Sat 23 Jun 2007
Help the USA re-invent itself before we implode and sink like the Titanic! See—>”The Declaration of RE-Independence” on http://keeperofflame.proboards24.com/. or http://excoboard.com/exco/index.php?boardid=1979 The country you save will be your own! Best regards, James Sorrell
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Mon 18 Jun 2007
Everybody has an enemy, or someone they just do not like or trust. We are going to try a new exercise and give the keys to ours house, cars, and bank account numbers to our biggest enemy. Sounds like a brilliant idea, right? It must be brilliant, our government is doing just that. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/23/port.security/index.html
I have been critical in the past about our government and our politicians in the past. I will continue to be as long as our country is run the same way. We are just four and a half years removed from two planes destroying two buildings, killing thousands of people, and ruining the lives of the people left behind. Those terrorists were of an Arabian background. Obviously not all people can be grouped together but there is a difference between sitting next to one on a bus and allowing our ports to be run by them.
In the article, Bush said he didn’t hear anyone complaining that England was running one of our ports. While it is understandable why we would let England run a port, I do not agree with that either. Why wouldn’t we run our own ports? Why do we need other countries running our ports if they are so important? China, a communist country, is running a dock in Los Angles? Does that make sense to anyone either?
It amazes me what politicians come up with and how they can justify it. I am sure that most people did not know that many of our bombs and tools for defending our country are built in China as well. Yes, our government has contracted with a communist country to build weapons we need to defend ourselves in the event of a war. My question is, who is most likely to attack us besides the terrorists? My answer is, a communist country such as China.
Of course every politician that is hoping to become President in 2008 will jump all over this situation to bring light to themselves. While this is a good reason to criticize the Bush administration I think they will have other motives. As voters we really need to begin seeing through all of this garbage. We have to make much better decisions in choosing the leaders of our country. Common sense would indicate that you would not give up control of our six biggest ports to a country that is well-known for supporting terrorism in the past.
As voters we need to regain control of the country and begin making a difference in how our country is governed. I will continue to make this plea over the coming years through many different articles. Hopefully by the next Presidential election people will be seeing things differently. If you do not like the candidates in the 2008 election you can always feel free to write my name in on the ballot, I know I could do a better job.
Scott Bianchi operates http://www.best-internet-bargains.com. He writes on a variety of topics. If you would like to be added to his distribution list for his new articles when they are published just send an email to articles@bestinternetbargains.com .
Mon 11 Jun 2007
The Protocol plan ‘will remain invisible until the moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer undermine it.’ (Protocol 1) {Gardner’s 1999 book and those of Barrett and the Blandford Publishers would seem to make it no longer “invisible”!}
-’Wars, so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains.’ (Protocol 2)
-’(The) minds (of the masses) must be diverted toward industry and trade. Thus, all the nations will be swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and.. .will not take note of their common foe.’ (Protocol 14)
-’We shall create an intensified centralization of government,’ (Protocol 5) ‘… we must develop (a) Super-Government by representing it as the Protector and Benefactor of all those who voluntarily submit… {Remember Hobbes, see LEVIATHAN entry.}…We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies… ‘(Protocol 6)
-’The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces… (so that) in all the States of the world, besides ourselves, (there will be) only the masses of the proletariat, {With the non-lethal weapons and mind control psy-ops weapons developed in the last two decades the police and other enforcement of secret agencies under a variety of guises have expanded. Immigration, PATRIOT ACT or Mental hygiene, psychological teams in schools, medical use of drugs, tax collectors [There were no income taxes when these Protocols were written.] and a whole host of investigation and environmental or regulatory bodies have generated massive readjustments and further bureaucratization. Even the computer security has dual and multiple affects that allow major invasions of freedoms often only imagined in the annals of human culture. Soon the use of human body parts, genes and dumping of artificial and other implanted knowledge will occur directly.} a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police, and soldiers.’ (Protocol 7)
-’We shall put (government power) in the hands of persons whose past and reputations are such that between them and the people lies an abyss, {E.g. South America and the Nazis, or Bush family} persons who, in case of disobedience to our instructions, must face criminal charges…’ (Protocol 
