The “War on Terror” has provided Americans with a helpful introduction to 
theocracy. The fight against Al Qaeda, the war on the Taliban, and the 
growing tensions with the regime in Iran has offered a quick primer on the 
hallmarks of the religious state. First is the rule of religious 
authorities, whether it be Bin Laden’s new Caliphate, Mullah Omar’s 
Taliban regime, or the mullahs in Tehran. Second is the imposition of the 
faith’s sacred texts as law, in these cases, some variant of sharia law of 
the Koran. And last is the direct involvement of the state in the most 
minute and deeply personal aspects of individual lives, enforced by 
religious police, informed by spies, and punished severely (and often 
publicly).
Now thanks to the Bush administration, a Republican Congress and the 
conservative ascendancy, Americans need not travel to Kandahar to learn 
about the perils of theocratic rule. Right here in the United States, a 
network of politicians, religious leaders, “faith-based” organizations and 
(literally) their amen corner are working overtime to make a particularly 
onerous concept of Christianity the de facto law of the land. Armed with 
the Bible in one hand and the Patriot Act in the other, George W. Bush and 
his GOP jihadists threaten to fundamentally change the role of government 
in monitoring Americans’ lives, liberties and even bodies.
Meet the American Taliban:
The American Taliban
	  	
George Bush
The President’s theocratic tendencies go back to his days as Governor of 
Texas. There he proclaimed the celebration of “Jesus Day”, in recognition 
of He who “changed my heart.” As President, his “Faith-Based Initiative” 
seeks to put $8 billion of taxpayer money in the hands of religious 
organizations to deliver social services without regard to potential 
discriminatory practices. The President, who apparently has his own 
"prayer team", consistently uses religious language and imagery in his 
speeches. Regarding his foreign policy, Bush emphasizes that the 
Declaration of Independence and Constitution not withstanding, “freedom is 
a gift from the Almighty.” (They were called the Founding Fathers, and not 
the Founding Deities, for a reason.)
 
	  	
Antonin Scalia
Supreme Court Justice Scalia has provided much of the intellectual heft 
and rhetorical rage in the legal assault on the separation of church and 
state.  Scalia, a virulent opponent of gay and reproductive rights, has 
dissented from virtually every ruling expanding the right to privacy, 
including the Texas sodomy case (Lawrence v. Texas) and Colorado 
constitutional referendum on gay rights (Romer v. Evans).  The outspoken 
Scalia had to recuse himself from the Newdow Pledge case after his public 
criticism of the Ninth Circuit Court in comments at a "Religious Freedom 
Day" celebration.  As for the separation of church and state, Scalia 
recently asked a Jewish audience, "did it turn out that, by reason of the 
separation of church and state, the Jews were safer in Europe than they 
were in the United States of America? I don't think so." He added, "I am 
an originalist, I am a textualist, but I am not a nut."  History, Mr. 
Justice, will be the judge of that.
 
	  	
Roy Moore
The former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court insisted on 
displaying a massive granite monument bearing the Ten Commandments at his 
courthouse and refused to obey a Federal judge’s ruling ordering its 
removal. In defiance, he claimed that announcing it depicts the "moral 
foundations of law" and reflects the "sovereignty of God over the affairs 
of men." For his actions, he is now rightly the former Chief Justice. Now, 
he seeks passage of the Alabama Senator Richard Shelby's "Constitution 
Restoration Act" and its House companion, the "Ten Commandments Defense 
Act" offered by Alabama Rep. Robert Aderholt. Among other threats to the 
separation of church and state, these bills would ban Federal courts from 
curbing state court rulings allowing an "acknowledgment of God".
 
	  	
Sam Brownback
The Kansas Senator and 2008 GOP presidential hopeful aims to bring his 
retrograde worldview to the White House.  A one-time evangelical turned 
born-again Catholic, the former Gingrich firebrand wants to bring his 
personal jihad against abortion, stem cell research and gay-marriage to 
the entire United States.  A warrior for the supposed "culture of life," 
in 2006 Brownback displayed a child's drawing of embryos on the Senate 
floor during the stem cell debate, relating the 7-year old girl's plea, 
"are you going to kill me?"  Announcing his candidacy, Brownback declared 
that "every human life is a beautiful, sacred, unique child of a loving 
God" and that "the family and the culture are under withering attack."  
It's no wonder his American Taliban fellow traveler Tony Perkins of the 
Family Research Council said of the Kansan, "Senator Brownback is 
unrivaled as an advocate for the family and for life in Washington."
 
