Congressman Robert Andrews stood up in Congress and said that violations of the Peoples Constitutional right to free exercise of religion wasn't important. He said that the concerns by Religious Colleges and Universities about Religious Freedom were "not compelling questions". He's trying to tread water on the subject, but refuses to apologize for letting slip his belief that the Constitutional Guarantees of Rights and Liberties to religious believers are not "compelling". In other words, Andrews believes that an appointed board, in this case the National Labor Relations Board, can tell a person or an institution whether or not they are religious. It is intolerable to lovers of Liberty that some section of the Government--an unelected, appointed and very powerful section--can tell someone, or some educational institution, that they don't believe something that they profess. It is intolerable act from a Member of Congress.
The Regime has told a major publisher of Bibles and religious titles that it isn't religious. The reasoning is simple--they are a major publishing house, and even though their entire business and business model is based on the promotion of Scripture and devotional reading because of their religious beliefs, the Regime maintains that they are in business, so they do not have a right to practice their religion in the conduct of their business. I could swear that the Constitution gives us the right to free exercise of religion. Our rights are ours, they are not granted to us by the government, by Congress, by the President and most certainly not by a board of political appointees. Our rights are things we, the people, have carved out from governmental interference from the Founding of our current Republic and form of government, and they may not be transgressed with impunity. It is intolerable that the government of the United States would seek to place limits on free exercise of religion on the basis of it's practitioners engaging in commerce in the public square. This is an intolerable act by part of the bureaucracy that increasingly rules our lives.
Last Friday, Carol Jackson , a US District judge threw out a lawsuit by a small business owner against the HHS mandate, saying his business wouldn't be substantially burdened. This is so egregiously oppressive that it boggles the mind. First, we're not talking about a burden on business per se, but a violation of an individuals constitutional rights. Such violations are by their very nature substantial burdens on the life of the individual and of our collective life as a Republic. Second off, the idea of the plaintiff is that he is going to be required to do something that violates the dictates of his religion to such a degree that he can logically be expected to have anxiety over the state of his soul: paying for abortions is material cooperation with murder, a mortal sin that can land him in hell, according to his religious beliefs. That's a very heavy, substantial, burden to carry through life. Third, one sees in this yet another attempt by the Government, in this case by the Judiciary, to limit our right to freely exercise our religion in such a way that our ethics cannot be brought to bear on our business practices. (It's not odd when one thinks about it. The current economic mess was brought about by poor ethics and politicized lending practices. The Regime has numerous people from the very companies and institutions that brought it about, and favors expanding the practices that led to the debacle. They want no ethics to interfere, and business must be politicized.) Once again an intolerable act of oppression is being perpetrated against the people of this once great Republic, by our own Regime.
The American Spectator has an interesting article on the increase of both Governmental and Social restrictions on and hostility toward religion, and the rates have almost doubled under the current Regime. This too, is intolerable, for as the article points out, well financed and organized groups are trying to turn the First Amendment upside down, by disregarding the free exercise clause. Who are these people? I don't know, the identities of those who would remove us from public life are obscured by all the confidentiality policies and fund swapping endemic to political action groups. But the numbers are themselves what is important--these acts are intolerable. Culture Digest has some interesting information on this study, and the Spectator has links to the text, so you can see for yourself how the number of intolerable acts piles up.
Mitch Landrieu , the Mayor of New Orleans, attempted to make religious speech on Bourbon Street a criminal offense. Think about it. Both a religious activity and free speech criminalized because this guy wants to make sure that drunkards and prostitutes on Bourbon Street don't here anything that might make them spend less money or perhaps re-think sex work. Tourism and money are more important, in this man's view, than Constitutional Rights. This particular intolerable act of oppression was, thankfully, blocked by a courrt order. However, it was attempted, and that's intolerable.
Social oppression grows apace as well. Filmmakers are trying very hard to make Christians either into objects of derision, possibly insane object of derision, as in the movie A Perfect Family (which depicts among other things the deliberate profanation of the Holy Eucharist by a Catholic Housewife who is trying to make everyone believe she has the perfect family) or hateful, violent killers as in the Kevin Smith movie Red State . Now Hollywood's hostility to religion isn't universal-they seem to have very good feelings about the sensibility of Muslims, even attempting to hire a Muslim clergyman to vet the script for a movie on the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. These actions are insidious and are intolerable acts of hostility, meant to marginalize Christians in the public square. Filmmakers went from providing entertainment to attempting to dictate our culture, while having almost nothing in common with Mainstream America.
Yes, we live in an era of Intolerable Acts, and if you find them as threatening to your freedom as I do, here's a song for you. If you don't, consider this--when the Regime can trample any part of the Constitution, it can trample all of it. Without the Constitutional limits on Government Power, without the limits of law being required and enforced, we have no protection from our government, and no redress for anything it might do. So, listen to the song, and realize that there must a line in the sand, where we will stand and say "Enough with your Intolerable Acts of Oppression!"
After all, in a few more weeks, we get to vote--make it count.
It'll be this, or the camps
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Friday, September 21, 2012
Another Attack by Scummy H8ters
FX has decided to continue it's attack on the Church through by way of it's series American Horror Story. This year it's set in an Asylum ran by and Eeeeevvviiiilllll nun. The inmates are tortured, exploited etc, the nun wants to jump the Monsignor's bones and wears sexy lingerie under her habit.
Face it, it's just Nun Porn on Cable. Nun Porn seems popular--I saw the box--NOT THE MOVIE--for a DVD at the rental place called Nude Nun's with Big Guns, so I guess softcore Nun Porn is going mainstream. Of course, Sodomites are infamous for picking up on Femme archetypes and one of the producers of this is Ryan Murphy, a sodomite who left the Church when he realized we valued his soul over sexual gratification.
Just let me quote Matt Archbold: When the Vatican attempts to correct wayward nuns and sisters, it's eeeeeeeevil. But a television show depicts nuns as murderous evil religious wackos and that's just hunky dory. Oh wait, it's art. And that's like way more important than the state of someone's soul. Like it's not even close. Duh.
Face it, there's a lot of hate speech masquerading as art. Or perhaps, it would be better to say there is a lot of "Hate Art" masquerading as speech.
Face it, it's just Nun Porn on Cable. Nun Porn seems popular--I saw the box--NOT THE MOVIE--for a DVD at the rental place called Nude Nun's with Big Guns, so I guess softcore Nun Porn is going mainstream. Of course, Sodomites are infamous for picking up on Femme archetypes and one of the producers of this is Ryan Murphy, a sodomite who left the Church when he realized we valued his soul over sexual gratification.
Just let me quote Matt Archbold: When the Vatican attempts to correct wayward nuns and sisters, it's eeeeeeeevil. But a television show depicts nuns as murderous evil religious wackos and that's just hunky dory. Oh wait, it's art. And that's like way more important than the state of someone's soul. Like it's not even close. Duh.
Face it, there's a lot of hate speech masquerading as art. Or perhaps, it would be better to say there is a lot of "Hate Art" masquerading as speech.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Mixed Signals From the Front
Just watching the patterns in the news, I think things might be starting to improve for Christians in the United States. People are standing up and saying enough in many places, but that doesn't mean things are all good and sunny here in The-Land-of-the-Used-To-Be Free.
