Jim Headrick's Blog

I took some flack over my last post concerning the Iran agreement.  That is perfectly okay.  I was told that I did not know these people and was called naïve by someone who had lived there.  I don’t have a lot of experience, but I have interacted with people form the Middle East for 30 years.  I know that when they say yes that they may be saying ‘this is a good concept’, ‘I heard you say this’, or ‘yes I might consider this point’.  I understand all these ideas, but I do know that if you ignore a situation with the idea that it will eventually fix itself, this is naïve and stupid.

Without this agreement Russia and China would probably pull out of the agreement and use Iran to help them to their own end.  The UN has spoken.  Any nation can’t just go forward in making bombs and supplying armament to rough nations.  There has to be some sanity in this world.

Lindsey Gram said yesterday that this is the worst agreement in the history of the United States.  Others have said stupid things by making judgements about serious talks and documents of which they were not a part.  Just think about Iran doing what they want to do while hiding behind Russia and China.  This type of thinking is the reason we are in the mess we are in today.

Supposedly we have sent the best and the brightest to our universities and educated them to run our political system.  They are supposed to be loyal to ‘We the People’, but instead they are first loyal to themselves and then to the power with which they subscribe.  With the exception of a very few the self-greed and that power rules this world.  The degree of hopelessness and helplessness in these United States is not based on the amount of money one has in their pocket.  The hopelessness and helplessness is based on the fear of the populous knowing there are problems out there with no one interested in solving.

When I speak I am always speaking from the standpoint of what I believe to be Christian beliefs and the fact that God guided our forefathers to create the basis of a Christian society that accepts and promotes, through the Constitution, choice to the populous as to how to worship Him.  The ,Him, I am referring to is Jesus the Christ who lived prophesied to the point of giving his life for our sins, while never raising his hand to anyone that didn’t follow Him.  Now we have made an agreement with the followers of Mohammed.  This two was a man who claimed to have had a vision that resulted in him and his followers to take a city by force about fourteen hundred years ago.  He also claimed to have ascended into heaven with instructions totally different than that of Jesus the Christ.  His followers say death to the Jews and Christians.  If you are not with them, you must be against them.

None of this is of God.  I used to think that Mohammad probably had a vision, but it was to unite the children of Abraham.  Now I think he must have been dealing with the devil and has led billions of people astray.  I they really would like to follow the prophets they should simply read what they say.  Certainly in Isaiah 53 he was not describing the death and resurrection of Mohammad.

The aforementioned comment was aimed at me to ask if I trust Iran.  Of course I do not.  However if we can somehow control the villains until Christ comes so we may be able to save all those souls, let’s do it.

We cannot solve today’s problems with archaic thinking.  We must identify the problems presented to us and then face them as they are and not what we want them to be.

The opponents of the Iran agreement said that if we didn’t bomb Iran or some other drastic measure, they would have the bomb perfected by now.  Now since we have an agreement that possibly allows inspection and some degree of control, the opponents, mostly Republicans, have stated they will not confirm it.

The Republicans and their supporters are determined to spend whatever prosperity we have on war upon which they profit.  This is just one more nail that holds up the banner that says reform congress.,

A lot has been discussed about should we be rich, poor, black, yellow, red, white, male, female.  All these things would matter if we were going to live here on earth for a period of time then simply disappear.  However this is not the case.  Our God created us to follow his word then join him in eternity.  Our soul may have all the various traits of male, female and colors, but I doubt it.  Our Lord was specific about how you live and relate to each other which is part of following His direction of how to live.

The ‘how’ we live is more important than what we live as.  If we do not chose to live as a man or a woman that is okay with God, but to turn to the same sex for sexual gratification is not okay.  Paul seemed not to be attracted to the opposite sex, but he probably choose that so he could spend all his time glorifying God.

