36 Articles I found interesting - HOORAY FOR WYOMING SHERIFF
Robert Weinert
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MUST READ - VERY, VERY GOOD NEWS, HOORAY FOR THE SHERIFF
WYOMING SHERIFFS PUT FEDERAL OFFICERS
ON CHOKE-CHAINS
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=135020
County sheriffs in Wyoming are insisting that all federal
law enforcement officers and personnel from federal regulatory
agencies must clear all their activities in a Wyoming County
with the Sheriff's Office. Speaking at a press conference
following the recent US District Court decision
(case No 2:96-cv-099-J) Bighorn County Sheriff Dave Mattis
stated that all federal officials are forbidden to enter his
county without his prior approval.
"If a sheriff doesn't want the Feds in his county he has the
constitutional power and right to keep them out or ask them
to leave or retain them in custody."
The court decision came about after Mattis & other members of
the Wyoming Sheriffs' Association brought a suit against both
the BATF and the IRS in the Wyoming federal court district
seeking restoration of the protections enshrined in the United
States Constitution and the Wyoming Constitution. The District
Court ruled in favor of the sheriffs, stating that, "Wyoming is
a sovereign state and the duly elected sheriff of a county is
the highest law enforcement official within a county and has
law enforcement powers exceeding that of any other state or
federal official."
The Wyoming sheriffs are demanding access to all BATF files to
verify that the agency is not violating provisions of Wyoming
law that prohibit the registration of firearms or the keeping
of a registry of firearm owners. The sheriffs are also demanding
that federal agencies immediately cease the seizure of private
property and the impoundment of private bank accounts without
regard to due process in state courts.
Sheriff Mattis stated:
"I am reacting to the actions of federal employees who have
attempted to deprive citizens of my county of their privacy,
their liberty, and their property without regard to constitu-
tional safeguards. I hope that more sheriffs all across America
will join us in protecting their citizens from the illegal
activities of the IRS, EPA, BATF, FBI, or any other federal
agency that is operating outside the confines of constitutional
law. Employees f the IRS and the EPA are no longer welcome in
Bighorn County unless they intend to operate in conformance
to constitutional law."
This case is evidence that the Tenth Amendment is not yet dead
in the United States. It may also be interpreted to mean that
olitical subdivisions of a State are included within the meaning
of the amendment, or that the powers exercised by a sheriff are
an extension of those common law powers which the Tenth Amendment
explicitly reserves to the People, if they are not granted to the
federal government and specifically prohibited to the States.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a387ec3ea6413.htm (Comment:
Constitutionally the sheriff is the highest and only elected
law-enforcement officer in the state. Also, agencies that are
part of the executive branch do not have jurisdiction outside DC.
To its everlasting disgrace the Legislature of Massachusetts has
abolished the Sheriffs in the state that gave us Lexington,
Boston and Concord! This was totally unconstitutional and never
should have happened! Without the Sheriff you have no elected
law enforcement office! The State Troopers are an arm of the
governor's office and have no constitutional standing.)
"Wyoming is a sovereign state and the duly elected sheriff is
the highest law enforcement official and has law enforcement
powers exceeding that of any other state or federal official."
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Comments on the video of federal troops intimidating the media. (Alex Jones)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/135
Watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI0zZCFPsrM
READ THIS ARTICLE: "The Disturbing Trend Toward Federal Police" by Congressman Ron Paul
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2000/tst073100.htm
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IRS Goes After Church for "Intervening in Political Campaigns"
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/16/D8K629Q01.html
IRS Investigating Liberal Calif. Church
The Internal Revenue Service has ordered a prominent liberal church to
turn over documents and e-mails it produced during the 2004 election
year that contain references to political candidates.
The IRS is investigating whether All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena
violated the federal tax code when its former rector, Rev. George F.
Regas, delivered an anti-war sermon on the eve of the last presidential
election.
Tax-exempt organizations are barred from intervening in political
campaigns and elections, and the church could lose its tax-exempt status.
Rev. Ed Bacon received a summons Thursday ordering the church to present
any politically charged sermons, newsletters and electronic
communications by Sept 29.
Bacon was ordered to testify before IRS officials Oct. 11. He said he
will inform his roughly 3,500 congregants about the investigation at
Sunday's services, and will seek their advice on whether to comply.
"There is a lot at stake here," Bacon said. "If the IRS prevails, it
will have a chilling effect on the practice of religion in America."
An IRS spokesperson declined comment on the investigation.
In a sermon two days before the 2004 election, Regas did not urge
parishioners to support President Bush or challenger John Kerry but was
critical of the Iraq war and Bush's tax cuts, Bacon said in an interview
last November when the investigation was announced.
"He explicitly said, 'I am not telling you how to vote.' That is the
golden boundary we did not cross," he said.
All Saints has a long history of social activism, dating back to World
War II, when its rector spoke out against the internment of Japanese
Americans. Regas, who headed the church for 28 years before retiring in
1995, was well-known for opposing the Vietnam War, championing female
clergy and supporting gays and lesbians in the church.
The IRS has revoked a church's charitable designation at least once. A
church in Binghamton, N.Y., lost its status after running advertisements
against Bill Clinton's candidacy before the 1992 presidential election.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProAmericaGrassroots/
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The ACLU: Malignant And Growing
"NEWSMAX --Sit down, Mr. Citizen. I hate to tell you this, but I guess the
best thing is just to spit it out. You've got cancer. And not just a
localized cancer, but a malignant, fast-spreading strain. It's already
attacked all your vital organs and is infiltrating through your circulatory
system to even your outer extremities.
"Unless we take every action available to us and attack this disease on all
fronts with the strongest possible treatments, you will surely die a
painful, lingering, wasting death.
"And I am bound to tell you this: It may already be too late for us to turn
this thing around. This cancer is that virulent, that aggressive. I'm sorry,
Mr. Citizen."
If this diagnosis were directed at you, how would you react? What would you do?
Would you shrug it off and start daydreaming about your plans for the
weekend? Would you drift out to pick up a latte and an afternoon paper? Just
go back to work and forget about it? Or would you contact a lawyer to draw
up a will - while checking yourself into the best clinic you could find to
fight the cancer with any and every treatment known to medicine today? Would
you sell your house if necessary, drain any savings account, put every asset
at your command on the line, in a determined all-out campaign to live?
Most of us, I believe, would do the latter. I certainly would.
Well, whether we realize it or not, you and I are living right now under
such a sentence, such a diabolical attack. The disease is called ACLU. This
cancerous organization, this poisonous growth - fraudulently self-named the
American Civil Liberties Union - is attacking every one of our foundational
bases, our vital organs; and it has now expanded its onslaughts to small
towns, cemeteries, churches, and even children's groups like the Boy Scouts!
Its goal is to remove every last vestige of Christian faith from public life.
The ACLU is run and financed by Leftwing Atheist Jews and their friends
the Jews who own and run the Hollywood filth factory.
Muslim, Hindu, Self-Awareness, even militant atheist religion - they can
stay. But Christian believers must keep their mouths shut, hide any
and all open expressions of their faith, and retire to closed-window
ghettos. Church of Satan? You can stay, oh sainted high priest LaVey. But
you Christians... get those filthy crosses out of our sight!
We aren't even 1 percent of the American
public, but we demand that you do as we say!
Think I'm exaggerating?
Look at just a few of the countless things this deviant group supports, and even actively promotes:
. Abortion on demand throughout pregnancy
. Eradication of any reference to the Ten Commandments or the Bible from public buildings, hillsides, and even cemeteries
. Extended constitutional protection for our sworn enemies!
. Free access to pornography, including Internet pornography access for children
. Freedom to desecrate the American flag
. Tax-exempt status for Satanists
. Actively pro-homosexual school curriculums
. Legalized prostitution
. Legalized drugs
. Nudist camps for teenagers
. Same-sex "marriages"
... and that's just a brief partial list of the ACLU's heavy-handed, activist campaigns!
And what does the "Anti-Christian Litigation Union" oppose?
. "God Bless America" banners in schools!
. "Abstinence before marriage" sex education
. Christian home schooling
. Legalized voluntary, majority-approved prayer in schools
. Sobriety checkpoints and drug searches
. Medical safety reporting of AIDS cases
. Parental consent cases for teen abortions
. Most post-9/11 security measures
. Any Christian display in public
. Any use of religious symbols for even historical displays
. Any reference to God, let alone Jesus, in a schoolchild's speech, paper, or essay answer!!
Am I exaggerating? I've only scratched the surface!
This group of U.S.-educated lawyers has proudly filed expensive suits:
. leading to the U.S. Defense Department banning military units from sponsoring Boy Scout troops or even letting them meet on government property.
. supporting an 18-year-old man accused of raping a 14-year-old mentally handicapped boy, arguing that teens should be "free from state compulsion."
. representing the pro-pedophile North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) - at no cost! - after two group members were accused of raping and murdering a 10-year-old boy.
. successfully driving Boy Scouts out of a local park, because Scouts do not permit homosexual leaders, then winning 940,000 tax dollars to cover attorney fees and court costs!
. successfully pressuring the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to remove a tiny cross from the long-official county seal (though no one had objected to it) - and then pledging to target all other U.S. government agencies with any religious symbols on their seals.
. recommending that New Orleans public school officials be "fined or jailed" for failing to stop a prayer before a high school football game - claiming that prayer at school-related functions is "un-American and immoral"!!
As I said, I've only scratched the surface. This space isn't big enough to say all that must be said about what this ACLU malignancy is doing to America, so I'll pick up here next time.
Meanwhile, pray for America - before this gang stops you!"
(Pat Boone/NewsMax.com 8/29/06)
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http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd212.htm
WHY THE MAYOR OF HAZELTON, PA. IS RIGHT
By: Devvy Kidd
September 14, 2006
C 2006 - NewsWithViews.com
The American Communist Lawyers Union (ACLU) has once again taken the side of
lawlessness by attacking the mayor of Hazelton, Pennsylvania for his stand
on the illegals invasion. Mayor Louis Barletta understands what the word
illegal means and crafted new laws to do what Congress has refused to do:
uphold Art. 4, Section IV of the U.S. Constitution which reads:
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican
form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on
application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature
cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
The new ordinance would require anyone attempting to rent must obtain a
residency permit at city hall. If the individual's background check cannot
verify or confirm they are U.S. citizens or legal aliens, they would be
prohibited from living in Hazelton. Landlords who thumb their nose at the
law by renting to illegals would be fined as well as employers who would
lose their business license for a period of five years. Topping off this
long overdue action by a local municipality, the ordinance would mandate
English as the official language of Hazelton and that includes refusing to
saddle natural born or naturalized citizens with wasteful spending in the
form of printing city information in any language except English.
The ACLU howled this last part of the ordinance was racist. This
anti-American organization seems to forget, along with 35 of the counterfeit
<http://www.proenglish.org/immigrationbill.html> U.S. Senate, that America
is and always has been an English speaking country. It is imperative that a
nation have a common language. Diversity is a sickness that has divided
America and promoted a clash between those who believe in a unified nation
and those who seek to break it into a million pieces. Frosty Wooldridge has
been chronicling this issue for years; see here
<http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty185.htm> . I have also
written on this what the controlled dominant media - including cable -
deliberately ignore: illegals who are violent sexual predators, the increase
of gang rapes by illegals on America's daughters and the slaughter of
Americans by drunk illegals; see here
<http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kiddA1.htm> .
True to form, the sue happy ACLU has filed yet another lawsuit claiming
Hazelton is unconstitutionally seeking to enforce immigration laws. Only
someone who is completely absent from reality can't fully recognize the
destruction to this republic from the massive invasion of illegals that's
been underway since 1986 when Reagan irresponsibly signed yet another failed
"immigration reform" bill into law. Every Congress and president since then
is guilty of shirking their constitutional duty to stop this invasion which
has now reached critical mass. Not to be left out of the limelight, the
Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund has joined in the fray which
is rather ridiculous since residents of Puerto Rico are American citizens.
But, hey, any chance to use the race card keeps the donation coffers full.
Braying ass, counterfeit U.S. Senator Harry Reid, also used the bully pulpit
to chant racism as the basis for Mayor Barletta's stand.
In August, these incompetent jackels in Congress took yet another vacation
this year. While illegals continue to flood across the border 24/7, while
Americans are being murdered or killed by drunk illegals on the highways and
while terrorists are crossing over from Mexico, the very body that is
supposed to do their damn job and stop this invasion went on a five week
paid vacation. Patrick Briley has been
<http://www.newswithviews.com/Briley/PatrickA.htm> documenting the terror
cells operating in this country with the full knowledge of the FBI. People
continue to wonder why Bush refuses to shut down the border. I don't. Bush
has never wanted any immigration restriction and the reason finally surfaced
for all to see; click
<http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=15497> here and here
<http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest99.htm> . The North
American Union (NAU), despite the propaganda being pumped out, is to join
Mexico, the U.S. and Canada as one region of a world body with no sovereign
countries. One only has to read past blueprints made available by the
treasonous <http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44841>
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) to understand who is pulling the strings
of the puppets in Washington, DC. Bush does not have the authority to
dissolve this republic and yet it's almost a done deal due to the complete
black out by "trusted media" in this country like FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN
and the stupidity of Congress.
Watch this four <http://infowars.net/articles/September2006/040906Truth.htm>
minute video and you will get a full understanding of where Bush really
stands on terrorism. On this video is the factual accounting of Chicago FBI
field office agent Robert Wright. He blew the whistle in January 2001
stating that his three year investigation into terrorist cells working
within the US was abruptly halted. He said "The FBI was only interested in
gathering intelligence so they would know who to arrest when an attack
occurred." My, my. Isn't it just some piece of police work that the FBI
announced Bin Laden was the mastermind behind 9/11 and Mohamed Atta the
executor before the fires were put out at the Pentagon? Cheyenne Mountain in
Colorado Springs - one of our most secure defense sites where I had the
privilege of visiting for contracts I was working for NORAD- is being shut
down and operations moved to an office building location. Citing
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/28/AR200607280
1617.html> upkeep costs, NORAD is being moved to the position of a sitting
duck. All in keeping with the big picture. Under this new North American
Union, a "perimeter security" is to be set up encompassing the three
countries. Why do we need our own military?
Wake up, America. Truly dedicated, patriotic Americans like Bernadine Smith,
founder of the Second Amendment
<http://www.libertygunrights.com/documents.html> Committee, has been
warning for decades about the elimination of our military to be replaced by
UN mercenaries on U.S. soil. Congress has $4 million
<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47354> BORROWED
dollars to send to Russia to support political parties and $3 million
BORROWED dollars to send to the "axis of evil" country, Iran, to support
political parties, but our military defense facilities on home soil are
being shut down. Millions of dollars unconstitutionally stolen from you, me
and our children. So, you see, there will be no shutting down the border or
rounding up the illegals and returning them to country of origin because
that's not part of the agenda of Bush and his global masters.
Do the states or local municipalities have the right to take steps to stop
an invasion if the federal government fails or refuses to do so? According
to constitutional scholar, Dr. Edwin Vieira
<http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin11.htm> :
"By recognizing, adopting, incorporating, and perpetuating "the Militia of
the several States" as they historically existed, the Constitution immunizes
them from fundamental changes in their legal composition and characteristics
through mere legislative acts (as opposed to constitutional amendments). The
Constitution does impose certain new National duties on the Militia when
they are "call[ed] forth * * * to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress
Insurrections and repel Invasions
<http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_151091319.html> ." This, however,
also empowers them in these particulars, both when "call[ed] forth"
according to laws that Congress "provide[s]", and in those situations in
which the Militia ought and need to be "call[ed] forth" but Congress
refuses, fails, or is unable to do so...."
Despite the growing rage by the American people, Congress has refused to
carry out their constitutionally mandated duty to repel this massive
invasion of illegal aliens. The states are being driven into bankruptcy as
well as local municipalities. Are they to simply sit back and allow their
cities and towns to be sacked by illegals along with rampant diseases they
bring with them? The corrupt U.S. Department of Justice has refused to
indict elected officials violating federal immigration law via legislation
and bank personnel who knowingly giving home mortgages to illegals. Why? I'm
not afraid to say it: because U.S. Attorney, Alberto Gonzalez is of Mexican
descent. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg should be indicted for violation of
federal immigration laws. In May 2006, his city began "distributing a
<http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_151091319.html> letter meant to
reassure immigrants that no one will question their legal status when they
seek care at the city's public hospitals....The letter, in 11 languages,
promises that public hospital employees will "keep confidential all
information regarding your immigration status." If workers reveal the
information, they could lose their jobs." Illegals have NO rights except
immediate deportation. Thumbing his nose at federal immigration law,
Bloomberg wants illegals in his city to make sure the golf
<http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2006/020406Bloomberg.htm>
courses stay groomed. They aren't immigrants. Their legal status is illegal
alien and Bloomberg is a facilitator of criminal activity.
The reds (Democrats) in the California State Legislature have once again
flaunted federal law by passing a bill to give illegal
<http://dwb.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/14311236p-15211103c.html>
aliens driver's licenses. Every member of the California State Senate who
voted for this bill should be indicted by the Department of Justice - the
first being ringleader, Sen. Gil Cedillo. This lawbreaker wants illegals to
have driver's licenses so they can work - ILLEGALLY - for financial gain in
violation of federal immigration law. It is a crime to aid and abet someone
here illegally for commercial gain and I'm not afraid to say it: Cedillo is
Mexican. His only agenda is giving his fellow country men and women here
ILLEGALLY all the rights and privileges of natural born or naturalized
citizens.
There has been no accountability against federal judges giving "rights" to
criminals (illegals who smuggle themselves across the border) and elected
politicians who are violating federal immigration law to aid and abet
criminals in stealing more from the American people, murder our citizens and
bankrupt our cities and towns:
"As Investors <http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/27/114208.shtml>
Business Daily reported in March 2005:
"The U.S. Justice Department estimated that 270,000 illegal immigrants
served jail time nationally in 2003. Of those, 108,000 were in California.
Some estimates show illegals now make up half of California's prison
population, creating a massive criminal subculture that strains state
budgets and creates a nightmare for local police forces."
"Citing an Urban Institute study, director of research for the Center for
Immigration Studies Steven Camorata noted in 2004: "Roughly 17 percent of
the prison population at the federal level are illegal aliens. That's a huge
number since illegal aliens only account for about 3 percent of the total
population. Former California Gov. Pete Wilson places the percentage of
illegal aliens in U.S. prisons even higher. In 2001, he told Fox News
Channel's Bill O'Reilly:
"We had problems related to the costs of educating children who were
acknowledged to be in the country illegally, health care costs. One in five
in our prison population were illegal immigrants who had been convicted of a
felony after entering the country illegally."
"The Federation for American Immigration Reform also turned to the Justice
Department to get statistics on criminal aliens. They report: "In March
2000, Congress made public Department of Justice statistics showing that,
over the previous five years, the INS had released over 35,000 criminal
aliens instead of deporting them. Over 11,000 of those released went on to
commit serious crimes, over 1,800 of which were violent ones [including 98
homicides, 142 sexual assaults, and 44 kidnappings].
In 2001, thanks to a decision by the Supreme Court, the INS was forced to
release into our society over 3,000 criminal aliens [who collectively had
been convicted of 125 homicides, 387 sex offenses, and 772 assault
charges]." Up to a third of the U.S. federal prison population is composed
of non-citizens, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons statistics - but not
all non-citizen prison inmates are illegal aliens.
As to the "hard-working" claim, CIS notes: "The proportion of
immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 24.5
percent compared to 16.3 percent for native households." Investor's Business
Daily concurs: "Once [illegals] get here, they are 50 percent more likely to
be on welfare than citizens."
The numbers continue to grow every day and will escalate unless the American
people quit "electing" the same corrupt, racist politicans who hide their
true allegiance until they get into office. Think you or your family member
won't be the next victim of an illegal? Look at this
<http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/text/crimevictims.html> list and
think again.
Is it any wonder Mayor Barletta and other cities are now taking steps to do
what Congress refuses to do? If the state legislatures had been doing their
jobs these past thirty years, they would have reconstituted the state
militias and repelled this invasion a long time ago. They have gotten away
with shirking their constitutional duties because the American people have
allowed it with their indifference, apathy and "too busy" excuses. The same
goes for the border state governors who should all be booted out of office
or recalled if their state constitution allows it. California will have NO
choice for governor in the upcoming election. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a
globalist who has refused to lift one of his steroid pumped pinkies to shut
down the border and his opponent, Phil Angelides, the darling of militant
Mexican organizations like La Raza, will continue a wide open border policy
for his countrymen and I don't mean Americans.
I have put some of Dr. Vieira's critical columns on a CD so people can learn
if they don't have a computer or are pressed for time to sit and read on
line. We all saw what happened to law and order during Katrina. Remember
those half million illegals who demonstrated in LA? Wait until the violence
starts first in one location and then another by illegals. Think it won't
happen? We the people simply cannot depend on the federal government to
"keep us safe." It is our responsibility and I urge you to get this CD
<http://www.devvy.com/one_for_the_road.html> (scroll to the bottom), get
educated and get active with your group or organization towards getting your
state legislator/senator to understand that the militarization of local
police is a dangerous thing, totally unnecessary and that it's imperative
the states stand up to the federal machine and protect their rights and the
rights of their citizenry. That's why they're elected: to uphold their oath
of office.
Get to your city council meetings headed up by your mayor and demand they
stand up like Mayor Barletta against this invasion. If they resist or blow
you off, let them know you will work very hard to see them thrown out of
office or recalled. If enough of America's mayors take this stand, the state
legislatures will have to step up to the plate because they will have dozens
of mayors in their state finally doing what must be done. Time grows short
and if people think I am just saying that to hear myself type, they are in a
state of denial.
Freedom cannot be attained and retained by observers. Freedom gained and
kept can only be achieved with a warrior class who will stand firm and fight
for this republic. Will you be part of the warrior class?
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To those who have taken the Oath, Remember the Oath!
To those who have not and believe in the Constitution,
Take a similar Oath now to the Constitution!
Remember that those who make laws contrary to the Constitution,
Those who enforce laws contrary to the Constitution,
And those who give orders contrary to the Constitution,
Have become domestic enemies of the Constitution!
It doesn't take a Judge or a lawyer to know the difference!
"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void."
