Sarah Palin, the Christian Right and Fascism in America

Laura said:
I don't know if it has occurred to anybody else but, as I read more and more about this "Dominionism," which I had never heard of until pulling on the Sarah Palin thread brought it into view, it strikes me that we can get a much clearer view of 9-11 with this informational lens.

Yeah, I hear ya. I feel a nauseous familiarity with what 'Dominionism' entails for humanity, even though I'd never heard of the term until now. And no wonder it's gone relatively undetected - its proponents speak in 'coded language' like the NeoCons that came through the ranks of academia into government).

I'm reading The Despoiling of America at the mo... slowly. Katherine Yurica, quoting Frederick Clarkson, writes;

Dominionism seeks to replace democracy with a theocratic eilte that would govern by imposing their interpretation of 'Biblical Law' [...] When one examines the progress of its agenda, one sees that Dominionism has met its timetable: the complete takeover of the American government was predicted to occur by 2004. Unless the American people reject the GOP's control of the government, Americans may find themselves living in a theocracy...

A schedule to keep? SOTT, if ever you were bang on the money!

In 1982, Francis Schaeffer, who was then the leading evangelical theologian, called Secular Humanism the greatest threat to Christianity the world had ever seen [...]“The enemy is this other view of reality”

_http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5646.htm

What 'secular humanism' means to these psychos is anyone who isn't one of them

A Totalitarian Theocracy. O Boy.

But. If they have their rallying call, then we too have ours:

Hedges said:
Let us not stand at the open city gates waiting passively and meekly for the barbarians. They are coming. They are slouching rudely towards Bethlehem. Let us, if nothing else, begin to call them by their name.
 
Laura said:
Ya'll please, please read everything on this topic you can and bring to the table everything you find.
Posted on: Today at 05:26:48 AMPosted by: Patience

One of the most frightening aspects of Dominionism is its infiltration of the military. Here are a few links that came up of pages of google websites on this topic. This is just the first page of many. I have a hunch that Blackwater and Dominionism are intimately connected. I'm going to look to see if I can find that specific connection.

Chris Hedges has done a lot of research on Dominionism in the military.



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webglider said:
I have a hunch that Blackwater and Dominionism are intimately connected. I'm going to look to see if I can find that specific connection

Yep, it's there. It took only a few seconds to find this:
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Notice how closely the information in this article parallels that found in Political "Ponerology".

It seems that the Dominionists have just called "check" in the figurative game of chess that they are playing with the nation now that they've maneuvered Sarah Palin into the slot of Republican vice presidential candidate.

http://www.theocracywatch.org/chris_hedges_nov24_04.htm
Chris Hedges said:
The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party


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(I apologize for the repetition. I didn't realize that the same article is on the Sott News page.)


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This is an article by Chris Hedges that no major publication would print.

THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN FASCISM

By -- CHRIS HEDGES

15 Nov 2004

Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told us that when we were his age, he was then close to 80, we would all be fighting the "Christian fascists."

The warning, given to me 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts at taking control of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the government. Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a global, Christian empire. It was hard, at the time, to take such fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality of those who expounded it. But Adams warned us against the blindness caused by intellectual snobbery. The Nazis, he said, were not going to return with swastikas and brown shirts. Their ideological inheritors had found a mask for fascism in the pages of the Bible.

He was not a man to use the word fascist lightly. He was in Germany in 1935 and 1936 and worked with the underground anti-Nazi church, known as The Confessing Church, led by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Adams was eventually detained and interrogated by the Gestapo, who suggested he might want to consider returning to the United States . It was a suggestion he followed. He left on a night train with framed portraits of Adolph Hitler placed over the contents inside his suitcase to hide the rolls of home movie film he took of the so-called German Christian Church, which was pro-Nazi, and the few individuals who defied them, including the theologians Karl Barth and Albert Schweitzer. The ruse worked when the border police lifted the top of the suitcases, saw the portraits of the Fuhrer and closed them up again. I watched hours of the grainy black and white films as he narrated in his apartment in Cambridge.

