practice of their faith is being inhibited and destroyed, but I can assure you that Satan is sitting on his throne in hell and laughing about his triumph over our Constitution and the public censorship of all godly faiths. The truth is that there is nothing new under the sun.
There will always be people who prefer perversions to the truth. But are there any left that are willing to defend truth against the devil's lies? The future of the America we know and love may rest on the answer to that question.
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Commentary in Support of
By Dwight Kehoe
October 14, 2014 ~TPATH~
The growth of tyranny in the massive bureaucracy of the Federal government has awakened too few and seems to have even fewer concerned. But some are. They are not only willing to do something about it, they are organized and on the move.
The attack upon the the rights and freedoms of the people has been like a melanoma spreading through the life's blood of this country as its pervasive reach has
metastasized from the Halls Of Congress down to the legislative assemblies in several states.
Many of the most infected states, New Jersey being one which has legislated the Second Amendment onto life support, have given a pass to their governors and their legislators, a form of amnesty if you will, as the relentless abridgment of the United States Constitution continues to weaken and tatter its very existence. This amnesty comes only from one place. The people. As legislative lawbreakers pass illegal laws they are awarded tacit pardons by the very people being infected. They sit quiet and sedated like the sheep people waiting to become dinner in
H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.
Any businessman or contractor will tell you, when they sign a contract for a project or some other deal or arrangement, all parties are required by not only the law, but by ethics to abide by every aspect of that agreement. Once any section or requirement of that contract is ignored or abridged, no signer of that agreement can be held to any of the remaining provisions.
The contract that the Federal government and state governments have forged with the people and have agreed to honor and abide is the most famous and most esteemed document ever authored, the United States Constitution, our Constitution.
We have not reviewed all 50 states, but here in New Jersey, we have done so. New Jersey's State Constitution is law, and its law requires that the United States Constitution not be infringed. So, my patriot friends, why are our legislators, without impediment or indictment, time after time,
allowed to write and pass laws that run contrary to both of those constitutions?
Every illegal law they pass is a double violation. As these people place themselves and their ideology above the requirements of those documents they are placing themselves in an organized cadre of persons infringing on the civil rights of the citizens.
Not only are the lawmakers guilty of both federal and state violations, all those groups which are working on a daily basis to deprive the people of their rights, as defined in the Bill of Rights, are too, guilty of civil rights violations, both state and federal. These groups constitute an organized abridgment of the documents that are the very foundation of what has made America great.
As the multi-millionaire liberals use their fortune and fame, working to remove your right to self protection, they provide for themselves the best armed security money can buy. Hiring gun toting body guards is not a crime, but engaging in organized treasonous acts against the United States Constitution is.
Our Founding Fathers, some of the most unselfish and intelligent people God has ever created, knew and understood that times would change, innovations and technology would alter life as they knew it into something far beyond their ability to perceive. For that reason they did not hold every aspect of the Constitution to be forever enforced. And so, they gave us, the people, by 2/3 of the member states, the right, the ability, to make changes in the form of amendments.
That of course would be the legal way to disarm the American people. But creating fear, promoting hate and misrepresenting facts and history in an effort to breed an environment where illegal laws are allowed to be written, passed and signed, constitutes lawlessness which can not be allowed to prevail. From this point forward, being elected to the Assembly or the State Senate will no longer give cover to those who would violate our Constitution. Be it so forewarned.
If those groups and
socialist millionaires
spend their time and money working to build support for an amendment which would remove the right of the people to defend themselves by effective means that would be a legal campaign. For certain it would be contested by many. But it would be legal.
However, lobbying politicians, with money or political support as ammunition, in an effort to have those politicians infringe on the rights of the people, in violation of the oaths they all have taken and the constraints of both state and federal constitutions, represents egregious and organized civil rights violations.
In summery, working to change the Constitution is legal.
Working to abridge it, is a crime.
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If you have had your right of self protection denied or infringed and you believe, as we do, that it is time to stop not just the illegal laws but to hold the lawless lawmakers to account, click on this link, read about what our group of patriots is working to accomplish, then sign up and help out.
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By Dwight Kehoe
TPATH ~October 10, 2014~
Immigration undeniably was the life's blood of the new and fledgling America. East to west, north to south, t
he vastness of its territory, the boundless resources and millions of acres of fertile farmland, un-owned and un-developed, needed industrious people from across the globe to come here with work ethics, morality and a desire to make a good life for themselves and their families. As a consequence they helped build a powerful, rich and prosperous country the likes of which the world had never seen.
