Day: November 20, 2016

MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE: WHAT ARE BILL JOHNSON’S HERESIES?

WHAT ARE BILL JOHNSON’S HERESIES? 
BY BRANDON HINES
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2016/11/14/what-are-bill-johnsons-heresies/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
In the past few weeks, Bill Johnson has been the center of a lot of controversy. With Montanist apologists like Michael Brown defending his errors and whitewashing his heresies and others falling prey to his exploitation, the fact that he is a heretic at all is being questioned. Bill Johnson seriously needs to be tested against the Scripture.
Kenosis
The Kenosis heresy teaches that Jesus set aside His divinity while on Earth. According to this doctrine, Jesus was no longer divine from His birth to His ascension. Bill Johnson has promoted this heresy in Face to Face with God on page 108. He said,
“Jesus set aside His divinity, choosing instead to live as a man completely dependent on God.”
Truth is, if Jesus set aside His divinity and became a man, Jesus would have been nothing more than a man. This is not the only time that Johnson promoted Kenosis. In chapter 7 of When Heaven Meets Earth, Johnson claimed,
“[Jesus] laid His divinity aside as He sought to fulfill the assignment given to Him by the Father.”
To claim that Jesus put His divinity aside while on Earth brings another Gospel. If Jesus was not divine when He died on the Cross, then He would not have been a sufficient sacrifice. In that case His death would be in vain and so would our faith. Instead, Jesus is treated like God while He is on Earth. He received worship (John 20:28, Matthew 2:2, Matthew 14:33, Matthew 28:9), claimed to be God (John 5:18, John 8:24, John 8:58), and did things only God could do all while on Earth (Matthew 9:2, Mark 2:5, 1 Peter 2:22).
Osteenism
Johnson has also taught the false gospel of Osteenism, more commonly called the Prosperity Gospel. The Prosperity Gospel teaches that health, wealth, and prosperity are promises of salvation or obedience. In a 2013 article entitled Courage to Leave a Legacy, Johnson wrote,
“Our connection with God is obviously the source of all blessing, prosperity and goodness in our lives. We make our way prosperous through obedience because when we do what He asks us to do, we strengthen our connection with the source of life.”
I would remind Bill that the most obedient person of the Bible was a poor carpenter who was brutally crucified, and someone who was called the greatest person born of a normal birth (Matthew 11:11) was a nomad who lived in the desert, wore camel hair for clothing, ate locusts and honey, and had his head cut off for his obedience.
Throughout the Bible, we see James get beheaded, Stephen get stoned, and the number of people who have gotten sick appear to pile up: Timothy, Epaphroditus, Trophimus, and even possibly Paul himself. However, that does not stop Johnson from saying Jesus died for our physical healing. In an article entitled Is It Always God’s Will to Heal Someone?, Johnson claims,
“When He bore stripes in His body He made a payment for our miracle.”
Retanism
There is another false teaching out there pushed by people such as Kenneth Copeland and Joyce Meyer that teaches that Jesus was born again. I called this teaching “Retanism”, and if it was a civil crime to preach it then Bill Johnson would be found guilty. In one sermon (Which has been reviewed on Chris Rosebrough’s Fighting for the Faith), Johnson can be quoted as saying,
“So [Jesus] was born through Mary, the Virgin, and then he was born again in the resurrection.”
Jesus was not born again because He did not need to be Born Again. He did not have a sinful nature and He, though tempted, did not desire to rebel against God. He was not dead in trespasses and sins, so He did not need to be made alive. However, Bill Johnson says Jesus was born again in many places, including this video, where he asks,
“Did you know that Jesus was born again?”
Kenyonism
The Kenyonist heresy, which is more commonly known as the Word of Faith heresy, states that our words have supernatural power akin to that of God when He spoke the world into existence. It states that just like God created with His words, we can create things with our words. In this video(Time: 59:48), Johnson teaches people how to do faith healing (Something that never had to be taught to those who could do it in the Bible). He says,
“As you’re praying over them, command now the spirit of affliction, ‘Loose that hip, in Jesus’ name.’ Command that God just speak health into that hip. Some actually need a creative miracle. There’s degenerative condition in the joint. So the worlds were made when God spoke them into being, so speak to that new hip.”
This heresy not only elevates man but actually leads to a lower view of God. We do not have the power to speak things into existence.
Montanism
Bill Johnson preaches the heresy of the Montanists, which is that prophecy is still being given and the canon of Scripture is either incomplete or insufficient. Johnson often claims prophecy in visions. In one article on his site, he teaches people how to receive prophecy (Note: The prophets never had to be taught how to receive prophecy). He instructs readers,
“Ask Him specifically to minister to you in the night through visions and dreams. Once you have a dream or vision, write it out, and ask Him for understanding.”
In this YouTube video, the Montanism that Johnson teaches is taken to its logical conclusion. He says,
“It’s difficult to expect the same fruit of the early church when we value a book they didn’t have more than the Holy Spirit they did have. It’s not Father, Son and Holy Bible.”
To claim the Early Church did not have the Bible is almost as false as this diminishing of the authority of Scripture is blasphemous. And yet this is the low view of Scripture that Montanism leads to. He even goes as far as to teach that all Christians have the ability to prophesy. In a sermon clip entitled “All Must Prophesy”, he said,
“All of the people of God [are] carrying prophetic anointing.”
The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 12:29 (ESV), “Are all prophets?” and in the Greek the language implies “No”.
Conclusion
Bill Johnson is a dangerous false teacher. No matter how many times his heresies are whitewashed, they will still stand and he will still be guilty of them unless he repents. One may say that they are simply doing Christianity different than the rest of us, but I would argue that Nadab and Abihu were only doing Judaism different from the Israelites, and, “fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them.” (Leviticus 10:2, ESV).
Avoid Bethel at all costs. They teach a false gospel and a false Jesus and a false view of Scripture. They offer up unauthorized fire. They are to be rebuked and separated from, not endorsed, commended, whitewashed, and visited.
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Bill Johnson on Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

THE SBC IN THE LONE STAR STATE: TEXAS HAS TWO GAY WHORE HOUSES IN IT, CALLED “CHURCHES”

