Independent Patriots for America

Friends,
 
What, in the name of common-sense, is going on in Florida’s legal system?  For that matter what is going on with America’s approach to justice?
 
Some examples…yesterday a 10 year old in Florida was arrested by police, placed in a juvenile facility, because she was using a steak knife to cut her meat that she brought to school in her lunch.  Now one can argue the meat should have been cut at home, but given she was displaying no intent to do anything but cut her meat at lunch, why would a teacher call the police rather than confiscating the knife, calling her parents, and using the situation as a reasonable learning experience, not only for the young girl, but the entire school?
 
In Destin, Florida, a man was convicted and given a life sentence without parole because he loaned his car to a friend who, with some others, committed a robbery which resulted in a homicide.  The owner of the car was not involved, knew nothing about the crime, but was convicted along with those that committed the crime because his car transported the individuals to the crime scene.
 
I don’t have to rehash the DA Nifong criminal and wrongful prosecution debacle of Duke University lacrosse players which Nifong used as a political reelection tactic.
 
Consider border agents Ramos and Compean…convicted and sentenced to 10+ years for shooting an illegal alien drug smuggler who lied on the witness stand against the border agents…a prosecutor who knew the illegal alien was lying, but for political gain used the false testimony to convict two border agents protecting America.
 
National Security Adviser to the Clinton Administration, Sandy Berger pleaded guilty to pilfering highly  classified documents from the National Archives, saying he showed “very poor judgment” and that his actions were “wrong.”  What’s his sentence?  A fine, some community service, and barred from the National Archives.  Berger was later selected to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign staff as an adviser which appears more painful than the theft sentence.
 
None of this meets the common-sense test…worse yet it demonstrates a legal system that is broken, focused on numbers of convictions, arrests, but without the underlying principle of “justice”.
 
To take this issue one gigantic step further, consider the “illegal alien” fiasco.  The American legal system is replete with laws on the books to control our borders, prosecute those that violate immigration policy, and protect our sovereignty. 
 
Given the Florida example of the Destin man who knew nothing about a crime being committed but was convicted, what does this say about the United States Congress, and all  other officials who know crimes associated with illegal aliens are being committed, and take an oath,
 
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
 
Yet, from top to bottom,  our officials who know without any doubt,  that illegal aliens are breaking American laws, are pouring across America’s borders, employers are hiring them, these aliens are bankrupting our medical facilities, overcrowding our schools, creating hazards on the highways, depleting social services designed for Americans, destroying unity and assimilation principles in America, a major ingredient in crime and prison population, a potential funnel for Islamic terrorists,  yet Congress plays political games, ignoring the criminal activity and threat to America’s sovereignty for political advantage. 
 
Doesn’t it follow that the United States Congress, given they are fully aware of crime associated and being committed by illegal aliens and take no meaningful action,  be prosecuted by the United States Justice Department for violating their Congressional oath?  A Florida man can be convicted for a crime he knew nothing about, but the US Congress can perpetuate an ongoing crime and not be held accountable?
 
The point seems to be made without going into issues such as, politicians abandoning warriors in battle, givng aid and comfort to the enemy, thirty some US Senators voting against English as our official language two years in a row(four of them presidential candidates), our moral rudder is considered obsolete and “political incorrect”, we have to define marriage, smut rules, God and prayer is attacked, we must establish forts as homes, on and on.
 
Friends, America is about a half-step from chaos…our nation is disintegrating and destructing from the inside.  We are being herded as sheep to the slaughter by wolves rather than being protected by a faithful shepherd.
 
While our gallant warriors sacrifice to protect our freedom from without, they cannot save us from the cancer within. 

We need to stand-up on the homefront and take back America.
 
Harry Riley, COL, USA, Ret

Indications over the last few days suggest further deterioration in the viability and stability of America and it’s institutions.
 
Certain actions by the media and courts leave one wondering if common sense, decency, rational thinking, and American principles have gone down the sewer of political correctness or plain idiocy.
 
First,  this past week NBC refused holiday advertisements thanking our troops for serving overseas.  The ads, paid for by the non-profit Freedom’s Watch, reflect a simple video thank you, with people shown paying gratitude to members of the military and the final frame showing Freedomwatch Web address.

Clickhere andhere to view the ads that NBC refused to air.
 
Second, a federal appeals court Dec. 6 temporarily blocked Kansas laws restricting pickets at military funerals as constitutionality is reviewed.
 
