Halloween Was’ A Christian Holy Day

Halloween Was’ A Christian Holy Day 

Let’s take it back! 

By de Andréa

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Published October 31, 2016

With Halloween at hand, I thought it a good time to share a little known truth, about the day of the goblins, devils and MONSTERS. 

Throughout history Satan has been trying to steal the kingdom and creation of God as well as every other fundamental truth and celebration of Jesus Christ.  By now you should be well aware of the incremental theft of Christmas, turning and twisting it into a secular and eventually just another demonic holiday called Xmas which removes Christ from Christmas.  But few are aware that Halloween was once a Christian holy day as well, and one of the many Christian celebrations stolen over the years by Satan and his followers.  Halloween was originally called “All Hallows Eve” the night before “All Saints Day”

While some Christians choose not to celebrate Halloween in any way, because of its demonic implications, actor Kirk Cameron recently encouraged Christians to "have the biggest Halloween party on your block."

Below are some quotes from the Christian Post in an interview with Kirk Camron where he made some seemingly controversial statements. He also discussed the origins of the "spooky" holiday.  

"The real origins have a lot to do with All Saints Day and All Hallows Eve," Kirk told the Christian Post. "If you go back to old church calendars, especially Catholic calendars, they recognize the holiday as ‘All Saints Day’, with All Hallows Eve the day before, when they would remember the dead. That's all tied in to Halloween.

Early on, Christians would dress up in costumes as the devil, ghosts, goblins and witches precisely to make the point that those things were defeated and overthrown by the resurrected Jesus Christ. The costumes poked fun at the fact that the devil and his other evil demons were publicly humiliated by Christ at His resurrection. That's what the Scriptures say, that He publicly humiliated the devil when He triumphed over power and principality and put them under his feet."

THE BOTTOM LINE: Rather than ignore the annual celebration or denounce it, Christians should take back the fundamental truth of Halloween, and use it as a teaching opportunity to share the truth of Jesus Christ and his Salvation and eternal life that is clearly lacking in Satan’s Islamic religion of eternal death through Muhammad his so-called prophet.

Over time and history you get a few satanically influenced pagans who want to steal a holy day or two from the Christian church, and make it all about death which is Satan’s religion of Islam from Hell that worships death.  But Christians have always known since the first century that death and Hell were defeated, that the grave was overcome, that ghosts, goblins, and devils from Allah’s hell are foolish has-beens who used to be in power but not anymore. Not since the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

Halloween was, and could be again, a very important Holy day, celebrating the defeat of Satan’s power of eternal death, by Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the power over death in 33 AD, giving each one of us salvation and eternal life. 

So, have a blessed “All Hallows Eve” making fun and humiliating the devil, and then follow it up with the celebration of Christ’s resurrection and redemption the way it was meant to be.

As displayed on my banner above…don’t be ignorantly deceived my friend only to enable your own destruction…  

Thanks for listening 

– de Andréa 

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Which Presidential Candidate Should Christians Vote For?

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness -- these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles."  George Washington

Which Presidential Candidate Should Christians Vote For?

By de Andréa,

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Published October 30, 2016   

The most important general election in American history will be upon us before we know it. For the last one hundred years this country has been leading up to this cross road. We can chose to stay on this path to tyranny that we have been on, or we can turn right and get back on the road to the Constitutional Republic and prosperous Christian nation that this country was designed to be. The decision will be solely up to you my friend…

It appears that a large minority of Evangelical Christians are sticking with Donald Trump, despite the mainstream hate America media’s relentless attack on him. But they all should stand by the Republican nominee regardless of what the media says.  First because there is no perfect candidate.  Second the media lies like a ‘Muslim Prayer Rug’. And then, and if for no other reason, because Christians need to prevent Hillary Clinton from ever occupying the White House.

Ultimately, the election in November comes down to a choice between freedom and tyranny, and no other considerations matter.

The point is the contrast between these two candidates is huge.  I suppose it depends upon what kind of a world you want or foresee, what kind of an America you want, how your conscience will allow you to vote. Because here's the bottom line – barring something really unusual happening, all things being equal between now and November, on November the 9th, one of the candidates will have been elected commander-in-chief of the military armed forces of America and the CEO of America's economy and borders. Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

Now, you can say what you wish about either one of them, neither one of them are perfect candidates. We might have had some in history that people could deem to be more desirable than others. But we've never had a perfect human being as a president, not even Ronald Reagan was perfect. So my point is, let's be reasonable for a moment.