He saw in the Christian Right, long before we did, disturbing similarities with the German Christian Church and the Nazi Party, similarities that he said would, in the event of prolonged social instability or a national crisis, see American fascists, under the guise of religion, rise to dismantle the open society. He despaired of liberals, who he said, as in Nazi Germany, mouthed silly platitudes about dialogue and inclusiveness that made them ineffectual and impotent. Liberals, he said, did not understand the power and allure of evil nor the cold reality of how the world worked. The current hand wringing by Democrats in the wake of the election, with many asking how they can reach out to a movement whose leaders brand them "demonic" and "satanic," would not have surprised Adams. Like Bonhoeffer, he did not believe that those who would fight effectively in coming times of turmoil, a fight that for him was an integral part of the Biblical message, would come from the church or the liberal, secular elite.

His critique of the prominent research universities, along with the media, was no less withering. These institutions, self-absorbed, compromised by their close relationship with government and corporations, given enough of the pie to be complacent, were unwilling to deal with the fundamental moral questions and inequities of the age. They had no stomach for a battle that might cost them their prestige and comfort. He told me that if the Nazis took over America "60 percent of the Harvard faculty would begin their lectures with the Nazi salute." This too was not an abstraction. He had watched academics at the University of Heidelberg, including the philosopher Martin Heidegger, raise their arms stiffly to students before class.

Two decades later, even in the face of the growing reach of the Christian Right, his prediction seems apocalyptic. And yet the powerbrokers in the Christian Right have moved from the fringes of society to the floor of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Christian fundamentalists now hold a majority of seats in 36 percent of all Republican Party state committees, or 18 of 50 states, along with large minorities in 81 percent of the rest of the states. Forty-five Senators and 186 members of the House of Representatives earned between an 80 to100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups - The Christian Coalition, Eagle Forum, and Family Resource Council. Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, has included in his campaign to end abortion: a call to impose the death penalty on doctors that carry out abortions once the ban goes into place. Another new senator, John Thune, believes in Creationism. Jim DeMint, the new senator elected from South Carolina, wants to ban single mothers from teaching in schools. The Election Day exit polls found that 22 percent of voters identified themselves as evangelical Christians and Bush won 77 percent of their vote. The polls found that a plurality of voters said that the most important issue in the campaign had been "moral values."

President Bush must further these important objectives, including the march to turn education and social welfare over to the churches with his faith-based initiative, as well as chip away at the wall between church and state with his judicial appointments, if he does not want to face a revolt within his core constituency.

Jim Dobson, the head of Focus on the Family, who held weekly telephone conversations with Karl Rove during the campaign, has put the President on notice. He told ABC's "This Week" that "this president has two years, or more broadly the Republican Party has two years, to implement these policies, or certainly four, or I believe they'll pay a price in the next election."

Bush may turn out to be a transition figure, our version of Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck used "values" to energize his base at the end of the 19th century and launched "Kulturkampt," the word from which we get "culture wars," against Catholics and Jews. Bismarck 's attacks split the country, made the discrediting of whole segments of the society an acceptable part of the civil discourse and paved the way for the more virulent racism of the Nazis. This, I suspect, will be George Bush's contribution to our democracy.

DOMINIONISTS AND RECONSTRUCTIONISTS

The Reconstructionist movement, founded in 1973 by Rousas Rushdooney, is the intellectual foundation for the most politically active element within the Christian Right. Rushdooney's 1,600 page three-volume work, Institutes of Biblical Law, argued that American society should be governed according to the Biblical precepts in the Ten Commandments. He wrote that the elect, like Adam and Noah, were given dominion over the earth by God and must subdue the earth, along with all non-believers, so the Messiah could return.

This was a radically new interpretation for many in the evangelical movement. The Messiah, it was traditionally taught, would return in an event called "the Rapture" where there would be wars and chaos. The non-believers would be tormented and killed and the elect would be lifted to heaven. The Rapture was not something that could be manipulated or influenced, although believers often interpreted catastrophes and wars as portents of the imminent Second Coming.

