Ayn Rand & Christianity

How can I be so inspired by both Christianity and Ayn Rand?

An Article by The American Refugee

Many TEA Partiers love Ayn Rand.  We adore her novels and many of us were profoundly changed by Atlas Shrugged.  Some people are confused by the popularity of Ayn Rand and aspects of her objectivism among Christian TEA Party conservatives.  As a Christian and Catholic, who is a constitutionalist conservative, I don’t have that problem.  I am absolutely inspired by Ayn Rand and pray that she found Jesus in the moments before her death.

America is rooted in rugged individualism and liberty as well as Judeo Christian morality and aspects of altruism.  Forced charity, by the state, is not charity at all.  It is tyranny.  It harms both those who have their money confiscated against their will and those who become dependent on what is not a safety net, but a dependency trap.

Ayn Rand tells us to act in our own rational self interest.  Christ taught us to love our enemies.  Love is a verb.  We love people by putting our desires aside and doing what is best for the other.  These two concepts are not contradictory.  Doing what is best for the other person rarely involves giving that person money.  It often doesn’t involve giving that person what he is asking for.  It sometimes involves doing something for him that he will curse you for.

We receive benefits each time we act in the interest of others. We experience good feelings, friendship, and experience the emotional form of love. Believers also believe that they are pleasing God by doing His will. There is no escaping that the fact of the matter is, that it is in our rational self interest to “Do unto others”. It is in our rational self interest to live by the will of God. It is in our rational self interest to ignore the selfish desires of our flesh and work for the glory of God and the betterment of others.

There is no doubt that Rand was an atheist.  I am not trying to minimize the difference between Rand and believers.  I am simply stating that most of Rand’s ideas are not at war with Christianity in the way many Objectivist Purists and liberals think.  Rand unfortunately only knew reason, and not faith, but the two are not incompatible.  Reason has lead me to many of the same places that faith has.

We do the moochers no good when we feed them.  We enable them in their destructive lifestyles.  We can help them by not denying them the dignity of the consequences of their own mistakes.  We can help them by opening a business, encouraging them to work for a living ,and offering them a job.  We teach them to fish rather than giving them fish.

At the same time, there are suffering children and those who are too broken to be able to take care of themselves.  We do a moral good, when we help them of our own free will.  We are not being heroes. We are simply acting in our own rational self interest.

 

Come be a part of our Christmas Party with a purpose on Monday, 12/23 and #PrayToEndAbortion Here

MERRY CHRISTMAS from THE AMERICAN REFUGEES

Please Donate to help us cover costs.

Participating is very easy.  Simply go to http://patriotjournalist.com/VideoChat/RedMeat/?src=Home  during the event.  Login by hitting the Twitter icon on the screen.  We will welcome you and teach you how to do everything from there.  You'll meet great people, send out great prolife tweets and be RT'd a  surprising number of times.  We will have prayer, fellowship, and fun all while working to get as many people as possible to #PrayToEndAbortion and trying to trend the hashtag.  There will be Christmas music, prayer, tweeting, retweeting, chat, and video chat.  Those who don't want to join us at the RedMeat SteakHouse can still support the cause by praying and by tweeting as many prolife tweets using the #PrayToEndAbortion hashtag as they can, from the hours of 7pm - 11pm ET.  Don't feel like you have to stay for the whole event.  Many people will pop in and out all evening.  We'd love to have you, if only for a few minutes.

How To Be a Leader of our 12/23 2013 #PrayToEndAbortion MeetUp/TweetUp

Before the Event:

1. Personally invite 10 people to join us at http://patriotjournalist.com/VideoChat/RedMeat/?src=Home on 12/23/12 for an hour or two between 7&11pm ET Monday, 12/23.
2. Commit to me by e-mail to be there either from 7-9 or from 9-11 ET (AmericanRefugee@TheAmericanRefugees.com)
3. Tweet a good pro-life tweet of 80 characters or less within the next few days and make me aware of it.  We’ll be harvesting these tweets and adding the hashtags to use as featured tweets during our event.  I'm @mericanrefugee on Twitter.
4. If God puts it in your heart to do so, please donate any amount here and leave a note that this is for the #PrayToEndAbortion event.  There are costs associated with using the RedMeat Chat Room and this will help us to cover those costs.
5. Listen to this archived radio broadcast which will teach you how to use the RedMeat Chat Room.
6. Go to The Red Meat Steak House and familiarize yourself with the room and it’s functions.  Remember, it will currently not be set up for our event.  During the event, all the featured tweets will be #PrayToEndAbortion tweets.
7. Make whatever arrangements you have to so that you are certain to be there.  As a leader of the event, we are absolutely depending on you to be there.

 

DURING THE EVENT:

1. Go to The RedMeat Steak House at Patriot Journalist a few minutes early.
2. Ignore the user name and password box on the login screen.  Login my clicking on the twitter icon to login with your twitter account.  If you'd like me to  be your coach throughout the event and answer any questions you have, make sure you hit the camera icon next to my name in the roster, so you can see and hear me.
   
3. If you feel comfortable broadcasting yourself, click the camera icon above the roster and then give the application permission to turn on your camera.  If you don’t have a camera or don’t feel comfortable doing this, don’t worry about it.
4. Pay close attention to the roster to see if people you invited show up.  If they do, talk to them in the chat. Make them feel comfortable and welcome by teaching them how to use the room.
5. You will see the tweets at the top of the page with the tweet boxes next to them.  Hit each of the tweet buttons once over the course of the night.  Notice that there are a few pages of Tweet buttons and go to those pages.  You can send out the tweets all at once, or gradually.  Over the course of the evening, you will hit the RT buttons next to the tweets.  This will pull up a list of each of the people who have tweeted that tweet.  Then you simply go down the line and RT them all.  This is a big part of the magic of the room.  Everybody’s tweets get retweeted many times.
6. Have fun.  There will be people sharing in the chat and people broadcasting with their cameras.  It will be a working, pro-life, Christmas party.  There will also be videos playing.  If you don’t want to see a particular video, you can pause or mute the video.  Each time a new video starts you can either watch and listen or you can hit the stop button.

Goals Of The Event

2Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

• At the end of the event I will pray a rosary and I hope many of the Catholics in the room will join me.  Non Catholics are encouraged to have a prayer event themselves at the end.  This will be an interfaith event and all prayers are welcome.
• We hope to get as many people as possible actually praying to end abortion.  We will have prayers throught the event.
• We hope to raise awareness on twitter about the prolife cause and the importance of prayer. If we can trend #PrayToEndAbortion nationally, that will be a huge achievement.  If we can’t but we cause even one person to truly #PrayToEndAbortion, we have still been successful.
• Let’s network with one another and have a good time. This is a Christmas season gathering of pro-life believers.  I hope people will gain new friends and add more followers on Twitter.  We will have fellowship and support one another.
• Who knows? Maybe one young lady in a difficult situation will be inspired to pray and change her mind.  We might just save a life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Time For Revolution is Now

JOIN US AND FIGHT BACK AGAINST OBAMACARE

A CALL TO ACTION FROM THE AMERICAN REFUGEE

From Noon until 2PM EST this Saturday, November 30th, all patriots are invited to be a part of two hours of organizing, tweeting and ReTweeting, to oppose ObamaCare and do our best the crash the Website, www.healthcare.gov. There will be a video teaching you exactly what to do, tweet buttons to press to send out grass roots submitted anti-ObamaCare tweets, and patriots are encouraged to ReTweet everyone else participating.  In addition to performing a patriotic service, it is a great way to gain new followers and get a tremendous amount of exposure on Twitter. There is also a chat room, and for those of you who are comfortable with it, video chat is available.  You will be able to see and speak with other grass roots patriots.  Everyone can engage in this part of our day without risk.

