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		<title>George Zimmerman&#8217;s Neighbor Speaks Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More on this from The Blaze: So who is Frank Taaffe? According to reports he’s a neighbor in the Florida gated community where the shooting occurred&#8230; &#160;[Read More]]]></description>
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<p>More on this from <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-new-audio-surfaces-of-trayvon-martin-shooter/" target="_blank">The Blaze</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>So who is Frank Taaffe? According to reports he’s a neighbor in the Florida gated community where the shooting occurred&#8230; &nbsp;<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-new-audio-surfaces-of-trayvon-martin-shooter/" target="_blank">[Read More]</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-new-audio-surfaces-of-trayvon-martin-shooter/"><img alt="" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/martin-and-zimmerman-270x150.jpg" title="Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman" class="aligncenter" width="270" height="150" /></a></p>
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		<title>Eyewitness:  Trayvon Martin Attacked George Zimmerman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Ron Paul</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Rage Without Knowledge &#8211; The Trayvon Martin Shooting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThirstyJon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always amazing to see people marching in the streets with confidence for a cause when they do not have all of the facts yet. The world has come unglued over the awful death of Trayvon Martin via the gun of George Zimmerman. And it seems that the world already knows that Zimmerman is a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s always amazing to see people marching in the streets with confidence for a cause when they do not have all of the facts yet.</p>
<p>The world has come unglued over the awful death of Trayvon Martin via the gun of George Zimmerman.</p>
<p>And it seems that the world already knows that Zimmerman is a racist murderer.</p>
<p>Well, I don&#8217;t know.  I won&#8217;t be marching for Zimmerman&#8217;s arrest.</p>
<p>It will be a real tragedy of Zimmerman is arrested, tried, or convicted because of marches in the streets, instead of because of evidence.</p>
<p>Some Articles:</p>
<p><a href="http://americanvisionnews.com/2546/trayvon-martin-killing-public-is-hearing-only-part-of-the-story-says-lawyer" target="_blank">AmericanVisionNews</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://americanvisionnews.com/2546/trayvon-martin-killing-public-is-hearing-only-part-of-the-story-says-lawyer" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://americanvisionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Craig-Sonner-200x200.png" title="Craig Sonner - Zimmerman&#039;s Lawyer" class="alignright" width="200" height="200" /></a>Attorney Craig Sonner said the public is only hearing part of the story, and when all the facts come out, it will be clear that Zimmerman acted in self defense. A grand jury is scheduled to begin hearing the case April 10.</p>
<p>“George Zimmerman suffered a broken nose, and had an injury to the back of his head, he was attacked by Trayvon Martin on that evening,” Sonner said. “This was a case of self defense.” . . . &nbsp;<a href="http://americanvisionnews.com/2546/trayvon-martin-killing-public-is-hearing-only-part-of-the-story-says-lawyer" target="_blank">[Read More]</a></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmermans-attorney-friend-speak-trayvon-martin-incident/story?id=15999256#.T3CmEWHcVTN" target="_blank">ABCNews.com</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Sonner insisted that Zimmerman is not a racist, pointing out that he and his wife mentored for two black children for free.</p>
<p>&#8220;When I asked this mother [of the mentees], who trusted [Zimmerman and his wife], and she&#8217;s an African-American, if she trusted George Zimmerman, she said she did, and I asked her if there was anything that caused her to believe that she was a racist, and she said, &#8216;Absolutely not.&#8217; And I said, went further, &#8216;Did you ever hear him use racial slurs in any time that you&#8217;d been around him?&#8217; And she said, &#8216;no&#8217; as well,&#8221; Sonner said. &nbsp;<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmermans-attorney-friend-speak-trayvon-martin-incident/story?id=15999256#.T3CmEWHcVTN" target="_blank">[Read More]</a></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/2012032615908/life-and-science/culture-wars/african-american-lynch-mob.html" target="_blank">RightSideNews</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/2012032615908/life-and-science/culture-wars/african-american-lynch-mob.html" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.rightsidenews.com/images/stories/March_2012/Life_and_Science/Culture_Wars/sharp.jpg" title="Al Sharpton - Angry, Irrational, Hateful" class="alignright" width="400" height="269" /></a>Is anybody else out