SelahV Today by hariette petersen

What Americans Need to Know About Murietta California Protests And Obama Plans for Illegals

We've all seen the courageous efforts of citizens in Murietta, California as they stood in the streets and turned away busload after busload of illegals that the president sent to their town.  It's reported that the government is very angry with Murietta citizens and have called in the riot squad to force these citizens in a small California town to accept these illegal aliens (see story, here).  I wrote my friend of my concern for her welfare and she wrote this back to me:

"These protesters are NOT wild fanatics! We are all American who strongly believe that this not only wrong for our small town...but incredibly cruel and dangerous to these illegal men, women and children. The place they are taking them is NOT as they say, "public housing"! It was built as a jail for illegal. It has only steel benches and something referred to as "cages". There is one toilet with only a 3ft. privacy wall and no way to wash hands or shower. With SO many of them ill and diseased it will only intensify that issue. Obama wants to FLOOD our community with 142 immigrants every 72 hours!! And then..release them into our town."

Friends, we need to pray for these citizens in Murietta, California.  This is an undue burden on them and this president does not care.  If he has a handy dandy pen, then why doesn't he write another executive order that says he will send back all illegals to whatever country they come from?

And then why doesn't he pick up his handy dandy phone (that he's so proud of) and call the leaders of those countries who are sending thousands of their sick and diseased citizens to us by way of cartels and gangs and tell those leaders that he's putting them on Army transport planes and sending them back to their countries? 

Why can't this president protect our citizens and defend our borders?  Why is he assisting illegal foreigners to break the law and enter our country with diseases when he knows darn well they will not appear for court dates and will not return to their countries? 

We can only speculate. Is he is doing it to overload and collapse our healthcare, welfare, educational and economic systems in all these towns?  He obviously doesn't care what lawlessness he sends to towns such as Murietta or any other town-- these are undocumented aliens.  He has no idea what crimes some of them have committed.  It's time for our congress to act and defund him on every single issue until he sends these illegals back and begins to protect our borders.  Not one single dime should be allocated for their care and any money that Congress allocates should go to Texas and border states to hire more border patrol. 

As it is, these people are vulnerable to the diseases these illegals are bringing into our country that doctors and nurses and caretakers are being told they cannot talk about to public or news.  Dr. Lee Vliet speaks out about this.  TB, MRSA, Swine Flu, Measles, Chicken Pox, Scabies and Lord knows what all else is coming in with every wave of this illegal invasion. The absolute least this president could do is quarantine all these people, in tent cities if necessary, right where they come in.  NOT send them all over the country to places that are not sufficient to care for them or to protect American citizens and could potentially spread these contagious diseases to the unsuspecting public.  It's time to speak out. Politics has no place in a situation that causes us rampant chaos.

President Obama's former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel once said that "we can't let a good crisis go to waste."  Exactly how does the president plan to use this crisis to his advantage?

Is the Battle for a Better World "Pointless"?

A friend recently questioned my reasons for engaging the various battles in life when it all seemed so “pointless.”

 I understood her frustration. I’m the woman who wonders about all the battles when faced with monumental opposition at every turn: 

 ~ when legislators refuse to hear bills and judges overturn the public’s votes;

 ~ when school systems ignore the voices of parents and students;

 ~ when corruption destroys the efforts of hard work;

 ~ when society rebukes the Word of God and bashes Christians for faithfully standing upon it despite extreme personal losses — materially and emotionally;

 ~ when another baby is aborted and tossed in the trash; and,

 ~ when a Christian stands for truth and is knocked down by worldly opinion.

 If it’s pointless for people to stand against abortion, then the abortion rate would still be rising, not falling. Those who are pro-life would be losing ground, but they are gaining it: 87 abortion clinics in the U.S. closed in 2013.

 “The total number of surgical abortion clinics left in the U.S. is now 582. This represents an impressive 12% net decrease in surgical abortion clinics in 2013 alone, and a 73% drop from a high in 1991 of 2,176.” says Operation Rescue/here in a LifeNews.com report.

 If our battle saves one life and changes one mind for the rights of the unborn, then we’ve made one point. It’s not pointless. There’s reason for praise. People are waking up.

 I’ve often wondered why so many Planned Parenthood offices are located in minority neighborhoods, where desperation and hopelessness abounds. Could it be an ideological reflection of PP’s founder, the genocidal racist Margaret Sanger?

 Recognizing Sanger’s ideology, many people also recognize that Black Americans are the target for the majority of abortions in America, and they are speaking out. Former Congressman Allen West calls it ethnic cleansing, and cites that in 2012 in New York City there were 56,000 pregnancies among black women, and 31,000 ended in abortion. (Read West’s outrage here.)

 If we don’t battle for the rights or our children, then who will? Of course we’d like to see results; that’s the point in every battle– to win, to gain ground. But sometimes we gain ground by standing our ground.

 The culture of decadence and sinfulness is eating the soul of our society. America is deteriorating at a rapid pace; immorality is the cancerous tumor that’s spreading through every niche and node. We will forever be at war with the powers of darkness which seek to silence Christians in every single portion of their lives. Bit-by-bit, religious freedom is suppressed and shackled. More preachers are handing out sugar pills of tolerance to treat the sin which can only be removed by the Great Physician. We can sit down in the waiting rooms of life and let it all happen, or we can stand together and battle it. Even when it seems pointless to do so.

 We cannot fight all the battles, and we can never do enough. But we’re not called to eat the whole elephant– just to do what we each can with our one vote, two ears, two eyes and ten fingers. The rest we leave to God. 

“He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” 1 Thessalonians 5:24.

