The Rescue

                                                                               The Rescue!

                     It has been said that the hardest mission in the world is to rescue a man’s heart.

                                                                                     WHY?

  Well, let’s consider a rescue. We’ve all seen it many times. The SOS; has gone out and the Coast Guard rescue chopper swings in low and moves alongside the crippled vessel. Stranded people are clinging to the hull, the storm rages all around and then in goes the rescue swimmer, slowly the basket comes down. One by one the people are loaded in and up they go until the last one, the swimmer is on board. Next scene everyone is wrapped in shiny space blankets and on their way to dry land and safety.

  The 911 call has been received, the sirens blare and the night is full of flashing lights and the red glow of a burning building. Smoke is everywhere, along with the sounds of the rescuers hurried voices crackling over their radios, there are people still inside the inferno. The TV crew is standing with the worried bystanders filming through the smoke as a ladder rises from the ground and swings to the open window filled with terrified faces. Then into view the firefighters as they reach in and grab those stranded in the nick of time. Next scene, the sidewalk, an ambulance, rescuers and the rescued with oxygen masks and shiny space blankets on and safety.

   The hostages have been located, the team moves slowly and quietly, one by one they take out the enemy guards. Then a flurry of gunfire and explosions, total chaos, then muffled voices and the freed hostages as they exit the compound at a full run heading for the chopper door. Next scene, dirty, tired faces wrapped in shiny space blankets headed for friendly soil.

  Notice anything? When we think of being rescued we have these pictures in our mind. Once you have been rescued you are out of danger. You’ve been plucked out, removed, you are now safe. But, is that the case when a man’s heart has been rescued? Are you now safe from the danger? Has the enemy been neutralized and now no longer a threat? Is your ordeal just a fading memory or dramatic story to be told from the safety of your living room? No, and here in lies the problem.

  Let me tell you a story of what the rescue of a man’s heart really looks like. This story comes from the movie “We Were Soldiers”. It is the story of the 1^st Air Cav under the command of Col Hale More and its first engagement with the Vietcong. There are many things to learn about going into battle from the early parts of the movie, but I want to focus on the rescue. Now, there are guys reading this right now who have seen the movie and are scratching their heads because they don’t remember seeing a rescue. That’s what I’m getting at, because when you think of a rescue it looks like what I described earlier. But Col More and his men fought until the very end and defeated the enemy. So, where was the rescue?

  The scene is at the termite mound where the battle rages all around them. The camera pans to the radio operators huddled by the mound and they are getting reports from all units that they are being overrun. Hastings yells to Col More that they have enemy and friendlies mixed and they have no lines. Col More stands for a few moments and then says “Hastings, Broken Arrow- I say again Broken Arrow” Now, for you younger guys that is the military call for a missing nuke. However in the Vietnam era that was the radio call meaning that an American unit was being overrun and it called in all possible air support to aid the unit. In other words it called in air support to beat back the enemy enough so as to enable them to reestablish their lines and continue to fight. Not much of a rescue compared to what we expect when we hear the word rescue is it? Think about this, they are exactly where they were before they sent out the SOS; they are still surrounded in enemy territory by an overwhelming force. Rescued? They haven’t moved an inch and the enemy is still attacking. Someone is still trying to kill them, they haven’t gotten reinforcements, been resupplied or even been given a moments rest. Rescued??? You have to be kidding me!

   Guys this is the rub. Yes this was a heroic rescue. The Broken Arrow call was just what was needed at the perfect time to allow these men in the end to counter attack and defeat the enemy. There is no doubt that men today are in a horrific battle for their hearts and those all around them. And yes we need desperately to be rescued by God. But, we are looking for the wrong thing. We are all looking for a sanctuary, a place to hide. Safety and security is what we want from God. Please God get me out of this, send the chopper, the Seals, the firefighters to rescue me.

  If God answered those pleas for help in the way that you are asking who would be left to fight? What would be the outcome if we let the enemy win? What would become of our families, friends, for that matter the world? We are to be the salt and light not until we get tired, worn out, discouraged, but until the end. We are not supposed to be safe. God did not put us here to be safe. His purpose for our lives was for us to continue in the battle until the enemy is defeated.

 The thing that is so hard about rescuing a man’s heart is that men are not looking, praying, pleading for God’s rescue. Men are looking for a way out of this mess. Men are in a life and death struggle yet the Life of God choice is the tough choice, death is the easy one. After all what man in his right mind wants to grab for the safety line that pulls you not to safety but deeper into the battle?