Marbury vs. Madison
"I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR (OR AFFIRM) THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC;
THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAME; AND THAT I WILL OBEY
THE (CONSTITUTIONAL AND LAWFUL) ORDERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
AND THE (CONSTITUTIONAL AND LAWFUL) ORDERS OF THE OFFICERS APPOINTED OVER
ME, ACCORDING TO REGULATIONS AND THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE. SO
HELP ME GOD."
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Who's Your Daddy?
Every time we crow about "our Constitutional rights," we are playing right into their hands. Our rights are God-given. The purpose of the Constitution is to protect our God-given rights and to limit government authority. Thus the correct question is not "What rights does the Constitution give to the American people?" but rather "What powers does the Constitution grant to the government?".....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Daubenmire/dave36.htm
by Coach Dave Daubenmire
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From: Ted Pike, newsl...@hatelawsexposed.org
To: hate_law...@hatelawsexposed.org, hate_la...@hatelawsexposed.org, radiota...@hatelawsexposed.org
Date: Sep 15, 2006 3:47 AM
Subject: ALERT- "Is Dr. Kennedy a 'Christian Supremacist?'"-Ted Pike
Special Alert from the Editor:
Navy Chaplain Lt. Gordon Klingenschmitt has recently been convicted and faces punishment for the "speech crime" of a public prayer in the name of Jesus. This legal precedent is extremely ominous. It threatens American free speech, especially that of Christian publishers, pastors, and talk show hosts.
This victory against freedom was empowered by two liberal "Jewish activists." Mikey Weinstein, a former Air Force academy cadet, filed the original suit against the Air Force Academy. He charged "discrimination" of Jews occurred through Christian evangelism or prayers in Jesus' name. The decision to uphold Weinstein's complaint was primarily the work of Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, top ethical consultant to the Air Force (See, "Correction: Speech at Air Force Academy Not Free").
Once again, Jewish activism proves itself intent on stealing our most precious freedoms.
Pastor, talk show host, Christian leader: are you still ignoring the dangers to faith and freedom posed by Jewish activists? Their militant anti-Christianity radiates from the Anti-Defamation League and its international parent organization, B'nai B'rith International.
With half a million Jewish members and lodges in more than 50 countries, B'nai B'rith claims to be the dominant voice of "organized world Jewry."
It's time to listen, and listen hard, before you lose your free speech also. In the following e-alert, I'll explain further what drives these radical Jews to take away our liberty.
National Prayer Network
IS DR. KENNEDY A 'CHRISTIAN SUPREMACIST'?
By Rev. Ted Pike
Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and overlord of "tolerance," is furious with Dr. D. James Kennedy.
He calls Kennedy a "Christian supremacist" for believing America was founded as a Christian nation and should stay that way. Foxman is especially outraged by Kennedy's recent TV production, Darwin's Deadly Legacy. This show demonstrates that Darwin's theory of evolution was a root cause behind Hitler's persecution of the Jews during World War II.
Why should Foxman feel so threatened by that premise?
For the last half century, ADL and its Jewish parent organization, B'nai B'rith International, have labored to blame Christianity for the centuries of anti-Semitism which they say led to the holocaust.
ADL claims the ovens of Auschwitz were ideologically fueled by Christ's incendiary attacks on the Pharisees, by the New Testament charge that the Jews killed Christ and by the anti-Jewish rhetoric of the church fathers. This is the prevailing message of the ADL-inspired Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
Foxman's recent book Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism smears the New Testament as a book of hateful, deadly lies (See, "ADL's Foxman: New Testament is Anti-Semitic").
Now Foxman is irate because Kennedy wants to exalt and dignify Christianity. Like many Jewish activists, Foxman and the ADL wants the opposite: to strip Christian America of its sacred symbols, Ten Commandment plaques, prayer in schools and the military, and any mention of God or creation in schools.
Through Jewish leftist news media and entertainment (see "Jews Confirm Big Media Is Jewish"), such activists bash Christians and promote sexual immorality, homosexuality, occult and Satanism, violence, profanity, and drug and alcohol consumption.
Goal of Persecution
Why is it so important to Foxman that Christians be blamed for nearly two millennia of Jewish suffering?
ADL must describe Christianity as a religion of anti-Semitism, hate, and intolerance in order to persecute Christians now and in the years ahead.
Already, ADL/B'nai B'rith, through their twisted "anti-hate" laws, define Christians as "haters" for affirming the Biblical condemnation of homosexuality (Lev. 18:22) Similarly, the ADL's burgeoning office of "global anti-Semitism" in the US State Department defines Christians as anti-Semites if they believe the New Testament testimony that Jewish leaders had Christ crucified. (See, "The Real Motive Behind the 'Department of Global Anti-Semitism'") In Canada, under B'nai B'rith-inspired federal hate laws, it can be a criminal offense for a pastor to state this New Testament history from the pulpit.
To hasten persecution of Christians, ADL/B'nai B'rith is establishing an Orwellian hate crimes tribunal in Europe with 55 member nations: the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). These nations embrace B'nai B'rith's Christian-persecuting definition that "hate" equals Christian bias against homosexuality.
The lie that Christianity is a source of historic hatred and persecution of Jews is vital to the ADL dream of decimating Christianity. ADL vitally needs such a smear to persuade the world that Christians are indeed worthy of restriction, persecution and even death. This was their conviction in the Book of Acts. It remains, though hidden, today (See, "Have You Read the Talmud Lately?").
Who's Intolerant Now?
Foxman, an orthodox Jew, prides himself on "tolerance" of homosexuality and porn (See, "ADL's Foxman: Man of Faith?"). Yet he seethes with intolerance at the prospect of Christianity regaining lost prestige.
Is Dr. Kennedy really a dangerous "Christian supremacist?" Of course not. A religious supremacist bullies rival religions, outlawing them from the public sphere. A religious supremacist lies about the teachings of other religions, denigrates their values, and forbids their sacred observances in public.
Does that sound like Kennedy's treatment of Jews? No.
But it sure sounds like the way ADL treats Christians.
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Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative watchdog organization.
Learn much more about the threat of liberal Jewish activism at www.google.com. Google's video site shows Rev. Pike's videos, The Other Israel, Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians, and Why the Mid-East Bleeds, in their entirety, free of charge.
TALK SHOW HOSTS: For interview with Rev. Pike on this subject, call 503-631-3808.
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http://dnj.midsouthnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060916/OPINION03/609160306/1014
Murder of Mary Sadler tolls death knell for U.S.
To the editor,
Mary Sadler is America's grandmother. She is also your mother, your
grandmother, your great-grandmother, your wife, your sister, your aunt, your
girlfriend, and even your child or grandchild. At the very least, she is
your neighbor. According to police, Mary Sadler was killed on Aug. 22 in her
Bellevue home by Ivan Moreno, an apparent illegal alien whose very actions
should be at the heart of the "great immigration debate;" but it is not.
Mary Sadler lived in a nice home, in a nice neighborhood, in a nice part of
the state of Tennessee otherwise referred to as "Middle America." By all
accounts, Mrs. Sadler lived the American dream, raising a family,
volunteering in the community, and even offering assistance to the very
illegal alien who would later brutally kill her. She was brutally murdered
and violated in the worst ways imaginable, in the middle of the day, in her
home, all alone. Where are your mother and your grandmother right now? How
about your wife or daughter? Do you live in a nice neighborhood?
Illegal immigration is not an abstract issue. Furthermore, it is not an
issue requiring great deliberation or moral contemplation. It is a pragmatic
issue, as the case of Mrs. Sadler sadly proves. It is easily solved with
pragmatic solutions already codified in law. Simply put, if Ivan Moreno was
not illegally in the United States, Mrs. Sadler would still be alive. If the
United States government fulfilled its most basic responsibility to its
citizenry, Ivan Moreno would not have been illegally in the United States. A
simple equation the federal government continues to debate. Our government
debates, while the Mrs. Sadlers of America are savagely killed by illegal
aliens.
The state of Tennessee must now confront the issue of illegal immigration
with a sense of urgency not practiced by the federal government. By default,
responsibility for this issue and all associated implications has been
abrogated to the state and local level of government. Failure of the state
to fulfill its responsibility in this regard further abrogates
responsibility to the hands of the very citizenry itself.
As a former Senior United States Border Patrol Agent with 13 years of field
experience on the southern border, I apologize to the Sadler family on
behalf of all my former colleagues. We simply did not fulfill our most basic
responsibility to Mrs. Sadler; the very reason I left that agency to raise
my family is what I once thought was "Middle America."
The final stand on illegal immigration may very well be fought on our
doorsteps in a frightening context yet unimagined. A context necessitating
increased home security, less neighborly interaction, more suspicion, and
frequent confrontation under a general premise of fear.
Mrs. Sadler may have been killed that fateful day. However, when Mrs. Sadler
died that day, so did a large piece of Middle America.
Joseph Dassaro
Cavendish Drive
Originally published September 16, 2006
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America Has Fallen to a Jacobin Coup
By Paul Craig Roberts
09/16/05 " <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/> ICH" -- -- The most
important casualties of September 11 are respect for truth and American
liberty. Propaganda has replaced deliberation based on objective assessment
of fact. The resurrection of the Star Chamber has made moot the legal
protections of liberty.
The US invasion of Iraq was based on the deliberate suppression of fact. The
invasion was not the result of mistaken intelligence. It was based on
deliberately concocted "intelligence" designed to deceive the US Congress,
the American public, and the United Nations.
In an interview with Barbara Walters on ABC News, General Colin Powell, who
was Secretary of State at the time of the invasion, expressed dismay that he
was the one who took the false information to the UN and presented it to the
world. The weapons of mass destruction speech, he said, is a "blot" on his
record. The full extent of the deception was made clear by the leaked top
secret "Downing Street Memos."
Two and one-half years after the March 2003 invasion, the US Congress and
the American people still do not know the reason Iraq was invaded. The US is
bogged down in an expensive and deadly combat, and no one outside the small
circle of neoconservatives who orchestrated the war knows the reason why.
Many guesses are rendered - oil, removal of Israel's enemy - but the Bush
administration has never disclosed its real agenda, which it cloaked with
the WMD deception.
This itself is powerful indication that American democracy is dead. With the
exception of rightwing talk radio, everyone in America now knows that the
invasion of Iraq was based on false information. Yet, 40 percent of the
public and both political parties in Congress still support the ongoing war.
The CIA has issued a report that the war is working only for Osama bin
Laden. The unprovoked American aggression against Iraq, the horrors
perpetrated against Muslims in Abu Ghraib prison, and the slaughter and
mistreatment of Iraqi noncombatants, have radicalized the Muslim world and
elevated bin Laden from a fringe figure to a leader opposed to American
hegemony in the Middle East. The chaos created in Iraq by the US military
has provided al Qaeda with superb training grounds for insurgency and
terrorism. Despite overwhelming evidence that the "war on terror" is in fact
a war for terror, Republicans still cheer when Bush says we have to "fight
them over there" so they don't come "over here."
If fact played any role in the decision to continue with this war, the US
would not be spending hundreds of billions of borrowed dollars to provide
recruits and training for al Qaeda, to radicalize Muslims, and to destroy
trust in the United States both abroad and among its own citizens.
American casualties (dead and wounded) of this gratuitous war are now
approximately 20,000. In July, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said the war might
continue for 12 years. US casualties from such protracted combat would eat
away US troop strength. Considering the well-publicized recruitment
problems, America would require a draft or foreign mercenaries in order to
continue a ground war. Like the over-extended Roman Empire, the US would
have to deplete its remaining wealth to pay mercenaries.
Dead and wounded Americans are too high a price to pay for a war based on
deception. This alone is reason to end the war, if necessary by impeaching
Bush and Cheney and arresting the neoconservatives for treason. Naked
aggression is a war crime under the Nuremberg standard, and neoconservatives
have brought this shame to America.
There is an even greater cost of the war - the legal system that protects
liberty, a human achievement for which countless numbers of people gave
their lives over the centuries. The Bush administration used September 11 to
whip up fear and hysteria and to employ these weapons against American
liberty. The Orwellian-named Patriot Act has destroyed habeas corpus. The
executive branch has gained the unaccountable power to detain American
citizens on mere suspicion or accusation, without evidence, and to hold
Americans indefinitely without a trial.
Foolishly, many Americans believe this power can only be used against
terrorists. Americans don't realize that the government can declare anyone
to be a terrorist suspect. As no evidence is required, it is entirely up to
the government to decide who is a terrorist. Thus, the power is
unaccountable. Unaccountable power is the source of tyranny.
The English-speaking world has not seen such power since the 16th and 17th
centuries when the Court of Star Chamber became a political weapon used
against the king's opponents and to circumvent Parliament. The Star Chamber
dispensed with juries, permitted hearsay evidence, and became so reviled
that "Star Chamber" became a byword for injustice. The Long Parliament
abolished the Star Chamber in 1641. In obedience to the Bush regime, the US
Congress resurrected it with the Patriot Act. Can anything be more Orwellian
than identifying patriotism with the abolition of habeas corpus?
Historians are quick to note that the Star Chamber was mild compared to
Gitmo, to the US practice of sending detainees abroad to be tortured, and to
the justice (sic) regime being run by Attorney General "Torture" Gonzales
and his predecessor, "Draped Justice" Ashcroft, who went so far as to say
that opposition to the Patriot Act was itself the mark of a terrorist.
The time-honored attorney-client privilege is another casualty of the "war
on terror." Taking their cue from the restrictions placed on lawyers
representing Stalin's victims in the 1930s show trials, Justice (sic)
Department officials seek to limit attorneys representing terrorist suspects
to procedural niceties. Lynn Stewart, attorney for Omar Abdel Rahman, was
handed a letter by a Justice (sic) Department prosecutor instructing her how
to represent her client. When she did what every good lawyer would do and
represented her client aggressively, she was arrested, indicted and
convicted.
Many conservative lawyers have turned a blind eye, because Stewart is
regarded as a leftwing lawyer whom they dislike. Only a few civil
libertarians, such as Harvey Silverglate, have pointed out that prosecutors
cannot create felonies by writing letters to attorneys. Stewart was
convicted for violating a prosecutor's letter (technically, a Special
Administrative Measure). This should make it obvious even to the blind that
American democracy has lost all control over law.
Federal officials have sensed the sea change in American law: arbitrary
actions and assertions by federal officials are taking the place of
statutory legislation. We saw an example recently when the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) announced that news media covering the New Orleans
hurricane story were prohibited from taking pictures of the bodies of
inhabitants drowned when the levees failed. Nowhere is FEMA given authority
to override the First Amendment. Yet, FEMA officials saw no reason not to
issue its decree. Rome had one caesar. America has them throughout the
executive branch.
We see the same exercise of arbitrary authority in break-ins by police into
New Orleans homes in order to confiscate legally owned firearms. No
authority exists for these violations of the Second Amendment. No authority
exists for the forceful removal of residents from non-damaged homes.
Tyrannical precedents are being established by these fantastic abuses of
government authority.
In the US today nothing stands in the way of the arbitrary exercise of power
by government. Federal courts have acquiesced in unconstitutional detention
policies. There is no opposition party, and there is no media, merely huge
conglomerates or collections of federal broadcasting licenses, the owners of
which are afraid to displease the government.
The collapse of the institutions that confine government to law and bind it
with the Constitution was sudden. The president previous to Bush was
impeached by the House for lying about a sexual affair. If we go back to the
1970s, President Richard Nixon had the decency to resign when it came to
light that he had lied about when he first learned of a minor burglary.
Bush's failures are far more serious and numerous; yet, Bush has escaped
accountability.
Polls show that a majority of Americans have lost confidence in the Iraq war
and believe Bush did a poor job responding to flooded New Orleans. Many
Americans hope that these two massive failures have put Bush back into the
box of responsible behavior from which September 11 allowed him to escape.
However, there is no indication that the Bush administration sees any
constraints placed on its behavior by these failures.
The identical cronyism and corrupt government contract practices, by which
taxpayers' money is used to reward political contributors, so evident in
Iraq, is now evident in New Orleans.
Despite having been fought to a stalemate by a few thousand insurgents in
Iraq, the Bush administration continues to issue thunderous threats to Syria
and Iran.
To press its fabricated case against Iran's alleged weapons of mass
destruction program, the Bush administration is showing every foreign
diplomat it can corral an hour-long slide show titled, "A History of
Concealment and Deception." Wary foreigners are reminded of the
presentations about Iraq's WMD and wonder who is guilty of deception, Iran
or the Bush administration.
Now that the war in Iraq has established that US ground forces cannot easily
prevail against insurgency, the Bush administration is bringing new military
threats to the fore. The neocon orchestrated "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear
Operations" abandons the established doctrine that nuclear weapons are
last-resort options. The Bush administration is so enamored of coercion that
it is birthing the doctrine of preemptive nuclear attack. US war doctrine is
being altered to eliminate the need for a large invasion force and to use
"preventive nuclear strikes" in its place.
Is this the face that the American people want to present to the world? It
is hard to imagine a greater risk to America than to put the entire world on
notice that every country risks being nuked based on mere suspicion. By
making nuclear war permissible, the Bush administration is crossing the line
that divides civilized people from barbarians. The United States is starting
to acquire the image of Nazi Germany. Knowledgeable people should have no
trouble drawing up their own list of elements common to both the Bush and
Hitler regimes: the use of extraordinary lies to justify military
aggression; reliance on coercion and threats in place of diplomacy; total
belief in the virtue and righteousness of one's cause; the equating of
factual objections or "reality-based" analysis to treason; the redirection
of patriotism from country to leader; the belief that defeat resides in
debate and a weakening of will; refuge in delusion and denial when promised
results don't materialize.
As Professor Claes Ryn made clear in his book, America the Virtuous, the
neoconservatives are neo-Jacobins. There is nothing conservative about them.
They are committed to the use of coercion to impose their agenda. Their
attitude is merciless toward anyone in their way, whether fellow citizen or
foreigner. "You are with us or against us." For those on the receiving end,
the Nazi and Jacobin mentalities come to the same thing.
The Bush administration has abandoned American principles. It is a Jacobin
regime. Woe to its citizens and the rest of the world.
Dr. Roberts <paulcrai...@yahoo.com> is John M. Olin Fellow at the
Institute for Political Economy and Research Fellow at the Independent
Institute <http://www.independent.org> .
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What Americans should know about what is planned for the (very short-term) future:-
The Council on Foreign Relations has published a book (am still trying to get details) entitled "Building a North American Community" which calls for the end of American sovereignty and the dismantling of the Constitution and government.
Other factors include:- a new currency to replace the dollar - the "Amero"; Removal of the Mexican and Canadian borders; A new North American parliament, probably without a Senate but including Mexican and Canadian quislings; Unlimited access to the new continent by Mexicans and Canadians; The Bill of Rights replaced by a Declaration of Rights; Merging of Mexican, American and Canadian economies; The 50 states redefined into 10 regions; and the new Continent will be the third component to ASEAN and the EU Unions.
All this to be implemented by 2010.
Too late to change anything but I believe others should be warned, and to dust off their Bibles.
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From: "J.R.I. [Judicial Reform Investigations]" <jus...@judicialjustice.us>
Subject: Federal Judge says the American Legal System Is Corrupt Beyond Recognition
American Legal System Is Corrupt Beyond Recognition, Judge Tells Harvard Law School
By Geraldine Hawkins
The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition,
Judge Edith Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, told the
Federalist Society of Harvard Law School on February 28.
She said that the question of what is morally right is routinely
sacrificed to what is politically expedient. The change has come because legal
philosophy has descended to nihilism.
Judge Edith H. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
talks to members of Harvard Law School's Fed-eralist Society. Jones said that
the question of what is morally right is routinely sacrificed to what is
politically expedient.
"The integrity of law, its religious roots, its transcendent quality are
disappearing. I saw the movie 'Chicago' with Richard Gere the other day. That's
the way the public thinks about lawyers," she told the students.
"The first 100 years of American lawyers were trained on Blackstone, who wrote
that: 'The law of nature . dictated by God himself . is binding . in all
counties and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to
this; and such of them as are valid derive all force and all their authority .
from this original.' The Framers created a government of limited power with this
understanding of the rule of law - that it was dependent on transcendent
religious obligation," said Jones.
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He said he hoped the Pope's speech did not reflect "hatred in his heart" against Islam.
California Christians Urged to Yank Kids
Activist says children will be 'molested by the curriculum'
from WorldNetDaily.com,
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There would be "panic in the streets" if Christian
parents in California decided that a state-mandated
pro-homosexual environment no longer is for their
children and took up homeschooling, one leader in
education says.
"It would be a wakeup call, heard around the country
or perhaps the world," Charles B. Lowers, the
executive director of the pro-family Considering
Homeschooling organization told WorldNetDaily.
His comments came just a day after Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger signed a bill requiring even
Christian colleges where students receive state
grants to condone homosexuality, transsexuality
and bisexuality.
Lowers said that should be over the top for any
parent but especially Christian parents, who should
pull their children from public school systems.
"'Heck no, our kids won't go!' should be the rallying
cry of Christian parents this week as school starts,
instead of following the broad road of perversion
and destruction that California schools are
offering," Lowers said.
Lowers said while Christians need to contact their
representatives and the governor regarding that bill --
and others that are pending in a legislature he
describes as "sold-out" to the leftist, liberal agenda --
the newest mandate from the state "should be the last
straw."
"It is estimated that anywhere from 80-90 percent of
Christians are still sending their children off to
government schools -- it's like the church is behaving
like a bunch of lemmings," Lowers said.
"Worldview surveys show that the majority of kids
from Christian homes are humanist by graduation,"
he said. "School-based 'clinics' are expanding .
to ensure that your daughters get birth control and
abortions without you knowing. Now that the
homosexuals are dictating curriculum, 80-90 percent
of Christians should be homeschooling, not the other
way around," he said.
"Public school is no place for innocent little kids.
If they don't get molested by the John Karrs who are
in the system, their minds and hearts will be molested
by the curriculum," he said.
"Instead of the traditional three R's in California's
public schools, children are learning Rebelliousness,
Relativism, and an R-rated lifestyle," he said.
Considering Homeschooling was started by Lowers
and his wife in 2001, and it seeks to reach Christian
parents with encouragement for their homeschooling
ideas and guidance toward that activity.
"What our focus is, we are reaching out and recruiting
Christian parents, especially Christian parents of very
young children, babies, toddlers, preschoolers. They
have the most to lose by sending their children to
state schools," Lowers said.
