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HOO-AH to Steve Russell (Lt. Col., U.S. Army Ret.)

HOO-AH to Oklahoma State Senator
Steve Russell (Lt. Col., U.S. Army Ret.)
for taking a stand for us Vets !!

SENATOR PROPOSES RESOLUTION OPPOSING OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S POSITION ON ‘RIGHT WING’ EXTREMISTS AS POSSIBLE NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS

Senators Take Exception to Characterization of Veterans, Pro-Lifers, etc. as ‘Right-Wing Extremists’

Responding to a report of the Obama administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) characterizing returning veterans and others who uphold traditional American values as “right wing extremists” and a threat to American security.

The nine-page document from the DHS titled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment," has caused an outcry from veterans groups, Republican lawmakers and conservative activists.

"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," said the report, which also listed as suspect gun owners and veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

The outcry resulted in a demand from the head of the American Legion to meet with Ms. Napolitano, a request the DHS chief said she would honor next week when she returns to Washington from her current tour of the U.S.-Mexican border.

Sponsored by Senator Steve Russell, a retired Army Colonel and veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, Senate Resolution 42 demands that President Obama’s Administration ‘retract this report and apologize to America’s returning war veterans.’ “To suggest that we would terrorize the very nation we risked our lives for should give all Americans pause,” said Russell.

“Yesterday afternoon I participated in a rally with thousands of good, law-abiding, God-fearing Oklahomans who voiced their concerns about the Federal government’s expenditures of our hard-earned dollars,” said Russell, referring to the Tea Party rally that was held on the steps of the State Capitol. “According to the Department of Homeland Security report, these people would also be considered threats to the national security.

“It is vital that we take a stand and express, in our constitutional right to peaceful assembly and our extreme displeasure and disagreement with the Administration on this important matter,” Russell continued.

“Taken at face value, this report from our Department of Homeland Security would qualify the vast majority of Oklahomans as threats to our national security,” Russell added. “If upholding traditional American values such as the sanctity of life, the right to bear arms and defending your country is extremist, then I stand so accused,” Russell concluded.

Senate Resolution 42 further states that the Oklahoma State Senate supports America’s military veterans, who have risked their lives preserving the nation instead of attacking it, and believes that the traditional American values under attack by the Obama Administration should be respected and revered by the federal government.

The Resolution will likely be heard in the Senate on Wednesday.

American Minute - Apr. 16 - Alexis de Tocqueville

American Minute
with
Bill Federer

On APRIL 16, 1859, French historian Alexis de Tocqueville died.

After nine months of traveling the United States, he wrote Democracy in America in 1835, which has been described as "the most comprehensive...analysis of character and society in America ever written."

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote:

"Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention...

In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions.

But in America I found they were intimately united."

De Tocqueville continued:

"The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other...

They brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion."

In Book Two of Democracy in America, de Tocqueville wrote:

"Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America...

In the United States...Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it."

American Minute - Thomas Jefferson

American Minute
with
Bill Federer

He drafted the Declaration of Independence, was Governor of Virginia and founded the University of Virginia.

As the 3rd U.S. President, he approved the Louisiana Purchase and had Lewis and Clark explore it.

He sent the Marines to stop the Muslim Barbary Pirates of Tripoli.

His name was Thomas Jefferson, born APRIL 13, 1743.

Inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC are his words:

"God who gave us life gave us liberty.

Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever."

In his Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, January 16, 1786, Jefferson wrote:

"Almighty God hath created the mind free...

All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments...tend only to begat habits of hypocrisy...and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in His Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone."

In his 2nd Inaugural, Jefferson wrote:

"I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old."

American Minute - Apr. 14 - Noah Webster

American Minute
with
Bill Federer

Noah Webster first published his Dictionary on APRIL 14, 1828.

This 26-year project with 30,000 new definitions, standardized spelling and gave American English its identity.

Proving unprofitable, the rights were purchased after his death by George and Charles Merriam.

In the preface of his original edition, Noah Webster wrote:

"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed...

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."

Noah Webster concluded:

"To that great and benevolent Being...who has borne me and my manuscripts in safety across the Atlantic, and given me strength and resolution to bring the work to a close, I would present the tribute of my most grateful acknowledgments."

Noah Webster's Dictionary defined "Property" as:

"The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing; ownership. In the beginning of the world, the Creator gave to man dominion over the earth...It is one of the greatest blessings of civil society that the property of citizens is well secured."

American Minute - Apr. 10 - William Booth & the Salvation Army

American Minute
with
Bill Federer

Millions of people in 91 countries are helped by The Salvation Army, founded by William Booth, who was born APRIL 10, 1829.

William Booth began by ministering to the poor, drunk and outcast.

He fought to end teenage prostitution in England.

Awarded an honorary degree from Oxford, Booth traveled the United States, met President Theodore Roosevelt and opened a session of the United States Senate with prayer.

William Booth wrote:

"While there is a drunkard left, while there is a lost girl upon the streets, where there remains one dark soul without the light of God-I'll fight! I'll fight to the very end."

Years after his death, William Booth's daughter, Evangeline, became their new leader.

President Franklin Roosevelt sent her a telegram, September 4, 1934, saying:

"Please accept my sincere congratulations on your election as General of the Salvation Army throughout the world.

In these troubled times it is particularly important that the leadership of all good forces shall work for the amelioration of human suffering and for the preservation of the highest spiritual ideals."

FDR concluded

"Your efforts as Commander-in-Chief of the Salvation Army...have earned the gratitude and admiration of millions of your countrymen."

American Minute - Booker T. Washington

American Minute
with
Bill Federer

Born in a slave hut APRIL 5, 1856, was Booker T. Washington.

In dire poverty after the Civil War, he moved to West Virginia to work in a salt furnace and coal mine. At age 16 he walked 500 miles to attend Hampton Institute in Virginia and later Wayland Baptist Seminary in Washington, DC.

He taught in West Virginia until he founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where he recruited George Washington Carver as a professor.

At his death, the school had 1,500 students and a faculty of 200 teaching 38 trades.

The first African American to have his image on a U.S. coin and postage stamp, Booker T. Washington wrote in Up From Slavery, 1901:

"If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christlike work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian."

Of his speech in Atlanta, 1895, Booker T. Washington wrote:

"The afternoon papers had forecasts of the next days' proceedings in flaring headlines...I did not sleep much that night...

The next morning...I also kneeled down and asked God's blessing...

I make it a rule never to go before an audience...without asking the blessing of God upon what I want to say."

American Minute - Woodrow Wilson & US entered WW I

American Minute
with
Bill Federer

APRIL 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I by declaring war on Germany.

Within the next two years, America enlisted 4 million soldiers and spent 35 billion dollars, resulting in an Allied victory.

In a Day of Prayer Proclamation, October 19, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson stated:

"In view of the entrance of our nation into the vast and awful war which now afflicts the greater part of the world...

I set apart...a day upon which our people should...offer concerted prayer to Almighty God for His divine aid in the success of our arms."

In another Proclamation, May 11, 1918, President Wilson wrote:

"Whereas it has always been the reverent habit of the people of the United States to turn in humble appeal to Almighty God...

I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim...a day of public humiliation, prayer and fasting,

and do exhort my fellow-citizens of all faiths and creeds to assemble on that day in their several places of worship...to pray Almighty God that He may forgive our sins...and purify our hearts...to accept and defend all things that are just and right...

beseeching Him that He will give victory to our armies as they fight for freedom."