Our Hub, which will actually work, will be the Red Meat Steakhouse, provided by PJNET.  You can check the SteakHouse out now, but understand that our tweets will not be loaded and our video playing untill the event starts at noon EST, Saturday.  The event is sponsored by The American Refugees and we are paying for the room.  Your contributions to cover these costs are not required, but would be greatly appreciated. Donate at The American Refugees here.

For those of you who are not afraid and support our tactics, during but also at the end of this two hour organizing session, we will launch our attack on www.HealthCare.Gov.  Hackers are encouraged to hack and those of you who know how to launch DOS attacks or know other means of bringing down a website, are encouraged to have at it.  For the rest of us, we are all encouraged to do 2 things.

• Invest some time trying to create a bogus account with bogus information at Helthcare.gov

• Repeatedly reload the website and hit different pages over and over again

Don't just hit your refresh button. Make sure you keep hitting a link to the URL and hitting different pages.  You don't want to just reload from your browser's cache.  The idea is to actually tie up the website causing delays and hopefully crashing it.

This is an act of peaceful, disobedient, revolution against an illegal and unconstitutional enterprise.  It is not without risks.  You can have no expectation of privacy from the Obama regime. It is entirely possible that the post constitutional government will know who you are and come after you.  This is an act of legitimate and peaceful revolution by civil disobedience, for people who are both serious and brave.

I want you guys to know how seriously I take this event and this cause.  Normally, on Saturday's, I am on the streets handing out US Constitutions and preaching liberty.  This Saturday, I am giving that up to do this.  I also want you to know that I do not encourage anyone to take risks that I am not willing to take.  Yes, I go by The American Refugee, @mericanrefugee on Twitter, but I am not in hiding. To make my point:

My name is Roger D'Aquin.  I live at 4402 Eastern St New Orleans, LA.  I will not comply with ObamaCare.  I will purchase no health insurance and pay no fine.  I am on a tax strike and will pay no federal income taxes until we have returned to constitutional government.  I will not live in fear.

We Are American Refugees. We know longer recognize our country and we want it back. We are sojourning in post constitutional Ameritopia. Come join us.  Be a hero and fight for America.  The revolution is at hand.  We Are Americans Rising.  #WAAR

Congressman Barton Gives Proof That You Have No Privacy At Healthcare.Gov

REFUGEE GONE GALT

Please Help Us

When I reached the point of deciding to go on a federal tax strike, I decided it would be wrong to hide in the shadows but I also wanted to make it as difficult as possible for the IRS to come after me. Here is how I have done it.
First. I wrote to the IRS :

My social security number is (I put the real number). I live at 4402 Eastern St, New Orleans, LA 70122. The illegal activities of the IRS, your mandate to enforce the unconstitutional ACA, and the murderous and illegitimate activities of the federal government, have convinced me that I can no longer, in good conscious, fund this federal government. I will no longer be paying any federal income tax or any other payroll taxes. I also consider you to be a rogue agency. I will not pay you any taxes, file a tax return, or have any further communication with you until the United States has returned to a constitutional republican form of government.

Roger C D’Aquin. 4402 Eastern St New Orleans, LA 70122

I then went public with what I was doing. This took care of the not hiding in the shadows part of things.
How do I protect myself?  I gave away all property I owned, with the exceptions of my Dogs and guns.  I closed my bank accounts and credit cards.  I own no money or property for the IRS to seize.  I also quit my job. I earn no wages for the IRS to garnish.  I have become a mendicant monk for liberty.  Donations do not go to me, but to the American Refugees organization.  I volunteer for the American Refugees organization over 60 hours a week doing social media, managing the website, hosting our radio show, preaching liberty in the streets, handing out constitutions, and encouraging others to join us in going Galt, and starving the beast of the federal government.
How do I survive? The American Refugees rents the property that serves as  their office and lets me live here. The organization pays for my food, clothing, basic care, and the care of my dogs. Patriots provide me with food.  The organization pays for the constitution I give out and for the help we give to other patriots. In addition to cash donations we accept in kind donations and barter wherever we can.
So you see, I own nothing and earn nothing. I will not comply with The ObamaCare fine and will not pay the penalty either.  I can’t really be charged with income tax evasion since I earn no income. I suppose they can come after me for not paying the ObamaCare fine, but I own no money or property for them to seize. THe ACA also specifically forbids the IRS from using their usual extraordinary powers to collect.  I do receive mail from the IRS. I don’t know what it says, because I don’t open it.
I encourage other people to do what they think is right. I certainly believe that people should not comply with the ObamaCare law and should not pay more in income taxes than they owe. People should not be overpaying during the year and then waiting on a tax refund, which can be seized in part or in whole. If people feel led by God to join me on my tax strike, I welcome them with open arms.
Many Christians, friend and foe alike, have argued to me that my tax strike is prohibited by Christ. The most common scrtipture they site is Mathew 22:15-22:

Tribute to Caesar

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and ^[a]plotted together how they might trap Him ^[b]in what He said. ¹⁶ And they *sent their disciples to Him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and ^[c]defer to no one; for You are not partial to any. ¹⁷ Tell us then, what do You think? Is it ^[d]lawful to give a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?” ¹⁸ But Jesus perceived their ^[e]malice, and said, “Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites? ¹⁹ Show Me the coin used for the poll-tax.” And they brought Him a ^[f]denarius. ²⁰ And He *said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” ²¹ They *said to Him, “Caesar’s.” Then He *said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.” ²² And hearing this, they were amazed, and leaving Him, they went away.
 I beilieve that this is perhaps the most misunderstood story in all of scripture.  If ineterested, listen to my archived radio broadcast on this matter:

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Just how bad are these numbers?

Worse than I could have hoped for in my wildest fantasies.

An Article by The American Refugee

Let me start with full disclosure. I am rooting against ObamaCare and it’s website. I hope if fails hard and fast. This is because I believe a hard, fast, complete failure will lead to the full repeal of ObamaCare. This would restore liberty, save lives, save our healthcare system, and protect and restore our economy. The “Success” of ObamaCare will mean we are not free, healthcare will suffer, and gradually overtime, the private insurance industry will be destroyed and we will move into a completely socialized system. Americans will be more dependent, less free, and less healthy, with a weak economy.

Now: to the numbers. The Regime has released some pathetically low numbers. These numbers are themselves, an attempt to mislead the people. The situation is much worse than these numbers suggest. According to the Regime, 106,000 have enrolled. First, let’s have a laugh at that low number. ROFLMAO! Now, let’s analyze. 76,391 enrolled through state marketplaces, while 26,794 signed up through the federal exchange. ROFLMAO. Included in the federal numbers and some of the states numbers, are people who have signed up for Medicaid. These are new people on the government dole, not people who have purchased insurance. Next, people have to do something more than select a plan, for insurance companies to consider them enrolled. They have to pay their first premium. The Regime is including people who have not yet bought anything. They are including people who qualify for a plan, have been accepted by the insurance company, know what their subsidy will be and how much they have to pay, and are now considering buying. Many of these people won’t buy.

To get the real numbers, one has to go to the insurance industry. They are telling us that about 40,000 people have actually purchased policies, not 106,000. They are also telling us that a very scary percentage of these people are older and sick. Insurance companies are going to be looking at a net loss of money on the policies they have already sold.

