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MORALITY AND POLITICS
All politics—as an enterprise of civilization—is moral. The entire
debate about politics, pursued at least under the American system, can be reduced to a single question: What is the
proper use of force to accomplish moral ends? People say you can't legislate morality. All legislation is a moral
enterprise. If there is not a justification for the use of power, then that use of power is illicit. That is what
despots do. Aristotle said famously that all law rests upon the necessary foundation of morality. Note that this
kind of enterprise is a prescriptive notion. In other words, Aristotle is saying that this is the nature of law and
government properly construed. It's supposed to be this way even though we know that sometimes people use their
power meant for moral ends as a means to immorally consolidate their own power and control over the very people
they were entrusted to serve. So politics is sometimes used poorly. But if you take politics as a thing, as such,
at least in the American system, the purpose of power is for the public good.
Can you legislate Morality? - With Frank Turek Special Guest Frank Turek Explains To Us What It Means To Legislate Morality.
Prohibition - Can You Make People Be Good? Prohibition - Can You Make People Be Good? Frank Turek reviews the question from a moral,
philosophical, legal, and historical perspective.
Legislating Morality - Is It Constitutional?
Legislating Morality - Is It Constitutional? Frank Turek reviews the question from a biblical,
philosophical, legal, and historical perspective. Please visit http://www.CrossExamined.org for more on Legislating Morality and the Constitution.
Should Christians Get Involved in Politics? Should Christians Get Involved in Politics? Frank Turek delivers the argument from the
Biblical, philosophical, moral, theological, and historical positions. Please visit http://www.CrossExamined.org for more on why Christians should be involved in
politics.
Yes, Laws DO Change Hearts Yes, Laws DO Change Hearts. The Law can help to change a culture and can be a great teacher..
Frank Turek examines human nature and the role of government in restraining bad behavior. Please visit http://www.CrossExamined.org for more on Legislating Morality, and the notion of
restraining evil rather than making people good.
Audio Excerpt: Trump's plan to seize Iraq's oil: 'It's not stealing, we're
reimbursing ourselves'
Hakes pointed out that Gen Douglas MacArthur, who Trump professes to admire, did the opposite when he oversaw the occupation of Japan: MacArthur brought resources in to help fend off starvation of the population.“By giving up the spoils of war, MacArthur and the United States earned the respect of the Japanese and the world, helping legitimise America’s status as leader of the free world,” he argued. ------------------------ How the US Occupied the 30 Percent of Syria Containing Most
of its Oil, Water and Gas Aiming at Iran
LINK: THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
"When I hear Christians saying we ought not get involved in politics but just “preach the Gospel,” I show them this satellite picture of the Korean peninsula. Here we see a homogenous population of mostly Koreans separated by a well-fortified border. South Korea is full of freedom, food and productivity—it’s one of the most Christianized countries in the world. North Korea is a concentration camp. They have no freedom, no food, and very little Christianity." - Frank Turek -
North Koreans: The Most Enslaved People On Earth
Weeping for a dictator under threat of arrest and execution
Paul Joseph Watson
This is something the establishment media has completely failed to explain properly. All the video footage of weeping North Koreans stricken with grief over the death of the “dear leader” Kim Jong-Il is by no means spontaneous or natural. It’s all part of the fun of living in a Stalinist dictatorship. If citizens do not show the appropriately sullen facial expressions, if they don’t produce tears, and if they don’t properly grieve for the dead dictator, they face imprisonment and possible execution. Sure, some of the grief is genuine, it’s the result of a lifetime of brainwashing and the enforcement of the cult of personality. But in the most arcane and brutal police state on the planet, not being upset over Kim Jong-Il’s death could mean you’re reported as an enemy of the state by the local spy and sent to a gulag. Your entire family could also be targeted for the same treatment. Identical scenes were witnessed after the death of the previous “dear leader,” Kim Il-sung. Millions of North Koreans have starved to death over the past 20 years as a result of the regime’s disastrous economic policies and their refusal to accept food aid. Food is still scarce, so the fact that citizens are also handed small snacks if they attend these spectacles and put on a fake display of grief is also a massive incentive for a permanently hungry population. North Korea is the perfect illustration of what happens when power is concentrated into the hands of the few – totalitarianism, mass starvation, economic collapse and complete enslavement. It’s a warning the western world would do well to heed, especially in the aftermath of the passage of a law which formally opens up the chance of Americans being sent to gulags in the name of state security.
You Can't Preach the Gospel without Freedom
What’s the primary reason for the stark difference between these two countries? Politics. The South politically allows freedom, while the North does not. Ironically, Christians who shun politics to supposedly advance the Gospel are actually allowing others to stop the Gospel. How so? Because politics and law affects one’s ability to preach the Gospel! If you think otherwise, visit some of the countries I have visited—Iran, Saudi Arabia and China. You cannot legally “preach the Gospel” in those countries—or practice other aspects of your religion freely—because politically they’ve ruled it out as they have in North Korea. In fact, politics affects virtually every area of your life through the laws made by government. So if you care about your family, business, church, school, children, money, property, home, security, healthcare, safety, freedom, and your ability to “preach the Gospel,” then you should care about politics. Politics affects everything, which is why leaders throughout the Bible—including Joseph, Moses, Daniel, Nehemiah, Mordecai, Esther, John the Baptist, and Paul— “went political” to influence civil governments to govern morally. Even Jesus himself got involved in politics when he publically chastised the Pharisees—the religious and political leaders of Israel—for neglecting “the more important matters of the law.” Unfortunately, our lawmakers today are doing the same thing. They use the force of law tell us what light bulbs to use and what the school lunch menu should be, but neglect to put any restrictions on the taking of human life by abortion! What could be more important than life? The right to life is the right to all other rights. If you don’t have life, you don’t have anything. But what can Christians do? After all, we can’t legislate morality, can we? News flash: All laws legislate morality! Morality is about right and wrong and all laws declare one behavior right and the opposite behavior wrong. So the question is not whether we can legislate morality, but “Whose morality will we legislate?” The answer our Founding Fathers gave was the “self-evident” morality given to us by our Creator—the same Moral Law that the apostle Paul said that all people have “written on their hearts.” In other words, not my morality or your morality, but the morality—the one we inherited not the one we invented. (This doesn’t mean that every moral or political issue has clear right and wrong answers. It only means that “the more important matters of the law” – life, marriage and religious freedom for example—do have clear answers that we should heed.) Notice our Founders did not have to establish a particular denomination or force religious practice in order to legislate a moral code. Our country justifies moral rights with theism, but does not require its citizens to acknowledge or practice theism. That’s why Chris Matthews and other liberals are wrong when they charge that Christians are trying to impose a “theocracy” or violate the “separation of Church and State.” They fail to distinguish between religion and morality. Broadly defined, religion involves our duty to God while morality involves our duty to one another. Our lawmakers are not telling people how, when, or if to go to church—that would be legislating religion. But lawmakers cannot avoid telling people how they should treat one another— that is legislating morality, and that is what all laws do. Opposition to abortion or same-sex marriage, for example, does not entail the establishment of a “theocracy.” Churches and the Bible also teach that murder, theft, and child abuse are wrong, but no one says laws prohibiting such acts establish a theocracy or are a violation of the “separation of church and state.” In fact, if the government could not pass laws consistent with church or biblical teachings, then all criminal laws would have to be overturned because they are all in some way consistent with at least one of the Ten Commandments. Second, there are churches on both sides of these issues. In other words, some liberal churches, contrary to scripture, actually support abortion and same-sex marriage. So if church-supported positions could not be put into law, then we could not have laws either way on abortion or same-sex marriage. Absurd. Finally, most proponents of same-sex marriage argue as if they have some kind of moral right to having their relationships endorsed by the state. They claim that they don’t have “equal rights” or that they are being “discriminated” against. Likewise, abortion advocates claim they have a moral “right” to choose an abortion. None of these claims are true, as I have explained elsewhere. Nevertheless, their arguments, while flawed, expose the fact that independent of religion they seek to legislate their morality rather than the morality. If you have a problem with the morality, don’t blame me. I didn’t make it up. I didn’t make up the fact that abortion is wrong, that men are not designed for other men, or that natural marriage is the foundation of a civilized society. Those unchangeable objective truths about reality are examples of the “Laws of Nature” from “Nature’s God,” as the Declaration of Independence puts it, and we only hurt others and ourselves by suppressing those truths and legislating immoral laws. When we fail to legislate morally, others impose immorality. For example, totalitarian political correctness is already imposed in states such as Massachusetts where the implications of same-sex marriage override the religious liberties of businesses, charities and even parents. As documented here and illustrated here, same sex marriage prevents you from running your business, educating your children, or practicing your religion in accord with your Conscience. And soon, as is the case in Canada, you may not be able to merely speak Biblically about homosexual behavior. That is because those who say they are fighting for “tolerance” are often the most intolerant. Unless Christians begin to influence politics and the culture more significantly, we will continue to lose the very freedoms that enable us to live according to our beliefs and spread the Gospel all over the world. That’s why you should not vote for candidates because of their race or religion, but because they will govern morally on the more important matters of the law—life, marriage and religious freedom. (To see where all the major candidates stand visit the non-partisan website http://www.ontheissues.org.) If you are a pastor who is worried about your tax-exempt status: 1) you have more freedom than you think to speak on political and moral issues from the pulpit; 2) if you do not speak up for truth now, you will soon lose your freedom to speak for anything, including the Gospel; and 3) you are called to be salt and light, not tax-exempt.
