Published Monday, April 26, 2021 | | This week at the Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association | | AT NOON WEDNESDAY Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association DR. EVERETT PIPER EDUCATOR | AUTHOR | SPEAKER UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
From the Promotional Notes of his upcoming book release:
The "snowflake" generation has graduated, and they are taking root across our nation. The juvenile temper tantrums of their rebellion are only beginning.
These pampered and bubble-wrapped adolescents of Berkeley and Brown are graduating. Their petulant leftist ideas are rotting our nation's corporations, courts, and even our Congress. | | We stand on the cliff of a cultural crisis. Vitriol has replaced virtue, identity politics trump principle, and character no longer matters. Elected leaders act more like spoiled children than mature adults.
In Grow Up, the nearly two-decades-long president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University and the national bestselling author of Not a Day Care, Dr. Everett Piper addresses the needs of a bleeding nation.
He presents common-sense solutions to the lunacy Americans face on the news, in the classroom, and from the mouths of elected officials in a powerful reminder that in the end, civilization relies on adults. | | ALSO AT OUR LUNCHEON: ON THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR ACTIVISM | | We need a tenacious, aggressive, and activated army of fearless men, women, and children who will penetrate the tyranny which now presents itself against the American people. May Oklahoma rise to the top and be the people to slay this wicked dragon. _______________
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BOB LINN America Frozen in Adolescence
LAST WEEK General Hopper Smith Sarah Guardiola Ken Blood & Charles Key
SIGNS OF ORWELLIAN TIMES Dr. Everett Piper
REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN John Bennett
REP JASON LOWE (D) JOINS BLM PROTEST Press Release AGENDA This Week from Curtis Bowers
STATE AUDITOR April Fools and 147 Days
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Sign up to get your own copy here. | BOB LINN America Frozen in Adolescence | One of the characteristics of childhood is that of a life consumed with trivia. Toys, games, and amusements are, in the mind of a child, the apparent substance of life. These childish diversions are the temporary distractions filling the undeveloped mind on its way to the maturity healthy adulthood brings.
When governments are allowed to rule with iron-fisted authority, the people find their growth to adulthood stunted.
Tyrannies are based on secularism and quickly cause entire cultures of people to atrophy. In his The Character of Nations, Anthony Codevilla discusses this atrophy in the context of nations whose people become the sheep of a government who does not require them to think, but to simply obey. Appropriately, the subtitle of his book is: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility.
The dust jacket of Dr. Everett Piper’s newest book, Grow Up!, states, “Millions of young adults today behave like children.” He goes on to talk about the glorified (government run) daycares which hand them their diplomas and send them to run America’s corporations, churches, and its many layers of government.
As Dr. Piper brings his book to a close, he reminds us of Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Taken. | The poem was published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1915. Dr. Piper brings Robert Frost into the 21st Century when he states:
One road will lead to perpetual dependence mired in cultural and personal immaturity. The other road, while longer, more time-consuming, and, at times, even a bit of a nuisance, is one that may appear to be ‘less travelled by,’ but in reality, the number of people who have chosen it is not nearly as relevant as the quality of people who have done so … this is the path for adults, not children.
The road to national greatness will be one travelled by healthy, mature adults. Concepts of eternity and the purpose of mankind’s journey are out of the reach of the mind of a toddler. The concepts which frame the substance of his reality are simply beyond his mental capacity and are to him completely uninteresting.
This same childishness is the effect that a secular culture has on grown-ups. Secularism breeds nihilism. Nihilism is the idea that nothing has any meaning. This is how secularism reduces life to the trivial for entire societies of grown adults. | Angelo Codevilla also noted in his Character of Nations that two of Russia’s most prominent thinkers, novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky and philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev, foresaw that the socialist moment would forcibly banish God from the Russian soul and would fill Russia with nihilists. A nation of nihilistic adults for whom life has no meaning.
Neil Postman’s 1985 acclaimed magnum opus, Amusing Ourselves to Death, was among the first to tell us that public discourse in America was quickly being replaced by superficial media imagery. | He details the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse. With television as the prime culprit, he details the major shifts in science, education, journalism, and politics. Postman told us that American opinion was being established through “telegenic celebrities, public surveys, and the flawed concept of knowledge as entertainment.”
