ARE THE PRESENT GROUP OF DEMOCRATS IN CHARGE OF THEIR PARTY AND IN CHARGE OF OUR NATION ARCHITECTS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR GREAT REPUBLIC ???

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Democrats: Architects of the Destruction of AmericaPart 1
Ever since the fake president was sworn in we have seen the Democrats do everything they can to take away our rights, give away our nation to illegals on a scale never seen in America before. Biden is allowing illegals to cross our southern border by the hundreds of thousands with about 40% of them testing positive for covid. The city of Laredo, Texas, has refused to take in migrants who have been bused in from elsewhere on the border after discovering 40% of them tested positive for the coronavirus, according to two local government officials.“That was very high,” Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz said in an interview, referring to the infection rate among migrants dropped off by the Border Patrol last week. Laredo health authority, Dr. Victor Trevino, confirmed the numbers.The 40% infection rate is the highest known positivity rate along the U.S.-Mexico border. Last week, McAllen, Texas, reported a 15% positivity rate among migrants released from custody1This is bad enough bet Biden is discussing the requiring of vaccine passports for American citizens to travel from state to state. A new report claims that the Biden administration is looking for a “tougher approach” to get COVID-19 vaccines into the arms of Americans as the coronavirus cases increase across the country.One alleged strategy that President Joe Biden’s administration considered was requiring Americans to get a vaccine passport for interstate travel. Conservatives quickly swung back at the Biden administration for even considering making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for interstate travel.The Associated Press reports that the Biden administration is weighing possible penalties for Americans who don’t get vaccinated, and ways to make their lives “more uncomfortable.”“White House officials say Biden wanted to initially operate with restraint to ensure that Americans were ready for the strong-arming from the federal government,” the article states. “The federal moves have been carefully calibrated to encourage a wave of businesses and governments to follow suit.” This is nothing more than the actions of a dictatorial type of government. Even under the deadliest virus to ever hit America, the Spanish Flu, no restrictions were ever put in place that restricted Americans from traveling. For me, it is obvious that this alledged pandemic is nothing but a planedemic and is being used for political reasons. This should be obvious to most people from the simple fact that the survival rate is 99.998%. In the Spanish Flu 675,000 people died which was .64% of the population. The population then was just over 103 million. Today it’s 320 million and the death rate was 500,000 which is .15% of the population but we have to remember that the regular flu season was non-existent. Everybody that died seemed to die of covid but the truth was brought forth in an article in August of 2020: On Friday, the CDC updated their Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus report, which revealed an extremely low number of people contracted COVID-19 and died solely because of it. All Americans need to hear the following conclusions from the report.The CDC wrote, “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.” 6%. This means that only about 9,857 of the 164,280 deaths were caused by coronavirus alone.But that’s not all. The disease control agency continued, “For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”The other 94% who were marked as coronavirus in fact died with an average of more than 2.5 comorbidities3 These stats prove that this is nothing more than a power grab by Democrats. They continue to push the narrative of this being a deadly disease that everyone needs to be vaccinated against. The CDC’s definition of a vaccine is Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but can also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose4 Notice it states that it must produce immunity to a specific disease yet recently in Massachusetts 74% of fully vaccinated people came down with covid. VAERS, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, monitors vaccines for too many adverse effects. The swine flu scare in 1976 saw too many adverse reactions: The $137-million program began in early October, but within days reports emerged that the vaccine appeared to increase the risk for Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological condition that causes temporary paralysis but can be fatal.Waiting in long lines at schools and clinics, more than 40 million Americans — almost 25% of the population — received the swine flu vaccine before the program was halted in December after 10 weeks.More than 500 people are thought to have developed Guillain-Barre syndrome after receiving the vaccine; 25 died. No one completely understands the causes of Guillain-Barre, but the condition can develop after a bout with infection or following surgery or vaccination. The federal government paid millions in damages to people or their families5 Notice that only 25 people died and they pulled the vaccine. There have been reports that 45,000 have died from the covid vaccine not to mention blot clots, enlarged hearts, the loss of 1,200 unborn babies, and a series of other side effects and they are still pushing people to get the jab.A lot of people are demanding everybody get the jab. Mostly Democrats. Now that the Pfizer vaccine has been given FDA approval, Biden is demanding that businesses, grocery stores, manufacturing facilities set in place mandates for all employees and customers be required to have the vaccine to work or shop in their stores. That is governmental tyranny and a violation of the Nuremberg Accord.Americans must stand for our rights or we will lose them all. 
Foot Notes1.    https://www.yahoo.com/now/forty-percent-migrants-released-texas-212400073.html2.   https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-administration-vaccine-passports-interstate-travel3.   https://freedomwire.com/cdc-new-death-stats/4.   https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm5.   https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-apr-27-sci-swine-history27-story.html  ©Roger Anghis
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ACTION ALERT: PROTEST TO CONGRESS AGAINST THE PROPOSED BILL THAT WOULD ADD WOMEN TO BE SUBJECT TO CONSCRIPTION FOR SERVICE IN AMERICA’S ARMED FORCES

BS”D Defend, Don’t Draft Or Debase  Our Daughters
7 Tishrei, 5782 / Sept. 14, ’21 
by Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter, Executive Director of Help Rescue Our Children
On September 1, both the Senate and House Armed Services Committees voted to require women to register for the Selective Service. That means that, in event of a draft, G-d forbid, for ANY reason or pretext (global warming?), women – of age 18 to 25 – would be forced to serve in the [increasingly “Woke”] military. That also means young female conscripts will be forced to endure the Military’s zero-tolerance for dissent, including non-compliance with its degressive “Equality” dogma. Take a minute or two to think about what exactly that means for your daughters, sisters, or granddaughters in very real terms, given all the godless dregs with whom they will be in close proximity, particularly overnight, especially in jungles, or other isolated areas, or in enemy captivity, G-d forbid.
Moreover, even if somehow we hypothetically knew from Eliyahu HaNovi that there would never be a draft in America – military, national service, or otherwise – the passage of proposed “Draft Our Daughters” amendments to the NDAA22 – that would require women to register for Selective Service – would ultimately have a corrosive if not devastating impact on the military. 
1. Eventually, the integration of women into military units, including combat units, would accelerate – rendering an already really bad situation alot worse.
2. With that, unwanted pregnancy and abortions would rise (although obvious to many, evidence of this has been addressed elsewhere).
3. Furthermore, that antimoral Armed Forces paradigm-shift would metastasize into a broader cultural shift, accelerating and exacerbating what’s already happening in the remnants of American civilization.
4. This is in addition to the deleterious impact such Congressional legislation would immediately have by encouraging and boosting the ongoing escalation of the female draft in Israel – where the irreligious Establishment is, according to Chotam.org, actually pushing the female military draft (revealingly, at the expense of the female national service, “Sheirut Leumi”).~~~Now, if you’re not already involved in combating this epic threat, would you please join? Please see below, and contact us if need be.  We have precious little time to stop this state-sanctioned abuse of women. 
But it can be stopped.
The key to success is focus. Decent people cannot afford to continue to be incessantly duped and distracted by diversionary tactics, as real as some of those diversionary dangers may be (as Mrs. Engel so succinctly observes in her email, appended below).
THE DEADLINE FOR LEGISLATION SUBMISSION BY HOUSE MEMBERS – TO STOP THE LAYING OF GROUNDWORK FOR THE DRAFTING OF WOMEN – IS THIS COMING TUESDAY, SEPT.14th 1PM ET.
