Phil’s Blog and News Commentary

First off. Happy fathers day to all the true fathers. I don’t mean you sleazebags who impregnated a woman than ran off and left your family for one reason or another. I also don’t mean most men who divorced their wives or were dumb enough to marry a woman that you would divorce later. I mean the fathers. Those men who are truly the pillar of their home. The ones who are always there for their family, the ones who provide for their family, the ones who protect their family. To the true fathers out there. Happy Fathers Day.

I’m not going to pretend for a minute that I personally know the jobs and trials and pressures that a father must be under. I’m 22, still single, and do my best to be a good boyfriend when I’m in a relationship, and still manage to screw that up somehow most of the time. To be a husband and a father is a responsibility and privilege that I am not sure I am ready for yet. You think you are? Lets look a bit at the position of fathers today. What their responsibilities are, the kind of pressure they face, and try to truly understand that not every person with their anatomy lined up right is truly a “man” much less “father” material.

Of course, me being a Christian, I go to the Bible for a good look at how a man should behave, what his responsibilities are, etc. And Ephesians is an awesome book to look at how a man should behave. Before we go to much farther into this, allow me to say why I keep using the word “behave”. As I told a friend of mine one time when she asked if I thought I was a man, my response was, “It doesn’t matter what I think. If I don’t behave as a man; if my actions, words, and thoughts are not those of a man, than what does it matter if I think I am a man or not.” The only thing that the world is able to judge your manliness on is your actions, your behavior. This is what defines a man. Not the fact that you have an extra appendage, but your actions. Now. Lets see what the Bible says about these actions.

My first and personal favorite, is found in 1st Timothy 5:8. “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own
house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” In other words, a father is to be the prime provider for a family. I did not say the wife could not work. In todays society that may very well be necessary, and that is not the point of today’s post. Men are to be able to provide food for their family, provide protection, provide shelter, and anything else the family may need. NOT want, but Need. If a man does not do this, out of laziness, or not caring for his family, or because he is not truly a man, then the Bible clearly states that God holds him like an unbeliever. More than likely he is a non-believer as well because a Christian man would provide for his family or at least make the attempt to. Not finding a job and looking is understandable. Not looking for a job and sitting around the house while letting your wife provide is not.

There may be other problems that get in the way of the man providing, but I think you get my drift on that subject. On to another one. Ephesians 6:4. “And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” The fathers responsibility to his children is to teach them in loving kindness. This does not mean the father should not show righteous anger. For instance if he found out his son got a young woman pregnant out of wedlock, I would expect a certain amount of anger. However, he also needs to be supportive of his son, and urge him to make the right decisions according to what is right in the eyes of God. The father is to be an example to his children of the kind of love that God the Father has for all of us. When the children look at dad, they should be able to see God’s love through you.

Another good one in Ephesians, is in chapter 5: 25-33. This is part of the chapter that explains how husband and wife should feel and act towards one another. “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That
he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or
wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless
let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself;
and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”

Wow, had to start a new paragraph after that one. But it was worth it. A husband should show the same love to his wife that Christ showed for the church. As it said, he should even be willing to lay his life down for her, just as Christ did for us. He should care and provide for her as if she were him, because the man is yet to be born who truly hates his own flesh. Now how many men do you know truly embody these traits?

Where can you find a man who has these traits, ladies? Good luck. They are dieing out fast. However, a good general rule, is if you find a man who fears the Lord, has a strong relationship with God, has a daily time that he sets aside for God, and that has surrendered everything in his life to God, will be a man who will treat you just as a true man should. He will be a man who will be an excellent father to any children, and you will truly see the love of God in him.

I have not the time to go through everything the Bible said about being a man and a father, but this is a pretty good overview for today. Before I sign off though. I would like to thank my father. For imparting much knowledge on me, for allowing me to make mistakes and helping me through them, for teaching me how to shoot a basketball and play baseball, for taking me fishing and hunting, and bringing me up the way I should go. I still don’t think I truly appreciate everything he has done for me, and I may not until I hopefully become a father one day as well. So thanks Dad. For everything.

Yours in Truth,
Phillip Williamson II

Excellent question. So far this summer I have been working. Where? The hottest place on earth, Williamson’s Greenhouses in Chapmanville. It’s a family business, where we grow veggies, and decorative plants. Personally I don’t see the point of a plant unless it is feeding you, but apparently there is a market for this type of stuff. So I am working in the house designated “#5″ because it was the fifth built. I am taking care of growing produce that we will sell later. Our tomatoes are salmonella free. Take that McDonald’s.

