COMING TOGETHER  

AMERICA'S WORDS OF INSPIRATION

1. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. Preamble to the Declaration of Independence.

2. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore""Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.

3. “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”. Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America.

4. “O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave”? The last sentence of our National Anthem, the first verse.

    5. Possibility

Who does not become emotional when we hear the words of our National Anthem. At our ball games, School events, even the Rose Parade when the B2 roars overhead, we swell with pride and tears flow. 

Our Country tis of Thee...

Tis of thee" means "it is of you" - it's an old-fashioned way of saying "belongs to you" and is most commonly used in the patriotic song "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," where it signifies that the song is about one's own country, expressing a sense of national pride and belonging.

Our Country is Us. We have to start working together and NOT hold to the argument that one party is wrong and the other is right. There has to be a way to consider the good and the workable from both sides to form a new productive conversation for our way out of the destructive path we are currently having to live with...

 

Founding Fathers and the Signing of the Constitution of the United States

We the People were given a Republic, will We Keep It ?

For almost 250 years we have the greatest good fortune to live in America  governed by ourUnited States Constitution. For most of this time it has served us well. There have been threats and wars, abroad and here and at home. Never the less, we stand, as a Nation of United States.

Now, our Constitution is under a new threat. The Supreme Court has endowed the Presidency with new and far reaching powers which are contrary to established law. This President is in the process of taking away the 14^th Amendment, section 1 which gives American Citizenship to all born in America regardless if the parents are citizens. It is not within the power of the President to do this. Congress has to vote for a Conditional Amendment both the house and Senate to be repealed. However, the words of the President have impact and a troubling influence for our American people. Words if repeated enough become implanted in the narrative of the cable news, the social media as real, and the words seem to be true. 

At this time, a federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order to end automatic citizenship for babies born on American soil, dealing the president his first setback as he attempts to upend the nation’s immigration laws and reverse decades of precedent. Will the President take his efforts all the way to the Supreme Court ? The Court did not serve us well when they nullified the 14^th Amendment Sec. 3.  

                                                   The Salute

When I was 7 years old we changed our morning American Flag pledge of allegiance from giving a salute with our right hand out stretched towards the flag to placing our hand over our hearts. Of course being so young, we had no clue why this was done, but our parents and adults with a thinking mind knew what had become an overt and widely known at that time, that the Nazi's were using this salute, to give allegiance to Hitler. There were many of my family who fought in W W II and by the time it was over, all of the children knew what this salute represented.

This salute is banned in Germany, and many other nations. Since the end of World War II, displaying the Nazi variant of the salute has been a criminal offense in Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, and Poland. Legal restrictions on its use in Italy are more nuanced and use there has generated controversy. ...it is recognized in America for what is was and still today the emblem of allegiance to Hitler.

Two nights ago, Elon Musk gave an enraptured Nazi salute to the crowds in the Capital One Arena to those celebrating the election of our President a convicted criminal. The news media has white washed this salute as an excited gesture and not to be concerned. Our former news outlets have bowed down to this foolish way of reporting, and so, we are not supposed to see what we see.

The Bellamy salute was replaced by the hand-over-heart salute in1942. This change was made in response to concerns that the Bellamy salute resembled the Nazi salute. The Bellamy salute was the original way Americans saluted the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. It involved extending the arm out from the body with the palm facing outward from the chest.

• In the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists and Nazi Germans adopted a similar salute.

• Americans became concerned that the Bellamy salute could be mistaken for a sign of support for the fascist regimes.

• On December 22, 1942, Congress passed legislation that changed the Flag Code to instruct Americans to place their right hand over their heart while reciting the Pledge.

As we can see with our own eyes, in this case Mr, Musk's actions speak more loudly than words of our media...