Among other things, the ACLU is cuttin' up ugly in Missouri . They are seeking to block a law that would make it illegal to deliberately disrupt religious services. The "Anti-Christian Lawyers Union" hold that that would interfere with freedom of expression. I guess they're not objective enough to see that disrupting a religious service on purpose interferes with a congregation's freedom of expression, and their right to free exercise of religion both. Somehow, the parasitic lawyers have decided that religion is fair game for hate groups.
In South Carolina the ACLU has sent letter--with no basis in law--to schools in an attempt to intimidate them. These letters state that the schools may not teach anything about religion. I guess these lawyers don't understand a couple of simple things: western and world history are not intelligible without some understanding of religion and religious issues. Modern (since 1550) Western European History is incomprehensible without an understanding of the Reformation, and the Reformation itself is incomprehensible without an understanding of the issues and doctrines that the Protestant Founders were concerned with removing, and the Catholic Counter-Reformers were concerned with defending. It set up divisions and fault lines that are still operative today, around the globe. In the same way, world history, and especially the history of the interactions of the Islamic World and the Western world make no sense without an understanding of the Great Schism. For that matter, one cannot make sense of the history of south Asia without understanding the tensions between Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism. Likewise, East Asian history needs an explication of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shinto. Not to mention the history of colonialism and various world issues through WWII, or even near contemporary history like the Balkan Wars of the 90s! The ACLU in it's letter also deliberately misstated that schools may not have religious clubs, or student groups that study scripture etc--this is in direct contradiction to Federal Court rulings. The Federal Courts have ruled that religous student groups have the same rights as to access as secular ones.
In Loveland Colorado a school has confiscated a students rosary. The school claims it is a "gang symbol". Well I guess if San Fransisco can get away with labeling the Church a "Hate Group" a school can call Catholics a street gang here in Seculo-Fascist America. But I do recall that the constitution protects free exercise of religion, freedom of speech--and by extension freedom of expression--and states that people cannot be deprived of their property without recompense. By taking his limiting his freedom of expression, freedom of speech, ability to exercise his religion and taking his property with such stipulations that make it impossible for him to recover it, some unelected public employees have trampled his rights. I guess here I should say that European Catholics and many American Catholics say one should not wear the rosary like jewelry--but this kid is Hispanic, and they don't have that stricture--and it's not a rule for the Universal Church that they no be worn in such a manner. Hmmmm...if he's Hispanic, this looks even worse, because not only is it directed against a harmless symbol of his Catholic Faith, the assumption is that a Hispanic kid displaying a rosary must be a gang-banger: it's Anticatholic bigotry and racism in one, a twofer of discrimination.
“It is difficult to understand how it is illegal to have a prayer meeting on Friday night with a half dozen people but it is alright if I invited the same group on Monday evening to watch Monday night Football,” Roessiger said. The Roessiger's are a family in Florida that are under attack for hosting a Bible Study in their home and placing a sign in their yard listing a phone number you can call to have people pray for you. The Pacific Justice Institute is providing legal counsel and assistance in the families battle with the Venice Florida City Code Enforcement Board. Right now it looks like the family has won the battle for their Civil Rights. But, there is a warning here for the accommodationists--The Seculo-Fascists keep trying to say that Freedom of Religion applies to what occurs (with limits on anything that can be construed as political, and one of their buzz phrases is that "The personal is political") inside of a church or in a home, but given the slightest pretext they will try to stop what happens in the home.
The Fransiscan University of Stuebenville is under fire, and receiving attacks from every quarter, to include CNN and NPR, for teaching a course on deviant behavior. They are being attacked by Sodomites and others who object to being called deviants. I have new for them--in Sociology, a devient is some onw on the extreme ends of the bell curve for behaviors, and since the best figures put Sodomites and Sapphists at 1.5 to 3 percent of the population, by scientific definition they are deviants. So much for Academic Freedom, as well as Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Thought. Let alone the idea that Academia is about the free exchange of ideas.
Holy Family Catholic Church in Citrus Heights California is under fire for having a pro-life sign on their lawn. The sign reads "Don't support abortion with your vote--Vote Pro-Life". It doesn't endorse a specific party or candidate, but a moral stance based on the faith of the Catholic Church. They are being told that this sign pushes the envelope of permissible speech by a church, by pro-abortion persons. My own parish has had people call us, or walk into the office to berate us for our pro-life signs, which didn't even mention voting. Speech rooted in religious belief isn't well tolerated by Seculo-Fascists.
The religious and free speech rights, as well as the right to freedom of association of the family that owns and runs Chick-Fil-A have been so battered that they have been driven from the public forum by what amounts to an economic lynch mob of sodomites and their sympathizers. The actions of this company were within the law, within their rights and in accordance with their faith. Yet the hate mongers who despise Christians who actually live and act according to their belief have effectively silenced them. Yet another example of the civil rights of Christians under attack.
I want to conclude by a blatantly partisan statement about some of the US Catholic Bishops. I think they are ignorant and foolish. The movie Natural Born Killers brought the American Indian fable of the rattlesnake brought into the house to mainstream American attention, yet these men are allying with the ACLU--remember the first paragraphs?--on a cause that is not an absolute in Catholic teaching, never thinking that this same group will cheerfully destroy the Church int he United States for their Seculo-Fascist goals.
We have only ourselves to blame.
Among other things, the ACLU is cuttin' up ugly in Missouri . They are seeking to block a law that would make it illegal to deliberately disrupt religious services. The "Anti-Christian Lawyers Union" hold that that would interfere with freedom of expression. I guess they're not objective enough to see that disrupting a religious service on purpose interferes with a congregation's freedom of expression, and their right to free exercise of religion both. Somehow, the parasitic lawyers have decided that religion is fair game for hate groups.
In South Carolina the ACLU has sent letter--with no basis in law--to schools in an attempt to intimidate them. These letters state that the schools may not teach anything about religion. I guess these lawyers don't understand a couple of simple things: western and world history are not intelligible without some understanding of religion and religious issues. Modern (since 1550) Western European History is incomprehensible without an understanding of the Reformation, and the Reformation itself is incomprehensible without an understanding of the issues and doctrines that the Protestant Founders were concerned with removing, and the Catholic Counter-Reformers were concerned with defending. It set up divisions and fault lines that are still operative today, around the globe. In the same way, world history, and especially the history of the interactions of the Islamic World and the Western world make no sense without an understanding of the Great Schism. For that matter, one cannot make sense of the history of south Asia without understanding the tensions between Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism. Likewise, East Asian history needs an explication of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shinto. Not to mention the history of colonialism and various world issues through WWII, or even near contemporary history like the Balkan Wars of the 90s! The ACLU in it's letter also deliberately misstated that schools may not have religious clubs, or student groups that study scripture etc--this is in direct contradiction to Federal Court rulings. The Federal Courts have ruled that religous student groups have the same rights as to access as secular ones.