	  	
John Ashcroft
The Attorney General may be on his way out, but his longing for a return 
to the Middle Ages is undiminished. The son of a Pentecostal minister, the 
man who lost his Missouri Senate reelection to a dead man brought his own 
version of sharia to the Justice Department, holding regular prayer 
meetings, covering up bare-breasted statues, and barring meetings of gay 
employees. Apparently, only Ashcroft's deep devotion to God exceeds his 
anti-abortion ferocity and fidelity to neo-Confederate causes such as 
blocking desegregation and African-American judges.  Ashcroft neatly 
summarized his own view of American government, "Unique among the nations, 
America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, 
not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our 
source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus."
 
	  	
Tom Delay
The one-time exterminator and ethically challenged House Majority Leader 
is also one of Washington’s foremost Crusaders. The man who once compared 
the EPA to the Gestapo (for banning his beloved DDT) sees his mission as 
bringing “a Biblical worldview to government.” Among other things, that 
worldview includes Delay's conclusion that  "I don't believe there is a 
separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. 
The only separation is that there will not be a government church."  Delay 
also pronounced that "our entire system is built on the Judeo-Christian 
ethic, but it fell apart when we started denying God. If you stand up 
today and acknowledge God, they will try to destroy you... My mission is 
to bring us back to the Constitution and to Absolute Truth that has been 
manipulated and destroyed by a liberal worldview."
 
	  	
Henry Hyde
Author of the Hyde Amendment limiting the use of Federal funds for 
abortions, Hyde is one of the fiercest voices of morality in the House. 
This, despite the fact that the Illinois representative and Clinton 
impeachment hound had an adulterous affair he deemed a "youthful 
indiscretion.“ Hyde had experience in handling these matters publicly, 
speaking out in defense of his similarly disgraced colleague Dan Crane in 
1982, "he is embarrassed, he is humiliated, he is disgraced...The Judeo-
Christian tradition says hate the sin and love the sinner...I think it is 
time to love the sinner."  For Hyde, the Judeo-Christian tradition 
apparently did not apply to Bill Clinton.
 
	  	
Rick Santorum
The staunchly Catholic Senator from Pennsylvania has been ardent foe of 
abortion and reproductive rights since joining the Senate. A leading voice 
in support of the Federal Marriage Amendment banning same-sex marriage, 
Santorum has been outspoken about the perils to American society of “man 
on dog” relationships. The junior Senator from Pennsylvania, who has also 
stated that there is no constitutional right to privacy, sees gay 
marriage, and not Al Qaeda, as the greatest threat facing the United 
States. ""I would argue that the future of our country hangs in the 
balance because the future of marriage hangs in the balance. Isn't that 
the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"
 
	  	
Tom Coburn
Joining Bill Frist among the ranks of the physician Senators, the 
Oklahoman alerted his fellow Sooners to the threat of lesbians run amok in 
the their high schools.  "Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools 
in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. 
Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened 
to us?" Coburn, an obstetrician, has said he favors the death penalty for 
abortion providers and called state legislators "a bunch of crapheads."  
The good doctor, who called his race against Brad Carson a choice between 
"good and evil", also has been accused of Medicare fraud and sterilizing a 
woman without her permission.
 
	  	
Jim DeMint
The new Senator from South Carolina has already distinguished himself on 
both social and tax policy.  During a campaign debate, DeMint stated that 
"if a person is a practicing homosexual, they should not be teaching in 
our schools." DeMint also has it ass-backwards (pun intended) on tax 
reform, proposing the abolition of the income tax and its replacement with 
a wildly regressive 23% consumption tax.
 
	  	
James Dobson
The head of Focus on the Family, Dobson has created a global empire in 
Colorado Springs, Colorado. Heading a group whose radio programs reach 7 
million Americans each week and are broadcast in 115 nations, Dobson may 
now be the leading crossover politico-religious figure in the country. In 
the immediate aftermath of Bush’s reelection and the GOP tidal wave in 
Congress, Dobson threw his weight around, calling for Arlen Specter’s head 
and labeling Vermont Senator Pat Leahy a “God's people hater.” (Dobson 
might want to consult with Vice President Cheney on getting their message 
– and language – straight visa vis Leahy.)
 
