Regarding: July 4, 2007
In his weekly radio address President Bush said, "On the Fourth of July we celebrate the courage and convictions of America's founders. We remember the spirit of liberty that led men from 13 different colonies to gather in Philadelphia and pen the Declaration of Independence. In that revolutionary document, they proclaimed our independence based on the belief that freedom was God's gift to all mankind. To defend that freedom, the 56 signers of the Declaration pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. Their sacrifices built a new Nation and created a future of freedom for millions yet to be born."
I
am, as my readers know, a proud citizen of the United States of America. I have created these 'America' pages out of my Love for this
Land, out of my Respect for the brave and industrious People who
braved hardships to come here and who have made of this Land a Country like no other in all of recorded history all
in the space of less than three hundred years.... and though I see the
'human imperfections' yet to be resolved in America, still I speak
continuously for the God-Principles of Freedom upon which this Country is founded.
It is my hope that Citizens of this Country and those of all other Countries and Cultures will identity not only with my Love of Country but will feel their Hearts swelling with Love and with Pride as they strive for and identify with the goals of Freedom and Equality in the Country in which they live....always remembering that we are all Spiritual Brothers and Sisters of a Greater Cosmic Country....God's Universe.....
Always remembering that we all have the responsibility to love and protect whatever God Hath Wrought in whatever Place we now find ourselves. All Land is God's Land. All Life is God Life. May all People in every Land identify with that Truth!
Patriotism is a mysterious thing.
It effects the heart in a way similar to the love of God and the love of Truth.
How many remember these words of Sir Walter Scott?
"Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself has said,
This is my own, my native land?
Whose soul has ne'er within him burned
When home his footsteps he has turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?"
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH SPEAKS ABOUT
'PATRIOTISM'
PATRIOTISM IS EXPRESSED BY FLYING THE FLAG, BUT IT IS MORE.
PATRIOTISM MEANS WE SHARE A SINGLE COUNTRY.
IN ALL OUR DIVERSITY EACH OF US HAS A BOND WITH EVERY OTHER AMERICAN.
PATRIOTISM IS PROVEN IN OUR CONCERN FOR OTHERS,
A WILLINGNESS TO SACRIFICE FOR PEOPLE WE MAY NEVER HAVE MET OR SEEN.
PATRIOTISM IS OUR OBLIGATION TO THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US,
TO THOSE WHO WILL FOLLOW US, AND TO THOSE WHO HAVE DIED FOR US.
President George W. Bush,
June 17, 2002
President Bush is speaking about the human,
visible side of America...about the visible human side of all countries.
He is speaking to the American people, expressing the need
the United States of America has for our Love and Understanding of the
issues the American Republic is facing today.
HIS WORDS SPEAK OF AN AMERICA that needs us dedicated to her defense
against all that would seek to destroy her....and there is much that is trying
to destroy the United States both from the outside and sadly, from within.
President Bush speaks to an America that needs her citizens
to rise up UNITED in her rebuilding, not only after the brutality of the
unconscionable evil of September 11, 2001....
but additionally he is urging all Freedom Loving Nations to rise up to wipe
terrorism off the face of the Earth. And whether or not others stand with
America, patriotic Americans united, will rise up and together, Body and Soul,
they will preserve the Constitutional Form of Government devised by earlier
patriots who were interested in 'Governing themselves with the Help of Divine
Authority'...
The early patriots embraced a Form of government founded on the
Spiritual Concept of Freedom of the individual. It is this original and initial
Constitutional 'Idea of Freedom' that is under attack today. Freedom
threatens those who prefer a more totalitarian form of governing....
We citizens of the United States of America need to understand that our
Constitutional Freedom puts 'controllers of our lives' out of business, be they
individuals or nations.