Christians have a responsibility to safeguard the national interests of the United States, because it was designed to be a Christian power and an important pillar of the faith worldwide.

I am a born-again, Bible-believing, Jesus-loving Christian.  My first loyalty is to the Kingdom of God regardless of who is in charge or what happens to this nation. But that being said, I also recognize this is the largest Christian nation the planet has ever seen since the birth of the church. We were a constitutional republic founded upon Judeo-Christian biblical principles. If you know your history, that is undeniable.

I know that my freedom, happiness and prosperity that I have enjoyed, is the result of living under that kind of Constitutional Republic and the life of freedom that it affords.  The choice in November is a binary decision between Trump's Federalism and the Global Tyranny of Clinton which has been revealed in recently released emails and transcripts of speeches as an explicit supporter of open borders and anti-Americanism.   

On the one hand, we have Hillary Clinton, who is an avowed globalist.  She has spoken against Second Amendment rights, she has spoken in favor of perpetuating the abortion holocaust, she has spoken very clearly about her desire to bring in more Islamic refugees, and has spoken in favor of the borders staying porous and loosening the immigration laws. I could go on and on.

Clinton is at the very least   partially responsible for the consequences of the Obama administration's foreign policy, which has seen the rise of Islamic Jihad, destabilization of the Middle East and the widespread persecution of Christians.

She's participated in the Obama administration as secretary of state.  She helped to bring about the Arab Spring, which birthed ISIS, which has birthed the entire turmoil in the Middle East. So you have more of that – or you have Donald Trump.

Trump has showed dedication to evangelical causes through the team he has assembled around him. Trump has for example, selected a Christian conservative Mike Pence as his vice president.

He has picked as a potential vice president an outspoken evangelical Christian. He has put around him an outspoken evangelical Christian advisory council. He's put an amazing coalition of Christians around him. Has Hillary Clinton done anything like that? No, she has done the exact opposite.

One thing I can tell you for sure, and that is Trump's patriotism and love for country is sincere.

Trump has made promises.  “I want to make America great again. I want to build a wall until we get a grip on this thing. I want to tighten up the restrictions on who comes in and who doesn't. I want to do some vetting. I want to make sure ISIS isn't coming across our borders to kill us, to destroy us from within, the 'Trojan Horse' scenario that ISIS brags about.”

Trump wants to bring industrial operations back to America, lower taxes so those people who have the infrastructure and the wherewithal can create good jobs and strengthen our economy. He says he wants to strengthen our military … the bottom line is he’s much more of a Constitutional federalist and Clinton is much more of a globalist autocrat.

However I have heard from many Christians who say they can't vote for Trump because of their "conscience. While I understand the position, Christians can't opt out of their responsibility to do all they can to put the best choice we have in the White House? This is what they did in the last two elections where 68 percent of registered Christians didn’t vote and look where that got us.  After all, they will also be responsible to their conscience if Hillary Clinton is in the White House in a year. And I derided the idea that there is some "perfect person" that evangelical Christians can write in to be commander-in-chief.

We're not electing a pastor or a pope or a priest or a Sunday school teacher.  We're electing the person who is going to sit across from Putin and look him straight in the eyes and tell him what for. Someone who instead of encouraging the enemy of the free world to pour into this country like vermin turning this country into just another Islamic sewer, will stop the invasion of this foreign ideology of Satan from poisoning our Christian culture.  You want to talk about your conscience? What are you going to do when you wake up on November the 9th and you didn't vote or you voted for a third party who had no chance of winning and effectively gave a vote to Hillary Clinton? You wake up and she's president-elect. The globalist autocratic agenda is in full force. Obama's last eight years will be on Communist steroids for another four or eight years and beyond. What are you going to say to your children and your grandchildren when the America we knew is gone? When the Constitution, First Amendment rights, Second Amendment Rights, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, and all the rest of those are gone? What are you going to say about your conscience then, my friend?

Trump is hardly likely to solve all the concerns of evangelical Christians in the United States. But I believe that on issues such as the Supreme Court Justices and religious freedoms, Trump will give Christians the breathing room they need to rebuild the culture.