"The educational establishment in America really
has pulled the wool over most parents' eyes. Almost
every parent teaches their child to speak English or
whatever is their primary language. They've done the
bulk of the teaching of the basics. But the establishment
has put this aura around education and (says) only
certified teachers should be teaching. Those teachers
are less qualified than you to teach your children. You
know them," he said.
He said in California, the public schools are controlled
"by a group of elitist, leftist, homosexual socialists."
"Their agenda should not be the same agenda as
Christian parents. We have really been putting it on the
line here, saying to all Christians, 'How could you in
good conscience, knowing what you know, now send
your children to public school?'" he said.
According to the National Home Education Research
Institute, homeschooling may be the fastest-growing
form of education in the U.S., with growth rates of 7-12
percent per year. Estimates show there are about 2.5
million home-schooled children in the United States.
That saves taxpayers roughly $16 billion annually,
studies say, while at the same time those students
generally perform better on standardized tests and
go to college at a higher rate than those from public schools.
Significantly for Christian parents, studies show that
among homeschooled students, 94 believe in Jesus
when they graduate, but only 15 percent from public schools do.
The NHERI noted that a survey of adults who were
homeschooled showed 72 percent participating in
ongoing community service such as coaching a sports
team or volunteering at a school. The comparison for
other U.S. adults was 39 percent.
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2006 WorldNetDaily.com
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5346480.stm
Muslim religious leaders have accused Pope Benedict XVI of quoting anti-Islamic remarks during a speech at a German university this week.
Questioning the concept of holy war, he quoted a 14th-Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things.
A senior Pakistani Islamic scholar, Javed Ahmed Gamdi, said jihad was not about spreading Islam with the sword.
Turkey's top religious official asked for an apology for the "hostile" words.
In Indian-administered Kashmir, police seized copies of newspapers which reported the Pope's comments to prevent any tension.
A Vatican spokesman, Father Frederico Lombardi, said he did not believe the Pope's comments were meant as a harsh criticism of Islam.
'Abhorrent'
In his speech at Regensburg University, the German-born pontiff explored the historical and philosophical differences between Islam and Christianity and the relationship between violence and faith.
Stressing that they were not his own words, he quoted Emperor Manual II Paleologos of the Byzantine Empire, the Orthodox Christian empire which had its capital in what is now the Turkish city of Istanbul.
The emperors words were, he said: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
Benedict said "I quote" twice to stress the words were not his and added that violence was "incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul".
The Pope is due to visit Turkey in November and the Turkish response was swift and strong, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports from Istanbul.
Religious leader Ali Bardakoglu said the Pope's comments represented what he called an "abhorrent, hostile and prejudiced point of view".
Whilst Muslims might express their criticism of Islam and of Christianity, he argued, they would never defame the Holy Bible or Jesus Christ.
He said he hoped the Pope's speech did not reflect "hatred in his heart" against Islam.
Many Turks see Benedict as a Turkophobe and commentators call his words just before the holy month of Ramadan "ill-timed and ill-conceived", our correspondent adds.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/5346480.stm
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Press Releases :: September 15, 2006
2.225.5390
Tancredo Slams Administration for Arrest of Bounty Hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman
Mexico or U.S.
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) criticized Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales in a letter to the Justice Department in the wake of
media reports yesterday that the U.S. Marshals raided the Hawaii home of Duane
"Dog" Chapman at the direction of the Mexican government.
A spokeswoman for the Marshals Office confirmed yesterday that an arrest warrant
was signed Wednesday by a federal magistrate in Hawaii at the urging of the
administration. Chapman could now be extradited to to face criminal charges for
successfully capturing Max Factor heir Andrew Luster
nted in the for rape is now serving a 124-year sentence.
"This Administration routinely tells Congress that they cannot secure our
borders and immigration system due to a lack of resources. We are told that the
U.S. Attorneys offices in Border States are simply overwhelmed with cases and
cannot prosecute all the violations – even serious ones," said Tancredo.
"Somehow this administration has plenty of time to track down a Mexican drug
smuggler and give him immunity so he can testify against our Border Patrol
agents," said Tancredo referring to the prosecution of two Border Patrol agents
facing 20 years in prison for wounding a Mexican smuggler during the course of
their normal duties earlier this year.
"Americans are apparently supposed to happily accept presence the roughly
100,000 criminal aliens inside our borders – a number that is growing every year
– while the Marshals use their resources to track down 'Dog' Chapman on orders
from a foreign master for successfully brining a convicted rapist to justice."
"It is becoming increasingly clear that the real problem with this
administrations inability to address the failures of U.S. border security policy
is not so much a lack of resources as it is one of misplaced priorities,"
concluded Tancredo, "I'm beginning to wonder who is in charge of prioritizing
assignments at DOJ. Is it this administration – or the one in Mexico City ?
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Susan Gallant :
Remarkable Obituary
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Mr. Common Sense.
Mr. Sense had been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was
since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such value lessons as knowing
when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm and that
life isn't always fair. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial
policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies
(adults, not kids, are in charge).
His health began to rapidly deteriorate when well intentioned but
overbearing regulations were set in place- Reports of a six-year-old boy
charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended
from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for
reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Mr. Sense declined even further when schools were required to get
parental consent to administer aspirin to a student; but could not inform the
parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Finally, Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments
became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better
treatment than their victims.
Common Sense finally gave up the ghost after a woman failed to realize
that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a bit in her lap, and was
awarded a huge financial settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, his
wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He
is survived by two stepbrothers; My Rights and Ima Whiner.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
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Subject: Bananas
Never, put your banana in the refrigerator!!!
This is interesting.
After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes. But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier. PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia. Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system. Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach. Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their
baby is born with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
Smoking &Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"
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It Takes a Police State to Raise a Child
In the aftermath of Wednesday's hostage taking and murder-suicide at Platte
Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado, I can just hear all the gun grabbers
proclaiming that it only goes to show that we cannot tolerate guns in -- or
anywhere near -- schools. Well, one of their dream bills has just been passed by Congress.
On September 23, World Net Daily reported that the House of Representatives has
passed an anti-drug and anti-weapon bill - HR 5295 -- that "would require local
districts to develop search policies - including strip searches - with immunity
against prosecution for teachers and staff."
HR 5295 reads in part as follows:
"A search referred to in subsection (a) is a search by a full-time teacher or
school official, acting on any reasonable suspicion based on professional
experience and judgment, of any minor student on the grounds of any public
school, if the search is conducted to ensure that classrooms, school buildings,
school property and students remain free from the threat of all weapons,
dangerous materials, or illegal narcotics. The measures used to conduct any
search must be reasonably related to the search's objectives, without being
excessively intrusive in light of the student's age, sex, and the nature of the
offense."
Five things came to mind immediately.
First, the requirement of "reasonable suspicion" of a teacher or school staffer
is not nearly as strong as the Fourth Amendment's requirement of a judge's
warrant that shall not be issued "but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
Affirmation." In the case of Tinker v. Des Moines (1969), the Supreme Court
stated that students do not "shed their constitutional rights when they enter
the schoolhouse door". These rights also include the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
Second, student-teacher sex is happening more and more frequently across
America. Moreover, there is a new trend of female teachers having sex with male students.
Third, while schools have been gun-free zones for years, this do-gooderism did
not prevent the orgy of blood at Columbine. The Harrises and Klebolds of the
world do not give one flying rip about anyone's little pantywaist gun laws. On
that horrible morning in 1999, the students, faculty and staff were absolutely
defenseless as those two little pukes sprayed bullets all over the school.
Fourth, the War on Drugs has been a monumental failure. There is now one drug
arrest every 40 seconds in America. Largely because of the War on Drugs,
America - the land of the free - has the world's highest incarceration rate.
America has more drugs than ever and more dangerous drugs than ever. Drug
prohibition has not solved anything and has created a whole new host of problems
that did not exist when we started down this road decades ago.
Fifth, there is no constitutional authority whatsoever for federal intrusion in
education. Article 1, Section 8, which spells out the 18 duties of the federal
government, does not even mention the word "education". The Tenth Amendment
forbids Uncle Sam from intruding in any area not authorized by the Constitution.
(The Constitution thereby forbids the drug war as well.)
The same folks who laughed convulsively when Hillary Clinton stated that "It
Takes a Village to Raise a Child" evidently have no problem with the idea that
it takes a police state to raise a child.
Well, I have some news for police state groupies: disarming students did not
stop Columbine and it did not stop Wednesday's bloodshed 38 miles southwest of
Columbine. Duane Morrison, 53 -- totally undeterred by everyone's stupid gun
laws -- entered a classroom, fired a warning shot and ordered all the students
out of the room, except for six girls. Over the next four hours he sexually
assaulted several of the girls and killed one -- 16-year-old junior Emily Keyes -- before killing himself.
I can hear people saying: I basically support the Second Amendment, but do we really neeeeed guns in schools?
Let me give you a little thought experiment.
Let's say that one of the students ordered to leave the room on Wednesday at
Platte Canyon High had a gun in his book bag. And let us say that, fearing for
his life and the lives of those around him, he shot Morrison. The innocent life
of Emily Keyes would have been saved and no girls would have been sexually
assaulted and traumatized.
Let me give you two more little thought experiments.
Let's say that students were not forced to "shed their constitutional rights
when they enter the schoolhouse door". Let us say that Eric Harris and Dyaln
Klebold would have been deterred by the mere possibility that someone somewhere
on the Columbine campus could have busted a cap on them on that horrible morning in 1999.
Let's say that the mere thought that someone somewhere on the Platte Canyon
campus could be packing heat could have been enough to deter psycho sicko Duane
Morrison from doing what he did on Wednesday.
When you disarm innocent people, bad things happen.
Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results. In the seven-plus years since Columbine, nothing
has changed. We throw more and more money at schools, and they just get worse.
We lock up more and more druggies, and things just get worse. We continue to
disarm students and we get more school shootings. We continue to beg for our
government to "do something" after every crisis, and things get worse.
It takes neither a village nor a police state to raise a child. It takes loving,
dedicated, involved parents. Nothing will change in America until enough people
realize this and starting acting accordingly. No law or "policy" can bring about
this change. The needed change has to come in the hearts and minds of the
American people.
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Pining for the Peaceful Paradise of the Omnipotent State by Vin Suprynowicz,
April 21, 1999.
STANLEY NOTE: The sickness of the "government" that has overthrown America and
her founding documents continues to create a stench for all time. Let the
puking begin. While I would never defend the sick behavior of what happended on
Wednesday in Bailey, Colorado, I have been warning America that people are
snapping, people have not changed that much since the dawn of man, but what has
changed is the government. The government has overthrown the American
constitution and they are intruding in every American's life as never before.
People are snapping, going postal. I have been warning America, as to what is
the reason, the core root reason: The government that has overthrown America
from within. That is your root cause and the "evil that is perpetuated by this
government against Americans". I know, shoot the messenger. I have heard it
for years. One day, they will come for you since they have no more scapegoats
for their tyranny. Folks like me will be long gone...
God bless the fighters for freedom and liberty.
LIVE FREE or Die! LIBERTY in our Lifetime!
Rick Stanley
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The Antifederalists Were Right
By Gary Galles
Posted on 9/27/2006
September 27 marks the anniversary of the publication of the first of the Antifederalist Papers in 1789. The Antifederalists were opponents of ratifying the US Constitution. They feared that it would create an overbearing central government, while the Constitution's proponents promised that this would not happen. As the losers in that debate, they are largely overlooked today. But that does not mean they were wrong or that we are not indebted to them.
In many ways, the group has been misnamed. Federalism refers to the system of decentralized government. This group defended states rights — the very essence of federalism — against the Federalists, who would have been more accurately described as Nationalists. Nonetheless, what the so-called Antifederalists predicted would be the results of the Constitution turned out to be true in most every respect.
The Antifederalists warned us that the cost Americans would bear in both liberty and resources for the government that would evolve under the Constitution would rise sharply. That is why their objections led to the Bill of Rights, to limit that tendency (though with far too little success that has survived to the present).
Antifederalists opposed the Constitution on the grounds that its checks on federal power would be undermined by expansive interpretations of promoting the "general welfare" (which would be claimed for every law) and the "all laws necessary and proper" clause (which would be used to override limits on delegated federal powers), creating a federal government with unwarranted and undelegated powers that were bound to be abused.
One could quibble with the mechanisms the Antifederalists predicted would lead to constitutional tyranny. For instance, they did not foresee that the Commerce Clause would come to be called "the everything clause" in law schools, used by centralizers to justify almost any conceivable federal intervention. The 20th-century distortion of the clause's original meaning was so great even the vigilant Antifederalists could never have imagined the government getting away with it.
And they could not have foreseen how the Fourteenth Amendment and its interpretation would extend federal domination over the states after the Civil War. But it is very difficult to argue with their conclusions from the current reach of our government, not just to forcibly intrude upon, but often to overwhelm Americans today.
Therefore, it merits remembering the Antifederalists' prescient arguments and how unfortunate is the virtual absence of modern Americans who share their concerns.
One of the most insightful of the Antifederalists was Robert Yates, a New York judge who, as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, withdrew because the convention was exceeding its instructions. Yates wrote as Brutus in the debates over the Constitution. Given his experience as a judge, his claim that the Supreme Court would become a source of almost unlimited federal over-reaching was particularly insightful.
Brutus asserted that the Supreme Court envisioned under the Constitution would become a source of massive abuse because they were beyond the control "both of the people and the legislature," and not subject to being "corrected by any power above them." As a result, he objected to the fact that its provisions justifying the removal of judges didn't include making rulings that went beyond their constitutional authority, which would lead to judicial tyranny.
Brutus argued that when constitutional grounds for making rulings were absent, the Court would create grounds "by their own decisions." He thought that the power it would command would be so irresistible that the judiciary would use it to make law, manipulating the meanings of arguably vague clauses to justify it.
The Supreme Court would interpret the Constitution according to its alleged "spirit", rather than being restricted to just the "letter" of its written words (as the doctrine of enumerated rights, spelled out in the Tenth Amendment, would require).
Further, rulings derived from whatever the court decided its spirit was would effectively "have the force of law," due to the absence of constitutional means to "control their adjudications" and "correct their errors". This constitutional failing would compound over time in a "silent and imperceptible manner", through precedents that built on one another.
Expanded judicial power would empower justices to shape the federal government however they desired, because the Supreme Court's constitutional interpretations would control the effective power vested in government and its different branches. That would hand the Supreme Court ever-increasing power, in direct contradiction to Alexander Hamilton's argument in Federalist 78 that the Supreme Court would be "the least dangerous branch."
Brutus predicted that the Supreme Court would adopt "very liberal" principles of interpreting the Constitution. He argued that there had never in history been a court with such power and with so few checks upon it, giving the Supreme Court "immense powers" that were not only unprecedented, but perilous for a nation founded on the principle of consent of the governed. Given the extent to which citizens' power to effectively withhold their consent from federal actions has been eviscerated, it is hard to argue with Brutus's conclusion.
He further warned that the new government would not be restricted in its taxing power, and that the legislatures war power was highly dangerous: "the power in the federal legislative, to raise and support armies at pleasure, as well in peace as in war, and their controul over the militia, tend, not only to a consolidation of the government, but the destruction of liberty."
He also objected to the very notion that a republican form of government can work well over such a vast territory, even the relatively small terrority as compared with today's US:
History furnishes no example of a free republic, anything like the extent of the United States. The Grecian republics were of small extent; so also was that of the Romans. Both of these, it is true, in process of time, extended their conquests over large territories of country; and the consequence was, that their governments were changed from that of free governments to those of the most tyrannical that ever existed in the world.
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Brutus accurately described both the cause (the absence of sufficient enforceable restraints on the size and scope of the federal government) and the consequences (expanding burdens and increasing invasions of liberty) of what would become the expansive federal powers we now see all around us.
But today, Brutus would conclude that he had been far too optimistic. The federal government has grown orders of magnitudes larger than he could ever have imagined (in part because he was writing when only indirect taxes and the small federal government they could finance were possible, before the 16th Amendment opened the way for a federal income tax in 1913), far exceeding its constitutionally enumerated powers, despite the constraints of the Bill of Rights. The result burdens citizens beyond his worst nightmare.
The judicial tyranny that was accurately and unambiguously predicted by Brutus and other Antifederalists shows that in essential ways, they were right and that modern Americans still have a lot to learn from them. We need to understand their arguments and take them seriously now, if there is to be any hope of restraining the federal government to the limited powers it was actually granted in the Constitution, or even anything close to them, given its current tendency to accelerate its growth beyond them.
Gary M. Galles is a professor of economics at Pepperdine University. Send him mail. See his archive. Discuss this article on the blog.
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http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/WeyrichIRS.php
http://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2006/060926.asp
Freedom of Religion and Undue IRS Intrusion
By Paul M. Weyrich
September 26, 2006
The Internal Revenue Service has notified pastors all over America that IRS will be monitoring the content of sermons. If there were anything political IRS would initiate action to withdraw any applicable tax-exemption. IRS stated it will not wait for the ACLU or People United For Separation of Church and State to file a complaint. No siree. What does IRS consider political? That is not clear but it appears to be subjective agent by agent. This development is deeply troubling. In fact, it bothers me more than about anything that goes on these days and that says a lot.
Since when is it a crime for clergy to alert their congregations about moral dangers? You mean to tell me that a Catholic or Orthodox priest cannot speak his views on evils of abortion, especially when a bill such as those dealing with fetal pain, transporting minors across state lines for purposes of getting an abortion, parental notification, parental consent, federal funding or banning partial-birth abortions are on the Floor of the House of Representatives or Senate.
Can Roman Catholic, Anglican or Eastern Orthodox priests say nothing when the Constitution in their state is about to be amended providing that marriage is only about one man and one woman. They are supposed to remain silent if, for example, a pornographic store were to open a block from the school they operate? Evangelical ministers are to say nothing if a gambling casino were to be built across the street from their church? A bill regulating drugs is before the Congress, no pastor is ever to mention a word about it?
We know that pastors and other clergy or anyone assigned to preach in a church a synagogue or temple cannot tell people how to vote, Fine. I have been a member of my church for thirty-six years. For all but two years of that time we have had the same Pastor. He has never, ever told people how to vote. He doesn't even do as the late great Black Preacher E.V. Hill, of Los Angeles, used to say: "I don't tell them how to vote. I tell them for whom I am voting. And I am their leader". Never once has the Rt. Rev. Archmandrate Joseph Francavilla ever told people how he was voting.
He, along with other priests serving with us, has given powerful sermons on the right to life, on the dead-end drug culture, on pornography, on marriage between one man and one woman and on and on. Is the IRS going to withdraw the tax exemption of my church because Father Joe, as we fondly call him, calls his congregation to accept God's moral order?
Had the churches not been involved the American Revolution would not have succeeded. Churches were active on both sides of the Civil War. When the left used churches to mobilize the Civil Rights movement IRS turned a blind eye. The leaders of the Civil Rights movement were almost all ordained ministers. That is as it should have been. A whole segment of God's people was made to be second-class citizens. Many were killed or hosed down like animals. Churches stood with the downtrodden, as it should be.
IRS never involved itself when churches, especially Roman Catholic Churches, were the cornerstone of the movement to end the war in Viet Nam. Some priests went overboard (and I know this to be true because I heard it myself) and suggested that if you didn't get involved with the so-called peace movement you weren't really a Christian.
IRS was nowhere during the campaign of Governor Michael Dukakis, who used Greek Orthodox churches as a foundation partially to fund, as well as from which to obtain volunteers. Same for Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. Black churches were the backbone of the Jackson campaign. Churches often took up a second collection to benefit the Jackson effort.
IRS has been silent as some liberal churches in this country became the instrument of the Green movement. Earth Day and religion were supposed to be a natural marriage. One can argue that proposition all day long. The point is that pastors were political. Not a word from IRS.
Only now that more conservative churches have been finding their way in the political process have we heard from IRS to send agents fanning out across America to demand to see the content of sermons. In a San Francisco church IRS is investigating agents demanded to see copies of sermons from the past six months. The Episcopal Church is resisting. Good for them. This is wrong, wrong, wrong and must be remedied by the Congress. The House made progress on a bill opposing what IRS has been doing. Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) has been spearheading it. It is right now a dead letter in the Senate, thanks to Senator John W. Warner (R-VA) and others. What is it coming to? My church does not permit girls at the altar, does not allow women as deacons has only male priests. Will IRS contend that in disallowing women to participate in liturgical functions we are violating public policy?
What would happen were a church to refuse to give Communion to openly practicing homosexuals or to those who advocate abortion? Guilty of discrimination? What IRS appears to be doing this autumn is THE most dangerous threat to the continuation of the Republic. There is so little left of our Constitution that some Justices and others scarcely recognize it.
Unless it is solely political (i.e., the pastor says "Now I want you good people to get out the vote for Governor Mike Huckabee. He has promised to see to it that we are adequately protected.") IRS should rightfully step in. But if the pastor says, "Abortion is the moral evil of our age. There are measures before the Congress which would begin to restrict abortion. Call your Congressman and tell him you support those bills," the pastor should have no fear of IRS intervention. (By the way, Huckabee is term-limited and thus will be stepping down after two terms as Governor of Arkansas in January.)
If you are speaking with your Congressman or Senator, doesn't matter if he or she is liberal or conservative, Republican or a Democrat, tell him or her that you want to see IRS intervention of this kind stopped. Congress has the power to do so. It remains to be seen if it has the will.
Paul M. Weyrich is Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation.
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http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/ColsonPrison.php
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/09/26/whats_hidden_in_the_shadows
What's hidden in the shadows
Radical Islam and U.S. prisons
By Chuck Colson
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
I don't usually make predictions, but here's one I'll venture: If, God forbid, an attack by home-grown Islamist radicals occurs on American soil, many, if not most, of the perpetrators will have converted to Islam while in prison.
I am hardly going out on a limb here. I said this first in 2001. The spread of an especially virulent form of Islam within American prisons is obvious to those of us who have spent time in these prisons. It's the rest of American society that is in denial. Now, thanks to a new study, ignorance is no longer an option.
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The study, titled "Out of the Shadows," concluded that "the U.S. . . . is at risk of facing the sort of homegrown terrorism currently plaguing other countries." The source of that risk, according to researchers from George Washington University and the University of Virginia, is "[America's] large prison population."
"Radicalized prisoners" within this population "are a potential pool of recruits by terrorist groups," the study says. The sources of radicalization are incarcerated Islamic extremists and outside organizations that support them. The report notes that the absence of "monitoring by authoritative Islamic chaplains" permits "materials that advocate violence [to infiltrate] the prison system undetected."
