Op-ed:

The 250 Countdown Begins

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google 

 

...So yes, it's our individual “liberties, freedoms, and fundamental rights” afforded us by the Constitution that not only help to protect us “citizens” from what could be government overreach, but is what makes our nation great. And with our Constitutionally given right to “freedom of speech, religion, and assembly,” along with our right to “due process,” the cornerstone of who we are as both a nation and a people was laid, while at the same time helping to establish the framework of what is deemed to be America's “social and societal order.” And while no nation nor rule of law...including the historic “Magna Carta”...even comes close to “freedom” as defined in our Constitution...one of the greatest if not the greatest document ever written...our “Founders and Framers” were wise enough to design the Constitution as a testament to both “individual freedoms” and the collective rule of all important “secular”...not religious...law...Read entire article here. 

Op-ed:

The 250 Countdown Begins

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google

 

In his first inaugural address, President George Washington referred to the having been set into place a ”republican model of government” as an “experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”

And as we are now just a year away from said “experiment” reaching its 250th birthday...what is and of itself a true triumph in this ever changing and ever so volatile modern day world...it left me wondering not only why did we succeed as a nation but how we did so, especially when other nations with good intentions have failed. And I do not mean solely in the context of the individual freedoms our Constitution affords“We the People,” but in the larger context of how long will we remain as a nation when now coming into play is America's own special brand of “enemies within”...“enemies” hell bent on bringing our beloved America to her knees sometimes, but not always, minus the usual “shock and awe” tactics that have become the calling card of America's “enemies from without.”

But first know that America...that the United States...is far from the world's oldest nation as so many do mistakenly believe...as Egypt and China have us beat by literally thousands of years. And while both those nations have risen and fallen to yet rise again depending on the type of government in charge during any set period of time, we alone remain as we were founded, as in a “Constitutional Republic” even though misguided sorts erroneously call us and believe us to be a “democracy,” the very thing we are not...the very thing our “Founders and Framers” never wanted nor intended us to be. And while nations...while countries...seem to exist according to a generalized historical time frame regarding what is deemed to be the “organization” of said country...know that Egypt as a country was united around 3150 B.C.E. by King Narmer (the title “pharaoh” came later) and is historically accepted as the world's oldest country; while China was “organized” in 221 BCE with the establishment of the First Imperial Dynasty...making our great nation a “newbie” by comparison coming up on being but 250 years old or should I, in this case, say 250 years “young.”

Yet America...through wars both foreign and domestic...is still here as founded, while the two once great “cradles of civilization” have become but shadows of what was their once glorious past. In fact, today's Egypt is now mired down in authoritarian tactics and military rule, while at the same time claiming to be a Republic; while today's China remains a communist dictatorship. And calling China's Xi Jingping “president” does make a mockery not only of the position itself, but also of what is true presidential powers, responsibilities, and duties.

So as we approach America's 250 year birthday, I also wonder if our “Founders and Framers” ever envisioned that we, as a nation, would last as long as we have for they knew well that giving birth to a nation was far from an easy task as more times than not said birth is riddled with the blood of patriots lost. And while some, including our first president, George Washington, had serious doubts about the longevity of our nation as outlined, constructed, and set to paper in the single “codified” document known as the U.S. Constitution, Washington did hope that its principles and guiding words would endure and stand the test of time. 

And why so...simply because no rule of law then or to date...no other government then or to date...has dared to include the very benchmark words that are the founding principles of our free nation...principles like “separation of powers” along with “checks and balance,” thus ensuring that not only was our government “resilient” thanks to a strong national defense also being put into place, while also ensuring that the new nation now being forged was to be a “just and fair nation” where no one, not even the president, was above the rule of law.

