Escaping a firing squad at Christmas time

One more reason to say "Thank-God" that we live in a Free Country!

A Christmas Tale -- 1919 By HANS VON SPAKOVSKY
It's easy to complain in the midst of a stressful holiday season. But my family has a unique remedy: We remember one special Christmas in 1919 that gave us the freedom and liberty we enjoy today. This will be the 89th anniversary of the year my father celebrated Christmas Eve deep in the snow-laden woods of Russia as he fled the Communist takeover of his homeland.
When I tell people that my father was an officer in the White Army who fought the Bolsheviks in the Russian civil war, they usually look at me with disbelief, because I am only 49. But he married and started a family later in life, after he lived through both world wars.
He had been an officer in the Russian Army in World War I; after the Bolshevik putsch he ended up fighting against them in the far north of Russia. In 1919 he was close to the Arctic Circle in the port city of Arkhangelsk, where at the beginning of the year, six feet of snow fell and the temperature was regularly 30 degrees below zero.
The Allies -- the English, Americans and French -- had put military forces in Russia, including in Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, in 1918. When they withdrew in September 1919, the White Army forces faced dire peril: Their source of supplies, including arms, was gone. Many regular soldiers deserted en masse to the Bolsheviks.
As the situation deteriorated, my father and his unit were surrounded. They fought until very few supplies remained. By December, their commander told them that they would soon be unable to continue to fight and that the Bolsheviks had promised that surrendering White forces would be freed and sent home.
But my father knew that the communists shot the officers they captured. The only way he could escape was through the frozen White Sea on the lone icebreaker in the port, which was not large enough to evacuate everyone. Only a small number of high-ranking White Russian officers eventually fled that way.
One woman and 16 men, including my father, decided they would try to get out another way. In the middle of a very snowy night, they skied through the Bolshevik lines toward Finland. As my father later told his five children, it was an arduous and long journey. They had so little food that at one point they were reduced to eating the beeswax candles they carried with them.
They soon ceased to count the days. Time became amorphous as they traveled through the chilling cold of an Arctic winter in the darkness of the deep woods. Their singular goal was to avoid Bolshevik patrols.
On one of those timeless, dark days, my father said, the woman in their group reminded the men of something they had all lost track of -- tomorrow would be Christmas Eve.
The next day they skied 'til the beams of the sun turned the treetops golden and the shadows in the forest became longer and longer. They stopped in a small glade for the night, and my father cut down a small fir. They placed some of their remaining candles on its branches and adorned it with blue ribbons cut from a blouse the woman had carried in her knapsack.
With the dark veil of night covering them, they lit the candles and their small pine became a Christmas tree. The scene seemed almost mystical to my father -- 17 human beings sitting in the glow of a makeshift Christmas tree in the thicket of a primeval forest. They forgot about the frost of the northern wintry night, their exhaustion, and their anxiety about the future.
No more hatred remained in their hearts, my father told us -- only love for God and men alike, friends and enemies. They said a prayer, sang some Christmas hymns, and then sat silently, thinking about what they had lost and were leaving behind, including their families. (My father never saw his mother or his father again.) The candles burned out, and it became dark again around them.
The next day they resumed their journey. Once Christmas had passed, and they did not encounter any Bolshevik patrols, my father felt they had been saved. Two weeks later, they arrived safely in Finland. They had skied hundreds of kilometers through the wilderness in the dead of winter.
My father died in 1988, just short of his 93rd birthday. There is a lot more to his story -- great drama, more danger, and adventures that he always said were better to recall as memories than to have lived through. He eventually immigrated to the United States with my mother, whom he met in 1946 in a refugee camp in occupied Germany.
So this Christmas, besides opening presents and singing carols, my family will observe one other tradition. We will drink a toast and give thanks to a man who fled a murderous, cruel dictatorship and gave us a gift more precious than anything else: the chance to grow up in freedom and to enjoy the liberty that is our birthright as Americans. Merry Christmas!
Mr. von Spakovsky is a visiting legal scholar at The Heritage Foundation and a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission. He is a proud first-generation American.
Merry Christmas Everyone! And give thanks to the lord that you still live in a Free Country!

The Wizard of Oz AND Obama's Sheeple !

In the movie, Wizard of Oz – The Wizard tells Dorothy “Pay No Attention to the man Behind the Curtain!

Fast Forward: The outfit behind Obama tells his “Sheeple” …Pay No Attention to the men Behind the Curtain! Men like Bill Ayers, Louis Farrakan, and the Weathermen Underground terrorists whose regret is that they "didn't plant more bombs"... Pay No Attention to them, “Behind the Curtain”.

Do Not Look behind the Curtain at the racist "hate speech" of Obama's friend & pastor, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright! That in 20 years of listening to “Rev. Dr. Jeremiah”, Obama heard nothing-racist!

Pay No Attention to Obama saying how much he admires his mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the old Moscow-controlled Communist Party; USA.

Do NOT look behind the Curtain at the Associated Press that found records that showed Obama was in school as a Muslim living in Indonesia and the Obama campaign can't explain why.

Then the “Sheeple” are told, Pay No Attention to the Boat-Loads of money coming into the USA from the Middle-East, to support the Obama Outfit. “Pay No Attention! Do Not Look Behind the Curtain!

