Monday, February 29, 2016

MADELINE CRABB: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: DESTROYING AMERICA



February 29, 2016
Political correctness: destroying America through lies, deception, manipulation (Part One)
By Madeline Crabb

A plague has overtaken the land – the plague of political correctness. This disease infects the body through lies, deception, and manipulation. It has been ravaging us for nearly 100 years, and has caused immense damage. The end result of this disease is total destruction of the body – our nation.

While America is not yet totally destroyed, end-term symptoms include base, depraved, and condemned minds. (Rom. 1: 28 NIV and AMP) The Aramaic Bible in Plain English puts it this way: "And when they thought in themselves that they were wise, they became insane." Indeed, it seems that the entire world has lost its collective mind, but most of this column concerns the United States.
The majority of average, everyday, hard-working, mind-their-own-business Americans understand what we're discussing here. 
The so-called leaders in our nation, and particularly those within the Federal Government, refuse to listen to our mutual wisdom. We the People operate our daily lives under what's now considered an archaic concept of common sense. But said leaders have personal agendas to fulfill that are in opposition to common-sense ideals. Therefore, America stands on the precipice of total destruction.
What has thus far sustained us from harm is our foundation on, belief in, and reliance upon God. Our founding/governing documents and laws, which are based on biblical standards and beliefs attest to this foundation. But alas, the politically-correct, wiser-than-the-rest-of-us elitists have overridden, re-written, or undermined our laws, and simultaneously beaten down the masses to gain control over us. 
The control is not yet complete, but the enemies of freedom, those individuals We the People have elected to serve us, have become our masters.

In my last column we discussed how America is already a socialistic system – at least culturally. If Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton are elected to the presidency, we will likely become economically socialistic, if not full-blown communist. (Of course, redistribution of wealth, a basic principle of socialism, has been the modus operandi within our system since the 1930's.) Sanders is a communist and espouses communist ideas. Do the research. Start with the Communist Manifestoby Karl Marx. Then acquaint yourself with the Communist Takeover of America: 45 Declared Goals (Congressional Record, 1963.)Http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1561529/posts.

Hillary is also a communist, but won't show her true colors until she is certain she won't be prosecuted for her crimes, perhaps because of a pardon by the sitting socialist/communist president. The goal for America by the Democrat presidential candidates is NOT a Constitutional/Representative Republic. But the opposing Republican Party isn't much different. Leadership by so-called conservatives has not stopped our societal disintegration.

As previously stated, this process has been ongoing for nearly a century. Political correctness (PC) is not a new concept. It is cultural Marxism. Today we will be discussing the roots.
Basically, cultural Marxism was necessary when it became clear that the working class would not bring about revolution against Western society, and thus usher in communist utopia. Followers of Karl Marx formed a "think tank" to discover alternative ways to bring about the revolution. In 1924, based on the Marx/Engel Institute in Russia, the Institute for Social Research was founded in Frankfort, Germany, and was often simply referred to as the Frankfort School. The founders wanted to call this think tank the Institute for Socialism, but thought it best to hide their true purpose. 
Deception from its inception! With the rise of the Nazis, and because the members of the Institute were all socialists and mostly Jewish, the founders were forced to flee Germany. Frankfort School was relocated to New York City where it was then affiliated with Columbia University. (Sound familiar? Obama learned many of his socialist/communist ideas at that school.)
One of the main concepts developed by the Institute was that of critical theory (CT). Conservative columnist/teacher Bill Lind, who has done extensive study of cultural Marxism/political correctness (PC), explains that the theory of CT is: to criticize. It's "unrelenting, destructive criticism of every institution of western society in the hopes of bringing that society down." David Horowitz of the Freedom Center says that CT attempted to politicize logic itself. CT is the basis for all the black, gay, women's, gender, radical feminism, native American, and other popular leftist studies in colleges that have turned campuses into what Bill Lind calls ivy-covered North Koreas. What's now being taught is an ideology, not historical fact, and leads to totalitarianism.