Rushdooney promoted an ideology that advocated violence to create the Christian state. His ideology was the mirror image of Liberation Theology, which came into vogue at about the same time. While the Liberation Theologians crammed the Bible into the box of Marxism, Rushdooney crammed it into the equally distorting box of classical fascism. This clash was first played out in Latin America when I was there as a reporter two decades ago. In El Salvador leftist priests endorsed and even traveled with the rebel movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador, while Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, along with conservative Latin American clerics, backed the Contras fighting against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the murderous military regimes in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile and Argentina.

The Institutes of Biblical Law called for a Christian society that was harsh, unforgiving and violent. Offenses such as adultery, witchcraft, blasphemy and homosexuality, merited the death penalty. The world was to be subdued and ruled by a Christian United States. Rushdooney dismissed the number of 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust as an inflated figure and his theories on race echoed Nazi Eugenics.

"The white man has behind him centuries of Christian culture and the discipline and selective breeding this faith requires...," he wrote. "The Negro is a product of a radically different past, and his heredity has been governed by radically different considerations."

"The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of the magic are control and power over God, man, nature, and society. Voodoo, or magic, was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive." (see The Religious Right , a publication of the ADL, pg. 124.)


Rushdooney was deeply antagonistic to the federal government. He believed the federal government should concern itself with little more than national defense. Education and social welfare should be handed over to the churches. Biblical law must replace the secular legal code. This ideology remains at the heart of the movement. It is being enacted through school vouchers, with federal dollars now going into Christian schools, and the assault against the federal agencies that deal with poverty and human services. The Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is currently channeling millions in federal funds to groups such Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing , and National Right to Life, as well as to fundamentalist religious charity organizations and programs promoting sexual abstinence.

Rushdooney laid the groundwork for a new way of thinking about political involvement. The Christian state would come about not only through signs and wonders, as those who believed in the rapture believed, but also through the establishment of the Christian nation. But he remained, even within the Christian Right, a deeply controversial figure.

Dr. Tony Evans, the minister of a Dallas church and the founder of Promise Keepers, articulated Rushdooney's extremism in a more palatable form. He called on believers, often during emotional gatherings at football stadiums, to commit to Christ and exercise power within the society as agents of Christ. He also called for a Christian state. But he did not advocate the return of slavery, as Rushdooney did, nor list a string of offenses such as adultery punishable by death, nor did he espouse the Nazi-like race theories. It was through Evans, who was a spiritual mentor to George Bush that Dominionism came to dominate the politically active wing of the Christian Right.The religious utterances from political leaders such as George Bush, Tom Delay, Pat Robertson and Zell Miller are only understandable in light of Rushdooney and Dominionism. These leaders believe that God has selected them to battle the forces of evil, embodied in "secular humanism," to create a Christian nation. Pat Robertson frequently tells believers "our aim is to gain dominion over society." Delay has told supporters, such as at a gathering two years ago at the First Baptist Church in Pearland, Texas , "He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for biblical worldview in everything I do and everywhere I am. He is training me, He is working with me." Delay went on to tell followers "If we stay inside the church, the culture won't change."

Pat Robertson, who changed the name of his university to Regent University, says he is training his students to rule when the Christian regents take power, part of the reign leading to the return of Christ. Robertson resigned as the head of the Christian Coalition when Bush took office, a sign many took to signal the ascendancy of the first regent. This battle is not rhetorical but one that followers are told will ultimately involve violence. And the enemy is clearly defined and marked for destruction.

"Secular Humanists," the popular Christian Right theologian Francis Schaeffer wrote in one of numerous diatribes, "are the greatest threat to Christianity the world has ever known."

One of the most enlightening books that exposes the ultimate goals of the movement is America's Providential History, the standard textbook used in many Christian schools and a staple of the Christian home schooling movement. It sites Genesis 26, which calls for mankind to "have dominnion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth" as evidence that the Bible calls for "Bible believing Christians" to take dominion of America.