Open borders at that time made sense. Those who would come, came for opportunity derived from work, not charity derived form handouts. They came with values bred of Christianity which taught love of man, God and country. The birth and growth of America required immigrants. However, no one with an iota of intelligence, able to study the past, view the present and perceive the future can deny that that symbiosis, born of immigrants and a young America, has now morphed into parasitical diminution.
There are those in this country who have a real hatred for America. Some are extreme leftists or communists. Some belong to terror groups or cater to racial instigators or subversive international organizations with agendas ranging from pillaging our wealth to dominating our daily lives. Those people are the enemy of our future, our culture and America. They are the purveyors of our destruction. Many of whom are traitorously embedded in our local, state and federal governments.
But for the rest of us, Democrats, Republicans, conservative or liberal, Independents or Libertarians, black, white or Hispanic, it is you, it is us, it is we the people, who must awaken to what is happening to our once exceptional country.
During the comprehensive immigration reform debate how many times have we heard, "I'm not anti-immigration, just illegal immigration:? Well, TPATH is here to state, it is time to end all immigration. Legal or illegal. Stop the hemorrhaging of our culture, of our resources and our hard earned wealth, before it's too late. If indeed it is not already.
America owes the world nothing. America has, more than any other people in history, done much good for the world. America has sacrificed her sons and daughters, spent her wealth and shared her technology in defense and support of other nations. In fact, much of the world owes its freedom and its very existence to America's compassion and might.
If our way of life is to continue, for this generation and those of our children, halting the dilution of our values by those who infest from without and besiege us from within, we must first see it happening and then come to grips with the need to stop it. The world should know and understand that as goes America so too will they go. The survival of freedom in this world depends on the survival of America.
America needs an immediate, if only temporary, moratorium on all immigration.
If she is to survive, this present onslaught from people with nothing to offer in return for what they require, if deadly diseased carriers from around the globe are allowed through open borders or on airliners, if Islamic terrorists are not stopped from embedding themselves into our society as they plan our death, our county, our culture and our future will fade into oblivion.
We will be the first people in the history of mankind to have invited and encouraged the onslaught of our own demise.
TPATH ~October 10, 2014~
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New Jersey Patriots,
TPATH and several groups (to be named later) across the state of New Jersey, have begun a campaign to reverse our many unconstitutional laws. This program will be multi-faceted and will incorporate grass roots activity as well as class action law suits which will no doubt reach the US Supreme Court.
What will be asked of signups?
A more detailed description and instructions will be given to those signing up. But for now it is important to know that our campaign involves authoring legislation which is now complete. A short version of it can been read
here (SAPPA)
We will need as many citizens as possible, as individuals or groups, to request an appointment with the Legislators in their districts. The purpose of the meeting can be described as "legislative". At that meeting you will need to present SAPPA to them and ask if they will sponsor or co-sponsor the bill. The intent will be to get this bill in the hands of all 80 NJ Legislators, as many times as possible.
You will bring a form, (sign ups will be given a link to download it) with you to this meeting. Once you see the form, the rest will be self explanatory.
If you or your group wish to join the grassroots portion of this endeavor,
to sign up.
As many of you know, the United States Constitution prohibits individual states from implementing legislation that would interfere with or infringe on its citizen's civil rights. This has not prevented many of them from doing just that.
The laws they have passed, on the face of them, appear to comply with the 2nd Amendment's requirement to allow law abiding citizens the right to bear arms. However, it is a ruse, for they wrote laws that gives them the right to evaluate your NEED to arm yourself as opposed to your right to do so.
The application a citizen must fill out is designed to the eliminate almost every citizen from approval. And those not
by their responses and history, will then be
by an un-elected Judge who
he has the right to circumvent your' rights as he decides that his perception of your need can trump your rights. As a result, virtually every NJ citizen is denied his civil rights.
Many states run by socialists, employ tactics such as these and New Jersey is by far the most egregious implementer of such laws of prevarication. But that does not make them legal or constitutional. We are about to take them on and we will be doing so, presenting the case in such a manor, that the United States Supreme Court will be unable to deny docketing it.
If you want to be part of this effort and possibly as a result have your rights restored and your application to carry revisited and approved please
to add your name to the list of those citizens whose rights have been denied.
CAUTION: Only those individuals who have been denied the right to bear arms here in NJ for the unconstitutional reason of "lack of need" should add their names to this list. If you were denied on the grounds of criminal record, mental health issues or some infraction of domestic violence, please do not sign up for this program. We only want those with no issues to be part of this campaign. You may well have a good reason for contesting that determination, but this will not be the forum for that.
