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Sunday, October 09, 2005

TRUTH QUOTE AND OTHER BENJAMIN FRANKLIN QUOTES

Half a truth is often a great lie. Benjamin Franklin

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. Benjamin Franklin

SO TRUE THE TAXPAYER IS THE WHEEL THAT TURNS THE ECONOMY!



















The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. Ronald Reagan

WHO IS TO BLAME IF A STUDENT CANNOT GRADUATE FROM HIGH SHOOL?

Judges bolster students' lawsuit
Class-action status is granted for thousands of black students who say the educational achievement gap is the fault of the school system.By THOMAS C. TOBIN, Times Staff WriterPublished September 29, 2005
More than 20,000 Pinellas black students can stand together against the school system in a lawsuit that alleges they are not being properly educated, a three-judge appeals panel ruled Wednesday.
The decision granting class-action status to the lawsuit sets the stage for an extraordinary legal battle over some of the biggest questions facing American educators today:
How should school districts address the low achievement of black students and disproportionately high number of disciplinary actions against those students? Can school systems alone be held accountable for the problem?
The case is thought to be a one-of-a-kind attempt to get the courts to resolve a complex issue that educators historically have tried to work out in the classroom.
It also raises the specter of the school district deposing scores of children in an effort to prove that the "achievement gap" between black and white children is a matter of individual circumstance and effort, not the fault of the system.
Lawyers for plaintiff William Crowley argue the numbers are so damning they prove a systemwide failure to "meet the needs and requirements of students of African descent."
The lawsuit alleges the district has failed to give every student a "high quality" education, in violation of the Florida Constitution and state law.
Crowley's son, Akwete Osoka, "experienced substantial academic difficulties" that are typical of those faced by black students in Pinellas, the suit charges.
The district contends it is working hard to close the achievement gap, but that the disparity is a complicated phenomenon caused by factors schools cannot control.
Among the factors cited by researchers: a high incidence of poverty among black families; distrust by some black parents of white-run schools; and time in front of the television in black households that exceeds the rest of the population.
Researchers also have focused on the differences in culture and class between many black students and an American teaching corps that is largely white and middle class.
The lawsuit is not related to the 40-year-old federal desegregation case against Pinellas, which primarily deals with whether schools are racially integrated. In that action, which resulted in the school choice plan, a federal judge concluded that the district no longer discriminates against black children.
Wednesday's decision in the Crowley case was a blow for district officials.
In an Aug. 16 hearing, they asked the 2nd District Court of Appeal to overturn a ruling last year by Pinellas Circuit Judge James R. Case granting class-action status to the plaintiffs.
The appeals court said Wednesday it found nothing wrong with that ruling.
Superintendent Clayton Wilcox said he would consult with lawyers before recommending to the School Board whether to appeal to the Florida Supreme Court or ask the 2nd District judges to reconsider.
However, he added: "My sense is we won't throw good money after bad."
Wilcox indicated he might be ready let the five-year-old lawsuit go to trial. "It'll be interesting to see if (the plaintiffs) can prove their case on the merits," he said.
Guy Burns, the prominent Tampa lawyer representing Crowley, said he would welcome a trial.
"I would hope that finally the School Board would try to sit down and talk about this," he said. "Let's get about the business of fixing it and quit the avoidance. ... They spend a lot more time trying to avoid the problem rather than dealing with the problem."
Burns said that he was not sure what the remedy would be but that it was the school district's job under state law to come up with one.
District officials, citing a number of classroom initiatives, have said they would be hard-pressed to do much more in an age when the government is pressing them as never before to address the gap.
The No Child Left Behind Act requires U.S. school districts to make sure all students are achieving at high levels by 2014, regardless of their race or disability.
The Crowley case was filed in August 2000, a year and a half before Congress approved the act.
If Pinellas does not appeal Wednesday's ruling, the two sides would meet with Case to determine a method for notifying the families of all 21,000 black students in Pinellas public schools that they are party to the lawsuit. According to Burns, the students would not be able to opt out of the lawsuit because the action does not allow for a monetary award.
Repeating what his lawyers said in arguments before the appellate judges last month, Wilcox said the district would defend itself in part by calling in scores of students to be questioned by lawyers.
The strategy: to prove the gap is an individual matter - that some black students do well while others don't and that the factors behind their performance vary.
Wilcox acknowledged that pulling students into depositions could be painful for some, but he argued: "The district didn't put us here. The plaintiffs put us here."
Burns called the tactic "a joke and a red herring."
In coming to his decision to broaden the case, Case found in part that there were "questions of law and fact" common to all black Pinellas students. He also cited previous rulings that courts should err on the side of granting class-action status.
He argued the lawsuit is challenging "the system as a whole ... not how that system has dealt with a particular student on an individual basis." In granting class-action status, Case noted he was not ruling on whether the plaintiffs were right.
Like many school districts across the United States, Pinellas has a significant achievement gap that can be measured in many ways.
In the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test administered last spring, only 30 percent of Pinellas black students scored at proficient levels in reading - lower than any other minority group. Meanwhile, 63 percent of white students were proficient.
Similarly, 43 percent of black students graduated from Pinellas high schools in 2004 with a standard diploma after four years of study. The graduation rate for white students was 72 percent.
Also, black students are far more likely to be disciplined in Pinellas schools than white students. In 2003 and 2004, about 39 percent of all disciplinary referrals went to black students, who make up only 19 percent of the enrollment.[Last modified September 29, 2005, 01:20:09]