	  	
Jerry Falwell
The creator of the Moral Majority, Falwell continues to play a major 
jihadist role in mobilizing the Christian Right. Still smarting from his 
courtroom defeat at the hands of Larry Flynt, Falwell attributed 9/11 to 
divine punishment of America, stating "I really believe that the pagans, 
and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who 
are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, 
People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize 
America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this 
happen.'"  More recently, he called the NOW the “National Organization of 
Witches” and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State 
“anti-Christ”.
 
	  	
Pat Robertson
The one-time presidential candidate and broadcasting giant with Ralph Reed 
made the Christian Coalition into the power it is today. Robertson agreed 
with Falwell's assessment that the United States, home of feminists, 
homosexuals and abortionists, got its just desserts from the Lord on 9/11, 
Robertson also turned election prognosticator in October, "I really 
believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election 
in 2004...It doesn't make any difference what he [Bush] does, good or bad, 
God picks him up because he's a man of prayer and God's blessing him."
 
	  	
Ralph Reed
The head of the Georgia GOP and Bush’s coordinator for the southeast U.S., 
Reed is the archetypal Crusader. The man who helped make the Christian 
Coalition such a dominant force summarized his un-Christian tactics, “I 
paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're 
in a body bag. You don't know until election night.”  Blessed are the meek 
indeed.
 
	  	
Tony Perkins
Perkins has led the Family Research Council since 2003, after previously 
founding the Louisiana Family Forum to fight the "increasing influence of 
the homosexual community on public policy issues" and authoring that 
state's covenant marriage legislation. Perkins likes to refer to the 
"homosexual death-style" and labels civil unions "a serious threat to the 
health of our culture." With Bill Frist, Perkins is at the center of the 
judicial filibuster fight, proclaiming after the death of Terri Schiavo 
that the courts "are suffering from a persistent state of arrogance" and 
"no longer respect human life." Along with Dobson and other junior members 
of the American Taliban, Perkins is hosting the April 24th "Justice 
Sunday" event to protest the judicial filibuster as an attack "against 
people of faith."
 
	  	
Gary Bauer
Bauer, president of American Values and former head of the Family Research 
Council, shows that bearing a striking resemblance to Star Wars' Yoda is 
no barrier to influence in American culture. The one-time presidential 
candidate continues to play a major role in driving the supposed Christian 
agenda.  Telling his faithful that "our nation stands at the brink of a 
cultural crisis", Bauer adds that "and so long as God gives me breath I 
will do everything possible to defend faith, family and freedom. Once 
again, I must ask for your prayers and your financial support."
 
	  	
Richard Land
Land, the head of the Southern Baptist Convention's "Ethics and Religious 
Liberty" Commission, has been a steadfast and vocal supporter of President 
Bush.  He noted that "Republicans abort at lower rates than Democrats. I 
read an estimate that by the 2000 election, five million potential Gore 
voters had been lost to abortion." He also pointed out that "I don't think 
there's any question that this president's heartbeat is close to the 
heartbeat of Southern Baptists when it comes to very serious and important 
public policy issues to Southern Baptists." Recently, Land's commission 
has been debating a proposal encouraging Southern Baptists to home-school 
their children, removing them from the "godless public schools."
 