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THE SBC IN THE LONE STAR STATE: 
TEXAS HAS TWO GAY WHORE HOUSES IN IT, (BUT THEY CALL THEMSELVES “CHURCHES”)
BY BUD AHLHEIM
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2016/11/16/the-sbc-in-the-lone-star-state-texas-has-two-gay-whorehouses-in-it-but-they-call-themselves-churches/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; (1 Timothy 1:9-10 KJV)
While the error of the KJV-only stance is evident to the Biblically astute, it is often helpful to read this translation to get a more vivid flavor of the English translation of God’s Word. So, in reading Paul’s first letter to Timothy, we find the Apostle’s words translated in the vernacular of the king’s English with a particular vigor and poignancy that more modern versions may seem to lack. It’s just that often blunt phraseology that sometimes helps drive home the Scripture’s meaning. Such is the case here.
In the ESV, the apostle’s words above seem to somehow lack the same bold levity, though they are no less foreboding in their meaning.
understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine; (1 Timothy 1: 9-10 ESV)
While “whoremongers” from the KJV certainly carries a weightier tone than the ESV’s “sexually immoral,” the latter translation allows for “those who defile themselves with mankind” to be more easily understood by modern ears with its use of the phrase “men who practice homosexuality.”
logo-2But for two Southern Baptist Churches in Texas, it doesn’t matter what translation of Scripture is used. They’re going to disregard what it says anyway.
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,  nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.  (1 Corinthians 6:9)
According to two news reports (HERE and HERE) Wilshire Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas and First Baptist Church of Aulogostin, Texas are facing removal from the Baptist General Convention of Texas for their culturally tolerant, though Scripture-defying, affirming stance on the LGBT issue. Each church publicly affirms their acceptance of openly LGBT members.
In a warning letter to Wilshire’s Pastor George Mason, the 5,000 church strong Baptist General Convention of Texas advised that “should your church choose to publicly affirm same-sex sexual behavior, the BCGT will no longer be able to accept funds from the church, seat its messengers to the annual meeting, allow the church to express affiliation with the BGCT, or allow its members to serve on the BGCT boards, committees, or other roles.”
The Convention issued a statement that clarifies its position in dealing with these two churches.
“This is a painful time for Texas Baptists. We have deep respect and appreciation for the churches involved. While Texas Baptists are loving, respectful and welcoming to all people, we have a longstanding and often reaffirmed biblical position on human sexuality.”
wbc
wbcWilshire Baptist recently passed, with 61% approval, a resolution that elucidated its LGBT-affirming position for membership, leadership, and participation in baptism and weddings. In response to the state convention’s warning that it “did not want Wilshire’s support,” Pastor Mason seemed to wave the big stick of money. “The BGCT appears to care more about institutional survival than missional partnerships,” he said. He and the Convention Executive Director had been in conversation about “ways the church might continue to support BGCT missions causes and work together on matters of shared concern.” (Source)
Hopefully, with regards to Wilshire, the State Convention will find the loss of Wilshire’s coins in the coffer to be irrelevant to the need to adhere strictly to the clear teaching of Scripture.
First Baptist Church of Austin responded to the BGCT warning first by claiming “as a church, we did our diligent theological work, being guided by the Spirit” and came to a conclusion that “we are proudly and openly welcoming and affirming of all God’s beloved children.”
Of course, the obvious error in this lofty-toned congregational soul searching is the pesky little truth that the Holy Spirit never disavows what He has previously avowed in His Word. What was sin in the first century has not suddenly become a “good work” in the twenty-first.
The Austin church’s letter then struck back at the BGCT accusing it of being guided by blind, money-motivated power. “From our perspective, the current model of discernment being used by the leadership of Texas Baptists is based on money and influence…”
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fbaOn their website, First Austin’s senior pastor Griff Martin doubled down on his congregation’s willful intent to disregard what Scripture teaches. “We want to take a stand for both LGBTQ full inclusion in the church and the historic Baptist distinctive of church freedom. This is who we are and we are proud of our stances.” Of course, in complete disregard for the words of the Apostle Paul to Timothy to “avoid such people,” (2 Timothy 3:5), this pastor and this church are “proud” of their defiance to Scripture.
Perhaps it’s not spurious to suggest that, as with the churches addressed by our Lord in John’s Revelation, they too seemed to exhibit the same “we’ll do what we want the way we want” attitude.  But He commanded them to repent or risk the removal of His presence from their midst.
To the church in Thyatira, as the pastors and leaders of these Texas churches would do well to consider, the Lord said,
I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.  I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.  Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,  and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. (Revelation 2:20 – 23)
But the BGCT seems to be standing firm. “The BGCT had to make a decision based on principle and precedent, in light of the positions adopted by messengers to the annual meeting and actions taken by the Executive Board.”   The convention’s executive director, David Hardage, stated that, “I believe a church can be welcoming but not affirming. I believe that it is not only possible, but also biblical.”
The sad, though Biblically forewarned, reality of Texas will become more pernicious. For those who aren’t merely “Christian” in name only, we can expect, as Paul warned Timothy in his final letter to the young minister, “that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.” (2 Timothy 3:1) The reason for this “difficulty?”
“For people will be lovers of self,  lovers of money, proud,  arrogant, abusive,  disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal,  not loving good, treacherous, reckless,  swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.” 2 Timothy 2:2-5.
Add to that list of spiraling depravity Paul wrote about to Timothy the evident “giving them up” judgment of God that he describes in Romans, a judgment that is most vividly seen in the removal of His restraining mercy and permitting them to pursue deviant, unnatural sexual passions.
 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.  (Romans 1:26-27)
The imperative for the authentic believer is clear. To stand with God means to stand in obedience to all things He teaches in His Word. In the United States, where the culture is poised and ready to demand a relaxed, tolerant, modern interpretation of a “living” Constitution – one that changes with the times –  the Bible-obedient believer does not have, or need, that luxury with the Holy Writ that directs our faith. The Bible’s truth claims are immutable because its Author is immutable.
With Paul, we must be able to say, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7
For a couple of churches in Texas, that claim is clearly one they’ll not be able to make. But they won’t mind … it comes from Scripture … and they clearly have no regard for that.
Pray that these churches repent or else face the loss of obedient, true believers who should rightly avoid them. More eternally worrisome for these churches, though, is the loss of His presence.  They may have “the appearance of godliness” but, without repentant obedience to the truth of Christ in His Word, they are “denying its power” and thus are not, in fact, faithful churches of our Lord.  They are selling a false, damning, “other” gospel that may bring the praise of some men, but is sure to command the eternal wrath of God.