"When God brings Noah through the flood to a new earth, He reestablished the Dominion Mandate but now delegates to man the responsibility for governing other men." (page 19). The authors write that God has called the United States to become "the first truly Christian nation" (page 184) and "make disciples of all nations." The book denounces income tax as "idolatry," property tax as "theft" and calls for an abolish of inheritance taxes in the chapter entitled Christian Economics. The loss of such tax revenues will bring about the withering away of the federal government and the empowerment of the authoritarian church, although this is not explict in the text.


Rushdooney's son-in-law, Gary North, a popular writer and founder of the Institute for Christian Economics, laid out the aims of the Christian Right.

"So let's be blunt about it: We must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God." (Christianity and Civilization, Spring, 1982)

Dominionists have to operate, for now, in the contaminated environment of the secular, liberal state. They have learned, therefore, to speak in code. The code they use is the key to understanding the dichotomy of the movement, one that has a public and a private face. In this they are no different from the vanguard, as described by Lenin, or the Islamic terrorists who shave off their beards, adopt western dress and watch pay-for-view pornographic movies in their hotel rooms the night before hijacking a plane for a suicide attack.

Joan Bokaer, the Director of Theocracy Watch, a project of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy at Cornell University , who runs the encyclopedic web site theocracywatch.org, was on a speaking tour a few years ago in Iowa. She obtained a copy of a memo Pat Robertson handed out to followers at the Iowa Republican County Caucus. It was titled, "How to Participate in a Political Party" and read:

"Rule the world for God."

"Give the impression that you are there to work for the party, not push an ideology.

"Hide your strength.

"Don't flaunt your Christianity.

"Christians need to take leadership positions. Party officers control political parties and so it is very important that mature Christians have a majority of leadership whenever possible, God willing."

President Bush sends frequent coded messages to the faithful. In his address to the nation on the night of September 11, for example, he lifted a line directly from the Gospel of John when he said "And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness will not overcome it." He often uses the sentence "when every child is welcomed in life and protected in law," words taken directly from a pro-life manifesto entitled "A Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern." He quotes from hymns, prayers, tracts and Biblical passages without attribution. These phrases reassure the elect. They are lost on the uninitiated.


CHRIST THE AVENGER

The Christian Right finds its ideological justification in a narrow segment of the Gospel, in particular the letters of the Apostle Paul, especially the story of Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus in the Book of Acts. It draws heavily from the book of Revelations and the Gospel of John. These books share an apocalyptic theology. The Book of Revelations is the only time in the Gospels where Jesus sanctions violence, offering up a vision of Christ as the head of a great and murderous army of heavenly avengers. Martin Luther found the God portrayed in Revelations so hateful and cruel he put the book in the appendix of his German translation of the Bible.

These books rarely speak about Christ's message of love, forgiveness and compassion. They focus on the doom and destruction that will befall unbelievers and the urgent need for personal salvation. The world is divided between good and evil, between those who act as agents of God and those who act as agents of Satan. The Jesus of the other three Gospels, the Jesus who turned the other cheek and embraced his enemies, an idea that was radical and startling in the ancient Roman world, is purged in the narrative selected by the Christian Right.

The cult of masculinity pervades the ideology. Feminism and homosexuality are social forces, believers are told, that have rendered the American male physically and spiritually impotent. Jesus is portrayed as a man of action, casting out demons, battling the Anti-Christ, attacking hypocrites and castigating the corrupt. This cult of masculinity brings with it the glorification of strength, violence and vengeance. It turns Christ into a Rambo-like figure; indeed depictions of Jesus within the movement often show a powerfully built man wielding a huge sword.

This image of Christ as warrior is appealing to many within the movement. The loss of manufacturing jobs, lack of affordable health care, negligible opportunities for education and poor job security has left many millions of Americans locked out. This ideology is attractive because it offers them the hope of power and revenge. It sanctifies their rage. It stokes the paranoia about the outside world maintained through bizarre conspiracy theories, many on display in Pat Robertson's book The New World Order. The book is a xenophobic rant that includes vicious attacks against the United Nations and numerous other international organizations. The abandonment of the working class has been crucial to the success of the movement. Only by reintegrating the working class into society through job creation, access to good education and health care can the Christian Right be effectively blunted. Revolutionary movements are built on the backs of an angry, disenfranchised laboring class. This one is no exception.

