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“A Child Shall Lead Them”

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The Democrats are so certain that Trump poses a threat to democracy that they staged a coup.  We may just see a repeat of 2016 where the pollsters predicted that Trump and Hillary were neck and neck in the polls and Trump took it by a landslide.  President Trump has properly been called the most pro-life president in history.  We need him back. 

Next, we need to follow the lead of Students For Life (“… a child shall lead them”. Isaiah 11:6) and meet them at the Lincoln Memorial in June 2025 to take the case for the equal humanity and personhood of the preborn child over the head of the Supreme Court – take it directly to God Himself from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, our nation’s “Temple of Equality” as Martin Luther King successfully recognized it to be.

It is now important to give our Supreme Court judges a ‘safe harbor’ for their personal residences if we are to get them to do what their heart is telling them to do for our preborn children. The judges need a secure, gated community – a ‘Camp David’ type of parcel of land (including guards in the woods at the outer perimeter), and room amongst the trees for the 9 separate residences of the judges own choosing. Rock Creek Park offers an ideal location only 20 minutes away from the Supreme Court.

Nellie Gray’s March for Life to the Supreme Court succeeded after half a century in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe.  But Dobbs only gave the preborn child half a loaf.  A leak of the decision caused the judges to be threatened even before the case came out with no less than the Majority Leader of the Senate (Chuck Schumer) going to the steps of the Supreme Court with a bullhorn and shouting threats at the judges that rattled their windows.  Then hired goons (paid demonstrators) were bused in to threaten the judges in front of their residences.

Courts are established to handle ‘controversies’, but this was too controversial for them.  They got down Pontius Pilate’s bowl, washed their hands of it after overturning Roe, and essentially said they didn’t want to hear any more about it, sending it back to the states.

Hence, depending upon the state in which a preborn child is conceived, it’s a matter of Russian roulette whether she lives or dies.  It’s time to join forces at the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Dobbs (the March for Life forces need to join up there with the Students for Life (“… a child shall lead them”. Isaiah 11:6).  We need to use our nation’s own Declaration of Independence and 14th amendment to guarantee the equal right to life of all preborn children regardless of which one of the 50 states they are conceived in.

Let us pray!

A Better Place for a Lincoln Museum

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Following Donald Trump’s election to the presidency in 2016, he had a celebratory function including fireworks on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial; untouched then since its dedication in 1922.  If re-elected to the presidency in 2024, he will find the Lincoln Memorial under siege by inept contractors doing irreparable damage and compromising the security of the Memorial itself.

As you may know, much of Washington, D.C., was built on a backfilled swamp, including the Lincoln Memorial that is situated next to the Potomac River.  Our research indicates that in order to find a secure foundation for the Memorial, the builders went down 40 feet into the swamp to the bedrock and came up with giant columns to ground level.  They continued with the columns another 40 feet in the air and these columns and archways (known as the undercroft) are the elevated foundation upon which the Lincoln Memorial actually sits. 

When it was completed, earth was backfilled around it to give it the appearance of sitting on a hill, and of course, a long marble staircase makes the assent to the gallery level and Lincoln’s statue.

In an interview with the National Park Service ranger (a retired teacher; 13 years with the park service; he gives public tours of the Lincoln Memorial and the National Post Office building), he said that following 9/11, Homeland Security came to check out the vulnerability of the Lincoln Memorial to any terrorist threat.

He indicated that it was determined at that time that the only access to the basement (undercroft) was limited space at the south end of the Memorial with one elevator shaft going down to the restrooms at that location, but no basement space under the rest of the Memorial.  A dynamite blast set off under the south end would not take down the Memorial.  He went on to indicate that the experts did determine at that time that a blast under the center of the Memorial would take it down.  At that time there was no access underneath to get to the center of the Memorial.

All of that has changed now with this completely unnecessary and misplaced project of tunneling under the Memorial to its center to make space for, of all things, a souvenir shop, a movie theater and a small museum when right across the street from the Memorial there is a several acre vacant parcel of land that would more than accommodate these things in a building which could be built above ground without disturbing the iconic Lincoln Memorial.

Why was this venture capitalist allowed to do such a thing to the Memorial to begin with?  The Lincoln Memorial was patterned after the Parthenon atop the Acropolis in Ancient Greece.  The Parthenon has stood for 2500 years and the Lincoln Memorial was built to stand the test of time itself if left alone by those wanting to make money off of souvenirs and a movie theater.  Plus, once you have a movie theater, you can show any movies you want in the future (the ‘woke politics’ of the day).

Above the head of Lincoln’s seated statue, we find the following words:

“In this TEMPLE as in the hearts of the people

for whom he saved the Union

the memory of Abraham Lincoln

is enshrined forever.”

A temple is contemplative of eternal verity (truth).  A museum is educational. If this ‘Rape’ of the Lincoln Memorial is permitted to stand, it will become known in the common parlance as “The Lincoln Museum”.  You can’t have it both ways in the public mind and in the language.

Yours very sincerely and respectfully,

Martin Palmer

Trump-Harris Debate

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Former President Trump walked into a trap at the debate hosted by ABC (Always Biased Coverage).  He was pitted against three people – Kamala Harris and the two moderators.  Our source tells us that Kamala was given the questions ahead of time and it was apparent with her well-practiced lines.  Can’t they do anything fair?

In the eyes of world leaders, President Trump deservedly waiting in the wings has kept what little peace we have in the world.  The dictators of the world have run rough shod over the current president and vice president of the United States.

Our forefathers providentially left us with a wonderful system of government, the system Abraham Lincoln referred to as “this government of the people, by the people and for the people.  So long as you have honest elections, the wisdom of the people – all the people, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker – will prevail, and we will have honest and good leaders.   If you crook an election, you get a crook.  We got that in Joe Biden. Will Rogers would have said, “We got the best president Chinese money can buy!”

Now, a smart thing he did is choose Kamala Harris as his vice president (she was his anti-impeachment insurance).  Even the Democrats did not want her as their candidate.  When Biden was forced to step down, they had no choice.

The facial expressions of the two candidates said it all last night.  If you muted the sound entirely and watched nothing but their faces for 90 minutes, you would see that the candidate whom the opposition has not liked from the beginning (because he has his own money and cannot be bought) did not crack a smile during the entire 90 minutes.  As he said to Sean Hannity after the debate, “I can smile too, but these matters are dead serious.”  He is a man, who in his own words, “took a bullet to the head” because of things the Biden-Harris campaign has been saying (like “Trump a threat to democracy”). 

He has weathered the slings and arrows of a weaponized Justice Department and has added a new word to our language –‘lawfare’.


The real threat to this nation is a weak and reckless dealing with foreign powers (think nuclear war).  On Trump’s heart last night were the hundreds of thousands of people who are being killed in Ukraine because of a senseless war that he would have prevented.  TV viewers would look from the serious face of the president to the sometimes oddly smiling face and curious laughter of the vice-president. This was part of her debate prep; a technique meant to blunt in the mind of the viewer, every serious, truthful point Trump made (except her facial expressions were often so out of place, it was quite childish really.)

This agent of death depersonalizes the preborn child by repeatedly referring to a woman’s “control over her own body” and need for “healthcare”.  If a woman was standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon with a newborn baby wrapped in a receiving blanket in her arms, is she exercising “control over her own body” if she throws it down into the Canyon?  If a partially born child is half in and half out of the birth canal and scissors are thrust into the back of her skull so one cannot hear her cries echoing across the Canyon as she is crucified in a cruel death, is that her mother’s “control over her own body”?  

Note especially that Kamala Harris gave no answer to President Trump (ABC correctly called him the most pro-life president in history) asking if she supported the killing of a preborn child in the 7th month, the 8th month, the 9th month.

Let us pray that we will have an honest election, and if we do, we will get an honest president.

                                                                                                Yours very sincerely and respectfully,

                                                                                                R. Martin Palmer

Common Sense IVF

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Former President Trump stated on Friday, August 30th, that if elected, he would make available IVF (in vitro fertilization) to married women seeking to have a child and have not been able to do so.   Almost immediately came the questions of the press, “Does this include homosexual couples?” “Does this include women who are not married?”

The answer is common sense.  President Trump’s heart was going out to married women only – who were unable to conceive a child with their husbands after many years of effort.  Two men in a homosexual relationship or two women in a homosexual relationship don’t seek IVF to have a child because they know it’s impossible.

Likewise, it’s common sense that the president was not extending his offer to single women with multiple or single relationships who wanted to conceive a child but were unable to do so.  They must be married and in a monogamous relationship.  The wishes of the ‘woke’ culture do not apply here, but rather the simple ‘facts of biology’ and the laws of God.  We must always remember it was God in the Garden of Eden who instituted the sacrament of marriage. It is His plan for family and for our happiness.  The devil has had his own plan to sow the seeds of destruction for families and for Christian culture from the beginning. 

The pro-life community needs to educate the former president on the wisdom of the world dean of geneticists, the late Dr. Jerome Lejeune who said, “It is not good to make spare children.” (by IVF)   Yes, the IVF labs that have mushroomed will gladly take women’s money, give them high-ovulating drugs to produce many embryos at once, then sell the ‘spares’ to those who are engaged in the denatured biology of human embryo experimentation.  

Dr. Bill Hogan stated in truth “no human being on the planet has benefited from human embryo experimentation”.   The hope lies with adult stem cell experimentation – taking a scraping of cells of the patient’s arm, for instance, and using those cells for manipulation and reinsertion into that same patient’s body.  Yes, a lot of hope and promise has come from that.  It makes common sense that God would not place hope for mankind in the destruction of very small children (human embryos).

Dr. Lejeune used to ride his bike back and forth from his lab to his home on Rue Galande in the shadow of Notre Dame across the Seine while his colleagues drove expensive sports cars as they passed him on his way home.  They all respected this humble man on his bicycle.  As he pedaled, he turned over in his great mind the need for a new law given the new science of IVF.   He was understanding that life begins like everything else, at the beginning.  He sketched out the enclosed law which he included in his book The Concentration Can (written about the Tennessee Frozen Human Embryo case and his testimony therein).

