The Bill of Rights Vs. the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto
Today, December 15 marks the 234th anniversary of the Bill of Rights-the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
During the Constitutional Convention, there were some delegates who refused to support the proposed Constitution unless it contained a Bill of Rights; George Mason and Elbridge Gerry led the way. Delegates James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, was initially against a Bill of Rights believing that since the U.S. Constitution granted specific powers to the federal government, there was no need for a Bill of Rights. Mason and Gerry proposed a Bill of Rights on September 12, 1787, a few days before the Constitution was approved by the delegates. Roger Sherman of Connecticut rightfully contented that the proposed federal Constitution had no authority to repeal Bills of Rights enshrined in state constitutions. It was unanimously rejected by states each having one vote. James Wilson of Pennsylvania warned that by expressly listing rights, those that weren’t listed did not exist. This legitimate concerned was addressed by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
James Madison changed his position, and he made the issue of proposing a Bill of Rights a key part of his Congressional campaign. One of the first things Madison did as a member of Congress was to propose a Bill of Rights. On September 25, 1789, Congress agreed to 12 Amendments and submitted them to the states for ratification needing 3/4ths for approval. On December 15, 1791, Virginia ratified amendments three to twelve making them part of the Constitution. The second proposed amendment concerning Congressional pay raises was eventually ratified in 1992.
On December 15 of each year, it is my habit to ask people in my travels what we celebrate today. Very few people have answered correctly. What is even more troubling is that most people who take our ten question quiz on the U.S. Constitution think that “From each according to his ability–to each according to his needs” is part of the Bill of Rights. One of those persons was a New Hampshire Republican running for a federal office. And who can blame them? Both major political parties accept the welfare state. The voting records of our Congressional delegation are to the left of Lenin, and the majority of voters are okay with it.
Karl Marx, and the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto
After the results of elections in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia, socialism, and communism, two evil political and economic systems, are alive and well in our nation. This should come as no surprise, According to my friend Dr. Duke Pesta of Freedom Project Academy and a tenured professor at a state college in Wisconsin, the Communist Manifesto is the most read book in state universities.
Karl Marx was one of the more loathsome figures in History. He was born in 1818 to an upper middle class family in Prussia. According to Pastor Richard Wumbrand in his book Marx and Satan, Marx embraced Christianity as a young man but rejected the faith and became a satanist. Marx would refer to his writings as “devilish muddle.” Although he came from a Jewish background, Marx was both an anti-Semite and a racist. He authored the book A World Without Jews and would refer to those he disliked, which was almost everyone, as “Jews with Negro blood. He died in 1883 but his evil and deadly legacy lives on.
Back in the early 1990s, a was a guest speaker at a conservative Baptist college. Over lunch, one of the students said that “communism is good in theory, but it hasn’t been run by the right people.” I replied: ‘That is like saying Hell is a good place.” It just needs to be run by the right demons. A reading of Marx’s Manifesto can easily prove my point.
In his manifesto, Marx wrote “But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality…” He called for the destruction of the family and labeled motherhood and fatherhood “bourgeois claptrap.” He promoted for free education for all children run by communist teachers. Here are the ten planks he outlined in his manifesto:
- Abolition of Property in Land and Application of all Rents of Land to Public Purpose
- A Heavy Progressive or Graduated Income Tax.
- Abolition of All Rights of Inheritance
- Confiscation of the Property of All Emigrants and Rebels.
- Centralization of Credit in the Hands of the State, by Means of a National Bank with State Capital and an Exclusive Monopoly.
- Centralization of the Means of Communication and Transport in the Hands of the State.
- Extension of Factories and Instruments of Production Owned by the State, the Bringing Into Cultivation of Waste Lands, and the Improvement of the Soil Generally in Accordance with a Common Plan.
- Equal Liability of All to Labor. Establishment of Industrial Armies, Especially for Agriculture.
- Combination of Agriculture with Manufacturing Industries; Gradual Abolition of the Distinction Between Town and Country by a More Equable Distribution of the Population over the Country.
