Amish Farmers See ‘Mark of the Beast’ in RFID Livestock Tags

When you read this remember Steve read an article on air several months ago now about the embeded chips in the skin causing cancerous sores. This is an attempt of our government to track and trace everything under the guise of disease in this case. Later it will be some excuse to put RFID chips in humans…just wait and see..The Amish claim that the scheme threatens their religious beliefs because, they believe, it is part of an ongoing attempt to number every living thing, a practice mentioned in Revelations where it is linked with the Devil.

Farmers See ‘Mark of the Beast’ in RFID Livestock Tags

A group of community farmers, some of them Amish, are challenging rules requiring the tagging of livestock with RFID chips, saying the devices are a “mark of the beast.”

Michigan and federal authorities say the radio frequency identification devices (RFID) will help monitor the travels of bovine and other livestock diseases.

“Use of a numbering system for their premises and/or electronic numbering system for their animals constitutes some form of a ‘mark of the beast‘ and/or represents an infringement of their ‘dominion over cattle and all living things’ in violation of their fundamental religious beliefs,” according to the farmers’ lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

As radio frequency identification devices become a daily part of the electronic age, RFID technology is increasingly coming under fire for allegedly being the mark of Satan. The technology is fast becoming a part of passports and payment cards and is widely expected to replace bar-code labels on consumer goods.

The suit (.pdf) mentions various verses from the Book of Revelation. “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Revelation 13:16-17

The farmers’ lawsuit, brought by the Virginia-based Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and some of its 1,400 members, seeks to block enforcement of the National Animal Identification System. Some of the group’s members so staunchly oppose the program that “they may have to quit farming,” according to the lawsuit.

They may quit farming and imperil the United States because RFID tagging “forces them to, in part, violate tenets of their Old Order Amish beliefs, i.e., they are forced to use technology they would ordinarily not use,” according to the suit.

The lawsuit also claims the program places a financial burden on small farmers and that the U.S Department of Agriculture has failed to show “any rational relationship to or causal link with animal disease control.”

Read the entire article @ blog.wired.com

Facts

I just love facts.  One thing you can’t do is argue with them, because they’re not biased:

Chicago, a typical Democratic town: Chicago…. Who Runs it? Senators: Barack Obama & Dick Durbin  Representative: Jesse Jackson, Jr.  Illinois Governor: Rod Blogojevich Illinois House leader: Mike Madigan Illinois Attorney General: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike) Chicago Mayor: Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)

The leadership in Illinois? ……all Democrats. 

Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago.  

Body count in the last six months:    292 killed (murdered) in Chicago   
                                                 221 killed in Iraq

State pension fund  -  $44 Billion in debt, worst in the country. 

Cook County (Chicago) sales tax 10.25% highest in country. (Look it up). 

Chicago school system  -  rated one of the worst in the country. (AND – the head of the system has just been named to head the NATIONAL Ed. office !!!!)

Of course, they’re all blaming each other.  They can’t blame Republicans because there aren’t any.

This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois.  And he’s going to ‘”fix” Washington politics for us?  Good luck and may God help us.

A New Constitutional Convention?

My friend Josh Boulee’ sends me this, and I am reprinting his post on the Politics 4 all blog:

I may be the last to catch on to this possibility, but did you know that there is a real effort to call a new Constitutional Convention going on right now? Can you imagine what would happen if the crew we have in Washington right now were given the authority to re-write, or totally replace, our U. S. Constitution? 34 states have to call for a convention, and 32 are on the record already, including Tennessee. Ohio appears to be the target of the latest efforts, and neither New York or California have signed on yet, so this could really happen. From what I have learned from the Chuck Baldwin article at http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin480.htm, we need to be calling anyone we know in Ohio and work to stop their state legislature from passing a resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention.

In light of this possibility, I would like to call for a couple of actions from our members.

1. Call all of your friends and family in Ohio and inform them about this.
2. Read the article linked above and find out if your state is among those that have already called for a convention.
3. Research the current status of your state’s call for a convention.. it would appear some have rescinded thiers, but that may not matter.
4. Get back on here and respond with what you have found in your state, we need as much information as we can get!

I have found some contact information for the Ohio legislature:

• To leave a phone message for either a Senator or Representative: call 1-800-282-0253 (M-F, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM Eastern time)
• House of Representatives Website: http://www.house.state.oh.us/
• State Senate Website: http://www.senate.state.oh.us/
• If you know the name of the official you are trying to reach, you can find their direct phone number here: http://ohio.gov/phonedir/query.aspx

I will try to update this as I learn more.

