The High Cost of Indifference
23As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air, 24the commander ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks. He directed that he be flogged and questioned in order to find out why the people were shouting at him like this. 25As they stretched him out to flog him, Paul said to the centurion standing there, "Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn't even been found guilty?"
Paul, the Apostle, provides an interesting look at the power of citizenship:
Paul the Roman Citizen (Acts 22:22-29)
By Albert Strong | 10/14/09 @ 7:05am | Comments (0) | Filed under: Citizen Reform in Action
The March on Washington, 9/12/2009
Saturday, I joined thousands of “forgotten Americans” on the streets of Washington protesting the runaway spending and the general tone deaf government that a growing percentage of Americans have realized must be reined in – and it can only be done by “We the People”.
My wife Susan joined me, my youngest son Michael, a freshman in college, and about ten friends. We took our lunch, and stayed most of the day.
The walk up Pennsylvania Avenue, marching with wall to wall patriotic Americans singing and shouting, was an unforgettable lifetime memory. The sound of cheering, which several times started way behind us and swept up the street and washed over us like thunder in a canyon, was a living force of nature and we felt an electrifying sense of excitement in the moment.
Congress and MSM, can you hear us now? How about you, President Obama? No, not yet. We have more to do, more to endure, more to sacrifice, more to accomplish. Read More…
By Albert Strong | 10/1/09 @ 4:55am | Comments (0) | Filed under: Citizen Reform in Action
What is needed to create and sustain a Free Society?
Dear friends:
I offer a question for the 4th of July:
What is needed to create and sustain a Free Society*, in which the rights of citizens are protected and each person has the opportunity to reach his or her individual potential?
[The following is adapted with great admiration and appreciation from Os Guinness and a speech entitled:“The Cost of Forgetting the Framers' Foundational Conviction" ]
If you ask modern Americans, the polls show that the vast majority will say freedom will survive through the bulwark of the Constitution. But that was not the full answer for the Founders – yes, they trusted the Constitution but never in the Constitution alone. They believed in what Os Guinness calls the Triangle of Freedom. Read More…
By Albert Strong | 7/4/09 @ 5:11am | Comments (0) | Filed under: Citizen Reform in Action
GAO Comptroller General Denounces Profligate Govt. Spending: “The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices”
Wake up, Middle Class Americans. David Walker, comptroller general of the GAO (Government Accounting Office), issued a report that blasts today's elected leaders and policy makers:
Mr Walker’s views carry weight because he is a non-partisan figure in charge of the Government Accountability Office, often described as the investigative arm of the US Congress. In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Walker said he had mentioned some of the issues before but now wanted to “turn up the volume”.
“I’m trying to sound an alarm and issue a wake-up call,” he said. “As comptroller general I’ve got an ability to look longer-range and take on issues that others may be hesitant, and in many cases may not be in a position, to take on. “One of the concerns is obviously we are a great country but we face major sustainability challenges that we are not taking seriously enough,” said Mr Walker, who was appointed during the Clinton administration to the post, which carries a 15-year term.
The fiscal imbalance meant the US was “on a path toward an explosion of debt”.
[Presidential Candidates] “need to make fiscal responsibility and inter-generational equity one of their top priorities. If they do, I think we have a chance to turn this around but if they don’t, I think the risk of a serious crisis rises considerably”.
