MUST WATCH - Armed Protesters Remember The Battle of Athens On Steps Of Mi. Capitol

Hundreds of armed protesters descended on the state capitol in Lansing Michigan where Detroit weapons instructor Rick Ector reminded them of the legendary "Battle of Athens," during which the citizenry rose up in armed rebellion to free themselves from the yoke of Tyranny.

Ector runs Ricks Firearms Academy, and publishes Legally Armed in Detroit. Watch this amazing video below.

CAN YOU FIND BOBBY?

Gun Rights Supporters Gather On The Steps Of The Michigan State Capitol In Lansing

Porcupine Bash: LIVE Musical Fundraiser For Disabled Vets

22 veterans commit suicide every single day. Some people slap a "Support Our Troops" bumper sticker on their car and call it a day. Others, like northern Michigan resident Robin Lindenberg, Publisher of the Porcupine Press, work to make the lives of our veterans a little bit easier. The Truth Is Viral is honored to have been asked to broadcast this fundraising concert, live from Joe's Bar in the "Warm and Friendly Port" of Alpena Michigan.


NEW clothing items that are desperately needed, in L, XL, and XXL sizes include:

Flannel PJs.
Sweat suits.
Wide suspenders.
Gloves (thin, for wheelchair users.)
Winter jackets.
Tennis shoes with (velcro lacing.)
Mittens, gloves, winter hats.
Ankle and over-the-calf style socks.
Regular hankies.

Needed comfort items include:

Shaving cream.
Denture cleaner & adhesives.
Soft-bristle toothbrushes and toothpaste.


Miscellaneous items needed include:

Crossword puzzle books.
Word-find books.
Audio books.
Universal remotes for TVs.
Neck pillows.
AA and AAA batteries.
Writing materials.
Postage stamps.

If you live in northeastern Michigan you can bring those items to Chief's Bar and Joe's Bar in Alpena. Other drop boxes have been strategically positioned around the Sunrise Side.

Torture And The Patriotic American Christian

When I see photos and video of innocent people being beheaded I understand what Evil is, and the Marine in me wants to bring all guns to bear to destroy it with extreme prejudice, using whatever means necessary; going all Jack Bauer if need be in order to protect innocent life. The Christian in me says I must temper my righteous anger so that my actions reflect the Judeo-Christian values I hold and endorse.

"Vengeance is Mine, saith the Lord."

So I've been torn on the subject of "torture," particularly when innocent lives are at stake. I remember watching an episode of "24," where Jack Bauer had a man with critical information tied to a chair. This man was a hardened jihadi, time was running out, and Jack set up a video feed that showed the terrorist's family also tied to chairs - with guns to their heads. The man's child was among them.

The man still refused to talk, so Jack ordered his partner to execute the terrorist's wife. A shot rang out and the wife fell back in her chair, out of frame. Jack made it plain that the boy was next to die if the terrorist didn't talk.

He talked and millions of people were saved.

After he spilled the beans though, it was revealed that the wife had not been hurt at all, that her "execution" was a bluff, thereby preserving Jack's status with the audience as a Patriotic hero rather than as an amoral merc.

Was that "torture?" A similar scenario in the recently released report on Enhanced Interrogations says that it is, and that the technique was actually used on a detainee. I don't think that it was torture, nor do I think that the force-feeding of a hunger-striking Kahlid Sheik Mohammed via peanut butter enema was torture.

Some of the EI techniques however, like waterboarding, are torture, having been recognized and implemented as such since the Inquisition.

Having given it some thought and prayer, I have come to the decision that we as a People are better than that, that Christ wouldn't be very happy with us were we to use some of the techniques used by the CIA; techniques that broke down not just the victim, but even those who were implementing them.

We must also consider two other aspects:

1. If any of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, or Marines are captured by the enemy, we won't be able to justifiably complain about their treatment if the US condones true torture. As we found out after WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, our enemies don't always play by the rules. Stories about the torture of American prisoners by State actors, despite the fact that they were signatories to the Geneva Convention, are commonplace and well documented, so we can't guarantee how our prisoners are treated in the future either.

Non-state actors like ISIS and al-Qaeda will never conform to international law as it relates to the treatment of prisoners. Nevertheless, we must maintain the moral high ground or we forfeit our right to complain at all when our sons, and possibly daughters, are being held by a hostile force.

Army veteran Cpt. Terry Michael Hestilow talks about the horrific possibility of one of our pilots, possibly a female in today's Air Force, being taken captive by ISIS in this episode of The Truth Is Viral.

