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Armenian Genocide History – American Minute with Bill Federer

Published November 4, 2024 | By campconstitution

 

Armenia’s last Arsacid king was deposed in 428 AD, ending an independent Armenia until the rise of Bagratid Armenia in the 9th century.

 

Armenia’s thousands of years of history included independence, interspersed with occupations by:

 

Assyrians, Medes, Achaemenid Persians, Greeks, Parthians, Romans, Sasanian Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Seljuk Turks, Mongols, Ottoman Turks, Russians, Safavid Persians, Afsharid Persians, Qajar Persians, and again Russians.

 

Armenia’s medieval capitol of Ani was called “the city of a 1,001 churches,” with a population of 200,000, rivaling the populations of the cities of the largest cities of the era, such as: Constantinople, Baghdad, Damascus, Florence, Rome, Paris, London, and Milan.

Islam emerged in the 7th century and quickly conquered throughout north Africa, Egypt and the Middle East.

 

In 704 A.D., Caliph Walid tricked Armenian nobles to meet in St. Gregory’s Church in Naxcawan and Church of Xram on the Araxis River.

 

Once they were all inside, he broke his promise, a practice called “taqiya.” He had his soldiers surround the church, set it on fire, and burn everyone inside to death.

 

In 1064, Muslim Sultan Alp Arslan and his Seljuk Turkish army invaded Armenia and after a 25 day siege, destroyed the city of Ani.

 

Arab historian Sibt ibn al-Jawzi recorded:

 

“The city became filled from one end to the other with bodies of the slain … The army entered the city, massacred its inhabitants, pillaged and burned it, leaving it in ruins … Dead bodies were so many that they blocked the streets; one could not go anywhere without stepping over them. And the number of prisoners was not less than 50,000 souls … I was determined to enter city and see the destruction with my own eyes. I tried to find a street in which I would not have to walk over the corpses; but that was impossible.”

 

Ottoman Turks reduced conquered Christians, Jewish, and non-Muslim populations to a second-class status called “dhimmi,” and required them to annually ransom their lives by paying an exorbitant tax called “jizyah.”

 

Sultan Murat I, 1359-1389, began the practice of “devshirme” — taking away boys from the conquered Armenian and Greek families.

 

These innocent boys were systematically traumatized and indoctrinated into becoming ferocious Muslim warriors called “Janissaries,” similar to Egypt’s “Mamluk” slave soldiers.

 

Janissaries were required to call the Sultan their “father” and were forbidden to marry, giving rise to depraved practices and abhorrent pederasty — “the sodomy of the Turks.”

 

For centuries Ottoman Turks conquered throughout the Mediterranean, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Spain and North Africa, carrying tens of thousands into slavery.

 

Beginning in the early 1800s, the Ottoman Empire began to decline. Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania won their independence.

 

When Armenia’s sentiments leaned toward independence, Sultan Abdul Hamid II put an end to it by massacring 100,000 from 1894-1896.

 

President Grover Cleveland reported to Congress, December 2, 1895:

 

“Occurrences in Turkey have continued to excite concern … Massacres of Christians in Armenia and the development … of a spirit of fanatic hostility to Christian influences … have lately shocked civilization.”

 

The next year, President Cleveland addressed Congress, December 7, 1896:

 

“Disturbed condition in Asiatic Turkey … rage of mad bigotry and cruel fanaticism … wanton destruction of homes and the bloody butchery of men, women, and children, made martyrs to their profession of Christian faith …

 

Outbreaks of blind fury which lead to murder and pillage in Turkey occur suddenly and without notice … It seems hardly possible that the earnest demand of good people throughout the Christian world for its corrective treatment will remain unanswered.”

 

President William McKinley told Congress, December 5, 1898:

 

“The … envoy of the United States to … Turkey … is … charged to press for a just settlement of our claims … of the destruction of the property of American missionaries’ resident in that country during the Armenian troubles of 1895.”

 

On December 6, 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt reported to Congress of:

 

“… systematic and long-extended cruelty and oppression … of which the Armenians have been the victims, and which have won for them the indignant pity of the civilized world.”

 

Sultan Abdul Hamid the Second made a league with Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, trading guns for access to oil.

 

When Sultan Hamid was deposed in 1908, there was a brief euphoria among the citizens of Turkey, as they naively hoped the country would adopt a constitutional government guaranteeing individual rights and freedoms.

 

Instead, the government was taken over by the “Young Turks” — three leaders or “pashas”: Mehmed Talaat Pasha, Ismail Enver Pasha, and Ahmed Djemal Pasha.

 

They acted as if they were planning democratic reforms while they clandestinely planned a genocidal scheme called “Ottomanization,” ridding the country of all who were not Muslims Turks.

 

The first step involved recruiting unsuspecting Armenian young men into the military.

 

Next they made them “non-combatant” soldiers and took away their weapons.

 

Finally, they marched them into the woods and deserts where they were ambushed and massacred.

 

With the Armenian young men gone, Armenian cities and villages were defenseless.

