Rutherford- We must hold the line against any further encroachments on our freedoms.

Dear Mr. Leonard Henderson, As I have warned before, if America keeps traveling down the road we’re presently on, someday—and in the not-so-distant future—our children will turn to us and ask, “Daddy, what was freedom like?” followed closely by “Why didn’t you do something to stop the government from taking away your freedoms?” Consider some of the mile markers on the road to tyranny which we have already passed by this year. In June 2012, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a pregnant woman who was repeatedly tasered by Seattle police during a routine traffic stop simply because she refused to sign a speeding ticket. In doing so, the courts essentially gave police carte blanche authority when it comes to using these electro-shock devices against American citizens. Incredibly, some Americans have died from being tasered. In July 2012, Phoenix resident Michael Salman began serving a 60-day jail sentence for the so-called “crime” of hosting Bible studies at his home. Thanks to outlandish zoning laws that are cropping up all over the country, Salman and his family were subjected to armed police raids of his property, repeated warnings against holding any form of Bible study at his home, and a court-ordered probation banning him from having any gatherings of more than 12 people at his home. Unfortunately, as government officials crack down on families like the Salmans who choose to worship at home, this country is increasingly coming to resemble China, with its well-known persecution of Christian home churches. In August 2012, a swarm of FBI, Secret Service agents and Virginia police showed up at 26-year-old decorated Marine Brandon Raub’s home, interrogated him about his views on government corruption, arrested him with no warning, labeled him mentally ill for subscribing to so-called “conspiratorial” views about the government, detained him against his will in a psych ward for standing by his views, and isolated him from his family, friends and attorneys. Raub’s mother contacted The Rutherford Institute, and our team of lawyers got him released from the mental hospital, where he was being detained. Raub’s case exposed the seedy underbelly of a governmental system that is targeting Americans—especially military veterans—for expressing their discontent over America’s rapid transition to a police state. Of course, this is all part of a larger trend in American governance whereby dissent is criminalized and pathologized, and dissenters are censored, silenced or declared unfit for society. In September 2012 and in the months preceding it and since, in major cities across the country, including Boston, Miami, Little Rock, and Los Angeles, the U.S. military carried out training exercises involving Black Hawk helicopters and uniformed soldiers. The exercises occurred in the middle of the night, with the full cooperation of the local police forces and generally without forewarning the public. They involved helicopters buzzing buildings and performing landing and take off maneuvers. Justified on the grounds that they prepare troops for urban warfare situations and future deployments, these training exercises are actually aimed at conditioning Americans to an environment in which the buzz of Black Hawk helicopters and the sight of armed forces rappelling onto buildings is commonplace. If you connect the dots, it all starts to make sense—the military drills carried out in major American cities, the VIPR inspections at train depots and bus stations, the SWAT team raids on unsuspecting homeowners, the Black Hawk helicopters patrolling American skies, the profit-driven private prisons, the cracking down on home churches and outspoken critics of the government. What we are witnessing are the birth pangs of an emerging police state. The time is coming when each American will be forced to decide whether to be pushed around like pawns, or to stand up and say, “enough is enough.” Indeed, with the state of our freedoms and our nation in such disrepair, we all have a moral duty to take a stand for freedom. For the sake of the many battles still to be fought, I hope you will affirm your support of our work by standing with us as a “card-carrying member” of The Rutherford Institute in 2013, and make a tax-deductible donation of whatever you can afford, whether it be $25, $250 or $500. Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to The Rutherford Institute TODAY! Or, if you prefer to make your donation over the phone, please call our Donor Hotline toll-free at 1-800-225-1791. Yours faithfully, John W. Whitehead President The Rutherford Institute Post Office Box 7482 Charlottesville, VA 22906-7482 Phone: 434-978-3888 FAX: 434- 978-1789 http://www.rutherford.org Under the regulations of the United States Internal Revenue Service, The Rutherford Institute is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Donations to support The Rutherford Institute's legal and educational work help to safeguard the constitutional rights and religious freedoms of all Americans. 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Parental Rights- Action Needed Wednesday to Halt CRPD in Senate