Lind further explains that economic Marxism is "determined by ownership of the means of production," but with cultural Marxism, "all history is determined by power. Which groups, defined by race, sex, etc., have power over which other groups? Nothing else matters." 
Additionally, he states that all literature, everything in the past is about that one thing: power. In what is essentially a re-writing of history, PC dictates that "certain groups are good – feminist women and only feminist women, (non-feminists are deemed not to exist) blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals, and various other groups are determined to be victims and therefore are good, regardless of what any of them do. And similarly, white males are determined automatically to be evil."
Continuing, Lind explains that both forms of Marxism have a method of analysis. With classic Marxism, it is economics. With cultural Marxism, it is deconstruction, which "removes all meaning from text and reinserts whatever meaning they so desire." Again, as previously mentioned, this is a rewriting of history, even a re-defining of the Bible. Taking it a bit further, it is a re-writing of our language, a re-defining of words.

Another concept developed by one of the most influential members of the Institute, Herbert Marcuse, is that of liberating tolerance. Marcuse believed that our free American society was actually a deception, and that true tolerance was somehow repressive. Consequently, he did what the Left is now so famous for – he redefined the terms. 
Liberating tolerance is total intolerance for any viewpoint but its own. It is intolerant of any ideas from the Right, and tolerant for any ideas from the Left. Martin Jay, professor of history at University of California, Berkley, says that this form of thinking could be used by the Left to deny free speech to those who disagree with them. Hmm...Does this sound familiar?
Theodor Adorno was yet another socialist in this PC movement who believed that Americans possess many fascist traits and that anyone who supported traditional American culture was psychologically unbalanced. So today, particularly on college campuses, it is normal for people to label their opponents on any given subject as fascists, and to suggest these opponents are in need of psychological treatment in the form of sensitivity training. Many businesses are now conducting such training on people who are found to be "politically incorrect."
With all this radical thought being thrust upon us, where might the sexual revolution fit in? Many believe it began in the 1960's, but was actually birthed in the 1930's in part by radical Marxist and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm. According to Lind, Fromm pioneered the concept of sexual liberation and gender politics. He believed that "masculinity and femininity were not reflections of essential sexual differences, but were derived instead from differences in life functions which were in part socially determined." 
Sex and sexual differences were merely "constructs." (concepts) However, it was Herbert Marcuse that introduced Fromm's beliefs, mixed in with a little Sigmund Freud, to the 60's culture. Marcuse "condemned all restrictions on sexual behavior, calling instead for polymorphous perversity, his definition of the future they want to create." He had some extreme beliefs on the need for sexual liberation, and wrote Eros and Civilization, what was the "bible" of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the 60's.
Further, Marcuse believed that repression is the essence of a capitalist order, which then produces people Freud described as having hang-ups and neuroses because of repressed sexual instincts. So then, if an individual's "eros and libido" can be liberated, the result is a polymorphous perverse society in which "you can do your own thing in a world where (by the way) there will no longer be any work." Marcuse coined the phrase: "Make love not war." He encouraged youth to "do your own thing; if it feels good, do it." And the rest, as they say, is history.

Political correctness is NOT a minor thing. It isn't simply about not offending someone else with our speech or behavior. It is a systematic brainwashing of American society through the lies, deception, and manipulation by people devoted to Marxist ideology. 
In fact, political correctness is an ideology unto itself. The end goal is to completely destroy our society. And as Bill Whittle of PJ TV has stated, it is a philosophy that has killed no less than 100 million people worldwide. Will America and Americans be the next victims? We are well on our way along that path of destruction. Therefore, we must learn the truth about this vile enemy, and then fight against it, which we will delve into next time.
For my fellow Christians, you already know the solution to political correctness, right? We should honor our Lord and speak Truth, in love, to every person, and in every situation. We will many times be reviled for doing so, but Jesus warned us that this would happen, and that we are actually blessed when the world reviles us. (1 Pet. 4:14) So, let's be obedient to God, and hopefully there will be multitudes changed through our obedience. Furthermore, let's also pray this PC plague can be stopped before it kills us. To anyone willing to hear....
© Madeline Crabb
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/crabb/160229

