America Freedom Under Siege

2009-10-21T10:45:00.000-07:00

Rescue Me! Where’s The Food!
Written By Jonathan Israel
jonathan@cityroompress.com

Every city across America is faced with a severe homeless population. In the last five years, America’s homelessness has escalated thirty percent higher in every central city. Homelessness is no longer confined to major metropolises. Urban towns, small farming villages, country townships, and mountain rural communities have their share of homeless troubles.

Homeless people rely upon charitable organizations, such as Catholic Charities, churches, and private non-profit organizations, for a hot meal, a shower, and toiletries. Food and Care Coalition in Provo, Utah serve three meals a day, plus a sack lunch to Provo’s growing homeless population. Two years ago they averaged 700 meals a day. That figure has now risen to over 1000 hot meals, plus they provide dental, optical, and medical care.

They’re not alone. Catholic Charities states there is a vaunting increase in homeless people in America. For example, in Colorado Springs, Catholic Charities feed 700 to 800 people a day; compared to six months ago they averaged 400 to 500 homeless people. Charitable organizations that care for the homeless are faced with a mammoth financial dilemma. They are simply running out of money and food. Non-profit organizations rely on the generosity of private citizens, churches, private corporations, and the federal government.

Across America the current recession has largely affected freewill contributions. In most cases, donations are down fifty percent or more. With the rising cost of food, some grocery stores, such as, Safeway and KingSooper (United Grocers) have ceased disseminating meat products, milk, and juice to charitable organizations, except for expired bread and pastries. The reason: The federal government allows for grocery stores a much higher tax write-off if expired food is discarded rather than given to charities. Catholic Charities, Food and Care Coalition, Manna, and other homeless charities primarily rely on food donations from grocery stores.

The Obama Administration has significantly cut back funding to all charities, putting charitable institutions in a most difficult position to care for the homeless. All along, America’s “moneybags” live in marble palaces, and dine at recherché restaurants eating caviar and sipping Pertimali di Livo Sassetti. Year after year, these self-praising “economic whores” rob the middle-class out of what little money they earn. They’ve set themselves as kings over America’s middle-class and wretched misfortunate ones. How long will the poor allow America’s aristocrats to rule over them? A fresh wind is blowing across America: It is a revolutionary call to unity for economical equality for all peoples.

Texas Cop Tasers Old Lace

2009-06-15T15:51:00.000-07:00

Written by Jonathan Israel
Email: jonathanisrael@email.com

Kathryn Winkfein, a 72 year old grandmother ran afoul of Texas law on May 11, 2009 when she refused to sign a speeding ticket. Travis County, Sheriff Deputy, Chris Blaze, tasered Ms Winkfein for exercising her Constitution right not to sign a ticket for speeding. Deputy Blaze and Travis County Sheriff Department justified the deputy’s action, stating, “he feared for his life.”

It is true the frail old lady did refuse to sign the ticket and used foul language. She objected to the speeding ticket, claiming she was not speeding. Deputy Blaze provoked the situation further when he physically shoved the old woman, nearly knocking her off her feet. Ms Winkfein vehemently objected to being physically abused by the deputy. At that point, Deputy Blaze withdrew his weapon and threatened to shoot the 72 year old woman.

When Ms Winkfein continued her refusal to sign the ticket, Deputy Blaze decided it was time for a more drastic measure to enforce compliance. Deputy Blaze withdrew his taser gun, and shot the old lace with 50,000 volts of electricity. It was a proud moment for Travis County Sheriff Department. They arrogantly hailed the taser assault as being justified. The truth is Deputy Blaze could have subdued the elderly lady with one hand tied behind his back. She posed no threat to the officer, society, or herself. She was not in possession of a weapon of any kind, nor was there one in the vicinity of her vehicle.

Texas has a long standing anti-Semitic history with Jews. Unfortunately for Ms. Winkfein, Deputy Blaze’s action to taser her was triggered by his entrenched anti-Semitic viewpoints. His unacceptable justification for tasering this elderly lady was nothing more than police window dressing. Travis County Sheriff Department has validated Deputy Blaze’s brutal actions as justifiable; however, I am most positive the good citizens of Texas do not.

