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The Indestructible Leader

6/24/2015

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The Indestructible Leader

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                                   By Susan Steffen-Kraft

The young George Washington learned much from these French-Indian wars. Exposed to the raw realities of life he was learning to give clear concise orders and transcribe them,  organize supplies, commanding and dispensing military justice, building forts and dealing with subordinates. All of this would prepare him to become the leader and man he needed to be for the hard road that lay ahead. These lessons in the military would help him when the Revolutionary War began.

Under his leadership,  the Revolutionaries succeeded eventually in wresting control from the tyrant King George despite the fact that the Continental army was ill-equipped and outnumbered. The army might have rebelled under anyone else, but General Washington with his moral strength, his presence which was charismatic to say the least, and his political knowledge and maneuvering kept the army intact and under control. 

After the war, he was asked to head the Constitutional Convention and his presence was needed there also. He could have become a dictator but choose not to. In fact, he handed military control to the United States Congress which in itself speaks to his high moral character which is sorely lacking today among most of our politicians. It is one of the few times in history that someone declined power when it was practically handed to them on a silver platter and chose to walk away.  

His Awards and Honors as follows:
1. Congressional Gold Medal
2. Thanks of Congress
3. General of the Armies of the United States
4. The first President of the United States
                                       
Some George Washington quotes on Leadership:

“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”

“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

“Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.”

“Truth will ultimately prevail where there are pains to bring it to light.”

“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.”

“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”

In his wisdom, he also eschewed party politics. Would today that the wisdom of what he told us was manifested in our politicians of the United States Government! In the video below you will hear his warning.

Sources: www.foxnews.com/story/2010/05/10/glenn-beck-founders-fridays-george-washington.html, www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/french-indian-war, http://www.americanfounding.blogspot.com/2008/07/leadership-qualities-of-george.htm, http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/history/articles/george-washington-genius-in-leadership/, The Bulletproof George Washington by David Barton

Washington never acted afraid for sometimes he would take on the British alone. There never seemed to be fear of death or injury. At least on 67 occasions, during the Revolutionary War he said the cause of independence for America would have been disastrous if not for God's direct intervention. Did Mr. Washington believe in God and the help that was given in forming this country; you bet he did!  After he was elected to be president he said and I quote,  "No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency."  This does not have the  tone or ring to it of a non-believer.  After a prophecy such as he heard that day he really had to see and know that the hand of God was with him.   
Indestructible, indispensable, and a born leader. This sums up who George Washington was. He wanted to be a farmer and surveyed land for his country. It seemed like somebody always needed him and instead of complaining he always answered the call. For him, the most important thing was doing the right thing. That is what made him a leader; a great leader.

In his early 20's he was an aide to Gen. Braddock of the British army. The general was a very proud man who felt he could win against the Indians fighting the style the British always fought in Europe by directly marching against an enemy that hid behind trees and rocks. That did not work out so well at what was called the Battle at the Monongahela. Washington had warned the British that the Indians fought ambush style in true guerrilla warfare.  The British were mowed down and were powerless against the attack.  

George Washington wrote to his family the next day after the battle and said, "I don't know why I'm still here. It must be the hand of Providence that had preserved me. I've got bullet holes in my hat, through my clothing. I've had two horses shot out from under me."

Despite losing 977 British soldiers, Governor Dinwiddie hailed George Washington as a hero and gave him the ranking of Colonel and that gave him command of 1,200 men in the Virginia regiment.

Fifteen years after the battle, a great old and respected chief approached Washington and a close friend of his who were travelling towards the western territories and exploring uninhabited regions. The chief had heard that George Washington was coming that way and wanted to personally meet Mr. Washington.  Near a junction of the Great Kanawha and Ohio river, they met and through an interpreter, the chief spoke to George Washington. 

"I am a chief and ruler over my tribes My influence extends to the waters of the great lakes and to the far blue mountains. I have traveled a long weary path to see the young warrior of the great battle. On the day when white man's blood mixed with the streams of our forest I first saw this chief (Washington). I called to my young men and told them "mark yon tall and daring warrior? He is not part of the red-coat tribe and he has the Indian's wisdom and he and his warriors fight as we do. He himself is alone, exposed so quick, let your aim be certain and he will die. Our rifles were leveled, rifles which, but for you, knew not how to miss; twas all in vain for a power mightier far than we shielded you. You were under a special guardianship from the Great Spirit so we stopped firing at you. I am old and shall be soon with my father; but, I must speak a prophecy. Listen! The Great Spirit protects that man (And he pointed to George Washington) and guides his destiny. He will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire. I come to pay homage to the man who is a particular favorite of Heaven and who cannot ever die in battle."  This I somewhat paraphrased for easier reading, but the idea and most words are there. 

