I just heard on the news that the members of congress who voted to pass the health care bill are receiving death threats.
Lawmakers in Washington are supposed to represent the voice and vote of the people who elected them. They are sent to Washington to work the will of the people. I don’t know how America could have made it any more clear that they did not want this health care package. They wrote their congressmen, they took to the streets, they even demonstrated right on their own doorstep and they still refused to listen to them! Congressmen and women stopped their ears and refused to listen to the voices of their people.
While I strongly oppose making death threats against anyone, more specifically, these congressmen and women who voted for this health care bill, I’m not surprised it’s happening. Hundreds of thousands of people participated in “town halls” across the country. This wasn’t just conservatives, there were democrats, republicans, and independents who showed up in a solidarity lacking in congress to vocalize their disapproval of the direction the Obama administration is taking our nation. When you cease to listen to the voice of your people, they will riot at your door. I don’t know how we the people could have made our desire any more plain than we did. We didn’t want Obamacare. They passed it anyway. Why are they so surprised that people are angry?
Instead of making death threats or vandalizing the offices of the members of congress, I encourage people to demonstrate their disapproval in a place these people will hear the most… the voting booths. They won’t listen when we scream from the rooftops, so we should send them packing. Some of them have said they don’t believe the voters will vote them out… prove them wrong.
I agree, Chrystal. Death threats are not only stupid but if these people are caught, they’ll go to prison and that will be one less voting citizen able to vote out these deaf, dumb, and blind politicians who are showing that democracy, capitalism, and free enterprise mean NOTHING to them anymore. They have forsaken their constituents and turned their backs on what this country was founded upon to begin with. Resorting to violence and violent threats isn’t right. However, civil disobedience is definitely called for in legal and orderly ways.
I would HIGHLY recommend that everyone find out how their senators voted and then write them a letter of very strong disapproval for the way they decided to brush off the will of the people and have forsaken their oath to represent the will of the people. Instead, they have basically called us a bunch of idiots that need to have someone make up our minds for us. It’s outrageous and we need to let them know. Nothing will change if we just complain about it and don’t write them and express our tremendous disdain for their lack of leadership and thumbing their noses at the will of the very people who elected them into PUBLIC OFFICE to represent us. We need to vote them out and let them know that is our intention.
In His service,
Mike
The point of this post is excellent: Stop supporting socialist, which is to say antichrist, leaders.
Interestingly, I make the point that typical broadcast Christian televangelists operate as brothers to socialist, statist leaders in America.
Televangelists in general are 1) not transparent with finances, 2) make loyalty demands by way of self-service requests for donations, 3) refuse to lead lives of self-examination or correction, 4) refuse to expose logic to their give-to-get shenanigans, 4) do not hearken unto Western Enlightenment’s precepts that leaders often can be self-assertive, greedy, power-hungry, enthroned-for-life, partial to nepotism, and in control of the media eye-that-sees-only-what-it-wants-to-see.
Thus, statists are the firm and fixed brothers to the current crop of televangelists. They fly the same jets. They use the same wiles of self-assertion dominion. They live life above the plebes without guilt or shame. They refuse reason and correction. And history of the past fifty years, proves that such mystic tyrants are… unstoppable. Statists and televangelists keep growing, and growing and growing. Their apologists are deceived, dumb and blind sheep…. happy to be led to financial slaughter.
These are the teachings of http://www.inthatdayteachings.com. The answer is Christ-indwelling…. something televangelists and statists HATE.
All bad people, which is to say fakers, they hate the truly indwelt-of-Christ. They hate: in that day!
In That Day is the day of Christ’s indwelling, and all such indwelt see fakers… as fakers.
Statists and shenanigan televangelists are fakers. They fear much. Mainly they fear God in man.
Watch this one for sure!
Liquor, chicken, and hot sauce? Oy vey!
Hi Chrystal-
http://finedrywit.blogspot.com/2010/03/uh-oh.html
May God Bless you, friend, and Bless the United States of America.
Barack Hussein, the long-legged, Mac daddy, baby killer, infanticide Obama…….Now THAT sums up our “socialist in chief” pretty well. (found at 2:37 or so in the video).
On another note, this guy is speaking the truth and yet if this same truth was spoken by a white man, as it has been on occasion before, that white man would immediately be targeted for death, put in jail for racism under some ridiculous “hate crimes” bill, and labeled a hypocritical bigot. And this isn’t just to be found in the black community. It can be found across the spectrum of ethnic diversity. It’s yet another sad testament to the sinful heart of mankind. It’s not a “black” issue. It’s not a “white” issue; it’s not a “Hispanic” issue. It’s a HEART issue because the heart is deceitfully wicked and full of sin. That sinfulness is fueled by Satan and we see the hatred flowing in music, in media of all sorts, and in crime statistics. It’s very sad indeed.