==========================Organization of this Presentation:==========================
This presentation is divided into five [sections, not books]:
1] action items for individuals,
2] a section for activist leaders, 
3] a list of tips and background information and explanation,
4] supplemental information and a sample letter to a “Equality” proponent (and military vet),
5] a useful sample alert sent out by a leading activist involved in this matter=============
1] ACTION NEEDED TODAY:
1) Please urge the public that it’s truly urgent for each potential voter, and especially girls and young women, to do the following, ASAP:
a) Spread the word about this threat (see email and links copied below).
b) Each person, especially women and girls, should contact their own representatives in both houses of Congress, with the unequivocally strident message: 
“Don’t draft our daughters – ever – for any type of “service” – for any reason, period.” 
The Congressional Switchboard is 202-224-3121 [the switchboard operates 24 hours, but offices are only open during day hours, 9 to 5 or 6].
Please share this Action Center link of Concerned Women for America for individuals to easily contact their representatives about this issue:

https://www.votervoice.net/CWFA/campaigns/87862/respond

TIPS FOR CALLERS:

° There is a fact sheet from CWA, for background information (although I’ve not been able to review it myself).

https://concernedwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CWALAC-Fact-Sheet-Dont-Draft-Our-Daughters-2021-1.pdf° Callers may want to add:
‘No “if”s, “but”s, or “and”s — Drafting women is Exploitation.’
° Do not take no for an answer. If the staffer obfuscates, consider replying “Precisely WHICH words didn’t you understand?  Don’t draft women to anything, period.” 
° Those legislators who provide the excuse/pretext of “Equality” should be told (something along the lines of the powerful argument in section 4) this:
‘Forcing women into combat is the worst form of Inequality: It puts them at risk of capture by enemies – who would certainly treat them with the worst forms of “inequality.” ‘  It also exposes women to being targeted first by enemy forces (see https://www.c-span.org/video/?460117-1/national-commission-military-national-public-service-forum-day-2-part-1 at 1:13:58, Ms. Jude Eden, Thomas P. Kilgannon).
This is not rocket science. The offending legislators generally are aware of some of this, unless they’re incredibly dumb. We need to put them on defense – that we know that they know it, and that they just don’t care.
° If, despite rational arguments, a staffer or your Congressman argues that “Equality” trumps our concerns, you may want to consider being a bit clearer, by replying along the lines of:
“Why should we/ our daughters get molested by a six-foot brute with AIDS – just for your “DEquality”?
° Some staffers may try to throw callers off balance by sidetracking them, by mention of the Congressional (“Heck”) Commission. Reply: “Don’t sidetrack,” and repeat your demands that women never be forced to serve in any national service, for any reason or pretext, period.
FYI, that 11-person panel wasted 45 million dollars over three years to encourage expanding national and military service to women for no good reason. Mention of the Commission is probably a diversionary tactic. One need not know anything about that Commission to know that their unhinged [and apparently predetermined] conclusion of drafting women – to any type of national service – especially in “Woke” America in 2021 – is a disaster of grave proportions. No foreign enemies could have perpetrated this against the United States, without the help of so many eager adversaries within.
c) It’s important to please share feedback, i.e. responses of legislators, with us, CMR, CWA, et.al.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2] ACTION ITEMS FOR LEADERS:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1) Leaders, in addition to urging your followers to do the aforementioned, also please contact every Republican member, and the less radical Democratic members of the Armed Services Committees in BOTH houses (preferably considering how they voted on Draft Our Daughters in committee; please see futher in Supplement below). 
»» Urge them to submit legislation to remove ALL “Draft Our Daughters” language, including language redefining Selective Service, in the NDAA (the massive Defense legislation coming to a full floor vote very soon, perhaps the week of Sept. 20th!). The deadline for the House is this  Tuesday Sept. 14th. 
Here’s the House language: https://houlahan.house.gov/uploadedfiles/amendment_mssa_houlpa.pdf (from: https://houlahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2272 )
Unfortunately, we don’t have the Senate deadline yet, because they’ve not published their schedule. It seems that working on legislation in the House is the priority, at the moment.  Congress resumes this week, but thankfully they have other business to attend to as well. That means that we must work as if we have almost no time, but plan as if we may possibly have more time.
~~~2)  Please clarify to the legislators why it’s so vital that they submit language that blocks the recent attempt – inspired by the aptly-named “Heck Commission” – to redefine Selective Service, to create other types of mandatory national service, and to draft women into those. Additionally, by creating other forms of national service, they aim to dodge grassroots objections to the abject lunacy of drafting women into combat units, by making it appear as if the entire Selective Service inclusion of women has nothing to do with combat (not that that would avoid our objections either).
3)  Thirdly, please spread the word as rapidly as feasible. We need to wake up the heavily-distracted public, and save them from the relentless diversionary tactics of the Left, be they Corona-related restrictions [arguably geared to evoke our distraction from culture-killing legislation like this], or otherwise.
4) Organize women’s demonstrations, ASAP. That will get attention, and convey the gravity of the threat. 
5) Alert receptive Catholic organizations and activists to the threat, especially noting how a female draft would increase unwanted pregnancy and abortion (ask for our fact sheet on that). 
It’s vital to immediately nurture a bipartisan tsunami of national outrage against drafting young women – for anything.
° Timing:
We especially need this massive awareness campaign NOW, in order to have civil outrage on social media before Tuesday, for two reasons: 
a) One is to ensure support to expedite the aforementioned legislation to stop Draft Our Daughters.
b) The second is to deter the Rules Committee from vetoing that vitally needed proposed legislation.
——- °°° For more information: °°°
Please see the letter and links below, and the websites of the Center for Military Readiness, and Concerned Women of America.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~3] Background Explanation:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~° What’s at Stake?
By nature, having women in the Military generally involves monumental harassment, exploitation, and abuse, as the Israeli experience so tragically testifies.
Some reasonable people may hypothetically subscribe to the notion that government has the right to draft women in extreme circumstances. However, we all would have to agree that in modern “Woke” America, it would be an absolute disaster, from a moral, religious, and human perspective. Forcing women into national service would ultimately devolve into legalized human trafficking, even if it perchance would not start off with that intent. Whatever possibilities that the federal government may have been able to mitigate the dangers of drafting young women have long been eradicated by the faux “Equality” movement, including it’s horrific transgender agenda.
° This all applies to NON-combat positions. Combat positions elevate the threats to women to an entirely different plateau of lunacy, as explained previously, regarding the threat of capture by enemy forces not particularly interested in equal-rights protocols.
° Targeting Religious Values:
These dangers stand in addition to religious objections, which themselves introduce an additional set of monumental concerns, particularly for Jewish women. 
