May 02 2008
Where Are the Watchmen?
I have been waylaid by some rogue flu bug and thus, have been absent from duty, and I do apologize. As fate would have it, Ligneus has been having connection problems and still is off line. Sitting upright for any length of time is proving to be an uncomfortable experience, so this is when we start digging through those archives.
I give you “Where Are the Watchmen?” from April of ‘06. The question still remains in ‘08.
from… The Islamist Challenge to the U.S. Constitution
“In August 2004, a local planning commission in Little Rock, Arkansas, granted The Islamic Center for Human Excellence authorization to build an internal Islamic enclave to include a mosque, a school, and twenty-two homes.[3] While the imam, Aquil Hamidullah, says his goal is to create “a clean community, free of alcohol, drugs, and free of gangs,”[4] the implications for U.S. jurisprudence of this and other internal enclaves are greater: while the Little Rock enclave might prevent the sale of alcohol, can it punish possession and in what manner? Can it force all women, be they residents or visitors, to don Islamic hijab (headscarf)? Such enclaves raise the fundamental questions of when, how, and to what extent religious practice may supersede the U.S. Constitution.”
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The Islamic Center for Human Excellence may seek to segregate schools and offices by gender. The enclave might also exercise broad control upon commerce within its boundaries-provided the economic restrictions did not discriminate against out-of-state interests or create an undue burden upon interstate commerce. But most critically, the enclave could promulgate every internal law-from enforcing strict religious dress codes to banning alcohol possession and music; it could even enforce limits upon religious and political tolerance. Although such concepts are antithetical to a free society, U.S. democracy allows the internal enclave to function beyond the established boundaries of our constitutional framework. At the very least, the permissible parameters of an Islamist enclave are ill defined.”
Hordes of self-righteous illegal mexicans parade like so many pompous little Napoleons while chanting insulting demands, supported by the liberals and the media and a president who apparently has neither the will nor wisdom that conservatives foolishly ascribed to the man. While the Mexican make their claim upon our land, Muslims are appropriating our country. They know the lay of the land, the threats to make, the alliances to grease. They are a cancer mutating through our government, our prisons, our universities and our communities, culling leagues of political sycophants, networking like the most adept American sales pro, bartering lies for concessions, embraced by a body of politicians whom I can only describe as decayed in will, spirit and mind; a passel of febrile and castrated men whose convictions are dry rotted - shredding at the merest wisp of a breeze - unable to support an ideal nor a promise.
I’m weary with the reading of it and the writing of it. Conservatives have to move against all the existing limitations and encroachments on free speech being imposed under so called hate speech laws. Any and all other convolutions of the law that the priesthood of liberal judges can conjure up to suppress opposition have to be firmly routed and defeated. If we can’t gain that ground back, we lose it all.
We have to be free to lawfully monitor every frigging land deal, every local election, every elected or nominated member on school boards, every bit of curriculum our kids see. We have to somehow raise enough awareness of the kind of deals and concessions that are being made and put these subterranean Muslim political machinations above the radar so that all of us know that a mosque is proposed or state-church law is to be violated , or 8 weeks of Islamic studies have been placed in the curriculum.
We have got to take the battle back to them and by them I mean the left and Islam. Be it Soros or Socialists or John Dean or Sheik Mo-frigging-hammad - they will destroy America. The riots that we see in France by a lazy pathetic and cowardly populace will soon be our plight. Maybe by then the American flag will be completely banned. Should it come to the point where we allow that to happen then we don’t deserve to fly her any longer. There is no courage or vision left in government and all of the men worthy of leading this country are being killed in Iraq.
For what?
So the rest of us can just continue to get our teeth kicked out by libs and muslims and their trained media flunkies? They fight and we sleep.
But to tell you the truth, I don’t sleep all that well these days anymore.
We need watchmen on the walls folks.
Where Are the Watchmen?
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I’m sorry you’re feeling ill Zee - be nice to yourself and get a little rest. A little soft foods, tea and bedrest will do wonders to quiet down your illness.
“For hardship does not spring from the soil,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground.