Public Mass Executions UPI The executions of about 80 people occurred Nov. 3 for relatively minor infractions, such as watching South Korean movies or distributing pornographic material, Korea Joongang Daily reported Monday. People were executed in cities such as Wonsan, Chongjin, Sariwon and Pyongsong. No one was executed in Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital. This article was posted: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 10:51 am Tags: foreign affairs, government corruption
Death By Anti Aircraft Gun North Korean Psyop From Hell
Published on May 20, 2015
North Korean Tyrant Kim Jong-Un to Execute 33 Christians Robert Wilde Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of North Korea, has called for the execution of 33 people for reportedly working as accomplices to South Korean Baptist missionary Kim Jung-wook and planning to help him create 500 underground churches. The North Korean tyrant has asserted himself by ruthlessly and brutally murdering all whom he deems a threat to his power. In August, Kim Jong-un executed by firing squad his ex-girlfriend/singer Hyon. She and eleven others in her orchestra were executed with machine guns while the families of the victims watched in horror. Also, Kim Jong-un ordered the execution of his own uncle, Jang Song Thaek, in December for allegedly being a “traitor to the nation for all ages, and a despicable political careerist and trickster, human scum and worse than a dog.” Last October, Kim Jung-wook was arrested and placed in jail for his plan to set up underground churches.
Supposedly having received help from South Korea’s intelligence agency, the missionary entered North Korea from
China and was heading for Pyongyang. This article was posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 1:17 pm
Our
Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate
- John Adams -
The Moral Argument Published on Jan 21, 2015 For more resources visit: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/moral View the Kalam Cosmological Argument animation video: http://youtu.be/6CulBuMCLg0 View the Fine Tuning Argument animation video: Reasonable Faith features the work of philosopher and theologian Dr. William Lane Craig and aims to provide in the public arena an intelligent, articulate, and uncompromising yet gracious Christian perspective on the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith today, such as:
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Comments From Our Forbearers
John Adams (1735 – 1826)
"Statesman, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty.”
"...We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
"...have you ever found in history one single example of a Nation throughly Corrupted—that was afterwards restored to Virtue—and without Virtue, there can be no political Liberty.
Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
A leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies.
"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."
William Penn (1644-1718)
"If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants."
Daniel Webster (1782-1817) United States politician and orator.
Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary. Let us cherish these sentiments, and extend this influence still more widely; in full conviction that this is the happiest society which partakes in the highest degree of the mild and peaceful spirit of Christianity."
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow-man. Thank God! I -- I also -- am an American!"
If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end. "
Noah Webster (1758-1843) An American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education." His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read, secularizing their education. Webster's name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the nation.
"Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the Christian religion.… It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.… The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free Constitutions of Government.… The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws.… All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand together. Bringing together Lewis’ legendary broadcast talks during World War Two from his three previous books The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality, Mere Christianity provides an unequaled opportunity for believers and nonbelievers alike to hear this powerful apologetic for the Christian faith.
One of the most popular and beloved introductions to the concept of faith ever written, ‘Mere Christianity’ has sold millions of copies worldwide. The book brings together C.S. Lewis’s legendary radio broadcasts during the war years, in which he set out simply to ‘explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times’. Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity’s many denominations, ‘Mere Christianity’ provides an unequalled opportunity for believers and nonbelievers alike to absorb a powerful, rational case for the Christian faith. It is a collection of scintillating brilliance which remains strikingly fresh for the modern reader, and which confirms C. S. Lewis' reputation as one of the leading Christian writers and thinkers of our age.
Table of Contents: [Book I.] Right and wrong as a clue to the meaning of the universe
https://www.youtube.com/user/CSLewisInstitute/videos
What Lies Behind the Moral Law
The Shocking Alternative
CSLewisDoodle - Aug 20, 2017
Notes: This is an illustration of C.S Lewis’ third talk of the
third radio series called ‘What Christians Believe’. This became Chapter 3 of Book 2, in the book called
‘Mere Christianity’. Notes below... You can find the book here: http://www.amazon.com/Mere-Christiani...
(0:05) This radio talk was given in February 1942 during some of
Britain's darkest days in WWII, with major cities having experienced a series of bombing blitzes and about
to experience more. The Axis powers were at the zenith of their power. Step up to the microphone, C.S.
Lewis... (This radio talk was the first to be heard by the American G.I.’s who arrived in Britain the week
before). (3:06) If you would like to think more about thought itself, see other
doodles on the subject such as 'The Foundation of 20th Century thought' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH53u...), and 'The Poison of Subjectivism' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgcd6...). (6:27) At this time there was fuel rationing in wartime Britain. Many
people tried to run their cars on alternatives to petrol – using different alcohols – and this inevitably
failed as the engines overheated. (8:03) In English folklore, John Barleycorn is a character who
represents the crop of barley harvested each autumn. The character grew healthy and hale during the
summer, was chopped down and slaughtered in his prime, and then processed into beer and whiskey so he
lived once more. This ‘dying god' myth, copied into folklore from the patterns of nature, Lewis actually
led C.S. Lewis to Christ - nature's Creator, as he explains here: https://youtu.be/Uv4kx2QP4UM?t=3m59s
(8:47) See John 10.30 (https://biblehub.com/john/10-30.htm), John 8.58 (https://biblehub.com/john/8-58.htm), Matt 9:2 (https://biblehub.com/matthew/9-2.htm), and Mark 14:62 (https://biblehub.com/mark/14-62.htm). Take a read of these chapters to see Jesus confronting hostile
crowds, seeking to execute Him. Jesus Christ - 'the Son of', 'One with', 'equal to', 'the image of', and
'the only way to' God, the Father. (12:13) This shortened version of the argument “Divine, deluded or
demonic” included another two non-Christian hypotheses, “defied by followers" or "dramatic
literature/legend”, in Lewis' other writings. This armchair-psychologist's argument (that gospel writers
were lunatics) and the literary non-scholar's argument (that the gospels were just novelettes) are usually
based on unthinking atheistic assumptions that the existence of God or the miraculous is impossible based
on "one of the sciences". Based on these assumptions, Jesus’ shocking acts or statements can not be true,
and therefore some way, however implausible, is sought to remove or discredit the offending sayings and
acts. However, these are not strong arguments in themselves without the false assumption fueling them and
are based on scant evidence. Lewis counters these basic philosophic errors (illustrated in doodle form) in
‘Religion and Science’ (https://youtu.be/AJu0oYvi-cY) and ‘Miracles -The Introductory Chapter' (https://youtu.be/BboJqrW8a8U). Once the unthinking atheistic assumptions are dealt with, these
two less likely possibilities can be addressed. Lewis' voluminous arguments against them can be found in
the essays ‘What are We to Make of Jesus Christ’ (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Mm...), ‘Fern-Seed and Elephants’, ‘Myth became Fact’, ‘The Grand
Miracle’, ‘Christian Apologetics’ and other works.
C.S. Lewis' BBC Broadcast Talks/Mere Christianity - 21 VIDEOS, PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9boiLqIabFhrqabptq3ThGdwNanr65xU
GOD ARE YOU THERE?
The Fine Tuning of the Universe
Published on Sep 25, 2014 For more resources visit: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/finetu... Be sure to view the Kalam Cosmological Argument animation video: http://youtu.be/6CulBuMCLg0 Reasonable Faith features the work of philosopher and theologian Dr. William Lane Craig and aims to provide in the public arena an intelligent, articulate, and uncompromising yet gracious Christian perspective on the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith today, such as: -the existence of God Read more: http://www.reasonablefaith.org We welcome your comments in the Reasonable Faith forums: Be sure to also visit Reasonable Faith's other channel which contains full-length clips: http://www.youtube.com/reasonablefait... Follow Reasonable Faith on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rfupdates Add Reasonable Faith on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/reasonablefai...
