April 04, 2010 journal, Dates That Destroyed American by Chuck Baldwin in Florida. Copied from the Times Examiner weekly and considered a vital step in understanding. "Passage of the so-called "health care reform" bill in the House of Representatives this past Sunday, March 21, 2010 (I won't even address the inferred unconstitutionality of Congress doing business on the Lord's Day (see article one, section 7, paragraph 2,) drove yet another stake into the heart of America. For all intents and purposes, it is the health of the United States that is in dire need of healing. In fact, the U.S. has been on extended support for decades. With its condition being rendered critical, and absent major surgery, its days are numbered. The passage of this bill only serves to further weaken an already fragile constitution. In fact, this one may prove to be the fatal blow. Lady Liberty may never recover. The decision by Congress to socialize medicine in the U.S. ranks among the most Dacronian, most egregious, most horrific actions ever taken by the central government in Washington D.C. This bill rocks the principles of liberty and constitutional government to the core. It changes fundamental foundations; it repudiates historical principle. Oh! The same flag may fly on our flagpoles, the same monuments may grace our landscape, and this same national anthem may be sung during our public ceremonies, but it is not the same America. The Congress of the United States has now officially turned America into a socialist state. On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the healthcare bill into law, and as such, this date-along with March 21-joins a list of dates that have each inflicted constitutional, socialistic, and sometimes even tyrannical action against these the United States and have therefore, contributed to the destruction of a free America. April 9th 1865-This is the date when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to U.S. Grant at Appomattox courthouse, Virginia. Regardless of where one comes down on this subject of the civil war, one fact is undeniable: Abraham Lincoln forever destroyed the Jeffersonian model of federalism in America. Ever sense, virtually every battle that free men have fought for the principles of limited government, State sovereignty, etc., have all stemmed directly from Lincoln's usurpation of power, which resulted in the subjugation and forced union of what used to be "Free and Independent States" (the Declaration of Independence). In fact, the philosophical battles being waged today regarding the recent health care debacle (and every other encroachment upon Liberty and State power by the central government) have their roots in Lincoln's tyranny. July 9th 1868-This is the date when the 14th Amendment was ratified. This amendment codified into law what Lincoln had forced at bayonet point. Until then, people were only deems citizens of their respective states. The Constitution nowhere refer to people as "U.S. citizens". It only recognized "Citizens of each State". Notice also that citizenship was only recognized among the "several states", not among people living in non State territories. Until the 14th Amendment, people were "Citizens of the State". (Article. IV. Section 2. Paragraph one). 14th Amendment created a whole new class of persons: "Citizens of the United States". This false notion of "one nation" overturned the Jeffersonian principle that our nation was a confederated Republic, a volunteer union of states. February 3, 1913 This is the date when the 16th Amendment was ratified, and the direct income tax and I*R*S were instituted. This was a fragrant repudiation of freedom principles! What began as a temporary measure to support the war of Northern aggression became permanent income revenue stream for the unconstitutional and ever-growing-central government. April 8, 1913 This is a date when the 17th amendment was ratified. This amendment overturned the power of the State legislature to elect their own senators and replaced it with the direct, popular vote. This was another serious blow against State sovereignty. The framers of the Constitution desired that the influence and power in Washington D.C. be capped as close to the people and states as possible. For example, the number of Representatives in the House of Representatives was to be decided by a limited number of voters. In the original Constitution, the ratio of "people of the several states" deciding their House member could not exceed "one for every 30,000". (Article one section 2 paragraph 3) and when it came to the U.S. Senate, the framers also recognize the authority of the State Legislature and to select its old senators, whereby keeping power & influence from aggregating in Washington, D.C. The 17th Amendment seriously damaged the influence and power of the states by forcing them to elect their U.S. senators by popular vote. The bigger the state, the less influence the state legislature has in determining its U.S. senator. Senators who answered to State legislatures, the jet stream to a limited number of voters, are much more accountable to the "citizens of the several states" than those who are elected by the large number, many times numbering into