° Realize that the religious exemptions instituted in Israel, with good intentions on the part of Rabbinic leaders, are currently being (systematically) eroded, incrementally. In fact, the very same religious exemptions that were initially demanded to protect religious women are now being exploited to deny them their legal rights to automatic military service exemptions, as recently indicated by an Israeli member of Knesset:
“During the course of the Knesset debate, MK Betzalel Smotrich (leader of the Religious Zionism party) said that the requirement for females to serve in the army should be abolished altogether and should be on a voluntary basis. Smotrich added that the “procedure which girls who declare religiosity have to go through to receive their exemption in the last few years is humiliating and shameful. The army employs private investigators who track the private lifestyles of the girls including spying on their Facebook pages and pictures and creating an illogical barometer for religiosity.” ‘ {end of VIN News quote, https://vinnews.com/2021/07/01/415263 } “
Moreover, the world-revered “Brisker Rov,” Rav Yitzchak Zev Soloveichik OB”M, was adamant against compromising on allowing the drafting of ANY girls, religious or not. In fact, he was even more opposed to the drafting of irreligious girls, inasmuch as they would fall spiritually further and faster than religious girls would fall in the morally corrosive military milieu (see “Yeled Sha’ashuim,” Rav Aharon Soloveichik, p. 348-350, starting from the quote of Rav Michel Feinstein). If Israel would have followed his Torah directives, we would be spared so many horror stories we hear from Israeli girls and young women, both those caught in the Army and those religious resistors braving the specter of arrest and incarceration in military prison – to preserve their fidelity to the Torah and their personal purity (e.g. regarding the case of Orah Chaya and Moriah Leah R., Bnos Beruria (in the Summer of 5779) see https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2019/07/wonderful-opportunities-for-public.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FIjWSM+%28Daas+Torah+-+Issues+of+Jewish+Identity%29

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sct41kbjry0ph5m/BS.docx?dl=0 ).
Avoiding Replaying the Israeli Catastrophe:
We don’t want to give any female draft proponent the backing of feeling that if drafting women is “good enough” for Israel, it’s good enough for America. However, it’s no secret that some female draft proponents like to raise the Israeli female military draft as a paradigm to emulate. You may recall the observation attributed to Einstein about the sign of an idiot being repeating the same actions -all while expecting different results.
Firstly, the ongoing, disastrous female draft policy in Israel has been perpetrated in flagrant violation of Torah Law. There is nothing whatsoever Jewish about it. Secondly, from a practical perspective, that female draft policy is actually all the more reason to ban the drafting of women, religious or otherwise.  For a sampling of reasons not to emulate the Israeli experience, see the wealth of information accumulated by an Israeli organization (one of an indisputable Zionist orientation), called “Chotam.”
° For one telling sample of many, here’s an excerpt of an eye-opening post that demonstrates how ripe for abuse the female draft is in Israel, despite it’s genuflection to “religious rights.” It reminds one of the saying, “be careful about you ask for – you might actually get it.”
“The following is a link to a  Guidebook provided by the pro-Israel organization “Chotam.” It’s an English guide for religious girls to avoid enlistment in the IDF: https://www.chotam.org.il/media/61762/pinkaskis-orange-english.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1hBP9tHJxSIfF07n8ywx27I_kWn0jfd9EOBy7fYfRe1xNChBPBU4qLLo0 

This very publication is a stinging indictment of the Israeli Army Draft Office, and the antireligious Establishment behind its escalating crusade to rob religious and traditional girls of their legal entitlement to a religious exemption from military service. The very need to publish such a guide speaks volumes of the danger posed to the next generation of Jewish mothers by “fellow Jews.” The professional, psychological warfare techniques that these 16- and 17-year-old girls need to be trained to defend against, all alone – without even legal counsel or a family member – are almost as outrageous as they are anti-Torah. These techniques indicate how intent the Israeli military is on drafting increasing numbers of religious girls, and to what depths they’re willing to stoop to do so. …” 
It’s noteworthy that the only way the antireligious Israeli Establishment avoided a civil war with swaths of decency-minded Jewish residents was to allow broad (automatic) religious draft exemptions for traditional and religious women. It should also be remembered that the only thing that stopped the antireligious social engineers of the Israeli Establishment from drafting ALL girls into their notoriously promiscuous Army was the very real promise of a civil war. That prospect was a corollary of the  obligation under Torah Law for girls to avoiding enlistment in the exploitive, abusive IDF even on pain of sacrifice of one’s life (as per the directive articulated by leading Torah Sages, commonly known as “Yai’horaig Ve’al Ya’avor”). What stopped the powerful leftist government was the realization that many Jews recognized that there are certain core Torah values worth dying for, as directed by the Torah itself. A lesson that the Jewish People carry throughout history is that antireligious regimes and their despots ultimately cannot compete with properly applied self-sacrifice, “Mesiras Nefesh.” ~~~~For some historical perspective:
Drafting women into the military is a policy that’s generally been rejected on practical grounds, for thousands of years, even by governments led by very evil leaders.  Although some congressional representatives apparently have been misled, in fact they’re serving as useful idiots for those who seek to sacrifice the personal purity, modesty, safety, and wellbeing of young females, along with American military readiness, on the altar of faux Equality.~~~° Prospects for Success:
This is a war we can win, G-d willing, and one we cannot afford to lose. It’s a war for the very soul of future generations.  It’s a war that can be won with bulletins rather than bullets.~~~~Thank you! May the merit of taking a stand against the drafting of women stand in our merit. May we especially merit protection from that which the Prophets of the Bible prophesy about, regarding the great war of Gog and Magog. Many religious Jews read about this war on the upcoming Sukkos holidays, on Day One, from  Zechariah 14 [see verse 2 regarding the violation of women (cf. Radak, Metzudas Dovid regarding Gog)].  A few days later, on Shabbos, we read from Yechezkel (Ez. 38:18 and on).*  If we allow this type of depravity to be perpetrated against women now – what merit do we have to be saved then, when Divine Justice arrives in force? (See Radak on Zechariah 14:2,3.)~~~~(*The Mishneh Bererah (664:10) mentions what we know from earlier sources, in regard to the timing of reading from Yechezkel, namely, that (part of?) the war of Gog and Magog is to occur in the Hebrew month of Tishrei. This year, Tishrei ends Oct. 6. (The U.S. war against Afghanistan was launched 20 years ago in Tishrei.))

Help Rescue Our Children

Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,

Executive Director

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USA: 845-642-1679 «» 

Israeli Helpline: 03-721-3337~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~4] Supplemental Information:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A perspective from a lucid Congressman:
‘Go straight to hell’: Texas Republican blasts both parties after amendment to draft our daughters passes committee:
https://www.rt.com/usa/533799-draft-daughters-congress-ndaa~~~

Armed Services Committee:  Who voted for Selective Service, from a very well informed source on top of this issue:

Most news reports were not accurate in reporting the House Armed Services Committee vote on the NDAA (HR 4350)  for 2022, which took place on September 1. 

Markup of H.R. 4350 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 | Committee Repository | U.S. House of Representatives

As shown in this roll-call record (Log 835), the (“draft our daughters”) Houlihan amendment to HR 4350 passed 35-24.  Five (not four) Republicans unfortunately voted Yes:

1. Jack Bergman, a retired Marine Lt. General from Michigan, 

2. Mike Waltz, who has been on the wrong side of the national service issue for some time, 

3. Liz Cheney who is out of step on almost everything, 

4. Pat Fallon, who has a little AF experience and bills himself as a “conservative Republican,” and 

5. Rep. Scott Franklin of Florida.  Franklin boasted of his votes on the NDAA, but didn’t mention his vote to “Draft Our Daughters.”

Franklin Secures Key Amendments in 2021 National Defense Authorization Act | Representative Scott Franklin (house.gov)

Thankfully, one Democrat voted against the Houlihan amendment: Congressman Andy Kim of New Jersey:

About | Representative Andy Kim (house.gov)

On the Senate side, Republicans voting to Draft Our Daughters in S. 4049 included:

1. Senators Deb Fischer,

2. (self-described “combat vet”) Joni Ernst, 

3. Thom Tillis, 

4. Dan Sullivan, 

5. Kevin Cramer, 

6. Rick Scott, 

7. Tommy Tuberville, and

8. (surprisingly) Marsha Blackburn.  

