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THURSDAY, MAY 7„ 2020
Ours and Yours
THE GEORGIA POST 4
Following the
leader
Do we ever out-grow
the games we play? Do
you remember as children
how we would line up and
follow the lead
er. If the first
person in line
jumped, we all
jumped. When
the leader
twirled around,
everyone was
turning circles.
Everybody
wanted to be
the leader. No
body wanted to
simply follow behind. Isn’t
the same true today?
In the political world,
everyone wants to have the
“say.” They want to lead
everyone else.
To be a good leader,
however, we must first
become a good follower.
We need to learn to follow
instructions and support
those leaders in our midst.
Unfortunately, good
followers are hard to find.
While growing up,
playing games, I was also
taught to respect our lead
ers. If I cannot agree with
the POTUS, I can respect
the office. I’m convinced
that God put this man in
this place for such a time
as this.
Will he always make
the right decisions? No he
won’t. He is human. He
may make mistakes along
the way, but his stance
on the important things
remain true and focused.
There’s only One who
will never make a mistake
and that One is God, Him
self. If you ever think God
is wrong and you are right,
think again. You are most
definitely wrong!
God is a leader worthy
of us following. We
should try to walk like
Jesus, talk like Jesus,
and carry ourselves as
Jesus carried Himself.
Love should be our
guide. He is the only
perfect leader ever,
and it is only when we
learn to follow Him
that we will win the
good follower reward.
God placed our
President in leadership
because He wanted to give
us someone who would
demonstrate the Godly
principles, which go along
with the to command
ments.
Will you follow our
leader and support his
rules and guidelines as we
remember to check out
how closely he is following
the Word of God?
I pray every day that the
man we call the POTUS,
will follow God closely,
doing all the things God
instructs.
When God jumps and
the President jumps, let’s
all jump into action and
love each other.
Let’s be the people God
called us to be. Let’s learn
to be good followers in the
days to come. Listen to
God and let’s allow Him to
lead us.
NANCY GIBBS is an author,
minister’s wife and motivational
speaker. Contact her at nancyb-
gibbs@aol.com
Nancy
Gibbs
Letter to Editor: Wake up America
Editor, The Georgia Post:
We been told we are at war with the infamous invisible Coro-
navirus. But so far, all we see, is that we are trying to save those
already infected/wounded, which is of course a very important
part in all wars.
But, we are not seeing a massive effort to kill the enemy before
it enters the human body.
News on television have shown massive spraying against
coronavirus in cities, by other nations, but we have not seen that
done in America.
In war, the objective is to, “kill the enemy before he kills you.”
And obviously, this extremely dangerous enemy needs to be
killed before it enters the human body. Yet, we do not see much
visible evidence that this country is on the attack against this
murderous virus.
This invisible enemy could be anywhere, since it has been
spreading around the world. Our super smart human race has
been playing with it and to make it worse, our tax dollars paid for
it! This enemy has already taken more than 56,000 precious lives
in America. Wake up America!
IT IS TIME TO ATTACK, AND ERADICATE THIS MENACE
EVERYWHERE! In doing so, we should take all safety pre-cau
tions, of course, in trying to exterminate this enemy in our
homes, our vehicles, all business, offices, public buildings, and
everywhere else!
Manuel Ybarra, Jr.
Are you starting to get the picture?
Not long after President
Trump announced they would
investigate those states with
excessive number of COVID-19
deaths and find out if those
deaths were really due to the
virus, the numbers started to
be adjusted. This morning the
CDC adjusted theirs and it has
almost been cut in half. You
believer whatever you want to
believe, but I believe we’re being
played — big time.
But, let’s not talk about the vi
rus anymore. I’m certainly tired
of the debate back and forth and
I’m sure you are too.
One of the issues going on
right now, is with General
Michael Flynn. Such a traves
ty and it makes we disgusted
even more with some of those
running our country, now or
previously, who claim they care
about justice and our country.
The Flynn debacle certainly
disproves that fact.
In case you have no idea about
this, General Flynn was retired
US Army and briefly served as
the National Security Adviser
to President Donald Trump.
Flynn had a prestigious mili
tary record and was a war hero.
He resigned after information
surved he had misled the Vice
President and the FBI about
the nature and content of his
communications with the
Russian Ambassador to the
United States. He was coerced
into a guilty plea and his family
threatened if he did not comply.
If you think this can’t happen,
then you haven’t watched any
cop shows where they coerce
people into signing confessions
and then it is found out later,
sometimes years and after
prison time, they were actually
innocent.