- Free Education for All Children in Public Schools. Abolition of Children’s Factory Labor in its Present Form. Combination of Education with Industrial Production.
Most of these plans are either partially or fully implemented in our nation. Plank two became the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.
Contrast Marx to our Bill of Rights
I, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
II, A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
III, No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
IV, The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
- No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
- In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
VII. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
VIII. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
- The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
- The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
The Bill of Rights did not give us rights. We already had them. Rights come from God, and the main purpose of government is to protect these God given rights. Today, most elected officials would laugh in derision at this and declare those who proclaim it as “Christian Nationalists.” The Bill of Rights was a list of restrictions against Congress. On the other hand, the ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto is a list of rights taken away from people. Our founding fathers left us a legacy of freedom. Marx and his minions left us a legacy of genocide, and tyranny.
At the end of the 1787 Constitution Convention, Mrs. Elizabeth Powel asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government was created at the Convention. He replied, “A republic if you can keep it.” As we go into our 250th birthday, let’s hope that we not only “keep it” but banish communist and its twin socialism into the dust bins of history where they so rightly deserve to be. Readers who would like a pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution may request one from me campconstitution1@gmail.com
Will the United States Become a Muslim Nation? An Interview with Beber Diamond of the Mordecai Mission
Hal Shurtleff. host of the Camp Constitution Report, interviews Bebe Diamond of the Mordecai Mission https://mordecaimission.net/ and daughter of the late Barbara from Harlem. Hal and Bebe discuss the political influence of Muslims in the United States.
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Pearl Harbor Day of Remembrance from President Trump
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
On December 7, 1941, a peaceful Sunday morning on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was shattered by an unprovoked attack by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and the aircraft and hangars at Kaneohe, Ford Island, Barbers Point, and Hickam Field. The surprise offensive claimed the lives of 2,403 American service members and civilians and propelled our Nation into the Second World War.
The Japanese mission was designed to cripple our military assets and obliterate the American spirit, but instead, the fatal attacks rallied our shattered citizenry and fueled our resolve. Young men from every corner of our country put their lives and futures on hold and were thrust into bloody and brutal battles of historic consequence that would forever change the world. Although untested in battle, these patriots, still reeling from horror and disbelief, united in a singular mission: to defeat tyranny. The exceptional courage and immeasurable sacrifices of the Greatest Generation secured our way of life and the blessings of freedom for future generations.
In the decades since the “date which will live in infamy,” the aggressor has become our loyal ally and trusted friend. Japan is one of our closest security partnerships, and our military forces work together every day to defend our common interests. We are united by commerce, history, culture, and mutual respect. Our strong alliance is a testament to the transformational power of peace, diplomacy, and democracy.
The lessons learned 84 years ago on that fateful day still resound with America’s exceptional fighting force. We must remain ever vigilant and prepared to annihilate any foe who dares to threaten our liberty. This annual day of remembrance must be held in the highest esteem and reverence as we honor the Americans who laid down their lives to defend our homeland on the island of Oahu and in the battles of World War II.
The Congress, by Public Law 103-308, as amended, has designated December 7 of each year as “National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.”
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim December 7, 2025, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. I encourage all Americans to observe this solemn day and to honor our military, past and present, with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I urge all Federal agencies and interested organizations, groups, and individuals to fly the flag of the United States at half-staff in honor of those American patriots who died as a result of their service at Pearl Harbor.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.
DONALD J. TRUMP
The Weekly Sam: Christianity Versus Islam
Because we live in such a highly secularized society, we cannot believe that America could ever become
involved in a religious war in this day and age. Yet ferocious religious wars have been going on all over the
place: in Northern Ireland, in Israel, in the Balkans, in Sudan, in India, in Kashmir, and in Russia. But
history is a very harsh taskmaster and refuses to let us Americans escape into our secular fantasies and
liberal hot houses for long. Thus, it is vitally important for us to reconnect with the human race’s never
ending history of religious struggle. That a group of Islamic terrorists, trained in a remote war-torn, famine
ridden, hell-hole in Asia, could organize the kind of mind-boggling attack against America that took place on
September 11, 2001, means that America is not only not exempt from history, but has been dragged
kicking and screaming back into the middle of it.