Some of this material is provided by known al-Qaeda affiliates. It "[urges Muslim prisoners] to wage war against non-Muslims who have not submitted to Islamic rule." As a former employee of a radical Islamist group who is now a Christian told a Senate committee, "I know of only a few instances in which prisons rejected the literature we attempted to distribute - and it was never because of the literature's radicalism."
Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) was correct when she called the situation "an emerging threat to our national security." The obvious question: What do we do about it?
The study recommends the creation of a federal commission to "investigate this issue in depth." It says that an "objective risk assessment" is "urgently needed" so that "officials [can] address this issue now, rather than [managing] a crisis later."
I agree wholeheartedly, but let's get on with this. We already know what the study has concluded. I've been telling "BreakPoint" listeners and readers and Prison Fellowship supporters about this for years. Now we have more than anecdotal evidence. We have a study from two prestigious universities on our side.
Still, I can't help but note an irony here: The largely unimpeded spread of radical Islam through our prisons coincides with increased opposition to the one really successful antidote - that is, the presence of Christianity.
An obvious example is the lawsuit against our prison program in Iowa. Programs like ours are working. We have studies to prove it. And they are the best solution to the alienation and rage that fuels conversions to radical Islam, as well as gangs and other hate groups inside the prisons. Making it harder for organizations like Prison Fellowship to operate within prison walls leaves jihadists and other radical groups as the only game in town.
Unfortunately, opponents like Barry Lynn of the Americans United are blind to this, which puts more than the program at risk - because, as we saw in the case of the shoe bomber, Richard Reid, groups that are now operating in the shadows of our prisons are a real danger to us.
For further reading and information:
Today's BreakPoint offer: Read the articles "Terrorism Behind Bars" (First Things, November 2002) and "How a Muslim Chaplain Spread Extremism to an Inmate Flock" (Wall Street Journal, 5 February 2003) - available to Wall Street Journal subscribers, or call 1-877-322-5527 for a free copy.
Frank Cilluffo, et al., "Out of the Shadows: Getting ahead of Prisoner Radicalization," George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute and University of Virginia Critical Incident Analysis Group, 19 September 2006. (Free Adobe Acrobat Reader required.)
Debra J. Saunders, "Prislam - The Threat from Within," Townhall.com, 21 September 2006.
Lara Jakes Jordan, "Study: Prisons Can't Fight Islamic Terror Recruiting," Richmond Times-Dispatch, 25 September 2006.
Alexandra Marks, "Islamist Radicals in Prison: How Many?" Christian Science Monitor, 20 September 2006.
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Dhimmitude for Dummies
By Victor Sharpe
Israel Hasbara Committee | September 26, 2006
Ask one hundred people in the United States what a dhimmi is and perhaps two or three might know. In Western Europe the number would be slightly higher because of latent memories of battles fought against invading Moslem armies over hundreds of years.
In 732, Charles Martel led his Frankish forces at Tours to victory against an Islamic invasion of France, which nearly destroyed Christian Europe. Similarly, Islam was ousted from Spain in 1492 after an occupation of the Iberian Peninsula by the Moslems for hundreds of years. Wisely, the Spanish Christian monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand, and the Portuguese a few years later, also expelled the Jewish community. Jews had lived in Spain and Portugal for many centuries and had ever posed a threat to Christian sovereignty.
In Italy, Islamic power was brought to an end when the heavy Turkish galleys were defeated by Venetian galleasses at the great naval battle of Lepanto in 1571. And the Moslem Ottoman power, which at its height again threatened all of Western Europe, was barely turned back at the gates of Vienna on 11 September 1683 by a coalition of European armies. Incidentally, could there be a connection between 9.11.1683 and 9.11.2001, or is it just coincidence?
These were four major defeats by Europe of Islamic attempts of conquest and subjugation set against a history of victorious Moslem invasions and conquests that had been the hallmark of Islam since its founding in the seventh century.
But what of the peoples and nations that fell under Islamic occupation? For them the story was one of forced conversions to Islam, slavery, death and the Islamic institution of dhimmitude.
This is the word that describes the parlous state of those who refused to convert to Islam and became the subjugated, non-Muslims who were forced to accept a restrictive and humiliating subordination to a superior Islamic power and live as second class citizens in order to avoid enslavement or death. These peoples and populations were known as dhimmis, and if such a status was not humiliating enough, a special tax or tribute, called the jizya, was imposed upon them and upon all dhimmis.
Dhimmitude is the direct outcome of jihad, which is the military conquest of non-Islamic territory mandated by Allah as a spiritual obligation for every individual Moslem and Moslem nation.
From its beginnings in the seventh century, Islam spread through violent conquest of non-Moslem lands. In the eighth century, a formal set of rules to govern relationships between Moslems and non-Moslems was created based upon Moslem conquests of non-Moslem peoples. These rules were based upon jihad, which established how the Moslems would treat the conquered non-Moslems in terms of their submission to Islam.
Jihad can be pursued through force or other means such as propaganda, writing, or subversion against the perceived enemy. The so-called enemies are those who oppose the establishment of Islamic law or its spread, mission, or sovereignty over them and their land.
Propaganda and subversion are the very means now being employed against the West and Christian civilization, and Islamists have shown themselves to be brilliantly adept at manipulating the gullible and uninformed western media in pursuit of their aims of world domination.
As I have written in previous articles, non-Islamic lands are considered the dar al-harb, the "house of war," until they submit to Islamic rule and enter the dar al-Islam. The 'infidel' falls into three categories: those who resist Islam with force, those living in a country that has a temporary truce with Islam, and those who have surrendered to Islam by exchanging land for peace.
Since the Oslo Accords, successive Israeli governments have been guilty of the now thoroughly discredited notion of "land for peace" in which Israel gives away land but never receives peace. Even the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan are cold at best and the lands given away to Lebanon and the Arab Palestinians has been a calamitous error. The belief that Moslem Arab powers respond to overtures of peace by ending their aggression is but a mirage in the desert. This is proven time and again to be a delusion and is, in fact, a classic example of the mindset and behavior of the dhimmi.
A non-Moslem community forced to accept dhimmitude is condemned to live in a system that will only protect it from jihad if it is subservient to the Moslem master. In return, it is guaranteed limited rights under a system of discriminations that it must accept, or face forced conversion, slavery, or death.
In the early years of the Islamic conquests, the "tribute" or jizya was paid as a yearly poll tax, which symbolized the subordination of the dhimmi. Later, the inferior status of Jews and Christians was reinforced through a series of regulations that governed the behavior of the dhimmi. Jews and Christians were awarded a different status than other faiths. They were considered to be under protection as "people of the book." People of non-monotheistic faiths, pagans, or atheists were simply to be exterminated.
According to Mitchell G. Bard, who has written extensively on the subject and produced the excellent rebuttal to Arab and pro-Arab propaganda in his book, Myths and Facts, "... dhimmis, on pain of death, were forbidden to mock or criticize the Koran, Islam or Muhammad, to proselytize among Moslems or to touch a Moslem woman (though a Moslem man could take a non-Moslem as a wife).
"Dhimmis were excluded from public office and armed service, and were forbidden to bear arms. They were not allowed to ride horses or camels, to build synagogues or churches taller than mosques, to construct houses higher than those of Muslims or to drink wine in public. They were not allowed to pray or mourn in loud voices as that might offend the Moslems.
"The dhimmi had to show public deference toward Moslems, always yielding them the center of the road. The dhimmi was not allowed to give evidence in court against a Moslem, and his oath was unacceptable in an Islamic court. To defend himself the dhimmi would have to purchase Moslem witnesses at great expense. This left the dhimmi with little legal recourse when harmed by a Moslem.
"Dhimmis were also forced to wear distinctive clothing. In the ninth century, for example, Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil designated a yellow badge for Jews, setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later."
By the twentieth century, the status of the dhimmi in Moslem lands had not significantly improved. H.E.W. Young, British Vice-Consul in Mosul, wrote in 1909:
"The attitude of the Muslims toward the Christians and the Jews is that of a master towards slaves, whom he treats with a certain lordly tolerance so long as they keep their place. Any sign of pretension to equality is promptly repressed."
The concept of jihad is not something now discarded by Islam as a quaint belief appropriate to the distant past. On the contrary, it is a cardinal belief in the 21st century for Moslems based upon Koranic injunctions. It is believed in by millions of Moslems around the Third world, as much as by Moslems living in America, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It is a belief, passionately held, that one day the entire world will become Islamic and accept completely the will of Allah.
It is vital, therefore, that the general public in every non-Moslem country be made aware that Moslems consider themselves in a perpetual state of war with their non-Moslem neighbors. If Islamic armies are unable to defeat what they consider the "infidels," (that's you and me), then a period of "truce" exists, which has several conditions. These include allowing Islam to be propagated, and if a non-Moslem nation forbids it or rejects mass proselytizing to Islam, then that nation will be considered as subject to holy jihad.
Sheikh Zayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaida's second in command, recently invited America to embrace Islam. The invitation is always given, according to some experts, prior to a major assault upon the "infidel nation," because any rejection is considered by Moslems as an empirical reason to wage war upon the non-Moslem state; in this case the United States of America.
It is nearly impossible for sophisticated and secularized Western and European elites to understand or accept such medieval concepts, let alone the idea that a religious war is being waged against them. But their dismissal and amused disregard of what is taking place is as calamitous as that exemplified by the myopic politicians in Britain and America before the Second World War.
The lone voice in the wilderness at that time, Winston Churchill, appealed in vain to the political leaders who had not the ears to hear or the eyes to see the growing fascist menace during the 1930s posed by Germany and Italy. He called one such British politician an "epileptic corpse," and reached back through his prodigious memory to find a poem, which characterized the failure of the Baldwin government in 1935 to re-arm. The apt poem was, The Clattering Train, which could equally be applied to the later appeasement of Hitler by Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax.
"Those in charge of the clattering train, the axles creak and the couplings strain.
The pace is hot and the points are near and sleep has deadened the driver's air.
The signals flash in the night in vain, for death is in charge of the clattering train."
Western notions of peaceful co-existence between states, human rights and liberal democracy are all alien to the bin-Ladens and Zawahiris of the Islamic world. Hizbullah, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hamas, Al Qaida, ad nauseum, all reject Judeo-Christian civilization as being in theological error. For them, the entire human race must embrace Allah's pre-eminence and the Moslem believer is the divine instrument to bring about the "Umma" (worldwide Moslem community) in whatever way possible, including warfare and terror.
Jihad has reappeared as a way of wiping out the humiliation the Arab and Moslem world has felt as Western power became ascendant, especially after the defeat of the Ottoman Turkish Empire at the end of the First World War.
With a fabulous and never ending flow of petrodollars pouring into Arab and Moslem coffers, the belief among Moslems is that the time is now right for Islam to reassert itself in dominating the world and bringing it to Allah through all out war, including nuclear war, if necessary.
The corollary to jihad is dhimmitude. This is what appeasement by non-Moslems to Islamist threats and terror leads to. Winston Churchill would have been shocked but not surprised at the craven appeasement displayed by today's elitists in the European political echelons.
It is in marked contrast to the manner in which their ancestors confronted an earlier existential Islamic threat when they defeated decisively the Moslems at Tours, Iberia (Spain and Portugal), Lepanto and Vienna.
But without a similarly decisive defeat of present day Islamist aggression and Islamo-fascism we may all be faced, sooner than we think, with the choice of forced conversion to Islam or subservience and wretchedness as dhimmis.
Better, therefore, for us all to be aware of the facts and not also be dummies.
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The Muslim Advance and American Collaboration
James George Jatras
First published in 1989.
In addressing the cultural schism between the western and eastern halves of European, Christian civilization, marked principally by their respective religious traditions, Roman Catholic/Protestant in the West and Orthodox in the East, one issue stands above all others in determining whether that millennium-old division shall eventually prove fatal: the Islamic resurgence that has rapidly come to mark the post-Cold War era. For the East, which borders on the Muslim world, the problem continues to be, as it has been since Islam first appeared in the 7th century, primarily one of direct, violent confrontation, which today stretches from the Balkans to the Caucasus and through Central Asia. For the West, on the other hand, the problem today is primarily internal, both in terms of ideological confusion (which in many instances leads to active collaboration), coupled with demographic infiltration.
The latter factor, largely a consequence of the West's policy of more-or-less open immigration, is typified in the following example. A few months ago, the county board of Loudoun County, Virginia, just a few miles down the road from the federal capital, granted a zoning variance to facilitate construction of a new Islamic academy over vigorous local opposition. The institution, one of a number being constructed nationwide, will cover some 100 acres, will include elementary, middle, and high schools, will feature an 800-bed dormitory, and will grace the rolling hills of the Virginia horse country with a 65-foot mosque dome and an 85-foot minaret.
County residents opposed the academy on a variety of grounds, notably the loss of tax revenue on land that was otherwise zoned for business uses and the security threat posed by the school, either from Muslims that would be attracted to the county or from the possibility that anti-Saudi Islamic groups might see the academy as a tempting target. But the critics' central issue and the one that highlights western incomprehension of the phenomenon in question was the character of the Saudi regime which, according to the school's bylaws (specifying even that the Saudi ambassador is ex officio chairman), exercises total control, to the extent that it is part of the structure of the Saudi Ministry of Education: an establishment of a foreign sovereign on American soil.
Predictably, as soon as Saudi Arabia and Islam became the issues, the only response from progressive opinion had to be that rejection of the school would be intolerance of "diversity." Characteristic of this viewpoint is one county resident who symbolically displayed a crescent and star in the window of her home to show that "Islam is welcome here." The ever-vigilant Washington Post weighed in with an editorial blasting opposition to the school as "religious intolerance" and "the worst kind of bigotry" on the part of retrograde denizens of the Old Dominion. "Ugly statements that have been made in public meetings on the issue have run the range of mean-spiritedness," sniffed the Post , "with some residents asserting that the school should be rejected because 'the Saudis execute their own people who convert from Islam.'"
In point of correction to the Post's sarcastic quotation marks, the 1997 U.S. Department of State Report on Human Rights Practices states the following about Saudi Arabia: "Freedom of religion does not exist. Islam is the official religion and all [Saudi] citizens must be Muslims. Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is considered apostasy. Public apostasy is considered a crime under Shari'a law and punishable by death." So which is more "ugly" and "mean-spirited"--the fact that the Saudis do indeed behead those who abandon Islam or that Loudoun citizens had been so tactless to take note of that fact? One witness before the county board testified to the fact that her daughters, who are U.S. citizens, have been kept from leaving Saudi Arabia for over thirteen years because, as women, they may not travel, even though the elder one is now an adult, without their Saudi father's permission. The girls have been forcibly converted to Islam and can only look forward to their eventual marriage, for which their consent is at best a formality.
Fawning by county authorities extended even to a blatant disregard of the county's own laws. A Loudoun ordinance defines a private institution as one that is neither funded nor controlled by any government, on both of which counts the Loudoun Islamic academy fails. Yet the county board even rejected testimony to that effect by a former board member, who himself was the author of the relevant ordinance, that the academy was not a private institution. No matter. Today, neither Loudoun County, nor the Commonwealth of Virginia, nor the United States would be able to create and run an educational institution based on any religious doctrine. But a foreign government, a government that is every bit as bigoted, intolerant, and ugly as the Post wrongly tagged the school's critics not only may do so but is seen as having a positive right to do so.
Especially illuminating in the Loudoun controversy was the position of local Christian social conservatives, who stayed neutral or even supported the academy. In the dimmer recesses of the American Christian mind, the only circuits activated were those questioning what precedent denying the variance might set for private Christian schools, the availability of public voucher funds, and so forth. The importation of Shari'a into a once-Christian commonwealth seemingly registered not at all in evangelical minds blissfully unaware of Islamic aims:
"The Islamist movement makes no secret of its intentions to convert the West. Its propaganda, published in booklets sold in all European Islamic centers for the last thirty years, sets out its aim and the methods to achieve them. They include proselytism, conversion, marriage with local women, and, above all, immigration. Remembering that Muslims always began as a minority in the conquered countries ('liberated,' in Islamic terminology) before becoming a majority, the ideologists of this movement regard Islamic settlement in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere as a chance for Islam." [ Bat Ye'or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam, p. 217, emphasis added]
The element of willful blindness in western perspectives on Islam cannot be overestimated. So deeply imbedded is the notion that all religions are in their fundamentals the same, evidence to the contrary is simply wished out of existence. When the Ayatollah Khomeini states that -
"...Muslims have no alternative...to armed holy war against profane governments,...the conquest of all non-Muslim territories...It will be the duty of every able-bodied adult male to volunteer for this war of conquest, the final aim of which is to put Koranic law in power from one end of the earth to the other..."
...and so on in the same vein, such utterances are as little heeded as were similar statements by Lenin during the Cold War. After all, Khomeini is a known "fundamentalist." Surely, his statements can't be held against the moderates, the "mainstream," who represent " real Islam," whose beliefs and values are not so different from ours, right? The contention that Khomeini and his ilk are in fact Islam's historical "mainstream" not only is dismissed but is itself considered evidence of a dangerous "Christian fundamentalism," which is every bit as bad as the Muslim variety, probably worse. Together with the growing number of Muslims in America (who, according to some claims, already have overtaken Judaism as the nation's largest non-Christian religion), the irrebuttable presumption of Muslim peaceableness has set the stage for Islam to become both a social and political force. Particularly under the Clinton Administration, Islam has made major strides to join denatured, humanized Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism in their semi-established status as kindred denominations of a single American civic creed, symbolized by Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent sponsorship of the Eid al-Fitr end-of-Ramadan celebration at the White House.
Likewise, the idea that Islam shares with Christianity and Judaism an Abrahamic pedigree, that we are all, in the Islamic phrase, "peoples of the book," is now almost universally accepted. To see how flimsy this idea is, suppose that during the early Christian era a pagan philosopher from Athens had claimed to have received a vision from a divine messenger ( angelos ) to the effect that Zeus/Jupiter ( diu pater), the Greco-Roman "father god," was the one and only God and in fact was the same God the Father preached by the Christians; that the Christians had corrupted their own Scriptures to hide the fact that Jupiter had been worshiped by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, while only the self-proclaimed prophet's recitation of his own vision was authoritative; that the rites and sacred places of the Olympian gods (the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Delphic Oracle) had always pertained to Jupiter alone and indeed had been established by earlier Abrahamic prophets; and that those who had surrendered their will to Jupiter were commanded to wage holy war under his thunderbolt symbol on "infidels" who resisted the divine will. Is there any doubt that Christians then would have rejected the supposed kinship of the new teaching to their own faith as unanimously as today's Christians rush to accommodate Islam?
There is little doubt that Islam's "God" is none other than the former chief deity of the polytheistic Arab pantheon - a variation on the moon god common throughout the ancient Middle East, among the Babylonians known as Sin (the Sinai peninsula is probably named after him) and among the Sumerians as Nanna - stripped of his consorts and offspring. Among the pagan Arabs he was usually called simply "the god," al-ilah: Allah. The moon god Allah, whose crescent symbol today caps mosques the world over, headed a pantheon of over 300 lesser divinities, including three daughters called Lat, Uzza, and Manat; in fact, the controversy over The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie centers upon an embarrassing (and historically documented) episode during Muhammad's evolving "revelation" (after his death collected as his Qur'an, "recitation") in which he admitted the possibility of retaining under his new dispensation the three daughter-goddesses but later rescinded it as having been of false, "satanic," inspiration. Muhammad (the son of Abdallah, "slave of Allah," a further attestation of the god's pre-Islamic origin) was of the Quraysh tribe, the custodians of the Meccan shrine to the pantheon known as the Ka'bah ("cube"), which then as now houses a black stone, probably a meteorite, which Muslim pilgrims today continue to venerate, along with performance of other pre-Islamic pagan rites such as stoning the devil at Wadi Mina and partaking of the waters of the Zamzam well.
In short, Islam is a self-evident outgrowth not of the Old and New Covenants but of the darkness of heathen Araby. Beside ludicrous historical suggestions to the contrary (such as the idea that the Ka'bah was built by Abraham, which would have been big news to him), Muslim apologists have strained to find in the Bible evidence that a new prophet would arise after Jesus, seeing Muhammad in obvious prophecies of the Holy Spirit (that were fulfilled on Pentecost) or of the Second Coming of Christ. One could find no better refutation of Islam's efforts to appropriate Christian Scriptures (here, Matthew 24:27) than that of the 14th-century Byzantine saint, Gregory Palamas, to his Turkish captors:
"It is true that Muhammad started from the east and came to the west, as the sun travels from east to west. Nevertheless he came with war, knives, pillaging, forced enslavement, murders, and acts that are not from the good God but instigated by the chief manslayer, the devil."
St. Gregory's answer is no less devastating to Islam's fraudulent self-depiction as a pacific creed. Islam was born in violence, from Muhammad's sanction of raids of pillage and plunder (starting with attacks against his own Quraysh tribe, which initially rejected his revelation) to his savage execution of hundreds of men of the Qurayzah clan (which professed Judaism) and the enslavement and forced concubinage of their women and children. (Muhammad himself took as his unwilling consort the Jewish 17-year-old Safiya on the very day of the murder of her menfolk.) From its inception, first within Arabia and then against all unbelievers, Islam has been unthinkable without its mandate for violence, war, terror - in a word, jihad - itself codified in Muhammad's Qur'an (notably Sura 9:29). Today, Islamic apologists in America have been quick to latch onto the vocabulary of grievance, denouncing as "stereotyping," "bigotry," and "ignorance" association of Islam with its violent past and present. Even American elementary school texts have been rewritten to suggest that once-Christian Egypt, Syria, and Palestine became Muslim because their conquerors were "invited" in; Muslims are quick to remind Christians of the Crusaders' later "aggression," but they don't consider as aggression their own unprovoked seizure of the Christian Middle East.
