REMEMBER:
Gerald Ford (14 July 1913 – 26 December 2006) , the 38th President of the United States.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (12 August 1974)
Ford has also been quoted as having made a similar statement many years earlier, as a representative to the US Congress: "If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have."
WND EXCLUSIVE
Feds
accused of fomenting 'blood in our streets'
'God, Guns and Constitution' leader fears 'civil unrest' coming
Published: 12 hours ago
Taylor Rose is a
Washington, D.C., staff reporter
Rev.
Bill Owens
WASHINGTON – The highest levels of the U.S. government are
fomenting “civil unrest” that soon could leave “blood in our streets,” a key
Christian pastor said Tuesday at a pro-Second Amendment rally in Washington.
Rev. Bill Owens,
president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors and leader of God, Guns & the
Constitution, said America has in
many ways has passed the point of no return and its citizens will have to be
“chastised” before they awaken to the reality of their situation.
His goal now is “strengthening the [righteous] remnant.”
At the foot of the Capitol Tuesday, Owens was joined by other
leaders to pledge to protect the Second Amendment and the Christian principles
of America’s founding.
Owens was joined by Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun
Owners of America; Eric Pratt, the group’s communications director; Day
Gardner, founder and president of the National Black Pro-Life Union on Capitol
Hill; and William Cook, founder and executive director of the Black Robe
Regiment.
“From what we see in our mail, hear from our members, we are at
the line in the sand moment,” Larry Pratt told WND after the event.
The leaders said their assembly was “in response to President
Obama’s proposal of 23 executive actions to curb gun violence.”
Larry Pratt said Obama’s moves have “renewed and even awakened …
the determination to get politically involved and resist what is being crammed
down our throat by an illegitimate government.”
“The entire federal government acts as if we have no
Constitution at all, as if there were no limits to anything they could do,” he
said. “It never seems to cross their mind that there are very few things they
are allowed to do. We are dealing with a systemic problem of illegitimacy
across all branches of government.”
Owens said the goal of today’s event was “to raise awareness
that you wouldn’t have a Constitution without guns and you wouldn’t have the
need to protect this land without God.”
“So you have to have God in the midst of every picture that
exists,” he said.
Owens said the problem with violence doesn’t rest with guns but
with people.
He believes America is dealing with an “evil.”
It is not “guns and not ink pens, it is not cars, it is evil,”
he said. “For when we forsake God’s purpose for why this country was formed and
for why it is here, anything can be turned into evil, including an ink pen.”
He said, “Ink pens sign a lot of laws that are evil.”
Owens challenged a common gun-control mantra of needing “common
sense gun control” such as restricting the size of magazines.
“What is common sense? [The anti-gun left] want to take a word
and say, ‘This is what common sense is.’”
He called for a return to the faith of the Founders.
“We have a form of godliness, but we deny the power thereof,” he
said.
He injected a measure of hope, however, saying a “righteous
remnant still exists that is not going to cowtow or subjugate themselves to the
things of men … because they are going to be compelled to stand for the Truth
that they have a relationship with.”
In America, he said, authorities “have put the Bible and prayer
out of schools” and “replaced them with condoms.”
“What is happening now is that our schools are actually being
targeted by those who are deranged, those who are evil and those who are
trouble,” he said.
Cook named abortion as another evil.
“Is there any hope to answer [the problems of society]? The
answer is a resounding no, so long as we tolerate abortion and we view children
as a liability,” he said.
He renounced any notion that simply not partaking in an abortion
or somehow being morally opposed without action negates one’s responsibility.
“Our unwillingness to contend with [abortion] makes us willing
accomplices,” he said.
Asked by WND if America is largely a nominal Christian country,
considering how many people vote for big government and anti-Christian and
non-Christian leaders, Owens said, “That is absolutely correct. I think that is
why we are being judged.”
“Christianity is being brought to the test room, and that is why
[school shootings] are happening,” he said.
Pratt also chimed in on the problem of apathy.
“Apathy has been a real problem, but I think there is a
possibility that that is going away as the government is literally pushing us
more and more … and then the government may realize they have awaken the
sleeping giant,” he said.
Pratt does have hope for a political revival, because he sees “a
resistance that is definitely across the country, but it is noticeable in
certain counties where the people have elected sheriffs that have interposed
themselves between themselves and federal agents.”
He said the government is “not going to restrain itself.”
“Only a sheriff with his armed deputies and perhaps on occasion
a posse that he can summon that can stand against the federal government,” he
said. ‘It is happening already where sheriffs are arresting federal agents.”
Pratt dismissed any notion that the Supremacy Clause of the
Constitution invalidates state or local laws that contradict federal law.
“The Supremacy Clause only affects those areas Article 1 section
8 and when the federal government acts outside of those very limited areas it
is illegitimate,” he said.
Pratt advises Second Amendment activists to focus hard on
“getting involved with their sheriff and get the best sheriff elected.” He
describes local involvement as a “keystone to getting our country back.”
Owens said it’s not that complicated.
“Our object should be to stay true to God,
because our home is not America, but we must stay true to God while we are in
America,” he said.
Owens is not alone in believing America is under judgment.
In the aftermath of
9/11, there were repeated calls by political leaders, businessmen and media
personalities to respond to the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World
Trade Center by building taller and grander – following in the footsteps of
ancient Israel as recorded in Isaiah 9:10, wrote bestselling author Jonathan
Cahn in “The
Harbinger,” which also is being presented in DVD format as “The Isaiah 9:10
Judgment.”
Most notably, the very next day, Senate Majority Leader Tom
Daschle delivered an address to a joint session of Congress in which he
actually cited and quoted Isaiah 9:10, explaining: “That is what we will do. We
will rebuild.”
And on the fourth anniversary of 9/11, Sen. John Edwards, a
candidate for vice president at the time, delivered a speech to the
Congressional Black Caucus, framing his entire address around Isaiah 9:10.
The
message of the bestselling Christian book of 2012 and the bestselling faith
movie is that America is
re-enacting an ancient drama played out thousands of years ago when Israel’s
leaders did not repent and turn back to God after a limited strike on the land.
Instead, their words are recorded in Isaiah 9:10, proclaiming they would simply
rebuild bigger and better. The result was eventually the destruction of the
nation.
Both the book and the documentary present a series of remarkable
parallels between the judgment of ancient Israel and events impacting America
since 9/11.
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