The Kalam Cosmological Argument Published on Sep 1, 2013 For more resources visit: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/kalam
Quick links to the world's largest collection of youtube videos (from drcraigvideos) on philosopher, historian, and theologian Dr. William Lane Craig http://drcraigvideos.blogspot.com/ , http://www.reasons.org/
"Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical" Tim Keller Talks At Google
Skepticism is healthy if it leads us to question the received pieties of our age. But our modern culture has elevated skepticism to such an ultimate value that belief in anything seems faintly absurd. Yet human beings cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope—and these things all require a faith dimension. In an earlier book, The New York Times bestseller The Reason for God, Dr. Timothy Keller made a case for Christianity. In his new book, Dr. Keller starts further back, addressing those who strongly doubt that any version of religion or faith makes sense or has anything of value to offer the contemporary world. In his trademark accessible prose, Dr. Keller invites those who have dismissed Christianity as irrelevant to reconsider. As the founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, Dr. Keller has spent decades engaging with skeptics of all persuasions, from the hostile to the hopeful, in personal conversations, sermons, and books, which have sold over two million copies. Timothy Keller was born and raised in Pennsylvania and educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. His first pastorate was in Hopewell, Virginia. In 1989 he started Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City with his wife, Kathy, and their three sons. Today, Redeemer has nearly six thousand regular Sunday attendees and has helped to start more than three hundred new churches around the world. He is the author of The Songs of Jesus, Preaching, Prayer, Encounters with Jesus, Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering, Every Good Endeavor, and The Meaning of Marriage, among others, including the perennial bestsellers The Reason for God and The Prodigal God.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/cajZeX http://www.timothykeller.com/books/making-sense-of-god https://www.youtube.com/user/gospelinlife/videos
“The Pulpit Is By Chuck Baldwin
The famed 19th Century revivalist and major contributor to America’s “Second Great Awakening,” Charles Finney, said the following: “If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discernment, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in Christianity, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it.” I believe Finney was absolutely correct. Notice that Finney believed there was a direct correlation between the kind of legislation passed in Congress and the kind of preaching taking place in the pulpits of America’s churches. He also believed that the pulpits of the country were responsible for corruption in government. Again, I agree. America’s biggest threat does not come from abortionists, gay rights activists, pornographers, or drug dealers. Neither does our biggest threat come from North Korea, Iran, Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan. America’s biggest threat comes from our nation’s pulpits. (Article Continues below vids)
Pastors must be engaged in politics
Dead Fetus Cells in Pepsi and other Products
"Sadly, most Americans don’t even realize that large numbers of consumer products on our supermarket shelves contain ingredients which have been cultivated using aborted human fetal cell lines. This information is not hard to find. But people do not like to talk about it. There are price lists for human fetal tissue all over the Internet. You can find one example right here. So does it bother you that aborted babies are being chopped up and sold to researchers all over America? Or are you perfectly fine with it?"
Sickening: Major
food corporations use tissue from aborted babies LINK:
Dead Fetus Cells in Pepsi and other Products
LINK: Yes, they are selling baby parts
Will Genetically Modified Humans Be
Patented? SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=37090 Will the genetically modified humans of our dystopian future be patented by corporations? Join James for this week's Question For Corbett where he explores the very real legal precedents for what many would dismiss as science fiction fantasy. LINK: GMO Genetic Armageddon!
The Corbett Report | July 17th, 2020 SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/mybody/ Stripped of its contextual baggage, the phrase "My Body, My Choice" makes a compelling rallying cry because it conveys a fundamental truth that we all innately understand: I have the claim to my own body and what is done to it. So why, then, are we being asked to believe that when it comes to vaccinations during a declared pandemic it is "Your Body, Their Choice"? LINKS: Abortion Genocide! | Eugenicist Bill Gates
MY BODY, MY CHOICE 7th Day Truth Seeker | Jul 3, 2020 WHO IS BILL GATES? Complete Four Part Series: Colorado Adopts Mandatory Vaccinations for School Kids Colorado SB20-163: “School Entry Immunization” Bill Making It Illegal to Forcefully Microchip Employees Passes Michigan House Bill Requires Employers to Keep Implanted Microchips Voluntary For Workers Michigan HB5672: “Microchip Protection Act” You can help support our independent and non-commercial work by visiting http://CorbettReport.com/Support & http://MediaMonarchy.com/Join. Thank You.
LINKS: Abortion Genocide! | Eugenicist Bill Gates
Pastors must not be intimidated, and stand up against corruption
During an event in Scottsdale, Arizona - Pastor Paul Blair encourages pastors to stand together with the Alliance Defense Fund and speak freely at the pulpit. Together, we must unleash the voice of the Church and spread the word of the Gospel.
(Article Continued) In all candor, I’m increasingly frustrated with many of my pastor and Christian brethren. Over the decades, they have made a god out of government–especially the federal government. Their support for US military interventionism (justified or not) borders on worship. Plus, they have put their absolute trust in the Republican Party to the point that their support for the GOP has, for all intents and purposes, made the Republican Party more sacred than their own churches. They would abandon a church, or denomination, or pastor quicker than they would abandon the GOP–regardless of how much Big Government Republicans promote. When a Republican is in office (especially the office of President), he or she takes on the image of a god more than a civil magistrate. The Religious Right was absolutely deaf and dumb to the ubiquitous unconstitutional and unlawful conduct committed during Bush’s eight years in office. In fact, virtually everything that President Barack Obama is currently doing to circumvent constitutional government was copied from G.W. Bush’s political playbook. Then these same pastors and churches turn around and get all righteously indignant about abortion, gay rights, family decay, etc. The fact is, the government in Washington, D.C., is the chief culprit in America’s moral and cultural tailspin. DC is a cesspool whose leakage has spilled over into the entire country. And the more pastors and Christians refuse to resist the ever-burgeoning power and influence of Washington’s unconstitutional manipulation and intimidation of our states and communities, the deeper the manure gets. Yet, so many pastors and Christians continue to quote Romans 13 as justification to sit back and do NOTHING to prevent DC’s unlawful control over what was the FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES of this nation. Forgive me, but when I hear these pastors and Christian leaders bewail the conditions of America, I get kind of sick. If they would stop supporting this out-of-control federal leviathan that is swallowing our liberties, if they would stop preaching their pansy, don’t-make-anybody-mad sermonettes, if they would stop sucking up to these corrupt politicians, most of the problems they complain about would not exist. Why do you think your public schools are so liberal and socialistic in their philosophy? Why do your public school textbooks promote sodomy and other aberrant lifestyles? It started back in 1979 when the United States Department of Education (DOE) was created by President Jimmy Carter as a payoff to the National Education Association (NEA) for their political support. Ever since its creation, the DOE has coerced, intimidated, harangued, and cajoled State and local school districts to adopt its socialistic agenda. That’s why no matter what local school district one may find themselves living in, the textbooks, philosophies, and instruction of the school varies nary a bit. They are all under the thumb of the DOE. Get rid of the DOE, and local schools would be able to teach what the people of the local school districts preferred, which in many school districts would mean old-fashioned American values. That’s why, for the most part, it doesn’t matter to a tinker’s dam who you elect to your local school board. The root problem is the DOE in Washington, D.C. But when is the last time you heard any preacher in America say a word of protest against the DOE? Why is your county sheriff so reluctant to oppose the Obama/Feinstein gun control bills? Because his office is receiving millions of federal tax dollars (otherwise known as bribes) from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). In addition, the DOJ constantly sends directives, policies, agendas, etc., to your local sheriff. And, unfortunately, most sheriffs, governors, attorney generals, etc., labor under the delusion that individual states have no authority, power, or right to resist, and otherwise refuse to comply with, the wishes of Washington, D.C. That’s why, regardless what county you live in, your local sheriff’s office is not in charge. It is taking its orders from the DOJ in Washington, D.C. (Thank God not every county sheriff in the country is such a brain dead puppet of Washington. There are several hundred sheriffs who have unequivocally stated that they will NOT comply with any law out of Washington, D.C., outlawing semi-automatic rifles. Praise God for them!) Get the DOJ off the backs of your county sheriff’s office and you will see honest law enforcement return to your county. But when’s the last time you heard any preacher in America say a word of protest against the DOJ? The reason you cannot afford to build a new home is because of federal departments such as the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). The reason you cannot afford to buy property or do much of anything with the property you own is because of federal departments such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The reason you cannot get a loan at your “local” bank–or the reason you lost your business, house, or job during the past five years–is mostly because of the draconian and damnable decisions of the Federal Reserve. But when is the last time you heard any preacher in America say a word of protest against OSHA, the EPA, or the Federal Reserve? Where did abortion-on-demand come from? Did you vote for it? Did your State legislators and senators vote for it? No! It was forced upon the states by the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Yet, when Congressman Ron Paul of Texas introduced (several times) the Sanctity of Life Act, which would have, in essence, overturned Roe vs. Wade and given the states the authority to restrict or outlaw abortion-on-demand, what did America’s pulpits do to support it? NOTHING! The GOP leadership didn’t support Dr. Paul’s pro-life bill, so neither did America’s pulpits. And where are