I Am an American

September 02, 2009

American Valor Salutes Freedom and Those Who Protect It

I Am an American

The gate is closing rapidly

We are on the verge of losing ALL FREEDOM in America.

This is not about Democrat or Republican. This is about right versus wrong.

What is going on in Congress right now is wrong. Whether you agree with me or not, it is still wrong.

I have selected some videos for you to watch and make up your own mind, while it is still legal.

Allow me please to start out with quotes/truisms from over the years and then we will get to the videos.

"You cannot tax a nation into prosperity."

"This is America! You do not and WILL NOT redistribute wealth…you EARN it!"

"If an American cannot run a business and make a profit from it, there is no way in creation that the Government can."

"Our healthcare system is in trouble. It desperately needs to be FIXED! Do you want our government treating our health the same way they run everything else?"

"This is America! So why do I have to press 1 to hear English?"

"Congress is not about a Democracy. Congress does not represent and look out for the benefits of it’s voters. If Obama and Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi want it, it is done."

"There have been more laws and more appropriations fast-tracked this year than ever in the history of our country. Is that because they were good laws or because of EFFECTIVE spending? No! It was because Obama and Pelosi wanted it."

"We’ve worked hard all our lives scrimping and saving and paying taxes and obeying laws and playing by the rules so that we could look forward to a comfortable retirement. Now we are in grave danger of losing all of it so that people who don’t work, who don’t try to save, who don’t pay taxes, who break the laws, who break the rules can have the same thing."

"Obama and Pelosi have been moving about Washington like gigantic earthmovers to pour billions of dollars into saving banking institutions that couldn’t make profitable decisions. They’ve poured billions of dollars into the auto industry because they could not make profitable decisions." It is a fact of like that most new businesses fail with the first five years after startup. It is a fact of life that if you don’t run your business in a profitable manner you will go out of business. We just don’t learn. Years ago we bailed out Chrysler. Now years later they have failed to survive without intervention. Why will General Motors be any different. If GM cannot make profitable decisions, then let them fail. This is America! Someone will step in, start making dependable vehicles at affordable prices and employ American workers. Stay out of our business.

Now all that being said about all the billions and billions of dollars they are throwing around like confetti showering it upon people who don’t deserve it. Think about this: "they just announced that there will be no cost of living increases for those living on fixed incomes with Social Security for the first time in twenty years. Budget problems you know. Things are financially tight for the government this year you know. BULL BUNGEE! The pharmaceutical companies are making gigantic profits this year as they continue to increase the prices of the medications these people must have. Other companies are raising prices to compensate for a loss of sales due to the bad economy. So everything is increasing in cost to everyone in the country, including these people on Social Security.

The government has taken several steps this year to reduce military benefits for our sons and daughters, moms and dads, brothers and sisters in uniform. They put their lives on the line everyday of the year, year in and year out to protect our country and our freedom and we are going to cut their benefits? BULL BUNGEE! You know, just once in a while there is nothing wrong with taking care of the people who have earned the right to be taken care of.

OK, OK, OK I’ll stop ranting and get on with our videos. I’ll just leave you with these thoughts:

I think it is time we put Americans in office. I think it is time that people WE put in office should start looking our for us. I think that immigration is at the foundation of the development of our great nation. Without immigrants, we would not have America. I think immigrants who choose to stay here should apply for US citizenship within a reasonable time or they should leave. I think they should learn to speak English and begin contributing to our economy. We should not walk into department stores or pick up packages and have to look for the English version. I think that every person from every country who immigrates to America brings a valuable contribution to our history and our system of values. We are a melting pot of nationalities. As we come together as Americans we build a unique system of values for our country that has made it one of the greatest nations on earth in all of history.

If you want to sneak into this country, operate on the black market economy, not pay taxes, not contribute to society, not obey the laws of our land then all I have to say to you is "Leave now. You are no longer welcome here. And those BULL BUNGEE slurping nimrods in Congress who want to give everything to you while denying it to American citizens should go with you. The leader of our country should not kneel before the leader of any other country in this world. Kneel only before God.

I think by now most of you get my drift. The problem is this: most people in the United States (legally) feel the same way. We are referred to as the great silent majority. We know what is happening is not right, but we are comfortable with just sitting around mouthing off about it because just maybe some day we will be the ones getting the free lunch. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there is no free lunch. The gates are just about closed. It is just about over. Big Brother 1984 is just about in control, total domination. There will be nothing we can do to change it when it happens. Get off your collective duffs and speak up. Vote when you can. Do everything possible to get the nimrods out of office. If they don’t like our country let them go to China or Iran or Russia.

The Videos:

I Am An American!

In 1954 an Akron, Ohio, high school girl, Elizabeth Ellen Evans, wrote a prize-winning essay titled "I Speak for Democracy." Carmon Dragon, conductor-composer of the School Broadcast, and Adrian Michael’s, the Broadcast’s program manager, read the essay and were impressed by its sincere patriotic feeling. Michaelis developed and adapted the words for musical presentation and Dragon composed the choral-orchestral background for a dramatic narration. The result: "I am an American." It was first heard on The Standard Hour, broadcast on "I am an American Day," September 12, 1954, from the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. (Narrator: Edmond O’Brien)

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John McCain Pledge of Allegiance

September 10, 2008

The Pledge of Allegiance’ – by Senator John McCain

We just received this from Becky today. I think this message pretty well says it all about John McCain and where he’s coming from. Thank you Becky for sharing this with us!

