Jim Headrick's Blog

1962 Supreme Court decision took prayer out of our schools. This action was brought about by someone that didn’t believe in God and wanted their child not to be exposed to such prayerful activity. The truth is that if they didn’t want to pray they didn’t have to do so. Also even if someone held a gun to their head, no one can make a student listen to what is being said. If that were a possibility I would favor teachers having guns just to get the students attention. I have said many times that if you don’t believe and don’t want to believe, I will pray for your, but what I do should not make any difference to the unbeliever.

I don’t remember the word prayer being given a legal definition. Everyone just assumed that we all knew what it was and it just didn’t need to have a definition. Prayer is a private conversation between one person and their God. If I am involved in a public prayer the person leading the prayer cannot pray in my place. They can pray for me, but that can’t pray in my place. I have to do that myself.

I don’t want to infringe on anyone else’s religion, so they should have the right to pray by themselves or not pray. However if they say that I can’t pray any time or anywhere I want, they are infringing my right to honor my God. In that situation the state is trying to force me to become non religious. Nowhere in the Constitution is the phrase ‘separation of church and state’. This is a phrase that is repeated by representatives of our government and the media constantly that simply does not exist.

Later the court decided that you could pray but not out loud. These actions were brought about by a suite from the right which was badly orchestrated and didn’t go far enough to correct the wrong done years before.

Religious symbols on public property was also a problem. We could not display a manger scene, but we could have the Ten Commandments on the Supreme Court Building. We have a chaplain in congress. This is another mixed signal that is sent down by the Supreme Court. In none of the cases above is the problem clearly identified before a solution is rendered.

In Roe vs Wade the court decided that they knew when life begins instead of leaving that definition to the expert scientists. The Court decided that didn’t begin until the second trimester. Another short sited decision.

Now the Court has legitimized Gay Marriage. Again they didn’t identify the definition of marriage. Marriage throughout time has been the union of a man and woman for the purpose of producing a child. All married couples didn’t produce children, but the equipment was there. Women produce eggs and men produce sperm. This is the natural way of things. The court did not define they thing they were trying to control. I am not saying that gay unions should not be legitimatized but not as marriage.

I have heard the argument that our values have changed. Our values haven’t changed. Values are what they have always been. We have just allowed the devil’s goals to replace our values. My Lord God can take this country away from us in an instant. Our values have to be His values, or there are not values.

I just wrote the Supreme Court a note that said they should thing more broadly when considering the decisions they hand down.  I was especially referring to abortion, ethnic problems such as Affirmative Action, and gay marriage.

For instance abortion is simply a matter of deciding when human life begins.  The court made a decision that life begins after the first trimester.  There was no way they could have possibly known when life begins.  At the time the decision was handed down there was not enough knowledge about pregnancy to determine when that is.  If the decision was handed down that said that abortions were illegal except in the defense of the life of the mother and left the determination of when that moment is to the scientific experts, an abortion would now be anytime after the fourth day the egg is impregnated by the sperm and the organizer shows up. 

However, because the Supreme Court determined that they are God, this decision stands to this day.  Should it take another case to revisit this travesty or could Congress make a law that says life begins when the AMA says it begins based on good solid Intel that could be revised further as me know more. 

In the case of Affirmative Action, again the Court handed down an absolute ruling that covered the minorities.  It was so ill-thought out that it has caused everyone that is in any way subject to any odd activity to be able to use this to challenge decisions.  Using the law to micromanage situations such as these is a message from the workers of these United States that we refuse to negotiate without government stepping in to take the load.  However there are many (I would say the majority) of those people with grievances not being serviced by these decisions.

The decision does not protect the majority.  As system that would protect the majority would be a group that would protect the whistle blower and the employees that are being treated badly.  The ACLU would be a good source, but they only want cases that promote their agenda that usually does not have anything to do with the protection of the subject.  The federal government cannot micromanage every citizen plus every company and every decisions maker inside those companies.

Laws passed by Congress and rulings handed down by the Supreme Court have in common the ambiguousness in laws and rulings that have to be interpreted by courts instead of the experts in the field ruled upon.

Another example is the gay marriage situation.  To say that  gay marriage is legal because gay is a sect is like saying that drug addicts should be able to take drugs with no consequence because they cannot help it, or a person should be able to smoke anywhere they want because they have a habit.  If a person is gay they are gay.  They should have equal rights under the law to protect each other from undue financial problems, but to say they need marriage to do these is nuts.