2. As Christians, and simply for being Christians, we are considered possible "domestic terrorists" ourselves. Those Christians who "bitterly cling to their guns and Bibles" are of particular interest to the Dept. of Homeland Security, having been classified a greater threat than Islamic extremists. Do we want to have these techniques applied to us as they might be under Executive Order 13603?

That absolutely frightening scenario is laid out in the following episode of The Truth Is Viral by TTiV Publisher Bobby Powell and Pete Santilli, Publisher of the Guerrilla Media Network and brother Marine.



Further, the Obama administration has claimed the "legal" authority to kill any American citizen they choose, without any type of Congressional oversight or judicial review - without so much as a charge of wrongdoing in a court of law - far away from any battlefield. Even the ACLU has called Obama "Judge, jury, and executioner." Attorney General Eric Holder even claims that Obama has the authority to kill American citizens inside the United States, as documented in this episode of The Truth Is Viral:


Back to the subject of torture, I'd like to share an article I read this morning titled, "7 Things Christians Should Know About Torture," from "Cannon and Culture." I know nothing about this website, but this particular article is a good read and should help you understand more about the subject of torture as it relates to our behavior as Children of the Most High God.

Whether you, dear reader, are faithful to a Judeo-Christian belief or not, I think that nearly all Americans share an innate sense of fair play. Despite what ultra-liberal politicians would have us believe as they push the demonstrably false "Hands up, don't shoot" narrative in Ferguson Mo. and across the country, the end does not justify the means.

How we fight the battle - whatever that particular battle may be - will be taken into account on Judgment Day. I, for one, want to be able to tell my Judge that I protected the innocent, defended the weak, and fought with Honor.

God bless and Semper Fi,
Bob Powell
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief

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In order to win this goodie bag, you need to upload a video around a minute in length telling me why you want a bottle of Silver Bullet Gun Oil. Send the link to your video to my Facebook inbox at www.facebook.com/TheTruthIsViral. The funniest and/or most entertaining video will win.

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Feds To Hit Bundy Ranch Again With Multi-Agency Force Including Army Rangers; Covert Video Of Staging Area

On Sunday April 13^th, an episode of The Truth Is Viral was published that questioned how easily BLM agents were run off of the Bundy Ranch. Never before has the federal government ever turned and run from a fight, and believe me that sets a huge and dangerous precedent.

That show was based on a report by investigative journalist Doug Hagmann who said that a highly placed source inside the Department of Homeland Security told him that the BLM withdrawal was a fake and that they intended to return with greater numbers. Hagmann also stated that his DHS informant told him that the first raid on the Bundy compound was an exercise designed to determine what kind of resistance the government will face should gun confiscations begin.

The very next day on Ben Swann's radio program Sheriff Richard Mack of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association revealed that he had received intelligence from multiple credible sources inside the BLM and Las Vegas Metro that there is "no question" that the federal government is planning a second raid on the Bundy home and the homes of their children who live on the property.

Harry Reid doesn't think it's over either, and he said so in an interview with mynews4.com

And then "Dingy Harry" doubled down by calling everybody that supports the Bundy's "domestic terrorists" in an interview published by the Las Vegas Review Journal. How can the government let "domestic terrorists" run free? They are going to have to do something or lose all credibility in the eyes of even the most ardent Obama supporters. Judging by the comments left by liberals around the blogosphere, the progressive left is fully in support of squashing the Bundy's like bugs. Some have even suggested that the Bundy's be struck with drones.

Since that initial information came out both Mack and Hagmann have said that the publicity generated by their reports has caused the federal government to go back to the drawing board. Apparently what they've done is call for reinforcements because the last time the federal government stood toe to toe with patriots they were badly outgunned and a massacre was narrowly avoided.

I need to reiterate here that backing down from a group of armed protesters makes the federal government look extremely weak. This is something that the entire world has come to realize about Barack Obama, that he is the weakest president this country has ever had the misfortune of seeing in office. Even though it was really al-Qaeda terrorists that used chemical weapons in Syria and not Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad, Obama was seen as 'womanly" by the Arab world when he did not take action once his so-called "Red Line" had been crossed.

Right now the rest of the world is watching and laughing at the weakness of Barack Hussein Obama as Russian president Vladimir Putin bends him over on the world stage and spanks him viciously nearly every single day. Obama is a joke, and the whole world sees it. Now the American people are seeing it too, and being the malignant narcissist that he is Obama just will not let that stand; he can't. He cannot allow a few brave patriots to stand up against him and succeed.