Spoken like a true (grafted in ) Jew, Crystal! LOL
Change
Let me get this straight….we’re trying to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president that also is exempt from it and hasn’t read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke.
Mickey,
I almost spit milk all over my computer when I read your post. ROFL That’s hilarious and SO VERY TRUE!!!
If this country REALLY wants to see healthcare change for the better, then EVERY LAST SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE AND THE PRESIDENT need to get on MY plan and deal with HMOs and the whole system. They don’t have CLUE NUMBER ONE what it’s like to be swallowed up in a broken system because they don’t have anything to do with it when they are ailing. It makes me sick. They want to force a bunch of crap down our throats but won’t take their own medicine, no pun intended. It boils my blood.
In His service,
Mike
Someone once said, Congress needs to be like NASCAR. Put their sponsors on their suits so we can all see who they really work for.
Might I suggest http://blowoutcongress.com. Pretty much sums it up.
@ Mike;
I didn’t write it, only cut and pasted it. Don’t know who wrote it as it wasn’t cited at the place I got it.
It put a smile on my face too!
20 year old daughter needs her tonsils out according to PCP and ear nose throat MD. BC/BS says it is elective surgery…WHO ELECTS TO HAVE TONSIL OUT?!?! …Hey doc, I don’t want my liver any more, can you take it out for me?
She has been on antibiotics one after another to get her through college this year so she can have it done when she gets back home. BC/BS says manditory second surgical opinion, yet they won’t pay for the 2nd opinion, I have to…Go find an MD that says “yep, they need to come out!” Pay MD $250 if MD agrees, or find a third MD to settle the tie at another $250, then regardless of the 3 doctor’s opinions, BC/BS will pay for the “elective” surgery…..Oh, but if she were a tramp and wanted an abortion.. or worse yet, she was an illegal alien!!!
Now IF there were re-incarnation, and time travel, I would want to come back as a 1990′s illegal alien, black female, disabled war veteran, HIV positive, lesbian, fathered by a world traveling politician/banker….
I would own/run EVERYTHING!
Even so Lord come quickly!
On my way to work yesterday I was thinking about how frustrated I’d originally felt when the elected “representatives” had ignored what the majority of Americans had very openly said they wanted and didn’t want.
Then I thought, “I’ll bet this ends up really making some people mad enough to get out and try to shoot them. I mean, people just seem to go overboard all the time anymore.”
Then I began thinking how if THAT happened, it would “give the president an excuse” to really, really wind up his poliical muscle and put the kybosh on anyone who openly voiced opposition to gov’t. ….and I found myself thinking, “I wouldn’t be surprised if that is EXACTLY what the Whitehouse hopes ends up happening.”
Then last night, it’s 1:20 a.m., and I turn on XM radio to listen to a FOX as I do for my half hour drive home each night. And what does this commentator say? You got it – he’s saying Americans getting upset, sending their congressional leaders death threats etc. is EXACTLY what the Whitehouse wants. It will give them an “excuse” to possibly declare marshall law if anything violent happens.
To this I say – take a deep, cleansing breath, tell the Lord you’re so glad He knows you as his child & friend, thank Him for His goodness and know that none of this is happening without Him still being in complete control. We are so very, very near to His return.
well…since you opened the topic, Chrystal…I’ll call him Jim. Jim is a physical therapist working at the hospital where I exercise. Moderate liberal, nice guy. He comes up to me this morning, asking if I’ve written our Congressman about opposing/repealing this atrocity. I asked his opinion of Obamacare. He shook his head and said, “Absolute disaster. Jason other there (one of his co-workers) actually got through to the Congressman’s office-his secretary took down his information and thanked him.”
I expect that the over-reach of the Democrats/President Obama will be answered not just by Republicans, Tea Party people and Conservatives. I lived through the Carter years. I expect another Reagan to appear on the scene, cheered and endorsed by what used to be called “Reagan Democrats”.
It seems strange, writing politically at Slaughter of the Sheep. I guess you say that some sheep are in danger of slaughter politically as well as spiritually.
I appreciate and support your comment and stand, Chrystal, as to the deplorable activity and violence being perpetrated against our congressmen/women. It is the right stand.
The violence appears to be at the beginning stage. Death threats, bricks being thrown, spitting at one another? This is America and I am proud to be American, yet I am embarrassed. We are acting desperately and despicably and it sends a terrible message– especially, I am sad to say, to Jihadist terrorists who are hell-bent on killing you and me, us…all of us!
