"The Violation of America, a Year Later"

 ** I am posting this same article with a second title for those who feel the first one is too strong for sharing.

 

There are varied events in history that carry a defining, life-altering impact.  America has had many such events, especially in recent years.  9/11 is one, incomparably tragic, that instantly changed us forever. 

 

There are others far less tragic, yet no less significant and defining.

A year ago, against the impassioned will of the majority of Americans, the infamous Obama Care Bill was brazenly forced upon us, barely passing into Law, destroying the world’s best Health Care System, with the government taking over one-sixth of the economy to achieve it.

With it also came what president Obama promised – America had heartbreakingly begun the process of “fundamentally transforming.”  Many of us felt the anguish of this America –altering moment, grieving the loss of something sacred.  This assault was a huge loss of the America we had otherwise always known.  It disgracefully spit on the shed blood of our forefather’s who died to give us the blessed inheritance of a free America.

And it’s not just that Obama Care passed into Law, it’s equally important who ensured it and even more, how.  By force is un-American and unacceptable.   

No matter how passionately we said “no,” begging and pleading with Obama and the democrats to stop this atrocity, they proceeded with the unthinkable and appalling governmental rape of our Republic anyway, smiling, without shame, like it was perfectly normal.  

Watching then Speaker Nancy Pelosi march with fellow democrats to the Capital with such arrogance, carrying her oversized gavel (the pun not lost on us), was more than we could stomach. 

Emboldened and deluded with the arrogant intoxication of being the super-majority, and believing that they knew better than us, the democrats insisted that later, once we had Obama Care, we would come to like it.  However, no one who’s been raped goes on to later enjoy sexual relations with their rapist.  But they do eventually heal in the fight to take their life back. 

A year later, unwavering from our initial reaction and resolve, we are fully in the fight of our lives, on all fronts, against the tyranny of Obama Care.  

We cherish the gift of the Republic our Founders paid so dear a price to give us.  So if Obama and the democrats still believe we are going to eventually lie down in defeat and acceptance, they completely under estimate our fervent and vehement disapproval. 

We are America; not Cuba, not Europe. Our forefathers left Europe and fought the Revolutionary War to give us the gift of America, the shining light on a hill. Why would we throw that away to become like Europe once again? As Proverb 26:11 says, it is “like a dog who returns to his own vomit.” And yet, this is exactly what president Obama and the democrats want.  

The Constitution has ensured that in America all power is temporary so that liberty is not.  

President George Washington said in 1787, "The power under the Constitution will always be in the People. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can--and undoubtedly will--be recalled."  

Our votes hold the winning hand with plenty of Constitutional chips to spare, as proven in the 2010 mid-term elections. 

While the conservative victory of the mid-terms stopped the bleeding out of our liberty and voted our voice back into the game, America is still on life support.  Our Country will not heal and economically recover until we instill the necessary confidence that will only come from stopping Obama’s transformational agenda and by undoing his policies, specifically, Obama Care. 

Recent polls reflect that even more people are opposed to Obama Care than ever before, with 62% favoring its repeal, especially after finally discovering “what is in it.”

In response to a suit brought by 26 states, (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming), Federal Judge Roger Vinson ruled on January 31st that Obama Care is unconstitutional, stating, "Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void."  

Currently, we are waiting for the case to be escalated to the Supreme Court for final ruling.

The newly Republican-led House, repealed Obama Care 245-189, but as long as Obama holds the veto pen via the Oval Office, his policies will remain in place.  This is why we want Obama to be a one-term President; to ensure the successful total repeal of Obama Care before it can be fully implemented and therefore never reversed.  

It should be no surprise that completely undoing Obama Care is the number one priority; everything hinges on it.  Our Republic’s survival depends on it.  If we fail to do so, indeed, America will be forever fundamentally transformed and it will be all downhill from there.

We don’t want to transform America into a European welfare state; we don’t want to become a socialist Nation, not even one sixth.  We’re not standing for the “remaking” of America; we’re fighting without ceasing to retake Her.  

President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”  

Significant baby steps made, there is still a road of struggle ahead.  Obama Care is the “Holy Grail” of the left and thus, will not go down without a fight.  

Our victory depends on both taking back the Senate and electing a conservative president in 2012, as well as the Supreme Court ruling in our favor.  There is little to no margin of error.  Time is of the essence, yet it is far too soon to lose heart.  

They may have knocked us down, but they have not knocked us out.  If we stay the course through 2012 and finish what we started in the 2010 mid-term tsunami, which returned America to a sea of conservative red, they never will.

Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Thousands of our forefathers paid forward an America they never lived to see.  Never in our lives have we teetered so close to losing it.  Let us now also pay forward the America we inherited so that no generation ever teeters this close again.  It is the very least we could and should do. 