It is Freedom of the individual that is under attack today,
not only from the many enemies of Freedom outside our borders....
but from citizens within the land who are freely and foolishly choosing
socialism over Personal Freedom....who, assuming it is not deliberate, work day
and night to undermine our Constitutional guarantees of personal Freedom. It is
incredible that there are those, here in America and abroad, who do
not understand and value the Idea of Personal Freedom and who, deliberately,
work to undermine this Miracle that is the United States of America....to
undermine the Miracle that is the Constitution of the United States of
America, a document created by 'the people, for the people'....one that is
meant to guarantee Personal Freedom for every man, woman and child....one
that guarantees the God-given Right of each individual to live as he or she
chooses to live. Why wouldn't everyone choose Freedom?
There are and have always been in recorded history, people on this Planet
who think they are better and smarter than your average individual.
It seems there have always been people who love to have control, big or little
control, over their fellow men and women...., I call them 'tin gods'.
These people come in every shape and size, in every country, in all walks of
life. Yes, some people just love to control others and there are some who
justify that control by claiming some inherited 'right'.
There are men who claim a right to abuse and control women
and children because they (these men) claim they are smarter and stronger than
women and children. And there have been and still are kings, religious leaders,
political and union leaders, etc. who have claimed a right to lead....many of
whom over time have used and mis-used those they should instead have been
serving, and getting away with this mis-use....either because when they
assumed the 'right' of control, no one rose up to oppose them or because
there was no group strong enough to stop them.
There are rich people and academics who think they have the
'right' of control because they obviously must be smarter than those who
are less financially or formally educated. And so it goes.
Freedom works to put an end to control.
Our Constitution came into existence a few hundred years ago, when people in
the 'old countries' got tired of 'control'. They tired of manufactured
bloodshed...they tired of being the doormats on which the 'controllers'
maintained 'power'. And they gave up everything to come to a new land where
there was no one who assumed an inherent right to tell them what to do. And
in time they created for themselves a Constitution which was devised to
protect them from tyranny of that or any sort. And these people have
prospered beyond anyone's wildest dreams. And have tried with the best
motives to share this dream with those they left in the 'old country'.
Personal Freedom is the issue!
If the United States of America, should ever fall to enemies of
Freedom, within the country or from outside, who is there in the world today
who is strong enough to Champion the Rights of the Individual and
from whence then will Freedom Ring?
SO THEN, as we go about our duties as Americans, let us never forget
that the greatest Patriotism we can show our country is to be
'aware' citizens....aware of the personal Freedoms and Peace
guaranteed to every man, woman and child in this country ....
aware of Constitutionally guaranteed God-given Rights.
And be ready to use every Constitutional tool at hand to insure that
the Work of our Founding Fathers endures for succeeding generations.
THIS IS THE VERY ESSENCE OF PATRIOTISM.
Then there is the invisible
SPIRITUAL ASPECT REGARDING AMERICA.
MODERN TEACHING TELLS US
that 'America', in this period of time, is being developed to be
A MODEL FOR REPRESENTATIVE, SPIRITUALLY ORIENTED,
CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT...
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS DESIGNED TO BE
A CUP, A CHALICE, A PATTERN
into which the 'Greater Powers of Light' can pour Their Essence
for the purpose of demonstrating that FREEDOM AND PEACE
are possible on this Planet.
WHAT THEN IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND THIS....
IT IS ONLY IN CALLING TO 'GOD ALMIGHTY'...
ONLY IN CALLING FORTH THE POWERFUL, COSMIC CHRIST LIGHT....
ONLY IN INCREASING THE VIBRATION OF PLANETARY ENERGY
THAT GOD-GOOD CAN BE REALIZED ON THIS PLANET...
THAT AN END TO MANKIND'S UNHOLY HATREDS WILL BE REALIZED.
WITHOUT THE ADDITION OF 'COSMIC GOD-POWER' TO THE ENERGY OF
MANKIND WILL THE WARRING BETWEEN AND AMONG PEOPLE CEASE.
FOR MANKIND BY ITSELF IS NOT POWERFUL ENOUGH TO OVERCOME THE NEGATIVE
INFLUENCES THAT ENCOURAGE HATING AND KILLING....AND CONTROLLING.