The money that I am making there is going into savings and preparations for my move to Huntington this fall so that I may take my two final classes and graduate with a BS in Biology and Pre-med from WV State U. I shall still remain Campus Leader of the SCCC on WV State and will act as one at Marshall until one is registered. Also, I am looking for a place to stay and work part time. So if you have any tips on either, please feel free to contact me.

However, more immediately, I will be attending the WV GOP Summer platform convention and kickoff in my capacity as Campus Leader for the SCCC. The issue of whether to support Concealed Carry on campus in the WV GOP platform is up for a vote and I hope a personal appearance from someone in the movement will aid in the passing of this platform addition. This is a sample of the headway that our group is making, and if we keep it up, we may see some real change that will help keep us safe on college campuses.

Next on the list, the Presidential race. We have our 3 candidates now. We have Obama, who is a socialist who will take away every right you have, McCain is a hypocrite conservative who has just recently changed views so that he can run as a conservative. And of course we have Bob Barr, who is wrong on some things in my opinion, but at least he isn’t a hypocrite, or a socialist. Bob Barr stands up for his beliefs, and doesn’t play to the polls or what he thinks will help him win. He is the closest thing to a conservative candidate that America has, and as of right now, my support lies with him. Things could change before November, but as of right now, I have to support Bob Barr.

Be sure to check out his site-link on my home page to his- and even if you know your going to support McCain or Obama, check out your third option. You may be surprised.

Yours in Truth,
Phillip Williamson II.

If you don’t vote tomorrow, may the ghosts of all the dead people who are voting haunt you for one month.

They can’t get us in WV for disenfranchising voters! We even let dead people vote!

Ok, I’m through making fun of the state for now. “I see dead people”….VOTING!

Ok, now I’m done. Seriously though. Get out and vote. Republican and don’t like McCain? Join the club, vote for Ron Paul. PLEASE Do not vote for Huckabee, or Romney, or anyone else who has DROPPED OUT even if they would win majority votes, it would not do us any good. Want to do some good? Vote Ron Paul - never thought I would hear myself say that-. He cannot win either, but it will show a good amount of support that can be thrown over to Bob Barr, the libertarian candidate. The time to start third party politics is now. We need to have more than just your standard “this or that”, we need to have other choices, that represent all points of view. Don’t back people just because they are in your party. Back people because they have views that match your’s most closely. And if you really need someone to vote for, right me in on the republican ticket.

For some site news, You will note the last post I made has been edited…drastically. I read the post a couple days after I wrote it, and I discovered it made no sense to me. What I had written did not match experience, and this after me writing the same stuff for two years beforehand. So I am working on a new post, hopefully this one will be ok, even if it does take me forever to write it.
The other item for site news would be that I am looking to rename my site. Since the WVGOP Convention is over, it really makes no sense for the main tagline to be, “Phillip Williamson II for Logan County Delegate to the WV Republican Presidential Convention”. Help me out, give me some idea’s. Serious ideas preferably.

A good friend of mine in the republican party, whom I am not sure if I can mention his name or not, informed me that at the WVGOP platform meeting last week, the idea of supporting Concealed Carry on Campus was an issue for consideration to be inserted into the state GOP Platform. He told me the idea was well received, and will go to vote at the summer meeting (which I may have to go to now to influence people in the proper direction). I would like to thank my friend for doing this for me. It truly is an important issue that we students are being told we cannot defend ourselves on campus. We are not asking for anything atrocious, we merely wish to extend current concealed carry laws to college campuses.

Thats all for now. Remember. Go Vote!

Yours in Truth,
Phillip Williamson II

Greetings once again readers. I have a short bit of free time, during which I shall update this blog. We shall start with a change made to the main pages. I believe that I shall, for the moment, support Bob Barr for President. Barr is a member of the Libertarian party, and is probably the best candidate vs Hillary, Obama, or even McCain. Barr is for the freedom of all, and is a constitutionistalist akin to Ron Paul. Barr has not announced his candidacy officialy yet, but hopefully it is only a matter of time. My current plan is to remain a republican and vote for Ron Paul during the Primary -for what good that will do- Then during the general, I will vote for Bob Barr.

The only kink in this plan is that there are virtually no other republicans running for anything in my district, while there are many good conservative democrats. I have been toying with the idea of switching my affiliation for the primary, but I just haven’t decided yet. The Republican primary in my district has pretty much been decided as to who is running because only a few are. So theres my reasoning behind that.