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/06/was_obama_a_muslim.html

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sheeple is a term of disparagement, a portmanteau created by combining the words "sheep" and "people." It is often used to denote persons who acquiesce to authority, and thus undermine their own human individuality. The implication of sheeple is that as a collective, people believe whatever they are told, especially if told so by authority figures, without processing it to be sure that it is an accurate representation of the real world around them. The term is generally used in a political or religious sense. The singular form of the term is "sherson," however; the plural form is most often used

Freedom as we know it has Gone!

Freedom as we know it has suddenly, in a vote of the house, disappeared from our country. Every single senator and representative who voted in favor of this bill should be taken to court, tried for treason, and hung. It is proof-positive that our congress, and our president are mere puppets of the Federal Reserve, and that it is the bankers, not the people, who control government.
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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.


""I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution--taking from the federal government their power of borrowing."


"I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

All quotes - Thomas Jefferson

Obama The Muslim, And our Flag !

They say a Picture is worth 1000 Words !
Obama won't even Salute our Flag.
Mean while, our Troops are willing to Give there Life's for Our Flag !

The Year is 2006 And The Democrats Party

The Buck Stops At Their Door-step!

The Year is 2006. The Place is the USA. The Party involved; The Democrats Party!

What They Said Was = You Vote us in, and give us the House and senate and “We will Lower the Price of Gas! The Price of Gas in the Year 2006 was around “””$2.06”” a Gallon!
Well, the people of the USA Voted the Democrats In, and put them “In Charge” of the House and Senate, to lower the price of Gas “From Around $2.06 A Gallon”
So ask Yourself, How did They Do?
What Is the Price Of Gas Now?
How much does it cost to fill your Car up, compared to the Year 2006?

Now, Fast-Forward to the Year 2008. And a Democrat says
VOTE Me in For “Presidents of the United States of America”
And We will make Things Better !

A Little More on Political Correctness And Guns

Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

~~By unnamed Person

Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."

~ Thomas Jefferson

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

~John Derbyshire

If total government control equals safety, why are prisons so dangerous?

~~By unnamed Person

Bush Administration Backs "Gun-Regulation!!

Bush administration backs gun regulation !!!!!

A D.C. ban on home handguns may not be constitutional, the solicitor general tells the Supreme Court, but rights are limited and federal firearm restrictions should be upheld.
By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer January 13, 2008
WASHINGTON -- In their legal battle over gun ownership and the 2nd Amendment, gun- control advocates never expected to get a boost from the Bush administration. But that's just what happened when U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement urged the Supreme Court in a brief Friday to say that gun rights are limited and subject to "reasonable regulation" by the government and that all federal restrictions on firearms should be upheld.Reasonable regulations include the federal ban on machine guns and other "particularly dangerous types of firearms," he said in the brief. Moreover, the government forbids gun possession by felons, drug users, "mental defectives" and people subject to restraining orders, he said."Given the unquestionable threat to public safety that unrestricted private firearm possession would entail, various categories of firearm-related regulation are permitted by the 2nd Amendment," Clement said. He filed the brief in a closely watched case involving Washington, D.C.'s ban on keeping handguns at home for self-defense.The head of a gun-control group said he was pleasantly surprised by the solicitor general's stand. Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Handgun Violence, said he saluted the administration for recognizing a need for limits on gun rights. Alan Gura, a key gun-rights advocate who is leading the challenge to the District of Columbia's gun law, expressed disappointment at the administration's position. He said he was troubled that Clement advised the justices to send the case back for further hearings in a lower court."We are not happy. We are very disappointed the administration is hostile to individual rights. This is definitely hostile to our position," Gura said.This year, for the first time, the court is expected to rule squarely on whether the 2nd Amendment gives individuals a right to have a gun despite laws or ordinances restricting firearms.In the past, this amendment has sometimes been read as protecting only state militias. It says: "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 case before the court tests the constitutionality of the District of Columbia's unusually restrictive ordinance. Clement, the Bush administration's chief lawyer before the court, agreed that the 2nd Amendment "protects an individual right to possess firearms, including for private purposes unrelated to militia operations." D.C.'s ban on handguns goes too far and is probably unconstitutional, he added.A ruling along these lines would be a major victory for advocates of gun owners' rights.But the solicitor general devoted most of his brief, filed late Friday, to urging the court to move cautiously and to make clear that the 2nd Amendment does not threaten most current restrictions on guns and gun owners.Clement also said the court should stop short of striking down the D.C. ordinance on its own. Instead, he said, the case should be sent back to a trial judge. "The D.C. ban may well fail constitutional scrutiny" he said, because it totally forbids private citizens from having a handgun at home. But such a ruling should not threaten other laws, he said. "Nothing in the 2nd Amendment properly understood . . . calls for invalidation of the numerous federal laws regulating firearms." Under Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, the Bush administration in 2001 switched the Justice Department's long-standing support for gun control and adopted the view that the 2nd Amendment protects individuals' gun rights.The solicitor general holds an unusual position in the government. He is an appointee of the president in the Justice Department, representing the administration's view in court. At the same time, he has a duty to defend the laws passed by Congress, including in this instance the restrictions on machine guns and who can own a firearm. The solicitor general is also an advisor to the Supreme Court. And usually, the briefs filed by his office carry more weight with the justices than any others.The court will hear arguments in the D.C. case in late March.david.savage@latimes.com