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COMMUNIST IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANITY-SEE MORVEN

MORVEN ESTATE IN NEW JERSEY-SIGNER OF DECLARATION OF INDEPENCENCE-FREE MASONRY.


WELCOME TO BRAVEHEART'S LAIR
In the spirit of those brave souls who created our great Nation, we are proud to offer you access to important writings that are aimed at restoring its full freedom and the dignity of life in America. When the United States was founded, Christians drafted and ratified the new Constitution, giving very specifically described powers to the new national government. That Constitution specifically reserved all other powers and rights to the several states and to the people. In those days Christians were free to live unmolested by contaminated social content because they had not given away their rights to be free from it. In fact, through their respective State and local governments they created laws prohibiting filth and social debauchery from openly existing so that it never was able to easily invade their homes to contaminate the minds of their children.

Today, all of that is reversed:
Christians are well aware of the hatred that is directed toward Christianity by the mainstream media. Christians have long observed the constant attacks by the media on leaders such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Tim Lahaye and James Dobson. Indeed, ordinary Christians suffer attacks in their own personal lives. Christianity gave birth to every economic, political and cultural freedom traditionally enjoyed by Americans. This is why Christianity always has projected the economic and political power of the American middle-class, which was the free enterprise agricultural and entrepreneurial class of America. Elite Christian-haters have long desired total economic, political and cultural hegemony in America. So Christianity, the middle-class bedrock, has needed to be degraded if not destroyed. The elite Christian-haters have caused Christians to be hated in America.

Families are the basic cultural unit of traditional Christian society. American families have been under siege for half a century. While parents struggle to raise their children with good morals, the "culture industry" bombards our entire nation with filth and perverseness. When spouses finally succumb to the inevitable temptations, "family" courts stand ready to bust the family upon mere request. There is no familial security for anyone in America. All Americans, both black and white are treated as slaves in this regard. When one spouse wants "to play," the rest of the family is led to the courthouse auction block and sold down the river to the highest bidders. Intelligent men govern our nation, yet they do nothing to stop this assault on families. The fact that our intelligent rulers do nothing to aid the nation's families in preserving their children can only mean that our rulers want to see families destroyed. Today there exists a growing block of people in America who have been deprived of normal families, don't even know how to have normal families and now see no value at all in any family structure. James Dobson isn't the only one who has " focus on the family." Elite Christian-haters also have "focus on the family." American families are hated.