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Dr. Glenn A. Phelps wrote a book entitled George Washington and American Constitutionalism. He speaks of Mr. Washington's vision for the future of an American constitutional republic that was on a continental scale. This would be according to the hand that Providence would allow. People looked up to him because his views and leadership were already established. He believed that Congress was to be the main authority responsible for creating domestic policies and laws. The President was to be the caretaker of the policies and enforcer of those laws. He believed that developing foreign policy and that included treaties, were to be the President's responsibility. Thus, he observed the role and authority of Congress while standing by the role and authority of the President. His genius was in the use of the power he had. 
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The Watchmen on the Wall

6/16/2015

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The Watchmen on the Wall

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                                    By Susan Steffen-Kraft

The Mission: To bring about less government, and with the help of God a better world. To bring about more personal responsibility and with education and leadership to teach others to embody the principles of the Constitution. 

The Mission: To endorse the timeless principals of the Declaration of Independence and seeking to educate about this great document.  

The Mission: To expose the forces of darkness and warn against  those who seek to destroy the United States of America. This can be done by taking our Independence and by undermining our personal liberties and national Independence and thus, by doing so. creating a One World Government!

The Mission: To awaken the apathetic people of this country to the designs of those who seek to destroy this Republic.                             

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Where did the name of our group come from?  The John Birch Society was named after a Baptist missionary who served in WWII and was killed by a bullet 10 days after the war was over. The cover-up of how John Birch was killed was finally exposed by Calif. Senator William Knowland who got access to a file on this incident marked TOP SECRET and after 10 years of cover up by our government. Had there been no cover up the relations with China and North Korea would have been so different. 

As to the man who founded the JBS.  Robert Welch wanted to preserve freedom and prosperity for future generations.
What prompted the attacks on the JBS? Why the hatred and the lies directed their way?  In the fall of 1960 the Communist Party started working hard on a bill that was to be introduced as soon as Congress convened in 1961 in Jan. This bill would take away the funds of the House of UnAmerican Activities and as that would allow the Communists to now go uninvestigated, this was a pretty popular bill with them. The Communists had for years made this committee their project to be destroyed. And now was their chance. 

Then the JBS went to work along with other conservative groups. All through the Christmas vacation they made this their priority. And they succeeded. This bill was defeated by a vote of 412 to 6 and both Democrats and Republicans came together to defeat it. The Communist Party was angry. Word went out that the Birchers had to go.  

Nikita Khrushchev himself gave the speech that officially ordered all Communists to "resolutely unmask this anti-scientific and purely false ideology" of false ideology!" He then claimed that "Bourgeois propaganda is assuming an increasingly cunning nature. Its main weapon in the struggle against the Socialist camp and the Communist Parties is anti-communism. (Analysis of the Khrushchev Speech of January 6, 1961, Senate Judiciary Committee Report, June 16, 1961, p.74)

At that point, a Communist Newspaper called the Daily Peoples World published the word that we were a "secret Fascist Society setting up cells across the country". Now as you might suspect that this paper had little to no distribution which obviously would do little damage.

However the next week TIMES magazine came out with this:

Among the U.S. brotherhoods dedicated to the fight against Communism, nothing is quite like the John Birch Society. Except for an elite corps of leaders, its members shun personal publicity and their names are held by the society in strictest secrecy. Its cells, of 20 to 30 members apiece, take orders from society headquarters, promote Communist-style front organizations that do not use the John Birch name. Carefully avoiding normal channels of political action, the society accepts the hard-boiled, dictatorial direction of one man who sees democracy as a “perennial fraud” and estimates that the U.S. is 40-60% Communist controlled. In other times, other places, the John Birch 'Americanists' — as they call themselves — might seem a tiresome, comic opera joke. But already the society admits to cells in 35 states, and its partisans have made their anonymous and unsettling presence felt in scores of U.S. communities.(Time magazine, post dated March 10, 1961, pp. 21-22)

Oh yes, they said it and that was within one week of the Communist Newspaper saying it. From that point on favorite Communist terms started appearing all over the American Press about us. From Extreme Rightists to Patriotic Extremists, from Super Patriots to Lunatic Fringe! Sound familiar?   Yet many do not get the big picture. 