My wife and I, along with John and Daniella Brabner-Smith (Professor Brabner-Smith founded the International School of Law in Washington, DC, now George Mason University Law School) attended a lecture of Dr. Lejeune at Georgetown University following his testimony in the Tennessee case.   I invited him to join us for dinner at the “1789 Restaurant” there in Georgetown afterward.  Walking to the restaurant, he confided that it was he who had authored the law respecting the human genome and embryo that Senator Bernard Seillier submitted to the French Parliament (it was voted down in liberal France where the French press later derided the Holy Father Pope Jean Paul II when he came to Paris for taking his heliocopter to visit and venerate Dr. Lejeune’s grave on a windswept hillside by a little church in the French countryside.  They said that pro-life sentiment had all but died out and the Pope was resurrecting it). 

Dr. Lejeune received from President Kennedy our nation’s highest award for isolating the X-21 chromosome responsible for Down’s Syndrome.  He told his wife that he gave up his Noble prize when he gave a pro-life address.  Having devoted his life to finding a cure for Down’s Syndrome (as he said, “We need to attack the disease, not attack and kill the patient who has the disease.”), he was sad that his discovery was being used to target Down’s children in the womb.  In France it is now against the law to give birth to a Down’s child.  They have even passed a law making it illegal for anyone to speak out against the killing of Down’s preborn children.

The President needs to understand that these IVF labs that began with an altruistic desire to help infertile couples, have now become giant money-making propositions.  IVF done properly combines the egg of a married woman with the sperm of her husband in a petri dish (the term ‘in vitro’ means ‘in glass’).  The technician then watches what would ordinarily take place in a tube of flesh (the fallopian tube) take place in a dish of glass – what people have named “a test tube baby”.   They watch the egg divide.  Dr. Lejeune said they thought the egg would divide into two, then four, then eight, to 16, etc, but instead, there is a curious intermediate stage when the egg goes from 2 to 3 before going to four.  He said it seems to be a stage when the 3 cells are talking to one another saying, “We are not a mass of cells.  We are an individual.”  He added that it was curious that “it takes a trinity to make a human being.”

Human embryos can be frozen in liquid nitrogen which is − 196 °C [− 320 °F].  Liquid hydrogen is cooler at −253°C (−423°F), but it is explosive and it is for NASA for the rockets.

Liquid nitrogen is inexpensive and easy to work with. It is not dangerous.  Dr. Lejeune explained that the technique was borrowed from animal husbandry because it was cheaper to ship the embryo of a French calf by refrigerated express in a small container to the U.S. than it was to wait and ship a young French calf.   When the calf embryo arrived, animal husbandry had perfected the technique of implanting the french calf embryo into an American cow, where the calf grew to term and live birth. The calf once born had none of the characteristics of the surrogate mother cow, but all of the characteristics of its mother cow and father bull back in France.

Once it was discovered that the same freezing of embryos which worked in animal husbandry could be applied to humans, IVF was born.  Today, a married couple can go to an IVF lab and choose at random from among hundreds of human embryos in the lab deep freeze, an embryo whose label states not the mother and father’s names, but their socio-economic group, education, the color of their hair and eyes, their height,  their nationality, their race, etc. , etc.  Good Heavens, it’s like going down a cafeteria line – all for a price, a big price!

The pro-life community needs to educate the President on this.  He is wading into deep, deep water which is why, when Dr. Lejeune thought out over many months his Proposal of Law, it applied then and it applies for all time.  It should have been followed then and it must be followed now if the President is caused to make good on his promise to put federal dollars into IVF. 

When you put federal dollars (like tuition grants) into college education, the price of college rises exponentially.  The kids sign on the dotted line, the college gets the price they name, the lenders have federal guarantees, and students are saddled with debt seemingly for life.  The IVF labs know that the government prints money.  They will go wild.  We will be indirectly funding what Dr. Lejeune called the “denatured biology of human embryo experimentation”.

And, IVF assistance must be limited to married couples, as Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law states:

“The donation of embryos is forbidden, and agreements for the procreation or gestation on the behalf of other people is illicit.

No human embryo can be submitted to any exploitation whatsoever.

The pursuit of its continued development until its term, in the organism of its mother, must be offered to each embryo before another embryo is conceived.” (Dr. Jerome Lejeune, Proposal of Law, Article 3)

…what is meant to be used for good, can end up being used for bad.

Someone needs to get this information to the President along with a copy of Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law as soon as possible or this deep water he is wading into will become a tsunami that will return to inundate preborn children in a sad and despicable way.   The President wants it to be used for good.   If he is elected, and we hope he is elected, these issues need to be known and ironed out.  The devilish mischief will be with those on the other side of the fence who will use this for their own purposes, and as Dr. Lejeune said then we would “have to deal with a very denatured biology and there would be A VERY DIM FUTURE FOR MANKIND!”

                                                                                                Yours very sincerely and respectfully,

                                                                                                R. Martin Palmer

P.S.  THE SUPREME COURT GAVE PREBORN CHILDREN ONLY HALF A LOAF IN DOBB’S.  They overturned Roe, but stopped there.  The decision was leaked ahead of time.  Paid demonstrators showed up on their home doorsteps.  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer stood on the Supreme Court’s front steps threatening the judges with who knows what (and he meant for them to wonder what the ‘what’ was).  He later helped to organize the paid goons who marched in the judge’s private neighborhoods in front of their private homes (with Molotov cocktails in their backpacks?  The judges may have wondered.)

The Dobb’s decision was leaked before it could be completed.  Schumer and the paid demonstrators caused the judges to stop short of declaring the unalienable rights enshrined in our own Declaration of Independence (which in truth is a Declaration of Dependence upon God):

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”

Instead, the conservative wing of the court was intimidated to take the easy way out by getting down Pontius Pilate’s bowl and washing their hands of the matter, throwing the hot potato to the states.  In doing so, they were something less than Captains Courageous.

Yes, they will stand there and tell you that they cannot be intimidated – but they were.  They are human beings like the rest of us and they put their pants on in the morning like the rest of us.  If there is a danger looming in the back of their mind for their own safety or that of  their children (whether a Molotov cocktail would come through their children’s bedroom window at night) they are quick to find in the law reasons for not getting involved in what they would really like to say and do (to uphold the equal humanity and personhood of the preborn child from conception until natural death and point to the Declaration of Independence and the 14th amendment which enshrined this right to life and put it into constitutional law).   

Thus, our next step in getting the Supreme Court to give preborn children the other half of the loaf is to first give them protection of their persons and their homes.  Not until we protect them in their homes will they feel free to venture forth and give preborn children protection in their temporary homes, the temple of the womb, God’s intended safe haven for preborn children created by Him in His Image.

What we need for our Supreme Court judges (both liberals and conservatives should be in favor of this proposal regardless of how the pendulum swings over the years) – is a ‘Camp David’ of sorts for the judges’ private homes.  Gone forever are the days when they can continue to live in their own home in their own neighborhood once appointed to the Supreme Court bench. 

I gave the problem to a 2nd year law student intern from Regent University School of Law.  I was astounded with what she came up with.  You will find it enclosed.  Good Heavens, it’s ideal and it’s been right there under our noses all along.  Rock Creek Park. Carved out of the center of Washington, DC, in the 1800’s.  It is one half hour from the Supreme Court building.  The intern has proposed a small gated community near Park Police headquarters (built in protection).  If the justices (like Amy Coney Barrett) have children, Good Heavens, the National Zoo is located right smack in the middle of the park.  If the judges and their families like horseback riding, Rock Creek Park Horse Center is right there.  Has the hand of Providence put these things in place at this hour in this time?  Who knows?  These things are there.  Let’s use them.

Nuclear Concerns

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I want to share with you my grave concern about the word ‘nuclear’.  It appears in the poem Prayer for the Preborn Child (copy enclosed).  Be sure to watch the video in which the words of this poem scroll across the screen (length 5 minutes) and it can be viewed at naapc.org (or you can get to it by typing National Association for the Advancement of Preborn Children into your browser).

Over the years it has been my honor to visit with you in the monthly newsletters of the NAAPC (National Association for the Advancement of Preborn Children – a little organization I founded in 1984).  Bill Hogan, I think you commented that you have been receiving my letters for 40 years.

We sought to make a little bit of a difference for what Dr. Jerome Lejeune called the “good cause of children yet to be”.  For a number of years I would travel to Paris every October and stay with the Lejeunes, and we would share our hopes and dreams for preborn children – our prayers as well; and our prayers together for Dr. Lejeune’s work in hope to find a cure for Down’s Syndrome, he having been the one to receive from President Kennedy our nation’s highest award for isolating the X21 chromosome responsible for Down’s Syndrome.

Following Dr. Lejeune’s death at sunrise on Easter morning 1994, I took my 12 year old daughter, Ruth, with me to Paris (a trip we already had planned to take him flowers at the hospital), but we arrived too late for the funeral Mass.  Mrs. Lejeune told me as Ruth and I sat there with her in her living room that following his death, the family was meeting and trying to decide how they were going to accommodate all the people who were going to attend the funeral Mass at the small church in Paris to which they belonged when there came a knock at the door.  It was the cardinal’s representative from Notre Dame Cathedral offering Notre Dame for the funeral Mass.  She said it was usually reserved for the funerals of heads of state and the like, but “we said ‘yes’ because we needed more space” – and it is good they did.  She said it was packed to overflowing.

One hundred and fifty priests were in attendance, 7 bishops – they came from all over Europe and other parts of the world.  She said, “Chirac (the President of France) called me when Jerome died and he cried.”  But Mrs. Lejeune was not impressed by any of that.  She took it all in stride. What she remembered most from the funeral, she told Ruth and I, was a little Down’s boy who came up to the microphone at the pulpit and said, “Dr. Lejeune, he healed me.”

