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TELLING IT LIKE IT IS . . . The Gray Bomb . . . by Chuck Harder
THE EAGLE'S NEST . . . Great Shot - Now Reload . . . by Col USAF (Ret) Dave Bond
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HEART OF A HAWK . . . Remembering the Reason for July 4th . . . by Deborah Tainsh
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TIME TO CHUCKLE . . . Author Unknown
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"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale, and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged."

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July 4th 2007 SITREP 

          On June 25, 2007 Dave Bond, Jim Singleton and I met in Dallas to discuss new directions for WAWFF.  During this summit we looked at the original mission of our organization which had been defined last year and the current socio-political circumstances we have found ourselves in over the past six months.

          Originally, our mission was to:

1. Tell the "other side of the story", i.e. offer positive stories concerning our troops and the heroic efforts that are engaged with on a daily basis in this war on terrorism.

2. To educate and motivate our citizens to become more conversant in the aspects of the political process thereby increasing their understanding of some of the issues facing America. 

3. Lastly, we were focused on re-Americanizing America, returning to our roots as defined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.  We had decided to stay focused on a non-political process - in other words we would not follow any political party's process and simply tell the truth as we saw it. 

          During this summit, it became incredibly clear that our war for America had changed since our original brain storming sessions!

          We determined that we had been on a good process but there now exists situations that were not on our radar when WAWFF was created!  For example, the Illegal Immigration process has gone to extremes.  The Iraq War has become politicized and the demon - Political Correctness remains alive and well and is destroying our country.

          Destruction may well be too harsh an adjective, let us say instead that our country is being genetically engineered toward a different evolutionary step.  In fact, that step will result in the destruction of America as we know it.

          Recently, our citizens stood up and said, "No!" to the process our government is trying to ram down the throats of our citizens.  Recently, our government chose to ignore the populace that elected them, and we are still watching as the politicians play their games to homogenize the illegal immigration process for their own benefits.

          Unfortunately, these games include not only Democrats but Republicans and it is evident now that even our President and his administration are involved.  As former military professionals we believed that it was inappropriate to not support our Commander in Chief.  However, it has become apparent that some of his processes for this country are not processes that we can support; therefore it is our position that we must respectfully disagree with them.

          Our original first two processes will remain unchanged.  We are going to tell the other side of the story and we are even more dedicated to education and motivate our citizens to appropriate actions.  The major changes will be in this area: you will begin seeing more commentary on the political front and you will begin seeing a new evaluation process - we call it the CST - that stands for the Common Sense Test.

          Years ago I heard someone say that there is nothing as uncommon as common sense.  Today, this has grown to a level that is both incredible and dangerous.

          We ask that you start applying the Common Sense Test to news stories, editorials and in your observation of the political games our House, Senate and Executive branch are engaged in.

          We have been able to remain some what A-political.  This A-political process was best described by one of my former Commanding Officers who said, "I am appalled at what both parties are doing!"

          With very few exceptions, our political candidates on both sides appear to be divided as to what kind of country we shall have after the 2008 elections.  Hillary and that side are pushing for a socialistic twist with overtones that smell an awful lot like the Communism of the Cold War.  The Republicans are pushing for a North American Free Trade Union that will mirror the nonsense that Europe is in - neither is acceptable to this organization.

          Americans are not in opposition to immigration, but the folks I talk to are dynamically opposed to ILLEGAL immigration, Amnesty and the watering down of America by special interest groups more concerned with protection of their political careers than service to this country.

          During radio programs that Dave and I have done across this country there are several points that are evident from our callers:

          1. The polls being lauded by our politicians don't make any sense.  The vast majority of people OPPOSE illegal immigration.

          2. The politicians are engaged in a "bait and switch" process where our legislation is concerned and will - if allowed to - will ram the Illegal Immigration Bill down our throats.

          3. Our politicians are not listening and take offense when our single voice of American dissent - Talk Radio - encourages our citizens to become informed, when they tell the truth.  Unfortunately, Trent Lott and Lindsey Graham and Tony Snow have all fallen in behind a process that threatens this country.

 

          We live in a hell of a world when we are lectured by Germany on our militaristic attitude, when we are lectured by the French on our arrogance, when Republicans lecture us that talk radio is bad.  It is a sad day when the single process of true bi-partisanship in our land is to threaten our free speech.  The "fairness doctrine" is a direct assault against free speech and Illegal Immigration Reform as it currently exists is a direct assault on the security of this country and lastly the North American Free Trade Union, the Texas Corridor and the call for a Spanish speaking nation are all direct assaults against the sovereignty of America.

          Please continue to fax, write and call your representative and the White House.  Let your voices be heard and heard clearly and remember - apply the Common Sense Test to what you're hearing and cast your votes accordingly when 2008 finally arrives.

         

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Dave Bond is the Vice President for West Coast Operations for What Are We Fighting For?, Inc. During his 28 year military career he commanded eight Security and Anti-terrorism units and was Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, Security Police, Headquarters Air Force in Europe overseeing the European Air Forces Anti-terrorism Program. 

 

Heavily involved in the raid on Libya by the United States, he was responsible for the deployment of personnel securing B-52 Bombers conducting raids on the Iraq Republican Guard Forces and the coalition forces bases which launched aircraft during Desert Shield and Storm. 

 

Dave Bond has been featured on radio talk shows and TV specials talking about Chemical and Biological Terrorism threats and how the U.S. and individuals can prepare and deal with these threats.

