In this video,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4vnCwM9cIg

Ron Paul shares his life's principles. He covers his understanding of family values, and the roles of individuals and government.

Here is a list of items he mentions in this video. For quick reference I've included the video time in parenthesis. Christians should recognize these values. These are the values which Ron Paul lives by.

1. He describes what fascinates him about new life and the natural value of life seen in each other. (1:06)
2. He believes that the family is under attack and has some ideas of what to do about it. He also mentions an important reference in the bible as a description of and a warning for the today's family. (1:30)
3. Biblical teachings in I Samuel 8 there are warnings to the people about having a king to make them safe and secure. With a king like other nations the people's morals would be superseded and their family members and wealth would be used by the king for his own purposes, i.e. the state's purposes. Ron describes the shift from a governing body of family and judges towards a king, i.e. today's federal government. I Samuel 8:10-22
4. "We have too often relied on our king in Washington and we have to "change" that." (3:00)
Ron Paul compares these warning in Samuel to how we the people have now have relied too much upon the Federal Government as their king today and how we need to heed this warning now and change the current role of federal government or else it will be too late.
5. He explains that a nations law can never change the morality of the people but rather the laws do reflect the morality or immorality of a people. (3:40) (very important point) Later on Ron Paul mentions that the morality of a nation will come from the individuals, families and the church.
6. Explains progressing of laws changing as the people's hearts and morality had changed. Vietnam war, drugs and decade of abortion violations, etc. (4:15)
7. Biblical mandate of honest money. No central banking system! (4:35)
8. Welfare and benefits. Moral society has changed. Cradle to grave mentality is not a biblical mandate. (6:00) These are the responsibility of the family and churches.
9. Dr. Paul talks about just war principles and where that originated. In both the Old and New Testament Christ was recognized as the Prince of Peace. What are we to be-the peace makers or the war makers? (6:12)
Going to war should always be done under the proper authority. "Today, I think the proper authority is NOT the UN or the NATO authorities that take us to war!" (7:30) Just war principles.
10. Caring for the poor, family, neighbors and friends is a personal responsibility. (7:50)
Do we need more laws or a better understanding of our Christian principles.
11. Ron Paul is pro-life!! "You can not be a great defender of Liberty if you do not defend and understand what life is all about and where it comes from." (8:27)
12. A biblical Foreign policy based upon the golden rule. (9:18)
The book of Isaiah reference to the ending of wars. Reasons why wars undermine our families, it is one of the greatest threats to our families. Peace is far superior to war.(9:55)
13. Ron's vision. His explanation of what is the proper goal of a free society seeking virtue and excellence as individuals. Also, explains how we are losing our liberty. Get rid of dept of education-responsibility of parents.(13:09)
14. Where do our morals and values come from? Not the government! Individuals, family and our churches, that is where our moral values should come from and that is where we have slipped. (14:20)
"We must change our hearts if we expect to change our family and treat our family values as it should be." (15:09)
15. Debt. We have been blessed in this country. Debt is not a biblical principle. We are living way beyond our means, whether personal and national. (15:25)
Proper role and responsibility of government. (16:00) Right to work hard, have incentive, a right to life and liberty then there is the right to the fruits of our labors.
Ron references again I Samuel and how the kings desires may be thwarted, by fighting for these issues.
16. What is the role of government? Founding Fathers said the role of gov't is the protection of liberty!! (17:35)
Our experiment is about to end. Are we transforming from a Republic into a dictatorship? Describes what the government is doing. (18:00)
17. Read the constitution carefully for our roles as citizens. The Constitution restraints are placed upon the Federal government! (19:05)
LETS RESTORE LIBERTY to this county and PROSPERITY, and PEACE!!!!

So, send this video and the listed items to a Christian friend who may not be convinced. There are many other videos and documents which exhibit his values.

Just as the Constitution may not have the word "God" mentioned God's principles are well contained within it AND it builds upon the previous and most famous unanimous Declaration of dependance upon Him.

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I challenge your knowledge of the ISSUES!!! Can you take your blinders off for awhile and pretend you still desire to receive instruction?