Back in 1588, Christopher Marlowe, master of historical drama, wrote his famous Tamburlaine 2. In it there
is a fascinating scene in which the Christian King Sigismund of Hungary and Orcanes, the Muslim King of
Natolia, both former enemies, decide to establish peace between them in order to join forces to defeat
Tamberlaine the Great, the cruel, pagan conqueror of Asia.
Both men confirm their commitment with an oath. King Sigismund vows:
By Him that made the world and sav’d my soul,
The Son of God and issue of a maid,
Sweet Jesus Christ, I solemnly protest
And vow to keep this peace inviolable!
King Orcanes vows:
By sacred Mohamet, the friend of God,
Whose holy Alcoran remains with us,
Whose Glorious body, when he left the world,
Clos’d in a coffin mounted up the air,
And hung on stately Mecca’s temple-roof,
I swear to keep this truce inviolable!
But as the story goes, it was King Sigismund who later broke the truce and was defeated and killed by the
Muslims.
While the history of the struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of Europe was for a time
settled after the Muslims were expelled from Spain in 1492, and driven back from the gates of Vienna to
Asia and Africa, the Islamic enclaves that remained in the Balkans led to the recent wars in Bosnia and
Kosovo. The Serbs had considered themselves as the Christian bulwark against further Islamic incursions
in Europe, and therefore could not understand why they were being bombed by fellow Europeans and
Americans.
You had to know history to understand what Bosnia and Kosovo were all about and what bin Laden’s men
were doing in the Balkans. That conflict proved that the war between Christianity and Islam has never
ended. Over the ages, it simply took on different forms. The rise of European power put a lid on Islamic
ambitions and the Muslim world became the backwater of history until the discovery of oil in the twentieth
century. But in the nineteenth century, the Islamic Barbary states of North Africa could still make trouble for
the Infidel. They took possession of American and European commercial vessels, held their crews for
ransom, and enslaved other Christians. Our first war after independence was fought during the Jefferson
administration against the Muslim pirates and kidnappers of Tripolitania. It is known in the history books as
the Barbary War, in which U.S. Marines staged their first invasion of foreign soil. Hence, the Marine
anthem: “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.”
In order to finally put an end to the piracy and barbarism coming out of North Africa, France decided to take
over Algeria. During the 1830s and 1840s, the French imposed their rule over the territory, encouraging
Europeans to settle there. The result was a flourishing French colony and an end to Barbary piracy. France
maintained order in North Africa until the end of World War II, when the anti-colonialist movement got
underway. Both liberals and communists joined in forcing the European powers to give up their colonies.
In Algeria, however, over a million Europeans had settled in the territory and the coastal departments
were considered an integral part of France. However, when Charles de Gaulle gained power at the height
of the Algerian uprising, he decided that France should quit Algeria because the Moslems could never
become true Frenchmen. And so France abandoned Algeria, and a million Europeans took to the boats.
Today, the invasion has been reversed. Five million Muslims, mostly Algerians, live in France. They make
up ten percent of the population and are part of the resurgent Islamic power in Europe. Christianity is now
so weak in France that one wonders if it is capable of resisting the assumption of Islamic power.
We have been told by our leaders and the media that we are not at war against the Islamic religion. We
are at war against terrorism. But what they all prefer not to recognize is that the spiritual power behind that
terrorism, the power that drives otherwise intelligent human beings to undertake suicidal missions against
the infidel is the religion of Islam. Of course, there are millions of Muslims who just want to lead normal
lives. Unfortunately, after September 11, 2001, nothing is “normal” anymore.
In an alarming article in the November issue of Commentary magazine, Daniel Pipes contends that
Islamist militants are serious about their plan to conquer America. He writes:
The first missionaries for militant Islam, or Islamism, who arrived here from abroad in the
1920’s, unblushingly declared, “Our plan is, we are going to conquer America.” The
audacity of such statements hardly went unnoticed at the time, including by Christians who
cherished their own missionizing hopes.