there as sick and tired as I am of lynch mob racists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (vide: Tawana Brawley, the Duke Lacrosse kids) who don the mantel of the “civil rights” movement to indict non-blacks in advance of the facts, and incite racial rage against them? Yet that is exactly what they – and scores of black leaders — are doing to an Hispanic individual named George Zimmerman. Along with a cast of thousands, they are holding him guilty of racism before the fact, justifying a hatred, as inflammatory as the hatred once spewed by southern crackers against blacks. &nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/2012032615908/life-and-science/culture-wars/african-american-lynch-mob.html" target="_blank">[Read More]</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>The Road We Are Traveling &#8211; Glen Beck Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Glen Beck on how America has been fundamentally changed:<br />
(and not for the better)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Part 1:</strong></p>
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		<title>Does it Really Take a Village to Raise a Child?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThirstyJon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From WorldviewTruth.com: (There is also a good video about the Domenic Johanssen abduction story at the top of the article.) Who carries the responsibility, privilege, and authority to raise children? The Collective in the form of the State? The Church? The Family? As you can see through the Johansson story – ideas have consequences! If [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://worldviewtruth.com/2012/03/21/does-it-really-take-a-village/" target="_blank">WorldviewTruth.com</a>:<br />
(There is also a good video about the Domenic Johanssen abduction story at the top of the article.)</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://worldviewtruth.com/2012/03/21/does-it-really-take-a-village/" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://worldviewtruth.com/wp-content/uploads/swat_team_sized.jpg" title="swat_team" class="alignright" width="244" height="196" /></a>Who carries the responsibility, privilege, and authority to raise children?  The Collective in the form of the State?  The Church?  The Family?</p>
<p>As you can see through the Johansson story – ideas have consequences!  If the governing authorities believe that children belong to the collective or the state they will try to force parents to raise their children a certain way.  They may even kidnap children to achieve their goals! &nbsp;<a href="http://worldviewtruth.com/2012/03/21/does-it-really-take-a-village/" target="_blank">[Read More]</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Flee Sweden if You Love Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/nation-doubles-down-on-homeschooling/" target="_blank">WorldnetDaily</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/nation-doubles-down-on-homeschooling/" target="_blank"><img src="http://freedomthirst.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mother_daughter_school.jpg" alt="" title="mother_daughter_school" width="242" height="226" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2388" /></a>“All children in Sweden have the right to education on the same terms and high quality instruction, and we find that compulsory schooling is a way to guarantee that this right is fulfilled for all children,” Hafstrom said. “Under Swedish law, school instruction must be comprehensive and objective. The government does not find that homeschooling is necessary for religious or philosophical reasons.” &nbsp;<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/nation-doubles-down-on-homeschooling/" target="_blank">[Read More]</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>No Room for Sitting on the Fence</title>
		<link>http://freedomthirst.com/2012/03/12/no-room-for-sitting-on-the-fence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211;By Guest Blogger Ben Gilmore: Nero fiddled while Rome burned. It is so easy to get caught up in trivia and miss focusing upon the critical thing(s). If we go into hyper-inflation and trucks and trains no longer deliver goods, we won’t even be able to buy condoms! The critical focus of the current issue [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8211;By Guest Blogger <a href="http://achstudygroups.com/ben" target="_blank">Ben Gilmore</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://mscottsart.blogspot.com/2011/11/and-rome-burned.html"><img src="http://achstudygroups.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/nero_fiddled_small.jpg" alt="" title="nero_fiddled_small" width="295" height="224" class="alignright size-full wp-image-939" /></a>Nero <em>fiddled while Rome burned</em>.  It is so easy to get caught up in trivia and miss focusing upon the critical thing(s).   If we go into hyper-inflation and trucks and trains no longer deliver goods, we won’t even be able to buy condoms!</p>
<p>The critical focus of the current issue &#8212; The president <u>does not have the authority</u> to dictate what can be supplied by stores or insurance companies.  His authority and that of his administration is <u>limited</u> by the U.S. Constitution.  </p>
