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Recently I had the privilege of attending the CYAC production of Ripper. A musical about your favorite serial killer, Jack the Ripper. I will admit, when I heard it was a musical about a man who killed whores in England, I was rather skeptical about if I would like it or not. I am a fan of musical theater, but a musical about a murderer? I had a hard time believing I would enjoy it. However, one of the actresses is a dear friend of mine, and I agreed to attend.

I don’t think I have ever attended a better musical in my life. Of course, I’m only 22 and have enjoyed musicals for about 17 of those 22, but still, I was very impressed. The stage was set up very nicely, one or two small things could have been done to make it better, but those were so small that it did not matter. The sound system needs updated, but one can hardly blame them for that as those things are very expensive -it would have helped if everyone in the audience would have turned off their cell phones as they were asked to-. And lastly, the actors.

The actors were magnificent. They may just be young people from the charleston area, but all could sing, and all acted their parts perfectly. Jack played the part of a crazed murderer amazingly, and all the paintings he did for the show were exquisite. I was also impressed with how quickly he returned to normal after the show was over. Had it been me in the Ripper role I would have still been wanting to kill whores after the show was over! Inspector Abberline played his part perfectly as well, their faces never betraying that they were actors, but leading you deeper into the illusion that theater is supposed to bring.

And last, but not least, the beautiful white chapel ladies. If every whore were as pretty and sang as sweet as these ladies did, none would ever want for money again! The girls, in my opinion, sounded better as a group than the main characters sounded individually. Of course, my friend played one of the girls, so I may be a tad biased.

I wish I would have been able to see this show last week and spread it’s praises then, but unfortunately, I had to fix my brakes last weekend, and the show is now over. If they ever do this show again, I stongly encourage you to go see it. as you will love it.

Yours in Truth,
Phillip Williamson II

Yeah, I know, I quit writing, and liberals everywhere rejoiced. Well I am back. With a vengeance. For how long? Hopefully until finals at least. I got a few things I want to get off my chest. The first is about the SCCC and the second has to do with the fall election. Shall we begin?

As many of you know I was the WVSU Campus Leader for the SCCC, now I am the WVSU Campus Leader, and the Marshall U Campus Leader as well. I’m taking 12 hours between MU and WVSU, work, and now have 2 campuses to fight for your right to self defense at. Obviously I have a bit more free time than I did before, or I am just crazy. Take your pick. But what is the SCCC doin this semester? Are we wearing empty holsters around again? No, although I may suggest that both campuses do that in addition to what the SCCC’s thing is this year. This year, the official SCCC activity is the Pitch it to the People Week (aka: PIP). During PIP, I plan to have a table set up at each campus which will -hopefully, be manned each day by SCCC members. We will be armed with Literature, posters, SCCC memorabilia, and hopefully a laptop that will allow you to become a member of the SCCC right then if you so desire. The reason we are not doing an EHP again is that we do not want that to become considered commonplace or normal. We desire the media attention, because we feel that this is an effort that needs to be addressed on our University grounds now.

For those of you who do not remember, the SCCC is a student based and led organization who wishes to see those people who already have conceal carry permits for their state to be allowed to carry a concealed weapon on public college and university grounds. If you wish to help take part in the PIP, please contact me at pwilliamson@imwithphil.org.

Now, for the election. I actually quit writing because of the election. I am so disgusted with our two main candidates that I have quit listening to debates, quit watching the news, and even stopped disgussing it with my friends. For any of you that know me, you know that I normally don’t shut up about politics, so this really got to me. But with a month to go, I finally decided to start getting out there for the candidates that I do support. The following is a list of who I support for different positions.

Chuck Baldwin– President
Jay Wolfe– US Senate for WV
Russ Weeks– Governor for WV

My Presidential choice will surely shock anyone who reads this that knows, me as I have been talking up Bob Barr for the past month, But I recently found the Constitution party, who’s candidate is Chuck Baldwin. Chuck Baldwin is closer to my beliefs than Bob Barr is, and Bob was pretty close. My main site will soon change to indicate this turn in my support as well.

Jay Wolfe, I met at the summer WVGOP convention. He is a good conservative man who wants to help the people of WV. Yes, Rockafeller has helped our veterans, I know he helped my grandpa out when he was having trouble with the VA and I thank him for that. However, much of his voting record I cannot agree with, and therefore am supporting a change.

Russ Weeks is one of the creators of the Castle Doctrine, a WV bill that allows a man the right to defend himself by any means necessary in his own home. If this bill were to pass, no longer would citizens have to be afraid of defending themselves or theire families on their own property. Mr Weeks is also pro-life, pro-coal, and pro-traditional family. I will vote for him over Joe Manchin any day.

Hopefully I have given you some things to think about. I hope you check out the above politicians, as you should know your choices and know what you are voting for. As John Q. Adams said, “Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may
cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” As a nation we have grown to vote for the lesser of two evils. I hope you never do that. Always look for the candidate who most closely resembles your own beliefs and values, and vote for him. Encourage your friends and family to vote in this manner, and eventually we can bring sanity, morals, and values back to our nation, instead of voting for more of the same from either main party.

It’s good to be back, and look to hear alot more from your favorite WV conservative-libertarian.

Yours in Truth,
Phillip Williamson II

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.