-’We have fooled, bemused and corrupted the youth of the (masses) by rearing them in principles and theories which are known to us to be false… ‘(Protocol 9)
-’We shall destroy among the (masses) the importance of the family and its educational value.’ (Protocol 10)
-’We have invented this whole policy and insinuated it into the minds of the (masses)… {Their early Greco Roman success and the patristic/Abrahamic ‘baby-factories’ is a precursor that when joined with ‘The Original Sin’ of Augustine made huge inroads of family ability to nurture each other. Women weren’t allowed by law to become educated much less own things.} to obtain in a roundabout way what is… unattainable by the direct road… It is this which has served as the basis for our organization of secret masonry which is not known to, and aims which are not even so much as suspected by, these… cattle, attracted by us into the ‘Show’ army of Masonic Lodges in order to throw dust in the eyes of their fellows’ (Protocol 11)
-What is the part played by the press today?… It serves selfish ends… It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb Not a single announcement will reach the public without our control…’(Protocol 12)
-’The need for daily bread forces the (masses) to keep silent and be our humble servants In order that the masses themselves may not guess what they are about we further distract them with amusements, games, pastimes, passions, {The use of gambling and drugs or other addictions like lotteries and bingo.} people’s palace (no TV at that time). Soon we shall begin through the press to propose competitions in art, in sports of all kinds…’(Protocol 13)
-’It will be undesirable for us that there should exist any other religion than ours… We must therefore sweep away all other forms of belief.’ (Protocol 14) ‘Freedom of conscience has been declared every- where, so that now only years divide us from the moment of the complete wrecking of that Christian religion, as to other religions we shall have less difficulty in dealing with them.’(Protocol 17)
{Add to this, the foundational support of science and guidance to academia that we showed in the case of Rockefeller and Yale interests.}
-’When we at last definitely come into our kingdom by the aid of ‘coups d’etat’ prepared everywhere for one and the same day…we shall make it our task to see that against us such things as plots shall no longer exist. {The success of monopolistic and imperialistic or economic [Fed, IMF etc.] made a unification unwarranted but what about space colonization and gene therapy or other technology they didn’t have at their disposal?} With this purpose we shall slay without mercy all who take arms in hand to oppose our coming… Anything like a secret society will also be punishable with death…”(Protocol 15)
{The Gestapo had a lot of citizen help and the Nazis of Germany would be impressed with the denial of citizens going on today. There are strong indicators of major dependencies which lead away from freedom and people aren’t even aware they aren’t free due to the legalization and forced attendance at school not in existence in the time these ideas were formulated.} -’In our program one-third of (the masses) will keep the rest under observation from a sense of duty, on the principle of volunteer service to the State. {Machiavelli might say giving people perceived power to inform on others appeals to a lot of basic human urges.} It will be no disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a merit… how else (are) we to. .. increase… disorders?’ (Protocol 17) ‘Sedition-mongering is nothing more than the yapping of a lap-dog at an elephant… In order to destroy the prestige of heroism, for political crime we shall send it for trial in the category of thieving, murder and every kind of abominable and filthy crime. {The invocation of National Interest, increase in mutiny of the sea, fomentation of racial prejudices and the like served well for a century or more.} Public opinion will then… brand it with the same contempt.’ (Protocol 19) ‘Until (dissenters) commit some overt act we shall not lay a finger on them but only introduce into their midst observation elements…’ (Protocol 18)
{The use of the Weathermen by J. Edgar Hoover was a fine example of this kind of management and encouragement to create a whipping dog to keep others from questioning whether the government was fair and open to criticism. Then they were brought down from within.}
Later Protocols deal with finances. Protocol 20 called for general taxation, ‘the lawful confiscation of all sums of every kind for the regulation of their circulation in the State.’ This would be followed by a ‘progressive tax on property’ and then finally a graduated income tax, a ‘tax increasing in a percentage ratio to capital’ as well as taxes on sales, ‘receipt of money’, inheritance, and property transfers. {The lack of actual taxes paid by the very rich allows further question. For example Rupert Murdoch is able to get preferred status by the creation of Congressional allowances just for him. Donations to the agencies of the Masons or churches are tax free and the investment in certain things they wanted allowed tax avoidance.} There was a discussion of ‘the substitution of interest-bearing paper:’ money since ‘Economic crises have been produced by us… by no other means than the withdrawal of money from circulation.’