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BOB ANDERSON, PhD, CMSgt USAFR (Ret)
 

Bob Anderson is a decorated military veteran with over 32 years of service.  His last military assignment was with the Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, Balad Air Base, Iraq.  He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in Iraq.  He retired as a Chief Master Sergeant with the US Air Force Reserves.

 

Bob is the president and founder of  What Are We Fighting For?, Inc., an organization providing leadership and guidance across the nation in support of our troops and the re-Americanization of America.  Additionally, he is president and founder of Back to Basics International, sits on the Board of Directors for the World Safety Organization, the WSO Accreditation Committee and chairs the Ethics Committee. He's a member of various veteran organizations, holds two PhD's and is a published author.

 

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The Gray Bomb

A Troubling Future Awaits

by Chuck Harder

A grim set of facts is starting to trickle out of the secret financial meetings around the world. Before I tell you the frightening statistics, let me identify what groups are talking about this and are also ringing the financial warning-bells. (There are also several other situations you must understand - I cover them all here.)

Call them what you want, these elite make up the global power-base that was once identified as "The new world order," they are a group of world rich that number perhaps 3,000 that all essentially make world policy. You may know of them as the "Bilderbergers, Counsel On Foreign Relations, Trilateralists, Council For The America's, or the Rockefeller gang of world bankers." Across the Atlantic you'll also find "The Club of Rome" and the "Bank of England" crowd.

 Word went out years ago to the rank and file middle-class and all the freedom-loving Americans that these "globalists" were going to grab power world-wide and enslave us all. Folks who worried about these concerns actually did have some basis in fact in the recent past. There is no doubt that "free trade" deals championed by the global elite were a sinister plan to eliminate the power of the middle-class. After all, highly paid workers in USA factories and those also in Europe have been often replaced by slave-wages in China. Today, most general-merchandise is now coming to American and European markets from China or other Asian nations. Factories that make consumer-goods and consumer-electronics are almost gone in the "free world" along with the critically-needed paychecks.

While the Globalists still daydream of unbridled power, the tide has turned against the "new world order" crowd in so many ways. I'll cover that here and now and then get to the real nitty gritty.

The big "Hoo Hah" has been the fact that Red China has stolen American's nuclear-weapons secrets and now sells "nuke bomb" technology to other emerging nations. China also threatened once to Nuke Los Angeles which is right up front in the Regnery Press edition of "THE COX REPORT" on how and what China stole from us. Thus, so much for our global pals and "world brotherhood . . ."

At first the elite worried about global over-population. People who seemed to have little use to aiding the planet are said to have been classified by them as "unnecessary eaters." They were worried that mankind would over-populate the globe and the Earth would lose it's "carrying power." Those like Al Gore who say they are worried about the environment may actually still be fronting for the "Club of Rome" theory of global overpopulation and that "we are doomed."

The "power to save the environment" is the power to regulate your entire life. Is the Earth actually getting colder? Fact is that the "frost line" continues to move South in the USA, yet Gore and his nannies would have you believe in "global warming." If that's true, why can we no longer grow oranges in Citrus County Florida (former citrus area), and North Florida,? It's now too cold to grow them!

Globalists want not only to take your guns, but also your cars. Citizens on foot or bicycle are much easier to control. Take their guns first, then their cars. It's that simple and has been done in the past in many lands. Countries that take the guns from the people normally turn into dictatorships. Recent examples: Nazi Germany, Red China, and Cuba. (Almost every home in Switzerland has automatic weapons.)

The Global elite also wish to take absolute power over the world through treaties via the UN and essentially make us all part of the "new global plantation." (While they sip their toddies on the front porch of their mansions and watch us all out in the field working and "chopping their cotton" while happily singing "Doo dah, doo dah.")

It's no doubt that the elite wish to have us confined and totally under their control in the comfort of the "economic chains" that they will or have placed on our feet. That idea began to blossom in the mid 1970's and on into the 1980's but soon ran into the brick-wall of reality. "The Hard Road To Global Order" was one of the most important articles ever published in Foreign Affairs in 1974. It like other articles outlines how the elite would gain control slice by slice and soon run the Earth from the luxury of their offices in the United Nations. What they did not plan for was human nature, sovereign national views and ethnic pride.

The 1990's brought constant upheaval and they were told by their "think tanks" about the "Clash of Civilizations," and that there were over 1,500 identifiable societies or cultures on the planet that wanted no part of being told to sing "Do Dah," or what to do and how to do it. OOPS - the globalists had big problems!

Frightened of an awakening throng they then rushed the "free-trade" treaties into law in the USA under the mantle of "executive agreements." While they lied to the people and they lied to Congress, they enlisted their friends to keep the falsehoods palatable. Indeed, many "Nobel Prize-winning Economists" all swallowed their cyanide-pill and swore that "free trade" would never increase our trade deficit or cause the loss of American jobs. This giant lie was soon revealed when NAFTA was passed and factories and jobs soon fled across the Rio Grande into the polluted lands of Northern Mexico - all for the fun of corporate profit. Undaunted, the "Globaloney" peddlers brought us GATT which legalized slave-labor and child-labor world-wide. Soon more American jobs and industries vanished. Today it is Red China, not Japan who has the largest trade surplus with the USA. It is also China that has stolen our nuclear secrets and has missiles of our design aimed and targeted at our cities. No wonder Bill Clinton will now give them even more of what they want! (Careful, don't call it "treason.")

