As Super Tuesday draws near and Americans from 12 different states choose their candidate, I want to make one final plea to my friends, fellow tea partiers, patriots, conservatives, and Christians, who will be voting on Super Tuesday.
I know you’re tired of losing. I am too. I know it feels good to have someone voicing our frustrations and be heard for a change. I know it feels like voting for Trump will send the establishment, the media, and everyone who has ignored us for the past eight years a powerful message. I know it feels good to finally feel like we can win. But please, for one moment, before you mark ballot, consider what we’re winning. And ask yourself, if your child behaved like Donald Trump would you be okay with it?
Before you jump on the “You’re just a Trump-basher” bandwagon, I ask you, as one of you, to please hear me out.
I know how frustrated you are. I’ve been on the front-lines of freedom fighting this fight for 16 years—a mere fraction of the years many of my friends have spent—and I can assure you, we are extremely frustrated. I was thrilled in 2009 when the liberty movement emerged and so many Americans became engaged. It was absolutely exhilarating to see Americans start to search their history and study the Constitution. The National Center for Constitutional Studies has been teaching Constitution Seminars for decades. I only needed 30 people to hold one but I couldn’t ever find enough people interested. In the fall of 2009 I had 200 people sign up—and a waiting list, because 200 was all the room would hold. I hosted several more seminars after that including one in the Ohio State Capital building for State Legislators. It was energizing and inspiring. And while I loved seeing rallies overflowing and rooms filled to capacity, I knew it was only a matter of time before people started going back to their lives and stop paying attention again.
What message does it send our children when we vote for someone who publicly and unapologetically cheated on his wife, uses vulgar, degrading language, and openly advocates a sexually immoral lifestyle?It’s not a criticism; it is just a fact of life. We all have families, jobs and obligations. We don’t have time to march on D.C. every time our elected leaders ignore us. And really, what good does it do when we take time out of our lives and money out of our checkbooks to fly to Washington D.C. by the hundreds of thousands –twice—and are still ignored?
So now, after putting our hope in the Supreme Court—only to be disappointed; and then in the 2012 election—only to get Barack Obama for four more years, we find ourselves angry, frustrated, fed up—and putting all our hopes in one man. Though I know you neither want to hear it nor believe it, if you put all your hope in Donald Trump, I assure you, you will be disappointed once again. The tyranny and oppression in our country is too wide and too deep for one person to fix it—no matter how loud or aggressive they are. Our state legislatures, city councils and school boards are just as bad, sometimes worse, but we completely ignore them. An election cannot make America great again. Donald Trump cannot make America great again.
Only you and I can make America great. So I have to ask again, if your child behaved the way Donald Trump does, would you be okay with that?
Would you be okay if your son called a girl ugly? Would you be okay if your child used vulgar language, made fun of other people or behaved rudely? Do you want your children to grow up thinking the measure of a person’s worth is how much money they make? Do you want them growing up believing something is only worth fighting for when you win? Do you want your child to be popular no matter how they gain their popularity or do you want them to be a good person even if it means they stand alone?

We are sending a message to our children folks. They are watching us. What message does it send our children when we say it’s okay to vote for someone who is rude, abrasive and vulgar as long it’s directed toward someone we’re mad at?
What message does it send our children when we support someone who says, “I could shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters.”
Rebecca Hagelin wrote an excellent article on Townhall.com addressing Donald Trump’s promotion of the porn industry in his hotels, his playboy behavior and his current wife’s nude modeling.
“That's right,” says Hagelin, “if the GOP continues down this path of madness we will have a presidential nominee that degrades women, has bragged about his adultery, has made money off of strip tease shows, and a First Lady that has posed totally nude.”
What message are we sending our children when this is who we are supporting? What message are we sending when we ignore everything we know to be true simply because we want to win for a change?
The people we elect are a representation of who we are ourselves. Is this really who we want to represent us to the world? Is this really who we have become as a people?
Neil Postman said, “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” What message are we sending?
If you would not be okay with your children behaving the way Donald Trump does then why would we want him to be our president?
Heaven help us if this is the message we decide to send our children.

http://townhall.com/columnists/kimberlyfletcher/2016/02/29/if-your-child-behaved-like-donald-trump-would-you-be-ok-with-it-n2126603

Last week was the funeral of LaVoy Finnicum.
You may not recognize the name but you’ve no doubt heard about the “armed activists” who “occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge” in Oregon last month.
The occupation ended when Oregon Gov. Kate Brown asked for President Barack Obama’s assistance for a “swift resolution.” Five days later, LaVoy Finnicum was dead.