A video posted yesterday by Freedom Fighters 2127 News claimed a source in Las Vegas had been told by a law enforcement officer that there were about 140 agents in Las Vegas where the government has set up a staging area for a second, more forceful, raid on the ranch. The video goes on to say that Las Vegas hotels are being filled with federal agents; BLM Rangers and FBI that are arriving in unmarked vehicles. "J," Freedom Fighter's source, said that the vehicles are being parked in secure areas and parking lots in the Las Vegas area. "J" says this doesn't include those agents who may be flying in to take part in the raid.

This reinforces the facts published on the 13th which included a phone call to the Holiday Inn in Mesquite Nevada, which is just miles from the Bundy Ranch in Bunkerville. Every time that I mentioned the phrase "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms," or "ATF," the Holiday Inn desk clerk hung up on me. You can listen to those phone calls by clicking this link.

Today I received brand-new video from one of my spies in Las Vegas that seems to confirm that federal agents are indeed massing in Sin City. This video shows federal agents in the bar of the hotel bragging about past exploits and warning about "bad breaches." My spy also took a tour of the hotel's parking facility and managed to capture their vehicles on video. This man speaks with me in an exclusive interview, describing what he saw, heard, and recorded with his cell phone.

As this episode of The Truth Is Viral was being uploaded, my source called with an update. He reported that he had returned to the Las Vegas Marriott hotel where he recorded the original video and had spoken with a hotel employee who told him that many of the men were Army Rangers. Interestingly, my source reported that whenever the Rangers left the hotel they were always escorted by Las Vegas Metro officers.

My source, just an ordinary everyday Patriot, has promised to keep me up to date with his latest observations.

Blaine Cooper

Blaine Cooper, the man who threatened to charge John McCain with Treason - to his FACE - at a town hall meeting, has been providing security for the Bundy family, literally putting his humungous body in harms way in order to protect the rancher and his family. Cooper reports that all is quiet at the Bundy ranch and they have no fear of a second government attack on their ranch.

Madison Rising Plays The Bundy Ranch

Still, members of Stewart Rhodes Oathkeepers organization and the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association led by Sheriff Richard Mack, along with militia members from around the country, are still encamped at the Bundy Ranch where they recently enjoyed a performance by the popular Patriot band Madison Rising in appreciation for their brave stand against federal Jackboots. Calls have gone out for reinforcements that will be expected to stand up to, and possibly fight, a much larger attacking force than that which assaulted the Bundy's the first time.

If Doug Hagmann's source inside the Department of Homeland Security is correct, that part of the motivation for the initial raid was to gauge the reaction of the American people, I think they got their answer.

The American people have had enough.

BLM Snipers Dot The Hills Around The Bundy Ranch

The federal government could have simply filed a lien against Cliven Bundy's estate and collected whatever they claimed that he owed them when he died.

Instead, they surrounded the Bundy Ranch with militarily equipped, specially trained federal agents that attacked the Bundy family with dogs, tazing Bundy family members. Bundy's son Ammon was arrested and beaten after taking photographs of BLM snipers on surrounding hillsides.

Again, the American people have had enough of this kind of federal brutality.

Please don't misunderstand me, this is not a threat, this is simply an observation. If there is a second armed federal raid on the Bundy Ranch there will be bloodshed; lots of bloodshed, and I guarantee that many of the dead will include federal agents because the militias that are now protecting the Bundy ranch have snipers too.

I would like to speak directly to any federal agents that might be part of a second raid on the Bundy Ranch in particular, and to federal agents and members of the Armed Forces in general. You know this is wrong. "I was just following orders" did not work for the Nazis in Nuremberg after World War II, and it will not work for you now.

There is ample evidence that Harry Reid is lining his pockets, and the pockets of his family members, through the seizure of state lands by the Bureau of Land Management.

I want you to remember that when you kiss your wife and children goodbye the morning of the raid; that you may very well be killed just so that this lying animal Harry Reid can profit monetarily.

He really thinks that land is his personal possession - NOT the property of the federal government - as noted in a video by TTiV friend Western Center for Journalism. Reid's body language in that interview with KLNV is unmistakable, his arrogance and disrespect for the American People and the Rule of Law on full display.

Do you really want to die for a federal government that doesn't care about you or your family? That was proven when Obama refused requests by flag and general officers of the United States military who wanted to save Amb. Christopher Stephens in Benghazi. He told them to "stand down," leaving the Ambassador and our Navy SEAL brothers to die at the hands of the merciless savages of Ansar al-Sharia.