Why is it so many of you so called conservatives seek to vote for the "newcomers" to the cause of spending cuts? Many voters have voted and will soon vote for Romney or Santorum to cut the spending despite the fact they have supported big spending in the past. Look at this posted video of Mitt Romney seeking to take as much money from the government as he can to make the Olympics successful!!!! Both Mitt and Santorum had their hands in that spending spree!!! Neither seem to have a guilty conscience about spending nor the taking of the taxpayers' money!!

Ron Paul has never voted for higher taxes nor unconstitutional big spending bills and has the best budget recovery plan. I don't think he even travels on the publicly funded subways!! He's been walking the talk for twelve terms in congress!!! Right from the beginning he has been voting correctly! None of this flipping like Mitt Romney nor any Santorum forgive me speeches where he states “When you’re part of the team, sometimes you take one for the team for the leader, and I made a mistake,” are you going to fall for that line.....again?

Next, why is it so many of you called conservative voters seek the "newcomers" in the cause of pro-life? Many will vote for Romney and Santorum to protect life when they didn't use to and have flipped and flopped on the issue. See Santorum sitting (on stage!) and agreeing with Arlen Spector's 1995 presidential announcement speech including the need to protect the woman's right to choose abortion!!!!

Dr. Ron Paul never has flipped nor flopped and has always been pro-life. He's even delivered over four thousand babies!!! How ironic is that to be able to vote for a candidate with true credentials in the cause of life!!!

So, I ask, how in this fallen world can any of you so called conservative voters vote for these other two when you have a solid and proven Constitutionalist such as Ron Paul? Let me tell you why, you're all neo-conservatives who can't kick the desire to go to war with other nations and Ron Paul's has this foreign policy which is constitutionally based and called the non-interventionist position. "Blessed are the peace makers...not the war makers", Ron Paul quoting scripture support for his position which was ours as a nation until ten years ago. He also supports the Christian just war principles. His position goes against your fighting spirit!! Go ahead police the world and drive our young blood six feet into the ground and our national debt to the moon!!!

So, now take a long look in the mirror, what you see is a hypocrite!!! You're not really pro-life because you seek to take innocent lives in unjust wars over seas and vote for phoney pro-life candidates. Remember, being pro-life is not just to protect the innocent life in the womb but to prevent the unjust killing of "innocent" people.

In addition to that you don't truly want to stop the spending, even when we're already broke!! You have a need to spend more on wars causing us all to go further into an unrecoverable level of debt!!!

Isn't that just wonderful, we have a humble gentleman in Ron Paul and you can't see to send him a vote to be president because....why??? Does everyone think Paul is going to legalize all the drugs? No, he's talking about getting the federal government out of the war on drugs programs. The states will take care of these drug issues instead. Now, go ahead tell me why else? Please take off your blinders, kick you're killing habit. Vote for Ron Paul for a true change for the better. Restore America NOW!!!!

Here is a video of Arlen Spector announcing his presidential run back in March of 1995. Rick Santorum may be seen sitting to the left of Arlen Specter clapping and nodding with approval and support!!! Do you care to know to what is he shaking and clapping to?

If that's not enough, fool me once, etc, nine years later in 2004 Santorum also endorsed the since deceased Democrat Senator Spector in his senate re-election bid instead of the conservative Pat Toomey. Do we not yet see a problem with Santorum's wisdom and discernment?

All you so called conservative Rick Santorum supporters, PLEASE note these spots on the tape:

Here is a list of points on the recording for you to quickly check out for yourself!!

3’46 mark: “In 1996, I intend to win the other house — the White House — with ten commitments to America… including a woman’s right to choose…

13’22 mark: “Even though we have this historic opportunity for these achievements, there are those in our party who would lead us down a different path — and squander this unique moment in our nation’s history — by using our political capital — to pursue a radical social agenda — that would end a woman’s right to choose…

13’48 mark: “When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation between Church and State, I say he is wrong…

14’31 mark: “When Ralph Reed says a pro-choice Republican isn’t qualified to be our President, I say the Republican Party will not be intimidated or blackmailed by those kinds of threats.I, and millions of other pro-choice Republicans, will not be disenfranchised and made second class citizens.