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October 30, 2012 Action Needed Wednesday to Halt CRPD in Senate Ireland will soon be voting on whether or not to amend their constitution to include children’s rights, removing the centuries-old presumption that fit parents act in the best interest of their children. Decisions would fall to bureaucrats rather than to parents whenever children are involved and any question of “best interest” arises. Parental rights groups in New Zealand are fighting desperately to prevent a bill that would require any child receiving government aid to attend a government-licensed Early Childhood Education (ECE) program for at least 15 hours each week. Currently, aid is offered through a non-discriminatory, needs-based approach. The proposed law would make aid available only to those willing to let government bureaucrats shape the development and learning of their children from ages 3 to 5 years. And in Alberta, the right of parents to put their children in a private or parochial school – in fact, to educate their children by any means other than public schools – was very narrowly saved when a bill was recently amended to restore that right. The Canadian province was one vote away from forcing all children into state-run schools. Parents and lawmakers in all three of these countries are dealing with the same struggle: a clash of ideologies that would replace fit and loving parents with government bureaucrats as the best decision makers for children. In each instance lawmakers are responding to their country’s perceived obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a binding human rights treaty to which all three nations are a party. Could such an approach to children ever come here to the United States? It is already much closer than many realize. The Looming Threat of the CRPD This summer a powerful effort was made in the U.S. Senate to adopt the U.N.’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), a human rights treaty like the CRC. And like that instrument, the CRPD also provides that “the best interests of the child” should be a primary consideration in all cases concerning children. This is a “term of art” in international law which is used to defend and promote the idea that governments and not parents should make decisions for children. The CRPD passed out of Senate committee on July 26, and was brought to the floor for a general consensus vote on September 19. If Senator Lee of Utah had not been present to halt the maneuver, CRPD ratification may have passed then and there. Take Action to Halt This Dangerous Treaty! We have long believed that the lame duck session poses a big threat regarding this treaty, and we are even more convinced as it draws closer. That’s why right now is the time to act. We need to make sure that when the Senate reconvenes in two weeks they know we are still watching, and we still oppose this treaty. We need your help tomorrow, October 31, to get that message out through a concerted one-day social media campaign. Here’s all you need to do: 1. Post to your Facebook wall or Twitter feed (or both!) that you oppose this treaty as a violation of parental rights and American sovereignty that offers no additional protections for Americans with disabilities. Include the “hashtags” #CRPD or #UNCRPD in your posts so that others looking for comments on this topic will see what you have to say. If you don't have a Facebook or Twitter account, consider creating one just for this purpose - it is that important! 2. Using the same hashtags, find your senators’ Twitter feeds or Facebook fan pages and leave a comment there. They will not see your page, but they have staffers monitoring theirs who will see your comments and take note. 3. Pass it on to all of your friends. A lot of organizations have come out in support of this treaty because they simply do not understand the impact it will have on American and international law. We must make our voices heard before it is too late! Here is an example of how to use a hashtag in a Twitter feed comment (“tweet”): “Oppose the #UNCRPD – a violation of #parentalrights and U.S. self-government!” (The sample tweet also uses our own #parentalrights hashtag, but your comments do not have to.) Please post several comments or tweets in your own words throughout the day to keep this issue in front of policy makers and the general public. Then, be ready for a call blitz to the Senate – coming soon! Thank you for standing with us to keep these treaties from taking away our parental rights! Sincerely, Michael Ramey Director of Communications & Research

Parental Rights Amend. House Cosponsors 86 Includes HJRes110 lead sponsor, Rep. Trent Franks. Latest added Oct. 25, 2012.	Parental Rights Amendment Senate Cosponsors 13 Includes SJRes42 lead sponsor, Sen. Jim DeMint. Latest addition July 23, 2012.	Senators Opposing Treaty Ratification 36 Senators who indicate they will oppose ratification. Latest addition Sept. 21, 2012.
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American Minute with Bill Federer Oct. 29 - Stock Market Crash - Great Depression

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American Minute with Bill Federer Oct. 29 - Stock Market Crash - Great Depression  Join Bill Federer on a fact finding trip to Israel. Click Here       October 29, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashed. Panic ensued as Wall Street sold 16,410,030 shares in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost and America plunged into the Great Depression. In a drive to aid private relief agencies, October 18, 1931, President Hoover said: "Time and again the American people have demonstrated a spiritual quality of generosity... This is the occasion when we must arouse that idealism, that spirit, from which there can be no failure in this primary obligation of every man to his neighbor..." Hoover continued: "Our country and the world are today involved in more than a financial crisis... This great complex, which we call American life, is builded and can alone survive upon the translation into individual action of that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago... Our national suffering today is from failure to observe these primary yet inexorable laws of human relationship...Modern society cannot survive with the defense of Cain, 'Am I my brother's keeper?'" Herbert Hoover told the National Drive Committee for Voluntary Relief Agencies, September 15, 1932: "Our tasks are definite...that we maintain the spiritual impulses in our people for generous giving...in the spirit that each is his brother's keeper... Many a family today is carrying a neighbor family over the trough of this depression not alone with material aid but with that encouragement which maintains courage and faith." President Herbert Hoover stated at the Gridiron Club, April 27, 1931: "If we shall be called upon to endure more...we must gird ourselves for even greater effort...May God grant to us the spirit and strength to carry through to the end." Herbert Hoover stated at Valley Forge, May 30, 1931: "If those few thousand men endured that long winter of privation...held their countrymen to the faith, and by that holding held fast the freedom of America, what right have we to be of little faith?" President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated in his First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...We face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things... Where there is no vision the people perish (Pr. 29:18)... We face arduous days that lie before us...with...old and precious moral values... In this dedication of a nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May He protect each and every one of us!" In his Christmas Message, December 24, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt stated: "Of the teachings of Him whose birth we celebrate...the words 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself' have taken on a meaning... May the practice of that high ideal grow in us all...For now and for always 'God Bless Us Every One.'"  News from AmericanMinute.com Join Bill Federer on a fact finding trip to Israel. Click Here Exciting new book MIRACLES IN AMERICAN HISTORY    Receive the daily American Minute on your Facebook wall, Twitter feed, or RSS reader.  Visit the American Minute archive    Watch Bill Federer's TV program Faith in History   Obama's America 2016 Visit our website to download an MP3 version of the American Minute suitable as a radio PSA.   Click here to shop AMERICAN MINUTE store  Daily Reading: http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/readingplans/index.php/2012/10/29 Get a great book and help a great cause: James Nyondo's Absolute Integrity:   The Bridge to Your Destiny http://www.nasaf.net/book/  Please support the American Minute.  Click here to make a donation. Thank you! Use the Send to a Colleague link below to tell others about the American Minute or click Join Our Mailing List to sign up. American Minute is a registered trademark. Permission is granted to forward. reprint or duplicate with acknowledgement to vwww.AmericanMinute.com

