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Up With People or Up with Communism……
Up With People Theme Song Lyrics:
It happened just this morning
I was walking down the street
The milkman and the postman
And policeman I did meet.
There in every window
At every single door I recognized people
I’d never noticed before
Chorus:
Up, up with people
You meet ‘em wherever you go
Up, up with people
They’re the best kind of folks we know
If more people were for people
All people everywhere
There’d be a lot less people to worry about
And a lot more people who care
There’d be a lot less people to worry about
And a lot more people who care.
People from the Southland
And people from the North
Like a mighty army
I saw them coming forth
‘Twas a great reunion
Befitting of a king
Then I realized people
Were a lot more important than things
Chorus:
Inside everybody
There’s some bad and there’s some good
But don’t let anybody
Start attacking peoplehood
Love them as they are
And fight for them to be
Great men and great women
As God meant them to be.
Chorus:
It stemmed from the ideology of a group called Moral Re-Armament (MRA). “The movement had Christian roots, but grew into an informal, international network of people of all faiths and backgrounds. It was based around what it called ‘the Four Absolutes’ (absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love) and encouraged its members to be actively involved in political and social issues. One of the movement’s core ideas was that changing the world starts with seeking change in oneself.” Moral Re-Armament (MRA) was an international moral and spiritual movement that, in 1938, developed from the American minister Frank Buchman’s Oxford Group. Buchman headed MRA for 23 years until his death in 1961.In 2001 the movement was renamed Initiatives of Change. “Initiatives of Change (“IofC”) is a global organization dedicated to “building trust across the world’s divides” of culture, nationality, belief, and background. The organization is committed to transforming society, beginning with change in individual lives and relationships.”
All of the organizations were based on getting all people together “helping” each other and “caring” about each other. They promote the idea that everyone is the same. They are not just talking about the US either, they are promoting this concept all over the world. Take a browse through YouTube and listen to their music! It breeds Socialist ideas and Communism in out young people! That’s why the group Up With People TARGETS the young (in order to tour with and be apart of the Up With People crew you must be ages 18-29)!!! Take this song that Up With People sings:
Lyrics to Up With People’s song “What Color is God’s Skin”:
“Good Night” I said to my little son
So tired out when the day was done
Then he said, as I tucked him in
“Tell me, Daddy- What Color is God’s Skin?”
CHORUS
What color is God’s skin? What color is God’s Skin”
I said it’s black, brown, it’s yellow… it is red, it is white
Every one’s the same in the good Lord’s sight.
He looked at me with those shining eyes
Well I knew that I could tell no lies
When he said, “Daddy, why do the different races fight
If we’re the same in the good Lord’s sight?”
CHORUS
What color is God’s skin? What color is God’s Skin”
I said it’s black, brown, it’s yellow… it is red, it is white
Every one’s the same in the good Lord’s sight.
“Son, that’s part of our suffering past
But the whole human family is learning at last
That the thing we missed on the road we trod
Was walking as the daughters and the sons of God”.
CHORUS
What color is God’s skin? What color is God’s Skin”
I said it’s black, brown, it’s yellow… it is red, it is white
Every one’s the same in the good Lord’s sight.
I used to love this song as a child, but as I got older, I realized that not everyone followed the same God as I had been taught to follow growing up. Also, people may be the same in the Lords sight, but as the human race, we are not all the same! We have many differences in the human race! Many different cultures, ideologies, religious differences, and just plain differences period.
The promotion that people all follow the same God and that people all the same reminds me of another theme song from a more present time, LOL!
Little Boxes Lyrics (Theme Song from Showtime’s mini-series called “Weeds”:
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same,
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same
And there’s doctors and lawyers
And business executives
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.
And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same,
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
The only people who will really take to heart the messages that Up With People, (and other organizations like it), are people who have the same thinking and ideology already. I don’t think the Muslim Countries will take any of this, run with it, change their religion, change their God, and change their beliefs. Nor do I think it will change any other Communist/Socialist Country because they already have Communism and it’s not working out to great for them. The Country it will change dramatically will be our own.
Organizations like these often look good at first glance, but once you start looking into what they are saying and the message they are spreading, they don’t always seem so good after a while! How quickly everyone seems to forget that Communism is promoted under the guise of helping people, sharing, and caring; even religion is used to defend Communism and Socialism. Communist and Socialists love to tug on your heart-strings and make Religious People feel it is their duty to do their “Fair Share” and give to those less fortunate over and over again…..
What people need to remember is that giving all the time, has gotten us in a real mess! Hand-Outs have hindered our society more than it has helped! Self-reliance and self-responsibility has gone out the window in our society because we have allowed Socialist and Communist ideology to take over and push too far. We have allowed Organizations like these to slip into our children’s mind that everyone is the same, everyone deserves the same, and that it is up to us to give everyone the same even though they aren’t doing the same work in order to get the same things.
