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Welcome to the Sons of Liberty webpage.  I decided after the debacle of the last general election in 2012 to put up this webpage in order to have a voice.  Like many of you I have felt completely helpless against what unfortunately has happened - the second term election of Barack Hussein Obama, and what I believe to be the consequences of this election

The purpose of this webpage is myriad.  One of the most important reasons is for me to be able to write about what is going on in our country and to speak with likeminded Americans who want to be heard and also to know the comfort that there are people out there who think similar to you.  My first article for this page is "Thoughts on the Presidential Election of 2012."  I wrote this piece in November 2012 right after the election and as you will read, I have serious concerns about our future.  In the comings days, I'll write on political issues as well as morality issues, since they are truly linked.

President George Washingon said in his 1796 Farewell address:  "Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?"

So here, forthwith, is my commentary in the blog to the right.  Let me know what you think.  

Gerri Gibney










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In Defense of the So-Called Cult Following of President Donald J. Trump

by Gerri Gibney on 01/08/21


Recently we’ve heard cries that the people who follow Trump are simply cultist, nationalistic, right wing, religious, deplorable, red-neck, Bible thumping, irredeemable, non-thinking yahoos who really are mean, despicable, unkind, un-American, ill-educated louts who revere and worship the ground Trump walks on, and in so doing, believe Trump can do no wrong, after all he is the consummate demi-god who has beguiled more than half the population with his charlatan personality to follow him.

I would vehemently declare this cult-theory group wrong.

The hue and cry we hear; Trump calls people names, that’s unkind, it’s not Presidential has been going on for quite some time, including Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, with the result Adams did not attend the Jefferson inauguration, and not speaking for twelve years.


A more egregious example of name-calling is Barack Obama in referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, saying: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."


Or the Hillary Clinton remarks; “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.  Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it.  And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”


Here we have a former President, and a would-be President calling millions of American citizens names without any substantiation.  They even went so far as to claim the high ground of morality, and in Ms. Clinton’s view, to say Americans were irredeemable.

If you listen closely to President Trump’s remarks when he does call someone a name, it is generally when that someone has said something derogatory about him.  Also, Trump always follows up with something such as he’s a nice guy, he’s O.K., or some remark indicating he is not attacking the character of the person, but is characterizing his opponent’s perceived weakness. 

Joe Biden during the campaign called Trump the first elected racist US President.  Biden doesn’t know Trump, and he certainly doesn’t know history.

However, Trump supporters are called cultists because we excuse what others see as boorish and un-presidential, and we see as the truth.  Vitriol has been in many political campaigns, and we’ve already heard Mr. Biden before his inauguration railing against racist Trump supporters.

What are we really looking at when we see a MAGA citizen? We see a fiercely patriotic citizen who wants what every other American wants; justice, freedom, liberty, to be able to use their God given talents to participate in this Republic without hindrance from their government.  A safe place to live, a job, an income, an education, you know, the American dream.

By the time Donald Trump came along, the ideals of our Founders were not given much credence, we were told America is not such a great country, we weren’t exceptional, we were told we weren’t tolerant or accepting of others, we were racist, we were selfish, some even said we were beyond redemption.  We needed to be punished and accept guilt because of our skin color.  We had to accept our jobs were gone in our great factories, and would never come back, this was the new norm.  We were told and taught we were intolerant, and that the Bible was wrong, and had to endorse and promote sin, or the Federal government would punish us.  The government set morality, not our churches, not the parents in the home, and the churches were silent.  We celebrated and gave money for out of wedlock births, to perpetuate an underclass of people in order to keep them subservient to the state.  We endorsed infanticide in the name of woman’s choice.

Donald Trump is not the one responsible for what some think is a cult centered on him.  Hopefully, he will be the first of many who champion our great nation, who are patriots.  If there is any cult, it is the cult of AMERICA! 

We know good from evil, we know we can never live up to our ideals, and we know most of all that God has shone His light on us, and will continue to do so as we remain steadfast.   We pray for His wisdom, guidance, and strength as He continues to bless us, we, the American people.

Amen.

Gerri Gibney

January 8, 2021

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