The Protocols also discuss at great length - loans, which it states ‘hang like a sword of Damocles over the heads of rulers, who, instead of taking from their subjects by a temporary tax, come begging with outstretched palm to our bankers.’…
Despite their dubious origin, the Protocols were taken seriously by many powerful people, including Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II, Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, and American industrialist Henry Ford, who used them to persuade the U.S. Senate not to join President Wilson’s League of Nations.
The Ochrana’s plan worked a bit too well. A counterrevolution took place and pogroms against Russian Jews were instituted by vigilantes called ‘The Black Guard’, incensed by the Czarist propaganda. Continuing instability and violence finally resulted in the 1905 Russian Revolution, during which the Protocols again were trotted out by pro-czarist elements to inflame the public.
Hitler saw the Protocols as a real proclamation despite the evidence of fabrication. In Mein Kampf he wrote, ‘They are supposed to be a ‘forgery’ the Frankfurter Zeitung moans and cries out to the world once a week; the best proof that they are genuine after all… But the best criticism applied to them is reality. He who examines the historical development of the past hundred years, from the points of view of this book (the Protocols), will also immediately understand the clamor of the Jewish press. For once this book has become the common property of a people, the Jewish danger is bound to be considered as broken.’
About the Author
Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine. Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com
Sat 9 Jun 2007
Edward R. Murrow is back in the nick of time, just when we need
him the most.
“Good Night and Good Luck” is a feature film account of Murrow’s
1953 and 1954 “See It Now” broadcasts assailing Sen. Joseph
McCarthy during the nation’s anti-Communist hysteria.
>From the moment in a 1950 speech when McCarthy waved his
infamous (and never-identified) “list of 205 Communists working
in the State Department,” the senator exploited the country’s
Cold War paranoia, relentlessly pursuing those he deemed
Communist sympathizers. (San Francisco Chronicle, 10/8/05).
We are once again at this point, blacklisting the American known
as the sexual offender. The collective “we” have allowed
politicians to exploit our most vulnerable fear, the safety of
our children, for personal political advantage. We are all
responsible for allowing hysteria driven legislation, at the
city, state, and federal level, to remain unchecked due to the
manipulation of our emotional bonds to our children by
politicians.
Journalists have not asked the hard-nosed questions and have not
informed or educated the public about the relative ease of how
one becomes an offender. This perpetuates the myth that all
offenders are child molesters. The majority of offenders
registered have been “convicted” of poor behavior choice
offenses which involve no victim-teenage consensual sex, public
urination, online “chat” with undercover police officers. Most
charged persons lack adequate funding for a legal defense to
fight such charges and deplete their personal funds at the
median figure of $15,000. The resulting plea bargain is followed
by automatic sexual offender registration as decreed by Florida
Statute 943.0436 . Our politicians have even legislated judicial
discretion, the power of a judge to impose a fair and just
sentence. Registration is for life or 20 years, whatever comes
first and permeates every aspect of the registrant’s life. I
challenge journalists to stop editorializing about offenders and
investigate the truth.
Politicians run unchecked with this issue, due to guaranteed
press coverage and easy votes. Off the record, many politicians
will admit their discomfort with these laws….but to do so
publicly will result in political suicide. State Representative
David Simmons of Longwood reflects this attitude quite blatantly
with his recent comment regarding yet further proposed residency
restriction proposals at the state level, “Who’s (going) to
complain?” (Florida Today, 10/9/05). Although a group of
Americans and their families are being blacklisted, banished,
and segregated, our politicians will not come forward to their
constitutuents with the truth.
The Palm Bay City Council was presented 10/6/05 with the most
current data provided by the United States Department of
Justice, which definitively determined in a 10,000 person study,
the treated sex offender recidivism rate to be 5.3%.” Instead of
tabling the issue for further research, the Council instead
opted to schedule the proposed ordinances for second reading and
public hearing 10/20/05. These ordinances will impact an
offender’s ability to make a living and provide for family,
which sets a dangerous unconstitutional precedent.