Pope John Paul II, in a rare move, issued a statement at the time of Dr. Lejeune’s death finding more than coincidence in the fact that he passed away at sunrise on Easter morning.  This very humble man whom God gifted with such a brilliant intelligence was a gift to the world.  It is my humble honor to have known him.  Imagine my surprise while Ruth and I were with the Lejeunes that week following the funeral Mass when she took me to their closet and produced these stacks of letters about a foot high each, tied with string, which I recognized as past monthly newsletters of our NAAPC (Dr. Lejeune was on our mailing list) and Mrs. Lejeune said, “Jerome told me to save these. He said, ‘This is history.” I kidded her and said she had misunderstood him; that he was using an American expression “Make these history”, meaning to throw them away.

I suppose it is little instances like this that encourages me to keep finding the money for stamps out of my small country law practice to get these letters out to all of you over the years. I told my wife that my idea was to try to always fund it out of my law practice and not ask for donations and the money always seems to have been there somehow.

But now this month, based upon rapidly accelerating world events, not the least of which is the threat of nuclear war looming on the horizon, I feel that I must address the careless statements of Putin and other world leaders who are casually throwing around the word ‘nuclear’.  A nuclear war is unwinnable and must never be.  President Reagan and Brezhnev knew that and met together in fireside chats that Reagan arranged working together in earnest for nuclear disarmament – Reagan’s “trust but verify”.  But now, much of their work has become unraveled.  The cauldron in the Middle East is about to boil over.  Iran is within a gnat’s eyelash of having a nuclear weapon.  Israel and the United States have said Iran must never be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon.  Russia, China, North Korea seem to have come together in what Reagan would have called an “axis of evil”, and the high office of the presidency is in a state of limbo in our own country.

There is a scene in the iconic 1946 movie “Gone with the Wind” in which Rhett Butler (played by Clark Gable) is seated on the springboard of a one horse wagon helping Scarlett (played by Vivian Leigh) safely get past a fleeing line of Confederate soldiers as General Sherman was completing his march to the sea and burning the city. 

Rhett and Scarlett are down by the train depot which is going up in flames and the fire is about to spread to some wooden boxcars containing ammunition.  The horse is neighing, afraid of the flames. Rhett hops down from the wagon and tells Scarlett to throw him her shawl which he ties over the horse’s eyes and then takes the horse’s bridle and leads the wagon forward.  In the background we are seeing some bedraggled, defeated, exhausted Confederate soldiers barely moving along, one carrying a comrade on his back and Scarlett yells, “Shoo! Get out of the way!”  And Rhett says, “Scarlett, don’t be so anxious to see them go because with them goes the last of law and order.”  And sure enough, as the end of the column passes by the wagon, you hear the breakage of glass with things being thrown through the store windows and looters moving in to steal.  Whoever wrote that scene was brilliant because it bespeaks the truth of a much larger picture in the world.

A number of years ago, it was announced that the last of the World War I veterans had died (as I recall, it was a man from one of the European countries).  We just celebrated the 80th anniversary of the ending of World War II.  Stop and think about it, a boy who lied about his age and signed up then for the service at age 15 would now be 95.  Soon the last of the World War II veterans will pass from the scene and with them seemingly will go the law and order that the shed blood of their millions offered up on the altar of peace purchased for the world.

Recently, my wife and I saw a fictional movie that I wanted to see because it dealt with the international space station (ISS).  The markup of the international space station and their weightlessness (they must have taken them in rides up in planes that can produce so many minutes of weightlessness) was all well done.  I commented to my wife that I didn’t realize until I saw this movie that the ISS was so lengthy inside.  It was one module after another linked together (like walking through a train from one car to another).  In the movie, Russian astronauts and American astronauts are together in the ISS performing scientific experiments, etc.  One of the wisest things ever done is to get 2 nations together in outer space hoping to keep us together peacefully back on Earth.  It worked – until Putin invaded the Ukraine.

But back to the threat of nuclear war in the world – have you ever noticed how the writers of fiction (and fictional movies) seemingly are able sometimes to reach into the future and prophetically find and describe the future.  There was an article in Reader’s Digest once on that years ago.  They gave a number of different examples, one of them being Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. (He described modern day submarines that did not exist then).  Even more curious, he told the story of a rocket ship to the moon containing a capsule in which the men returned to earth.  It was thought uncanny that the authors drawing of the capsule was shaped like the capsule in which real astronauts returned from the moon in 1969 (large rounded bottom, narrow at the top so that the bottom is always pointed down by gravity as it enters the earth’s atmosphere).  Jules Verne’s return to earth capsule and the real capsule of 1969 which was filmed shows the prophetic reach of science fiction.  They are even shaped the same – except the inside of the Verne capsule was upholstered and tufted like a camel backed leather couch with kerosene lamps on the walls for light.

As I sat in the movie theater watching this modern day movie about the joint Russian-American international space station (and remembering the Reader’s Digest article pointing out that the science fiction of the day curiously many times becomes a reality of tomorrow) I reflected upon all of this.  In the movie, both the American and the Russian astronauts, in different ends of the ISS, received the same message from their respective countries “Take control of the ISS. Our nations are at war.”  I then sat up in my seat in the movie theater when the astronauts looked out the windows of the ISS at the beautiful blue green planet wrapped in its scattered white clouds below, they saw first one mushroom burst of light (that only a nuclear bomb could have produced) and then another and then another – on one continent and then on another continent until the whole view of earth from the ISS was changed. Gone was the color of the blue green planet and its scattered white cloud cover.  Our entire planet was lit up with the largest glow like a cauldron in a furnace – as indeed it was.

Dr. Lejeune often would say “I want to tell you a true story.” Now I want to tell you a true story about how this poem Prayer for the Preborn Child came to be. Some of you already know this story, but I must tell it again based on present world events.

The year was 1983.  As a young lawyer, having only recently established my law practice in Washington County, Maryland, I had just had the Fritz case (father’s rights in abortion case).  (I couldn’t believe it, but somebody sent me a clipping about that case out of the Los Angeles Times on the west coast.)  It was one of the first, if not the first, cases in the nation that dealt with the question “What are the father’s rights in abortion?  Should he have a say?”

Chris and Bonnie Fritz had been happily married for a number of years and had one child.  They were expecting their second and had just freshly painted the baby’s room.  They had a spat. She ran home to mother, and her mother took Bonnie to an abortuary telling her she never liked her husband and didn’t want to see her daughter carry another of his children.  Chris went to the abortuary and pleaded with his wife not to do it, but was kicked out by the abortuary personnel under threat of calling the police if he didn’t leave. He telephoned my office from a pay phone, walked in off the street, and we put together an emergency petition for temporary injunction. Walking across the street, I had the Circuit Court judge sign it, and served the abortuary – just in time – Bonnie was to be next on the table. 

Under the law, once a judge grants a temporary injunction in an emergency situation, the matter is then set in for hearing before the court within the next 3 days in which the judge decides whether or not to make the injunction permanent or lift it.  Dr. Bernard Nathanson testified for me in that case which took place in 1982 and later it came before the Supreme Court of the State of Maryland just before Christmas that year.

But back to 1983 the next summer and the true story I must tell you.  It has been said that “truth can walk naked, but a lie always needs to be dressed”.  So I walk before you naked with this true story.  It was the first week of August 1983, and my wife and I, together with our children, were on vacation on the Atlantic seaboard at Fenwick Island, Delaware with our dear Mennonite pastor friend, Joe Martin, his wife Ruth Ann and their two sons. After breakfast one morning, I hit upon the idea of trying to write something out ‘tongue in cheek’ holding a mirror up to our nation to show how we looked regarding abortion.

With pad and pencil in hand, I had what I thought was a beginning.  It went like this as I recall, “We spend millions of dollars on Capitol Hill every year to try to find life on Mars (NASA) and right across the street at the Supreme Court, they have been unable to find it in the womb!”   But I couldn’t get what should come after that.  My wife came to me with the beach towels over her arm and the kid’s sand play buckets and she asked if I wanted to put the pad and pencil down and come join everybody.  I told her to go along without me and I would be joining in just a couple minutes behind them.

We rented a little cottage in Fenwick every year known as the Anderson Cottage.  It was a small ocean front cottage with a banging screen door and a little small screened in front porch looking out toward the ocean.  I was sitting with my back to the ocean, alone on that little porch, stumped as to how to follow the beginning of what I was attempting to write – when all of a sudden, I had an experience I have never had before in my life and I have never had since. 

It came to me out of the blue to begin writing entirely different words so I turned the page.  And what became known as Prayer for the Preborn Child came to me from seemingly nowhere – and it came so fast I was afraid I would lose it.  That is to say, the words flew through my mind out onto the paper quicker than my cramped, very poor handwriting could transcribe them.  The words were getting ahead of me. I was falling behind, and I was afraid I would lose them.  They continued to come in this fashion until I reached the end. And then all of a sudden, like a wave that is washed in upon the beach, it then began to ebb – and flow back from whence it came. It stopped. There was peace. There was no more, and I laid the pencil down.

After I collected myself, I walked out to the beach, and showed it to my pastor friend, Joe Martin, seated under the beach umbrella.  He studied it and said to me, “Marty, when you get back to your office, I think, you ought to have this typed out.”  I did so, and I had Copyquik Printing set it type – signed Anonymous – and sent it out with one of our monthly newsletters.

I put a copy of just the poem only in an envelope to my brother David in New Freedom, Pennsylvania (a salesman from Memorex – large computer systems for banks, etc.) He was to call me a few days later and say, “Marty, where did you get this poem?”  I answered his question with another question, “Why do you ask?”  He replied, “The reason I asked you is that I showed it a retired English teacher here in New Freedom and she commented that the way the poem was written – remember all those words from high school; iambic pentameter, meter, rhyme, etc.?   We memorized them just long enough for the test and then forgot them.  Well, she commented that it was “PERFECT!” 