The depictions of violence that will befall non-believers are detailed, gruesome and brutal. It speaks to the rage many believers harbor and the thirst for revenge. This, in large part, accounts for the huge sales of the apocalyptic series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. In their novel, Glorious Appearing, based on LaHaye's interpretation of Biblical Prophecies about the Second Coming, Christ eviscerates the flesh of millions of non-believers with the mere sound of his voice. There are long descriptions of horror, of how "the very words of the Lord had superheated their blood, causing it to burst through their veins and skin." Eyes disintegrate. Tongues melt. Flesh dissolves. The novel, part of The Left Behind series, are the best selling adult novels in the country. They preach holy war.

"Any teaching of peace prior to [Christ's] return is heresy." said televangelist James Robison.

Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, instability in Israel and even the fighting of Iraq are seen as signposts. The war in Iraq was predicted according to believers in the 9th chapter of the Book of Revelations where four angels "which are bound in the great river Euphrates will be released to slay the third part of men." The march towards global war, even nuclear war, is not to be feared but welcomed as the harbinger of the Second Coming. And leading the avenging armies is an angry, violent Messiah who dooms millions of non-believers to a horrible and painful death.


THE CORRUPTION OF SCIENCE AND LAW

The movement seeks the imprint of law and science. It must discredit the rational disciplines that are the pillars of the Enlightenment to abolish the liberal polity of the Enlightenment. This corruption of science and law is vital in promoting the doctrine. Creationism, or "intelligent design," like Eugenics for the Nazis, must be introduced into the mainstream as a valid scientific discipline to destroy the discipline of science itself. This is why the Christian Right is working to bring test cases to ensure that school textbooks include "intelligent design" and condemn gay marriage.

The drive by the Christian Right to include crackpot theories in scientific or legal debate is part of the campaign to destroy dispassionate and honest intellectual inquiry.[b[ Facts become interchangeable with opinions. An understanding of reality is not to be based on the elaborate gathering of facts and evidence. The ideology alone is true. Facts that get in the way of the ideology can be altered. Lies, in this worldview, become true. Hannah Arendt called this effort "nihilistic relativism" although a better phrase might be collective insanity.

The Christian Right has fought successfully to have Creationist books sold in national park bookstores in the Grand Canyon, taught as a theory in public schools in states like Alabama and Arkansas. "Intelligent design" is promoted in Christian textbooks. All animal species, or at least their progenitors, students read, fit on Noah's ark. The Grand Canyon was created a few thousand years ago by the flood that lifted up Noah's ark, not one billion years ago, as geologists have determined. The earth is only a few thousand years old in line with the literal reading of Genesis. This is not some quaint, homespun view of the world. It is an insidious attempt to undermine rational scientific research and intellectual inquiry.

Tom Delay, following the Columbine shootings, gave voice to this assault when he said that the killings had taken place "because our school systems teach children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial mud." (speech Delay gave in the House on June 16, 1999 )

"What convinces masses are not facts," Hannah Arendt wrote in Origins of Totalitarianism, "and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system which they are presumably part. Repetition, somewhat overrated in importance because of the common belief in the "masses" inferior capacity to grasp and remember, is important because it convinces them of consistency in time." (p.351)

There are more than 6 million elementary and secondary school students attending private schools and 11.5 percent of these students attend schools run by the Christian Right. These "Christian" schools saw an increase of 46 percent in enrollment in the last decade. The 245,000 additional students accounted for 75 percent of the total rise in private school enrollment.
THE LAUNCHING OF THE WAR

Adams told us to watch closely what the Christian Right did to homosexuals. He has seen how the Nazis had used "values" to launch state repression of opponents. Hitler, days after he took power in 1933, imposed a ban on all homosexual and lesbian organizations. He ordered raids on places where homosexuals gathered culminating with the ransacking of the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin . Thousands of volumes from the institute's library were tossed into a bonfire. Adams said that homosexuals would also be the first "deviants" singled out by the Christian Right. We would be the next.