To put these numbers into perspective, insurance analysts say that in order for the exchanges to survive and avoid astronomical price increases, 7,000,000 people must buy policies with no more than 1/3 being high risk and about 1/3 being young and healthy, during the 180 day enrollment period.

They expected glitches. A slow start was expected. Sicker people were expected to sign up early. They have done less than 10% of expectations and with an even sicker and older group. This is a disaster. That’s Good.

 

 

 

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An Open Letter to @saramarietweets 

 From The ObamaCare Girl

Editor of The American Refugees ObamaCare Report

You have now repeatedly attacked both Refugee and me and have called us dishonest, despite both of us kindly and respectfully explaining your misunderstandings. You lack basic intelligence, have a large stick up your ass, or are so jealous of me that you see red.

Possibly a stupid person could accuse me of lying. Possibly. My article was so over the to top that I don’t really believe anybody with two brain cells would think it was anything other than a joke. Examples:

• “Although racist whites would probably buy me as white, I looked as though I may be multi racial. “
• “…as a White, Latino, Octoroon, nothing could prepare me for the hell that my life was to become, once I became, “The ObamaCare Website Girl”.
• “I began to be chased down by mobs of angry Obama voters because they thought affordable meant free. “
• “They said I was so cute that millions of Americans were flocking to the website just to get a look at me. This was the cause of excessively high traffic that was crashing the site. “
• “ Many union leaders threatened my life and tried to beat me.”
• “All hope I had of being a successful model and actress have been dashed upon the rocks of ObamaCare. I am permanently type cast as the ObamaCare Website Girl and my face will be permanently associated with failure and glitches. Some call me, the “GlitchBitch”. Others more crudely call me the “ObamaCare Whore”.

Statements such as those are not lies, they are jokes. The funniest humor is that you don’t realize is a joke at first, but as it builds it becomes more and more obvious. People without sticks up their butts end up laughing not just at the joke, but at themselves for buying into it for a few seconds.

When you continue to call someone a liar who had no intent to deceive, you make yourself a liar. Yes Sara, you are a liar. You are also the worst kind of conservative who causes us to lose elections. Conservatives have a hard time attracting young voters because they don’t laugh enough and call young people having fun liars.

You personify what I used to think of all conservatives: angry, judgmental, stupid, no fun, with a stick up your ass, who is quick to attack others. Your attacks on Refugee are even more unforgivable than you attacks on me. He never did anything to mislead anyone. He went on the air less than 12 hours after I created my account and less than six hours after my article was published and told the absolute truth about me. He then told my story again, two days later on his show.

I’ve known Roger since well before he became the Refugee. He was the one person who made me question if everything I thought about conservatives was wrong. His kindness, intelligence, and humor used to strike me as being out of character for a conservative. Lately, I’ve been realizing that I was wrong about conservatives. There are many fun, happy, positive, smart conservatives. I have also come to realize that I was always more conservative than I though and I find myself becoming more conservative. Unfortunately, there are still those like you, who seek to harm and destroy other conservatives.
Readers: If you are not among the 20,000 people who have now read my orginal article, find it here

 

The Truth Behind the Healthcare.gov Website Girl

I am The ObamaCare Website Girl; This is My story

 

They said I had the perfect look. I was young, cute, and healthy looking. Although racist whites would probably buy me as white, I looked as though I may be multi racial. I was the perfect inclusive image of the kind of people Obama needed to sign up for ObamaCare.

While I was used to a certain amount of attention as a White, Latino, Octoroon, nothing could prepare me for the hell that my life was to become, once I became, “The ObamaCare Website Girl”. I began to be chased down by mobs of angry Obama voters because they thought affordable meant free. I was blamed by others for the failures of the website. They said I was so cute that millions of Americans were flocking to the website just to get a look at me. This was the cause of excessively high traffic that was crashing the site. Other people blamed me for losing their health coverage. The worst of all was the union thugs who loudly declared that I was the one causing them problems with their Cadillac insurances planes. Many union leaders threatened my life and tried to beat me.

The funny thing is, I never asked, nor was I asked, to be the ObamaCare Website Girl. I was neither consulted nor compensated. They used my image without permission. Then, when they decided they were done with me, they tossed me aside into the garbage, like they do to aborted babies. All hope I had of being a successful model and actress have been dashed upon the rocks of ObamaCare. I am permanently type cast as the ObamaCare Website Girl and my face will be permanently associated with failure and glitches. Some call me, the “GlitchBitch”. Others more crudely call me the “ObamaCare Whore”. As if this suffering were not enough, my insurance company has contacted me and informed that due to regulations in the new health care law, my policy will expire at the end of December and will no longer be offered. They wished me “Good Luck in the exchanges”. A broken woman, I had nowhere to turn.

Praying to God for an answer, I was scanning Twitter with an anonymous account for information about myself. I can across some tweets by The American Refugee. His words were kind and encouraging. I felt a spark of hope. I went to his website and listened to one of his archived radio shows. I was blown away by the work that the patriots with The American Refugees organization were doing. I wanted to be a part of it. I contacted @mericanrefugee and told him I wanted to join with him in his work and that I needed help. His response couldn’t have been more generous.

I am now in New Orleans, living at The American Refugees compound. I am in counseling for the traumatic stress I suffered and am being well taken care of. Refugee treats me like I’m his daughter. One of his pitbulls, Sarge, has taken a liking to me and is extremely protective of me. He sleeps at my feet and spends most of the day at my side. I feel safe and loved. Refugee has equipped me with a Glock .40 and signed me up for an NRA safety and shooting class. He has made me an editor and placed me in charge of The ObamaCare Report. This is really cool because it makes me feel that I am earning my own way. I hope my fellow patriots will support me, as I try to rebuild my life and fight for everything that The American Refugees organization stands for. God bless you all, and may God bless the United States of American and free us from ObamaCare.

 

 

 

This Is What Patriots Look Like

Pictures & Video Tell Story Of The Vets March Better Than Words.

 

 

 

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America Needs Charlie Daniels

An Article by The American Refugee

As most of you know, many of us have been promoting a new, spontaneous, grass roots movement.  Many patriots are asking Charlie Daniels to write a pro-America anti-ObamaCare song to serve as our anthem as we #MakeDCListen.  Perhaps Charlie would even write something that would shout out our leader, Ted Cruz.  Imagine a great song to the tune of Devil Went Down To Georgia, of the Devil (Obama) trying to steal the soul of America through Obama-Care and Johnnie, “Teddie” standing up to him and saving the day?  You can tweet to Charlie right HERE!

The movement is picking up steam, as is evidenced today's article on BIZPAC REVIEW by Tom Tillison.

While the majority of patriots have agreed that Charlie is the perfect choice for conservatives, a few have asked "Why Charlie?  Are we sure he's with us on this?"  Oh yes.  Charlie is followed by music lovers and conservative patriots alike.  Millions of us have not only been a huge fan of his music, but a huge fan of the man for years.  His patriotism, common sense, courage, and wisdom are without question.  As a tribute to Charlie and as a way to share his wisdom with our readers, let's dedicate the rest of this article to some of Charlie's greatest tweets.