Do you really want to die for Eric Holder, a man who is still in Contempt of Congress two years after refusing to provide information over Operation Fast and Furious which resulted in the death of federal agent Brian Terry? Do you really want to die for Harry Reid, one of the dirtiest politicians Washington DC has to offer today?

I don't want you to die for them.

What can you do? Well, you can quit. Just don't be part of it. Stand up, be a man, and tell your superiors that you think it's wrong; that you won't have any part of it. You can also call me and tell me your story. Become a whistleblower and help me expose the truth about Barack Obama's agenda to subject this country to a state of absolute despotism.

My brothers, you took the same oath that I did. You took the same oath that the Patriots facing you at the Bundy Ranch did. Why do you think that these men have converged on the Bundy Ranch from all over the country? They are standing up for honor, decency, and the rule of law. Failure to pay grazing fees is not a capital offense in the United States of America, and any attempt to make it so is an attack on common decency and the American way of life.

You are honor bound to uphold that oath and refuse to obey any unlawful order. If you forsake that oath and fire on American citizens when the facts of the case are extremely shady, you can expect that fire to be returned; and nobody wants that.

I know that many of you are torn, I know that at least one of you told journalist Dennis Michael Lynch that you did not want to be pointing your weapon at the Bundy's.

So don't. Problem solved.

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DeLynn & Our Grandson Conner Christian

EDITOR'S NOTE: At the end of this video I happily grant the request of one of my viewers who had asked me to use her donation to buy my wife some flowers. Since it was Easter I chose a beautiful lily basket, and when DeLynn saw them and heard the story of how they came to be in her room, tears of gratitude, happiness, and outright astonishment were shed.

DeLynn just can't get over how kind and faithful my viewers are, and to be quite honest neither can I. The video at the end was taken at the Horton Creek Inn Bed and Breakfast, run by the wonderful Babbitt family of Traverse City Michigan.

The Babbitt's son Jim is one of TTiV's most faithful family members and he asked his parents to hook us up with a free night at their B&B for our 25th wedding anniversary last August, which they were only too happy to do. The Horton Creek Inn B&B has a large garden filled with the most beautiful flowers one can find, and besides the massive in-room jacuzzi tub it was DeLynn's favorite part of our stay.

All kidding aside, Jim grew up in this beautiful home - we even stayed in his old room which has a private balcony overlooking the inn's breath-taking garden - and that is exactly how DeLynn and I were treated; just like we were family. And we are both so grateful to the Babbitts for treating us to that special, one-of-a-kind, memory.

In closing I wanted to thank, once again, everyone who has kept us in their prayers as we go through the hardest times we have ever endured. Hearing last month that the chemotherapy was no longer working, that her colo-rectal and liver cancer had further metastasized to involve two new areas of cancer, was a devastating blow to both of us.

While we haven't given up hope for a miracle, and never will as long as she is alive, we also have to be realistic: Father is calling my wife home. We need your prayers now more than ever.

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DHS Insider: Bundy Ranch Standoff Not Over! Military, Federal Agents Seen Moving In

It was easy to run federal agents off wasn't it? It was too easy.

In this episode of The Truth Is Viral, host Bobby Powell puts together several pieces of information that have surfaced sine the BLM "withdrew" and conceded to the demands of Cliven Bundy. Bundy is the Nevada rancher who stood toe-to-toe with nearly 1,000 heavily federal agents for over a week. Fortunately for Bundy, thousands of unarmed protestors - and militia that were armed just as well as the federal agents were standing shoulder-to-shoulder with him.

But, as reported to investigative journalist Doug Hagmann - co-host of the Hagmann and Hagmann report along with his son Joe - by a highly-placed source inside the Department of Homeland Security, the BLM withdrawal was a fake. The entire standoff was, according to Hagmann's DHS informant, a real world exercise designed to determine what kind of resistance the federal government will face should gun confiscations begin.

From this observer's perspective that resistance will be fierce. The feds should probably buy Depends by the truckload because people are pissed, and from what we saw on alternative media livestreams broadcast during the standoff many of them are ready to rock and roll.

Acting on a tip from a view who said that he saw "many, many, many" men in military uniform and federal agents checking IN to hotels around the Bundy ranch, after the BLM allegedly stood down, when they should have been checking out, TTiV Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Bobby Powell called area hotels and confirmed that there is not a single room available anywhere near the Bundy ranch.

The response of one young lady who answered the phone at the Holiday Inn in Mesquite Nevada will chill you to the bone.