Social Conditioning

[Dave]

I am going to get into a lot of trouble for saying this --- but,

I grew up wondering why so many of the blacks I knew were so defensive. Affirmative action has become reverse-discrimination.

The Following Article speaks volumes about the phenomena of social conditioning. Manipulating the population to get them to behave or act in a certain way. Dictating social attitudes.


What is historical grief and trauma?

This is the grief and trauma that happens to not just one person or one family during a certain time period. It is grief and trauma that occurs over several generations.

“There has been wave after wave of trauma brought upon many Indian people,” SAYS Patty Grant, a historical grief and trauma presenter.

“The diseases brought upon our people, the forbiddance of culture and language, the boarding schools – these were all major traumas that damaged huge groups of people,” she explains.

Once these traumas were inflicted, they created dysfunction inside many Indian communities. Now, generations after the trauma, the dysfunction inside some of the communities still exists.

It can get in the way of taking care of (yourself)

Historical grief and trauma can get in the way of taking care of (yourself.) … If people are affected by trauma, they may feel negative, or may not have energy to take care of themselves. A lot of times, the reasons for these negative feelings are not clear. “I have lived much of my life being self-destructive,” says one Muskogee (Creek) woman. “When I found out I had diabetes, I took care of myself for a while, then I stopped. I became self-destructive again. I suddenly stopped (following my diet,) and quit exercising. It was if I felt I had no worth.” Once off her diet she would eat even more than she wanted. “I just hated not being able to give myself what I wanted.” Her feelings of not wanting to ever be deprived might have come from a history of being deprived.

Understanding is the first step towards joy

Of course, some tribal communities and some families are not as affected by historical grief and trauma. It is not a condition that affects every tribe and every person. But for some people, the affects are real, and appear as unexplainable feelings of anxiety, fear, anger, and depression.

There have been alcoholism, emotional abuse, obesity, and (poor health in my family, says, Chenoa Gass, of the Eastern band of Cherokee Indians. “I’ve had a lot of anger and self-hate,” she says.

Chenoa is one of many tribal members who have attended workshops on historical grief and trauma. During the workshops, people learn more about the history of the American Indians. The workshop’s goal is to not point fingers oR place blame. The intent is not to give people an excuse for negative behavior and feelings. The goal is to understand reasons for negative behavior as a first step towards positive behavior.

Not just doom and gloom

People attending the workshops learn about the traumas their ancestors faced. They learn how these traumas not only caused grief, but damaged, or even destroyed healthy functional social systems.

But the workshops are not all about “doom and gloom.” They paint a beautiful picture of traditional Indian tribes…. “We had ways of handling problems. We had a contented, happy society.” For many, just seeing beautiful pictures of Indian individuals, families, and communities ... brings peace. It helps people redefine themselves as good and worthy. It provides a beautiful goal to strive for.

Understanding can change your life

Taking the first steps to look at historical grief and trauma can be hard. Some people may not feel a need to consider historical grief and trauma as a reason for any of their stressful feelings. Workshop presenters say that’s okay.

But, for people who think understanding this trauma may be the key to understanding some of their feelings and behaviors, attending a trauma workshop can be a huge life changing experience.

“When I first started learning about it, it was like a light came on inside of me. I began to understand my mother and the impact of boarding schools, poverty, and alcoholism. It was scary and unsettling to think about these things. But I felt a need to know. I felt like it was my responsibility to find reasons for my feelings,” says Patty.

Chenoa’s journey with understanding trauma began when she was a teenager. In high school she wondered why she was always scared. She worried why her father was often upset and guilt-ridden. In college, she found herself crying for no reason. She fely guilty about having the opportunity to go to college.

When Chenoa attended her first historical grief and trauma workshop, she was overwhelmed. She said, “It seemed huge. But, for the first time, I could understand and I felt hope. I knew I had taken my first step to healing.”

Feel the joy and pass it on

Almost everyone who attends a workshop does it for their children. People say they want to deal with their feelings of anger, fear, guilt, and depression, so they won’t pass them on to their children. They know they must be healthy in spirit, so they can teach their children ways to have jealthy spirits. People say dealing with trauma is not just about studying a sad past. It is a way to find joy.

