April 24th, 2010

We are all red blooded Americans!

100_0023 As a child, I remember talking with my Great-grandmother about our ancestry, as I found out that I was part Russian, German, and English and was confused. Seeing the confusion on my face, she looked at me with those sweet wise eyes and said, “You are a red blooded American boy”! That made me feel proud and I never forgot it.

White, Black, Red or Yellow, regardless of gender, politics, or ancestry, we are all red blooded Americans!

In elementary school, we always started the morning off with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands…and I remember feelings of connectedness, unity and gratitude for being an American. I felt a part of something special, safe knowing I wasn’t alone, and cognizant of my freedoms.

Today, after retiring from the Armed Forces, I no longer recognize the country of my youth. We’ve forgotten what it is to be a Republic. We ask “What can our country do for us, not what we can do for our country.” Wisdom such as “United we stand, divided we fall” falls upon deaf ears. Incarcerated criminals must be accommodated with a greater standard of living than the war fighter on the battlefield. Remember, we got here in spite of what political party was in office.

Protect the Constitution. Know and understand its enemies. Cease being out flanked by the strategy of conquering and dividing by political party, ancestry, economic class or by terroristic threatening; For these are the true weapons of mass destruction that spreads fear, inflicts insecurity, sabotages freedom and assimilates control.

I served in Desert Storm and in the Global War on Terror. My stepson was killed in action on, 16 Jan 08, in Balad, Iraq while serving with the 101st Airborne Division. My Marine Grandfather was killed in action in WWII and his brother, still living, survived the Battle of the Bulge.

I pledge that their last full measure of devotion will not be in vain! May God have mercy upon us all and heal our land of the free and home of the brave.

Darren G. Barry

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Richard C Wagener Says:
July 14th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Welcome Aboard. Thank you for your service,
God Bless You and
God Bless America!

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1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.

2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people

3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.

4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.

5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.

6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.

7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.

8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control."

9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.

10.We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

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He is a former firearms instructor and former member of Rep. Ron Paul’s DC staff.

Stewart previously wrote the monthly Enemy at the Gates column for S.W.A.T. Magazine

Stewart graduated from Yale Law School in 2004, where his paper “Solving the Puzzle of Enemy Combatant Status” won Yale’s Miller prize for best paper on the Bill of Rights. He assisted teaching U.S. military history at Yale, was a Yale Research Scholar, and is writing a book on the dangers of applying the laws of war to the American people.