This post concludes the series of posts that began here.

On July 4, 2009 the ArchAngel Institute hosted a “tea party” celebrating the birth of our constitutional republic.

This final installment was our program after the pledge of allegiance.  Guest readers continued to illuminate our path with great quotes from great patriots.

After we all pledged allegiance to the Republic, we then entered into the final minutes of our July 4^th celebration. That final scene had us pledging the highlighted lines from the Declaration of Independence in unison.

The ceremony culminated with symbolic tea being poured in the streets.

After the pledge of allegiance and after a time of social networking we dove into the following:

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children (America), the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”

Ronald Reagan in 1964

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If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
– Samuel Adams

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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” – Thomas Paine

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We currently live in the most difficult of times for guarding against an expanding central government with a steady erosion of our freedoms.
Without a better understanding and a greater determination to reign in the state, the rights of Americans that resulted from the revolutionary break from the British and the writing of the Constitution, will disappear.

United States Congressman Ron Paul (Click here for Paul’s inspiring speech before Congress with audio)

Declaration of Independence
(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)

The Unanimous Declaration
of the Thirteen United States of America

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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The train of abuses set forth

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We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

Time is short but our course of action should be clear. Resistance to illegal and unconstitutional usurpation of our rights is required. Each of us must choose which course of action we should take education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience, to bring about the necessary changes.

But let it not be said that we did nothing.

Ron Paul

(Local activist Guy Hinson pictured.)

Thus ends our ceremony but not the ongoing struggle.

Let us stand up for the constitutional republic that our forefathers and foremothers sacrificed everything to found.

DO SOMETHING!!!

Or later regret having done nothing.  Perhaps with very bitter regrets.

Click here for something that you can do Friday afternoon. Huntington Patriots have asked the Fort Wayne patriots to protest unconstitutional actions outside of the office of Senator Evan Bayh on Friday.  Come between 3:30 and 5:00 if you can.

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Who is in?  A guest post from the local 9/12 folks . . .

Just like the original participants in Boston over two hundred years
ago, this September patriotic citizens from all walks of life from all
across America are coming together in a huge event that promises to be
historic.  That event is the 9/12 TAXPAYERS’ MARCH ON WASHINGTON DC.
This march is sponsored by countless groups, large and small including
Grassfire, the Patriotic Resistance, the 9/12 groups, FreedomWorks,
hundred of local tea party groups, and many, many others.  Their
battlecry?  TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!

We invite you to join us as we journey to Washington DC for this
important rally.  Here are the details:

We will depart Fort Wayne on a comfortable 56-seat American Heritage
Trails motorcoach, from the Meijer’s store parking lot on Lima Road on
Thursday, September 10th at 9PM sharp.

We will arrive in Washington DC the following morning, September 11th
and check into the Capitol Hilton where we will stay Friday and
Saturday night.  This four-star hotel is just a few blocks from the
White House, close to all the activities and historic sights.

After check-in, the rest of Friday is yours to relax, explore
Washington or attend meetings.  The March will take up most of the day
Saturday.  We will share the exciting event calendar with you as plans
are finalized!

We will depart Washington DC at 9AM Sunday morning, September 13th,
arriving back in Fort Wayne at approximately 12AM.

Cost includes transportation and hotel only and is as follows:

$387 – Single occupancy (one person)

$522 – Double occupancy (two persons)

$730 – Triple occupancy (three persons)

$867 – Quadruple occupancy (four persons)

For details call Connie Kovas Moreno at 260-494-2858,
Sharon Kuhn (mssharon@garden-of-arts.com)

Due to limited availabiity, we encourage you to make your reservation ASAP!

We at the ArchAngel Institute love a spirit of volunteerism. Pastor Ernest Weaver left a fine comment on our Tea Party post from last April, click here, and we gave him a call for the July 4 Tea Party.

Pastor Weaver opened our Tea Party with an original song he wrote about patriotism and the Faith. (as pictured here) It was a fine and fitting way to place our ceremony in context. Pastor Weaver also set up a fine p.a. system for our Tea Party — more than enough amplification and no feedback! (Pastor Weaver, please leave a comment below with directions to your website.)

All of the previous quotes in the previous seven tea party posts were read, one after another, at our July 4 Tea Party. We then turned, faced the flag at the Public Library, and recited, in unison, our pledge of allegiance.

Here is the run up toward that pledge: <!–[endif]–>

A perspective on patriotism from a courageous Congressman from Texas, Ron Paul:

The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George. I accept the definition of patriotism as that effort to resist oppressive state power. The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility, and out of self interest

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himself, his family, and the future of his country—to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.