Voters have not demanded the truth from their elected
representatives and have allowed politicians to legislate the
safety of our children. Parents, that is your responsibility,
not the federal government. Should your family endorse the
registry, demand your politicians restructure the registry to
reflect a tier level system of risk instead of “lumping” all
offenders into one pot. Give them “permission” to revamp a law
originally passed with only good intentions.
Should an offender live in your neighborhood, I challenge
residents to educate yourself regarding the offense of your
neighbor by obtaining a police report. The FDLE registry does
not reflect the true nature of the conviction and is often,
simply incorrect. Once educated with the real facts, only then
are you and your family truly “notified” as the law originally
intended.
As Edward R. Murrow indicated in his famous October 15, 1958
“Wires and Lights” speech regarding the duty of broadcast
journalism to inform and educate the public, “There is a great
and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance,
intolerance and indifference….We must not confuse dissent with
disloyalty.” It is our duty to question authority because
without scrutiny, authority remains unchecked and corrupt
Fri 8 Jun 2007
In the building profession, we are constantly presented with challenges that require us to step up to the plate and take action. The selection and adoption of the building code to be followed, is an important and one of the most fundamental challenges to be met. Once the decision to adopt a statewide code has been made, it still takes time–sometimes years, to work through the processes, adopt the codes and enforce them. However, states affected by last year’s tragic storm-induced destruction, face a more immediate need.
Louisiana has adopted the current International Codes and Mississippi is beginning the process. These are bold steps toward safer structures that will provide greater economical and life safety benefits to building owners and occupants. The urgent need to have regulation in place, however, will not elimintate the obstacles these states will surely encounter. Just as other states in the past and those currently in the process, the adoption process is subject to a myriad of complications. For instance, the state of Pennsylvania adopted state codes about 18 months ago, but it took years before the process reached final adoption, most likely due to opposition, apathy, positioning and ignorance. If you’ve ever been involved in the process, you know and understand this all too well.
After addressing the immediate human needs, Mississippi and Louisiana will focus on economic restoration through rebuilding. Most everyone will have an opinion resonating coast to coast and perhaps even internationally about how this should be done. From an adoption perspective, I suggest:
Richard A. Piccolo is president of B & F Technical Code Services, Inc. With more than 30 years in the building code and fire industry, Mr. Piccolo is a Master Code Professional, a Certified Building Official, a Certified Fire Official, a Certified Property Maintenance Inspector, a Certified Building Inspector, a Certified Plans Examiner, an Illinois Certified Fire Inspector and a Certified Firefighter III. He has helped write building and fire codes for the state of Illinois as well as a number of municipalities.
Thu 31 May 2007
“God Bless America” is a well-known phrase throughout the land.
The Bible tells us how to receive His blessings. Yet, America is
running in the opposite direction. By their example, our
forefathers taught how to make America great. Our nation was
founded “Under God” for the purpose of freedom in worship; a
privilege that brings God’s blessings every time. Our coins are
a reminder of their heart, “In God We Trust”; where God always
looks first. The Ten Commandments were their moral guideline;
the system set up by God for a better way of life. Men believed
so strongly that they fought and died for the cause of America
and Pilgrims risked their lives to be a part of it. Yet, today,
we see a new breed of ‘would be’ forefathers who; vote their
wallet instead of their conscience, dictate what we should
believe to justify their lifestyle, look the other way rather
than stand for Godly values, wear as many faces as it takes to
reach prominent positions, and attend church to make further
business contacts. If our forefathers could see us now, they’d
surely think they’d served and died in vain. The shame that has
been brought upon America is heard and seen in the news and is
coming into our neighborhood and homes. For every occasion we
remain silent, indifferent, or divided (due to religious
differences), we have nobody to blame but ourselves. It is a
myth to expect God’s continued blessings when our faith is a
joke to Him. Instead of asking God to Bless America, perhaps we
should be asking why He would. If we don’t care enough to stand,
then why should He? Mt.12:25-30, I Sa. 12:16. It makes no
difference whether in our home, school, church, job, community,
state, or country … wherever God is excluded, Satan has free
reign (I Ki. 18:18b). In our land of the free, we have set Satan
free.