As a 1922 newspaper commentary put it:
To the millions of American Christians who have so long looked eagerly
forward to the time the cross shall be supreme in every land and the people
of the whole world shall have become the followers of Christ, the plan to win
the continent to the path of the “infidel Turk” will seem a thing unbelievable.
But there is no doubt about its being pressed with all the fanatical zeal for
which the Mohammedans are noted.
Pipes writes further:
As a teacher at an Islamic school in Jersey City, near New York, explains, the “short-term
goal is to introduce Islam. In the long term, we must save American society.” Step by step,
writes a Pakistan-born professor of economics, by offering “an alternative model” to
Americans, Muslims can transform what Ismail Al-Faruqi referred to as “the unfortunate
realities of North America” into something acceptable in God’s eyes.
The irony in all of this is stunning. For years the Christian right has been trying to get Americans to live
godly lives, but with very limited success. The fact that 85% of American parents put their children in pagan
public schools is an indication of how strong our liberal secular culture is. It controls the curriculum in our
schools and universities. It controls most of the print media, the electronic media, and most of what comes
out of Hollywood. And American schools are now teaching American children all about Islam. While the
Bible has been eliminated from the classroom, apparently the Koran hasn’t. How else can you teach about
Islam?
Recently, the Reverend Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian relief agency, called
Islam “wicked and violent.” He said, “I don’t believe this is a wonderful, peaceful religion. When you read
the Koran and you read the verses from the Koran, it instructs the killing of the infidel, for those that are
non-Muslim.”
As the son of Billy Graham, Franklin is the designated successor to his father’s longtime evangelical
ministry. He delivered the benediction at Bush’s inauguration. But now he’s in trouble with the White
House, which sponsored a Ramadan dinner for 50 ambassadors from Islamic countries with a traditional
meal and prayer. Also, the Muslim chaplain of Georgetown University recently officiated at the opening
prayers of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill.
The moral seems to be that if Islamist terrorists bomb the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and kill
5,000 Americans, other Islamists get invited to the White House for a special dinner prepared to their
specifications: no pork. Now that Americans are being invited to be kind to Muslims, where will all of this
lead?
Graham said, “It wasn’t Methodists flying into those buildings, it wasn’t Lutherans. It was an attack on this
country by people of the Islamic faith.” And that’s why the latter are now favored guests at the White
House! Of course, the President is doing this to keep the Islamic states in line while we war against the
terrorists which these states harbor.
But if we are being encouraged by our born-again President to be kind to our Muslim neighbors, shouldn’t
Christians see this as a missionary opportunity? Why not introduce Muslims to the loving grace of Jesus
Christ? One of the reasons why Americans find it difficult to become friendly with Muslims is because
sooner or later their rabid hatred of Israel will surface. Americans in general don’t like to hate anybody, and
they are uncomfortable with people who are haters.
Christianity preaches love. Islam preaches hate. That is why hatred of Israel fills the psyche of so many
Muslims. Abnormal, pathological hatred is not healthy. It requires constant energy to be sustained at the
level it exists among Muslims. And that is why life is so miserable in many Islamic countries. And that is
why Palestinian refugees have preferred to remain in refugee camps for 50 years rather than do something
constructive with their lives. They prefer to live with festering, enduring hatred, and teach it to their
children, rather than accept forgiveness and peace. No true Christian could ever waste his life that way.
Yet, the United Nations aid agency accepts these refugee camps as perfectly normal for the Arab Muslims.
After World War II, millions of displaced persons found new constructive lives in countries all over the
world. But in the Middle East, Palestinian hatred is used to torment the world about Israel.
It is to be hoped that one of the first things the new government of Afghanistan might do is recognize Israel
and establish diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. It would signal a dramatic change in the attitude of
Muslims toward Israel.
Indeed, let us be loving and concerned with the well-being of our Muslim citizens, and let us convey to
them that Jesus will save them from their sickening hatred and grant them life renewed.