In the application of jihad, as documented by Bat Ye'or and others, Islam understands the world in terms of two domains, or "houses": the House of Islam ( Dar al-Islam ), where Islam rules and Shari'a , the law of Allah, has been realized; and the House of War (Dar al-Harb), where the rebellious unbelievers persist in their (or rather, our) lawlessness. (The parallels are unavoidable to the similarly Manichaean communist concepts of the "socialist camp" as the zone of peace and the "capitalist camp" as the zone of war. I will leave it to the specialists to calculate which - Islam or communism - can claim the greater achievement as gigantic Christian-killing machines.) In Islamic terms, we unsubdued Christians are harbi , and as such we have no legitimate right to our lands, our property, or even our lives, which by right belong not to us but to the Muslims; that which we now have we enjoy only as long as Islam has not (yet) become strong enough to impose Shari'a . As the highly respected and influential 14th century authority Ibn Taymiyya explained:
"These possessions [i.e., the things taken away from the non-Muslims upon their conquest] received the name of fay [war booty] since Allah had taken them away from the infidels in order to restore (afa'a, radda) them to the Muslims. In principle, Allah has created the things of this world only in order that they may contribute to serving Him, since He created man only in order to be ministered to. Consequently, the infidels forfeit their persons and their belongings which they do not use in Allah's service to the faithful believers who serve Allah and unto whom Allah restitutes what is theirs; thus is restored to a man the inheritance of which he was deprived, even if he had never before gained possession."
It is worthy of note that this Ibn Taymiyya is particularly revered by the Wahabi sect, which is the ruling doctrine of Saudi Arabia; students at the Saudi-controlled Loudoun Islamic Academy will no doubt receive benefit of such wisdom. But it should not be thought that Ibn Taymiyya's sentiments are unique to him. On the contrary, Bat Ye'or multiplies comparable passages from Islamic sages of many times and locales, from the time of Muhammad to the present day.
In the sweep of the long history of the Islamic assault on the Christian world, it is sobering to consider how close the latter has come to annihilation on more than one occasion. In the initial offensive during the first decade after Muhammad's demise, Christendom lost its birthplace in the Levant, with the front of the East Roman Empire only being stabilized at the approaches to Asia Minor. Meanwhile, the Arab armies swept west from conquered Egypt, subduing the whole north coast of Africa and crossing into Visigothic Spain in 711. They were finally stopped by the Franks under Karl the Hammer at Poitiers in 732, the centenary of the pseudo-Prophet's death. The conversion of the Turkish tribes to Islam in the 9th century lent jihad renewed impetus; the erosion and final collapse of East Roman power opened the eastern door to Europe in the 14th century, and the Ottomans were turned back only at the gates of Vienna in 1683. The site of the first high water mark at Poitiers and the later one at Vienna are only some 700 miles apart - so narrow has been Christendom's brush with extinction!
The Turkish defeat at Vienna marked the beginning of two centuries of remission during which European technology, particularly military technology, seemed to have resolved the contest between the Cross and Crescent decisively in favor of the former. During the 19th century, the Christian nations of the Balkans - the only conquered Christian lands since the Spanish reconquista in which the Muslims had not yet reduced the indigenous population to a minority, as they had in Egypt and Syria, or eliminated them utterly, as in the Maghreb - cast off their Muslim masters, and by the end of the First World War, most of the Muslim world (with the exceptions of the Arabian heartland itself and of a truncated Turkey which had assumed the guise of the modernizing, secular ideology of Kemalism) was subject to European rule. But at the same time as Europe achieved its military and geopolitical advantage, the moral and religious decline that culminated in the autogenocides of 1914 and 1939 had become evident. Having found in their grasp places their Crusader predecessors had only dreamed of reclaiming - Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople - effete and demoralized European governments made no effort to reChristianize them and within a few decades meekly abandoned them.
The moral disarmament of contemporary post-Christian Europe in its relations with Islam that began in the late 19th century has now become near-universal. If in the more remote past Bourbon France had made common cause with the Sublime Porte (the scandalous "union of the Lily and the Crescent") against Habsburg Austria, the arrangement at least had the virtue of cynical self-interest: Catholic France was hardly expected to praise the sultan's benevolence as part of the bargain. But by the 1870s, Disraeli's obsession with thwarting Russian ambitions in the Balkans prompted the Tories' unprecedented depiction of Turkey as tolerant and humane even in the face of the Bulgarian atrocities; even so, Britain's Christian conscience, prodded by Gladstone's passionate words, was still sufficient to bring down Lord Beaconsfield's government in 1880.
After World War I, with the installation of nominally "pro-Western" governments in many Muslim countries fashioned from the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire, the West seems to have definitively convinced itself of the existence of benign Islam. Indeed, the promotion of "moderate" Muslim regimes, especially those willing to make peace with Israel, and, even better, those that have a lot of petroleum, has become a linchpin of U.S. global policy. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Morocco, the Gulf States, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nigeria, Indonesia and a few others have become the darlings of U.S. policy, valued as supposed bulwarks against "fundamentalism" of the Iranian variety (Iran itself having lately been a member of the favored assembly).
Operationally, this means not only overlooking the radical activities of the supposedly "moderate" Muslim states, for example, Saudi Arabia's and Pakistan's support for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan (whom even the Iranians denounce as dangerous fanatics), and assistance by virtually the entire club to the thinly-disguised radical regime in Sarajevo, but a consistent American bias in favor of the Muslim party in virtually every conflict with a Christian nation. The most prominent exception to date has been a pro-Armenian tilt in the Nagorno-Karabakh question, a function of Armenian-Americans' early cultivation of Congress, but it can be expected that this anomaly will soon shift to Azerbaijan's favor under the combined pressure of the Turkey/Israel lobby, of residual Cold War antipathy for Russia (seen as Armenia's main protector), and of American oil companies fixated on an energy El Dorado in the Caspian Basin.
It is hardly a surprise that business executives who would sell their grandmothers to Abdul Abulbul Amir for oil drilling rights would see the world as a reflection of their balance sheets. Neither is the parallel inclination of secular, socially progressive opinion, which is viscerally anti-Christian. What is not so expected is that so many western Christians, Americans in particular, are willing to believe the worst about their eastern Christian cousins, who, only lately freed from Islamic (and later, in most cases, communist) servitude, are desperately attempting to avoid a repeat of the experience. Today, when all of the Russian North Caucasus is subject to plunder and hostage-taking razzias staged from Shari'a-ruled Chechnya, when not just Nagorno-Karabakh but Armenia proper is in danger of a repeat of 1915, when Cyprus and Greece receive unvarnished threats to their territorial integrity on a weekly basis for the offense of purchasing defensive weapons, and when the borders of Serbia are rapidly approaching those of the pashaluk of Belgrade to suit America's new-found friends in Bosnia and Kosovo, organized Roman Catholic and Protestant sentiment in America overwhelmingly sides with non- and anti-Christian elite opinion in its pro-Muslim, anti-Orthodox tendency.
For example, in 1993 statements were issued by a number of Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Anglican spokesmen in the United States urging military intervention on behalf of the Islamic regime in Sarajevo. "We are convinced that there is just cause to use force to defend largely helpless people in Bosnia against aggression and barbarism that are destroying the very foundations of society and threaten large numbers of people," wrote the chairman of the U.S. Catholic Conference, at a time when the Muslim beneficiaries of the called-for intervention were not only roasting alive Serb POWs impaled on spits but were slaughtering Roman Catholic Croats by the hundreds in an offensive in central Bosnia. "What is going on in Bosnia is genocide by any other name," observed a prominent Baptist spokesman: "The ghosts of Auschwitz and Dachau have come back to haunt us. If we do nothing we are morally culpable." "Those of us who opposed the Gulf War believed that war was not the answer," opined the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, "but today we find ourselves confronted with an evil war, the sure elimination of which may be possible only by means of armed intervention." Thus did high-minded guardians of the West's Christian integrity give their blessing for NATO to assist the resumption of jihad in Europe. Granted, they were themselves to some extent victims of the melodramatic media coverage that has characterized the Balkan war, but that's not much of an excuse. Who told them to believe everything dished up by CNN?
On a previous occasion, I have noted that western anti-Orthodox bias, which I have dubbed Pravoslavophobia, rarely means antipathy for Orthodoxy as such. Most serious Protestants and Roman Catholic often have a fairly positive attitude toward Orthodox Christianity as a morally conservative and, especially, liturgically traditional bulwark within the spectrum of Christian opinion. (In fact, one leading Roman Catholic moral conservative who has called for Christianity to unite with not only Judaism but Islam in an "ecumenical jihad" against secularism, a common front in "spiritual warfare," is explicit in his favorable attitude toward Orthodoxy. But it is beyond me what spiritual values any Christian has in common with someone whose idea of beatific bliss is boinking an endless parade of the well-rounded houris said to inhabit the Muslim paradise.) Perhaps it has been so long since western Christians have had to physically defend themselves as Christians (as opposed to Americans, Englishmen, Germans, etc.) that they just don't understand those for whom it is a current concern.
On the other hand, there are Westerners for whom antipathy is based precisely on the traditional Orthodox character of the front-line states bordering on Islam. Indeed, from this viewpoint, the desire of these countries to not only avoid Islamization but Westernization as well is a major count against them. For example, one columnist, who has made something of a specialty of painting the Orthodox as the villains in the conflicts with Islam (and who has even made the bizarre accusation that poor, helpless Islamic Turkey is threatened in Cyprus by the "burgeoning expansion" of an "Orthodox Axis"!), has cast it as follows:
"The purposes of the Orthodox Church in Russia today reflect most of its history. It wants to keep total power and exclude from its midst any other belief systems or reflections of conscience that might in any way threaten it. 'Through the Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church came to terms with the modern world,' the Denver-born Archbishop J. Francis Stafford, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, mused with me. 'We finally came to a willingness to test the waters of the Enlightenment culture against the ancient traditions of faith. The pope today is preoccupied with the relationship between freedom and truth, which is one of the primary issues raised by the Enlightenment.' That noble preoccupation unfortunately has not yet traveled eastward and, indeed, there are no indicators that it will do so. Meanwhile, it would be good for other Westerners who still dream of rapid change in Russia to study the Catholic-Orthodox case. It might instill in their hope a touch of reality and also remind them that the historical Russian propensity to protect power by remaining isolated and to keep out all those 'foreigners' is hardly a thing of the past."
I defer to others as to what extent today's Roman Catholic Church, as well as modern Protestantism, has indeed made its peace with the Enlightenment's standard of what constitutes "freedom," which has largely translated into freedom from Christianity altogether. (Indeed, the fruits of that kind of freedom will be evident when the muezzin's call to prayer is heard five times a day across Loudoun County.) But what is amazing about this passage is that it is evidently "remaining isolated" that constitutes the offense: Russia (and the same could be said for Greece, Serbia, etc.) is wrong not because she wants to force her faith on the West but because she does not want to adopt the West's "enlightened" version of Christianity.
Though differing in the specifics, the overall attitude displayed here is strongly reminiscent of that of the West toward the East during the last great Islamic offensive in Europe as the dying Byzantine, Bulgarian, and Serbian states faced Ottoman conquest in the 15th century. The West then was explicit: we will help you only if you renounce Orthodoxy in favor of Roman Catholicism. In today's geopolitical context, when western churchmen join in calls for military action by western governments against Orthodox countries to help Muslims, Pope John Paul's calls for ecumenical dialogue and eventual reunion of East and West, the topic of his encyclicals Ut Unam Sint and Slavorum Apostoli , look suspiciously familiar to eastern eyes. While this perception is somewhat simplistic if only because the West today is no longer the Roman Catholic monolith it once was, the larger question should not be so easily dismissed: the Orthodox East is being told today that unless they unquestioningly submit to the West's tutelage in political, social, moral, and economic matters - the collective "religion" of the Enlightenment heritage - they again will be thrown to the wolves. In fact, the West will even help the wolves to devour them.
The immorality, not to mention the stupidity, of this should be obvious. Maybe Christians will never come to agreement on doctrinal matters, maybe the East will insist on retaining its distinctive religious and cultural heritage. But even if, broadly speaking, East and West are never able to share a common Eucharistic chalice, does that mean they must be enemies? Some seem to suggest: yes. Instead, I submit that the survival of Christian Orthodox civilization in the East should be hardly less important to the West than to the Orthodox themselves, and indeed over the long term the West's own fate may depend on it. The fact that the West cannot recognize this reality is part of the same inability to recognize its own internal vulnerability, with the forest of minarets going up mainly in Western Europe but also now in North America.
Some Christians see the Muslim influx primarily as an opportunity for evangelization, and indeed we should never neglect to share the Gospel, the only real liberation, with Muslims, who should not, as individuals, be held responsible for the violent system into which they were born and of which they are perhaps more than anyone else victims. At the same time, in light of the growing volume of Muslim immigration, western Christians will soon find out - maybe sooner than they think, given western birthrates - that confronting the Islamic advance has become, as it has always been for eastern Christians, a simple matter of physical survival. But by that time it may be too late for the West as well.
A version of this article first appeared in Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. It is adapted from a May 1998 speech at "Overcoming the Schism: European Divisions and U.S. Policy," a conference sponsored by the Rockford Institute and The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies. Reprinted with permission of the author.
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Don't Ruin Your Death
John Kapsalis
A couple of years ago a children's movie about a family of super heroes called "The Incredibles" explored themes like family, honesty, and values. In one scene a man attempts to jump to his death from a tall building only to be heroically saved by Mr. Incredible. Instead of gratitude, the man files suit against Mr. Incredible because, as he says, "you ruined my death."
Throughout our lives, we are barraged with the idea that the way we live our life is the way we will die. If we live the fast life we will probably die sooner rather than later. On the other hand, if we live a life of organic multivitamins and meditation we'll live forever. If we follow the celebrities, do the same exercises they do, and raise our kids in the same way, then our lives will blossom and will mirror the "reality we see on TV. It's easy to get caught in that whirlpool. Flip the channels on the TV and before you know it, a dull envy begins to bud and we think we need to live just like they do.
Lifestyle packaging is no different in Christian circles either. Face it. Most of us are living a hedonistic Christianity or we fake asceticism. Neither really works. We wear our lifestyle like a suit of lies, because we never learned how to end our life.
The truth is that our death-style determines our lifestyle. The thought of death, as startling as it seems, is liberating because it compells us to concentrate on living.
Many great saints of the Church said repeatedly that we should remember our death. Why? Because unless we plan on how to leave this world we will wander aimlessly through it, occupying ourselves with a million little things but changing nothing. St. Irenaeus wrote: "The business of the Christian is nothing else than to be ever preparing for death."
When we know the kind of death we want, we will know the kind of life we ought to live. Since everything "here today might well be gone tomorrow, do you see how essential it is to live a holy life?" asks the Apostle Peter (2 Peter 3:11 MSG).
What is a holy life? St. John Climacus described it this way: "Do whatever good you may. Speak evil of no one. Rob no one. Tell no lie. Despise no one and carry no hate. Do not separate yourself from the church assemblies. Show compassion to the needy. Do not be a cause of scandal to anyone. Stay away from the bed of another ... If you do all this, you will not be far from the kingdom of heaven." St. Isaiah the Anchorite advised: "He who ponders each day and says to himself that he has just today to remain in the world, will never sin against God." .
We are expected to change ourselves, everyone we encounter, even the world. Christ commands us to arise and go! What defense shall we give at the hour of our death? Will the cloud of witnesses testify to our world-shattering life? St. John of Damascus wrote: "Vain are all human things that have no existence after death." Will we leave with a life lived well or with a life well lived?
In 2004, Steve Jobs CEO of Apple Computer was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Thankfully, it was treatable and now he is as healthy as ever. He recounted his experience to a graduating class of Stanford University:
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything-all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure-these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.
If we don't want our life to just fade away then we must see ourselves beyond this life. None of the things that we think we can't live without means anything beyond this life. Anthony Bloom said, "Nothing can be stored -- nothing except the Kingdom of God itself." Remember your death, and behold you live.
John Kapsalis has an M.T.S from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.
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Alabama: Illegal Alien With HIV Rapes 5-Year Old
Young rape victim undergoes HIV treatment
Illegal Mexican had been deported once already!
Thursday, September 21, 2006
By MIKE PERRY
Staff Reporter
A 5-year-old girl is undergoing treatment for possible HIV infection after the man charged with raping her -- an illegal alien who was previously deported to Mexico -- admitted he has the virus, authorities said.
The case has re-energized some state lawmakers to push for tougher penalties for people who commit sex crimes and knowingly expose their victims to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Julio Cesar Cruz Martinez, 32, of Fairhope is being held in a segregated unit at the Baldwin County Corrections Center on charges of first-degree rape, sexual abuse and sodomy, a jail official said Wednesday.
Police said Martinez has confessed to some of the acts involving the girl and to knowing he had HIV before the crime reportedly occurred Sept. 13.
Officers notified the family immediately after Martinez disclosed his infection, sheriff's spokesman Lt. John Murphy said.
"The child has been taken to medical services, where she has been tested and is being given treatment to reduce the risk of the HIV virus," Murphy said Wednesday.
HIV is a virus that destroys the body's ability to fight off illness and is the cause of AIDS. People infected with the virus do not have AIDS until they develop serious symptoms, but they are capable of transmitting the virus through sexual intercourse, according to the AIDS.org Web site.
Martinez has undergone HIV testing at the corrections center to confirm whether he has the virus, Murphy said. The lab results are pending and may not be released publicly, he said.
Deputies had questioned Martinez's identity, since he did not provide valid identification.
Temple Black, spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Wednesday that Martinez is an illegal alien who has been deported to Mexico at least once. The department placed an administrative hold on Martinez -- requiring him to remain jailed -- after identifying him by photo and fingerprints, Temple said.
If convicted of the rape and other charges, Martinez would serve his sentence in the U.S. before being returned to Mexico, he said.
Baldwin County District Attorney Judy Newcomb said this week that her office was looking into whether Martinez should face additional charges for knowing he had the virus when he allegedly raped the girl.
Newcomb said such crimes typically fall under assault or endangerment statutes, and she doubted that Alabama had a statute to enhance charges against someone who knowingly exposed another to HIV or AIDS.
Many U.S. states have laws making it a separate crime for someone to knowingly expose someone to the virus during a criminal act. But no such legislation exists in Alabama, a researcher with the Secretary of State's office confirmed Wednesday.
State Sen. Bradley Byrne, R-Montrose, said he agrees Alabama needs laws that would make it a crime for someone to knowingly expose another to the virus while committing a crime, particularly in cases involving children. Byrne said he plans to push for tougher laws in the next legislative session.
State Public Health Officer Don Williamson said Alabama needs tougher laws to criminalize known HIV exposure, but lawmakers should be careful not to dissuade people from getting tested for the disease.
"The known exposure of another party by somebody who is HIV infected, without warning them or taking precautions, is immoral and reprehensible. We need to figure a way to deal with that," Williamson said.
Lawmakers should be careful to create rehabilitative options for drug addicts and others at high risk to HIV infection, so that get-tough laws don't discourage them from getting tested, he said.
"For some people, ignorance of the law is an excuse," Williamson said. "If they never find out they are infected then they can't be charged with knowingly exposing somebody."
? 2006 The Mobile Register
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SOUTHERN SURVIVOR
Because of the popularity of the Survivor shows, several southern TV stations are joining together and are planning to do their own, entitled: "SURVIVOR SOUTHERN STYLE."
The contestants will start in Alabama, travel over to Georgia and on to South Carolina. From there they will head up to North Carolina and over to Tennessee. They will then proceed down to Mississippi and Louisiana, finally ending up back in Alabama. Each will be driving a pink Volvo with New Jersey license plates and large bumper stickers that read:
I'm Gay
I'm a Vegetarian
NASCAR Sucks
Go Yankees
Hillary in 2008, and
Deer Hunting is Murder!
The first one that makes it back to Montgomery alive, wins
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29026
The tragic story
of Jesse Dirkhising
How confused 13-year-old
died brutal death as a sex toy
Posted: September 23, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Editor's note: As the third anniversary of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising's death approaches, interviews with the prosecutor who tried the boy's homosexual murderers and information gleaned from Northwest Arkansas local news reports shed new light on factors that led to the tragedy. This story is graphic and not suitable for children.
by Allyson Smith
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
While one of the convicted killers of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising appeals his guilty verdict in the case all the way to the Arkansas Supreme Court and another has withdrawn his guilty plea, three years later there are few voices speaking out for the victim.
No local memorials have been held since his brutal death at the hands of two homosexual predators who confessed to using the boy as a sex toy while torturing him to death.
And even though the case received a flurry of publicity after first being brought to the attention of the nation in WorldNetDaily, the number of articles written pale in comparison to those written about the murder of Matthew Shepherd – an adult homosexual brutally murdered in Wyoming by heterosexuals. In fact, a Nexis search shows a disparity in story counts of 18-1.
Dirkhising suffocated to death during the early morning hours of Sept. 26, 1999, after being bound, drugged, gagged and brutally sodomized by Davis Don Carpenter, then 38, and Joshua Macabe Brown, then 22, at the men's apartment in Rogers, Ark.
Earlier that summer, Jesse – with the permission of his mother and stepfather, Tina and Miles Yates – had begun spending weekends with the homosexual couple.
Carpenter, who had known Miles Yates for several years and was considered a "family friend," made a 60-mile round trip on weekends to pick up Jesse at his trailer park home in Prairie Grove and take him back to Rogers, where he earned $45 helping to sweep the Regis Hairstylists beauty salon that Carpenter managed. Dirkhising planned to use the money to fix up a truck.
During the five-hour assault that began around midnight in the couple's bedroom, Brown, acting on written instructions from Carpenter, bound the seventh-grader with nylon rope, placed a T-shirt blindfold over his head, and gagged his mouth with a pair of dirty underwear secured by a bandana and duct tape.
After propping pillows beneath Dirkhising's abdomen, Brown sodomized him with three fingers, his penis, a frozen banana, and a urine enema laced with the sedative drug amitryptiline while Carpenter watched, masturbating, in the bedroom doorway.
Midway through the assault, Carpenter went to an all-night grocery store to purchase additional rape implements. A receipt later found by police, time-stamped 3:07 a.m., showed "Eckrich" sausage, cucumbers, "tape" and "deli" sandwiches.
Upon Carpenter's return from the store, Brown continued sodomizing Jesse with the sausage and cucumber, using Vaseline. He then left the room to eat a sandwich. When he returned, the boy was no longer breathing. Frantic, he woke Carpenter who by that time had fallen asleep on the living room sofa.
After the men attempted unsuccessfully to administer CPR, Carpenter called 911. When police arrived at the apartment, they found Dirkhising naked and near death on the bedroom floor. His face was blue, there was blood in his mouth, and his body was smeared with feces.
Patrolman Ian Smith later testified, "The smell was unbearable. It was horrible. I couldn't explain it to you." Another detective testified that Brown had fecal matter in the web of his fingers when he was arrested.