the millions, of people. For all intents and purposes at least in the larger states, U.S. Senators are more like "mini presidents" than they are representatives of sovereign states. December 23, 1913-This is a date when the Federal Reserve Act was passed. This Act placed oversight of America's financial matters into the hands of a cartel of private international bankers, who have completely destroyed the constitutional principles of sound money & (for the most part), free enterprise. No longer would the market place (private consumption, thrift, growth, etc) be the determinant of the U.S. economy (which is what freedom is all about), but now a private unaccountable international banking cartel would have total power and authority to micromanage, (for their own private, parochial purposes) America's financial sector. Virtually every recession, depression, and downturn (including the one we are now experiencing) has been the direct result of the f*e*d-s manipulation (again, for its own purposes with Washington's cooperation) of the market. June 26, 1945-This is the date when the United Nations Charter was signed and America joined the push for global government. Ever since, our U.S. forces have spilled untold amounts of blood and sacrificed thousands of lives promoting the U.N.'s agenda. Since the end of World War II, in virtually every war in which U.S. military forces have been engaged, it has banned at the behest of the UN. And it is also no accident that America was not fought any constitutionally declared war since we entered the U.N.-and neither have we won one. (I disagree with the last statement in that we conned U.N. to condone Iraq attack) Furthermore, it is America's involvement in the United Nations that has spearheaded this draconian push for a New World Order that George H. W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair, Walter Cronkite et al., have talked so much about. The United States is an evil institution that has completely co-opted our U.S. State Department and much of our defense Department. It is an anti American institution that works aggressively and constantly against the interests and principles of the United States. But it is an institution that is ensconced in the American political infrastructure. Like a cancer, the U.N. eats away at our liberties and values, and both major political party in Washington D.C., are culpable in allowing it to exert so much influence over our country. June 25, 1962, & June 17, 1963-These of the dates when the U.S. Supreme Court removed prayer (62) and Bible reading (63) from public schools. At this point, these 2 Supreme Court decisions were the most serious affront to the First Amendment in U.S. history. Think of it: from before a union of states was established in 1787, children had been free to pray & read this scripture in the schools. We're talking about a period of more than 300 years! Of course, the various state legislatures- and myriad city and county governmental meetings-still open their sessions in prayer, as do the U.S. House & Senate, and even the U.S. Supreme court. But the same liberty is denied the children of America. There is no question that America has not recovered from these 2 horrific Supreme Court decisions. In effect, the federal government has expelled God not only from our public schools, but also from our public life! and America has not been the same since. (Not until renewed) (This article omitted the ha*t*e crimes bill signed in February ending freedom of speech). October 22, 1968-This is a date when President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Gun- Control Act of 1968, before this act, the 2nd Amendment was alive & well in the United States. The Gun Control Act of 1968 turned a right into a privilege and forever forced the American people to bow to the altar of government when seeking to arm themselves. Interestingly enough, this Gun Control Act mirrored Nazi Germany's gun-control Act of 1938. In fact, the gun-control Act of 1968 is almost a verbatim copy of the Hitler's Gun Control Act of 1938. Our founding fathers could never have imagined that government's within the "several States" would ever be allowed to deny the people's right to keep and bear arms. In fact, it was the attempted confiscation of the firearms stored at Concord, Mass. that triggered the war of independence in 1775. That the people of Massachusetts would be denied their right to keep and bear arms, as they are today, could not have been foreseen-and would never have been tolerated by the American founders. Yet most of the hundreds of the draconian gun control laws that have been inflicted upon the American people have all come about as result of the Gun-Control Act of 1968. January 22, 1973-This is the date when the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs Bolton decisions, which, is in effect, legalized abortion on demand. These 2 decisions expunged the Jeffersonian principle that all men are endowed by their Creator with the unalienable right to life (Declaration). Since then, over 50 million unborn babies have been legally murdered in their mothers wound. Abortion is, without a doubt, America's national Holocaust. It has opened that door to allow also