And so it left me wondering, especially in relation to our nation's upcoming milestone birthday, exactly when and why did our Constitution start to become the “enemy” to some and but a burden to others...others trying to negate and change the very words laid down by our “Founders and Framers.” A “good cop, bad cop” scenario of sorts that really has no place in regards to our nation's highest rule of law for we must honor those laws as written, and not define them through personal interpretation of how we wished said laws had been written. Legally updating the Constitution via amendments is one thing, but trying to force personal interpretations on the sum of “We the People” is quite a destructive thing.

So here let me put partisan politics aside and briefly state the reasons why I personally believe the “United States of America” is not only the greatest nation the world has ever known, but remains the most free of nations as well. And let me begin by saying that no single nation has even come close to our collective overall economic successes, our military successes (WWI and WWII comes quickly to mind), and our technological successes (with the greatest success of all, to date, being that we are the only nation to have landed men on the moon and brought them safely back to Earth). Now couple that with the fact that ever since John Hancock put his pen to Constitutional paper we have been a role model to the world in regards to the importance of “individual liberties and freedoms”...rights critical in concept to what was then our emerging nation as they are to us today.

But why are “individual liberties and freedoms”...as in the laws put into place to protect citizens from government overreach...paramount above almost all else to the success of any given nation? It's simply because a nation's government and its leaders that respects the individual rights of its citizens not only helps to build unity, trust, stability, confidence, and a true sense of patriotism amongst its populace, but gains respect on the world stage as well.

And while our beloved America might not be perfect in some respects...after all perfection in its own right tends to be but individual supposition more times than not...we remain a leader in “liberties and freedoms” unparalleled in its success by any nation both past and present. And while some discontented sorts both here at home and abroad love to point out America's flaws, both past and present, the difference between the United States and other nations is that we have always shrived to correct our flaws not bend the will of the people to accept what are proven to be wrongs. Name another nation that has “consistently” since its inception corrected its wrongs without an ulterior motive behind their doing so...bet you cannot.

So yes, it's our individual “liberties, freedoms, and fundamental rights” afforded us by the Constitution that not only help to protect us “citizens” from what could be government overreach, but is what makes our nation great. And with our Constitutionally given right to “freedom of speech, religion, and assembly,” along with our right to “due process,” the cornerstone of who we are as both a nation and a people was laid, while at the same time helping to establish the framework of what is deemed to be America's “social and societal order.” And while no nation nor rule of law...including the historic “Magna Carta”...even comes close to “freedom” as defined in our Constitution...one of the greatest if not the greatest document ever written...our “Founders and Framers” were wise enough to design the Constitution as a testament to both “individual freedoms” and the collective rule of all important “secular”...not religious...law.

Remember, our “Founders and Framers,” many of whom were “deists,” including Thomas Jefferson who so wisely stated, "Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state' is absolutely essential in a free society,” and George Washington who did state, “The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy”....obviously never intended our Constitution nor our nation to be a thesis on theocratic based religious dogma and tenets. And this can be witnessed by the fact that nowhere in the Constitution is one religion favored over another nor did our “Founders and Framers” include the words “God, Jesus, or Christianity” anywhere within its text, thus becoming but supposition by some as to these men's intent. Chosen instead was the word “Creator” which left it up to ones individual and personal belief, or lack thereof, as to its intent or meaning.

Simply, our Constitution is not a religious document nor must it ever become one no matter how some try to meld it together with the “Holy Bible,” nor were its words ever intended to be used by future generations as a blueprint on how to undermine and subvert the will of “We the People” or our societal norms and stability. And yet today, that is exactly what we are seeing by those whom I deem to be our nation's true “enemies within.”And this includes activist judges who are deliberately undermining presidential authority; elected officials who put their partisan driven agendas above Constitutional law; as well as today's indoctrinated young people who are striving to socially re-engineer both our nation's long held societal norms and our founding principals, And the commonality these misguided folks share is the hope that what is their anti-American rhetoric becomes part of the liberal media's daily political discourse.

