Op-ed: 
The Silent Surrender of America's Christians 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on www.cprworldwidemedia.com

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil..." 
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor who spoke out against the Nazi genocide of Jews, executed in a concentration camp in 1945

Fact: ISIS recently bulldozed the 1,600-year-old Mar Elian Monastery, desecrated the bones of Saint Julian of Emes, and kidnapped the monastery’s abbot Father Jacques Mouraud along with church volunteer Botros Hanna, both of whom are now presumed dead. Fact: not too long ago ISIS blew up the ancient temple of Baal Shamin in the UNESCO-listed Syrian city of Palmyra because they feared it violated islam's tenets NO matter that the city was built well before islam's beginnings. Fact: ISIS is now closing in on Syria's capital Damascus promising they will conquer the capital and so far NO one appears to be stopping them. Fact: Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recently accused both the U.S. and Israel of “conspiring against the qur’an” and called for the world's islamic nations to unite against the 'Great Satan' and the 'Little Satan' as in the U.S. and Israel respectively. Fact: Iran still holds four Americans captive, Pastor Saeed Abedini, Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, Contractor Robert Levinson, and ex-Marine linguist specialist Amir Hekmati, as Obama chose NOT to include their release as a stipulation in his very bad Iranian capitulation of a nuclear deal. And most grievous of all is this fact: the slaughter of thousands of Christians throughout the Middle East and North Africa continues on.

Now, remember that NONE of these facts matter to Barack HUSSEIN Obama, our islamist-in-presidential garb, but sadly...so sadly...some of these facts seem to matter little to America's Christian consciousness. And while I am NOT...I repeat NOT...saying that like with the so-called anything but 'moderate' muslims who are the epitome of what I've said time and again that “if you do NOT condemn you condone”...America's Christians as a whole seem to have closed their eyes to the wide-scale torture, rape, kidnappings, and beheadings of their fellow Christians at the hands of ISIS and other islamic savages.

And America's black Christian eyes seem to be closed especially tight to the plight of their fellow black Christians in North Africa who are being slaughtered almost on a daily basis. So I ask where are the voices of outrage from the leaders of and congregants attending America's black churches...voices of outrage noticeably absent just like they are absent to the slaughter of black babies (remember half of all black pregnancies end in abortion) by the likes of Planned Parenthood and other abortion mills scattered around this country.

And to both white and black American churches I pose this question...why the silence...aren't those who follow Jesus NO matter where they live, their nationality, or their race 'Brothers and Sisters in Christ?' I always thought they were but now it seems priorities have been set NOT only by America's Christian leaders...NO matter they be black or white...but also by the always vocal uber religious 'so far to the right that they actually shake hands with the left' sorts who have deemed 'wedding cakes and pizza parlors' their main point of contention instead of focusing their attention on those whose blood flows for refusing to denounce their Christian faith.

So instead of focusing on the slaughter of those Christians in the Middle East and North Africa who refuse to embrace an ideology that is diametrically opposite to what they know in their hearts to be God's truth...instead of honoring those Christians who willingly choose to become martyrs for the Lord and for whom our tears should be building up into a collective rage and an avowed call for revenge...a deafening silence instead becomes the order of the day...after all these always vocal uber far right Christians must keep the collective focus on the mundane and the frivolous for to do otherwise might expose the hypocrites amongst them.

Please tell me I am wrong...please tell me of a collective Christian movement in this country that is organized and dedicated to bringing those who have murdered their 'Brothers and Sisters in Christ' to justice...please tell me that for all all I hear is silence from America's Christians.

So who is helping the Middle East and North African Christians...the Jews is who. The very people who have been the most persecuted throughout history, all in the name of Christ, now sees the Jewish State of Israel...one of the only countries in the entirety of the Middle East where Christians can openly practice their faith in peace...being the one and only country to aid Christians in South Sudan and elsewhere throughout Africa. And as Christians are being slaughtered because of their beliefs, because they cannot fight back, and because the world is indifferent to their suffering just like the world...the Christian world...turned its back on Europe's Jews some 70 odd years ago...it's the Jews who refuse to turn their backs on the Christians in the Middle East and North Africa.