Welch was criticized for exposing Eisenhower who allowed unnecessary gains of Communism and that they were involved in outright Communist duplicity. Now that did not go over well. This, of course, happened before the JBS was organized. And some John Birchers later did not agree with him although they agreed with most everything else. Whether Eisenhower was duped or used or knew and participated in this is a moot point. The Eisenhower administration backed Castro as if he were the 2nd coming of the Lord and or George Washington reincarnated
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We are not racist contrary to what some think. We are anti-Communist and Communists declare in their manifesto that they are against racism.  In fact, they clash with racists and Nazis as in for example at the Greensboro massacre.  

"The Greensboro massacre occurred on November 3, 1979 in the city of Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.  The "Death to the Klan March" and protest was the culmination of attempts by the Communist Workers Party  to organize  mostly black industrial workers in the area Communist organizers publicly challenged the Klan to present themselves and "face the wrath of the people".  During the rally, a caravan of cars containing Klansmen and members of the American Nazi Party drove by the housing projects where the Communists and other anti-Klan activists were congregating. By the time this was over, 5 were dead. The five were not members of the Klan or the Nazis. Thus in conclusion since we are anti-Communist it just shows we are not racist or we would support Communism being as that is one area they are correct on.

We are called Ultra Conservative, but that is high praise if it means this; "to support and retain the original institutions of the U.S. Government. That includes the rule of law under the Constitution and the political doctrines which our founding fathers espoused pertaining to individual rights and freedoms".  This is what the great country of the United States of America is about. 

In ending this, I tell you we gave the warning despite being mocked, laughed at, and lied about  but you did not listen. The watchmen told the truth and you chose to ignore it. U are now living with the consequences of your actions. 

"The U. S. Founding Documents sat on a wall, the U.S. Founding Documents had a great fall, and all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution back together again.". 

Sources include The John Birch Society, www.ourrepubliconline.com, wikianswers.com, Wikipedia
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For the Love of Freedom

6/12/2015

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For the Love of Freedom

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 By Susan Steffen-Kraft 

In mid-2006, Edward Snowden landed a job in IT at the CIA. In 2007, the CIA sent Snowden to Geneva on his first foreign tour to Switzerland; he was 24 and a young man on his way up.  His job was to maintain security for the CIA's computer network and also to monitor computer security for US diplomats. He was also a telecommunications information systems officer! His political views at that time were most closely matched to Ron Paul whose 2008 bid for the Presidency he supported. 

In 2009, he quit the CIA and went to work for the NSA facility in Japan on a U.S. military base there.  At that point, the intelligence task for private contractors was booming and Dell was one of those companies who were on the receiving end of some of those tasks. Edward Snowden was working for Dell. Between 2009 and 2012, he has stated that he found out just how intense the NSA's surveillance activities are: "They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them." 

 The next stop was Hawaii and while he was still with Dell his new job was at the NSA's regional cryptological centre (the Central Security Service) on the main island of Oahu, near Honolulu. He arrived there not with the plan to spill secrets wholesale but to find a select group of reporters and turn over some select material to them to let them use their editorial judgment and let them go from there. But his plan to leak stuff did not work out.

His next step was to move from Dell to a company called Booze Allen Hamilton in early 2013. This company was going to have a  goldmine of information. According to an NSA staffer who talked to Forbes magazine Edward Snowden had turned down an offer to be part of the agency's special access operations, which if you joined them were a bunch of elite hackers. 

He logged on an April night when most of the staff had gone home for the night. At that point, he could remotely reach into the NSA's servers. Four weeks into his new job he told his bosses he was not well. He said he wanted time off and requested unpaid leave. On May 20th, he dropped out of sight. 

Guardian editor columnist Glenn Greenwald received an anonymous e-mail in Dec. 2012 from someone who made the offer  "I have some stuff you might be interested in."
Snowden tried a different route a month later. Her name was Larua Poitras. She was a friend of Greenwald's and a leading critic of the US security state for good reasons;  she herself had been detained by the DHS every time she tried to enter the country.

 Snowden's email to Poitras bluntly stated that  "This won't be a waste of your time." Intrigued she listened and albeit nervous as she was sure she herself was under surveillance.

Then came the stunning revelation that said he had got hold of "Presidential Policy Directive 20, a top-secret 18-page document issued in October 2012.
It said that the agency was tapping fibre optic cables, intercepting telephone landing points and bugging on a global scale." He claimed he could prove all of it.  At that  Poitras said,  "I almost fainted!" Snowden informed her he wanted the target to be on his back.

Again he contacted Glenn Greenwald telling him he had been in touch with his friend Laura and at that point Greenwald did talk to Snowden for two hours and Snowden sent him material to read.  Mr Greenwald now was intrigued enough to agree that he and Laura and a third person by the name of Ewen MacAskill. 