Please send this posting to any friends or family members who may have been denied their civil rights.
As always,TPATH gives permission re-post or re-transmit a this article in any social media available.
TPATH Founder
Dwight Kehoe
TeamNJ Founder
Nicholas Purpura
October 2, 2014
Commentary and Proposal by
Dwight Kehoe
Mr. Nicholas Purpura
SAPPA Group
September 25, 2014 ~TPATH~
The Federal gun law of 1994 is about to expire. This law made it illegal to manufacture or own a semi-automatic weapon that would enable the user to handle and fire the weapon skillfully. It limited the magazine capacity for these weapons while not limiting how many magazines one could own.
Even if this law was not unconstitutional, which it clearly is, the astounding inanity of it is only surpassed by the ignorance of its sponsors. The same obtuse players in this game of deception are back again working to have this law renewed. Hopefully with the upcoming November elections looming, enough US Senators will be more concerned about keeping their cushy jobs than assisting the government in its effort to infringe on our rights.
Which brings us to yet another government control and intimidation venture. The Criminal Background Check. Senator Feinstein has been fabricating data in an effort get that 1994 law renewed and is once again pushing for a
Federal Gun Registry
containing the names, addresses and weapons owned or purchased by legal and law abiding citizens. They call this registry the
Criminal Background Check
. They claim, you might be interested in knowing, that they do not intend to keep information on legal gun purchasers in their data bases. Oh yea, and they won't spy on Americans, use the IRS to intimidate politically minded citizens or supply dangerous weapons to murderous drug cartels.
Let's set the record straight, there are no gun groups or legal gun owners who would not support a law which would help keep weapons out of the wrong hands if done constitutionally. This includes national organizations such as the
or local groups like
But that is not what the goal is for your government and those leftists now in control of it. They want those who would seek to purchase a legal weapon to fear being singled out and possibly targeted, and therefore intimidated into not owning a firearm. Don't fool yourselves, the purpose of this registry has nothing to do with keeping the people safe and everything to do with keeping government secure and able to mount a confiscation campaign when and if they decide it's necessary.
Some of the world's past rulers would applaud the cunning originality of these measures, if in fact they were original. But alas, they are not. Mass graves, located in countries around the world, are testament to the very popular government registry programs implemented by fine folks such as Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pol Pot and Georbels. Just to name a few.
In that light, we have a very significant question. Why does you government not have a data base with those who
should not be allowed
to own or purchase firearms, but instead wants one that lists honest citizens who desire to avail themselves of their right to self protection? For the answer to this, reread the above two paragraphs.
This is the age of the internet, the intranet and information data bases linked by town, state and country. Everyone who owns a credit card knows just how much those companies know about their card holders. Instantly, upon using a card, the company analyzes the amount you are spending related to the amounts you usually spend, what you are purchasing and what country you are doing the purchasing in.
If the true goal of this government was to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals, terrorists and the insane, they could use the technology used by the financial industry to do so. In a matter of months criminal records of individuals who have been adjudicated as felons, mentally unstable or on terrorist watch lists could all be tied in together to create a searchable database.
Towns would report to counties, counties to states and states to the Federal Government. Every new conviction, fitting a category which would prevent gun ownership, every physiological evaluation and every suspected terrorist would automatically be uploaded to the
National Criminal Registry
For sure this would open the door for persons being unfairly put into this system so there would have to be an
Overview Board
made up of six persons appointed by a
Congressional Committee
. That Board will hear and rule on the status of persons who believe they are wrongly on the list. To be removed form the list a majority of the board must vote in favor of the removal.
Once the National Criminal Registry is up and functioning it will provide a gun dealer or an individual with the ability to log on to it, input the name of the potential purchaser to find out if he is on the no-purchase list. If he is not, that search will be deleted and the purchase can be made. If the potential buyer is on the list, his illegal attempt to purchase a firearm will automatically be sent to either a state or local prosecutor for criminal charges.
The purpose of this Federal Legislation will be to prevent unauthorized purchase of firearms while preventing local, state and federal infringements on the rights of their citizens.
The National Criminal Registry (NCR):
A National data base will be created and linked with each state whereby all persons convicted of felonies, those adjudicated as mentally unstable or who are on the government's terrorist watch list will be listed there.
The cost of connecting to and setting up and maintaining this data base will be paid for by the Federal Government with 50% and the several states, proportionate to their population, paying for the other 50%.
