American Minute with Bill Federer Veterans Day “The Soldier is required to practice the greatest act of religious training–Sacrifice” -General Douglas MacArthur

Published November 10, 2025 | By campconstitution

 

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Though the “cease-fire,” called “Armistice,” was signed at 5:00am in the morning, it specified that 11:00am would be the hour the actual fighting would cease.

Tragically, in the intervening six hours of fighting, an additional 11,000 more were killed.

Following World War One — “the war to end all wars” — President Warren Harding, in 1921, had the remains of an unknown soldier killed in France brought to Arlington Cemetery and buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Inscribed on the Tomb are the words: “Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.”

On October 4, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge stated at the dedication of the Monument to the American Expeditionary Forces:

“They did not regard it as a national or personal opportunity for gain or fame or glory, but as a call to sacrifice for the support of humane principles and spiritual ideals …

If anyone doubts the sacrifices which they have been willing to make in behalf of … what they believe to be the welfare of other nations, let them gaze upon this monument and other like memorials that have been reared in every quarter of our broad land.

Let them look upon the representative gatherings of our VETERANS, and let them remember that America has dedicated itself to the service of God and man.”

In 1926, President Coolidge began issuing proclamations honoring veterans every year, and in 1938 the day became a legal holiday.

In 1954, the name “Armistice Day” was changed to “Veterans Day” to honor all soldiers of all American wars. Four million Americans served in World War One. Sixteen million served in World War Two.

Nearly seven million served in the Korean War. Nearly nine million served in the Vietnam War.

From the First Gulf War till the present, 7.4 million men and women served.

While Veterans Day honored the living soldiers, Memorial Day honored those who died while serving.

General Douglas MacArthur told West Point cadets, May 1962:

“The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training — sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image …

No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of Divine help which alone can sustain him. However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.”

In 1958, President Eisenhower placed a soldier in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War Two, and another soldier from the Korean War.

In 1968, Lyndon Johnson signed The Uniform Holiday Bill which moved Veterans Day to Monday to create a three day weekend for federal employees.

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan placed a soldier from the Vietnam War in the Tomb of the Unknown.

DNA test later identified the body as that of pilot Michael Blassie, who was flying an A-37B Dragonfly when he was shot down near An Loc, South Vietnam.

In 1998, the body of Michael Blassie was reburied at Jefferson Memorial Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.

He was a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1970, and before that, a graduate of St. Louis University High School in 1966, the same High School that the author of this article graduated from ten years after him.

On Veterans Day, November 11, 1921, President Warren G. Harding stated:

“On the threshold of eternity, many a soldier, I can well believe, wondered how his ebbing blood would color the stream of human life, flowing on after his sacrifice …

Standing today on hallowed ground … it is fitting to say that his sacrifice, and that of the millions dead, shall not be in vain …

I can sense the prayers of our people, of all peoples, that this Armistice Day shall mark the beginning of a new and lasting era of peace on earth, good will among men.

Let me join in that prayer.

‘Our Father who are in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.'”

U.S. Army veteran Charles Michael Province wrote the poem:

“It is the Soldier, not the minister

Who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the Soldier, not the reporter

Who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the Soldier, not the poet

Who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer

Who has given us freedom to protest.

It is the Soldier, not the lawyer

Who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the Soldier, not the politician

Who has given us the right to vote.

It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,

Who serves beneath the flag,

And whose coffin is draped by the flag,

Who allows the protester to burn the flag.”

The American Legion is the nation’s largest wartime veterans service organization. It was formed in 1919 with the help of four chaplains:

Charles Brent, Roman Catholic;

Francis Kelly, Episcopalian;

Thomas Wiles, Baptist, and

John Inzer, Baptist.

Baptist Chaplain John Inzer spoke at the American Legion’s founding meeting in St. Louis in 1919:

“Gentlemen … if you can only think about this Legion … as the jewel of the ages … I cannot say anything greater than this:

I believe God raised up America for this great hour. I can say that the strong young man of the time is to be The American Legion in this country and in the world.”

The Preamble to the American Legion Constitution begins “For God and Country.”

In 1954, the American Legion sponsored a Back-to-God program. President Dwight Eisenhower addressed them in a broadcast from the White House, February 7, 1954:

“As a former soldier, I am delighted that our VETERANS are sponsoring a movement to increase our awareness of God in our daily lives.

In battle, they learned a great truth-that there are no atheists in the foxholes. They know that in time of test and trial, we instinctively turn to God for new courage and peace of mind.

All the history of America bears witness to this truth. Out of faith in God, and through faith in themselves as His children, our forefathers designed and built this Republic …”

Eisenhower continued:

“We remember the picture of the Father of our Country, on his knees at Valley Forge seeking divine guidance in the cold gloom of a bitter winter.

Thus Washington gained strength to lead to independence a nation dedicated to the belief that each of us is divinely endowed with indestructible rights.

We remember, too, that three-fourths of a century later, on the battle-torn field of Gettysburg, and in the silence of many a wartime night, Abraham Lincoln recognized that only under God could this Nation win a new birth of freedom …”

Eisenhower concluded:

“Today as then, there is need for positive acts of renewed recognition that faith is our surest strength, our greatest resource.

This ‘Back to God’ movement is such a positive act. As we take part in it, I hope that we shall prize this thought:

Whatever our individual church, whatever our personal creed, our common faith in God is a common bond among us. In our fundamental faith, we are all one.

Together we thank the Power that has made and preserved us a nation. By the millions, we speak prayers, we sing hymns — and no matter what their words may be, their spirit is the same — ‘In God is our trust.'”

The next year, on February 20, 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower again addressed the American Legion Back-To-God Program:

“The Founding Fathers … recognizing God as the author of individual rights, declared that the purpose of Government is to secure those rights …

In many lands the State claims to be the author of human rights … If the State gives rights, it can – and inevitably will – take away those rights.

Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first-the most basic-expression of Americanism.”

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The Weekly Sam: Christianity Versus Islam By Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Published November 8, 2025 | By campconstitution

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 departements
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.

(This article came from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives:  The Blumenfeld Archive

The Blumenfeld Archives

Christian Leaders Letter to Trump on Syria

Published November 8, 2025 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

Our friend at Save the Persecuted Christians    Home – Save the Persecuted Christians  asked usto sign this letter.  We were honored to do so.

 

 

The Honorable Donald J. Trump

President of the United States

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20500

 

Dear Mr. President,

We, the undersigned faith leaders representing tens of millions of American Christians, extend our sincere gratitude for your recent leadership in combating Christian persecution in Nigeria. Your designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act is a decisive measure that upholds global religious liberty.

You are the only major world leader fighting for religious freedom, and we need you once again to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.