                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                            Scott Van Dyke

                                                                                                                            

truer than ever

                                            Why Are Good People

                                           Liberals ?

 If you are a conservative think about it for a minute. What would compel some one who for all intense and purposes is just like you, to have such a convoluted view of politics? I mean after all they are your neighbors, coworkers, and friends. We spend time socializing with them .We get together in our homes and spend time with them in and out of work. We raise our children together taking them to sports and school functions. Our close friends even become confidants and people who we share our lives with. They seem to be just like us and yet when you get right down to it their politics run totally against all that we believe in. As a matter of fact they are the enemy! The politicians that they vote for are with out question Anti American. All you have to do is look at their voting records and it is clear. The people they put into office vote against our Country and the Judges that they appoint are hostile to the very Constitution that they are bound to protect.

 Now, it is very hard to understand because they don’t look like Socialist. They don’t march around like Communist waving red flags with hammers and sickles on them. Yet they vote for politicians who are. What could possibly be the explanation? I mean after all they live in the same country with the same freedoms as us and have just as much to lose if we lose those freedoms. So how can they follow and support tyrants like John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschle, and scoundrels like Bill and Hillary Clinton?

 Are these people we know really in support of killing hundreds of thousand babies a year? Do they really believe that the thousands of years of the traditional family should be replaced by allowing not only homosexuals to marry but to also remove the father?  Do they really believe that our Constitution should be replaced by activist Judges who are accountable to no one, to guide our country? Do they really believe all of the distortions, lies and deceit coming from their candidates? Or could there be something else that makes them ignore all of these things? Kind of like the old (See No Evil, Hear No Evil)?  

   I have wondered about this for many years and have been at a loss to explain it until recently.  After all when you try and have an honest discussion about issues with these seemingly normal people they fly off the handle every time. As soon as you try and pin them down on an issue they start spewing all manner of personal insults towards you and your political beliefs.  It then occurred to me that they have no intentions of discussing issues at all. Why is their response so inappropriate and hostile? What are they afraid of and Why? As I thought about it the answer came to me. They are not interested in the facts or the truth there is something which is more important to them than the truth. Now the question is what could be so important to these people that they are willing to give up their very freedoms to obtain it?

  Well, I have noticed something in talking to liberals. Call it a trend or similarity if you will. How ever if you listen to a Liberal long enough sooner or later you will catch it. You have to be looking for it or you will miss it hidden in all of the hype and sophistry but it is there. The reason, the justification, the over riding excuse for their irrational behavior. I call it (the what’s in it for me syndrome) that’s right hidden in there you will hear them say it. But when Republicans are in office I lose…. what ever it is. They will steal my Social Security, the Base will close and I’ll lose my benefits, I’ll lose the contract, they will do away with my program, I won’t qualify for assistance, I won’t get the scholarship, I’ll lose some of my union benefits, I’ll lose my health care benefits, and on and on and on. That’s right when Democrats are in power the money flows! The social programs flourish and the giveaways abound.

 The bottom line is that these people are all lined up at the great TEAT of the socialist party in this country in one way or another, and even though they would never admit it they will over look anything in order to receive their security. Damn the nation and its people who have to slave to pay the taxes for their security. Damn those who gave their very lives to make this a free and great nation. Damn those rugged individuals who through great personal cost set this nation on the road to freedom. They have become as slaves to their master to receive what ever their poison no matter what the cost, even lost Liberty. They are willing to turn the other way and let this Country fall into the hands of Communist in order to get their thirty pieces of silver.

 Now you may disagree but the next time you are talking with a Liberal listen close and you just may hear it tucked deep in their conversation. Listen.

                                                                                                               A Citizen      

not much has changed

                                       It’s The Politicians Stupid!

   Back when Bill Clinton ran against Bush 41 his main battle cry was it’s the economy stupid. What he was able to do was convince the people of this country that we were experiencing the worst economy in 50 years. The truth was that we were in a mild recession and not headed to ruin. Yet with the help of the main stream media he was able to convince a nation that his false premise was a fact.

 Well, I think that it’s high time that we with the help of the new media change some other false premises. One being that it is the fault of a run away judiciary that is threatening our liberties and the second being that it is the greed of our seniors that is causing our problems with social security .Let me explain. My favorite person in the new media is the pioneer himself Rush Limbaugh and one of the things that he loves to do is challenge peoples false premises. So, here we go.    

