We the People...

Public Education Unsafe?

2008-08-03T13:27:00.000-07:00

"In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools - and it is almost becoming generally true - it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools."

- Elder Boyd K. Packer, David O. McKay Symposium, Brigham Young University, Oct. 9, 1996

The Saints and Prosperity

2008-08-03T13:22:00.000-07:00

Brigham Young conversed freely on the situation of the Saints in the mountains, and said that he dreaded the time when the sants would become popular with the world: for he had seen in sorrow, in a dream, or in dreams, this people clothed in the fashions of Babylon and drinking in the spirit of Babylon until on could hardly tell a saint from a black-leg.

- Awakening to our Awful Situation by Jack Monnett, p. 227 (taken from Mosiah Hancock's personal journal)

Middle East Conflict

2008-08-03T13:14:00.000-07:00

This is a quote from a book I'm reading titled Awakening to our Awful Situation:

"Another vies is expressed by Joel Skousen in his highly informative World Affairs Brief (www.worldaffairsbrief.com). His feeling is that the United States is intentionally intervening in the Middle East; not to establish democracy but to creat an image of America as the bully of the world-much more apparent to foreign nations who are not subject to regulated American media control. Such provoked antagonism towards the U.S. is not accidental but intentional and will be the basis for a justified retaliation against the United States by Russia and China in a third world war. This in intended to force the New World Order upon the entire world. The U.S. is intended to be the target of a preemptive nuclear stike so as to remove the military power of the United States from the world stage, forcing the world to give power to the United Nations to fight World War 3. When one realizes that those in control support all sides that enter wars and can withdraw their support at any time, the magnitude of this observation can be better understood."

- Awakening to our Awful Situation by Jack Monnett, p. 171-172

We Gave them the Weapons...

2008-07-29T10:42:00.000-07:00

Indeed, even as President Bush castigates Saddam's regime as "a grave and gathering danger," it's important to remember that the United States helped arm Iraq with the very weapons that administration officials are now citing as justification for Saddam's forcible removal from power.

- Chris Bury, A Tortured Relationship, ABC, Sept. 18, 2002

War Perverts Patriotism

2008-07-28T07:50:00.000-07:00

"Warlike peoples pervert patriotism. We are a warlike people, easily distracted from our assignment of preparing for the coming of the Lord. When enemies rise up, we commit vast resources to the fabrication of gods of stone and steel - ships, planes, missiles, fortifications - and depend on them for protection and deliverance. When threatened, we become anti-enemy instead of pro-kingdom of God; we train a man in the art of war and call him a patriot, thus, in the manner of Satan's counterfeit of true patriotism, perverting the savior's teaching: 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that despitefully use you, and persecute you;' we forget that if we are righteous the Lord will either not suffer our enemies to come upon us - and this is the special promis to the inhabitants of the land of the Americas - or he will fight our battles for us."

- Spencer W. Kimball, Teaching of Spencer W. Kimball, p. 414-418

WW II

2008-07-27T07:41:00.000-07:00

"Then as the crowning savagery of the war we Americans wiped out hundreds of thousands civilian population with the atom bomb in Japan, few if any of the ordinary citizens being any more responsible for the war than were we, and perhaps most of them no more aiding Japan in the war than we were aiding America. Military men are now saying that the atom bomb was a mistake. It was more than that: it was a world tragedy... And the worst of this atomic bomb tragedy is not that no only did the people of the United States not rise up in protest against this savagery, not only did it not shock us to read of this wholesale destruction of men, women, and children, and cripples, but that it actually drew from the nation at large a general approval of this fiendish butchery."

- J. Reuben Clark, October 1946 General Conference

Blinded by Patriotism

2008-07-26T07:37:00.000-07:00

"Power and control are more easily accepted by a citizenry when they are "infused with fear and blinded by patriotism.""