In Loveland Colorado a school has confiscated a students rosary. The school claims it is a "gang symbol". Well I guess if San Fransisco can get away with labeling the Church a "Hate Group" a school can call Catholics a street gang here in Seculo-Fascist America. But I do recall that the constitution protects free exercise of religion, freedom of speech--and by extension freedom of expression--and states that people cannot be deprived of their property without recompense. By taking his limiting his freedom of expression, freedom of speech, ability to exercise his religion and taking his property with such stipulations that make it impossible for him to recover it, some unelected public employees have trampled his rights. I guess here I should say that European Catholics and many American Catholics say one should not wear the rosary like jewelry--but this kid is Hispanic, and they don't have that stricture--and it's not a rule for the Universal Church that they no be worn in such a manner. Hmmmm...if he's Hispanic, this looks even worse, because not only is it directed against a harmless symbol of his Catholic Faith, the assumption is that a Hispanic kid displaying a rosary must be a gang-banger: it's Anticatholic bigotry and racism in one, a twofer of discrimination.
“It is difficult to understand how it is illegal to have a prayer meeting on Friday night with a half dozen people but it is alright if I invited the same group on Monday evening to watch Monday night Football,” Roessiger said. The Roessiger's are a family in Florida that are under attack for hosting a Bible Study in their home and placing a sign in their yard listing a phone number you can call to have people pray for you. The Pacific Justice Institute is providing legal counsel and assistance in the families battle with the Venice Florida City Code Enforcement Board. Right now it looks like the family has won the battle for their Civil Rights. But, there is a warning here for the accommodationists--The Seculo-Fascists keep trying to say that Freedom of Religion applies to what occurs (with limits on anything that can be construed as political, and one of their buzz phrases is that "The personal is political") inside of a church or in a home, but given the slightest pretext they will try to stop what happens in the home.
The Fransiscan University of Stuebenville is under fire, and receiving attacks from every quarter, to include CNN and NPR, for teaching a course on deviant behavior. They are being attacked by Sodomites and others who object to being called deviants. I have new for them--in Sociology, a devient is some onw on the extreme ends of the bell curve for behaviors, and since the best figures put Sodomites and Sapphists at 1.5 to 3 percent of the population, by scientific definition they are deviants. So much for Academic Freedom, as well as Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Thought. Let alone the idea that Academia is about the free exchange of ideas.
Holy Family Catholic Church in Citrus Heights California is under fire for having a pro-life sign on their lawn. The sign reads "Don't support abortion with your vote--Vote Pro-Life". It doesn't endorse a specific party or candidate, but a moral stance based on the faith of the Catholic Church. They are being told that this sign pushes the envelope of permissible speech by a church, by pro-abortion persons. My own parish has had people call us, or walk into the office to berate us for our pro-life signs, which didn't even mention voting. Speech rooted in religious belief isn't well tolerated by Seculo-Fascists.
The religious and free speech rights, as well as the right to freedom of association of the family that owns and runs Chick-Fil-A have been so battered that they have been driven from the public forum by what amounts to an economic lynch mob of sodomites and their sympathizers. The actions of this company were within the law, within their rights and in accordance with their faith. Yet the hate mongers who despise Christians who actually live and act according to their belief have effectively silenced them. Yet another example of the civil rights of Christians under attack.
I want to conclude by a blatantly partisan statement about some of the US Catholic Bishops. I think they are ignorant and foolish. The movie Natural Born Killers brought the American Indian fable of the rattlesnake brought into the house to mainstream American attention, yet these men are allying with the ACLU--remember the first paragraphs?--on a cause that is not an absolute in Catholic teaching, never thinking that this same group will cheerfully destroy the Church int he United States for their Seculo-Fascist goals.
We have only ourselves to blame.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
So There!
It's Here, and the Only Way to Deny It is Denial
Religious persecution is here, and it's global. And it's even being furthered by those we should expect to be putting a stop to it. It's not just Catholics, or Christians in general, although the UN said that 90% of victims of religious persecution in the world were Christians of one sort or another. Attacks on Christians have increased 309% between 2003 and 2010...and the pace is accelerating. But there are surprising attacks on Jews as well.
Leaving aside the calls for "Israel to wiped from the face of the map" that emanate from the Muslim world, in Germany a Mohol--a rabbi who specializes int he ritual circumcision of infants, a very basic part of Judaism--was arrested for performing the rite. In Germany, the one nation that should most be aware of the dangers of persecuting a religious minority, he was arrested! The law against this practice wasn't passed by legislation, but by a District Court judge in Cologne, who decided circumcising boys was unlawful bodily harm. So, shades of the Nuremberg Laws, a rabbi is arrested fro practicing his faith.
Religious persecution isn't getting talked about. When the Wall Street Journal runs a column wondering why the pulpits aren't abuzz with the stories that occur weekly, sometimes daily, of religious persecution, you know that there is a problem not being discussed in the press, or the churches.
We don't have to look to the Islamosphere, or even Europe to find it, either. Right here in the US, in California. Churches are banned in an area of Temuecula County known as "wine country". That's some 7,000 acres of privately owned land, and the County is holding hearings to expand it to 18, 990 acres, specifically zoned "no churches". The vineyard owners told those trying to expand their facilities, or build churches "We don't want your kind out here".
In Little Rock Arkansas, a pro-life demonstration (pro-lifers are widely identified--inaccurately--as exclusively Catholic) was disrupted by an attack July 17th, on one of the protestors. The attacker used force to prevent them from calling 911, and attacked an American Flag as well. The attacker approached the demonstrators saying "Praised be Mary", the laid in.
In Chicago a priest was surrounded and harassed bysodomites 'gay rights' activists for praying a rosary publicly in support of Chick-Fil-A's constitutional rights to free speech.
Also in June, the home of of Kieth and Jennifer Mason was vandalized after Newsweek magazne profiled them. The are the leaders of a group called Personhood USA. the web site "The Daily Beast" also ran the profile, and the comments section contained many threats and calls for violence. One reader tracked them down, and vandalized their home. Also in June, Everett Stadig was assaulted while petitioning for a personhood initiative in Colorado, and ended up with a broken hip. This is particularly distressing because in an elderly person, a broken hip is often the beginning of a final decline in health.
In Oregon a Judge dismissed a lawsuit claiming that priests were employees of the Vatican, and so the Vatican should pay for priestly misconduct. Leaving aside the evils of evil priests to concentrate on the case at hand the attorney suing the Vatican said 'It was documented and known by the Vatican, and handled under the 'secret protocols' of 'Vatican mandates'. (Quotes are mine to offset the parts that struck me) Secret protocols? Vatican mandates? This sounds like the fraudulent "Secret protocol of the Elders of Zion" that was written by Czarist secret police to justify and fuel Pogroms and taken up by the Nazis, and now the Jihadists. The suit was dismissed by the courts for lack of factual proofs of the plaintiffs claims. But it will be appealed, and was in fact entertained by the courts.
International Christian Concern is a group that documents and reports acts of persecution on a global basis, and just a quick count of the blurbs on their home page gives reverences of over a dozen acts of major persecution in the last month. So Where is the News Coverage? Are CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC Fox and the other major outlets even covering this? In any depth at all?
