A Nugget of Truth

"Sure the majority of law enforcement officers in this country are good honest people and we owe them our respect and our thanks. But every time I turn around, it seems as if our civil rights are eroding. We overlook police procedural violations, police brutality, because after all, the suspects are almost always guilty, right?

The Second Amendment supposedly protects us from unwarranted intrusions, search and seizures, arrest without charge or probable cause, but every day we see those rights whittled away.

We pass laws we know aren't constitutional, but shield the offense by giving them names like the Patriot Act--as if there was something patriotic about violating the constitutional freedoms that are the bedrock upon which this country was founded.

Is this important? You better believe it. Because this is the United States of America. We created the modern democracy. We invented the constitution, a written document that guarantees the people's rights--and restricts the powers of the government.

I love this country, but every time we let another constitutional right be trampled upon, every time we look the other way while some wrongful act is committed in the name of homeland security, or national defense, or patriotism, we become a little less American.

The erosion of one civil right only leads to another....."


Brilliant excerpt from 'Capitol Murder' by William Bernhardt

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C~B~N's only beef with the above statement is the one where it is stated we created the modern democracy. This nation in actuality started out as a republic. It was the politicos of old who perverted it into a 'democracy'-- the forebears of today's politicos who are slowly, cleverly and decisively destroying the Constitution of the United States.

'We the People' are so busy trying to make ends meet to keep a roof over our heads, that we are NOT paying attention to these "laws" that are brought to us and SOLD to us as ones to keep our precious families safe; when in actuality, they are meant to destroy this nation from within.

Oh yeah, have a good day.......


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Dear God

Why didn't you save the school children at...

Moses Lake , Washington 2/2/96
Bethel , Alaska 2/19/97
Pearl , Mississippi 10/1/97
West Paducah , Kentucky 12/1/97
Stamp, Arkansas 12/15/97
Jonesboro , Arkansas 3/24/98
Edinboro , Pennsylvania 4/24/98
Fayetteville , Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield , Oregon 5/21/98
Richmond , Virginia 6/15/98
Littleton , Colorado 4/20/99
Taber , Alberta , Canada 5/28/99
Conyers , Georgia 5/20/99
Deming , New Mexico 11/19/99
Fort Gibson , Oklahoma 12/6/99
Santee , California 3/ 5/01
and El Cajon , California 3/22/01?

Sincerely,
Concerned Student

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Reply:

Dear Concerned Student:

I am not allowed in schools.

Sincerely,
God

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How did this get started?...

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Let's see, I think it started when Madeline

Murray O'Hare complained she didn't want any

prayer in our schools.

And we said, OK.

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Then, someone said you better not read

the Bible in school, the Bible that says "thou shalt

not kill,thou shalt not steal, and

love your neighbors as yourself, "

And we said, OK...

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Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank

our children when they misbehaved because

their little personalities would be warped and
we might damage their self-esteem.

And we said, an expert should know what he's

talking about so we won't spank them anymore..

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Then someone said teachers and principals

better not discipline our children when they

misbehave. And the school administrators said
no faculty member in this school better touch a

student when they misbehave because we don't

want any bad publicity,and we surely don't want to

be sued.

And we accepted their reasoning...

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Then someone said, let's let our daughters have

abortions if they want, and they won't even have

to tell their parents.

And we said, that's a grand idea...

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Then some wise school board member said,

since boys will be boys and they're going to do it

anyway, let's give our sons all the condoms they

want, so they can have all the fun they desire,

and we won't have to tell their parents they

got them at school.

And we said, that's another great idea...

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Then some of our top elected officials said it

doesn't matter what we do in private as long as

we do our jobs. And we said,it doesn't matter what

anybody, including the President, does in private

as long as we have jobs and the economy is good....

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And someone else took that appreciation a

step further and published pictures of nude

children and then stepped further still by making

them available on the Internet.

And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech....

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And the entertainment industry said, let's

make TV shows and movies that promote profanity,

violence and illicit sex...

And let's record music that encourages rape,

drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes...

And we said,it's just entertainment and it has no

adverse effect and nobody takes it seriously

anyway,

so go right ahead.

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Now we're asking ourselves why our children

have no conscience, why they don't know right from

wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to

kill strangers, classmates or even themselves.

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Undoubtedly,if we thought about it long and

hard enough,we could figure it out.

I'm sure it has a great deal to do with...

"WE REAP WHAT WE SOW,"

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~~Author Unknown~~


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The Circle of Life

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.

"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning.

"There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap-- alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital and she returned home with a fever.

Everone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.

To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

~~Unknown Author~~

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Showing Support for Our American Soldiers

This is a really cool site where you can show your support of our troops.

It is sponsored by the Xerox corporation and they will print out the card of your design and mail it to an American soldier!

Let's say Thanks!


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