                ~Joshua Boulée

from: http://politics4all.com/groups/30/blog/589-act-now-to-reject-a-constitutional-convention

Here Come the Feds…under the guise of Drunk Driving

I found this article while browsing the news and to me the author Lawrence Taylor is right on……..but the average person doesn’t see what he is talking about because we have been pounded by the media that we’re a democracy when in truth we’re a republic of the people first, states second and federal government bringing up the rear. But it has all been reversed thru the years as our founding fathers warned us to watch for and not let happen. But we are letting it happen, because it is being presented in a logically sounding way. Of course!

“It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect

his country from its government.”

- Thomas Paine

Here Come the Feds…

Posted by Lawrence Taylor on November 28th, 2008

As everyone knows, in our federal system of government most laws are enacted and enforced by the individual states.  Burglary, murder, rape, larceny — all are defined, enforced and prosecuted by the state or local governments.  Until recently…

The laws, evidence and procedures concerning drunk driving are increasingly coming under the control of the federal government.  Over recent years, for example, the Feds have used the threat of withholding highway funds from states to force them to pass legislation championed by MADD.  Thus, for example,  South Carolina recently became the last state to cave in and adopt per se laws – driving with .08% blood-alcohol, even if sober.  All states have also now adopted Automatic License Suspension (ALS) laws, the immediate confiscation by police of driver’s licenses of those suspected – not convicted – of having over .08%.  Again under federal/MADD pressure, almost all have passed zero tolerance laws lowering the blood-alcohol level to .01 or .02% for drivers under 21.  And so on…

Even the evidence in DUI cases is increasingly being dictated by the federal government.  Federal standardized field sobriety tests are being adopted across the country, and breath testing machines are now selected by state agencies from a list of federally-approved devices.

Eventually, as I’ve predicted in past posts (The Future of DUI), the federal government will simply federalize all state drunk driving laws, penalties and procedures — but, without the necessary law enforcement, court and jail facilities, they will still require the state to enforce those laws.

Consider a couple of news stories just within the past five days:

State DUI Policies Criticized

Seattle, WA.  Nov. 24 –  As Thanksgiving approaches, state law enforcement is preparing for a less-than-loved holiday tradition — drunken driving. But, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, the state’s laws aren’t up to the challenge.

An NTSB review puts Washington among the 25 states that have not made changes to combat drunken driving that the federal safety board has recommended.

Acting board Chairman Mark Rosenker was expected to chastise the states during a meeting Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C.

Chief among the NTSB complaints against Washington is the state’s reluctance to allow police to conduct sobriety checkpoints.

Washington’s checkpoint law was struck down as unconstitutional in the late 1980s, and the state does not use them…

The NTSB also faulted the state for allowing plea bargains for first-time DUI defendants, not impounding cars driven by all drunken-driving suspects and failing to create a statewide system of DUI courts aimed at repeat offenders.

And…

NTSB: R.I. Not Doing Enough to Fight Drunken Driving

Providence, RI.  Nov. 28 – Federal transportation officials say Rhode Island’s efforts to curb drunken driving are falling short.

The National Transportation Safety Board this week said that Rhode Island is one of the bottom three states in the nation when it comes to following agency recommendations to address drunken driving accidents and deaths.

The safety board developed 11 recommendations in 2000 for how states could reduce alcohol-related crashes and fatalities. Rhode Island has enacted just two of them. Only Michigan and Montana have enacted so few.

Gabrielle Abbate, executive director of the state chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said Rhode Island lacks legislative leadership when it comes to cracking down on drunken driving.

In the past, the federal government left the states to enact criminal laws, limiting its own jursidiction to those involving  federal interests such as counterfeiting, espionage and civil rights.  So, why the gradual takeover of DUI offenses?

MADD, with annual revenues of about $52 million, continues to apply media and lobbying pressure — but has moved beyond their state legislatures to Congress and federal agencies.  And beaurocrats and elected representatives in Washington are just as frightened of MADD’s witch-hunt as those in Sacramento or Albany.

Read at Dublog.com

ASSOCIATED PRESS Study Finds $1.6B Went to Bailed-Out Bank Execs

Well here’s a good example of what’s wrong in America today (at least one of many things) GREED! Here we have these banks getting money to bail them out of bad debts and what do they do? Give themselves bonuses for the bad loans they made. Great job guys!

AP Study Finds $1.6B Went to Bailed-Out Bank Execs

AP
Sunday, Dec 21, 2008

Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals.

