“Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told Sean Hannity tonight that her property was vandalized and that she received several threats. The Minnesota conservative said she did not make a big deal out of the attacks because, unlike democrats, she did not want to stir the crazy pot.”
I don’t agree with everything in this movie. Â Alex makes certain assumptions about the War in Iraq that I find outrageous. Â But in terms of President Obama being in the White House to further Wall Street goals of control and power….he hits the nail right on the head! Â When you have an hour or two give it a watch, it will help you to connect the dots.
Dems are obviously using the media to gin up some incidents of violence so they can clamp down on any dissenters.  I hope nobody caves on the freedom side of the spectrum. We the people need to have the ability to dissent, gather, and protest our government officials  as they attempt to enslave the American People.
I’d like to share an experience I had a couple years ago. Â I’ve known for a long time that we were going to get socialized in America. Â I had no idea that it would be this quick, or that those who set it up would cheat every step of the way. Â But here we are, and I don’t really see how our side can get this thing turned around until Health Care collapses under its own weight of top heavy nothingness.
In 2001 I was writing my book Elijah Birth, I had conducted a survey of an online group of mothers who were all mormon and all into unassisted childbirth. Â I was also taking classes online to get my degree from BYU. Â One day I took all of the surveys and placed them in my filing cabinet and told myself that I would come back to the book later on when I “had more time”.
I was focused on finishing my degree, had pretty much decided not to have any more children, and was excited to be moving on with my life and giving time to some long range goals, including possibly qualifying for a teaching license so that I could teach high school theatre.
One day I was working on an assignment for school and I had the distinct impression that Heavenly Father wanted me to finish my book and forget about my online classes. Â I ignored the impression and just kept working on school stuff. Â But the impression would not stop. Â It kept coming back for several weeks, and finally, reluctantly, I pulled all of those surveys out of my file and just looked at them. Â The stack was about a foot high and it just felt like this overwhelming mountain of information to organize.
I felt from the Lord that some day soon American Health Care was going to be Collectivized and when that happened, Heavenly Father would be forced to withdraw his spirit from the hospitals, simply because there are certain places where the Holy Spirit CANNOT co-exist with evil. Â And when that day arrived he wanted a body of knowledge up on the web that would help the mothers of America to be self reliant with their mothering so that as they pulled out of that system they would “have a safe place to land”. Â Grounded in good information about nutrition, exercise, and true natural principles of childbirth they would be better able to jump out of the medical model.
This spiritual prompting was one of the most significant of my life, and it created in me an urgency to go to work. I cancelled my online classes and left the BYU Degree on the shelf and moved into the world of Online Birth Work.
I had no idea how controversial and deadly of a decision this would prove to be.  But in the fall of 2001 I had the financial means and was able to put my books and the Unassisted Childbirth Conference up on the web using the excellent services of a professional web designer.  I had great hopes of a huge financial return for all of my hard work, but was never able to put in a proper firewall to make it impossible for my e-books to be “resold”.  My buyers would send along Book  links to friends and family upon purchasing them.
For nine years my books sold one or two copies a month, but some months I had six hundred people downloading them for free. Â This irked me, but I was so grateful that readers felt compelled to share my words with email lists and friends that I just let it go and kept the site functioning as it had been set up, without the firewall to protect my intellectual property from theft.
This past year I had to take that site down for financial reasons, but decided to put all of my books and the conference up on Kindle and You Tube. Â I just checked last week to see how the books were selling and my typical sales of one or two a month have continued on.
With the passage of the health care bill and the Progressives getting all cocky this week about all of these plans to further regulate the American Family and the flow of information, I would hope that honest hearted citizens, especially Mothers, would recognize that certain information in our society exists on the internet to help keep them informed and safe as they birth their young babes. Â This body of information did not exist ten years ago.
I would hope that as the Peril of Hospital Birth crossed with Socialism becomes apparent, that those who are looking for something else outside of the monopolistic world of technocratic birth will find the mountain of information that now exists on the web because of the thoughtful efforts of dozens of activists who have taken the time and energy to write and share.