STUDENT LOANS COMPRISE 37% OF U.S. ASSETS

The more college students take out loans, the more the federal government benefits. (Credit: StudenLoans.gov)


STUDENT LOANS COMPRISE 37% OF U.S. ASSETS

Government wins big when college kids take on debt

Cheryl Chumley

The U.S. Treasury Department’s recently released report on government assets and liabilities shows the feds winning big when college-age students take out school loans.

In fact, the federal government’s biggest draw for its asset bucket is student loans. Fully 37 percent of the U.S. government’s $3.2 trillion in assets comes from its issuance of student loans. In dollars and cents, that mean $1.2 trillion of federal assets hails from the college-age crowd and the school loans they, or their parents, take on, Breitbart reported.
In just one year’s period, between 2014 and 2015, the federal government’s student loan assets rose by 10 percent, to nearly $1.1 trillion. And the government’s earnings on those loans was $1 billion last year alone.
The federal government, as part of the Obamacare package that passed Congress, took over student loans from the private sector in 2010.
“The Democratic majority decided, well look, while we’re at it, let’s have another Washington takeover,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander, during those congressional discussions of Obamacare, Breitbart reported. “Let’s take over the federal student loan program.”
Now, private banks are only involved in the management of service of loans; the loans originate with the government. And that makes the politicization of student debt, and the promise of free college that’s coming from Democratic camps, a curious message.
As Breitbart’s Mike Flynn wrote: “Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders employ rhetoric on the issue of college loans as if there is some mysterious and pernicious third party taking advantage of students struggling to pay for college. This is balderdash. … The most direct way the federal government could affect college affordability is to tell universities and colleges that it won’t issue loans above a certain amount of tuition. This would obviously horrify a major block of Democrat voters, but it would do far more to broaden accessibility to college.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/student-loans-comprise-37-of-u-s-assets/#Iwx97iidy3gK9x7W.99

PERSECUTED FOR PATRIOTISM? IT HAPPENED ALL THE TIME

Richard Stockton


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PERSECUTED FOR PATRIOTISM? IT HAPPENED ALL THE TIME

Bill Federer remembers life of Declaration signer Richard Stockton


Richard Stockton signed the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration mentioned God four times: “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God. … All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights … Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions. … And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

Richard Stockton’s brother-in-law, Elias Boudinot, was president of the Continental Congress for a term, signed the Treaty of Paris, and founded the American Bible Society. Richard Stockton’s son, also named Richard Stockton, was a U.S. Senator from New Jersey. His grandson, Robert F. Stockton, was a U.S. Navy Commodore and a hero of the War of 1812. He helped freed slaves found the country of Liberia, West Africa.
In 1846, Robert F. Stockton defeated the Mexican army and captured California, serving as its first military governor. Stockton, California, was named for Commodore Richard F. Stockton.
Prior to the Revolutionary War, Richard Stockton traveled to England in 1767, where he met with many leaders: Edmund Burke, the Marquis of Rockingham, the Earl of Chatham, and even King George III, acknowledging the repeal of the Stamp Act.
The Stamp Act, passed by the British Parliament in 1765, required a tax on every piece of printed paper, including legal documents, licenses, newspapers, and publications, effectively restricting communication among American citizens.
Richard Stockton, who was a trustee of Princeton College, traveled to Scotland where he met with a young Princeton graduate attending medical school there – Benjamin Rush. Benjamin Rush later married Richard Stockton’s daughter, Julia. Richard Stockton and Benjamin Rush persuaded Rev. John Witherspoon to come to America and be the new president of Princeton.
In 1776, Richard Stockton, Benjamin Rush and John Witherspoon joined the other delegates in the Continental Congress in signing the Declaration of Independence, pledging their lives, fortunes and sacred honor. When the British invaded New Jersey, Richard Stockton and his family had to flee for their lives. Richard was betrayed by loyalists, dragged from his bed at night and imprisoned in New York. His farm was pillaged and his library, one of the best in the country, was burned.
Richard Stockton’s health was broken from over a year in the British prison and he died bankrupt at age 51 on Feb. 28, 1781. New Jersey placed a statue of Richard Stockton in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.
Richard Stockton wrote in his will: “As my children … may be peculiarly impressed with the last words of their father, I think proper here, not only to subscribe to the entire belief of the great leading doctrine of the Christian religion. … but also in the heart of a father’s affection, to exhort them to remember ‘that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.'”
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Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/persecuted-for-patriotism-it-happened-all-the-time/#lLzIFALRK4PJKZhi.99