I don’t believe I ever did tell my brother where the poem came from.  I know he wouldn’t have believed it, especially since he’s my brother, and he knows I have no poetic sense.  I write things like the “roses are red, violets are blue” verse that we used to write on Valentines in elementary school. 

I walk before you naked with the truth. It was a very humbling experience and yet at the same time, a very uplifting experience.  An experience I have never had before and have never had since, but as I watched the movie of that ISS and l looked over the astronauts shoulders as they looked down upon earth with first one large puff of light and then another and then another until the whole planet seemed to be going up in flames, I resolved that I must tell you.  As Dr. Lejeune would say, “I must tell you a true story.”

Note the word ‘nuclear’ in the context in which it appears in the poem.  Ronald Reagan spoke the truth to us.  At the time of his second inaugural address, the president let it be known that when he took the oath for his second term of office, his hand would be placed upon his mother’s Bible open to 2 Chronicles 7:14 because he thought it was the message to our nation at this time.

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14)

This upcoming election is in truth between those who believe in God and those who have gotten up and sat next to God and then told God to move over.

LET US PRAY!  We need to put on “sackcloth and ashes” (a piece of burlap enclosed – pin to your shoulder lapel).

Yours very sincerely and respectfully,

Martin Palmer

Secret Service Conflict of Interest?

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You may have heard a news anchor comment that the venue for the Republican National Convention was “The safest place on the planet”.  He was referring to the fact that state troopers and law enforcement had come in from all over the nation to add to the security detail for this man they love who supports them.

They assuredly have their own thoughts for the safety of the President once he steps out of that convention center and is forced again to rely upon the Secret Service.

Speaking before the RNC that night, the President’s son asked why Biden had not fired Kimberly Cheatle.  Everybody is asking that question, so let’s think it out. The President’s son asked the question, “Who’s running the government?”  One at a time he threw out names and you could hear the yells of the crowd in response.   If you had a response meter, you could have measured the votes.  The first name he threw out was Jill Biden, then Hunter Biden, then Barak Obama (Barak Obama seemed to win).

President Trump himself several weeks ago on the campaign trail made the statement, “I am told that Hunter is calling the shots (at the White House).”  I would say that President Trump is a reliable source.

Not only those in the White House, but all the Democrats are in panic and disarray because they realize that all their schemes to hold on to power have either failed or backfired.  Even CNN is predicting a Trump tsunami.

With all that in mind, let’s take a look at the Secret Service.  Biden appointed Kimberly Cheatle as its head (the news carried that she had previously worked for a soft drink bottling company). Biden is not about to fire her and we know why – because Biden doesn’t make the decisions.

Jill and Hunter are not going to order him to fire her because she knows too much.  If she was fired, she would have plenty to say and we might find out some things Jill and Hunter do not want known. She also might have something to say about who at the top of the chain of command ordered her to turn down the repeated requests of the Trump team for additional Secret Service protection.  To top it off, Kimberly Cheatle knows full well who is going to be the one to fire her if Trump lives to be elected.  

We just learned from Lindsey Graham when he walked out of a closed door briefing with the secret service of all 100 senators, that the presence of this potential assassin was known and even photographed as much as 1 hour ahead of time. 

Dan Bongino, who was in the Secret Service himself, was pulling his hair out.  He said, “Why didn’t somebody simply give the order not to permit the President to go on stage until this man was found and arrested?”  Lindsey Graham went on to comment that half of the one hour briefing they received from the Secret Service was, to use his term, “a filibuster”.  And when they finally got to what everybody wanted to hear, he was not even given an opportunity to ask questions he wanted to ask -indicating that it was a “Democratic proceeding”.

Since when is the Secret Service Democrat or Republican?  Without realizing it, perhaps he’s pointed to a truth. In the year 2024, we have a Democratic Secret Service.  They seem to favor the Democrats and disfavor the Republicans.  This has never been the case in the past.  The Secret Service was respected by everyone.

Look where we are right now: the head of the Secret Service herself will assuredly be fired if the very man whom it’s her job to protect lives long enough to be elected.  The same is true for the two unelected people at the White House who control the levers of power (Jill and Hunter).  They lose their power when Trump puts his hand on the Bible in January.  Why is it that I’m seeing a conflict of interest here?

At least one member of Congress came out with the outlandish statement that he wished the assassin had been a better shot. Why is this man still allowed in the halls of Congress?  His words and conduct are more egregious than the congressman just convicted of taking gold bars as a bribe. 

With all that by way of background, what should be done immediately to ensure proper protection of the president? 

I know nothing about it, but assuredly many of you do. For some reason, I am thinking of the problem encountered during the Second World War with parachutes that were not folded properly such that when the rip cord was pulled to open it, it became entangled in its own strings and the parachuter fell to his death.

They solved the problem of the parachutes by ordering that the same man who packed the parachutes was required to jump one at random that is commanding officer chose.  That ended the entanglement problem!  You see where we are going.

The Trump team should let it be known that henceforth there is a new policy at all rallies. Kimberly Cheatle herself will be required to stand at the podium next to the president when he speaks. She is to walk beside him as he ascends the stage and walk beside him when he leaves. While he speaks, she stands to the side and slightly back.

Now let’s see Jill and Hunter tell her to turn down the Trump team’s request for extra Secret Service personnel.  Let’s see her let the president go onstage when they have yet to find a man with a rifle they have lost track of in the crowd.  If she resigns rather than stand next to the president, we will know just what sort of confidence she has in her security plan.

And the Congress is helpless (or hopeless).  If they were asked right now to go together on some bipartisan legislation to shore up the Secret Service, the democrats would sure enough be opposed to it.  And not only do they not care what happens to Trump, but they have been trying to figure out a way to get rid of Biden. Sad but true!

President Trump should not have to step on stage at a rally again until his safety can be absolutely 110% assured!  For that matter, the same thing goes for President Biden!  Where is the Secret Service of old?  If we had them, we wouldn’t be asking these questions.

                         Yours very sincerely and respectfully,

                         R. Martin Palmer

Purposely Left Unprotected?

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History does not necessarily repeat itself, but it rhymes. But for God’s intervention, we came perilously close to a presidential assassination.  Requests for additional Secret Service manpower by the Trump team had been repeatedly turned down leaving them with reduced numbers to keep an eye on 50,000 gathered for a rally leaving the former president fully exposed and in the open without even a shield (glass shield, in the modern age) in what became a field of battle. 

The same thing was reported to have happened in a very old book to Uriah (2 Samuel 11 ff).

What a close call for such a dear man as President Trump (I called him President Trump instead of former President Trump because to my way of thinking he has been the only true honest to goodness leader this nation has had since he was first elected).

Recently I had occasion to visit my grandchildren in Rutland, Vermont.  I was in line at a grocery store when a gentleman came up behind me with 3 cellophane wrapped packages of flowers in his hand.  He seemed to be in a hurry saying he was late to his own birthday party.  I asked him how old he was and he replied, “92”.   I motioned for him to go ahead of me, but we were in a fairly long line and there was time to chat.  It was the Friday immediately following the presidential debate the preceding Thursday night.  I asked him if he had watched the debate the night before.

Instead of commenting on the debate itself, he said that he had known Jill Biden since she was newborn baby since his sister and Jill’s mother were best friends and they all lived in same neighborhood in New Jersey at the time.  He said this business of wanting to be called “Doctor” (referring to the fact that Jill Biden has a doctorate degree in education was a “bunch of stuff”.   He said he had been in education for 35 years and he volunteers to teach veterans.  The line began to move and as he laid his flowers on the conveyor belt for the cashier to ring up, he turned to me and said, “Jill’s mother called my sister and said “Jill has taken up with one of the worst S.O.B.’s in Washington by the name of Joe Biden”.  He said Jill’s mother was very upset but there was nothing she could do to talk Jill out of it.   I helped him get a paper bag to put his flowers in which he said he was taking to some ladies at the party.  When I asked how he wound up in Vermont, he said he and his wife were the first ones to move into the new condominiums at Pico Ski Resort there in Rutland and that he lost his wife to breast cancer 20 years ago.  I asked for his name and phone number and he wrote it on a ripped off piece of the paper bag.

His name is Bob Capuchi and he struck me as a very decent man with a lot of good common sense.  Although he had given me his phone number if I wanted to talk further, as yet I have not called him.  I am almost afraid what else I will learn.  If I had to guess, he would most likely confirm what all of us already know – that Jill was not attracted to Joe out of love but rather for the ‘love of power’ which has played out in her ‘love of being president’ and her elder abuse of Joe – forcing him to stumble up to the next teleprompter and make half enough sense to maintain her franchise of power.

What a sordid mess at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  President Trump told us a short while back that he has been told that Hunter Biden is calling all the shots.  Heaven forbid!  Jill suddenly figures strongly in that equation along with Kamala Harris (who along with Jill has been instrumental in the great cover up of Biden’s cognitive state and his ever increasing deterioration over the past 3 ½ years) joined by Hunter Biden who left a breadcrumb trail of his addiction (cocaine powder) throughout the White House. (covered up by Biden’s head of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, whose gross – or ordered – incompetence almost cost President Trump his life)

I’d say it has been a conspiracy of the three to take over the presidency and be the ones who give the orders, but I don’t think that they are intelligent enough to act in concert in a conspiracy. One thing for sure, when the camera looked into Biden’s eyes at the debate no one was home. Somebody is making the decisions for this man.  He is only being given his note cards; where to go, where to stand, when to eat his vegetables – like a child. Thus, because of his progressive mental decline, we have a child in the White House and 3 irresponsible adults making his decisions for him (or maybe just 2, Jill and Hunter because we are told that Jill has never fully forgiven Kamala for the way she laid into Joe during their initial Presidential debate, calling him a racist.)  Thus, by means of deduction, we arrive at the conclusion that 2 people, Jill and her son, Hunter, are manning the levers of power and decision making in the White House.