He closes his ground-breaking polemic by describing the American culture as having become atrophied. Indeed, we are a people frozen in adolescence.
He writes, “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is defined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk: culture-death is a clear possibility.”
Everett Piper ends his final chapter completing his remarks about Robert Frost’s Road Not Taken with this statement:
This road is one of rock, not sand … this is the path for adults, not children.
He makes it clear that our path to future greatness will be forged by adults who have chosen their path wisely. Dr. Piper states that it is these who will make all the difference.
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God bless! | Last Wednesday, Retired Brigadier General, Hopper Smith, and Sarah Guardiola spoke about opportunities we all have to fund private schools and receiving 50% to 75% of those contributions from the state tax commission as credits. These contributions are also tax deductions on our federal (IRS) forms.
The tax payer is able to fund tuition accounts at the school(s) of their choice. Providing opportunities for under privileged children.
Watch the presentation at the 31 minute mark here. | The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building shocked Oklahomans and drew the attention of the nation. The search for the complete story was unsatisfactory to many.
Among the 168 dead were 19 children. It was the children which elevated the shockwaves which stunned the nation.
Ken Blood led the petition drive to seat the Grand Jury. There was wide-spread dissatisfaction with the official way the case was tied up and presented to the public.
Watch the video at the 5 minute mark here. | __________
Senators Nathan Dahm and Shane Jett wrapped up our meeting with an excellent 10 minutes of activist training. Find that at the 1:05 minute mark here.
| SIGNS OF ORWELLIAN TIMES Dr. Everett Piper
Published March 14, 2021 | It’s “1984,” and we are living in schizophrenic times. Orwellian times. The best of times, but yet the worst.
Times where we demand the truth while reveling in our lies. Times of great material gain but even greater moral loss.
Times of calling good evil and evil good; bitter sweet and sweet bitter. Times of the “tolerant” not tolerating what they find intolerable.
These are times of significant technological advancement and, yet, shocking mental decline. | Times when Silicon Valley says it honors free speech while censoring all speech it says should not be free. Times where champions of diversity and inclusion exclude all who dare express views they believe are too diverse. Times where politicians who claim to be proponents of “fairness for all” push legislation that is all but fair.
These are times when the Colorado Civil Rights Commission denies an artist the right to craft art consistent with his moral convictions and civil rights. Times when colleges and universities that purport to teach communication and grammar, punish students for communicating with proper grammar. | These are times when Jews such as Dennis Prager, David Horowitz and Ben Shapiro are shunned and banned by those who claim to stand against ghettos and gulags.
Times when Candace Owens, a Black woman, is heckled out of a restaurant by a bunch of White students chanting, “Down with White supremacy.”
These are times when those who claim to champion democracy boycott anyone who dares to participate in the democratic process in a manner they find undemocratic.
Times when Dr. Seuss is canceled while Drag Queen Story Hours are all the rage.
These are times of cultural elites over the average man — oligarchs who no longer even attempt to hide their disdain for the self-evident truths upon which our country was founded. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of expression and freedom, in general, are now considered antiquated and inferior ideas that should be discarded and replaced by the capricious whims of a governing class that believes the unwashed masses are too foolish to manage their own freedom. | These high priests of government-as-God promote intolerance under the banner of “tolerance” and fascism under the flag of “freedom.”
From our schools, where open debate is now prohibited, to our places of work, where ordinary Americans can lose their jobs simply for promoting the wrong political cause, no place is safe from the vindictive rage of their ever-watchful gaze.
For them, freedom means slavish adhesion to their dictates, and anyone who disagrees with their contrived notions of progress will be punished. Lady Justice is no longer blind but smiles as she tips her scales on the basis of color, class and politics.
It is shameless duplicity. It is self-refuting hypocrisy. It is literal nonsense on parade.
