I found this amazing quote from an article (see the link to the full article below):
" . . . Four more trials are scheduled for the end of the year, with charges including bigamy, performing an illegal ceremony and sexual assault of a child. - - - - "
FLDS trial jury pools dry up
GOSANANGELO - Saturday, June 26, 2010
I confess I did not know that Texas was going to pull this "performing an illegal ceremony" B.S. !!! I know that Utah played that game over a hundred years ago, charging LDS clerics with a crime for solemnizing plural marriages. In Utah, at least such crimes are now misdemeanors and are NEVER prosecuted. I really sincerely thought that our modern, diverse, politically-correct society had abandoned such insanity. Does Texas seriously think it can get a conviction to stick for the crime of performing a ceremony?
Next they will be incarcerating people for celebrating the Holy Eucharist or performing baptisms. What is a religious ceremony to government? Didn't that question get put to rest in the Lukumi case? ( . . you can't punish someone for sacrificing a chicken in a Santeria church ritual). Doesn't the First Amendment say that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion (like ecclesiastical CEREMONIES !!!)?
Let's look at this in the sober light of my brain. If I get three gay guys over to my house, and I position them in my living room, and I wave my hands in the air, and I pronounce some kind of abracadabra incantation over their heads (in order to imaginarily "marry" them into a three-way, polygamous, homosexual union), have I arrogated to myself a power normally reserved only to the state? Is my fantasy performance viewed as sufficiently impactful that it rises to the standard of an illegal ceremony? Have I usurped the marriage traditions of the pretty, great state in which I live? Are fantasy, void, informal rituals conducted in the privacy of my home now subject to state scrutiny and prosecution? I fear I could soon do five years for having married my dog to my cat last week in a beautifully touching, backyard ceremony.
I am DYING to watch that trial. If any prosecutor in this case has half a brain, he or she will wake up, smell some coffee and call up the FLDS and beg them to agree to the charges being dropped. Wait, no, I just remembered that Barbie Wartthug will find a way to guarantee a conviction regardless. Perhaps, when she gets roundly overturned again by a sane appeals court, she can be burned at the stake for heresy against the Lord's only true religion.
GO FIGURE, GOSANANGELO
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
What's In A Name?
I noticed that Eldorado Texas resident, Abram Harker JEFFS, was sentenced this week to a 17-year prison term for having "married" a fifteen-year-old. I bet a lot of our ancestors are glad they are not alive today. They would have been branded as child-molesters and charged with sexual assault. The esteemed Mormon prophet and church-founder, Joseph Smith, would likely have gotten 20 years or at least execution. He is fortunate that his last name wasn't something despicable like 'Jeffs' or 'Kingston'. It appears that much of the guilt imputed to Abram Jeffs came from the fact that his brother happens to be Warren Jeffs, the second-most hated man in America (behind BP's Tony "Oil-Spill" Hayward).
I am reminded of the events of a few years ago, when Philistine University of Utah president, Bernie (Hitler) Machen announced that he didn't want anyone whose last name was "Kingston" to attend the U of U.
I recently re-watched the rather didactic movie, District 9. As gruesome and downright offensive as this movie was, it really is one of the most brilliantly presented stories since The Matrix. In District 9, the recently arrived aliens are relegated to a reservation or ghetto. They are universally misunderstood, despised and mistreated. The show's leading character, Vikus Van Der Moewe, regularly refers to the aliens as "Prawns" (due to their unmistakably crustacean appearance). He willfully mocks and destroys their incubating offspring. In the end, he actually becomes one of the aliens, and we learn that the aliens are infinitely more technologically advanced than the humans who are abusing them. One message of the show is that the good white folk of South Africa have been unbelievably brutal toward a minority within their midst.
I am genuinely disgusted with the residents and public officials of Tom Green and Schleicher Counties of Texas. The frenzied hysteria of vilification and bullying has driven ordinarily-sane Americans to inflict vicious and spiteful prison terms on perfectly innocent neighbors and their young families. A single juror could have nullified these sentences - could have bridled the frenzied mob and stood up to Barbie and her SturmTruppen.
I have decided that we Americans are good at developing what I call "Weapon Words". If we dislike a person or a community, we say they live in a "compound"; that their religion is a "cult". These words are not inherently pejorative, but they become so through their use. "Nazi" (from national) and "Nigger" (from black) are good examples.
So now the word "Jeffs" has become a curse word. If you are a Jeffs, you had better change your name to something more tasteful, like "Jeffries". (George Burns changed his name from Birnbaum). Merely being a "Jeffs" could easily add a ten-year enhancement to your sentence (as it may well have done just this week).
The Bible speaks of a day when " . . the love of men shall wax cold" for each other. I think we are in that day now, if we can hand out 17 and 75 year sentences to people because we despise their religion - the religion of our recent, and not-so-recent, forefathers.
I pray that the illegal invasion of the YFZ Ranch and the unlawful search and seizure of FLDS property will soon be indicted in a court of appeal saner than Barbie's.
I am reminded of the events of a few years ago, when Philistine University of Utah president, Bernie (Hitler) Machen announced that he didn't want anyone whose last name was "Kingston" to attend the U of U.