The NCR will not, under criminal penalty, retain any information regarding those who are legally seeking to purchase firearms. If the search returns as no violation the seller will be so informed and that search will be deleted form all records.
An independent auditor will be appointed to ensure that the search deletions are being done as required. This auditing firm must be approved by a Congressional Committee.
If a search finds the potential purchaser to be on the no purchase list, that information will be automatically transmitted to the a Federal Prosecutor and to the State Authorities where the purchase was attempted.
The seller will not be required to arrest or detain the person attempting the illegal purchase but he must inform the buyer that he is in NCR and may have just committed a felony. The seller must keep a record of the illegal attempt and report the effort to state or local officials upon request.
The search into the NCR will not require a description of the weapons to be purchased or the amount or type of ammunition being purchased.
The seller will be required to see sufficient documentation to ensure the potential purchaser is who he says he is. False identification by a potential purchaser will result in a 10 year mandatory person term in addition to the penalties already in place in the state where the illegal attempt has been made.
Penalties, adjudications and prosecution:
The seller of firearms, personal or professional dealers, will be required to ensure their buyer is not on the NCR. There will be no cost or usage fees for the use of this data base. Failure to make use of the system by a seller will be prosecuted under state law. Penalties to be set by the state.
Misuse of the NCR, for personal reasons or invasion of citizens' privacy will be a criminal offense to be handled by the state according to its laws. The NCR will record and maintain the name of the searcher but will not retain the name of the searched, unless the purchase attempt was illegal.
Legally licensed and authorized firearms dealers, making trades or sales between themselves, are not subjected to the NCR search requirements.
The first attempt to purchase firearms or ammunition by a person in the NCR will generate a warning notice to the purchaser and a record of that request will be maintained in the NCR. There will be no criminal offense for the first try which gives the purchaser the benefit if the doubt as to his status.
Attempting to purchase a firearm or ammunition, in a second attempt, by a person who is in the NCR will be a felony and penalties will be as set up by the state where the illegal purchase was made.
Any individual can access NCR to check his status before he tries to make a purchase. There will be no penalty for that search if it returns a no purchase response. That search will count however as the one time free effort to purchase. Any subsequent purchase attempts will trigger prosecution.
Any individual who feels he has been put into the NCR wrongly or wishes to contest his name being there can request a review by a six person Federal Panel. To be removed from the NCR the panel must vote in the majority. This panel will be appointed to five year terms and be seated by a Congressional Committee.
Existing laws and applications of them:
This ACT will, when approved and enforced, provide for the safety of the citizens and will do all that is possible to prevent the unlawful ownership, use and sales of firearms and it will do so within the dictates of the Second Amendment.
It will be unlawful for any and all violations of this ACT to be plea bargained away. Any illegal attempt to purchase a firearm, as described herewith, shall be prosecuted.
In an effort to get criminals off the street and in prison, any penalties, Federal or State, for crimes committed with a firearm shall not be plea bargained away. The full penalties for crimes committed with firearms shall not be dismissed.
This ACT will, when approved, make null and void all existing Federal laws which infringe on the rights afforded the American people by the Bill of Rights. Those states cooperating with and making use of the NCR must pass legislation voiding any unconstitutional gun laws they may have.
This ACT provides for a workable system to help keep firearms out of the hands of those who should not possess them, creates a reliable tool for law enforcement, dealers and individuals to help in that effort while not infringing on the rights of law abiding citizens. The creation of the National Criminal Registry will help keep track of those who might endanger society while preventing governments, state and national, from having and using information about law abiding citizens the Constitution forbids.
If you agree that this is the type of law we should have please go to our SAPPA signup form
For more information on this ACT and others SAPPA is proposing please click
Please understand that all the work the SAPPA Group is doing will go for naught without the help of the people. We can all do our part by getting this information out to others, contacting Assembly persons ans State Senators as well as US Congressmen and Senators. Send them these proposed ACTS as well as any ideas you might have. For anything to get done, many need to get involved.
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During the past 7 years a very close relationship between TPATH and many of our members has resulted in the formation of
WPE (We
to Endure)
. As a consequence of several years of research, training and instructions provided to us by many experts from various survival disciplines, WPE has become a formidable source for information, training and disaster preparation.
A short description of what WPE is can be characterized in the following way:
The membership is made up of a dedicated group of patriotic leaders and individuals who are well known to each other and have an extensive record of support for our Constitution and the desire to help prepare thier neighbors.
They have a varied set of professional, technical, survival and construction abilities and have agreed to provide instruction and physical application of those skills.