People who support Obamacare will the the first ones to start hollering like a stuck pig when the realities of this travesty are revealed — Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) September 26, 2013	I was at Vanderbilt Hospital today and so far 400 employees have been let go because of Obamacare — Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) October 2, 2013
Be careful about the early perceptions you make about Obamacare Unlike the month of March it will come in like a lamb and go out like a lion — Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) October 2, 2013	everybody goes on Obamacare or nobody goes on Obamacare the congress and the unions,no exemptions All or nothing This is a democracy — Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) October 1, 2013
Truth is something you know in your heart is right and hold on to no matter what anybody else thinks,says or does. — Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) September 29, 2013	Naivety,apathy and denial of the truth will be the death of this nation. — Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) October 2, 2013
Cowboy logic 2 and 2 is always 4 Water doesn't run uphill If there's smoke theres a fire somewhere — Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) October 2, 2013	When the going gets tough the tough not only get going,they take the first step and lead the way. Let's all make the day count. — Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) September 29, 2013

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Ted Cruz, Charlie Daniels, and Making DC Listen

Thank you, Ted Cruz.

An Article by The American Refugee

Conservatives have been frustrated over the lack of leadership coming from Washington.  Now Ted Cruz has given us a leader to believe in and caused a grass roots tsunami by stepping up to the plate.  For 21 hours from Tuesday till Wednesday, Ted Cruz stood on floor of the US Senate and gave a voice to millions of Americans.  We patriots have often felt abandoned by the Republican leadership as Obama and his minions run rough shod over the constitution. Now we say, no more.  Millions of patriots stayed up with Cruz and Made DC Listen this week. We tweeted, we e-mailed, and we blew up the Senate switchboard.  Rand Paul, David Vitter, Jeff Sessions, and especially Mike Lee stepped up huge to stand with Ted.  Twitter was lit up like I have never seen.  At one point Ted Cruz, DontFundIt, ObamaCare, DefundObamaCare, and MakeDCListen were all trending world wide, simultaneously.

Now the national media is trying to tell us that Cruz failed.  He did not.  19 Senators ended up standing with Ted and voting no on Harry Reid’s Cloture motion.  Also, think about this.  The House actually sent over a CR that defunded ObamaCare and while the Senate has gutted it and sent it back to the House, the House is not just lying down and passing the Senate CR. There will likely be a brief shutdown and we will extract a price.  None of this would be happening without all of the work and leadership of Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul. Multiple Democrats have grown week kneed and have begun to talk about compromises that they are willing to make.

A one year delay in the individual mandate could probably pass the Senate now, but inspired by conservatives, the House has decided to go even bolder. Republican congressmen have been bucked up.  Now the House is passing a full one year delay of ObamaCare.  This would not be happening without the Cruz filibuster or millions of patriots contacting congressmen.  There will be serious pressure on the Senate to pass this CR.  Not only will the Dems be shutting down the government in they don’t, but they are only being asked to delay ObamaCare for a year.  Considering that Obama already delayed the employer mandate for a year and has delayed the small business exchanges because they aren’t ready, how can they argue with a straight face that it is the right thing to do to shut down the government rather than delay the rest of ObamaCare for just one year?  We haven’t defunded ObamaCare yet, but we have made progress. We are on the move and ObamaCare is in retreat. The Conservative movement is alive and has a beating heart.

Finally, I want to promote a new, spontaneous, grass roots movement that is springing up. Many patriots are asking @CharlieDaniels to write a pro-America anti-ObamaCare song song to serve as our anthem as we #MakeDCListen. Perhaps Charlie would even write something that would shout out our leader, Ted Cruz.  I could imagine a great song to the tune of Devil Went Down To Georgia, of the Devil (Obama) trying to steel the soul of America through Obama-Care and Johnnie, “Teddie” standing up to him and saving the day. You can tweet to Charlie right HERE!

 

 

ABOSLUTELY INSPIRATIONAL

By The American Refugee

 

 

 

There are no official estimates of the DC police the number of motorcyclist patriots that rode in DC yesterday, but street cops are putting the number at just over 1 million.  The main stream media is choosing to ignore this. It doesn’t matter because 1 million rode, millions more saw them, and the new media, us, patriot journalists are telling the story.

For many, the only cause was to remember the victims of 9/11/2002 and say, “We will never forget”.  Many others made it clear that they want answers and justice for the Benghazi 4. They wanted to let the administration know that this is not forgotten.  Others were offended when they heard about the planned Muslim March in DC on 9/11.  That event fizzled into almost nothing for many reasons, not the least of which was the Muslims being afraid to face the bikers. Many felt the rush of being a part of a band of great American brothers, brothers who believe in freedom, liberty, and love of country.

Whoever you are and why ever you rode, you did America a great service yesterday. You gave us hope. You inspired us. You put boots on the ground and tires on the pavements and did something.

This is the great challenge for patriots coast to coast.  Come out of your meetings.  Get off of your sofas.  Put boot boots on the ground.  Head into the streets and do something.  Do anything.  Show that America will not fade quietly into the dark night of statism and oppression.

Everybody can do something.  If you can juggle for America, then juggle.  If you can sing and dance, sing and dance.  If you are a fat middle aged man, like me, you can still squeeze into a super hero suit and head out to the streets and hand out constitutions.  I have now given out over 12,000 in the last 10 months.  People have given us, we are The American Refugees, the donations to cover my costs and keep me alive.  There is no excuse.  Get out there and do your thing for America.

What Running a Popular and Influential Twitter Account Can Teach You About Real Life.

By Roger D'Aquin, The American Refugee

Today, I put on my social media trainer hat to do some teaching.  What gives me the right to teach?  I’d say 29,000 Twitter followers and a 72 Klout score in just 10 months gives me that right.  What gives me the desire to teach?  I love my tweeps.  That sounds corny but it's true.  I want to see more people both having a positive influence on the world through social media, and learning to live more successful lives through social media.

The Following tweet, by a great Tweep and business and life coach, Gary Loper, has served as the inspiration for this article: What’s the one thing you’ve learned on Twitter that impacted your life in a positive way? #GaryLoperTwitterParty

As I tried to answer the question I realized that Twitter has taught me so many lessons, and backed up so many others, that I couldn’t narrow it down to just one.  While I have always wanted to have fun and be social on Twitter, I have had a goal and a separate agenda from day one.  I want to help resurrect constitutional government in America.  I want to build a movement. That’s a big goal.  It means I need to influence people and have an affect on their behavior.  Can that really be done 140 characters at a time?  Yes.  I am doing it and I am learning lessons and having others reinforced that are making me a better person.

Lesson 1 in tweet: Plant seeds. Give people a reason to remember you and want to hear your message.

Give people just a taste, a nugget.  When people have shown an interest and come to you for more, you now have their attention and can hit them with the full force of your arguments.  You shouldn’t bombard people with information before they have expressed an interest in what you are saying.

Here is an example Example Tweet: Are there ever new natural rights? Is the constitution a living document? Click this link #WAAR

Were this a real tweet, “Click this link” would be an actually link to an article I had already written.  #WAAR is a hashtag I have branded that is recognized by thousands on Twitter.  I haven’t even used 140 characters.  I haven’t offended anybody.  Anyone who is interested in reading what I have to say on this topic, will click the link.

Lesson 2 in tweet:  Most words are just window dressing.  Keep messaging simple, direct, to the point, and quotable. #WAAR

Notice something about each of my first two tweets? These tweets are very retweetable.  I’ve even left enough room for people to add their own hasthtag or one or two word comment.  We learn the art on Twitter of getting things down to the essentials.  We think we have come up with the perfect statement, only to discover, to our horror, that it is 160 characters in length.  And what about our all imporant hashtag?  Will we leave it off or make room for it?  Thus begins the painstaking effort to wordsmith that tweet down to 140 characters.  Or will we substitute "&" for "and" eliminate that comma and the apostrophe.  There are days when the tweets just flow and other times that we are convinced that every character of our perfect tweet is needed and we agonize over every change.  We must relax and remember to keep it simple.

