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“We hold these truths to be self-evident” — not self-enforcing

Jul 4, 2014 9:54 am By Robert Spencer

Declaration_independenceWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

These truths may be self-evident, but they do not defend or protect themselves. It is up to those who value them to do that. The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration that contains these words on this day in 1776 knew that, and thus “for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,” they mutually pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.

Now 238 years later, after enjoying the fruits of their sacrifice for so long, and enjoying comfort and ease on an unfathomable scale, we find that many, if not most, take these rights, and the principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, for granted, as if they were always, everywhere, and automatically part of the human birthright. But this is no more the case now than it was in 1776. In fact, today the republic they founded, much mutated and far less free than it was at its birth, faces a strong global challenge to the principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed — a challenge from a determined and ruthless enemy that would love nothing more than to deprive us of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Meanwhile, the allies and tools of this determined enemy are determined to deprive of their fortunes and sacred honor, if not of their very lives, those who dare to stand up and try to warn their fellow countrymen about this threat, and skillfully spread misinformation and disinformation about it far and wide through the mainstream media, academia, government, law enforcement and entertainment industry, all of which they largely control.

And so we stand a point where it is a very real possibility that we will indeed lose our lives and our liberties, and live in a state where the pursuit of happiness is but a dim memory at best.

It is up to us, then, now to emulate these 56 men, and pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor anew to the defense of these great rights and this cardinal principle. The hour is very late. If we do not do this, we or our children will certainly lose them, and the world will be plunged into a darkness that could last centuries.

But if we find people in sufficient numbers who are willing to take the great risk these 56 made, there is no possibility that we can fail, for what we stand for is light against darkness, truth against falsehood, freedom against slavery.

The great question now is, will we find such people in sufficient numbers?

Happy Independence Day.

 

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 10:00 am

    A Glorious 4th of July to everyone here at JW!

    Thank you so very much, Robert.

  2. ApolloSpeaks says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 10:19 am

    JULY 4TH AND THE REMARKABLE PROVIDENTIAL DEATHS OF JOHN ADAMS, THOMAS JEFFERSON AND JAMES MONROE

    Click my name for the article

    • Kepha says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 8:46 pm

      Apollo: I remember back when I was in my early teens being impressed when my Civics teacher explained that Jefferson and Adams died on the same July 4th. I still am.

      Also, when I teach government and introduce the founding governments, I have my students, whether native-born or language learner, read the Declaration of Independence. I ask them, “According to Mr. Jefferson, where do rights come from?” Mostly, the first answer is, “from the government”. I ask them to reread, stressing that Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence, and asking for his opinion, rather than our modern opinion. A lot of kids are shocked to see that “their Creator” is the answer to the question.
      Our loss of an idea of natural and divine law has been one of the largest factors in our acquiescence to our loss of liberty.

      But in fairness to modern legal positivism, I’ve always taken to heart Judge Learned Hand’s view that when liberty dies in the hearts of a people, no law or institutions can restore it. I pray to God that we advance no farther towards that point–to which I fear we have been heading.

  3. Jovial Joe says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 10:22 am

    I pledge my name to the cause (of liberty that is).

    • carol t says

      Jul 5, 2014 at 6:16 am

      I pledge also, & will seek to educate & awaken the slumbering & deceived. God bless you for all you do. I pray your voice continues to ring steady & true, & that you stay safe from any & all harm. May we all be willing to stand up & speak the truth, no matter personal consequences.

  4. TAD says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 10:36 am

    Right there with you Robert. Thank you for your consistent clarity, conviction and commitment to our natural rights, their creative expression and their principled defense.

  5. AnneM says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 10:39 am

    Happy Birthday America!

    From B. Franklin:

    “A republic . . . if you can keep it.”

  6. jihad3tracker says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 10:40 am

    Mr. Spencer sums up our blessings here in America, as “comfort and ease on an unfathomable scale”.

    And that fact is probably the greatest risk for the huge ignorance about Islam’s threat.

    But as others here at JW have written, al-Baghdadi’s ambition and consequent successes may be the events which finally wake up America.

  7. squeezethejuice says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 10:52 am

    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 station to which the Laws of Allah (swt) entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of the other Ppl of the Book requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Muslims are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ALLAH (swt) with certain unalienable obligations, that among these are the Shahada, Salat, Zakat, Sawm, and Hajj. That to secure these obligations, Islamic governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers directly from Allah (swt).

    That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Muslims to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present leadership of the United States of America and its ally Israel is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these territories.

    We, therefore, the Representatives of the Islamic Caliphate, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to Allah (swt) Al Hakam Al ‘Adl (Supreme Judge of the world) for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be a Free and Independent Islamic Caliphate; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the United States of America, and that all political connection between them and the United States of America, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as a Free and Independent State, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

    • Jovial Joe says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 11:05 am

      I pledge my life AGAINST that muslimised non-declaration.

      • John C. Barile says

        Jul 4, 2014 at 4:34 pm

        Hey, Juice! Your Khalifa is calling you!