They have agreed to undertake the requirements of storing food, supplies, medicine, fuel, weapons, ammunition, survival and radio communication equipment for use in case of a short or long term national or local disaster.
They have agreed to help train and instruct any person or group in the skills necessary for survival regardless of whether or not they are members of WPE.
What WPE has accomplished since its inception:
An emergency communication system called the "Spider Grid", has been set up and tested. This system required that members obtain FCC radio communication licences, purchase and install short wave radios in either homes or vehicles or both. As of this date radio communication throughout the state can be maintained even if the country experiences a complete power grid failure.
WPE has given presentations to patriotic groups over the entire length and width of our state. Each of these presentations were modeled after and for the specific group it was presented to.
Our members have prepared for food, fuel and water shortages and have encouraged friends and family members to do the same.
Secured and prepared "safe zones" in the event of social or community breakdowns,
WPE has prepared and made available information packages for the following:
Steps required to obtain FCC licences, listed types of radio and equipment individuals would need to communicate in the event of an emergency.
Information on firearm laws here in New Jersey to insure that everyone who has a weapon is in complete compliance with the many laws, unconstitutional as they may be. That package includes information on what weapons one might need, how to practice and become comfortable and proficient and safe in their use.
The types and sizes of emergency generators, how to use them wisely and prudently. Also keeping them safe from marauders and thieves. Included in this package is information on how to store and rotate ethanol gasoline for use over long periods of time.
Information on how to build a safe indoor heater and stove for boiling water and cooking food.
Lists of food which can be stored for very long periods of time and how to store them using as little space as possible.
Steps to take to store drinking water and how to prepare it.
Comprehensive lists of emergency supplies one should have in his home in the event that supplies become unavailable or going out to get them is too dangerous.
Lists of what you will need to have ready to load into your vehicles in order to survive in an outdoor environment.
How to secure your home in case of forced intrusion attempts and how to prepare protection from weapons being fired into your home.
How to prepare and have ready at all times a "go bag" that can be loaded into your vehicles instantly if immediate evacuation is required.
Information on how to set up emergency locations where your children or grandchildren will go if something happens while they are at school or other places and they can't get home. Explains how to set up passwords your child will need to hear before excepting help or rides form someone you might send.
All of this information can be found
. It is being provided for anyone who wants it and being a member of WPE is not required.
The free download and use of this information is hereby given with no restrictions.
Note: If anyone or group wishes to apply for membership in WPE please feel free to do so. There are no fees and no financial costs, just the desire to do what you can to make WPE more effective in our efforts to help people prepare for natural and man made disasters.
Please understand that becoming a member will require a track record and history as well as a unanimous acceptance vote by existing WPE members.
Why WPE was started and why it continues
A few months into Obama's first term and with several years remaining now in his second term and what we all hope will be his last, ominous signs began to appear and continue now with an even greater presence.
Just a short course in world history would reveal the bloody, murderous and destructive nature of Socialist and Communist governments. In just the 20th Century these governments have shown no limit to the misery and torture, the imprisonment and the killing they were willing to present on their own citizens in order to stay in power. The most modest of estimates puts the death count at about 157,000,000 people.
As of this date, it would be very difficult to consider any other possibility,that the man usurping our presidency, has not been selected, bred, trained and supported by some world wide entity with Communism at its heart. There can be no other explanation for him, his policies and the tremendous damage being inflicted upon this country. It is not by mistake. It is not by incompetence. It is the intentional take down of the American way.
The reality is now, this New World Order or whatever its name is, has its claws deeply set into the control of the biggest prize in the carnival of tyranny. The lives of innocent people, the economy and our Constitution are all expendables in the quest for world domination. They will not release the golden ring simply because a term is up.
In support of this and under the cowardly eyes of Congress, the Judicial branch and mainstream media, dangerous steps are being put into place. It may have gone too far already, to stop it, short of a new revolution.
Actually, any one of the items listed below would be cause for concern, but when viewed in their entirety its impossible to see how America escapes the next few years without a nationwide calamity.
Thousands of new regulations have bankrupted companies working for energy sources such as coal, natural gas and crude oil. This has put our power grid working to full capacity and our energy supplies in the hands of our enemies.
Pipelines from Canada which could have provided huge amounts of energy has been stopped.
Terrorists have used high power rifle fire to shut down several power transmission stations. These attacks were labeled as being perpetrated by "hooligans" when its quite clear this was a test run for some future nation wide attack on our grid.