Chenoa, who was recently married and is planning on having children, says, “I think I can change the course for my children’s lives. I want them to feel joy. I don’t think we can go back in time and change things. But, we can learn from it. In this way, we can right the wrongs.”

[Virginia]

Social conditioning goes on in many ways. Remember Obama's reverend Wright. Instead of giving a sermon uplifting his congregration he was preaching that his congregation would never get ahead, that they should have no hope, that their world was never going to change, would never get better. When you go to church to feel better, you would come away believing their was no hope.When you hear week after week that you are worthless you soon believe it.

[Virginia]

I believe it was Mississippi tryed to pass a law to outlaw Invitro fertilization stating at the moment of conception the fetis is a living being. The law did not pass. The argument was that 8 or so eggs are fertilized but only 2 are used and the other 6 eventually are destroyed. They wanted the doctor and the women charged with murder. When animals are over populated they stop having litters or have smaller litters. 1 out of 8 couples are not fertile. Nature is trying to tell us our earth is over populated.

[Dave]

In 1910, The Rockefeeler Oil trust was disbanded by law. John Rockefeller was the worsst type of “Robber baron” imaginable – monopoly! – price fixing! – building his personal fortune upon the hardships of others!

But within 3 years – he becomes the most love philanthropic person in the world – or was he just building another style of monopoly?

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Rockefeller Foundation Archives
www.rockefellerfoundation.org/who-we-are/our-history/1913-1919
1913
• “The New York State Legislature passes an act on April 24 incorporating the Rockefeller Foundation. The statement of purpose reads: “To promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world.” New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter on May 14.
• Jerome D. Greene, secretary of the Foundation and former secretary of Harvard, writes “a memorandum on principles and policies” for an early meeting of the trustees. An influential document, it establishes a rough framework for the Foundation's work. It's major points are: exclude individual charity and relief, exclude local enterprises, make sure when going into a community with a gift that the community has “its own will…and its own resources, both material and spiritual” to meet the need, avoid gifts in perpetuity, and focus on problems that “go to the root of individual or social ill-being and misery.”
• The first meeting of the board of trustees is held May 22. John D. Rockefeller Jr., age 39, is elected president. Though a trustee, “Senior” does not attend this or any other future meeting of the Foundation's board, following a pattern he established with previous philanthropies. He explained, “I have not had the hardihood even to suggest how people, so much more experienced and wise in those things than I, should work out the details even of those plans with which I have had the honor to be associated.”
• On December 5, the Foundation's board makes its first grant: $100,000 to the American Red Cross to purchase property for its headquarters in Washington, DC. and for “a memorial to commemorate the services of the women of the United States in caring for the sick and wounded of the Civil War.”
• Influenced by Abraham Flexner’s landmark study, “Medical Education in the United States and Canada,” the Foundation makes a grant to Johns Hopkins University to extend its model “full-time” system of basic medical education to clinical departments of medicine, surgery and pediatrics. Other specialties are added later.
• Health becomes a Foundation priority at the first meeting of the board when Frederick Gates, longtime advisor to John D. Rockefeller, Sr., argues that “disease is the supreme ill in human life.”
• Aware of the domestic success of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for Eradication of Hookworm Disease and desirous of expanding that work overseas, the board of trustees in June appropriates its first funds for work outside the US—$25,000 to create the International Health Commission (later called a board), which launches the Foundation into international public health. This pioneering work establishes the pattern of modern public health services.
• The Foundation begins its 20-year support of the Bureau of Social Hygiene. Its mission: research and education on birth control, maternal health and sex education. The Foundation also helps establish the American Social Hygiene Association to direct the scientific study of biological and social factors that influence human sexual conduct.

1914
• The Foundation establishes the China Medical Board to develop a system of modern medicine in that country. A report on its recommendation notes, “The need is great beyond any anticipation.”
• The Foundation begins a program of international fellowships to train scholars at the world’s leading universities at the post-doctoral level. Trustee Wickliffe Rose characterizes this fundamental commitment to the education of future leaders as “backing brains.”