The ethnic issue is something I have never understood.  I grew up watching white people drink form one water fountain and blacks from another.  It didn’t make sense to me then and even less sense now that we should look down on either group.  In my opinion the blacks are just as bad as or worse than the whites when prejudice is concerned.  The only difference is power.  The whites seem to have more power in the normal world, but the blacks have more power in the world they created.

If a group of people within a larger society set up a community inside that the larger society with different rules or guidelines the smaller group has then separated themselves from the larger society.  This is the case with black communities that no longer feel they have to obey the accepted community laws and rules of the government.  I have heard of communities of other ethnic groups such as Chinese, Spanish communities, and others that set their own rules and answer to no one but themselves unless they happen to be caught in the government law enforcement agency.

We live in a society controlled by laws that assumes the general population would like to live in a law abiding community.  Our laws are set to be controlled by a small group of government agencies that simply guide us when we falter.  The most flagrant violation was the Cosa Nostra.  When we review the history of this organization we can clearly see how ignoring this type of power can hurt us deeply.

What do we do? We change the way we do business.  We have to identify a group that does not want abide by the rules set up by the majority then set up a set of rules that treat them differently.  We have a faction of our far right that seems to understand the problem, but are trying to fight in the wrong way.  Internationally we are seeing a far right group of the Muslim religion that does not even claim to part of any country that wants to set rules for all people or kill them.

We must recognize that some people feel they should live outside the rules of the larger government in which they live and when they cross the lines set out by that government, they should be handled not as part of the government, but as enemies of that government.

I can must more easily deal with an illegal alien that has jumped our fence in order to make a better living for his family, that to deal with a US citizen that has declared that he is no longer allegiant to the laws of the United States.  That person is now my enemy.

I am attempting to expand my reader base and get more people involved in bring this country to a place I believe God intended.

As you read please remember that I am a born again Christian who believes the bible is accurate but by on means complete.

Next I am an independent that believes the main parties and their sub-parties do not have any ambition to help the common people they represent.

To get a better idea of my beliefs and thoughts please read “The Repair and Upkeep of the Constitution of the United States”, “God’s Agenda vs Man’s Agenda”, and the blogs I have written on my blog site  – https://jimheadrick.wordpress.com/.

Please have a good day and remember that if things continue as they are our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, may never have the opportunity to make any decisions at all.

We have now heard two decisions that have proven beyond any doubt that the once that own the Supreme Court have change the constitution.  The question is what strategy did they use?  The truth is that the once the created the strategy are probably dead.

We have heard the elected officials, pundits, newspaper, radio and TV stations owned by the elite, plus the unthinking followers of such tripe buy in to statements purportedly derived from manipulated surveys that conclude the majority of American citizens, approve of same sex marriage.  The question might be asked, “Do you believe that same sex couples should have legal status?”  However the report that comes to us over the media would say that the majority of the citizens approve of same sex marriage.  The two ideas are not the same, or should they reflect the true feelings of America.

We must always understand that this country was ordained by God to be a free state.  A freedom allows people to choose or not choose to follow God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.  God didn’t’ ordain that the citizens of the US should be forced to follow His teachings, therefore he guided the framers of the Constitution to say clearly that our government could not dictate how God should be worshipped for even that He should be worshipped.  Now some of the pundits have developed the phrase ‘separation of church and state’ which has been mindlessly been promoted by the media as a direct quote from the Constitution.

Controlling when and where to pray, deciding if it was legal to kill an unborn child, and re-defining marriage should never have been taken up by the Supreme Court or any court.  It is not wrong to kill which is proven by simply reading the bible.  However, it is wrong to murder.  Any decision reached by the Supreme Court that limits our belief, or practices to outwardly show our belief in God is directly prohibited by our Constitution.  If anyone in the government or media actually read the Constitution it would be clear to them what the meaning becomes to be.  Saying that leads me to also say that I cannot imagine the framers of the Constitution saying to anyone or even thinking that the government should condone, let alone support any worship except that to God is preposterous.

