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During the difficult winter of 1777-1778, Americans were making every effort to endure their trials at Valley Forge, PA. Brave patriots were suffering from starvation, improper attire to survive the harsh elements, and a lack of ammunition. While Washington and his men were dealing with their privation, the British, on the other hand, after having captured Philadelphia, were spending the winter in comfort. The Patriots had tried unsuccessfully to re-capture Philadelphia and were discouraged. America was actually losing the war for independence, and many of our famous forefathers were fearful that they would be hung by the British when spring arrived.
They were in desperate need of aid to overcome their many hardships.
Haym Salomon, a Jewish investment banker from Philadelphia, was a true patriot devoted to the cause of independence from British rule. A member of the Sons of Liberty, Salomon was arrested and imprisoned by the British for being a spy. After being released, he was once more arrested, tortured, and condemned to hang. However, with assistance from other Patriots, he escaped and went to Philadelphia. At this time he was completely broke, but went back to work to earn money to help the Patriot cause.
Salamon raised money from American Jews, as well as European Jews, in support of the patriot cause for freedom. This money, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, was given to General George Washington to feed, clothe, and arm the Continental Army. Diaries of the Revolutionary leaders bear witness to the fact--"that when money was needed for the Revolutionary War, you went to Haym Salomon." Because of the generous support of the Jewish people, Washington was able to turn the tide in the war for our freedom and win America its independence.
In 1654, Asher Levy, one of the original twenty-three Jewish settlers in New Amsterdam (New York), demanded and secured for himself and fellow Jews the right to stand guard at the stockade. From Colonial time to the present, Jews have played an important role in the defense of the United States of America. On July 31, 1776, Frances Salvador, a plantation owner from South Carolina, was killed in a British incited Indian skirmish. He was the first Jew killed in the Revolutionary War. One hundred and twenty years later, in 1896, a group of Jewish Civil War veterans organized the Hebrew Union Veterans, an organization that was later to become the Jewish War Veterans of the USA. The Hebrew Union Veterans was founded as a direct result of slander that Jews had not participated in the military during the War Between States.
What concerned Jewish veterans then, and throughout America's history, concerns Jewish veterans today. Jews must still defend themselves against the canards of anti-Semites who continue to declare that Jews have not served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Thousands of Jews have died in combat for their country and thousands more have been wounded. Thousands of Jews have been awarded combat medals for performing their duty in time of war. Despite this record, the bigots continue to spread their lies/propaganda about the Jews. Some bigots even dare have the nerve to insinuate Jews have no right to work hard in this country and become successful. Some would have us think we should separate these Jews out from Americans when these are Jewish Americans whose ancestors have fought in every war this country has been involved in. Never do I recall a time looking at someone's last name in this country to decide whether I am going to vote for them or not. Yet many Muslims are making lists with Jewish names stating the political offices they hold or they are CEO of this company or that company, etc. It's disgusting!
A study of Jewish participation in the military during World War II clearly indicates Jews served in the Armed Forces beyond their numerical proportion to the general population. They received more than 52,000 awards, including the coveted Congressional Medal of Honor. Jews participated in the Korean War, in Vietnam, and most recently in the Persian Gulf War.
Today, the Jewish War Veterans of the USA combats anti-Semitism and bigotry. JWV assists the Office of Special Investigation in pursuing Nazi war criminals. JWV supports American youth through scouting, scholarships and anti-drug programs. JWV assists oppressed Jews worldwide. The organization supports strong U.S.-Israeli relations by sponsoring two Allied Veterans' Missions to Israel each year.
JWV is dedicated to America's veterans. Through its hospital, rehabilitation and veterans' service programs, JWV assists the Veterans' Service Offices in major cities throughout the country. JWV supports the underprivileged, homeless, and handicapped of our nation through a variety of civic betterment projects, including low-cost, federally subsidized senior citizens housing.
The Jewish War Veterans of the USA represents a proud tradition of patriotism and service to America. JWV is known as the "Patriotic Voice of American Jewry".