18,000,000 People Starve To Death Daily

2009-05-29T09:57:00.000-07:00

Written by Jonathan Israel
johnnyisrael@email.com

The World Heath Organization recently stated that 18 million people worldwide die of starvation daily. That’s 18 million people! The Counsel for the Center of Disease Control (CDC) has stated that over 11 million children in America go to bed hungry every night. The only meals they receive are school lunch vouchers. On the weekends, most do not have anything to eat. Americans as a whole have been blessed with the good life. We live in comfortable homes with manicured lawns, possess big screen televisions, eat the best of foods, wear fine apparel, we drive the best of automobiles, we own boats, luxury toys, and the more we acquire, the more we crave.

A very rich man had a big house with many servants. The rich man enjoyed life’s greatest paramount. He was the “big fish” in his community. There was a very poor man named Lazarus that sat daily under the rich man’s table expecting to eat the morsel of crumbs that fell to the floor. Lazarus was very sick; his body was covered with bleeding blisters. The rich man figured that by allowing poor Lazarus to scrounge for the measly crumbs that fell from his table that he was performing an act of kindeness.

Lazarus eventually died and so did the rich man. As the story goes, the rich man looked up from the flames of hell and saw Lazarus being comforted in the arms of his Heavenly Father. The rich man apparently was dismayed at this turn of events. After all, he believed he was being kind and generous by allowing Lazarus to eat the crumbs that fell from his table. The Lord saw it differently and told the rich man so. He reminded the rich man that while he had the opportunity to bless Lazarus, he squandered his blessings on his own selfishness.

The Iraqi and Afghanistan war has cost America over a trillion dollars. We pump billions into useless projects that benefit only a few. Greed and more greed has become our model of standards. Our churches throw a few pennies in the poor bucket believing, just as the rich man, that we have fulfilled God’s service to humanity. Our self-centeredness separates us from the very blessings we seek from our Heavenly Father. How true the old adage loudly rings, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

Come Judgment Day, the Lord of Righteous Judgment will not adjudicate us for the wealth we enjoyed, but rather, how we administered our wealth to the poor. How dare we call ourselves Children of the Lord and close our eyes and ears to the cries of the hungry and poor. Shame on all of us! If America and the free nations desire to prove themselves as a benevolent, generous, kinder, loving nation, than each and every nation must rise up with financial aid to rid the world of hunger and starvation. Tell your pastor, rabbi, minister, Congressman, and those in charge to act immediately to rid the world of hunger. 18 million people a day are counting on it. If we fail God will judge us accordingly.

Looking Unto Jesus

2009-05-27T09:56:00.001-07:00

Written by Jonathan Israel
Email: jonathanisrael@email.com

God’s Word directs us at all times to keep our eyes on the Lord Jesus. In these troubling times Christians are paying special attention to terrorism, abortion, recession, money, material things, family issues, politics, candidates, judges, moral decay, and a host of other everyday problems. We’ve become so transfixed on national and world events rather than the “Good News” that we lost sight of the Cross.

Jesus told his disciples to “preach the Good News.” Preachers today have a new message, that is, they preach “how to get rich schemes” to what candidates to vote for. Jesus willfully went to the Cross to save the world from the condemnation of sin. The shedding of His blood was to cleanse us from unrighteousness; and to bring us into a perfect relationship with our Heavenly Father. Through Christ we have complete access to our Heavenly Father. Christ taught his disciples to pray for one another. He directed them to preach the “Good News” and to minister to the more unfortunate ones.

Yet, Christian’s are praying for money, power, and a myriad of selfish greed. The Lord has turned a deaf ear to our covetous prayers. We are in awe over the fact that His anointed presence has left the Church. And yet, we believers continue marching down “Selfish Lane” without giving a second thought as to God’s purpose for our lives. We’ve educated ourselves to know more about Him rather than developing an intimate relationship with our Heavenly Father.

The quandaries of today are not new ones. The Devil would have us believe that He, not Christ is in control of the world events. Yet, he has deceived the Church into believing that material things, money, wealth, avarice, lust, power, fame, and having a “righteous cause” to fight for are the keys for survival. He has swindled the Church out of her righteous inheritance of faith and trust. By focusing on world events, social issues, and the current political spectrum, our faith has soured into self-seeking fulfillment.

True faith desires to please Christ. Today’s Church adheres more to preaching the current political spectrum than the joys of entering into his anointed chamber room. I have often contemplated if the Lord has the audacity to equate today’s Church as His beautiful bride to be? The Church podium has cultivated into a political platform. She has danced to the voice of crime and punishment, moral laws, politics, and governmental regulations. Her weary face bears the marks of an angry, harden-bitter woman.