POLL: ONLY 15% HAVE BENEFITED FROM OBAMACARE

(THE HILL) — Just 15 percent of people say they have personally benefited from ObamaCare, although more than one-third believe it has helped the people of their state, according to a poll released Monday.
Most Americans — a total of 56 percent — say they haven’t felt directly affected by the Affordable Care Act. Among those who have felt affected, more people say the law has hurt them than helped them, according to polling by National Public Radio and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Twenty-six percent of U.S. adults say they have been personally harmed by the healthcare law since its passage — a fraction that likely reflects those in the poll who said they have noticed rising healthcare costs in the last several years.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/poll-only-15-have-benefited-from-obamacare/#37pkZhQ5dq7Dc7H9.99

TRUMP HITS 49% IN NEW NATIONAL POLL

(CNN)Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are poised to lead the nation’s two major parties in this fall’s presidential election, with a new nationwide CNN/ORC poll finding each well ahead of their closest competitors just as the race expands to a national stage.
Trump has expanded his lead over the diminished field to capture the support of nearly half of Republican voters, while Clinton tops Sanders by nearly 20 points.
On the Republican side, the new survey finds Trump’s lead is dominant, and his support tops that of his four remaining opponents combined. The businessman tops his nearest competitor by more than 30 points: 49% back Trump, 16% Marco Rubio, 15% Ted Cruz, 10% Ben Carson and 6% John Kasich.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/poll-trump-commands-33-point-lead-nationally/#95Rs5xK35PVoRPWJ.99

WOMAN SCREAMING 'ALLAHU AKBAR' CARRIES CHILD'S HEAD IN STREETS

A woman clad in black carried a child's severed head through the streets of Moscow (Credit: YouTube)


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WOMAN SCREAMING 'ALLAHU AKBAR' CARRIES CHILD'S HEAD IN STREETS

Moscow nanny also shouted: 'I'm a terrorist'

Cheryl Chumley
Police in Russia arrested a woman who pulled out a female child’s severed head from her bag and brandished it in front of a crowd of shocked Moscow metro station passersby, while shouting – according to one media outlet – “Allahu Akbar.”
The woman, reportedly a nanny, was charged with murder, Reuters reported.
The New York Post reported the woman, 39, also threatened to detonate a bomb and screamed: “I’m a terrorist.”
Investigators didn’t name the suspect but said she hailed from Central Asia and was sent for psychiatric testing to determine her mental soundness and whether she understood the nature of her crime.
Lifenews.ru, meanwhile, posted footage of a woman identified as the child's nanny. She was shown in black, wandering the streets and holding up the child's head.
The site reported at one point, police approached the woman who then shouted she had killed the child, who was about 4  years old.
The RBC daily news outlet, meanwhile, reported the woman had been screaming "Allahu Akbar."
Police also said the woman, who had been babysitting when she allegedly killed the girl, also set the child's family's apartment on fire. When they responded to the scene of the fire, they found the headless body of a 5-year-old girl, the New York Post reported.
A video of the scene from RT shows the woman, speaking in a foreign language that was translated into English in text, saying: "I'm a terrorist. I want you dead. Look, I'm a suicide bomber. I'll die, the end of the world will come in a second."
"The child was found without the head," police spokesperson Yulia Ivanova told TASS news outlet. "The nurse took the head away. The woman waited until the parents and the elder child are gone and killed the toddler, setting the apartment on fire."
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/woman-screaming-allahu-akbar-carries-child-head-in-streets/#CJqsMFYfjF5JCDLT.99