I recently re-watched the rather didactic movie, District 9. As gruesome and downright offensive as this movie was, it really is one of the most brilliantly presented stories since The Matrix. In District 9, the recently arrived aliens are relegated to a reservation or ghetto. They are universally misunderstood, despised and mistreated. The show's leading character, Vikus Van Der Moewe, regularly refers to the aliens as "Prawns" (due to their unmistakably crustacean appearance). He willfully mocks and destroys their incubating offspring. In the end, he actually becomes one of the aliens, and we learn that the aliens are infinitely more technologically advanced than the humans who are abusing them. One message of the show is that the good white folk of South Africa have been unbelievably brutal toward a minority within their midst.
I am genuinely disgusted with the residents and public officials of Tom Green and Schleicher Counties of Texas. The frenzied hysteria of vilification and bullying has driven ordinarily-sane Americans to inflict vicious and spiteful prison terms on perfectly innocent neighbors and their young families. A single juror could have nullified these sentences - could have bridled the frenzied mob and stood up to Barbie and her SturmTruppen.
I have decided that we Americans are good at developing what I call "Weapon Words". If we dislike a person or a community, we say they live in a "compound"; that their religion is a "cult". These words are not inherently pejorative, but they become so through their use. "Nazi" (from national) and "Nigger" (from black) are good examples.
So now the word "Jeffs" has become a curse word. If you are a Jeffs, you had better change your name to something more tasteful, like "Jeffries". (George Burns changed his name from Birnbaum). Merely being a "Jeffs" could easily add a ten-year enhancement to your sentence (as it may well have done just this week).
The Bible speaks of a day when " . . the love of men shall wax cold" for each other. I think we are in that day now, if we can hand out 17 and 75 year sentences to people because we despise their religion - the religion of our recent, and not-so-recent, forefathers.
I pray that the illegal invasion of the YFZ Ranch and the unlawful search and seizure of FLDS property will soon be indicted in a court of appeal saner than Barbie's.
The World is Broke ???
Watching Fox News (again !!!) this morning, I heard spokesBarbie, Jamie Colby, announce a segment noting that "The World is Broke" !!!
Not two weeks ago, another Fox News commentator remarked that the "world is broke". Now, I am NOT an economist. I barely understand daily compounded interest. That makes me no different from the vast majority of the world's population. However, it should strike the the average lay-person that the suggestion that the "world" could be "broke" is patently absurd. . . . . . .
UNLESS - - -
Somebody has taken the world's money.
How could that happen, you ask. Well, if all currency created today is "loaned" into circulation, interest must be paid on every dollar spent. If you borrow ten dollars and promise to pay back eleven, you have to hunt for the eleventh dollar somewhere. Then, if you borrow ALL of the money that is nationally available, it gets harder and harder to find that "eleventh" dollar. . . .
UNLESS - - -
- - you print more paper dollars. Magic, right? Problem is - the more you print phony paper currency, the more you inflate/deflate the currency - causing INFLATION. Then, the only way to protect against RUNAWAY INFLATION and the crashing of the currency is to tax a good portion of those extra paper dollars out of circulation through national taxation (IRS).
So, if all of the (non-rogue) "western"-style nations are playing the same game, the result is that they all end up spending more than they produce (to support entitlement programs and wars) and they all run up heavy debts to PRIVATE banks like the "FEDERAL" Reserve and the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND, and they face mushrooming interest burdens as the debt grows (see Greece).
Simply put, each participating nation owes more than its annual profits in debts to a private (money-changer) bank. Each nation is beholden to that private bank to periodically "bail it out" to keep government offices functioning. So if virtually all of the world's nation-corporations are insolvent and in receivership, everybody is strapped with debt, impoverished and enslaved . . . . . . . . but TO WHOM ?????
Governments pay farmers to NOT GROW certain crops. WHY ?? - in order to keep crop prices artificially propped up. Does this cause food shortages?
People complain that the world is "over-populated" - - SIX BILLION people. With six billion acres of land in Montana, that is enough for each person to have an acre.
If there are "shortages" in the world, I suspect they are contrived and manipulated. There is NO shortage of farmland (although we insult it by not practicing the land sabbath). There is no shortage of man-labor hours (especially in this period of mass unemployment). There should be no shortage of money (gold, silver, paper currency) unless someone has confiscated it. Our systems of distribution are more efficient than they have EVER been.
Besides, the law of the jubilee requires that ALL debts be forgiven every 50 years and all "corporations" be dissolved every 50 years. That way, private banks cannot exact ever-escalating usury payments from nations and bring ordinarily-free citizens to their knees.
So, here is the big question - who are these "private banks" to whom the nations owe so much money? Where do they reside? Where have they stashed all the gold and silver they have plundered from the nations? Why have all the nations simply not balked and repudiated all that debt and interest so that they can be free and prosperous again? Why have we abandoned the jubilee?