Any schoolboy can see this emperor is as naked as a jaybird. Their pretensions of tolerance are little more than window dressing for a brutal form of dominance that accepts no dissent. These champions of “freedom and peace” are only interested in tyranny and power. We see them on our campuses, in our courts, in our culture and even in our churches, with their angry red faces of “love” shouting, “You must believe everything we believe!” No dissent, no differences and no diversity. It is the rule of the gang — a worldview of unquestioned and unchallenged power. Their bumper sticker is “Conquest,” not “Coexist.” They are interested only in lockstep compliance, not reasonable compromise. | To paraphrase Martin Niemoller: “First they came for Mr. Potato Head, and I said nothing because I cared little about plastic toys. Then they came for Peter Pan, and I said nothing because it was just a Disney cartoon. Then they came for Dr. Seuss, and I said nothing because I wasn’t Dr. Seuss. Then they came for my Bible and for me, and there was no one left to speak.”
Yes, these are trying times, difficult times, maybe even end-times. An end to manners, politeness, courtesy, dignity and mutual respect. An end to tolerance under the banner of “tolerance.” An end to feminism under the banner of “MeToo.” An end to women’s rights under the banner of “trans-women’s rights.” An end to children’s rights under the banner of “the right to abort children.” An end to adults under the banner of “adulting.”
We find ourselves in a country that has lost its way, a country in which an infantilized culture of tweets and tantrums dominates the public sphere. We are immersed in a culture of yelling rather than listening, a society of demands rather than dignity. We live in a time of perpetual adolescence and grown-up children, not one of mature adults who have truly grown up. ____________________
| OKLAHOMA REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN | From the desk of John Bennett Chairman, Oklahoma Republican Party
The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction. ~President James Madison
WASHINGTON This is true today despite the fact that Joe Biden and his administration seem to believe there is only one branch of government, and that he is the only person occupying that branch.
STATE CAPITOL I know many of you are confused about what is taking place at our State Capitol, and I hope to ease your concerns while giving you some things you can actually DO to make a difference.
HB 1236 GREG TREAT As I previously mentioned in my last email, HB 1236 was gutted and no longer resembles its original form in text or intent. This is unacceptable and the people of Oklahoma do not appreciate the shell game being played by Senator Greg Treat. His amendment essentially maims the bill, by limiting it to matters which involve the 10th amendment and removes the voice of the people; the Legislature. It also would do precisely what we, as Republicans, say we are against. It grows the government and spends more of your tax dollars.
HB 1237 HB 1237 is the new bill intended to offer the protections of HB 1236 by keeping its’ original tenets in place but also eliminates any constitutionality concerns.
Basically, HB 1237 sets up an intra-branch legal process right here in the state of Oklahoma to review federal executive orders as well as agency rules and Congressional actions. It offers stronger protection than the Treat amendment to HB 1236 and allows for reviews of ANY constitutional issue (2A, pandemic policies, oil, private property, youth sports etc). HB 1237 clarifies the role the courts play & findings of legislative unconstitutionality will need court affirmation, as recommended by Oklahoma Senate Judiciary Chairwoman, Julie Daniels.
EXECUTIVE ORDERS Why is this necessary? I think we are all aware of the willful impedance on state’s rights by this irresponsible president. Rather than using the legislative process, he is using executive orders to create laws and regulations which negatively impact Oklahomans. An example of this overreach is his order to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. Causing thousands of people to lose their jobs and ability to provide for their families. Biden has extended his dictatorial EO’s to how illegal immigration is being managed (actually, MISmanaged), rejoining the Paris Climate Accord, laying the foundation for a $15 federal minimum wage along with a host of other reckless actions that harm our state economy & infringe on our rights and liberties as Oklahomans.
CONSERVATIVE PATRIOTS PUNISHED IN SENATE It appears it is "politics as usual" at the State Capitol. Do any of you as voters know what happened to the Senators who stood up for "We The People" and voted against gutting HB2136 by Sen Treat?
All the Senators who voted against Sen Treats "new" bill with the "new" language inserted into HB2136 that went against our Republican Party platform by growing government, and stripping away our 10 amendment protections, were in fact all punished for voting the way we asked them to vote.
The Senators who did what was right were all punished by the Senate leadership. Not only were the Senators punished by leadership for voting the way their constituents wanted them to, but the Conservative organizations who rallied in support of HB2136, peacefully assembling and respectfully exercising their 1st amendment rights were also punished by Sen Treat.