© by Joyce C. Lock
http://our.homewithgod.com/heavenlyinspirations/ This writing
may be used in its entirety, with credits in tact, for
non-profit ministering purposes.
Sun 27 May 2007
The complete article is found @
http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/dougkrieger/delay_lahay.htm
Tom DeLay may be under attack; however, he is still the most powerful HAMMER/power broker to descend upon the House of Reps. in decades . . . and, a close study of DeLay’s is his match among the Christians, Tim LaHaye . . . Politics & Religion–go figure!
TOM & TIM…DeLay and LaHaye
or
Why The Dems Can’t Stand Tom DeLay & Tim LaHaye
Part I (Note: These articles appeared during the height of Tom DeLay’s ever-increasing problems involving past political practices in the State of Texas. The “problems” just won’t go away…but are his junkets paid by deep-pocketed lobbyists any different than scores of critics who feed at the same tables as DeLay? Makes for interesting reading . . .
By Doug Krieger
THE MORAL OF THE STORY
Lou Dubose and Jan Reid’s new book, THE HAMMER, a biography on House of Representatives Majority Whip Tom DeLay, is allegedly a story of God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress—and just how Tom DeLay took advantage of Newt Gingrich and fellow Texan Dick Armey’s Republican ascendancy and became himself the most powerful man in the House of Representatives. We’ll get into the “God part” a lot more than the money and political parts for now—but just to warn you, the King of Tyre (money) and the King of Babylon (political power) have a whole lot to do about this most interesting story. This is all the more fascinating now that the powerful Congressman has collected a whole lot of chips from fellow Reps. for past support and, consequently, has gotten the House GOP caucus (Nov. 18, 2004) to vote to end its rule requiring leaders to step down if indicted (which it now appears that DeLay will be for past indiscretions brought against him in Texas). The political intrigue is mounting, big time!
Now, the plot of this political-religious thriller intensifies as the “moral of the story” is discovered—enter Tim LaHaye (kind of a neat little rhyme going on here with Tom and Tim, DeLay and LaHaye). You see, DeLay eventually walked right into an evangelical church that had gotten a whole lot more “politicized” by folks like LaHaye—so, when we get into the “God part” of DeLay, you’ll understand why we brought LaHaye along.
LaHaye will act as Chairman of the Board for Jerry Falwell’s newly energized FAITH AND VALUES COALITION. The Faith and Values Coalition, according to the most beloved Baptist brother on the planet, the Rev. Barry Lynn (mouth for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State), is nothing more than “just another fund-raising vehicle.” Furthermore, Lynn so abhors these religious/political efforts that he likens them to “an old horror movie—every time they bring Frankenstein’s monster back, it just gets worse!”
One might be hearing “sour grapes” a bit—check out Barry’s remarks, and comments on his remarks:
“Some things should be left dead and buried,” Lynn said. He noted that recent analysis of election results debunked early claims that “values voters” re-elected President Bush. In fact, Lynn pointed out, voter’s main concerns were terrorism, national security and the war in Iraq.
“The people do not share Jerry Falwell’s repressive vision of an America where church and state are merged and the views of intolerant TV preachers form the basis of our laws,” Lynn said. “I welcome Falwell’s new organization to the debate. I feel confident it will meet the same fate as the Moral Majority.” (see above for source)
Sure, I bet Lynn welcomes Falwell and LaHaye to the debate—I bet he just can’t wait! Apparently, Falwell believes in the resurrection—I wonder if Barry does? But then, again, nothing like another “Son of Frankenstein” movie!
THE BOBSIE TWINS – FIRST, LaHAYE
DeLay and LaHaye do have some interesting things in common. For one, they know how to wield political clout and marshal conservative religious forces in America, while amassing vast sums of money for their causes (most of which are mutual). LaHaye co-founded Falwell’s original Moral Majority back in the late ‘70s. He and his wife, Beverly, started campaigning for pro-life causes through their Baptist marriage counseling company, Family Life Seminars. In 1979 Bev founded Concerned Women for America—a sort of counter weight to the National Organization for Women (NOW). Furthermore, LaHaye’s famous “Left Behind” series—whose sales are off the charts, approaching (if not surpassing) over 100 million copies (and, catapulting the LaHaye’s literary fortunes close to that same figure)—makes him one of the wealthiest evangelicals in America, if not the world.