15’33 mark: “… it is not Christian, or religious, or Judeo-Christian to bring God into politics; or to advocate intolerance and promote exclusion.

15’54 mark: “I want to take abortion out of politics. I want to keep the Republican Party focused on the vital economic and foreign policy issues — and leave moral issues such as abortion to the conscience of the individual. I believe abortion is an issue to be decided by women…

16’40 mark: “I pledge to lead the fight to strip the strident anti-choice language from the Republican National platform…”

Ok, you may now put up your shield and forget all that you've read. Go vote your conscience. Ron Paul is not a politician, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are big politicians!!!

Last of all I'm not saying that one man will save this nation. What will save this nation is when we the people repent from our sins and turn back to the one true God of the bible. Let us once again be a great nation by doing what is righteous. Let us discern wisely who will be able to carry this out for us. 

Thanks for reading and have a blessed day!

With Newt supposedly on the rise, according to some polls, he needs to be vetted by we the people.

How many times has it been stated that, "we the people have a short memory"?

WE need to let each other know and remind each other of the past.

Newt can not be trusted with the reins of government. Please see the following two videos. One is a campaign add with over 500,000 views in just three days being online. The other is an updated documentary of Newt Gingrich. It was first put out in 1996 and updated in 2009. Very timely update for us the voters needing to discern the true freedom lovers.

Campaign add...> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWKTOCP45zY&feature=youtu.be

Newt Gingrich documentary...> http://vimeo.com/6445068

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Remember this knife fight in "Saving Private Ryan"? I've imagined the man on the floor with the knife slowly entering his heart, representing America. See the man "fully armed with plenty of ammo" yet shaking in his boots on the steps outside? Well, he represents the American citizen unwilling to save America. The soldier at the top of the steps looking down at the end of the clip, he represents that which drains an individual's courage, spirit, and vision for freedom. One could think of many things which are seriously wrong with America and that could be what the man shaking on the step represents. I would call him "apostasy".

http://tinyurl.com/3ww77ej

Can you recall a movie or a certain scene which could symbolize what's wrong with America?

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Why is it, Friends and Fellow Citizens, that you are here assembled?

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? – And why is it that, among the swarming myriads of our population, thousands and tens of thousands among us, abstaining, under the dictate of religious principle, from the commemoration of that birth-day of Him, who brought life and immortality to light, yet unite with all their brethren of this community, year after year, in celebrating this, the birth-day of the nation?

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the corner stone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies, announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before?

Cast your eyes backwards upon the progress of time, sixty-one (now 235) years from this day; and in the midst of the horrors and desolations of civil war, you behold an assembly of Planters, Shopkeepers and Lawyers, the Representatives of the People of thirteen English Colonies in North America, sitting in the City of Philadelphia. These fifty-five men, on that day, unanimously adopt and publish to the world, a state paper under the simple title of 'A DECLARATION.'

The object of this Declaration was two-fold.

First, to proclaim the People of the thirteen United Colonies, one People, and in their name, and by their authority, to dissolve the political bands which had connected them with another People, that is, the People of Great Britain.

Secondly, to assume, in the name of this one People, of the thirteen United Colonies, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station, to which the Laws of Nature, and of Nature's God, entitled them.

At the root of all this there was a plausible theory of sovereignty, and unlimited power in Parliament, conflicting with the vital principle of English Freedom, that taxation and representation are inseparable, and that taxation without representation is a violation of the right of property. Here was a conflict between two first principles of government, resulting from a defect in the British Constitution: the principle that sovereign power in human Government is in its nature unlimited: and the principle that property can lawfully be taxed only with the consent of its owner. Now these two principles, carried out into practice, are utterly irreconcilable with each other. The lawyers of Great Britain held them both to be essential principles of the British Constitution. – In their practical application, the King and Parliament and people of Great Britain, appealed for the right to tax the Colonies to the unlimited and illimitable sovereignty of the Parliament.

