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Drones Overhead

As Ben Franklin stated, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Sadly, the statists in Washington, D.C. keep choosing to take away more and more of our liberties for some bureaucrat's vision of so-called "safety."

In today's world, "security" really means handing over the last bits of freedom to Big Government's prying eyes.

Just recently, the Senate Armed Services Committee called for drones returning from Afghanistan to be used "freely and routinely" in U.S. airspace.

Government agencies are training drones by tracking civilian cars over American cities.

Law enforcement agencies are buying them up by the dozen – happy to let the spying begin.

The Congressional Research Service states domestic drones could be equipped "with facial recognition or soft biometric recognition, which can recognize and track individuals based on attributes such as height, age, gender, and skin color."

More than 30,000 are expected to be flying across the United States in the near future.

This isn't something out of George Orwell's 1984. It's America in 2012.

And it's all designed so politicians can line the pockets of their crony capitalist pals – while you and I pay the price with our tax dollars and our freedom.

I'm not telling you all this to dishearten you – although I understand it may be discouraging to look the facts straight in the face.

I'm telling you this because these are the battles you and I can't ignore if we are going to maintain our last vestiges of freedom as Americans – and regain what we've lost.

After all, in recent years, we've witnessed the passage of the so-called "Patriot" Act, which allows the government to wiretap and spy on American citizens.

We've seen the passage of the NDAA - allowing the government to lock up and detain American citizens indefinitely without so much as a warrant.

And we see the TSA routinely groping elderly women and children at airports.

Ten years after its creation, a congressional report was issued saying the TSA was "bloated and ineffective."

More than 25,000 security breaches have occurred under its watch.

Our liberties are being stolen from us daily – and for NOTHING.

So what's next? What else will the security statists demand of us in order to finally make us "safe and secure"?

"Black boxes" in every car?

Cameras on every street corner? In every house?

RFID tracking chips implanted in every man, woman, and child – all designed to ensure we're "safe"?

So government bureaucrats can ensure we don't smoke the wrong thing?

To ensure our sodas aren't too big or our cheeseburgers too greasy?

How much liberty will politicians steal before the American people wake up and say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!"?

I believe you and I are at a tipping point.

More and more Americans ARE getting fed up.

Senator Rand Paul has already introduced legislation to get the out-of-control TSA screeners out of our airports.

And he recently introduced a bill that would stop the government from arbitrarily using drones to spy on Americans by forcing it to obey the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

But more attacks on our Fourth Amendment rights are coming at the American people full-speed ahead.

It's up to you and me to stop them.

You and I must be prepared to take on the statists and defend our freedoms.

That's exactly what Campaign for Liberty has been doing - and will continue to do - in the coming weeks and months.

Our goal is to reawaken men and women from coast to coast and rally them to defend liberty before it's too late.

Because it's not too late.

Not yet.

The free soul of America still exists.

But it's up to you and me to create a grassroots fire that no politician in his or her right mind would dare ignore.

In Liberty,

John Tate
President

P.S. The Big Government statists are wasting no time further eroding our Fourth Amendment rights.

And with government ramping up its use of drones to spy on the American people on our own soil, it's never been more important that you and I stand up for those rights.

Campaign for Liberty has been fighting this ongoing battle for years now, and we will stay on the frontlines of the fight to STOP the invasion of our privacy by an out-of-control government.

If you can chip in with a generous contribution of $25 or even just $10 to help C4L continue the fight to defend our privacy rights, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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Fast and Furious Scandal: New Details Emerge on How the U.S. Government Armed Mexican Drug Cartels

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Univision Investigation Reveals Additional Weapons Found In Fast And Furious Scandal

By GERARDO REYES and SANTIAGO WILLS

On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez. Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.

Indirectly, the United States government played a role in the massacre by supplying some of the firearms used by the cartel murderers. Three of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), according to a Mexican army document obtained exclusively by Univision News.