“The Raping of America, a Year Later”

There are varied events in history that carry a defining, life-altering impact.  America has had many such events, especially in recent years.  9/11 is one, incomparably tragic, that instantly changed us forever. 

 

There are others far less tragic, yet no less significant and defining.

A year ago, against the impassioned will of the majority of Americans, the infamous Obama Care Bill was brazenly forced upon us, barely passing into Law, destroying the world’s best Health Care System, with the government taking over one-sixth of the economy to achieve it.

With it also came what president Obama promised – America had heartbreakingly begun the process of “fundamentally transforming.”  Many of us felt the anguish of this America –altering moment, grieving the loss of something sacred.  This assault was a huge loss of the America we had otherwise always known.  It disgracefully spit on the shed blood of our forefather’s who died to give us the blessed inheritance of a free America.

And it’s not just that Obama Care passed into Law, it’s equally important who ensured it and even more, how.  By force is un-American and unacceptable.   

No matter how passionately we said “no,” begging and pleading with Obama and the democrats to stop this atrocity, they proceeded with the unthinkable and appalling governmental rape of our Republic anyway, smiling, without shame, like it was perfectly normal.  

Watching then Speaker Nancy Pelosi march with fellow democrats to the Capital with such arrogance, carrying her oversized gavel (the pun not lost on us), was more than we could stomach. 

Emboldened and deluded with the arrogant intoxication of being the super-majority, and believing that they knew better than us, the democrats insisted that later, once we had Obama Care, we would come to like it.  However, no one who’s been raped goes on to later enjoy sexual relations with their rapist.  But they do eventually heal in the fight to take their life back. 

A year later, unwavering from our initial reaction and resolve, we are fully in the fight of our lives, on all fronts, against the tyranny of Obama Care.  

We cherish the gift of the Republic our Founders paid so dear a price to give us.  So if Obama and the democrats still believe we are going to eventually lie down in defeat and acceptance, they completely under estimate our fervent and vehement disapproval. 

We are America; not Cuba, not Europe. Our forefathers left Europe and fought the Revolutionary War to give us the gift of America, the shining light on a hill. Why would we throw that away to become like Europe once again? As Proverb 26:11 says, it is “like a dog who returns to his own vomit.” And yet, this is exactly what president Obama and the democrats want.  

The Constitution has ensured that in America all power is temporary so that liberty is not.  

President George Washington said in 1787, "The power under the Constitution will always be in the People. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can--and undoubtedly will--be recalled."  

Our votes hold the winning hand with plenty of Constitutional chips to spare, as proven in the 2010 mid-term elections. 

While the conservative victory of the mid-terms stopped the bleeding out of our liberty and voted our voice back into the game, America is still on life support.  Our Country will not heal and economically recover until we instill the necessary confidence that will only come from stopping Obama’s transformational agenda and by undoing his policies, specifically, Obama Care. 

Recent polls reflect that even more people are opposed to Obama Care than ever before, with 62% favoring its repeal, especially after finally discovering “what is in it.”

In response to a suit brought by 26 states, (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming), Federal Judge Roger Vinson ruled on January 31st that Obama Care is unconstitutional, stating, "Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void."  

Currently, we are waiting for the case to be escalated to the Supreme Court for final ruling.

The newly Republican-led House, repealed Obama Care 245-189, but as long as Obama holds the veto pen via the Oval Office, his policies will remain in place.  This is why we want Obama to be a one-term President; to ensure the successful total repeal of Obama Care before it can be fully implemented and therefore never reversed.  

It should be no surprise that completely undoing Obama Care is the number one priority; everything hinges on it.  Our Republic’s survival depends on it.  If we fail to do so, indeed, America will be forever fundamentally transformed and it will be all downhill from there.

We don’t want to transform America into a European welfare state; we don’t want to become a socialist Nation, not even one sixth.  We’re not standing for the “remaking” of America; we’re fighting without ceasing to retake Her.  

President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”  

Significant baby steps made, there is still a road of struggle ahead.  Obama Care is the “Holy Grail” of the left and thus, will not go down without a fight.  

Our victory depends on both taking back the Senate and electing a conservative president in 2012, as well as the Supreme Court ruling in our favor.  There is little to no margin of error.  Time is of the essence, yet it is far too soon to lose heart.  

They may have knocked us down, but they have not knocked us out.  If we stay the course through 2012 and finish what we started in the 2010 mid-term tsunami, which returned America to a sea of conservative red, they never will.

Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Thousands of our forefathers paid forward an America they never lived to see.  Never in our lives have we teetered so close to losing it.  Let us now also pay forward the America we inherited so that no generation ever teeters this close again.  It is the very least we could and should do.  