These Republicans need to feel some heat, especially in their district offices while they are not in session. Information on how to contact each one is here:

Find Your Members in the U.S. Congress | Congress.gov | Library of Congress  or here: List of Representatives and Senators – GovTrack.us.

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Slogans: Here are some suggested slogans to brand this campaign, and a few talking points or slogans for banners, etc.
Defend Our Daughters from Incremental Conscription

Defend, Don’t Debase Our Daughters

Never Traffick American Women, Congress HATES Competition

Going Straight to Hell won’t be necessary – Hell will be HERE, shortly – a bipartisan effort.

Uncle Sandusky Wants YOU

The Founders went to war against the English Superpower over far less than the mass-trafficking of women into the Army.

What would George Washington & his freedom fighters do to those who voted to draft women into the co-ed Military?==========================
Sample Letter to an “Equality” Proponent: (defeating them on their own turf)
“… Please recalibrate any previous considerations, and please vote against ANY measure that would require women or girls to register for the Selective Service – regardless of any redefinition – or De-definition – of “Selective Service.”
Any such requirement on women threatens – in the long term, if not in the intermediate term – to subject women to the ultimate IN-equality: brutal abuse by enemy forces, if captured in battle.
In other words, to rob a woman of her “right to choose” to risk her own life and personal wellbeing to serve in the Armed Forces is antithetical to the very principle of “Equality” invoked by many proponents of the female military draft. That’s because, for one – as you know perhaps as much as anyone in Congress – women captured by enemy forces are disproportionately likely to be subjected to sexual assault, far more so than male servicemen. 
Moreover, forcible enlistment of females in any way that would ultimately lead to military combat conscription unequally subjects them to the intolerable risk of that terrible aforementioned indignity. That’s the worst form of Inequality — one masquerading as Equality.
It’s quite simple: America cannot guarantee “equality” of treatment when it’s enemy armies calling the shots on how American POWs are treated, or, in this case, abused.
[Furthermore, in light of the tragic sacrifice made by 23-year-old Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee – captured in a photo cooing over a rescued Afghan infant last week – and subsequently slaughtered in Thursday’s terror attack in Kabul, one need ask: are these the types of dangers which all draft-age women should ever in the future be FORCED to face?]
Now, one may argue that these combat-specific concerns aren’t relevant if the Selective Service is redefined to – temporarily – exclude combat positions. However, that’s not true.
Redefinition of Selective Service in effect helps circumvent public outrage over putting women into dangerous combat situations. Thus, it is incrementalism at its worst.  As one leader put it, “incrementalism plus consistency equals radical change.”
Redefinition of S.S. would invariably be temporary, enabling the forces pushing for radical change to advance their full agenda on their terms (NOT ours) – whenever the dumbed-down or distracted public will more open to forcing women into combat.
Let’s be honest and put it on the table. Radical elements want to force women into combat – when they can get away with it. We cannot allow them to play us, and trap us into enabling their long- term goals – by concealing those aims behind redefinition of terms.
There are multiple and formidable additional objections to redefining S.S. – above and beyond the specter of eventually drafting women into combat roles. However, this one objection should more than suffice to actively oppose it with all of one’s might.”==========================5] A Helpful Alert from Mrs. Randy Engel:==========================Date:09/09/2021 

From: Randy Engel, A U.S. Coalition for Life – National Alert

To: American Pro-Family Advocates

Re: Stop Congress from Requiring Young Women to Register for the Draft

Dear Friends,

The enemies of God, family and country never sleep.

While Americans are preoccupied and distracted by the Covid-19 Plandemic, Congressional bills  HR 4350 and S. 4049  (the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), are heading for a full vote in the House and Senate.  

Both the House and Senate bills carry a dangerous amendment to the Military Selective Service Act to require young women to register for the Selective Service System (SSS) Draft. Incredibly, this measure has attracted much bipartisan support. 

Like the proverbial camel’s nose under the tent, if this measure is allowed to pass, the way is open for drafting women into combat roles.

Proponents of the NDAA/Defense Budget bill argue that the current Selective Service ruling that legally requires only men (males) ages 18 to 25, to registered for the draft is “discriminatory,” and “unconstitutional.”  All references to men or males have been stricken in the amended version of the House and Senate bills and replaced with androgenous terms, aka, “persons,” “citizens,” “enlisted members, etc.

Republican Chip Roy of Texas, a member of the House Armed Services Committee who has a little girl, blasted his colleagues after they passed a mandate to require women to register for the draft. “All of D.C. – all of it- can go straight to hell!”  

The DOD ordered the Armed Services to lift the ban on women serving in combat roles in January 2013. In December 2015 the DOD announced that the  military would be opening all “remaining occupations and positions to women,” with “no exceptions,” effective January 2016. Joe Biden supports the draft mandate for women. If Congress now approves the draft for women, that will be the last nail in the American coffin.

PLEASE Act NOW. Contact your Congressman and Senators at their district/state offices or their Washington. D.C. office to express your opposition to any bill/amendment, including H.R. 4350 and S. 4049, that requires women to register for Selective Service. Be exact – NO DRAFT for WOMEN – INTO ANYTHING {-NSL} – NOT NOW – NOT TOMORROW – NEVER!

Please note that both the U.S. House and Senate are not currently in session. House members will be in session on September  20-24; 27-30. Senate members will be in session September 13-15; 20-24, 27-30.

This means that you can contact your Congressman and Senators at their district or state-wide offices now! Or you can leave a phone message or send an email to them at their Washington D.C. office where their staff will likely pick up the phone or see that your email reaches your Congressman or Senators.  

If you don’t know how to contact your Congressman or Senator in D.C. or at his district or home office, go to List of Representatives and Senators – GovTrack.us. When you fill in the state slot on the left side of the page  the list of  your state’s Congressmen and Senators will come up alphabetically. Click the name and it will bring you to your representative’s official website and give you all the information you need on his or her home offices, email address, etc.

Whichever method of contact you choose, please act now or as soon as possible as the NDAA will be coming to the House and Senate floor for a vote anytime after the House and Senate members return to Washington.

Please also send this mailing to all your email contacts, especially those who have young daughters. A letter or email from a young girl or young woman to their Congressman and Senators opposing the draft for women will probably be the most effective weapon we have in our profamily and prolife arsenal opposing the registration of women to the military draft.

Thank you for your help and cooperation.

Randy Engel, U.S. Coalition for Life  www.uscl.info 

 REFERENCES:

The text of the House version of the NDAA  is available at Text – H.R.4350 – 117th Congress (2021-2022): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

Please send any feedback you receive from your Congressman and Senators to Randy Engel, the U.S. Coalition for Life at rvte61@comcast.net

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I PRAY FOR THE CANNONIZATION OF FATHER POPIELUSZKO!!!!!!

I believe the only way to push back against the Communists that are running our country is for some Courageous Priest to do what Fr. Popieluszko did in Poland.  If by chance you haven’t seen this movie, I found it extremely inspiring (Link below).  Pope JP II told the Polish people that he couldn’t free Poland for them, but that (as you know better than I), it would require a nationwide movement. Fr. Popieluszko became the leader of the movement along with Lech Walesa.  