The rewards came even at banks where poor results last year foretold the economic crisis that sent them to Washington for a government rescue. Some trimmed their executive compensation due to lagging bank performance, but still forked over multimillion-dollar executive pay packages.

Benefits included cash bonuses, stock options, personal use of company jets and chauffeurs, home security, country club memberships and professional money management, the AP review of federal securities documents found.

The total amount given to nearly 600 executives would cover bailout costs for many of the 116 banks that have so far accepted tax dollars to boost their bottom lines.

Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services committee and a long-standing critic of executive largesse, said the bonuses tallied by the AP review amount to a bribe ”to get them to do the jobs for which they are well paid in the first place.

”Most of us sign on to do jobs and we do them best we can,’‘ said Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat. ”We’re told that some of the most highly paid people in executive positions are different. They need extra money to be motivated!”

Full article here

New Survey Shows Even Christians Think-many paths to heaven?

Well here’s one Christian that doesn’t believe this and didn’t get a chance to take the survey. Here’s a good example of what I and others personally believe….that we are in the last days according to the Bible and the church is in the Laodicean church  stage (I might add, not every Christian believes we’re in the last days). I also think you can contribute this many paths thing to Rick Warren and his “purpose driven movement”, which when you look into it mixes Christian beliefs with eastern religions, so therefore you get “the same god, but many paths to heaven”.

Many beliefs, many paths to heaven?

By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY

Most American religious believers, including most Christians, say eternal life is not exclusively for those who accept Christ as their savior, a new survey finds.

Of the 65% of people who held this open view of heaven’s gates, 80% named at least one non-Christian group — Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists or people with no religion at all — who may also be saved, according to a new survey released today by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. (Yes others can be saved, but it has to be by believing in Jesus Christ as their savior, not budda or allah.)

FAITH & REASON: A ‘crisis’ for evangelicals?

This means 52% of Christians do not agree with the doctrines many religions teach, particularly conservative denominations. (Yep….Laodicean church age.)

Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, calls the findings “a theological crisis for American evangelicals. They represent at best a misunderstanding of the Gospel and at worst a repudiation of the Gospel.”

This survey on salvation is a follow-up to a highly controversial finding in Pew’s Religious Landscape survey, released earlier this year. It detailed the religious demographics, beliefs and behavior of 35,000 U.S. adults surveyed in 2007.

Pastors, theologians and Christian commentators complained that the Landscape Survey question on access to eternal life — which 70% said was open to many faiths — was too vague. “Did people mean only other religions that are similar to their own, like Baptists grudgingly admitting Lutherans might go to heaven?” said Pew research fellow Greg Smith.

So Pew revisited the topic in a new survey of 2,905 adults, conducted July 31-Aug. 10, with more specific questions. Smith says the new findings reinforce the original finding that “Americans really are thinking quite broadly.”

Christian believers who named at least one non-Christian faith that could lead to salvation included 34% of white evangelicals, even though evangelical doctrine stresses that salvation is possible only through Jesus.

Higher levels of church attendance made some difference, particularly among white evangelical protestants. But an overall majority (54%) of people who identified with a religion and who said they attend church weekly also said many religions can lead to eternal life. This majority included 37% of white evangelicals, 75% of mainline Protestants and 85% of non-Hispanic white Catholics.

Pew’s new survey also found that many Christians (29%) say they are saved by their good actions; 30% say salvation is through belief in Jesus, God or a higher power alone, which is the core teaching of evangelical Protestantism; and 10% say salvation is found through a combination of behavior and belief, a view closer to Catholic teachings.

The number of those who said actions determine who attains heaven, was lowest (11%) for white evangelicals, highest for white Catholics (47%).

The number of people saying theirs is the only faith that can lead to eternal life increased slightly, from 24% to 29%, between 2007 and 2008. The biggest increase was among white evangelical Protestants — up from 37% to 49%.

Overall, the new findings are “an indictment of evangelicalism and evangelical preaching,” said Mohler. “The clear Biblical teaching is that Jesus Christ proclaimed himself to be the only way to salvation.”

Mohler sees behind the statistics the impact of pluralism and secularism in U.S. society and the challenge of facing family and friends with “an uncomfortable truth.”

“We are in an age when we want to tell everyone they are doing just fine. It’s extremely uncomfortable to turn to someone and say, ‘You will go to hell unless you come to a saving knowledge of Jesus,’ ” Mohler says.

Read this article at usatoday.com