1918
• Because the Foundation’s successful hookworm campaign reveals the urgency for trained public health leaders, the Foundation identifies public health education as one of its principal areas of interest, and builds and endows the first school of public health at Johns Hopkins University. Foundation President George E. Vincent calls it “the West Point of public health.”
• To honor his wife, John D. Rockefeller Sr. establishes the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, with funds totaling almost $74 million”


The American Sociologist © 1982 Springer
www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27702517?uid=3739816&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101172980937

Abstract: “This paper discusses the role of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, a foundation set up by John D. Rockefeller Sr. in memory of his wife, which between 1923 and 1928, under its director Beardsley Ruml, distributed twenty million dollars for social science research. The Memorial supported major programs of sociological research at the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina, as well as providing important assistance to individual sociologists (such as Elton Mayo) and to institutions at which sociology was taught (such as the London School of Economics). The Memorial during the 1920s laid the foundations of the pattern of large-scale sociological research in the contemporary American university.”

LAURA SPELMAN ROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL
www.rockarch.org/collections/rockorgs/lsrmadd.php

“After this initial period of giving, the trustees began to consider a more systematic approach to philanthropy. In May 1922, the Memorial appointed Beardsley Ruml Director. By October 1922, Ruml submitted a bold plan to the Trustees. This plan moved the Memorial further into the social sciences, into the fields of economics, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, and history. The Memorial did not abandon activities previously supported in leisure, public health, and emergency relief. They centered the focus of the program around three major programs: social science and science technology; child study and parent education; and interracial relations. Besides sponsoring research, the Memorial made grants to support the distribution of this knowledge. The aim of the entire program was to achieve concrete improvement in the conditions of life and contribute realistically to public welfare.

The Memorial sought to develop cooperative research among social scientists by giving appropriations to universities and to other research organizations. It sought practical applications of the results of the research. Schools of business, law, public administration, and social work received support. The Memorial aided the Atlanta School of Social Work, The New York School of Social Work, the schools at Tulane University and the University of Chicago, and the National Catholic School of Social Work.

The Social Science Research Council, organized in 1923 to correlate and stimulate research in the social sciences, received extensive grants. It promoted communication between students of social issues and sponsored cooperative research that drew on different disciplines. The Memorial funded Social Science Abstracts, a publication produced under the guidance of the Social Science Research Council. Other agencies that received aid from the Memorial were the Brookings Institution, the Institute of Pacific Relations, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The Memorial was interested in supporting the people working in the social sciences through fellowships. The Social Science Research Council administered the Memorial's fellowships in the United States. Outside the United States, the Memorial worked with the aid of national advisors, granting 239 fellowships to scholars from Austria, Australia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Besides funding the fellowships, the Memorial appropriated funds for travel, conferences, and scientific journals, and to promote communications between specialists all over the world.

A national program concentrating on the children's welfare and parent education grew from the Memorial's early interests in women and children. Among the institutions receiving major support was the Child Study Association of America, Teachers College of Columbia, and the State University of Iowa. The program included support for research on the growth and development of children, the training of people working in the field, the preparation of books, pamphlets, study outlines, and other aids to help the parents.

The Memorial also took an interest in African-American history. Beginning in 1922, the Memorial assisted the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in conducting studies of social and economic conditions among Blacks since the Civil War. The association maintained close connections with various Black colleges and universities and trained personnel for their social science faculties. In 1927, the Memorial supported an interracial conference at Yale University that considered the basic problems of race relations in the United States.

On January 3, 1929, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial was consolidated with the Rockefeller Foundation. The Memorial made a final grant of $10,000,000 to the Spelman Fund of New York. The Spelman Fund, an independently incorporated board, administered appropriations in child study, parent education, and interracial education. The Fund continued to support some agencies previously supported by the Memorial for the duration of the particular grant, but the Fund's main program was in public administration and intergovernmental relations. The Memorial had just begun to develop this area when it was consolidated with the Rockefeller Foundation.”

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This is the point – look at how much effort was spent on the “SOCIAL EXPERIMENT”

I Ponder what the Rockefellers learned in just 10 years of the Laura Spellman Foundation for social studies. From the Laura Spellman Foundation we have programs today such as – Project Head Start and No Child Left Behind – Planned Parenthood – Welfare – Project Green Peace – Social Media Communication - and Eugenetics.

Just how much social condition has occurred since the 1920s, as a result of the Rockefeller Health, Education, and Welfare Movements; combined with the takeover of public media – NPR – Time Warner – Life – NBC – ABC – Ted Turner – AP – and Rupert Murdock.