Yet man is born to trouble
as surely as sparks fly upward.” (Job 5:7 NIV)
I would like to consider you’re question, “Where Are the Watchmen?”. Actually, I believe that they’re everywhere in our society today. When you use the word ‘watchmen’ I think back to how it’s used in the Old Testament. The word watchman is found 19 times in 16 different verses, but I believe this is the most telling: “Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”(Psalms 127:1 KJV).
America is most certainly a post-Christian society, where the God of the Bible is continuously mocked and ridiculed. Obama’s staff worker can’t understand why anyone would be upset over him showing a pervert dressed as a conceptualized Jesus and dancing down a city street - and many of Obama’s followers also consider these complaints as frivolous. LOL Let them portray Muhammad like that, then lets see what happens! What obligation does the biblical God have towards a society that’s turned it’s back on Him? Yet, in the Old Testament, when the nation of Israel acted like America is acting today, God sent out ‘watchmen’. The question is why? I believe the answer to that question is so there may be a division in the land; a division manufactured for people between the recipients of mercy and the recipients of justice.
For the Watchmen, in the prophetical books, the cry of the watchman was almost always ignored. They were sent out to warn the peoples about the coming consequences of their decisions, but almost always were ignored. Jonah is an exception, but those who turned from their pathway during Jonah’s day were not Jews but rather citizens of Nineveh (current day Mosul, Iraq): what a frustrating occupation, speaking the truth to people who refuse to hear. There are hundreds of watchmen scattered throughout the blogosphere - LGF, GoV, Spencer, Steyn, Horowitz, etc. - but the people will not hear. Does it ever appear to you that you’re ‘preaching to the choir’, as it were? The Kos Kids and the progressive DU crowd aren’t flocking to the ‘watchman’s’ sites to read and contemplate acceptable answers - only to argue and ridicule. Why? We’ve been conditioned to look to our ‘Nanny’ for aid and comfort, and it’s really nice to have all this stuff we can find in any American mall. Sheeple have no worries….until it’s time to go and be slaughtered. After all, everything is relative(so they believe falsely) so why not just accept every one with their attendant personal values? Let homosexual’s marry, murder 50,000,000 Americans in their mother’s wombs, allow immigrants to infiltrate at their leisure, lobby for the legalization of illegal drugs, let society esteem pleasure and entertainment above family values, refuse to treat serial rapists and murderers justly and demand everyone be given equal material wealth in society (the list is endless) - it’s a recipe for disaster.
The American Constitution is held up as an example for how our country is supposed to be run, but it’s really nothing more than concepts inked on paper. It’s the hearts, blood and will of The People who make the Constitution of any worth. Without the commitment and sacrifice of The People within our country it is impossible for this Constitution to maintain it’s value. If anything of value should come out of this War on Terror it will be that we’re training our future leaders on the battlefields of Iraq. Hopefully they won’t turn out like that ex-Marine called Murtha.
Sorry to hear that you are ill zee…get well soon.
Where are the watchmen, they’re everywhere zee, trouble is, no one’s listening…as usual. Lucky Larry is right, everyone is too busy indulging themselves in frivolous entertainments, and resent being forced to hear a message they do not wish to hear … just listen to their responses to the news of the day, just listen to them sneer at those voices of caution ….”pride goes before a fall”…and brother, when this one trips up,is it going to be one big, ugly mess; and with an irony not lost on many attentive souls, the wailing and gnashing of teeth will indeed be of biblical proportions.
Zee, I’m sorry to hear you’ve been under the weather. I hope you’re all over it now.
Great post as usual. Lucky Larry, brilliant comment! Yes it was the word ‘watchmen’ rung the same bell with me as well. Christians are meant to be the watchmen on the roof. We can see things that many can’t or that many don’t recognize as a danger until it’s too late. We have fallen down on the job, I’m afraid and that’s why the enemy has crept into the city. Now there will be no victory without real trouble and loss. Let’s just hope it’s not too late to prevent them from taking the city altogether.
Get well soon Zee, it’s making its way across the world, had ours a few weeks ago, still trying to kick it off here.
Thank you MK, just saw this. It does linger on and on, this damn bug, doesn’t it?