And so with our nation's 250th birthday still being just a year+ away, we must learn to accept, as fact, that nothing ever lasts forever, and that includes nations. And while the ancient nations of Egypt and China still do exist today they are not as they once were, for like too many others neither have taken to heart the old adage that one must “learn from history or be doomed to repeat it.” A nation's history, whether it be good or bad, does remain its history nevertheless, and to try and erase the bad will not now or ever erase what was. And with “We the People” only now starting to understand the possible challenges we might or might not have to face in either the near or not so distant future, one thing I do know is that Americans always welcome positive change for positives do tend to negate, or a least temper down, the negatives in most any given situation.

So while I, like so many others, look forward to celebrating America's “milestone” 250th birthday and all the “pomp and circumstances” that rightfully go with it, I do believe that our great nation will continue on no matter the obstacles thrown in her path for the simple fact is that America will survive because America must survive...both common sense and logic deems it so. And know that a mere 250 years is just the beginning of Thomas Jefferson's “experiment” in “self-government and individual liberty.” now having morphed into the one true beacon of freedom and exceptionalism that is the ever lasting hallmark of the “United States of America.” Case closed.

Copyright © 2025 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

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Op-ed: 
Hate spewed in God's name 
By: Diane Sori

LIE!

How dare they...who do these 'supposed' men of the cloth and some 'wanna be' and currently elected politicians think they are. And when you add in some who in their minds only think of themselves as 'political celebrities' of sorts...you get persons who have set themselves up as judge and jury over a small percentage of the American population.

And the examples I'm cited below are just the tip of an ever expanding iceberg.

Scott Esk, a Republican Tea Party candidate from Oklahoma, got into a heated back-and-forth discussion on Facebook last year when he called for the killing...YES killing...of gay Americans.

“I think we would be totally in the right to do it...That goes against some parts of libertarianism, I realize, and I’m largely libertarian, but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss,” he said.

LIE!

Mississippi State Rep. Andy Gipson spewed on his Facebook page a Bible verse from Leviticus that called for gays to be stoned to death...then took it back after being chastised for his comment but ONLY because he was called to task for it.

Pastor James David Manning said in a YouTube video that Christians who do NOT attack gays are "advocating lawlessness. Stoning of the homos is now in order. Stoning is still the law."

This said in the name of God all while Manning had the audacity to preach the word of God.

And when at this year's Rose Bowl Parade a gay wedding took place on one of the floats, Pastor Dave Buehner strongly 'suggested' that anti-gay activists be represented at these types of parades from here on. Saying, “I wonder what the Rose Bowl parade would do if we had the stoning of a homosexual along the parade just as an expression of free speech and all that," his vileness seeps through with every word.

Just think about those words...really think about them...and if you don't find those words spewed by an ubber right supposedly Christian man of the cloth pure hateful...as they call for what amounts to the execution of a gay person while Bible verses are being quoted...then you are as guilty of the 'hate' as he is. And this man also called for government officials to step in and arrest gays just for being who they are both before and after said parades would be going on.

And even sadder is that certain 'self-anointed' leaders of the Conservative movement on Facebook and on the internet spew the same garbage but in a folksy homespun sort of way, but their message of hate in the end is quite the same.

And all this hate is done in the name of the Evangelical Church...notice I said church NOT...I repeat NOT...in the name of its followers...just want to make that point clear. But also know that a certain percentage of said church's followers also hold this anything but Godly view.

The wanted weapon of the 'haters'

Stoning...these people are actually calling for the stoning of fellow Americans... calling for the MURDER of fellow Americans all because of a mistranslation of a Biblical verse in the King James Bible...a mistranslation by those who set the words down on paper...and please do NOT claim that God dipped his quill pen in ink and guided the hand of the transcribers for NO such thing happened as this Bible was written for political reasons alone.