Univision

Pools Of Blood On The Streets Of Villas De Salvarcar After A Massacre In Which Operation Fast And Furious Guns Were Allegedly Used

Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre.

As part of Operation Fast and Furious, ATF allowed 1,961 guns to "walk" out of the U.S. in an effort to identify the high profile cartel leaders who received them. The agency eventually lost track of the weapons, and they often ended up in the hands of Mexican hit men , including those who ordered and carried out the attack on Salvarcar and El Aliviane, a rehabilitation center in Ciudad Juarez where 18 young men were killed on September 2, 2009.

In Mexico, the timing of the operation coincided with an upsurge of violence in the war among the country's strongest cartels. In 2009, the northern Mexican states served as a battlefield for the Sinaloa and Juarez drug trafficking organizations, and as expansion territory for the increasingly powerful Zetas. According to documents obtained by Univision News, from October of that year to the end of 2010, nearly 175 weapons from Operation Fast and Furious inadvertently armed the various warring factions across northern Mexico.

"Many weapons cross the border and enter Mexico, but that [Fast and Furious] number, quantity and type of weapons had quite an impact in the war in this area" Jose Wall, an ATF agent stationed in Tijuana from 2009 to 2011, told Univision News.

Following the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry at the hands of Mexican bandits on December 14, 2010, media and Congressional investigations prompted hearings. On September 20, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General report, which opened the door for sanctions of 14 ATF and DOJ officials.

In Washington, the Fast and Furious scandal became politicized, diverting the attention from the human cost in Mexico to political battles on Capitol Hill. In June, a vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt ignored the real tragedy in Mexico.

"Americans are not often moved by the pain of those outside [their country]…" Javier Sicilia, a Mexican poet whose son was killed in the midst of the violence, told Univision News. "But they are moved by the pain of their own. Well, turn around and watch the massacres."

The Univision News investigation also found ATF offices from states besides Arizona pursued similar misguided strategies. In Florida, the weapons from Operation Castaway ended up in the hands of criminals inColombia, Honduras and Venezuela (link audio crumpler), the lead informant in the case told Univision News in a prison interview.

"When the ATF stopped me, they told me the guns were going to cartels," Hugh Crumpler, a Vietnam veteran turned arms trafficker, told Univision News. "The ATF knew before I knew and had been following me for a considerable length of time. They could not have followed me for two months like they said they did, and not know the guns were going somewhere, and not want for that to be happening."

Other firearms under ATF surveillance were permitted to leave the country from Texas, according to court documents and the exclusive testimony of Magdalena Avila Villalobos, the sister of an ICE agent who survived a confrontation with cartel hit men on a rural highway in Mexico on February 15, 2011. His fellow agent, Jaime Zapata, was killed during the attacks.

"It's not from Arizona and Fast and Furious," Avila Villalobos told Univision News, speaking in her brother's stead for the first time, "but it's a very similar operation..." She later added, "Those weapons that have been recovered, it's been confirmed that they were weapons used in the shootout that killed Jaime Zapata and wounded Victor Avila."

The Texas-based operation and the firearms linked to the attack were bought by two trafficking rings in the state, according to Raymond Thomas, the Zapata family's lawyer.

Earlier this year, Texas Senator John Cornyn had echoed Thomas' assertions . Moreover, on September 25, Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley, the politicians behind the Fast and Furious congressional report released in July, sent a letter to the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General, requesting an investigation into Avila's and Zapata's case.

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Majority of Pastors Uncomfortable With Endorsing Candidates

^{Photo: Minister delivering a serious sermon in church via Shutterstock}

by Dave Bohon

As hundreds of pastors across America prepare to defy the IRS on Sunday, October 7, by endorsing political candidates from their pulpits, a survey by LifeWay Research, a division of the Southern Baptist Convention, finds that nearly 90 percent of America's clergy think that they should not use their pulpits for such endorsements.