As an example of the decisions that Jill and Hunter are making let’s start with the request of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for secret service protection.  The Secret Service comes under the executive branch of government (the president).  Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was denied Secret Service protection.  Yes, the head of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle (a Biden appointee who has proven herself grossly incompetent), would have been the one to have denied Kennedy Secret Service protection in his run for the presidency, but given the fact that both his father and uncle had themselves been assassinated, she would not have flatly turned down his request without checking with the White House (the levers of power, Jill and Hunter).

No wonder they are telling Joe not to fire this head of the Secret Service.  A disgruntled former employee is quick to let it be known who is really making the decisions at the White House, and I wonder what else she could tell us,  Has Cheatle handpicked a 1st string and a 2nd string and maybe even a 3rd string among the secret service agents?   Do Jill and Hunter insist that the 1st string (the varsity) be reserved for President Biden only?  (Especially if he is speaking in one city and President Trump in another distant city the same date)  Was President Trump doled out the leftovers? (the 2nd string that usually sits out the game on the bench)  Who decided that a 5ft 4in very sincere woman was a proper frontal body shield for President Trump who is well over 6 ft tall?  He was left wide open!

No chain is stronger than its weakest link, and no human body shield is safer than the shortest person forming that shield.   Shouldn’t this be Protection Policy 101?   Had this junior varsity of the Secret Service (all very sincere in being willing to put their bodies between bullets and the president) been properly instructed on a plan for this location?

And had they practiced an escape plan?  The 5ft 4in female officer was heard to say, as they were all still down and out of sight, “Where are we going?”  Apparently, they had not even practiced whisking the president out of there in seconds. Somebody had been practicing when Ronald Reagan was shot.  When you watch that footage, he was whisked into the back of the limousine in milliseconds.  Good Heavens, now President Trump looked for his shoes which he was asking for and they had to convince him not to stay and continue talking which he wanted to do (bless his heart!).  Just think, the terrorists of the world are watching this and laughing at us!

Is it true what we hear that President Trump’s team has repeatedly requested additional Secret Service protection and has been denied it?  That means Jill and Hunter have denied it. Congress is going to find out.  If Trump’s people had been given sufficient man power (and a least one member of the A team), they could have spotted that sniper perch in a direct line of fire to the podium at which President Trump would be speaking and posted Secret Service men on all 4 corners of that building instead of depending on local law enforcement because they were shorthanded  and when the worst happens this incompetent head of the Secret Service plays the blame game “local law enforcement were supposed to take care of the area immediately outside the perimeter”.

That is like the captain of the Titanic saying “somebody else was supposed to watch out for icebergs, not me”.   He knew the buck stopped with him and in the tradition of the sea, willingly went down with his ship. Kimberley Cheatle won’t even get wet – she refuses to resign.  In the Biden White House, whenever something goes wrong, it’s like a cold night – everybody is trying to cover up, and if they are caught, they jump ship – or if they are not brave enough to jump overboard, they steal away and leave the ship dressed up like a woman aboard a lifeboat.

Another question that Congress is going to be asking, “Why no protective glass around the president?” Are we short of money? Can we only afford one set of protective glass such that we are forced to give priority as to where it is most needed – to a current president and not a former president?  Maybe the bulletproof glass is on back order.  Supply chain problems?  The gross failure to have this goes beyond words!  Uriah was left on the front lines without even a shield.  They had a million excuses for it, but even an 8th grade child would have pointed to the lack of this routine shielding.  It’s more than an oversight.  It’s more than an accidental omission.   It’s more than ‘somebody forgot to load it in the truck’.  It was an ordered omission?  By whom?

They will be brazen enough to claim that Trump’s team turned it down – just like they will claim that they offered additional Secret Service manpower but Trump’s team turned it down.  Just think how close we came to a casket lying in state in the rotunda of the Capitol.

And we know who ultimately is behind the decision to leave President Trump exposed in the open air without protective glass. How horrifying is the putrefaction that has taken place in the people’s house: the White House.

Assuredly, Jill reads and approves every word that her mentally handicapped husband is going to read from a teleprompter on the campaign trail. As an example, let’s just take the night before the assassination attempt when the assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was home in his parent’s living room watching TV.  He heard the President of the United States, Joe Biden, who he looked up to and hanged on every word of – even to the extent of risking his own life to carry out the directive of the Commander in Chief who spoke these words “I mean it from my heart this man (Trump) is a threat to democracy… he needs to be taken out.”)  That is when he made his decision. He asked father for his father’s gun to go to the ‘shooting range’ and he knew what he had to do.  He knew it would wind up being death by police (he fit the perfect profile for such devilish mischief  – a loner, always bullied and made fun of in school (having just graduated from high school two years ago), no friends to speak of.   As Paul Harvey used to say, “You know the rest of the story.”

This young boy, this amateur assassin acting alone, could never have pulled off what he did without President Trump being left open and vulnerable by a declination of his campaign’s request for extra Secret Service manpower (Yes, Jill and Hunter were jealous that he could draw a crowd of 50.000 when Joe was lucky if he could draw a crowd of 5,000 or maybe only 500).  You need more man power to keep an eye on a crowd of 50,000 than you need for a crowd of 5,000.  Even then you may miss something.  Why no glass shield?

Why is it I am reminded of a story in a very old book?  When King David wanted to take out Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba, he didn’t do it with his own sword.  He simply ordered his general to place Uriah on the front lines in an unprotected position (think ‘insufficient manpower’ to keep an eye on 50,000 people  and having to turn the outer perimeters of protection over to local law enforcement who wound up being like the Keystone Cops).

A  small bipartisan delegation from the Congress needs to stumble over the White House and return to Capitol Hill with the briefcase containing the nuclear codes so that all of us in the world can sleep at night and we don’t all go up in a puff of cocaine dust that becomes a mushroom cloud (of an incoming Russian ICBM).

We need responsible leadership in the White House IMMEDIATELY.  We can’t wait another 5 months (our constitutional system of government ordinarily mandates that).  There are some good minds in the Congress and there are some good minds in the country. Somebody needs to put their thinking cap on and come up with a solution.  Our forefathers would have.  There is devilish mischief afoot and we are wise to remember always that the devil has loved death and dying from the beginning.  He has been a liar from the beginning and the truth is not in him.  He prods and directs men by pulling the strings of their egos and pride.  Once he has them addicted to his ultimate aphrodisiac – POWER – they willingly become his disciples.  They lie like he does,  accusing the ones opposed to them of the very things that they themselves are guilty of (such as the phrase “Trump is an existential threat to democracy”.  It is they who are the existential threat, not Trump!

Senator Cotton said it:  “The devil came to Butler (Pennsylvania) with a gun and took a shot at a lion, and that lion stood up and R O O O O O A A A A R R R E D!!!”

This triumvirate of power (Jill, Hunter, and Kamala – who as vice president has lunch with the president weekly and has witnessed his cognitive decline), secretly put together over a 3½ year period of cover up behind the back of (and in some cases with the willing assent of) Jill’s husband of his progressive cognitive decline.  We are told he has repeatedly frustrated his Chief of Staff and his advisors by clearing any and all suggestions they may have with Jill and Hunter first, openly admitting that in the end, he can only trust his wife and his son to give him the best advice.

Where is William Shakespeare when we need him to write a play about this?  He perhaps would decline the assignment claiming that the truth of thee matter was too fanciful to be believed in a fictional play.  In this case, truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

Yours very sincerely and respectfully,

R. Martin Palmer

P.S.  Trump underwent a spiritual experience when he came ‘that close’ to a casket spray of flowers atop the American flag stretched over his casket lying in state in the rotunda of the Capitol.  He will rise above it all, and seize this opportunity of leadership to unify the nation as did Abraham Lincoln at the time of a previous great division among our people.  He won’t even complain about the poor protection he was given. But we need to review the facts leading up to his near assassination and know whose fingerprints are all over this. Be aware that we are in the midst of a national security crisis. The levers of power of the United States of America are in the wrong hands.

Who is going to do something about this?  Is the Congress simply going to convene a million committees who don’t even coordinate and combine their efforts all for the purpose of political posturing, all the while allowing the levers of power which have been taken away from the elected president to continue to be seized by unelected family members?

The devil is alive and well and has loved death and dying from the beginning.  World War III is assuredly on his agenda.  We could find ourselves in World War III (President Trump has repeatedly warned that President Biden is going to get us into World War III!)  before a committee renders a ‘report’.  And then what?  What do we do with the report?  Wring our hands and go on, and wait and hope and pray – first of all that Trump is elected and we make it until he places his hand on the Bible in January?  Can we even have an open air inauguration this year with a Russian nuclear submarine anchored and waiting off the coast of Havana should they receive an order from the Kremlin (Putin)? Clear all the grandstands of all the government with only a 3 minute warning?  It would look like a mass stampede at a soccer match with people stepping over one another and trampling one another to death in the process.  Do we simply take Putin’s word for it that he is going to be good, that he is simply going to watch the inauguration on TV himself from Moscow and not do any bad things?

President John F. Kennedy would have had that submarine turned around and out of here – or else – long before now.  We are looking at the 2nd Cuban Missile Crisis.  Jill and Hunter left that one out of Joe Biden’s note cards.  It’s understandable. It’s too big for them to handle.

The watchman in the crow’s nest of the Titanic once gave his ‘report’ (think committee report).  He reported an iceberg dead ahead.  Below, in the belly of the ship, the lights were burning, the band was playing, people were dancing, and the champagne was flowing. 

Nero fiddled (committee’s fiddle) while Rome burned.

A Security Risk to the Nation

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All of our TV screens are awash with self-interest and aggrandizement as we watch this desperate grasp for the aphrodisiac of power play out before our very eyes starting with Joe Biden who is attempting to cling to power with fingernails while the ‘grim reaper’ is dragging him by the ankles toward the nursing home and eventually the grave.