I post this link on my blog, to this movie, because it will catch the attention of the viewer to a young courageous Priest willing to die for the Faith and our country; someone they can’t silence. 


https://youtu.be/0VrMDIHvi5

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MAIL OR RETURN YOUR RECALL BALLOT TOMORROW, SEPTEMBER 14 !!!

Mail or return your Recall ballot by TOMORROW, September 14th! Vote YES to replace extremely Pro-Abortion Governor Newsom!

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Newsletter Monday, September 13th, 2021
VOTE YES to Recall Governor Newsom!Tuesday is election day!

Forward this email or send this link:https://conta.cc/3nsRYlNto friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and church members!TUESDAY IS ELECTION DAY! Every vote is critically important! Vote YES to Recall pro-abortion Governor Newsom!
Here are three ways to return your ballot:
1. Find your nearest Polling Place and vote in person. If you haven’t registered, they will help you with same-day-registration. Polls are open now and close at 8pm tomorrow, Tuesday. 
2. Or, find your nearest Drop Box and drop off your completed ballot in the box by tomorrow. 
3. Or, mail in your ballot using the postage-free envelope, which must be postmarked by tomorrow, Tuesday!
Make sure everyone you know returns their Recall ballot! 
Please forward this email on to everyone you know, encouraging them to VOTE YES to recall extremely Pro-Abortion Governor Newsom and replace him with a Pro-Life Governor! 
Share this Californians for Life Pro-Life Voter link with everyone you know. Voter InformationEverything you need to know about the Recall Election voting process can be found at the California Secretary of State Voter Information website, including: How to Register to vote at a Polling PlaceHow to replace a lost or damaged ballotWhere to find your nearest polling place or Ballot Drop Off location.How to trace the status of your ballot to make sure it is counted!Tomorrow, Tuesday, is the last day to vote YES on the Recall Election! Make sure everyone returns their ballot!Here are step-by-step things you can do to help remove extremely Pro-Abortion Governor Newsom andreplace him with a Pro-Life Governor:

Make sure you and everyone you know are registered to vote. You can check on your voter registration status and details at the Secretary of State website. Make sure you, your family, your friends, and everyone you know VOTES YES on Question 1 on their ballot to recall Governor Newsom. Voting YES means that you support the recall which will remove Pro-Abortion Governor Newsom from office. Question 2 on the ballot is your opportunity to select a Pro-Life candidate to replace Pro-Abortion Governor Newsom. Vote for ONE of the Pro-Life candidates who are listed belowPLEASE FORWARD this email to everyone you know, family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and church members, so that they all know how important this election is for LIFE! 
NOTE: If Governor Newsom is recalled, then whoever gets the largest number of votes on Question 2 will become our next Governor! The new Pro-Life Governor will take office as soon as the election is certified in October! There is no run-off. See details at the Secretary of State website. Watch Larry Elder being interviewed by the LA Times in the video above and by the Sacramento Bee in the video to the right to hear his position on a variety of issues. Larry Elder is the leading Pro-Life candidate for Governor. Victory is within reach if we all do everything we can to elect a Pro-Life Governor! 
The most important thing for everyone to do is to VOTE YES on Question 1 to recall extremely Pro-Abortion Governor Newsom. 
You can watch Larry Elder’s interview with the Sacramento Bee and with the Los Angeles Times.
Larry Elder is a nationally syndicated radio host, a bestselling author, award-winning documentary filmmaker, and one of the best-known media figures in America today. 
His daily radio program, “The Larry Elder Show,” is heard in all 50 states where he promotes the timeless American principles of personal responsibility and accountability.
Larry Elder was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles and his family’s story represents every bit of the American Dream. Elder has a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan School of LawAdditional Pro-Life Candidates for Governer:John Cox is strongly Pro-Life, including his own personal story. He might have been aborted, if abortion had been legal. 
John Cox is a successful business man who worked his way through college, earning a law degree and CPA license.
John and his wife have four daughters and are active members of Nativity Catholic Church. Kevin Kiley currently serves in the California State Assembly, with a 100% Pro-Life voting record. Kevin graduated from Harvard, earned a law degree from Yale, and a master’s in secondary education from Loyola Marymount. He has served as an adjunct professor at McGeorge School of Law. 
Kevin Kiley began his career as a high school teacher in inner-city Los Angeles, where he chaired the English Department and led his students to significant academic gains.
Kevin defended the U.S. Constitution in California courts, then became a prosecutor and Deputy Attorney General, representing the People of California in cases against violent felons.
In 2020, Kevin won a legal case against Governor Newsom because Governor Newsom violated the separation of powers. Kevin continues to challenge Governor Newsom at every opportunity. DO NOT VOTE FOR FAULCONER: He is PRO-ABORTION!
There are several additional Pro-Life candidates for Governor. We thank these candidates for their Pro-Life commitment and urge their supporters to VOTE YES on the Recall of Governor Newsom! 
More Pro-Life Candidates running for Governor include:
Doug Ose from Sacramento has withdrawn from the race, is no longer a candidate for Governor due to recent health concerns, and has ENDORSED KEVIN KILEY!Ted Gaines from El Dorado CountyJenny Rae Le Roux businesswoman from ReddingSam Gallucci from OxnardAnthony Trimino Entrepreneur, CEO, freedom advocateDr. James Hanink Retired Professor from the American Solidarity PartyCalifornians for Life is your one-stop information center for our state, united together to end abortion! Quick Links
40 Days for Life starts September 22nd in 56 cities in California. Abortion Changes You.com and Support After Abortion for healing from the pain of abortion
AbortionProcedures.com shows how abortions are done
AbortionWorker.com helps abortion workers leave the industry
Embrace Grace equips the Church to help women and save babies, through love
Heritage House for pro-life supplies
OptionLine helps women find their nearest Pregnancy Clinic
Rachel’s Vineyard post- abortion healing ministry
Silent No More post-abortion voice
Students for Life of America equips high school and college students and young adults to be effective voices for life!The Californians for Life websiteincludes:What can you do to help women, save lives, change minds, and end abortion?
Is “it” human? and Facts on fetal development 
Pro-Life Curriculum for kindergarten through college students and all ages 
Spanish Pro-Life Material  a very comprehensive site for Spanish pro-life resources
Life-Affirming Resources for Women who are considering abortion
Information about Adoption filled with amazing lovePost-Abortion Healing opportunities throughout our stateCalifornians for Life have eight Statewide Workgroups, including:Cultural Outreach Schools/Youth/Campus OutreachClosing Abortion Businesses   Pregnancy Clinics and CentersChurches   Pro-Life Medical WorkgroupVoter Education/Political Advocacy/Public Policy Messaging/Media/Marketing 
Californians for Life | PO Box 642, Pleasant Grove, CA 95668
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WANT TO BET THAT GOVERNOR NEWSOM WILL NOT PANDER TO THE LEFT BY SIGNING THE BILL SLANDERING SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA


Gov. Newsom Must Veto Bill Slandering St. Serra

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Gov. Newsom Must Veto Bill Slandering St. Serra
September 13, 2021
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a bill before California Gov. Gavin Newsom:
The California legislature has sent a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom that he should forthrightly veto. The bill is based on a vicious lie: it contends that St. Junípero Serra was responsible for the mass murder of Indians in the 18th century. The purpose of the bill is to replace a statue of Serra at the Capitol in Sacramento with a new monument that celebrates the indigenous population.