 Last Monday while listening to the Rush Limbaugh show the subject Walter Williams was discussing with his guest was judicial tyranny. They were talking about the Supreme Court and some recent rulings where justices have not only changed laws to fit their strange beliefs, and disregarded States rights and their Constitutions, but also were legislating new laws from the bench instead of interpreting the Constitution.

 This last year we in Massachusetts were assaulted by our State Supreme Court when Justice Marshal and three rogue judges TROUNCED our liberty when they commanded our State Legislature to construct a law allowing Gay marriages. Stories are popping up all over our country of judges who are assaulting our Constitution and our rights and changing the make up of this country by judicial fiat.

  Well, that begs the question why? Why all of a sudden do we find our very freedoms at risk from these rogues in our judiciary? Do you think that they have suddenly appeared? The answer is no, they have always been with us. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams knew that there would be bad judges appointed to the courts and were very concerned about their threat to our nation. John Adams had article 8 the bill of address drafted into our State Constitution for that very reason.

 There has been land mark rulings handed down by the Supreme Court in the last thirty years that were unconstitutional, Roe vs. Wade for one. How about forced bussing and racial quotas and what about the Florida State Supreme Court rewriting election laws in the middle of an election!

  It was during their discussion I yelled at the radio it’s the GUTLESS POLITICIANS to one of their points and that’s when I realized that the premise was wrong. It is clearly the responsibility of our Legislature at the State and Federal level to write and enact Laws. No one else is given that right under our Constitution so if some one else is taking on that right it must be because of the neglect of those given that right to do so. Our gutless representatives that we our selves have sent off to public office have miserably failed us! I would suggest that our founding fathers would be quite dismayed at the mess we find our selves in yet would quickly point out that it is our own fault because we let them get away with it!

Later this week I was listening to Rush talk about the social security debate that we are all embroiled in. He went on a rant against the senior citizens who he implied are sitting back and demanding the workers of today to pay their way into retirement. That this was nothing but a welfare and entitlement program that is old and broken down and why should people who are going to retire expect us to take care of them?

Well that’s when it hit me. I don’t except the premise that it is the fault of our seniors. It is the fault of all of the GUTLESS POLITICIANS who over the last fifty or so years have refused to do their jobs! They have had no intentions of serving their constituents. They have become nothing less than self serving leeches with only their own profit in mind. All of these years they have been depleting the balance of money in the social security system, stealing it to use in unrelated areas, that’s right stealing. Try going into work tomorrow and take some cash or a check to buy groceries for your neighbor who is in need and put an IOU in its place and see what happens to you. You’ll be charged with a crime, stealing even though you tell them it was for a good cause.

 The problem with Social Security is not that there is a hoard of retirees who are sitting back waiting for their big entitlement checks to roll in. The problem is that my father now in his seventies had over his working years put a good chunk of cash into a system that politicians embezzled, and now that the system is in chaos it is some how his fault. A third grader could tell you what is wrong with the Social security system IT’S THE POLITICIANS STUPID!!!

 When are we going to hold these gutless leeches accountable for their actions? I am convinced that at this time in history where power in Washington has changed hands it is the perfect time to get the word out to the people of this country that when it comes to what allies us as a Nation

IT’S THE POLITICIANS STUPID !!!!!!!!!

                                                                                  H Scott Van Dyke

My first

                                                 HISTORIANS WILL CALL

                                           THEM OUR GREATEST THREAT

Would it have been Adolph Hitler? Or maybe Lenin, Stalin or Marxs? Was it Hiro hito or ToJo, Was it Chiang Kai- shek, Ho Chi Minh or Mao Tse-tung? Was it Brezhnev or Fidel Castro or maybe Saddam Hussein or Osama binLaden that posed the greatest threat to the sovereignty of these United States of America? No, those who pose the greatest threat this country has ever faced in its history are Brokaw, Jennings, and Rather. Don’t get me wrong they are not the only ones in the mainstream media who are involved in what I would consider Treasonous acts against their country. They however epitomize the very conduct that is bent on destroying the greatest and unarguably freest country our world has ever experienced. Ridiculous you say! How could that be? They are at the very top of their field, won all kinds of awards in their profession. They are respected here and around the world. That is all true except, the very thing that they are constitutionally bound to do is to tell us the truth! And that’s the one thing that they cannot do. Let me explain.

