FREE MICHAEL BEHENNA! An American Soldier Unjustly Accused

LETTERS TO MICHAEL
 Letters from you are the only real way to convey to Michael that we care and are fighting on his behalf to right this injustice. He has no access to the Internet so he will not see the comments posted on this web site and he can not receive email. Thank you for taking the time to let Michael know that you appreciate him putting his life on the line in Iraq for our freedom and that you are now fighting for him!

We often get questions about what should one say to Michael in your letters.  The short answer is just tell him that you support him and appreciate his military service.  Beyond that share whatever you feel like sharing.  Michael likes to learn about the places that his supporters live so consider including a picture of your town or state in your letter.

Also, we often are asked if Michael can receive books.  He can, but these must be sent directly from the bookseller or distributor (ex: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.)
Michael can also receive money into his prison account for personal items and telephone calls. the prison charges 40 cents per minute for telephone calls, which makes keeping in touch difficult. Only Money Orders can be sent to the prison and they must have “Michael Behenna  87503″ on the payee line.
Send books, money orders and your letters of support to:

Michael Behenna #87503
1300 N. Warehouse Road
Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027-2304

Sign the petition to free Michael Behenna here

A letter from Michael here

A Cause Worth fighting for, Michael's story here

Get involved, walk the walk!  Stand up for our military heroes.  Write your congressmen and senators.  FREE MICHAEL BEHENNA! 

Mark Mattioli, Father of Newtown Shooting Victim, Speaks About Gun Laws

Parents of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School appeared before a subcommittee of the Connecticut Legislature on Monday to speak about gun control. While some used the platform to promote stricter firearms legislation, at least one parent became passionate, claiming that there are more than enough laws on the books, that current regulations simply need to be enforced and that the nation needs to embrace personal responsibility.

Mark Mattioli, whose six-year-old son James perished inside of the school, testified that a plethora of new gun laws isn’t the answer and that, instead, personal responsibility, accountability and civility are the best path forward. He made his comments as intense debate surrounding gun control and the causal factors behind the shooting continue to be at the forefront of public discussion.

The grieving father, who ended up receiving a standing ovation, said that he believes in “simple, few gun laws” and that there are already “more than enough on the books.” Mattioli contends that “the problem is not gun laws” and that these regulations simply need to be enforced.

“How do we expect to have any impact on a society and say, ‘We’re going to pass a law. Hey this is inexcusable. We can’t allow any more of this. Let’s pass a law that will change the course of the future’  when we don’t enforce the laws that we have on the books — the most important laws?,” he asked.  For more on this story, read here

One-Third of a Generation Gone in 40 Years

January 22, 2013 marked the 40th anniversary of perhaps the most egregious death sentence ever handed over by any court in history. The sentence is even more horrible because it was unborn children being rendered disposable. This week's Right to Life march in Washington DC on the steps of the Supreme Court was attended by hundreds of thousands of Americans standing up for the rights of the unborn. A record number of young people attended this march, standing in testimony to those who for 40 years have had no voice outside those who believe life begins at conception.  Doug Patton from The Cagle Post wrote an article about the anniversary of Roe vs Wade entitled "One-Third of a Generation Gone in 40 Years" which brings home saliently the stark number of a generation lost to abortion. In the article, he writes:

A little more than a month ago, 20 innocent children were savagely and senselessly slaughtered in their classroom at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, a fact now being used by an opportunistic president to further his agenda. That same day, 150 times that many innocent children were savagely and senselessly slaughtered in America’s abortion mills.

The next day, the same thing happened. And the day after that. And the day after that.

It’s been going on for 40 years now.

On January 22, 1973, my wife had been carrying the first of our two sons for three months when seven men in black robes handed down the most notorious Supreme Court ruling since Dred Scott. Consequently, our sons have grown to manhood in a country that has never protected its innocent unborn children. They have come of age with the knowledge that it is a crime to kill certain “endangered species” of animals, while realizing that one-third of their generation has been legally aborted before having the opportunity to draw breath.

America’s callous attitude toward the unborn is due in part to the overwhelming quantity of tiny corpses, now in the neighborhood of 50 million. For the last 40 years, they have been poked, poisoned and pulverized to death in the name of “choice.” As Soviet butcher Joseph Stalin is reputed to have said, “The death of a hundred people is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” This is so because, as human beings, we cannot wrap our minds around the enormity of the evil involved in such numbers. 

Killing the innocent is wrong. We all know this intuitively. The events of September 11, 2001, are seared into our consciousness because of the heinous nature of the crimes and the horrendous loss of life. Yet we turn a blind eye to the methodical and deliberate killing of that many human beings every single day at the hands of “doctors.”
 

 The rest of the article can be read here

The Mainstream Media, not surprisingly, failed to cover this event. Still, each day, all across the United States, in all kinds of weather, every day of the week, Americans will stand as witness outside abortion clinics, most prominently Planned Parenthood, and bear witness for life. Like those who marched in Washington, DC, we who stand for life will let nothing stop us. We are a growing army.  Silent no more.

FBI DIRECTOR: I have to check to see if Obama has the right to kill Americans

It was predicted.  And now it is openly being talked about.  So it begins....

A Life Worth Loving, When I'm Gone, From Disney's Movie Up Combined with Rory & Joey's, When I'm Gone

I thought this was so beautiful. I will never spend a lifetime with a man I grew up with, much less one I grew old with. It did make me think of my mother and father and how devoted they were to each other.  I miss them very much.  This is a song of celebration of life, but it's a very emotional song, too. Here's to all of those who have spent their lives with their best friend and the person they loved more than anyone else.  God bless you.