GREG TREAT PULLS CONSERVATIVE BILLS Liberty protections bills such as HB2335 (which would protect the general public from being forced to get vaccinations) was also taken off the Senate agenda to be heard.
This is how democrats and communist dictators act. Why are Republican Leaders in the Senate allowed to punish Your Senators and We The People when we simply exercise our right to be heard?
Why are Senators being punished after voting the way their constituents want them to vote? After all the Legislature works for us, right? This is not the way a Republic works despite what the Political elite think! It's time to stand, Patriots and take our Government back!
If we don't stand now this will never change. We The People must be heard not punished!
YOU THE VOTER It may seem like something too big for the everyday voter to impact. It isn’t. You are the boss of those working at 23rd and Lincoln! I made a promise to hold elected officials accountable to our party platform & the best way to do it is through you. The voter. YOU ARE IN CHARGE.
CALL SENATOR GREG TREAT Please contact Sen Treat at 405-521-5632 and greg.treat@oksenate.gov and let him know that we expect Republicans to adhere to our Party platform. Ask him to stop punishing Senators who vote the way we ask them to.
Also, feel free to stop by his office and talk to him in person. I think he would like that. 😊 And, please always be respectful and courteous to our elected officials.
OKGOP Chairman, John Bennett Oklahoma Republican Party
Oklahoma Republican Party · 4031 N Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73105, United States | CHAIRMAN BENNETT CALLS FOR THE RESIGNATION OF DEMOCRAT REP. JASON LOWE
Following our nation’s Capitol being stormed in January, Democrat Representative Jason Lowe of district 97 commented on a legislator from West Virginia who was involved and forced to resign. His exact words were, “He should have known better."
Last Wednesday, approximately two dozen activists stormed our State Capitol’s House chambers, disrupting our legislators’ ability to carry out business during session. | During this blatant attempt to curtail the democratic process, it became clear Rep Lowe was not only aware of the plot; he was an active participant.
Not only did he leave the house floor to join these activists in the gallery, but he was also caught on video chanting alongside them disrupting the House session.
These actions illustrate that Rep. Lowe has no genuine interest in legislating but is more concerned with virtue signaling while partnering with an organization founded by self-described Marxists. Even the group’s website proudly proclaims, “this is the revolution.” | Just this past Tuesday the GOP held a peaceful rally at our State’s Capitol with over 1,000 participants.
It is doubtful that Rep. Lowe is truly representing the values of Oklahomans or District 97 as evidenced by the small amount of people that joined him.
I call on Rep. Lowe to follow his own suggestion and resign for having taken part in such an egregious act against our State as, in his own words, “He should have known better.” | AGENDA This Week's Brief with Curtis Bowers | Some notes from this week's version of Curtis Bower’s Agenda:
THE UNITED NATIONS
The United Nations is an insidious organization which should be disbanded. Its presence on United States soil demonstrates the extent to which we have been dumbed down as a culture.
Environmentalism is a vehicle to enslave the world. In a very telling statement from the man who was once the head of the United Nations and who crafted the U.N. Agenda 21, Curtin Bowers reminds of of the vision of the United Nations. | “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
~Maurice Strong, Former UN Head and Father of AGENDA 21 _____________________ | THE DIVIDE AND CONQUER AGENDA
In his article, It’s Not a Race War, It’s Something Much Bigger, Dan Proft wrote: | The Left wants a race war in America because they cannot otherwise win the ideological war they are waging.
The former is a cover for the latter…Outside of Ivy League faculty lounges, Marxism cannot be sold on its merits…
Today’s Marxists’ ideological pursuit of tyrannical control transcends race, which is merely a stealth bomber in their fleet. | This is not a race war. It’s something much bigger.
Proft is a co-founder of the Illinois Opportunity Project, a 501(c)(4) organization that promotes free-market public policy solutions. _________________
OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITOL BREACH
Over two dozen BLM protestors stormed the Oklahoma Capitol protesting an anti-protest bill signed by Governor Kevin Stitt. | STATE REP. KEVIN WEST COMMENTS: | It was a disruption.