JERRY FALWELL JR. LOOKING TO BE REPAID FOR HIS TRUMP CAMPAIGNING WITH A POSITION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

JERRY FALWELL JR. LOOKING TO BE REPAID FOR HIS TRUMP CAMPAIGNING
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2016/11/17/jerry-falwell-jr-looking-to-be-repaid-for-his-donald-trump-campaigning/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Jerry Falwell, president of the flagship Southern Baptist university, Liberty University, and one of Donald Trump’s loudest evangelical supporters, is now seeking repayment for all of his efforts in helping Trump land the job of the nation’s leader. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Falwell has expressed interest in serving a prominent role in the Education Department under Trump. In an interview last Tuesday, Falwell said,
I let them know one of my passions is reforming higher education and education in general, I told them I’d be willing — I have a lot of responsibilities here — but I’d be willing to serve in some capacity that sort of brings education back to some form of sanity.
Jerry Falwell spent the better part of the last year preceding the election campaigning on Donald Trump’s behalf. In opposition to many other evangelical leaders, like Russell Moore who spent his time campaigning against Trump, Falwell endorsed Trump, stating he was “a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.” Falwell even went as far as to declare Donald Trump a born-again Christian.
It is truly an honor to receive Jerry’s endorsement. Not only is he a high-quality person, with a wonderful family, whom I have great respect for — I also consider him a very good friend and his support means so much to me,
Trump said in a statement to the Washington Post.
Falwell, now, is holding Donald Trump to the line, when he along with several other evangelical leaders agreed to Work for Trump if he became president in a closed meeting back in June. Charisma News reports James Dobson as saying,
There are about 25 of us that include Jerry Falwell, Jr., Robert Jeffress, Jack Graham, Ben Carson, James Robison, Michele Bachmann, and many others whom you would probably know. We’ve all agreed to serve. How will that play out if Trump becomes president? I don’t know. It is a good start, I would think.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch also reports that Falwell wants to repeal the Johnson Amendment that prohibits tax-exempt organizations like churches from endorsing political candidates, and he supports a “voucher” system that enables poor and underprivileged children to attend private schools at reduced rates or no cost at all.
In a lashing-out against those who disagree with him, he says,
The vast majority voted for Trump because they wanted change. They’ve been betrayed by career politicians, by establishment Republicans so many times — they just don’t trust them anymore — and they just wanted something different and didn’t want to go with Clinton. I knew on the other side you had the Pharisees, you know, the real judgmental Christians who were never going to support him, but I really felt like they were outnumbered.
Of course, the “Pharisees” and “judgmental Christians” Falwell is referring to is Russell Moore and his followers who viciously campaigned against Donald Trump on the basis of character flaws and his closed-border policies, incorrectly stating “that Ted Cruz is leading in the ‘Jerry Falwell’ wing, Marco Rubio is leading the ‘Billy Graham’ wing and Trump is leading the ‘Jimmy Swaggart’ wing…” Turns out, Trump was leading the “Falwell wing” after all. In response to Moore’s unceasing vitriol against him, Trump tweeted that “Russell Moore is truly a terrible representative of Evangelicals and all of the good they stand for. A nasty guy with no heart!”
So Jerry Falwell Jr.’s guy is in, and now it’s payday.
See also:

PRESIDENT ELECT DONALD TRUMP’S APPOINTMENTS~HE’LL ONLY ACCEPT A $1.00 SALARY~ILLEGALS, LIBERALS HORRIFIED








GENERAL FLYNN ACCEPTS NSA, SESSIONS FOR AG, POMPEO FOR CIA, GENERAL MATTIS FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