John McCain’s remarks about the Pledge of Allegiance
In light of the recent appeals court ruling in California, with respect to the Pledge of Allegiance, the following recollection from Senator John McCain is very appropriate:

‘The Pledge of Allegiance’ – by Senator John McCain

‘As you may know, I spent five and one half years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA kept us in solitary confinement or two or three to a cell. In 1971 the NVA moved us from these conditions of isolation into large rooms with as many as 30 to 40 men to a room. This was, as you can imagine, a wonderful change and was a direct result of the efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred POWs 10,000 miles from home. One of the men who moved into my room was a young man named Mike Christian.Mike came from a small town near Selma, Alabama. He didn’t wear a pair of shoes until he was 13 years old. At 17, he enlisted in the US Navy. He later earned a commission by going to Officer Training School. Then he became a Naval Flight Officer and was shot down and captured in 1967. Mike had a keen and deep appreciation of the opportunities this country and our military provide for people who want to work and want to succeed.

As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some prisoners to receive packages from home. In some of these packages were handkerchiefs, scarves and other items of clothing. Mike got himself a bamboo needle. Over a period of a couple of months, he created an American flag and sewed on the inside of his shirt. Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we would hang Mike’s shirt on the wall of the cell and say the Pledge of Allegiance.

I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important part of our day now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell it was indeed the most important and meaningful event. One day the Vietnamese searched our cell, as they did periodically, and discovered Mike’s shirt with the flag sewn inside, and removed it. That evening they returned, opened the door of the cell, and for the benefit of all of us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of hours. Then, they opened the door of the cell and threw him in. We cleaned him up as well as we could.

The cell in which we lived had a concrete slab in the middle on which we slept. Four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the room.
As I said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After the excitement died down, I looked in the corner of the room, and sitting there beneath that dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes almost shut from the beating he had received, making another American flag. He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was making that flag because he kn ew how important it was to us to be able to pledge our allegiance to our flag and country.

So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never forget the sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to build our nation and promote freedom around the world. You must remember our duty, our honor, and our country.’

I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands,
one nation under

God

, indivisable,
with liberty and justice for all.’

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Daddy…I MIss You!

July 04, 2008

Daddy…I miss you!

This is a tribute to all those who died in 9/11 and in the war since then.

God bless and keep all those who have gone before us!

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America – Neil Diamond

July 04, 2008

What better way to sing praise to our country than through Neil Diamond’s "America"!

Artist: Neil Diamond
Album: The Jazz Singer 1980
Song: America

Far
We’ve been traveling far
Without a home
But not without a star

Free
Only want to be free
We huddle close
Hang on to a dream

On the boats and on the planes
They’re coming to America
Never looking back again
They’re coming to America

Home, don’t it seem so far away
Oh, we’re traveling light today
In the eye of the storm
In the eye of the storm

Home, to a new and a shiny place
Make our bed, and we’ll say our grace
Freedom’s light burning warm
Freedom’s light burning warm

Everywhere around the world
They’re coming to America
Every time that flag’s unfurled
They’re coming to America

Got a dream to take them there
They’re coming to America
Got a dream they’ve come to share
They’re coming to America

They’re coming to America
They’re coming to America
They’re coming to America
They’re coming to America
Today, today, today, today, today

My country ’tis of thee
Today
Sweet land of liberty
Today
Of thee I sing
Today
Of thee I sing
Today

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Suicide for America

June 29, 2008

I realize that this is a little over the top for our site but we will call it an opinion. Just read it and think about it. That’s all I ask.

We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of America’s finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, ‘Mexifornia,’ explaining how immigration – both legal and illegal was
destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.

Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, ‘If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let’s destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee
observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that ‘An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.”

‘Here is how they do it,’ Lamm said: ‘First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country.’ History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way:
‘The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.’ Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans.’.

Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, ‘Invent ‘multiculturalism’ and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. Make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. Make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.

Third, ‘We could make the United States an ‘Hispanic Quebec’ without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: ‘The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we are
left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.’
Lamm said, ‘I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities.’

‘Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school.’

‘My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of ‘Victimology.’ I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population.’

‘My sixth plan for America’s downfall would include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other – that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep
a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common Language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions.
Greece fell. ‘E. Pluribus Unum’ –From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the ‘pluribus’ instead of the ‘Unum,’ we will balkanize America as surely as Kosovo.’

‘Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits; make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of ‘diversity.’ I would find a word similar to ‘heretic’ in the 16th century – that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like ‘racist’ or ‘xenophobe’ halt discussion and debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the
doctrine of ‘Victimology,’ I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them.’

In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said,. ‘Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis’s book ‘Mexifornia.’ His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America. deserves to be destroyed, don’t read that book.’

There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today. Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures
that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate ‘diversity.’ American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America – take note of California and other states – to date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell’s book ‘1984.’ In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: ‘War is peace,’ ‘Freedom
is slavery,’ and ‘Ignorance is strength.’

Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don’t get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path especially The American Dream.

Now take a deep breath and give thanks to God Almighty because you know how close to home this letter strikes!

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