A principle and an Athletic Director are looking at a possible 6 months in jail over a meal time prayer. In China... just kidding. Pakistan... sorry, that's not right either. Uh... oh, yeah... Venezuala. Shoot! That's wrong too!

In America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read the excepts of this story:

Students, teachers and local pastors are protesting over a court case involving a northern Florida school principal and an athletic director who are facing criminal charges and up to six months in jail over their offer of a mealtime prayer.

"I have been defending religious freedom issues for 22 years, and I've never had to defend somebody who has been charged criminally for praying," said Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, the Orlando-based legal group that is defending the two school officials.

The district also agreed to forbid senior class President Mary Allen from speaking at the school's May 30 graduation ceremony on the chance that the young woman, a known Christian, might say something religious.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/14/criminal-prayer-case-stirs-protests/?feat=home_headlines

Is that what we've come to?

You can say any profane, vulgar, anti-authority, anti-Christian, anti-God, pagan, occultic, false, inflammatory and ridiculous thing you want in school (and other "public" places) but GOD IS OFF LIMITS. You might "offend" someone.

We can teach, study, preach, and present ANYTHING in schools unless its even remotely Christian related. We can indoctrinate with false religions, abominable lifestyles, scientific hoaxes and all manner of anti-freedom politics... but don't bow your head and say "God bless America" or you might go to jail for "violating the civil rights" of someone who doesn't even deserve them in the first place, given how they trample on the very God who grants those rights, and empowers a just government to ensure them.

Remember this? ..."endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights". Let me ask all you offended little petty God-hating people this: if God hasn't granted you those "rights" that have been "violated", who has? Obama? Government? What happens when they change their mind and take away some "right" you think you should have? Who you going to appeal to then? You want "freedom" to believe the way you want, but you are helping to remove this freedom FROM ALL when you rejoice and participate in removing from one.

Yeah, I'm a little fed up with all this.

I know we pray all the time that God would save America and "turn" her back from this disaster, but I'm not sure anymore that God's judgment is not the only thing that is called for at this point.

It's getting harder to see it any other way.

Here is the mentality of your leaders in Washington who only want to grow government, increase taxes and centralize all power on America... FACTS don't matter. Just agendas and "feelings".

In the Bible, we have a story from 3000 years ago how the Israelites became slaves to Egypt when they traded their possessions and freedom for Government care.

Imagine with me 3000 years in the future... and the American "Bible" is being read by our ancestors. It is full of stories about the mythical "Land of the Free" which has long since ceased to exist. Imagine they find the New Obama Modern English Version “Bible” of American history and they open to:

Genesis 47:13-27 (New Obama Modern English Version)

Barack Deals with the American Economy

13 Now there was much less consumer spending in all the land; for the recession was very severe, so that the “land of the much less free” and the “home of the previously brave” languished because of unemployment, layoffs and a cutback in available consumer credit.

14 And Barack gathered up all the money that was found in the land of America and in the land of private business for the government bailouts and programs which they bought; and Barack brought the money into Congress’s house.

15 So when the money ran out in the land of America and private enterprise, all the Americans came to Barack and said, “Give us more programs like healthcare and welfare, for why should we do without or have to take personal responsibility as long as you are President? For the private sector has failed us and does not take from producers and redistribute the wealth.” And the media helped Barack by repeating whatever he wanted said to the land of America.

16 Then Barack said, “Give your freedom and independence to me, and I will give you healthcare, cash for clunkers, stimulus and all manners of government handouts, for the will to make your own money and provide for yourself is gone.”

17 So they brought their freedom and gave up their personal responsibility to Barack, and Barack gave them government checks, welfare credit cards and many new government programs in exchange for the productivity, freedom, security, independence, individualism and most of their income because of the new taxes needed for government. Thus Barack gave them everything they needed in life, from healthcare to food to jobs, in exchange for all their freedom and independence.