If America owes $13 trillion in debt and approximately $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, we can NEVER get caught up. Besides, those banks will never accept the (bankrupt, worthless) Federal Reserve Notes in payment of the debt anyway. Don't think that banks don't repossess (like cars) or foreclose on (like homes) countries that get too far in debt. Foreclosing on countries always entails a regime change (see [Communist] Bolshevik Revolution, 1917). In Russia it involved regicide (killing the king [Czar Nicholas II]). You can't let the king's family rise up later and repudiate the debt!
America was once a (complex) Republic, but today it is a (simple) democracy (since the 17th Amendment). Americans often don't realize what DEMOCRACY is. It is a Greek word for "mob rule". A perfect example of a democracy is - three wolves and a pig arguing over what to eat for lunch. Either way, if "We The People" were supposed to be the sovereigns in this land, we must be deposed/overthrown for the foreclosure to be complete. The Constitution has to be completely discarded so that the new owners can reign.
The pilgrims dedicated/consecrated this land to our Savior, Jesus Christ, for His footstool. We are just stewards - "guests" on this land at His pleasure. Do Geithner, Volcker, Greenspan and Bernanke (and their handlers) think they can eventually seize this continent away from Jesus with impunity?
I think not. Keep your lamps fueled and trimmed.
Not two weeks ago, another Fox News commentator remarked that the "world is broke". Now, I am NOT an economist. I barely understand daily compounded interest. That makes me no different from the vast majority of the world's population. However, it should strike the the average lay-person that the suggestion that the "world" could be "broke" is patently absurd. . . . . . .
UNLESS - - -
Somebody has taken the world's money.
How could that happen, you ask. Well, if all currency created today is "loaned" into circulation, interest must be paid on every dollar spent. If you borrow ten dollars and promise to pay back eleven, you have to hunt for the eleventh dollar somewhere. Then, if you borrow ALL of the money that is nationally available, it gets harder and harder to find that "eleventh" dollar. . . .
UNLESS - - -
- - you print more paper dollars. Magic, right? Problem is - the more you print phony paper currency, the more you inflate/deflate the currency - causing INFLATION. Then, the only way to protect against RUNAWAY INFLATION and the crashing of the currency is to tax a good portion of those extra paper dollars out of circulation through national taxation (IRS).
So, if all of the (non-rogue) "western"-style nations are playing the same game, the result is that they all end up spending more than they produce (to support entitlement programs and wars) and they all run up heavy debts to PRIVATE banks like the "FEDERAL" Reserve and the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND, and they face mushrooming interest burdens as the debt grows (see Greece).
Simply put, each participating nation owes more than its annual profits in debts to a private (money-changer) bank. Each nation is beholden to that private bank to periodically "bail it out" to keep government offices functioning. So if virtually all of the world's nation-corporations are insolvent and in receivership, everybody is strapped with debt, impoverished and enslaved . . . . . . . . but TO WHOM ?????
Governments pay farmers to NOT GROW certain crops. WHY ?? - in order to keep crop prices artificially propped up. Does this cause food shortages?
People complain that the world is "over-populated" - - SIX BILLION people. With six billion acres of land in Montana, that is enough for each person to have an acre.
If there are "shortages" in the world, I suspect they are contrived and manipulated. There is NO shortage of farmland (although we insult it by not practicing the land sabbath). There is no shortage of man-labor hours (especially in this period of mass unemployment). There should be no shortage of money (gold, silver, paper currency) unless someone has confiscated it. Our systems of distribution are more efficient than they have EVER been.
Besides, the law of the jubilee requires that ALL debts be forgiven every 50 years and all "corporations" be dissolved every 50 years. That way, private banks cannot exact ever-escalating usury payments from nations and bring ordinarily-free citizens to their knees.
So, here is the big question - who are these "private banks" to whom the nations owe so much money? Where do they reside? Where have they stashed all the gold and silver they have plundered from the nations? Why have all the nations simply not balked and repudiated all that debt and interest so that they can be free and prosperous again? Why have we abandoned the jubilee?
If America owes $13 trillion in debt and approximately $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, we can NEVER get caught up. Besides, those banks will never accept the (bankrupt, worthless) Federal Reserve Notes in payment of the debt anyway. Don't think that banks don't repossess (like cars) or foreclose on (like homes) countries that get too far in debt. Foreclosing on countries always entails a regime change (see [Communist] Bolshevik Revolution, 1917). In Russia it involved regicide (killing the king [Czar Nicholas II]). You can't let the king's family rise up later and repudiate the debt!
America was once a (complex) Republic, but today it is a (simple) democracy (since the 17th Amendment). Americans often don't realize what DEMOCRACY is. It is a Greek word for "mob rule". A perfect example of a democracy is - three wolves and a pig arguing over what to eat for lunch. Either way, if "We The People" were supposed to be the sovereigns in this land, we must be deposed/overthrown for the foreclosure to be complete. The Constitution has to be completely discarded so that the new owners can reign.
The pilgrims dedicated/consecrated this land to our Savior, Jesus Christ, for His footstool. We are just stewards - "guests" on this land at His pleasure. Do Geithner, Volcker, Greenspan and Bernanke (and their handlers) think they can eventually seize this continent away from Jesus with impunity?
I think not. Keep your lamps fueled and trimmed.
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