Political Science! – Sexual Behaviors – Social Conditioning – Medicine and Pharacology

Just take a moment and observe the trends in each of these areas since the 1920s

AND – before you say this doesn’t have anything to do with scripture and our conversation here.

Who said – Social Welfare is the responsibility of government
Who said – don’t tell the public about aliens – The Brookings Institute
Who said – alternate sexual lifestyles are acceptable – Kinsey Report

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_lifestyle
“Alternative lifestyles and subcultures originated in the 1920s with the "flapper" movement, when women cut their hair and skirts short (as a symbol of freedom from oppression and the old way of living). Women in the flapper age were the first large group to practice pre-marital sex, dancing, cursing, and driving in modern America without scandal following them. This was because this new flapper lifestyle was so popular that the flapper's brash behavior became more normal than previously thought.

Same goes to the single parent movement, by the growing trend of children raised by one parent, which once was viewed as an alternative lifestyle. It is now mainly acceptable choice of lifestyle, in which the term "alternative" originated to stand for "not the norm, allowed" by social standards of the present time.”

Who pass the law – that made the possession of drugs illegal with a prescription – Nelson Rockefeller
Who owns the pharmaceutical companies in America – Pfizer, Squib, and Merck
Who made the deal with IG Farbin for scientific research in the WWII German concentration camps – John D Rockefeller Jr. – and from that deal – who talked our government into adding Fluoride to our public water supply?

[Dillon]

Isn’t it amazing that “The Media” has so much control over our thinking.

It was the news reporting of 911 that rallied the people into support a war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

During the ‘First Gulf War’ most news media acted like a huge propaganda machine for the US Administration. The media tells us which songs to buy and listen to, or what clothes we should be buying and wearing. Our diets are dictated by buy our product commercials and health kick documentaries.

Even the presidential race is won or lost with the media coverage. If a Republican picks his nose it become a never ending TV news saga over whether they should resign or not. However, our sitting democratic President isn’t even an American and the news media mention it as those wackos trying to make something out of nothing important. Ron Paul just comes out and says the truth; therefore, the news media doesn’t even cover him.

[Dave]

US women begin receiving free birth control
New Scientist, 12:46 3 August 2012, by Sara Reardon, reporter

Depending on whom you ask, 1 August was either a victory for 47 million women who will now have access to free birth control under the new US healthcare law, or a day that will live in infamy alongside Pearl Harbor Day and 9/11 for its attack on US religious freedom.

Under the new policy, women with private health insurance will no longer be required to pay co-pays on prescriptions for any type of contraception, although the insurers may choose to cover only the cheapest brands. The regulation, which is part of President Obama's flagship Affordable Care Act, also provides for free mammograms, Pap smears, domestic violence screening and some pregnancy-related services.

Women who get their health insurance through religiously affiliated employers such as hospitals also won't be covered just yet. Employers who object to providing birth control on moral grounds have a one-year exemption - a concession to the furore that erupted last year from conservatives who believed the mandate impinged on religious freedom.

And other businesses are trying to get exceptions as well. At least one non-religious employer, a Colorado hardware company, has already won an exemption through a federal court because providing birth control conflicts with its owners' beliefs.
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Catholic business owners score win against ObamaCare mandate

FoxNews.com, Published July 27, 2012, By Joshua Rhett Miller
www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/27/catholic-business-owners-seek-injunction-against-obama-health-care-mandate/

The Catholic family that owns a Colorado-based company won a court victory in their battle to stop the Obama administration from requiring them to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception, a mandate they say violates their religious beliefs and First Amendment rights.

Hercules Industries, a Denver-based heating ventilation and air conditioning manufacturer that employs nearly 300 full-time workers, got an injunction in federal court which stops enforcement of the controversial ObamaCare mandate.

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Denver business stripped of “good citizenship” award for opposing ObamaCare

By: John Hayward 8/28/2012 09:08 AM
www.humanevents.com/2012/08/28/denver-business-stripped-of-good-citizenship-award-for-opposing-obamacare/

Hercules Industries of Denver, Colorado is a successful 50-year-old heating and air-conditioning company, which was due to receive a Good Citizenship Award from the city for their many contributions to the community. The generous health care plan offered to their 265 employees, which a Denver Post editorial noted includes “premium benefits for pregnancy, women’s wellness and risk reduction,” was also cited in the proposed award.