The King James Bible was commissioned by King James 1 in 1604, at the Hampton Court Conference. Done like I said for political reasons...as in to appease the very vocal yet highly educated Puritan minority...and to counter what James himself considered 'supposed' inconsistencies in both the Geneva and Bishops Court Bible, this one man took it upon himself to disregard all versions that came before. Saying he, "Could never yet see a Bible well translated in English; but I think that, of all, that of Geneva is the worst. I wish some special pains were taken for an uniform translation, which should be done by the best learned men in both Universities, then reviewed by the Bishops, presented to the Privy Council, lastly ratified by the Royal authority, to be read in the whole Church, and none other," this man anointed himself the sole keeper and arbitrator of God's word. 

"...ratified by Royal authority" meaning James 1...as King...could change the transcribed words as he saw fit and as many times as he wanted...setting his version above all others never mind all the mistranslations within his version as well.

LIE!

Written by men...mistranslated by men...and approved by one man alone...this Bible became the authority by which today's 'haters'...both political and clerical... love to quote the words of God. And these 'haters' have so twisted the words "love the sinner, hate the sin" as to condone MURDER in the name of God.

MURDER with the 'supposed' approval of God...the most grievous of all sins is one I think God would be most unhappy with for we are supposed to "love thy neighbor" NOT pick and choose which neighbor we are to do so with. And these pastors... even more so than the politicians...most of whom just spew the hate gay message for votes...are extremely dangerous as they lure people into their churches...into their Facebook world...with words from the Bible and then turn God's message of love and acceptance into their own personal version of hate...and like lambs to the slaughter the weak and the blind followers swallow it hook, line, and sinker.

And this call for 'death to all gays' is fueled on by folks who must fear something in themselves for how can they honestly believe that a mere two percent of the American population is more of a threat to our nation than is Barack HUSSEIN Obama and his pen and phone...or that islam and sharia must take a backseat to their self-perceived 'gay problem'...and yet they do. And they do so by wanting to MURDER gay people by stoning...stoning...just like the muslim bast*rds do to those they don't like.

And these same folks worship at the feet of those who espouse this hate...men who do so solely to line their own pockets by 'whoring' themselves out to the almighty dollar and for Facebook 'numbers and likes.' And these 'haters' consider themselves part of the Evangelical Church... sounds more like the Evangelical mosque if you ask me.

TRUTH!

And NO true conservative...NO true American... would call for a punishment that’s equated with sharia law...for sharia law is used as punishment only in the muslim cesspools of the world and must NEVER be allowed or condoned here in America. And always remember, our Declaration of Independence says "all men are created equal"...ALL men...NOT just straight men or white men or black men or yellow men or red men (and know that 'men' is used in the all-encompassing sense so I do NOT want to hear the whining of the women's libbers here)...meaning ALL men of ALL colors and ALL sexual orientations.

So while stoning is indeed mentioned in the Bible, the Bible is NOT the rule of law in our nation nor should it ever be, and true Conservatives and TEA Partiers know this. True Conservatives and TEA Partiers alike are all about the Constitution and the Constitution alone making us a nation of secular laws...laws that encompass everyone NOT any one particular religion's laws. Remember, our Founders while believers in God NEVER intended America to be a nation of Biblical laws...as the Founders knew the Bible's laws were written to a different people, in a different time, in a different culture...written thousands of years before the founding of this country.

And the TEA Party does NOT need those who think otherwise for the TEA Party was NEVER intended to be about religion. The TEA Party was founded upon the principals of 'Taxed Enough Already' and adherence to the rule of law that is the Constitution...period. And to those who are trying to make it otherwise...you will destroy the TEA Party movement by trying to make it so...but then again maybe that was your true goal right from the start.

LIE!

So to those who spew hate...to those who spew LIES...in God's name, you really need to keep your hate to yourselves for you are going against the very country and its laws that you claim to so love...against the very country that has afforded you the right to spew your hate. Shame on you and shame on all those who join in that hate. I wonder how God will judge you on your Judgment Day. Bet you'll be in for one 'hell' of a rude awakening ...as in better pack light for it will be hot where I believe you'll be going.

And to all of you who still believe after all I've said that gays should be stoned to death, think of what Jesus said when confronted by an angry crowd, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Bet none of you 'haters' are sinless...just saying.