The ban on same sex marriages, passed by eleven states in the election, was part of this march towards our door. A 1996 federal law already defines marriage as between a man and a woman. All of the states with ballot measures, with the exception of Oregon, had outlawed same sex marriages, as do 27 other states. The bans, however, had to be passed, believers were told, to thwart "activist judges" who wanted to overturn them. The Christian family, even the nation, was under threat. The bans served to widen the splits tearing apart the country. The attacks on homosexuals handed to the foot soldiers of the Christian Right an easy target. It gave them a taste of victory. It made them feel empowered. But it is ominous for gays and for us.

All debates with the Christian Right are useless. We cannot reach this movement. It does not want a dialogue. It cares nothing for rational thought and discussion. It is not mollified because John Kerry prays or Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School. These naive attempts to reach out to a movement bent on our destruction, to prove to them that we too have "values," would be humorous if the stakes were not so deadly. They hate us. They hate the liberal, enlightened world formed by the Constitution. Our opinions do not count.

This movement will not stop until we are ruled by Biblical Law, an authoritarian church intrudes in every aspect of our life, women stay at home and rear children, gays agree to be cured, abortion is considered murder, the press and the schools promote "positive" Christian values, the federal government is gutted, war becomes our primary form of communication with the rest of the world and recalcitrant non-believers see their flesh eviscerated at the sound of the Messiah's voice.

The spark that could set it ablaze may be lying in the hands of an Islamic terrorist cell, in the hands of the ideological twins of the Christian Right. Another catastrophic terrorist attack could be our Reichstag fire, the excuse used to begin the accelerated dismantling of our open society. The ideology of the Christian Right is not one of love and compassion, the central theme of Christ's message, but of violence and hatred. It has a strong appeal to many in our society, but it is also aided by our complacency. Let us not stand at the open city gates waiting passively and meekly for the barbarians. They are coming. They are slouching rudely towards Bethlehem. Let us, if nothing else, begin to call them by their name.


Chris Hedges, a reporter for The New York Times, is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning . He holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School . His next book , Losing Moses on the Freeway: America 's Broken Covenant With The Ten Commandments is published by The Free Press.

Note from Joan Bokaer - Chris refers to a memo I received in Iowa from Pat Robertson's organization. The year was 1986 -- two years before his presidential bid, and three years before the Christian Coalition was formed.
 
Hi webglider, this article was carried on SotT when it was published and was just put up two days ago as a 'Best of the Web' flashback - just in case you missed that.......

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/165955-The-Christian-Right-and-the-Rise-of-American-Fascism

And, yep - it's key to what is going on.
 
FWIW, Surviving Ourselves Magazine published a connection between Palin and Blackwater attributed to Max Blumenthol of The Nation.

Secretive Rapture Right Wing Group Selects Sarah Palin
by wwscrubbs on Wed 03 Sep 2008 05:39 AM PDT | Permanent Link
Sarah " Paleolithic " Palin has been selected to be John McCain's VP. This selection assures the Christian homeschooling, creationist, war mongering to- bring- Jesus- back- to- earth evangelical counter culture that one of their own is one heart beat away from the presidency. Palin's 17 year old daughter , Bristol, now pregnant out -of -wedlock, could have used some sex education, but the policies of the Bush administration insist on an abstinence only program for young people. No condom use there.
The one term Governor of Alaska was vetted, according to Max Blumenthal of The Nation, by a secretive Christian group whose membership lists are secret, a group that allows no reporters at its meetings. Blumenthal names some names though ; James Dobson of " Focus on the Family ", Tim LaHaye, author of the apocalyptic books in the " Left Behind " series, Grover Norquist ( anti-tax crusader), and Paul Weyrich, Catholic right organizer. Another notable member is Erik Prince, who runs Blackwater International, the private mercernary army of thugs and killers much admired by Dick Cheney, under contract to provide extra judicial muscle and mayhem in occupied Iraq.