18 When the recession did not end and became even worse, the people came to Barack and said to him, “We will not hide from our lord that our money is gone; and our lord also has our possessions to which are now leveraged for taxes and bad credit. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our private property.

19 Why should we continue to live a lower lifestyle before your eyes, both we and our land? We will trade our very lives and private property in exchange for government protection, security, jobs and healthcare. Take our lives and private property for guaranteed food and health, and we and our land will be slaves to Barack; give us government care, that we may live and not die, that the people may not have to be responsible for their own destiny.”

20 Then Barack bought all the land for Congress; for every man of America sold his freedom, because the liberal media propaganda and elitist academic indoctrination was severe upon them. So the land became the Governments.

21 And as for the people, Barack set up Government programs and monitoring to control them, from one end of the borders of America to the other end.

22 Only the land of the trial lawyers, teachers unions and labor unions he did not control; for the lawyers and unions had given the money to get Barack elected, and Barack would do nothing to risk losing their election contributions and votes. Thus no law or program was passed to reform lawyers, teachers or union, instead, many new laws and programs were created to protect and benefit them.

23 Then Barack said to the people, “Indeed I have bought you into Government servitude and your freedom this day belongs to Congress and Government. Look, here are your benefits, your healthcare and your government jobs. Isn’t America great now?

24 And it shall come to pass when you make any income for yourself that you shall give 80% to Government. Twenty percent shall be your own, for you to spend on yourself but even then you will pay sales taxes, property taxes, embedded taxes and be required to purchase what we tell you to purchase at the prices we tell you it will cost, and you will pay for Government permits, licenses and fees for many of the things you do… both you, your household and the generations to come.”

25 So the people said and the liberal Democrat controlled media reported, “Barack has saved our lives; let us find favor in the sight of our lord Barack, and we will be Government servants because we no longer have to worry about taking care of our own lives.”

26 And Barack made it a law over the land of America to this day, that the Government should have 80% of all income, except for the liberal special interest groups, which got many tax breaks and exceptions to ensure they voted Democrat in the next election.

27 So America was no longer land of the free, but land of the Government; and the Government slowly took control of all possessions and grew and multiplied exceedingly.

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Far fetched? What makes people today any different from people then?

We are trading our security, freedom and personal responsibility for promises of Government provision. Result? Slavery to government. The formula works every time as history proves.

Feel free to put this in an email and pass this on to every freedom loving American you know. Maybe we can start waking people up before we sell out America and turn the Land of the Free into the Home of the Government.

Brent Riggs
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Don't believe the "right wing conspiracy"? Well how about Obama's very own words?

"Single payer" is code for "government is the only payer". "Public option" is bureaucrat lingo for "government health insurance". "Universal healthcare" is code for "government run health care".

Here's your President and prominent politcians, IN THEIR OWN WORDS, plainly telling you that they want GOVERMENT to control your healthcare, period.

Wake up folks. Whover controls your HEALTH, controls your LIFE, every aspect of it. The government can already take your money and your freedom at the point of a gun (taxes and law enforcement). Once they can leverage your "loyalty" by controlling your healthcare options, that's pretty much the whole game.

Not to mention you are going to be taxed INTO OBLIVION to pay for it.

Listen closely for the President saying, "I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be, potentially, some transition process: I can envision a decade out, or 15 years out, or 20 years out.”

Eliminate! That's the real intention. Now GET READY for the spin machine to go into overdrive at the White House repeating ad nauseum "the President was taken out of context", "that's not what he really meant", "here's what he was really saying...".

Friends, it was already plain enough, but here are the actual words from the actual mouths. But of course... like dozens of other times, the "hate mongers" are misconstruing the plain words of these politicians.

Time to wake up and see the disaster that is coming.



Here's the truth about American Healthcare that the media and the power hungry politicians won't tell you:

This is for all of your liberal friends who are convinced that a single-payer, government healthcare system is going to "save" our healthcare system.

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1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.

2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.

3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.

4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.

5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.

6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom.

7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.

8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.

9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.

10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.