America’s pulpits regarding the current attempt by Washington, D.C., to make criminals out of God-fearing Americans who believe in the Second Amendment and who own a semi-automatic rifle? They are AWOL! They are deserters from battle. They are traitors to freedom and the Bill of Rights. They follow constitutionally-ignorant Christian leaders such as Franklin Graham and Richard Land. (By the way, Land is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a notorious Big-Government, globalist organization. I just thought you should know.) Oh, trust me, I know that there are a handful of courageous preachers (true men of God) around the country who actively resist the tyrannical tentacles of the Beast in Washington, D.C., but, unfortunately, they are a small minority of the hundreds of thousands of preachers across America. Again, what do you hear from the vast majority of our pulpits? “Romans 13.” “Obey the government.” “Don’t resist the government.” And by “government,” they almost always mean the federal government in Washington, D.C. So, our pastors and churches actively support the DOE, the DOJ, OSHA, the EPA, the Federal Reserve, etc. By their complicity with Big Government zealots in Washington, D.C., our pulpits are culpable in the escalation of virtually every piece of vice and villainy that currently engulfs our country. Every bit of it can be traced back to the manipulation, coercion, intimidation, regulation, oppression, bastardization, calculation, constriction, repression, and contamination spewing forth from Washington, D.C. This is why when I hear these preachers lamenting the deteriorating conditions in America, I get nauseous! Give pulpits back to honest and courageous pastors who will preach the Bible without fear of losing the tax exempt status that Washington, D.C., hangs over their heads, and give America back to the states and to the people who could enact their own civil laws and cultural norms without interference from Washington, D.C., and watch the re-birth of freedom take place; watch tens of thousands of communities return to the streets of Mayberry; watch the crime rates drop like an anvil; watch the demand for abortion drop; watch education test scores skyrocket; watch people go to work; watch houses being built; and watch prosperity thrive. Sure, I realize that there would be hundreds of communities (mostly large, metropolitan areas and socialist-dominated states controlled by large, metropolitan areas) that would continue to promote the same Big-Government programs and policies that we see now. So be it. If people want to live in those pig pens, let them. But give people an opportunity to choose for themselves communities that respect old-fashioned decency, honesty, integrity, limited government, true republicanism, etc., and see how many people would flee to these refreshing, modern-day Cities of Refuge. Instead of gun free zones, America needs “Washington, D.C., Free Zones.” After all, that’s what America was intended to be; that was the purpose of the Tenth Amendment, and rest of the Bill of Rights. By refusing to resist the Big-Government machinations of Washington, D.C.; by hiding behind an erroneous, passive, and compliant interpretation of Romans 13; by fearing the IRS more than they fear God; by worshipping the state more than they worship God; by refusing to teach their congregations the Biblical and Natural Law principles of liberty, America’s pulpits are the ones that are the most culpable in the deterioration and destruction of our blessed country. Instead of blaming the abortionists, gay rights activists, pornographers, and drug dealers, they need to be looking in the mirror. Charles Finney was right: “If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it.” P.S. Now that 14 people have been injured in a multiple-stabbing attack at a college in Texas, will Barack Obama and Dianne Feinstein call for a ban on “assault knives”? And will Franklin Graham and Richard Land call for national registration and universal background checks for all knife buyers? And if not, why not? I guess we had better watch out for those “assault rocks” and “assault baseball bats” next, huh? (c) Chuck Baldwin
The Bible and Homosexuality Published on Dec 16, 2014 There are many different opinions on this divisive topic in the Church today. So what does the Bible say? This is an introductory video aimed at those who are interested in what the Bible says about homosexuality.
What Has Happened To Us? - Sermon by Chuck Baldwin on Jul. 5, 2015 -
This message was preached by Pastor Chuck Baldwin on Sunday, July 5, 2015 during the service at Liberty Fellowship. To purchase a copy of this sermon or to support the fellowship please visit LibertyFellowshipMT.com
A Prayer For Christian Patriots - Sermon by Chuck Baldwin on Jul. 12, 2015 - Published on Jul 12, 2015 This message was preached by Pastor Chuck Baldwin on Sunday, July 12, 2015 during the service at Liberty Fellowship. To purchase a copy of this sermon or to support the fellowship please visit LibertyFellowshipMT.com
LINKS : Asleep at the Switch : An Open Letter to America's Pastors Silencing Christians | Hate Crimes | Free Speech | THE I.R.S. | Nullification
Gay Right's Victory Opens Door For Pedo Politicians (In 2014 The New York Times argued in
favor of civil rights for pedophiles)
A recent Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage may soon allow pedophiles to argue they are suffering discrimination.In 2013 in California Congresswoman Rep. , a Democrat, proposed federalizing a state law prohibiting counseling to change a person’s sexual orientation. The bill, according to critics, defines pedophilia as a sexual orientation and would afford the same rights granted to homosexuals. In 2014 The New York Times argued in favor of civil rights for pedophiles. Margo Kaplan, an entrepreneurial assistant law professor at Rutgers University, and a former lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote for the newspaper that around one percent of people sexually attracted to children must “hide their disorder from everyone they know — or risk losing educational and job opportunities, and face the prospect of harassment and even violence.” This is essentially the same argument used to mainstream homosexuality.
Safe
School Czar
Safe school Czar Kevin Jennings and his relationship with Harry Hay and NAMBLA NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association)
http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Visible-Lesbian-History-Students/dp/1555832547/ref=cm_cmu_pg_i
harry hay
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The Bleeping NXIVM Connection
Blackstone Intelligence Network In this video, I will introduce you to the major players in the NXIVM sex cult operated by Keith Raniere, Allison Mack, Nancy Salzman and the Bronfman sisters. Crowd funding makes my investigations possible! LINK: WAR
Pedo Coverups Coming Down Like A House Of Cards
Warning: This report contains an extremely graphic interview with John DeCamp. Buried in the memory hole of modern civilization lies the immoral corrosive culture of the world’s elite. Last week Dominique Straus Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, Candidate for the French Presidency and Bilderberg attendee, closed another chapter on a saga rife with perversion. A French court acquitted Kahn of “aggravated pimping”, claiming that Kahn did not help operate an illegal prostitution network. Kahn said he was present at the orgies attended by lawyers,judges,police officials, and journalists because he was overwhelmed with stress dealing with saving the world’s economy as the head of the IMF. That stress really must have gotten to him when he sexually assaulted a maid in a Times Square hotel only hours before he was scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. And this only scrapes the surface of the many allegations weighing on the overall perception of the ruling elite. The charactar projected to the common hard working people of Planet Earth is one of pure evil. This loathsome lack of moral latitude fomented by the ruling elite seeps to the surface like a toxic chemical attempting to sway the hearts and minds of Americans, to be integrated into the modus operandi of the common culture. But the good people of America are many, regardless of the media’s grip on politics, music, and entertainment. Help us spread the word about the liberty movement, we're reaching millions help us reach millions more. Share the free live video feed link with your friends & family: http://www.infowars.com/show
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Nat Geo Promotion Of Transsexualism To Children Is Abusive
Published on Dec 18, 2016 The Latest National Geographic issue is celebrating children becoming an opposite sex and showing a boy who thinks he is a girl and so happy not to pretend to be a boy. This is how you kill a society by confusing the sexes, just like many chemical weapons used on insects. http://www.infowars.com/national-geog...
Incest Embraced As Normal by Liberals - Sexual Diversity Welcomed by LGBT Community -
Published on Jul 2, 2016 Subscribe now for more! http://bit.ly/1QHJwaK Incest is being embraced by liberals as normal and they're calling it Genetic Sexual Attraction. More and more cases of fathers and daughters and mothers and sons in sexual relationships are making the news, and is the latest group to be welcomed by the LGBT community. Media analyst Mark Dice has the story. © 2016 by Mark Dice
Published on Jun 12, 2016 Sex offender acquitted of bestiality involving peanut butter.
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NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization
Ever since its inception there have been those who have
warned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, far from offering a simple "collective security" pact to ensure
the integrity of its member nations' borders, would in fact be used as an offensive tool of imperial adventurism
and conquest. Since the NATO-led Kosovo bombing campaign of 1999 at the very least, those fears have appeared more
and more justified. NATO is the first attempt in history to establish an aggressive global military formation, one which currently includes a third of the nations of the world either as members or partners, has members and partners on five continents and has conducted active operations on four, with the potential to expand its reach into the remaining two where it has not yet officially intruded itself...As NATO continues to expand across the globe through a series of partnerships, initiatives and dialogues, what was once a collective security agreement is increasingly becoming a global military strike force capable of bombarding, invading and occupying countries anywhere in the world. http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/about/
LINK: NATO
"WELL, it's a racket, all
right..." A few profit -- and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted. One month before the Government can conscript the young men of the nation -- it must conscript capital and industry and labor. Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our munitions makers and our shipbuilders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all the other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted -- to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get." ...
To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. #1 : We must take the profit out of war. # 2 : We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. # 3 : We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.
Vietnam War Was a Racket Infowars.com Jesse Ventura draws upon the immortal words of Major General Smedley Butler to declare that the Vietnam War was a racket.
