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2008 Campaign
Family Security Matters does not stand behind or endorse any candidate for president (or any other public office). However, as the President is also Commander-in-Chief and is responsible for setting national security policy, we will be publishing a variety of articles on both the Republican and Democrat candidates for President during this election year. As always, the opinions of our Contributing Editors are their own, and do not necessarily reflect those of Family Security Matters.
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June 7, 2008
Exclusive: William J. Federer’s
The island was captured from the Spanish in 1655 by Admiral William Penn, father of Pennsylvania's founder, but it was too far from England to defend, so the city turned to pirates for protection. The likes of Blackbeard, Calico Jack and Captain Henry Morgan, namesake of the rum, attacked Spanish and French ships and returned with their booty. Soon Port Royal, Jamaica, surpassed Boston as England's most prosperous settlement. It was called "the Sodom of the New World" for its "pirates, cutthroats, whores," drinking, gambling, slave trading and "wild, reckless, whoring," until JUNE 7, 1692, when an earthquake sank it under the sea. Over 2,000 drowned, graves opened and bodies washed about. Eyewitness Rev. Emmanuel Heath, wrote: "Port Royal was terribly destroyed by an earthquake and breaking in of the sea upon it. The destruction was sudden...in four minutes multitudes were killed by the falling houses...I believe God I never in my life saw such a terror...the earth opened and swallowed up people before my face...The sea swallowed up the greatest part of that wretched sinful place...They are so wicked, I fear God...will utterly destroy all by this dreadful Judgment."