Instead of using funds to fortify the grid against this kind of attack, Obama has chosen to send your tax dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Hundreds of high ranking military officers have been removed and replaced, without the consent of the Senate.
Several hundred illegal Executive Orders have been issued that give the government control over private property, give the President the ability to impose Martial Law with no stipulation or specific reason, and the worst of all, the President can order a missile strike on an American citizen without a trial or he can have someone locked away for any amount of time without trial.
The world is in turmoil, from Iran being allowed to build nuclear weapons, North Korea threatening to invade South Korea, China imposing its navel might on Japan and Korea, Syria and Libya experiencing unprecedented murder and upheaval which has been encouraged, supported and supplied by Obama, the Ukraine is being invaded by Russia as any hope of living free of the Communist Putin is being crushed.
Obama continues now for the 6th consecutive year, creating debt in the amount of between 70 and 80 billion dollars every month. That's every month for 6 years. This money is being poured into the capital markets of the world and will have a crushing effect on the value of the dollar. Every dollar of this insane method of creating cash must be paid back. Even if this madness were stopped now, and there is no intention to do so, that bill could not be paid back for a thousand years.
China, North Korea and even Iran are experimenting with EMP weapons that could put America off the grid for years. Iran has sent ships to America's coast without a whimper of a response form Obama. The very kind of ship that could fire an upper atmosphere EMP device.
Every effort has been made by Obama to disarm as many Americans as possible. This endeavor is consistent with despots of the past who first disarmed and then slaughtered their people. If one might be foolish enough to bet that type of tyranny could never happen in America, that is a bet, if lost, would be lost at great calamity.
The government is buying ammunition at an astounding rate for non military personal. They have set up countless FEMA camps across the country and have distributed armored personal carriers to hundreds of local police forces. They are preparing for something.
While the assumption that Martial Law, economic breakdown or terrorist attack is the most likely scenario for the need to survive off the grid, natural disasters, such as Super Storm Sandy must also be considered. As unlikely as it may seem that here in the North East we need to be prepared for event other than man made, the likelihood does indeed exist.
Hurricanes, storms and floods.
Earth quakes, volcanic dust and tornadoes, very unlikely, but possible.
Tidal waves from land masses falling into the ocean or the shifting of under sea plates. Las Palmas Island is one such threat to the east coast.
Power plant failures which could cascade across the country.
Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) which are similar to man made EMPs but are caused by huge solar flares. This could shut down the communication and power grid. There has been a fairly consistent pattern to CMEs and unfortunately we are well past due for the next one.
Pandemics caused by viruses, bacteria or toxins.
If you are interested in joining WPE or for more information on these and other issues as well as documents, links and instructions on what to look for and how to prepare for and survive, visit the WPE page.
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Our presentation must be the first item on your agenda after the pledge and a prayer.
The venue must be in an environment where our presenters won't be required to speak without shouting over peripheral noise.
The presentation takes about 45 minutes and usually requires 10 to 15 minutes of questions and answers.
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Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) (original 2010; edition 2011)
by Jonathan Franzen
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Have re-read this one a few times - very insightful and absorbing
Sul fatto che sia scritto bene, non ci sono dubbi. Grazie a una lingua semplice e ritmata, la narrazione scivola senza difficoltà per il lettore offrendo passaggi di grande brillantezza – si pensi solo all'incidente di Lalitha – e riuscendo, con qualche colpo di reni, a scrollarsi di dosso anche i tempi morti. Che sono un po' troppi a dir il vero – ad esempio quando ci si addentra nella situazione ornitologica del Nord America – ma in fondo non sono il vero problema. E non lo sono neppure le pagine di autobiografia che si immaginano scritte dalla protagonista senza che la sua voce si possa distinguere da quella del narratore (così il lettore a volte finisce per dimenticarsi chi è che sta raccontando). Il guaio vero sono i personaggi che – qual più, qual meno – sono di un'antipatia che nasce da una combinazione di ottusa autodistruttività e insistenza nel piangersi addosso. Tale insopportabilità raggiunge momenti di notevole acutezza nella più difficoltosa parte centrale del romanzo, dopo un inizio che, con l'insediarsi dei giovani Patty e Walter nel loro nuovo quartiere, è assai più promettente: con lo scorrere delle pagine, in parallelo all'invischiarsi dell'esistenza dei protagonisti, si ingarbuglia su se stesso anche il libro. Per fortuna, l'ultimo terzo del volume riesce a riprendere quota e si fa leggere con una compulsività che nei capitoli precedenti tende a latitare, tanto da far (quasi) perdonare un lieto fine dai tratti hollywoodiani che lascia perplessi su dove l'autore volesse andare a parare. La conclusione consolatoria stride con il ritratto della decadenza della famiglia media (medio-alta a dire il vero, qui quasi nessuno ha problemi economici) e progressista statunitense che pare essere lo scopo del libro – in materia, Woody Allen, tanto per dirne uno, è stato ben più graffiante – lasciando spazio nel lettore all'idea che la vera essenza sia il classico triangolo lui-lei-l'altro con ricomposizione finale e santificazione del tetto coniugale da cui non è estranea neppure la storia di coppia tra Joey e Connie. Insomma, a eoni di distanza dal Grande Romanzo Americano tirato in ballo a sproposito, quello di Franzen è un libro molto contemporaneo – i riferimenti all'attualità degli ultimi quindici anni si sprecano – e anche molto curato, ma che non centra il bersaglio: mi sa che sia necessario andare a ripescare 'Le correzioni' e, finalmente, leggerlo.