This article was posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 2:08 pm
-- Jesse Ventura -- At the time of his death, Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was the most decorated marine of his time. Among his 16 metals, he received five for heroism — including two Medals of Honor. The fact that he served our country makes him a patriot. However, Smedley Butler’s heroism did not end there. A military coup lead by his colleagues and wealthy industrialists planned to overthrow and assassinate Franklin D. Roosevelt and replace the President of the United States with a Fascist regime, with Smedley Butler at the helm as dictator. He stood up for the Republic by exposing these men, and he paid a price for going against such powerful people: he was marginalized and ridiculed by the media. Even though a report by a special House of Representatives Committee confirmed Butler’s testimony, not one of the conspirators was brought to justice. In 1935, he wrote one of my favorite books of all time, “War is a Racket.” I have often encouraged people to read this book because Butler explains that the wars he fought weren’t for our country — they were for the corporations. If you want your eyes to be truly open to how long corporations have dictated our domestic and foreign policy and how many of our brave men and women have died for their profits, read “War is a Racket.”
(Excerpt) U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler (1881—1940) — a Congressional Medal of Honor winner who could never be accused of being a pacifist and the author of : War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. It may seem odd for me, a military man, to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent 33 years and 4 months in active service as a member of our country’s most agile military force — the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. Butler also recognized the mental effect of military service: Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups.
The Corbett Report First published at 13:16 UTC on January 22nd, 2020 SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=34783 Have you heard of Major General Smedley Butler? If not, you might want to ask yourself why that is. As one of the most highly decorated Marines in the history of the US Marine Corps and as a passionate and eloquent speaker about the racket that is war, Smedley Butler deserves to be a household name. Find out more in today's edition of Questions For Corbett.
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wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers.
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of
Rights. WAR IS A RACKET
RonPaulLibertyReport Streamed live on Jun 26, 2019 As the Saudi genocide of Yemen continues, everything's coming up roses for the US arms dealers who are supplying the Saudi killing machine. Billions in arms sales are made yearly and foreign agents lobbying for the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates are making millions. Meanwhile, millions of Yemeni civilians face starvation, disease, and death in the four year Saudi war of aggression on them. Links: YEMEN , MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX , The Federal Reserve
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Ben Swann While the Korean people celebrate humanity at the Olympics, tensions escalate between the U.S. and North Korean governments. This Reality Check questions who is really harmed by sanctions on North Korea. Did you remember to subscribe to my YouTube channel? Also follow me here:
"Americans have become so accustomed to the concept of sanctions that the policy has become hum-drum and commonplace. Since the violence associated with sanctions is indirect and difficult to see, people don’t put them in the same category as bombs. But the reality is that sanctions, by virtue of their targeting foreign citizens for death, are every bit an act of war as dropping bombs on them." --
Americans have become so accustomed to the concept of sanctions that the policy has become hum-drum and commonplace. Since the violence associated with sanctions is indirect and difficult to see, people don’t put them in the same category as bombs. But the reality is that sanctions, by virtue of their targeting foreign citizens for death, are every bit an act of war as dropping bombs on them. North Korea is quite possibly the most impoverished nation on earth. Suffering for decades under a brutal socialist economic system (one in which the government takes care of everyone with guaranteed retirement pensions, healthcare, education, employment, housing, and food), the populace is always starving or on the verge of starvation.
The idea is twofold: (1) If the North Koreans are dying or watching their children die, they will do what is necessary to oust the North Korean regime and replace it with a regime that is pro-U.S. or (2) the North Korean regime, faced with a rising death toll among the North Korean people from starvation of illness, will abdicate in favor of a pro-U.S. regime or simply agree to do the bidding of U.S. officials. Either way, the North Korean people are the pawns in all this. They are the ones who are targeted for death by U.S. officials and their sanctions. Of course, this is not the only time that U.S. officials have targeted the civilian populace of a nation as a way to achieve a political goal. Sanctions have become a popular foreign-policy tool of U.S. officials, especially against Third World nations, which lack the ability to retaliate. Recall the U.S. regime-change operation in Chile from 1970 to 1973. Somehow concluding that the Chilean people’s election of a self-avowed Marxist as president was a threat to U.S. “national security,” U.S. officials targeted Chile for a U.S. regime-change operation. As part of the regime-change plan, the CIA did everything it could to make the Chilean economy “scream.” What that meant was that the CIA secretly engaged in actions designed to bring maximum economic suffering to the Chilean people, including starvation, as reflected by a scheme by which the CIA secretly bribed the nation’s truckers into going on strike, thereby preventing the delivery of food to people all across the country. The idea was that by killing the Chilean people or their children, that would make them more amenable to a military coup, which ultimately came in 1973. Recall the 11 years of brutal U.S. sanctions on Iraq. They targeted and killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. Yes, children, not one of whom ever initiated any violence against the United States. The goal? Again, regime change. The idea was that if the Iraqi people wanted to avoid the ever-increasing death toll of their children, they could oust Saddam Hussein from power and install a regime that was acceptable to U.S. officials. Alternatively, the idea was that Saddam Hussein, if he cared about the Iraqi children, would abdicate in favor of a pro-U.S. regime or simply agree to comply with U.S. dictates. One of the fascinating aspects of the Iraqi sanctions was the indifference among U.S. officials to the death toll among children. It just didn’t matter to them that they were killing children. In their minds, they were just enforcing sanctions — i.e., rules and regulations. Their mindsets were a perfect demonstration of what Hannah Arendt called “the banality of evil.” When U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright was asked whether the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children were worth it, she responded that while the matter was a difficult one, yes, the deaths were in fact “worth it.” No U.S. official, including her boss Bill Clinton, who some perceived as a great humanitarian, condemned Albright’s position. For that matter, neither did very many editorial or op-ed writers in the U.S. mainstream press. In fact, the position of U.S. officials was that the deaths of those Iraqi children were actually the fault of Iraqi parents and Saddam Hussein. Their reasoning was that since the Iraqi people could revolt at any time and since Saddam Hussein could comply with U.S. dictates at any time, their failure to do so placed responsibility for the children’s deaths in their hands, not the hands of the U.S. bureaucrats who were enforcing their sanctions. Consider the decades-long U.S. economic embargo against Cuba. It is targeted against the Cuban people, with the aim of achieving regime change on the island. U.S. officials sometimes point out that the suffering of the Cuban people is a direct result of their government’s socialist economic policies, as if that somehow negates the fact that U.S. officials are trying to make their suffering even worse with their embargo. If any Third World nations targeted by U.S. sanctions or embargoes were First World nations, there is little doubt that they would respond with a military counterattack against the United States. Few nations are going to permit another nation to intentionally target and kill their citizenry, either by bombs or sanctions. But poor, impoverished Third World nations know that they don’t stand a chance in a war with the United States. That’s why they inevitably fail to respond militarily to the U.S. sanctions attacks on their citizenry. But even Third World nations, if squeezed hard enough with an ever-increasing death toll among its citizenry, can potentially get to a point of such desperation that they finally decide to go for broke and retaliate. They might well figure that since they’re going down anyway because of the sanctions, they might as well take a lot of people down with them. [all bold & highlight added]
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Let’s get one thing straight: The UN is just a cover. The sanctions are orchestrated, engineered, and enforced by the U.S. government. The idea of using the UN for cover is so that it will appear like it’s an international act, rather than an act of the U.S. government. Everyone knows that any member of the United Nations that refuses to vote with the Empire will suffer the wrath of the Empire, either with a cutoff of U.S. foreign aid or even a regime-change operation against it. Let’s get another thing straight: The sanctions are directed at the Korean citizenry. Their purpose is to squeeze them economically — even if that means starving them to death — until regime change in North Korea is finally accomplished. Thus, for decades the North Korean people have been squeezed between a vise, with one side being their socialist economic system and the others side being U.S. sanctions, which are a variation of economic fascism. There is little doubt that when the U.S. government enforces sanctions against a country, everyone, including government officials, pays the price in terms of economic well-being. But it goes without saying that government officials are the ones who suffer least, owing to their political power. It’s the people at the bottom of the economic ladder who pay the biggest price. They are the ones who verge on starvation. That doesn’t bother U.S. officials one whit. Their mindset is the same as it was during the Korean War and the Vietnam War — that all these people are nothing more than “gooks” and, therefore, it doesn’t really matter how much they suffer or die. Anyway, the U.S. mindset goes, they bear the responsibility for their own plight because they have insisted on keeping a communist regime in power for some 70 years. If the North Korean people themselves had brought about a regime change — say, through a violent coup, a revolution, or assassination — the sanctions could have been lifted a long time ago. Ever since the North Korean regime began testing