The gays have imposed their will on me and cheapened the sanctity of my marriage.  They have stepped on my religious rights by taking from my bible the word marriage and making is something that my God says is despicable.  They have just crossed the line of dictating to me that I have to abide the concept of gay marriage even though it is specifically not allow in my religion.

In these cases the state legislators have said to God we know better than you.  We will do what we want.  I would be afraid to say to God such a thing. 

The Declaration of the Constitution says that I am endowed with certain inalienable rights, which among them are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  I AM NOT HAPPY WITH THESE LAWS AND RULINGS.

The discussion about privacy in all cases I have heard even from Congress and other political persons concern the symptoms instead of focusing on the real discussion of protecting the rights and safety of our citizens.  I don’t understand why we have been, as a people, put in a position of protecting terrorist and other criminals above the welfare of the citizens.  First we should determine if the laws protect law abiding citizens from harm. 

Don’t misunderstand accused citizens have rights which generally are stepped on my all law enforcement agencies.  This is another point and should be discussed separately.

If a person or persons plot to overthrow the government, kill one or more individual citizens whether in country or citizens in foreign countries, these persons should be considered terrorist.  At the point the plot exists, the citizenship of the perpetrators should never protect them from retaliation from our government.  Whatever it takes to protect the innocent citizens should be on the table. 

It is the plot or declaration that should make the difference.  If a person says to another person, “I am going to kill you or your family, or otherwise bring harm to them or their assets.”  The declarer just announced a plot to do harm to someone else.  At this point in time these people are declared not to have done anything yet.  This is a lie.  They have probably struck fear in the heart of the recipient of the declaration.  If this can be cohobated the declarer should be arrested as a terrorist.  That is an act of terror whether domestic or foreign.  The person could be reacting and not proactive, but this can be sorted out in the investigation.  

Most all domestic crime is money oriented.  In general people either want something someone else has or are taking advantage of people in secret.  There are the killings of rage and robbery killings.  There are the killings that are caused from drugs and other crime related causes which could fall into the definition of a plot.  Targeted killings whether domestic or foreign are a different category.  These are people either foreign or domestic that have decided to kill, maim, or otherwise violently disrupt our way of life.  I my opinion these people have renounced their citizenship. 

As a naturalized citizen that has taken an oath to uphold the constitution or a natural born citizen that is bound by the oath your fathers or even ancestors took to make this nation an independent republic, we have agreed to live by the laws of the United States “inadvisable with liberty and justice for all” which we all say when we recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.  Once we ignore the principles of the Constitution of the United States, we should not expect to be protected by them.

For instance Edward Snowden is a traitor.  He has and/or is putting the wellbeing of many people at risk.  This is a plot to undermine the principals of our government.  Instead of pussyfooting around, this man should be apprehended and summarily executed. No one can undo what he has done, but there should be no way he should be able to justify his actions.  He is not a whistleblower.  He is a traitor.  A whistleblower brings some wrong to the attention of those that can do something about the plight of injustice they have discovered.  Clearly not enough protection is given whistleblowers for they serve a very useful purpose and should be compensated for what they have done.

The problem seems to be what should be controlled by the states and what should be controlled by the federal government.  As soon as it is discovered that a crime either planned or committed is discovered or simply executed that is indiscriminately planned or carried out, the activity should be declared terrorism and be tried under the laws of treason.  As soon as the act is classified terrorism and/or treason the federal laws should prevail.

There are many examples of this type of crime. Now with the internet becoming a tool, we cannot allow the abuse of the internet unless it is regulated properly.

When the internet became available to the public and the search areas included finding people you wanted to find, it was basically free to all.  As the money hungry people began to see the possibility of making a profit from this great tool.  Agreements were made between governments and certain companies to let the governments deal with these companies, blocking the access to certain information from the general public.  The internet, in my opinion, is just like the radio waves, or the telephone frequencies owned by the people.  The internet must be regulated to a degree that we cannot become victims of all this information available.

First we must take control of the internet to the degree that it cannot be manipulated to indiscriminately allow personal information to be exploited in any way.  This would include the marketing use of the internet.  If someone wants to know what I buy, send me a survey.  I have discount cards, and if I buy milk from Kroger’s then they have a right to use that information.  I applied for their card.  However, they should not be able to give or sell that information to anyone else.  The act of volunteering my information by applying for the card should settle that point.  This should apply to all cards including credit cards.