The Pharisees brought to Jesus a woman who was caught in adultery. They demanded that Christ sentence to woman to death, according to the Law of Moses. Christ responded, “You without sin, let him cast the first stone.” The law makers departed having been put to shame by their harden hearts. Christ then asks the woman, “Where are those that condemned you?” She admitted there was no one. He said, “Neither do I condemn you.” The religious political spectrum of the day demanded the death sentence. Christ offered the adulteress woman forgiveness. It is time for the Church to take her eyes off today’s religious political continuum; and fasten them on the Lord of mercy and forgiveness.

REAL vs. Nancy Pelosi

2009-05-21T12:55:00.001-07:00

Written by Jonathan Israel
Report for America Freedom Under Siege
email: americaundersiege@usa.com

In the last few months over eight police officers either have been murdered or wounded in the line of duty. Their deaths have raised the stakes over gun control; and the right for private citizens to own assault weapons. According to Newt Gringrich and the Renewing American Leadership (REAL) Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, are surreptitiously working behind the scene for gun control legislation.

REAL claims Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are out to legislate gun control for all guns (including ones for hunting and sport events). REAL claim the right for private citizens to carry concealed weapons would basically end violent crimes in America. They say states that allow concealed weapon permits statistics show that violent crimes, burglaries, house break-ins, robberies, murder, assaults, inter alia are down considerably. They are wrong.

Out of the eight police officers murdered last month, two of the shooters had no criminal records. They murdered five of the police officers, and both were licensed with a concealed weapons permit. REAL claims that police officers across the board are in favor of private citizens carrying concealed weapons. That is absolutely false. Not when police officers are maliciously gunned down by outraged citizens for simple traffic stops.

REAL states that Nancy Pelosi is un-American for her stand against violent crimes, especially those that involve a gun. In truth, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are fighting to get guns off the streets. Their objective is to protect law enforcement and private citizens from harms way. However, REAL associates this kind of legislation as an attempt to destroy Americans’ rights to bare arms. Again this is ludicrous. The Speaker of the House is doing her job exactly the way Americans expect her to do.

Gun control is an essential tool to protect all Americans from rogue individuals that are bent on murdering the innocent. Without gun control violent crimes will continue to rise. The elderly, women and children are the ones that suffer at the hands of ‘good gun carrying citizens.’ Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are making an effort to stop this madness. REAL and Newt Gringrich are openly promoting violent crimes by lobbying for gun activists. REAL is nothing more than window dressing for gun activists rights that place police officers, women, and childrens’ lives in harms way. Let’s stop this madness by supporting Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats efforts to control guns in America.

AIG Rips Off American Taxpayers

2009-03-16T23:09:00.000-07:00

The following article appeared in cityroompress.com

and is republished with permission by the author

Written by Jonathan Israel

Johnny@cityroompress.com

A few days ago AIG reported giving their management team 167 million dollars in bonuses after receiving nearly 180 billion dollars bailout money from the federal government. AIG promised the Obama Administration they would use the bailout money wisely; and not use the money for expensive gifts, trips, vacations, or bonuses. They lied. Immediately after getting their greedy hands on billions of bailout money, they cryptically doled out the millions among the upper management. Once again big corporation swindled the taxpayers out of billions for their own self-indulgence.

Between nine million to eleven million children in this country go to bed hungry every night. There are approximately two million to three million homeless children that wander the streets at night seeking food and shelter. Yet the federal government has done little to ease their pain and suffering. They will never see a financial bailout or even the most modest financial rescue. Their future for a decent life remains dire, if not hopeless. At the same time the Fat Cats at AIG are gorging themselves with the best that taxpayers’ money can buy.

AIG pilfered millions at the taxpayers’ expense. Giving themselves million dollar bonuses in a time of recessions is not only disgraceful it’s criminal. President Obama promised the American people change to the way the government does business. If the President is serious about change, then his administration should seek criminal charges against everyone who paid themselves bonuses with taxpayers’ money. Americans are sick and tired of corporate thieves dipping their greedy hands into the taxpayers’ coffer while laughing in our face.

The time has come to put these criminals behind bars. Prosecuting AIG for fraud, conspiracy to defraud, treachery, and theft by deception would send a clear message to money hungry predatory corporations that the American people will no longer tolerate corporate gluttony. AIG’s criminal actions are outrageous, despicable, and inexcusable. AIG greedy thugs deserve nothing less than a raucous jail cell in some seedy prison with a burly guy named Bubba. Now that is what I call change!