"I am a strong Christian. Not a perfect one—not close."

"I am a strong Christian. Not a perfect one—not close."

Hello I am Joseph Barber,Master carpenter and Builder, Architectural Artist, and builder &·
design,custom homes,and specialize in historical restoration.from start to finish.I am a top notch tile setter
From small repairs and up to large projects I ask reasonable price that no one to date has been able to beat and provide a professional quality job and craftsmanship far and above anyone you can find these days or may encounter I bring with me some 25 years experience I the construction trade as well as the mechanical engineering field and all around adventure of life.I was a soldier for some time hard job but yet wonderful quite the education you might say,love the Ocean and anything to do with it.

“I am a strong Christian. Not a perfect one—not close. But I strongly believe in God, Jesus, and the Bible. When I die, God is going to hold me accountable for everything I've done on earth. He may hold me back until last and run everybody else through the line, because it will take so long to go over all my sins.” Honestly, I don’t know what will really happen on Judgment Day. But what I lean toward is that you know all of your sins, and God knows them all, and shame comes over you at the reality that He knows. I believe the fact that I’ve accepted Jesus as my savior will be my salvation.

I served 14.5 years in the United State Army and ended that journey of my life with honor serving we the people was the proudest moments in my life,“I’ve lived the literal meaning of the “land of the free” and “home of the brave.” It’s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn’t take off his hat, it pisses me off. I’m not one to be quiet about it, either.”

Just Take a moment and Listen to how we speak about freedom and you'll gain tremendous insight into our true attitudes about freedom and, therefore, our relationship to one another,I have many people ask me why I protest and stand in the way of the things I see as wrong is it that I think I am going to change this country or the world and that is no I do what I do because it is where my heart has guided me to bve and so that this country and world doe's not change me in to the person I was not born to be someone who has CONFORMED TO AWAY OF LIFE ONLY BECAUSE THEY HAD NO OTHER WAY OR CHOICE AND FOUND THEMSELVES BEING GOVERNED I have many times over the years spoken of being governed!!!!!

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."

I am a sovereign and I have no doubt there are many of you who see that as a bad thing and have no true understanding of what is means to be such and the responsibility that comes with such away of life,and some may ask What is A Sovereign Citizen
Sovereign Citizenship is the status held by our forefathers. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and everyone else who won their freedom from the British Empire had this status. It was the birthright of all Americans, and we were generous in extending this most important right to foreign-born persons through the naturalization laws. With this status, our unalienable rights of life, liberty, and property couldn't be infringed. During the Civil War a method was discovered by the leading attorneys, financiers, and politicians of the day to deprive us of this status. Fortunately, we can get it back.

There will be those that call me a liar and would set me aside to silence my voice they will look down onn you because you have made a conscience choice to live free and to govern yourself call it LAWFUL REBELLION STAND FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.

Rules are meant for slaves free men govern themselves A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.Understand brothers and sisters A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him. Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.In a world of tyranny,

It is absolutely true that Ignorance breeds fear. Fear breeds hate. Hate breeds violence. Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace

As I mentioned I was a Soldier once and I find it my duty to speak out in the way I die not only for myself but for the future generations to come as a Soldier I have seen and participated in things that would shake your soul and shatter your heart and mind and all the while you have t make this appearance your OK but your not because in all this we the people forget to see the truth and that is soldiers are trained to kill not coup with the things they have done or been a party to For the past dozen years or so, Americans have been deluged with talk about “heroes,” and especially “our brave soldiers.” I was at a funeral recently, and was shocked to see the funeral director conduct a ritual: he had all past or current members of the military line up and touch a flag for the deceased.

This is not only stupidly out of proportion, but it is deeply damaging to the “heroes.”

As I’ve said before, I understand how young people get pulled into the military, and I do not think that they join because they want to kill. (Though some small number may.) So, let me be very clear on something:
The vast majority of war heroes are victims.

As it happens, I talk to military people, sympathetically. And I know the other side of the war hero story – the side that they don’t show on TV or when worshiping uniforms in churches, schools, or at sporting events.

Point #1: No one leaves battle whole.

Don’t ever imagine that soldiers come out of battle in any way better than when they went in.
No normal human can kill people without damaging themselves. Perhaps if you’re 50 years old and have to shoot someone who is clearly in the process of killing others, you can come out of it without permanent damage. At that age your character is already developed, and if you can honestly reassure yourself that it was necessary, you may be okay.

But if you think a 19-year-old kid, shooting at people he has never met before, who are simply driving down the street, will be okay afterward… forget about it – that kid will never be whole again.

And the same goes for the soldier who sees his friend get his leg blown off. Or, just having to go into situation after situation where that could happen at any time.

Crowds can chant “hero” all they like, but the soldier who was in battle has something torn in his soul.

Point #2: The soldiers know it.

Can you imagine the kind of internal conflict this hero worship inflicts on the 22-year-old ex-soldier? He’s praised as a hero endlessly, but he’s torn up inside, and sometimes when he’s alone, he cries and shakes.