I saw the author in person and listen to him read an excerpt from the story. I was hooked since then but it took a few months for me to find the time to actually sit down and read it.
I was not disappointed, in fact I was thankful I read it. There are many themes to this story, and as one commentator mentioned: unless you are American there is subtext you will not get or relate to.
Although I am Canadian, I understand what Joey meant by opportunities changing since 911. Franzen's story is a good look at life, set expectations (both in terms of society and self) and figuring out the muddle of humanity among it all.
It has political undertones, which seem to be in itself a driving force but its also a good critic of what people expect here and whether its ethical. Best example is the relocation of the CAT. The cat is a cat, a symbol of the destruction its species causes and the naive mindset some have regarding real problems. Its a collective world trying to be defended from self interest and the bird sanctuary is a depiction (at leas to me) of another Tragedy of the Commons.
I really enjoyed the read and I do recommend it!
Jonathan Franzen's prose flows well and he has a gift for writing dialogue that feels natural. He explores his characters, plumbing the depths of their psyches, providing background and motivation for their actions.
Freedom tells the story of Patty and Walter Berglund, following their marriage and relationships with their children, and depicting its spectacular unraveling. A major obstacle to their happiness is the couple's imbalanced relationship. Walter genuinely loves Patty, but she harbors feelings for Walter's best friend Richard. (I guess a classic love triangle.) Freedom is also about the choices we make and how they affect our actions, while also acting as a commentary on modern life, dealing with issues such as mankind's impact on the environment, and conservation. It's a bit on the bleak side. I found myself wondering: is it really possible for human beings to be happy? And does Franzen actually like people?
The main characters in Freedom--Walter, Patty, Richard, and the Berglund children, Joey and Jessica--are all deeply flawed people (even the neighbors and incidental characters are mostly not so good), so much so, that at times, I found them hardly likable, including Walter, the passionate environmentalist. But Franzen gives them enough humanity so that as the reader, I didn't want to write them off completely. I did find myself in the end rooting for Walter and Patty. The unlikablity of his characters may be due to Franzen's willingness to take risks as a writer and show real honesty on the part of his characters, laying bare the not-so-nice qualities that most of us keep hidden deep down inside. His characters are exposed, warts and all. This insight into human behavior, and human nature, and his willingness to take risks is what elevates him as a writer, in my opinion.
At nearly 600 pages, this was a long read that, for the most part, kept moving except for a couple of areas where he goes a little too in-depth for my taste into the technical workings of Walter's work with his environmental trust. I tip my hat to Franzen and recommend Freedom to anyone who likes character-driven literary fiction.
Everyone thought this book was so great. I don't quite get why.
One keeps waiting for something that will make these flat characters develop in some way, and finally the Nice Man is struck by a great blow of fate. But rather than write his way through it, Franzen suspends things just before the moment of impact, then resumes Walter's story six years later—updating us with the glib aside that the event in question "had effectively ended his life." A writer's got to know his limitations, but this stratagem is clumsy enough to make one want to laugh for the first time in the book. It certainly beats the part where a wedding ring is retrieved from a bowl of feces.
Franzen is an amateur ethnographer impersonating a fiction writer. His novel is overstuffed with finger-puppet characters and the clutter of contemporary life: there's no reason to know that someone is wearing "Chinese-made sneakers" or that someone else watches Pirates of the Caribbean during a transatlantic flight. Freedom is crammed as well with rants passed off as dialogue and dialogue that either serves no narrative purpose or reeks of research done in the lifestyle pages of the New York Times.