“The Divided States of ObamAmerica”

Barack Obama’s election to the highest Office in our Country is undeniably historic; he will forever be known as the first black man elected President of the United States.  And we’re the generation that finally surpassed this racial threshold signifying how far we’ve come as a Nation.  His election reflects the fulfillment of what Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed about so many years ago, where all men would be judged only by the content of their character and no longer by the color of their skin… as it should be.  

Obama’s election is also historic for what he can uniquely do in the job, as no other President before him.  Having won the highest platform of power and influence in the land, he could bring closure to the wounds of racism in America, and take us to the next level of rising above the sins of the past.

I grieved the night Obama won the Presidency, for two reasons, the second dovetailing the first, and neither had anything to do with objecting to a black man in the White House; on the contrary.  I 100% do not agree with his ideology, his policies, or his desire to “fundamentally transform America.”  I am not disappointed or surprised by his Presidency; it’s exactly what I expected and feared, and therefore why I grieved – I knew what was to come and didn’t want to go there.  Now that we’re here in the thick of it, I feel all I never wanted to feel.  I became part of the TEA Party to express that.  The dovetail is I felt robbed of the joy of fully celebrating the first black president because I couldn’t celebrate Obama being the president.  A black president is something I had longed and prayed for America and always believed I would see in my lifetime, just not someone as far left as Obama.  

After I finished sobbing, I got on my knees and thanked God that at least we could finish healing the wound of racism in our Country.  What an opportunity Obama would have to make that mark on history, something in which I could participate, support, and be grateful from the bottom of my heart.  

How is it, then, since Obama’s election that it’s all been downhill?  There’s never been such racial tension so ratcheted up, let alone from finally having the first black man in the White House.  Shouldn’t the converse be the case? 

Instead of feeling the joy of closure and the dawn of a new day, leftist blacks are feeling unabashedly emboldened to lash out at every perceived opportunity, exposing the stark contrast between how far we have actually come and sadly, how little they yet believe we have.  Therein lays a huge part of this unresolved problem manifesting in projections of racism onto anyone who opposes the policies and agenda of the president who happens to be black.

Since before Obama’s election, the race card has been played at every turn.  Regardless of polls showing that most of the Country is conservative to moderate, opposing his far left policies is blamed on racism.  From musicians and celebrities, to politicians and talking heads in the very liberal, biased, main stream media, constantly crying “racism” wolf has become the disgraceful staple of their strategy to undermine and silence opposition. 

At any time, the president could step forward with a genuinely meaningful exhortation, like the one he gave after the Arizona shooting tragedy, challenging everyone to step up to the better angels of our nature, putting an end to the divisiveness.  He could historically finish the job Martin Luther King Jr. started.  

Cue the crickets from the White House.  

Unfortunately, Obama’s tacit approval has only fomented the ongoing problem, condoning the accusers who are ironically emboldened by his presidency.

Racism is racism whether it is white against black, black against white, or any other racial combination; it is not an exclusive club.  It’s wrong, all of it.  Given America’s history, white against black is understandably the most volatile, but it is not the definition.  

“You white patty!”  This was my first introduction to racism at age 7, racism hurled at me from two little black girls who didn’t want me to play with them.  I had no idea what they meant, but their rejection was crystal clear and hurt me deeply.  This engendered sincere compassion for anyone hurt in like manner.  This vivid experience gave me a keen awareness and a special sensitivity to racism.  I’ve since endeavored to both understand it and help abridge the divide.

To subsequently and falsely be called a racist cuts to the heart.  Three years of it wears out the heart.

Admittedly and obviously, whites will never completely understand what it is like to be black, especially considering the stigma of slavery in America’s past and the subsequent struggles to get from there to here.  I won’t pretend to ever know because I will never get the chance to walk in those shoes.  

Conversely, many blacks do not understand what it is like to be white in today’s America, ashamed of our forefather’s sins, compassionate towards those so offended, yet grateful to live in a day and age where we’re all free to be that one great big melting pot of diversity.  

At the height of this ultimate opportunity, Obama’s failure of leadership, missing perhaps this most significant opportunity to unite all Americans like never before, instead, has divided us more. Instead of this being the defining moment that takes us over that final hump into a higher level of American unity, and a proud celebration of that historic achievement, led by our first black president, we’ve taken 40 years of steps backwards.  We’ve become the “Divided States of ObamAmerica.”  What a legacy; the exact opposite of what it could and should be. 