No, not really, and that's why it's here, and why it continues. In the face of documented assaults, vandalism, even the firebombing of a pro-life (and therefore, inaccurately though it be, considered Catholic and Christian event) event there is just silence. Silence from the press, silence from the pulpits and silence from our government an law enforcement. The last even goes so far as to point to Christians and Pro-lifers as potential terrorists while they are on the receiving end of hate crimes and terrorism attacks.
So what to do? This one is the easiest--do not be part of the conspiracy of silence. Link to this post, read the links in the is post and put them on your Facebook page. Send them to your pastor, your congressman, the local paper, ask why this isn't covered, why this isn't discussed. Just don't remain silent, for our lack of information, and our silence when we have it are the greatest asset the persecutors have.
Leaving aside the calls for "Israel to wiped from the face of the map" that emanate from the Muslim world, in Germany a Mohol--a rabbi who specializes int he ritual circumcision of infants, a very basic part of Judaism--was arrested for performing the rite. In Germany, the one nation that should most be aware of the dangers of persecuting a religious minority, he was arrested! The law against this practice wasn't passed by legislation, but by a District Court judge in Cologne, who decided circumcising boys was unlawful bodily harm. So, shades of the Nuremberg Laws, a rabbi is arrested fro practicing his faith.
Religious persecution isn't getting talked about. When the Wall Street Journal runs a column wondering why the pulpits aren't abuzz with the stories that occur weekly, sometimes daily, of religious persecution, you know that there is a problem not being discussed in the press, or the churches.
We don't have to look to the Islamosphere, or even Europe to find it, either. Right here in the US, in California. Churches are banned in an area of Temuecula County known as "wine country". That's some 7,000 acres of privately owned land, and the County is holding hearings to expand it to 18, 990 acres, specifically zoned "no churches". The vineyard owners told those trying to expand their facilities, or build churches "We don't want your kind out here".
In Little Rock Arkansas, a pro-life demonstration (pro-lifers are widely identified--inaccurately--as exclusively Catholic) was disrupted by an attack July 17th, on one of the protestors. The attacker used force to prevent them from calling 911, and attacked an American Flag as well. The attacker approached the demonstrators saying "Praised be Mary", the laid in.
In Chicago a priest was surrounded and harassed by
Also in June, the home of of Kieth and Jennifer Mason was vandalized after Newsweek magazne profiled them. The are the leaders of a group called Personhood USA. the web site "The Daily Beast" also ran the profile, and the comments section contained many threats and calls for violence. One reader tracked them down, and vandalized their home. Also in June, Everett Stadig was assaulted while petitioning for a personhood initiative in Colorado, and ended up with a broken hip. This is particularly distressing because in an elderly person, a broken hip is often the beginning of a final decline in health.
In Oregon a Judge dismissed a lawsuit claiming that priests were employees of the Vatican, and so the Vatican should pay for priestly misconduct. Leaving aside the evils of evil priests to concentrate on the case at hand the attorney suing the Vatican said 'It was documented and known by the Vatican, and handled under the 'secret protocols' of 'Vatican mandates'. (Quotes are mine to offset the parts that struck me) Secret protocols? Vatican mandates? This sounds like the fraudulent "Secret protocol of the Elders of Zion" that was written by Czarist secret police to justify and fuel Pogroms and taken up by the Nazis, and now the Jihadists. The suit was dismissed by the courts for lack of factual proofs of the plaintiffs claims. But it will be appealed, and was in fact entertained by the courts.
International Christian Concern is a group that documents and reports acts of persecution on a global basis, and just a quick count of the blurbs on their home page gives reverences of over a dozen acts of major persecution in the last month. So Where is the News Coverage? Are CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC Fox and the other major outlets even covering this? In any depth at all?
No, not really, and that's why it's here, and why it continues. In the face of documented assaults, vandalism, even the firebombing of a pro-life (and therefore, inaccurately though it be, considered Catholic and Christian event) event there is just silence. Silence from the press, silence from the pulpits and silence from our government an law enforcement. The last even goes so far as to point to Christians and Pro-lifers as potential terrorists while they are on the receiving end of hate crimes and terrorism attacks.
So what to do? This one is the easiest--do not be part of the conspiracy of silence. Link to this post, read the links in the is post and put them on your Facebook page. Send them to your pastor, your congressman, the local paper, ask why this isn't covered, why this isn't discussed. Just don't remain silent, for our lack of information, and our silence when we have it are the greatest asset the persecutors have.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
The first thing I'd like to say, is that I'm thankful I'm not in Egypt; the Muslim Brotherhood, in accordance with Sharia law, is crucifying opponents and waging war against the Coptic Christians to reduce them to dhimmitude, to impose the Jizyah and using forced marriage, forced conversions of girls and slavery to commit genocide on the Christian population. Of course, the 1.5 billion Dollars Obama sent to them helped them gain the power to do this.
The second thing I'd like to say is that not all the news is bad. In Santa Monica California, a jury found a Muslim Hotel Owner guilty of violating the civil rights laws, and the civil rights of Jewish patrons, fro throwing them out of the pool. We're not all knuckling under yet. And, in Buffalo NY, the Student Judiciary has decided that Inter-Varsity Fellowship can remain a student group, saying that requiring the leadership of a group to accept the beliefs of a group isn't discrimination, it's common sense.
The third thing is that things still look pretty bad. Floyd Lee Corins II, the guy who tried to shoot up the Family Research Council, but only succeeded in shooting a security gaurd, who then 'overpowered' him had contact info for the Traditional Values Coalition in his pocket, which makes it look more like a concerted effort to kill Christian who speak out in defense of our values. The Southern Poverty Law Center listed the Traditional Values Coalition as a hate group as well as the Family Research Council. In fact, when you look at things like the SPLC's "Hate Map" you notice some odd things For instance Culture Wars/Fidelity Press , a Traditional Catholic publishing concern is listed as "extremist" and a 'general hate" group. We have as much to fear, from a group of humanistic fundamentalists who will egg on their less stable or more angry followers to acts of violence, then decry any one who attempts to hold them accountable for labeling anyone who disagree with them as haters.
Again, the answer is to network!!!! Network intensively, but very cautiously. Remember that despite the wave of violence, intimidation, vandalism, extortion and hate speech directed at Christians in the wake of California's Proposition 8, and inspite of the lengthy lists of pro-abortion violent acts compiled by various groups over the last ten years or so, (there used to be on online list detailing these, but it's disappeared) and the increase of Church vandalism and arson in the US, the Federal Government under the Obama regime lists us as the potential terrorists. The guidelines for who to watch mention Pro-life, and other Christian heavy groups as potential terrorists (while ignoring groups such as the Occupy Movement--even though it was implicated when two of it's more active members were caught trying to blow up bridges in Cleavland OH!) So you have to be very, very careful. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have a history of placing agents provocateur in groups they are afraid of, and of trying very hard to infiltrate such groups.