The Blumenfeld Archives
The above article came from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The U.S. Constitution vs. Sharia Law
This presentation was conducted back in 2017 but the information Father Michael Carl presents is timeless. Father Carl used Islamic writings and teaching to demonstrate that Sharia Law and the U.S. Constitution are diametrically opposite to each other, and any elected official who promotes Sharia Law cannot uphold his or her oath of office. Indeed, they are deliberately lying when they promise to uphold the U.S. Constitution.
How to Avoid Being Manipulated by Left-Wing Experts By Samuel Blumenfeld
Have you ever wondered what goes on in those left-wing, politically correct “leadership
seminars” in which individuals learn how to become “leaders”? Who and what are they
trying to lead? According to Beverly Eakman, America’s best writer on the subject of
psychological warfare, these so-called leaders are professionally trained to manipulate
you in going along with a group that promotes an idea, or a program, or a policy which
you may at first not agree with, but in the end find yourself unable to resist.
Ms. Eakman’s enlightening book, How to Counter Group Manipulation Tactics, is a must
read for those who will be involved in such group meetings. When you become aware of
the unethical techniques used by these consensus-building community leaders, you
become immune to their methods and your individualism reasserts itself.
As an employee in a federal agency, Ms. Eakman was required to attend a sexual
harassment-AIDS awareness workshop in order to adopt the politically correct mindset
regarding such ideas as “homophobia” or “intolerance.” It was a not-so-subtle form of
values clarification, a form of Psych-War.
She writes: “Today, be it the workplace, a community forum, airport security, or the
PTA, team spirit (the old Marxists called it “collective spirit”) is valued above individual
conscience and over unique ideas. … Schoolchildren … can encounter similar problems
in the classroom. It’s all Marxist tactics, just dressed differently.”
It’s all based on the psychologically known fact that “it‘s easier to control a group than it
is to control a single individual.” That is why leftists prefer to deal with groups than
individuals.
If a community organizer, like Barack Obama, “can generate a mob
mentality, and get it to work for him, control of the agenda is usually assured.”
That’s what Obama learned as a provocateur and community organizer in Chicago, how
to manipulate a group of citizens to adopt his left-wing, pro-socialist agenda.
Ms. Eakman delves into Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, the handbook which Obama
read in order to apply these manipulative techniques to his work at a community
organizer and later as a political candidate. His ability to speak before huge crowds of
adoring supporters permitted him to stroke their fragile egos “to make them believe they
were more ‘aware’ than they really were.” Such techniques have been used by every
demagogue in history.
But the danger of such a dishonest strategy is that when some of those individuals wake
up and discover that they’ve been manipulated by a clever liar, you cannot fool them
again. Of course, we are reminded of Abraham Lincoln’s famous saying, “You can fool
all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time,
but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”
But apparently, there are enough Obama fans who can be fooled all of the time.
Ms. Eakman goes into great detail exposing the Delphi Technique which is used in
groups to achieve a deceptive consensus on a controversial topic. She writes: “A
consensus is essentially a collective opinion that isn’t necessarily reflective of anybody’s
private view. Manipulators get away with this because the collective good (or “team”)
trumps the individual–a socialist concept.”
She writes further: “Provocateurs, or agitators, often call themselves ’facilitators’ because
that sounds neutral. But what these pros really do is to work the group over to ensure a
predetermined outcome which they call a ’consensus.’”
If you work in a company or profession where you are required to attend such consensus
building meetings, you may want to use some of the techniques Eakman herself has
developed to trump the facilitator. She teaches you how to take apart the arguments of
the politically correct robots. Of course, you will become known as a resister, whom they
will try to ridicule and ostracize. But that’s the price we all must pay when we go
against the politically correct consensus. But you will also attract those in the group who
secretly agree with you.
In this valuable book you will learn to understand the principles of psych-war, how to
turn the tables on the facilitators, master the art of argument, and control the environment
of thought. A very useful manual on how to maintain your sanity and individuality in a
climate of cultural confusion and chaos.