The freedom of Freedom isn't freedom of choice, it's freedom from it; not an expansion but a narrowing. The book's movement is from the abyss of the abstract to the surety of the concrete, from the potential to the actual. You get there not by reinventing yourself in the American vein, by hatching a plan or heading west or donning a disguise. You do it by going home again, by seeing, as if for the first time, what you've already done, and claiming it as your own.
I didn't buy one of the characters, I didn't buy one of the plot twists, I found the stuff about a Halliburton-esque company rather convoluted and I was completely absorbed by the rest. Without question, Freedom is a book that grabs hold of you. When I was in the middle, I thought of its characters even while I wasn't reading about them, and when I was reading it, I read several lines aloud to my husband.
Franzen's daring has been to take on soap operas and HBO mini-series, demonstrating that if you want modern emotional dramas, the novel can provide them today as effectively as it did in the 19th century. But, he also offers something no HBO series can – the solitude and moral introspection of the novel, the beauty of prose, the imaginative love affair you form with characters you alone see in the way you see them. Freedom is the novel of the year, and the century.
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Yo I'm only back to post the finished coloring of Elena's gift to me UwU
I find that if I draw awful on purpose, I feel better about the way I draw normally. Also that skeleton was merely a space filler, I couldn't think of anything else. And it's October.
Source: ImagineFX magazine, September 2008 issue.
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I used to ship these (along with AxlxMiku) in sophmore year, and I seriously question why sometimes.
If you ever ask me who's my favorite, I'll probably mention any of these 3. But you can clearly see who the apple of my eye is.
Elena this is fabulous akdjkandkjandkjasdn!!! I really wanna color it too can I can I??
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I drew this thing for a friend cause she's pretty great by getting me nice things and being super cool, and just being a cool person in general.
Not only did I finally add music to the music box, but I decided to add a cute little running X to my page.
My friend made me post this, cause she thinks it's cute.
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Russia refused to back any declaration that made Assad's ouster an explicit goal, arguing that it would be impossible to start peace talks with a predetermined outcome.
Reflecting the profound divisions that remain, the British host, Prime Minister David Cameron, declared it was unthinkable that President Assad can play any part in the future government of his country. He has blood on his hands. He has used chemical weapons.
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This article explains how to access network drives created in services. Even though network drives are global system resources, they can only be accessed by processes running under the security context which was used to establish the network connection.
In fact the rule is very simple. A network connection is always made with a set of credentials (such as, domain name, user name, and password.) A process can access a network drive only if it has already validated the credentials used to establish the connection.
This article can also be used to understand how to create pseudo-permanent connections with the scheduler.
For the purpose of this article, assume the following configuration:
1. Network Connection made with Service1When a network connection is established under "Service1," the "User1" credentials are used (such as, domain "DOMAIN," user "User1" and their password):
NET USE X: \\ASERVER\SHAREThe drive X: is mapped to \\ASERVER\SHARE and can only be used by Processes which have validated this credentials of DOMAIN\User1. Therefore only the following processes can access the network drive X:
2. Network Connection made with the option NET USE /USERWhen a network connection is made with NET USE /USER:'Domain\Auser', the redirector sends an Server Message Block (SMB) frame "C Session setup" to the server in order to validate the credentials of "Domain\Auser." The server creates an access token for this user and replies to the redirector with an SMB frame "R Session setup" including a user ID that will be used in all consecutive SMB frames related to the connection.
NET USE X: \\ASERVER\SHARE /USER:DOMAIN\AuserThe drive X: is mapped to \\ASERVER\SHARE and can only be used by processes which have validated the credentials of DOMAIN\AUser. Therefore only the following processes can access the network drive X:
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A girls' cricket scheme has won an award.
Coaches Saba Nasim and Hannah Newman received the Outstanding Youth Project Award at the StreetChance Annual Achievement Awards for their work in Redbridge.
StreetChance is an inner-city initiative run by the Cricket Foundation and Barclays which aims to provide positive experiences for young people.
Saba and Hannah kickstarted their project by running taster sessions at 18 sites.
They were praised by the judges for their commitment and the way they have become role models and mentors to the girls who attend the sessions.
Saba said: "It is a great achievement for the project, us as coaches and girls' cricket in general. Numbers weren't great to start with but Hannah and I wouldn't give up - we stayed there, went to more schools and kept pushing the project."
Hannah said: "It is amazing to know that the hard work has paid off. I never thought when I came to the StreetChance Awards a year ago that I'd be back picking up an award a year later.
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