The original intent of the constitution is never really considered.  It is a string of decisions from previous challenges that control the thinking of these judges.  If you asked a Supreme Court Justice why they made a decision on this or that, I would suggest to you that the decision was based on a previous ruling and not the Constitution.

Right and wrong has not changed over these two hundred and twenty four years since the STATES ratified the Constitution or the Continental Congress declared to the England that “All men are CREATED EQUAL and are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable rights –“.  Much blood was shed over CREATED EQUAL and CREATOR.  Should the Supreme Court exist?  Absolutely, but not to make law.

I was listening to a speech given by Sec Clinton today.  She was describing a very complicated situation in our justice system that really needs addressing by our congress.  When she got to the complicated area of the address that really isn’t, but should be, understood by all, the media broke away and began talking about part of the speak that really didn’t address the solution.  It would only do lip service to the problem.

Again our media tries to keep us dumbed down to the point we don’t have the opportunity to understand the problems.  We are not all equal to the task of solving such problems but if we understand the problems the people running for congress and talk about the problems facing the nation in a way that can make us believe they can solve the problems facing us.

This is an ongoing problem that the power backing the potential candidates does not want us to understand.  However, we might not be able to solve the problems facing this nation, but we can understand the reality of the problems.   From this point of view we can elect candidates with Christian principles to address them for us.

Let’s stay alert.

How the media is able to report on this subject seems to be based on the media’s opinion of the general public.  It isn’t that the general public doesn’t know. It is that they are keep off guard by the power of the media’s ability to misdirect the subject.

The media like the political pundits operate on the opinion of the public.  This is determined by the constant list of surveys being performed by the experts.  In most every survey, the questions are styled to produce a predetermined opinion.  When public discussions or public meetings are called for by a government entity or an organization working directly or indirectly for the government like the Chamber of Commerce, there is always a plan to get the public to reach a predetermined plan or conclusion.  In the media seems constantly to be a puppet for the power of the government and those that control the government.  Just a note here.  By power and those that control it, I do not mean the government electorate.  I am referring to the financial power that determines what is important to the media which protects that power.

Our constitution was written for the common man’s benefit and then shaded toward the power and money.  The first draft was discarded because it promised freedom for all.  This concept flew in the face of the power and money supporting that awesome group.  Immediately it was put down and a correction was requested. To give the blacks voting rights would have meant probably giving women the same.  All unheard of at the time.  The power knew that if women had a say in politics the common man would have been given his writes and common sense at the same time.

The mayor of Baltimore is a good example of this kind of media misconduct.  If anyone with common sense steps back and looks the event last 4/27/2015 it is obvious that she made the right decisions and in a timely manner.  Personally I believe that if there was an agreement between the two gangs mentioned, it will be determined that the gangs united to perpetrate crimes covered by inciting the law abiding protestors to unknowingly aid them in the string of thefts.  Remember if the mayor gets her way by achieving law and order, the gangs will not survive.  Do the rich and powerful care? No, they make money with things are disruptive.  The gulf between the common man and the rich and powerful is now reached its limit.

If the common man is to survive as the powerful entity which was what God planned, we have to begin to ask our own question and not depend solely on the media to dictate our thoughts.  From this point on this writer will continue to concentrate his efforts toward rebuilding what was lost over the almost 250 years of mismanagement.

Another case in point would be the way the media and subsequently the public address discrimination.  We speak now of gay marriage, casual sex, and using the Lord’s name in vain much differently than we did sixty years ago.  Sixty years ago a person could have an idea, walk into a local bank and with a little credit start up a company that could grow and increase the employment in the community.  This was freedom.

The businesses that function in the United States are licensed by the general public therefore they have to hold themselves out to the general public to buy or be serviced by their products and/or service.  However, they have a right to protect themselves from activities or customers that would cost them business or damage their property.