The bill is not only based on bad history, it is a slanderous attack on the one man who actually did stand up for the rights of Indians at the time.
Here is what it says: “Enslavement of both adults and children, mutilation, genocide, and assault on women were all part of the mission period initiated and overseen by Father Serra.”
In 2014, a year before Pope Francis canonized Serra, I read many books on the priest. I did so knowing that some of the Church’s detractors would exploit the occasion in 2015, seeking to blame Serra for the offenses committed by the Spaniards. The result was the publication of a monograph, “The Noble Legacy of Father Serra.” (It can be found on the Catholic League’s website; a shorter version is also available.)
Known as the greatest missionary in U.S. history, Serra traveled 24,000 miles, baptizing and confirming thousands of persons, mostly Indians (in 1777 the Vatican authorized the Franciscan priest to administer the sacrament of confirmation, usually the reserve of the bishop). He had one goal—to facilitate eternal salvation for the Indians of North America.
Not only did Serra not initiate or approve the inhumane treatment of the Indians, he led the protests against it. Importantly, the Spanish Crown ultimately agreed with his position.
Some of the Spanish colonizers did mistreat the Indian women. But Serra not only objected, he took specific measures to stem the tide of abuse.
Charging Serra with genocide is obscene. Genocide is what Hitler did to the Jews. Serra never killed anyone. Those making this mind-boggling accusation are literally creating a narrative that has no basis in fact. Hitler put Jews in ovens; the missionaries put the Indians to work, paying them for their labor.
Serra employed Indians as teachers, and the missionaries taught them how to be masons, carpenters, blacksmiths, and painters. They were also taught how to sell and buy animals, and were allowed to keep their bounty. Women were taught spinning, knitting, and sewing.
Does this sound like the Nazis?
Professor Gregory Orfalea, author of Journey to the Sun: Junípero Serra’s Dream and the Founding of California, published by Scribner in 2014, writes that “To the Indian, he [Serra] was loving, enthusiastic, and spiritually and physically devoted.” 
Salvatore J. Cordileone and Jose H. Gomez, the archbishops of San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively, have a timely piece on St. Serra in today’s Wall Street Journal. They recommend that the statue of Serra, which was torn down last year during the riots and is now in storage, be returned to the state’s Capitol, along with a new monument honoring the indigenous Californians.
The bill before Gov. Newsom is the product of disinformation promoted by Black Lives Matter and other left-wing activists. It is propaganda, not scholarship.
We are urging everyone to let Gov. Newsom know that to sign this bill is to smear St. Serra and insult millions of Catholics, not only in California but all over the world.
Contact Jim DeBoo, executive secretary to Gov. Newsom: Jim.Deboo@gov.ca.gov


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IS THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH INVOLVED IN HARVESTING HUMAN ORGANS FROM BABIES WHILE THE BABY’S HEART IS STILL BEATING?????


Probe Of Fetal Research At Pitt Launched
September 13, 2021
The University of Pittsburgh has agreed to have its fetal tissue research practices independently reviewed by the Washington, D.C. law firm of Hyman, Phelps & McNamara. Last month, the Catholic League called upon the Pennsylvania Auditor General to launch such an investigation.
We are delighted that Pitt got the message.
Over the summer, we learned that Judicial Watch was representing the Center for Medical Progress in a quest to obtain documentation of alleged human organ harvesting at Pitt. According to their probe, organs have been harvested while the baby’s heart is still beating. The University has steadfastly denied wrongdoing.
On August 17, Bill Donohue wrote to Pennsylvania Auditor General, Timothy L. DeFoor, asking him to determine whether state and federal funds are being used by Pitt for arguably criminal activity. He sent a copy of the letter to Pitt’s chancellor, the dean of the medical school and a press official at the University.
As important as anything, in our news release that same day, we printed the email address of the Auditor General, asking our subscribers to contact him. Thousands did, and their effort paid dividends.
Is Pitt involved in a fetal organ “chop shop”? We do not know. But we need to find out without delay.
“If it is true,” Donohue said in his letter to the Auditor General, “as some doctors have said, that in order to perform some of these procedures, ‘The baby’s going to have to be either born alive or be killed immediately prior to delivery,’ then justice demands that a thorough investigation take place. I urge you to do so.”
In February, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities issued an excellent statement on the propriety of human fetal tissue research. It implored the government, which allows abortion, not to “add injury to insult by treating the innocent abortion victim as a convenient laboratory animal for research protocols deemed unethical when applied to other members of the human family.”
If Pitt has nothing to hide, then so be it. But if some of the horrible accusations are true, then it must cease and desist and be held accountable.
We are pleased to have played an important role in getting to the bottom of this issue. Many thanks to those who let their voice be heard.

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1500 Jewish Rabbis support the Texas Law restricting abortions

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Print allIn new window1,500+ Rabbis Back Texas Abortion RestrictionsInboxN L <nathanadvisors@gmail.com>12:38 PM (5 hours ago)to Rabbi, Engel, Brian, Peterson, Ed, RTL, Rabbi, Yonoson, Mrs, Bolotbek, NYCF:, TorahJewsForDecencyBS”D
6 Tishrei, 5782 / Sept. 12, ’21
Rabbi Gordimer,
Your statement below against abortion was excellent, par for the course.
Thank you, again, for taking a stand for authentic Jewish Values – again.
A G’mar Chasima Tova for your entire family,
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1,500+ Rabbis Back Texas Abortion RestrictionsTexas statute better aligns with Jewish values cherishing every human life

Washington, DC, Sept. 12, 2021 — Weighing in on the Texas law prohibiting abortions after six weeks’ gestation except in cases of medical necessity, Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 1500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in matters of public policy, called the law a step in the right direction, better aligned with mainstream Jewish values, Rabbinic texts, and legal codes. In so doing, it condemned the left-wing National Council of Jewish Women and its “Rabbis for Repro” for distorting Jewish teachings, devaluing the sanctity of life, and causing a desecration of G-d’s Name.“The Texas statute demands that human life be cherished, while recognizing that the mother’s well-being takes precedence in a medical emergency,” said CJV Southern Regional Vice President Rabbi Moshe Parnes. “Rabbinic literature is abundantly clear that fetuses with beating hearts are alive, just as the new Texas law mandates. This has been the accepted ruling for millennia and doesn’t change at the whim of the modern pseudo-scholars of ‘Rabbis for Repro’ who try to force their ‘woke’ personal values into timeless Jewish teachings. They make Judaism look repugnant in the eyes of anyone who recognizes that an unborn child is a human being worthy of protection, which is the very definition of desecration of G-d’s name.”As outlined in CJV’s statement on abortion, the Bible identifies human life as a soul placed (breathed) within a body by G-d himself, with inestimable sanctity and value. Jewish legal codes likewise value a fetus as a clear and identifiable human life. The Talmud and Code of Jewish Law require violation of the Sabbath, which is permitted only to save a life, to open the womb of a deceased woman whose fetus may have survived. Abortion is permitted only in order to save the life of the mother, “because her life precedes his.”“The simple truth is that Jewish Law prohibits abortion,” said CJV Rabbinic Circle Chairman Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer. “This prohibition may be overridden to save the mother’s life, which is also recognized in the Texas Heartbeat Law. An on-demand approach to abortion, no matter what Jewish advocates may say, violates Judaism’s clear and emphatic declaration of the sanctity of life.”Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) is a 501(c)3 non-profit that advocates for classical Jewish ideas and standards in matters of American public policy. It is the largest rabbinic public-policy organization in the country, representing over 1,500 traditional Jewish leaders.