        Why aren’t you in Iraq and al-Shams by now? Making your way to Paradise? We here half-expected you’d be there by now, Juice ol’ buddy, joining the ranks of your bros seeking death in Caliph Ibrahim’s Foreign Legion.

        Say, when you do get to Baghdad with that suicide vest, send us a copy of your martyrdom vid!

      • Tradewinds says

        Jul 4, 2014 at 5:30 pm

        What’s up with the barbarian above? Just showing how poisonous Islam is again? Nice try Abdullah. Now back to Yemen with you.

    • John C. Barile says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 11:17 am

      Your parody is imbecilic. And our ideals shall stand forever in the hearts of free men and women.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jul 4, 2014 at 2:53 pm

        Despite the liars like ‘Squeezethetruth’, Muhammad invented Islam as a slaveholder’s excuse.
        Please note also: Squeeze is a fit moniker for an apologizer of the Serpent of Satan Muhammad.

        Islam’s shameless pretend prophet slave-owner with a huge hole in the pit of his soul invented nightmarish revelations of his own formation to seduce fools inside Islam’s vanity delusion and avoid his just condemnation.

        • Jay Boo says

          Jul 4, 2014 at 2:55 pm

          Islam is NOTHING but a slaveholder’s excuse.

        • Huck Folder says

          Jul 5, 2014 at 2:19 am

          Jay Boo: Squeeze = Penis …

    • Stosh777 says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 11:20 am

      Another warped document from an adherent of the cult that brought you the Koran…with its warped takes on biblical and exegetical stories, twisted logic, and warped ethics. Muslims appear incapable of coming up with anything original…not a surprise given the submission and mental slavery required by their cult.

    • Myxlplik says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 11:29 am

      “a decent respect to the opinions of the other Ppl of the Book requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

      Nobody other than Muslims wants to live with Muslims, because your sharia deprives others of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, who don’t share your belief in made up fairy tails and imaginary friends who instruct you to murder as enforcement of fantasy conversations with imaginary beings. So feel free to head on out to Anbar anytime, your absence will not be missed in the West.

      Personally I wouldn’t trade anything other than our Muslims with the Caliphate, or have any other communication with it, such as trade or alliances… because wherever Muslims go they bring tyranny and oppression, and even talking to you empowers you to more tyranny.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jul 4, 2014 at 2:59 pm

        “THE BAD NEWS” book claim

        History still clearly proves that Islam’s “prophet” ADULTERATED both
        the “BOOK” and the WIVES that were stolen from Medina’s murdered Jews
        and (Safiya & Juwayriya) too.

      • medina says

        Jul 4, 2014 at 8:45 pm

        Au Contraire. Even muslims don’t want to live with muslims. That’s why the opportunity to contain them in the middle eastern arena, killing one another on an increasingly large scale, presents the civilized world with a great gift. Just stand back.

        • Charlie Griffith says

          Jul 5, 2014 at 4:46 pm

          Agree, completely. This is a favorite topic of mine.
          It’s indeed an opportunity for us to stand aside and do the coat-holding for a change and let the Muslims eat each other on their own turf. Let’s even amplify your sensible thought to say that all of the various warring sects/tribes/families within that arena of West and Central Asia have been literally at each others’ throats for centuries, and we Americans are very, very foolish in thinking that we can make any difference there with our alien Western ideas of Democracy and/or “nation building”.

          Those “nations” created by Sykes-Picot [1916?] are now being shown up for their artificialness with their borders bisecting and/or crossing through these very same religious sects/divisions inside theMuslim mind-set. This is why I keep harping on the idea that we’re simply not wired the same way as Muslims. Those [current] borders were drawn with British-French Colonial goals in mind, local/ethnic turf was way down on the list of their priorities. They were the victors carving up the spoils of the Ottoman Empire for the benefit of the British and French empires. It’s fascinating history.

          IMHO, our biggest mistake was not getting of there [Iraq] lock-stock-and barrel as soon as we got rid of Saddam. The idealistic Bremer and and George Bush and “Nation building” on the Western model were mistaken, there’s no getting around that.

          Another tragedy that isn’t receiving nearly enough notice is that we Christians who are as much an ancient part of that arena as the Jews, we originated in West Asia….these troublesome Muslims are latecomers……no one makes that distinction nowadays, are being forced out of their centuries’ old landholdings in that ancient crossroads area and marginalized as the strength of the aggressive Muslims gains their territory. Read Raymond Ibrahim’s articles on the persecution of the Egyptian Copts.

          So, yes….medina…..Bingo! for you.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 11:56 am

      Squeezie, go then along with your good friend Lucifer and create your own personal Hell. See ya…….wouldn’t want to be ya. And stick a firecracker in it!

      • john spielman says

        Jul 4, 2014 at 4:04 pm

        those personal hells exist already, so squeezethejuice should be deported to one of the farthest crapistans from the US asap!

    • Wellington says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 12:38 pm

      I welcome how Muslim reprobates like yourself make Islam more and more despised in America and all the West with each passing year. By all means, keep up the good work.