But it is not just the current president. Perhaps more accurately, it is Jill who insists he stay in the race because she is enjoying being president along with Hunter. But all of Capitol Hill is caught up in only one thing, “How does all of this affect them individually in their own positions of power?”  If they stand to lose by him remaining in the race, they are against him but if they think there is a possibility that their positions down ballot are better protected by him in the race, they will back him even if he has had a stroke and has passed away.  If they could pull it off, they would prop him up in a chair and run him for office again.  Senator Joseph Kennedy said it. “You will find no wisdom in the Congress”.  They’re all just interested in how Biden’s situation affects them.

Why do men like Biden put their own selfish self-interest (or pleasing their wives dictates) ahead of their country? 

On TV this morning, I saw an advertisement for the very worthy organization Tunnel to Towers Foundation (seeking worthy donations for those who have lost an arm or a leg or all their limbs in combat).   Every one of these soldiers deserves a salute for putting his life on the line for all of us and for putting his nation ahead of himself. We salute this noble heroic soldier!!!  To Biden we take the same hand used to salute, close the fingers, and give the thumbs down! He puts himself first; his own selfish quest to hang on to the aphrodisiac of power – never mind the damage caused to our national reputation around the world.

What he insists upon doing makes no common sense.  Let’s take the pilot of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet who has riding behind him in the plane all those passengers, men and women, children and babies.  He wasn’t assigned to pilot a Boeing 747 right out of flight school.  He started with a small airplane in which he learned, and was promoted up the ranks until eventually he found himself at the controls of the biggest plane.  If he becomes aware of cognitive decline in himself (something that only he and his wife know about to begin with), does he keep flying for the status and feeling of power of it all?  Or do he and his wife decide amongst themselves at their kitchen table that it’s time to take early retirement and travel and see the grandkids like they have always looked forward to anyway.  Prayerfully, for the sake of you and I who might be flying, he does the right thing.  Prayerfully, for the sake of the nation, this current president (oldest in the history of the nation) in marked cognitive decline (merely the look in his eyes says there is nobody home),  will muster the same selfless commitment of just one wounded combat veteran, take a victory lap and bow out.  He is making a fool of himself and a fool of the nation for all the world to see.  He is a SECURITY RISK TO THE NATION!

The world is watching and those nations of the world who wish us ill are coalescing and coming together in what Ronald Reagan would have called an “axis of evil” (Russia, joined with Iran, and they together joined with China, and Putin two weeks ago flagged North Korea where we see the red carpet reception on the tarmac, they being given a hero’s welcome in a parade through town with the North Korean leader – thereby completing the circle)   – the ‘axis of evil’ that wishes us ill.

The word ‘nuclear’ is back on the lips of world leaders (Putin has threatened to go nuclear if we don’t stop helping the Ukraine).  The head of North Korea before that (when President Trump was in the White House) told the U.S. President he had a button (implied nuclear) on his desk. Trump replied that he had a button too and that his button was bigger and it worked!   That settled that – or at least settled it for the time being.  Now North Korea is courting Putin (who has a button that is as big as ours that works), and now North Korea can obtain nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles as big as ours from Russia that work. 

Meanwhile, in our own nation, the word ‘nuclear’ is back on the lips of those in Congress (they are asking the question. “Do we want someone with dementia to continue to be in possession of the nuclear codes?”)

Yes, our nation has in place a system as fool proof as we can make it safeguarding our nuclear arsenal and providing that not a single nuclear weapon in our arsenal can be launched without an order to launch and a matchup of the nuclear codes.  They are changed all the time and are contained in a briefcase someone carries for the president at all times.  It remains with him except when he goes to bed at night and then he takes the briefcase personally and places it at his bedside.

When the dam broke following the debate last week, the leaks began to flow out of the White House.  What’s this we heard about Jill moving the briefcase to her side of the bed at night?  What?  The telephone is on her nightstand to take that call at 3 am in the morning?  Yes.  She (and Hunter) can readily match up the nuclear codes as coming from the president himself. Am I missing something here?  This is insanity! At President Trump’s rally in Florida on July 9th, he stated “I’m told that Hunter Biden is calling the shots at the White House.”

Let’s consider Putin’s reaction to all this.  Newt Gingrich stated on Fox News during an interview last week that Russia has brought a nuclear submarine off the coast of Havana, Cuba, (90 miles from the tip of Florida) along with 5 Russian destroyers.  Biden is oblivious, and Hunter and Kamala Harris are standing in Biden’s shoes to soak up all the power they can. They will not give away their subterfuge of power by taking a stand as John F. Kennedy did and demand that Russia remove this nuclear submarine and these destroyers from their ominous position off of our coast.

Biden is not cut out for the task.  He just wants peace and to please Jill.  It’s all he can do to summon the cognition and acuity to stay in the race for president which he is doing because Jill demands it (elder abuse).  

When someone is in politics, they have to rely upon their spouse to be the one person who has their best interest at heart and truly loves them.  If Jill fit this description, she long ago would have suggested to Joe that they take a victory lap and bow out gracefully and enjoy their remaining years together with their grandchildren.

The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) was before the days of sophisticated nuclear submarines.  Our spy planes (before the days of satellite imaging – the world’s first satellite was Sputnik in 1957) had taken photographs of missiles under canvas on the deck of Russian ships headed to Cuba.  Kennedy realized the risk of this. If an intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from Russia, the Congress and the president (and for that matter all the rest of us) have 15 minutes to seek shelter before impact.  The president has such a shelter (the situation room beneath the White House).  Congress has them (and has had them for years) beneath Capitol Hill.

What Kennedy realized is that if we allowed Russia to set up nuclear missiles in Cuba (off the tip of Florida), the time from launch to impact upon our nation’s capital would be reduced from 15 minutes notice to 3 minutes notice.  This was unacceptable because one nuclear device detonated high above the nation’s capital would wipe out the entire United States’ government, including the president’s briefcase with the nuclear codes, leaving our generals in charge of our nuclear arsenal, helpless and unable to respond.

The system is set up that way to be foolproof, so even one of our most trusted generals, if he went rogue, could not start a nuclear war on his own.

Years ago, automobiles had a metal key. The key was good for putting a screwdriver in the lock and twisting it or hotwiring the car under the dash.  The car manufacturers have defeated the thieves as modern keys have a computer chip in them.  The computer chip of your key will only fit your car.  It won’t start another car.  It’s the same if you want to start the launch sequence of a nuclear missile.  You need launch codes plus the president’s launch codes.  Without them, it’s a ‘no go’.

Imagine trying to start your car today without that little key fob with the computer chip in it.  Even in an emergency, there would be no way to start the car.

The Cuban Missile Crisis (fortunately, Khrushchev backed down at the last minute, turned the ships around and ordered them back to Russia) is the closest the world has come to nuclear war.  Nuclear war is unwinnable.  Einstein is reported to have said that he did not know how the 3rd World War would be fought, but he knew how the 4th World War would be fought – with sticks and stones.

Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev, knowing all of this, met for their fireside chats and did all they could in their lifetime to phase out nuclear weapons, seeking the hope of nuclear disarmament.  What they feared has happened – the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world.  This is not good given the fact that man has yet to devise a weapon that he didn’t eventually use against his fellow man. “Man’s inhumanity to Man makes thousands mourn.”  War is hell!   War is mass insanity! 

Nero fiddled while Rome burnt.  America has become soft with pleasure.  The history of civilization is satin slippers descending the staircase and the thunder of hobnail boots coming up!  We need the King of Heaven’s Armies on our side.

This self-proclaimed triumvirate are feeding upon one another resulting in the ill management of national affairs.  If we don’t get them out of there, the world is going to do it for us.  They were aware that cocaine was found in the White House (they covered it up).  They have seen the pictures of Hunter Biden doing drugs in bed with his prostitutes.  They have visions of Hunter in bed at the White House doing drugs with multiple women with the nuclear code briefcase open on his lap and all of them curious to see how it works.

Imagine how the investment world feels about that.  America is the greatest country in the world with the greatest military in the world, the nuclear weapons of which have fallen into the hands of the wife of the president and her cocaine addicted son who is “calling the shots”.

Let’s imagine for a moment that the tables are turned, that Putin has fallen into a state of cognitive decline and has to be given note cards to know where to walk, where to stand, when to eat his vegetables, etc. – like a child; and his power crazed mistress was running the show in Moscow along with her cocaine addicted son who dropped a laptop off at a repair shop in Moscow that contained pornographic pictures of the son in bed with prostitutes smoking crack.  We would be thinking to ourselves. “Who is minding the store?”  If somebody in Russia couldn’t straighten the situation out and take back possession of their own briefcase with the nuclear launch codes, we would be happy to send in the navy seals to get it for them.  It’s either that or sleep with one eye on the horizon. 

In high school, I did a report on the nuclear weapons of the day.  I based it upon an informative article in US News and World Report.  At the time, we had a 100 megaton hydrogen bomb (equivalent to 100 million tons of TNT).  If dropped on Washington, DC, it would leave a crater, one mile deep (think Grand Canyon) and 9 miles in diameter.  The entire city of Washington, DC, is a 10 mile square ceded off by the State of Maryland to the federal government when we set up the country. 

Stop and think about it.  Where Washington was; all its buildings, all its monuments, Capitol Hill, the White House – everything – is gone.  There is nothing left but a one mile deep hole in the ground nine miles across.  The blast, it is said, would continue to knock down brick and cinderblock buildings for a radius of 20 miles and would continue to ignite trees and frame structures for a radius of 60 miles.  (I remember the 60 miles distinctly because my grandparent’s farm is located in Emmittsburg, Maryland, about 60 miles away from where I grew up in the Washington metropolitan area.)