            Our Founding Fathers, good Englishmen that they were, understood only too well that if their new representative republic was going to have a chance of survival there was one thing that would have to change, The King’s News. That is to say that the people would have to have access to the truth. You see the King’s News is the only news that the king allows you to hear. Thomas Jefferson put it this way, “ if all the American people new all of the facts they will never make a mistake.” In other words a free people can only be self-governed if they receive the whole truth about its government.  The very reason the press was included in the first amendment of our constitution was so that they could be the watchdogs of our newly established government. You see the States were very concerned about giving up some of their hard-won sovereignty to a central government with too much power. If their government could control the press by threatening retaliations, imprisonment, or death then they could ultimately subdue the truth just as their last tyrannical leader had. Thus it is very clear to this citizen that our free press has a constitutional and moral obligation to do just that. They must tell us the truth, but do they? Oh they must be telling us what they believe to be the truth you say. They are very important national figures. They are in front of millions of viewers every night. How could they not tell us what they believe to be the truth? They must just have a different point of view than you do. Or are you trying to imply that there is some insidious goings on that we are unaware of. Lets consider this.

            Our country is run by a two party system of government. These two parties have considerable philosophical differences concerning the direction in which they believe our country should move in on many vital issues. Now if our free press was to operate as our Founding Fathers had intended we would receive a balanced account of the goings on in our government. Both views of an issue would be presented to the people without biases. Leaving us accurately informed and allowing us to base our political decisions soundly based on facts. Now even though there is steady flow of evidence that challenges this conclusion there is a large portion of our population that believe that what I have just described is what actually occurs. In fact I find that most people just assume that because we are free and live in America that things must be going right and that there is really no need for concern. For surly if matters of great importance like our freedom were being threatened or undermined someone would surly sound the alarm. After all this is America isn’t it? Look at what the response was to the attack on Pearl Harbor and to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The response was not just that of our government like it is in other nations around the world. Our response was an unstoppable and overwhelming title wave of over300 million individuals coming together to defeat an adversary. This is a unique phenomenon that dates back to our humble begging as a nation and one that our enemies always underestimate. Or do they?

            Just imagine what happens to a country when the people do not receive accurate and truthful information about their government and their intentions. Wait a minute you don’t have to imagine all you have to do is look at history. The results of that scenario are as numerous as the stars and plain for all eyes to see. That is for those eyes that care to see.  I’ve got an example if you don’t mind. Does the name Chernobyl ring any bells? How about those old Soviets and their Provda? I wonder if we will ever know the full devastating results to the citizenry because of their state run media and its total subversion and distortions of the truth. Just think of all those little ones, you know the children that our media is always so gallantly trying to protect. But I regress. The plain truth is that the Russian media was not only directed to lie but was a willing accomplice. That is due mainly to their personally held political beliefs. The single most disturbing fact to me is that the Russian people still watched the news and read their papers every day just like we do. Is there a sane person alive today that would suppose that those people didn’t know that they were being lied to?

            Well now let us pick an issue from our own press that is being dealt with today and see how our boys are doing in the truth department. There are hundreds of examples to choose from that would amply make my point but lets pick one of those attacks on our basic freedoms. You know the kind of attack that you would assume any reasonable anchor from one of our three largest networks would sound the alarm and alert the people to. That issue is gun control, I.E. the ban, the sale of, and the possession of certain guns, and full registration of all gun owners. Yes you’ve heard it all on the nightly news the liberals in our government are going to make us all safer. They are going to get the guns off the streets and out of the hands of our children. There will be no more Columbines. We are going to save the children! Now how could anyone argue with that?   Well unless of course you understand the reason our Fore Fathers added the second amendment to our constitution you probably wouldn’t. By the way it has been my experience that when some one talks to me about the issue that not one has been able to tell me what the second amendment says or why it even exists. Well here’s what it say [A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.] This seems to me to be pretty strait forward and simple amendment to understand, and it is. So what’s the rub? Well the rub is why is it there? Why do we need the right to bear arms? Whom do we need protection from? Well every time I pose that question I am informed that we don’t, that the constitution is old and is an outdated document because we have evolved into such a modern society. Their implication is that we no longer need to keep a squirrel gun over the fireplace to protect us from the hostiles or the British. Now is that who we need protection from? Let me share with you a quote I found in a very interesting book titled You Don’t Say written by Fred Gielow. See if you can figure out who said it  “This year will go down in history! For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police will be more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future.”  This statement sounds remarkably like the rhetoric the three amigos spread from there pulpits, sorry news desks every night. Nope, Adolph Hitler spoke these words in 1935.By disarming the German people Hitler rendered them defenseless to oppose him. Thomas Jefferson said “When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” Try and remember the picture that ran in the paper the day after the seizure of little Elian Gonzalas. You remember, the one with the heavily armed and helmeted Federal Officer and his Assault weapon stuck in the little boys face. Get the picture? James Madison said “Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.” It is also stated in The Communist Rules of Revolution “ Register all firearms, under any pretext, as a prelude to confiscating them.” It is stated in our own Declaration of Independence that “Among these rights is the right to change or abolish any government that tries to take those rights away.” Do you suppose that the three amigos are totally unaware of these facts? As smart and revered as these men are, do you suppose that they are unaware of their responsibility to the constitution and us? Then why haven’t they sounded the alarm? If they are willing to turn the other way or even worse mislead us on such an issue than what makes you think that they are guarding our rights in other matters?