There is nothing in the decades of Hillary Clinton's public life that indicates she is some kind of friend to constitutional law or evangelical Christianity.  Whereas Donald Trump has been a friend to Americanism and Christianity. And as I said, he at least had the guts to pick an evangelical Christian for his vice presidential candidate.

Thanks for listening my friend!

- de Andréa

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"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."

-I. F. Stone

Criminal A.G. Lynch 'Pleads The Fifth'

Covers for Obamas treason.

By de Andréa,

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Published October 29, 2016

The Washington Crime Family led by Obama, Lynch and Soros, are once again covering up their criminal activities of ISIS payola. This time to the tune of 1.7 billion American Tax Payer Dollars.  How do you like supporting the enemy that has vowed to kill you and turn you country into an Islamic State?  Any Payments to Iran go directly to the support of terrorism.  Obama, once again, illegally bypasses Congress and illegally spends your money supporting the enemy that we are at war with.  Just another treasonous act by Obama to add to my 11 inch high pile of crimes of treason committed by your Muslim Jihadist president that goes unindicted.

According to The Washington Free Beacon,  in order to avoid incriminating Obama and herself for crimes of treason as well as a dozen other crimes such as no direct congressional approval and illegal ransom payments to known terrorists,  Attorney General Loretta Lynch is refusing to comply with a criminal investigation into the Obama administration's secret payment sent to Iran of $1.7 billion in cash earlier this year.  

After the Republican lawmakers presented lynch with questions about the cash payment of I.7 billion American dollars part of which was secretly flown to Iran in the dead of night.  Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo said that Lynch chose to “plead the Fifth," in order not to incriminate herself and the president.

In an Oct. 24 response, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik responded for Lynch, refusing to answer the questions and ordering the lawmakers to not publicly reveal details about the payment.  "Disclosure of this information beyond members of the House and Senate and staff who are able to view them could adversely affect the diplomatic relations of the United States, with key allies," Kadzik wrote.

"It is frankly unacceptable that your department refuses to answer straightforward questions from the people's elected representatives in Congress about an important national security issue.  Your staff failed to address any of our questions, and instead provided a copy of public testimony and a lecture about the sensitivity of information associated with this issue. As the United States' chief law enforcement officer, it is outrageous that you would plead the Fifth and refuse to respond to inquiries." Rubio and Pompeo wrote.

They attached the questions again and requested that Lynch send answers by Nov. 4.

Rep. Pompeo rebuked the Obama administration about the issue. "Who knew that simple questions regarding Attorney General Lynch's approval of billions of dollars in payments to Iran could be so controversial that she would refuse to answer them?" he asked.

"This has become the Obama administration's coping mechanism for anything related to the Islamic Republic of Iran — hide information, obfuscate details, and deny answers to Congress and the American people." Pompeo said.

Details about the illegal Iran deal are being kept secret in a secure facility, along with the 27 secret pages of the (9/11) Report, and any lawmakers who have clearance to view them must give up cell phones and are not allowed to take notes, the Free Beacon disclosed.

Other efforts have been launched to unearth a full accounting of the secret Iran Treaty. Keeping up with all the treason and crime in Washington is like trying to swim up a waterfall on the Potomac.

One senior congressional source told the Free Beacon that Obama "appears to be "running for cover from the issue.  Evidently Attorney General Lynch and the Department of Justice have decided 'refusal to cooperate' is their best strategy. But this is dangerous and ultimately won't protect them from anything," the source said.

THE BOTTOM LINE:  Since before Obamas illegal Iran treaty that constitutionally can only be approved by the Senate, again like a dictator illegally bypassing the legislative branch of government.  I told you before that one cannot make a treaty with Muslims because according the Hadith treaties are only to fool the enemy and by time to prepare… Obama knows this because he is a Muslim. But few in our ignorant Congress have ever read the Quran or the Hadith so they are completely unaware that the Iran treaty is nothing more than a ticking time bomb.

American has been clandestinely brought into the most serious and dangerous situation that it has faced in all of history.  This makes the Second World War and the Cold War look like a practice game.  Obama has managed to destabilize the entire Middle East and North Africa and turn it over to ISIS, and is continuing to do so in Syria all while pretending to fight against the spread of Islamic Jihad. 