Only network with those you've known, and known for a considerable period. Just "seeing him around" the church on Sunday isn't enough. You need to know them. You also need to network with those who are stable. Various underground groups have, over the years, found that people who are stable, when they commit to a group, are stable with in the group. Don't network with people who have substance issues, mental health issues, weak marriages--there is nothing about these people that is inherently wrong, but they are under internal pressures that render them undependable.
Start a local network--perhaps with 4 or 5 others, or couples, and not more than about 9 or 10. As time goes on, these people become the core of your network, and form small networks of their own. Be sure that the people you network with have an already firm spiritual foundation and commitment, or a just as firm commitment to the principles of Religious Liberty.
One person in the network should have the time, energy and connections to make contact with one other person, in a different place but within the same region. This person should be motivated to form a network int heir locality, but keep contact between the groups to as little as possible.
Then make your first plans. Plan to be able to evacuate Priests and Ministers who are in trouble fro preaching the Gospel and celebrating the Sacraments. Plan on ways to get family members support when a wage earner or head of a household is arrested. Plan first of all, to take care of the victims of oppression who are still on the street.
Plan now, plan ahead, and be able to help your brothers and sisters when the State comes for them, or when the tools of the Secular extremists turn violent.
And be very quiet about it.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Aliens?
My comment on Cardinal Dolan's Blog, referencing his lame explanation of
why he is partying with Obama at the Al Smith Dinner. Complete with
typos.
YOur Eminence, I have not other way to say this than bluntly. You. Are. Wrong. There, I said it. What you have done is to provide President Obama with a wonderful Photo Op and propaganda tool. While he works, through his cabinet officials, to restrict the autonomy of Churches in the US by attempting to redefine who is a minister, what is ministry and what constitutes religious activity while threatening to impose crippling fines, disguised as taxes, on those institutions that do not materially support evil in a financial manner.
Blessed Clemens Von Galen didn’t cave. St. Anthanasius didn’t cave. St. John Fisher didn’t cave. You Sir, caved in big time.
The confusion that results from this, and from inadequate and distorted catechesis on “Faithful Citizenship”, will lead others into Perdition. This action marks a failure on your part to Teach and Sanctify the faithful. That’s two out of three, and that ain’t good! Remember, for the good of your own soul, that actions are much louder than words, and by your actions you have spread confusion and strengthened a ruler who opposes the Church, and wishes to spread division in it through various groups that claim Catholicism, yet the USCCB has said are non-catholic.
You wear red, to signify your willingness to die for the Faith. I submit, sir, that you should avoid it, because you are unwilling even to risk offending a man who is seeking to destroy the Church in the public square.
Consider this an exercise of the 3rd Spiritual Act of Mercy.
Here's a picture to show how the war on Ctholics is proceeding--even after they won the first court case that the Department of Health and Human Services was infringing on their right to Free Exercise of Religion:
And, because I feel it's as if Aliens had somehow gained control of our country, here is a link to an appropriate Music Video , although being modern Music the skirts are rather short. (BTW--this group "Wild" has the oddest Ave Maria I've ever heard.
YOur Eminence, I have not other way to say this than bluntly. You. Are. Wrong. There, I said it. What you have done is to provide President Obama with a wonderful Photo Op and propaganda tool. While he works, through his cabinet officials, to restrict the autonomy of Churches in the US by attempting to redefine who is a minister, what is ministry and what constitutes religious activity while threatening to impose crippling fines, disguised as taxes, on those institutions that do not materially support evil in a financial manner.
Blessed Clemens Von Galen didn’t cave. St. Anthanasius didn’t cave. St. John Fisher didn’t cave. You Sir, caved in big time.
The confusion that results from this, and from inadequate and distorted catechesis on “Faithful Citizenship”, will lead others into Perdition. This action marks a failure on your part to Teach and Sanctify the faithful. That’s two out of three, and that ain’t good! Remember, for the good of your own soul, that actions are much louder than words, and by your actions you have spread confusion and strengthened a ruler who opposes the Church, and wishes to spread division in it through various groups that claim Catholicism, yet the USCCB has said are non-catholic.
You wear red, to signify your willingness to die for the Faith. I submit, sir, that you should avoid it, because you are unwilling even to risk offending a man who is seeking to destroy the Church in the public square.
Consider this an exercise of the 3rd Spiritual Act of Mercy.
Here's a picture to show how the war on Ctholics is proceeding--even after they won the first court case that the Department of Health and Human Services was infringing on their right to Free Exercise of Religion:
And, because I feel it's as if Aliens had somehow gained control of our country, here is a link to an appropriate Music Video , although being modern Music the skirts are rather short. (BTW--this group "Wild" has the oddest Ave Maria I've ever heard.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Why Does the Weather Service Need Bullets?
The Weather Service has posted a notice to buy 46000 rounds of hollow point ammo. I didn't even know the Weather Service had pistols. This goes along with the Social Security Aministrations decision to purchase 174000 rounds of ammunition.
Homeland security purchased 450 million rounds of .40 hollow point earlier this year, and has purchased another 750 million rounds of assorted ammo---that's more than a billion rounds of ammunition--that's military quantities, not police quantities.
So, if you think the government isn't up to something, sleep tight--this stinks. Especially the idea of armed Meteorologists and Social Security Accountants.
Homeland security purchased 450 million rounds of .40 hollow point earlier this year, and has purchased another 750 million rounds of assorted ammo---that's more than a billion rounds of ammunition--that's military quantities, not police quantities.
So, if you think the government isn't up to something, sleep tight--this stinks. Especially the idea of armed Meteorologists and Social Security Accountants.
So, what are we gonna do?
My first post was about the situation we find ourselves in, and this one will continue in that vein, along with an idea of what to do.
By now you've heard of the LGBT activist who tried to shoot up the Family Research Council's headquarters. You many even have heard some grumbling about the relatively low level of coverage the event received at first, although that's starting to be corrected. The local police were, as of yesterday, considering this an act of terrorism. Interestingly, FRC president Tony Perkins laid part of the blame for the shooting "...on groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center that have been reckless in labeling organizations as hate groups because because they disagree with them on public policy." The SPLC has labeled the FRC an anti-gay hate group. On the face of it, it looks like the SPLC is fomenting hate, not vice versa. The SPLC list oh hate groups includes The American Family Association, The Family Research Council, and The federation for American Immigration Reform. They also list real hate groups. Interestingly, they also have an entire section devoted to "LGBT" issues. (For those of us who don't get it right away, "LGBT" is the same as GLBT, except with Feminism put into the forfront by placing lesbians first.) These guys are part of our problem, part of the...not a coalition, but a consensus that is seeking to silence and marginalize us in the public discourse.
Speaking of Hate Groups, the New Black Panther Party is threatening to disrupt the Democratic National Convention, saying they are going to put their feet on the RNC's "mother <censored> necks. Naming "white folks" and "Haters" to not even try and talk to them. This is covered , just not by the MSM. On July * 2010 Fox covered their threats against the Republicans the "TEA Party". This is the group, BTW, that was found guilty of voter intimidation with an armed, uniformed presence at the polls, appealed, and had the Obama Regime stop the proceedings against them. Way to go, Barack and Eric. BTW--in all fairness, I have to say that the Southern Poverty Law Center does list these guys as a hate group. But they are not being held up to the same sruiteny as Pro-lifers, returning Vets, etc, for terrorism risk.