By Kelleigh Nelson
November 21, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
“We
should understand the Constitution as the founders meant that it should
be understood. We can do this by reading their words about it, such as
those contained in the Federalist Papers. Such understanding is essential
if we are to preserve what God has given us.” —Ezra Taft
Benson
“We
may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land – not, perhaps,
the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study,
to consult, and to obey. The chart is the Constitution.” —Daniel
Webster at an address at Springfield Massachusetts on 29 September 1847
President
Trump Listens to Us
Am I
pleased with our President-elect’s choices so far? Yes, I am. Like
Trump, none of them are perfect, but they will do a wonderful job for
our new President. Even if there are areas in these men’s political
lives that are not perfect, we now have a president who will listen to
the American people. He has heard us in the past.
We told
Mr. Trump that common core was rotting the minds of the students and destroying
the teaching profession, and the government schools have eliminated academic
teaching. Trump knows, and common core is on the way out. More than that
needs to go as well.
Long
ago, Trump was pro-choice, thought it was a woman’s right, but then
he watched a video of an abortion, and that was the catalyst that brought
him to the saving knowledge that it is an evil that needs to be eliminated.
The gestating baby is a human being that is separate from the mother,
and as such should have the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.
When
Mr. Trump was first questioned about the land in the Western states being
held by the Feds, he thought it was okay. Then he got some flak from the
American citizens who know what is going on. He sent his son to investigate,
and then Trump wrote an article about it in the Reno Gazette Journal,
Trump:
Nevada, US Needs a President Who Obeys the Law. Listen to this three-minute
video on same.
 I do
not know of any politician, much less a president of the United States
who has listened to the people like Donald J. Trump. This is why I have
hope.
There
are two areas I’m deeply concerned about; the main one is education,
because I do not believe he is getting the advice he needs to make proper
choices in personnel. The names I’ve heard are the enemies of education,
and are extremely troubling, but more about that in another article.
The
other area that deeply concerns me is Veteran Affairs. We need a veteran
to take on the problems in this arena. It would also be wise to have a
veteran who has been through the VA system and knows what needs to be
done to implement our President’s agenda.
The
choices of our 45th president are, so far, absolutely brilliant. He is
choosing the cream of the crop, and those who will follow through with
the policies and plans our new President has to Make America Great Again.
Lt.
General Michael T. Flynn
General
Flynn has accepted the position of National Security Advisor. I am so
pleased to know he will be helping our new President. This is a man of
great character and intellect who is absolutely perfect for the position.
I cannot express how absolutely delighted I am at this appointment.
If you
wish to know all about General Flynn, pick up a copy of his bestselling
book, The
Field of Fight. It is 180 pages long with an index and is a quick
read. His book offers a plan that combines creative, imaginative, and
strategic solutions with political engagement and effective military action…a
plan to win.
Congratulations
to General Flynn!
Senator
Jeff Sessions
For
two decades, Jeff Sessions has been the junior senator from Alabama. He
is beloved by his constituents.
Senator
Sessions chaired Trump’s National Security Advisory committee. ‘‘The
president-elect has been unbelievably impressed with Senator Sessions
and his phenomenal record as Alabama’s attorney general and U.S.
attorney,’’ a Trump transition statement released Thursday
read. ‘‘It is no wonder the people of Alabama re-elected him
without opposition.’’
Sessions
has opposed nearly every immigration bill that has come before the Senate
the past two decades that has included a path to citizenship for immigrants
in the country illegally.
He’s
also fought legal immigration, including guest worker programs for illegal
immigrants and visa programs for foreign workers in science, math and
high-tech. In 2007, Sessions got a bill passed which essentially banned,
for 10 years, federal contractors who hire illegal immigrants.
‘Legal
immigration is the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United
States,’’ Sessions argued in a 2015 Washington Post op-ed.
‘‘… What we need now is immigration moderation: slowing
the pace of new arrivals so that wages can rise, welfare rolls can shrink,
and the forces of assimilation can knit us all more closely together.’’
[Link]
He’s
also a debt and military hawk, and a full-fledged climate change skeptic!
I have
always favored Senator Sessions because of his stance on trade, and especially
on the horrible Trans
Pacific Partnership (TPP). He was also against fast tracking of TPP
which many senators voted for, including Sen. Cruz. Fast tracking actually
gave away Congress’s control to the President for six years. Fast-track,
or trade promotion authority (TPA), allowed the White House to send trade
deals to Congress for up-or-down votes. The Senate would not be able to
filibuster them, and lawmakers would not have the power to amend them.
The
expedited process, which lasts until 2018, and can be extended until 2021,
greatly increased Obama’s chances of concluding negotiations on
the TPP, which was a top goal of his. Thankfully, it has not passed.
Senator
Sessions has not always voted the way I would have liked, but he is strong
on the rule of law, and strong on protecting America. This is an honorable
and good man, and I pray the Senate endorses his nomination.
Congressman
Mike Pompeo
President
elect Trump has nominated Congressman Mike Pompeo for head of the CIA.
I’m impressed with Pompeo’s strong stance for law and order,
not to mention his ability to staunch pro-terrorism activities in local
mosques. [Link]
Mike Pompeo, a conservative Republican congressman from Kansas, has heavily
criticized the Iran deal, and was a member of the congressional committee
that blasted Hillary Clinton over the attack in Benghazi, Libya. Watch
his questioning of Hillary on Benghazi. Pompeo would be a huge improvement
over John Brennan.
Pompeo
is a member of the House intelligence committee, which oversees U.S. intelligence
gathering efforts. In 2014, he was appointed to the House Select Benghazi
Committee to probe the 2011 attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi.
Pompeo
certainly has the knowledge and skills to run the CIA. More than that
he has the guts to make a tough call, something the CIA has been unwilling
to do since early in the George W. Bush administration. So far, so good,
but…
Unfortunately,
here’s what Mike Pompeo had to say about Edward Snowden: “[He]
should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think
the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence.”
(Washington
Examiner, 2/11/16). I am in total disagreement with
Pompeo and Trump’s stances on Edward Snowden. To most Americans,
Snowden is a hero.
Rep.
Pompeo is also a heavy supporter of the NSA’s surveillance programs:
“Congress should pass a law re-establishing collection of all metadata,
and combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information
into a comprehensive, searchable database. Legal and bureaucratic impediments
to surveillance should be removed.” (The Atlantic, 11/18/16). Sorry
Mike and President elect Trump, this is totally unconstitutional and I
fully disagree with you.
(SEE THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE AT THE ABOVE URL LINK)
TRUMP APPOINTS KRIS KOBACH HEAD OF IMMIGRATION TEAM~
ILLEGALS, LIBERALS HORRIFIED
The architect of Arizona’s SB 1070, considered by many the strictest anti-illegal-immigration law passed in recent history, has been tapped to provide consultation to President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team, and both illegal immigrants and their liberal supporters were horrified.
Trump’s Anti Immigration Adviser Says Team May Push ‘The Wall’ Without Congress

                                  

Trump Not Taking Salary as President-Media Attacks Him for “Violating Constitution”
Published on Nov 16, 2016
Donald Trump has said he will not take a salary as president, which is $400,000 a year, but the liberal media is attacking him for this decision. Only in an Idiocracy could this happen. Media analyst Mark Dice has the story.
HE’LL TAKE A $1.00 SALARY INSTEAD, BUT THAT DOESN’T SIT RIGHT WITH LIBERALS
Trump to Nominate Jeff Sessions 
as Attorney General ~ VIDEO
SEE: http://www.ammoland.com/2016/11/trump-nominate-sessions-attorney-general/#axzz4QTS3DIS1; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
NEWTOWN, Conn – –(Ammoland.com)- President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Alabama U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general, several news sources are reporting today.
Sessions was the first senator to endorse Trump and served as a trusted adviser during the campaign.
Prior to the Senate, Sessions served as Alabama attorney general in the mid-1990s and was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama during the Reagan administration.
The attorney general’s position is arguably the most important of the cabinet positions with regard to the firearms industry.

His A+ rating from the NRA validates Sessions’ strongly pro-gun record as an elected official.