Riots and the demand from Jihadi terrorists for the president of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain to resign would end the shaky alliance with the U.S. and put nuclear weapons in the hands of Muslim terrorists.  Iran, in spite of the so-called treaty is continuing to develop its nuclear arsenal.

North Korea has recently been designated by the U.N. as a recognized nuclear power and has two low orbiting satellites purposely crossing the central U.S. from south to north one launched as recently as February of this year. We have no defense against an attack from the south. If one of those satellites contain even a low yield nuclear devise, North Korea could launch it from that satellite as it crossed the central U.S. and detonate it at high altitude it would create an EMP knocking out all electronics from Southern Canada to central Mexico nothing that uses electricity would survive.  Because of our dependence on electricity this would be as devastating as if all the nuclear arsenals of the world were dropped on the U.S. at once.  It would suddenly put us back into the beginning of the eighteenth century in a twenty first century world. And as I said we have absolutely no defense against it.   

If that frightens you, then I did my job. There is no more time for hand holding and diplomacy my friend.  It is time for you to do your’ job.  It is time for you to put down your Mint Julips, turn of the reruns of the Kardashian’s and do the right thing for your country.  If Hillary Clinton is ignorantly voted in as president, we will have more of the same only worse.  America will no longer be a sanctuary country it will be the closest thing to living in Hell as one could come without the real thing.    Have you taken a look at Aleppo, Mosul or Damascus lately? That is what America will look like if we ignorantly and apathetically continue on this road.      

Thanks for listening my friend!  Now go do the right thing.  

- de Andréa

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Breaking: FBI REOPENING Clinton e-mail case

"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."

-I. F. Stone

Breaking! FBI Reopening Clinton Email Case!

By de Andréa,

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Published October 28, 2016

This may take the Criminal Communists down …

Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) just announced that the FBI just discovered new emails pertinent to their case against Hillary Clinton. They are reopening the investigation!

FBI Dir just informed me, “The FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.” Case reopened

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Jason Chaffetz 

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FBI Dir just informed me, "The FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation." Case reopened

9:57 AM - 28 Oct 2016

FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to 8 different Congressional Committee Chairmen saying:

“In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.”

 Thanks for listening my friend!   

- de Andréa

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Whistle Blower Files Law Suit Against DNC and Hillary Clinton

"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."

-I. F. Stone

Whistle Blower Files Law Suit Against DNC and Hillary Clinton

By de Andréa,

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Published October 28, 2016

James O’ Keefe of theVeritas Project is doing what the government will not do, bring the DNC and HillaryClinton up on charges of inciting riots and voter fraud just for starters.  Why won’t the government file criminal charges against these Criminal Communists? Because the entire administration are Communist Criminals and they will all go down.  That is, if there is a Court left in the country that hasn’t joined the criminal hate America Fabians.

Where is this going?  Well with the entire Obama administration involved in the worst kind of government corruption this country has ever see in its history…Probably nowhere!  The only thing that might save us from a civil war against the Fabian Communists and the ISIS Terrorists is the election of Donald Trump.  Hoping of course that he will do what he says he will do, and that is to put the entire Obama administration and Killary in orange jump suits and deport all the Muslims back to the seventh century and build the boarder wall, outlaw the Mexican La Raza and all the Muslim terrorist organizations passing themselves off as charity funds.  And try Gary Swartz AKA George Soros for Nazi War Crimes.  

After exposing Democrat voter fraud and election rigging on video, including claims that Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and DNC Chair Donna Brazile were personally involved, James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has decided to file suit against the DNC and Clinton.

According to the complaint filed by O’Keefe to the Federal Election Commission, he calls the actions of the DNC, which his team of undercover journalists uncovered, a “criminal conspiracy” and says that it should’ trigger criminal penalties under the law.

“This criminal conspiracy involves the knowing and willful creation of coordinated expenditures from prohibited corporate sources. As is detailed numerous times in the Veritas transcript, attached as EXHIBIT A, the supposedly independent speech and actions of third-party groups were directed, controlled, or puppeteered by HFA or the DNC. Indeed, the record establishes not just simple violations of the FECA’s coordination provisions, but ongoing knowing and willful evasion of federal election law requirements through a complicated scheme. Because this conspiracy involves large numbers of employees, heightened travel, production, and distribution costs and because of the nationwide scale of the operation, upon information and belief, this triggers criminal penalties under 52 U.S.C. § 30109(d)(1)(A)(i).