Another example of trying to stigmatize speech in support of traditional, Christian and Catholic morality is down in North Carolina, at Davidson College. There, in the name of liberal values, the clique that controls the student activities funds has decided that there will be no more Chick-Fil-A sandwiches served at student events. Interestingly, the most consumed sandwiches at student events there have been Chick-Fil-A sandwiches, so this looks not so much like democracy in action but some persnickety future soccer mom telling others what they will and will not eat, and how their activity funds will be spent, despite the long standing "vote with their stomach". (The persnickety lady in question is Adriana Nasser, BTW.) What this is is simple: attempting to penalize legal free speech and legal contributions to legal non-profits because you don't like them. Yes, it's a form of censorship, and foments hatred.
In Chester Township, PA a woman runs a feeding program, feeding lunches about 60 needy kids a day who receive a sandwich, fruit and milk, since they aren't getting the Lunch Program at school during summer break. The program is administered by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The township has decided that she needs a "variance" to do that, or face a fine of $600. The variance, if granted, will cost $1000. She's going to continue to feed these kids. This is another example of hostility to our religion, and an attempt to limit our public ministry. I will submit, and tell you you're full of dung if you disagree, that this is intrinsicly hotile to Christianity and Catholicism, for the idea that a "variance" is more important than feeding hungry kids can only be held by those hostile to the content of our Faith.
Finally, on the global stage, the Saudi Government has tried to block the establishment of the top level Internet domain ".Catholic". They failed, but they said it would' be unfair to all those religions that use the word Catholic but aren't. I guess they mean all the ones that are illegal in Saudi Arabia.
So what's the first thing you should be doing about all this? Network!!! It's all well and good to read things on the net, and to post things on the net, but you need to get face to face with people. I don't care if you are stuck in the "Inclusive Catholic Community of St. IWeMeUs--there's some one else there in the same boat, so get together with them. Have coffee, have them over for a grill out, go do thing together. Start building the lnks you will need when the gloves come off now, and learn who you can trust. Be active, as well, write letters to you congress kritters. Write to your Bishop. Talk to your pastor, and don't be diffident. Something else--learn from American History, and start writting letters to other people--form a committee of correspondence to keep in touch. Have Cons and Gatherings. Don't sit alone in the dark trembling--get started. When the Regime gets violent with us, it will be to late to lay the ground work.
By now you've heard of the LGBT activist who tried to shoot up the Family Research Council's headquarters. You many even have heard some grumbling about the relatively low level of coverage the event received at first, although that's starting to be corrected. The local police were, as of yesterday, considering this an act of terrorism. Interestingly, FRC president Tony Perkins laid part of the blame for the shooting "...on groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center that have been reckless in labeling organizations as hate groups because because they disagree with them on public policy." The SPLC has labeled the FRC an anti-gay hate group. On the face of it, it looks like the SPLC is fomenting hate, not vice versa. The SPLC list oh hate groups includes The American Family Association, The Family Research Council, and The federation for American Immigration Reform. They also list real hate groups. Interestingly, they also have an entire section devoted to "LGBT" issues. (For those of us who don't get it right away, "LGBT" is the same as GLBT, except with Feminism put into the forfront by placing lesbians first.) These guys are part of our problem, part of the...not a coalition, but a consensus that is seeking to silence and marginalize us in the public discourse.
Speaking of Hate Groups, the New Black Panther Party is threatening to disrupt the Democratic National Convention, saying they are going to put their feet on the RNC's "mother <censored> necks. Naming "white folks" and "Haters" to not even try and talk to them. This is covered , just not by the MSM. On July * 2010 Fox covered their threats against the Republicans the "TEA Party". This is the group, BTW, that was found guilty of voter intimidation with an armed, uniformed presence at the polls, appealed, and had the Obama Regime stop the proceedings against them. Way to go, Barack and Eric. BTW--in all fairness, I have to say that the Southern Poverty Law Center does list these guys as a hate group. But they are not being held up to the same sruiteny as Pro-lifers, returning Vets, etc, for terrorism risk.
Another example of trying to stigmatize speech in support of traditional, Christian and Catholic morality is down in North Carolina, at Davidson College. There, in the name of liberal values, the clique that controls the student activities funds has decided that there will be no more Chick-Fil-A sandwiches served at student events. Interestingly, the most consumed sandwiches at student events there have been Chick-Fil-A sandwiches, so this looks not so much like democracy in action but some persnickety future soccer mom telling others what they will and will not eat, and how their activity funds will be spent, despite the long standing "vote with their stomach". (The persnickety lady in question is Adriana Nasser, BTW.) What this is is simple: attempting to penalize legal free speech and legal contributions to legal non-profits because you don't like them. Yes, it's a form of censorship, and foments hatred.
In Chester Township, PA a woman runs a feeding program, feeding lunches about 60 needy kids a day who receive a sandwich, fruit and milk, since they aren't getting the Lunch Program at school during summer break. The program is administered by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The township has decided that she needs a "variance" to do that, or face a fine of $600. The variance, if granted, will cost $1000. She's going to continue to feed these kids. This is another example of hostility to our religion, and an attempt to limit our public ministry. I will submit, and tell you you're full of dung if you disagree, that this is intrinsicly hotile to Christianity and Catholicism, for the idea that a "variance" is more important than feeding hungry kids can only be held by those hostile to the content of our Faith.
Finally, on the global stage, the Saudi Government has tried to block the establishment of the top level Internet domain ".Catholic". They failed, but they said it would' be unfair to all those religions that use the word Catholic but aren't. I guess they mean all the ones that are illegal in Saudi Arabia.
So what's the first thing you should be doing about all this? Network!!! It's all well and good to read things on the net, and to post things on the net, but you need to get face to face with people. I don't care if you are stuck in the "Inclusive Catholic Community of St. IWeMeUs--there's some one else there in the same boat, so get together with them. Have coffee, have them over for a grill out, go do thing together. Start building the lnks you will need when the gloves come off now, and learn who you can trust. Be active, as well, write letters to you congress kritters. Write to your Bishop. Talk to your pastor, and don't be diffident. Something else--learn from American History, and start writting letters to other people--form a committee of correspondence to keep in touch. Have Cons and Gatherings. Don't sit alone in the dark trembling--get started. When the Regime gets violent with us, it will be to late to lay the ground work.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Signs and Portents
Why a this Blog? And why the title A New Christero? Because we are struggling against the establishment of an Atheocacy, that's why. And why the spelling "Christero" as opposed to "Cristero"? Because I made a typo in setting it up, and want it to stand as a monument to my own limitations and fallibility.