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Trump Taps Jeff Sessions for AG, 

Rep. Pompeo for CIA Chief

BY CHERYL CHUMLEY
SEE: http://pamelageller.com/2016/11/trump-taps-jeff-sessions-ag-rep-pompeo-cia-chief.html/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Donald Trump has reportedly made his picks for key Cabinet and administration roles, including Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA director and retired Gen. Mike Flyn for national security adviser.
That’s according to Bloomberg News and the New York Times, newspapers that both reported Trump’s team was due to make a formal announcement in the coming hours.
From Bloomberg:
“President-elect Donald Trump has settled on Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, according to two people familiar with the matter.
“It wasn’t immediately clear if Trump has formally offered the job to Sessions, a lawyer who was an early and ardent Trump backer, but the people familiar said Trump wants Sessions in the role.
“A Trump aide on Thursday night called Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a one-time Trump rival who was under serious consideration for the role, to tell him the job was instead going to Sessions, one of the people familiar said. The people asked not to be named because the decision has not yet been made public.”
Pompeo serves on the House Intelligence Committee.

PompeoRep. Mike Pompeo

From Breitbart:
“Rep. Mike Pompeo has been selected by Trump as CIA director and retired General Mike Flynn has been selected as his national security adviser.
“[Pompeo’s] popular with the national security hawks in Washington as he supports restoring the intelligence community’s ability to collect bulk metadata. He is also a firm opponent of the Iran Deal and served on the House special committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks.”
The New York Times offered a bit of background about Sessions, as well as confirmed his looming formal appointment to the attorney general spot.
The newspaper said:
“Mr. Sessions, a former prosecutor elected to the Senate in 1996, serves on the Judiciary Committee and has opposed immigration reform as well as bipartisan proposals to cut mandatory minimum prison sentences.”
That last was a pet project of President Obama, who made it his personal goal to issue mandatory jail sentence reductions to certain criminals currently behind bars.
Sen. Ted Cruz had been talked about as a likely candidate for the lead Justice Department spot. But Bloomberg reported Friday that the Texas senator was told by Trump team members the job had gone to Sessions instead.
The Washington Post reported more:
“Sessions’s offer was finalized Thursday and the senator has been working with staff to lay the groundwork for an official announcement, said one person close to the transition, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
“Two people who have spoken directly with Trump officials said Pompeo had been offered and has accepted the job of CIA director. They also asked for anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the process. …
“Sessions, 69, was Trump’s first endorser in the Senate and quickly became the then-candidate’s chief resource on policy. Known for his hard-line views on immigration, the fourth-term senator has been dogged by accusations of racism throughout his career. In 1986, he was denied a federal judgeship after former colleagues testified before a Senate that he joked about the Ku Klux Klan, saying he thought they were ‘okay, until he learned that they smoked marijuana.’”
“Pompeo, 52, was elected to the House in 2010 as part of the first wave of so-called tea party lawmakers. A West Point and Harvard Law School graduate, he serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and is a close ally of Vice President-elect Mike Pence.”
Pompeo, who had endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio for president during the primary season, has been an outspoken critic of President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
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Hillary Fears Indictment as Senator Sessions Appointed Attorney General

Elites Panic As Trump Begins To Deliver








PARENTS AGAINST COMMON CORE URGE DONALD TRUMP: “RETURN CONTROL OVER EDUCATION OF CHILDREN TO US”

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PARENTS AGAINST COMMON CORE URGE DONALD TRUMP: “RETURN CONTROL OVER EDUCATION OF CHILDREN TO US” 
BY DR. SUSAN BERRY
SEE: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/17/parents-against-common-core-urge-donald-trump-return-control-over-education-of-children-to-us/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

An organization of parent activists, retired teachers, and other professionals from around the nation has released an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump, urging him to do all within his power to return control of education to parents.

Parents Against Common Core, which consists mainly of the heads of state groups that have been fighting for repeal of the controversial standards, writes:
Though primarily parents and not policy experts ourselves, there is no escaping the fact that our individual and group research, writing and lobbying efforts have caused Common Core to be either repealed or modified via law and/or policy all across the nation. It is also an inescapable fact that the majority of our success in opposition grew spontaneously and fully from the interactions with our own children and schools and therefore hold specific and direct experience no mere “policy expert” could possess.
In the letter, which can be signed by others at its website, the parents ask Trump to consider them as the key “forgotten” group in education, and to do all within his power “to see that control over the education of our children is returned to us – PARENTS and GUARDIANS – those best suited to advocate in deference and defense of those being educated at the hands of the taxpayer.”
With a goal of ultimately ending the U.S. Department of Education, the parents’ recommendations to Trump include:
  • Scale back and eventually cease the flow of education funding from the federal level to the states
  • Scale back and eventually cease the role of writing and dictating education policy from the federal level to the individual states in singularity or in toto
  • Scale back and eventually cease provision of grant opportunities from the federal level to the states for any reason, but specifically to cease and prevent support of any federal education policy, but especially related to invasive, ineffective social emotional learning, preschool, and home visiting programs
  • Revise and modernize the FERPA law for the specific purpose of protecting individual student privacy rights, including prevention of unauthorized and/or anonymous digital capture of granular data – specifically rescinding the changes to FERPA through the Office of the Federal Register undertaken in 2011, as well as maintaining the wise federal prohibition on a student “unit record” that would link college and workforce data for individuals.
  • Transfer funding for and oversight of The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to the states and remove the Common Core requirements for grade level instruction and testing for students receiving Special Education and related services.
  • Appointment of a Secretary of Education who is committed to reducing, if not eliminating, the federal footprint in education; who understands the Constitutional role of the federal DOE is non-existent; who will work to eliminate any incentives or requirements supporting Common Core; who understands that Title 1 portability will impose Common Core and other federal strings on private and home schools, completely undermining your key promise of local control; and who is a parents right advocate…
The parents’ recommendations for the post of U.S. Secretary of Education include Dr. Williamson (Bill) Evers; Dr. Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College; Dr. Sandra Stotsky, standards writer and professor emerita, University of Arkansas;  Dr. Peg Luksik, Pennsylvania constitutionalist and co-founder of the Center for American Heritage; and Dr. William Jeynes, professor of education at California State University, Long Beach.
As Breitbart News has reported – and the parents especially note – Evers was invited to be a member of Trump’s transition team. A vocal critic of Common Core, Evers is a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and served as both an advisor and assistant U.S. Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush. In addition, Evers was named by both former California governors Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger to serve on commissions that evaluated and recommended academic standards.
In January of 2015, Evers penned an op-ed for Education Week in which he denounced the Common Core State Standards:
[I]ncreasingly, parents and taxpayers view the public schools as an unresponsive bureaucracy carrying out edicts from distant capitals. Today, we are dealing with a deteriorating situation in a declining institution, namely widespread ineffective instruction in the public schools.
The common core’s designers have taken the existing bureaucracy and increased its centralization and uniformity. By creating the common-core content standards behind closed doors, the authors increased the alienation of the public from schools as institutions worthy of loyalty. The general public had no voice in creating or adopting the common core.
…The common core’s promoters are endeavoring to suppress competitive federalism. The common core’s rules and its curriculum guidance are the governing rules of a cartel. The common core’s promoters and their federal facilitators wanted a cartel that would override competitive federalism and shut down the curriculum alternatives that federalism would allow.
The new common-core-aligned tests, whose development was supported with federal funds, function to police the cartel. All long-lasting cartels must have a mechanism for policing and punishing those seen as shirkers and chiselers, or, in other words, those who want to escape the cartel’s strictures or who want increased flexibility so they can succeed.
The new leadership of the College Board by David Coleman, one of the common core’s chief architects, is being used to corral Catholic schools, other private schools, and home-schooling parents into the cartel. The proponents of the common core have now established a clearinghouse for authorized teaching materials to try to close off any remaining possible avenue of escaping the cartel.
The parents note that in August of 2014, Evers testified to the Ohio House Education Committee: “Competitive federalism encourages innovation, allows movement between jurisdictions that enhances liberty, and permits a better match between policies and voter preferences. Common Core’s national uniformity runs counter to competitive federalism.”
In June, Evers sounded the alarm about California’s radical progressive K-12 curriculum. Writing at the Orange County Register, he observed the new framework “is filled with present-minded paraphrases of the uplifting rhetoric of the Progressives of early 20th-century America.” He noted as well, however, that missing in the curriculum are other facts about the Progressive movement, such as their “devotion to eugenics and their opposition to African Americans getting an academic education.”

