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The Rock River Patriots will be having a meeting in Fort Atkinson on October 13th, 2017 at 6:00 pm in the community room of the Dwight Foster Library.  The Dwight Foster Library is located at 209 Merchants Avenue. At this meeting we are excited to welcome our special guest speaker Trevor Loudon.  Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker and public speaker from Christchurch, New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics.  One of his latest works is the documentary film, Enemies Within.  You can find out more about Trevor Loudon here.

The Rock River Patriots will be having a meeting this Friday September 8th, 2017 in Fort Atkinson at the Dwight Foster Library beginning at 6pm. At this meeting we will discuss current events and initiatives.  Given the current state of affairs in the world, we will have our annual discussion on emergency preparedness.  Hope to see you all there!

The Rock River Patriots are having a meeting this Friday August 11th, 2017 at 6:00pm in the Community Room at the Dwight Foster Library in Fort Atkinson.  The Dwight Foster Library is located at 209 Merchants Avenue. At this meeting we welcome Mike Mikalson, one of the legislative aides to Sen. Steve Nass, who will speak about the status of the current State of WI budget.  Hope to see you all there!

The Rock River Patriots will be having a meeting on Friday July 14th at 6:00pm in Fort Atkinson at the Dwight Foster Library in the Community Room. The Dwight Foster Library is located at 209 Merchants Avenue. At this meeting we will discuss current events and initiatives. We welcome a special guest speaker who is going to talk about the Christian influences in America’s founding.  Hope to see you all there!

What would our founders think? This is the fourth year I’ve been privileged to write a column for the Lakeland Times for Independence Day.  It is an honor for me to do so.  With celebratory intentions I’ve always attempted to write about our glorious nation and its bright future. Apologizing in advance, this column will not entirely reflect that objective. Our founding fathers provided us with two of the greatest documents ever written: The Declaration of Independence which we celebrate today and the Constitution. Those two magnificent instruments set us apart from every nation in the world, guiding us as we became the model for others to follow. How would our founding fathers judge us today? Thomas Paine’s musings from the distant past offers us a partial answer to that question. He wrote: “A thousand years hence, perhaps less, America may be what Europe is now…the noblest work of human wisdom, the grand scene of human glory, the fair cause of freedom that rose and fell.”  What would possibly cause him to prophesize the fall of the United States? A significant concern was explained succinctly by Thomas Jefferson as he philosophized “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,…

Happy Belated Independence Day! Instead of re-writing things that have already been posted, please view this link: HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY as a reminder of the past Independence Day thoughts from the RRP. The Rock River Patriots will be having a meeting on Friday July 14th at 6:00pm in Fort Atkinson at the Dwight Foster Library in the Community Room. The Dwight Foster Library is located at 209 Merchants Avenue. At this meeting we will discuss current events and initiatives. We welcome a special guest speaker who is going to talk about America’s Founding Fathers, their influences, and legacy.  Hope to see you all there!

The Rock River Patriots are having a meeting in Fort Atkinson this Friday June 9th, 2017 at 6:00pm in the Community Room of the Dwight Foster Library. The Dwight Foster Library is located at 209 Merchants Avenue. At this meeting we will discuss current events and initiatives. We welcome a special guest speaker who will speak on Sharia Law in America. Hope to see you all there!

The Rock River Patriots are having a meeting this Friday May 12th, 2017 at 6:00pm in the Community Room at the Dwight Foster Library in Fort Atkinson. The Dwight Foster library is located at 209 Merchants Avenue. At this meeting, we will discuss current events and initiatives.  Hope to see you all there!

There will be NO Rock River Patriots meeting on April 14th.  Our normal meeting date lands on Good Friday.  Since many of our members will be attending church services, we felt the best option is to cancel the meeting.

The Missiles of Holy Week and the Rule of Law By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano April 13, 2017 The history of the world is the history of violence. I had planned to write this column about the most critical act of violence in human history and its superhuman aftermath — the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter, which celebrates His resurrection in a few days, is the centerpiece of all Christian belief. Without the risen Christ, we are doomed. Only with Him can we be saved. An old Irish priest told me in my youth that Easter means there is hope for the dead. And if there is hope for the dead, there is hope for the living. But the living must do more than just hope, because governments continue to crush hope with violence, irrespective of moral and legal norms. Last week, as Holy Week was approaching, the United States launched 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield because President Donald Trump was morally repulsed at the use of poison gas in Syria in the days preceding. Trump argued that the gas could only have been deployed intentionally by the Syrian government on its own people and that…