BENHAMS: SPEAK TRUTH IN A CULTURE THAT DEMANDS SILENCE

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SPEAK TRUTH IN A CULTURE THAT DEMANDS SILENCE

Exclusive: Jason & David Benham applaud bishop's courageous stand despite ridicule

“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me” – Matthew 5:11.
Perception is not reality – truth is. And when you speak the truth, you will be perceived poorly by some people because of the insults and false accusations that will come your way. That’s just the environment in which we live. But remember, perception is not reality – truth is.
If we as Christians focus more on pleasant perception than timeless truths, we’ll operate primarily in the strategic and not in the Spirit. Strategy is good, but it must follow the Spirit. Therefore, we cannot focus on how others perceive us, but we must concern ourselves with the truth.
During an election season, values voters are good examples of this in regard to life, marriage and religious liberty. As a result of these convictions, they’re often perceived as anti-women, anti-gay and discriminatory. Thankfully, there is a growing number of values voters this year who don’t concern themselves with perception, but rather truth. And, of course, speaking the truth in love as Scripture commands is key.
In today’s cultural context, it’s vital to remain steadfast in the truth, regardless of the perception that will come as the insults and false accusations begin to fly.
Bishop Harry Jackson, an African-American pastor, provided an excellent picture of this for us last week in Charlotte as we stood together against the transgender “Bathroom Bill,” which passed, unfortunately, by a 7-4 vote. Before the meeting, he stood outside the chamber and declared:
“During the 1950s and ’60s, blacks fought for their constitutional rights in five major areas:
1. The Right to Equal Employment
2. The Right to Equal Education
3. The Right to Vote
4. The Right for Equal Justice & Due Process
5. The Right to Equal Housing
“The LGBT community has all of these rights already. The transgender bathroom ordinance that is being voted on today is not giving denied rights to an oppressed group. It is rather an attempt to give ‘special rights’ to a community that does not need them.”
Bishop Jackson nailed it on these points. But as to being insulted and falsely accused for simply speaking the truth and debunking the comparison between LGBT rights and black rights, he’s been called an anti-gay leader in the “contemporary Confederate army.” He’s accused of being no different than those who wanted a “civil war to maintain slavery.”
Based on the narrative that’s been created against the bishop as a result of his stand for truth, should he then throw his convictions in neutral for fear of being perceived as racist or bigoted? If your focus is on perception, then the answer would be yes.
But Bishop Jackson isn’t operating strategically, trying to create an attractive perception about himself. He’s functioning spiritually, seeking to proclaim the truth of God regardless of cost or consequence.
We can all learn from Bishop Jackson and the countless others who are stepping up to speak the truth in love in a culture that demands silence. Now is the time to throw perception to the air and focus on truth. Because the truth is the only thing that will set people free.
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32).
Let’s not forget that perception is not reality – truth is.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/speak-truth-in-a-culture-that-demands-silence/#HLoPV41OflOKKtSF.99

My comments: TRUTH resides in One Person and One Person Only: CHRIST and His Word which are ONE! The godless, fight agaisnt this Reality but their fight is Futile. They are Emissaries of their father, Satan, who came to Steal, Kill and Destroy. (John 10:10) Satan, and all who follow him, are destined for the Lake of Fire. Even if Christians are Silent, the TRUTH Remains--As the TRUTH is Eternal.  