<p>The members of Congress and the Supreme Court are failing in their oaths to protect and preserve that Constitution by not yanking on his leash!</p>
<p><strong><em>One authoritative step outside those limits becomes tyranny.  Accepting such tyranny makes slaves of free men.</em></strong>  He was “hired” to work within the predefined limits of the job.</p>
<p>The Tea Party freshmen elected in 2010 were not given a vote in their congressional leadership (Speaker John Bohner).  Yet he took office because of the majority they created.  As a result, they were “neutered” in many respects, by politicians more interested in status quo than “<strong><em>sudden and relentless reform!</em></strong>” ( To quote Gov. Sarah Palin).</p>
<p>Many folks say they are tired of “<em>endless political bickering</em>.”  It appears to me they, and most bickering politicians, miss the <u>critical point</u>.  <strong><em>America is in the final stages of a decades-long battle between liberty and slavery.</em></strong>  </p>
<p>Forget “<em>Politics is the art of compromise</em>”.  Liberty and slavery cannot exist at the same time!  <strong>There is no compromise with slavery!</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:blue;font-size:20px;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">(Article Continues Below)</span></p>
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<p>John Locke [1632 – 1704] had a profound impact upon America, as Colonial pastors preached the truths in his writings.  </p>
<blockquote><p>“&#8230; [W]hat state all Men are naturally in, and that is, a <em>State of perfect Freedom</em>, to order their Actions, and dispose of their Possessions,  and Persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the Law of Nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the Will of any other man.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The earth is a stage, upon which God has placed man, to act out his destiny.  If you were the only one on the “stage”, you would discover that God had abundantly supplied everything you needed to sustain your life – “<em>A state of Perfect freedom</em>”.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The <em>State of Nature</em> has a <u>Law of Nature</u> to govern it, which obliges <em>everyone</em> :  And Reason, which is that Law, teaches all Mankind, who will but consult it, that being all <em>equal and independent</em>, no one ought to harm another in his Life, Health, Liberty or Possessions.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Another English writer, William Blackstone [1723 – 1780] , “Father of the Legal profession”, wrote of  this <em>Law of Nature</em>  in “<em>Commentaries</em>”.</p>
<blockquote><p>“He [God] laid down certain immutable laws of human nature, whereby that free will is in some degree regulated and restrained, and gave him also the faculty of reason to discover the purport (i.e. “design or meaning”)of those laws.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Blackstone continues to define another set of laws – “<strong><em><u>Revealed Law</u></em></strong>”.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are <u>found only in the Holy Scriptures</u>.  These precepts, when revealed, are found upon comparison to be really a part of the original law of nature, as they tend in all their consequences to man’s felicity. (i.e.  “great happiness”)  … Yet undoubtedly the revealed law is of infinitely more authenticity than … natural law.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Blackstone makes the point that “<em>Natural Law</em>” and “<em>Revealed Law</em>” will never be in conflict, because they come from the same source (God).  One more <u>quote from John Locke</u>, that our forefathers understood well.</p>
<blockquote><p>“For Men being all the Workmanship of one Omnipotent and infinitely wise Maker : whose Workmanship they are, made to last during his, not one another’s Pleasure”</p></blockquote>
<p>Lastly, consider the “<em><u>Declaration of Independence</u></em>”:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.thesocialleader.com/2011/04/equality-declaration-independence/"><img src="http://achstudygroups.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Declaration_of_Independence_small.jpg" alt="" title="Declaration_of_Independence_small" width="298" height="197" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-938" /></a>“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the <em>Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God</em> entitle them&#8230;”</p></blockquote>
<p>This is a time for every American to set aside bickering and pride.  Each of us has a different task to perform in defense of our corporate liberty.  No doubt, each task will come with a price.  One requiring a change in priorities.</p>
<p><em><strong>There is no place on the fence.  Choose your side and prepare to battle for the soul of America.</strong></em></p>
<p>For His-story &#038; Government<br />
Ben Gilmore</p>