With the visit of Syria’s new President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, scheduled for November 10, 2025, we urge you to address directly the massacre of Christians, Kurds, Druze, and Alawites in Syria, notably in the greater Suwayda area. These religious minorities face ongoing violence, death, displacement, starvation, and water and medical deprivation, all while innocent women and children are held hostage by ISIS terrorists.

We are grateful for your Administration’s recent announcement that you are urgently rushing humanitarian aid to southern Syria, and—as winter approaches—more needs to be done to prevent the impending catastrophe.

Mr. President, we respectfully request that you secure President al-Sharaa’s commitment to opening a secure humanitarian corridor from Hader to Suwayda in southern Syria.

This corridor will enable safe and secure aid delivery and civilian evacuation, signaling the new government’s commitment to minority rights and stability.

Your advocacy for the persecuted inspires us.

We stand ready to support your efforts and pray for fruitful discussions.  As Ambassador Mike Huckabee once wrote to you, “You were ordained for such a time as this.”

 

With Deepest Respect,

Dede Laugesen

President & CEO, Save the Persecuted Christians

Jack Hibbs

Founding Pastor, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills

Eric Metaxas

Religious Liberty Commission

Jason Rapert

Founder & President, National Association of Christian Lawmakers

Matt Crouch

President, Trinity Broadcasting Network

Patrick G. Brown

CEO, Western Journal

Dr. Alveda King

SPEAK FOR LIFE

Travis Johnson

Lead Pastor, Pathway Church

CEO, People for Care and Learning

Tim Head

President & CEO, Unify Us

Stephen Strang

Founder, Charisma Media

Kelly Shackelford

President, CEO & Chief Counsel

First Liberty Institute

David Barton

Founder, Wallbuilders

Tim Barton

President, Wallbuilders

Mario Braminick

President, Latino Coalition for Israel

Richard Harris

Executive Director, Truth and Liberty Coalition

Jackson Lahmeyer 

Pastor, Sheridan Church

Founder, Pastors For Trump

Gary Bauer

President, American Values

Matthew Faraci

Senior Advisor for Jewish and Israel Affairs, National Association of Christian Lawmakers

Frank J. Gaffney

President, Institute for the American Future

Walker Wildmon

CEO, American Family Association Action

Tony Perkins

President, Family Research Council

Bob McEwen 

US House of Representatives, Fmr. Member, Ohio

Lucas Miles

Senior Pastor, Nfluence Church 

Suzanne Grishman

Executive Director, The Nazarene Fund

Craig DeRoche

President & CEO, Family Policy Alliance

Victor Marx

Chairman, Board of Directors, All Things Possible

Candidate for Governor of Colorado 2026

Joni Lamb

President, Daystar Television Network

Jerry Newcombe

Executive Director, Providence Forum

Dr. Robert Pacienza

Senior Pastor, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church 

Rev. Kevin Jessip

President, Global Strategic Alliance

Dr. Jeff Myers

President, Summit Ministries

Lorenzo Sewell

Senior Pastor, 180 Church

George Parker

Executive Director, Revealing Light Ministries

Nadine Maenza

Co-chair, International Religious Freedom Roundtable 

Dr. Bob Rodgers

Pastor, Evangel World Prayer Center

David and Nicole Crank

Co-founders and lead pastors of FaithChurch

Rick Joyner

Founder & Ex. Director of MorningStar Ministries

Richard Ghazal, Esq.

Executive Director, In Defense of Christians (IDC)

Drew Bowling

Executive Director, Catholics for Trump Vance

Faith McDonnell

Director of Advocacy, Kartartismos Global

Lauren Homer

Founder and President, Law & Liberty International 

Dr. Gregory H. Stanton

Founding President​, Genocide Watch, C​hair, ​The Alliance Against Genocide

Dr. Ben Carson

Vice Chair, Religious Liberty Commission

Kimberly Fletcher 

Founder & President, Moms for America

Dr. Jack Graham

Senior Pastor, Prestonwood Baptist Church

Ralph Reed

Founder & Chairman, Faith & Freedom Coalition

Rob McCoy

Senior Pastor, Godspeak Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks

Kevin Sorbo

Director, Actor, Producer

Troy Miller

President & CEO, National Religious Broadcasters

Samuel Rodriguez

President & CEO, NHCLC

Frank Turek

President, CrossExamined.org

Mark Driscoll

Founding Pastor, Trinity Church in Scottsdale

John Amanchukwu

Founder & CEO, IKNOWGOD.US

Dr. Scott Colter

CEO, Danbury Institute

Sam Brownback

Former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom 

Greg Locke

Founder, Global Vision Bible Church

Frank Pavone

National Director, Priests for Live

Chad Connelly

Founder & CEO, Faith Wins

Jim Garlow

Founder & CEO, Well Versed

Ryan Helfenbein

Founder & Executive Director, Standing for Freedom Center

Luke Moon

Executive Director, The Philos Project

Robert Stearns

Bishop, Founder & President, Eagles Wings

Dave Kubal

President & CEO, Intercessors for America

Jorge Parrott

President, Christ’s Mandate for Missions

LTG (Ret.) Jerry Boykin

Vice President, Family Research Council

Mike Farris

Religious Freedom Litigator

Harold Shurtleff

Director, Camp Constitution, Plaintiff “Shurtleff v Boston”

Greg Young

Pastor, Chosen Generation Radio

Allen Jackson

Senior Pastor, World Outreach Church

Kelly M. Kullberg

General Secretary, American Association of Evangelicals (AAE)

Drew Bowling

Executive Director, Catholics for Trump Vance

Dr. Malachi A. O’Brien

Pastor, The Church at Pleasant Ridge

Former VP, SBC

Dr. Jay Strack

Founder, Student Leadership University

Mike Evans

Founder, Friends of Zion

Charmaine Hedding

President, The Shai Fund

Kelvin L. Cobaris

Bishop, New Life Church International

William J. Murray

President, Religious Freedom Coalition

Sucharitha Cole

President, International Christian Rescue Mission.

Paul Pickern,

Executive Director, All Pro Pastors International

Joe Kennedy

Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

Mariam Ibraheem

Persecution Survivor

Patricia Streeter

Co-leader, Anglican Persecuted Church Network

Ann Schockett

Chair, More Like Us

Douglas Burton

Managing Editor, TruthNigeria

Jacqueline Halbig von Schleppenbach

CEO, Sovereign Global Solutions

 

“Squanto … was a special instrument sent of God American Minute with Bill Federer

Published November 7, 2025 | By campconstitution
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In the Spring of 1621, as recorded by Pilgrim Governor William Bradford in his Of Plymouth Plantation:

“About the 16th of March, a certain Indian came boldly amongst them and spoke to them in broken English … His name was Samoset.