MINNESOTA MOTHER SUES AFTER 15 YEAR OLD SON RECEIVES HORMONE TREATMENTS FOR GENDER TRANSITION WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT

MINNESOTA MOTHER SUES AFTER 15 YEAR OLD SON RECEIVES HORMONE TREATMENTS WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT 
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:



MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A mother in Minnesota has filed a federal lawsuit against state and county officials after her teenage son was granted emancipation without her knowledge or consent and was subsequently provided with hormonal treatment to begin a “gender transition” without her approval.



“Last year, without my knowledge or consent, without any court hearings or legal process, without any involvement on my part whatsoever, a legal aid group that gives free services to low income people created a notice of emancipation for my 15-year-old son,” Anmarie Calgaro outlined at a press conference on Wednesday. “Suddenly, my son, without any notice to me, was no longer under my supervision.”



Calgaro was consequently prohibited from receiving any information about her son, who was treated as an adult by the Department of Human Services and provided with public services, including assistance with food, housing and medical services.







“It was then brought to my knowledge that my son had begun receiving hormone replacement treatments from Park Nicollet health services to transition from male to female with medical assistance paying for this,” she said. “I was not consulted or informed about this in any way. I had no way to give or receive any information about my son.”



Calgaro learned that her son was also provided with narcotics as well.



“The news that county agencies and health services providers, the school and other county and state offices were completely bypassing me came as a complete and total shock. Why wasn’t I even notified?” she asked, breaking down in tears.



According to her lawsuit, Calgaro takes issue that the Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid Clinic did not investigate any of Calgaro’s son’s claims about his relationship with his mother before issuing the emancipation. Calgaro says that the assertions her son had made, as reflected in a letter drafted by an attorney with the clinic, were false. She has six other children and is divorced.



Calgaro also believes that the emancipation is invalid as it was not issued by a court.



Earlier this year, Calgaro’s son sought to change his name from male to female, but was rejected by a district court, which noted that Minnesota law requires that the request be made by the parent or guardian. It also outlined that “a legal issue exists as to whether the juvenile petitioner herein has a legal basis to assert emancipation.”



“St. Louis County’s determination that [Calgaro’s son] was eligible for government-paid medical services was the cause of why Park Nicollet and Fairview determined that [Calgaro’s son] was emancipated for the purposes of providing medical services,” the legal complaint outlines.



Calgaro is seeking an injunction against further services being provided to her son, and is requesting that the court order the clinic and others to turn over his records for his mother’s review.



She is also requesting a declaratory judgment “that her due process rights under the U.S. Constitution Due Process Clause were violated by defendants because she has no statutory or common law cause of action to challenge in state court the defendants’ determinations of emancipation without a court order which led to the medical, educational and other services being provided and denial of access to medical, educational and other records without parental consent and without a court order.”



“This is an outrageous abuse of power by multiple agencies,” stated Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Society, which is representing Calgaro in court. “To treat a minor child without either parental consent or a court order of emancipation is a violation of the trust placed upon the human service sector and its governmental oversight agencies. To give a parent no recourse to intervene in this situation is an egregious violation of Constitutional rights.”



			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	
		
	

		
		
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HILLARY CINTON SUPPORTERS RESORT TO TERRORISM OF ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTERS



Published on Nov 18, 2016





Hillary Clinton supporters are death threatening Donald Trump delegates in an attempt to intimidate them into swtiching their electoral vote to Clinton.
http://www.infowars.com/anti-trump-pr…









MILLENNIALS SUPPORTING KARL MARX, 



NOT THE BIBLE



SEE: http://newswithviews.com/Whitney/david211.htm; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







By Reverend David Whitney




November 20, 2016
NewsWithViews.com



What a week! One thing is clearly demonstrated by this election, we are a deeply divided nation. There are two groups, those who produce, and those who take from those who produce. And sadly it appears that we are almost evenly divided.



Video of the sermon







“A new report on Americans’ attitudes toward socialism says that statements of Karl Marx have more support among millennial than what the Bible says about work and people’s right to eat. Asked if they agree with what Marx said, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his need,” 64 percent of millennial said, “yes,” but only 53 percent said they agree with the statement in the Bible that “if any would not work, neither should he eat,” according to a new poll by YouGov and the Washington, D.C.-based Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.”[1]



We have seen how the Hollywood and entertainment elites are disgusted but how many of them have done what they promised and left America? We’d be better off without them. They believe they are our superiors when the reality is the other way around.



