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THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS         “The War on Christmas” published in 2005 and written by John Gibson is 186 pages of just what the author describes in his book’s sub title “How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday is Worse Than You Thought.”     Boy, is it ever.  This book is replete with examples great and small of an all out frontal and sometimes backdoor assault on Christmas.     Gibson, a former anchor for NBC News, CNBC and MSNBC now with Fox News,  focuses on just seven communities all across America where  Christmas came under assault  chiefly in by the American Civil Liberties Union, but also by other anti-Christian groups.  However, the reader is left with the strong, unavoidable conclusion that the rash of lawsuits, threats and misinterpretations of our Constitution and attacks against our freedom of religion are quite commonplace in far more than just seven communities.  Were Gibson to include all the places where the ACLU is trying to wipe out every vestige of Christmas–and in the broader sense Christianity–from the public square, I suspect his book would’ve become a series.     Chapter Eight is titled, “Onward Christian Lawyers:  The Guys Wearing the White Hats.”  In this very useful chapter, Gibson writes of the efforts of pro-Christian groups like the American Center for Law and Justice headed by chief counsel Jay Sekulow, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League, The Rutherford Institute’s John Whitehead and others who offer solid arguments to schools and other public places to help them defend the name of Christmas and related  displays of the holiday against the liberal, often times ungodly attacks as well as their legal criticisms of  the ACLU and other groups “interpretations” of the First Amendment.  The commentaries from each person in this chapter are short and precise, often no more than two pages each, but they will inspire you, arm you with truth and encourage you.     Gibson illustrates two recurring themes very well in his work: the cowardice of the ACLU whose tactic is to  target schools which often do not have the economic means to fend off a  lawsuit (or the mere threat of one) so the various school boards often cave in to the ACLU’s demands; and second, the stories of individuals where Gibson reminds us that it is a great American tradition, not just a religious commemoration, which is being targeted but people of faith who fight to protect their holiday from being erased.     In one example, we read the story of Richard Tiede of the Newton County School Board which oversaw Covington High School in Covington, Georgia (Chapter One).  In 2000, Tiede sought to replace the word ‘Winter’ Break with Christmas Break on the school calendars to, in his words, reflect that, “America is a Christian Nation”.  But the ACLU latched onto that phrase as an attempt to impose religion and violate the so-called “Establishment Clause.”  We learn that in the end, Tiede, who wasn’t even an evangelical Christian but was described by the author as a “classic American secularist”, couldn’t take the chance the school district might lose a lawsuit and face paying monetary damages they couldn’t afford because of that one sentence he spoke so Tiede voted against his own proposal.  So Christmas would not be mentioned on the school calendars in Covington.  Gibson deftly reminds us that this isn’t just a political issue, but a personal one as well where adults are being bullied by secularists, their deeply held beliefs sued into silence.      As bad as many of us in the CPoW already know it’s getting in politically correct, secular America, there are many more stories in “The War on Christmas” that warn us that indeed it is “worse than we think.”
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DO YOU OWN YOUR HOUSE?  
by Riley J. Hood
 
      We all think that when we buy a house, pay for it, or pay off the mortgage, that we own the house.     Unfortunately, Americans only get to pretend that they own their house.  Every year when you are compelled to pay property tax, you should realize that you are merely a peasant paying rent to the feudal manor.  The day you can’t keep up with your city leaders’ ever increasing appetite for your money is the day you will be forcibly evicted from the house you supposedly own.  If you can’t pay your property taxes, you will lose your house.  At least with a mortgage, you agreed to the price and the interest rate.  There is also an end to the mortgage and you are debt free.
    With property taxes, you can never be free, and like peasants and serfs, you only rent your “property” from City Hall.  Once you agree to pay even a penny a year in property tax, you’ll be forced to pay the kind of rent the city decides.  A freeze is unacceptable.  The property tax must be abolished.
     The first reason is that it is fascist.  Under communism, your home would be owned by the state, outright.  Under fascism, the socialism of state control, you pretend you own your home and pay rent to the state.  When you can’t pay anymore, you find out you don’t own your home.
     The second reason is that it is unconstitutional.  Article 1, Section 14 of the Wisconsin State Constitution says, “All lands within the State are declared to be allodial, and feudal tenures are prohibited.”  One of the definitions of allodial states is, “without being subject to rent, service or acknowledges to a superior.”
      The third reason is that the tax is feudal.  It stratifies the people into the nobility and serf class, and keeps them that way.
     The fourth and most important reason is that the property tax is unbiblical.  Families, not the civil authority, were to own the land.  Ownership was given to families from God Himself.  “Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess.” Deuteronomy 19:14
   The state has law enforcement jurisdiction from God, (Romans 13: 1-7), but now ownership of property.  “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”  Psalm 24: 1.  The state doesn’t lawfully own your property.  The property tax is feudal, fascist, unconstitutional and unbiblical.  It should be abolished.  Think about it! 