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A perspective on patriots from a great American author and embodiment of Americanism, Mark Twain

“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

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Wisdom from a great American preacher and abolitionist, Henry Ward Beecher:

“A thoughtful mind,

when it sees a Nation’s flag,… sees not the flag only,… but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, … the principles,… the truths,… the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.”

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A call to an active and patriotic faith

(we apologize for the wrong dates on the pictures, all were taken during our event on July 4, 2009)

Wisdom from a great American Statesman and federalist Patrick Henry

...we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/henry-liberty.html

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A call to patriotism by a great martyr in the American cause and the sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln

“(W)e here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” —

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A call to preserver arms by a founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin

They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

Perspectives on liberty and the ongoing struggle to enjoy its benefits from the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson.

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Woodrow_Wilson

“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.”

Some hold this quote suspect

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/woodrowwil104015.html

Perspective on liberty and the ongoing struggle to protect it from overreaching government action by U.S. Supreme Court Justice and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, Robert H. Jackson:

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Source: COMMUNICATIONS ASSN. v. DOUDS, 339 U.S. 382, 442 (1950) JUSTICE JACKSON, concurring and dissenting, each in part.

A perspective on freedom and the ongoing struggle to preserve it from one of our greatest military commanders, General

Douglas MacArthur

“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation

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Pictured:  a veteran (seated) and his wife (approaching the stage) who stood and spoke for liberty at our tea party.  Pictured above:  Pastor Shawn Meyer, formerly with NEIR.  He came from Ohio with his mancubs (pictured) to aid us in our tea party.  First picture:  Pastor Weaver dialing in the sound system while the tea station is readied.

Continuing on with the listing of the quotes from the July 4 Tea Party at the Institute, we next come to the most controversial section.  It would have been the least controversial 100 years ago — then the controversy would have been too much of the free speech about government agents.  Nowadays we can talk all we want, write all we want, pretty much.  Just do not do all that much, and do not have a firearm.  Hollywood does not like us armed, you see.

The Founders wanted us armed.  That is why they expressly provided for it in the Second Amendment, one of ten amendments meant to protect the people from the government’s power.

Here is the text of that very important provision:  A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The ArchAngel Raphael has his healing staff — the public welfare.  ArchAngel Gabriel has his horn — the First Amendment.  ArchAngel Michael has his sword — for we dwell on a fallen planet.

Here are quotes on great patriots about the import of swords:

Wisdom on the relationship between the governed and their government by one of the great minds informing those who wrote the Declaration of Independence, the English political philospher John Locke

Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, … or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, … they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, … and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence.

Source: http://mises.org/content/cil2ch33.asp

Wisdom on the relationship between an armed citizenry and their government from former President and signer of the Declarartion Thomas Jefferson:

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Note: This quote is often attributed to Jefferson, but sourcing is in doubt. What is not in doubt is the spirit of the quote – that spirit is purely Jeffersonian.

Source: http://www.monticello.org/library/reference/spurious.html
Source:  http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff100991.html

Source: http://www.gunsport.com/quote.htm

Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/gaddy/gaddy46.html

Source: http://www.kysrpa.org/pages/founding%20fathers.html

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Wisdom on the importance of armed citizenry from a great American statesman who worked tirelessly to ensure that our constitution contained a a Bill of Rights to protect we the people, George Mason

To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them…

Sourcing: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guns

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A celebration of the Second Amendment from the Father of our Constitition, the fourth President of the United States, James Madison:

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Sourcing: http://www.madisonbrigade.com/library_jm.htm

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Common sense on the question of gun control from the drafter of our Declaration of Independence, the second President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson:

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
– Thomas Jefferson

Note: This quote is often attributed to Jefferson, and for good cause. Note how the official keepers of his flame attempt to back away from this great dose of common sense.

http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Laws_that_forbid_the_carrying_of_arms

Tea Party Pop [hypothetical] Quiz:

You live in a town of 10,000 in South Carolina that is being preyed upon by a psychopath who shoots down children with their parents. Five such shootings have taken place in ten days. You want, more than anything else:

1. A Brady bill signed by the Governor to limit access to guns.
2. A shiny, silver whistle so that you can blow hard and alert the “Bobbies” should you see the killer coming your way.
3. A Colt .45 ACP with seven hollow points in the clip and one in the chamber.