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BIDEN IS ACTING AS THOUGH HE IS DRUNK WITH THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENCY; IT IS UP TO THE U.S. Supreme Court TO REIGN HIM IN NOW AND FOR THE VOTERS TO END HIS REIGN OF TERROR

  Sunday, September 12, 2021 

Biden mandates vaccination of 100 million American workersby Michael Cook | 11 Sep 2021 |      
US President Joe Biden is mandating the vaccination of 100 American million workers. In a forceful speech on Thursday, he said that all companies with more than 100 workers need to have vaccination or weekly testing. He has mandated vaccination for health care workers, federal contractors and the vast majority of federal workers, who could face disciplinary measures if they refuse.He said that he was deeply upset by the reluctance of millions of people to get vaccinated. About 80 million people are eligible but still have not received a jab.Mr. Biden also moved to mandate shots for health care workers, federal contractors and the vast majority of federal workers, who could face disciplinary measures if they refuse.“We’ve been patient,” Mr. Biden said in a cranky message to those who refuse to be vaccinated. “But our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us.”“In a country as large as ours, that’s 25 percent minority. That 25 percent can cause a lot of damage, and they are. The unvaccinated overcrowd our hospitals or overrun the emergency rooms and intensive care units, leaving no room for someone with a heart attack or pancreatitis or cancer.”A number of people have excused themselves by saying that they were waiting until a vaccine was fully approved by the FDA. But late in August the FDA gave full approved to the Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for people 16 and older. “So, the time for waiting is over,” the President said sternly.“If you break the rules, be prepared to pay — and by the way, show some respect,” Mr. Biden said, referring to airline passengers who refuse to mask up. “The anger you see on television toward flight attendants and others doing their jobs is wrong. It’s ugly.”Biden’s mandate is being introduced in an extremely polarised environment. Several Republican governors have blocked attempts to mandate masks, close schools, or require vaccines. The President is setting the stage for a tough political fight. “If they will not help,” he said, “if those governors won’t help us beat the pandemic, I’ll use my power as president to get them out of the way.”Michael Cook is editor of BioEdge 
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AT LAST, SOME REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS BESIDES TEXAS’ GOVERNOR Greg Abbott FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE DICTATORSHIP OF JOSEPH BIDEN

Republican Governors Hit Back At Biden’s Federal Mandate 

 Republican Governors Hit Back At Biden’s Federal Mandate

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Republican governors, and those looking to become governors, have come out strong against the new vaccine proposals from Joe Biden.

On Thursday, Biden announced, as part of his strategy to combat coronavirus, calls for businesses with more than 100 employees to mandate that their employees be vaccinated or face weekly testing, The New York Times reported.

He also mandated that the businesses give their employees paid time off to get the vaccine.

“Some of the biggest companies are already requiring this — United Airlines, Disney, Tyson Foods, and even Fox News,” he said in his speech.

“To those of you running large entertainment venues — from sports arenas to concert venues, to movie theaters — please require folks to get vaccinated or show a negative test as a condition of entry,” Biden said.

The move, though, is sure to face political pushback and litigation. And it faces considerable challenges, like establishing a way to gather and store the vaccination information, as well as a process for exemptions. The president did not specify penalties for flouting the requirements.

Lawyers said Thursday that it was not immediately clear whether the rule would apply to all employees or only those who work in company offices or facilities.

The Biden administration also intends to require vaccination for federal workers and contractors, as well as for 17 million health care workers in hospitals and other institutions that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.

“Let me be blunt,” he said in his speech. “My plan also takes on elected officials in states that are undermining you in these life-saving actions. Right now local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor picks a fight with them and even threatens their salaries or their jobs. Talk about bullying the schools.”

“If they’ll not help, if these governors won’t help us beat the pandemic, I will use my power as president to get them out of the way,” he said. “The Department of Education has already begun to take legal action against states undermining protection that local school officials have ordered.”

This has Republicans, particularly governors, furious.

“Biden’s vaccine mandate is an assault on private businesses. I issued an Executive Order protecting Texans’ right to choose whether they get the COVID vaccine & added it to the special session agenda. Texas is already working to halt this power grab,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on Twitter.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436104824660049921&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

“How could we get to the point in this country where you would not let them earn a living because of their choice on the vaccine?” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said. “I just think that’s fundamentally wrong. I do not believe that people should lose their jobs over this issue, and we will fight that.”https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436076322548224005&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

“I will pursue every legal option available to the state of Georgia to stop this blatantly unlawful overreach by the Biden administration,” Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said.https://lockerdome.com/lad/14227381762077798?pubid=ld-1562-9626&pubo=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com&rid=&width=730https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-2&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436078242574868486&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

“South Dakota will stand up to defend freedom,” South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem said. “Joe Biden see you in court.”https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-3&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436060414970892288&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

“Once again, @POTUS has missed the mark. His outrageous, overreaching mandates will no doubt be challenged in the courts. Read my full statement below,” Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-4&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436091604704665607&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

“The Biden Administration’s announcement to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations or weekly testing for private businesses is an egregious example of big government overreach, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon said on Facebook.

“Our Constitution was written and fought for to protect our liberties as American citizens. This administration’s latest pronouncement demonstrates its complete disregard for the rule of law and the freedoms individuals and private companies enjoy under our Constitution. In Wyoming, we believe that government must be held in check.

“I have asked the Attorney General to stand prepared to take all actions to oppose this administration’s unconstitutional overreach of executive power. It has no place in America. Not now, and not ever,” he said.

“Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt says as long as I am governor, there will be no government vaccine mandates in state,” Josh Kaplan of Breitbart News, said on Twitter.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-5&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436108200902893569&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

“President Biden is taking dangerous and unprecedented steps to insert the federal government even further into our lives while dismissing the ability of Iowans and Americans to make healthcare decisions for themselves,” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said.

“Biden’s plan will only worsen our workforce shortage and further limit our economic recovery.

“As I’ve said all along, I believe and trust in Iowans to make the best health decisions for themselves and their families. It’s time for President Biden to do the same. Enough is enough,” she said.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-6&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436076754209316865&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

“Americans, not the federal government, are responsible for taking charge of their personal health,” Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said. “It is not the role of the federal government to mandate their choices. Nebraska will stand up…working with the Attorney General to explore all our options.”https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-7&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436087523198083072&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

“For a fight that requires working together, a lot of cynical and divisive edicts came out of the White House today pitting the vaccinated against the unvaccinated, businesses against employees, and the federal government against states,” Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said.

“The Constitution won’t allow this power grab, and in the meantime, I will stand up for all Tennesseans.

“To be clear: the vaccine is the best tool we have to combat the pandemic but heavy-handed mandates are the wrong approach,” he said.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-8&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436110062364332038&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

“Today’s actions from President Biden amount to government overreach. Government should stay out of decisions involving employers and their employees as much as possible. I’ve advocated for and championed fewer government regulations and mandates on business,” Idaho Gov. Brad Little said in a tweet.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-9&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436087336417193994&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

“The Biden Administration’s recent announcement seeking to dictate personal freedom and private business decisions is an insult to our American principles of individual liberty and free enterprise,” Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said.