 

Nearly 2 million old men, women and children were marched into the desert, thrown off cliffs or burned alive. Armenian cities of Kharpert, Van, and Ani were leveled.

 

Entire Armenian populations were deported to the deserts of Syria and Mesopotamia where hundreds of thousands were killed or starved to death.

 

During World War One, Armenia briefly received aid from Russia until that country’s military was decimated by German artillery, followed by Tsar Nicholas the Second being killed during Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik revolution.

 

Theodore Roosevelt recorded the fate of Armenians in his 1916 book Fear God and Take Your Own Part:

 

“Armenians, who for some centuries have sedulously avoided militarism and war … are so suffering precisely and exactly because they have been pacifists whereas their neighbors, the Turks, have … been … militarists …

 

During the last year and a half … Armenians have been subjected to wrongs far greater than any that have been committed since the close of the Napoleonic Wars …

 

Fearful atrocities … Serbia is at this moment passing under the harrow of torture and mortal anguish …”

 

Roosevelt continued:

 

“Armenians have been butchered under circumstances of murder and torture and rape that would have appealed to an old-time Apache Indian …

 

The wholesale slaughter of the Armenians … must be shared by the neutral powers headed by the United States for their failure to protest when this initial wrong was committed …

 

The crowning outrage has been committed by the Turks on the Armenians. They have suffered atrocities so hideous that it is difficult to name them, atrocities such as those inflicted upon conquered nations by the followers of Attila and of Genghis Khan …

 

It is dreadful to think that these things can be done and that this nation nevertheless remarks ‘neutral not only in deed but in thought,’ between right and the most hideous wrong, neutral between despairing and hunted people — people whose little children are murdered and their women raped — and the victorious and evil wrong-doers …

 

I trust that all Americans worthy of the name feel their deepest indignation and keenest sympathy aroused by the dreadful Armenian atrocities. I trust that they feel … that a peace obtained without … righting the wrongs of the Armenians would be worse than any war.”

 

Historian Arnold Toynbee wrote:

 

“The Turks draft the criminals from their prisons into the Gendarmeri – military police – to exterminate the Armenian race …

 

In 1913 the Turkish Army was engaged in exterminating the Albanians … Greeks and Slavs left in the territory … The same campaign of extermination has been waged against the Nestorian Christians on the Persian frontier … In Syria there is a reign of terror …”

 

Toynbee continued:

 

“Turkish rule … is … slaughtering or driving from their homes, the Christian population … Only a third of the two million Armenians in Turkey have survived, and that at the price of apostatizing to Islam or else of leaving all they had and fleeing across the frontier.”

 

Armenia’s pleas at the Paris Peace Conference led Democrat President Wilson in a failed effort to make Armenia a U.S. protectorate.

 

The Sharif of Mecca, Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi, issued a decree in 1918 that the Syrian lands should:

 

“Protect and to take good care of everyone from the Jacobite Armenian community living in your territories and … defend them as you would defend yourselves … they are the Protected People of the Muslims.” (Ahl Dimmat al-Muslimin).

 

Woodrow Wilson, who was born December 28, 1856, addressed Congress, May 24, 1920:

 

“The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has established the truth of the reported massacres and other atrocities from which the Armenian people have suffered … deplorable conditions of insecurity, starvation, and misery now prevalent in Armenia …

 

Sympathy for Armenia among our people has sprung from untainted consciences, pure Christian faith and an earnest desire to see Christian people everywhere succored – helped – in their time of suffering.”

 

In 2006, Director Andrew Goldberg produced a documentary film The Armenian Genocide.

 

In 2016, actors Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac and Charlotte Le Bon starred in the film The Promise, depicting the Armenian genocide in the last days of the Ottoman Empire. In some areas, entire Armenian populations were decimated.

 

Some heroic and caring Turks refused to carry out orders kill Armenians and were themselves punished, as represented in a scene in The Promise, where the character Emre Ogan, played by Marwan Kenzari, risked his life to rescue American journalist Chris Myers, played by Christian Bale.

 

On August 29, 2014, the California Senate unanimously passed the Armenian Genocide Education Act mandating that among the human rights subjects covered in public schools, instruction shall be made of the genocide committed in Armenia at the beginning of the 20th century:

 

“The Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness oral testimony into the teaching of … the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan genocides … teaching about civil rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery … the Holocaust … and … the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 …

 

For purposes of this article, ‘Armenian Genocide’ means the torture, starvation, and murder of 1,500,000 Armenians, which included death marches into the Syrian desert, by the rulers of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the exile of more than 500,000 innocent people during the period from 1915 to 1923, inclusive.”

 

Hitler allegedly gave orders August 22, 1939, to brutally invade Poland, adding: “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

 

Secular leaders, such as Turkey’s Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Egypt’s Gemal Nasser, Iran’s Reza Pahlavi, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Syria’s Hafez al-Asad, had ushered in an era of moderation and tolerance in the Middle East, but their legacy has been rejected by fundamentalists.