98 out of 100 Americans surveyed would likely answer C.  {send us $10,000 and we will really do the survey}

Amazingly, 51 out of 100 allegedly elected a president who would answer A or B {survery was already done, Nov 2008}

Details as to the President’s view on the above are here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTxXUufI3jA

Insight from the great American statesman and lawyer, Daniel Webster,

“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”

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Advice on controlling governmental corruption from the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock

Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous govern-ment, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

http://www.bostonmassacre.net/trial/acct-hancock1.htm

Advice on controlling governmental corruption from the co-author of the Federalist Papers and constitutional law attorney Alexander Hamilton

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: … You must first enable the government to control the governed, … and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

http://quoteworld.org/quotes/5879

Alexander Hamilton

Power may be justly compared to a great river; … while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; … it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.

http://www.quotes4today.com/quotes_by_category.php?cat=Banks

Wisdom on recognizing governmental corruption from the Father of our Constitution and Fourth President of the United States, James Madison

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.

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Programming note: All of the quotes found in this series of Tea Party posts were read, one after another, at the ArchAngel Institute on July 4. We had no celebrity flown in for our tea party – the focus was upon commoners quoting great patriots. Our focus was upon our heritage.
More of the quotes read on Saturday follow:

A warning against apathy from founding father Thomas Jefferson

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff136431.html

http://www.thomasjeffersonquotes.com/

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A warning against apathy from the seventh President of the United States and a great battlefield commander, Andrew Jackson.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger
Andrew Jackson

** http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson

A warning against governmental corruption from our founding father Thomas Jefferson
“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.”
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Wisdom on recognizing governmental corruption from the Father of our Constitution and Fourth President of the United States, James Madison

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Madison

Here at the Institute we celebrate Christian dissent from the abridgement of freedom by government.  Toward that end we have many categories, on the right of the page, gathering our previous posts on that score.  Last year we celebrated Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  Here is one in that series that hits squarely upon the notes sounded above:  http://www.archangelinstitute.org/honoring-alexander-solzhenitsyn-post-12/

A CALL FOR PICTURES …. ARE YOUR PICTURES OF THE TEA PARTY BETTER THAN OURS?  IF SO, PLEASE SEND US SOME AT ARCHANGELINSTITUTE@GMAIL.COM

Thanks to the youth who helped get everyone signed in at the front door

Wisdom from the second president of the United States and a drafter of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams

We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion…. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. … It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.

Wisdom from the son of the second President of the United States who was, himself, the Fifth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; … it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom …. I hope you will make good use of it.

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Wisdom from a great American Statesman and federalist Fisher Ames

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…the United States must lash itself to a constitution of laws, not the whim of

democratic preference.It is democracy that pollutes the morals of the people before it swallows up their freedoms.

Ademocracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

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Wisdom from a great man who drafted our Declaraton of Independence and served as the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson

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>My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government….
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground….The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

Want to know more about the Christian Faith discussed above?

Click here and here.

John R. Brown of the Donegal Corridor, LLC

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
- The Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

Foundational British quote by Keith Brown:

Lord Alfred Tennyson, (click for sourcing)

“Live pure,

speak true,

right wrong,

follow Christ the King.”

Quote #2: Founding Father of our Republic, George Washington:

It is the duty of all nations … to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, … to obey His will, … to be grateful for His benefits, … and to humbly implore His protection and favor.

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Quote #3: Founding Father of our Republic, George Washington:

…the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty … and the destiny of the republican model of government, … are justly considered, as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on… the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.

Find source for quote here

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Quote #4: Founding Father of our Republic, George Mason

.We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it. All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

….In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim … — … that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

Sourcing here

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Quote # 5: wisdom from a great man rightly called the Father of our Constitution, James Madison

We’ve staked the whole future of American civilization … not on the power of government, far from it. … We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us…to Govern ourselves according to the commandments of God. … The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, … but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

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Quote # 6 wisdom from a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the alleged architect of the Boston Tea Party, Samuel Adams

“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”

Click here for sourcing on this quote

Editor's note: AI suggests a question mark be added to the sign

See this post for more on such a pertinent question.

And  this post, too.

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/redistributing-wealth-people-power/

More quotes to follow in the next post

The Donegal Corridor recently upgraded the exterior of the building with new windows. Diskey Sign has blessed the ArchAngel Institute with three beautiful signs. Please bless Diskey Sign with your sign business.