And now coming to the aid of Middle East Christians is yet another Jew...a Canadian Jewish businessman from Montreal named Steve Maman...dubbed the 'Jewish Schindler'...who is currently rescuing Christian and Yezidi/Kurdish women and children held captive by ISIS. Maman's group, the Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq (CYCI), has so far freed 128 or more women and children...most of whom when captured were sold as sex slaves...and with some held captive for over a year being sold over and over again. And Maman said he began his rescue efforts because he saw NO tangible action or efforts being taken by anyone to help free these people...and that includes seeing NO efforts by Obama (of course he wouldn't help free any Christian) or from the Christian churches here in America.

Sad isn't it...a sad truth that should have America's Christians and their church leaders being ashamed of themselves for while some talk the talk about wanting to do something that talk seems NEVER to be followed up by actions. And why...because in my opinion most have proven by their very inactions to be cowards who chose to hide behind Ezekiel 38–39...'The Lord's Great Victory Over The Nations'...instead of coming to the aid of their fellow 'Brothers and Sisters in Christ.' Believing that the current Middle East conundrum is laying the foundation for Armageddon, these Christians believe that to stop or come to the aid of those being persecuted...even if they are fellow Christians...even if they are young children...is to go against God’s divine will.

Misguided at best by words written so many many years ago, I believe many American Christians have lost the very traits that separate us from all others...traits like compassion and empathy...as well as the inner strength we all call upon to do the right thing during times of great adversity in the here and now tangible world. And NO longer can America's Christians or their leaders afford to turn away from the atrocities being perpetrated upon their fellow Christians a half a world away for if things keep going as they are going now...if ISIS keeps growing stronger and keeps moving the caliphate forward...it's America's Christian heads that will be the next to roll...it's America's Christian blood that will be the blood that flows though our American streets...and NO one will be left to help save them just as they are NOT now helping to save their fellow Christians in the Middle East and North Africa.

And America's Christians will have NO one to blame but themselves for it's their own apathy that will ring their death knell and know that God the Father will NOT judge them well at all. 

Op-ed:
Ted Cruz Announces He's Running and the Naysayers Gather Like Vultures to a Feast
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on CPR Worldwide Media

“I'm running for President and I hope to earn your support!"
Texas Senator Ted Cruz announces his 2016 run for the presidency

He's the first official candidate to declare out of more than a dozen high-profile Republicans considering running for president...and if we cannot have LTC Allen West, Ted Cruz is the next best thing. Announcing his intentions in a 30-second video embedded in a tweet released at 12:09 AM Monday morning, TEA Party favorite Ted Cruz is everything Republicans should be but sadly are NOT...that is if he does NOT go so far in pandering to the ubber religious right...the ones with their 'better a muslim we know than a Mormon we don't know' attitude that helped get Obama re-elected...that he actually...dare I say it...starts shaking hands with the left. (See Ted Cruz's tweet released video announcement here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulzfbe6H5qY)

Thankfully, I do NOT think he will as Ted Cruz ranks high on the list amongst true Constitutional conservatives, but unfortunately to date has NOT registered in the top five in the polls simply because he does NOT tow the so-called establishment Republican line. Instead, Ted Cruz appeals to Tea Partiers and we who are know as TEApublicans, because he has the courage to take on NOT only the Obama regime itself but the RINOS and the actual party establishment as well.

An 'ideological hard-liner' who tells voters to challenge others wanting to be the Republican nominee NOT just on their words but on their all-important actions, Ted Cruz strongly opposes ObamaCare...in fact his announcing cleverly comes on the fifth anniversary of ObamaCare's passing...opposes Common Core and the IRS, supports a balanced budget and the flat tax, knows who America's enemies are and rightfully stands strong with both our military and with Israel, along with his being more than just a wee bit willing to shut down Obama's corrupt federal government. And Ted Cruz has NO use for those who refuse to stand strong with the rule of law that is our Constitution or with those who fear standing strong against the Obama progressive liberal agenda that unfortunately seems to be overtaking our country.

And as for the polls themselves, a recent Real Clear Politics average of the latest polls...polls really taken too far out to truly matter in the end...show that Cruz must gain broader support in the GOP base if he is to get the nomination as right now they have him earning just 4.6% of the support of likely Republican voters nationwide, and just 4.3% and 4.4% respectively of the support of likely GOP voters in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. But after the debates...and debating is a Ted Cruz strong point...these numbers will most assuredly climb upwards...way upwards...especially when an even more recent Quinnipiac University poll has 45% of Republicans seeing Cruz in a positive light, compared with only 8% who do NOT. But with 46% saying that to date they do NOT know enough about him to form an opinion...those are the ones Cruz...and we who support him...will have to court.