The Blumenfeld Archives
The above article came from the Sam Blumenfeld Archive: https://campconstitution.net/sam-blumenfeld-archive/
TIME TO TAKE DOWN INDUSTRIAL WIND TURBINES say Tom Harris of International Climate Science Coalition
Wind turbines are environmentally destructive, causing serious problems to people and wildlife alike. And for what? A tiny amount of expensive power that only generates energy when the wind blows in a narrow range. With the climate scare finally dying, it is time to take down these useless machines!
Tom Harris is the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, Canada. His website: https://www.icsc-canada.com/
The Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving
On Thursday November 27, millions of Americans will have a hearty meal with family members and friends. Some, but not most, will begin the meal with a prayer. Some will dig right into the food hoping to finish the meal before kickoff. However, members of the American Left, especially those of the self-loathing Caucasian persuasion, not only won’t celebrate the day but will lecture us about how the Pilgrims were evil exploiters of the Indigenous Peoples. But our Leftists friends would be wrong
Back in October 2021, Dr. Paul Jehyle of the Plymouth Rock Foundation hosted a two day event in Plymouth, MA which culminated in a “If My People” Rally at the Forefathers Monument. (The name comes from 2 Chronicles 7:14.) Speakers at the rally including several Indians-that’s right Indians not Native American- chiefs. These Indians are devout Christians who have a keen appreciated of the Pilgrims because they brought the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the region. At the conclusion of the rally, Indians and Mayflower descendants held hands and prayed for our nation.
One historical misconception is that the Pilgrims came here for religious freedom. They already had it in Holland. We know that the main goal of the Pilgrams coming to what is now The United States was to promote the Gospel of Christ because they said so in the Mayflower Compact which read in part:
“Having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian Faith, and honor of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the Northern parts of Virginia…”
Nearly half of the 102 passengers of the Mayflower died during the first winter-1620-1621. In April of 1621, the Mayflower returned to England. The ship’s captain, Christopher Jones, offered passage for anyone that wanted it. There were no takers.
The Pilgrims had a good relationship with the Indians. After an encounter with the Nauset Indians which attacked a party of Pilgrims without any casualties, an Indian, Samoset paid the Pilgrims a visit. Speaking broken English, Samoset told them of another Indian who been to England and spoke the language better than he. That Indian was Squanto who had been captured years earlier by Thomas Hunt. Hunt planned to sell him into slavery in Spain. Squanto escaped to England and eventually made his way back to his homeland only to discover that his tribe was wiped out by a plague.
Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn and fish. Governor Bradford believed that Squanto was “a special instrument send of God…” Squanto facilitated a treaty with the Wampanoag Indians and its great chief Massasoit that was signed in March of 1621. Massasoit was regarded as the “preserver and protector” of the Pilgrims. This treaty lasted fifty years and, gave legitimacy to the land the Pilgrims were living on. Squanto lived among the Pilgrims until his death.
The First Thanksgiving in Plymouth
Today, many children in government schools are taught that Thanksgiving was a day the Pilgrims set aside to thank the Indians for their help. That is untrue. While the Pilgrims were grateful for the help rendered to them by the Indians, Thanksgiving was a feast to thank God The actual date of the first Thanksgiving is unknown. It was most likely late September 1621. Edward Winslow gave an account of it in a letter to a friend:
“Our harvest being gotten our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much foul, as with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king, Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted: and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation, and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.”
In March of 1622, the Pilgrims got word that Massasoit was seriously ill. Governor Bradford sent a party led by Winslow armed with medicinal herbs to help Massasoit. Along the way, an Indian told the group that the great chief was already dead. They went along anyway, finding an extremely sick Massasoit. The Pilgrims with their medicinal herbs, and prayers were successful. Massasoit made a quick recovery and remarked “I see the English are my friends and love me., and whilst I live, I will never forget tis kindness they have showed me.
On October 3, 1789, President George Washington issued a proclamation recommending a day of Thanksgiving. It began with:
“Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be…”
On October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation making November 26 a day of thanksgiving. In 1941, Congress-a Democrat controlled at that-passed a law making Thanksgiving a national holiday to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.