“This heavy-handed action by the federal government is unwelcome in our state and has potentially dangerous consequences for working families.

“Vaccination protects us from serious illness, but the decision to get vaccinated is a private health care decision that should remain as such. My administration will always fight back against federal power grabs and government overreach that threatens to limit our freedoms,” he said.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-10&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436091504615845914&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

“The Biden-Harris administration plans on fining businesses $14,000 for every employee not tested or vaccinated — but somehow they’ve exempted one of their largest federal agencies from the mandate?” Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said in a tweet.

“Maybe it’s because they realize this is pure government overreach. Maybe it’s because they realize this will only make workforce shortages worse. Or maybe it’s simply a case of “rules for thee, not for me.” It’s hypocrisy and Arizona will not stand for it,” he said.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-11&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436099312337907722&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

The best quote came from South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster.

“The American Dream has turned into a nightmare under President Biden and the radical Democrats. They have declared war against capitalism, thumbed their noses at the Constitution, and empowered our enemies abroad,” he said.

“Rest assured, we will fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every South Carolinian,” he said.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-12&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436074995374039045&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

There was even a statement from California legislator Kevin Kiley, who is campaigning to be the next governor of California, who vowed to add his state to the fight if he is elected.

“As a Legislator I sued the Governor and as Governor I wouldn’t hesitate to sue the President if necessary to protect the rights of Californians,” he said on Twitter.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-13&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1436138189337477136&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com%2Frepublican-governors-hit-back-at-bidens-federal-mandate%2F&sessionId=4035cce12c4650a7db80dc0f9271002312e73c76&theme=light&widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&width=550px

“With Election Day approaching next Tuesday, today’s Executive Order raises the stakes in the Newsom Recall. The Recall is a movement to return power to the people of California,” he said in a statement.

“As Governor, I would do that by ending our State of Emergency, reversing Newsom’s draconian mandates, and unwinding his one-man rule.

“But we can’t allow executive overreach at one level of government to be replaced by executive overreach at another. As Governor, I would use all tools at my disposal, including lawsuits, to protect Californians from attacks on liberty that come from the federal government or any quarter,” he said.

Author: Carmine Sabia

Source: Conservative Brief: Republican Governors Hit Back At Biden’s Federal Mandate, Vow To Sue

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The West after Kabul

 Roberto de MatteiSeptember 7, 2021

  • ONE PETER FIVE

In an article in the Corriere della Sera of August 28 2021, Ernesto Galli della Loggia poses the following question:

Are our societies still capable of waging war? Of bearing psychologically the terrible impact of a, so to speak, voluntary dimension of death? Are we still capable of accepting the possibility of knowingly giving or receiving death, as it has always meant to ‘wage war’?

The Italian political scientist responded to this crucial question by examining the military significance that the so-called contractors have taken in the operations against the Taliban. Used by the United States in all theaters of operation (from the Balkans to Iraq), these civilian combatants are hired by private companies that have entered into special contracts with the Pentagon. They are the expression of an underlying historical fact: the end of the national army in the West, replaced with a real and proper outsourcing of the war entrusted to an army of specialists who in Afghanistan have lost their lives in greater numbers than soldiers of the US Army. But, as Galli della Loggia observes, “with an army of specialists and mercenaries one can at most carry out police operations; and even these inevitably end up as the most ruinous defeats if one insists on passing them off as something else.”https://155d001a8b91424b718d14cd4e0e8b43.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

A people fight if they are willing to sacrifice their lives for the ideals they believe in. Today, however, the common good seems to coincide with that of maximum “security.” The West claims to be fighting a zero-death war, and if that does not happen the reaction is not controlled, but anxious and emotional.

As Alessandro Sallusti observes in the newspaper Libero on August 28, the image of the president of the United States crying on live TV is not an encouraging sign for the Western world. The commander-in-chief of the first world power cannot get caught up in emotion like any elderly retiree, but must be able to mask his frailty. The psychological datum of this scene, Renato Farina observes in the same newspaper, “not only corresponds in full to the harshness of the catastrophe we are experiencing, but is also a prophecy for the future.” A future of tears precisely for the West.

When Winston Churchill said he had nothing to offer but “Blood, toil, tears and sweat,” he added: “You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us.”

Who is able to face enemies with such determination today? The West has not yet understood what is the external enemy it is facing. As Maurizio Molinari observes in La Repubblica of August 29, the jihadist feud for control of Kabul between the Taliban of Abdul Ghani Baradar and the ISIS of Khorasan contrasts two rival models for Afghanistan: “The Taliban with the reissue of the their Islamic Emirate aim to become the most rigid example of a fundamentalist state.” The ISIS of Khorasan “is instead pursuing the creation of a ‘Caliphate’ in the territories of Afghanistan and large neighboring regions in Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, up to the borders of Xi Jinping’s China.” Both projects

arise from the jihadist thinking of Abdullah Azzam, the Palestinian fundamentalist assassinated in Peshawar in 1989 and considered the mentor of Osama Bin Laden, according to whom the ‘war against the infidels’ in Afghanistan marked ‘the beginning of the global Jihad’ leading to the submission of the whole world to Islam. But they aim to achieve it in the opposite manner: by building a national Emirate or by creating a regional Central Asian Caliphate.

Collaborating with the Taliban “moderates” in order to isolate ISIS would mean failing to understand those with whom one is dealing. Contemporary Islam, as all its scholars observe, has its core in the doctrine of jihad. This is expressed in the new war of world religion that, under the guise of the Taliban or of ISIS, has its combative party in radical Islam.

In the face of this ideological enemy war is inevitable, but it must be fought without tears, with dry lashes, with the determination to win. But what are the ideals and values ​​to which the Western ruling class refers? Is it capable of discerning a “just war,” and of conducting it with credibility to the end? Wars can be occasions of great rebirths or great catastrophes, depending on the men and the historical contingencies. What trust should be given to those who cannot even call wartime events by their name?

As the Second World War drew to a close, Pius XII indicated the main lines of reconstruction in the return of societies and nations to the order established by God, that is, “to a true Christianity in the State and among the States” (Address to the Consistory, December 24 1945). And in the aftermath of the conflict, the pope identified the root causes of the war in the abandonment of and contempt for the law of God, which constitutes the only foundation of peace within states and of international peace (Radio message to the world, December 24 1941). Today not only does no politician speak this language, but the very leaders of the Church have abandoned it and are calling for a false peace that leads to defeat.

What prevails in war is not military but moral strength. If the attack of September 11, 2001 was a declaration of war by Islam on our Western civilization, the shameful flight from Kabul proclaims, after twenty years, the military and above all moral defeat of the West. Only extraordinary divine help can reverse the fate of a planetary conflict whose outcome is otherwise sealed. This is why it is time for struggle and immense trust.

Photo credit: Kabul, Afghanistan by M. Rahmani on Unsplash.

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Roberto de Mattei

Roberto de Mattei is an Italian Catholic historian and the President of the Lepanto Foundation, an international organization based in Rome that aims to defend the principles and institutions of Christian Civilization. He directs the magazine “Radici Cristiane” and the “Corrispondenza Romana” News Agency, and was Director of the “Nova Historica” international journal from 2002 until 2013. He is the author of many books, including “The Second Vatican Council – An Unwritten Story.” His books have been translated into several languages, and have earned him an international reputation.

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