Lessons that U.S. citizens [FN1] can learn from 9/11 & its aftermath seem to elude many of us. The attacks were abhorrent, but not “senseless.” [FN2] Terrorists chose targets in the U.S. Our policies toward & backing of the same despots as pre-9/11 should be noted. 1/10

15 of 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, [FN3] where “criticism of the ruling family, the ruling system []the kingdom’s official religion, or the government” is met with lengthy prison sentences.” [FN4] U.S.…

Over the past month, on numerous threads I’ve followed or read on different platforms, one reply on the issue of crime rates for immigrants [FN1] has been iron-clad and definitive. “If they wasn’t here illegally, that person would still be alive.” Fortunately, although such 1/8

ignorance has few bounds, statistics can suggest a return to reality. Crime rates w/in immigrant communities [FN2] are lower. [FN3] There are two points to consider:

1. Swapping out immigrants &…

Would IN Lt Gov Micah Beckwith make Hester Prynne wear a letter?

IN Lt Gov Micah Beckwith is a self-avowed “‘Christian” nationalist.’” [FN189]

1) “‘Christian’ nationalist” does not mean a person who is a “Christian” & lives in America. 1/18

A 2024 study found “Christian nationalism” imposes Christianity through:

a) legislation;

b) force like the Jan 6 Insurrection; &

c) identity. [FN190]

A more direct description is provided by Sean Feucht, a…

Rhode Island [FN186] “enjoys the honor of having been, if not the first, at least one of the earliest, of the colonies, and indeed of modern states, in which the liberty of conscience and freedom of worship were boldly proclaimed among its fundamental laws.” [FN187] 1/6

Rhode Island was the only State of the original 13 that did not send delegates to Philadelphia for the 1787 convention. Its notice of ratification makes no mention of the U.S.A. being founded as a “Christian” country.…

North Carolina is unique in constitutional history. Two conventions were called “for the purpose of deliberating and determining on the proposed Plan of Federal Government.” The first was held at Hillsborough from July 21, 1788 to August 4, 1788, when delegates, voted 1/15

“by a large majority neither to ratify nor rejected the Constitution.” [FN177] Subsequently, in convention at Ashville, North Carolina ratified the Constitution. [FN178] A 1715 declaration by North Carolina’s…

In June 1788, 3 States (VA, NY, NC) that had sent delegates to Philadelphia had not ratified the Constitution. Virginia had early ties to religion: “the Church of England seem[ed] to have maintained an exclusive supremacy” until the American Revolution. [FN163] Its 1776 1/18

Constitution recognized religion as “the duty which we owe to our CREATOR,” a term that is of deism. [FN164] Also: “all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of…