And while first-term Senator Ted Cruz will most likely face many questions over his experience...as did Obama in 2008...he has a more critical issue that must be addressed and then being put to rest once and for all...an issue that some 'supposedly' on our side will NOT let go of...and that is does Ted Cruz meet the presidential requirement of being a 'natural-born' citizen. I say of course he does, and so do lawyers from both parties at the U.S. Supreme Court who recently wrote in the Harvard Law Review that Cruz does indeed meet the Constitutional standard to run.

But sadly, like I said, some on our side continue to insist that Cruz is NOT eligible to run claiming over and over ad-nauseum that he does NOT meet the definition of a 'natural-born' citizen as he was actually born in Canada. And to make it worse, they refuse to budge in their stubbornness, mostly for fear of being called racists because they (rightfully) claimed America's (supposed) first black president...Barack HUSSEIN Obama...was NOT 'natural born'. Fearing the backlash from the likes of race-baiters Al Sharpton and Eric Holder, these folks would rather be politically correct than Constitutionally correct.

And that's sad as these folks clearly or willfully forget that our Constitution in NO way defines 'natural-born' citizen. And while Article 2 of the Constitution does state, “no person except a natural born citizen…shall be eligible to the Office of President,” it's the Founders and Framers very words combined with statutes enacted by the First Congress that must be the determining basis for defining 'natural-born.' And accordingly, many Constitutional attorneys and scholars contend that 'natural-born' meant and still means being born either abroad to American parents, or being born within this nation’s territorial borders regardless of parental citizenship.

In fact, the Congressional Research Service (a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress who work exclusively for Congress providing policy and legal analysis to both houses regardless of party affiliation) supports that very view saying,“The weight of scholarly legal and historical opinion indicates that the term means one who is entitled under the Constitution or laws of the United States to U.S. citizenship "at birth" or "by birth," including any child born "in" the United States, even to alien parents (other than to foreign diplomats serving their country), the children of United States citizens born abroad, and those born abroad of one citizen parent who has met U.S. residency requirements.”

And herein lies the key to Cruz's 'natural-born' citizenship status and re-read these words very carefully, 'one who is entitled under the Constitution or laws of the United States to U.S. citizenship "at birth" or "by birth.” And in the case of Ted Cruz the words "at birth" are that key as Cruz's mother, a U.S. born American citizen, conferred citizenship to Ted under 'The Nationality Act of 1940' which states which children become “nationals and citizens of the United States at birth." Stating those born in the United States or born outside the United States to at least one parent who was a citizen at the time of the child's birth allows citizenship to go to that child “at birth” if that citizen parent spent a certain number of years in the U.S.

And this is where Ted Cruz's American citizenship is most assuredly gotten as Cruz being born to an America citizen mother, was able to assume his citizenship “at birth” because under the law in effect between 1952 and 1986...with Cruz being born in 1970...someone must have a citizen parent who resided in the United States for at least 10 years, including five years after the age of 14, in order to have American citizenship conferred to them.

So to put aside the fears of those on our side who say...for whatever reasons...that Ted Cruz is NOT a 'natural-born' citizen, the indisputable fact is that Ted Cruz's mother, Eleanor Darragh, was born and raised in the United States...in Wilmington, Delaware...did NOT go to Canada until her mid-to late 20s, and did NOT give birth to Ted until into her 30's...way beyond the Constitutionally mandated 5-year-post-age-14 residency requirement...meaning American citizenship was conferred to Ted Cruz at the time of his birth...period.

So this should hopefully end the quandary of Ted Cruz's eligibility issue once and for all, and allow us to unite behind the only true Constitutional Conservative out of the bunch that appears to be in the running.

"I believe in America and her people, and I believe we can stand up and restore our promise. It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again. And I'm ready to stand with you to lead the fight," Ted Cruz said in his declaration of candidacy and I believe in and support Ted Cruz...now we just need him to pick the right running mate...a woman perhaps.... Michele Bachmann comes to mind...just saying.