From the day Ammon Bundy and a group of ranchers walked into the refuge, they were labeled by the media and government officials as “radicals,” “militants,” and “armed occupiers.” But to many around the country they are simply fathers, brothers, mothers and patriots. It is natural for us to want to believe LaVoy Finnicum was a militant leader because it makes his death easier to swallow. However, after watching videos of LaVoy with his family and reading the stories of the women who were in the refuge, it’s a lot harder to “write-off” the whole thing. The eye witness accounts of Shawna Cox and Victoria Sharp make it harder still.
Regardless of whether you believe the occupiers were there legally or not, whether you think they are “militants” or “patriots” or whether you believe LaVoy Finnicum was “murdered in an ambush” or a “killed in a shoot-out at a traffic stop” there is one thing we can all agree on—our country is in trouble.
Many of us are feeling it but we just don’t know what to do about it. To a lot of us it’s very personal. It is hard to explain or articulate our frustrations and those who try often get labeled as “anti-government” or “radicals.”
I find it interesting that the occupiers of the refuge were labeled as militants while the occupiers of Wall Street were simply “protestors.” Why is it that the riots in Baltimore and Ferguson were reported as “unrest” and condoned by the government when the peaceful protests of those in Oregon were reported as if it was an act of terrorism? You can’t it both ways. We have got to stop allowing the government to use us as pawns in their political game.

You may be asking what any of this has to do with you. Let me explain.
For years these ranchers and their families have been harassed, intimidated, and bullied by government agencies with a continuous barrage of new rules and regulations, making it extremely difficult to hold onto their homes and provide for their families. As one Oregon rancher said, “Utilizing federal land requires ranchers to follow an unfair, complicated and constantly evolving set of rules.”
But it isn’t just America’s ranchers who have been affected by increasing governmental overreach in the last decade.
Family-owned businesses face a litany of government regulations. Churches are told what they can say; teachers are told what to teach and mandated how to teach it. Parents are being systematically replaced by a multitude of government agencies that are sure the system can raise your children better than you.
All of this government overreach is leading to a frustrated America. That’s what Oregon was about.
The media called the “occupiers” militants; all I see is American families. These are people who love their country, are devoted to their families, cherish freedom and the Constitution of the United States. I can feel their passion and understand their anguish. We are seeing our country literally slipping away from us.
It’s only a matter of time before government agents are at our doors charging us because our children aren’t in their schools, we spoke out against a government policy, or our dog disturbed the endangered earthworm habitat in our backyard.
This sounds crazy but it is already happening. American ranchers are dealing with this every day but they aren’t the only ones. There are numerous examples of real events just as seemingly outrageous: the Russian couple from California who had their baby taken from them by Child Protective Services for seeking a second opinion; or the father who was ripped from his home by a SWAT team for not paying a student loan.
Before we decide to attack these men and women, and dismiss them as militants, I think we should consider what lengths we would go to in order to protect our families.
As a mother I have become increasingly concerned with the militarization of a multitude of federal government agencies. I remember the chill that ran down my spine when Obama announced his “Civilian Security Force.” It was the same shudder I felt when George W. Bush announced the creation of Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act.
And now, as articulated in an article on HotAir.com, that civilian task force is armed with an unfathomable weapons cache in every government agency from the Bureau of Land Management to the U.S Postal Service. As if that wasn’t enough, Obama is now in the process of nationalizing local police forces through his Nationalized Police Plan.
The media referred to LaVoy Finnicum and those with him as an “anti-government extremists” but it is the government that is behaving extremely. When I see LaVoy in his cowboy hat and holstered pistol next to the heavily armed FBI agent in full body armor, it isn’t LaVoy that causes me to fear for my family’s safety.
We all want the same thing–for our families to be safe, healthy and prosperous. There will come a time when each of us will need to decide what we are willing to work for, to fight for, to live for, to die for.
Whether you agree with the methods of the Oregon occupiers or not, it’s hard to argue with their motives.
As LaVoy said, this is not about cows. It’s not about grass. It’s about freedom.


http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/the-biggest-question-were-still-asking-about-the-oregon-occupation-whats-happening-to-our-country/