… He told them also of another Indian whose name was Squanto, a native of this place, who had been in England and could speak better English than himself …”
Samoset’s initial visit to the Pilgrims was recorded in Mourt’s Relation, written by Edward Winslow and Governor William Bradford in 1622:

“Friday the 16th a fair warm day towards; this morning we determined to conclude of the military orders, which we had begun to consider of before but were interrupted by the savages, as we mentioned formerly;

and whilst we were busied hereabout, we were interrupted again, for there presented himself a savage, which caused an alarm.
… He very boldly came all alone and along the houses straight to the rendezvous, where we intercepted him, not suffering him to go in, as undoubtedly he would, out of his boldness.

He saluted us in English, and bade us welcome, for he had learned some broken English among the Englishmen that came to fish at Monchiggon, and knew by name the most of the captains, commanders, and masters that usually come.
… He was a man free in speech, so far as he could express his mind, and of a seemly carriage.

We questioned him of many things; he was the first savage we could meet withal.

He said he was not of these parts, but of Morattiggon, and one of the sagamores or lords thereof, and had been eight months in these parts, it lying hence a day’s sail with a great wind, and five days by land.

He discoursed of the whole country, and of every province, and of their sagamores, and their number of men, and strength.

… The wind being to rise a little, we cast a horseman’s coat about him, for he was stark naked, only a leather about his waist, with a fringe about a span long, or little more; he had a bow and two arrows, the one headed, and the other unheaded.

He was a tall straight man, the hair of his head black, long behind, only short before, none on his face at all;

he asked some beer, but we gave him strong water and biscuit, and butter, and cheese, and pudding, and a piece of mallard, all which he liked well, and had been acquainted with such amongst the English …”
Mourt’s Relation continued:

“(Samoset) told us the place where we now live is called Patuxet,

and that about four years ago all the inhabitants died of an extraordinary plague, and there is neither man, woman, nor child remaining, as indeed we have found none, so as there is none to hinder our possession, or to lay claim unto it.

All the afternoon we spent in communication with him; we would gladly have been rid of him at night, but he was not willing to go this night.

Then we thought to carry him on shipboard, wherewith he was well content, and went into the shallop (small boat), but the wind was high and the water scant, that it could not return back.

We lodged him that night at Stephen Hopkins’ house, and watched him …”
Stephen Hopkins was the only person of the Pilgrim Colony who had also been a part of the Jamestown Colony.

Mourt’s Relation continued:

“The next day he went away back to the Massasoits, from whence he said he came, who are our next bordering neighbors.

They are sixty strong, as he saith …

The Nausets are as near southeast of them, and are a hundred strong, and those were they of whom our people were encountered, as before related.

They are much incensed and provoked against the English, and about eight months ago slew three Englishmen,

and two more hardly escaped by flight to Monchiggon; they were Sir Ferdinando Gorges his men, as this savage told us …

… These people are ill affected towards the English, by reason of one (Thomas) Hunt, a master of a ship, who deceived the people, and got them under color of trucking (bartering) with them, twenty out of this very place where we inhabit, and seven men from Nauset,

and carried them away, and sold them for slaves like a wretched man (for twenty pound a man) that cares not what mischief he doth for his profit.

Saturday, in the morning we dismissed the savage, and gave him a knife, a bracelet, and a ring; he promised within a night or two to come again, and to bring with him some of the Massasoits, our neighbors, with such beavers’ skins as they had to truck with us.”

Governor Bradford wrote that a few days later, Tishsquantum, or Squanto arrived with the neighboring Wampanoag Chief Massasiot:

“Massasoyt, who about four or five days after, came with the chief of his friends and other attendants, and with Squanto.

… With him, after friendly entertainment and some gifts, they made a peace which has now continued for twenty-four years.”
Governor Bradford described Squanto:

“Squanto stayed with them and was their interpreter and was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation.

He showed them how to plant corn, where to take fish and other commodities, and guided them to unknown places, and never left them till he died.”

Bradford added:

“The settlers, as many as were able, then began to plant their corn, in which service Squanto stood them in good stead, showing them how to plant it and cultivate it.
… He also told them that unless they got fish to manure this exhausted old soil, it would come to nothing,

and he showed them that in the middle of April plenty of fish would come up the brook by which they had begun to build, and taught them how to catch it, and where to get other necessary provisions; all of which they found true by experience …

Nor was there a man among them who had ever seen a beaver skin till they came out, and were instructed by Squanto.”
Though records are scarce, it appears that Squanto may have been one of the five natives kidnapped around 1605 by Captain George Weymouth’s expedition.

Sailing his ship Archangel, Weymouth was employed by the newly formed British East India Company to find a Northwest Passage to India and China.

Sea voyages to find a Northwest Passage were first conceived after the Muslim Ottoman Turks had cut off the eastern land routes to India and China a century and a half earlier.
Captain George Weymouth brought the natives back to England where they were introduced to William Shakespeare and the Earl of South Hampton, who funded both Shakespeare and the voyages.

Three of the natives went to live in Plymouth, England, with Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who also funded the expedition and later, the settlement of Maine.

In A Briefe Narration of the Originall Undertakings for the Advancement of Plantations into the Parts of America (London: 1658), Sir Ferdinando Gorges mentioned the name “Tasquantum’:

“(Captain George Weymouth, having failed at finding a Northwest Passage) happened into a River on the Coast of America, called Pemmaquid, from whence he brought five of the Natives, three of whose names were Manida, Sellwarroes, and Tasquantum, whom I seized upon, they were all of one Nation, but of several parts, and several Families;

This accident must be acknowledged the means under God of putting on foot, and giving life to all our Plantations.”

In 1614, an expedition sailed to map the coast of New England, with Squanto traveling along as interpreter.

At this time, Squanto was able to return to his tribe of Patuxet.
Later that same year, 1614, it appears that Squanto may have been kidnapped again, along with some other natives, by the wretched Captain Thomas Hunt, who took them to Malaga, Spain, a city notorious for slave trading, begun during its Muslim occupation.

Had the Muslim Ottoman Empire not been occupied from the 15th to 17th centuries with conquests in Venice, Wallachia, Moldava, Hungary, Rhodes, Malta, Cyprus, Austria, and Poland-Lithuania, it may have colonized the New World.

In that case, native American culture may have been completely erased and replaced with Islamic culture, just as the Byzantine Christian culture was replaced in Turkey.
In Spain, Squanto appears to have been rescued by some Catholic friars, who may have introduced him to some Christian concepts. They proceeded to give him his freedom.

