"THESE ARE STRONG, POWERFUL AND COURAGEOUS WORDS COMING FROM A RETIRED COLONEL, AND READ WHAT LINCOLN HAD TO SAY AT THE END. WOW."

The fabricated quote falsely attributed to Abraham Lincoln read:

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damages morale and undermine [sic] the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, quickly tried and hanged!!!"

These two examples underline the difference between America of the early 1960's and the America we currently live in:

Robert DePugh was the founder of an extreme right revolutionary group that, almost from its inception, came under investigation for its activities that ranged from attempts to blow up power substations, hiding 50 caliber heavy machine guns in buried pits, and trying to coerce young women into becoming sex-spies.

DePugh's group quickly came under investigation by the FBI and the ATF, and the ATF's Special Agent Hudson Doyle, who during World War Two had escaped from behind enemy lines by walking across much of Nazi controlled France after his plane was shot down, managed to put together a case against DePugh that led to indictments and a trial.

During the trial, former Minutemen #13022 Al Somerford told the court why he had left the group: "I got tired of training kooks and nuts to be assassins" and it also emerged that DePugh had been discharged from the US Army for "psycho-neurosis... schizoid personality and incipient schizophrenia."

Robert DePugh was a violent right wing would-revolutionary who issued veiled threats against Congressional representatives. In contrast Jim Ammerman, who has issued veiled threats against US Senators and a sitting United States president, moves in high level military and political circles and in an August 2008 sermon given at the Sioux Falls,South Dakota Cornerstone Church, Ammerman claimed GOP Senator Lindsey Graham as his "point man" in the Senate.  

Ammerman says he was a friend to the late General William Westmoreland, calls both Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee and Word of Faith televangelist Kenneth Copeland his friends, and states that his agency works with three and four star generals and has allies at the highest levels of the Pentagon. In 1996 Ammerman gave a speech before 67 members of the United States Congress.

Jim Ammerman manages a quasi governmental organization with considerable influence in the United States Military. Ammerman's Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches is Department of Defense certified to provide the ecclesiastical endorsements that are mandatory for all military chaplains.
Through that agency Retired Colonel Jim Ammerman presides over perhaps 7-8 percent of all military chaplains.

In a 1997 videotaped speech that was nationally broadcast on scores of TV and radio stations as well as sold as VHS videocassette tapes, Ammerman branded then-President Bill Clinton as a traitor and accused him of being part of a Illuminati satanic New World Order conspiracy that traced back to Lucifer's "coup plot" against God. Ammerman also claimed that Clinton had signed a secret edict which in the event of a national emergency would transfer control of the government to the Secretary General of the United Nations.

In addition, the chaplain-endorser warned that up to 1.3 UN, Russian, Chinese, and German troops were hidden in US National Parks and on military bases, imminently ready to seize control, implement a police state, and throw dissidents into FEMA run concentration camps.  And, Jim Ammerman called for Bill Clinton's execution.

In 2005 and 2006, one of Ammerman's most prominent chaplains, Major James F. Linzey, did a speaking and radio show tour during which Linzey described meeting the founder of the contemporary Minutemen movement, Jim Gilchrist. Linzey called Gilchrist a friend and stated that he had joined Gilchrist's Minutemen and conducted religious services for the group. During the round of radio appearances, Linzey claimed that Jewish bankers, working together with the Communist Chinese, were training an army of Mexicans and illegal aliens who would swarm over the border, killing white Caucasian men and raping their wives and daughters, thus altering the racial and ethnic makeup of the United States of America.

On June 24, 2009, The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which fights for freedom-of-worship rights in the US military, sent a letter to the Department of Defense calling for the Pentagon to revoke the chaplain endorsement authority of Jim Ammerman's Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches agency, but no action has so far been taken.