The reason these Christian creeps have to meet in secret is because their views are so ant-American that even a dumbed down public would find their agenda repellant. They seek to create a totally Christian Nation with a permanent one-party rule, with judges selected by a strict Christian litmus test. Non-believers, those who won't drink the Christian Kool-Aid, will be excluded from any position of importance or say in public policy.Halliburton and Blackwater will handle those who don't fit into this radical new Amerikkka, with newly equipped relocation camps at the end of rail lines located around the U.S.. Hell, we did it to the Japanese during WWII : non-believers, in a country run secretly by the Council on National Policy, by way of Sarah Palin, could easily be rounded up and held indefinitely, or simply deported.

McCain, who plans to continue the policies of the Bush administration for four more years, agreed to the selection of Sarah Palin in order to channel the considerable clout of the Christian grass roots into an electoral victory over Obama and Biden. The selection of this entirely unqualified woman - a creationist who does not believe in science, is especially serious because McCain is not a spring chicken . McCain has had more than his share of health problems, and is likely to have more when he becomes president, so the selection of a political neophyte from the red-meat Christian counter-culture, boggles the mind. If McCain becomes disabled or simply dies, Palin, a hero of the anti-science, anti-rationality Christian flat-earth cult will be president, and James Dobson of Focus on the Family, will be running our country from behind the White House drapery.

Freedom of religion and the right to believe or not believe is a keystone of this country. In a Sarah Palin administration, religious leaders on the radical right will be in charge, even more than under Bush . One can expect the regressive policies and arrogance of the Bushittes to be put on steroids with McCain and Palin running the country, which makes this election a critical turning point, especially if you are at all concerned with who gets to appoint the new justices to the upcoming Supreme Court vacancies.

Do we as a country continue to descend into the Pit of irrationality and misery, or can we truly turn toward the light of Reason and Hope for a more perfect Union ? My hopes are clearly with the Obama team, and all the young people who have been energized by his unlikely candidacy. The margins are slight though, slight enough that more electronic voting machine " flips' could once again fix the election in the favor of the GOP, the ruling class and the corporate elites, forcing us all into more agony and pain. How, after 8 years of Bush and Cheney, the GOP brand still has any appeal, is all crazy to me --- as crazy as voting for Gore/ Lieberman in 2000, and then 8 years later witnessing the complete betrayal of Joe Lieberman, as he addresses the GOP convention. That SOB needs to be thrown out of the Democratic party, and relieved of his chairmanship of committees immediately !!!!



_http://somagcc.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/9/3/3867160.html
 
Here's a video of Ms Palin's church in Wasilla (she appears and is shown endorsing the church).

The "Cell phone anointing" has gotta be the weirdest thing I never expected, even from "fundies".

One of these "leaders", or rather, "Masters of Deceit" actually claims on video to have been a witness to raising a dead person. :shock:

After seeing this video, it reminded me of Reverend Henry Kane in Poltergeist II.

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The movie's subject matter wasn't all that scary, but the thought that people like him could exist unsettled the crap outta me. He gave me more than the willies. But he was only a fictional character, right?

Here they are in the flesh :scared: :

_http://vimeo.com/1679097
 
I ran across the following on Ran Prieur's http://www.ranprieur.com/ site that supports the idea that the best way to oppose Palin is to attack her character as psychopathic:

But ultimately I think we do have to attack Palin. Not her culture, which will push America toward civil war, and not her intelligence, which never worked with Reagan or Bush, but her character. We have to be patient, because it takes time for someone to see, or be willing to see, that their new girlfriend is a psycho. But we only have seven weeks!