 Lesson 3 in tweet: Tweet unto others as you would like to be tweeted yourself.

There are many aspects to this lesson.  Be social.  Communicate with people.  Treat people with dignity and respect.  ReTweet other people.  Spend more time promoting others than you do promoting yourself.  Send out those #FF tweets.  Respond when people tweet to you.

Lesson 4 in tweet: Be yourself.  Nobody likes a phony.

If you are a geek, it’s ok, be a geek.  Be whoever and whatever you actually are.  People can smell a phony.  Do not lie about your accomplishments.  When you promote others, do it honestly, not just for the sake of promoting someone.  Whatever you say about them needs to be true.  Your reputation is on the line.  Make sure they are funny before you say they are.  Promote Tweeps you actually like and promote what is best about them.  Do not purchase fake followers.  People figure it out and it makes you seem fake to them.

Lesson 5 in tweet: If you Tweet any "I’m gonna’s", you better follow through. People respect actions, not words.

I can’t tell you number of e-mails and DM’s I have received where people have essentially said some version of the following:

“I’m sorry I under estimated you.  I didn’t think you would really ever get the website going or start the radio show.  I didn’t think you could really write a blog. Please call me; I’d like to work with you.”

Thank God I meant what I said and I followed through.  Otherwise, I would have been a laughing stock or simply unknown.  Still, I am imperfect and in a couple of instances I have failed to do things I said I would do.  I’ve had to eat my words.  We are always better off when we do our thing first, and then talk about it.  Or even better, let others talk about it.  If you need help doing something, instead of talking about what you are going to do and striking some as a blowhard, as I did, tell people what you would like to do and ask for their help and input.  Point out to them the things you have done in the past as a means of instilling confidence in them.  Inspire them with your vision and show genuine interest in their input and ideas.

Lesson 6 in tweet: Remember, "If upon meeting a child you have something to teach him, teach. If you have something to learn from him, learn."

I opened this article justifying my right to teach. Let me assure you, I also need to learn.  Many of the people who teach me lessons on social media are newbie’s with very few followers.  This is just as children, my dogs, and mentally handicapped people teach me lessons in real life.  Another way of stating rule six is: Never take yourself too seriously.  You have a lot to learn. You will learn some of it from some very surprising sources.  Still, even if you are conversing with a guru, never be afraid to share your truth and teach.

Lesson 7 in tweet: Hard work yields results. Smart work yields more results. Laziness yields failure.

You want to be followed by people and influence them?  You are going to have to do some work.  The more people you follow, the more will follow you back.  The more people you engage, the more you will be engaged.  Building a brand and an online reputation takes time and work.  A good blog must be written, a good website built and managed.  There are no magic bullets.  That being said, if you work smart, you won't have to work as hard and will get better results than if you work stupid.  Use tools.  Tweepi is a great tool with a great free version and an even better pay version.  Mark Prasek, creator of Patriot Journalist, has created some unbelievable free tools that you can use from his web site.  Learn how to follow the right people.  Network and build relationships.  Listen to my Twitter Follow Friday Radio Show every week.  If you want to network with me, our website is the hub.  You can access all of my social media accounts, radio show, YouTube channel, blog, and e-mail me from there.

Each of these lessons are tweetable and retweetable.  They all aply to Twitter and to life in general.

 

What Kind of Catholic am I?

I'M A MOTHER ANGELICA CATHOLIC

BY THE AMERICAN REFUGEE

I don’t often talk on Twitter about my Catholic faith. This is because my message is largely a political one. I make the Christian part of my message available to all Christians, regardless of denomination. I make the constitutionalist part of my message inclusive to all constitutionalists, be they Republicans, independents, Constitution Party members, Libertarians, Ayn Rand objectivists, whatever. I am trying to inspire a large number of Americans to take their country back and reestablish constitutional republican government.

The fact of the matter is, however, I wouldn’t be who I am if it were not for my Catholic faith. It informs everything that I do. Somebody asked me recently what type of Catholic I am. This was a person familiar with the diversity and even divisions within the Catholic faith. They wanted to know if I was a traditionalist, or a reformer, or a charismatic, or what. My answer surprised them. I said, “I’m a Mother Angelica Catholic”.

The Catholic Network, EWTN, has been a vehicle God has used to reach me throughout my life, starting when I was in a teenager. It was extremely important to me during my years in college and there are many lessons I simply would not if learned, if not for EWTN.  It is really funny how life works.  I already had it in my mind to do this article and as soon as I start to do a little research, up pops this article published today. here  Since my article has now been informed by this piece, I wanted to make sure I linked to it and gave credit, lest I accidentally plagiarize.

Rita Antoinette Rizzo was born into difficult circumstances in 1923. Her mother struggled with severe depression and her father abandoned the family when she was very young. She did not have a good relationship with either parent. At 21 she entered cloistered life becoming a Poor Clare novice. She was received into the community on November 8, 1945 and given the name Sister Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, and she professed her lifelong vows on January 3, 1953. She had a serious accident in the monastery later that year that left her partially crippled and with lifelong back and leg pain, but she never let that slow her down.

She was inspired by the civil rights movement and believed God was leading her to create a cloistered community for black women. While she had no money to do so, she showed her fund raising talents. She and her sisters raised in excess of $10,000 from fishing lures that they made themselves and sold. In 1962 Mother Angelica and four sisters established Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Irondale Alabama.

Her sisters were impressed with her teaching and knowledge of scripture and encouraged her to do something cloistered nuns generally don’t, teach those outside the monastery. In 1971 she received special permission to do just that. She began hosting two hour “Parlor Talks” to discuss scripture with women from the outside world. The talks were mainly for Catholics but others showed up as well.

Mother Angelica reported being amazed at how little these women knew and how they were struggling. The non Catholics knew the scriptures, but they didn’t know how to live an interior spiritual life and live like Jesus did. The Catholics knew the sacraments, but they didn’t know the scriptures and they hadn’t internalized the sacraments into their hearts. “Giving this class, I realized how little people knew,” she said, according to an account in Raymond Arroyo’s 2005 biography of her. This is discussed in detail in Raymond Arroyo’s biography of her. He quotes her as saying she felt called “to help the laity ‘live the Gospel’ and develop an interior life.”

Out of her “Parlor Talks” grew the making and distributing of books and tapes. In 1978 she was in Chicago giving workshops to Catholics who distributed her books and tapes. She visited a Baptist television station when she was there and felt inspired to start her own TV station. She never concerned herself with problems about not having the money to start a project. If she believed God wanted her to start something, she would start it. If God wanted her to continue he would show her how to get the money. Her first television pilot was aired by Pat Robertson on CBN, in 1978. 2 years later Mother Angelica not only had a studio, but had founded EWTN. In the beginning they would share a channel and broadcast 4 hours a day and were available to about 300,000 homes. Things took off from there and the rest is history.

How am I inspired by Mother Angelica? Well, although my focus is mainly on constitutionalism, I quite frankly feel called by God. I have never know how the money would be there to do what I do. I have no idea how to even do the things I am doing. I just kind of fumble my way through it all. Mother Angelica remained a conservative, traditional, Catholic, but she reached out to all believers. Heck, Pat Robertson aired her first show. Every Monday, I hook up with a Baptist who disagrees with me about civil disobedience on ObamaCare. But the point is that he agrees ObamaCare is unconstitutional, he is a conservative, and we work together and support one another. Patriot Journalist and American Refugees are very different animals, but Mark Prasek and I have enough in common at the core that we support one another.