The man, the father, has always been regarded in Christian society as God's simple representative within each family. That is why he always has been called, "the head of the home." American men likewise are well aware of the hatred that is directed at normal men and fathers. This hatred is not limited to Christian men, but to all men who might occupy the role of Patriarchal head of home. Men and fathers have been stripped of most protection under family laws. Male-bashing even is presented as cheap entertainment on television. Men and fathers are the traditional heads of families. If the enemy with "focus on the family" wants to destroy families, then the head of the family clearly must be cut down, and stripped of his dignity and familial respect. The man, the father is the target of choice in any culture war against families. Normal men and fathers are hated in America.

Although women are the seeming beneficiaries of attacks on men and fathers by Christian-haters, they also are being destroyed in the process. American women are aware that their former role as homemakers and child-nurturers has been scoffed and demeaned by the media as a form of "slavery," and that they now have been forced out of their homes by economic pressures that make one-income families less viable. Women also have been relegated to the public image of the "sex pot," the "stripper," the "harlot," the "lewd one," and the ever-present subject of pornography and grocery store tabloids. Women are no longer respected. Young girls now seek self esteem by exposing themselves publically and by taking on the "look" of the harlot. If an enemy with "focus on the family" wants to destroy families, then the mother needs to be forced from the home. She and her daughters need to be socially affirmed as independent sexual entities. Once out of the home, even if the family stays together, the mother is effectively stripped of influence over her children. When both parents are spending only an hour or two each evening at home with the children, the children will not bond to parental influence as strongly as they bond to peer influence in daycare and school. Thus the woman also is robbed of her progeny and is being victimized by elite Christian-haters in America. Normal women and mothers are hated in America.

Although children reportedly are loved by our government, they too are victimized in America. Children need guidance and occasional control by parents. Today our government has made their parents afraid to discipline children. Parents are routinely jailed for exercising physical control over unruly children. Often the unruly child is merely being victimized by smut from the "culture industry," and is hellbent on getting into trouble. Often the bad influence is from drug dealers that our government just doesn't seem able to get off of our streets. Furthermore, elite Christian-haters and their "culture industry" have smothered our environment with social pathogens that attack the parents, thus destroying the familial security of children. Atheist family courts routinely finish the job by assigning the children to custodial arrangements without regard to traditional standards of Christian morality. The children then are consigned to grow up in poverty without effective parental control or discipline. Even when both parents are Christians, there is a far greater number of these children who are scarred for life and often do not escape self destruction in life. American children really are not loved at all by their government, they are hated by it.

Our Supreme Court has created out of thin air "rights" that allow society to become debauched and "dumbed" by pornographers, criminals, pimps, drug gangs, and mindless "entertainment" from the small cartel that controls the "culture industry." Normal people now live in fear in America, often cannot trust their own neighbors, and are regularly roughed up in courts of law when they react to the chaos that surrounds them and invades their families. Americans now exist in a totalitarian state of judicial tyranny.

Conservatives, who seek to "conserve" traditional American freedom and social values, also have been the butt of hateful abuse from the mainstream media. For decades, hatred has been directed at these people in the form of ridicule and scorn, while contrary social interests have been elevated to the top with high praise from those who hate Christians, traditional men and women, and conservatives. Conservatives are hated in America.

In America, everyone who seeks to preserve what this country always has stood for has been subjected to a constant campaign of hate, ridicule, prejudice and discrimination that has been going on now for more than half a century, at least since the early 1950's. Patriots are hated in America.
So how did this sad state of affairs come to be in America, land of "the free?" The essays on this website answer that question. But be forewarned, the answers are never pleasant, and are rather unsettling. This is not reading for the cowardly and faint of heart. Furthermore, the Bible gives the entire answer in only one sentence: "The love of money is the root of all evil." Just follow the money. It never fails. But how many history books have you read that do that? The truth certainly is out there, but one must dig for it because those piloting our country aren't about to give up the truth easily. One almost needs to pry it out of their grasp. Some of the information that we have garnered needed to be requested from libraries in other nations as far away as Europe, because it has been stripped from every library collection in the United States—even from the Library of Congress. All but one American library reported, "The reel is missing from our collection." The University of Houston, to the contrary reported, "The reel is here, but the issue has been cut from the reel." So, how do you figure?