But Hercules Industries is owned by a Catholic family, the Newlands. They objected to ObamaCare’s outrageous imposition on their religious liberty. The President’s disastrous health-care plan would have forced the self-insured company to cover contraception and abortion-inducing drugs, beginning November 1.

The Newlands sued the government, and on July 29 they won a preliminary injunction from U.S. District Court Judge John Kane (who, the Heritage Foundation notes, is a Carter appointee.) Kane said in his ruling that the potential harm to the government’s agenda from halting the implementation of ObamaCare “pales in comparison to the possible infringement upon [the Newlands’] constitutional and statutory rights.” Interestingly, the judge took note of all those special exemptions the Obama Administration has been granting to its very special friends as one of the reasons Hercules Industries deserved a waiver to protect its owners’ religious conscience.

The Obama Administration argued that because they are a “for-profit, secular employer,” Hercules could not “engage in an exercise of religion.” The Heritage Foundation elaborates: “In other words, the company owners forfeited their right to religious liberty as soon as they sought to earn a living by running a corporation. Under that logic, if the government decided to require any business that served or prepared food to offer pork, kosher or halal butchers would be forced to forgo their most deeply held religious convictions in order to stay in business. Accepting the government’s position would effectively push religion out of every sphere of public life and restrict the free exercise rights of adherents to live out their faiths in their day-to-day lives.”

Judge Kane pointed out in his ruling that instead of forcing the Newland family to pay for contraceptives and abortion drugs in violation of their religious conscience, the government could promote its agenda by providing “free” contraception directly, as a welfare benefit. That, of course, would thwart both the Obama Administration’s boundless appetite for power, and its compelling need to hide the true cost of nightmares like ObamaCare by forcing business owners to implement them with unfunded mandates.

According to Fox News, the same city councilwoman-at-large who originally motioned for the proclamation, Robin Kniech, took it away after learning of Hercules Industries’ lawsuit against ObamaCare. She said she wanted to avoid “a partisan food fight in a rancorous election year,” because “the hunger for red meat is just too great.”

Got that, citizens? Standing up for your basic religious liberties is now a “partisan food fight,” and even though what the Newlands did is the very height of good citizenship, their defiance will cost them a well-deserved award.

[Dave]

Holiday message: Atheists dub Jesus a 'myth' on Times Square billboard

Fox News, December 12th 2012, Perry Chiaramonte
www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/12/holiday-message-atheists-dub-jesus-myth-on-times-square-billboard/#ixzz2EsO7YcHE


Just as midtown Manhattan comes alive with Christmas cheer, festive window displays and Salvation Army bell ringers trying to channel holiday generosity to the needy, an atheist group has a message for the masses teeming into Times Square: Jesus is a myth.

With a picture of Santa Claus above another image of Jesus Christ, the sign, sponsored by New Jersey-based American Atheists, urges passersby to "Keep the Merry!" and "Dump the Myth!" Attacks on Christianity from the group have become routine, and in the bustling heart of America's busiest city, most folks don't even waste a shrug on the sign. But some took notice, and did not approve.

“It’s a damn shame. It’s an insult,” said Anthony White, 41, a of Jersey City, N.J. said. “Why did they have to put that up?”

David Silverman, president of American Atheists, had an answer, though not one likely to please the faithful.

“It’s a damn shame. It’s an insult.”
- Anthony White, Jersey City man

“Most Christians are really atheists who feel trapped in their family’s religion,"


I actually agree with this last statement. I have talked to people from all over the world. A conversation I will share is with a 45 yr old Muslim woman from Davao, Mindanao, Philippines. I was asking her where in the Quran she got some of her ideas, she answered; "I haven't read the Quran, I just believe what they tell me to."

Is that any different than most Christians you meet in church on Sunday? Not only do we Christians NOT read scriptural daily, weekly, ever; but I will also relate the story of John. I served as church board member for a while and John was always there. Gave generously to the church. Worked hard in church organizations and shook everyone's hand. However, if you asked this nice old man what he thought, or what his opinion was, he would just defer to whatever the Pastor said. Please Pastor - tell me what to think - tell me what my opinion is - tell me what to believe.

How many people go to church and mark christian on their personal information forms - yet don't read, don't study, and don't Ponder their own spiritual development.