Sir Ferdinando Gorges wrote in A briefe relation of the discovery and plantation of New England (1622: London), that Captain Thomas Hunt was able to sell a few natives,

but when “friars of those parts” discovered his unscrupulous activity, they took the rest of the natives to be “instructed in the Christian Faith; and so disappointed this unworthy fellow of his hopes of gain.”

The friars gave Squanto his freedom and he made his way to England, where he was hired by John Slaney, treasurer of the Newfoundland Account.

He then worked for Newfoundland Colony Governor John Mason, who was later granted the patent for New Hampshire.

Squanto then worked for Captain Thomas Dermer, an agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges.

Governor Bradford wrote:

“Squanto was a native of these parts, and had been one of the few survivors of the plague hereabouts.

He was carried away with others by one Hunt, a captain of a ship, who intended to sell them for slaves in Spain …”

Bradford continued:

“(Squanto) got away for England, and was received by a merchant in London, and employed in Newfoundland and other parts, and lastly brought into these parts by a Captain Dermer, a gentleman employed by Sir Ferdinand Gorges …”

In 1619, Squanto was finally able to return to his Patuxet tribe, but sadly found that they had all died in a plague.
As tragic as his kidnapping had been, it may have also saved Squanto from dying in that plague.
The plague may have come from survivors of a French ship wrecked at Cape Cod in 1617, as Governor William Bradford:

“About three years before, a French ship was wrecked at Cape Cod, but the men got ashore and saved their lives and a large part of their provisions.

When the Indians heard of it, they surrounded them and never left watching and dogging them

till they got the advantage and killed them, all but three or four, whom they kept,

and sent from one Sachem to another, making sport with them and using them worse than slaves.”

Such accounts were related by French Catholic missionaries.

Though they were unarmed and sought to peacefully reach natives, many suffered the fate of martyrs.

One was Fr. Isaac Jogues, who taken prisoner by the Iroquois in 1641.

Indians gnawed off two of his fingers and roughly sawed off his thumb.

He was forced to run the deadly gauntlet, as described in The Jesuit Martyrs of North America, but before they could kill him, he escaped.
He wandered till he found some Dutch fur traders who helped him make his way back to Quebec.

From there, he was able to sail back to France.

 

Isaac Jogues later returned to America to continue his missionary work, where he was eventually killed.

Other French missionaries who died included: Charles Garnier, Rene Goupil, Anthony Daniel.

French Missionary Fr. John de Brebeuf wrote to newly arrived missionaries:

“You must love these Huron, ransomed by the blood of the Son of God, as brothers.”
Brebeuf wrote an extensive history of the Huron people and tried to find similarities with which he could present the Gospel.

Before he was martyred, he wrote Canada’s oldest Christmas carol, which was written in the Huron language:
‘Twas in the moon of winter-time

When all the birds had fled,

That mighty Gitchi Manitou (Great Spirit)

Sent angel choirs instead;

Before their light the stars grew dim,

And wandering hunters heard the hymn:

“Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born,

In excelsis gloria.”

Within a lodge of broken bark

The tender Babe was found,

A ragged robe of rabbit skin

Enwrapp’d His beauty round;

But as the hunter braves drew nigh,

The angel song rang loud and high …

“Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born,

In excelsis gloria.”

The earliest moon of wintertime

Is not so round and fair

As was the ring of glory

On the helpless infant there.

The chiefs from far before him knelt

With gifts of fox and beaver pelt.

“Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born,

In excelsis gloria.”

O children of the forest free,

O sons of Manitou,

The Holy Child of earth and heaven

Is born today for you.

Come kneel before the radiant Boy

Who brings you beauty, peace and joy.

“Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born,

In excelsis gloria.”

Governor William Bradford continued his account of Squanto:

“Captain Thomas Dermer had been here the same year that the people of the Mayflower arrived, as appears in an account written by him, and given to me by a friend, bearing date, June 30th, 1620 …

‘I will first begin,’ says he, ‘with the place from which Squanto (or Tisquantem) was taken away, which in Captain John Smith’s map is called ‘Plymouth’; and I would that Plymouth (England) had the same commodities.

I could wish that the first plantation might be situated here, if there came to the number of fifty persons or upward; otherwise at Charlton, because there the savages are less to be feared …'”

Bradford quoted Captain Thomas Dermer further:

“The Pokanokets (Patuxet), who live to the west of Plymouth, bear an inveterate hatred to the English …

For this reason Squanto cannot deny but they would have killed me when I was at Namasket, had he not interceded hard for me.'”
Bradford mentioned another native:

“Another Indian, called Hobbamok came to live with them, a fine strong man, of some account amongst the Indians for his valor and qualities.

He remained very faithful to the English till he died.

He and Squanto having gone upon business among the Indians, a Sachem called Corbitant … began to quarrel with them, and threatened to stab Hobbamok;

but he being a strong man, cleared himself of him, and came running away, all sweating, and told the Governor what had befallen him, and that he feared they had killed Squanto …
… So it was resolved to send the Captain and fourteen men, well armed … The Captain, giving orders to let none escape, entered to search for him.

But Corbitant had gone away that day; so they missed him, but learned that Squanto was alive, and that Corbitant had only threatened to kill him, and made as if to stab him, but did not.”
Governor William Bradford wrote the sad account of Squanto’s death in late September 1622:

“After this, on the 18th of September, they sent out their shallop (small sailboat) with ten men and Squanto as guide and interpreter to the Massachusetts, to explore the bay and trade with the natives, which they accomplished, and were kindly received …

… Captain Standish was appointed to go with them, and Squanto as a guide and interpreter, about the latter end of September;

but the winds drove them in; and putting out again, Captain Standish fell ill with fever, so the Governor (Bradford) went himself.

 

But they could not get round the shoals of Cape Cod, for flats and breakers, and Squanto could not direct them better.

The captain of the boat dare not venture any further, so they put into Manamoick Bay, and got what they could there …”

Bradford concluded:

“Here Squanto fell ill of Indian fever, bleeding much at the nose, which the Indians take for a symptom of death, and within a few days he died.

He begged the Governor to pray for him, that he might go to the Englishmen’s God in Heaven, and bequeathed several of his things to some of his English friends, as remembrances.

His death was a great loss.”

As half of the Pilgrims died that first winter, there was the real possibility that they would not have survived another, had it not been for Squanto. Governor Bradford acknowledged:

“Squanto … was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation.”