      • Keith says

        Jul 4, 2014 at 12:51 pm

        The problem is the more idiots like him show what Islam is really like the more our governments try and defend Islam and show it is really peaceful.

        • Wellington says

          Jul 4, 2014 at 5:23 pm

          True. Which comment of yours, Keith, demonstrates that the real problem is not the horrible religion of Islam, bad as it is (and it’s really bad), but rather the continued whitewashing of Islam by Western elites in government, academia and the media. They are the ultimate culprits.

          Those who whitewash evil are actually worse than evil itself. If no whitewashing of malevolence, then malevolence would be done away with so much the sooner. No verity could be truer than this one I would argue.

    • No Fear says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 5:36 pm

      From the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper this morning:

      Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, who appeared in Facebook images recently brandishing a gun over executed Iraqis, replied on Twitter: ”Allah … says ‘kill them where ever you find them’ … terrorise the enemies of Allah.”

    • Kepha says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 8:53 pm

      Unfortunately, the Qur’an is a lie based on profound misunderstanding. It tells us that Jesus did not die on the cross, when not only the witness of the New Testament tells us this, but also the Pagan Romans (Pliny the Elder), Rabbinical Jewish enemies of the early Christians (Tractate Sanhedrin), and THE TESTIMONY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS.

      I pray that God does not enter into the fearful judgment of war with his servants in both West and Middle East. The Messiah in whom I believe and the Apostles whom he sent teach that peace is a blessing to be sought. But sadly, history bears witness that Islam has always sought war, always practiced aggression, and now believes that the time is ripe to renew it. If war must come, I will arm myself, and I know I will not be on the side of the Muslims.

      • onisac says

        Jul 5, 2014 at 11:23 am

        The only arms we’ll need is truth, research, motivation, and commitment. Islam has no chance when up against the truth, and the history of Islam’s savagery.

  8. Diane Harvey says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 11:01 am

    John Adams had it exactly right when he said that our form of government was for a moral people and no other. He obviously meant people who were informed by their Christian faith. Those to whom the oath of office, actually any oath, really, truly meant something. As Scripture tells us, do not to bear false witness (OT); and stand by your “yes” and stand by your “no” (NT). Summed, do not lie. Keep truth in word, deed, and heart.

    None of that defines the leftist or the Muslim.

    • Aussie Infidel says

      Jul 5, 2014 at 6:45 am

      Diane,

      Yes, John Adams knew that democracy would only work, when the people governed were moral citizens – ie people who respected the rights of others in the group, lived by the ‘golden rule’, and were willing to work toward common goals. But that doesn’t mean that the only moral people are Christians. Most of my atheist friends are just as ethical and moral if not more so, than most religious people. Morals have nothing to do with belief in the supernatural, but everything to do with learning to live together as a cohesive community, pursuing ethical goals, adopting democratic and secular governance, abiding by the rule of law, and having an equitable system of justice. A community’s ethics can inform its religious tenets, just as those tenets might inform its ethics.

      We know from anthropological studies, that our distant ancestors lived by codes of behavior (though by our standards, not necessarily ideal), long before any of the world’s present religions were even thought of. And virtually all religions are syncretic, ie they borrow aspects of their beliefs from their predecessors. Obviously, Islam borrowed many aspects of the OT from the Jews, and the NT from the Christians; it’s just a pity it didn’t incorporate some of their ethical dimensions as well. But since Islam was dictated by a sociopathic warlord, it incorporates his morals (or lack thereof) instead.

      But you are correct that “none of that defines the [far] leftist or the [militant] Muslim”, because their ideologies command them to adopt whatever means are necessary to achieve their totalitarian ends.

  9. Wellington says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 11:45 am

    The Declaration of Independence and Islam are as polar opposites as opposites can get. No one can with knowledge and sense embrace both. It’s an either/or.

    Speaking for myself, I choose the former which is possessed of infinitely more wisdom and humanity than what can be found in that damn turgid, repetitive, disturbing, desultory Koran, which is a manual for war, intolerance and the enslavement of the human spirit. And one Thomas Jefferson is worth far more than all the so-called holy men put together Islam has ever produced.

    • Kepha says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 8:59 pm

      Good thoughts, Wellington. As a Christian, I believe that Islam is a religion put together by unholy men moved by an unholy attitude, and perhaps even by unholy spiritual beings. But I will note that even Jefferson, Deist and Unitarian sympathizer that he was, tells us that rights are given by the Creator rather than the state. And down there, among the signatures, I see Dr. Witherspoon’s, signing for my natal state of New Jersey; and he was a doughty old Calvinist who sneered at theological “moderates” in his own tradition. I can only note that Jefferson writes at the end of a long evolution of thought within something called Christendom; and I doubt the world of Islam could ever have come up with anything like the Declaration of Independence on its own. The traditions from which people come make a VERY large difference.