Jesse was pronounced dead after being rushed to nearby St. Mary's Hospital. Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen Erickson later testified that the boy died as a result of "suffocation, positional asphyxiation and acute amitryptiline intoxication."
In a post-conviction interview, Robert C. Balfe, Benton County, Ark., lead prosecutor, said, "The evidence shows the last thing that occurred to Jesse when he was alive was that he was being anally raped with the cucumber by Brown. Carpenter was so concerned over the aggressiveness of the rape, that he wrote a note to Brown telling him to back the cucumber out to 3 inches because it could cause 'serious damage.' They then duct taped the cucumber in Jesse's anus and went to eat their sandwiches. I believe that this last violent act was more than Jesse could endure and he gave up and died."
One of the most difficult aspects of trying the case, said Balfe, was proving that Jesse had struggled against his killers given the lack of evidence of anal trauma.
"Dr. Erickson actually removed [Jesse's] anus during the autopsy and we were able to view detailed photographs of it ... It was normal sized, not enlarged as would normally be the case during an anal rape. There were no abrasions or bruises."
Among the reasons why there was no trauma, said Balfe, were that "Jesse was heavily sedated. This made his rectum more elastic and less susceptible to bruising." Also, "the defendants used Vaseline on themselves and the objects before inserting them."
Balfe said that because the rectum returns to normal size after penetration, many times trauma will not be found in cases of anal penetration. "Even when medical experts testify why this is likely, as Dr. Erickson did in this case, the average juror still can't seem to understand why this would not occur and often believes this indicates consent."
Under questioning by Detective Martha Armstrong, Carpenter denied any participation in Jesse's assault. However, a grocery clerk at the Price Cutter store where Carpenter bought the food items later testified that he "was wide awake when he came into the store" and that he was "pretty happy" about finding the duct tape on a low shelf, according to Northwest Arkansas News.
Carpenter admitted to police he had used several drugs in the hours leading up to the assault, including methamphetamine.
After his arrest, Carpenter told Benton County jail inmates that he participated in Jesse's sodomy by "shoving pain pills" down the boy's throat, according to a police affidavit.
In the taped interview, Carpenter also said he had "counseled" Jesse about his sexuality and drug use: "If he wanted to bring in a 28-year-old woman and screw her in the back room, I wouldn't care. As long as he was there and he told me about it and was honest about everything I asked him about the thing he was doing.
"Just like I told him if you want to smoke pot that's fine. You can smoke it in my house but don't you go out there with the rest of these damn crazy kids because they're not good people."
"Jesse's confused," continued Carpenter. "Jesse is attracted to guys and ... hates him, that part of himself." He said that Jesse's mother, Tina Yates, had mentioned Jesse's homosexuality to him.
Carpenter admitted on tape that he left home at age 15 because of his own homosexuality: "My dad didn't, my whole family didn't think fags deserved to live."
However, his father later accepted him. In an April 2001 interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Davis Carpenter Sr. said that his son "came home one day and proceeded to tell me he was gay. We sat up and talked for a long time that night. I saw that I couldn't change his mind. So I accepted it."
Carpenter denied that he and Brown practiced any bondage in their sexual relationship. However, he told Armstrong that Brown and Dirkhising's "play" included "mummy type stuff" where "they've taped each other like a mummy."
In his police confession, Brown said he and Jesse "were just playing around." He said they often hog-tied each other and that the teenager was a willing participant in their "games."
Brown called Jesse his "on-the-side lover" and said that the boy had performed unsolicited oral sex on him during his first weekend visit. However, Brown insisted he had never penetrated Jesse anally until the night of the assault.
That night, Brown said, he placed candles about the bedroom of the apartment "to make a nice romantic mood" and that he had "made sensual love" to Jesse before beginning to sodomize him with the other items.
Brown said he didn't know that the "game" would kill Jesse. In his taped confession, Brown hit the table several times with his fist in apparent remorse and said, "I just don't believe I [expletive deleted] killed him."
Brown also told police that "Davis gots a whole slew of videos" that are "mostly guy on guy," but he was not sure if they had arrived yet from the couple's previous residence in St. Petersburg, Fla.
When asked by Detective Jarod Mason if Carpenter ever fantasized about "little kids," Brown answered, "Sometimes, yeah," but denied that Carpenter would ever act on them.
Carpenter also "had fantasies about dogs" and would draw pictures of bondage acts, said Brown.
Later, Brown told Mason that "Jesse ... really didn't have nothing to offer except maybe sex every now and then."
Joshua Brown was tried and convicted on charges of capital murder and rape in March 2001 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
During the trial, prosecutors called nearly 25 witnesses and presented more than 100 items of evidence, including nylon rope, petroleum jelly jars, a douche bottle, crumpled duct tape, feces- and vomit-covered shirts and underwear, prescription pill bottles, and photos of items that were used to sodomize the child, according to news reports.
Police also confiscated several notes that Carpenter wrote describing how to sedate and sodomize children.
One three-page note, addressed to "Baby," Carpenter's pet name for Brown, contained a graphic sexual assault fantasy about a little neighbor girl: "I saw your 10-year-old blonde whore this morning ... Her bus comes by at 7:20 or 7:30."
"Keep an eye on her to catch the first opportunity to talk to her – In the back window & whammo! Oh yeah!"
Benton County Circuit Court Judge David Clinger, who presided over Brown's trial, called the written accounts of bondage, drugging, gagging and blindfolding "a blueprint for child rape."
"Tina Yates, to our shock and dismay, testified on cross-examination that she was well aware that Carpenter and Brown were homosexuals and had no issue with them or homosexuality in general," Balfe told C&F Report. "If Jesse wanted to be a homosexual, that was fine with her. In fact, a homosexual minister had married her and Jesse's stepfather, Miles Yates. Tina considered Carpenter and Brown 'family' and they all spent considerable time together at each other's residences."
Miles Yates reiterated his wife's testimony that he was aware that Carpenter and Brown were homosexuals and drug users but said those facts didn't bother him "so long as it was not around the family," and stated that he was not averse to Dirkhising using drugs "at home with me or someone you're comfortable with."
He also testified that he had met Carpenter about seven years prior to his stepson's death via his own friendship with a homosexual lover of Carpenter's and that he would allow only "a decent person – an upstanding citizen" to watch Jesse or his siblings overnight.
"This testimony was so out-of-step with any reasonable person's views on family that it alienated [Tina], and by default, Jesse, from the jury," said Balfe.
A 14-year-old female friend of Jesse's also testified that Dirkhising had been seen the week prior to his death being injected with methamphetamine by a 43-year-old female neighbor of Brown's and Carpenter's, unsupervised by either of the men.
One family member who was not comfortable with Jesse's friendship with the two homosexuals was his step-grandmother, Betty Yates.
In a 1999 interview with CNSNews.com, Yates said, "The parents put him in a situation he shouldn't have been in. They knowingly let him spend weekends with the two guys knowing they were gay. Jesse was a typical 13-year-old good kid. You do not put a 13-year-old child into a situation like that. It had been going on for about two months and he had told them he did not want to go back."
Betty Yates told CNSNews.com that some months prior to Jesse's death, Tina Yates said she was excited that the gay couple had taken an interest in her son.
"I said, 'Do they not have kids?' And she said, 'Well, they're two guys, they're gay.' When they left, I said to my husband, 'Do you know what they're doing?' But he's real big on minding your own business. Now I'm sorry I didn't pursue it. We shouldn't have minded our own business that time. It was a horrible death that could have been prevented."
Balfe told C&F Report, "It was extremely important to me that the jury stay focused on the real issue of the trial – the rape and murder of Jesse – and not be distracted by any side issues, such as whether this case was the subject of a conspiracy by the national media to hide homosexual hate crimes.
"Jesse was not attacked because he was heterosexual, he was attacked because he was a child. The defendants were pedophiles and had an unnatural desire to engage in the violent rape of children."
Balfe stated, "I have my personal opinions on whether homosexuality is a sexual deviance that makes other types of sexual deviance such as pedophilia more likely to occur among homosexuals, but that is separate and apart from my prosecution of this crime."
Balfe said that the defendants' homosexual conduct was "self-evident" and added, "I didn't stay away from the homosexual angle in this case to be politically correct."
Family breakdown contributed to troubles
Teen pregnancy, divorce, fatherlessness and childhood abuse all played a part in the Dirkhising tragedy.
Both Jesse Dirkhising's and Joshua Brown's mothers were 17 when they gave birth to their sons. "Both mothers had their children too young, and both failed to nurture and protect," said public defender Louis Lim. Carpenter's parents were also divorced.
Brown's mother, Judith Wasson of Memphis, Tenn., testified that Brown's father had abandoned the family when Joshua was two years old.
She said that her son had been in and out of foster homes in California and Tennessee between the ages of 9 and 11 because of physical abuse and neglect at her own hands. She also stated that her brother, who had moved into their home as a "male figure" for the family, had physically abused Joshua and sexually abused his younger sister, Jessica.
When he was 20, Wasson said, her son met Carpenter in Memphis, Tenn., while on the rebound after breaking up with a girlfriend. "I did not know Josh had any homosexual tendencies until after he was arrested," she said.
Under questioning by Detective Jarod Mason, Brown admitted he was bisexual: "I'm gay and I have a tendency to ling [perform oral sex on women]."
Defense attorney Lim said Brown was a troubled, insecure teen with drug addictions when Carpenter walked into his life in 1997.
"A successful hairstylist, Carpenter was a keynote speaker at Brown's sister's graduation from modeling school in Mississippi. Carpenter befriended Brown and offered him a job," reported the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
When Carpenter saw Brown for the first time, "he said he [Brown] was so pretty he needed someone to lift him up," Lim told jurors.
Within two months of knowing Brown, Carpenter convinced Brown to move away from his friends and family to Florida. Carpenter later manipulated Brown into a homosexual relationship by stating that four characters in the Bible (David and Jonathan, and Ruth and Naomi) were homosexual.
As he did with Brown, Carpenter worked to isolate Jesse Dirkhising from his family, Lim said.
Co-workers from the Regis hair salon characterized Carpenter as the stronger of the two personalities in the relationship with Brown and said he tended to be domineering, condescending and sure of himself.
They generally described Brown as more like a teen-ager than a mature 22-year-old. One witness noted that Brown would generally stare at the ground in front of himself rather than looking people in the eyes, a trait evident in police transcripts and trial photographs.
Carpenter wrote housekeeping instructions to Brown and, in one note, described their relationship as "a beautiful marriage!"
In closing arguments, Prosecutor Balfe said that making a late-night run for more duct tape, picking up only two sandwiches instead of three, and leaving the child unattended all proved the Carpenter and Brown weren't concerned about Jesse's welfare.
Balfe also described to C&F Report the difficulty of convincing the court that Jesse's rape was non-consensual: "I repeatedly kept telling the jury that there is no way a 13-year-old boy is going to agree to being bound, gagged with dirty underwear, and raped with numerous different objects over five hours," he said.
"The defense's response was essentially: 'Well, I know it's hard to understand, but you never know what these homosexuals are going to do.'" Balfe said that a similar comment was made in the jury room.
"If this was a 13-year-old girl, there would be absolutely no issue that it was not consensual. Yet since Jesse was a boy, this was somehow understandable. It must have been 'kinky sex.'"
Balfe said in one interview Jesse's disadvantaged background fueled jurors' beliefs that the teen-ager had consented to the assault: "The defense certainly devalued the victim along [socio-economic] lines. If the 13-year-old had been the son of a Wal-Mart executive (Wal-Mart is headquartered here in Bentonville), then I believe we would have had a different outcome.
"That's why pedophiles target children from disadvantaged homes. First, they're more likely to be successful in luring these children because the parents aren't as vigilant. Second, juries then punish the victim because the parents are unsympathetic."
During the penalty phase of Brown's trial, members of Jesse's family made statements to the court telling how much the boy had meant to them and arguing for the maximum punishment for Joshua Brown.
According to local news reports, Jesse's maternal grandmother, Paula McVey, fought back tears as she told jurors how much she and her remaining grandchildren missed Jesse.
McVey testified that Jesse's little brother and sister, Chad and Renea Kidd, had been very close to their older brother. She said that Chad, then 9 years old, frequently cried out, "I want my brother!" and that Renea, 8, had become extremely dependent upon her remaining brother and broke into tears when separated from him for any length of time.
Chad wrote a statement to the court saying that he missed drawing and playing football, baseball, soccer and basketball with Jesse.
"I'm mad," wrote Chad. "I want to hurt someone. I feel like there is a very big hole in me." Chad added that he hoped Brown and Carpenter would get the death penalty.
Tina Yates wrote that Jesse loved to read and play football for his school's team and that he liked camping, fishing and hunting with his siblings and going to movies with his grandmother. She said her son's dream was to finish school, get his mechanic's certification and make a living working on automobiles.
Brown's mother, Judith Wasson, told the court tearfully, "We are profoundly sorry for the loss that the Yates family is having. I know in my heart that Joshua could not have intentionally killed anyone."
Jesse's classmates at Lincoln Middle School placed flowers on his school bus seat and memorialized his locker after his death.
Judge David Clinger rejected the contention that Brown tried to save Jesse by cutting away duct tape and trying to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Trial testimony showed that Carpenter and Brown contemplated cleaning Jesse in the shower or dumping his body somewhere else before Carpenter called 911.
"I absolutely don't find a single shred of evidence that Mr. Carpenter ever forced you to do anything that you didn't want to do," Clinger said.
"You and Davis Carpenter had quite a time inflicting this on this bound and helpless young man who was barely 13. Imagining Jesse's thought process during his slow and torturous death has sent shivers up my spine," Clinger told Brown.
Despite Clinger's contention that Brown willingly participated in Jesse's assault, juror Milton Davis said, "Very often, we felt we were trying the wrong man."
Carpenter's trial, originally scheduled for May 2001, was averted after he pleaded guilty on April 18, 2001, to one count each of capital murder and rape in exchange for serving life in prison without possibility of parole.
At his sentencing, Carpenter admitted his culpability in Dirkhising's death and apologized to Jesse's mother and stepfather: "I'd like to say to Miles and Tina that I'm sorry Jesse's gone. I tried to save him but couldn't. Every day I pray for them and I will continue to pray for the rest of my life that the Lord will heal the hole in their heart."
While acknowledging that Carpenter's crimes were terrible, Judge Clinger said he found no evidence that either Carpenter or Brown intended to kill Jesse, convincing him to accept the plea bargain.
Carpenter's father later told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that his son accepted partial blame for Jesse's murder. "He knew the boy's family didn't have much money and gave him a job at the salon. But he has admitted that he probably shouldn't have ever had the boy in that apartment."
Brown's case has been appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court, according to reports from Northwest Arkansas News. However, the appeal is currently languishing due to personnel and workload issues within the Benton County Public Defender's Office.
As for Carpenter, two months after his murder conviction he filed a handwritten motion to withdraw his guilty plea. On July 11, 2001, Carpenter filed another petition for post-conviction relief, claiming that his attorneys were ineffective. Exactly one year later, on July 11, 2002, Judge Clinger refused Carpenter's requests, saying that neither request was signed and notarized as required by law.
Balfe summarized the case as follows: "I believe that this unfortunate 13-year-old boy, raised in a home with the [types of views that Miles and Tina Yates espoused], was left to be lured by these two pedophiles who could induce him with money and drugs. I believe they wanted Jesse to become addicted to drugs to make him more likely to follow their commands."
Cards and letters may be sent to Jesse Dirkhising's family at the following address:
Dirkhising/Yates Family
c/o Benton County Prosecutor's Office
100 NE "A" Street
Bentonville, AR 72712
Related stories:
Guilty verdict in Dirkhising case
Sex fantasies evidence in Dirkhising case
Delay sought in Dirkhising trial
Death penalty sought for Dirkhising suspects
Related columns:
Jesse Dirkhising's deliverance
Allyson Smith is a freelance reporter based in San Diego.
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Jesse Dirkhising
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Jesse Dirkhising (May 24, 1986– September 26, 1999) was a 13-year-old boy who was raped and tortured by two men in 1999. Dirkhising died soon after as a result of his torture. Controversy ensued over the lack of coverage in mainstream media outlets of Dirkhising's murder. This lack of coverage was attributed to the homosexuality of the perpetrators.
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Death
On September 26, 1999, police in Rogers, Arkansas, responded to a 911 call and went to the home of David Carpenter, 38. They also found Jesse Dirkhising, a 13-year-old boy from nearby Prairie Grove, tied to a mattress. Also present was Joshua Brown, 22. Police determined that Dirkhising had been repeatedly raped over a period of several hours.
Dirkhising's ankles, knees and wrists had been bound in duct tape and he was gagged and blindfolded with his own underwear, held in place with a bandanna that was also used as a gag. He had been administered a sedative. He died in hospital shortly after being discovered, apparently as the result of positional asphyxia. The affidavit [1] has much more detail on the Dirkhising's death.
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Aftermath
The Arkansas State Police recorded in their affidavit a statement by Brown that he was Carpenter's lover and that he had been involved in molesting Dirkhising for at least two months prior to Dirkhising's death.
In March 2001 Brown was found guilty of first-degree murder and rape. He was sentenced to life in prison, and this sentence was upheld on appeal by the Arkansas Supreme Court in September 2003. In April, Carpenter pleaded guilty to similar charges and was also sentenced to life. Subsequently, Carpenter claimed on the Fox News Channel that Brown was solely responsible for the rape and murder of Dirkhising while Brown claimed that Carpenter was the director.[2]
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Comparisons with the murder of Matthew Shepherd
A central element of the treatment of the case by conservative commentators was the comparison of media coverage of Jesse Dirkhising's death with coverage of the murder of Matthew Shepherd.
On October 22, 1999, The Washington Times, ran a story headed: "Media tune out torture death of Arkansas boy." The story contrasted the lack of coverage of the Dirkhising case with the treatment the murder of Matthew Shepard received. The story quoted Tim Graham, director of media studies at Media Research Center, a watchdog group that documents what it claims to be liberal bias in the media, as saying, "Nobody wants to say anything negative about homosexuals. Nobody wants to be seen on the wrong side of that issue." [citation needed]. Brent Bozell, the Director of the Media Research Centre, accused the media of deliberately spiking the story.[3]
This theme was then picked up by other media outlets and commentators. Bill O'Reilly wrote:
The question is stark and brutal. If the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay man, by two drunken thugs in Laramie, Wyoming, was a national story and a heinous hate crime, why wasn't the killing of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising publicized the same way? Jesse was tortured, sodomized and finally killed by a gay man as another homosexual watched in the small town of Rogers, Arkansas. Yet the national media ignored the crime, causing outrage among those who see hate crimes as a tool being used to hammer the agendas of special interests. The two men who murdered Shepard have been convicted and, most likely, will spend the rest of their lives in prison. But the two men allegedly involved in the killing of Jesse Dirkhising have yet to be tried, and when they are, you may not even hear about it.[citation needed]
The most salient difference between the Shepard case and this one is that while Shepard's murderers were driven to kill by hate, the boy's rape and death was a sex crime. It was repulsive, unconscionable — and the predictable pastime of perverted criminals... Matthew Shepard died not because of an all-too-common sex crime, but because of prejudice. Essentially, Shepard was lynched — taken from a bar, beaten and left to die because he was the vilified "other," whom society has often cast as an acceptable target of abuse; Dirkhising was just "another" to a pair of deviants. And while child abuse is unfortunately no big news, lynching still is."
In the month after Shepard's murder, Nexis recorded 3,007 stories about his death. In the month after Dirkhising's murder, Nexis recorded 46 stories about his.[citation needed] However, once the media seized on the story, this count rapidly rose into the thousands - unlike many other child killings.[4]
On November 14, 1999, E. R. Shipp, ombudsman at The Washington Post, noted that: "readers, prodded by commentators who are hostile to homosexuals and to what they view as a 'liberal' press" had raised questions about the Dirkhising case. She noted that the Post had run a story from the Associated Press on the Dirkhising murder. Shipp, said however, that she "made a clear distinction" between the Dirkhising and Shepard cases: "Matthew Shepard's death sparked public expressions of outrage that themselves became news," she wrote. "That Jesse Dirkhising's death has not done so is hardly the fault of the Washington Post." This stance by Shipp led to a journalistic exchange between her and Joseph Farah of the World Net Daily . [ citation needed]
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Accusations of bias
On 4 November 1999, Jonathan Gregg addressed the issue in Time magazine. He asked: "Could it be because we in the media elite were unwilling to publicize crimes committed by homosexuals because it didn't suit our agenda? The next stop in that line of reasoning was clear: That news is controlled by a bunch of gay-loving liberals only too happy to wield a double standard."
In his opinion, Gregg wrote that the discrepancy in media attention was:
because it [Dirkhising] offered no lessons. Shepard's murder touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons. Jesse Dirkhising's death gives us nothing except the depravity of two sick men. There is no lesson here, no moral of tolerance, no hope to be gleaned in the punishment of the perpetrators."
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Notes
- ^ Online copy of the affidavit: "The Affidavit in the Jesse Dirkhising Case (Parental Discretion Advised)"
- ^ Edge with Paula Zahn, The (FOX News), May 16, 2001 Accessed through Ebsco, 17 June 2006
- ^ Brent Bozell, Media Research Centre, Human Events 4 September 2001 pages 16-17 accessed through Ebsco, 17 June 2006
- ^ Andrew Sullivan The New Republic 04/02/2001, Vol. 224 Issue 14, p8, 1p Accessed through Ebsco, 17 June 2001
- ^ Andrew Sullivan, The New Republic Ibid.
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External links
- The Affidavit in the Jesse Dirkhising Case Parental Discretion Advised
- Media Coverage Criticism
- Traditional Values Coalition Article on the conviction of the murderers of Dirkhising
- Editorial on the impact of the murder on homosexual culture
- The Dirkhising Case: An Obligation to Youth
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COLLECTION OF QUOTES BY AND ABOUT THE FOUNDERS OF AMERICA
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religion but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.","Give me liberty or give me death."Patrick Henry of the Constitutional Convention
"A general dissolution of Principles and Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America than the whole Force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader . . . If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security."Samuel Adams, 1779
From the Father of our Country:
"Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the council of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States.." "...Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency" From President George Washington's Inaugural Address, April 30th, 1789, addressed to both Houses of Congress.