Below is a little synopsis of why some of this material may have been so hard to acquire. We start with a basic history lesson. Please read below.
Unfortunately, from this nation's inception, there existed an elite class of Americans that was jealous of the freedoms, liberties and resulting wealth that the new government provided to common people. Many of these elites had lost power in the colonies as a result of our successful revolution against the British. Early American history records how that elite class subsequently tried twice and failed to ensnare the people in overwhelming debt so that the new Union might be subjugated and dismembered. Both times the offending elites attempted to do this through the use of "Money Power." But both times the "central bankers" were legally divested of their franchises and were sent packing back to England from whence their interests had come.

After the United States suddenly terminated the central bank's franchise in 1811, the British invaded the next year and didn't leave until the American government had agreed to a new central bank charter that began in 1815. This was the War of 1812 and was the first great crisis that threatened our new nation's continued existence.

By the time Andrew Jackson became President, the second central bank had managed to entangle a large segment of the people in debt. President Jackson railed against the bank, accusing it of using the Money Power to corrupt public officials and to influence elections while robbing the people. Jackson threw out this central bank during his second term and the bankers retaliated by maliciously calling due all debts. In spite of hardships, our people understood this situation for what it was and backed Jackson. A quarter-century later, the British again meddled in our affairs, this time helping to foment a civil war that became the second great crisis to threaten our nation's continued existence.

Two great historical events converged in America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that have ultimately brought on this country a third terrible crisis that now threatens its existence.
The first event involved immigration from Europe. During the 1880's the floodgates were opened to European immigration, which included a massive number of people who had been fomenting communist revolution in their old countries. We can trace the present social basis of American communism to that flood of immigrants. Today, the most liberal States tend to be those where that wave of immigrants settled. These were the first cells of an American cancer.

The second great event involved the creation of yet a third, new central bank franchise. When Woodrow Wilson came to power in 1812, the new president had been helped in his campaign by elements of the new socialist groups. Wilson did not have a particularly strong, or even clean, character and he soon found himself being subjected to undue influence and even blackmail. Historical research reveals that Wilson had a private life which involved extramarital affairs that kept threatening to become public during his first term. It wasn't difficult for that same old elite class to manipulate the new president, this time using his socialist supporters to convince him to create a third central bank.

The new central bank was ostentatiously named the "Federal Reserve Bank," and like the earlier ones was privately owned by stockholders. Most of the stock in the Federal Reserve Bank wound up being owned by the "House of Rothschild," which also owned, and still owns today, the Bank of England. Domestic elites, including the Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellon, and a few other Brahman families dating back to colonial times, each received smaller shares of the stock. This gave "local" aristocrats a stake in the new financial order. Today, ownership of Federal Reserve Bank stock remains virtually unchanged.

Following the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank, it didn't take long for the new Money Power to anchor itself through the creation of massive amounts of national debt. World War I was the situation that enabled this. Since the days of Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, our nation had financed its wars by merely printing "greenback" currency that lacked backing by gold or silver. This had cost our country absolutely nothing in the way of bank interest. Now, for the first time, the Federal Reserve Bank merely printed this unbacked currency, calling it "Federal Reserve (promissory) Notes," and began loaning it to our government at great cost to pay for its war in Europe. This is the way our government has covered its deficit spending ever since.

Today, because of the Federal Reserve Bank, our total national debt, including unfunded obligations, stands at $33 trillion. We now have no hope of ever being out of debt, unless we would default and send the foreign bankers packing a third time.