While the foolhardy globalists strive to take-away the guns from individuals world-wide, they saw the populace in Switzerland, Israel and other Middle-East nations become armed to the teeth - and with double the guns per-capita of the USA. All kinds of wars have also broken out around the globe unrelated to the gun-owners and continue to this day. While the media attention has been on Yugoslavia, there are 50 to 70 wars going on globally without comment on any given day. In short, the world is a very unsafe place. (Don't ever let them take your guns or you will have to call 911 and perhaps die while you wait for help!)

In Kosovo some 2,000 people were killed yearly by infighting between various factions in a civil-war of the all-white population. No racial problems, just old hatreds that caused the bloodletting. While this number of deaths is pale in comparison to the pile of bodies from street-crime in Washington, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, the world "do gooders" like Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, and Tony Blair (the "very strange" young pasty-faced Prime Minister of England), and others (all desperately inexperienced in foreign affairs), had decided to make a media event out of Serbia and to make it "free" for future global corporate involvement and oil pipelines.

Forget the fact that the Serbs were also the past victims of "ethnic cleansing" and also were once the favorite of Bill Clinton - - a new "defeatable nasty enemy" was needed to "wag the dog." The result of their propaganda was war in the Balkans for "humanitarian reasons." The left-wingers attached to Clinton's hip all said "Amen" and the bombs fell. Now with thousands of innocent civilians dead, (Belgrade and much of the region bombed back into the stone-age), with over a million homeless, thousands starving, farms destroyed, livestock dead, cities and towns in ruin - the Clinton-Gore war is over and the world is told that the "folks will move back home now." The big question is; "To what?" Answer: The American taxpayers will now support an entire nation in ruin that can no longer feed themselves this winter!

A pliable and lazy "left-wing" US media (who admit that 82 percent of them voted for Bill Clinton), still fawn all over his antics and immerse themselves in continual denial of his misdeeds. After all, they love "big brother and big sister," and will continue to "fall on their swords" for these two sick puppies that they identify with in all regards. So that said, what could be coming down the pike that they cannot deny or duck?

There are two giant land-mines that will stop their wagons dead-cold. The first is Y2K. The year 2000 conversion should have begun when Clinton and Gore took office back in 1992. Instead, Al Gore (who claims to have invented the Internet), was "asleep at the computer keyboard," and didn't scream that Y2K was coming when we had time to fix it back in 1992 or even 1996! Nope, our "technology Vice-President" Al Gore remained silent and now we will see a pattern of disruptions that will stunt the growth of the economy at the best and be a terrible disaster if some experts are right. But if that's not enough, wait, there's more . . .

Another valid fear is that we now face an ongoing border-war of sorts with Mexico. There will be little shooting except that eventually the border areas of the USA will become totally Hispanic and those regions will be lost while the rest of the taxpayers bleed for welfare and other social services to the illegals who "walked across the border to get a part of the welfare jackpot." Already there is a town on our side of the Texas border that flies the Mexican flag over their courthouse and has adopted Spanish as the official language. Yet your tax dollars can flow into this "American" city.

While media folks like Geraldo Rivera are defensive of "his people," the fact remains that if Americans tried to move to Mexico and pull the same trick you would be shot dead, jailed, or returned in chains. Other illegal immigration is also a problem. In parts of the USA we see pockets of various ethnic groups who cannot speak English or seem to have no desire to do so. Tune across the radio dial in New York City and you will hear station after station with foreign languages. Yet if we went to another country and tried to put English on-the-air we might be met with mobs carrying pitchforks!

The problem will only worsen as the Democrats will not take any necessary action as they love illegal immigrants. They know that the illegals eventually register via the insane "motor voter" laws and then become "straight voting Democrats." Prove it isn't so - you can't - look to California! The new Democrats are also aided and abetted by crooked politicians who are into vote-fraud which was rampant in both Miami and California during the last election-cycle.

Now don't think for a moment that I'm a Republican front-man. Nope, I saw that bunch give-away the USA starting with the watch and optics industry during the Eisenhower years. Richard Nixon gave-away our electronics industry to the Japanese and it was Ronald Reagan who gave two 20-minute speeches to the corporate big-wigs in the "Land of the rising sun," after he left office and then collected millions from Japanese interests. George Bush continued the work on NAFTA and GATT and his Carla Hills went on TV promising "Jobs, jobs, jobs," if only NAFTA was signed. Carla failed to tell us that the jobs would be in Mexico, not in the USA! Then worse, Republican Newt Gingrich ("Getting-rich") orchestrated the Telecommunications Bill that makes it official that only big money and big people will control broadcasting and the media. Since then, one company owns 10% of all the big commercial radio stations in the USA! (Over 860!)

Democrat Lyndon Johnson started the "Maquilladora Program" that cost us American jobs. Republican Richard Nixon gave away the color-TV industry to Japan. Democrat Jimmy Carter started deregulation which has resulted in "airborne cattle-cars," substandard air-lines, air crashes, and exhausted pilots. Republicans Reagan and Bush championed "free trade" and then Democrat Bill Clinton signed NAFTA and GATT and finished the job to put more Americans out of work.

America has fallen for the "Government Racket," which is described in an eloquent book that was authored by Professor Martin Gross. Bureaucrats have developed a system where they are fireproof and earn $65 to $80,000.00 and more yearly on the local and county-level with full-benefits, and into the $100,000.00 PLUS range on the national and state level. Working people are normally unaware of this new class of "vested elite" and will never bother to ask for the details as to the payroll of their local and county governments. Why? Mom has a job and Dad has several. No time is available to take part in any local government affairs - and yes, the bureaucrats want it this way. Wouldn't you?