Alive and well and thriving in our great country is Nazism, Marxism, Communisim, Racism and every other “ism” one can think of, good or bad– we are a democracy.
At the root of all heinous belief systems is the love of oneself– the “Five I’s” (Isaiah 14: 13-14) as authored by Satan; breeding hatred, so deeply ingrained within all humans… only a savior can make the difference and that savior is Jesus Christ.
Let us pray! Rev K
I’ve seen the Left be devious before….this could be the Left harrassing the Democrats b/c they know everyone would assume its automatically the Right that’s sending in death threats. We’ve seen libs do haenous things before, and they are so dishonest and without rationality that its possible. I’m not going to assume its anti-Healthcare folks who are doing this, although it might be. Time will tell.
On another note, I’d like to exhort Christians to not allow fear of man to dictate how they vote in the next few elections (or any elections), both local and national. My motto for voting is:
Fear God.
Vote Biblically.
Don’t Compromise.
If you fear God rather than man, if Scripture is your standard for voting, then you cannot become pragmatic in the voting booth and thus negate what It says.
Scott Brown of Mass., hailed as the great savior for the GOP because he won Kennedy’s seat, not only did not help the cause against Socialized medicine, but he’s already voted WITH and in SUPPORT OF Obama’s latest “stimulous” bill (aka Jobs bill). Brown is pro-abortion and big government and has even offered his older daught to date on national tv TWICE, not to mention his posing naked for Cosmo magazine in college and saying that if his daughters dediced to do it, that he wouldn’t have a problem with it. I’m in CA and Schwarzenneggaar is another fine example of a RINO who has hurt far more than helped our state (and now its WORSE than when our last governor which we kicked out of office—Schwarzeneggaar’s another Republican for pro-abortion, pro-homosexual rights).
An “R” next to someone’s name means NOTHING. Its HOW they VOTE on issues, and WHO they SUPPORT, and WHO SUPPORTS THEM. You can tell a LOT about a politican by the company he keeps.
Please do not subcomb to fearing the opposition. Rather, stay true to Biblical values (if they are values then you won’t jettison them for the sake of someone with an “R” next to their name just to get more Repubs into office). Let us be examples of standing true to Truth no matter the cost.
Psa 20:7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 17:5, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord.’”
Very wise words, Denise!!
Denise, thank you-that Jeremiah text resonates today. How very true!
Hey folks, I guess I keep chewing the same bone: That socialist America is a result of brothers-in-arms in demagoguery, our Christian Broadcast System.
Take the TBN family, even Focus on the Family, even the Calgary Chapel worldwide broadcast system.
Christian Broadcasters tend to lack Western Enlightenment’s mandate that: a) men and its institutions must be checked and verified for truth (broadcasters won’t be self-examined!!!), b) men and its institutions tend to be self-assertive and favor relatives or cronies (broadcasters love to hire relatives and their only peers are cronies-in-crime!) c) that demagogues use demagoguery wiles and mandate loyalty through taxation or tithes for which givers must be thankful and d) the enlightened have a “tragic view” that eliminates false hopes in utuopian dreams because utopian dreams are always unobtainable and that e) mystic tyrants control the masses by myoptic belief in unobtainable utopias (in Broadcast Christianity this includes prosperity, rapture, prophetic jabberwocky, intellectual subeducation, fixation on little themes of the Bible, and simple mojo-jivek-emotionalism.
This is the wide-angle view of Broadcast Christianity. It is THE REASON America has turned SOCIALIST. For example, T.D. Jakes recommended Obama.
Other demagogues, like Kenneth Copeland, didn’t…. but he flies around in the same jet as other elitist SOCIALISTS. STATISTS and mega-rich Televangelists live the same life, have the same desires: And that is to have a primitive, dumbed-down, penned, gullible, apologist-for-life, virused-against-correction, virused-against-sight sheep.
But, is anybody in the blogosphere interested in this broad view?
Or shall we just say Socialist legislators in D.C. are corrupt? Sure, they are corrupt. But also, so is America’s GREAT, SATANIC DEMAGOGUE/STATIST-SHEEP-TRAINING/SELF-ASSERTING/PERSONA-BASED, APOLOGIST-CREATING, BLIND-LEADING-THE-BLIND Christian (so-called) Broadcasting machine.
None are so blind as those addicted to cheap-thinking, self-congratulatory enslavement via broadcast Christianity, which (wink, wink) NEEDS THE WORLD’S TITHES AND LOVE OFFERINGS….. (amounting to, say ten trillion dollars a year to promulgate more statism?)