Have a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving. I would like to offer a PDF of an article “The Pilgrims Weren’t Socialists” written by my late friend, and mentor Andy Lane. If interested, E-mail me at campconstitution1@gmail.com
The Weekly Sam: Faith and Education By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
It can be said that education tells us a good deal about the faith of a nation or the lack of
it.
Theoretically, education is what the past generation wants the future generation to
know, believe in, and do. That was the sort of education I got back in the 1930s in the
public schools of New York City. At assembly our principal read the 23r d Psalm, so we
all knew that God existed as concretely as the magnificent city around us. He was there
to protect us, and He certainly protected me during my time in the Army in World War II.
In those days faith and education were clearly inseparable. Life without God, education
without the acknowledgment of God, were simply unheard of. Yes, there were atheists
and humanists and communists among the public educators, but the culture itself strongly
adhered to biblical faith, and most of the school personnel were believers. There may
have been talk of the separation of church and state among the progressive elite. But, as
everyone knew, the public school’s exhibition of faith had nothing to do with a federal
establishment of religion. It was a faith that came down to us through history, through
tradition, through the Bible, and was considered an indispensable component in the
raising of the next generation.
We knew of the faith of the founding fathers. We read of faith in the works of English
poets. We read of faith in the biographies of great men. We learned of faith in dissecting
a frog in the biology lab. Darwin had not quite erased faith from the bio lab. (I had
watched my mother “dissect” a chicken in preparation for the Sabbath dinner.)
We sat in orderly rows behind desks bolted to the floor. Learning required order and
silence, and the mind responded by absorbing knowledge, honing skills, observing the
world, developing an independent mind with independent intelligence.
One of the most salient points that John Taylor Gatto makes in his remarkable book, The
Underground History of American Education, is how today’s schools do everything in
their power to make and keep the students childish, indeed, so childish that they cannot
engage in an adult conversation with anyone.
Jay Leno, the TV comedian, provides enormously entertaining interviews with today’s
youth, some of whom are in college. Their ignorance is so appalling that it is really more
tragic than comic. “Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?” gets responses so absurd as to
make one wonder. A high-schooler was asked, “Who wrote Handel’s Messiah?” and he
answered, “I don’t read books.” He didn’t even know that Handel’s Messiah was a piece
of music, not a book.
But the simple truth is that most young people today don’t read books. They don’t read
because either they can’t or that it is simply too difficult, too much work, too painful.
And the schools have done that to these poor victims of progressive mis-education. And
yet we spend more money on education than ever, the students spend more time in school
than ever, and teachers are supposedly more professional than ever. But Dr. Rushdoony
explained what happened in his masterful study, The Messianic Character of American
Education. The humanists took over the schools and replaced Christianity with their
atheist religion.
Thus, faith in God has been replaced by a nihilism that Satan uses to destroy minds and
souls. Faith has been removed. God has been removed, and thus we no longer have
education, we have the mutilation of the mind, the retarding of growth, the spread of
ignorance, the enslavement ofthe soul. We have barbarians living in a hi-tech
civilization. And all of the hi-tech toys are used to provide more awesome spectacles of
fiery destruction than the human race has witnessed since the Creation.
When I was growing up, it was assumed that the future generation would know more than
the previous generation. They would be better informed, wiser, more skillful more
talented. And indeed some of the young in our time have been able to achieve some
wonderful things. But they are a small minority in a nation of over 270,000,000 people.
Without faith our education system has become a destructive, nihilist force.
Faith is the backbone of true education, for you cannot understand the world or the nature
of man until you know the nature of God. John Calvin wrote in The Institutes of the
Christian Religion, “Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid
wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.”
And today’s public schools deny both. Thus we get ignorant atheists.