Many bureaucrats love "the welfare class." A new "social-services" industry has emerged to provide services and benefits to the new permanent "leisure poor."  They call them "clients," and without those on welfare having lots of kids without daddies, many social jobs would have little reason to exist with the necessary bureaucrats vested in their high-paying and "fireproof" jobs. Even better these goofies have screwed-up the public education system and kids can't read but can shoot each other. Masses of social workers hand out Ritalin to our kids and ask them "How do you feel about that?" This insanity cannot continue forever as problems await for the bureaucrats in the not too distant future. Why, read on . . .

And now the Gray Bomb . . .

Pete Peterson is Chairman of the Council On Foreign Relations and also The Blackstone Group which is a large New York investment banking firm. He has written a new book entitled "GRAY DAWN." In it he tells of the coming global crisis due to the drop in fertility rates and the aging global population. Simply put, families stopped having babies years ago and there are more older folks than young workers to support them. Big problem: For the first time ever - next year people 60 or older will outnumber kids 14 or younger in industrialized countries!

Social Security and other retirement "Ponzi schemes" world-wide were based on an ever growing base of workers and a shrinking base of retirees. The problem is now in reverse. For instance in China the families are now 1 - 2- 4. Each worker supports two parents and four grandparents. Unknown in the US media is the riots and problems that have broken-out in Mainland China due to their problem with retirement and also colossal economic failures.

Italy and Brazil face massive problems in pension plans for their elderly and Japan already blames their financial depression to a large elderly population and a shrinking young work-force. The World Bank recently announced that 200 million more people around the globe have just been added to the 1.5 billion of "global poor."

Now we see 103 million people in the USA of an age where they are enroute to retirement. 25 Million of those are age 53 to 62, and 78 million are age 48 or older!

If you take the time to study the numbers you will find that many near retirement have recently been "downsized" and won't retire in the style they anticipated. We are facing the issue of "the retired poor." People who have outlived their savings and cannot cope on the small social-security check that will hopefully arrive.

Worse, many areas that used to be inexpensive to live in are becoming "High Tax Horror Stories." An example is one rural Florida county where the bureaucrats took control and raised taxes through the ceiling and many retirees were forced to take minimum-wage jobs to pay property-taxes on their homes! Then there are the situations of retirees in the condo's along the Gold Coast of Florida who try to hang-on by spending days eating and lounging in the "Senior Centers" so they get free meals and don't have to run the electricity in their condo during the day!

The problem is aggravated by the fact that we are living longer and refuse to take care of our elders. It is now the government that funds the corporate-owned nursing homes that are warehouses for our parents who are aged and infirm. The extended family no longer is around to take care of Grandma or Gramps who used to sit on the front porch and relax and enjoy their final days. Now they are lined up in rows in air-conditioned warehouses that smell of urine and stained beds. Family members are often too busy to stop by and check on them and there is a potential for abuse and neglect while the host corporations earn gigantic Medicaid profits and others go bankrupt from profiteering and mis-management!

The "nightmare" of our aging population is now just dawning on the global bankers and eventually will impact the stock markets. Here in the USA the damage that the globalists did by moving our jobs offshore will become obvious. Our pension systems depended on more and more well-paid workers. Instead they moved those jobs offshore and "downsized" the American workers. With few good industrial jobs we will not see the funds needed to replace the money being drained by the present and future retirees. This "one-world nonsense" may insure a global bankruptcy that will make 1929 look like a picnic!

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GREAT SHOT - NOW RELOAD

by Dave Bond, Col USAF, (Ret)

 

IMMIGRATION - BOY!  Everyday in the paper front page-- talk shows --speeches-you name it-what an uproar on a subject and it ought to be.  It would impact this country forever.  It, while defeated, has probably been the greatest up evil in the "inside the beltway" in years.  A back room conspiracy by this administration and some senators that have outlived their political usefulness, both republicans and democrats, who will probably be defeated in the next election tried to pass an act that was doomed from the start. 

 

This article is not on immigration but on awakening "we the people."  The Immigration's Act unsuccessful movement through the senate has awakened America and the citizen that doesn't deal with everyday politics-unless it affects them personally-and believe me this immigration bill did just that. 

 

My recent trip across the Midwest and through Texas allowed me to talk to many people that had enough and I mean up to their eyeballs with the government, the administration, and this congress.  The immigration act hit a nerve and the public responded-and how-am I proud or what?

 

Out of the cracks in the concrete they came to voice their opposition to it.  I won't name the "for votes" you know who they are and they know who they are.  Again, I suspect most of their political careers will be over at the next election (both parties included).  The American patriots I talked to were so upset that this was almost an amnesty "cram job" through congress. 

 

The Secretary of Homeland Security "scolded" congress for failing to pass the immigration bill that was opposed by most of the American population.  What does that tell you about this government?  Those of you that have heard me talk about our homeland security beau racy it shouldn't surprise you it doesn't me.

 

CMSgt Bob Anderson and I have done a number of radio talk shows on the immigration issue has been the paramount subject of choice.  I am happy to see the American's "rise up" -NOW AMERICA!  Immigration is down for the moment but we must remain vigilant - "load and lock" as our government tries to play "king and absolute rulers" in other areas as - political correctness - and fairness doctrine the Iraq war and other areas - remember our new call in accessing a subject is remember the "CST."  That stands for the common sense test.  (Everything must now pass the CST.) 