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Camp Constitution T-Shirts With a Message

Published November 7, 2025 | By Hal Shurtleff

Camp Constitution has made three T-shirts available on our on-line shop.  They include quotes on education by Pastor Voddie Baucham and Malcolm X, and one concerning “climate change.’   (Disclaimer:  We do not endorse the late Malcolm X but he did say some things which we agree and this quote is one of them.)  Cost of each T-shirt $20 which includes shipping,  Men’s sizes small, medium, large, x-large, and xx-large.  Color for the Voddie and Malcolm X shirts Heather Grey.  The CO2 shirt is white.  Links to order the shirts:

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Rare earth minerals, etc from China … or the USA?

Published November 2, 2025 | By Paul Driessen

US defense, security, industry should not be held hostage to China, when we could mine here

You’d be crazy to buy a car based on its shiny exterior, dazzling instruments and gorgeous leather interior – but without examining the engine or taking a test drive.

And yet that’s how America has handled the metals and minerals that are vital to our defense, medical, communication, automotive, aerospace, lasers, computer/AI/data centers and every other sector of our economy. They’re worth multi-trillions of dollars and are the foundation for jobs, living standards, national security, “green” energy and more.

In the Stone Age, humans relied on flint and obsidian. The Bronze Age utilized copper, tin and lead, plus gold and silver. The Iron Age prioritized iron and carbon. Today, we need almost every element in the Periodic Table, plus countless non-metallic minerals.

However, without any attempt to determine what deposits might lie beneath, decisionmakers have made hundreds of millions of acres of America’s “public lands” off limits to exploration and mining, primarily in Alaska and the eleven states west of the Dakotas. They’re managed by federal agencies for nearly every activity and value except potential subsurface treasures.

In fact, well over two-thirds of those lands have been effectively placed under lock and key: an area larger than Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming combined!

Of course, some places are so unique, magnificent or ecologically priceless that they should be off limits to resource extraction – from Arches to Zion National Park. But America cannot afford wide buffer zones around them, much less buffer zones around the buffer zones.

Moreover, countless other areas have also been closed off – some by acts of Congress, others by presidential or bureaucratic decree, or unending wilderness and wildlife studies. All with virtually no consideration of subsurface values. Sometimes federal officials even refuse to follow the law, because they “don’t think Congress should have enacted laws allowing exploration.”

Many are in regions that in past eons were the most geologically active in North America. Processes unleashed by plate tectonic, volcanic and other forces all but ensure that these lands contain highly mineralized zones, many with world-class deposits of gold, silver, platinum, molybdenum, chromium, antimony, titanium, copper, cobalt, lithium, graphite and other critically needed metals and minerals.

The Comstock Lode and other magnificent discoveries in past centuries further attest to their potential.

Today, the United States is dangerously dependent on foreign nations for 50 to 99% of 34 vital metals and minerals … and 100% of 15 others. China is our primary supplier for 24 of them; Russia for 6. In fact, China controls some 80% of global mining and more than 90% of refining and processing for all 17 rare earth metals. Virtually all graphite, natural and synthetic, is processed in China for export to EV, Powerwall and other lithium-ion battery makers worldwide.

Current policies leave the United States vulnerable to political, economic and military pressure. Revising them and properly evaluating our public lands resource base will take decades, but the process must begin now – for rare earth elements (REEs) and other critical and strategic materials.

Exploratory work has virtually no noticeable impacts on lands or wildlife. Remote sensing technologies on satellites, airplanes and drones will collect data on gravitational, magnetic, electromagnetic and other anomalies and trends across large regions, enabling geologists to zero in on mineralized areas.

Aerial and ground-based mapping of outcrops, rock samples and soil tests, combined with reviews of historical mining and exploration, then pinpoint locations where small drilling rigs collect rock cores and downhole instrumental data, to evaluate mineral content in multiple locations throughout a prospect. All of this helps geologists create 3-D computerized profiles of possible subsurface ore bodies.

Eventually, they learn enough to determine whether a prospect warrants entering the years-long planning, permitting and financing process.

Any open pit or underground mining may change land contours, perhaps dramatically, from what we see today, but this is for major metal ore bodies that are vitally important to America; occur very rarely; and average 3-5 square miles Washington, DC is 61 sq mi) for open pit mines, including the mine, processing plants, waste dumps (overburden and tailings), settling ponds, access roads and inactive areas.

All US operations are conducted under strict environmental protection, pollution prevention, waste rock disposal, workplace safety and land reclamation regulations.

However, anti-mining activists want no mining and use hypothetical land disturbance, pollution and endangered species claims to justify delaying, blocking and bankrupting all these activities, even initial exploration, even for materials required for wind, solar and battery technologies. They absurdly claim even a single mine will forever destroy the purity and sanctity of a designated wilderness or other wild area literally the size of Rhode Island, Delaware or Vermont.

Hypocritically, they express few concerns about wind, solar and transmission line projects that blanket, disrupt and destroy tens or hundreds of square miles of scenic and habitat lands, and kill countless birds, bats and terrestrial wildlife – or grid-scale battery installations that threaten human lives.

The Trump Administration is advancing multiple strategies to address this national security craziness.

To ensure near-term replacements for REEs and other materials that China has strategically monopolized, President Trump last week announced US investment deals with Australia, which already has 89 active rare earth exploration projects and will also work with the US to build less-polluting processing plants and improve supply chains Down Under. He is pursuing similar details with other friendly nations.

Other plans include strategic mineral “price floors” that will let governments support domestic mining operations facing sudden threats of collapsing prices and bankruptcy, due to major producers flooding global markets with materials extracted and processed cheaply because their countries have no or minimal environmental and workplace safety rules.

This week, Mr. Trump and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping agreed to a one-year easing of controls China had placed on rare earth mineral exports. Beijing had planned to impose stringent export controls on “every element of production’ associated with REEs. If “even a single gram” of any rare earth mined, processed or refined in China was in a US medical, military or other product, Beijing could veto its sale worldwide.

The Trump Administration is also reexamining US land use and withdrawal policies, streamlining the construction and operating permit process, issuing permits that have sat in bureaucratic limbo for years, seeking ways to limit or resolve environmentalist lawsuits against world-class deposits, reducing or removing excessive and unnecessary permitting obstacles, and spurring research into systems for processing and refining REEs and other metals and minerals that result in fewer toxic effluents.

America can no longer let environmental values and ideologies trump or override vital national defense, economic and security needs. The United States has long sacrificed access to vital mining prospects in favor of ecological values.

Now we must begin temporarily impacting some pristine areas to locate, evaluate and extract strategic materials – and end our dangerous and needless dependence on unfriendly and unreliable sources, before returning the lands to near-pristine conditions once mining is completed.

Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, climate change, economic development and human rights.
Contact me: pkdriessen@gmail.com

The Weekly Sam: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Written by Sam Blumenfeld

Published October 30, 2025 | By campconstitution

Charlotte Iserbyt has put her great exposé of the dumbing-down
agenda of American education on the Internet, so that anyone
can now read it and download it free of charge. The Deliberate
Dumbing Down of America is a big book and so very important
that anyone interested in the future of this country must read it.