nuclear weapons, the U.S. has done everything it could to squeeze the North Korean people even more. Apparently the idea is that if enough North Korean peasants are starving to death, their communist rulers will have a crisis of conscience that will cause them to cease and desist from their nuclear testing. That’s not likely to happen. North Korea views its nuclear weapons as a deterrent against a U.S. regime-change operation, including through a military invasion, as the U.S. did with Iraq. It’s not likely to give up the one weapon that really might deter U.S. officials from invading North Korea or provoking North Korea into attacking the U.S., much like President Franklin Roosevelt did with Japan prior to its attack on Pearl Harbor. According to the New York Times article, China takes a different approach to the sanctions. It is worried about “the possibility that economic deprivation could send millions of North Koreans fleeing into China.” To get a picture of why China is concerned about the U.S. wish to squeeze the North Korean people even more, think about the massive refugee crisis that the U.S. government’s regime-change operations in the Middle East have produced in Europe. That’s what China fears the U.S. sanctions on North Korea will produce in China. So, “China insisted on an exemption to the sanctions stipulating that the ‘livelihood’ of ordinary North Koreans must not suffer.” According to the Times, the exemption is “a loophole that sanctions experts say is big enough to drive an 18-wheeler through.” “Sanctions experts”? That is undoubtedly a euphemism for U.S. officials. Notice how the “sanctions experts” lament this big “loophole” — one that enables a relatively small amount of trade at the North Korean-China border to take place. In their ideal world, there would be a total and complete economic embargo on the North Korean people. New York Times headlines would instead read: “No More Holes in North Korean Sanctions. Millions starving to death.” Just like the U.S. government did with its sanctions against Iraq. Those sanctions, which again used the UN as cover, were about as complete as possible. Almost immediately, the Iraqi people began feeling the brunt of the sanctions through a rapid decline in their standard of living. But it was the poor who suffered the most, especially through the deaths, year after year, of their children as a direct consequence of the sanctions. The U.S. sanctions against Iraq served as model of the “banality of evil” that sometimes strikes public officials. (See “Cool War: Economic Sanctions as a Weapon of Mass Destruction” by Joy Gordon.) The deaths of all those Iraqi children just didn’t matter to U.S. officials. Like with the North Koreans, the Iraqi people were considered scum. So what if hundreds of thousands of innocent children died? It’s not like they were Americans or Europeans. Anyway, every one of them was sacrificed for a worthy cause: regime change, just like with North Korea. In fact, in a moment of brutal honesty and candor, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright expressed the official position of the U.S. government when she publicly declared that the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from the sanctions were “worth it.” Sometimes I wonder whether the families who lost loved ones on 9/11 agree with her. It has been no different with the decades-old economic embargo against Cuba. Squeeze the Cuban people to death until they finally get rid of their communist regime and reinstall a regime that is subservient to the U.S. Empire, as the crooked, corrupt, and tyrannical dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, which Castro overthrew, was. Same with Iran. Who cares if the Iranian people are suffering from the U.S. and UN sanctions against them? After all, in the minds of U.S. officials, it’s the Iranian people who bear the responsibility for reversing the U.S. government’s 1953 regime change operation in Iran with their 1979 revolution. All the Iranian people have to do is reinstall a pro-U.S. dictatorship, similar to the one that the CIA installed in 1953, and all sanctions will be immediately lifted. Meanwhile, the American people, including the religious ones, just keep maintaining their nice, little,
passive, and subservient attitude toward sanctions and regime-change operations, including the ones that are rooted
in the U.S. national security state’s Cold War against communism, which obviously has never ended, at least not for
the U.S. national-security state. To paraphrase Edmund Burke, the evil of U.S. sanctions has been permitted to
flourish because good American citizens have chosen to do remain silent and deferential or, even worse, supportive,
toward them. https://www.fff.org/2016/04/05/the-evil-of-sanctions/
War and its By David Swanson I spoke this past weekend at the Kateri Peace Conference in upstate New York ( http://kateripeaceconference.org ) along with Kathy Kelly, John Horgan, Ellen Grady, James Ricks, Matt Southworth, Walt Chura, and many others. Watch for the video, because a terrific discussion took place around a series of questions posed by the event organizers. The following are some of the initial responses I had prepared beforehand. Why Work Against War War engages me because of its unique relationship to morality. Killing is a long-standing taboo. Killing is often if not always the worst thing that can be done to someone. But killing on a larger scale, organizing numerous people to kill numerous other people is often treated very differently. When a government kills its own people, that’s generally considered an outrage. But when a government kills another nation’s people, that’s not always viewed as a moral problem. In fact a government killing its own people is often used as a justification for another nation to come in and kill more of the first nation’s people. Killing in war, and lesser crimes in war, are given a moral pass or even praised. A U.S. military sniper bragged on the debut episode this week of NBC’s war reality show “Stars Earn Stripes” that he had “160 kills.” Not that he killed 160 people. The people are erased in his language. “I have 160 kills.” And the show itself is a dramatization of U.S. news coverage of U.S. wars, in which the only participants are Americans. The 95% of victims in our one-sided slaughters are rarely mentioned in U.S. news coverage, and on this new war-o-tainment show the heroic warriors attack empty fields, blow up guard towers with no guards, kick in doors of uninhabited houses, and spend so much time talking about how “real” it all is that none of them seem to notice that there are no enemies or victims to be found. War used to get a moral pass as a sporting contest between two armies on a distant battlefield. Then it became the occupation of people’s homes and the slaughter of those people. Now our propaganda is working to restore war’s status as a sport, not against an honorable opponent but against an invisible one. Members of our government talk about wanting to make the Iranian people suffer with sanctions, but we’re not to picture the Iranian people. Members of our government talk about funding killing as a jobs program, but we’re not to see them as sociopaths. War is becoming a sport to be approved of regardless of who dies, and with a blank spot for the piece of knowledge that tells us the leading cause of death for U.S. troops is suicide, and the second leading cause being shot by Afghan troops you are supposedly training. Real war is still hell. Human beings still suffer mental breakdowns from engaging in it, including engaging in it from a drone pilot’s desk. But drones are part of an attempt to avoid danger for the five percent of humanity that appears in our news-o-tainment. This is an attempt to strip war of morality. Muhammed Ali wouldn’t kill Vietnamese, but his daughter on the so-called reality show will blow the heads off paper targets that represent non-American humanity. We haven’t created this kind of moral exemption for anything other than war, not for rape or slavery or child abuse or cruelty to animals. We lock up football stars who hurt dogs, but not Americans who torture and kill human beings in time of war — and war is without limit in time or space. Among ourselves we’ve become less violent — still outrageously violent, but less so — and less racist, and less sexist, and less bigoted all around. But militarism is racism’s partner. The idea of making war on white people has been taboo for 65 years. Making war on non-white people draws unquestioning support of both the genocidal and the humanitarian variety. Do we need radical love? Yes, not only of enemies, but of invisible nonentities, those distant in space and those distant in time. We must love the foreigners we are killing and the great grandchildren we are depriving of a livable environment. And we must love them as equals, as exactly as worthy as ourselves, which obliges us to take considerable risks to our own well being. If our names and our resources are being used to murder, to maim, to terrorize, and to destroy the homes of people in huge numbers, what does that oblige us to do? And if most of us do little to nothing, what does that oblige those of us who are aware to do? My answer is anything that looks most likely to succeed, an answer that results in nonviolent actions and a lot more of them. Why Not Give Up and Whine Miserably? I do peace activism out of habit and paid employment. But I’m miserable when I’m not doing it, so there must be something motivating me. It certainly isn’t hope that we’re about to succeed. But neither have I ever spent a moment worrying that we won’t. If we have a moral obligation to do something, we have the same moral obligation not to waste time fretting over whether we’re about to succeed. It certainly isn’t the expectation of riches and fame and glory, which are all far more easily obtained elsewhere. But a lot of what I do is write, and I enjoy writing. I enjoy reading. I enjoy the stimulation I get from other minds through books and through discussions like this one. I enjoy the process of writing. I enjoy the praise and recognition that comes from writing and giving speeches. And yet there’s no sum of money or volume of praise that can motivate me to write or speak a view I oppose or even to address a topic that I find unimportant. I just can’t do it. So, what drives me is not fundamentally recognition, but I do think it’s worthwhile for those of us who are always speaking on panels to put ourselves in the shoes of those who are always in the audience. Should we not give each other recognition and praise and respect regardless of whether our roles are those of spokespeople. There are equally important and more important jobs in a movement. So take a moment right now to shake the hand of someone near you and thank them for what they do. Thank them in fact for their service, because unlike soldiers they are providing a service. What motivates the people you just shook hands with? What motivates you? And what really motivates me? I suspect the answer is the same for all of us. We want to reduce suffering and increase happiness. I’m tempted to say I’m motivated by the severity of the crisis, the likelihood that we have very little time left to avert environmental and/or nuclear catastrophe. But this isn’t true. Even a little injustice is enough. I was an activist before I knew we were destroying the atmosphere, before I knew of the level of death and trauma caused by our bombs and our billionaires, before we’d legalized baseless imprisonment, before we’d tossed out the Fourth Amendment, before we’d given presidents full war powers and personal lists of so-called nominees to