 

Your faxes, telephone calls, emails worked - keep it up.  The battle against this irresponsible government is far from over and "we the people" must prevail.  You know the devious minds inside the beltway are at it 24/7.  I was stationed inside the beltway for 3 years and believe me your mind begins to turn to mush.  As you try to put up with and understand never-never land. 

 

I have a great feeling and hope that with the attitude and action we had during the immigration bill the words "we the people" will prevail - ANYTHING LESS IS DISASTER!      

   

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The latest poll taken by the Florida Governor's office, asked whether people who live in Florida think illegal immigration is a serious problem:

 

29% of respondents answered: "Yes, it is a serious problem."

 

71% of respondents answered: "No es una problema serioso."

 
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The trouble with history is that it is not politically correct; thus we see the modern counterculture historians adjusting it to fit their ideology.  This is particularly noticeable in the movie industry, but in the Age of Illusion there are very few people who are concerned about the truth.  Jeff Cooper

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14 Reasons to Deport Illegal Aliens...

 

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77

 

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

 

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

 

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!  http://transcripts.cis.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 

6. $Billion Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldst.01.html

 

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.  http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

 

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American  wages are caused by the illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the United States.  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

 

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S. from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

 

12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."  http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.pfp?b=deportation

 

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

 

14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ". http://www.drdsk.com/ Click on articles.


So using the LOWEST estimates, the annual cost OF ILLEGAL ALIENS is $338.3 BILLION dollars a year! So if deporting them costs between $206 and $230 BILLION DOLLARS, Hell get rid of em', We'll be ahead after the 1st year!!!


Please pass this on. Americans need to wake up!

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HEART OF A HAWK 
 
 
 
 
 

Remembering the Reason for July, 4th

by Deborah Tainsh 

 

I considered myself very patriotic until I met the man who became my husband, a Marine who I stood with on July 4 th, 1983, below the towering masonry of the Washington Monument.  The memory and pride of his holding my hand in the evening of a gentle rain where fireworks illuminated the sky over the U.S. Capitol has never waned. Nor the remembrance of his pride in taking me to Marine Corps Barracks 8th and I where he had served in years following his return from Vietnam. 

My view of being patriotic was nill relative to that he exhibited with his six foot fit frame at perfect, motionless attention and his fist close to his side when he saw the flag or heard the National Anthem.  I had never experienced such awe as when I witnessed Marines dressed impeccably in their Blues and working in flawless unison with the strike of one hundred and fifty steel-plated rifle butts on the concrete walkway of Marine Barracks; nor have I been more breathless than while watching the Marine Corps Silent Drill Team perform flawless synchronizations and mirroring of rifles. And after "The President's Own" United States Marine Band performed "The stars and Stripes Forever" beneath a darkened sky, when I thought my heart could feel no more pride and humility, a lone Marine bugler stood atop the oldest Marine Corps barracks in the nation. 

With tear filled eyes, as the United States flag was lowered by spotlight into the hands of two proud and grand United States Marines, I heard played in person for the first time in my life the most beautiful and mournful notes of TAPS.  Notes I never dreamed of hearing outside the realm of their being the most memorable July 4th weekend of my life where patriotism and pride bloomed inside my soul because of a United States Marine, a Marine I admired for his strong sense of purpose and pride in his country, job, and comrades.  The Marine and father of a son, my step-son, Sgt Patrick Tainsh, who became a proud, dedicated United States Army Cavalry Scout with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment.  

A son who entered Iraq 1, April, 2003, and felt unwavering pride in his job to protect his country's safety and freedom, and his purpose to fight terrorism and tyranny so others could live free.  A son, a Purple Heart, Bronze and Silver Star recipient killed in action, February 11, 2004 in Baghdad. A son whose dad, dressed in his Marine Corps Blues, and I, twenty years after our first memorable July 4th, 1983, held hands and shed tears over our greatest loss, yet still with honor and pride as we listened to the playing of those mournful notes of TAPS.

Now as I observe people "outside the wire of military families pride and understanding," whether they are individuals or negative media, I realize they are missing the true understanding of patriotic pride, the tears and honor it brings even in the midst of severe pain.  They really do not grasp July 4th and why they are cheerfully free to enjoy back yard barbeques.

So this July 4th I ask everyone to remember that today's men and women of the United States armed forces are the on going links to our history that began over 231 years ago when 13 American colonies came to resent oppressive policies placed on them by their "Mother Country," Britain. That this gave rise to protests, secret societies, the term Americanism, and in April, 1775, the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.  A war that began with no professional army and required the Continental Congress to establish the regular Continental Army in June, 1775, and appoint George Washington as Commander-in-Chief.   I want them to remember that this Army, always a work in progress, was small by European standards, therefore, Britain disbelieved the colonists had the tenacity or strength to endure a war.

But this did not stop the second Continental Congress from adopting America's Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the day designating the United States as a nation, a day SEVEN YEARS before the Revolutionary War formally ended and TWELVE YEARS before ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

After the Declaration, the revolution looked bleak.  "These are the times that try men's souls," wrote Thomas Paine, who was with the army during a retreat from Cornwallis, a time of low morale, wavering popular support, and abandonment by Congress of Philadelphia.

Today we see similarities to our past as the United States helps Iraq in its fight to secure its fledgling democracy, bring freedom from oppression and terrorists, all a part of also protecting our own country.  Our original army was weak, Europe doubted us, just as skeptics today doubt the ability of Iraq to become strong and successful.  And much of our nation seems to take its own freedom and way of life for granted, as though if we retreat from current terrorist issues, our freedoms and democracy will simply survive without conflict.