President Washingtons Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1789
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible"President George Washington, September 17th, 1796
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports . . . And let us indulge with caution the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion . . . Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle." President George Washington
"...The Smiles of Heaven can never be expected On a Nation that disregards the eternal rules of Order and Right, which Heaven Itself Ordained."President George Washington
From Other Founding Fathers:
"I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- God Governs in the Affairs of Men, And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, Is it possible that an empire can rise without His aid?"Benjamin Franklin
"Except the Lord build the house, They labor in vain who build it." "I firmly believe this."Benjamin Franklin, 1787, Constitutional Convention
"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." President James Madison
"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His Apostles.... This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government."Noah Webster
"Whether this [new government] will prove a blessing or a curse will depend upon the use our people make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation [Proverbs 14:34]. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others."Patrick Henry
"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed."Patrick Henry
"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."President Thomas Jefferson
"The reason that Christianity is the best friend of Government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart."President Thomas Jefferson
"Of all systems of morality, ancient of modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to be so pure as that of Jesus." Thomas Jefferson, To William Canby, 1813
"We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions ubridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."John Adams, address to the militia of Massachusetts, 1798.
"I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man..."President Thomas Jefferson
"The highest story of the American Revolution is this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."President John Adams
"Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift [James 1:17] we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land."James Madison
"We've staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us . . . to Govern ourselves according to the commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded." President James Madison
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." First Chief Justice of Supreme Court John Jay
"Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine....Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other."James Wilson, a signer of the Constitution and an original Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
"Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effectual means of extirpating [removing] Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools."Benjamin Rush
"It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God."President John Quincy Adams
"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were.... the general principles of Christianity."President John Quincy Adams
"a true American Patriot must be a religious man...He who neglects his duty to his maker, may well be expected to be deficient and insincere in his duty towards the public" First Lady Abigail Adams
"The Bible is the Rock on which this Republic rests."President Andrew Jackson
From America'sAbraham:
The Emancipation Proclamation.
"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior (Jesus) of the world is communicated to us through this book.Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
"Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured...
"Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and as a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other...The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully...If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?
Fondly do we hope - fervently do we pray - that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'The judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'
"With malice toward none; charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." Immediately afterwards, Lincoln kissed the Bible, bowed, and retired from the platform. Abraham Lincoln's 2nd inaugural address, March 4th, 1865.
"Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty" Abraham Lincoln.
"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." Abraham Lincoln.
"The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion."Abraham Lincoln.
"The New Testament is the very best that ever was or ever will be known in the world." Charles Dickens
"Our laws and institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teaching of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that is should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian . . . this is a Christian nation."US Supreme Court, 1892
From This Century
"I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land..." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."Booker T. Washington.
"America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scriptures. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I as of every man and woman in this audience that from this night on they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great book of revelations. That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Scripture."Woodrow Wilson, 1911, pre-Presidential campaign speech.
"The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, 'In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths." George Washington Carver.
"If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler and Stalin."TS Eliot
"The fundamental basis of this nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teaching we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don't have the proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in the right for anybody except the state.President Harry S. Truman.
When you're done visiting at this site, check out the surging grass roots Presidential campaign of Ambassador Alan Keyes. Who is Alan Keyes? He's a Christian brother in the Body of Christ. He is a Pro-Family, Pro-Life, Conservative Republican and he's getting rave reviews wherever he speaks. PLUS, he was just endorsed by the the California Republican Assembly.
AND OUR RIGHTS ARE STILL BEING TAKEN AND WE ARE STILL ALL "USELESS EATERS" OR "USEFUL IDIOTS"...LETS START OVER....
"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can
any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is
preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant,
and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own
weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."
-- Samuel Adams (letter to James Warren, 4 November 1775)
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
pursuit of Happiness: that to secure these rights, governments
are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed."
Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776
Reference: Jefferson: Writings, Peterson ed., Library of America (19)
"Our present condition, achieved in a manner unprecedented in the
history of nations, illustrates the American idea that governments rest upon
the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to
alter or abolish governments whenever they become destructive of the
ends for which they were established."
--Jefferson Davis' First Inaugural
Address; February 18th, 1861
"People who advocate freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without the awful roar of the thunder and lightning. Without struggle, there is no progress. This struggle might be a moral one. It might be a physical one. It might be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. People may not get all that they pay for in this world, but they certainly pay for all that they get." --Frederick Douglas (1817-1896)
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." : --Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
"Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness." -- Samuel Adams (letter to John Trumbull, 16 October 1778)
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing to which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by exertions of men than himself." Adam Stuart Mill-English economist and philospher (1806-1873)
"...It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds..." -Samuel Adams-
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State Mottoes
Alabama: We dare defend our rights.
Alaska: North to the future.
Arizona: Ditat Deus (God enriches).
Arkansas: Regnat populus (The people rule).
California: Eureka (I have found it).
Colorado: Nil sine numine (Nothing without the Deity).
Connecticut: Oui transtulit sustinet (He who transplanted continues to sustain).
Delaware: Liberty and independence.
Florida: In God we trust.
Georgia: Wisdom, justice, and moderation.
Hawaii: Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono (The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness) .
Idaho: Esto Perpetua (Mayest thou endure forever!).
Illinois: State sovereignty national union.
Indiana: The crossroads of America.
Iowa: Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.
Kansas: Ad astra per aspera (To the stars through difficulties).
Kentucky: United we stand, divided we fall.
Louisiana: Union, justice, and confidence.
Maine: Dirigo (I guide).
Maryland: Scuto bonae voluntatis tuae coronasti nos (With the shield of thy goodwill thou hast covered us).
Massachusetts: Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty).
Michigan: Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice (If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you).
Minnesota: L'Etoile du Nord (The star of the north).
Mississippi: Virtute et armis (By valor and arms).
Missouri: Salus populi suprema lex esto (Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law).
Montana: Oro y plata (Gold and silver).
Nebraska: Equality before the law.
Nevada: All for our country.
New Hampshire: Live free or die.
New Jersey: Liberty and prosperity.
New Mexico: Crescit eundo (It grows as it goes).
New York: Excelsior.
North Carolina: Esse quam videri (To be rather than to seem).
North Dakota: Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Ohio: With God, all things are possible.
Oklahoma: Labor omnia vincit (Labor conquers all things).
Oregon: The Union.
Pennsylvania: Virtue, liberty, and independence.
Rhode Island: Hope.
South Carolina: Animis opibusque parati (Prepared in mind and resources).
South Dakota: Under God the people rule.
Tennessee: Agriculture and commerce.
Texas: Friendship.
Utah: Industry.
Vermont: Freedom and unity.
Virginia: Sic semper tyrannis (Thus ever to tyrants).
Washington: Alki (By and by).
West Virginia: Montani semper liberi (Mountaineers are always freemen).
Wisconsin: Forward.
Wyoming: Cedant arma togae (Let arms yield to the gown).
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"Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money." [Joseph Sobran]
"America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way." [Ayn Rand]
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
"In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." [Voltaire]
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. [H.L. Mencken]
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods."[H. L. Mencken]
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." [H. L. Mencken]
"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents "interests, " I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can." [Barry Goldwater]
"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" [Dosteovsky's 'Grand Inquisitor']
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." [Samuel Adams]
HONESTY IN GOVERNMENT
Teddy Roosevelt said this on May 12, 1900 .. .while he was still governor of New York. Too bad we don't have more people who feel this way today.
"We can afford to differ on the currency, the tariff, and foreign policy; but we cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure ... "Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity. "The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty, the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. "No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community... "'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law. "Under the higher law, under the great law of morality and righteousness, he is precisely as guilty if, instead of lying in a court, he lies in a newspaper or on the stump; and in all probability, the evil effects of his conduct are infinitely more widespread and more pernicious."
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to runin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation of all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." [Teddy Roosevelt in a speech before the Knights of Columbus]
This is one of my favorites. From Alexander Tyler. No, he wasn't writing about the United States. This quote is well over one hundred years old. Tyler was writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." By Alexander Tyler 19th century historian
INDIVIDUALISM
"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood." [Adolph Hitler, quoted in Hitler, A Study in Tyranny, by Alan Bullock (Harper Collins, NY)]
"It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole ... that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual. .... This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture .... we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow man." [Adolph Hitler, 1933]
There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war. [Benito Mussolini]
Fascist ethics begin ... with the acknowledgment that it is not the individual who confers a meaning upon society, but it is, instead, the existence of a human society which determines the human character of the individual. According to Fascism, a true, a great spiritual life cannot take place unless the State has risen to a position of pre-eminence in the world of man. The curtailment of liberty thus becomes justified at once, and this need of rising the State to its rightful position. [Mario Palmieri, "The Philosophy of Fascism" 1936]
"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all." [Nikita Khrushchev , February 25, 1956 20th Congress of the Communist Party]
"All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all." [Vladimir Lenin, as quoted in Not by Politics Alone]
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." [Hillary Clinton, 1993]
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..." [President Bill Clinton, 'USA Today' March 11, 1993: Page 2A]
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." [Ayn Rand]
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man? [Henry David Thoreau]
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president." [Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents ]
We must organize all labor, no matter how dirty and arduous it may be, so that every (citizen) may regard himself as part of that great army of free labor.... The generation that is now fifteen years old .. must arrange all their tasks of education in such a way that every day, and in every city, the young people shall engage in the practical solution of the problems of common labor, even the smallest, most simple kind. [Vladimir Lenin]
"Fascism finds it necessary, at the outset, to take away from the ordinary human being what he has been taught and has grown to cherish the most; personal liberty. And it can be affirmed, without falling into exaggeration, that a curtailment of personal liberty not only has proved to be, but necessarily must be, a fundamental condition of the triumph of Fascism." [Mario Palmeiri]
"I am here because I want to redefine the meaning of citizenship in America... If you're asked in school 'What does it mean to be a good citizen?' I want the answer to be, 'Well, to be a good citizen, you have to obey the law, you've got to go to work or be in school, you've got to pay your taxes and --- oh, yes, you have to serve..." [Bill Clinton at Volunteerism Summit]
"All the people I know who are driving for a form of national service, primarily want it to be compulsory. They realize that's a terrible problem politically, so they're not willing to say it. It is endangerment of freedom and the potential for indoctrination that skeptics do not like in the national service concept. However benign the program, some think it will not succeed on any meaningful scale unless is is compulsory." [Martin Anderson, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution]
"In his April 5 radio address outlining the goals of the summit, the President endorsed compulsory volunteerism -- and even called for extending it to middle schools. In other words, the man who so famously avoided the dangerous duty of fighting in Vietnam as a young man now proposes drafting a new generation of young people to perform a different set of difficult tasks." [Editorial, New York Post, April 27, 1997]
"Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count." [Robert Heinlein]
"In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." [Voltaire]
"Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?" [Alan Keyes]
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Nice collection of quotes by Ronald Reagan
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."
- Ronald Reagan
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
- Ronald Reagan
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
- Ronald Reagan
"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong."
- Ronald Reagan
"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress." - Ronald Reagan
"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
- Ronald Reagan
"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
- Ronald Reagan
"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
- Ronald Reagan
"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."
- Ronald Reagan
"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
- Ronald Reagan
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
- Ronald Reagan
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
- Ronald Reagan
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
- Ronald Reagan
"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
- Ronald Reagan
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COLLECTION OF QUOTES ABOUT GUNS AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. --- United States Constitution, Second Amendment, 1789
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth. --- George Washington
"I believe Americans want their presidents to be inspiring, effective and confident ... and determined to ensure the safety of our kids on the streets and in their schools -- even if it means having the guts to stand up to the gun lobby. It's the right thing to do and I won't shy away from the tough issues, even if some in my party don't like it. That includes issues like allowing people to carry concealed weapons. While that's a matter for the states to decide, I think police work is hard enough already. No one should make it harder. I think it's wrong to let people carry concealed weapons. I also think we need mandatory child safety locks on guns. ... Selling a gun without a child safety lock is like playing with fire." --Elizabeth Dole, 5/99
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." --- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson 1777 "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson - 1777
... History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall. --- Adolf Hitler, Edict of 18 March 1939
"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed." Sara Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control, to Sen. Howard Metzanbaum, The National Educator, January 1994, Page 3.
"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun." --- Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution
What do you mean 'wait fifteen days'? This is America! --- California citizen attempting to purchase a firearm for self-defense during rioting in Los Angelas, week of 30 April 1992
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any body of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States." --- Noah Webster, An Examination into the Leading Principals of the Federal Constitution
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. --- James Earl Jones
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. --- United States Constitution, Second Amendment, 1789
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence. --- C. A. Beard
"And we should -- then every community in the country could then start doing major weapon sweeps and then destroying the weapons, not selling them." - William J. Clinton, President, sworn defender of the U.S. Constitution
"I'm convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily -- given the political realities -- going to be very modest. Of course, it's true that politicians will then go home and say, 'This is a great law. The problem is solved.' And it's also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time. So then we'll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strength that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time. My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of *all* handguns and *all* handgun ammunition -- except for the military, policement, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors -- totally illegal." -- Pete Shields, Chairman, HCI ["A Reporter At Large: Handguns", _The New Yorker_, July 26, 1976, 57-58]
... History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall. --- Adolf Hitler, Edict of 18 March 1939
"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." THOMAS JEFFERSON -source-Oxford American Legal Quotes, pp23
"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ...And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities." (President Bill Clinton, 3-22-94, MTV's "Enough is Enough")
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." --- Thomas Jefferson
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article [the Second Amendment] in their right to keep and bear their private arms." --- Trence Coxe in "Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution", under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, 18 June 1789
"What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." --- Rep Elbridge Gerry, Mass., I Annals of Congress at 750, 8/17/1789
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution --- certainly would if such a right were a vital one." Abraham Lincoln
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -- Voltaire
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. -- Frederic Bastiat
"But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future Security." Declaration of Independence
"You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect." --Edwin Meese III
".... endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable Rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." --Declaration of Independance
"We, the People of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect Union ... do Ordain and Establish this Constitution of the United States of America." -- Preamble to the US Constitution
"It's the misfortune of all Countries, that they sometimes lie under a unhappy necessity to defend themselves by Arms against the ambition of their Governors, and to fight for what's their own. If those in government are headless of reason, the people must patiently submit to Bondage, or stand upon their own Defence; which if they are enabled to do, they shall never be put upon it, but their Swords may grow rusty in their hands; for that Nation is surest to live in Peace, that is most capable of making War; and a Man that hath a Sword by his side, shall have least occasion to make use of it." --- John Trenchard and Walter Moyle
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials." --- George Mason, 3 Elliott, Debates at 425-426
"To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." --- Richard Henry Lee writing in letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic (1787-1788)
"Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms." --- Andrew Ford
"Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." --- Trench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, 20 February 1788
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..." --- Samuel Adams
"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." --- Thomas Jefferson, proposal Virginia Constitution, June 1776, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334
"Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!" --- Thomas Jefferson
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them WILL DEPRIVE THE PEOPLE OF ALL PROPERTY until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." (It is important to remember the Federal Reserve and member banks are all PRIVATE CORPORATIONS and are no more federal than Federal Express) --- Thomas Jefferson
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any public official, save exactly to the degree he himself stands by the country. (Theodore Roosevelt)
The world can therefore seize the opportunity (Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind. (George Bush)
Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its powers, but the truth is ... the Federal Reserve System has usurped the government. It controls everything here (Congress) and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will. (Louis T McFadden, ex-Chair of the House Committee on Banking & Currency. Believed to have been murdered.)
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue where the law abiding deprived the use of them. (Thomas Paine)
In matters of Power, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. (Thomas Jefferson)
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and never will be ... The people cannot be safe without information. Where the press is free, and every man is able (and willing) to read, all is safe. (Thomas Jefferson)
The ideal tyranny iis that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. (Dresden James)
The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch its currency. (Vladimir Lenin)
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. (Thomas Jefferson)
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Great Collection of Founding Father Quotes collected by Will Glaser, Home Schooler .doc
http://ylcf.org/willglaser/quotations.htm
"Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not only of republicanism and of all free government, but also of social felicity under all governments and in all the combinations of human society." – President John Adams
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." – President John Adams, October 11, 1798
"The Constitution be never construed to...prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." – Samuel Adams, Massachusetts' U.S.Constitution ratification convention, 1788
"Let us remember that if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it." – Samuel Adams
I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon—if I can. I seek opportunity—not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.
I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the still calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done. All this is what it means to be an American. – Dean Alfange, "My Creed"
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." – Anonymous
"The Lord will either calm your storm, or allow it to rage while he calms you." – Anonymous
"In my opinion one cannot be both a patriot and a pacifist. If a man is not willing to sacrifice his life for his country, he cannot claim to love her." – Anonymous Patriot
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"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... This world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." – General Omar Bradley, in a 1948 Armistice Day address
"The one thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." – Edmund Burke
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"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, in What's Wrong with the World
"Fortune is rightly malignant to those who break with the traditions and customs of the past...." – Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
"Of course, we are all worms– but I like to think, at least, that I am a glowworm." – Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
"I would rather be right than President." – Henry Clay, when told that a speech he was about to make might ruin his chance to become President
"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that has ever accorded to the human race." – Calvin Coolidge
"The meaning of America is not to be found in a life without toil. Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort." – President Calvin Coolidge
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business." – President Calvin Coolidge
"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." – 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified December 15, 1791
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"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." – The Declaration of Independence
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"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." – Albert Einstein
"I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory." – General Dwight D. Eisenhower, broadcast June 6 (D-Day) 1941
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." – Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." – Captain Nathan Hale, September 21, 1776
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death." – Patrick Henry, second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined." – Patrick Henry, Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention
"The Bible is worth all the other books that have ever been printed!" – Patrick Henry
"The Constitution is not an instrument for government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." – Patrick Henry
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"One man with courage makes a majority." – President Andrew Jackson
"We must confine ourselves to the powers described in the Constitution, and the moment we pass it, we take an arbitrary stride towards a despotic Government."
– James Jackson, First Congress, 1st Annals of Congress, 489
"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error." – Robert Houghwout Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
"Duty is ours: consequences are God's." – General Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson
"You may be whatever you resolve to be." – General Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." – President Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, 1787
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." – President Thomas Jefferson
"The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
– Thomas Jefferson
"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?" – President Thomas Jefferson
"Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." – Thomas Jefferson, Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." – Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." – President Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned-this is the sum of good government."
– Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801
"I have not yet begun to fight!" – Captain John Paul Jones, September 23, 1779
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"To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms..." – Richard Henry Lee, Additional Letters From The Federal Farmer, 1788
"A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me." – General Robert E. Lee
"God disposes; this ought to satisfy us" – General Robert E. Lee
"If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by someone or something else." – Eric Liddell
"Our morality emanates from our Divine Creator, whose laws are not subject to amendment, modification, or rescission by man." – Rush Limbaugh
"The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next." – President Abraham Lincoln
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"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration to ultimate national disaster" – General Douglas MacArthur
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue of the people, is a chimerical idea." – President James Madison
"But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In creating a government which is to be run by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." – President James Madison, Federalist 51, 1787
"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." – James Madison, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 16, 1788
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. " – John Stuart Mill
"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit; try to belong to the first class-there's far less competition." – Dwight W. Morrow
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"...[A]rms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding [citizens] deprived of the use of them." – Thomas Paine, Thoughts On Defensive War, 1775
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, under go the fatigue of supporting it." – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
"Those who will not be governed by God, will be ruled by tyrants." – William Penn
"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms– never– never– never! You cannot conquer America. " – William Pitt, speech, November 18, 1777
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"Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem." – President Ronald Reagan
"Without God there is not virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." – President Ronald Reagan
"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." – President Theodore Roosevelt
"Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sunceruty and hardihood – the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love-of-soft-living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life" – President Theodore Roosevelt
"Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally-I do not mean figuratively, but literally- impossible for us to figure what that loss would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards towards which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves." – President Theodore Roosevelt
"There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompainied by any moral responsibility." – President Theodore Roosevelt, Abilene, KS, May 2, 1903
"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause." – President Theodore Roosevelt
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" – George Santayana
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." – John Shedd
"Freedom cannot be trifled with." – Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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"I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. the Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom." – President Harry S. Truman
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." – Mark Twain, 1894
"Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself." – Mark Twain
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"Every man dies, but not every man lives." – William Wallace
"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." – President George Washington
"The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority." – Noah Webster, 1832
"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws." – Noah Webster
http://ylcf.org/willglaser/bio.htm
Will Glaser's Bio
William Andrew Glaser lives with his parents, Mark and Sara Glaser, and three siblings Gretchen, Jessica, and Caleb on a 20-acre poplar tree farm in Oregon. He and his family attend a Baptist church in the nearby town of Scio.
Will has been homeschooled all his life, and in his junior year supplemented his education by taking some classes at Western Baptist College. He has been accepted at and will be attending Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia. Will's favorite subject is history, and he also enjoys studying Latin.
Will believes he is called to make a difference in the area of government, though he does not necessarily want to make politics a profession. During the 2003 Oregon legislative session, Will worked for Representative Jeff Kropf. In the Spring of 2004 he served as a program director with TeenPact Leadership Schools, leading 12 classes in 10 different states.
Will has always read a good deal, both for pleasure and learning. He mainly reads the Bible, historical biographies and novels, political writings, and classical literature. Will has also attempted some writing of his own. You can find some products of these attempts on his writings page.
Will is a country boy and does a lot of work outside with his dad and relatives, such as logging, burning brush, bucking hay, et cetera. During the winter he spends a lot of time slogging through mud and water in pursuit of fowl and furbearers. Will has been hunting since he was ten, and it is his favorite hobby. He hunts almost everything that he can, but mainly elk, deer, ducks, and geese. He has a growing collection of guns, and enjoys shooting them. He also traps such critters as otter, beaver, and nutria.
Will enjoy music, especially hymns, patriotic songs, and songs of the Civil War. He plays (with very limited proficiency) the piano, alto saxophone, banjo, and harmonica. He also sings bass, which is his favorite (and probably least absonant) form of making music.
This, in a nutshell (figuratively of course, not literally), is Will Glaser
"Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king."
- 1 Peter 2:17
Contact | ©2004 William Andrew Glaser
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Preambles of all 50 States Of The United States:
Alabama 1901, Preamble . We the people of the State of Alabama, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the following Constitution.
Alaska 1956, Preamble. We, the people of Alaska, grateful to God and to those who founded our nation and pioneered this great land.