The good news is that key members of the elite are with us on this one. Why else would the big media suddenly switch from coddling the McCain campaign to attacking it? If there's one thing stronger than the elite's desire to make money, it's their fear of an angry mob. When Palin speaks, they see an ignorant hick demagogue stirring up crowds in a time of economic hardship. She awakens their ancestral memories of peasants with pitchforks and torches -- or I hope she does, because if you look at history, when someone like her comes to power in times like these, it leads to piles of skulls. If Sarah Palin and what's-his-name win in November, I think half the people reading this will be dead in ten years.
 
there is an interview with McCain that just came out in the Atlantic Monthly. Here it is: "The Wars of John McCain" (\\\http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200810/mccain)

what's very obvious from it is that McCain is totally devoid of ability to reflect and self-analyze, he considers it "psychobabble and soft stuff". And, more importantly, he has no concept of strategy, higher goals and overarching interests. He is only concerned about winning for the sake of winning. He seriously believes that the US could have won the war in Vietnam if only they had stayed there a bit longer. It betrays not only the fundamental lack of understanding of what guerilla warfare is, that you can't win guerilla warfare, but also the lack of clarity of what the final results of any war are, for the country and for the people. Not to mention that a war is thoroughly evil, I am just saying, even in that area his grasp of the issue at hand is very limited.

so it's clear as day that McCain didn't "pick" Palin -- after Obama got scared of Georgia-Russia conflict and ditched Hillary, to choose a foreign-policy savvy Biden -- he doesn't seem to have enough neuron connections to think the moves in this game through.

They both are puppets, but she is the one who will take it all, it seems. She was just in Cedar Rapids, IA today or the other day, and in one of the comments she made a slip and called their ticket "the Palin-McCain presidency". OUch.
 
I get the feeling that McCain is tired. It's almost as if he's doing this whole "President" charade because he owes somebody, and really isn't into it.

A few videos that are telling:

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXZbIGJrDkg
 
well, unless it is semi-deliberate? like at this stage, she doesn't even care who knows it? Her dominionist un-derailable self-assuredness is pretty jawdropping. :O
 
Azur said:
I get the feeling that McCain is tired. It's almost as if he's doing this whole "President" charade because he owes somebody, and really isn't into it.

Do you think it's possible he's already been told the outcome? The C's said Bush would remain president until he dies and that no assassination or illness was involved.

23 October 2004


Q: (J) Will there be another terrorist attack in the US soon?

A: Bush does not need one, so no.

Q: (J) Will Bush continue on as President?

A: Until he dies.

Q: (J) Will he be assassinated?

A: Not likely.

Q: (H) Will he try to become a permanent leader, a Furher?

A: Will try.

Q: (H) Is he sick and will he die from his illness?

A: No...

Q: [Discussion about him being made sick or dying from other reasons.]

A: There are many ways to die.
 
Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

Laura said:
More clues:


Muthee made his experiences into a video called Transformations, which documents his "spiritual warfare" against demons and occult practices. Spiritual warfare is more common in Latin America and Africa, where the concept of day-to-day demons has a stronger hold. The video's trailer is available here.

Here is a video providing some more data about the Muthee "spiritual warfare" in Kenya.
 
The more I read about Palin, the scarier it gets... and I mean really scary. And if it weren't for Sott.net and you guys, I wouldn't know much about her (or anything else going around these days). Apparently and unfortunately, Americans don't know much about Palin either. Recently someone told me:

I would lose so much faith in this country if it did happen. Governing the richest and most powerful country in the world (for now) is not a freaking joke, it's a serious responsibility. You can't just hand the keys over to someone who's an absolute stranger to the people. We deserve the right to get to know Palin (not just through campaign talking points), and it's wholly disrespectful to the office of president for the McCain campaign to keep her locked away in seclusion.

And then we have famous actor Matt Damon saying about Palin:

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6urw_PWHYk

I think there's a really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president. And I think that's a very scary thing, cause I don't know anything about her. I don't think in eight weeks I'm gonna know anything about her.

So I guess the newspapers are not giving as much as info people desire.

And as someone here quoted:

We have to be patient, because it takes time for someone to see, or be willing to see, that their new girlfriend is a psycho.

Let's wait and see and watch the signs
thanks guys..
 
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