But as George Washington never wavered, and in time managed to outsmart his enemy and gain morale boosting victories that energized the Revolution, so I believe our current commanders, with the support they deserve, can defeat this most dangerous enemy that we face today.

It was only through years of time after much turmoil, loss, death, and grief  brought about during the American Revolutionary War that provided our nation with a  "discourse of liberty, individual rights, equality, and the idea that government should be by consent of the governed including the right of rebellion against tyranny and the delegation of power through written constitutions."  I fear the majority of our nation has forgotten or never learned this part of our history. I fear that our divided nation is going to cause a collapse of all that July 4th once stood for if we do not begin standing together as one nation to fight the greatest enemy we've ever faced.  An enemy with a burning desire and mission to destroy our freedoms and civilization. 

It is written that the American Revolutionary War affected the rest of the world and was a "case of practical success that provided the world with a working model."  That it "encouraged other peoples to fight for their rights, and showed it was possible to win" even when seen as the underdog.  I wonder how many today know these lines and still believe in them, or laugh. 

How many are grateful for the patriots and all those who have followed, making the way and defending our country to become and remain the brightest light for independence, democracy, and a life of opportunity?  How many still believe in the Declaration words by Thomas Jefferson:  "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government."

I am grateful for and honor the men, women, and families who sacrificed to create and protect for over 200 years my  freedoms, as I, my family and others today know well to the core of the soul such sacrifice. Yet my husband and I agree that although our family has sacrificed in service and death for our country and for freedoms to help perpetuate a better world, we stand on this July, 4th, with pride, respect and honor for our son and his band of many brothers and sisters who have sacrificed valiantly and selflessly.

In my book, Heart of a Hawk, One family's sacrifice and journey toward healing I wrote:

"Why should I be so selfish as to think my family should never have bled for my country's freedom and safety when other families have bled for me and mine for over 200 years."

Yes, 231 years ago our nation's Declaration of Independence was drafted, and that independence, that freedom, is still paid for by patriots to this day serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other unheard places on the globe. These patriots deserve our deepest respect and gratefulness for their voluntary service to the United States of America. 

On this July 4th let us honor every man and woman wearing a United States military uniform, every wounded warrior, our fallen and their families, and may we the people of this United States remember always a quote from the Virginia Gazette, July 18th, 1777:  "Thus may the 4th of July, that glorious and ever memorable day be celebrated through America, by the sons of freedom, from age to age till times shall be no more.  Amen and Amen."  And may it be restored in our nation's mind that it is more than back yard barbeques and fireworks.  July 4th came and remains at the highest sacrifice ask of any man, woman, and family.  And I remain forever proud of and grateful to each of them.

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Mamas Like Me

by Deborah Tainsh l May 18, 2007

 

Gold Star Mom

Sgt Patrick Tainsh KIA 2/11/04 Baghdad

 

A dedication to our nation's military and their families, past & present

 

 

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On the porch with someone I thought was

really someone I  knew

I learned that friendships are not what they seem

 

When her question stunned me

and I found myself

staring at the floor.

 

Why, she asked, didn't you talk

and change your child's decision

from joining a force that'll send him to war

leaving you dry and crying.

 

Then with a pride not understood

by many privileged and free

and grace's patience guiding me through

I spoke to her with ease:

 

My child believes his calling is higher,

one among the few

led to serve his country,

lay down his life for our children,

for folks like me and you

 

Our future to ensure and save

from an enemy who swears to destroy

the nation our fathers gave us

with their own generation's blood.

 

Sacrifice made to give you the right

to sit here free to speak

or worship as you see fit

without the threat of death.

Precious gifts you could very well lose

without children of Dads who privately cry

and Mamas just like me.

 

Then with not a word she walked away

believing I'd lost my mind

that 9/11 was just a dream

dust settled and forgotten

 

No grasp that her intellect, Hollywood

nor Wall Street highs

could save her precious freedoms

and comfortable way of life

 

But only the American Soldiers,

Airmen, Navy, & Marines

sons and daughters on a higher call

fighting enemies foreign and domestic

 

The Mama's child who finally gave all

and comrades she'll never forget

whose legacies will never die

as long as she has a breath.

 

Yes my child believed his calling was one

among the very few

to serve his country, protect, and die

for our children, me and you.

 

Our future to ensure and save

from an enemy who swears they'll destroy

the life our fathers gave us

with their own precious blood.

 

Yes Mamas like me and Daddys, too

lift up our children to serve

the higher call for freedom and life

for our children, for me and you.

Copyright 2007 Deborah Tainsh. 

 
 
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Deborah TainshAbout the Author
 

Deborah Tainsh, Gold Star Mother of Sgt. Patrick Tainsh KIA Baghdad, Iraq, 2/11/04, is the author of Heart of a Hawk: One family's sacrifice and journey toward healing, recipient of the Military Writers Society of America's Spirit of Freedom award.

A supporter of America's military and their families, Deborah is a national speaker, writer, and peer mentor for Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors of military personnel located in Washington, C.D.  She and her husband, USMC Sgt. Major (Ret.) David Tainsh live in Harris County, Georgia, near Columbus and their son, Phillip.

Deborah Tainsh is an engaging, motivational speaker, volunteer national spokesperson, writer and peer mentor for TAPS www.taps.org.  She has been interviewed and shared her family story on New York Public Radio, numerous national TV and radio broadcasts, the associated press, and most recently with German Public Television.  She also writes for military.com and WhatAreWeFightingFor.com

Contact Deborah at heartofahawk@msn.com or through her publisher, Elva Resa.

