Spielberg and The Real Lincoln

Spielberg, with new ‘Lincoln’ film in theaters, speaks at ‘Gettysburg Address’ commemoration

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GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Two-time Academy Award winning director Steven Spielberg expressed a sense of humility Monday as he delivered the keynote address during ceremonies to mark the 149th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.”

“I’ve never stood anyplace on earth where it’s easier to be humbled than here,” said Spielberg, whose biopic about the 16th president is currently in theaters.

His remarks were made at the annual event at the Soldier’s National Cemetery in Gettysburg, near the site where Lincoln gave the famous oration amid the American Civil War in 1863, four months after the battle in which the Union turned back an invasion of the North by Confederate troops under Gen. Robert E. Lee.

After spending seven years working his new movie “Lincoln,” Spielberg said the president came to feel like one of his oldest and dearest friends, and he sensed he was living in the presence of what he called Lincoln’s “eloquent ghost.”

“Lincoln wanted us to understand that equality was a small ‘D’ democratic essential,” Spielberg said, describing Lincoln’s three-minute speech as “his best and truest voice” and the single “most perfect prose poem ever penned by an American.”

Carl Sandberg, in his biography of Lincoln, described it as a speech about how democracy is worth fighting for.

“It had the dream touch of vast and furious events epitomized for any foreteller to read what was to come,” Sandberg wrote. “His cadences sang the ancient song that where there is freedom men have fought and sacrificed for it, and that freedom is worth men’s dying for.”

As part of the event, 16 newly minted Americans from 11 countries took the oath of allegiance to become U.S. citizens.

Spielberg spoke of the interplay between history and memory, and between memory and justice.

“It’s the hunger we feel for coherence, it’s the hunger we feel for progress for a better world,” he said. “I think justice and memory are inseparable.”

The crowd, estimated at 9,000, gave him a standing ovation.

Penn State film major Alison Golanoski, 19, from Gettysburg, said afterward that Spielberg’s passion for Lincoln came through.

“He was very invested in Lincoln as a person, and his personality,” Golanoski said. “I loved all of it.”

The 150th year since the battle will be marked in 2013, particularly around the battle’s anniversary in early July.

“Lincoln,” which stars Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, concentrates on the period leading up to the president’s assassination in 1865.

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/spielberg-with-new-lincoln-film-in-theaters-to-speak-at-gettysburg-address-commemoration/2012/11/19/494df84a-321a-11e2-92f0-496af208bf23_story.html

source: THE REAL LINCOLN

http://www.mindserpent.com/American_History/books/Minor/the_real_lincoln.pdf

Bachmann gives fiery speech about Koran burnings & the ‘Islamic winter’

Bachmann gives fiery speech about Koran burnings & the ‘Islamic winter’
POSTED FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Over the weekend, former GOP presidential contender Michele Bachmann (Minn.) toured the Reagan Ranch and gave a rousing speech against the riots in Afghanistan following the now-infamous Koran burnings (and President Obama’s response).

Watch her fiery speech, entitled, ”Obama Administration’s Arab Spring Turns Into Radical Islamic Winter,” below:

VICTORY FOR INFIDELS: COURT AWARDS ATTORNEYS’ FEES AGAINST THE CITY OF DEARBORN, MICHIGAN FOR VIOLATING A CHRISTIAN PASTOR’S RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Court Awards Attorneys’ Fees Against the City of Dearborn, Michigan for Violating a Christian Pastor’s Right to Freedom of Speech

Posted on January 27, 2012

Today, a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Detroit, Michigan recommended that Robert J. Muise, the attorney for Christian Pastor George Saieg, be awarded $103,401.96 in fees and costs for successfully challenging the City of Dearborn’s restriction on the Christian’s right to freedom of speech at the 2009 Arab Festival held in the City.  The City, not wanting to offend its large Muslim population, would not allow the Christian to hand out religious literature at the Festival.

In the order, the federal judge stated, “In this case, the Plaintiff
received the full relief he sought — an invalidation of the leafleting restriction and a permanent injunction barring its enforcement. . . .  Because this result ‘cannot fairly be labeled as anything short of excellent, [Plaintiff] is entitled to a fully compensatory fee.’”  AFLC Senior Counsel Robert J. Muise represented Pastor Saieg in this successful free speech case.  At the time, Muise was Senior Trial Counsel for the Thomas More Law Center.  The City has 14 days to appeal.  [Read order here]

“The award of attorney fees in this case,” noted Muise, “is critical in the lawfare against Civilization Jihad and dhimmitization, or subjugation, of an entire municipality in Michigan.  Dearborn has a long record of this kind of illegal, heavy-handed treatment of Christians as an attempt to placate Dearborn’s sharia-faithful.  The court’s ruling today demonstrates that this kind of behavior will come at great cost.”

Muise recently won acquittals for charges of “disturbing the peace” brought by the Dearborn prosecutor against a group of Christians following their arrests by Dearborn police in 2010 for the same kind of peaceful free speech activities.  Muise and David Yerushalmi of theAmerican Freedom Law Center, along with attorneys from the Thomas More Law Center, currently represent these Christians in a civil action arising from these arrests.

The American Freedom Law Center is a Judeo-Christian law firm that fights for faith and freedom.  It accomplishes its mission through litigation, public policy initiatives, and related activities.  It does not charge for its services.  The Law Center is supported by contributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations, and is recognized by the IRS as a section 501(c)(3) organization.  Visit us at www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org.

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