01/09/09

Challenge to Focus on the Family
By Michael Gaddy

Thank you for writing to Focus on the Family (e-mail, June 23, 2004). Your interest in our ministry is appreciated, and we’re pleased to have this opportunity to respond to your questions and concerns.

We were sorry to learn that you took offense at the title and content of Terry Phillips’s CITIZENLINK article, “Left Says Iraqi War Unbiblical” (June 21, 2004). In response to the points you’ve made, I think it is fair to say that Mr. Phillips never meant to imply that anyone who disagrees with President Bush should be labeled a “leftist.” Instead, he was merely pointing out that the vast majority of those religious leaders who have criticized the war in Iraq do represent a liberal perspective on biblical and theological as well as social and political issues. This, as far as it goes, is a matter of plain fact.

Where the Iraqi conflict itself is concerned, Dr. Dobson wants it known that his feelings on the subject are intense and deeply held. He realizes that there are many American Christians who do not share his point of view. Nevertheless, his own position is absolutely non-negotiable. As an adherent of the classic Augustinian “just war” theory, he is convinced that this is a case where the biblical and theological justifications for the use of force are fairly obvious. You may be right in asserting that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was not “defensive” in the strictest and most narrowly defined sense of the term...

See what Mike has to say here! Well researched rebuttal. (Read the rest here)

Free Hunter: Collateral Damage
by Carl Bussjaeger

American Independence Day has come and gone, along with the traditional boom and glare of fireworks that bring joy to many kids, young and old.

Picture two such of the younger children: Adorable little girls just six and four years old respectively, Mikayla and Brittany. Imagine their anticipation as the big day approaches and they look forward not only to the beloved fireworks, but also to the arrival of their favorite uncle Jeff, whom they haven't seen in months.

Now picture the adorable little girls' disappointment because a suited goon in Ohio wouldn't let Uncle Jeff come see his family. Yes, Mikayla and Brittany are just two more victims of the Ashland County, Ohio prosecutor's office.

Call them "collateral damage," more innocents caught in the cross-fire as the run-amuck prosecutors pursue their vendetta against Jeffrey "Hunter" Jordan. (Read the rest here)

Libertarian Commentary on Freedom News Daily
By Nathan A. Barton © 2004

Sorry for the delay in posting these comments. (See my afterword.) The views expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone else - and if I were a politician, would not necessarily reflect my own! The FND is a great way to view the day's national news, and I recommend it to you!: http://free-market.net/news/

1- House effort to curb Patriot Act snooping falls short
I am amazed and pleased that the de-facto referendum made it this far, just as I was with Ron Paul's quixotic effort to defund UNESCO.

2- RFID-enabled telephones in development
The promise and threat of new technology - is there anything on the horizon today beyond RFID to compare to, say, the automobile, the television, or the computer/internet? Unless we deal with technology, we won't have (or, some would say, deserve) our liberty. We need more people working on ways to market freedom-oriented uses of RFID. (Read the rest here)

Public "Education" - Slave Indoctrination
Iloilo Marguerité Jones

Today has been a very interesting day. I had occasion to enter into a long discussion with a dear and kind man, a close friend, who remains locked in the programming of public school rhetoric. What amazed me was my friend's absolute belief in the illusion that any government held any answers to any problems. I tried to open his eyes to the fact that government holds the answer to no problems, and is, in fact, the creator of most of the problems between humans around the Earth today.

Speaking quietly and patiently (rather than shouting, which I sorely wanted to do!), I explained how government had promoted legal slavery, legal sexism, legal apartheid, legal genocide, legal penal servitude, and legal oppression and many other “legal but not at all moral” systems and concepts. Government schools do this in no small part by programming young children to obey unquestioningly any other human who invokes the title of any sort of "authority." I then took him on a short stroll through a public school, explaining how little children are programmed to be obedient, conform their bodies to unnatural rules, pee only with permission, quench their thirst only with permission, move and talk only with permission, and obey, obey, obey. Is any of this natural? Do we hang out and speak only when we have permission? Do we stand in lines, and discuss the need for or ask for permission to answer nature's call when we are with our peers in our "normal" everyday lives? Why, then, do you suppose little children are so programmed by government schools and government-paid teachers? They are thus programmed that they might have brains suitably and systematically configured to accept state orders without question! (Read the rest here)

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Commencement 2014
Transcribed by Scott Palmer

Through a flaw in the space-time continuum, an audio report of a future university commencement speech appeared on my desk. Because it has implications both for physics and for current events, I transcribed the recording. It is reproduced below:

(An address to the graduates of Trinity College, Cambridge University. Given by ... at the Leaver's Service in the Trinity College Chapel on June 25, 2014.)

"Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
'To every man upon this earth,
Death cometh soon or late.

And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods?'"

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