When they finally met up with Snowden they were not expecting him to look the way he did. They had imagined someone older. Then his age and looks seemed to not matter anymore because he had in his possession "tens of thousands of documents taken from NSA and GCHQ's internal servers. Most were stamped Top Secret. Some were marked Top Secret Strap 1 – the British higher tier of super-classification for intercept material – or even Strap 2, which was almost as secret as you could get".  

Only a few restricted security officials had ever laid eyes on this material. After all that, it was decided he was the real deal and everything moved quickly.  After some drama with the NSA and the Whitehouse at 7 o'clock pm the Guardian US went ahead and ran the story.

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Snowden now declared his intention to go public and the video of him being interviewed went public on Sunday June the 9th. When the video exploded on every network and then online it was the most viewed video in Guardian history! What was Edward Snowden's reward for exposing all? He is now one of the most-wanted men on the planet!  

He wants to come home but cannot unless amnesty is granted.  All this for exposing that our government that was trampling on the Bill of Rights! The whistleblower, Edward Snowden sacrificed his freedom and possibly his life for our freedom. He has not seen his family or girlfriend in several years because of what he did. 

"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things … I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under," a disillusioned Edward Snowden said.
"Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector. Anywhere," Snowden stated in a video on the Guardian's website. "I, sitting at my desk, had the authority to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president if I had a personal email."
 
The 4th Amendment is an amendment to the United States Constitution and part of the Bill of Rights. It prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. The definition of the word espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Edward Snowden shared his information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal that the US Government views you and me as the enemy. 

Former Representative Ron Paul believes the government operates largely in secret while seeking to know everything about our private lives - without probable cause and without a warrant
. The government does not need to know more about what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government is doing,” he said. “We should be thankful for individuals like Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald who see injustice being carried out by their own government and speak out, despite the risk. They have done a great service to the American people by exposing the truth about what our government is doing in secret.


Edward Snowden whom some call a traitor and some call a hero. I will not call him either because I believe he loved his country and wished to reveal the truth. I will call him patriotic and since when is it a crime to expose a crime? He did the right thing as this is what our forefathers would have done and if neither the right, the left or anyone else wishes to acknowledge that then they do not know the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The foundation of our freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights still remains under threat. We have come a long way, but the threat to our privacy still remains. Edward Snowden stated recently that 
"we have learned that our government intentionally weakens the fundamental security of the Internet with “back doors” that transform private lives into open books. Metadata revealing the personal associations and interests of ordinary Internet users is still being intercepted and monitored on a scale unprecedented in history: As you read this online, the United States government makes a note."


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Snowden is prone to being hopeful since Senator Rand Paul  and others in the U.S. Senate that are civil rights advocates who took a stand and forced Section 215 of the Patriot Act to expire and that a federal judge ruled that the NSA's collection of phone metadata is illegal.  In the month of June 2015 on a Thursday he stated to the New York Times
 that "We are witnessing the emergence of a post-terror generation, one that rejects a worldview defined by a singular tragedy. For the first time since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, we see the outline of a politics that  turns away from reaction and fear in favor of resilience and reason.
With each court victory, with every change in the law, we demonstrate facts are more convincing than fear. As a society, we rediscover that the value of a right is not in what it hides, but in what it protects," Snowden said.  

In reaction to the federal judges ruling he also said, "This is significant and the importance of it in the United States’ legal and policy communities really can’t be overstated."
Perhaps with any luck Edward Snowden can come home to a society that has defeated the NSA monster and the Bill of Rights has prevailed.

Lincoln Chafee who is the ex-governor and senator of Rhode Island said in a speech he prepared to announce his bid to run for President in 2016, "Our sacred Constitution requires a warrant before unreasonable searches, which includes our phone records....Let's enforce that and while we're at it, allow Edward Snowden to come home.  "Our sacred Constitution requires a warrant before unreasonable searches, which includes our phone records… Let’s enforce that and while we’re at it, allow Edward Snowden to come home.”  
 
Sources: www.the guardian.com/world/2014/feb/01/edward-snowden-intelligence-leak-nsa-contractor-extract, www.newsmax.com/The Wire/edward-snowden-nsa-prism/2013/06/10/id/50900/, usnews.nbcnews.com,  https://answers.yahoo.com, www.campaignforliberty.org./,  rt.com/usa/drone-snowden-government-paul-592/, www.washingtonpost.com, www.politico.com/story/2013/06/ron-paul-thankful-for-edward-snowden-92524.html, truthinmedia.com/snowden-the-balance-of-power-is-beginning-to-shift/?utm__source=newsletter&it,__medium=text&utm__campaign=nl, www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/opinion/edward-snowden-the-world-says-no-to-surveillance.html?__r=1
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