big government programs and policies that have resulted in the wanton destruction of human life both in the United States and overseas. It has created an entire industry whose expressed purpose for existing is the destruction of human life. It has desensitized the conscience and soul of America. Furthermore, it has forced men of decency and good will be financed with their tax dollars unconscionable act of killing unborn children. And once again, another Jeffersonian principle was eviscerated. He said, "to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical". The Roe & Doe decisions violate this principle in the most egregious manner possible. October 26, 2001-This is the date when President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act, and the federal government's war against individual liberty began in earnest. Most of the unconstitutional eavesdropping, snooping, wiretapping, phone call intercepting, email reading, prying, financial records tracking, travel watching, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, by federal police agencies began with the implementation of the Patriot Act. The Department of Home-land Security and the "war on terrorism", which have resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people worldwide, and the usurpation of federal power at home, have come about as an outgrowth of the Patriot Act. The USA Patriot Act has forever shifted the focus of American law and jurisprudence against constitutional government and individual liberty, toward a police mentality. The Patriot Act is even turning our local and state law-enforcement agencies into military-style jackboots, "where police officers see themselves not necessarily as guardians of the citizenry, but as often as not, as adversaries, where citizens are deemed to be the "enemy". October 17, 2006, and October 9, 2009 These are the dates when G. W. Bush signed & re-signed the Military Commission Act. This Act is the outgrowth of the Patriot Act but has, in effect, terminated the fundamental protections of individual liberty, which are found in the U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights. For all intents & purposes, the Patriot Act eviscerated the fourth & fifth amendments, and does serious injury to several others. The Military Commissions Act also expunges the constitutional right of Habeas Corpus. March 21 & 23, 2010, These are the dates when Congress passed & President 0 signed into law the Patient protection and Affordable Care Act", the so-called "health care reform" bill that we spoke about at the beginning of this column. While Social Security & various Welfare programs have toyed with socialism in the United States, this bill is the largest and most expansive & endorsement of socialism in American history. This bill socializes some 18% of the U.S. economy by socializing the health care industry in America. The fallout and ramifications of this bill are going to be horrific. When future historians review the demise of our once great Republic, they will observe that the above dates, including March 21 & March 23, 2010, were the dates that destroyed America. The American people have been far too tolerant for far too long. People concerned about the future of freedom and of prosperity in America should line up correctly and demand that their respective state legislatures and governors resist this new health care bill, even to the point of refusing to implement it in their states. More than 30 states are threatening to take the health care bill to court. But States must do more than that. They must follow the lead of the State of Virginia & pass legislation refusing to comply with it. Yes, I'm saying: its time for another state rebellion! If states do not stand up and draw their lines in the sand now, it will be forever too late". Dr. Chuck Baldwin is Pastor of Crossroads Baptist Church, Pensacola, Fla., Dr. Baldwin is the radio host of "Chuck Baldwin Live". He is the author of 2 books & weekly syndicated columns. Chuck Baldwin ran for President as the Independent Party candidate in 2008. I consider this author to be extremely accurate, important information. Today is Easter when more of the world celebrates the reproductive egg. "The bane of our civil institutions is to be found in freemasonry, already powerful and becoming daily more so. I owe to our country an exposure of its dangers". Captain William Morgan murdered Sept 11, 1826". "The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God". Psalms 9-27, All who have taken any secret oaths to Satan. But they are beefing up their own personal security. 50 eviction notices have been sent to Governor's of states & of course they do not take it seriously. About 20 years ago the Republic of Texas evicted George Bush, but it did not work. Gov. of Pennsylvania said if they phone they are not coming. Who knows this time. Our governor has paid his fine & expenses of $130,000 and maybe that will balance their budget. Some lousy politician wants to cancel state income tax & add it to home owners. Another fancy politician an MD in the legislature is charged with not filing a state income tax return for 3 years saying he lost his CPA but that is no excuse for him to hang out on.