I wrote a Foreword for the book that basically explains what
Charlotte achieved by her incredible research based on
documents she took out of the files of the Department of Education in Washington, where she worked as a Senior Policy
Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) during the first Reagan administration. She is
the consummate whistleblower, with an overwhelming sense of responsibility as a public servant and a parent. Here’s
the essence of what I wrote:

“Charlotte Iserbyt is to be greatly commended for having put together the most formidable and practical compilation of
documentation describing the “deliberate dumbing down” of American children by their education system. Anyone
interested in the truth will be shocked by the way American social engineers have systematically gone about destroying
the intellect of millions of American children for the purpose of leading the American people into a socialist world
government controlled by behavioral and social scientists.

Mrs. Iserbyt has also documented the gradual transformation of our once academically successful education system into
one devoted to training children to become compliant human resources to be used by government and industry for their
own purposes. This is how fascist-socialist societies train their children to become servants of their government masters.
The successful implementation of this new philosophy of education will spell the end of the American dream of individual
freedom and opportunity. The government will plan your life for you, and unless you comply with government restrictions
and regulations your ability to pursue a career of your own choice will be severely limited.”

What is so mind boggling is that all of this is being financed by the American people themselves through their own taxes.
In other words, the American people are underwriting the destruction of their own freedom and way of life by lavishly
financing through federal grants the very social scientists who are undermining our national sovereignty and preparing
our children to become the dumbed-down vassals of the new world order. It reminds one of how the Nazis charged their
victims train fare to their own doom.

One of the interesting insights revealed by these documents is how the social engineers use a deliberately created
education “crisis” to move their agenda forward by offering radical reforms that are sold to the public as fixing the crisis
— which they never do. The new reforms simply set the stage for the next crisis, which provides the pretext for the next
move forward. This is the dialectical process at work, a process our behavioral engineers have learned to use very
effectively. Its success depends on the ability of the “change agents” to continually deceive the public which tends to
believe anything the experts tell them.

And so, our children continue to be at risk in America’s schools. They are at risk academically because of such
programs as whole language, mastery learning, direct instruction, Skinnerian operant conditioning, all of which have
created huge learning problems that inevitably lead to what is commonly known as Attention Deficit Disorder and the
drugging of four million children with the powerful drug Ritalin.
Mrs. Iserbyt has dealt extensively with the root causes of immorality in our society and the role of the public schools in
the teaching of moral relativism (no right/no wrong ethics). She raises a red flag regarding the current efforts of left-wing
liberals and right-wing conservatives (radical center) to come up with a new kid on the block — “common ground”
character education — which will, under the microscope, turn out to be the same warmed-over values education alert
parent groups have resisted for over 50 years. This is a perfect example of the Hegelian Dialectic at work. (Karl Marx’s
communist philosophy is called “Dialectical Materialism.”)

The reader will find in this book a plethora of information that will leave no doubt in the mind of the serious researcher
exactly where the American education system is headed. If we wish to stop this juggernaut toward a socialist-fascist
system, then we must restore educational freedom to America. Americans forget that the present government education
system started as a Prussian import in the 1840’s–’50’s. It was a system built on Hegel’s belief that the state was “God”
walking on earth.

The only way to restore educational freedom, and put education back into the hands of parents where it belongs, is to
get the federal government, with its coercive policies, out of education. The billions of dollars being spent by the federal
government to destroy educational freedom must be halted, and that can only be done by getting American legislators to
understand that the American people want to remain a free people, in charge of their own lives and the education of their
children

And since finally conservatives in Congress are seeking ways to reduce the size and cost of government, a good place
to start is in dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. That’s one way to stop financing the deliberate dumbing
down of America.
To get to the free download of Charlotte’s book, click here:  https://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DDDoA.pdf

You can still buy the book if you prefer to have a hard copy
that you can read at your leisure and pass on to friends and relatives. And if you still have children in the public schools,
you’ll know exactly what is going on inside those walls.

(Editors note: This came from the Sam Blumenfeld archive.  It was originally published in 2011.  A link to the archive:  http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm

The Blumenfeld Archives

American Minute with Bill Federer Star Chamber Secret Trials, Jails, Persecution of Christians; Pilgrims Fled to Holland, then New England

Published October 25, 2025 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

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Star Chamber Secret Trials, Jails, Persecution of Christians; Pilgrims Fled to Holland, then New England
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Britain’s William Laud sent spies to listen to pastors’ sermon to see if they said anything against the King’s ordinances … continue reading …

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The Treacherous World of the 16th Century and How the Pilgrims Escaped It: The Prequel to America’s Freedom

If any pastor violated the government’s mandates, they were arrested.

The rigged trials were held in a secret government room called the “Star Chamber.”

These arbitrary and oppressive inquisitions did not allow those who were arrested to have defense attorneys, or meet their accusers.

No witnesses were allowed.

Though the secret hearings started with the intention of cutting through the red tape of bureaucracy, Britain’s Court of Star Chamber proceeded to usurp power.

It became a political weapon for auditing, intimidating and punishing opponents to the King’s policies, similar to modern-day IRS audits or partisan secret special counsel investigations.

Individuals were subject to hostile questioning, and if they gave unsatisfactory answers, they were charged with perjury.

If they did not answer for fear of self-incrimination, they were held in contempt of court.

The founders of the Baptist faith in England, John Smyth, John Murton, and Thomas Helwys, were each arrested and imprisoned, with Helwys dying in the notorious Newgate Prison, described as “hell above ground.”

The abuses of England’s Star Chamber led America’s founders to include the Fifth Amendment in the U.S. Constitution.

Notoriously biased in favor of the King, the Star Chamber was used in 1637 by William Laud to punish religious dissenters, such as William Prynne who objected to the state’s control over religious matters.

William Prynne was tied to a pillory – a public pillar – where he had his ears cut off and was branded on the cheeks with the letters “S.L.” for seditious libel, which Prynne called the “Sign of Laud.”

William Laud approved of the Star Chamber’s sentence of dissenting Pastor Henry Burton for his “seditious” sermons, resulting in his ears cut off and imprisonment.

When John Bastwick published religious opinions which opposed government mandates, he was brought before the Star Chamber.

He, too, had his ears cut off and was thrown in prison.

Dr. Marshall Foster, of the World History Institute, co-produced with Kirk Cameron the 2012 film Monumental: In Search of America’s National Treasure.

Marshall Foster wrote in “A Shining City on a Hill,” February 27, 2013:

“When King James died in 1625, his son Charles I ascended to the throne with the arrogance of a Roman emperor.

