Revolution 2007

The American people don't matter...we elect 435 Congresspeople, 100 Senators, and the President and Vice President...the President picks his appointments and a very small group of people basically decide what is best for the American people...Over 70% of the American population wants to bring the troops home...How have our elected officials responded to our request? Over 70% of the American population wants stem cell research. King George vetoed the stem cell bill...The King's first veto in six years...the illusion of democracy makes us think our votes count, our voice counts, we matter...when in reality, 537 elected officials make decisions in the best interests of 300 million Americans...democracy has become an illusion...the voice of the people no longer matters...I may be to cynical...but our elected officials don't listen to the American people...only big business and lobbyists...our government decides the American cannot have access to prescription drugs from Canada and Europe because the drugs are not safe...like droves of Canadians and Europeans are dropping dead from prescription drugs...will Vioxx continues to kill people...Avandia increases heart problems...Paxil causes birth defects...Purdue Pharma just settled a lawsuit over its Oxycontin...the FDA and big pharm only have the best interests of the American people in mind...that is why they don't want us buying unsafe drugs from Canada and Europe when we can get plenty of overpriced and unsafe prescription drugs right here in America...not to mention marking up AIDS drugs to the point where patients cannot afford them when the drugs cost about $2 a pill...the American people just don't matter...No one explains the Presidential Directive that makes King George Dictator Bush...another story the American people the people will never totally hear about...we just don't matter...we are voiceless in Bushworld... If we don't revolt soon, our voices really won't matter...let the revolution begin...we need an American Revolution that mirrors the French Revolution...and I for one will lead the way...Can you hear the people sing, singing the songs of angry men...it's the music of the people who will not be slaves again...when the beating of your hearts, echoes the beating of the drums, there is a revolution about to start when tomorrow comes...will you join in our crusade, who will be strong and stand with me???

Hoax or Threat

A cynic speaks...since I live in New Jersey, we had the Fort Dix terror hoax or threat...one thing that amazed me was that in the video of the gang playing jihad, there were ten people playing and shooting...yet only six were arrested...60% ain't bad for Bushworld...but why no massive hunt for the other four? were they informants? were they non-dangerous jihadists? I never heard about the other four terror suspects in the video...ever..I wonder why?...plus, the gang was arrested when going to a gun fence to get their guns but neighbors said the alleged gun fence mysteriously had not been in the house the gang went to for over a month...Mohmaud, the gun fence, seemed more like a ghost than a gun runner...and there was no massive hunt for the Muslim gun dealer either...another informant? another part of the hoax? Plus, besides the stupidity of bringing the jihad tape to be transferred at the local Circuit City, would terrorists really attack a military base where everyone has guns? is armed and will fight back? And now, another threat/hoax...some experts say the fuel system would have shut itself down...some believe JFK would have exploded...whom to believe? neither story's terrorists were al Qeada or Taliban based...and the JFK gang was all in the 40s and 50s...not your typical terrorists...I want to believe Homeland Security has some clue...but Bush loves the terror card...loves to say see how safe my team is keeping America...I wish I wasn't such a cynic...anyone think this is all part of the mysterious Presidential Directive to keep King George as President in January 2009?

Privilege of Religion

In 2004, James Nixon, a 12 year old boy in Ohio, won the right in court to wear a T-shirt bearing the words 'Homosexuality is a sin, Islam is a lie, abortion is murder. Some issues are black and white!" The school told him not to wear the T-shirt--and the boy's parents sued the school. The parents might have had a conscionable case if they had based it on the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech. But they didn't: indeed, they couldn't, because free speech is deemed not to include hate speech. But hate only has to prove it is religious, and it no longer counts as hate. So instead of freedom of speech, the Nixon's lawyers appealed to the constitutional right to freedom of religion. Their victorious lawsuit was supported by the Alliance Defense Fund of Arizona, whose business it it to press the legal battle for religious freedom."Jefferson's Wall of Separation between church and state crumbled under the weight of the evangelical right...religion for bigotry, hatred, and intolerance...sad...