Carl {Eddie Haskell} setting your follow-ups to these
Newsgroups : talk.politics.crypto, alt.politics.howard-dean,
alt.flame.rednecks, alt.flame.rush-limbaugh, alt.bullshit
Just proves that you are living up to your 'wimpy'
multiple sock-puppet screen names.
ROTFL : White House says Obama is Christian
-and- Prays to Allah 5X Daily
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/f1ae724b986d9483
Nancy Pelosi [D-CA] Calls for Inquiry into the
Persons and the Un-American Groups Opposed
to the NYC Ground Zero Islamic Mosque
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/nancy-pelosi-wheres-mosque-opp.html
Nancy Pelosi: Who's Funding the Mosque Opposition?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/letters/nutty_nancy_pelosi_crazed_call_for_VWX6NM5Jy8cV4ZxCehKfAJ
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-CA] is Calling
for an Investigation in Funding of the Mosque Opponents
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/08/most-corrupt-politician-pelosi-investigation-of-ground-zero-mosque-opposition-.html
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat,
called for an Investigation of those who are protesting
the building of the NYC Ground Zero Islamic Mosque
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/aug/17/audio-rep-pelosi-calls-investigation-wtc-mosque-op/
? Has Nancy Pelosi been 'compromised' by the Islamists ?
Jihad Watch want to know . . .
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/08/pelosi-wants-investigation-of-ground-zero-mega-mosque-opponents.html
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) yesterday called for a
congressional investigation into opposition to the Cordoba House:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/244053/pelosi-calls-investigation-mosque-opposition-daniel-foster
 .
Hey Speaker of the US House Nancy Pelosi Democrat
from San Francisco California :
Nancy - How Many Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
'friendly' Islamic Mosques are their in San Francisco ?
* Can LGBT's Attend any Mosque and Get Married in
any Mosque in San Francisco ?
-or- Is this just a Legal Requirement for Christians ?
Nancy - How Many Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Imams heading Islamic Mosques are their in San Francisco ?
* Are there even any Women Imams in San Francisco ?
-or- Is this just a Legal Requirement for Christians ?
Nancy - How Many Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
'persons' have been Stoned-to-Death by Muslims in the Name
of Allah around the world in just this last year ?
* Maybe you should say a little Christian Prayer for them.
Nancy - How Many American Girls and Young Women
have been Honor-Killed by Muslims in the Name of Allah
right here in the USA just this last year ?
* Maybe you should say a little Christian Prayer for them.
Nancy - How Many Mosques in San Francisco, CA have
"Gun Clubs" : Hey may be you should Investigate them
like you did in WACO ?
Nancy - How Many Mosques in San Francisco, CA are
Performing Under-Age "Child" Marriages of Teenage Girls
to Older Adult Men and Second Marriages too : Hey may
be you should Investigate them like you did in YFZ Ranch ?
ROTFL : White House says Obama is Christian
-and- Prays to Allah 5X Daily
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/f1ae724b986d9483
 .
 .
-was- Prominent Republicans Openly Endorse
Sharia Law And Kinship With Their RightWing
Moslem Brethren
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/84078be80bf5113f
-should-read- Prez Obama and Speaker Pelosi
both Prominent Democrats Openly Endorse NYC
Ground Zero Islamic Mosque with Links to Hamas
and Kinship With Islamic Fascist Terrorists
-aka- Muslim 'Brethren' {Brotherhood}
 .
 .
On Aug 19, 6:49 pm, carl <no...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> American Taliban
> Updated January 25, 2007 and April 19, 2005 (originally published November
> 24, 2004)
>
-snip- =Snip= *SNIP*
YAWN! - Notice the "RED" Communist dot in the star:
http://www.perrspectives.com/features/Taliban.htm
Jon Perr of PERRspectives.com has long been active in DEMOCRATic
politics and public policy as an ORGANIZER and advisor in California
and Massachusetts. His past roles include field staffer for GARY HART
for President (1984), ORGANIZER of Silicon Valley tech executives
backing President CLINTON's call for national education standards
(1997), recruiter of tech executives for AL GORE for President (2000),
and co-coordinator of MassTech for ROBERT [RED SOCIALIST] REICH
(2002). http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2023
http://www.perrspectives.com/aboutus/perrbio.htm
He is also a member of NEW DEMOCRAT NETWORK.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7472
Founded by Democrat Party operative Simon Rosenberg,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2389
The New Democrat Network (NDN) describes itself as a "PROGRESSIVE
think tank and advocacy organization."
According to NDN, "conservatives in Washington" aim to promote a
"governing agenda" that has "taken a sharp turn to the reckless right,
offering an economic strategy ill-suited for the challenges we face, a
foreign policy too belligerent and too ineffective, and a style of
governing too arrogant and corrupt for our proud democracy."
LOL!
While DNC : "Democrat National Committee"
often was mistaken for 'Does Not Compute'
But "NDN" just sounds 'evil' like something from
the East Germany Stasi or the Soviet GRU -evil-
 .