CONSTITUTIONAL WARRIOR/ DAN CLEMENTS

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

by Dan Clements Host of Back II Basic November 26, 2015

I just want to say thanks for all the support my listeners and friends have given me this year in the relaunching of Back II Basic, a Christian/political talk show. I wan to thank God for the talent he has blessed me with, and to also keeping me humble. I never want to thinks I did this all by myself. Let's face it, without God's blessings on me, your prayers and support, I would not be able to do the show. On Thanksgiving day I like to share a story about how we established this holiday. The history books don't do it justice. Our founders always gave God thanks for all that he did for them. And I would like to close out this blog post with George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation October 3, 1789. I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Thanksgiving Proclamation

Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and—Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favor, able interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other trangressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

Go. Washington

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Obama; Bashar al-Assad is to blame for ISIS, huh?

By Dan Clements 11/24/15

President Obama must be the world's best fisherman, because he just told a whopper!! I was finishing post show production for “Back II Basic” my internet radio show, and I was watching One American News Network coverage of president Obama and French president François Hollande joint press conference. While I was listening to president Obama speak, he said “ Bashar al-Assad was responsible for ISIS, my reaction was huh? It is my understanding that ISIS was filling a power vacuum created by our withdrawal from Iraq and the installation of a weak government in Iraq.

President Obama further went on to say that Vladimir Putin, was not helping matters by supporting Bashar al-Assad and not helping America to take him out. It is my understanding that the US is most responsible for the rise of ISIS, when we didn't complete to job in Iraq, disarmed and disbanded the Iraq army, and left Iraq vulnerable to the rise of a terrorist group. This I believe was a major cause for the Iraq civil war.

I can't argue that ISIS doesn't like Bashar al-Assad, because like Saddam Hussein, Bashar al-Assad does not tolerate terrorist period! Then reenter the United States, the administration wants to over throw Bashar al-Assad because he is not friendly to us or our agenda. We really don't know who the rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad are, and who is supporting them. Now add Russia to the mix, who supports Bashar al-Assad, and the score card gets real confusing.

Now add president Obama's stance on climate change and blaming it for all the ills in the world, and you have a pretty clear picture of what is going on in the world, especially the middle east.

The Washington Examiner ran an article entitled “National security issues expose the danger of amateur candidates” in the article they made a statement that made me laugh, “Today, from the threats posed by hostile regimes in Iran, China, Russia and elsewhere, to the dilemma of Syrian refugees, to the challenges of the Islamic State and the broader Middle East, the world cannot afford to have an amateur in the Oval Office.” I couldn't believe my eyes when I read this and shared it on my show Back II Basic episode 419 . “the world cannot afford to have an amateur in the Oval Office”, it's because of the amateur in the White House now that the world seems to be falling apart. We need to get out of all these “foreign entanglements” and hit the reset button, let the fires we set burn out and in the future try to mind our own business!

Instead of blaming everyone else, we need to look at our foreign policy and get back to being friends to all countries who want to be friends with us, and stay out of others countries business, and maybe just maybe things might start correcting themselves without our help!!

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Black Lives Matter, are they a hate group?

By Dan Clements 11/17/15

I have been doing some research in what constitutes a hate group. It is very confusing and very political. The Wikipedia definition is “A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates and practices hatred, hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, nation, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other designated sector of society.” The problem with defining a hate group is, it is very subjective. It depends on your worldview, your politics, and yes your upbringing.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, has named just about every group who doesn't view the world through liberal eyes as a hate group. The FBI is the opposite. I couldn't find anyone who seemed to be objective in assessing what a hate group is.

As a Christian, I'm told to hate the sin but love the sinner. Jude 1:21-23 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 22 And on some have compassion, making a distinction; 23 but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

God does not show partiality when it comes to us, Romans 2:11 “For there is no partiality with God.” If God will not show partiality then I cannot. This has to be my standard when I look at different groups and determine in my own mind if they are hate groups. Some of the standards in the definition above have to do with sins, and some do not. I would not classify race, ethnicity, nation, religion, gender, as something to hate. Our society has determined that if you disagree with someones choices that your a hater. Gender identity, sexual orientation, are sins in the eyes of God, but the person practicing these things are not to be hated! Most people who hate are taught how to hate, it doesn't come natural to us.

Black Lives Matter, through their actions and words show that they hate the person and not just the actions. When you advocate violence against anyone without just cause (declaration of war) you are advocating hate and show partiality. To blindly hate someone leads to death and destruction, not only to the one you hate but to the hater also. It poisons the soul and pollutes the mind to the point that you can't see anything else but blind hatred. Black Lives Matter has crossed the line from an advocacy group, over to a hate group.

If we are to stop the hate we need to follow Jesus example and address the behavior and not hate the person. John 8:3-11 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?" 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear. 7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?" 11 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."