He was the quintessential ‘divine right’ monarch. He declared martial law and suspended the rights of the individual …

The king’s inquisitors at his ‘Star Chamber’ in the tower of London used torture techniques to ‘discover the taxpayer’s assets’ …”

Dr. Foster continued:

“A turning point in public opinion took place on January 30, 1637.

Three prisoners were locked down in the pillory in London before a huge crowd …

… These men included a Puritan minister, a Christian writer and Dr. John Bastwick, a physician.

What was their crime? They had written pamphlets disagreeing with the king’s religious views.

The sheriff began by branding the men with red hot irons on the forehead with an SL for seditious libel.”

The Star Chamber forced similar fates on religious dissenter Alexander Leighton, and John Lilburn, who had coined the term “freeborn rights,” a term often cited by Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black.

American biographer Edgar Lee Masters, 1868-1950, wrote:

“In the Star Chamber the council could inflict any punishment short of death, and frequently sentenced objects of its wrath to the pillory, to whipping and to the cutting off of ears …

With each embarrassment to arbitrary power the Star Chamber became emboldened to undertake further usurpation …

The Star Chamber finally summoned juries before it for verdicts disagreeable to the government, and fined and imprisoned them.

It spread terrorism among those who were called to do constitutional acts. It imposed ruinous fines.”

Dr. Marshal Foster concluded:

“The tyranny of the king … finally aroused the Christian sensibilities of the people. They would no longer tolerate burnings or mutilations for matters of conscience on religious views …

The persecutions drove tens of thousands of liberty loving believers to follow the Pilgrims to New England where they laid the foundation for the world’s most biblically based nation.”

One of those thrown in prison by William Laud during this time was Edward Winslow, one of the Pilgrim settlers.

Edward Winslow was the agent for the Pilgrim colony in America and would sail back and forth bringing supplies.

His wife had died in the first winter of the Plymouth Colony and he remarried widow Susanna White, whose husband had died that same winter.

On one of his trips back to England, Edward Winslow was thrown in jail for 17 weeks because he had performed marriages in the Plymouth colony without being ordained.

The Pilgrims had a covenant church structure, seeking to return to the simplicity of the early New Testament church.

This followed Tyndale’s and Coverdale’s Bible translation of the Greek word “ekklesia” as “congregation” or “assembly,” rather than “church.”

Pilgrims believed that marriage was only between a man and a woman, being created by God for the benefit of their natural and spiritual life: procreation of children to increase Christ’s flock; and to avoid the sin of adultery.

The Pilgrims with an open Geneva Bible is portrayed in the painting “Embarkation of the Pilgrims” hanging in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda

The Geneva Bible gives the words of Jesus in the Book of Matthew 19:4-6:

“And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning, made them male and female,

And said, For this cause, shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they twain, shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.”

Edward Winslow, born October 18, 1595, was the only Pilgrim to have his portrait painted.

His original career was a printer, when he joined a group of Christian Separatists who fled to Holland in 1608 to escape religious persecution.

During this period, known as the Dutch Golden Age, Holland was the center of the world’s foremost economic maritime power.

Dutch Reformed was Holland’s predominant faith, but the country led the world in extending religious toleration to other Christian denominations.

Settling in 1609 in Leiden, Holland, Edward Winslow helped the Pilgrim Separatist leader William Brewster print illegal religious pamphlets which were smuggled back into England.

William Brewster taught University of Leiden students.

The University of Holland also taught Hebrew, as did England’s Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, since 1549 and 1575, respectively.

The King of England sent spies and police to Holland where they raided and confiscated the printing press used by Winslow and Brewster.

After years of hardship, Edward Winslow, at the age of 25, departed with 102 Pilgrims for the New World.

In 1622, Winslow cured Indian Chief Massasoit of an illness, resulting in the Indians and Pilgrims making a peace treaty which lasted over 50 years. If the chief had not recovered, the Indians would have killed Winslow.

Accompanying Winslow’s meeting with Massasoit was Stephen Hopkins.

Hopkins had been the minister’s clerk on the vessel Sea Venture headed to Virginia in 1609.

The ship was caught in a hurricane and the 150 survivors were shipwrecked on Bermuda.

Hopkins took part in fomenting a mutiny, for which he was sentenced to death, but his friends procured a pardon from the Governor, the account of which became the basis of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, 1610.

He served as an indentured servant till he was deported back to England in 1614.

In 1620, he was a passenger on the Mayflower with the Pilgrims and signed the Mayflower Compact.

Beginning in 1621, Hopkins served several times as an emissary to Chief Massasoit.

Edward Winslow served three times as the Plymouth Colony’s Governor.

He kept the finances and often sailed back to England for business with the Colony’s adventurers (investors), bringing back the colony’s first cattle.

On one trip to England in 1625, as described in Governor William Bradford’s History of the Plymouth Settlement, Edward Winslow encountered Muslim Barbary Pirates expanding the Islamic State on the sea:

“The adventurers (investors) … sent over two fishing ships …

The pinnace (light sailing ship) was ordered to load with corfish … to bring home to England … and besides she had some 800 lbs. of beaver, as well as other furs, to a good value from the plantation.

… The captain seeing so much lading wished to put aboard the bigger ship for greater safety, but Mr. Edward Winslow, their agent in the business, was bound in a bond to send it to London in the small ship …

The captain of the big ship … towed the small ship at his stern all the way over.

So they went joyfully home together and had such fine weather that he never cast her off till they were well within the England channel, almost in sight of Plymouth.

… But even there she was unhapply taken by a Turkish man-of-war and carried off to Saller – Morocco – where the captain and crew were made slaves.

Thus all their hopes were dashed and the joyful news they meant to carry home was turned to heavy tidings …”

Bradford added:

“In the big ship Captain Myles Standish … arrived … in London …

The friendly adventurers were so reduced by their losses … and now by the ship taken by the Turks … that all trade was dead.”

Edward Winslow sailed back to England after the English Civil War.

He published pamphlets defending the New England colonies, such as:

  • “Hypocrisy Unmasked,” 1646;
  • “New England’s Salamander Discovered,” 1647;
  • “Introduction to Glorious Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New England,” 1649.

Winslow served in briefly in Oliver Cromwell’s army during England’s Civil War, 1642-1651.

Edward Winslow sailed with Admiral Sir William Penn, father of Pennsylvania’s founder, in an attempt to capture Santo Domingo, Hispaniola, from Spain.

They were unsuccessful.

Admiral Sir William Penn then sailed to the Island of Jamaica and captured from the Spanish in 1655.

On the way, Winslow contracted the deadly disease of yellow fever and died.