We see now how angry and even violent the liberal progressive left turns out to be. Does anyone remember riots after Obama’s first election in 2008? It has also been reported, that some universities are offering counseling and safe spaces for students emotionally debilitated by the election results. I guess it has incapacitated their professors as well, who had to cancel their classes. One thing is apparent, the Marxists own the urban areas of our country; the more densely populated the more Marxist. Yet, cities are where you find the greatest failures of those Marxist policies. Just consider Detroit, once one the wealthiest cities in the world that is until Marxists were elected and began to give away the wealth of those who worked for it to those who would not work. Today Detroit is the sobering picture of the future of any society that is foolish enough to actually implement that system of government sponsored plunder known as Marxism.



This election tells us that we are in the midst of an ideological war over this question: what is the purpose of civil government? is it a system of legalized plunder where the producers are robbed by those who won’t work, or is it a government which is focused on protecting God given rights which includes property rights.



The Marxist would have us believe that a society is blessed when it promotes and enacts a system of legalized plunder. It is obvious that the plundered in that society are not blessed. And Scripture tells us that not only are the plundered not blessed but even the plunderers themselves are not blessed – for by becoming thieves in a system of legalized plunder they have earned the wrath of God; they are cursed, not blessed.












The key issue is this; what has God our Creator ordained human civil government to do, and what has He also restricted it from doing.



Some time ago I read the excellent book “Toward a Theology of Taxation” and it surveyed everything the Bible says on the subject of taxation. It is interesting to see God’s design in the Hebrew Republic. The civil government is small and does only a few things leaving the other two God ordained institutions, family government and church government, to do all the other significant tasks in society. Thus taxation was very small, everyone paid exactly the same amount regardless of their income or their assets. Now folks will tell us that such a society is impossible, a dream that could never be fulfilled in this world. I find it odd that people make that assertion for it was the case in early America.



When Alexis de Tocqueville visited American in the 1830’s one of the surprises for him was how small and nearly invisible civil government was. What he was witnessing was the blessing of a society where people by and large were self governed ordering their lives by the Word of God, where family government was vibrant, raising godly children who would fulfill their roles as godly contributors to society, where the church government was strong fulfilling all its God ordained duties and therefore civil government wasn’t all that important.



Consider just one example – Exodus 20:15 Thou shalt not steal. If people learn God’s Law and order their own self government accordingly, they will avoid all violations of their neighbor’s God ordained property rights. If the family fulfills its duty of training up disciples of Christ who not only clearly understand the God ordained issue of property rights, they are deeply imbued with a commitment to the protection of everyone’s property rights, not just their own, then the greatest impact will be felt everywhere. Then the Church in turn does its job preaching against every species of violations of property rights in society, thus educating everyone regarding the sacred nature of property rights. Now what job is left to civil government? There will be a few people who slip through the cracks of this full on press to preserve property rights but they will be few and will be such an exception to the overall tenor of society that everyone will despise the thief in their midst, every institution of society will reinforce the sacred value of property rights in how the whole of society responds to the the thief when he is exposed.



In such a system the idea of Marxism would be soundly rejected for all would see it is but a thinly veiled attempt to institutionalize legalized plunder. It would find no foothold at all there for everyone’s thinking and commitment would be to eliminate thievery in all its forms.





To those who would say that such a description is fanciful, impossible, and could never be made to work, I simply reply read what Alexis de Tocqueville wrote after visiting America in the 1830’s. In fact it is amazing to see what he recommends to the Legislator. “It should therefore be the unceasing object of the legislators of democracies and of all the virtuous and enlightened men who live there to raise the souls of their fellow citizens and keep them lifted up towards heaven…If among the opinions of a democratic people any of those pernicious theories exist which tend to inculcate that all perishes with the body, let men by whom such theories are professed be marked as the natural foes of the whole people.”[2] So they should put down Atheism at every turn.



When we ask, Does God’s Word give instructions to a society that desires the greatest blessings? Yes it does and there are two primary instructions: Right Worship and Right Living.







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BOYCOTT: STARBUCKS CALLS COPS AFTER CUSTOMER REQUESTS NAME OF TRUMP 



ON COFFEE CUP



Published on Nov 17, 2016





Infowars reporter Joe Biggs breaks down events that took place at a Starbucks when employees refused to put the name Trump on his cup. They quickly called police and escalated the situation even further













Man says Starbucks Employee Discriminates Against Whites



Published on Nov 17, 2016







Coral Gables, Florida (WPLG) A video has gone viral of a man at a Starbucks in Coral Gables who proclaimed that he voted for Donald Trump, then accused a barista of discriminating “against whites.”


“You’re trash,” David Sanguesa said to a barista after demanding his money back. “Because I voted for Trump. Trump. You lost. Now give me my money back


Word of the incident went viral because of a Twitter post that said that a “#trumpsupporter” attacked and threatened patrons and staff at the Starbucks because his coffee took too long and blamed anti-white discrimination.


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OBAMA’S PARTNER IN CRIME: ERDOGAN’S TURKEY VOTES TO MAKE CHILD RAPE LEGAL FOR MEN WHO MARRY THEIR VICTIMS~OBAMA & MERKEL DECIDE INTERNET MUST BE CONTROLLED~OBAMA ADVISES ANTI TRUMP PROTESTORS NOT TO BE SILENT
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

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OBAMA’S MUSLIM PARTNER IN CRIME: ERDOGAN’S TURKEY VOTES TO MAKE CHILD RAPE LEGAL FOR MEN WHO MARRY THEIR VICTIMS



BY PAMELA GELLER



SEE: http://pamelageller.com/2016/11/erdogans-turkey-votes-make-child-rape-legal-men-marry-victims.html/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







Obama has boasted on more than one occasion that he calls President Recip Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey for his advice on how to raise his daughters, Malia and Sasha. Obama praised Erdogan and said this: “And I also appreciate the advice he gives me, because he has two daughters that are a little older than mine — they’ve turned out very well, so I’m always interested in his perspective on raising girls.”