Although Falwell held center stage in galvanizing conservative Christians to the polls and, ipso facto, to the Republican cause, LaHaye (as Falwell puts it) “ran under the radar.” In 1981 LaHaye founded the Council for National Policy—claiming, at one time, some 600,000 members. In the 1980s, the CNP was quite the political/religious machine; spawning countless campaigns and organizations. Included among its members were Ed Meese, John Ashcroft, Pat Robertson and, of course Falwell—as well as key think tanks, and activists like Grover Norquist and Oliver North. A lot of the “right-wing jihad” against President Clinton in the 1990s was funded by CNP supporters like Texas oilman and silver manipulator, Nelson Bunker Hunt, Richard DeVos of Amway and beer magnate Joseph Coors (the same crowd that funded the contras in Central America).
Impeaching Clinton was allegedly conceived by the CNP in Montreal in June of 1997. Falwell touts the CNP for helping raise hundreds of millions for ventures like Liberty University (the second largest Evangelical Christian University in America—surpassed only by Baylor (Baptist) University in Waco, TX). President Bush attended a CNP meeting at the start of his 1999 presidential campaign, and Rumsfeld took part in the group’s gathering last April in Washington, D.C. Republican political strategist, Paul Weyrich, once said: “Without [LaHaye], what we call the religious right would not have developed the way it did, and as quickly as it did.”
Brother LaHaye took a severe fall when he was linked, along with wife Bev, in taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the wacky would-be messiah Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church cult (which most Christians really do view as laughably heretical). When Moon got entangled with tax evasion charges, LaHaye came to his rescue. Then the “pay off monies” came out into the public—so, LaHaye tried to back off—but it was too late. By the time LaHaye tried to regroup, his reputation—along with another one of his organizations founded in the 1970s, The American Coalition for Traditional Values, flopped! But LaHaye did regroup—thanks to the multi-million dollar sales of Left Behind (see, he wasn’t about to be Left Behind).
LaHaye’s agenda mirrors that of Falwell’s; and is the heart and passion of the so-called Religious Right in America. Restoring the Nation back to Absolute Values—family, pro-life (a.k.a., “the culture of life”), anti-abortion (just so you know what pro-life is), anti-gay agenda (the whole thing), pro-marriage (between Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve), pro-prayer in the public schools, pro-displaying of religious symbols and artifacts like the Ten Commandments wherever and whenever, strong “national defense” (as defined as “whatever it takes to destroy the barbaric infidels”), etc., etc., etc.
NOT LEFT BEHIND – JUST DeLAY (BOBSIE TWIN #2)
A little evangelical background on Rep. DeLay would be helpful . . . so, after a couple of terms in the Texas Legislature (after a rather lackluster business life as a pest control operator), DeLay made a move on the US Congress, running in the suburbs of Houston, TX and winning! He headed off to Washington as a freshman Rep. and led the charge against the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts)—and got a whole lot of fame for DEFUNDING THE LEFT (especially with the NEA’s propensity to spend huge sums of money on absurd and even pornographic “art”).
Notwithstanding the crusading efforts to purge the Left of its immoral efforts, DeLay himself had his own demons to corral. It was in the mid-1980s when the booze-drinkin’ (similar to President Bush’s story) DeLay rediscovered his Baptist roots and through a fellow Republican colleague, Frank Wolfe, was handed a tape by Dr. James Dobson—and the rest is evangelical history. DeLay claims he had a real born-again experience—much like President Bush. And, like Bush, eventually got involved in an “accountability group” compliments of the Promise Keepers; then, on to the Southern Baptist, avant-garde, Sugar Land First Baptist Church, where DeLay’s A-A-mens could be easily heard, as Pastor Scott Rambo (who, as Dubose describes was “as charismatic and engaging as Bill Clinton at a town hall meeting”) preached to the thousands who’d come each week to hear his “seeker-friendly” messages.