Spiritually Awakened Individuals
have always been the Custodians of the Cosmic Christ Energy
necessary for constructive activity on Earth.
Today there are many 'Spiritually Awakened Individuals'
and all can participate in the Great Service of our Age
by taking a few minutes each day to invoke the Power
of Almighty God
by 'asking for...('ask and ye shall receive')
by asking for the God Freedom and Peace and yes, Grace,
that has a foothold in the United States of America,
ask for this Godness to be expanded to include every country of the world.
Citizens of every nation can decree and pray for God Peace for every country
with this Understanding and with Love and Compassion for all people.
I do it this Way....
In the Name of Almighty God,
in the Name of my own 'I AM' Presence and Holy Christ Self...
and the Christ Self of each of mankind,
I 'ask'...in full consciousness of what that means....
I ask that all mankind may be taught to pray together for Peace....
be inspired to invoke 'Greater God-good' everywhere throughout the world....
be led to demand Greater God-Freedom, Peace and Grace everywhere.
Let all mankind begin to invoke the descent of The Cosmic Christ Essence of
Invincible Purity and the Ascended Master Consciousness of Freedom and
Peace and Grace asking Those Greater Levels of Godness to take control
everywhere throughout the world.
In God's Holy Name, may every individual humbly and gratefully
Command Invincible, Divine Freedom, Peace and Grace to expand
everywhere throughout the world,
COMPELLING
the DISSOLVING of any 'line of impure energy'
that sets one group of people against another.'
In the Name of Almighty God,
Let all call forth Peace for the entire Planet.
Throughout history the burden of keeping the flame of liberty bright has fallen on the shoulders of a few men and women. As Founding Patriot Samuel Adams noted, "It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather a tireless minority"
“This (America) is a government of the people, by the people, for the people. If the people sit on their hands, if they are indifferent, if they don’t participate, if they don’t vote, if they don’t register, if they don’t move forward, if they don’t march, if they don’t rally, if they don’t get involved,” then positive change is “not going to happen.” Alan Keyes.
July Fourth
“Somewhere in our growing up we began to be aware of the meaning of days and with that awareness came the birth of patriotism. July Fourth is the birthday of our nation. I believed as a boy, and believe even more today, that it is the birthday of the greatest nation on earth... In recent years, however, I’ve come to think of that day as more than just the birthday of a nation. It also commemorates the only true philosophical revolution in all history. Oh, there have been revolutions before and since ours. But those revolutions simply exchanged one set of rules for another. Ours was a revolution that changed the very concept of government. Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people.
We sometimes forget that great truth,
and we never should. Happy Fourth of July.” —Ronald Reagan
Theodore Roosevelt
speaking in
1907 on Immigrants and on Being an AMERICAN
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in
good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be
treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to
discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American,
and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any
man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American
at all We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes
the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization,
just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are
hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English
language...and we have room for but one sole! loyalty and that is a loyalty
to the American people."
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Oh, say, can you see, by the
dawn's early light, |
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And where is that band who so
vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
“As Americans, we need to remember that, in order to maintain our nation’s intellectual and physical health, we need an active and involved citizenry. Just like any organism, without movement and growth we will stagnate and wither. Understanding what Americanism is provides a framework within which we can stretch, grow and move. Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, once stated, ‘We want to make our children feel that the mere fact of being Americans makes them better off... This is not to blind us at all to our own shortcomings; we ought steadily to try to correct them; but we have absolutely no grounds to work on if we don’t have a firm and ardent Americanism at the bottom of everything.’... I totally agree.
It is important for the children of our nation to understand why America is different. Possibly the Declaration of Independence says it best: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...’
Wow—what am amazing concept. Take some time in the next week to re-read it, think about it not only from today’s perspective, but also from how it might have been viewed when written.”—Jackie Cushman
Lois J Crawford
2002...2009
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*"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
-Abraham
Lincoln
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"
-
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The most courageous act is
still to think for yourself. Aloud" -
Coco Chanel