Heart of a Hawk is published by Elva Resa Publishing.  To find other books concerning  the mission of the military and the familieswho support them, visit www.militaryfamilybooks.com.  For more info go to: www.heartofahawk.com

 

For more information on Blue Star Moms go to:  http://www.bluestarmoms.org/     and Gold Star Moms go to:

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by ITC(SEL) Lee Crowson, USN
 
 

Hello everyone,

          I hope this finds you all well.  I'd like to start out this note by giving you an update on my situation.  For those of you who I have not been able to contact individually (I apologize), I have been selected for advancement to Chief Petty Officer.  This is both an honor and an awesome responsibility.  No other service has such a significant transition from E6 to E7.  It is so significant a change that there is a transitional period that I will be going through the next few months where the Chief's Mess will teach me how to properly assume the rank and responsibilities inherent in my new role.  Consequently if I am a little more quiet than usual or don't respond to you as quickly please be patient and forgive me.  Please pray for my family and I as we go through this period and the additional time requirements involved.  Thank you.

          Now dear readers, on with the show.  As you fire up the barbecue this July 4th take a moment to reflect on what this day really means both to the history of our nation and to you personally.  This is much more than a day off of work with pay.  This day signifies a people standing up and saying "NO!" to tyranny and beginning a struggle for freedom.  The men who signed the Declaration of Independence could have all been hanged for signing their names to that document.  Do we still have that kind of courage?  Thirteen colonies shook off the yoke of a global power.  Do you understand how significant that really is?  England had an awesome military and owned a large part of the world at that time and a small, rag tag group of poorly equipped colonists and a few friends defeated them.  Talk about the American Spirit!  WOW!  These were not career soldiers, they were regular people like you.  Most of our army had not been trained before the war began and were fighting well trained, seasoned soldiers.  Believe me when I say that there was no political correctness or special interest groups in those days.  Patriotism was not a four letter word! 

 

          You could be executed as a traitor to the crown just for possessing the new flag or speaking to the wrong person.  Ladies and Gentlemen, freedom is our greatest gift and it is not free.  In fact it is rather costly and has been purchased again and again by the blood of patriots.  Regardless of your personal feelings on Iraq and the Global War on Terrorism those young men and women are over there fighting and dying for YOUR freedom.  Whatever you believe, I can tell you that if we don't fight the enemies of freedom on foreign soil then we and our children will be fighting them on ours.  September 11, 2001 as horrible as it was will have nothing on the carnage that will ensue if the jihad makes it fully onto our shores.  You can't hide behind the media or the left and have a group hug, these people want us and our way of life dead, gone and forgotten.  Guess what, you can't say you support our troops and then protest the war and it makes me ill to see the families of fallen heroes disrespecting their memory and sacrifice by protesting in their name.  If you don't like the decisions of those in power then vote to replace them.  If we are not careful we will defeat ourselves long before the Islamic extremists could ever defeat us.  Please support our troops in whatever way you feel led and please let them know you do even if it's just a yellow ribbon around a tree or a flag on the front of your house.  On Independence Day let's thank God and the American military that we still have our independence and our freedom.

Thank you for your time and God bless you all.

Sincerely,
ITC(SEL) Lee Crowson, USN

 

"This world is an uncertain realm, filled with danger. Honor underminded by the pursuit of power, freedom sacrificed when the weak are oppressed by the strong. But there are those who oppose these powerful forces, who dedicate their lives to truth, honor, and freedom. These men (and women) are known as (United States Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines)."

~ The Three Musketeers

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Feeling it was time for a shakeup, a large company hired a new hardnosed CEO. This new boss was determined to rid the company of all slackers. He turned into a bad-___s hard-nosed boss immediately. 

 

On his first tour of the facilities to shake up the employees, the CEO noticed a guy leaning against a wall doing nothing. The room was full of workers and he wanted to let them know that he meant business!

 

The new CEO walked up to the guy leaning against the wall and asked, "How much money do you make a week, fella?"

 

A little surprised, the young fellow looked at him and replied, "I make almost $300 a week. Why do you ask such a personal question?"

 

The CEO then handed the guy $1,200 in cash and screamed, "Here's four weeks' pay, now GET OUT of here, and don't come back."

 

Feeling pretty good about himself, the CEO looked around the room and asked, "Does anyone want to tell me what that goof-off used to do around here?"

 

From across the room came a voice, "He was our regular pizza delivery guy from Domino's. You just gave him a nice raise in pay!"

Bob Anderson CMSgt (Ret)
 
 
 
 
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Forth of July, 2007   

 by Bob Anderson, Chief Master Sergeant, USAFR (Ret)

 

         

          I was concerned that this would be the last 4th of July that we would celebrate as real and free Americans. 

          Today I received two phone calls advising me that the Illegal Immigration Reform Bill had been defeated in the Senate.  I rushed home to catch the news on Fox.  In forty-five minutes of watching I saw three reports on Paris Hilton and seven on Chris Benoit's murder suicide.  Finally, across the bottom of the screen I saw the crawler discuss the bill's defeat. 

          For those of us that fought against this criminal bill I can only say two things. 1. Congratulations and thanks for your efforts and 2. What the hell is the matter with Fox?

          As I have said repeatedly - I don't care about Paris - either the one in California or the one in France.  I do care about the one in Texas and would like to know why Fox is failing to identify and report the success of the latest American Revolution.