Mother Angelica, who by the way, is a living suffering saint, bed ridden and unable to speak, was never one to bow to political correctness, inside or outside the Church. I will never forget her outrage over a Youth Day event in Colorado, in which a woman portrayed Christ in the way of the cross.

“I’m tired. I’m tired of being pushed in corners. I’m tired of your inclusive language that refuses to admit that the Son of God is a man! I’m tired of your tricks. I’m tired of your deceit. I’m tired of you making a crack, and the first thing you know there’s a hole, and all of us fall in…. I’m so tired of you, liberal Church of America.” As she continued, she recited a litany of outrages, including disrespect for the Eucharist, centering prayer, and mandatory sex education in the schools, Mother Angelica finally came to an explosive rage, “You’re sick… You have nothing to offer. You do nothing but destroy. You don’t have any vocations and you don’t even care – your whole purpose is to destroy.”

Now that is a woman I can relate to! Mother Angelica always remained obedient to her Christ, her vows, and Church authority, but that didn’t keep her from speaking her mind and even calling out a Bishop, if he she felt he had done the wrong thing.

If Christ’s apostles made mistakes and had failings while He was with them, how much harder is it now when we walk by faith and not sight? Remember that even in the time of Christ, 1/12 of the Apostles were completely corrupt, another 1/12 denied Him 3 times, another 1/12 wouldn’t believe the resurrection until he saw and touched, and only 1/12 had the guts to be at the foot of the cross with His mother. Mother Angelica would have given the Apostles what for.

I hope that I have half the courage to speak truth to power as Mother Angelica. I hope that my faith and love will grow and that I will develop an ever deeper relationship with Jesus. I hope that I will have the faith and courage to run the AmericanRefugees the way Mother Angelica ran EWTN. I hope that I will always listen to the voice of God, and ask Him if I am doing the right thing.  In the spirit of Mother Angelica, I have no qualms about asking for money to keep us going.  Please keep us between your gas and electric bill.  Donate Here

 

Don't Empower Any of Our Enemies in Syria

An open letter to every Republican in the House and the Senate

This used to be an open letter to Speaker Boehner.  I've changed it up a bit since he made his disapointing and weak statement.  I am not only disapointed in his decision to support attacking Syria, but very disapointed in the weak statements he made about the president. He taked about appreciating the president coming to congress for support.  This is not about support, but authorization.  I will swallow hard and accept it of congress grants the president the authority to attack Syria.  But if this president is denied such authority and attacks anyway, he should be impeached.

If congress approves action in Syria, I will oppose it but prepare myself for the inevitable and be 100% supportive of any American troops involved in any action.  If congress doesn’t authorize action, and Obama acts anyway, the time for impeachment has arrived.  While I will forgive any congressman who votes his conscious and disagrees with me over the policy of attacking Syria, there will be no such forgiveness over any who lack the guts to impeach Obama if he goes it alone, in violation of our constitution.  Without congressional approval, Obama has no authority to strike Syria.  Syria has not struck us and is not an immediate threat to our national security.  Only congress can give Obama the constitutional authority he seeks to attack Syria.

It is my strong hope that Congress will refuse to give the president the authority he is asking for.  There is a very bad situation going on in Syria and it is one we can’t do much about.  I pray for the innocents and the women and children of Syria.  But for the most part, this is a war between to very evil groups of people.  The Ba’athists in Syria, such as Assad, are every bit as evil and dangerous as Adolf Hitler.  The Islamists are ever bit as evil and dangerous as Osama Bin Laden.  American treasure should not be spent, nor American blood risked or lost, in a civil war between those too.  The gassing of civilians was evil.  If the Islamists win, the torture and killing of Christians that will take place will be just as horrific, if not worse.  We are involved in our own struggle against tyranny at home and cannot be distracted by a foreign war, in which we will do no good.

We stand on the verge of our own revolution at home because of the attacks against liberty committed by this administration.  Our war, the war of patriots, is against the agents of tyranny at home, not abroad.  Now is not the time to become distracted by the actions of a foreign tyrant.  Now is the time to be refusing to fund ObamaCare and reestablishing constitutionalism at home.  Now is the time to investigate Benghazi and the IRS scandal.  We have to get our own house in order.

Sincerely yours,

Roger C. D’Aquin

The American Refugee

Education and a living wage are connected

Homeschooling is the way

An Article By Sasha Mercer

Charlotte Mason is a woman revered by many home schoolers and, if they were knew her story, would be reviled by politicians and the teachers’ unions. Born in England in 1842 and orphaned at 16 she became a teacher in a time when, not much different than now, children were taught according to their social class.

The poor children, mostly the children of coal miners, were taught a trade while the upper class were given what use to be a well respected education known as “liberal education” which meant it encompassed all aspects; writing, reading, history, fine arts and foreign language. Unfortunately that term has been dumbed down to mean a hodgepodge of a whole lot of worthless women’s studies classes that won’t get you a job to pay off the $50,000 in student loans that you took out.

Miss Mason quickly discovered that despite what all of society thought at that time, all children, regardless of what class of family they came from, had the ability to think and learn and develop brilliant minds. She said it started at home and gave many parent lectures and wrote a series of books. She simply taught what God told us in the beginning; we are all created in His image and we all have the ability to bear fruit in wisdom, grow in understanding and soak in knowledge.

Politicians, community activists, drug companies, psychologists, special education teachers and our national education association wants us not to believe this. They want us to reject God’s creation and have us believe that we cannot succeed unless we are born in the right zip code, with the proper skin color, or with a certain last name. When a certain school system has a majority of their minority students unable to pass the basic reading, writing and math portions of a standardized test, they shrug their shoulders and say these kids are unable to think because of where they come from. It’s not their fault, it’s not the teachers’ fault, it’s rather like teaching a fish to read, it just can’t be done. The schools don’t have the money that the wealthier schools do, if we just had more money maybe we could get these kids prepared for McDonald’s level jobs after 12 years, then when that doesn’t work, the teachers tell us they could teach these kids if they were in school at a younger age, six isn’t early enough. Eventually we will be dropping our babies off on our way home from the hospital. Teachers and politicians will have us convinced that our children won’t make it unless they are in a properly certified, structured environment, housed with properly certified young twenty somethings that know better than the parents. After all, they were taught herd management, how to read a lesson plan, and never to refer to a beige crayon as “skin color.” Yes, this is what our children need to succeed, but eighteen years later, when they can’t do long division, or read beyond a fifth grade level, or tell Jay Leno’s man on the street who the current vice president is, we will strike in the streets and demand that McDonald’s pays them $17 an hour, because after all, they can’t do any better.

This is why politicians and the teacher’s unions hate home schoolers. No, I am not using the word “hate” too loosely. Homeschoolers prove all these groups wrong; the special educators, the psychologists, the drug companies, the politicians. A regular, every day parent, can take their child through all the grade levels, without having spent four years at a university to become certified in how to teach a child everything they themselves learned before the age of eighteen, and the child will out-test, outshine, and do circles around their public school counterparts, all without that parent paying one union due, not asking a doctor to prescribe one psychotropic drug, and without requiring the employment of a whole team of school administrators over twelve years. Not hard to see how home schoolers may be the enemy to a lot of people that need their pockets lined.

An older gentleman came up to my family in a fast food restaurant one day. He struck up a conversation with us about our boys and their good manners and then asked about where they went to school. When speaking with the older generation about home schooling I often get a mixed response. Some have a hard time understanding that the local school system in no way shape or form resembles what they went to fifty years ago.

