-- John Hancock, 1775
"In circumstances dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that, whilst every prudent Measure should be taken to ward off the impending Judgments ... All confidence must be withheld from the Means we use; and reposed only on that GOD who rules in the Armies of Heaven, and without whose Blessing the best human Counsels are but Foolishness -- and all created Power Vanity."
-- John Hancock, 1775 News Channel 5 NASHVILLE, Tenn. - After the tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School, one local father and former Marine is standing guard at his children's school and parents said he's a welcome addition to the school. Jordan Pritchard, a former Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, pulled down his old Marine Corps uniform from the attic Sunday night and decided to make a difference in his community. When he was in the military his job was to keep our country safe and for the next week he planned bring that safety home by standing guard outside the front door of Gower Elementary School. He said it's his responsibility. "I'm doing this because we need hope man. We need hope," explained Pritchard. He's a volunteer. He's not getting paid. He's not even armed, but parent said they feel a whole lot better about leaving their children at school while he's been at the front door. The shooting massacre in Newtown, Connecticut was a thousand miles away, but what happened there hits too close to home. Pritchard said it's his duty, and parents are appreciative. "If you are able and capable of doing something you have the responsibility to act," he said. Sarah Knies has 2nd and 3rd graders who attend Gower Elementary School. She said she was comforted knowing Pritchard was there. "He made me feel good. Just to know that he stood up and did something to make us all feel better today," she explained. Many parents, staff and students stopped by to thank Pritchard. "When parents come up to me and they're crying and thanking me for being out here," Pritchard said. "There's no job in the world that can pay me enough money to not do things for the kids and the parents." Pritchard also has children who attend Gower Elementary School: a daughter, Valerie, in second grade and a son, Colby, in first grade. He insists his actions have not just been about them. He said he feels is about something much bigger. "We have to live this life for other people. That's the only way that happiness and true peace and hope will come back to our nation is when we all come back together and love each other," he said. Sergeant Pritchard plans to stand guard at the school until Wednesday, when Metro Schools finish for the year. Tom Hoefling: "Men who will only be restrained by the will and force of good men who are armed"12/15/2012 MinutemanRKBA.com
"When a liberal sees a firearm they see a fearful weapon that they wish only to be in the hands of government, naively ignoring the obvious facts that: 1) Criminals are never going to follow their fond wishes, 2) Officers of government are most often not going to be there for them in a crisis, 3) We the People are the government in America, the sovereign, and the sovereign must possess the physical means to protect their people and their country from all enemies, foreign or domestic. When a conservative sees a firearm he sees a primary implement of liberty, one that can be misused by evil men, of course, but that is, nonetheless, an indispensable tool, because this is a fallen world which contains many evil men, men who will only be restrained by the will and force of good men who are armed." -- Tom Hoefling, December 15, 2012 From America's Party leader Kevin M. Nelson:
Words cannot adequately express the intensely devastating and tragic events that occurred in Connecticut today that has left friends, relatives, neighbors and countrymen, with a deep wound tonight. As a parent, I am heartbroken for those who lost their little ones today, and thankful for the health and safety of my own. As a man, I am angry that another man would inflict such pure evil upon others, especially children, stealing so many bright futures, shattering the innocence of even more left behind. As a human, this cowardly act defies understanding, but as a Christian I must acknowledge that nothing less than evil was present in Newtown today, and that only God, who allows all men to commit acts of free-will, but is never more than a heart’s cry away to bring peace and comfort when those acts contradict His goodness. As an American, I am troubled that the leader of our Nation would deviate from an otherwise honorable speech, even if ever so briefly, to say “we need to do something meaningful about guns in this country”, leaving millions upon millions of upstanding American citizens concerned about their firearms being more heavily controlled or confiscated, all because a cowardly madman committed a heinous act unthinkable to most. We as a Nation among nations need to do something meaningful about evil that breeds violence, or else even the butter knives best be locked away. I ask you to join me in sincere and faithful prayers that God Almighty would help the community of Newtown find hope, peace and comfort in the coming days, and feel a touch from Him that transcends the outpouring of love we as a Nation now embrace them with. "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
-- Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857 "Defend our God-given, unalienable, equal rights to life, liberty, and property, one man-one woman marriage and the natural family, our right to keep and bear arms, our national sovereignty, security and borders, our republican form of representative self-government, and our Constitution. That's all we require. It's not complicated, and it's not too much to ask."
-- Tom Hoefling, Chairman, America's Party http://www.selfgovernment.us/leadership-pledge.html "[W]e are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
-- Patrick Henry, 'Give me liberty or give me death' speech “We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren scepter in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed.”
-- President Calvin Coolidge, Speech given in Philadelphia, PA, July 4, 1926, on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence |
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