The survey of 1,000 Protestant clergy revealed that only 10 percent believe that it is appropriate to influence their parishioners in the pulpit by favoring a particular candidate, while 87 percent said it is inappropriate.

LifeWay research director Scott McConnell said the research indicated that pastors “clearly respect the sacred desk of the pulpit enough to discourage its use to affect elections.”

The survey also revealed that only 44 percent of pastors had personally endorsed candidates outside of the pulpit. “Less than half the pastors indicated that they had done that this year,” said McConnell, while adding that it appeared “two-thirds of them have to some extent, because only 33 percent 'strongly disagree' that they've endorsed candidates from the pulpit.”

There were differences in the responses between those who self-identified as “evangelical” pastors and those who said they were “mainline,” with 86 percent of the evangelicals saying that pastors should not endorse a candidate from the pulpit, compared to 91 percent of mainline pastors.

Likewise, political affiliation seemed to make a difference. Among clergy who identified themselves as Democrat, 98 percent frowned on political endorsements made from the pulpit, compared to 90 percent of Independents and 82 percent of Republicans.

McConnell noted that previous LifeWay research showed that “pastors believe the government has no place in determining what is and is not said from their pulpits regarding candidates. Yet most pastors don't believe endorsement of candidates should be made from the pulpit.”

He added that while the research indicated “most pastors have opinions on who the best candidates are, and those convictions may be heavily dependent on biblical principles … very few pastors choose to make those endorsements from the pulpit.”

The findings come in the run-up to “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” October 7, during which the group Alliance Defending Freedom is encouraging pastors around the nation to defy the 1954 IRS statute, called the Johnson Amendment, that prohibits tax-exempt organizations, including churches, from endorsing candidates for office. “The purpose is to make sure that the pastor, and not the IRS, decides what is said from the pulpit,” said Erik Stanley, an ADF spokesman. “It is a head-on constitutional challenge.”

As reported by The New American, pastors participating in Pulpit Freedom Sunday “will use their pulpits to preach sermons focused on a specific candidate, encouraging parishioners to show their support for that candidate at the polls. The sermons will be recorded and sent to the IRS.”

Stanley told Fox News that the hope is that the IRS “will respond by doing what they have threatened. We have to wait for it to be applied to a particular church or pastor so that we can challenge it in court. We don’t think it’s going to take long for a judge to strike this down as unconstitutional.”

According to the 1954 law, tax-exempt entities such as churches are “absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of [or opposing] any candidate for elective public office.” IRS guidelines for churches specify that violation of the code “may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise tax.”

However, Stanley, said, while the IRS has often threatened churches for violating the code, it has seldom followed through with prosecution because the federal tax collectors fear the legal challenge that would result. He said the Johnson Amendment is “blatantly unconstitutional,” adding that the IRS prefers “to put out these vague statements and regulations and enforce it through a system of intimidation.… Pastors are afraid to address anything political from the pulpit.”

The ADF indicated that there has been a shift in that intimidation, with more clergy stepping forward each year to challenge the IRS. In 2008, the first year the ADF sponsored Pulpit Freedom Sunday, only 33 pastors across the nation participated. In 2009 the number increased to 80, and by last year had risen to nearly 600. This year, over 1,000 pastors have signed up thus far, agreeing to preach sermons comparing the positions held by candidates with scriptural admonition, then making specific recommendations about candidates, including recommendations about candidates for which parishioners should vote. The pastors will then bring their sermons “to the attention of the IRS in the hopes that an audit of their churches would spark lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Johnson Amendment,” explained the ADF.