It is one thing to help a person, it is another to have a society that is completely dependent on handouts from their Government because of helping ourselves into oblivion……
What do you think????
Second Amendment Duel on American’s Right to Bear Arms!
Show you how the left and their worshiped leaders always find a tragedy to manipulate for their cause, all this gun control as many conservatives know is not NEW! The underlying causes are not NEW to what happened in Newtown Ct. The method, the motivation and that they don’t address the true cause for the effect that affects everyone is not NEW! Change isn’t a verb to them by action it’s a damn noun to buy votes! Democrats never have a plan for a real change, so what they do try to change are the fundamental rights which this nation was built upon! Those same rights that allow them to even speak in such a treasonous matter towards their own constitution!
I am basically writing this brief to share the writings of a professor and expert criminologist that I have the utmost respect for his writings and views on gun ownership. You may also be surprised to know it has been confirmed through his own words that he is a democrat and belongs to several liberal groups such as the ACLU and Amnesty International. Dr. Kleck grew up in Lombard Illinois, a state that I grew up in and now live in, also one of the strictest gun law states in the Nation and has some serious high crime in its largest city, Chicago.
This report is from 1991 by Dr. Gary Kleck a criminologist that has testified before Congress and State legislators on gun control. The Supreme Court used his research in the landmark case of the District of Columbia v Heller decision which struck down the D.C. handgun ban and upheld the Second Amendment to the Constitution. (1)
“Gun control is a very minor, though not entirely irrelevant, part of the solution to the violence problem, just as guns are of only very minor significance as a cause of the problem. The U.S. has more violence than other nations for reasons unrelated to its extraordinarily high gun ownership. Fixating on guns seems to be, for many people, a fetish which allows them to ignore the more intransigent causes of American violence, including its dying cities, inequality, deteriorating family structure, and the all pervasive economic and social consequences of a history of slavery and racism. And just as gun control serves this purpose for liberals, equally useless “get tough” proposals, like longer prison terms, mandatory sentencing, and more use of the death penalty serve the purpose for conservatives. All parties to the crime debate would do well to give more concentrated attention to more difficult, but far more relevant, issues like how to generate more good-paying jobs for the underclass which is at the heart of the violence problem.”~Gary Kleck/Criminologist, author and advocate.
http://www.catb.org/esr/guns/point-blank-summary.html
Here too are some other of Dr. Kleck’s findings during later studies:
- For every use of a gun to commit a crime, there are three-to-four cases of guns being used in self-defense of a crime.
- Assault and robbery rates are lower when victims are armed with a gun.
- A gun is used in self-defense to protect its owner from crime 2.5 million times per year, an average of once every 13 seconds.
- Fifteen percent of the gun defenders interviewed believed someone would have died if they had not been armed. If true, that’s an average of one life saved due to firearm self-defense every 1.3 minutes.
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In nearly 75% of the cases, the victim did not know his attackers. In nearly 50% of the cases, he faced at least two attackers and in nearly 25% of the cases, there were three or more attackers. A quarter of the incidents of self-defense occurred away from the home. (2)
An opposing view criminologist Marvin Wolfgang even had this to say about Gary Kleck’s study:
“What troubles me is the article by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz. The reason I am troubled is that they have provided an almost clear-cut case of methodologically sound research in support of something I have theoretically opposed for years, namely, the use of a gun in defense against a criminal perpetrator…I do not like their conclusions that having a gun can be useful, but I cannot fault their methodology.”(3)
I have added the link to Dr. Gary Kleck’s Summary titled, “Guns and Violence, a summary field”, as well as a link to his book. I believe that Dr. Kleck’s summary and ability in the field says it all, much more accurate and substantiated than I could ever write and let his work stand on its on. I hope you find the chance to read his book titled, ‘Point Blank:Guns and Violence In America’, and look at the information in the link which is full of statistics and wonderful summaries on the benefit of legal law-abiding citizens being able to arm and protect themselves. His study has been challenged a few times and even then he has been able to academically defend his study.
I pray that 2013 leaves us, Americans, with our second amendment rights as originally written. I do know now is the time for not a call to arms, but to arm our voices and petitions to bear the right to arms!
In this video interview by Alex Holzbach, Dr. Kleck speaks of how the pro-gun control advocates can twist data and present it in their favor and why banning guns on campus is wrong.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kleck
2. http://civilliberty.about.com/od/profiles/a/Gary-Kleck-Biography.htm
3. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062600615.html
4. http://www.amazon.com/Point-Blank-Guns-Violence-America/dp/020230762X