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THE STATESMAN
by Kyle DesJerlais
 
     Devoted to the will of God, uncompromising in his stand, principled in his defense of truth, and utterly unwilling to sacrifice righteousness to achieve a goal–these qualities all typify the statesman.  The image of a statesman is evoked from such men of America’s past as Patrick Henry, George Mason, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis.  Statesmen are the kind of men who may not have been popular in their age, but men who would rather serve the God of truth and be innocent before Him, then bow to the will of their opponents in order to have peace.  They stick out like pictures on a wall from the rest of the pages of history.  While possibly not being men whom the world would rally after, they are the kind of men God wants in government to not only defend His order, but also exemplify it before the multitudes of men whom they serve.
        The statesman is the kind of man who would say with God’s prophets to Israel and the Apostle Paul, “Yea, let God be true and every man a liar.”   He zealously affirms the truth even when all other men are not willing to accept it.  His faith in God is much stronger than his faith in man because the statesman realizes that God places certain men to stand alone in order to rally around them people that will stand for God’s Word.  In contrast with the modern politician, who attempts to serve a lifetime in the legislature by being a spineless compromiser, the statesman leaves his reelection up to God.  He campaigns not on what the people wish, but upon what God demands of him.  Statesmen truly follow God’s admonition to them in Psalms 2:12: “Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way when His wrath is kindled but a little.”
   Unlike Niccolo Machiavelli’s character The Prince from the Italian Renaissance, the statesman repudiates the unethical stratagem that states the end justifies the means.  He believes that not only his goal must be right, but also his method of bringing it to pass.  Recognizing that God will judge him if he does not keep to his oath to the constitution he is sworn to uphold, the statesman has a healthy fear of God’s wrath upon him in the event he perjures his oath.  When all around him men are compromising to supposedly gain a “greater good”, the statesman will always value his peaceful spiritual existence that comes from walking honestly before his God.

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GOVERNOR DOYLE VETOES CONCEALED CARRY AND 
ABORTION BILLS
 
    Governor Jim Doyle handed down two vetoes recently on two issues at the heart of the Constitution Party: defeating abortion and  the preserving the right to defend oneself and his family.
        On abortion, SB 138 would have required doctors to inform their pregnant patients considering abortion of the substantial pain fetuses of 20 weeks’ gestational age or older feel during the operation.
    And SB 403, the conceal carry bill would have allowed citizens to carry a concealed gun or knife for their protection.  
     For me, the concealed carry bill is unnecessary as citizens already have a federal (2nd amendment) and state (Article I, Sect. 25) constitutional rights to keep and bear arms.
        But to veto the fetal pain bill is simply senseless.  All it required was the attending doctor inform, just inform, the patient prior to an abortion that the fetus feels pain.  What harm could come from just that?  Especially if said patients reconsider having the abortion and choose life for their unborn children.  
 
THE PRESIDENT’S NEW BUDGET–GOING OVER THE CLIFF AT 60 MPH INSTEAD OF 90
 
     President Bush has called for (and recently signed into law) the cutting or eliminating of 141 programs in Washington.  They are reductions in Medicaid, student loans, farm subsidies and other items.
    While this plays like music to a conservative ears, let’s take this proposal in proper context.   The cuts total just $39 billion and take  five year to be realized.  All this from the president’s  $2.77 TRILLION budget.  And the White House states the federal deficit will soar to over $400 billion this year.  
   So is CPoW expected to cheer on the GOP and support them as long as they are reducing spending, no matter how slight?  If the roles were reversed and the Constitution Party were now the majority party calling for the exact same meager, 
half-hearted reductions, would the GOP cheer us on?  
 
REPUBLICANS SAVE CPB FUNDING FROM THE CHOPPING BLOCK...AGAIN
                                 
   And winning the “Lack of a Spine Yet Somehow Keep Their Majority” award–the Republicans, who last summer  timidly voted in a House sub-committee to cut $100 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,  then bravely caved in and restored the funding after public (read: liberal) outcry from CPB allies.
   All this begs the question, “If the GOP cannot stand its ground to eliminate $100 million from a federal budget which spends over two trillion annually, what wasteful spending can, or will, they ever cut?”

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