Obama has said Erdogan was his “favorite” and “most trusted” ally.



Erdogan has spoken out against contraception, describing it as “treason” when speaking at a wedding ceremony. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said women cannot be treated as equal to men and now Erdogan calls women who work, “half-persons.”



Obama goes to him for advice on raising girls. This is who has been running our country for the last eight years.



Donald Trump appointed Steve Bannon to a senior position, and there is a chorus of condemnation from the media.



Barack Obama considering a friend and confidante someone who will legalize statutory rape — no problem. That’s the hypocrisy of the media.



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“Fury as Turkey votes to make child rape LEGAL for men who MARRY their victims,” by Nick Gutteridge, Express, Nov 19, 2016:





In a move which has shocked world politicians, the Muslim majority country proposed exonerating pedophiles en masse.



Hardline president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government insists that the new law is designed to pardon men who did not realize they were having sex with underage girls.



But critics have reacted with open fury to the legislation, saying it officially legitimizes both deliberate child rape and forced child marriages.



It comes after a shocking rise in violence against women in Turkey, which has risen by 40 per cent in the past decade.



Opposition MP Ozgur Ozel raged: “Sexual abuse is a crime and there is no consent in it. This is what the AKP fails to understand.



“Seeking the consent of a child is something that universal law does not provide for.”



MPs will have a second vote on the new legislation on Tuesday at which point, if the ballot goes the same way, it will be officially passed into Turkish law.



It is estimated that the change in the law would quash the convictions of some 3,000 men accused of assaulting an under-18.



The government says this will happen if their act was committed without “force or threat” and if the aggressor marries the victim with the consent of their family.




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OBAMA JUST WENT ONSTAGE IN GERMANY & BETRAYED AMERICA WITH 7 WORDS



“WOULDN’T ADVISE (ANTI TRUMP) PROTESTORS TO BE SILENT”











Merkel With Obama: Internet ‘Disruptive’ Force that Has to Be ‘Contained, Managed, and Steered’ by Government



BY PAMELA GELLER





republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:


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The internet is the last frontier of the freedom of speech. It has not been controlled by large media companies or government oversight; nor should it be. Chancellor Merkel seems to believe that she was undone not by her catastrophic migrant policy, but by the fact that its consequences were published online at sites like this (while ignored by institutional media).



This is where totalitarianism starts. Hitler, too, shut down free speech.



This is exactly why the First Amendment was enshrined in our Constitution — because who would decide what’s good and what’s forbidden? Merkel? Obama? We know where Obama stands on this issue. He has long been a foe of our First Amendment rights. But he is history. And I predict Merkel will be, too, in the upcoming elections.



Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced.



Putting up with being offended is essential in a pluralistic society in which people differ on basic truths. If a group will not bear being offended without resorting to violence, that group will rule unopposed while everyone else lives in fear, while other groups curtail their activities to appease the violent group. This results in the violent group being able to tyrannize the others.



Speech that is offensive to some must not be curtailed, but protected. If speech that offends a group is outlawed, that group has absolute power, and a free society is destroyed. A group that cannot be criticized cannot be opposed. It can work its will no matter what it is, and no one will be able to say anything to stop it.





MERKEL WITH OBAMA: INTERNET ‘DISRUPTIVE’ FORCE THAT HAS TO BE ‘CONTAINED, MANAGED, AND STEERED’ BY GOVERNMENT



By Oliver Lane, Breitbart, November 17, 2016:

U.S. President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel smile during their press conference at the German Chancellery in Berlin, Germany November 17, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueU.S. President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel smile during their press conference at the German Chancellery in Berlin, Germany November 17, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Speaking at a joint press conference with outgoing American President Barack Obama on his farewell tour, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made chilling remarks about her views on the need for government to control the internet and slammed anti-Islamization protesters who she accused of hijacking the German spirit for liberty.
German Chancellor Merkel, who is presently deciding whether to run for a historic fourth term on the strength of her pro-migrant policies which have seen her lauded with praise by President Obama, moved to address populism in her joint address.
Calling the surge of interest in right-wing politics a “wave” that “engulfs us,” Ms. Merkel noted the sentiment “seems to come from the United States,” but in an oblique reference to President-Elect Donald Trump said it was an issue she was dealing with in Europe, too. She said:
“Look at the European parliament. There are a lot of people who are looking for simplistic solutions and are preaching simplistic solutions which are very unfriendly policies. We have them here in Europe, too, we have them in Germany too.”
Apparently blaming this rising populism — politics that are popular with voters — on the internet, the German chancellor implied the internet would have to be subject to restrictive censorship laws as were enacted by many European nations to stem the disruptive effect of the printing press. She said:
“Digitization is a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change and transformation in society. Look at the history of the printing press, when this was invented what kind of consequences it had. Or industrialization, what consequences that had.



“Very often, it led to enormous transformational processes within individual societies and it took a while until societies learned to find the right kinds of policies to contain this, to manage and steer this. We live in a period of profound transformation.”



The chancellor also took time to speak out against the populists within her own country, blaming the exporting of manufacturing jobs abroad for discontent about mass migration. Picking up on the slogan for anti-mass migration and counter-Islamization movement PEGIDA ‘Wir Sind Das Volk’ — ‘We Are The People’ — the chancellor said:



“The most important and noble task of politicians these days is to see that each and every person can find his place. But those who purportedly belong to certain groups say ‘we are the people, and not others’.”



The saying has been inherited by PEGIDA from the counter-Communist rule movements in East Germany in the 1980’s. Merkel, a former member of an East German Communist group, said those words as a protest against overbearing government power and had brought joy to her then but not today. She said:



“At the time when we had [this saying] in the GDR [East Germany] when the people stood in the streets and said ‘we are the people’ it filled me with great joy, but the fact these people have hijacked it does not fill me with joy.”



Ms. Merkel’s comments on web censorship may be welcomed by many in the traditional mainstream media, whose grip on news narratives has been weakened by digital news services like Breitbart.



This week Germany’s Zeit newspaper published a piece calling for controls to prevent “a German Donald Trump”, while Britain’s Independent former newspaper website published a list of “fake” news sites which they claimed may have “swayed votes towards Donald Trump”. One of those listed was Breitbart News.