With this in mind I took a deep breath and said we home schooled. He smiled sincerely and said, let me tell you a story. When he was twenty one, he walked into the teacher’s lounge as a new teacher. He sat amongst the veteran teachers and listened as they complained about the class sizes they were forced to teach. Too many students, they complained, for them to teach efficiently. As the years went by, he sat amongst the veteran teachers as he listened to them complain about the new home schooling movement which was taking children out of their classrooms and keeping them at home. Wait a minute, he said to these teachers, I thought you wanted smaller class sizes? He told me they just looked at him and then it all clicked. I smiled and nodded in understanding. “It’s all about the money,” I told him, to which he nodded. “Exactly. Keep up the good work with your kids,” and he left the restaurant.

These groups in our society would like us to believe that we aren’t created in the image of God, that we have evolved from the lowest form of feces throwing apes and that unfortunately, some of us have evolved further than others. This group of elites sit in power over us, whether in the school system, the doctor’s office, or the white house with its band of cohorts in congress and they tell us we can’t be like them, we aren’t in the right stage of the evolutionary process. We were born in the wrong neighborhood, with the wrong skin color, and we are doomed to be mediocre. We can’t get out score any better on that test, or get out of that fast food job, so we better demand that test scores don’t matter and that minimum wage job better pay a “living wage,” which simply means enough to keep you content so you won’t try to better yourself to compete with the rest of the elite. They want your votes, they don’t want competition, after all.

The Romans in power knew that before voting time came around, they better hand out bread and salt to keep the people happy with their status quo so they could remain in power. You don’t want your constituents too poor to be unhappy with their situation but you certainly didn’t want them wealthy enough to compete with you. Like an abusive husband that beats into their wife that they are nothing without them, a huge portion of our country thinks they are nothing without their prescription drug, union, or political party. As Apostle Paul said in Galatians 4:17 “They are enthusiastic about you, but not for any good. Instead they want to isolate you so that you will be enthusiastic about them.” Emphasis mine.

Reject the voices that tell you that you aren’t good enough to teach your own children, or good enough to get yourself out of a fast food job. You don’t need a higher wage at McDonald’s, you need to get out there and make the world a better place and tell the Kennedys, the Rockefellers, the Clintons and the Bushes that you don’t need a last name to succeed in the United States, God gave you something better than that. He created us in His image, there are no limits to what we can be and learn.

Sasha Mercer is the Homeschooling Blogger for The American Refugees.

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Why Am I The American Refugee

I AM CALLED

An Article by The American Refugee, Roger D'Aquin

 

 

 

 

A friend recently suggested that I hand out Bibles with the Constitutions that I hand out.  First, that is an expense that I am not able to cover.  Also, at this time, it is not something God has put on my heart to do.

Every man has a calling.  No doubt, there are those who are called to greater things than I.  I have been called to preach liberty and constitutionalism.  I have also been inspired to live a life of civil disobedience and poverty. God has provided the way and I have distributed approximately 12,000 constitutions on the streets of New Orleans, since becoming the American Refugee. God has also provided a social media outlet where I have thousands of followers and a BlogTalkRadio program.  So far, he hasn’t called on me to pass out Bibles.  If he does, he will provide the way, and I will.

I also feel called to be a bridge between different kinds of conservatives.  We are all needed.  I believe that in order to resurrect our country, we will need physical warriors, prayer warriors, and political warriors. We will need men in three piece suits and guys with tattoos and earrings.  We need people refusing to pay taxes and going Galt, and those working within the system.  We need mom’s homeschooling kids as well as women like Ann Barnhardt.  We cannot all do every job and would lack focus if we tried.  We can all do what we feel led, inspired, and able to do.

The peace and joy that I currently feel in my heart, is in spite of the loneliness and lack of luxuries.  Believe me, I’d rather be rich than poor.  As much as I love my dogs, and even though I have adjusted to a celibate lifestyle, I’d rather have a wife.  It isn’t comforting knowing that I have made enemies out of some hateful and violent people, as well as rich and powerful people.  I don’t particularly enjoy being laughed at or having beer thrown on me.  These things happen.  But everyday I know that I am following both my conscious and to the best of my ability, the voice of Christ.  This gives me a peace and even a joy in the midst of some very real suffering.  One can experience joy even during moments of fear, doubt, and depression.

I never forget how blessed I am.  God has given me a mind and some very real talents.  Despite the fact that we are living in post constitutional America, the sacrifices that our founding fathers made and the fruits of what used to be our capitalistic society, still fill my life with blessings. I say I’m poor. I have a bathroom, a kitchen, and two rooms to boot. I have air conditioning. I have use of a computer and high speed internet. I am heavily beweaponed. We have an expansive library. I have a back yard and seven dogs. We have more than enough food to eat and, in fact, I struggle with my weight. I have reasonably good health and my healthcare needs are met. I have more friends than I deserve. I have the great honor of knowing that I fight for something bigger than myself everyday, as I fight to restore America. No matter how that fight goes, I know that I am a member of the most important kingdom, the kingdom of God.

1Corinthians12

1Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding your question about the special abilities the Spirit gives us. I don’t want you to misunderstand this. 2You know that when you were still pagans, you were led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols. 3So I want you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of God will curse Jesus, and no one can say Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.

4There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all. 5There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord. 6God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us.

7A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. 8To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice* ; to another the same Spirit gives a message of special knowledge.* 9The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing. 10He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to discern whether a message is from the Spirit of God or from another spirit. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, while another is given the ability to interpret what is being said. 11It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have.

One Body with Many Parts

12The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. 13Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles,* some are slaves, and some are free. But we have all been baptized into one body by one Spirit, and we all share the same Spirit.

14Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part. 15If the foot says, “I am not a part of the body because I am not a hand,” that does not make it any less a part of the body. 16And if the ear says, “I am not part of the body because I am not an eye,” would that make it any less a part of the body? 17If the whole body were an eye, how would you hear? Or if your whole body were an ear, how would you smell anything?

18But our bodies have many parts, and God has put each part just where he wants it. 19How strange a body would be if it had only one part! 20Yes, there are many parts, but only one body. 21The eye can never say to the hand, “I don’t need you.” The head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you.”

22In fact, some parts of the body that seem weakest and least important are actually the most necessary. 23And the parts we regard as less honorable are those we clothe with the greatest care. So we carefully protect those parts that should not be seen, 24while the more honorable parts do not require this special care. So God has put the body together such that extra honor and care are given to those parts that have less dignity. 25This makes for harmony among the members, so that all the members care for each other. 26If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all the parts are glad. 27All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it. 28Here are some of the parts God has appointed for the church:

first are apostles,

second are prophets,

third are teachers,

then those who do miracles,

those who have the gift of healing,

those who can help others, those who have the gift of leadership, those who speak in unknown languages.

29Are we all apostles? Are we all prophets? Are we all teachers? Do we all have the power to do miracles? 30Do we all have the gift of healing? Do we all have the ability to speak in unknown languages? Do we all have the ability to interpret unknown languages? Of course not! 31So you should earnestly desire the most helpful gifts. But now let me show you a way of life that is best of all.