However, if it is determined by a judge that I need to be watched or investigated, the government should be able to access the Kroger data base and determine whether or not the fact that I buy milk is important to the investigation going on.

Now how would we get there?  Before a judge would issue such an order patterns would have to immerge to show cause.  This would come from normal investigation using what is and has been available to law enforcement taking care not to overstep the citizen’s protection rights.

When a person that normally does not buy nitrates suddenly or continually purchases nitrates, there could be system that allows a store owner to report such abuse much like people are reported for buying excess amounts of Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride.  This type of data base should be legal and expected.  If citizens buy guns or large amounts of ammunition they should be reported by the store owners.

There should be no exceptions to these rules.  Information should be free to all from the data base.  This should not be a database that requires joining.  It should just be a database on the internet protected from anyone accessing the information to alter the results of the posts made to it.  Such protection does exist.

In the case of what would be terrorist or traitors, the federal government tends to want to keep this information secret, but it should not be.  It should be that I, as an average citizen, I notice someone doing something that seems to me to be abnormal.  I could look on the internet database and see that this person has been reported before for odd activity.  I then make my report.  My identity is protected as an informant from the general public, but not to the government agency that reads the report.  From this information the government can begin making a case for an investigation.  Only during a trial would the names of the reporting citizens be used if necessary.

We must change the way we look at criminals, terrorist, and traitors in the country if we want to protect it.  We must change the way we protect the rights of privacy.  We are in a different age of information.  We must at all costs change the way we approach privacy without giving a benefit to a few corporation to make money.  Any system we create must be owned and controlled by the federal government.  The state governments must not be able to control it away from the federal government because the state might be trying to plot against federal lawt.

Our prison system is so antiquated and confused as to who should be in jail for what purpose we desperately need to redefine the classification of who we now call criminals and house them separately with help to those that can be saved while just keeping the hardened criminal sequestered from the public.

I listen to the radio and TV news and pundit speeches and am amazed and astonished at the lack of response outlining the inadequacy of the Congress to adequately identify and address to any real solution that would help our country go forward.

One of the big things we have to address is the budget.  We steal from one collection method of taxation to solve the shortage in another.  We have intelligent people in Congress.  It is not a lack of intelligence, but a lack of willingness to do the right thing. 

It is true that the electorate is sent to Congress with clear objectives in the vote.  Now that is approximately 50% of our nation.  Even if the percentage was 100% the fact that for the most part the electorate doesn’t understand the problems enough to make the decision to strap a Congress person to a particular vote.  That would be a democracy.  We are not a democracy.  We are a republic.  That means we do recognize that we should limit the decisions to the wisest and smartest people in our nation. 

The Tea Party and some other components of our Congress believe the Christian values are more important than anything else, including the welfare of our citizens. While it is true that we should be guided by Christian values, it is not true that anyone has the authority given by our Constitution or our God to force anyone to accept them.  As a matter of fact criminal law is written for people that do not accept our values. 

The Tea Party has diverted the focus of the Congressional theme from solving problems and allowing the outside influences to guide the greed of K street under the cover of the noise made by the often misstatements of those Tea Party members.  

We hear in the news about some outrageous statement about something they said and nothing about the fact that;

• no banker has gone to jail because of the trillions of dollars the American people lost through no fault of their own or the thousands of home lost because of their activity,

• misappropriated funds for personal benefit the replaced it less the profit earned,

• stopped loaning money to entrepreneurs to grow jobs against asset based collateral while creating situations using derivative collateral for themselves.   

• While we need more people to come more educated, they allow companies to sell the education to people trying to improve themselves at exorbitant prices to allow these companies to make profit on the amount of the cost of education.  This is just not right.

I write about these things mostly pointing to the fact that we have people that a smart enough to solve these problems.  Unfortunately we don’t have people that are smart enough or maybe not informed enough to choose the right people to represent them.

I was never so disappointed in our President when he said that we were not a Christian Nation.  I was very disappointed when I realized that this statement too, was squashed mostly by the media.

Christians, mostly pacifists in nature worship at least once a week, pray for each other on an ongoing basis and relate the Word of God at least to each other on a daily basis.  They go to work every day and earn a living for their families and support the ministry that lives closest to their heart.  We are a SILENT Christian Society.