How dare Muslims try to say Jews do not have a right to be our leaders in this country!!! How dare Muslims try to say Jews do not have a right to be successful in this country…THEIR COUNTRY!!! How dare Muslims try to say Jews only have Israel at heart when they have fought and died in many wars for America and have been in this country since the very beginnings of this country!!! I just came from another message board where a Muslim was listing all the American Jews who held political offices and said we needed to get them out of office. What??? These Jewish Americans were elected to these political offices and have just as much of a right to be there as a German American, Irish American, African American, etc, etc, etc. We have all lived here peacefully for a very long time. Rarely did any Americans look at people’s last names and think, OhMyGosh, they’re a German American, we better not elect them for office. Now many Muslims come to this country with their hatemongering, propaganda spreading ways and I, for one, am fed up with it. I’m going to spread this as far and wide and for as long as I possibly can. Jews have been picked on for many, many years, and now we have Muslims wanting another Holocaust against them so bad they can't hardly stand it. Shame on them!
Muslims need to learn to love their children more than they hate Israel. They can assimilate into this country, stop spreading their hatred and lies and start trying to love EVERYBODY and love and respect this country for what it stands for or go back to their Islamic countries. Our ancestors and founding fathers did not fight and die just to have Muslims come in here and try to take this country over with a system and politics even worse than what they were running from.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Our Spineless Congress
Our Spineless Congress
By Julian Krasta
Once upon a time, in a more refined dimension, the Congress of the United States pledged allegiance to the Constitution and to the Stars & Stripes. Today, the Majority of this once august body are now using every foul tactic to clean America’s clock and ruin the lives of its citizens.
They have become the machinery of bully tactics, threats, and deceit. And they are functioning without resistance.
The mainstream media and ACORN are components of this machinery: They operate, construct, and destruct with impunity. We witnessed as they mocked decency, truth, and the laws during the presidential campaign. We watched as they stepped on heads and carried Obama across the finish line to victory: the MSM with their happy-go-lucky propaganda, and ACORN with their “ballot management.”
Congress bought the “hope & change” flimflam then sold their souls into slavery in the same way the German Army gave a blood oath to Hitler as Hindenburg lay in state. And just like those goose-stepping storm troopers, the Majority in Congress consider their “führer” and our homeland as one and the same.
The singular difference between Adolf and Barack is, at least Hitler preached unity. Obama has not, in my memory, stated in either broad or narrow terms that ours is one union; that we are one people, indivisible beneath one flag – our liberties guaranteed by the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
There is, however, one glaring similarity: Just like Germany in 1933, America today is in a permanent state of emergency. Following are some of the reasons why:
The Majority in Congress are misusing their power to force the American People to regurgitate our Constitutional rights, our freedoms, and the principles by which we live.
And if that weren’t enough, that chatty cobra, Nancy Pelosi, expects us to accept as nutritious replacements the skewed gristle that spews from Capitol Hill.
Brutes reject respectability, morality, common sense, and responsibility. On the basis of their performance, in my estimation this Congress are such brutes: incapable of feeling any empathy; and they will never express remorse over, or apologize for, their swaggering or for their self-serving doctrines, the results of which are grief and hardship inflicted on the American People.
Every day and everywhere I go I see pain, confusion, defeat, and anger on people’s faces. Bulking up these maladies is fear, because, for example, the gutless wonders in the Senate have agreed with Obama to close down production on the F 22 fighter jets. The Obama-owned House and Senate are taking the slow but very accurate route for preparing America to be defenseless against a terrorist attack.
And there is that malignant healthcare reform plan, or as I call it, “Health Control.” How mighty arrogant of Obama and his crypt keepers to assume they have the required knowledge to pass judgment on our personal health issues – that they have the right to intrude on our right to our own life or death decisions.
But that’s not the half of it. Information has just been released that Obama has appointed Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (Rahm Emanuel’s brother) as one of the overseers of our health. How familial.
Assuming this farshtunken bill passes, where are the thousands more doctors, internists, pediatricians, heart surgeons, brain surgeons, surgery assistants, oncologists, anesthesiologists, nurses, nurse practitioners, technicians, physical therapists, orthopedists, researchers, crisis counselors, hospice care providers, administrative staffs, paramedics and other emergency personnel (to name only a few) who will be needed for the millions of patients who will be herded into this medical corral?
The Majority in Congress must be witless to believe that if Obama rubs his rubies together all the aforementioned medical professionals will magically materialize.
What about hospitals, clinics, laboratories, research facilities, rest homes for our elders and shut-ins, and emergency medical transports? Are they under construction or ready to go? Will they be fully equipped with up-to-date, life-saving technologies, medications, and treatments? Will there be critical care and intensive care units? Will there be state-of-the-art surgical theaters or will it be meatball surgery in M.A.S.H. tents?