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled in favor of Shirley Phelps-Roper, who sought to temporarily block enforcement of statutes restricting where members of Topeka, Kansas.-based Westboro Baptist Church can picket at military funerals is reviewed, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported.
 
Westboro Baptist Church members believe God punishes the United States for tolerating homosexuality by killing Americans, including soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Members of the church have picketed funerals of soldiers killed in the two theaters, sometimes prompting confrontations.
 
Let me understand the NBC refusal.  An organization simply wants to buy advertisement on NBC TV in the form of a video “thank you” to American troops for their service. NBC initially refused to accept the paid for advertisement as “controversial” and because the purchaser happens to be Freedomwatch ? If after viewing these “thank you” messages you find controversy, I’ll kiss you butt and give you 5 weeks to draw a crowd.  We have troops fighting and dying to ensure NBC’s constitutional freedoms and in turn NBC cited a lame controversy excuse when in reality they attempted to use their political position to trump recognition of our service members. It took an outcry across America to convince NBC their refusal was despicable, forcing them to reverse their decision.  On the other hand, it is my understanding NBC willingly provided over 30 hours of “free” television coverage in support of former vice-president Al Gore’s global warming propaganda.  Yet NBC had to be forced to accept a message to say “thank you” to our troops, even though it was paid for?  Can NBC’s initial action be characterized in any other term than an unpatriotic betrayal of America and our troops?  I think not.
 
Now the Westboro Baptist Church goes a mile further than NBC and takes aggressive action against our troops and families by engaging in the most vile behavior at funerals of our fallen warriors. Somehow this vicious Westboro group are able to get near immediate bench time in Federal Appeals Court and granted an injunction to block a Kansas law that stops the Church bizarre activity.
 
Picketing at military funerals?  The thought that anyone can find justification in picketing, demonstrating, or disrupting a funeral is beyond comprehension…at what point does freedom of speech stop?  Protesting at a funeral ranks right up there with screaming “fire in a crowded theater”…it is disgraceful, putrid, and cannot be allowed.
 
Our troops are simply doing what the nation and it’s leaders are asking them to do…they are the last ones that want to be in harm’s way, putting their life on the line, or for that matter taking the life of another, but they are willing to answer their nations call, even in the face of loss of their own life and limb.
 
What do our service members get?  A major American media network, NBC, must be bombarded by the American public to convince them to accept advertisement  “thanking our troops” for their service.  Further, a so-call church engages in the despicable action of taunting, disrupting, and dishonoring our fallen during personal family funeral services.  NBC experienced the wrath of American consumers, unfortunately, the courts are untouchable and virtually unaccountable to America.
 
American media, the US legal system, and the US Congress reflect a worrisome and destructive attitude, scared to death of anti-America, surrender elements, who have one goal…the destruction of America. 
 
How far and long will America go in putting up with the insane direction elitist elements are taking our nation before we stand up and hold them accountable in tangible, uncompromising terms?
 
Harry Riley, COL, USA, Ret

Is America Waking Up?

America is free because of the brave…we have freedom of speech because of the brave…we have a responsibility to protect our Constitutional freedoms by actively exercising our freedom of speech.
 
The media recently carried a report about a man protecting his neighbors property from two robbers.  The end result was the neighbor protecting property killed the robbers.
 
The Black Panther Group in the video below takes issue with the killing but are confronted and overwhelmed by American’s with another message.
 
I urge you to view the video for one reason…it paints a picture of America stating, “we’ve had enough” of a corrupt legal system, uncontrolled criminal activity, and a few radical, anti-America elements taking center stage, seeking media attention, claiming to speak for America.
 
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/8973.html
 
You can take issue with the methods of the USA chanters on freedom of speech grounds but there is no doubt the Black Panthers were run out of town.  There was no violence, only verbal confrontation….the message is a resounding wake-up.  If American leaders continue to ignore the bubbling cauldron, blood will run in American streets soon.
 
Is the anti-America, anti-war, sell-out, greedy America crowd getting the message yet?  They no longer own the media, high-jack the majority, or rule the streets, as this video shows, which is being repeated at other events across America……..the tide has turned.  The rabble that would abort the principles and foundation of America is being challenged…they are in retreat.
 
Only one thing to do…when the opposition is on the run….triple, quadruple the pursuit.
 