In other Presidential candidate news, Mike Huckabee has a counter up on his website at http://mikehuckabee.com. Do you know what this is? I don’t. Its on tax day if that counts for anything. Have an idea? Let me know?

Now onto news about the Students for Concealed Carry on Campus -SCCC-. As many of you know, the main event of the organization is the nationwide Empty Holster Protest and to get as many students as possible involved in it. The amount of students shows a few things. That students desire the right to defend themselves on college campuses, and the number of people who would either be carrying, or merely support the right of people to carry. The main goal is to affect change at the state level, so that law will change and allow those of us with Conceal Carry Licenses/ Permits -CCL’s and CCP’s- to carry on campus as we can legally everywhere else. College campuses are public institutions paid for by our tax dollars, and as we see quite often, can be a dangerous place for young people. Infuse law abiding citizens with the ability to carry a weapon for the purpose of self defense, whether for a school shooting, a mugging, a rape, or any violent crime, and it equalizes the victim and the criminal, giving the victim a chance to defend themselves. I hope that all college students reading this will take part in the Empty Holster Protest.
http://concealedcampus.org

Yours in Truth,
Phillip Williamson II

Haven’t heard from me in a while have you? Thought you’d seen the last of me? No. However, I found something I had to share. Do not let your children watch this video. It contains hanging of Gays, decapitation of the enemy, mass killings, and very graphic scenes that should disturb even the most disturbed. This is the 15 minute movie Fitna, about the religion of islam.

Yours in Truth,
Phillip Williamson II

I got to thinking today, that here I am, a decent moral person, and I have not one political party that I can truly support. It’s true. I decided to become a Republican at the age of 18 thinking that this was the party that would truly deliver the conservative values I hold dear to the public offices of the USA. Not merely economic issues, but also moral issues as well, such as the sanctity of unborn life for an example. That is the sole reason I became a Republican. I do not come from a family of republicans. I was the first Republican in my family. Others in my family followed my lead shortly after, thinking that this was really the party to support. After all, the national democratic party stands for all those things that we conservatives dislike. They believe that abortion is choice instead of murder, that those of us who work hard to earn a living should pay more taxes than those who lay around on their posteriors all day and “farm the mailbox”. They, in general, believe America is great not because of the hard working citizens or the documents that ensure equallity for all and that the true power belongs to the people, but that the more the government is involved, the greater things are because of more control over every day life, that it would be more orderly and safe for everyone.

 You know who else think that way? The Dark Lords of the Sith in Star Wars.

But I digress from my sci-fi examples. These past years since the Republicans came to power in the Congress have shown me that the Republican party I thought I was joining is filled with people who don’t subscribe to the party lines of lower taxes, smaller government and strong morals. While they were in power, government grew, taxes rose, and they did nothing that could have led the common Republican to believe that they were in office to serve the people instead of themselves. More recently we have had so many sex scandals with Republicans in office that it makes me cringe to think about it. What happened to the morals that we were supposed to be upholding? Has the idea that we can do anything we want in our private life so long as we live well in public so permeated our society that we have no one left who truly “walks the walk”? When I elect a Republican, I expect a person who not only says that he is a moral man who will fight for the unborn, family values, and lower Government involvement, but a man who actually believes those things in his public and private life. However, it seems that the party that I joined no longer exists. For President our party supports a man who won’t do anything about the border, only declare amnest for all Illegal aliens; who restricts free speech; and who, in general, is really a liberal fooling the republicans into thinking that he is a conservative.

I would really hate to think that the other option is true in this case. The option that Republicans truly see what this man is and still support him. That scares me more than people being fooled by him.

Who will I vote for? I haven’t decided yet. I honestly don’t know if I can support any candidate running.

Yours in Truth,
Phillip Williamson II

So far a success. We only had one nut at the meeting. By nut I mean someone who believes that guns are evil and that by taking them away everything is better. Everything is better by taking weapons away from the law-abiding citizens? The people who would turn in their weapons are the ones you didn’t need to worry about. They ones that you did need to worry about still have their weapons! For example in a recent study in Australia, they published the crime statistics in the past 12 months, they years they have banned weapons, just like England. Just like England, crime went through the roof. Here are your statistics.

• Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2%
• Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6%
• Australia-wide, armed-robberies are up 44% (yes, FORTY-FOUR PERCENT)
• In the state of Victoria, homicides-with-firearms are up 300%
• Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in homicides-with-firearms (changed dramatically in the past 12 months)
• Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in armed-robbery-with-firearms (changed dramatically in the past 12 months)
• There has been a dramatic increase in breakins-and-assaults-of- the-elderly
• At the time of the ban, the Prime Minister said “self-defense is not a reason for owning a firearm”
• From 1910 to present, homicides in Australia had averaged about 1.8-per-100,000 or lower, a safe society by any standard.
• The ban has destroyed Australia’s standings in some international sport shooting competitions
• The membership of the Australian Sports Shooting Association has risen to 112,000, a 200% increase, in response to the ban and as an attempt to organize against further controls, which are expected.
• Australian politicians are on the spot and at a loss to explain how no improvement in “safety” has been observed after such monumental effort and expense was successfully expended in “ridding society of guns”. Their response has been to “wait longer”.

These stats come from http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/aus.html.

Do I really need to tell you this is why we need to allow conceal carry on college campuses in this country? You take away firearms, and the only people you help are the “superstitious and cowardly lot” that we commonly refer to as criminals. How long before one of these idiots comes to my college or your kids college and starts to shoot people? They know they can get easy pickings on these college campuses. They know they will have a large body county. They know that because of this large body count people will be talking about it for a very long time. You allow conceal carry on a college campus and the risk of a shooting goes down, not up! Will it stop a complete mental case? No. They may do it anyway. Will it make them pause and possibly reconsider the place that they are thinking of shooting? AKA: My classroom? Yes. It will.

There is another meeting of the WVSU SCCC next Thursday at 12:30 in the Quiet Study Room across from the Bookstore in the University Union. If you want to be safer on campus, please show up.

Yours in Truth,
Phillip Williamson II

Update 3-3-08: The Meeting will be held in Room 124 of the University Union. Be There!

I can’t stand it anymore. Every headline I read paints Israel as a big bad nation that wants to repress a bunch of people. Israel attacks Gaza? Try Israel defends itself against Gaza. I personally admire Israel for its restraint this long. Gaza and the West Bank have been nothing but a thorn in the side of that country since the it was first formed. If I had been in charge of Israel, I would have stopped this nonsense long ago. America wouldn’t put up with people firing rockets into our cities and neighborhoods, why should Israelis? It wouldn’t be humanitarian you say? It would be wrong to kill so many civilians? In my opinion, the only way to win a war as this is to shoot everyone on the ground that does not surrender. You have a family that has their hands over their heads? Fine, let them go. You have a family where they all come out with weapons and try to kill you? Take them down. War isn’t nice. War isn’t supposed to be about preserving the infrastructure and the way everything was before. War is about taking out a power that is a threat to you, and the only way to remove that threat here, is to level the West Bank and Gaza.

But what do I know. I just know what I would do If I had a neighbor that threatened my family by throwing hand grenades in our yard every day. If my house and yard were sovereign territory, I would remove the threat to my family by any means necessary. If you don’t like my family analogy, look at it this way. All Israelis share something that binds them, most likely their faith. In America, it is our Constitution and founding documents. If someone is threatening the life and livelihood of my friends and fellow Americans, I will act. Israel is finally acting here. I hope they stomp the tar out of every single enemy in the West Bank and Gaza that holds a weapon towards their army or their country.

And not the kind I want. You know the ones in april that will be wearing empty holsters around every college in the US in representation of how defenseless we are since we lose the right to self-defense as soon as we step foot on college owned ground? Those are the protesters I want. The protesters that are bugging me are the ones that are taking down the signs that I put up announcing the meeting on Wednesday at 11:30 in Room 128 of the University Union. I have put up 1 sign a day in about 4 locations for the past 3 days at WVSU. Each day, they have been taken down again.

Physically, this doesn’t bother me at all. It’s no problem for me to keep making signs that these people can tear down, and its no problem for me to walk to another building to put these signs up, or give a few copies to my faithful lackies to put up when they see one tore down. I can put them up just as fast as you can take them down, so lets keep this up. It bothers me on an intellectual level though. After all, isn’t College supposed to be the place for all ideas to be expressed? Isn’t it supposed to be the place where everyone fits in?

I have said since my second year in higher education that Universities and Colleges are the havens of liberal thought. It is the only place it can exist, because in the real world, liberal though leads to socialism, facism, and general tearing down of the republic that we have worked so hard to build and maintain. In short, liberals can’t make it work in the real world. The true sign of liberal thinking on a college campus though, is the hypocrisy of the “level playing field” for all ideas and thoughts. When I first started talking about the SCCC on campus, I was met with not only criticism, but fear as well, and not fear of the idea of carrying a handgun, but fear of what peoples superiors would think for allowing such a group to exist and use campus facilities. When working for a place that enforces liberal thoughts and concepts, I understand that you have to consider these things, but shouldn’t all thoughts and ideas be equally represented and fairly treated in the spirit of tolerance?