The Devil said, “Separation of church and state is what the Constitution says.”  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Nine of Satin’s justices sat on the Supreme Court and said this is what we believe, and it must be true if we believe it.  The question remains after over 60 years of this ridiculous statement; is getting God out of our everyday lives and thinking working better than being under God’s umbrella of love and protection?

Keep in mind that this problem didn’t start in 1960.  Satin had and has sleeper cells in our communities, states and national government both elected and unelected waiting on their call.  We, must, move from the point of being silent Christians to chime ringing Christians. 

Holding ourselves up to be a Christian is not a byproduct of the Constitution.  The Constitution is a byproduct of Christianity.  Now, as a nation, we followed God’s example He gave in the bible which allows us to make the choice either to become a Christian or not to become a Christian.  What our constitution says is that we (the citizens of the United States) will not make you become a Christian.

Anyone holding office in these United States in any capacity and especially the Supreme Court that does not believe that should not be reelected of if appointed should be disappointed by being impeached of simply put in another position of non-leadership.  Even a more important obstacle that must in all instances hold hard to our Christian beliefs and practices are the members of the Boards of Education.  While we have laws that countermand our beliefs these people must be strong devout Christians to fight the battle bring our public schools back under God’s control. I want to hear the bible read every morning in school along with a prayer to begin the day.  The people that don’t believe we should do that can go to hell, but they don’t need to take us with them.

What happened with all the gun violence has never and will never be addressed by congress or the courts.  The problem with the violence is it is spurned on by the absence of God in our society.  There were machine guns operated by crazy people in the twenties.  People have been killing people indiscriminately for decades since pray was taken out of school when the church let that happen.

When you really think about it the general public wants congress to pass legislation that will micromanage morality.  In actuality congress can pass this legislation, but with the freedom we have it can never be enforced. 

The public cannot put the responsibility for morality off on the congress and courts.  They have no conscious.  They only know rules and negotiations.  The public must give an outcry to congress and the courts to re-establish God in our society, not by rules but by actions.  If we Christians (?) will begin to act like Christians, the people elected and appointed to positions of high office will be Christians.  If they are Christian, the laws and the rule of law will navigate back to a Christian nation being tolerant of other religions that worship God, instead of a nation that doesn’t care what anyone worships.

I support President Obama as president.  He is doing a good job, but I get cold chills every time I think about him saying, “We are no longer a Christian nation.”  This cannot be.   

The leaders of our churches, as a rule, do not take sides against both sides of the political spectrum.  Many say they are Christians and therefore Republicans.  That is nuts.  Christianity is not political, but the church is obligated to help protect its members, feed the poor, and come to the aid of those in need in whatever way they can while bringing them into the folds of Christianity.  This is the charge given the disciples before his crucifixion.

If we could take a minute to take stock of our own lives, we could see where we can improve.  I have done that, and discovered that I am a mess.  God loves me anyway, but he wants me to improve.  I’m trying.  I challenge you to also take stock and try.

I’m really not an Old Testament buff.  To me the Old Testament is there to validate the New Testament for the ‘born again’ Christian.  However, I have been reading the prophets again.  I wanted to see why this loving God we serve go so upset with His chosen people.  Of course the first thing was Idolatry.  After that it seems it is just the way they lived.  They lived for me and my pleasures.  Other people were suffering, but that was just the way it is.  If I can win I will even if it is to the distress of the poor.  Justice is whatever works out to get others out of my mind or at least out of my site.

Sound familiar; well it should.  IT IS US.

We Christians complain about the criminals and the working and non-working poor, and say, “These people are trying to take advantage of us, so let us not worry about their wellbeing.”  Let us examine why they might be the way they are. 

What do they think about every day?  They think about survival, and the ones that are Christians wonder why they are having such a hard time in this free land the Lord gave us.  Most think they should follow the thinking of the church and the government.

First let us examine the Christian church.  Most of the churches in these United States have given the responsibility of seeing to the needs of the poor to the government.  The government accepted the responsibility.  Our government hasn’t protected the poor for a long time.  For instance as I point out in my book “God’s Agenda vs Man’s Agenda” “In 1909 the arrested workers of the New York Shirtwaist Strike of 1909 were told by a judge that they were on a strike against God.”  In this section of the book I point out several instances that shows they supposed leaders of the country didn’t care at all about the poor or oppressed.