By failing to abide by the law, these respondents misled the public about the true identity of speakers and funding sources for political protests and advocacy campaigns. This sort of evasion undermines the public’s trust in the electoral process and allows elite political operatives to operate above the law.”

O’Keefe’s evidence is not just the statements of Robert Creamer in his videos, but also several emails with statements that indicate collusion to engage in illegal activities.

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·        Media Completely IGNORES All the Anti-Trump Violence Sweeping the Country

·        Hillary Planning Her Escape After a Trump Win With a $1.8 BILLION Money Transfer to QATAR

·        Chris Wallace Doesn’t Let Clinton Campaign Manager Off the Hook With Trump’s STOLEN Tax Returns [VIDEO]

·        WH Petition to Remove Soros-Backed Voting Machines Reaches Over 61,000 Signers

In an interview, O’Keefe said, “As the chairman of Project Veritas, our work is financially independent and beholden to nobody. Our work is funded by thousands of contributors, small, medium, and large. What I have learned about our media – and it’s frightening – is that almost everyone is compromised. Media companies are beholden to stockholders and I have sources that I am trying to get to go on the record to explain that these companies are afraid of reporting this story for fear of political retaliation. If the public knew the truth, I think it would change everything about American politics.”

One would hope that O’Keefe’s complaint would be taken seriously. However, after the FEC has allowed the Criminal Communist-in-chief to remain in office for eight years despite the fact that the man has posted a fraudulent birth certificate on the White House website, has a fake selective service document, uses fraudulent Social Security numbers, is passing off numerous other forged documents and can’t even pass E-verify to get a job, it’s highly doubtful the FEC will do anything to Hillary Clinton, but there’s always hope.

You can read the complaint and exhibits at the following links:  Complaint,   Exhibit A,   Exhibit B,   Exhibit C,   Exhibit D.

THE BOTTOM LINE: This is a good example of the failure to identify who the enemy of America is.  The enemy of America is not only Islam but the Fabian Communist criminals that have taken control of the U.S. Federal Government the Judicial System and many of the state and local governments as well.  The majority of the people who still vote, are unfortunately, low information citizens, dead people, illegal aliens, Communists, and Muslims. This is how we got a Muslim Jihadist Criminal Communist in the Whitehouse for the past seven and a half years.  If we continue to refuse to identify who the enemies of freedom are, we will end up in a civil war, or’, our children will never know what it was like to be free. Communists and Muslims have this in common, total and absolute subjugation of the masses, and the destruction and/or the rewriting of history. You won’t miss what you never knew.   

This one young man James O’ Keefe is risking his life to expose these Criminals for what they really are. And the bought and paid for media is failing to report it.  Both the Republican and the Democrat parties have been corrupted to the point that to most people, it seems normal.  This why Donald Trump seems to be marching to a different tune.  We have already forgotten our history and the Judeo Christian platform that this country was built on, and how good and prosperous it was while we were still a Christian Nation.  We have traded God in for the satanic ideology of Islam and the atheism of Communism.  And so we have traded our freedom for tyranny.  And the sad part is…we are too blind to see the train coming that is about to hit us.

Thanks for listening my friend!   

- de Andréa

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U.S. Soldiers Betrayed by Their Government

"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."

-I. F. Stone

U.S. Soldiers Betrayed by Their Government

Pentagon Orders Soldiers to Return Enlistment Bonuses

By de Andréa,

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Published October 27, 2016

“Here is a check for $30,000, sign this contract and spend the next 6 years in combat.  You might come back missing arms, face or your legs, maybe even your life, but at least you have $30,000.

10 years later nearly 10,000 soldiers are threatened to be sent to the Gulags or to give back the money paid them for their reenlistment.

A decade after the California National Guard offered bonuses starting at $15,000 to as much as $55,000 to soldiers if they would reenlist for 6 years and serve on combat tours, the Pentagon is now demanding these soldiers repay the money or face legal consequences, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.  What! Is Obama’s support the enemy fund running a little low???