          I'm sorry for Mrs. Benoit and her son; their deaths were a tragedy.  Chris' death and the murder of his family have simply gotten the WWE a heck of a lot of free publicity.  Fox is simply following the morbid sensationalism the rest of the news channels have done in an attempt to pander to the sensationalism so many have determined is the American desire.  I am tremendously disappointed in them.

          We, you and I, slapped our politicians on the butt.  We took a stand and made them listen to us - and we can't even find the story.  Wake up fellow Americans the battle for taking back this country is not over with yet, this was just the first scrimmage.

          Osama Bin Ladin and our career politicians have made the same mistake - they are watching too much television and do not understand that the population of this country are not as stupid and apathetic as our media promotes us to be.  Bin Ladin believed he could bring us to defeat with 9/11 and the politicians believed they could ignore the will of the people and do what they want to do regardless of our opinion.

          Lindsey Graham, a Lt Col in the Air Force Reserve, and Trent Lott, a career politician who has repeatedly been treated with great respect on talk radio have finally shown their true colors and I believe they should each receive a resounding defeat in the next election.

          True colors - Mr. Graham I remind you of the Air Force's Core Values; Integrity First, Service Before Self and Excellence in all that we do.  Your oath in both the Air Force Reserve and Congress requires you to defend this country against ALL ENEMIES, BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.  You have proven your self unworthy to serve in either capacity and have taken a stance with those that would destroy this country.

          Mr. Lott, I have listened to you on almost every Conservative Talk Radio Show in this country, in several cases many times.  You have always been treated with respect and support during times when you were being trashed by the liberal media and in trouble.  You Sir, now lash out for the censorship of talk radio - what a hypocrite!  Because we chose not to follow blindly behind this criminal immigration bill - you call for the violation of the 1st Amendment.  How? You want to silence the very people and programs that have universally and repeatedly been your best supporters!  Have you lost your ever loving mind? 

          Mr. President, I have saluted you.  I have shaken your hand; I served under you in both the Texas Air Guard and the Air Force Reserve.  I served under you in Iraq and have supported you without exception.  Sir, not only have you been my Command in Chief and my President - you call yourself a Texan.  Yet, you were the prime mover behind a plan that ignores our existing laws, threatens our national sovereignty and ignores the expressed will of our people.  I voted for you twice, I can not and shall not support you at any time in the future.

           Now, as Independence Day is here, I remember the words of the actor who played the President in the film, Independence Day.  Aliens threatened the safety of the entire world and the American military and everyday citizens were headed into the final battle to save the planet.  He stated, "This is the day we say for the world to hear, 'we will not go quietly into that good night!'" 

          Mr. President, Congressmen and women be warned - WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT!!  We will not support the destruction of our country or the usurpation of our rights to free speech and fair representation.  We will not follow you blindly any longer because you have shown you will not listen to those of us that put you into power.  You "govern by the consent of the governed." I suggest you remember that and Represent Us!

          In Joe Arpaio from Mara Copa County in Arizona we have the model to fix the ILLEGAL Immigration problem - let's use that model.  In the defeat of the ILLEGAL Immigration Reform Bill we have the model to keep our country secure, free - we need to remember the magic that we worked because that need for such action will arise again and again. 

          Sound Off, loud and clear and often, otherwise our politicians will lead us down the path to destruction hoping we are too stupid, too unorganized, too apathetic to oppose their drive for more power and more money.

          On this 4th of July we need to remember not only our hard won independence from the tyranny of a foreign government that oppressed our forefathers and suppressed their rights.  We need to remember that members of our current government just tried the same thing.  We stood against that oppression and the suppression of our rights in 1776 - and we stood against again in 2007.

          I am constantly asked "What can we do?"  I say we need to remember that the strength of this country is the American citizen, not the American government.  That fact was expressed for the first time in the words that we used so long ago to declare our independence from England.  Mr. President, Congressmen and women, I want you to remember the first three words of that Declaration of Independence - "We the people. ."

 
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:14:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Maggard

 

 

1. A civilian child usually dances around or talks during the National Anthem. A military child stands quietly with his hand over his heart.

2. A civilian child sees race. A military child sees diversity.

3. A civilian child has a best friend in his hometown. A military child has a best friend on almost every continent.

4. A civilian child sees only the plane flying over. A military child not only can identify the type of plane flying but knows someone who works on them.

5. A civilian child smells something nasty and yells "eeewwww, what's that smell?". A military child smells something nasty and yells "M.O.P.P. 4! M.O.P.P. 4!!"

6. A civilian child sees a person in uniform. A military child can tell you what branch he's in and what his rank is.

7. A civilian child thinks home is where the heart is. A military child knows home is where the military sends you.

8. A civilian child lives for tomorrow and what it might bring. A military child lives for today for tomorrow Daddy might get called away again.

9. A civilian child gets to kiss mommy and daddy goodnight each night. A military child sometimes has to kiss a picture of daddy or mommy goodnight.

10. A civilian child talks on the phone for fun. A military child lives for the 15 minute phone calls once a week.

11. A civilian child can read and write in English. A military child can read and write in acronym.

12. A civilian child says "good-bye". A military child says "see you later".

13. A civilian child gets to see things other kids would love to see. A military child gets to see things world leaders would love to see.

14. A civilian child will probably go to the same school his entire life. A military child will probably change schools every 2 years.

15. A civilian child might rarely leave his hometown for anything other than vacation. A military child will rarely see his "hometown" for anything other than vacation.

16. And finally...a civilian child supports our soldiers. A military child is a soldier.



The next time you say a prayer for our troops, please say a prayer for their families, especially their children back home that are trying to be strong. If you don't stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them.

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