Andrew Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims recorded a spiritual quote of Edward Winslow’s, who wrote of the Pilgrims response during a time of crisis:

“Drought and the like … moved not only every good man privately to enter into examination with his own estate between God …

but also to humble ourselves together before the Lord by fasting.”

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The Write Side Blonde: An Interview with the creator of REDWHITEBLUE Magazine for Young Readers

Published October 23, 2025 | By Hal Shurtleff

Hal Shurtleff, host of the Camp Constitution Report, interviews Rachel “The Write Side Blonde”

From her website: https://www.writesideblonde.com/

Iowa Roots

Born and raised in the great state of Iowa — yes, on a farm — I have found a profound passion for learning politics and inspiring Americans to get involved. In Iowa, working hard is a given. You’re taught to take responsibility for your future, to be quiet and listen so you can better understand, but also to step up when necessary. Each is equally important. Too often we think we need to have things perfectly figured out before we take the first step. From here on out however, let’s all agree that in most cases, that mentality is outdated and extremely inefficient. All it takes is a little grit and some passion, and the rest will sort itself out.

My Educational Journey

I decided at the age of 18 to forego a journalism degree and instead received a master’s in Exercise Physiology with a focus on childhood obesity. After writing my thesis, and upon graduation, I realized the food here is not healthy and our “health” care system is set up for failure: for treatment, not for prevention. The most important thing I learned from grad school, aside from learning how to research, is the concept of “temporary truths.” One of my advisors introduced this notion in class, and it has stuck with me ever since. Things and people evolve, and as a result, can change an entire society’s perception of what is considered morally acceptable.

My Political Awakening

I voted for Barack Hussein Obama in 2008 and after not voting in 2012 due to my dislike of both candidates, I cast my vote for Donald J. Trump in 2016. I frequently discuss this shift and why I am proud to be a Trump supporter now. I hope my journey can help others see the heavy propaganda and other tactics used on us for many years. Inspiration from George I have every original George Magazine from 1995 to 2001 as well as both George books. Much like JFK Jr’s stance, politics is too important to be left to the politicians. We must learn to put our focus on what unites us, seek to understand our differences, and celebrate the passion we share for the future of our country. The Power of Free Speech I believe everyone deserves a voice, even those society deems dangerous or unworthy because in the end, I trust the American people to form their own conclusions. As Louis Brandeis put it in 1927, “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” Join Me in Taking Action I hope you enjoy my site, but more importantly, I hope you to take action and get involved!

 

 

The United Nations:  The House That Hiss Built It is Time for Us to Get Out

Published October 23, 2025 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

Sportswriter Fred Lieb coined the term “The House that Ruth built” referring to the old Yankee Stadium which opened in 1923.  Not too far from Yankee Stadium is “The House that Hiss Built” which is the United Nations Headquarters.  Alger Hiss was the UN’s first acting secretary who co-authored, with a Soviet national, the United Nations charter.  He was also, as the world discovered a few years later, a Soviet agent during Stalin’s reign of terror.  That is correct.  The man who cowrote the U.N. Charter, who served as an advisor to Franklin Roosevelt, was a communist spy.  Former Communist agent Whittaker Chambers exposed Hiss.  He authored the book Witness to tell his story and his connection to Hiss.  This and many other facts are kept from our nation’s government school children in their Model United Nations programs.

So, it should come as no surprise that the U.N. Charter and its Universal Declaration of Rights passed are diametrically opposed to the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence.  In the United States, rights come from God and the main purpose of government is to protect those God given rights.  The U.N.’s organic documents make no reference to God, and it implies that rights come from governments, and can be taken away by those same governments.  The U.N’s Declaration of Rights grants the right of religion, the right of nationality, education, and even the right to leisure, but in Article 29, all of these government granted rights can be taken away:

“ In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order, and the general welfare in a democratic society.

These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.”

This explains why the U.N. membership is replete with despotic regimes.

 October 24 marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations.   It was sold to a war weary world as Mankind’s last and best hope for peace. In reality, its purpose from its inception was to be a world government.  The long-standing goals of the U.N. include a world army, a fully functioning world court, a world tax, world education standards, and world population control which is already being implemented in Third-World countries.

                                                                                                         WHO

WHO-The World Health Organization- is a UN’ entity founded in 1948.  It’s head,  Dr. Tedius Ghebreyesuswas a senior member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front-a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group.  He also has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. This explains why WHO adopted the CCP’s Covid protocols which in turn the U.S. adopted.    President Trump wisely got us out WHO for the second time but not before the damage was done.

                                                                                                UN  “Peacekeepers”

One of the most Orwellian terms I know is “U.N. Peacekeepers.”    They were first used in Katanga, a province in what was once called the Belgian Congo, now Zaire in the early 1960s.  Soviet trained Patrice Lumumba became the leader of the nation.  Dr. Moise Tshombe, a pro-Western Christian leader of Katanga seceded from the nation.  In direct violation of its charter, the U.N. sent in its “peacekeepers” mainly white soldiers from Ireland-were sent to Katanga.  They murdered, and raped civilians and bombed hospitals and radio stations.   Their mission in Côte d’Ivoire from 2003-2017 was rife with sexual abuse of children.  Other nations that experienced sexual abuse by U.N. Peacekeepers include Sri Lanka, Haiti. Sudan, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Bosnia, and Kosovo. U.N. troops tortured to death a Somali teenager, and the pro-U.N. American media outlets in the U.S. ignored this horror.

                                                                                                     Agenda 21-2030

The UN’s tentacles aren’t in faraway nations; they are in our neighborhood.  In 1992, it introduced Agenda 21, now Agenda 2030.   President Bush signed on to it and President Clinton’s administration made it the policy of the U.S. Government.  Today, hundreds of towns and cities  including Wolfeboro and Concord, NH belong to another U.N entity, ICLEI-International Council for Local Environmental Initiative.      No peacekeepers are needed.  The policies of Agenda 21 are being implemented locally.  Plastic bag and straw bans, bike lanes on busy streets, solar panels in what were once green fields, and climate change propaganda in our schools are just a few examples of the local implementation of Agenda 21.  This is a quote from the “Father of Agenda 21, the late Maurice Strong, who was a billionaire oilman and New Age devotee:

“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class — involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing — are not sustainable.”

Sen. Mike Lee of Utah has introduced the Disengaging Entirely from the United Nations Debacle (DEFUND) Act, which calls for the United States’ complete withdrawal from the United Nations.  It is high time that we got out of the United Nations.

A book we recommend available at Camp Constitution’s on-line shop:  https://campconstitution.net/product/inside-the-united-nations-a-critical-look-at-the-un-by-steve-bonta/

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