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Liberty Quotes

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."-- George Washington (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country'
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"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."-- Harper Lee (1926- ) American author, 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist for 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
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"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." -- Noël Coward (1899-1973) British playwright Source: Blithe Spirit
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American Minute with Bill Federer Oct. 28 - Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World

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American Minute with Bill Federer Oct. 28 - Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World Join Bill Federer on a fact finding trip to Israel. Click Here       The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World was dedicated OCTOBER 28, 1886. The 450,000 lbs statue, standing 305 feet above the pedestal base, was gift from France. Built by Gustave Eiffel, builder of the Eiffel Tower, it was designed by Auguste Bartholdi, who wrote: "The statue was born for this place which inspired its conception. May God be pleased to bless my efforts and my work, and to crown it with success, the duration and the moral influence which it ought to have." At the Statue's dedication ceremony, Reverend Richard S. Storrs prayed: "Our Heavenly Father...by whose counsel and might the courses of the worlds are wisely ordained and irresistibly established...We bless and praise Thee... It is in Thy favor, and through the operation of the Gospel of Thy Grace, that cities stand in quiet prosperity; that peaceful commerce covers the seas... We pray that the Liberty which it represents may continue...for all the nations of the earth; that in equity and charity their sure foundations may be established...that they may be ever the joyful servants of Him to whose holy dominion and kingdom shall be no end." On the Statue of Liberty's 50th Anniversary, OCTOBER 28, 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt stated: "Rulers...increase their power over the common men. The seamen they sent to find that gold found instead the way of escape for the common man from those rulers. What they found over the Western horizon was not the silk and jewels of Cathay but mankind's second chance - a chance to create a new world after he had almost spoiled an old one. The Almighty seems purposefully to have withheld that second chance until the time when men would most need and appreciate liberty..." FDR continued: "For over three centuries a steady stream of men, women and children followed the beacon of liberty... They brought to us strength and moral fiber developed in a civilization centuries old but fired anew by the dream of a better life... The overwhelming majority of those who came from...the Old World to our American shores were not the laggards, not the timorous, not the failures. They were men and women who had the supreme courage to strike out for themselves, to abandon language and relatives, to start at the bottom without influence, without money... Perhaps Providence did prepare this American continent to be a place of the second chance. Millions...adopted this homeland because...the things they most desired could be theirs - freedom of opportunity, freedom of thought, freedom to worship God." Dwight Eisenhower remarked April 8, 1954: "I have just come from...the dedication of a new stamp...The stamp has on it a picture of the Statue of Liberty and 'In God We Trust'... It represents...a Nation whose greatness is based on a firm unshakeable belief that all of us mere mortals are dependent upon the mercy of a Superior Being." Relighting the Statue of Liberty, July 3, 1986, Ronald Reagan said: "I've always thought that a Providential Hand had something to do with the founding of this country, that God had His reasons for placing this land here between two great oceans to be found by a certain kind of people."   News from AmericanMinute.com Join Bill Federer on a fact finding trip to Israel. Click Here Exciting new book MIRACLES IN AMERICAN HISTORY    Receive the daily American Minute on your Facebook wall, Twitter feed, or RSS reader.  Visit the American Minute archive    Watch Bill Federer's TV program Faith in History   Obama's America 2016 Visit our website to download an MP3 version of the American Minute suitable as a radio PSA.   Click here to shop AMERICAN MINUTE store  Daily Reading: http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/readingplans/index.php/2012/10/28 Get a great book and help a great cause: James Nyondo's Absolute Integrity:   The Bridge to Your Destiny http://www.nasaf.net/book/  Please support the American Minute.  Click here to make a donation. Thank you! Use the Send to a Colleague link below to tell others about the American Minute or click Join Our Mailing List to sign up. American Minute is a registered trademark. Permission is granted to forward. reprint or duplicate with acknowledgement to vwww.AmericanMinute.com

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