We always have people come to the Capitol gallery.
However, this particular group started chanting just as we were starting to vote on the bill.
I really couldn't hear exactly what they were chanting, but it steadily escalated.
We exited the chamber. The Highway Patrol was there and they escorted everybody out of the gallery.
_________________ | NOTABLE HEADLINES AND QUOTES The New York Post: “BLM Protesters Rally for ‘Victim,’ Leave After Learning He was White” The Daily Caller: “The Squad” Pushes To “Defund The Police” While Spending Thousands On Private Security To Protect Themselves __________________
CDC BROKE FEDERAL LAW BY INFLATING COVID FATALITIES AND CASES: | Dr. Henry Ealy and his team, who have been researching since March 2020, concluded that the CDC broke the law by reporting any deaths with Covid-19 as deaths from Covid-19.
By federal standards, on August 23 of 2020, the official number of Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. should have been only 9,684, as compared to the 161,392 reported by the CDC.
By arbitrarily changing reporting procedures, the CDC broke the Paperwork Reduction Act.
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WE WERE GIVEN PARTIAL INFORMATION. WHEN WILL WE GET IT ALL? by Bob Linn | Last Wednesday, Steve Anderson, my subject matter expert, brought you up to date with what we have discovered thus far.
We learned of the past of the SA&I office and its relationship to the Oklahoma Department of Health.
The day before last week's meeting, a highly placed whistle-blower contacted Bob Linn. Mike Romero was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at the State Department of Health. He is the one who brought to the public the financial problems at play in the Department of Health.
He was at the OCPAC luncheon to listen to Steve's presentation at the 13 minute mark here. | On January 27, 2021, Steve Anderson made his first presentation at OCPAC regarding the situation.
Watch January's OCPAC meeting video here. Steve begins speaking at just past the 7 minute mark
Lack of transparency in government is a grave concern to all taxpayers.
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God bless and thank you for all you do for Oklahoma! | PRIOR WEEK ENTRIES of Continued Importance ENEMIES WITHIN THE CHURCH By Bob Linn | Pastor Cary Gordon narrates this soon-to-be-released film exposing the Marxist infiltration into America's churches, seminaries, and Christian missionary movements.
Those involved in the film include Trevor Loudon and Curtis Bowers. | This film exposes shocking developments throughout the entire breadth of 21st century Christendom. Protestants, Catholics, and the Orthodox church have been infiltrated. Our beloved evangelistic organizations have seen wolves in sheep's clothing rise to the very top.
The head of the Russian Orthodox church is a KGB agent. The Pope is a Marxist. The evangelical church has been deeply penetrated. That penetration goes to the very top of institutions we thought were rock solid. This includes the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), the Southern Baptist Church, the former Campus Crusade for Christ (now, CRU), and many others.
The evidence is iron clad. I was on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ and worked with founder and President, Dr. Bill Bright. Sadly, I have been made aware that Marxist concepts have become pervasive at their national conferences over the past few years. It is both clear and stunning. Marxist language is now a part of their programs on campuses throughout the nation.
I've also spent many years in the Southern Baptist Church. In addition, my wife and I founded a PCA church in our living room many years ago. In spite of my close relationship with all these institutions, the evidence of their fall from Godliness is overwhelming.
In the near future, I plan to focus on the developments within the organization I once knew as Campus Crusade for Christ.
It is important to expose these enemies who have crept into Christendom. These have entered our Christian institutions in an effort to destroy the Church. The "gospel" they promote will bear no fruit. Marxist ideology mixed with Bible verses will produce neither salvation nor the health, peace, and prosperity of civilizations.
Marxist concepts like social justice, critical race theory and the myths inherent in the concept of "white privilege" are ungodly, contrary to all of the Scriptures, and represent evil and destructive weapons designed to destroy the church, the family, and societies. They are drenched in narcissism and hatred.
These ideas, now permeating most of our seminaries and academic institutions (beginning in elementary school), will soon destroy the nation if we do not expose them for the evil they represent. | PLEASE HELP US FINISH THIS PROJECT BY CONTRIBUTING HERE.
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