So What's A Woman To Do When Her Vote Is Not Enough?

She does the best she can with what she has.  She may not be able to write a book, a column or run for office.  But she can become informed and she can canvas neighborhoods with flyers and have a yardsale to raise money for candidates of her choice.  She can support people who do write by saying "amen" to their columns, tweets and articles.  She can copy links from stories that say something she wants to say and send it to people she knows. 

She may think she cannot do something because it is impossible, but she can make a sign and take a stand next to others to protest something that means a great deal to her like education of her children and grandchildren.

She can buy the products that advertise someone she believes stands for her values, issues and policies and tell others to do likewise. "It only takes a spark to get a fire going."  She can go to her local party's headquarters and drop off a basket of muffins, a tray of sandwiches.

In my case I can write-- not eloquently, not perfectly, and not always with words that make a hill of beans difference in the scheme of things.  But I do what I can do.  From this side of my monitor, I can connect with people I could never connect with during a day.  With physical limitations, I sometimes feel totally and completely inadequate.  If I were younger, less confined and more able, I'd publish another newspaper like I did in 1993.  Looking back on what I did in Kentucky actually blows my mind.  It was an impossible feat.  But I prayed about it and God led every step of the way.

I got all worked up over the way a president's policies had taken our country the moment he got in office after he'd sold the country a bill of centrist goods.  It annoyed me.  No, it infuriated me.  Because I'd bought into a lie, I felt personally violated.  I wanted to right the situation.  But what was one little preacher's wife in a rural area gonna do to make any kind of difference?

I started by writing letters to the editor of papers. I wasn't a novice at writing, mind you-- I'd had a few articles published in magazines, and even won an award for an article I wrote in a state Baptist paper.  I had this grand idea to get syndicated in small county newspapers in every county in my state.  I never made it to first base till about 6 years ago.  A smarter woman might have given up and went back to canning tomatoes and green beans.  I'm not that smart.  Instead, I write letters to Senators, Congressmen, and editors all around the country.  A few times I saw responses to those letters in the newspapers.  I even got a few meaningless form letters from politicians.  It wasn't til I had an editor tell me how important one letter was that I actually began rethinking the impact I had with my letters.  I was told that one single letter from someone who took the time to write represented about 10,000 who felt the same way who didn't take the time to write.  Letters are important.

HERE is an excellent article about writing letters to elected officials that has very helpful guidelines.

But it wasn't enough.  I felt the need to do more.  So I started going to political party rallies, picnics and club meetings.  I went to both parties-- Republican and Democrat.  I was tired of getting secondhand accounts.  I went to news conferences that were open to the public and discovered that when I went home to watch the news report, it didn't represent what I saw and heard.  I got informed.  Then I began informing others.

We can't be everywhere.  We can vote and our vote is still only one vote. But we can tell others and maybe get another vote.  And yes, there will be defeats.  But I am not called to simply win... I'm called to be faithful to God and my fellowman:

"Thus says the LORD, "Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place." Jeremiah 22:3

It's not always easy to discern what's just and righteous--but I must focus on God's Word and follow Christ's example as closely as I possibly can.  I get informed, act on that information and trust God for the rest.  Then I can sleep at night and stand in the gap by day.  [see Ezekiel: 22:29-30]

America Is A Cauldron Of Frogs

In that cauldron is brewing a bunch of unsuspecting, uninformed, uninterested, apathetic citizens which are simmering in a stew of totalitarianism.  From health-care purchase being forced upon people and businesses, to food police seizing a 4-year-old child's lunch in North Carolina and reprimanding a mother for neglecting to add a bag of carrots to her turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, chips and apple juice.

Economic liberty is under assault.  We must purchase what the government says or we face fines and imprisonment.

Personal liberty is under assault.  We must eat what the government says to eat and force-feed our children what the government says or the government will seize our choices and force-feed our children warmed-over, frozen chicken nuggets.

Religious liberty is under assault.  Religious institutions must provide medicinal methods which violates the conscience and moral convictions of pro-life, Christians. Chaplains in the military prohibited from reading a letter from their Bishop informing members of their faith that the government is requiring religious institutions pay for abortive procedures that violate their faith. 

If I sit in this cauldron long enough, I'm sure the new rules of government that prohibits deodorant for government employed folks (whew, we're gonna have some stinky soldiers), will trickle down and prohibit me from boarding any public transportation if I dare use my stick of baby-soft Secret beneath my arms.  Taxpayers will probably have to pay for professionally trained dogs to sniff our underarms before entering the TSA body-scan machines and undergoing intrusive pat-downs.

Lord have mercy on us all.

I am quite concerned that the President of the United States at this moment is turning up the heat on the fire beneath the cauldron of totalitarianism in America.  I hate to be an alarmist; I'm not prone to believe conspiracies. But evidence is evidence, and facts are facts.

If the "Twitter", "Facebook", "Linkedin", "Google", "IPAD" Apple generation doesn't wake up soon, their liberties will be cooked as well as their ability to countback change from a twenty-dollar bill. 

It's really not my optimistic bent to get my hair-ribbons in a twist over the temporal properties of this earth.  But as a Christian, I cannot sit idly by and not take issue with the fact that the person in the White House, who is an elected official bound by the Constitution, and his advisors, are dictating what we free-born, naturalized and sworn-in citizens must do.  I do not want to "fundamentally transform America" as per Barack Hussein Obama's progressive and socialistic ideology.  It's wrong.  Flat out, shut-the-front-door wrong.

[AND AS LONG AS I'M POSTING ABOUT LIBERTIES AND ASSAULTS, I may as well add another link on Religious Discrimination in Vanderbilt University.]