The prophets talked about the fact that people were not paid a fair wage.  I would assume that means a wage they could at least survive economically.  I dare anyone that has lived on a wage of $15 an hour or less to attempt to try it on $7.25 an hour.  That is about $14,500 dollars per year.  If you look on this web site http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774473.html you will notice that this amount has never been a fair amount.  In 1955 the amount was $.75 per hour.  That would have been about $1,500 per year.  This is $30 a week or about $129.00 a month.  At that same time I earned more than that with part time work and was only a junior in high school.  At that same time men were earning $30 per week building homes outside the union.  At that same time workers in the unions and government employees were earning $80 per week. That ratio continues today.

Our all knowing government that represents all the people passes laws that allow those who have to exploit the have-nots.  They pass laws that oppress those that have resorted to criminal activity which further teaches them to survive no matter what happens to others.  At all points in our justice system, especially the Federal government, are always out to win regardless of the facts of the circumstances.  Judges mostly do what the District Attorneys request, and the accursed, in most cases, has to take pleas due to the cost of litigation.

According to the history of the relationship of God and man, we must take the responsibility of begin called Christian seriously and have the church take back the responsibility of distributing the gives to the common storehouse to the ones that need it.  Individually take back the responsibility of being children of God.

Did you know that the Devil believes in God?  That is an interesting thought isn’t it? Believing in God is not the same as Worshiping and Trusting in God.  The Devil as near as I can tell, was there when the universe was created.  Yet he wants us to believe that he, the devil, is all powerful.  He probably is more powerful than man, but he is not more powerful than man with God.  The Devil certainly gets man’s attention, but he is not more powerful than our Sovereign Lord.

The Devil with his use of money and power here on earth entices us to follow the idles he places in front of us like money, power, prestige, and worldly pleasures to get us to follow him which is a way of forcing us to follow him.

The Lord God on the other hand simply says to us that He is God the Creator of heaven and earth, and asks us to accept Him at His word, live a productive life here on earth as he directs and live eternity with him.

If it be His will, I pray today that our nation accept Him, His teachings, and His grace which will lead us back to a relationship with Him that will allow Him to let us continue living free in this country.  Then we can spend eternity in heaven with Him. Amen

In the 10th Chapter of Jeremiah, Jeremiah offers this prayer after God had told him that the people of Israel were not living their lives as he had instructed before they entered the promise land

Jeremiah’s Prayer

Lord, I know that people’s lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps. Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.
²⁵ Pour out your wrath on the nations
that do not acknowledge you,
on the peoples who do not call on your name, For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him completely and destroyed his homeland

At some point we must consider that we have been given a chance for a wholesome life with riches enough to have time to consider what God has given us to work with in order to bring the world to the Lord as he commanded.  We can start by considering what our God given talents are and how we might use for the good of mankind.  Then we could ask God how he wants us to use those talents for his glory

In order to grow this country’s respect and influence throughout the world we should begin to first move our own lives closer to what God intended us to do.  A big step would be to go back to the six days of labor and one or rest.  Our government supported this even in the Constitution.  We had the “blue law”.  Government business and commercial business was shut down except of necessary things like hospitals, emergency service, police, and emergency repair entities.   I remember in my lifetime that we couldn’t sign a contract on Sunday.  It just would not hold up in a court of law

Today in the United States we have companies working that never shut down.  We do have the hospitals and other institutions that have to work for the safety of others.  We have our military, police and fire fighters, and many other situations where we would at least have to be virulent.  We have some that worship on Sunday and some that worship on Saturday and some that worship on Friday. Can we pick a day of rest and get back to our original beliefs

The Lord God said to the prophets that we do not consider the poor or anyone that assistance from the wealthy.  In those times the religious community which would have been the Israelites or Jewish church that took that responsibility.  In the beginning they did that service for the Lord, but had let that responsibility fall away from their practices.  In the United States it was the Christian Church’s responsibility or the community that should be doing this, but the communities gave that responsibility to the State and Federal Government.  Now the State and Federal Government doesn’t want it any more,

Can the tithes and offerings be better distributed from the State and Local Government and should it be.  Holding a coin in his hand, Jesus said give unto Cesar what belongs to Cesar and give to God what is God’s.  I don’t believe he was talking only about Money, but I could be wrong.

Is there a way to fix this?