  10. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 12:26 pm

    What were the risks of signing the Declaration of Independence? Those were some brave men. My thanks goes to them…….and to all others who struggle for the cause for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s a day to celebrate FREEDOM!!!

    http://www.nhccs.org/Destiny.html

    • Eels says

      Jul 5, 2014 at 3:22 am

      Your founding fathers were truly a remarkable bunch. As a Limey, I am envious of your Declaration and Constitution, two of the greatest documents ever written.

      Happy 4th of July to you all.

      ( I have a particular soft spot for Aarom Burr, for no particular reason, other than he makes me think that the concept of the duel should be brought back to modern politics. Not because I think killing each other is a way to settle anything, but rather because just the threat of pistols at dawn would, I suspect reduce the lying , slander and general nonsense that runs through our current political classes. My tongue is firmly in my cheek. )

  11. miriam rove says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 12:55 pm

    Happy 4th to all freedom anti jihadist JW posters here. Keep up the good work.m

  12. Bradamante says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 1:00 pm

    Happy Fourth to all Jihadwatchers! And thank you, Robert, for this post and for doing so much every single day to defend our freedom.

    • Wellington says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 5:25 pm

      I second that, Bradamante.

  13. [FA] says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 1:05 pm

    Count me in. It is not brave to stand against the people destroying our freedom. We know we will win. It’s brave to think you can appease them and live. Happy 4th of July to everyone including those who need to taste true freedom more than I.

  14. jewdog says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    The men who led the young republic, back before mass electronic communication, back when people actually read books, had a far more accurate understanding of Islam than our leaders have today. At that time, the fledgling navy was expanded to counter the Barbary pirates. President Adams had a good grasp of the mentality that had led to the enslavement of American sailors and spoke about Islamic supremacism in a very sophisticated way; he knew Sharia essentials very well.
    It’s been downhill ever since, but maybe we can reverse the trend. Happy Fourth!

  15. Gene says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    I am a career police officer. I have given my adult life in service to my community, country and Constitution. I agree with everything in this article except the lumping of “law enforcement” in with others who wantonly advance the liberal agenda that is destroying this nation. I am in a position to be networked with hundreds of other officers around the U.S. and I can tell you, honestly and without reservation, that the VAST majority of these officers are conservative constitutionalists who risk their lives everyday for the preservation of our republic. Don’t let a few bad apples spoil the law enforcement barrel. If Mr. Spencer and the readers here knew the extent of the loyalty of police officers to the Constitution, and their dedication to protecting our citizens from those who would harm them, you would all sleep better at night.

    • [FA] says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 2:23 pm

      Law enforcement is like everyone else. It’s time to stop talking about who’s good and bad. It’s time to stand and be counted!

    • Charlie Griffith says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 2:56 pm

      Thank you, Gene, that needed to be said.

      Frankly, as an aside, I’d wish that after all of these Muslim attacks against us, actually since the Barbary Coast days and the “…shores of Tripoli..” of that maritime piratical era, we could drop the euphemisms “radicals”, “jihadists”, “terrorist” and all that, and refer now to our Muslim enemy as Muslims. They say so themselves.

      They, as Muslims, repeatedly remind us non-Muslims that their aim is our subjugation if not outright murder. Our reticence here is “political correctness” carried to absurdity. It would appear that any “moderate Muslims” well established here in our midst are “moderate” only as far as their being apostates is not suspect, as apostates are to be killed. That’s a pretty good incentive for lapsing Muslims to remain “straight”, at least while in sight of their imams.

      The “moderate” Muslims are hard if not impossible to identify from the “actives” . The “actives” don’t wear uniforms inside our America, either.

      So, we desperately need to support Gene’s colleagues and all others remaining unmentioned for a variety of reasons who’re 24/7 our first line of defense, literally, in our war against Muslims here inside our America, and their subversion of, and infiltration of, all things American…..these Freedoms which we obviously take for granted. These can be taken from us.

    • Jan Fourowls says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 6:34 pm

      Thank you, Gene. Your service and the service of your good peers in law enforcement is very appreciated. There are bad apples in every barrel, in every setting, some socio-cultural settings (like Islamic ones) being far worse than others by the admission of their own unholy writings (like the Quran).

      You are especially appreciated today because without defenders of freedom it would be lost to us completely in this world.

    • Kepha says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 9:03 pm

      @Gene:

      Thanks for your service. I think it is a very good thing that in the older Anglo-American tradition, the police officer is the servant of the law rather than of the state. I’ve known a few police officers in different parts of the country, and they strike me as by and large decent and highly honorable members of the community.

    • WVinMN says

      Jul 5, 2014 at 2:13 am

      Gene, your leadership sucks. I believe you when you state that the rank and file police officers respect the constitution. However, the vast majority of police chiefs and DA’s that work in our major metropolitan areas amount to nothing more than marxist politicians. They openly flaunt the Bill of Rights (especially the 1st and 2nd amendments) and they rarely face any consequences for doing so.

  16. Reality Check says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 1:21 pm

    I am not an American but I wish all the Americans on this board a very glorious 4th of July.