Harry Riley, COL, USA, Ret

AMERICA IS IMPLODING…WILL IT BE ALLOWED?

The future of America grows exceedingly worrisome to me.  Oh, it’s not my life in America’s future I worry about as I know I’ll be in a mansion the Lord has prepared for me in a few years.  It’s the America my children and grandchildren and their children will be a part of that leaves me terrified over America’s disintegration, petrified of what my posterity will face, and enraged that I have been a part in allowing the cesspool in America to develop.

America’s potential is fast becoming the armpit of everything detestable…we have been attacked on the mainland, our sovereignty is in jeopardy, our Constitution is being whittled away, and our world reputation has been tarnished.  Men marrying men, women marrying women, pornographic filth the norm and in the streets, kids killing kids, killing babies exiting the birth canal, a nation of laws becoming a nation of illegals,  innocent is guilty and guilty is innocent, world domination of our economy and currency, and leadership in America using every kind of dishonest tactic for personal gain.  Politicians reduce themselves to sniveling, lying, disgraceful “say anything, do anything” to satisfy their selfish insatiable goals.  Integrity, honesty, responsibility, faithfulness and commitment are all principles of the past.

Where has faith in God, courage, strength, unity, face any task, conquer any challenge in the cause of freedom, family and America gone?

We must arm to the teeth to protect our homes, gangs run rampant reminiscent of the old west, laws must be passed so we can kill those trying to kill us and our families, law enforcement has been neutered to the point it is ineffective and no longer trusted, legal teams are bending and distorting the very Constitution designed to keep us free as their means to destroy America.  Border guards are incarcerated based on the testimony of a drug running criminal, caught in the act of illegally entering our country with drugs earmarked for our children and a politically motivated and connected prosecutor and pardon from the President is more important to a Thanksgiving Turkey than correcting the injustice to our border guards. Managed immigration is no longer “politically correct” in an America being pushed toward socialism. Illegal aliens sap our medical facilities, over-crowd our schools, deplete and overrun social services, threaten highway safety, kill, rape, and fill American prisons.  Politicians ignore American immigration laws and traditions in favor of supporting illegals in hopes of a vote.

America’s warriors are sent off to bleed and die, families suffer, without any commitment by our nation to support them and win.  Politicians betray our military, haggle over funding; send messages of defeat, all in the cause of a political party gaining traction over the other at the expense of our warriors and their families.  It seems the more we help the oil rich countries, the higher the prices at the pumps…what do our leaders say or do?  Nothing…a lot of blood and lives sacrificed…the more America gives the greater our pain…go figure.

Anti-America rabble roam the streets from border to border intent on destroying a freedom over 200 years of sacrifice ensured, demeaning our warriors, using the shrill voice of deceit, deception and distortion to persuade a gullible, vote hungry Congress to surrender to a barbaric Islamic enemy that will dwarf the Cambodian slaughter which is a direct result of the Viet Nam congressional surrender.

The condition today in America appears primarily the result of citizens of two generations……..mine and the WWII generation.  After World War II America went to sleep and the cancer of immorality, greed, let someone else do it, and a general national withdrawal raised it’s ugly head and is rapidly taking America into the abyss.

These thoughts, what some will call negative, has only touched the surface of the ills facing America.  Who would have ever thought a United States Senate leader would make a public statement calling our warriors defeated while still in battle fighting for their lives?  Just one example of many that should result in a charge of treason.  There’s no courage, politicians are afraid of the vocal minority who only want America destroyed.  And the crop of presidential candidates…other than one or two, don’t you just want to puke?

Will the guts and voice n America rise up and overpower the corporations, big money and globalist enemies to save America? There has been a hint of a small uprising in the cause of patriotism, warrior support, illegal alien rejection, and surrender opposition in 2007. The whimper must become a roar in 2008 that will reverse the disgusting anti-America movement and replace selfish, personal focused politicians with leaders that are concentrated on America’s security, it’s people, and restoration of the moral high ground.

We can listen to the politicians or use our common sense…I ask you in all seriousness…as a whole, would America be for the better or worse if the voters totally replaced all 535 current members of Congress with new faces?  We have the power, numbers to hit the streets, town halls, and the secret box to shake up America…the secret box is called a “ballot box.”  Will we rise up?  It may be too late for our grandchildren if we don’t.

Harry Riley, COL, USA, Ret.,  hmriley@cox.net