The legal advocacy group noted that so far in its yearly campaign “none of the participating churches have had their tax exemption revoked, nor have any received penalties from the IRS for what was said during their sermons.”

http://thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/13122-majority-of-pastors-uncomfortable-with-endorsing-candidates

501(c)(3) Alternative For Churches: 508(c)(1)(A)

Churches are automatically already tax exempt under 508(c)(1)(A) and do not need to register as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt corporation

26 USC § 508 - Special rules with respect to

(a) New organizations must notify Secretary that they are applying for recognition of section 501(c)(3) status

Except as provided in subsection (c), an organization organized after October 9, 1969, shall not be treated as an organization described in section 501 (c)(3)—

(1) unless it has given notice to the Secretary in such manner as the Secretary may by regulations prescribe, that it is applying for recognition of such status, or

(2) for any period before the giving of such notice, if such notice is given after the time prescribed by the Secretary by regulations for giving notice under this subsection.

(b) Presumption that organizations are private foundations

Except as provided in subsection (c), any organization (including an organization in existence on October 9, 1969) which is described in section 501 (c)(3) and which does not notify the Secretary, at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may by regulations prescribe, that it is not a private foundation shall be presumed to be a private foundation.

(c) Exceptions

(1) Mandatory exceptions

Subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to—

(A) churches, their integrated auxiliaries, and conventions or associations of churches, or

(B) any organization which is not a private foundation (as defined in section 509 (a)) and the gross receipts of which in each taxable year are normally not more than $5,000.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/508

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For reference:

26 USC § 501 - Exemption from tax on corporations, certain trusts, etc.

(a) Exemption from taxation

An organization described in subsection (c) or (d) orsection 401 (a) shall be exempt from taxation under this subtitle unless such exemption is denied under section 502 or 503.

(b) Tax on unrelated business income and certain other activities

An organization exempt from taxation under subsection (a) shall be subject to tax to the extent provided in parts II, III, and VI of this subchapter, but (notwithstanding parts II, III, and VI of this subchapter) shall be considered an organization exempt from income taxes for the purpose of any law which refers to organizations exempt from income taxes.

(c) List of exempt organizations

The following organizations are referred to in subsection (a):

(1) Any corporation organized under Act of Congress which is an instrumentality of the United States but only if such corporation—

(A) is exempt from Federal income taxes—

(i) under such Act as amended and supplemented before July 18, 1984, or

(ii) under this title without regard to any provision of law which is not contained in this title and which is not contained in a revenue Act, or

(B) is described in subsection (l).

(2) Corporations organized for the exclusive purpose of holding title to property, collecting income therefrom, and turning over the entire amount thereof, less expenses, to an organization which itself is exempt under this section. Rules similar to the rules of subparagraph (G) of paragraph (25) shall apply for purposes of this paragraph.

(3) Corporations, and any community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or educational purposes, or to foster national or international amateur sports competition (but only if no part of its activities involve the provision of athletic facilities or equipment), or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to influence legislation (except as otherwise provided in subsection (h)), and which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/501

Catholic Church Control of Government Un-Noticed: False Belief of Religion and Politics Don't Mix

The Catholic Church knows all to well that religion and politics mixes very easily, and they use it to their advantage. While the Protestant Church is constrained by their greed to retain their tax exempt status, and the Political junkies fear losing their lives in another Inquisition if Church and State were ever to come together again. What they don't realize is that the Catholic Church doesn't work with any these pre-conceived ideas or constaints, and go un-noticed in their control of our Government, and have been controlling and manipulating this Country since its creation.

See: The Secret Terrorists (Secret Jesuit Plot to Take Over USA) http://www.scribd.com/doc/36056155/Hughes-The-Secret-Terrorists-Secret-Jesuit-Plot-to-Take-Over-USA-2002

The Enemy Unmasked http://www.scribd.com/doc/108804475/The-Enemy-Unmasked-By-Bill-Hughes

What I have noticed in years of posting news regarding the combination of politics and religion, the religious people complain that politics has no place in their religious discussions, most likely due to their fear of losing the 501(c)(3) tax exempt status that they work so hard to keep. For an example, look at the Official Seventh-day Adventist Church website regarding their Trademark Guidelines -

'Church trademarks shall not be used in any manner that will jeopardize the Church's tax-exempt status'.