    Also, I hope and pray that America will go back to its original self as soon as it can because it would be silly to deny that the moral state of America influences the moral health and happiness of the rest of the world.

    The less interested American administrations are in the suffering of Christians, Jews and those whose voices cannot be heard, the crueler and darker the whole world becomes.

    Praying for the fall of the Islamo-loving Obama and his unprincipled, cowardly, daft entourage and for their replacement with far better people,

    RC

    • Jan Fourowls says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 7:01 pm

      Amen!

      Praying too with you, RC (Ephesians 6:10-20; source the Holy Bible, not the unholy Quran).

      Without exception, not being a member of the military, law enforcement or national security agencies of my country, I would never take the first violent action against anyone (believing as history proves that Dietrich Bonhoeffer took a severely mistaken turn when he moved from praying and proclaiming into assassination action-planning assistance as a Christian against the evident evil of Hitler).

      But if today as “Independence Day” in the US means anything, I can proclaim here and pray against the POTUS and his entourage who are failing to defend my country’s borders, citizens and heritage from the encroachment of Islam’s hatred.

    • Kepha says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 9:07 pm

      Thanks, RC. Unfortunately, as a former officer of the US State Department and always a firm believer that our Constitution was written for a moral and religious people, I groan to see what we have become. May your country be spared our country’s fate, and if it’s got the same issues, may God turn around both of our lands.

  17. Always On Watch says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 2:03 pm

    Surely, surely, those of us who understand the meaning and application of the American ideals of freedom will not go down to defeat without fighting.

    Really, there is not much else in this life worth fighting for. It is our responsibility to secure the foundation for our posterity.

  18. voegelinian says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    A felicitous weekend to spend a couple of hours searching for legal loopholes in Constitutional law (i.e., for ways in which it can demonstrate an innate flexibility capable of bending but not breaking in response to a threat unforeseen, and unimagined, at the time of its framing).

    • Jan Fourowls says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 7:18 pm

      Sounds like fascinating and useful work, voegelinian. If you net constructive results, maybe this blog could post them as a resource for all of us who read here.

  19. Angemon says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 2:12 pm

    Happy 4th of July to all Americans out there!

    • Jan Fourowls says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 7:04 pm

      Thank you! Very kind.

  20. Anushirvan says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    “These truths may be self-evident, but they do not defend or protect themselves. It is up to those who value them to do that. ”

    Quite so. This is a big problem in the West as a whole, it’s not essentially an American problem. We have taken these concepts for granted in Europe also and we have been lulled to sleep in a world which we thought was going to embrace these concepts all over the place. The 21st century is proving us dead wrong, but we’re not going to wake up in time. At some stage we will be forced to fight.

    Thanks to the liberal dumbasses that have landed us right in it !

  21. Jay Boo says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    Happy Fourth to all Jihadwatchers!

    Be extra careful this weekend not to step into a pile of Islam.

    • Jan Fourowls says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 7:12 pm

      LOL, OMG, now I sound like one of those turn-off-your-cell-phones entreaties preceding a multi-plex summer blockbuster that I no longer watch in my fasting from entertainment media as a prayer booster. Media-fasting is also penance for my many years of backsliding, not to sound like I’m any kind of poster girl for extreme holiness, just as perfectly imperfect as the next Christian who’s being honest.

      You know God is working in my life when I didn’t go see the latest flash-and-trash Transformers movie with friends today! (I rationalized — its star is a devout Catholic, wouldn’t there be an exception, yada, yada. But in the end, I didn’t go, not that this is for everyone, just my prayer guidance.)

      Thanks for making us laugh, Jay Boo!

  22. duh_swami says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 4:19 pm

    Bar-B-Que’s, patriotic parades, a soap box derby, live music, and a crowded river. Tonight fireworks at the fairgrounds. And heard all day, shouts of USA , USA, USA… And somewhere in the background someone is singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. All in all a great 4th…

  23. boakai ngombu says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 4:52 pm

    ” … a determined and ruthless enemy that would love nothing more than to deprive us of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness….”

    hoisted my flag this morning. the southwind caught it. Red, White, Blue …. in the early sun. (so much better than AQ black)

    May we soon learn to treasure what we say we stand for and strive to conserve the Republic from the detractors and critics and traitors who are aligned with this and other enemies who seek to shed blood and destroy.

    we must not tolerate the Allah god of Islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) and its slaves who adhere to Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts) in all of this grotesque figure’s ugly ways.

    we must not tolerate introduction of any SHARIA principles into the lives of the citizenry, for otherwise we would become like Muhammad and be without our un – a – lean – able rights and freedoms. these should not be sold, forfeited, given away by those we elect to govern and should be protected by all.

    thank you Robert and JW contributors for all your work.

    • Jan Fourowls says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 8:25 pm

      It sounds like you’re an American patriot, Boakai, and if so, good for you!