I don’t know that my voice is any better than the others that are yelling about Sovereign Family Living, but I do know that I am one of the only Mothers in the Alternative birth world who has written against Socialism and Collectivism under the political framework of Family Freedom.
It is my prayer that the sacrifices of time with my own family, lost hours of sleep (I did most of my book writing when I should have been sleeping), and financial indebtedness, will be accepted as they have been offered, in a spirit of love and humility.
I don’t know that anything I have written will be of benefit to your or your children, but I do know that those currently in power have hated what I have written to such a degree that they have been moving heaven and earth to kill my voice on the internet.
I plan to keep writing and if nothing else, the very animosity and hate that has been so directed towards me and my efforts has been about all the evidence I have needed to know that I have been writing exactly what needed to be said.
I have felt so protected by the Lord in this work, and so comforted by his Holy Spirit that all of the time, energy, and resources that have gone into this work have truly made it a labor of love. Â And when Love is the motivation…the forces of evil and all hell raging against me have felt like annoying gnats that just need to be smacked away as the work goes on.
I plan to keep on as long as the Good Lord Above gives me breath in my lungs and energy in my body…but if he calls me home sometime soon, just know that it was worth it...
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), one of America‘s great founding patriots, wrote this on December 23, 1776, when the American Revolution was less than six months old.  Substitute Democrats for Tories, Obama for King George III, Pelosi for Howe, Reid for Gage – Sarah Palin for the “Jersey maid” – and he is speaking to us today.
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.  Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.
‘Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country. All nations and ages have been subject to them. Britain has trembled like an ague at the report of a French fleet of flat-bottomed boats; and in the fifteenth century the whole English army, after ravaging the kingdom of France, was driven back like men petrified with fear; and this brave exploit was performed by a few broken forces collected and headed by a woman, Joan of Arc.
Would that heaven might inspire some Jersey maid to spirit up her countrymen, and save her fair fellow sufferers from ravage and ravishment!
Yet panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them, and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstones of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered.
In fact, they have the same effect on secret traitors, which an imaginary apparition would have upon a private murderer. They sift out the hidden thoughts of man, and hold them up in public to the world. Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which Howe arrived upon the Delaware.
Voltaire has remarked that King William never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on General Washington, for the character fits him. There is a natural firmness in some minds which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude; and I reckon it among those kind of public blessings, which we do not immediately see, that God hath blessed him with uninterrupted health, and given him a mind that can even flourish upon care.
I shall conclude this paper with some miscellaneous remarks on the state of our affairs; and shall begin with asking the following question, Why is it that the enemy have left the New England provinces, and made these middle ones the seat of war?
The answer is easy: New England is not infested with Tories, and we are. I have been tender in raising the cry against these men, and used numberless arguments to show them their danger, but it will not do to sacrifice a world either to their folly or their baseness.
The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall. And what is a Tory? Good God! What is he? I should not be afraid to go with a hundred Whigs against a thousand Tories, were they to attempt to get into arms. Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.
I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, “Well! give me peace in my day.”
Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;” and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them. A man can distinguish himself between temper and principle, and I am as confident, as I am that God governs the world, that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion. Wars, without ceasing, will break out till that period arrives, and the continent must in the end be conqueror; for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.
Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but “show your faith by your works,” that God may bless you.
It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike.
The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
My own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to “bind me in all cases whatsoever” to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?
What signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? If we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.
Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man. I conceive likewise a horrid idea in receiving mercy from a being, who at the last day shall be shrieking to the rocks and mountains to cover him, and fleeing with terror from the orphan, the widow, and the slain ofAmerica.
There are cases which cannot be overdone by language, and this is one. There are persons, too, who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy, if he succeed, will be merciful.
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf, and we ought to guard equally against both.
Howe’s first object is, partly by threats and partly by promises, to terrify or seduce the people to deliver up their arms and receive mercy. The ministry recommended the same plan to Gage, and this is what the Tories call making their peace, “a peace which passeth all understanding” indeed! A peace which would be the immediate forerunner of a worse ruin than any we have yet thought of.
Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776