January 22, 2013, the 40th Anniversary of Roe vs Wade, and a Video by Pro-Abortionists to Celebrate

January 22, 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of Roe vs Wade and what better way to celebrate than by making a tasteless and disturbing video to mark the occasion. Shameful, sinful, and nearly unforgivable. 40 years and nearly 55 million deaths later, are we better off as humans that this bill was passed by the Supreme Court, made into law, as a "right."  A right to end the life of the most defenseless of humans. I say we are not and it is no occasion to celebrate, but to mourn. 

Charlton Heston's Stirring Speech at NRA Convention in 2000

There was never any doubt that he was an accomplished actor.  He was also a wonderful and inspiring president for the NRA. Listening to this speech, I heard an echo of Ronald Reagan, the beautiful, meaningful wording of a great American, a great patriot, a believer in the Constitution and in liberty. Thank you, Mr. Heston, for never forgetting our civil liberties and defending the Constitution. 

The Selling Out of Al Gore

I received the following article in my e-mail from the Media Research Center . The article, written by L. Brent Bozell III has to deal with the perfidy of a fallen Al Gore. I found his letter the best I have read regarding the hollow man, the empty chair that Al Gore has been exposed as. I am not sure he ever was the man he said he was. Now an Oscar winner for a mockumentary, much as Michael Moore, and an undeserving Nobel Peace Prize winner, much as Barak Obama, both of these institutions should now be totally ashamed and rethinking their giving out of these "prestigious" awards. The letter is as follows:

The liberal media have spent 12 years feeling sorry for Al Gore.The Man Who Should Have Won in 2000 has had megatons of positive publicity dumped on him, hailing him as the “Goracle.” They cheered as leftists honored him with the Nobel Peace Prize and gave an Oscar to his filmed eco-sermon “An Inconvenient Truth.”

So when Gore sold his left-wing cable channel Current TV to Al-Jazeera for $500 million, where were they? Despite the fact that conservatives thought the deal sounded like a ridiculous April Fools joke, the networks had nearly nothing to say. ABC skipped it entirely. CBS and NBC offered a perfunctory sentence on a couple of newscasts.

These networks might argue this was not an Earth-shattering business event given the puny size of Current’s audience, which is true.

At about 42,000 viewers in prime time, the nationwide audience could fit inside the Washington Redskins’ Fedex Field, and still leave the stadium half-empty.

It’s about one-fiftieth of the audience TLC gets with “Honey Boo Boo.” Of about 96 cable channels that are publicly rated by Nielsen, 93 of them have higher ratings than Current. It is a Nothing Network.

But the controversy is not about ratings. It’s about one network selling itself to another best known for vicious anti-American propaganda. Al-Jazeera is not buying Current for the potential profits. Surely, they’ll shut the old channel down. They want the cable slots to push their poison in American homes.

In 2006, CNN’s Frank Sesno interviewed Al-Jazeera talk show host Riz Khan and asked if the terrorist group Hamas should be designated as a terrorist organization. “I’m not one to judge,” Khan replied. What about Hezbollah? Khan answered: “Same thing, you know, I'm not going to judge.”

There are other signs of disturbing pro-Islamist bias. In the midst of the “Arab Spring” celebrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on February 11, 2011, some 200 men sexually assaulted CBS correspondent Lara Logan.

Al-Jazeera English, which was credited by Hillary Clinton and other liberals for its ubiquitous coverage of the uprising, deliberately ignored the assault on Logan.

When they were called out by Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart, Al-Jazeera English publicist responded that the network “believes as a general rule” that journalists “are not the story.”

Capehart then noted that just days before, al-Jazeera touted a story on how “Domestic and foreign journalists have come under siege amid the turmoil in Egypt.”

Then there’s the case of honoring Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar. In 1979, Kuntar was imprisoned for shooting an Israeli civilian in front of the Israeli’s four-year-old daughter and then bashing in the little girl’s head with his rifle.

In 2008, Al-Jazeera in Qatar threw a televised birthday party for Kuntar, then newly released in a prisoner exchange. An Al-Jazeera interviewer told Kuntar, “You deserve even more than this,” then brought out cake and sparklers.

The cake had pictures on it, and Kuntar declared the “most beautiful picture” on the cake was of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. “There cannot be anything more beautiful,” he proclaimed.

Al Gore could see nothing but positive qualities in his buyer, putting out a shameless statement that claimed, “Al-Jazeera, like Current, believes that facts and truth lead to a better understanding of the world around us.”

Gore rebuffed an offer from conservative radio/TV personality Glenn Beck to buy Current TV. Beck was told, “The legacy of who the network goes to is important to us and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with our point of view.”

Beck is not aligned with the Gore viewpoint, and yet Al-Jazeera is? Al Gore, too, would celebrate a child-murdering terrorist with a birthday cake? Why isn’t this alignment controversial or newsworthy?

Then the story gets worse. While Beck told his listeners he was rejected within minutes, Gore became a lobbyist for Al-Jazeera.

New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter revealed that to preserve the deal and his big payout, Gore went to some of cable distributors looking for an excuse to drop the low-rated channel, “and reminded them that their contracts with Current TV called it a news channel.

Were the distributors going to say that an American version of Al Jazeera didn't qualify, possibly invoking ugly stereotypes of the Middle Eastern news giant?”

So dropping Al-Jazeera became anti-“news,” anti-Arab, and Islamophobic.

But the networks won’t breathe a word about Beck, and never allowed a conservative or a critic of radical Islam to offer any criticism of either Al Gore the super-rich sellout, or his terror-enabling buyer. None dares express horror that the man who was almost president on 9/11 was allying himself with Al-Qaeda’s video jukebox.