AND because they don't they also don't really know what they believe, or if they believe.

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[Dave]

They want our guns!

Jesse turned on the News this morning, as I got ready for work. Over and over they kept hammering the fact that there was a possible shooting in somewhere.

POSSIBLE shooting – How does that earn a place on the National News? With all that is happening in the world, in our states, in our culture – how does a possible shooting get so much air play?

It is obvious propaganda to sway opinion.

Just as Fox news became a public relations firm supporting George Bush’s war in Iraq, the media once again has joined in the molding of public opinion.

Is there a problem in our country? – Absolutely! However, the problem is not the guns! It is the social conditioning forced upon us by some manipulative movement / agenda / secret government / illuminati / evil force / Beast.

Sledding down the hill in winter, riding bikes with cardboard flaps held on by pinching clothes pins to simulate motorized noises, and building model cars and planes were the games I played. I grew up in the era of Adam West as Batman, George Reeves as Superman, and Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan. Whenever my friends and I acted out our fantasies, it usually meant one of us had a cape and our mission was to save and protect the helpless, or even to save the planet from evil forces. Many of us were called hippies whose motto was, “Make Love Not War!” My generation also created the movements of “Peace Corps,” and “Green Peace.”

I worked all my life to build my dream house on the side of a mountain in the Colorado wilderness. Smack dap in the middle of Nature / Wilderness / God’s Creation / Wildlife / and views to die for. One of my very first visitors was a good friend and his family from Northern Indiana and their 3 teen age children. By noon the very first day, the teen age children were bored and complaining that there was nothing to do! I was amazed then at how much the world of our children has changed from the days I used to play with my friends back in small town America.

Just look at the young adults of today. What games haves they grown up playing? Dungens and Dragons quickly became a nationwide success, as our children role played their evil natures. However, that game required mental acuity, and over time, lost out to games that just kill, blow up, or otherwise destroy. I haven’t played any of these video games myself, but from what I have seen; you basically just shoot everything in site until you die.

How much different is that – than walking into a mall or school and shooting unknown targets?

How can I even think that this cultural trend has been ultimately engineered by some manipulative power? Nobody makes our children play those games! It is a free market; people buy what they want, what they like. Their parent’s allowed these children play those games. It is all individual and personal choice.

To that I say that – I both agree and disagree. I agree that we think we have free will choices. I agree we have the illusion of personal freedom, but ultimately it is only an illusion.

The mass media advertising campaigns have served to homogenize our taste. You should have one of these. All of your friends are play it. You don’t want to be left out do you? Not just games, but all types of products are sold out before they ever hit the market. People stand in line or even camp out over night, to be the first get the new addition of this product or that product. Stupid me, how could I ever thought that we are being conditioned to buy and play these games.

Now combined that trend, with the lack of nice alternatives. Centralized distribution networks have streamed lined our department stores into efficient suppliers. The end result is that America has become the nation of WalMart and CostCo. If they don’t carry it, you don’t need it. Standardization of supply choices and the homogenization of our culture.

I home school my children and I have been on the prowl for an elementary chemistry set and they just are not available in the local department store. Games that teach positive values have retreated to the rare specialty shop, or available only by internet, because thay are no longer desired by the population.

Now add this to the lack of parental control. As our economy has grown and changed over the last 50 yrs the entire relationship between the child and their parents has also changed. Economic issues has led the trend away from Mother homemaker and child care provider to Mother is at work as well as Father and a generation of “Latch Keys Kids” was created. Children home alone, playing whatever, watching whatever, doing whatever, and then to have their parents come home from work later tired and exhausted from their days labor.

Instead of stepping up and being the parents God intended them to be, the parents now need time alone, time to relax, and the children retreat to their rooms to play yet more shoot-em-up video games.

Would my Mother allowed me to play those games? I doubt it! I doubt it because she was a God fearing Christian woman who cautionly censored what I was exposed to. The old saying goes – you are what you eat. I am proof that this statement is true. I drove truck for several years, when I hang out with those old friends my language becomes more colorful and I don’t even realize it until I return to work and surprise those around me.

Our young people today play soot-em-up video games, while listening to music about killing and even committing suicide. Almost as if they are being conditioned to kill indiscriminately and commit suicide.