In the meantime, that class of socialist immigrants discussed earlier matured and grew into a political force to be reckoned with. When World War II occurred, another new wave of European socialists swam ashore in New York. These were quietly welcomed by the first wave. This new wave included mostly Communists and Freudian Psychoanalysts from Germany and Austria. They were quickly employed in our Universities through projects involving social control research that were being paid for at the time by the big "Foundations," foundations that were set up by the monied class to evade estate taxation. You guessed it, these included the Rockefeller and other families who own the Federal Reserve Bank. Those who finance our Universities with endowments always have enjoyed the privilege of influencing the selection of those who will teach in their universities.

In any event, when the American Communist Party fell apart in 1956, children of the former party members fell under the influence of this second wave of socialists who were by then professors in our most prestigious universities. These were the famous "Red Diaper Babies" who created the "New Left" and the "Free Speech Movement" on campuses across the nation during the 1960's. They also provided as many as 94% of the anti-war activists who organized protests against the war in Viet Nam. Most of these activities were paid for by the same "Foundations" that provided them their professors, as well as by their now wealthy parents who often were heads of the largest monopolistic corporations on Wall Street. In fact, Jerry Rubin, who told college students that they needed "to kill their own parents," quietly turned to his own Wall Street career immediately after causing so many good Christian soldiers to die in vain during the Viet Nam war. In 1968, Rubin and his comrades burned Chicago while trashing the Democratic Party Convention that nominated Hubert Humphrey for president. Four years later, in 1972, those same smelly "hippies" finally took baths, put on suits and ties and marched into the Democratic Convention and captured it. Since 1972, the Democratic Party has served as home for the children of former Communist Party members. Again, almost all of these events were made possible with support from the elite monied class.

What this means for our nation is simple. With our national wealth now totally owned by the creditor bankers, our nation is at their mercy. Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that honest men can long endure in Washington D.C., notwithstanding our current President. We elect them, but the bankers own them. This is why the Republicans in Congress now seem so inept, and why so very little has been accomplished since the Republican "revolution" in 1994. Ten years, and what has been accomplished? The very strength and viability of our nation is at the mercy of the Money Power that underlies our banks and backs the survival of the huge corporations. Pull out that rug and everything falls.

Bob Dole once asked a famous question on the Senate floor. He asked, "Who the hell is running this country anyway." Dole then shut his mouth and was later rewarded for doing so by being allowed to become an impotent Republican candidate for President in 1996.

After September 11, 2001, the elite class has had our nation right where they want it. Now involved in an escalating, not to end conflict, our people are once again being demoralized by the same socialist lap dog class that manned the Viet Nam war protests 40 years ago. Our people are being led back to the corral by their Money masters. Once there, the gate will be secured and the Christian conservative movement will be blamed and shamed for its failures. The Money machine then can turn up the volume of social debauchery once more, perhaps even louder than before. Our children then can be further reduced in a never ending vortex of social leveling that will leave everyone in financial bondage except the monied elites and their socialist lap dogs. The elites will continue their lives of untaxed ease, while their socialist lap dogs "administer the masses."
So, how did the elites manage to bring all of this to pass in America? The answers to this question are contained in essays presented on this website.
The first essay, entitled, "The Citizen's Plight," contains a very detailed overview of our circumstances. The essays that currently follow contain historical data about the underlying philosophers and their ideas that have been employed in America by our domestic enemies. Those philosophers were the "thinkers," who have assisted the monied elites and their socialist lap dogs in their quests to overwhelm the United States. The United States has been subdued by burying the economic middle class with debt and by degrading the middle class social and political power structure, which always emanated from the Christian Church. Our articles explain how this has been accomplished. Today the Christian Church is the only economic and political force capable of opposing this cabal. Other essays will follow.
On this website we seek to promote an informed citizen who understands the Elite domestic enemies of our national Constitution and way of life. We seek to expose those who promote hatred against traditional society and Christian decorum. We contend with those who bash normal men and fathers while demeaning normal women and mothers. We oppose those who pursue destruction of our children and our national defense through open debauchery, homosexuality and substance abuse. We combat those who wish our progeny to be totally controlled by insurmountable debt and owned as work slaves—like cattle—in the "global" market place.