The lack of financial attention to create jobs for the common man by the financial power of this nation IS the main cause of the frustration of the black community in Baltimore.  Unfortunately the white community is not far behind if in fact they are behind.

If you don’t vote, you don’t care.  If you don’t care the action in Baltimore is your fault.

Writing about politics and religion has finally brought me to a place that supports my beliefs.  I did what I thought could never be done.  I heard a sermon that said we have a responsibility as Christians to be involved in the politics of the nation.  This was not a sermon from someone in the far right that believes that the government should have no responsibility, but a sermon from a man that believes mostly as I do.

What are those beliefs?  Well they are many, but the main ones are;

The Christian churches have given the responsibility to take care of the needy to the government

The government has taken away the rights to worship according to our beliefs as a Christian community while, at the same time, enhancing the non-believers ability to push their restrictions on us.

The government which as formed mostly by Christian believers led by the Creator, has declared that it is no longer necessary to follow His direction and grow the Christian beliefs and principles, and

Finally while the church should not rule the nation, God wants us to restrain the church from rule, and at the same time the government should take care of the worldly things while not restricting the reign of the church to guide its people on a path to our important life in heaven.

My hope and prayer is that as a group we begin to bring the Church to its true potential, and let the government begin to rule rather that fight over things that concerns the church.

The Supreme Court of the United States screwed us again

By JOSH GERSTEIN and BYRON TAU | 4/2/14 10:27 AM EDT Updated: 4/2/14 2:12 PM EDT

The Supreme Court on Wednesday delivered another blow to already rickety limits on campaign contributions, ruling that caps on the total amount of money an individual can give to political campaigns, PACs and parties are unconstitutional.

In the 5-4 ruling, the court’s Republican-appointed justices joined in overturning the so-called aggregate limits on the grounds that they violated the First Amendment, while the Democratic appointees dissented — insisting that the caps were constitutional as a means to guard against corruption and circumvention of the still-valid limits on donations to individual campaigns and political committees.

The sweeping ruling has the potential to once again reshape the campaign finance landscape — bringing more campaign money back under the control of political parties after four years of record spending by outside groups.

It’s the latest in a series of federal court rulings — most notably 2010’s Citizens United decision — that are loosening up the rules on campaign contributions. Wednesday’s ruling does not, however, strike down the court’s landmark holding in 1976 Buckley v. Valeo that upheld most contribution limits to individual candidates and committees.

No opinion in the closely-watched McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission case won a majority, but five justices voted to strike down the aggregate limits.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/supreme-court-campaign-donations-limit-105284.html#ixzz2xlxZG5re

You eligible voters that did not vote for democratic presidents that could have appointed Democratic Supreme Court Justices allowed voting Republican presidents to appoint a Republican Supreme Court majority Supreme Court.

The Court has said that there is no difference between a corporation’s rights and people’s rights.  Now they have said, as stated above, that if you have enough money to buy an election, buy it.

We have foolish courts that hand down decisions based on something that frankly I don’t understand, and you know how foolish our congress is, and the president is not a wise leader.  This one isn’t and others haven’t been much better.

You take a person that looks pretty good, has a great personality, or for whatever reason is popular and say go represent us.  However, more often than not, they don’t understand the problem, so how should we expect them to present a solution.

If you asked a Senator or Congressperson to state the problems facing this country today, I believe the answer would surprise you.  Sense the legislators have been addressing symptoms of the problems facing this nation for so long, they would probably say the symptom is the problem.

Later I will spend a lot of time on the court system, but for now this is another challenge the court system has placed on our wellbeing.

Here is the ultimate situation that could occur.  The militia we hear about at some point in time will deliberately try to take over the present government.  The problem with that is that there will be no one to lead us if they succeed.  We don’t want that, and we don’t need that.  We need leadership now.

We may have time to put good leadership into place before that happens.  HOWEVER, GOOD LEADERSHIP WILL NEVER HAPPEN UNLESS WE ALL VOTE.