      On this July 4th and every day, Boakai, I’m for unalienable rights about life and liberty (not un – a – lean – able, which sounds like something Americans wouldn’t be able to lean upon, but perhaps that’s not what you meant). It’s always lovely, as long as not a taqiyya tactic, for “old glory” to be unfurled in the red, white and blue.

      The US Founders used the word “unalienable” as defined by William Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1:93, when he defined unalienable rights as: “Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested … no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.” In other words a person may do something to forfeit their unalienable rights, for instance the unalienable right to freedom which can be forfeited by the commission of a crime for which they may be punished by their loss of freedom. However, once they are freed after serving their punishment their right is restored.

      In the horrific system of conquering criminality that is Islamic law (“scriptures” etc.), a non-Muslim could be deemed to forfeit any right to “freedom” defined insanely as adherence to Islam, and be subject to punishment. Muslims and the US founding principles of unalienable rights are inherently in conflict. Any fair reading of the Quran and any fair view of world history, since Muhammad came under satanic influence to start the abomination of Islam, proves the conflict.

      On this July 4th and every day, Boakai, I oppose the Islamic Republic of the newly announced caliphate and every past caliphate of Islam.

      As a kid every day in school I pledged allegiance to the flag of “the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands …” That’s the only Republic to which I have any loyalty while on this earth, other than my higher loyalty to the eternal kingdom of the true God.

      In the name of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, I pray that the one true triune God protect America from Muslim violence and encroachment, and that the one true triune God protect all non-Muslims in Africa, Australia, Asia, etc., you get the point — all non-Muslims all over the world — from Muslim violence and encroachment.

      • Jan Fourowls says

        Jul 4, 2014 at 8:48 pm

        P.S. and if you’re a brother from Africa, Baokai, or some other part of the world, I appreciate all kind thoughts about the US and freedom.

        Sometimes a comment is just a springboard (when I am able to be here at this blog) for other thoughts, not intended as negative commentary on anybody’s good faith support for all of us together concerned to proclaim against Islam and jihad.

        I’m always sorry for unintentionally seeming rude in online print to people of good will, in other words!

      • boakai ngombu says

        Jul 5, 2014 at 9:00 am

        Jan, thank you for the gentle spelling correction and your rightspirited comments

  24. Jan Fourowls says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 6:12 pm

    On the holiday marking the start of the US as a nation, I write in gratitude to this site for bringing the news that doesn’t seem to be aggregated anywhere else. And thanks to all here who love and care about human beings, the creation of our good Creator and the freedom in which the US was founded.

    To honor this July 4th here’s an American hero of modern times who lived through evil with Christ on his side: http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/50532/20140303/tom-brokaw-interview-angelina-jolie-directing-movie-about-hollywood-neighbor-unbroken-louis-zamperini.htm

    I admit and repent that it is so very easy to criticize (something I’ve done often) instead of seeing a fallen humanity (everywhere) that the true God can redeem from evil when we turn to Him. The majority of people didn’t invent the ways to evil that have become insidious and virtually omnipresent through postmodern technology in daily living since the WWII era.

    What we’ve all done as fallen people we’ve done in misguided efforts to survive, even hoping to thrive. I now find Jesus Christ as represented in the Bible to be the only way to the loving Father of all humanity. I now trust that eternal reality by experience among family and friends, history, archaeology, the aggregated multi-millenial record of the Bible for covenanted people in cultural evolution, and results in daily living.

    Along the way back home to strong adult faith as a Christian, I explored most other faiths and philosophies (having autodidact tendencies) but shunned Islam for reasons of its inherent hatefulness. The misogyny of Muslims is apparent by how males treat females (with a few token exceptions during stealth jihad), the internalized misogyny and societal Stockholm syndrome of women making them dangerous too. Women are relegated to virtual prisons in the home where I now know the Quran directs wife-beating — note how you typically see only men on streets pictured in Islam-dominated countries, only boys outside playing — and face-shrouded on rare occasions they get to go out. I knew from its behaviorally reflected misogny that Islam was evil before I’d read the Quran for myself.

    Now that I have read it, I can unequivocally say that Islam is a far worse response of evil than anything else currently and collectively on this planet. Reading in the Holy Spirit as a Christian whose faith meets orthodox and/or biblical standards, I find the Quran as a whole to be satanic. At the Quran’s far, far dark side of the spectrum of evil, I believe only the true God of all creation including His Christ operating through our thoughts, prayers and constructive actions is powerful enough to allow us to overcome jihadists whose lives have been possessed by such an evil Quran.

    Here’s the broadest brush for how we might paint this dilemma: People in Western civilization since WWII (even more since the 1980’s) have been MSM brainwashed and shamed by celebrity trendsetters as if stupid when they tried to believe in the evolution of Judeo-Christian values to freedom and mutual dignity, and the God who delivered those values. Churches (which I know about from lifelong experience, with no experience about synagogues) have failed to repent of their own wrongs corporately (with some notable church exceptions bearing solid fruit). Self-righteousness, sins against basics like the ten commandments and/or nitpicking condemnations have existed in churchgoers (and I’ve not been exempt from the failures).