The newly released documents
show corruption that is so
despicable it is almost hard to
believe and definitely
hard to accept. Along
with the documents
which Judge Sullivan
ordered to produce,
were found handwrit
ten notes stating the
fact, they intended to
get him fired or make
him resign. The four-
page document which
his legal team failed to
reveal at the beginning
(he has since changed
firms) shows corrup
tion at the highest
levels of the FBI. Amaz
ingly the former legal team
discovered more than 6,800
additional pieces of informa
tion they say they inadvertently
failed to provide to new counsel
Sidney Powell when she took
over the case. Judge Sullivan
ordered the former counsel to
do an exhaustive search for any
missed information.
There are detail instructions on
how to “ambush” Flynn during
interviews. James Comey is
on video bragging about taking
advantage of the inexperience
of the Trump administration in
order to get Flynn without going
through the normal channels.
The handwritten notes, which
are believed to be from FBI for
mer head of counterintelligence
Bill Priestap after meeting with
then FBI Director James Comey
and then FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe, suggests that
agents planned in the alterna
tive to get Flynn “to admit to
breaking the Logan Act” when
he spoke to the Russian Ambas
sador. This conversation took
place during the presidential
transition period.
The Logan Act is an obscure
statute that has never been used
in a criminal prosecu
tion; enacted in 1799 in
an era before telephones,
it was intended to pre
vent individuals from
falsely claiming to rep
resent the United States
government abroad.
The notes seems to
be weighing the pros
and cons of different
paths to take. They
even discussed taking a
route of playing by the
book. However, they
determined: “If we’re seen
as playing games, WH
[White House] will be furious.”
There are other players in this
fiasco such as Lisa Page, James
Baker and Peter Strzok but it
can get too confusing about who
is who in the space here so I’ll
try to just stick to the pertinent
players and facts.
They tried to set him up for
peijury but that didn’t work so
they offered him a deal: they
would leave his son alone if he
made a plea deal to a crime he
didn’t commit.
Flynn’s attorneys are now
seeking to have the plea with
drawn and as more and more is
revealed in this case, it seems it
should be. He should be com
pletely exonerated. Someone
has suggested that President
Trump pardon him, but I think
he should be exonerated. Other
wise the swamp rats would not
easily let it go and would never
let the President live it down.
Some of the documents have
redacted parts and a lot of
redacted names.
Powell, Flynn’s new attorney
said in an interview on Fox
News, because of these new
documents, the entire perse
cution “will have to be thrown
out entirely.” More eye-opening
documents are reportedly to be
forthcoming
So, as we wait for further
documents and to see the final
outcome, General Flynn lost his
home and finances. His name
was slandered.
Vice President Mike Pence said
he was deeply troubled by what
appears to have been investi
gative abuse by officials in the
Justice Department. He said
they would be looking into it
very closely based on everything
he’s seen so far, General Flynn
should be exonerated. He also
said Flynn was a fine man.
Additionally, he said what hap
pened to General Flynn should
never be allowed to happen in
this country again. I agree with
him. It is almost too hard to
wrap your head around the fact
that the FBI would ever even
consider doing something like
this to anyone. And, like some
one said, if they did this to him,
what would they do to every day
citizens.
While I am not a conspiracy
theorist generally, it makes
me wonder how much more
is going on. There has been a
call to drain the swamp. Such
revelations makes it even more
important to do so. We can
not allow government to run
roughshod over people just
because they don’t agree with
their politics. This is still Amer
ica after all, I thought. Are you
awake yet?
VICTORIA SIMMONS Is a columnist,
author, motivational speaker, minister
and publisher of The Georgia Post/
Byron Buzz. Contact her at: vsim-
mons54@gmail.com
Day At
ATime
Victoria
Simmons
Self-inflicted wounds: putting even the vulnerable at risk
When a shotgun approach is
taken versus a more targeted
approach there are a lot of
things that can get wounded,
tom and damaged leaving us
with a messed up end product.
We can see how much faster we
heal with today’s microscopic
surgeries versus ones done
many years ago, because of the
laser focus on the target area
(this leaves much less wounded
flesh and organs and recovery
can be a snap). This is the same
when a tactical approach is used
in warfare and highly skilled
operatives are used to take out
primary infrastructure and
enemy leaders instead of losing
a massive amount of young men
and women on both sides that
happen to be on one side or oth
er of the conflict and are simply
doing as commanded and out of
loyalty to their country and be
cause they’re a part of its body.