Step Out in Faith for America

Our Time Has Come

An Article By Roger D'Aquin, The American Refugee

My friends, the time has come for us to take bold action.  We can no longer hide in the shadows as Key Board Commandos, using aliases.  We must be bold and stand up the federal government, the looney left, the Islamists, and the other enemies of our way of life.  I will admit that my decision to go public is made easier by several factors.  I do not have underage kids. I have already gone partially off grid. I have given up private property and bank accounts.  I own nothing for the feds to seize, with the exception of my dogs and weapons.  I do not file income tax returns.  I am on a tax strike. I do not earn an income.  As a mendicant monk for liberty, I have already given up most of what the federal government could take from me.  Of couse, I do still have my freedom and my life.  It is not that I do not fear losing those things.  It is that I have chosen to leave fear behind and step out in faith. What use is a life lived in fear with freedom eroding every day?

I will not condemn anyone who feels that they can not yet make this step.  But I can praise and proudly stand with all who do.  I can also put forth the best case I can to get others to make this step.  On this subject, Ann Barnhardt has made this case more strongly than I could ever do.  When she gave her name, phone number, and home address at the end of her video in which she excoriated Lindsey Graham, exposed the evil political system posing as a religion called Islam, and burned a Koran, she inspired multiple thousands of people.  My Friends, before I close this with Ann’s latest blog, where she makes the case for all of us stepping forward, I will again take an oath.  If anyone wishes to join me in this Oath, call me or send me an e-mail.  I will add your name, home address, and phone number to a web page which will be regularly promoted. I believe that the more of us do this, the bigger an impact we will have and the safer we will be.

My Oath I invite you to join me in:

I Roger D’Aquin, known online as The American Refugee, founder of www.TheAmericanRefugees.com, residing at 4402 Eastern St. New Orleans, LA 70122 do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and her citizens against all enemies, foreign and domestic, including against an unconstitutional government; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will not disarm; that I will not recognize ObamaCare as the law of the land, since it is unconstitutional; I will not obtain the insurance it demands nor pay the fine it imposes, that I will not obey any unconstitutional executive orders or laws, and that until the United States has returned to obedience to the US Constitution, I will do my best to starve the beast of the federal government, by paying as few taxes as possible. So help me God. I can be reached by e-mail at AmericanRefugee@theamericanrefugees.com and you can leave me a voice mail at 985-250-9855.

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 Stating the Obvious and Important Tactical Admonition on Aliases

By Ann Barnhardt Taken from the site www.Barnhardt.biz

Back to my old job of STATING THE BLOODY OBVIOUS: Barack Obama personally and the entire Obama regime is in an EXPLICIT ALLIANCE with the Muslim Brotherhood. Obama personally is a product of the MB and has connections from his university days, Chicago and his putative Kenyan relatives – Malik Obama (putative half brother) is a high-ranking MB player in Africa. Further, Hillary Clinton’s right-hand-man and possible lesbian concubine Huma Abedin (Mrs. Anthony Weiner) is the daughter of two of the MB’s highest-ranking members. The MB has massively, massively infiltrated the United States, the FEDGOV bureaucracy, the intelligence agencies, most particularly the FBI, and the Congress and Executive branches of the post-American regime. Further, nothing will be said about the Christian genocide in Egypt (well over 80 Coptic churches and monasteries burned in the last three weeks) because these people in Washington are evil, evil people and HATE Christianity and the Church. They WANT Christianity and Christians to be exterminated. They relish in the death of the Copts in Egypt. They relish in the genocide and are preparing to carry out the same thing in the former United States eventually in an axis with Sodomites, musloids and militant Marxists – and many of the Sodomites and Marxists will SELF-IDENTIFY AS CHRISTIANS. You mark my words. This war is going to be so unlike anything ever before seen, because the lines of battle are going to be almost impossible to conventionally demarcate. Every population center will be its own discrete theater, and the players, with the exception of gang-bangers, will be almost impossible to visually sort. And yes, there will absolutely be white, middle-class suburban people among the enemy. Been to the airport lately? TSA much?

Which brings me to something I have wanted to talk about for a while. We need to talk about “handles”, “aliases” and “noms de guerre”. Guys, while that tactic may have been sound in previous wars, it is going to be a disaster in this war. It needs to stop. Let me explain. Let’s say I go to some gathering somewhere of counter-revolutionaries. A middle-aged white dude walks up to me and says, “Hi. I’m ‘Disturbed Citizen’ from the Mid-South Shotgun Shooters blog. We have corresponded via email.” Now stop and think about this. How can I possibly, possibly confirm that this guy, who I have indeed corresponded with via email, actually is who he says he is? We all now know for a metaphysical certitude that all of our email has been logged and may have been read by FEDGOV. We MUST assume that FEDGOV is every bit as knowledgable of our data and correspondences as we are. How do I know that this man standing before me really is ‘Disturbed Citizen’? There is no possible way for me to confirm this. I don’t know what ‘Disturbed Citizen’s’ name is, so asking for an I.D. is pointless. I don’t know what ‘Disturbed Citizen’ looks like, so visual confirmation is off the table. And the enemy has FULL ACCESS to all correspondence between myself and the real ‘Disturbed Citizen’, and thus can quote and make references WITH FULL CONTEXT AND DETAIL.

Do you see this? Given the tactical situation, the proper course is NOT for us to hide. That ship sailed a LONG time ago. The only thing that hiding behind aliases, handles and noms de guerre accomplishes is opening a HUGE door to the enemy such that they can infiltrate us with ease never-before-seen in the annals of war. The proper tactic is to BE NOT AFRAID and come out from behind aliases and handles NOW.

Now, take me, for example. If I were to roll into some event somewhere, people would know who I was by name and by sight, and if they did not know who I was, I could quickly and easily confirm my identity and bona fides.

I know it is a big step, but just read over what I have said and then THINK. The tactical table has been inverted. If you all try to fight this war as if it hasn’t, you will get your butt handed to you and you will deserve it. Enough of this prevent defense. The only way to win is to fix bayonets and charge, and in my considered opinion, step one should be establishing identity so that we at least have a chance at a modicum of OPSEC. Counterintuitive? Absolutely. But the truth often is counterintuitive.

That is all. - Ann Barnhardt

 

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Justice For Benghazi 4

JUSTICE FOR THE BENGHAZI FOUR

The American Refugee Gives a Big Shoutout to @StrikeForce911

 

U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, computer specialist Sean Smith, and CIA security contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed. We let them die and made no attempt to save them. Woods and Doherty were heroes, who tried to save lives against orders, and they paid the ultimate price. Obama couldn’t be bothered. He went to bed and then was off to a Vegas fundraiser the next day.

The CIA claims it has encouraged employees with information to come forward. Meanwhile it continually polygraphs people to make sure they haven’t, changes people’s names, and moves them around the country.

There are witnesses who want to come forward but are being pressured not to. Meanwhile there is a very disjointed effort spread across five committees, who all have other things to do, the get the witnesses to come forward and get to the bottom of the scandal and subsequent cover-up.

HR. 36, the bill by Congressman Frank Wolf, Republican of Virginia, will establish a select committee to investigate and report on the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. One central committee, holding public hearings, means a person can’t tell one committee one thing and a different committee something else. It means there is a central place people can feel comfortable coming forward. Once central committee could put more pressure on the C.I.A. to comply and have the focus to get to the bottom of all of the central issues.

We, as grass roots patriots can join in this fight. How? Everybody follow @strikeforce911. This is a new account and I don’t know who is behind it, it isn’t me, but he/she/or they, have done an awesome job creating a webpage that makes it very easy to see and contact each member that has not co-sponsored HR-36.  I have embeded their page inside the frame below.  Tweet every member.  Tell them to get on board.  Call every member.  Tell them that the American people want both the truth and Justice for the Benghazi Four.