be murdered. New outrages are added to old, but they weren’t required to get most of us active in the first place, and we won’t go silent if they’re undone. Think about a small child witnessing the death by missile of his parents and crying over their bodies in hopelessness and terror. This is not an uncommon scene. We fund it with our tax dollars. But it’s in a different country far away. Were it here in this town, people would not stand for it. Undoing the policies of death would be priority number 1. But it’s somewhere else. So people accept it. And that strikes me as either incredibly stupid or incredibly greedy. Stupidity offends me deeply. I have a hard time not myself offending people by mocking their cherished beliefs when I find them stupid. So, objecting to stupidity is almost certainly part of my motivation. But it’s not clear to me that most people really are that stupid. I think most people go out of their way not to acknowledge what is happening because they feel ashamed and powerless and comfortable and greedy. We could have better lives without our empire, but most people don’t believe that. They wish they could have the world’s oil and gas and labor without killing anybody, but the next best thing is to not pay attention to the killing or the system of injustice it maintains. And that offends me. That’s dishonesty — a quality far worse than stupidity. I’m not suggesting we worship honesty and intelligence for their own sake, but that we apply them to the basic morality of which we are all capable at close range. We can all love our loved ones. We ought to be able and willing to love, in a similar but not identical manner, everyone else as well. Everyone in some sense must be our loved one. That we don’t achieve this or even strive for it is an embarrassment to be outgrown. It ought to be part of every child’s education. Loving those we don’t know can in fact be easier than loving some of the people we do know. It’s not the same sort of love, but it has to be a kind of love if we are to find it in ourselves to take appropriate actions on their behalf and in partnership with them on behalf of us all. What Way Forward? I have a theory that we talk about peace and justice because we don’t want to talk about peace. We chant “No justice, no peace,” threatening to disturb the peace if we don’t get our justice. I want to disturb the war. I want to nonviolently afflict the comfortable to comfort the afflicted but I think we need to reverse the chant. I say “No peace, no justice.” You cannot begin to make justice in the middle of killing and dying. You can’t build a just nation with bombs. First the bombs have to stop. That’s the very first priority. Then the threat of bombs has to stop. That’s the second priority. Then justice and democracy can begin. We also talk a lot about peace without meaning it. We talk about peace in our hearts and in our personal lives. We don’t mean the abolition of war and the elimination of standing armies. I’m all for peace in our hearts. And I’m all for peace in our personal lives. But I wouldn’t kick out of the peace movement people who are unpleasant and acrimonious. We need all the people we can get. What I mean by peace is first and foremost and almost entirely the absence of war. It’s popular to say “Peace must be more than just the absence of war,” was if the mere absence of war is talk to be reserved for the speeches of beauty queens. But, you know, living is more than oxygen — yet without reliable oxygen everything else falls apart. Without peace not much else matters. Woody Allen said “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.” Well I don’t want to achieve peace in my heart or in my little corner of a dying world. I want to achieve peace through putting an end to warfare. Justice, including the redistribution of the military’s trillion dollars a year, including the liberation of nations living under our threat, including the preservation of a natural world ravaged by war making and war preparation can follow. Now how do we make that a national priority? I’m not sure we do. I think maybe we need to make it a human priority. We have more strength in numbers and in solidarity. We need to bring the stories of others here. We need to put pressure on foreign governments that still respond to it. If we can’t close the School of the Americas, but we can help convince South American nations to stop sending students, let’s start there. If we can’t shut down our oil companies, but the people of Iraq can block their oil law, let’s help. If we can’t free Bradley Manning, but we can encourage Ecuador to protect Julian Assange, we should. We should be the U.S. arm of a global movement, with the establishment of representative government in our own country as one of our distant dreams, to be advanced perhaps by work at the state and local levels where we still have a chance. One of our top priorities in the United States must be education, about the rest of the world, and about alternatives to war thinking. By war thinking I mean the sort of thinking that is currently asking “How can we oppose war in Syria without offering an alternative?” Now most people would oppose an individual murder even if they couldn’t offer an alternative. What is the alternative to murder? First and foremost it is not murdering. What is the alternative to supporting fanatical terrorists in Syria? It’s demilitarization. Stop arming these dictatorships for years and then turning against them. Support nonviolent uprisings like that in Bahrain rather than assisting in the brutal crackdown. Reject violent uprisings like the one our nation has helped produce in Syria. Send in nonviolent forces. Send in independent media. Not to generate propaganda for war but to generate pressure for peace. Send aid. Not weapons that are called aid. While there may be global trends against war, our nation has empowered presidents to make wars, guaranteeing that they will, and built up a military industrial complex that generates wars at will. The top priority of civil libertarians, of opponents of poverty, of advocates for education, or environmentalists, and of everyone working for a better world ought to be the dismantlement of the military industrial complex, and if we merged these movements we could do it. Less than 10 percent of what it swallows each year could make state college free. Imagine what the other 90% could do. Imagine what all those college-educated people could imagine that other 90% could do. What Are We Up Against? We’re up against ignorance, including willful ignorance. We’re up against apathy, which can benefit from the fantasy that all will magically work out, that the universe has a moral arc. Things may work out or we may all die horribly. That’s why we do what we have to do. We’re up against partisanship and the widespread poisonous idea that rather than demanding representation from our government we should be cheering for one political party within our government and forgiving all its sins. But most of all we’re up against disempowerment and the ridiculous but nearly universal belief that we can’t change things. George W. Bush’s memoirs recall top Republicans in 2006 secretly demanding withdrawal from Iraq under public and electoral pressure. Imagine how the peace movement would have grown if such responses to it had been public. But why shouldn’t it have grown exactly the same in the face of the pretence that we were having no impact? Why should we believe such a pretense? Why should we care if it’s a pretense or not? Shouldn’t we push ahead as our morality requires regardless? I recently read some memoirs by a peace activist from this part of the country named Lawrence Wittner. He participated in his first political demonstration in 1961. The USSR was withdrawing from a moratorium on nuclear testing. A protest at the White House urged President Kennedy not to follow suit. “For decades I looked back on this venture as a trifle ridiculous,” Wittner wrote. “After all, we and other small bands of protesters couldn’t have had any impact on U.S. policy, could we? Then in the mid-1990s, while doing research at the Kennedy Library on the history of the world nuclear disarmament movement, I stumbled onto an oral history interview with Adrian Fisher, deputy director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was explaining why Kennedy delayed resuming atmospheric nuclear tests until April 1962. Kennedy personally wanted to resume such tests, Fisher recalled, ‘but he also recognized that there were a lot of people that were going to be deeply offended by the United States resuming atmospheric testing. We had people picketing the White House, and there was a lot of excitement about it.'” If the picketers in 1961 had had the slightest notion that Kennedy was being influenced by them, their numbers would have multiplied 10-fold. If you work for an online activist group you discover that people will take 10 minutes to write you letters explaining why taking 10 seconds to email their lousy bum of a Congress member would be a waste of time. We’ve advanced to the point of actively working to disempower each other. In 1973-1974, Wittner visited GI coffee houses in Japan including in Yokusaka, where the Midway aircraft carrier was in port. The Japanese were protesting the ship’s carrying of nuclear weapons, which was illegal in Japan, and which the U.S. military, of course, lied about. But U.S. soldiers with whom Wittner and other activists had talked, brought them onto the ship and showed them the nukes. The following summer, when Wittner read in a newspaper that, “a substantial number of American GIs had refused to board the Midway for a mission to South Korea, then swept by popular protest against the U.S.-backed dictatorship, it occurred to me,” writes Wittner, “that I might have played some small role in inspiring their mutiny.” In the late 1990s, Wittner interviewed Robert “Bud” McFarlane, President Ronald Reagan’s former national security advisor: “Other administration officials had claimed that they had barely noticed the nuclear freeze movement. But when I asked McFarlane about it, he lit up and began outlining a massive administration campaign to counter and discredit the freeze — one that he had directed. . . . A month later, I interviewed Edwin Meese, a top White House staffer and U.S. attorney general during the Reagan administration. When I asked him about the administration’s response to the freeze campaign, he followed the usual line by saying that there was little official notice taken of it. In response, I recounted what McFarlane had revealed. A sheepish grin now spread across this former government official’s face, and I knew that I had caught him.” Let’s not wait to catch them. Let’s know they’re lying. Why do you think they’re spying on us? When someone tells you to stop imagining that you’re having an impact, ask them to please redirect their energy into getting 10 friends to join you in doing what needs to be done. If it has no impact, you’ll have gone down trying. If it has an impact, nobody will tell you for many years. David Swanson’s books include “War Is A Lie.” He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works as Campaign Coordinator for the online activist organization http://rootsaction.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @davidcnswanson and FaceBook. 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Century" LibertyFellowshipMT | Feb 18, 2020 This video is a brief response by Pastor Chuck Baldwin to a reader who, after reading Dr. Baldwin's national column entitled "Trump's Deal With The Devil," sarcastically asked him to propose his own Middle East peace plan if he didn't like Trump's plan.