Fortunately, it is my understanding that the U.S. no longer has a weapon of that magnitude in its arsenal. Maybe it was discontinued because it was thought that nothing that powerful would be needed. I don’t know about Russia.  A weapon that is one fifth as powerful (20 megatons) is what they call “theater nukes”.  They are fired like artillery shells in the immediate theater of war – a much lesser amount of 50 to 75 kilotons (1000 tons of TNT, 7500 tons of TNT).  Of course, regardless, you have radioactive fallout.  It’s carried by the wind and it circles the globe.

The late Dr. Jerome Lejeune said that he was invited to go to Russia and advise Brezhnev about the genetic effect upon the human species of nuclear war.  He said he sat with his knees facing the knees of Brezhnev and they had a chat.  I believe it was the gentle, kindly spirit of Dr. Lejeune that caused Brezhnev to say to Ronald Reagan, “Yes, let’s get together,”  when Reagan proposed fireside chats for nuclear  disarmament (détente).

We have lots of politicians in the world.  We no longer have any statesmen.

Have we aborted them somewhere along the way? The preborn child aborted in 1973 (Roe v. Wade) would potentially be a 51 year old statesman (someone we desperately need right now).  Where are the Ronald Reagans?  Where are the Winston Churchills?  

When President Ronald Reagan was about to take his oath of office to be sworn in for his second term as president, he let it be known on Paul Harvey News that his mother’s Bible on which he would place his hand to take his oath of office would be open to 2 Chronicles 7:14 because he thought it was the message to the nation at this time in history:

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

We need to pray as a nation!  Prolife America can lead the nation in that!  We need the King of Heaven’s Armies on our side.  Without Him, we are up the creek without a paddle.

                                                                        Yours very sincerely and respectfully,

                                                                        R. Martin Palmer

P. S.  There is a putrefaction taking place at the White House right now, and the stench has reached high heaven.  Some of the Congress (and it should be a small bipartisan group) needs to stumble over to the White House and pay a friendly social call and request from Joe Biden the briefcase containing the nuclear codes (this self-proclaimed triumvirate of power including the vice president, Kamala Harris, is not to be trusted after the massive deceit they pulled off on the nation).

Following the order of succession (to the presidency) provision of the Constitution, after the vice president comes the speaker of the house.  He should lead the delegation that pays a social call to Joe Biden. He, and he alone, should take possession of the nuclear codes briefcase for safekeeping pending the outcome of hearings they are going to be holding by which they summon the neurologist who has come to the White House 8 times to examine and treat the president.  Just as we would breathe easier if there was a similar situation in Russia, and we learned some representatives of their representative assembly had secured their nuclear codes, even so the world will breathe a sigh of relief when we do the same.

Foundation of Lincoln Memorial Endangered

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As this letter is dictated the day before the Fourth of July, the three iconic symbols of our nation that come to mind when schoolchildren think of the word “America” are:

  1. The flag (the stars and stripes that flew over Fort McHenry
  2. The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  3. The U.S. Capitol Building

Note that the Lincoln Memorial precedes the U.S. Capitol. Lincoln made himself a temple for God, and the words above his seated statue inside the memorial are:

IN THIS TEMPLE
AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE
FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION
THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
IS ENSHRINED FOREVER

The Lincoln Memorial is under attack by those who would rewrite history; by those who would erase and change history; by those who covet the statutory floor upon which to erect monuments to themselves and others.

The head of the Park Service, who has jurisdiction over the Memorial, made a curious statement, that “the purpose of the memorial EVOLVES over the years.” Implicit in this statement is his approval of tunneling under the memorial to install an IMAX-type movie theater on which to tell the story, not only of Lincoln, but also of the entire Civil Rights movement that followed and the people that played an important part in it (movies precede marble statues to individuals).

Yes, it’s important to tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement—the water cannons, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and all the leaders including Jesse Jackson, and so many others. This is an important part of our history, but it’s separate and apart from the history of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, who freed the slaves.

There’s no need to tunnel under the Lincoln Memorial, deface it with some modern architectural “improvements,” and perchance cause the entire Memorial itself to topple from the equipment that is right now working in a tunnel they are making for this movie theater—using jackhammers, and possibly dynamite. Note the wooden planking strapped around the columns of the Memorial to prevent these giant heavy stones that are stacked one upon another to make up the columns (think a stack of checkers, that you evened up with your fingers as a child) to keep them from jiggling and wobbling apart. If one column topples over, you have a domino phenomenon of one column after another falling in a circle around the Memorial until there’s nothing but a pile of marble. Where is the Army Corps of Engineers when we need them to check out what a private, inexperienced, and careless contractor is doing? The dear old Park Service has not called them in for a consult because they would kick this contractor with his tunneling and digging equipment out, order everything be put back, and the ground reseeded and left just like it was.

The Army Corps of Engineers would question why on earth the integrity of the foundation of the Lincoln Memorial is being endangered when all you have to do is look across the street, and if you want to put up a movie theater you can do so above ground in the sunshine. There is a large plot of ground of multiple acres within view of the memorial. And, yes, they should put a statutory hall in that museum (a museum, not a temple), and first and foremost they should commission a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. who, right across the street, once gave his “I Have a Dream” speech (the exact spot where he stood is marked on the marble steps).

If our precious, iconic, irreplaceable Lincoln Memorial winds up like the walls of Jericho (“and the walls came tumblin’ down”), yes, this contractor will point out that he has insurance, but all the insurance in the world—even the billions that Lloyd’s of London has—could not begin to compensate for the irretrievable loss of the Lincoln Memorial that took eight years to build in the early 1900s.

If you think the Lincoln Memorial is worth saving for our children, our grandchildren, and our grandchildren’s grandchildren, contact your Congressman and your Senator, and you may send them a copy of this letter.

Yours very sincerely and respectfully,

Rudolph Martin Palmer, Jr., Esq.

P.S.

At least one Park Ranger (he was in charge of the information booth at the Memorial early one morning when it was just he and I having a discussion) told me that he was concerned about a terrorist attack against the Memorial. He told me that, after 9/11, they came and checked everything out and, at that time, they determined that the only access (public access that terrorists could use) was the elevator shaft on the south side and a small area by the elevators where the restrooms are. They determined that a blast set off in that area would not bring down the Memorial, but rather the blast would have to be discharged under the center of the Memorial. He was concerned that right now they’re tunneling and widening the space right up to and including the center of the Memorial and beyond.

You’ve got people flowing across our southern border—some of whom don’t even speak the same language and don’t understand each other—probably working for this construction company (cheap labor). Such that, if they are terrorists from Pakistan and Iran and the like, posing as construction workers, they can take pictures with their cell phones of the undercroft (huge pillars that hold up the memorial that sits 40 feet up in the air)—built on a swamp, dirt backfilled around it to make it appear that it’s sitting on a hill. On their lunch hour, sitting under a shade tree up top, they can send the pictures back to Pakistan and Iran with the click of a button. They could even receive a text back: “Take a tape measure and measure the support columns.”

Can’t you hear President Trump now: “Who the hell let these idiots in there to begin with? They don’t know what they’re doing! They haven’t a clue!”? Whereupon he would sign an executive order that this contractor and his undocumented migrant workers be thrown out immediately, the tunnel they dug backfilled with solid concrete, and everything be restored to its original state, and the grounds reseeded.

After 9/11, there was a concern that ISIS might strike some of the major iconic memorials in our nation, and guards were posted.

The Lincoln Memorial is number one. WE HAVE LET OUR GUARD DOWN!

What’s Happening to our Nation’s ‘Temple’?

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Usually, when you see a chain-link fence around a building, construction equipment within the enclosure and OSHA regulation, safety and warning signs, it means that either the building is in need of repair or is about to have changes made to it, or is about to be altered in some way, or torn down.

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, located at the west end of Washington Mall, adjacent to the Potomac River, was built to last 1000 years plus. Patterned after the Parthenon in Ancient Greece, it is a “Temple” of our nation – perhaps the primary temple associated with “America” by visitors from foreign lands. Directly above Lincoln’s seated statue are these words written in the white marble wall:
“In this temple
as in the hearts of the people
for whom he saved the Union
the memory of Abraham Lincoln
is enshrined forever.”

For a proper definition of the word ‘Temple’ when the Memorial was built, we must turn, not to a modern dictionary, but rather to the dictionary in contemporary use with the Memorial’s construction and dedication, Webster’s unabridged dictionary of 1905, in use at the time, defines ‘temple’ for us (see attached photocopy of the pertinent page therein).

Turning next to a very old book, we find the word ‘Temple’ throughout God’s Holy Word, always used in a sacrosanct, never a ‘commercial’, sense. By turning the Lincoln Memorial into a museum underneath, it will come to be known in the common parlance as “The Lincoln Museum”, and at the same time they are turning it into something ‘commercial’ (large souvenir shop, movie theater, etc.)

Beginning at 2 Samuel 22:7, we find the word ‘temple’:
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

And again we find:
Nehemiah 6:10
Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
Psalms 27:4
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Psalms 29:9
The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
Isaiah 6:1
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Amos 8:3
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Malachi 3:1
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
Matthew 12:6
But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
John 2:19
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
1st Corinthians 3:16
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1st Corinthians 6:19
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
2nd Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

What is happening to our nation’s ‘Temple” – the Lincoln Memorial? It is being converted into a commercial purpose – Disneyland zigzag entrance lines like at the airport for ticket sales to get in to a basement ‘museum’ and an Imax movie theater included in the admission price, souvenirs for sale in the ‘gift shop’ on the way out (vacuuming still more dollars out of the tourists pockets).

The primary player in this ‘rape’ of our national treasure is a man by the name of David M. Rubenstein, a multi-millionaire who made his money in real estate. He doesn’t need more money. For some reason, however, he is possessed with a pounding, driving compulsion to do this to our nation’s Lincoln Memorial. He began his drive to put a chain-link fence around the people’s Lincoln Memorial and move in heavy equipment by first ingratiating himself to the Memorial’s guardian, Jeff Reinbold, superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks. Rubinstein did so by offering to help Reinbold with a frustration he had, namely not being able to solve a drainage problem with the reflecting pool. Rubenstein told him to go ahead with the repairs he wanted in the manner in which he wished to carry them out and if Congress continued to ignore his request for the funds to do so, he would pay for it.