On the other side of the world, the culture is also conditioning the children to engage in Islamic Jihad and kill the infidel as a guaranteed act that pleases God.

These are the news stories being played and replayed until these acts of random violence become normalized as a daily saga within our respective cultures. We have become de-sensitized to the trauma. And – the constant bombardment of these media news stories that are played and replayed are conditioning our population into thinking that something needs to be done about this terrible trend in behavior.

AND – what can big government do about it to protect the general population? The most commonly offered solution – TAKE THE GUNS!

The US Constitution

Read the words of the 2nd Amendment – The Right to Bear Arms

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

What were out founding fathers thinking? What was their intent? Was the intent geared to protect some ones right to own a single shot, or even semi-automatic, hunting rifle? Or perhaps even the right to own a hand gun to protect yourself from the bad guys in this world? ------ NO

The intent was that our citizens have the right to form Militia to protect their free State from usurpers. Do we need fully automatic weapons to hunt deer, the critics ask over and over again. The resounding answer is of course not! However, fully automatic weapons, and/or larger weapons would be necessary to defend our communities from the Federal Government.

Isn’t that the intent of the founding of our nation? We have the liberty to protect our lives, our families, our land, our communities and our way of life from governments that infringe upon our freedoms.

No wonder they want our guns.
You cannot have an armed uprising of the people, if you take away their guns.

[Dave]

China school knife attack in Henan injures 22 children

BBC News, China, December 14th 2012,
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20723910

A man with a knife has wounded 22 children - at least two of them seriously - and an adult at a primary school in central China.

The attack happened at the gate of a school in Chenpeng village in Henan province.
Police arrested a 36-year-old local man at the scene.

Security at China's schools has been increased in recent years following a spate of similar knife attacks in which nearly 20 children have been killed.


Guns are outlawed in China – has it prevented the violence there?

[Virginia]

When I was a child we did not get toys. We took a soup can and played kick the can. We played hide and seek. A neighbor had a nice hill. Every child was welcomed to slide down this hill. All you needed was a piece of cardboard. Was the home owner worried about a law suit if someone got hurt--NO. All the children watched out for one another so no one got hurt.

The tv shows are all geared to "dumb up society". I search for shows to watch like on the history channel or science channel or National Geo.

This school shooting is being played over and over till I just had to turn off the tv.

[Dave]

By calling for gun control, you are unleashing your own worst nightmare

Natural News, Dec 126th 2012, Mike Adams
www.infowars.com/a-warning-to-gun-grabbers-and-collectivist-media-by-calling-for-gun-control-you-are-unleashing-your-own-worst-nightmare/

By screaming about how they wish to destroy the Second Amendment and disarm the American people, collectivist media gun grabbers and “school shooting doomsday” fear mongers have managed to do exactly what they hoped NOT to do: They have pushed millions of AR-15s and hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition into the private hands of Americans.

Over the Christmas holiday, I spoke with a friend who owns the largest retail gun shop (and advanced tactical shooting range) in one of the largest U.S. cities. He told me, “Our store sales have been $100,000 a day since the Newtown shooting.” On a normal business day, his sales hover around the $10,000 mark, so what we’re witnessing here is a 1000% increase in gun sales.

“Our shelves have been stripped bare. People are buying everything in sight, AR-15s, handguns, shotguns, ammo, scopes, magazines, uppers… you name it, it’s gone. When a new shipment comes in each day, it’s gone in 10 minutes. People are waiting here for hours just to buy a rifle.”

Much the same is true across the nation. Every gun shop in America has sold out of virtually everything. Check out the ammunition available an online retailers like www.AmmoToGo.com and www.LuckyGunner.com — almost everything is sold out or backordered.

Ammo magazines are now virtually impossible to come by, too. Firearms gear sellers like www.MidwayUSA.com and www.SportsmansGuide.com are completely sold out and deep into backorders that won’t be filled until February, March or April.

I have my eyes closed picturing a very small group of the world's shadow government sitting around a conference table checking things off their list of accomplishments:
Christianity diminished and devalued
Morality has become situational
Porn, Internet, Commercials, and even Cartoons all paint a very secular and demoralized world.
Multiple tests against our Constitution have succeeded.
Personal freedoms have been replaced by Home Land Security
Our country has been skillfully split and devided

NOW - both sides are much better armed!

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