Arizona 1911, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Arizona, grateful to Almighty God for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution...
Arkansas 1874, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Arkansas, grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government..
California 1879, Preamble. We, the People of the State of California, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom.
Colorado 1876, Preamble. We, the people of Colorado, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of Universe.
Connecticut 1818, Preamble. The People of Connecticut, acknowledging with gratitude the good Providence of God in permitting them to enjoy.
Delaware 1897, Preamble. Through Divine Goodness all men have, by nature, the rights of worshipping and serving their Creator according to the dictates of their consciences.
Florida 1885, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Florida, grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty, establish this Constitution...
Georgia 1777, Preamble. We, the people of Georgia, relying upon protection and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish this Constitution...
Hawaii 1959, Preamble. We, the people of Hawaii, Grateful for Divine Guidance .. Establish this Constitution.
Idaho 1889, Preamble . We, the people of the State of Idaho, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings.
Illinois 1870, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Illinois, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy and looking to Him for a blessing on our endeavors.
Indiana 1851, Preamble. We, the People of the State of Indiana, grateful to Almighty God for the free exercise of the right to choose our form of government.
Iowa 1857, Preamble. We, the People of the State of Iowa, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of these blessings establish this Constitution.
Kansas 1859, Preamble. We, the people of Kansas, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious privileges establish this Constitution.
Kentucky 1891, Preamble. We, the people of the Commonwealth are grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties...
Louisiana 1921, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Louisiana, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties we enjoy.
Maine 1820, Preamble. We the People of Maine acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in affording us an opportunity ... And imploring His aid and direction.
Maryland 1776, Preamble. We, the people of the state of Maryland, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty...
Massachusetts 1780, Preamble. We...the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Great Legislator of the Universe ... In the course of His Providence, an opportunity and devoutly imploring His direction ..
Michigan 1908, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Michigan, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom establish this Constitution.
Minnesota, 1857, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Minnesota, grateful to God for our civil and religious liberty, and desiring to perpetuate its blessings:
Mississippi 1890, Preamble. We, the people of Mississippi in convention assembled, grateful to Almighty God, and invoking His blessing on our work.
Missouri 1845, Preamble. We, the people of Missouri, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and grateful for His goodness .. Establish this Constitution .
Montana 1889, Preamble. We, the people of Montana, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty establish this Constitution .
Nebraska 1875, Preamble . We, the people, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom .. Establish this Constitution.
Nevada 1864, Preamble. We the people of the State of Nevada, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom establish this Constitution ..
New Hampshire 1792, Part I. Art. I. Sec. V . Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience.
New Jersey 1844, Preamble. We, the people of the State of New Jersey, grateful to Almighty God for civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing on our endeavors.
New Mexico 1911, Preamble. We, the People of New Mexico, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty
New York 1846, Preamble . We, the people of the State of New York, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings.
North Carolina 1868, Preamble. We the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for our civil, political, and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those
North Dakota 1889, Preamble. We, the people of North Dakota, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, do ordain...
Ohio 1852, Preamble. We the people of the state of Ohio, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings and to promote our common
Oklahoma 1907, Preamble. Invoking the guidance of Almighty God, in order to secure and perpetuate the blessings of liberty ... establish this ..
Oregon 1857, Bill of Rights, Article I. Section 2. All men shall be secure in the Natural right, to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their consciences.
Pennsylvania 1776, Preamble. We, the people of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance
Rhode Island 1842, Preamble. We the People of the State of Rhode Island grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing
South Carolina, 1778, Preamble. We, the people of he State of South Carolina grateful to God for our liberties, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
South Dakota 1889, Preamble. We, the people of South Dakota, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberties .
Tennessee 1796, Art. XI.III. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their conscience...
Texas 1845, Preamble. We the People of the Republic of Texas, acknowledging, with gratitude, the grace and beneficence of God.
Utah 1896, Preamble. Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty, we establish this Constitution.
Vermont 1777, Preamble. Whereas all government ought to .enable the individuals who compose it to enjoy their natural rights, and other blessings which the Author of Existence has bestowed on man ..
Virginia 1776, Bill of Rights, XVI Religion, or the Duty which we owe our Creator .can be directed only by Reason and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian Forbearance, Love and Charity towards each other .
Washington 1889, Preamble. We the People of the State of Washington, grateful to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution
West Virginia 1872, Preamble . Since through Divine Providence we enjoy the blessings of civil, political and religious liberty, we, the people of West Virginia reaffirm our faith in and constant reliance upon God ...
Wisconsin 1848, Preamble. We, the people of Wisconsin, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, domestic tranquility
Wyoming 1890, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Wyoming, grateful to God for our civil, political, and religious liberties . establish this Constitution.
After reviewing acknowledgments of God from all 50 state constitutions, one is faced with the prospect that maybe, the ACLU and the out-of-control federal courts are wrong!
"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." - William Penn
The Mayflower Compact, November 11th, 1620
"All persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the One Almighty and Eternal God to be the Creator, Upholder, and Ruler of the world, and that hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall in no wise be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion or practice, in matters of faith and worship; nor shall they be compelled at any time to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever." April 25, 1662- William Penn signed this to establish religious liberty in the new provence of (Pennsylvania).
Excerpts from the Declaration to take up arms, July 6th, 1775
Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religion but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.","Give me liberty or give me death."Patrick Henry of the Constitutional Convention
"A general dissolution of Principles and Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America than the whole Force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader . . . If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security."Samuel Adams, 1779
From the Father of our Country:
"Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the council of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States.." "...Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency" From President George Washington's Inaugural Address, April 30th, 1789, addressed to both Houses of Congress.
President Washingtons Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1789
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible"President George Washington, September 17th, 1796
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports . . . And let us indulge with caution the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion . . . Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle." President George Washington
"...The Smiles of Heaven can never be expected On a Nation that disregards the eternal rules of Order and Right, which Heaven Itself Ordained."President George Washington
From Other Founding Fathers:
"I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- God Governs in the Affairs of Men, And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, Is it possible that an empire can rise without His aid?"Benjamin Franklin
"Except the Lord build the house, They labor in vain who build it." "I firmly believe this."Benjamin Franklin, 1787, Constitutional Convention
"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." President James Madison
"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His Apostles.... This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government."Noah Webster
"Whether this [new government] will prove a blessing or a curse will depend upon the use our people make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation [Proverbs 14:34]. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others."Patrick Henry
"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed."Patrick Henry
"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."President Thomas Jefferson
"The reason that Christianity is the best friend of Government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart."President Thomas Jefferson
"Of all systems of morality, ancient of modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to be so pure as that of Jesus." Thomas Jefferson, To William Canby, 1813
"We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions ubridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."John Adams, address to the militia of Massachusetts, 1798.
"I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man..."President Thomas Jefferson
"The highest story of the American Revolution is this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."President John Adams
"Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift [James 1:17] we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land."James Madison
"We've staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us . . . to Govern ourselves according to the commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded." President James Madison
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." First Chief Justice of Supreme Court John Jay
"Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine....Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other."James Wilson, a signer of the Constitution and an original Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
"Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effectual means of extirpating [removing] Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools."Benjamin Rush
"It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God."President John Quincy Adams
"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were.... the general principles of Christianity."President John Quincy Adams
"a true American Patriot must be a religious man...He who neglects his duty to his maker, may well be expected to be deficient and insincere in his duty towards the public" First Lady Abigail Adams
"The Bible is the Rock on which this Republic rests."President Andrew Jackson
From America'sAbraham:
The Emancipation Proclamation.
"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior (Jesus) of the world is communicated to us through this book.Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
"Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured...
"Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and as a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other...The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully...If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?
Fondly do we hope - fervently do we pray - that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'The judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'
"With malice toward none; charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." Immediately afterwards, Lincoln kissed the Bible, bowed, and retired from the platform. Abraham Lincoln's 2nd inaugural address, March 4th, 1865.
"Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty" Abraham Lincoln.
"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." Abraham Lincoln.
"The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion."Abraham Lincoln.
"The New Testament is the very best that ever was or ever will be known in the world." Charles Dickens
"Our laws and institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teaching of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that is should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian . . . this is a Christian nation."US Supreme Court, 1892
From This Century
"America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scriptures. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I as of every man and woman in this audience that from this night on they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great book of revelations. That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Scripture."Woodrow Wilson, 1911, pre-Presidential campaign speech.
"The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, 'In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths." George Washington Carver.
"The fundamental basis of this nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teaching we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don't have the proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in the right for anybody except the state.President Harry S. Truman.
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From: "Robert Henderson" <phi...@anywhere.demon.co.uk
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:30 PM
Subject: The joy of diversity - UK round up 29 9 2006
Daily telegraph
How Aids let tuberculosis flourish again
By Dr. James Le Fanu
Twenty-five years ago, it seemed that most fearful of all
infectious illnesses – tuberculosis – was in terminal decline. "The
Captain of the armies of death" that in late-Victorian England was
responsible for one death in four had itself fallen victim to the
combination of social progress, better housing and nutrition and a
clutch of potent drugs that virtually guaranteed a cure. Now we learn
The Captain is back with a vengeance in the new, more virulent form of
extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). "It raises the spectre,"
comments Paul Nunn of the World Health Organisation, "of something we
have feared for a decade – the possibility of virtually untreatable
TB."
And while that spectre remains for the moment confined to the
marginalised and impoverished in eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa,
those drug-resistant bacteria can now traverse the globe in a few hours
to infect anyone anywhere. Those with unidentified active tuberculosis,
it is estimated, will infect on average 10-15 people a year. Hence the
current two-day emergency conference of WHO officials in Johannesburg
"to decide what action must be taken to address the crisis".
This all sounds very serious but then the WHO has an impressive track
record in spreading gloom and despondency, the better to justify its
existence (and those international conferences). Many will recall
similarly dire predictions concerning the Sars and bird flu epidemics
that gratefully failed to materialise. So how serious is the threat, and
what, if anything, can be done about it?
It is almost impossible nowadays to imagine what it must have been
like to live in a world when tuberculosis was, as it now threatens to
become, incurable. Everyone was vulnerable; a cough and temperature
would prompt a visit to the doctor, who would confirm the presence of
the bacilli in the sputum and an X-ray would reveal the presence of the
infection in the lungs.
This signalled a profound change in patients' lives as they were
dispatched to a sanatorium for several years to undergo a variety of
painful treatments, including collapsing the affected lung – for which
they might emerge as one of the lucky ones to survive, or might not. In
Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, the young hero visiting his cousin in
a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Alps is "suddenly rooted to the spot by
a perfectly ghastly sound it was coughing obviously, but coughing
compared to which any other had been a magnificent and healthy
manifestation of life, a febrile welling up of the juices of organic
dissolution".
That situation prevailed until the mid-1940s, with the discovery of
the first effective drug, Streptomycin. But the initial optimistic hopes
were short-lived, for reasons that are directly related to the present
crisis.
The tubercal bacilli, unlike most bacteria, come encased in a waxy
shell, so the treatment must be continued for several months. This
provides more than enough time for them to mutate and become resistant,
at which point the infection comes rampaging back, and the patient dies.
The only way round this was to combine the Streptomycin with another
drug, Pas, which ensured that any bacteria that became resistant to one
would be hit by the other. Over the following 10 years, several further
drugs were discovered, so that, by the time I became house physician on
the tuberculosis ward at Bethnal Green Hospital in 1974, the treatment
routine was well established.
There was not a lot to do. The chest X-rays of my patients, most of
whom were alcoholics or down-and-outs, looked as terrible as they did
with vast cavitating holes in the upper lobes of the lungs. But six
months of NHS care and attention, regular meals, clean sheets and charge
nurse ensuring they took their pills every day produced such a
miraculous transformation in their wellbeing they were often reluctant
to leave.
This happy state of affairs was undermined first by the decision to
close down the long-stay tuberculosis wards, and replace them with
"directly observed treatment", where the patient would attend the clinic
daily to receive his medication. This worked well enough if they were
reliable, less so when they were not.
But the prospect of multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis from
inadequate treatment became a certainty with the advent of Aids, whose
victims are particularly vulnerable to the infection and, with their
compromised immune systems, required much longer schedules of treatment.
The NHS, to its great credit, had successfully contained the problem
and, while the overall number of cases of multiple drug-resistant TB has
doubled in the past decade, it still represents only a fraction – just
over one per cent – of the total number.
But this takes a lot of money, an efficient infrastructure, good
liaison between physicians and public health doctors – and much else
besides. Such arrangements in eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa are
conspicuous only by their absence, which is why the combination of Aids
and XDR-TB found in a quarter of patients in Natal carries a mortality
rate of 100 per cent. And at the moment there is nothing that medicine
can do that can change that.
This does, however, raise some rather sensitive policy issues that
first became apparent when the scale of the Aids epidemic in Africa
began to be appreciated in the late 1980s. Then, despite official
denials, it emerged that migrants and refugees were a major source of
the rise in new cases, with considerable implications for health
services, particularly in inner cities.
The situation is rather more serious, for the obvious reasons that
tuberculosis is more infectious being transmitted by inhalation – and
thus the possibility of its spread beyond the recognised at-risk groups
is much higher.
When, in the 14th century, Venice was threatened by the plague, the
Doge imposed a quarantine of 40 days before visitors were allowed to
enter the city. Nowadays, it could be argued, they should be required to
have a chest X-ray when flying in through our major airports.
James Le Fanu is a practising GP
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Youth held over mum's stab death
By _Local London Reporter_ (mailto:news...@london.newsquest.co.uk)
Stabbed repeatedly: Carmelita Tulloch, 51
A teenager has been arrested over the murder of a mother-of-two stabbed to death in a
"frenzied" attack as she walked to work. A witness saw how a man stabbed
Carmelita Tulloch, 51, repeatedly as she lay screaming in Wickham
Street, Vauxhall, at 9.05am yesterday morning. Earlier today police
arrested a 17-year-old boy in connection with Mrs Tulloch's death. The
grandmother had left her home in Scotson House on the nearby Ethelred
Estate only five minutes before the attacker struck.
Her heartbroken husband, Prince Tulloch, 42, told The Sun of their last
moments together. "I saw her into the lift. I took her her handbag which
she had forgotten, she hugged me, we kissed each other. "She said, 'Take care, speak later.
I'll phone you when I get to work'. I rang her mobile 15 minutes later.
It just rang and rang." He added: "She was such a loving person. I'm
torn apart, I will never get over this. The man who did this should be
executed." Mr Tulloch was Carmelita's second husband. She had two grown
daughters from a previous marriage, one of whom has a three-year-old child. Police
believe the murder may have been an unprovoked attack by a stranger or
a bungled robbery, even though her bloodied handbag was found next to
her with its contents apparently untouched. "A struggle took place and
she fell onto her back in the road," said Detective Superintendent
Julian Worker, the investigating officer. "A man was seen on top of her,
stabbing her in a frenzied manner. For this reason, I believe the
suspect would be heavily covered in blood." The man ran off towards
Jonathan Street. Ms Tulloch, a black woman with highlights in her hair,
was on her way to Vauxhall Cross to work. An air ambulance rushed to her
air, but she had bled to death from a knife wound to the neck. "This was
a horrific attack on a 51-year-old lady, well known in the local area,
who was simply walking to work," Mr Worker said near the crime scene. "I
am keeping an open mind re the motive. Her handbag was found at the
scene but we are yet to recover a murder weapon." Detectives are
investigating whether Ms Tulloch had been followed. She was dressed in a
black skirt to just above the knee, a black top and distinctive grey
strappy sandals. Anyone who saw the victim or killer at the time of the
attack can call 020 7321 9251.
Sunday Telegraph
Moss Side teenager murdered in suspected gangland shooting
By Jasper Copping
10/09/2006)
A 15-year-old boy was gunned down yesterday in a brutal gangland-style
"execution" in the notorious Moss Side area of Manchester.
Forensic officers search for evidence in the shooting of Jessie James
The body of the teenager, named by locals as Jessie James, was found
close to a children's playground and basketball court at 2.40am after neighbours reported hearing several shots.
People living near the murder scene said Jessie, who attended the nearby
Manchester Academy high school, had links with local gangs. The teenager
is believed to have lived in another part of Moss Side with his parents
and sister, who were last night being comforted by family liaison officers as police hunted his killer.
Superintendent John O'Hare said: "We believe this was a planned attack.
I want the people who pulled the trigger to realise what the family are going through."
The murder follows a recent escalation in gun violence in the area. On a single day last month, there were three shootings. In one incident a teenager on a mountain bike fired at a car chasing him and three other cyclists.
Last night, the murder scene on Raby Street remained sealed off while forensic officers carried out a fingertip search for clues.
A local resident, who asked not be named, described how he had seen the victim only hours before the shooting.
"I knew Jessie and I was talking to him only yesterday in the park," the
resident said. "We were laughing and joking and it's unbelievable that
he's now dead."
Police have stepped up patrols in the area and called on the community
to help find the killer. Supt O'Hare added: "There is a 15-year-old boy
who is lying dead. There are people who can stop this. I am asking them
to examine their consciences and come forward."
Moss Side has become a byword for gun violence and gang warfare since
the bloody feuds over cocaine and heroin trafficking between infamous
street gangs such as the Gooch Close and Doddington mobs gripped the
area in the 1990s. It was dubbed "Britain's Bronx" and the city was
nicknamed "Gunchester".
Over five years, 27 men died and more than 250 people were injured in
clashes in south Manchester.
Although several leading figures have been jailed over recent years, the
gangs remain a powerful presence. During the past six years, police have
identified 500 gang members.
Jessie is the youngest fatality of the gang wars since Benji Stanley,
14, an innocent bystander shot dead in January 1993 as he queued for a
takeaway. In July, 45-year-old Ernest Gifford was gunned down at his
home on Raby Street while his girlfriend and her two children were in
the property.
• Police arrested two men and closed a Tube station yesterday morning
after receiving reports of gunfire. Officers rushed to Finsbury Park
station in north London at about 6.30 after being alerted that shots had
been fired in the area.
Daily telegraph
Mother killed in front of daughters by ex-boyfriend By Nick Britten
14/09/2006
A college welfare officer shot his former girlfriend dead in
front of their two teenage children as she begged for her life before
turning the gun on himself.
Lenworth Yorke, 38, had stormed round to the former family home with a
shotgun and begun rowing with Margaret Kidd, also 38. He then shot her
twice in the chest from point-blank range in the drive.
Their two daughters, 15 and 18, were in the house and witnessed the
tragedy on Monday evening, as did locals alerted to the shouting.
It emerged yesterday that Miss Kidd had previously contacted police
complaining of being threatened by Yorke, who worked for the learning
support department at Derby College as a mentor for students with
special needs.
The couple separated acrimoniously last year after 20 years. Friends
said Yorke was mild mannered, a keen sportsman and "the last person to
do something like this", and neighbours all spoke highly of him.
Privately, though, he was tortured by the break-up of his family.
Spiralling into depression, he had turned to his passion for guns and
when police searched his home yesterday they found a stash of weapons.
Yorke had also erected a target in his back garden where he practised.
Witnesses to the shooting saw him arriving at the semi-detached house
in Wye Street in Alvaston, Derby, at 6.30pm on Monday carrying a shotgun
under his coat.
After banging on the door, Miss Kidd came out and they started
shouting at each other. One witness said: "It seemed like a domestic but
then I saw him pull the gun. He had it under his coat and he lifted his
arm. I heard her shouting, 'No, no, no'.
"Her daughter was screaming, 'Don't do it, don't do it', and then I
heard the gunshots. He fired three shots at her at point-blank range. At
least two of them hit her in chest and she went down and never moved."
Another said: "Those poor children — seeing their mother killed in
front of them. Lenny seemed a normal enough man, not the sort who would
do anything like this. As soon as it happened everyone rushed into the
street, some of his relatives were there, crying and screaming."
Yesterday, police cordoned off the house and put a tent on the drive.
After the split, Miss Kidd stayed in the house with the children while
Yorke moved to a house nearby. Miss Kidd's friends said she was being
stalked by Yorke and had become increasingly worried.
Yorke's neighbours said he regularly used airguns to practise on the
target. One said: "Lenny moved in a year ago and always seemed really
friendly and very approachable. The place was an absolute tip before he
came, but he did it up really nicely. It's a mystery why he has done this."
Another neighbour, a mother-of-five, said: "We used to have cups of
coffee with him over the fence. He would talk to the kids and have a
laugh and a joke with them. They used to watch him sometimes when he was
doing his target practice. It never worried us because my brother has
one similar."
In his garden, cartridge shells littered the ground and pellet marks
in the fence were evident.
A friend of Yorke's said he was a regular at the gym and was a keen
footballer. He said: "You wouldn't meet anyone with a bad word to say
about him."
Floral tributes were left at the scene yesterday, one reading: "Sorry we didn't listen."
Derbyshire police said officers had spoken to Miss Kidd on Sunday, the
day before she died, when she expressed "no concerns". A spokesman said:
"Police are concentrating on trying to identify what caused this escalation of violence."
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburn/display.var.935347.0.
youngsters_disturbing_white_supremacist_views.php
In other Burnley news:
Sex victim's mum in road chase terror
A MUM who lifted the lid on a sex ring which abused her daughter has
been left terrified after her car was almost run off the road.
Police are investigating the incident, which the woman believes was
retribution after she revealed to the Telegraph how her 15-year-old
child was groomed for sexual exploitation.
The mother-of-three, who lives in the Grimshaw Park area of Blackburn,
said she had been repeatedly intimidated by gangs of men since she spoke
out against the groups of Asian men who were using local children for
sex.
Lindsey's (not her real name) story came to light as part of a Lancashire Telegraph investigation which discovered that in the last year up to 100 girls aged between 12 and 16 in East Lancashire were
lured away from home and exploited for sex by gangs of men, who were predominantly Asian.
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/display.var.845505.0.sex_victims_mum
_in_road_chase_terror.php
'Save my daughter from sex grooming'
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/redir.php?from=ec&to=899809&l=save_m
y_daughter_from_sex_grooming
New protocol to stop sexual exploitation
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/display.var.868899.0.new_protocol_to
_stop_sexual_exploitation.php
Action against sex predators
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/display.var.857909.0.action_against_
sex_predators.php
Robert Henderson
Blair Scandal website: http://www.geocities.com/ blairscandal/
++++++Please accept my apology for sending you this huge email containing more than 35 articles. I got behind on my email reading - Bob