What about our military veterans who have suffered devastating physical and emotional injuries defending our country and our freedom? Will they receive the appropriate care they deserve? Or will they be shoved even further under the Congressional carpet?
And what about children’s hospitals like St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for the critically ill? Will our little ones suffering from cancers and other life-threatening diseases succumb under a Congressional axe because the sitting bulls in the House and Senate were too timid, or too pathologically proud, or too daft to stand up to Obama and say “No way”?
The Majority in Congress are putting their dirty details ahead of the People and the safety of this nation. Everything they say and do is planned to place themselves above the laws of the land and as far beyond the reach of the American People as possible.
They do this because they blindly support a reptilian ideology, which is a hatred for capitalism and an incomprehensible grudge against individuals’ rights. It is by this ideology that they will confiscate more and more tax dollars from Americans who are already pushed beyond our financial limits – just the way the Third Reich confiscated the property of persons they deemed “inferior,” “impure,” or “undesirable.”
If you don’t think they’re not looking down their noses at us, just ask around as to who the genius is in the House who wrote the term “mentally retarded” into that bill. That alone reveals the attitude of the Bolsheviks that were voted into power in Washington.
What other insensitive terminologies have been written into that bill? Will persons who must wear glasses in order to see be called “Four-eyes”? Will senior citizens be graded “Geezers”? Will those with attention deficit disorders or learning disabilities be classified as “ Lamebrain” or “Dummy,” etcetera?
What’s next? Is Barack “We are not a Christian Nation” Obama planning on rewriting the laws of gravity?
The “senseless” in this country voted the spineless, the useless, the reckless, and the mysterious into power. And those men and women have set loose virulent political contagions that are spreading like wildfires across our land and into our homes and our lives.
Nevertheless, there is a stubborn faith inside me that remains strong in my fellow citizens. We must continue to hassle Congresspersons until they do what we want. If they refuse, we will vote out all the Lennys, the Squiggys, the Lavernes, and the Shirleys in the upcoming 2010 elections. We must never submit or quit.
Politicians, bureaucrats, demagogues and dictators historically underestimate constituents, which is always their biggest blunder. At this very moment Democrat, Republican, Independent, Moderate, and non-partisan voters are rising up like the sea – ready, willing and able to clear the decks of these subservient charlatans. Once we sort them out, we will then sweep clean all the dirty details they had forced upon us.
And after we dust ourselves off, the power in America will be restored to its fearless and rightful owner: The People.
Julian Krasta may be contacted at semperfieternal@aol.com.
By Julian Krasta
Once upon a time, in a more refined dimension, the Congress of the United States pledged allegiance to the Constitution and to the Stars & Stripes. Today, the Majority of this once august body are now using every foul tactic to clean America’s clock and ruin the lives of its citizens.
They have become the machinery of bully tactics, threats, and deceit. And they are functioning without resistance.
The mainstream media and ACORN are components of this machinery: They operate, construct, and destruct with impunity. We witnessed as they mocked decency, truth, and the laws during the presidential campaign. We watched as they stepped on heads and carried Obama across the finish line to victory: the MSM with their happy-go-lucky propaganda, and ACORN with their “ballot management.”
Congress bought the “hope & change” flimflam then sold their souls into slavery in the same way the German Army gave a blood oath to Hitler as Hindenburg lay in state. And just like those goose-stepping storm troopers, the Majority in Congress consider their “führer” and our homeland as one and the same.
The singular difference between Adolf and Barack is, at least Hitler preached unity. Obama has not, in my memory, stated in either broad or narrow terms that ours is one union; that we are one people, indivisible beneath one flag – our liberties guaranteed by the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
There is, however, one glaring similarity: Just like Germany in 1933, America today is in a permanent state of emergency. Following are some of the reasons why:
The Majority in Congress are misusing their power to force the American People to regurgitate our Constitutional rights, our freedoms, and the principles by which we live.
And if that weren’t enough, that chatty cobra, Nancy Pelosi, expects us to accept as nutritious replacements the skewed gristle that spews from Capitol Hill.
