Political tolerance plays a role at Ft. Hood
The killings and wounding of some 42 military people at Fort Hood, Texas, was more than just a “horrific outburst of violence” as stated by Obama, but surely cold blooded, pre-meditated murder.
And Army officials ignored plain danger signs of Hasan’s (the alleged murderer) beliefs and characteristics, as well as the several complaints repeatedly to their superiors from classmates of Hasan at a military college of his anti-American views. Hasan gave a presentation at the university that justified suicide bombing and told his classmates that Islamic law trumped the U.S. Constitution.
One classmate correctly described the problem to Pentagon officials - that fear in the military of being seen as politically incorrect prevented an “intellectually honest discussion of Islamic ideology.” Senator Lieberman rightfully has called for a review of Hasan’s Islamic links. Hasan apparently attended the same Virginia Mosque as two Sept 11 hijackers in 2001.
The post’s chaplain said the mourner’s position is to try to explain the unexplainable. But is it really unexplainable? Muslim extremists seek total world domination.
As reported by Christian Action Network, Iranian President Ahmadinejad has stated, “We don’t shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world.”
An excerpt of Osama bin Laden’s fatwa (religious ruling) states, “The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it…”
As Senator Lieberman stated “The U.S. Army has to have zero tolerance.”
Tell your congressmen.
N. D. Blevins, Sand Springs
Dangerous secularism
The dizzying rush with which our beloved America is being overwhelmed by the secular humanists is indeed daunting to those of us who would resist. The temptation is intense to throw up one’s hands and wave the white flag of surrender.
The shadow government of secular humanists in the forms of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Bilderbergers has seized control of the American government at all levels. This cartel of humanist corruption fronted by their dedicated pitchman fraudulently residing in the White House is rushing head-long, hellbent for the utter destruction of the American Republic, the last bastion of freedom on the planet. Their passion for a one-world government cannot accommodate a free, independent people like we Americans.
To those devoted American nationalists of moral integrity who may consider surrender, I say intensify the struggle! There are three crucial reasons why we must not relent in discouragement.
First, we are bound by integrity to carry this battle into the trenches in order to preserve the honor of the fallen millions of young men and women warriors who populate the military cemeteries of France, Great Britain and America. These heroes died bravely believing that American Freedom is worthy of their ultimate sacrifice. Shall we, the beneficiaries of their heroism, surrender the fight? Forbid it almighty God!
Second, to forebear and intensify the struggle in the vast fields of lost souls following the legion of liberal lemmings who have been duped by the original lie: “Ye shall not surely die. . . .Ye shall be as gods.” (the secular humanist credo - Genesis 3:3-5)
If we surrender now, millions of Americans who might have been snatched, as it were, a brand from the burning through our witness may be eternally lost, and God forbid, our children may be among them.
The final reason to increase the battle cry is the challenge/promise from Almighty God:
II Chronicles 7:14-16: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attentive unto the prayer that is made in this place.”
As Christians, we are indeed “called by his name,” so we must take this battle for the soul of our nation into the streets against a seemingly overwhelming odds. We must remember the declaration in I John 4:4: “Because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
Phil Cowan, Tulsa
Low voter turnouts
It is reported there are approximately 337,237 registered voters in Tulsa County. The Tulsa World reported the voter turnout on November 10, in a contested mayoral election, was only 66,843.
Thomas Jefferson once said, “We are ruled by the majority, at least by the majority who participate by voting.”
A democracy thrives when the citizens of that democracy participate by casting their votes, but likewise a democracy will cease to exist when the citizens no longer exercise their voting rights.
It is incumbent on each citizen to register to vote, and then to exercise that right during elections. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, the voter turnout was 83 percent.
Why the low voter turnout? A recently published book, When in the Course of Human Events (authorhouse.com), reviews the role of political parties in the actual governance by political processes that are not Constitutionally based.
The book simply states,
(1) Let no law or political process be enacted that restricts the right to vote, and (2) Let no government create apathy among the citizens.
Recent actions by the House of Representatives and Senate using political processes, that are political party-based processes, not government, have created apathy in the American voter. The control of debate is left to the political party, which then controls the flow of information to the citizens.
Why are non-elected United States citizens never invited to participate in congressional debates?
Why does each political party only put forth one candidate for the final election?
What would have been the result of the last presidential election if: Obama, Clinton, McCain and Romney had all been on the final national ballot? Remember, these are political processes, not constitutional.
If the citizens continue to allow the political parties to control the access to government and the processes of legislating, the voter turnout will continue to be weak even in presidential election years.
The posterity of the United States democracy is at stake.
John Smallwood, Tulsa