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Our friend Ann Barnhardt has written a post today that you must, MUST read. I reprint it here for your convenience. But please make it a point to visit her site on a regular and frequent basis. This is a woman who has her head on straight, her gun at her side, and God at her back.
Pre-emptively Tying Things TogetherPosted by Ann Barnhardt – July 10, AD 2011 7:46 PM MSTThere is one more loose end that needs to be tied together regarding Gunwalker. In the last 2 1/2 months I have heard from very credible sources, who are unconnected, the same thing repeatedly – so frequently that it is truly frightening.
There have been numerous, and I mean NUMEROUS, muslim plots to wage Mumbai-style attacks against churches and synagogues that have been foiled and thwarted in the U.S. within the last several years. By “Mumbai-style” I mean muslims walking into churches heavily armed with AK-47s and open-firing on the congregation. This is what they did in Mumbai, India, except that they focused on stations, hospitals, hotels and other public areas. In Mumbai, there were ten discrete attack locations carried out simultaneously. 164 people were killed with 308 wounded. Churches and synagogues have people much more tightly packed than the hotels, hospitals and offices targeted in Mumbai.
A few weeks ago, the “American Al Qaeda”, Adam Gadahn, released a video calling and urging muslims in the U.S. to carry out attacks against “their religion and sacred places”.
What does this have to do with Gunwalker? Well, in case you have been under a rock for the last ten years, muslim terror outifts (yes, that is redundant) such as Hamas and Hizbullah are actively coordinating with the Mexican narco-terror gangs in Mexico, and Hamas and Hizbullah already have a huge physical presence in Mexico and are entering the United States across the Mexican border. Border agents report finding muslim and arabic paraphernalia routinely on the “coyote trails” on the Southwest border. Additionally, we have seen the Mexican narco-terror gangs start to use such tactics as beheadings with significantly increased frequency over the past several years. This implies a muslim cultural influence. Finally, we have the fact of Central and South American Marxists embracing and actively allying themselves with muslim states, led by Hugo Chavez’ strong alliance with Iran. Did you know that Iran has TROOPS stationed in Venezuela, and has promised to arm Chavez, or at least park a nuclear device in Venezuela as soon as possible?
So, the Obama-Clinton criminal machine has been sending thousands – and probably tens of thousands – of AK-platform weapons not only into the hands of the narco-terror gangs in Mexico and Central America, but also into the hands of their muslim allies who have been and will continue to plot Mumbai-style attacks against the U.S. It is a miracle – and that is exactly the word that was used to describe it to me: “MIRACLE” – that diligent Americans have managed to thwart every one of these musloid attacks so far. But guys, it is just a matter of time. It will happen. Musloids will walk into a church somewhere in suburban America, walk uncontested through the narthex and into the sanctuary or auditorium. They will then open fire on the neatly arranged and tightly packed congregants, every one of whom is sitting with their back to the door, with AK-47s that very well could have been supplied by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder via Operation Fast and Furious, and all of the other gun walking programs instituted nationwide.
When Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot earlier this year in Arizona, the entire ATF and DOJ was in a state of blind panic because they thought that Giffords had been shot in a hit by the Mexican narco-terror gangs who had threatened her for some work she was doing on the border issue. But beyond that, the core cause of their panic was the fact that they knew it was possible that Giffords had been shot with a Gunwalker weapon. As it turned out, the gunman was a severely mentally ill American who was a fan of Marx and Hitler. But the panic by the ATF was certainly warranted, and it will be warranted again when the first muslim Mumbai-style attack takes place on U.S. soil. The odds are very high that the weapons used will have been supplied by Obama, Clinton and Holder.
Now, an action item. If you go to church, you need to schedule a meeting with your priest/pastor/rabbi/whatever and explain this situation to them. If they make the predictable argument that “guns in church means the terrorists win”, you need to remind them that the terrorists aren’t keeping score by counting guns. They are keeping score by counting DEAD BODIES. DEAD MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN are the metric.
Every church in North America should have armed men on the door during all major services. Anyone who concealed carries should carry to church without hesitation. There is NOTHING sinful or immoral about being armed in a church. NOTHING. Remember, the apostles wore their sidearms to the Last Supper. Sidearms have been carried and worn in churches since time immemorial. The muslims are coming. And there will be casualties. But, by God, we need to be returning fire and defending our families and children when it happens. Dear God, I hope it never does happen – but given that muslims are openly declaring their plans and the Obama-Clinton machine is arming them to the teeth and holding open the door for them, we MUST be ready to defend ourselves.
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A Comment from Tom Kovach (who for some reason is unable to leave comments here — some kind of cyber glitch?):
There is a historical precedent for this, and it has been preserved in ancient ritual.
The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom — the primary source of ritual for all of Orthodox Christianity — contains a part in which the priest stands before the congregation and declares, “The doors! The doors! In wisdom, let us be attentive.”
Unfortunately for most people, the deep meaning behind the declaration has been buried beneath the sands of time. But, here it is.
The ancient belief within the Orthodox Church was (and, technically, still is) that the Elements of Holy Communion are so important, so holy, that non-Christians were not even allowed to look at them. So, about halfway through the liturgy, before the bread and wine are brought out to be blessed, the priest would tell all non-beleivers to depart. And, then, the ushers would go through the sanctuary and look for unfamiliar faces. While that was happening, the priest would declare, “Depart all catechumens! Let no catechumen remain.” (A catechumen is a person that is in the process of learning about the Christian faith, but has not yet been baptized. In the ancient church, this process would sometimes take as long as a year of regular study under an experienced guide — such as a priest, deacon, or selected lay teacher.) Then, after the ushers have finished their purge of the sanctuary, the priest declares, “The doors! The doors!,” and then the doors of the sanctuary were locked from the inside.
If that simple, yet intense, understanding and its supporting rituals were to be re-introduced into modern Christianity, then the threat by armed Muslims (or anyone else) would be greatly reduced.
Now, in light of the above, consider the words of Jesus regarding the end times, to the congregation of Ephesus, when Saint John had his vision that resulted in the book of the Revelation: “I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false; 3and you have perseverance and have endured for My name’s sake, and have not grown weary. 4‘But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. 5‘Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent. 6‘Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.” (Rev. 2:2-7, emphasis added)