We welcome members of all faiths and denominations to review our essays. We welcome members of Pat Robertson's 700 Club, Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, James Dobson's true Focus on the Family, readers of Tim LaHaye's Left Behind, members of Bob Jones University, Right to Life, Pro-life and everyone interested in Bible prophesy, Revelations and Daniel. We welcome members of the National Rifle Association and all those interested in American freedoms, human life, liberty and prosperity.
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Saturday, October 08, 2005

SOCRATES DID BELIEVE IN THE DIVINE


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Divine Presence
Part of Socrates' spirituality is his experience of a divine presence within himself. This daimon, as he called it, would warn him if he was undertaking something inappropriate, and remain silent if he pursued the good.
Furthermore, Socrates implies that daimons are the children of divine and human parents, (i.e. demigods). Thus, they are midway between the mortal and divine. One interesting aside to all this is that subsequent Christian society came to view all such spirits as evil ("demon" is derived from the Greek word, "daimon"). In classical Greece, however, daimons could be beneficial as is the case with the one Socrates has been gifted with since a child. An oracle can also refer to a person, place, or thing.

There will be Atheist that will use Socrates for part of their self-determination philosophy, but I believe that they are connecting dots where no such dots exist. If Socrates had been born after Christ, there is no doubt in my mind that Socrates would have been a Christian. Greece has one of the largest Christian populations in the World.

ANCIENT ATHENS

SOCRATES DEFENSE


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I AM UPDATING THIS POST TO INCLUDE YANNI'S SONG "THE STORM." ENJOY! FOR THOSE THAT MAY NOT KNOW OUR HISTORY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BEGAN IN GREECE.

Speech I: Socrates' Defense
(1) Opening Remarks17a - 18a
17a
How you, O Athenians, have been affected by my accusers, I
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cannot tell; but I know that they almost made me forget who I

was so persuasively did they speak; and yet they have hardly

uttered a word of truth. But of the many falsehoods told by


Law Court in Athens whereSocrates would have given this speech.Full View of Athens (207K)Artist: Ru Dien-Jen
them, there was one

which quite amazed

me; I mean when they

said that you should be

upon your guard and

not allow yourselves to

be deceived by the force

of my eloquence. To say this, when they were certain to be detected
Socrates begs to be allowed to speak in his accustomed manner.
as soon as I opened my lips and proved myself to be anything but
17b
a great speaker, did indeed appear to me most shameless unless

by the force of eloquence they mean the force of truth; for if such

their meaning, I admit that I am eloquent. But in how different

a way from theirs! Well, as I was saying, they have scarcely

spoken the truth at all; but from me you shall hear the whole

truth: not, however, delivered after their manner in a set

oration duly ornamented with words and phrases. No, by

heaven! but I shall use the words and arguments which occur

to me at the moment; for I am confident in the justice of my

cause: at my time of life I ought not to be appearing before

you, O men of Athens, in the character of a juvenile orator -

17c
let no one expect it of me. And I must beg of you to grant me

favor: If I defend myself in my accustomed manner, and you

hear me using the words which I have been in the habit of

using in the agora, at the tables of the money-changers, or


Ruins of the Agora Photo: Kevin T. Glowacki and Nancy Klein The Ancient City of Athens
anywhere else, I

would ask you not to

be surprised, and not

to interrupt me on this

account. For I am

more than seventy years

of age, and appearing

now for the first time in a court of law, I am quite a stranger to

17d
the language of the place; and therefore I would have you regard

me as if I were really a stranger, whom you would excuse if he

spoke in his native tongue, and after the fashion of his country:

18a
- Am I making an unfair request of you? Never mind the manner,
The judges must excuse Socrates if he defends himself in his own fashion.
which may or may not be good; but think only of thetruth of my
words, and give heed to that: let the speaker speak truly and
the judge decide justly.