If you wonder about the word "Atheocracy", well, I think I just coined it. But it's what I see coming at us, full on. A state where rule is limited to those who have no real religious affiliation beyond those of demographic convenience. A state where ones Freedom of Religion is supplanted by an spurious "Freedom of Worship" that limits our religious expression to Church services and inside our homes. A sort of rule that limits our ability to live, in the public square, our religious beliefs. A government, in fact, that is hostile to all forms of traditional or orthodox Christian belief and will start first with compromising and silencing Catholics as the best organized, most visible and largest Christian body in the country; a government that will move on to any and all of those groups that are capable of seriously opposing them as the moral and ethical underpinnings of Liberty is dissolved by the corrosive effects of dictated choices, forced participation and an agressivly expanding culture of governmental dependance to bribe the masses.
A long time ago Our Lady of Quito warned us about the conditions in the Church--this was one of our first signs of what was coming up. Make no mistake--the tolerance and promotion of heresy, crypto schism, and disobedience within the Church, and in our separated brethren of Protestantism, have paved the way for a wave of persecution in the United States that will make the depredations of the No-Nothings, the Nativists and the Klan look like mild annoyances. And there are signs that this isn't just going to happen someday, but that it has started already, under the current Regime.
First, there is the current of Anti Catholic sentiment that is growing exponentially in the US. From a low ebb in the 60s and 70s, an ebb low enough to allow the election of our first and only Catholic president, there is a current swell of hostility, fueled by erosion of the public morality, political movements and sheer old fashioned Nativism and paranoia that the Vatican will somehow come to rule America. This is really stupid, because in the US the Church has had less interference with it's internal affairs than anywhere else, to include those nations which have established Catholicism as their official religion. The Church doesn't want to change that!
But attacks continue. The ACLU has filed a court brief equating Catholic individuals objections to paying for abortions, sterilizations and contraception to racism. This is a rather current story, but I'm sure that many readers will remember the San Francisco City Council's resolution defining the Catholic Church as a hate group, and it's being upheld by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. These accusations are as baseless as the 19th century accusations against Convents as brothels and slave parlors. Anyone remember Maria Monk? These are that kind of smear, yet they are worse, for they originate within the realm of government and the courts. Think about it, the ACLU has filed a court brief that equates our moral objection to murdering unborn people, preventing the creation of new souls and surgical mutilation of the human reproductive tract with racism, and a city council has defined our moral beliefs as "hate".
Not everyone is a history buff, but those that are will recall that one of the charges leveled against us by the Roman Empire, to justify it's attempted genocide of Christians, was "hatred of mankind". Once you convince a significant portion of a society that we hate them, the oppression and violence will inevitably follow.
I was disturbed, as were others, when Obama began speaking about "Freedom of Worship", pointing out that freedom of worship is very different than Freedom of Religion. Freedom of worship restrict activities, when you look at it closely, to what goes on inside of church walls and private homes. This restriction has already started with the HHS Mandate (since when are Americans governed by mandate? I thought we were governed by law!) which is so written as to actually exclude Blessed Teresa's Missionaries of Charity's AIDS Hospice in Washington DC as not sufficiently religious in nature to avoid having to provide funding through insurance purchases for abortions, etc! The coercive power of the government is being brought into play to limit religious activities by individuals as well.
The main weapon that the Regime is using against us is the IRS, and the definition of the penalties in the Obamacare Act as 'taxes' by the Supreme court, despite their being named penalties in the statute. This offense means that businesses that do not comply can be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, per employee! Yet since it is defined as a "tax" and enforced through the IRS there is no legal recourse or redress of grievance as supposedly guaranteed by the US Constitution. Incredibly, the Obama Regime has stated that individuals do not have religious rights in the public square or business environment. In the link above refering to the ACLU, the mission statement of the business that is currently in court specifically mentions that it is ran on Christian principles, and in the link above you see the Regimes idea of what that means--we are no longer allowed to have them. This thinking is pretty widespread--one person tried to sue Chick-Fil-A for being closed on Sunday! (It didn't fly.)
But the specter of the IRS is powerful. There have already been numerous calls to revoke the tax except status of various churches on political grounds because of the content of sermons or homilies. Essentially, preaching that Catholics have a moral duty to vote against those who support abortion--which we do--has resulted in threats to tax the particular parish or diocese in which the truth was preached into penury, by persons--invariably supporters of the Regime--who file IRS complaints against them. By ascribing political value to moral teachings, the government has leverage with which to blackmail a church into silence. This isn't just happening to Churches, of course, the US Senate has twice had to intercede to keep Obama's appointed thugs in the irS from attempting to silence political speech as well.
College students, and Catholic Colleges seem to be a particular target of the Regime as well. (If you click on the link to Our Lady of Quito, you can read what she said about children and youth.) The Cardinal Newman Society calls the first of August as the formal beginning of persecution of Catholic in the US, and points out that the HHS Mandate had rules rushed through, with public comment not allowed until after the 'interim" rules were promulgated specifically to include student health plans for the the 2012-2013 school year, knowing the effect this would have on Catholic institutions.
But it's not just the "taxes". (Did you know Adam Smith said in The Wealth of Nations that "the power to tax is the power to destroy"? Kind of makes you think, doesn't it? In fact, that is the reason that religious organizations are tax exempt, to prevent taxes from being used to destroy them, in whole or in part.) We are under threat of direct, armed oppression. Law enforcement in the US is already overly militarized and under controlled--actually out of control--and the Obama Regime is trying to block controls on the actions of it's law enforcers. Add to this the insidious erosion of civil liberties by the Patriot Act, (passed with bi-partisan support, extended in duration and scope likewise) and things look bleak. They look bleaker when one remembers the documents circulated in 2009 listing as the most dangerous potential terrorists pro lifers, tax protestors, those who revere liberty, returning vets and so forth. Yes, those documents were recalled, but unfortunately the political appointees and operatives who wrote them are still in place. Worse yet, the Department of Homeland Security, America's equivalent of the Reich Sicherheitsdeinst Haupt Ampt, has once again issued documents that identify us as potential terrorists and considering that the President recently signed a bill allowing him, on his own authority, without consultation to authorize the Military to round up and detain without trial, due process or Habeus Corpus, American Citizens within the United States--so much for learning from the evils of the Japanese-American Concentration Camps. Moreover, the Regime has tried, several time, various strategies for gaining control of the most effective means of Free Speech ever devised, the Internet. Of course, since Congress won't play, he'll use another executive order, just as he has done in the face of the peoples representatives not passing the dream act, and to finance the Muslim Brotherhood, who not only have called for the destruction of Israel, but are actively persecuting Coptic Christians including murder, arson, rape, forced conversion, forced marriage and enslavement.
Yes, our own Government, which ignores us in issues of voter referendum (Not a single time that the people have voted on gay marriage has it passed, yet the Regime forges on through its' appontment of activist judges and refusal to enforce federal laws.) our expressions of discontent, our organized lawful opposition, is going to step it's war on against us. If this Regime returns to power in January, the gloves will be off, and I expect to end up in a camp, or in and American Equivalent of the Forest Brothers. Plan ahead, and remember this--you cannot get through by keeping your head down. If you don't believe me, remember Martin Niemoller and the Confessing Church .