JESSE LEE PETERSON: DONALD TRUMP IS NOT AN ANGRY MAN

ELECTION 2016

DONALD TRUMP IS NOT AN ANGRY MAN

Exclusive: Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson corrects false assumption concerning GOP front-runner

Jesus said, “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
People are claiming Donald Trump is angry. In Trump’s book, “Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again,” he writes that he is angry – angry at what has happened to the country. Although I share his urgency, I don’t believe that Donald Trump is emotionally angry. Very few men truly understand “righteous anger.” Donald Trump might.
Dealing with anger and angry people the past 26 years for my nonprofit, BOND, I have focused on helping angry young black men, and all people, to drop their anger.
Anger, I believe, is the No. 1 form of “playing god” – unrighteous judgment – that holds people back in life, keeping them trapped in their passions, sin and vice.
There is no love in anger. The Bible says, “Do not be angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God requires.”
Now, many counter that the same Bible says, “Be angry, yet sin not.”
What is this “righteous anger” that overcomes evil? Some people think they know: They are angry at evil within themselves or in the world, and they feel good about judging that evil. But it does them no good; it complicates problems and stops nothing.
(If you’ll notice, evil has only flourished under Obama even after the tea party’s supposed “righteous anger” elected new feeble leadership in 2010 and 2014.)
Most people do not have love, nor real “righteous anger.” From childhood, people learn a false, emotional “love” from backward “families” in which mother is “boss,” or father is morally weak, if there at all. The resulting “love” is rooted in anger, and led by emotion, guilt – false judgment.
Many of the best Christian families I’ve dealt with through BOND, counseling, speaking at churches and rallies, show a weak imitation of love that makes them ineffective in the world –people pleasing and false “peace keeping.” They may follow rules of politeness, clean language, not insulting people, but cannot “speak the truth in love.” White Christian men have a mute, fearful spirit, picked up as children that stops them from being honest with others (including loved ones, blacks and women). They cover up their anger with a veneer of “decency,” which is really “timidity,” lacking the God-given “spirit of power, love, and a sound mind.”
Despite all the coarse language and insults coming from Trump toward those who attack him, I have not seen anger in Donald Trump. Trump honestly expresses what we know is true in his own, maybe imperfect way. Trump is fundamentally always himself. Others have tried to be “Trump” in an attempt to disparage him and his supporters, but they come off as dishonest, nasty, cheap imitations of the real thing. What these people do not realize is that they are angry. They are blind and shallow. Donald Trump is not angry. Donald Trump is fearless.
Some say Trump has “New York values,” referencing immorality and crudeness he’s embraced, especially in the past.
We all come from a world that does not align with God’s values. As a black man, I was once fooled by the illusion and fake idea called “racism.” I was unconsciously angry, misjudging police and whites as “racist.” Deep down, I unknowingly resented my mother for keeping me from my father, who, when I was a child, represented God to me. Like my father and mother before me, I made a son out of wedlock who for many years hated me as I had hated my father. In my blind state, I fell in line with liberal Democrats, fear-mongers and hate-mongers like Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson. But God knew my heart sought Him, and eventually He allowed me to repent after I prayed that I might see myself. Thankfully, my son too has been restored to me and has forgiven me, but it seems I am a rare exception among sons and fathers who never forgive and so are never forgiven.
White men – the most kind-hearted, generous, fair-minded people in America – fall into a trap of false “love” that fears to correct out-of-line blacks and women. But the Bible says, “There is no fear in love.” This false “decency” of white men is not enough to save or restore our country. Only a few white men escape to find godly courage.
Donald Trump grew up in a world of liberal “New York values.” I understand my conservative friends’ concerns about him. Trump sees the damage done to our country, and has shunned many old immoral values.
Donald Trump exposes in a big way the same evil that conservatives have pointed out for decades: The media lies. Our government does not protect us, but enables illegal aliens and Muslim terrorists. Our government drives out American business and jobs.
Some think New Yorkers are rude. I don’t see it that way. New Yorkers are straightforward – a “New York value” that I appreciate. Donald Trump tells the truth, loves America, and keeps the big-picture priorities of the country in mind.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/donald-trump-is-not-an-angry-man/#rkf8fT43lqcevpUO.99