But even so, some of these ignorant nihilists and atheists find their way to God, for as
Calvin observed, man is by nature deistic. He wrote: “That there exists in the human
mind, and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity, we hold to be beyond dispute,
since God himself, to prevent any man from pretending ignorance, has endued all men
with some idea of his Godhead, the memory of which he constantly renews and
occasionally enlarges, that all to a man, being aware that there is a God, and that he is
their Maker, may be condemned by their own conscience when they neither worship him
nor consecrate their lives to his service.”
But faithless education has given us so many crippled minds and souls that one is
saddened by the prospect that so many of them will spend their lives wandering in an
empty landscape with no hope of redemption, for they cannot read and are trapped in a
web of emotion, superstition and ignorance.
The tragedy for them is beyond calculation. If faith is for all of life, then it must begin in
the womb, and grow within us in the various stages of life. For we are all programmed to
go through these stages.
In modem America, schooling has become a twelve-year prison
sentence in which the individual is manipulated, twisted, bored, propagandized, and
reduced to animal status in order to fulfill an evil progressive agenda sustained by billions
of dollars in taxes. The public has been persuaded by politicians and the education
establishment that what goes on in the schools is worthy of their support. And the
majority of our citizens not only send their children to these schools, but actually believe
that they are being “educated.”
Deuteronomy 6 tells us what is entailed in education. Faith can only be passed on by
faithful parents to their children in need of the knowledge of God. It cannot be passed on
by faithless schools or by the U.S. government. In a rational society, the knowledge of
God would be the first and foremost reality that children would be confronted with. In
fact, that is the way it was in the early days of this country when children were taught the
alphabet by such statements as: A-In Adam’s Fall We sinned all; B-Heaven to find,
The Bible Mind; C-Christ crucify’d For sinners dy’d; D-The Deluge drown’d The
earth around; E-Elijah hid By ravens fed; F-The judgment made Felix afraid; etc. In
fact, the entire Primer was a simple, straightforward catechism in the Christian religion.
That Primer contained instruction in the Ten Commandments and such verses for
children as:
Though I am young a little one
If! can speak and go alone,
Then I must learn to know the Lord,
And learn to read his holy word.
Today, Christian schools and Christian homeschoolers are the only ones in America who
make it a point to catechize their children. They may use modern, watered down texts,
but at least the children are taught that they were made in the image of God and have a
duty to live up to God’s estimation of them. Life is a gift that must be cherished, and that
it is God who gives our lives meaning and purpose.
The public school nihilist has no idea why he or she is alive. Their soul has been
removed and replaced with nothing. Materialist fulfillment and sensual satisfaction
become their only purpose. The nihilist is a digestive tract on legs with an inner yen for
self-destruction. There is no intellect, no love of life, no appreciation of beauty. Several
years ago the subways of Montreal were plagued by gangs of nihilistic youths with much
time on their hands. The city officials came up with an ingenious way of getting rid of
them: they played classical and operatic music through the subway’s speaker system, and
before you knew it, the gangs were gone. They simply could not tolerate beauty. The
music these nihilists enjoy is totally barbaric and satanic.
The deliberate effort of the public schools to destroy religious faith in their students must
be considered the most destructive aspect of our culture. A culture without faith can only
lead to madness. But there is a growing underground of Godly sentiment that has risen in
America since the terrible events of September 11, 2001. More and more Americans are
beginning to realize how dependent we are on God’s mercy and forgiveness for our well
being. God has made us the strongest and richest nation in history because of our
original faith in Him. That was our beginning, and it must be renewed in the next
generation if we are to survive as a nation blessed by Him.
The Blumenfeld Archives; http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
Signing of the Mayflower Compact November 21, 1620
Five years ago, during the height of the unconstitutional Covid lockdown, Camp Constitution Media travelled to Provincetown, Massachusetts to video and participate in the 400th Anniversary of the Signing of the Mayflower Compact.
Camp Constitution Instructor and historian Richard Howell along with re-enactors Stan Wollman, Michael Heenan, Al Rubega, and Jae Dunn celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact in Provincetown, MA . Saturday November 21, 2020
A link to a PDF version of the Mayflower Compact: https://campconstitution.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Mayflower_Compact.pdf