Just because you don’t like the idea of people who have conceal carry licenses and are carrying everywhere else you go during the course of your day doesn’t mean that you should be tearing down signs for a group who is concerned about your protection on campus during the event of a mass shooting such as at VT or NIU. I don’t tear down signs about the Gay/ Straight Coalition or the fliers promoting Ron Paul for President. They have just as much a right to advertise their meetings as I do.

I found a quote on a friends Facebook today that quite adequately sums up the position on Conceal Carry on Campus. It was actually what inspired me to write this post today. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” -E. Wiesel. We, the students. are currently powerless to prevent a mass shooting from occurring. And even once we are able to, it would not prevent a shooting from happening, only lessen the body count of the innocents by hopefully taking down the attacker in time. We, the students, will now, and hopefully until the laws and regulations are changed, protest this injustice in our system. Come to the meeting on Wednesday. I don’t think it will last the whole hour and I will answer any additional questions you may have.

Yours in Truth,
Phillip Williamson II

Why is it so hard to understand that taking the weapons away from law abiding citizens will only result in the death of more law abiding citizens? This time in Illinois, a man walks into an auditorium, kills law abiding citizens who were happily- or unhappily- attaining knowledge to better themselves and have a better life for them and their families. Because I don’t want anything like this to happen to me without me having the ability to defend myself, I became a member of the Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. After that, I applied to be campus leader, and just now I have been accepted. So any WVSU Students who wish to join this organization can e-mail me, talk to me, or just join themselves on the official group on Facebook. But I think it is time to explain what this organization is.

The SCCC consists of the average law abiding student on college campuses that have laws against carrying a weapon on school property. For instance at WVSU you cannot be in possession of anything that could be a lethal weapon. Yes, even sharp sticks. Now of course this rule is broken somewhat. Many people carry multitools or pocketknives, but you get the drift. You are legally bound to not be able to defend yourself in the case of an attack on your life or anyone else’s life if the attacker has a firearm. This rule goes along with the faulty thinking that Weapons cause crime. This is the liberal point of view. If I have a weapon, all of a sudden I am more likely to hurt someone than use said weapon ONLY for self defense. But I am drifting. If I am caught with said firearm, I will be expelled, according to the student handbook. How does this help make me safe?

I have been having this discussion with one of my professors ever since he found out that I am starting this group of activists on campus. He feels that legalizing the carrying of firearms on campus will just make more violence erupt on campuses across the US. If you believe that firearms cause crime, this is a logical method of thinking. However, these “bad guys” who shoot innocents are breaking the law when they kill people, not just when they bring a firearm on campus. It must be made a choice for those of us who care enough for the law not to break it, to defend ourselves. This brings me to one of the first official positions that the SCCC takes. Only those citizens with Concealed Carry Licenses in their respective states may carry weapons on campus. The official stance is not for everyone to be able to carry the weapons on campus, only those who pay for the training, and the license.

I live in WV. Almost everyone has a weapon here. We have one of the highest per capita Gun ownerships in the nation, and also one of the lowest crime rates. I know of people who say they conceal carry on campus even when they aren’t supposed to. This is breaking the law and I do not condone it. That is the reason for this group, so that we may change things so that we may defend ourselves without fear of legal action or reprimand. We just want the ability to defend ourselves as laid down in the second amendment;”…the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” For this purpose, the SCCC has a nation wide protest of these laws against our ability to defend ourselves.

This spring, April 21-24 to be exact, is the time of this years SCCC Protest. During this time, members, students, and faculty will walk around campuses all over the nation wearing empty holsters, symbolizing our defenselessness on our own college campuses. Symbolizing that our rights, stop as soon as we step on their property. Optionally they can wear SCCC shirts, hats, buttons, all proclaiming the message that we want change. That if someone is attempting to take my life, I demand the ability to combat him with equal or greater force, and lethal if need be.

I will be starting meetings of people who want to be a part of this protest this coming week. I will also be delivering letters to the Dept of Public Safety and the Presidents office at WVSU stating our intent and what our protest is about. If I am lucky, maybe I can even get some news coverage of the protest that week. Considering that there won’t be any chanting or sign waving, it probably won’t happen, but it’s a possiblity.

This will probably be my next endeavor in the political arena for a while, so I will keep you updated as things progress. I will soon be attempting to change my site to reflect this addition to my endeavors.

Yours in Truth,
Phillip Williamson