            It is my firm belief that these men have chosen sides. Based on their own personal and political beliefs they have chosen to ignore their constitutional duty to be the watchdog of the government. They have chosen to distort the truth and deceive the very people that they are supposed to protect and in the process lead them to destruction. Sounds a lot like Provda to me. And haven’t you noticed to what lengths they will go to use their Bully pulpit to protect those who are trying to steal our freedoms? I have a few examples. Bill and Hillary, Al Gore, Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschle, Jocelyn Elders, and Janet Reno and their countless lies, scandals, misdeeds, corruptions, treasonous acts, and total disregard to the rule of law. These are the people who act like Hitler and his cohorts. However the people that the press chooses to vilify using their new tool of Political Correctness are the people who are our freedom fighters. Former President Ronald Reagan, former Speaker of The House Newt Gingrich, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Nominee for The Supreme Court Robert Bork, and Special Prosecutor Ken Star just to name a few. These are the people they accuse of acting like Hitler. What could possibly compel the three amigos to do this? Unless of course their personal and political beliefs are in lock step with the person who mandated  “and the world will follow us into the future.” I would also ask why they support so vehemently the Liberals and their agenda? The cancer they have been implementing into our society over the last 60 years while they were in control of our legislative branch have moved us perilously close to the abyss. Using the tools of Political correctness and their willing accomplices in the press these politicians have been able to place socialist into just about every vital and important aspect of our society, including socialist judges into our highest courts. These are the very judges who are charged with interrupting or constitution. This can’t be really happening in the United Sates it must be a movie you say. No sadly this is happening right now under your very noses.

            Lady’s and gentlemen our free press has been overthrown and replaced with a propaganda machine. Not in the middle of the night under the cover of darkness. Not in dark seedy back rooms. But right in front of us in broad daylight! We have allowed the three amigos to distract us while their political brothers have slowly and quietly dismantled the only mechanisms our fore fathers gave us as free individuals to protect our self’s from their tyranny. And all the while you have kept up with your busy lives and paid little or no attention. You have fallen into their hands and accepted their lies and have even labeled those who would warn you as crackpots, kooks, and nuts. So what will you do when freedom is lost?

            So what prompted me to become a kook? Well, one day while listening to one of today’s freedom fighters Rush Limbaugh .A caller was sharing their concerns on the media and their handling or spin on a subject. When the caller started to rail against the media Rush said that we all know that the media bias exists and that the media will not change. He further stated that he could devote every show to uncovering and revealing media bias, but that he would rather devote his show to the discussion of substantive issues of the day. Well, my first thought was, sure how long will it be before they remove your right to do so. Especially since the Liberals have already tried to pass the Bill Clinton fairness in broadcasting act. My second thought was that everything ells becomes a mute point if we loose our freedom. Because then all speech will be restricted or suppressed, and there will be no discussion substantive or not. We will be reduced to listening to only the propaganda and lies of our own Provda. So maybe it’s high time someone started to fight the Three Amigos on a full time basis, doggedly perusing them and revealing them for who they really are. “Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.” Thomas Payne.       WHY NOT? AFTER ALL. ALL WE HAVE TO LOSE IS FREEDOM ITSELF!

                                                     

                                                                                                          A Citizen