Now, on the eve of hitting the re-election campaign trail, trying to invalidate opposition, Obama has disgracefully thrown his own voice into the voluminous mix of shameful race-baiters, accusing “race is a key component of the TEA Party,” thus, further validating and encouraging this behavior when he should reprimand it and lead everyone above it.  For any U.S. president to misuse racism for political gain is beyond offensive – it is reprehensible and completely irresponsible.  It’s an egregious offense, undermining the very healing that otherwise lies in his hands and the power of his teleprompter.

My question to the president, and to all who continue to cry “racism” wolf, do you really want to heal racism in this Country?  Or would you rather keep it on life support because it’s an effective tool to obtain the things you want, and that, much more than you want to heal racism in this Country?  

“The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf” learned a harsh lesson: when liars do tell the truth, they are never believed.  Playing the race card in like manner has the same undermining result.  With every false accusation comes the lack of credibility for legitimate cases.  Is this the price anyone wants to pay for political gain?

The truth is revealed in the choices made, not in the accusations laid.  And if the latter choice is the answer, then sadly, the dream was nice while it lasted.

“Near and Dear to My Heart”

Almost 18 months ago, I lost one of my best friends to a resurgence of the breast cancer she had conquered 12 years previous.  Bev was a shining light in my life for many reasons, greatest among them her indomitable spirit that never complained and gave God glory for the gift of her life and whatever the purpose her suffering was to serve.   

For all who knew her, she was a daily inspiration and a reminder to keep life’s ills in perspective.  If ever there was a “wonderful life” it was Bev’s, as our lives were made richer, more humble, and substantially better for how hers so graciously touched ours.  She was known for always saying about her life, “It is God’s will.”  

She made peace with how her health had been affected long before the news arrived that the cancer had returned with a vengeance and it was now in her bones.  And when it was time to go, she was ready, her heart halfway inside Heaven’s gates as she raised her hands in worship to the God she loved and trusted no matter what, while her favorite praise music played in the background of her hospital room. 

 

My last time with her was the night before she removed her breathing tube herself and surrendered.  She kept writing on a tablet that she is “at peace with God” and “now all was right in the world.” She was ready to go.  I drew close to her so she could read my heart through my eyes, and through choked up tears, I was able to let her know how much I loved her, how much her life has meant to me, and that it was okay to let go now.  Her own eyes smiled back with a glistening of tears, and when I said, “I love you, Bev” she pointed to her heart and then to mine to let me know she loved me too.  I never had any doubt of that as she was a true friend in word and deed, always serving the needs of others and never asking for much help for her own.  She preferred it that way, not wanting anyone to pity her for her physical limitations.

Needless to say, my words are not post-mortem hyperbole.  Ask anyone who knew her, the stories are the same.  Each one of us held such a special place in her heart that each of us felt like we were the most special.  What a gift she left behind for all of us to emulate.

About 5 years ago, I had my own personal scare after finding an unusual lump that gratefully turned out to be fibrocystic and not cancer.  Even so, those few weeks of my life brought me face to face with my own mortality in a way that has forever changed me.  Truly, “our lives are but a breath” as Psalms 39:5 tells us.

While Bev eventually lost her fight with cancer, it was not before winning the fight of her spirit.  It is easier to share about this today than it was even 6 months ago, but still not without the tears welling in my eyes.  I share her story today because I know I am not the only one who has had a Bev in their life.  I have lost other women from my life due to breast cancer and I am blessed to have several women in my life who have been mighty conquerors.  And in recent days, news of yet someone else dear to me being touched by this disease has burdened my heart again.

This brings me to the point of my sharing this: Susan G. Komen’s Walk for the Cure and the special friend in my life who has taken up the challenge in such an inspiring way I just have to tell you all about it.  I met Jim Hillmann when we worked together many years ago.  We have remained dear friends since that time and now he is doing something absolutely amazing to me.  After losing his mother to breast cancer in February of 2004, Jim got involved with the 3-day, 60 mile walks in the Bay Area.  After being inspired from these events, he has decided to try to do all 14 events in 2011.   

I am so blessed by Jim's passion for this worthy cause.  I just have to do all I can to support his efforts because he is walking for you and me.

This past December, John Dugan of the Sunnyvale Sun wrote a wonderful article about Jim and what he is trying to achieve.  Jim has also put together his own website which outlines his story and his goals, and how you can be part of what he is doing to support this effort.

Please take the time to review both the article and his website where he is trying to raise funds for what he calls, “900 Miles – 15 Cities – 1 Cure.”  Whatever you can contribute towards such a worthy cause would be greatly appreciated, even if it comes in the form of passing on this message.  If each one could reach one, imagine what miracles we together could do.

Thank you all from my heart,

Wendi

Quick Links:

To read Jim’s story: www.WalkingForACure.info

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Jim’s Email: Walking_Them_All@WalkingForACure.info

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