War and Morality LibertyInOurTime | Jul 31, 2010 Short talk by Laurence M. Vance on his work "Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State." Presented as part of the "Authors Forum" at the Ludwig von Mises Institute's 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference held at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. This annual conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, and is for scholars interested or working in this intellectual tradition. http://mises.org Playlist for complete 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... * * * * * Laurence M. Vance is an Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute, columnist and policy adviser for the Future of Freedom Foundation, and a columnist, blogger, and book reviewer at LewRockwell.com. He is also the author of Gun Control and the Second Amendment, The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom, and War, Empire and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy. Laurence M. Vance's Books: http://www.vancepublications.com/books%20by%20lmv.htm
Sex & Economic Slavery
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This map shows where the world’s 30 million slaves live. There are 60,000 in the U.S.
By Max Fisher October 17, 2013
We think of slavery as a practice of the past, an image from Roman colonies or 18th-century American plantations, but the practice of enslaving human beings as property still exists. There are 29.8 million people living as slaves right now, according to a comprehensive new report issued by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation. This is not some softened, by-modern-standards definition of slavery. These 30 million people are living as forced laborers, forced prostitutes, child soldiers, child brides in forced marriages and, in all ways that matter, as pieces of property, chattel in the servitude of absolute ownership. Walk Free investigated 162 countries and found slaves in every single one. But the practice is far worse in some countries than others. The country where you are most likely to be enslaved is Mauritania. Although this vast West African nation has tried three times to outlaw slavery within its borders, it remains so common that it is nearly normal. The report estimates that four percent of Mauritania is enslaved – one out of every 25 people. (The aid group SOS Slavery, using a broader definition of slavery, estimated several years ago that as many as 20 percent of Mauritanians might be enslaved.) The map at the top of this page shows almost every country in the world colored according to the share of its population that is enslaved. The rate of slavery is also alarmingly high in Haiti, in Pakistan and in India, the world's second-most populous country. In all three, more than 1 percent of the population is estimated to live in slavery. A few trends are immediately clear from the map up top. First, rich, developed countries tend to have by far the lowest rates of slavery. The report says that effective government policies, rule of law, political stability and development levels all make slavery less likely. The vulnerable are less vulnerable, those who would exploit them face higher penalties and greater risk of getting caught. A war, natural disaster or state collapse is less likely to force helpless children or adults into bondage. Another crucial factor in preventing slavery is discrimination. When society treats women, ethnic groups or religious minorities as less valuable or less worthy of protection, they are more likely to become slaves. Then there are the worst-affected regions. Sub-Saharan Africa is a swath of red, with many countries having roughly 0.7 percent of the population enslaved -- or one in every 140 people. The legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and European colonialism are still playing out in the region; ethnic divisions and systems of economic exploitation engineered there during the colonial era are still, to some extent, in place. Slavery is also driven by extreme poverty, high levels of corruption and toleration of child "marriages" of young girls to adult men who pay their parents a "dowry." Two other bright red regions are Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. Both are blighted particularly by sex trafficking, a practice that bears little resemblance to popular Western conceptions of prostitution. Women and men are coerced into participating, often starting at a very young age, and are completely reliant on their traffickers for not just their daily survival but basic life choices; they have no say in where they go or what they do and are physically prevented from leaving. International sex traffickers have long targeted these two regions, whose women and men are prized for their skin tones and appearance by Western patrons. Here, to give you a different perspective of slavery's scope, is a map of the world showing the number of slaves living in each country: (Article Continues Below)
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Govt Ties to Child Sex Trafficking: Special Report
Published on Aug 8, 2013
More than 100 teenagers involved in sex trafficking and exploitation were rescued over the weekend in coordinated raids encompassing more than 70 cities, the FBI said Monday. The youngest child was 13 years old, the agency said. The raids resulted in the arrest of 150 "pimps" involved in the commercial exploitation of both adults and children, said Ronald Hosko, assistant director of the FBI's criminal investigative division. It was the FBI's largest action to date focusing on the recovery of sexually exploited children, and took law enforcement agencies to streets, motels, casinos and social media platforms, Hosko said. He said he hoped it would focus attention on sex trafficking, "this threat that robs us of our children." The pimps preyed in particular on troubled children, including children from broken homes,
authorities said. In some of the cases, they used a popular online classified site, Backpage, to sell the children
for sex, authorities said.
FBI Raid Reveals Govt Knee Deep in Child Sex Trafficking
FBI agents have rescued more than 100 children forced into prostitution by sex traffickers, during a three-day sweep across the US. As part of Operation Cross Country, 150 people were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the sexual exploitation of children. The raids took place in 76 cities, representing the largest such enforcement action to date, according to an FBI release. Announcing the arrests, Ron Hosko, assistant director of the bureau's Criminal Investigative Division, said: "Child prostitution remains a persistent threat to children across America. "This operation serves as a reminder that these abhorrent crimes can happen anywhere and that the FBI remains committed to stopping this cycle of victimization and holding the criminals who profit from this exploitation accountable." The sweep, the seventh such nationwide operation, was conducted as part of the FBI's Innocence Lost National Initiative, which seeks to bring together state and federal level bodies to crackdown on child prostitution. Agents recovered 105 sexually exploited children in the course of the operation. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013...
With all the mindless media distractions and hype surrounding the Super Bowl, even the mainstream media is being forced to report on the massive sex trafficking that takes place during almost every major sporting event. However they are failing to report on the widespread child abuse and sex trafficking that occurs within the inner circles of the elite and with sick pieces of trash like Jimmy Savile and Jerry Sandusky. Infowars points out that the people who cover this up and refuse to talk about it are just as complicit as those taking part in these vile disgusting acts. LINK: Bread and Circus
Human Trafficking Growing In U.S.
Published on Jun 18, 2015
Jakari Jackson interviews Govinda Tidball of Human2020.com talks to us about modern day slavery. Related:
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Yes, this map can be a little misleading. The United States, per capita, has a very low rate of slavery: just 0.02 percent, or one in every 5,000 people. But that adds up to a lot: an estimated 60,000 slaves, right here in America. If your goal is to have as few slaves as possible -- Walk Free says it is working to eradicate the practice in one generation's time -- then this map is very important, because it shows you which countries have the most slaves and thus which governments can do the most to reduce the global number of slaves. In that sense, the United States could stand to do a lot. You don't have to go far to see slavery in America. Here in Washington, D.C., you can sometimes spot them on certain streets, late at night. Not all sex workers or "prostitutes" are slaves, of course; plenty have chosen the work voluntarily and can leave it freely. But, as the 2007 documentary "Very Young Girls" demonstrated, many are coerced into participating at a young age and gradually shifted into a life that very much resembles slavery. A less visible but still prevalent form of slavery in America involves illegal migrant laborers who are lured with the promise of work and then manipulated into forced servitude, living without wages or freedom of movement, under constant threat of being turned over to the police should they let up in their work. Walk Free cites "a highly developed criminal economy that preys on economic migrants, trafficking and enslaving them." That economy stretches from the migrants' home countries right to the United States. The country that is most marked by slavery, though, is clearly India. There are an estimated 14 million slaves in India – it would be as if the entire population of Pennsylvania were forced into slavery. The country suffers deeply from all major forms of slavery, according to the report. Forced labor is common, due in part to a system of hereditary debt bondage; many Indian children are born "owing" sums they could never possibly pay to masters who control them as chattel their entire lives. Others fall into forced labor when they move to a different region looking for work, and turn to an unlicensed "broker" who promises work but delivers them into servitude. The country's caste system and widespread discrimination abet social norms that make it easier to turn a blind eye to the problem. Women and girls from underprivileged classes are particularly vulnerable to sexual slavery, whether under the guise of "child marriages" or not, although men and boys often fall victim as well. One of the world's most vulnerable populations for enslavement is Haitian children. Haiti has the world's second-highest rate of slavery -- 2.1 percent, or about one in every 48 people, many of them underage. There's even a word for it: "restaveks," from the colonial French for "reste avec" or "stay with." Traditionally, the word refers to a poor family sending their child to live with and work for a wealthier family. Often it is innocuous. But it can also encompass parents who feel they have no choice, typically because they have no income other than what they derive from selling their children into forced labor conditions that strongly resemble slavery. About one in 10 Haitian children are believed to participate. Those who run away, according to the report, are often "trafficked into forced begging and commercial sexual exploitation." What's perhaps most amazing about the prevalence of slavery around the world is how similar it can look across very different societies. The risk factors might change from one place to another, the causes varying widely, but the lives of the enslaved rarely do.
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Moral Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Midair
Greg Koukl UCLA 2001 Moral relativism, says Koukl, is not an alternative way to think about morality, nor is it a refinement of how we are to think of morality—rather, it is an outright denial of morality. In this talk, Koukl addresses what he calls the "myth of moral neutrality," discusses the implications of moral relativity, and illuminates several fatal flaws inherent to the moral relativist position. Ultimately, he argues that moral relativism is untenable and that the best reason for the existence of morality is a moral Lawgiver.
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