Are you then assembled here, my brethren, children of those who declared your National Independence, in sorrow or in joy? In gratitude for blessings enjoyed, or in affliction for blessings lost? In exultation at the energies of your fathers, or in shame and confusion of face at your own degeneracy from their virtues? Forgive the apparent rudeness of these enquiries: – they are not addressed to you under the influence of a doubt what your answer to them will be. You are not here to unite in echoes of mutual gratulation for the separation of your forefathers from their kindred freemen of the British Islands. You are not here even to commemorate the mere accidental incident, that, in the annual revolution of the earth in her orbit round the sun, this was the birthday of the Nation. You are here, to pause a moment and take breath, in the ceaseless and rapid race of time; – to look back and forward; – to take your point of departure from the ever memorable transactions of the day of which this is the anniversary, and while offering your tribute of thanksgiving to the Creator of all worlds, for the bounties of his Providence lavished upon your fathers and upon you, by the dispensations of that day, and while recording with filial piety upon your memories, the grateful affections of your hearts to the good name, the sufferings, and the services of that age, to turn your final reflections inward upon yourselves, and to say: – These are the glories of a generation past away, – what are the duties which they devolve upon us?

And now, friends and fellow citizens, what are the duties thence resulting to yourselves? Need I remind you of them? You feel that they are not to waste in idle festivity the hours of this day, – to your fathers, when they issued their decree, the most solemn hours of their lives. It is because this day is consecrated to the cause of human liberty, that you are here assembled; and if the connection of that cause, with the fulfillment of those clear, specific predictions of the greatest of the Hebrew prophets, re-announced and repeated by the unnumbered voices of the heavenly host, at the birth of the Savior, has not heretofore been traced and exhibited in the celebrations of this day, may I not hope for your indulgence in presenting to you a new ray of glory in the halo that surrounds the memory of the day of your national independence?

Yes, from that day forth shall the nations of the earth hereafter say, with the prophet, – "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace!" [Isaiah 52:7] "From that day forth shall they exclaim, Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains! for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted" [Isaiah 49:13, 24-25]. From that day forth, to the question, – "Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive be delivered?" – shall be returned the answer of the prophet, – "But thus saith the Lord, – Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him that contends with thee, and I will save thy children." – "From that day forth, shall they say, commenced the opening of the last seal of prophetic felicity to the race of man upon earth, when the Lord God shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" [Isaiah 2: 4].

My countrymen! I would anxiously desire, and with a deep sense of responsibility, bearing upon myself and upon you, to speak to the hearts of you all. Are there among you those, doubtful of the hopes or distrustful of the promises of the Gospel? Are there among you those, who disbelieve them altogether? Bear with me one moment longer. Let us admit, for a moment, that the prophesies of Isaiah have no reference to the advent of the Savior; – let us admit that the passage in the Gospel of Luke, in which he so directly makes the application of this particular prophesy to himself, is an interpolation; – go further, and if, without losing your reverence for the God to whom your fathers, in their Declaration of Independence, made their appeal, you can shake off all belief, both of the prophesies and revelations of the Scriptures; – suppose them all to be fables of human invention; yet say with me, that thousands of years have passed away since these volumes were composed, and have been believed by the most enlightened of mankind as the oracles of truth; – say, that they contain the high and cheering promise, as from the voice of God himself, of that specific future improvement in the condition of man, which consists in the extirpation of slavery and war from the face of the earth. Sweep from the pages of history all the testimonies of the Scriptures, and believe no more in the prophesies of Isaiah, than in those of the Cumaean sybil [a priestess of Roman mythology who presided over the Cumae (a Greek colony in Naples) Apollonian oracle]; but acknowledge that in both there is shadowed forth a future improvement in the condition of our race, – an improvement of good tidings to the meek; of comfort to the broken hearted; of deliverance to the captives; of the opening of the prison to them that are bound. Turn then your faces and raise your hands to God, and pray that, in the merciful dispensations of his providence, he would hasten that happy time. Turn to yourselves, and, in the Declaration of Independence of your fathers, read the command to you, by the unremitting exercise of your highest energies, to hasten, yourselves, its consummation!

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The above portions of "The Oratory of John Quincy Adams" were read,selected and re-posted here as a reminder of this special day in our nation's history. The complete document is listed below.

- All taken from The Oratory of John Quincy Adams at the 61st anniversary of the Declaration of Independence at Newburyport

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