Yep, like President Bush, DeLay’s faith has utterly energized his politics. Listen to DeLay’s “mission statement” for America:
“To bring us back to the Constitution and to Absolute Truth that has been manipulated and destroyed by a liberal worldview.” (p. 58 – The Hammer)
BUSH, THE PATRICIAN vs. DeLAY, THE PLEBEIAN or
THE OIL MAN vs. THE BUG MAN
Continuing on with DeLay’s evangelical roots (his political evolution and machinations are also really interesting—but later on those) . . .
Like Clinton, DeLay grew up in a dysfunctional home where his father was an alcoholic. He hailed from the “roughneck camps of the Texas oil patch—home to the guys who drilled the wells and ran the casing for the bullies who owned the royalties and ran the state. His patrimony was the sort of dysfunction that is the psychological and biological inheritance of the children of alcoholics.” (p. 9 – The Hammer).
On the other hand, Bush picked up the Texan drawl, but, let’s face it, his family richly provided him an East Coast prep school, bachelor’s degree from Yale, an MBA from Harvard—and, being the grandson of a U.S. senator and son of a vice president and president—man, maybe, after all, he was born with a “silver spoon” in his mouth. Whereas DeLay’s background couldn’t hold a candle to the patrician Bush. Nope, DeLay was through and through a plebeian (Roman for “dirt poor” compared to the aristocrats among the Romans called patricians.).
Bush was an oilman—and, frankly, not a very good one (so everyone knows)—but he had a deep well of never-ending resources through family-related investment capital. On the other hand, DeLay was a bug man. And, like Bush, not a very good one at that. Eventually, the rules and regs. of the EPA just about wiped out his business—and, that did it. “It’s off to Congress I go”—so you wonder why the “counter-revolution” against the EPA, et al, continues to this day?
Right about the same time that DeLay was “finding Jesus” – President Bush was doing the same—but under very different “evangelical environments.” First of all, Bush’s drinking habits were getting the best of him—and Laura had had it.
The time was ripe! However, Bush’s “conversion experience” differed from DeLay’s. When Bush, the prodigal son, returned home to the Maine compound in 1985, there was the Revered Billy Graham. They walked the grounds of Walker Point—the Bush family estate on the coast of Maine. Bush prayed with Graham and he “surrendered himself to Jesus.” Returning back home in Midland, Bush joined a Bible Study “accountability group” that Laura also attended—eventually, he quit drinking.
In sum, Dubose describes the Bush and DeLay religious encounters as follows:
“DeLay had come up harder in all ways, all his life. He had absorbed enough Baptist teaching and upbringing to call himself a Christian, yet as he neared forty he knew he was a sinner. His road to Damascus was plebeian, and he choked in the dust of patricians like George Bush.” (p. 53)
“When Tom DeLay fell to his knees before a video clip of James Dobson, he was not only born again in Christ, he was born again in Republican electoral politics. This is not to suggest that his motives were anything less than spiritual, but the result was political. Not only did his return to the church provide him the focus and discipline he lacked when he had been ‘Hot Tub Tom’ of ‘Macho Manor’ in Austin (you’ll have to read the book to understand), DeLay immediately became part of a religious community that is also a political community. As a high-profile evangelical Christian, Tom DeLay connected to the Christian base without which the Republican Party cannot win national elections—and many state elections. Like George W. Bush, DeLay found Jesus at the precise moment in American political history when Jesus became a political asset. THE TIMING WAS SO PERFECT THAT THE NONBELIEVR IS LEFT TO WONDER IF IT JUST MIGHT HAVE BEEN GOD’S PLAN. (pp. 58-59 – The Hammer) (Note: My emphasis upon the “secularist’s remarks.)
There you have it—somehow, evangelicalism and politics—along with this guy, Tim LaHaye—found fertile ground in the Baptist soils of Texas. Two men from two completely different walks of life—at about the same time—got the “old time religion” and it has shaped how they look at America and the world—BIG TIME! Likewise, it has shaped how “Liberal America” thinks about them and about most “old time religion” in America—just in case you can’t see where I’m going with this! (Veiled allusion here to Howard Dean’s Republican Party of “White Christians” remark(June, 2005).)
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About the Author
Doug is a member of Last Days Network, a team of evangelical writers whose news and reviews appear on numerous blog sites throughout the USA and the world. Religion and politics are joined at the hip…and more so in the USA…what is going on here anyway?