    This failure of Christians has pushed so many in the US out of the church and into the hands of socio-cultural brainwashers via media, cable programming being a major offender. Thus most Americans don’t know and seem mind-fogged from realizing what’s really happening with the evil of Islam — folks are more interested in whatever is this week’s hot-topic version of Breaking Bad, and it stays in their heads to push out anything more eternally true.

    Then because without the true God (not the evilly manufactured Muhammadan “Allah”) it is impossible not to feel at least the shimmer of despair from human failures, arising to numb the pain is more entertainment and consumerism at the more benign side of the spectrum — while stealth jihad and its comrade violent jihad rise up under the pure evil of Allah.

    Yes, Islam is an ideology of conquest masquerading as a religion of purity but it is only pure evil. No amount of posturing, bowing and media contentions to the contrary will make Ramadan anything but a concerted effort of satanic consciousness to invoke the evil one’s supernatural power to destroy Jews and Christians as well as all non-Muslims.

    Satan since his fall has always hated people, and God’s love for people, according to the Bible record. (The earliest biblical history shows God working with a young, arrogant, fallen tribal people of the Middle East — some of whose male and female leaders truly loved the Lord their God — and who as a covenant people were at least somewhat more willing to try accepting the true God than their more ruthless competing tribes.) Islam is a perfect picture of how Satan would craft a scheming, violent religion that kills people.

    The higher fact is — as witnessed by credible witnesses and recorded almost contemporaneously by ancient standards from extensive oral history of a people lacking in modern linearity of thought — Jesus Christ was crucified and resurrected (which Islam denies). The true miracle of the resurrection is the linchpin by which Christianity did not fall into history’s dustbin as just another short-term Jewish sect of messiahship. The reality of Christ and His resurrection (heralding believers’ own infinite victory over sin and evil) is how earliest Christian martyrs bravely went to their deaths (instead of recanting their Lord of love), knowing their eternal salvation, and further expanding the faith.

    By the greater supernatural reality of Jesus, Islam and all works of the evil one have been ultimately overcome in an end-of-days eschatological sense. From here, today, we can ask what can we do to honor that supreme self-sacrifice of divine love, and how can we best serve the greater good of a very good God while history is still playing itself out.

    As an American with free speech and freedom of religion guaranteed by the Constitution, I won’t honor overt Satanists as a genuine religion of anything holy, even though they call themselves religious, and I won’t honor Islam either for similar reasons. The current POTUS (I didn’t vote for him, and his overly privileged contender left lots to be desired) can say all he wants that the future doesn’t belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam — but truth is an absolute defense to slander and I tell a truth that anybody can also see if they can read, and do read the Quran written by Muhammad as putative prophet.

    I will not by silence condone the countless ways Muslims throughout the globe symbolize religious lust for dominance over Christians and Jews geographically, culturally, legally and societally. Without prayer and the providence of our true God, we fast approach an Islamofascist America where it would be labeled Islamophobic to teach founding patriot Patrick Henry’s famous “give me liberty or give me death” speech because it also quoted from the Bible. “For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace.” Jeremiah 8:11 (KJV).

    Without my strong assurance and faith in the authentic (not the bastardized Islamic) Jesus Christ as author and finisher of the faith, “Christus Victor” over the Evil One, I would not celebrate today in the US knowing what could be coming as terrorism under this particular POTUS when the IS caliphate has been declared.

    This and every day, I decry the suffering that Islam brings everywhere.

    And so I ask you, if you’re non-Muslim praying people, please say a little prayer for the US and her people from now through this July 4th weekend along these lines:

    (1) Any weapon formed against the US by Muslims or their allies will not prosper;
    (2) Heroes and heroines will be vigilant among the rank-and-file people from young to old, from students to parents and off-duty military, from sea to shining sea, traveling, gathering in stadiums and large venues to watch fireworks and hear music, to notice, report and block any efforts of Islamic terror on US soil or adjacent air and water;
    (3) Heroic law enforcement folks of all types, on and off duty (from highway patrol and city and county and federal police officers and agents to on-duty military, private security guards, the Border Patrol and TSA) will likewise bear the task to be the eyes and ears on the ground to notice, report and block any efforts of Islamic terror on US soil or adjacent air and water; and
    (4) If there are any thwarted plans for Islamic terrorism, all co-conspirators leave an unmistakable trail of evidence gathered and handled heroically by those who will refuse to bury or contaminate the evidence even if bribed, so that full prosecution can occur as well as credible and extensive news coverage through everything from cell-phone cameras and online social media and blogs to reporting media presenting facts to a global public about the truth of Islam in violent action plan.

    And please know I’m praying the same four-fold prayer for all non-Muslim people the world over!

    If you’re willing to pray, I’d prefer it in prayed in Jesus’ name, if that fits for you, but any compassionate thought or prayer is welcome because God will honor the caring intentions of your heart wherever you are.