This is what really happens:

The big, tough soldier hides in a bathroom and cries, because he can’t face going out into a crowd.
He wonders what was in all those pills they were ordered to take before going into battle.
He’s unable to make decisions for himself.

He has post-traumatic stress in spades but dares not tell the VA, because that would prevent him from owning a gun, and that’s the only thing that makes him feel safe.

And all the while, the soldier is paraded in front of crowds and publicly praised as some type of superior being, god-gifted with bravery. Could you live with that?

Is it any wonder that US soldiers are killing themselves at a rate of 22 per day?

Point #3: They are abandoned.

I recently had a talk with a friend who spent a full 20 years in the military, and we discussed these subjects.

One of the things that bothers me most is that these young men and women are sent into the hell of battle and then ignored by the Veterans Administration when they get back. I’m certainly no fan of government or its programs, but if you send a kid into death and destruction, you’re also honor-bound to help them recover if they make it out.

The VA is abandoning these former soldiers. I expressed this complaint to my friend, and he told me that it was worse, and more callously malicious, than I knew.

My friend is a decent man, and he does his best to help returning soldiers because no one else does. We discussed this at length, and I was pleased to know that he sits down with whatever few soldiers he can, and says this:

Yes, you’re fucked-up. After what you’ve been through, that’s what you’re supposed to be!
So far as he knew, no one associated with the VA was helping the returning soldiers one-to-one, only him and a few others.
So…

American hero worship is torturing ex-soldiers. It’s driving them to suicide. This mindless worship is good for the State, but it’s hell for the kids who were actually in battle.
Don’t follow that script. Have some compassion for the kid who was immersed in death and hell.

To answer a question posed to me by my son a beautiful young man that has chosen not to serve hos country or his people in such violent ways for that I am si very proud of the choice and choices he has made He asked me Dad what are you or better yet when you were as a soldier were you a FREEDOM FIGHTER OR TERRORIST?

He had asked me this do to the words I speak out with like if you waant to stop terroism stop participating in it and nby me doing so does thaat not in fact make me a hypocrite these were not words I wished to here come from my son about me but I THINK IT WAS A FAIR QUESTION AND HONEST ONE

Freedom Fighter or Terrorist? - Freeman's Perspective

Is one man’s terrorist another man’s freedom fighter? Maybe so, but one of the two is a really stupid man! Are all uses of violence equal? Are we really to believe that we can’t tell the difference between a suicide  bomber and a man who defends his children from a kidnapper-killer?

Someone who kills people he never met, not because they ever did anything to him, but because it will generate fear and attention – that man or woman is a… YES, a terrorist!
A man who pulls out a shotgun and kills a maniac who is shooting kids in a school is a freedom fighter. Or, as they used to say in the old days, a savior.

Freedom Fighter or Terrorist? Can you tell the difference?

If not, you’re just not trying. And if you can, you are clearly saying that the slogan is false! Are you really too intimidated to say that a suicide bomber blowing up a bus is evil?
“But,” some will say, “what about the man whose city is occupied by abusive soldiers? Isn’t he a freedom fighter if he fights to get free of them?” Sure! He’s a freedom fighter if he fights the actual invaders; that is, if he fights against the invading soldiers. But he’s NOT a freedom fighter if he blows up school kids. Do you really need me to spell this out for you?

And another objection: “What about soldiers? What if they’re sent illegally, blah, blah, blah?” (Usually involving intimidating levels of emotion.)  If a soldier fights other soldiers, he is not a terrorist. If he kills civilians, intending to cause fear, he is a terrorist, the same as anyone else. Wearing a uniform does not excuse terrorism.
Then, of course, is the issue of collateral damages. That is, civilians being accidentally killed during a war. And a legitimate issue it is!

Collateral damage is a horrible thing. This is precisely why war stinks! We’ll deal with necessity of war another day, but war is always ugly, and innocent people always get killed. Heck, there are always double-digit percentages of friendly-fire deaths! But, that said, to call a soldier a terrorist over this is ignorant – if he has no intent to terrorize, he is not a terrorist. He may not be acting in the best possible way, but “terrorist” has a particular meaning.

Innocent people die during wars because armies lack the ability to discriminate. That’s horrible, but no alternative exists. Every time there is a war, innocent people will die. That makes the initiation of war an immensely serious thing, but it does not make a soldier a terrorist.

If you really can’t tell the difference between terrorist or freedom fighter, you’re just not trying.

And in closing this article large or small “A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”

I am an American. No hyphens, simply American. I am of no political party and proud of it. I look at the issues in this country from a rational standpoint, not clouded by emotions like so many politicians and MSM "journalists". I'm here to rant and create meaningful discussion. Thanks for your time and God Bless!

“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.” “The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?” “No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.” There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

Pro Deo et Constitutione – Libertas aut Mors
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Joseph F Barber