tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660243140741722450.post4708102389888785400..comments2023-08-09T02:28:46.503-05:00Comments on THE THOMAS REPORT: HUCKABEE WINS THE VALUES VOTER STRAW POLLJustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13631060439308208709noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660243140741722450.post-17732290453045333172007-09-22T18:54:00.000-05:002007-09-22T18:54:00.000-05:00Carl V. "Sam" Lamb and I served side-by-side as ri...Carl V. "Sam" Lamb and I served side-by-side as rifle-squad leaders; Fox Company, 'Chesty' Puller's 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division. He wrote a book about our experiences in the Korean conflict, 1950-1951. He included my remarks about an incident in which one of our people threatened to punch-out a fellow squad-leader-guideon who had black skin. <BR/>The page follows:<BR/><BR/> + + +<BR/><BR/>THE LAST PARADE<BR/> by Carl V. "Sam" Lamb Page 296 (ref: 1951)<BR/><BR/>James Fletcher Baxter<BR/><BR/>"Sam" and I had a lot in common. We both resisted evil. After I<BR/>got out of the hospital, Big Jim Causey told of driving along<BR/>in his police cruiser and hitting a black man in his head <BR/>with his pistol. He thought it was funny how the guy sprawled<BR/>into the street. When he made this comment we were in a card <BR/>game. I didn't say anything, but then he said he was going to<BR/>kick the ____ out of Joe Goggins and I had heard enough.<BR/><BR/> I said, "If you're going to try that, you'll have to go through <BR/>me to get to him. I'm willing to give my life for a country<BR/>that values each individual. If that isn't true, I don't want <BR/>to fight for that country - but, it is true, so I'm not going <BR/>to let you rob me of the very good reason I may lose my life <BR/>tomorrow or next week. If you attack him, you attack me. I <BR/>may lose, but I guarantee I will make it very expensive for <BR/>you to get to him. Let me know what you decide."<BR/><BR/>He got up from our card game and said, "I'll have to think <BR/>about it."<BR/><BR/>I said, "Let me know. I'll be here."<BR/><BR/>He came back a little later and said, "You're right. I was <BR/>wrong." I thanked him for his manliness.<BR/><BR/>Joe Goggins came to me later and thanked me. He had wet eyes.<BR/><BR/> + + +<BR/><BR/> 9/22/07 JFB<BR/>Shortly after the above event, Jim Causey was called home for family <BR/>member medical problems. On his way back to the States, he passed <BR/>through a Naval medical facility. While there, he ran into my brother, <BR/>Sgt. Howard "Barney" Baxter, 5th Marines, who had just been sent <BR/>stateside for his Chosen Reservoir frost-bitten feet.<BR/><BR/>Causey told my brother what had happened and said "how much it <BR/>had changed his life." He said Joe and I had forgiven him and he <BR/>would "never go back to the old collective point of view." He was <BR/>really joyful because he was honestly able to forgive himself! He <BR/>became a more manly man - a good Marine - with honor.<BR/><BR/>I'm pleased the Rutgers women accepted Imus' apology. They, and<BR/>others, need to forgive. We all need to grow. Good examples are<BR/>always in short supply. God bless my Country and its Individuals.<BR/><BR/>semper fidelis<BR/>Jim Baxter<BR/>Sgt. USMC<BR/>WWII and Korean War<BR/><BR/>5th Grade Teacher - 30 wonderful years! '57- '87<BR/>vincit veritas<BR/><BR/> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<BR/><BR/>INDIVIDUAL VALUE - Gift of Y'shua JESUS<BR/>by James Fletcher Baxter<BR/><BR/>The Old World method of measuring human value was, <BR/>and still is, by the group. Whether tribe, clan, <BR/>city-state, color, ethnic, or gender, the Old <BR/>World, ancient and modern, measures by the plural<BR/>unit. Individuals had and have no value of them-<BR/>selves but only as they were and are part of a <BR/>collective.<BR/><BR/>When Y'shua Jesus died on the cross, the veil of <BR/>the Temple at the Holy of Holies parted from the <BR/>top down. The individual believer in the congrega-<BR/>tion had, for the first time, a face-to-face, one-<BR/>on-one relation with his Creator. The Creator, <BR/>Himself, had validated each individual for the <BR/>first time.Thus, the Individual became the corner-<BR/>stone for later human value measuring systems: <BR/>socio-political, philosophical, religious, educa-<BR/>tional, economic, etc., henceforth and forever. <BR/>Western Civilization, America, English Law, civil <BR/>Rights, the 'democratic' process, etc., all sprang <BR/>from that single event. (Greco-Roman 'democracies' <BR/>were 95% slave throughout their entire histories.) <BR/>Biblical principles are still today the foundation <BR/>under Western Civilization and the American way of <BR/>life.<BR/><BR/>Many social systems attempt to borrow ideas of <BR/>"democracy" without the basic premise in The Indi-<BR/>vidual. Such a system is only superficially and <BR/>temporarily 'democratic.' The cornerstone of the <BR/>democratic process is The Individual and the <BR/>cornerstone of the value of The Individual is <BR/>Y'shua Jesus! It is not possible to have one with-<BR/>out the other. There is only One Source - there is <BR/>no other.<BR/><BR/>It is additionally interesting to note that all <BR/>value measuring systems are based on the single <BR/>definitive unit of the system. Ex: Number, Time, <BR/>Distance, Weight, Heat, Money, Angle, Volume, etc. <BR/><BR/>Only humanism makes the abusive error of measuring <BR/>human value by the plural unit and attempts to <BR/>build social structures, relations, and institu-<BR/>tions thereon. Such man-made systems can only be <BR/>abusive and oppressive because in reality there <BR/>are only individual persons. Groups or collectives <BR/>are merely convenient verbalizations about indi-<BR/>viduals. They are not Reality.<BR/><BR/>I have yet to see a 'group.' All I have ever seen <BR/>are individuals.Have you ever seen a group - or is <BR/>it a verbal convenience? Reality is only in the <BR/>individual person. And, such a validation never <BR/>derived from a human source without the initiative <BR/>of the Creator. (The French Rationalists of the <BR/>18th Century favored the fruit - but rejected the <BR/>branch, tree, and root.)<BR/><BR/>Today, wherever Y'shua Jesus is rejected, the <BR/>group or collective is still the basic way of <BR/>measuring human value - and/or human non-value.<BR/><BR/>We thank the Lord God for revealing His validation <BR/>of each individual person. We thank Him for creat-<BR/>ing each person uniquely, in His image, and call-<BR/>ing each one to a courageous ascension by Y'shua <BR/>Jesus, who said, "I AM the Way..."<BR/><BR/>Praise the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and<BR/>His Son of Man, Y'shua Jesus.<BR/><BR/>Reference: Exodus 25:30,40 Hebrews 9 Matthew 27:51 <BR/>Mark 15:38 Luke 23:45 KJV<BR/><BR/>vincit veritas<BR/>Jim Baxter<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Q: ? "How many more Columbines and VA Tech before we 'get it?' " jfb<BR/><BR/>Collectivist 'solutions' will not solve problems caused<BR/>by collectivism: Individual only.<BR/><BR/> CHOOSE MIKE HUCKABEE ! ! !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com