- Jack Monnett, Awakening to our Awful Situation, p. 151

Debt Clock Keeps Ticking

2008-07-25T22:35:00.000-07:00

Here is an interesting link that keeps the running tally of the national debt and various other statistics: www.brillig.com/debtclock

War

2008-07-25T19:34:00.001-07:00

"War has become the most useful tool of the secret combination."

- Jack Monnett, Awakening to our Awful Situation, p. 141

Campaign for Liberty

2008-06-17T09:20:00.000-07:00

Join the Campaign for Liberty revolution today. This group seeks to educate the public on correct Constitutional principles so that the people can get government back to its intended purposes.

Support the 2nd Amendment

2008-06-17T07:33:00.001-07:00

Here is an article exposing some of Obama's true beliefs and actions regarding the second amendment. Though his website claims one thing, his voting record indicates something entirely different. I'm not saying the John McCain is the right candidate that will uphold all Constitutional principles but Obama certainly can't be the one either.

A Moral and Religious People

2008-06-06T19:55:00.000-07:00

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

- John Adams (The Changing Political Thought of John Adams p. 189)

Constitution - Benjamin Franklin

2008-06-05T07:43:00.000-07:00

"I agree to this Constitution...and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."

- Benjamin Franklin (The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 9 p. 569)

Eternal Vigilance

2008-06-03T19:39:00.000-07:00

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

- Thomas Jefferson

Becoming Educated

2008-05-28T07:51:00.000-07:00

"We encourage every person and every group who is sincerely seeking to study constitutional principles and awaken a sleeping and apathetic people to the alarming conditions that are rapidly advancing about us. We wish all of our citizens throughout the land were participating in some type of organized self-education in order that they could better appreciate what is happening and know what they can do about it." (Pres. David O. McKay - CR April 1966)

The Sin of Silence

2008-05-15T07:30:00.000-07:00

Hugh Nibley explained our responsibility to not just blindly follow the prophet and use that as an excuse to not seek out knowledge for ourselves in this quote:

"Many have noted the strong tendency of Latter-Day Saints to avoide making waves. They seem strangely touchy on controversial issues. This begets an extreme lack of candor among the saints, which in turn is supported by a new doctrine according to which we have a prophet at our head who relieves us of all responsibility for seeking knowledge beyond a certain point, making decisions or taking action on our own."

- Quoted in Awakening to our Aweful Situation, Jack Monnett, p. 30

Stand up for Truth

2008-05-15T07:22:00.000-07:00

One of our most serious problems is the inferiority complex which people feel when they are not informed and organized. They dare not make a decision on these vital issues. They let other people think for them. They stumble around in the middle fo the road to avoid being “controversial” and get hit by the traffic going both ways. In this might struggle each of you has a part. Every person on the earth today chose the right side during the war in heaven. Be on the right side now. Stand up and be counted.

- Pres Ezra Taft Benson (An Enemy Hath Done This, p. 30-45)

Freedom Quotes

2008-05-15T07:20:00.000-07:00

Here's a great website with quotes on freedom and the Constitution from a Latter Day Saint perspective.

Our Constitution, Our Republic

2008-01-29T09:50:00.000-08:00

Bob Smith, former senator from New Hampshire, explains our responsbilities as citizens to become educated about Constitutional principles and how to vote for people in our elections.

Help with ideas

2006-12-29T09:16:00.000-08:00

Maybe this idea is bigger than I am capable of delivering, but I almost feel like I can't sit back and let people just accept the way things are being run in this country anymore. I feel compelled to share what I know (which is not much) with people to help them find the truth for themselves. For example, I think that educating people on correct constitutional principals is a key to protecting and preserving the rights and freedoms our Constitution has given us.

Constitutional Daily Insights

2006-12-29T09:09:00.000-08:00

I envision this site as being a place where people can share thoughts and insights on the constitution and where people can get daily emails (like www.thoughtsalive.com) with a short thought that will educate readers on true constitutional principals so that we can gain an a better understanding of what the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constititution.

Jeff