Brutes reject respectability, morality, common sense, and responsibility. On the basis of their performance, in my estimation this Congress are such brutes: incapable of feeling any empathy; and they will never express remorse over, or apologize for, their swaggering or for their self-serving doctrines, the results of which are grief and hardship inflicted on the American People.
Every day and everywhere I go I see pain, confusion, defeat, and anger on people’s faces. Bulking up these maladies is fear, because, for example, the gutless wonders in the Senate have agreed with Obama to close down production on the F 22 fighter jets. The Obama-owned House and Senate are taking the slow but very accurate route for preparing America to be defenseless against a terrorist attack.
And there is that malignant healthcare reform plan, or as I call it, “Health Control.” How mighty arrogant of Obama and his crypt keepers to assume they have the required knowledge to pass judgment on our personal health issues – that they have the right to intrude on our right to our own life or death decisions.
But that’s not the half of it. Information has just been released that Obama has appointed Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (Rahm Emanuel’s brother) as one of the overseers of our health. How familial.
Assuming this farshtunken bill passes, where are the thousands more doctors, internists, pediatricians, heart surgeons, brain surgeons, surgery assistants, oncologists, anesthesiologists, nurses, nurse practitioners, technicians, physical therapists, orthopedists, researchers, crisis counselors, hospice care providers, administrative staffs, paramedics and other emergency personnel (to name only a few) who will be needed for the millions of patients who will be herded into this medical corral?
The Majority in Congress must be witless to believe that if Obama rubs his rubies together all the aforementioned medical professionals will magically materialize.
What about hospitals, clinics, laboratories, research facilities, rest homes for our elders and shut-ins, and emergency medical transports? Are they under construction or ready to go? Will they be fully equipped with up-to-date, life-saving technologies, medications, and treatments? Will there be critical care and intensive care units? Will there be state-of-the-art surgical theaters or will it be meatball surgery in M.A.S.H. tents?
What about our military veterans who have suffered devastating physical and emotional injuries defending our country and our freedom? Will they receive the appropriate care they deserve? Or will they be shoved even further under the Congressional carpet?
And what about children’s hospitals like St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for the critically ill? Will our little ones suffering from cancers and other life-threatening diseases succumb under a Congressional axe because the sitting bulls in the House and Senate were too timid, or too pathologically proud, or too daft to stand up to Obama and say “No way”?
The Majority in Congress are putting their dirty details ahead of the People and the safety of this nation. Everything they say and do is planned to place themselves above the laws of the land and as far beyond the reach of the American People as possible.
They do this because they blindly support a reptilian ideology, which is a hatred for capitalism and an incomprehensible grudge against individuals’ rights. It is by this ideology that they will confiscate more and more tax dollars from Americans who are already pushed beyond our financial limits – just the way the Third Reich confiscated the property of persons they deemed “inferior,” “impure,” or “undesirable.”
If you don’t think they’re not looking down their noses at us, just ask around as to who the genius is in the House who wrote the term “mentally retarded” into that bill. That alone reveals the attitude of the Bolsheviks that were voted into power in Washington.
What other insensitive terminologies have been written into that bill? Will persons who must wear glasses in order to see be called “Four-eyes”? Will senior citizens be graded “Geezers”? Will those with attention deficit disorders or learning disabilities be classified as “ Lamebrain” or “Dummy,” etcetera?
What’s next? Is Barack “We are not a Christian Nation” Obama planning on rewriting the laws of gravity?
The “senseless” in this country voted the spineless, the useless, the reckless, and the mysterious into power. And those men and women have set loose virulent political contagions that are spreading like wildfires across our land and into our homes and our lives.
Nevertheless, there is a stubborn faith inside me that remains strong in my fellow citizens. We must continue to hassle Congresspersons until they do what we want. If they refuse, we will vote out all the Lennys, the Squiggys, the Lavernes, and the Shirleys in the upcoming 2010 elections. We must never submit or quit.
Politicians, bureaucrats, demagogues and dictators historically underestimate constituents, which is always their biggest blunder. At this very moment Democrat, Republican, Independent, Moderate, and non-partisan voters are rising up like the sea – ready, willing and able to clear the decks of these subservient charlatans. Once we sort them out, we will then sweep clean all the dirty details they had forced upon us.
And after we dust ourselves off, the power in America will be restored to its fearless and rightful owner: The People.
Julian Krasta may be contacted at semperfieternal@aol.com.
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