In this way there are much
fewer lives devastated due to
a lost, father, mother, son or
daughter. One thing that really
worries me in our shotgun
approach to COVID-19 is that in
our attempts to suppress some
thing, we are crushing people’s
lives, businesses and futures
much more than we realize.
If we crash people’s vision for
their future and put the care of
their family in jeopardy, there
are things that become much
more of a clear and present dan
ger than the fear of a virus. And
when the financial Novocain
wears off (that has been getting
pumped out to people and
into the economy), the opinion
will probably change even by
the staunchest (stay at home)
advocates on what we did to
the health of this country as a
whole. We have given a healthy
economy a serious self inflicted
wound that could lead to a lot
of despair and overall decline
in mental health and chronic
disease, especially among the
middle and low income popu
lations.
Most of us hear a lot of views
and opinions of how we should
be handling COVID-19, and
most have a good logic to ex
plain their view, this is mine;
1. We have weakened our
entire body and left it open and
vulnerable to an economical
disease and have put our most
vulnerable at future risk be
cause we didn’t put a laser focus
of our resources on them. We
used a much larger shot
gun approach on idling an
entire country of produc
ers, while at the same time
producing and pumping
a lot of new fiat currency
into our financial system
(to support non-pro-
ductively). This massive
amount of new money will
dilute the buying power
of the dollar, so if you see
a carton of eggs (once the
dust settles) that used to be
$2.50 become normalized
pricing at $3.95, you will
then see the effects of shoveling
massive amounts of new money
into a financial system to sup
port non-productivity.
2. The young and healthy need
to get back to work and our
protection of the vulnerable
among us needs to increase. We
need clear definitions of who
is the most vulnerable and put
our capital and energy toward
protecting them. We could’ve
given $1 million dollars each
to our seniors (a population
of around 70 million) and $1
million dollars each to a defined
vulnerable conditions group
(lets say too million), this is
only $170 million dollars. We
could’ve let them stay home
and protect their turf by making
anyone that comes around them
wear a mask (mouth diaper)
and kept our country open for
business and gotten by for a
mere fraction of the trillions of
dollars spent throwing paper on
a consuming fire. Case in point-
quarantining healthy people to
their houses is stupid and can
weaken their immune systems
(like avoiding exercise can
weaken muscles). Closing parks,
beaches and other venues of
physical and mental release is a
warped approach to any type of
building immune strength and
vitality. Our body
is designed to fight
viruses, bacteria’s
and germs, this is
more about monop
olization and control
of your immune
system by govern
ment controls and
big pharmaceutical
profits.
3. There is nothing
we have on deck
that is keeping this
from flaring back up
like a fresh round of
dry hay dropped on underlying
smoldering embers. So we need
to put our boots on and fight
fire in a sustainable steady way
instead of starving everyone of
oxygen to temporarily suppress
the fire. Simply put the hospi
tals can handle a steady flow a
lot better now than they will this
fall (when combined with flu
season) if we don’t build up our
natural immunity and get ex
posed to each other. Hospitals
are there to help people who get
to a point that they cannot help
themselves, and so far many of
them have been so slow some
of them may go completely out
of business) how healthy will
that be to the surrounding areas
YOUR
HEALTH
Wade Yoder
when part of their health infra
structure is bankrupt).
If we don’t get this economy
back on track and people start
getting desperate because their
lives are getting destroyed and
they have to worry about not
being able to supply the needs
for their family (and much less
themselves), we will have a lot
more to be concerned about
than a virus. When there is
plenty of cash, but goods and
services start becoming scarce
and hard to get, there will be
some that will start realizing
that goods don’t originate from
the store and the businesses
supplying services don’t happen
out of thin air.
We have to take this serious,
because this is a nasty virus,
(our family is experiencing it
now) but we have to get back to
work and produce goods and
services or we’re going to open
ourselves to further injury. If we
don’t this will be most intensely
felt by ones on fixed incomes as
well as middle and low-income
earners that are unable to have
the same purchasing power of
these goods and services. Being
cash rich but goods and services
poor is unhealthy and can lead
to a level of despair very few
in this country can relate to or
have experienced.
Healthy people need to get
to work and the politicians
who were elected to serve need
to quit acting like a bunch of
pansies, get out of their protect
ed conclaves and get to work
or we will be putting the health
and financial futures of the very
ones we claim to be protecting
in jeopardy...
WADE YODER is a Master Trainer
and Fitness/Nutrition Specialist. Con
tact him at wadeyoder@icloud.com;
Phone (478) 955-1999
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