His ultimate desire was to get to Lincoln Memorial. If Rubenstein had simply approached Mr. Reinbold out of the blue and told Reinbold he wanted to put a chain link fence around the nation’s Lincoln Memorial and have his own way with it, the Parks Superintendent would have looked at him like he was crazy, and may have all but had him arrested.

The rich man lusted to have his way with the Memorial to denigrate it and despoil it – change it from that which it was meant to be and has been – sacrosanct – into something of his own personal choosing and fancy. He first won over the Memorial’s guardian (Parks Superintendent) by using his money to patch up the Park Superintendent’s bruised ego (despite repeated requests, he couldn’t get the Congress to allocate the funds to install and improve a much needed drainage system for the reflecting pool) by saying to the Park Superintendent, “Go ahead and have the work done, and if Congress doesn’t pay for it I will! A few rides in the rich man’s black stretch limo, invitations to lavish cocktail parties, and a couple steak dinners later, the Park Superintendent decided that what Rubenstein and his architect wanted to do with the Lincoln Memorial was the best thing he heard of since sliced bread. He even issued the following public statement accolading the man with all the money in the black stretch limo, “Thanks to the National Park Foundation and its generous donors…” (Among these donors is David Rubenstein who lavished $26 million) “… visitors will be able to view this dramatic architectural feature, learn about how the memorial was built, and how its meaning has evolved over the last century.”

They want to turn the Lincoln Memorial into a memorial not just about the Great Emancipator of the slaves, but fill his statutory hall with busts and statutes of all the major civil rights leaders to date.
“Visitors will also learn about the significance of the site as an international icon dedicated to the achievements of Abraham Lincoln and individuals such as Marian Anderson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who have shaped the history of the memorial.” (National Park Service website article February 20, 2023)

“For more than a century, the Lincoln Memorial has been the crucible of American democracy, an enduring platform for free speech, the site of civil protests that STILL SHAPE society, and the scene of national celebrations,” Will Shafroth, president and CEO of the National Park Foundation, said. “Thanks to generous donors, the National Park Service will ensure the Lincoln Memorial continues to make history for another 100 years.

Given the overwhelming size of Lincoln’s statue, and the impracticality of fitting in additional statues of the same size, Lincoln’s statue which was sculpted to go together in pieces, will have to come apart in pieces to be stored in a warehouse with the rest of our history that they are seeking to dismantle and store away.

The shift will be subtle at first. If they move too fast, there will be backlash, but if they gradually shift the focus by rebranding the nation’s symbols, its heroes, and its history, they will deprive America of its foundations. There will be no American identity. In fact, there will be no United States as we know it.
The Parks Superintendent did not hatch such a scheme to fence off the Memorial. The rich man would have seen that he was being used for someone else’s agenda. Rubenstein would have been too smart for him and would have walked away. The rich man is the smart one. The civil service employee is the dumb one. He has been seduced by money for his project, and has then become the rich man’s patsy – even voluntarily accolading the rich man in a public statement, “Thanks to the National Park Foundation and its generous donors, visitors will be able to view this dramatic architectural feature, learn about how the memorial was built, and how its meaning has evolved over the last century.”

How could this Parks Superintendent be so stupid? He needs to be fired, and President Trump (who has to be elected 3 times in order to serve twice) will be the one to do it. Just think of the stupidity of the Parks Superintendent. He is supposed to be the watchdog. Of course, if you want to silence a watchdog, you take along a can of dogfood and first feed the dog. Talk about human stupidity!
Albert Einstein said there are only two things that might be infinite; the universe and human stupidity, and he confessed he wasn’t sure about the universe.

Are all of us ‘deplorables’ stupid as well to be taken advantage of in such a manner – to have the Lincoln Memorial, our national treasure become a plaything, a mistress of a rich man to have his way with as he pleases?

We have been had – all of us – not just the Parks Superintendent. Like ‘Old Man Potter”, played by Lionel Barrymore in the Christmas time move “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Potter rode around in his black carriage – modern “Potters” ride around in black limousines, laughing like Potter laughed at Jimmy Stewart with his decency and unselfishness and unwillingness to sell his fellow townspeople down the drain for money.
If the rich man wanted to build a “Lincoln Museum”, the nation has plenty already, including a marvelous one in Philadelphia – plaster hand cast of Lincoln’s hand; plaster face mask cast of Lincoln’s face, all the walls lined with glass cases of memorabilia – even the gloves and top hat Lincoln wore at his inauguration.

The Park Superintendent became the rich man’s lobbyist, he turned a blind eye to the several acre empty plot of ground right across the street from the Lincoln Memorial (see enclosed photo of this available acreage belonging to the National Park Service). Why tunnel under the Lincoln Memorial when you can build in the daylight right across the street? But of course, in so doing, everything that is taught by the statues and movies and quotations carved in marble or brass are still secondary to, and in the shadow of, Lincoln and his memorial. They seek an equivalency!

The rich man’s money can’t purchase any of these priceless artifacts for his own subterranean museum. The rich man has the entire western Mall to build a Lincoln Museum if he truly wants to donate one. And he can build it in the sunlight above ground. Good Heavens, there’s museums there and everything – an American History Museum at the west end of ‘museum alley’ just before you get to the Washington Monument. He could put the few things he would be able to scrape in there, or pay for and build a 3rd floor addition or put it underground and use his architect’s renderings of this cancerous growth (cellar door) that he was going to put on the Memorial on the American History Museum.

But guess what? But if it was offered (space on the Washington Mall), he wouldn’t take it. He would walk away with his money. Why? That’s the question – why? What is this truly about? Why must he tunnel under the Lincoln Memorial itself? The answer lies very deep in mind of the rich man.

On Saturday evening (June 15th), my wife and I attended a concert (the purpose of which was to raise money for hunger) at which a child prodigy (think – a young Mozart) 9 years of age, played. Having done some investigative photography at the Memorial the day before (6-14), the desecration of our Lincoln Memorial was on my mind.

There happened to be seated next to me at our dinner table a man who had worked in behavioral health (mental health) for Montgomery County, Maryland, a bedroom of Washington, DC, prior to his retirement. He was unaware of what is going on at our nation’s Lincoln Memorial. He agreed that there are plenty of Abraham Lincoln museums throughout the nation.

He was aware of the one in Philadelphia that I had visited (I attended a function of the American Society for Justice a number of years ago there). It had all that one could hope to have of Lincoln memorabilia.
Why tear apart the Lincoln Memorial to install a museum in the basement?

Continuing my discussion with the mental health expert, I opined that we don’t tunnel under the Washington Monument to install a museum to George Washington. We go to Mount Vernon (and many other places in the nation) to learn the history of George Washington.

Why does the architect’s design show the south side’s exterior columns removed? Is it simply a “cut-away” used to show the statue? Or are they planning to remove the south wall of the Memorial? Good Heaven’s! Remember the Park Superintendent curiously said, “Thanks to the National Park Foundation and its generous donors, visitors will be able to view this dramatic architectural feature, learn about how the memorial was built, and how its meaning has evolved over the last century.”

When he speaks of “DRAMATIC ARCHITECTURAL FEATURE”, he surely is not talking about the elongated basement entrance way. Many people have basement doors. If he is referring to the entranceway only, and the architect’s representation of the upper part is but a schematic cut-away, the entranceway itself begins a cancerous growth on an otherwise perfectly balanced iconic Memorial (temple) that houses Lincoln’s seated statue.

When I visited the Memorial in person and took photographs last week, this answered a question for me – all along the south side they have installed heavy oak planking covering and protecting the graduated step down of the side of the Memorial. They didn’t put it there to protect from bird droppings. What’s going on?! Are they afraid that heavy blocks of marble might slip and fall as they attempt to lower them with a crane? What’s going on?

And when the nation expresses consternation and surprise, they reply that a poster showing the architect’s proposed renovations was posted in plain public view on the temporary distal end of the walkway that has been installed so that tourists can still go up and down during construction. Yes, but who would believe that it is what it looks like? Who on earth would do such a thing to the Lincoln Memorial? And to think that the current administration has sanctioned it and even given it their blessing. If President Biden were to have a stroke and pass away tomorrow, I think the democrats would prop him up in a chair and re-elect him!

I hope I am wrong, but even if I’m wrong, this is the most idiotic thing that has ever been endorsed by the dear old National Park Service. This kind of cogitation is the same kind as that which mistakes a mule for a horse and enters the mule in a steeplechase contest.

The child prodigy played his next set after which he received a standing ovation. I took advantage of the pause in the music to pick the brain of this behavioral health (mental health) expert by sending up the trial balloon of a thought and I asked, “Suppose there was a man who as a child was a rebellious teenager who would have spray painted the Memorial, now as a grown adult (who still has a rebellious teenager inside him), does he decide to denigrate the Lincoln Memorial by spending millions of dollars employing air compressors and pneumatic drills to take down columns and walls, and be proclaimed a “heroic benefactor” in the process?”

My new friend seemed to find that tenable, but not completely dispositive of the motivation. The child prodigy continued his next set during which I found myself attempting to come up with a motive – the true driving force behind this ‘rape’ of a national treasure.

There came another break in the playing. Turning to this mental health expert, I said: “If Freud were here…” He sat up and paid attention at the mention of the name. I continued, “Freud was always linking human conduct to the basic physical urges. Perhaps he would tell us that this millionaire had become bored with having his way with his mistresses and his physical, sexual urges, moved to a higher plane in his brain and he lusted after the pure white virginal Lincoln Memorial to rape it as his mistress.” In a flash, the behavioral scientist came back to me, “I think you have it!!”
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
R. Martin Palmer

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