If you wonder about the word "Atheocracy", well, I think I just coined it. But it's what I see coming at us, full on. A state where rule is limited to those who have no real religious affiliation beyond those of demographic convenience. A state where ones Freedom of Religion is supplanted by an spurious "Freedom of Worship" that limits our religious expression to Church services and inside our homes. A sort of rule that limits our ability to live, in the public square, our religious beliefs. A government, in fact, that is hostile to all forms of traditional or orthodox Christian belief and will start first with compromising and silencing Catholics as the best organized, most visible and largest Christian body in the country; a government that will move on to any and all of those groups that are capable of seriously opposing them as the moral and ethical underpinnings of Liberty is dissolved by the corrosive effects of dictated choices, forced participation and an agressivly expanding culture of governmental dependance to bribe the masses.
A long time ago Our Lady of Quito warned us about the conditions in the Church--this was one of our first signs of what was coming up. Make no mistake--the tolerance and promotion of heresy, crypto schism, and disobedience within the Church, and in our separated brethren of Protestantism, have paved the way for a wave of persecution in the United States that will make the depredations of the No-Nothings, the Nativists and the Klan look like mild annoyances. And there are signs that this isn't just going to happen someday, but that it has started already, under the current Regime.
First, there is the current of Anti Catholic sentiment that is growing exponentially in the US. From a low ebb in the 60s and 70s, an ebb low enough to allow the election of our first and only Catholic president, there is a current swell of hostility, fueled by erosion of the public morality, political movements and sheer old fashioned Nativism and paranoia that the Vatican will somehow come to rule America. This is really stupid, because in the US the Church has had less interference with it's internal affairs than anywhere else, to include those nations which have established Catholicism as their official religion. The Church doesn't want to change that!
But attacks continue. The ACLU has filed a court brief equating Catholic individuals objections to paying for abortions, sterilizations and contraception to racism. This is a rather current story, but I'm sure that many readers will remember the San Francisco City Council's resolution defining the Catholic Church as a hate group, and it's being upheld by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. These accusations are as baseless as the 19th century accusations against Convents as brothels and slave parlors. Anyone remember Maria Monk? These are that kind of smear, yet they are worse, for they originate within the realm of government and the courts. Think about it, the ACLU has filed a court brief that equates our moral objection to murdering unborn people, preventing the creation of new souls and surgical mutilation of the human reproductive tract with racism, and a city council has defined our moral beliefs as "hate".
Not everyone is a history buff, but those that are will recall that one of the charges leveled against us by the Roman Empire, to justify it's attempted genocide of Christians, was "hatred of mankind". Once you convince a significant portion of a society that we hate them, the oppression and violence will inevitably follow.
I was disturbed, as were others, when Obama began speaking about "Freedom of Worship", pointing out that freedom of worship is very different than Freedom of Religion. Freedom of worship restrict activities, when you look at it closely, to what goes on inside of church walls and private homes. This restriction has already started with the HHS Mandate (since when are Americans governed by mandate? I thought we were governed by law!) which is so written as to actually exclude Blessed Teresa's Missionaries of Charity's AIDS Hospice in Washington DC as not sufficiently religious in nature to avoid having to provide funding through insurance purchases for abortions, etc! The coercive power of the government is being brought into play to limit religious activities by individuals as well.
The main weapon that the Regime is using against us is the IRS, and the definition of the penalties in the Obamacare Act as 'taxes' by the Supreme court, despite their being named penalties in the statute. This offense means that businesses that do not comply can be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, per employee! Yet since it is defined as a "tax" and enforced through the IRS there is no legal recourse or redress of grievance as supposedly guaranteed by the US Constitution. Incredibly, the Obama Regime has stated that individuals do not have religious rights in the public square or business environment. In the link above refering to the ACLU, the mission statement of the business that is currently in court specifically mentions that it is ran on Christian principles, and in the link above you see the Regimes idea of what that means--we are no longer allowed to have them. This thinking is pretty widespread--one person tried to sue Chick-Fil-A for being closed on Sunday! (It didn't fly.)
But the specter of the IRS is powerful. There have already been numerous calls to revoke the tax except status of various churches on political grounds because of the content of sermons or homilies. Essentially, preaching that Catholics have a moral duty to vote against those who support abortion--which we do--has resulted in threats to tax the particular parish or diocese in which the truth was preached into penury, by persons--invariably supporters of the Regime--who file IRS complaints against them. By ascribing political value to moral teachings, the government has leverage with which to blackmail a church into silence. This isn't just happening to Churches, of course, the US Senate has twice had to intercede to keep Obama's appointed thugs in the irS from attempting to silence political speech as well.
College students, and Catholic Colleges seem to be a particular target of the Regime as well. (If you click on the link to Our Lady of Quito, you can read what she said about children and youth.) The Cardinal Newman Society calls the first of August as the formal beginning of persecution of Catholic in the US, and points out that the HHS Mandate had rules rushed through, with public comment not allowed until after the 'interim" rules were promulgated specifically to include student health plans for the the 2012-2013 school year, knowing the effect this would have on Catholic institutions.
But it's not just the "taxes". (Did you know Adam Smith said in The Wealth of Nations that "the power to tax is the power to destroy"? Kind of makes you think, doesn't it? In fact, that is the reason that religious organizations are tax exempt, to prevent taxes from being used to destroy them, in whole or in part.) We are under threat of direct, armed oppression. Law enforcement in the US is already overly militarized and under controlled--actually out of control--and the Obama Regime is trying to block controls on the actions of it's law enforcers. Add to this the insidious erosion of civil liberties by the Patriot Act, (passed with bi-partisan support, extended in duration and scope likewise) and things look bleak. They look bleaker when one remembers the documents circulated in 2009 listing as the most dangerous potential terrorists pro lifers, tax protestors, those who revere liberty, returning vets and so forth. Yes, those documents were recalled, but unfortunately the political appointees and operatives who wrote them are still in place. Worse yet, the Department of Homeland Security, America's equivalent of the Reich Sicherheitsdeinst Haupt Ampt, has once again issued documents that identify us as potential terrorists and considering that the President recently signed a bill allowing him, on his own authority, without consultation to authorize the Military to round up and detain without trial, due process or Habeus Corpus, American Citizens within the United States--so much for learning from the evils of the Japanese-American Concentration Camps. Moreover, the Regime has tried, several time, various strategies for gaining control of the most effective means of Free Speech ever devised, the Internet. Of course, since Congress won't play, he'll use another executive order, just as he has done in the face of the peoples representatives not passing the dream act, and to finance the Muslim Brotherhood, who not only have called for the destruction of Israel, but are actively persecuting Coptic Christians including murder, arson, rape, forced conversion, forced marriage and enslavement.
Yes, our own Government, which ignores us in issues of voter referendum (Not a single time that the people have voted on gay marriage has it passed, yet the Regime forges on through its' appontment of activist judges and refusal to enforce federal laws.) our expressions of discontent, our organized lawful opposition, is going to step it's war on against us. If this Regime returns to power in January, the gloves will be off, and I expect to end up in a camp, or in and American Equivalent of the Forest Brothers. Plan ahead, and remember this--you cannot get through by keeping your head down. If you don't believe me, remember Martin Niemoller and the Confessing Church .
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