Soldiers Ordered to Return Bonuses

The California Guard’s use of monetary incentives in the mid-2000's to boost the declining enlistment rosters while facing two wars enticed nearly 10,000 soldiers to reenlist. But years after the Contracts were made, the government decided that California Guard officials mismanaged the agreements and allowed for widespread fraud. As a bitter thanks for their service, thousands of soldiers have been ordered to repay those bonuses.

"Shame on the callous Pentagon decision makers who simply dictate pay back, while not thinking through the effect it will have on service personal and the fallout of bad publicity in the communities in which they live."

"At the end of the day, the soldiers ended up paying the largest price," Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, deputy commander of the California Guard, told the LA Times. "We’d be more than happy to absolve these people of their debts. We just can’t do it. We’d be breaking the law."

I can’t help but wonder if it occurred to them that violating a good faith contract is breaking the law…

According to Col. Michael S. Piazzoni, a California Guard official who supervised the audits, the Guard paid much of the money upfront while the system spent the next several years analyzing whether or not the agreements were even above board. The soldiers with whom the Guard made the agreements primarily were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.

When the National Guard Bureau investigated the bonus payments across the country, the Pentagon agency found that bonus overpayments took place in every state. But California engaged in the highest levels of overpayments and incentives dangled in front of the soldiers to entice them to reenlist.

The unpleasant discovery of the error in California was made 10 years ago, and was given to Senator Barbara Boxer who dropped the ball.  Moreover the Pentagon still ordered approximately 9,700 of the soldiers to repay the bonuses. So far, $22 million has been returned. But the repayment initiatives have left these soldiers bitter, broke, and betrayed, while many began filing appeals or flat out refusing to comply with the Pentagon’s orders.  And the media failed to report it until now.

NOTE: Someone should have told these soldiers that Senators no longer represent anything, they just represent themselves.  Read the 17^th amendment.

Robert Richmond recently told the LA Times he reenlisted as a Special Forces soldier when he learned that he ostensibly qualified for a $15,000 bonus. After being deployed to Iraq in 2007, Richmond served in the town of Hillah, which was part of an area known as the "Triangle of Death." Richmond was left with permanent brain and back injuries after a roadside bomb exploded near him.  When Richmond learned that the Pentagon had slapped him in the face with an order to repay his bonus or face "debt collection action," he could not believe it.  "I signed a contract that I literally risked my life to fulfill," Richmond told the LA Times. "We want somebody in the government, anybody, to say this is wrong and we’ll stop going after this money."  After refusing to pay the bonuses and filing several appeals, the Treasury Department informed Richmond that his "unpaid $15.000 delinquent debt" has now risen to $19,694.62.  The U.S. Federal Government has obviously taken on the role of LOAN SHARK!

One retired colonel slammed the deep injustice handed to the California guardsmen.  "This is not the way to treat soldiers. I can fully understand how soldiers in the article felt 'betrayed, screwed, frustrated, and overwhelmed,'" retired Col. James A. Lake told Life Zette. "Shame on the callous Pentagon decision makers who simply dictate pay back while not thinking through the effect it will have on service personal and the fallout of bad publicity in the communities in which they live." Lake, who served 26 years in the United States Army, served as a battalion commander for active and reserve recruiting during the 1980s. Noting that it was "very common" for recruiters to offer incentives to entice men and women with highly sought-after occupational skills to enlist, Lake said the incentive program was "necessary" for recruitment efforts.  "The article appears to outline clearly that there was fraud and bad management at the National Guard level in administrating the incentives. Whether it was the pressure of meeting quotas or just pure ignorance, the enlistee should not bear the responsibility to pay back that which was given," Lake said. "The only exception would be if the enlistee knew that the integrity of the incentive program was being breached."

"One hopes the current class action suit filed in Sacramento — where the suit asked the court to order the recovered money to be returned to the soldiers and to issue an injunction against the government barring further collection — will succeed," Lake added. "Additionally, it is time to get the politicians involved with the Pentagon and stop this madness. Soldiers deserve better from the nation they have served."

But good luck getting even a thankyou from this Communist Government.  Our soldiers will be lucky if they aren’t sent to the Gulags’.

Note: Did you know that these soldiers had to pay income taxes on these bonuses?  I wonder if these Marxist Fabians will be so eager to pay the taxes back…

Probably not!

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Thanks for listening my friend!   

- de Andréa

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