Seventh-day Adventist Trademark Guidelines http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/guidelines/main-guide5.html

John Brownlee 501c3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWVq0M2ab6U&feature=

When I post in political groups, they bring up the separation of Church and State argument.

Separation of church and state in the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States

Is 'Separation of Church & State' in the US Constitution?
http://www.examiner.com/article/is-separation-of-church-state-the-us-constitution

IRS–ROMAN CULT’S COLLECTION AGENCY

The Roman Catholic Jesuits started the international banking system called the Illuminati and the Agentur (and blamed the Jews for this). Rome’s motto is, “He that holds the money bags runs the nations.” The Vatican started all the wars (inquisitions) to rid the world of heretics (non-Roman Catholics) and then made loans from her banks to nations so they would have enough money to fight them. We foolishly permitted this cult’s collection agency into our country (the IRS—which answers only to Rome).

According to God’s laws in the Bible, every fifty years there is to be a clearing of debts that can’t be paid (a relief). This is called the year of jubilee (Lev. 25:10). Let’s bump cultish Roman canon law of death and bondage and get back to God’s law and His Son, Christ Jesus. Let’s have a clearing (the year of jubilee). These debts have been instigated by Satan (the Roman Catholic cult) to hurt us and put us into financial bondage. We didn’t start these wars, we didn’t want these wars, and we didn’t borrow that money. So why should we have to suffer? These wars were all Roman Catholic inquisitions to mold the world into a one-world government, church, and media.

At the one-world church convention in Vancouver, some of our volunteers were shocked by the pro-homosexual booths and literature, pro-witchcraft booths and literature, drunkenness, and total ungodliness, which this “universal” world’s largest cult and sect exalts. These satanic people call anybody that preaches the true Word, which is separation from evil, consecration unto good –they call this a cult or a sect. But they worship this one-world organization and its cult leader, the pope...

“Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he [or a soon to come pope] as God [will soon sit] in the temple of God [in Jerusalem], showing himself that he is God” (II Thes. 2:4).

“Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish” (II Thes. 2:9-10).

They kneel and kiss his ring and feet and call him “holy father,” which is forbidden in the Bible. They obey his every wish. By calling us a cult, who walk in the Spirit and obey God’s every wish, they have possibly committed the unpardonable sin–blasphemy of the Holy Spirit–which is never forgiven in this world nor in the world to come (Matt. 12:31-32). But Satan does not care because he already has blasphemed the Holy Spirit.

501 (c)(3) Government Takeover of the Church http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MF4FgXpS3o&list=PLCCF8654F98136456&feature=

More: IS THE POPE THE SUPER-BOSS OF ALL GOVERNMENT'S? http://inquisitionnews.blogspot.com/2009/11/is-pope-super-boss-of-all-governments.html#links

Remember Tue Jul 7, 2009? Pope calls for a "global authority" on economy http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/07/07/us-pope-encyclical-idUSTRE5662VM20090707

Then: Given in Rome, at Saint Peter's, on 29 June, the Solemnity of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, in the year 2009, the fifth of my Pontificate. ENCYCLICAL LETTER CARITAS IN VERITATE (Charity In Truth) is introduced to the public . http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html

ENCYCLICAL LETTER CARITAS IN VERITATE explained by ex-Catholic Priest Richard Bennett - CARITAS IN VERITATE: The Pope’s Plans on Organizing Political, Economic and Religious Activities Worldwide http://inquisitionnews.blogspot.com/p/caritas-in-veritate-popes-plans-on.html

Then: Mon Sep 21, 2009 after the pope discussed the global downturn with U.S. President Barack Obama: U.S. to push for new economic world order at G20 http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/09/21/us-g-idUSTRE58G34Z20090921

Finally, Please view this video for more on the New World Order and the Re-Distribution of the Worlds Wealth: Walter Veith - A New World Order / Total Onslaught http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BomP-eZ5lYM

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