Thomas Jefferson's Separation of Church and State point was "It was not the place of Congress or the Executive to do anything that might be misconstrued as the establishment of religion." Government should not approve or disapprove of religion. Government should not be influenced or in the business of religion. Religion should not be privileged like in the Supreme Court ruling in 2006 which stated that the Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal did not have to follow the laws of New Mexico against the taking of hallucinogenic drugs. The Church believed that they can understand God only by drinking hoasca tea, which contains the illegal hallucinogenic drug dimethyltrytamine, and the Supreme Court supported hallucinating for God and breaking the existing law. While the Supreme Court ruled in 2005, that all patients who use cannabis for medicinal purposes are vulnerable to federal prosecution even in the minority of states where such specialized use is legalized. The cannabis users had proof of their medical claims while the Church only had to say they believe the drug helps them understand God and were never required to supply any proof. Illegal drug use for God, no problem; Illegal drug use to relieve pain and suffering under medical control, wrong!!! Where is the separation of church and state Jefferson wrote about? The Church should be subject to the same laws as everyone else. Why don’t Churches have to pay taxes too? All the money that passes through them…Churches should be taxed like the rest of us…James Madison added this about the separation of church and state: “And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together

Founders and Framers were not Christians

Historian Robert Middlekauff, observed, "the idea that the Constitution expressed a moral view seems absurd. There were no genuine evangelicals in the Convention, and there were no heated declarations of Christian piety." Many of the founder fathers (Why no founding women?) were not Christians…Deism was the dominant religion of the 18th century. Deism believes in a watchmaker that wound up the universe. Voltaire wrote “God is no more moral than God is blue or square.” Deists regard their faith as a natural religion, as contrasted with one that is revealed by a God or which is artificially created by humans. Deists reason that since everything that exists has had a creator, and then the universe itself must have been created by the natural laws of God. Thomas Paine concluded a speech shortly after the French Revolution with: "God is the power of first cause, nature is the law, and matter is the subject acted upon.” Ironically, Deists detested atheism. John Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Payne, and many other founders were all Deists not Christians. They didn’t believe in a personal God; they believed in the laws of nature and reason. All were highly critical of organized religion. Jefferson’s latest biography even argues he was an atheist.

As proof here is an excerpt from a document called the Treaty of Tripoli from the end of Washington’s last term as President. The document was unanimously approved by the Senate: "As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries." (Mehomitan means Muslim. The Treaty was with Libya. Amazing how much as changed over the last two hundred plus years.) Lastly, there were no protests by anyone over the USA was not founded on the Christian religion.

Nowhere in the Constitution is there a single mention of Christianity, God, Jesus, or any Supreme Being, and there are only two references to religion. Lastly, the God in the Declaration of Independence does not describe Christianity's God, but the Deist’s God of natural law and reason. Any attempt to use the Declaration as a support for Christianity is tenuous at best.
Thomas Paine wrote the following: “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek Church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my church. " and "Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. “

John Adams flatly denied the doctrine of eternal damnation. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, he wrote: "I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"

Ben Franklin wrote: "Some books against Deism fell into my hands. . . It happened that they wrought an effect on my quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a Deist."

Madison wrote that “During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
Jefferson in many of his letters denounced the superstitions of Christianity. He did not believe in spiritual souls, angels or godly miracles. Although Jefferson did admire the morality of Jesus, Jefferson did not think him divine, nor did he believe in the Trinity or the miracles of Jesus. In a letter to Peter Carr, 10 August 1787, he wrote, "Question with boldness even the existence of a god." Jefferson believed in materialism, reason, and science. He never admitted to any religion but his own. In a letter to Ezra Stiles Ely, 25 June 1819, he wrote, "You say you are a Calvinist. I am not. I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know."

There is a myth that the founders and framers of our nation were Christians, Evangelical Christians, or Christians of any kind. Deism was the dominant religion in the 18th century not Christianity. The writings of many of the founders reveal they were Deists, not Christians, and they were extremely critical of Christianity. Thanks for letting me rant.