John R. Brown, half of the Donegal Corridor, LLC, (Berenice being his better half and the other half of Donegal Corridor) opened up Fort Wayne’s July 4 Tea Party with a welcome and quote from the Declaration of Independence.  John noted that one of his forefathers fought in the Revolutionary War and his grandson, Brandon, completed a tour in Iraq.  That is just two of many who so served.  (More on John R. Brown’s genealogy can be found at this link.)

John Brown noted how glad he was to welcome a Tea Party at the building he had purchased to advance the Culture of Life and all that implies, including an end to overreaching governance.

He then introduced his son, Keith Brown, President of the Board of the ArchAngel Institute.  Here is Keith’s opening speech at the Tea Party in its entirety:

Welcome Concerned Citizens

Welcome Tea Partiers

Welcome those that recognize we cannot spend our way to a fiscal solution of our ailing manufacturing-compromised country. Increasing our imposing national debt, and annual deficit to new historic levels to bail out banks from bad policy and years of bad loans will do nothing for job creation.

With a national debt now over 11 Trillion dollars (11 thousand-billion), we will struggle to pay our debt-servicing to China, while meeting our own domestic needs. How much, how big is a trillion dollars?

A trillion is a very, very big number, and I think it would be worth spending a couple of minutes trying to get our arms around the concept.

A thousand is a one with three zeros after it.

A million is a thousand times bigger than that and it’s a one with six zeros after it. At this level

A billion then is a thousand times bigger than a million, and it’s a one followed by 9 zeros.

And a trillion is a thousand times bigger than that, and it’s a one followed by 12 zeros.

So a trillion is a thousand billions, which means it is a million millions.

Suppose I gave you a thousand dollar bill and said you and a friend had to spend it all in a single evening out on the town. You’d have a pretty good time.

How tall of a stack of thousand dollar bills would that be?

The answer is a stack only 358 feet high.

Now how about a stack of thousand dollar bills to equal a trillion dollars? How tall would that stack be? Think of an answer.

Well, that stack would be 67.9 miles high.

And I meant stack, not laid end to end or anything cheesy like that. A solid stack of thousand dollar bills, 67.9 miles high. Now that’s a trillion dollars.

Dear Citizens, we are at the end of an era.

Since the 1913 Federal Reserve Act and the 1961 move away from the Gold

standard backing our currency, we’ve been artificially expanding our economy on a ‘fiat’ money system. Although it has created great wealth in the past 40 years, it is now set to implode upon itself.

An estimated 150 people gathered in and around the ArchAngel Institute for the Independence Day Commemoration.

Yet we are still the greatest nation on Earth on many scales.

According to The Economist magazine in 2007,

-US largest GDP in the world at $11,712 billion ($11.7 Trillion)

-Distantly followed by Japan at $4,632 billion ($4.6 Trillion)

-China, is in 6^th place, at $1.9 billion ($1.9 Trillion)

-We have the greatest Railroad, Road, and Infrastructure in the world

-US has 6.4Million kilometers of roadway

-Second to US, India has $3.8 million kilometers of Roadway

We however have had 30 years of corporate greed that has pushed our jobs to Mexico and China. We’ve seen one of Fort Wayne’s last giants surrender recently as Zollner pistons announced its closing. My brother Kevin had been corporately downsized seven years ago from Zollner.

Now we have a new sell-out of America coming from our elected officials. An establishment of entitlements and liberal morality has gripped America. A group has seized America that prides itself on diversity and tolerance, yet has targeted you as a ‘terrorist’.

An era has ended my friends. The new era will not bring financial well being while being indifferent to a deteriorating moral compass..The new era will consist of the working poor. Mothers and Fathers working 60 hours per week and still unable to meet their basic family needs. The moral fabric of our country is at stake. Now more than ever America needs to embrace the natural law as its jurisprudence.

This will lead us to, among other acts,

• Protect traditional marriage as the only choice for the sacred vows and word ‘marriage’.
• Protect our children from sexual deviancy, not allowing our 17 year-olds access to abortificiants as some in our culture advocate.
• Affirming America’s Christian past while guiding its future.
• Teach our children who they are in light of God’s design and purpose. Many of us are now raising post-modern children. Our children (40 and younger) have somehow mistaken Christianity as being tolerant to all lifestyles, and saving puppies from puppy-mills the highest of virtues — while turning a cold shoulder to far greater atrocities.
• And lastly, to bring about a rebirth of chivalry, Christian service, and sacrificial living…

Welcome concerned citizens, and best wishes on this Fourth of July from the ArchAngel Institute!

The next post will begin the reporting on the more than 35 patriotic quotes read at the July 4 Tea Party in Anthony Wayne’s Fort.