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		<title>A Chevy Volt for President Obama</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; So what do you say, can we get President Obama into a Chevy volt in early 2013? &#160;]]></description>
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<p>So what do you say, can we get President Obama into a Chevy volt in early 2013?</p>
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		<title>The Obama Eligibility Issue</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people think it is a distraction. Others treat it like a discussion about big foot or the lochness monster. I&#8217;m talking about Obama&#8217;s eligibility to be President under the Constitution. Is he indeed a natural born citizen? If those who have made an issue of this don&#8217;t believe their own concerns and are doing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><center><div id="attachment_2354" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 265px"><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/media-finally-paying-attention-to-eligibility/" target="_blank"><img src="http://freedomthirst.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SheriffJoe351-340x188_cropped.jpg" alt="" title="SheriffJoe351-340x188_cropped" width="255" height="188" class="size-full wp-image-2354" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sheriff Joe Arpaio</p></div></center>Some people think it is a distraction.  Others treat it like a discussion about big foot or the lochness monster.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m talking about Obama&#8217;s eligibility to be President under the Constitution.  Is he indeed a natural born citizen?</p>
<p>If those who have made an issue of this don&#8217;t believe their own concerns and are doing this as a form of harassment they have done us all a disservice.  If they believe with integrity that the question of eligibility was never properly processed than I support their right to speak out and pursue answers to their concerns.</p>
<p>I personally have been fascinated with the whole process.  Would America have the guts, would any of it&#8217;s public servants have the guts, to actually step out and speak if indeed Obama&#8217;s eligibility were indeed a problem?</p>
<p>One sheriff has made this a matter of investigation. His name is Sheriff Joe Arpaio.</p>
<p>He is having a press release tomorrow to announce the results of the investigation that he has conducted.  I believe it is the first official government investigation into Obama&#8217;s eligibility to serve as President.</p>
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<p>I think you can view the press conference tomorrow (March 1, 2012) at 2pm Central Standard Time here:  <a href="http://www.wnd.com/arpaio-report/" target="_blank">http://www.wnd.com/arpaio-report/</a>.  You can also sign up at that link to have the full report emailed to you.</p>
<p>Here is an article about the whole thing at <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/media-finally-paying-attention-to-eligibility/" target="_blank">WND.com</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Poll after poll in recent months has indicated that Americans have a high level of concern over Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president, with one poll showing fully half of the nation wants Congress to investigate the question.</p>
<p>But reporters for the traditional media – networks, major newspapers, major news corporations and conglomerates – mostly have giggled when talk turns to the serious question of just what the U.S. Constitution requires of presidents.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, media organizations from all political persuasions are seeking admittance to a news conference to be held by Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz&#8230;  &nbsp;<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/media-finally-paying-attention-to-eligibility/" target="_blank"><strong>[Read More]</strong></a></p></blockquote>
<p>Most of the people that I have talked to about don&#8217;t even seem to know what the issue is.  Friends have said &#8220;but of course he is a citizen!&#8221;  That isn&#8217;t the question.  The question is this:  &#8220;Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?&#8221;  Those are the exact conditions given by the Constitution.  Attaining citizenship does not make one eligible to be president.  Being a &#8220;natural born&#8221; citizen does.</p>
<p>I suspect that history will record that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii to one United States Citizen and that makes him a Natural Born United States Citizen.  We&#8217;ll find out more tomorrow I suppose.</p>
<p>You can read the actual wording of the Constitution here: <a href="http://www.house.gov/house/Constitution/Constitution.html" target="_blank">http://www.house.gov/house/Constitution/Constitution.html</a></p>
<p>Look for Article II, Section 1., Clause 4.</p>
<p>The Constitution does not specifically define what Natural Born Citizen means, thus the controversy.</p>
<p>So tell me what you think.  Is Obama a Natural Born Citizen?  Was he born in Hawaii?  Was he born in Kenya?  What about it all?</p>
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