    May there be blessings on all people of genuine good will, this and every day, for freedom under the true God who gives free will to all people, to choose (or not) Him and His way. Jesus came from Jewish roots and killed no one, but came down to us as true God for redemption and relationship, to be our Christ. “Allah,” as invented six centuries later by the Quran Muhammad wrote, directs Muslims to scheme against Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims, and also to kill us, which Muslims did from their beginning and still do with a vengeance in today’s world.

    The Quran is a hate-crimes army manual one man wrote. The Bible shows through the evolution of its multi-millenial writers that the true God wants us to quit fighting and move to the winning side. But until that day, we have prayer to the true God as spiritual warfare, and we deserve the heroism of self-defense of our nation.

    • Kepha says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 9:12 pm

      Jan Fourowls:

      Glad to see there’s yet another Bible-thumper around here! 🙂

      • Jan Fourowls says

        Jul 5, 2014 at 3:33 am

        Thank you, Kepha … “where two or more are gathered …”

      • Jan Fourowls says

        Jul 5, 2014 at 3:35 am

        Thank you, Kepha … “where two or more are gathered [in prayer to the true God] …”

  25. voegelinian says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 6:52 pm

    Took a long walk through several miles of middle class neighborhoods in the suburb of a major American city. I saw only one house with an American flag posted out front (or anywhere).

    • Wellington says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 7:04 pm

      Not in my middle class neighborhood, voegelinian, and I live within close proximty of one of the 10 largest cities in America. Still, I understand your larger point.

      American patriotism is waning and not waxing. Culptrits here, among so many, are too much government (tmg); a cluelessness that freedom must be accompanied by vigilance, knowledge and responsibility; an ever increasing ignorance of the American past; Muslim immigration, the non-securing of our southern border; gutlessness by Republicans; mindlessness by Democrats; and a society in general that has it so good that it takes a great deal of such good for granted.

  26. pumbar says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 6:56 pm

    America is finished. There is no fight left in the people, they are cowards and it serves them right.

    • Wellington says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 7:15 pm

      America is finished? Really? Reconsider. I tell you plainly that America is far from finished, though the many doofuses in charge (starting with Obama) can make it seem at times that America is finished. Well, it isn’t. Count on it.

      • Mirren10 says

        Jul 5, 2014 at 12:19 pm

        Wellington, pumbar is a fellow Brit.

        I think he/she is being sarcastic, in view of some Americans here who appear to take inordinate schadenfreude over what they opine as our spinelessness, and who declare ‘Britain is finished’.

        Anyway, I hope you had a lovely 4th July ! Long live the West !

        • Wellington says

          Jul 5, 2014 at 8:56 pm

          Well, if pumbar is sarcastic, Mirren10, it is indeed a rather well disguised sarcasm. Respecting, though, any American gloating about Britain, I have never done so and would actually warn against it. Criticism at times has been warranted (as it has of America, especially under Obama), but gloating never.

          I do grieve for what Britain is becoming but I take no pleasure in it whatsoever. And I still believe in a deep resolve that resides in the British people and which will finally manifest itself and throw off being run by fools like Blair, Gordon, Cameron and those at the BBC. Someday, eh?

          Thanks for the best wishes about our 4th. Coming from a Brit, it is extra gracious. Take care, my British friend.

        • pumbar says

          Jul 5, 2014 at 10:46 pm

          Aww, shucks Jan you got me! Happy belated 4th of July Wellington.

    • Foolster41 says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 7:22 pm

      Hardly. I saw a video today about how 35% of voters think Obama is the worst president in the last 50 years, and 45% said they would have been better off with Romney winning. That gives me some hope.

      Of course things are bad, but I don’t think we’re quite doomed yet.

  27. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 4, 2014 at 8:13 pm

    It’s already *5th* July here in Australia.

    But I’ll take the opportunity to wish a very happy and fun 4th July to all USA jihadwatchers.

    Have a great day. And may all jihad plots intended for this day, come to nothing; may they fail miserably, or else be fortunately foiled.

    • Jan Fourowls says

      Jul 4, 2014 at 8:32 pm

      Yes, thank you! The sentiments about foiled jihadist plots are very appreciated from our Australian friends.

      My spiritual brother, so to speak, http://www.scotfourowls.com/about.html, likes Dumbledore very much!

  28. dsinc says

    Jul 5, 2014 at 4:01 am

    It’s the 5th July here in South Africa. A belated Happy Independance Day to all who celebrate this day.

  29. Carmen Sporidis says

    Jul 5, 2014 at 4:58 am

    They will not conquer us. All these fanatics can not build anything useful, no medicine to cure one child, have you heart they can fix an armour or Aercraft. They are destroyer, all I care, let them destroy each other. No other asylum seekers except Christians and this Muslims who accept our values, the remaining send back.

  30. GWS says

    Jul 5, 2014 at 4:38 pm

    Even in 1775 it was less than a third of the population who thought liberty was worth fighting for. In all times the majority are “too busy to care “… until it’s too late.

    Dr. Emanuel Tanya – “Very few people were true Nazis,’ he said, ‘but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come.’

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