 

Attaturk was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey and served as President from 1924 to 1938, ushering in era of moderation.

 

He abolished sharia courts, and made Friday a workday, instituting the “weekend” of Saturday and Sunday. He outlawed polygamy and elevated the status of women, appointing the first female judges, and insisting on education of girls.
 

He abolished women wearing of scarves, veils, chadors or burqas – the full-length body dress worn by Muslim women, and requiring women to wear skirts.
 

Ataturk stated:
“If henceforward the women do not share in the social life of the nation, we shall never attain to our full development. We shall remain irremediably backward, incapable of treating on equal terms with the civilizations of the West.”
 

Ataturk wrote in his book on citizenship (quoted in Ataturk, Yurttaslik Bilgileri, Yenigun Haber Ajansi, June 1997, p. 18):
 

“Mohammedanism was based on Arab nationalism above all nationalities … The purpose of the religion founded by Muhammad, over all nations, was to drag them into Arab national politics … It might have suited tribes in the desert. It is no good for a modern, progressive state …
 

Even before accepting the religion of the Arabs, the Turks were a great nation … He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government.”
 

Ataturk abolished the position of the Sultan and set up a secular government He ended the religious Caliphate, thus preventing Muslim religious leaders from controlling government affairs.
 

In an effort to cut ties with the fundamentalist past, he introduced the western use of last names, replaced Arabic Islamic names with Turkish names, and encouraged the next generation not take Arabic names but instead ethnic Turkish names. He abolished the use of Arabic and Persian script, and replaced it with the Latin alphabet.

 

Attaturk abolished turbans and fezes – the red cap with a black tassel, and required men to wear western pants and suits. He even required Muslim prayer leaders be beardless, and replaced Arabic muezzin’s call to prayer and made praying a private affair.

 

In some Islamist countries, minorities in have continued to suffer persecution and even genocide:

 

Iraqi Chaldean Christians, Assyrian Christians, Syriac Christians, Lebanese Maronite Christians, Egyptian Coptic Christians, Aramaic Christians, Melkite Christians, and Kurds.

 

Judge Learned Hand reportedly wrote:

 

“The use of history is to tell us … past themes, else we should have to repeat, each in his own experience, the successes and the failures of our forebears.”

 

Will and Ariel Durant wrote in The Lessons of History, 1968, New York: Simon & Schuster:

 

“Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew, if the transmission should be interrupted … civilization would die, and we should be savages again.”

 

Harvard Professor George Santayana wrote in Reason in Common Sense, 1905, Volume One of The Life of Reason:

 

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

 

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The Weekly Sam: On the Delights of Reading Old Magazines By Samuel Blumenfeld

Published November 2, 2024 | By campconstitution

I recently had the pleasure of perusing a number of old magazines from the
mid-nineteenth century to about 1918. They included such great monthly periodicals as
Scribner’s, Harper’s, McClure’s, and others. All of them had well-written articles on a
wide variety of subjects, reflecting the eclectic tastes of their readers. American readers
wanted more than just entertainment. There was a voracious hunger for knowledge, and
these magazines provided it, along with wonderful illustrations.

In these old magazines you’ll find articles and stories by Mark Twain, Edith Wharton,
Henry James, Jules Verne, A. Conan Doyle, Bret Harte, Frederic Remington, Stephen
Crane, and many others whose names today don’t ring a bell. It’s amazing how few of
the writers of those days have survived the ravages of time. In those days, Americans
were readers, and of course there was no television, or movies, or radio to provide other
diversions. So the literary world was where all the entertainment and enlightenment was.
But what I have found of particular fascination in these old magazines are the ads. Some
of these magazines had over one hundred pages of ads, selling everything that American
capitalism could provide.

You can easily follow the development of America’s great
free-market economy by simply looking at the ads for automobiles. The earliest ads for
cars can be seen in magazines published as early as 1898. And if you follow the ads that
appear in the succeeding years, you get a fascinating picture of the development of the
great American automobile industry. In these magazines you’ll find ads for Locomobile,
Pierce-Arrow, King, Peerless, Marmon, Franklin, Mora, Columbia, Northern, Knox and
other car companies that no longer exist. Most of them went belly-up during the Great
Depression. The Fed made it impossible for them to get financing.
Some of the products advertised in those days are still being sold today: National Biscuit,
now Nabisco, Ivory Soap, Pabst Beer, Kodak cameras, Whitman’s Chocolates, Prudential
Insurance, Mennen’s Talcum Powder, Quaker Oats. Cream of Wheat, Campbell Soup,
and many more. These companies continued to grow and prosper probably because of
great management and great products that Americans enjoyed. And they relied on
advertising to keep them in the public’s mind.

But many other companies now rest in the graveyard of extinguished businesses, such as
The Buckeye Camera, Larkin Soaps, Olympia Self-Playing Music Box, Fairy Soap, Blue
Label Ketchup, Waltham Watches, and many more enterprises that no longer exist.
What we see in the ads is the dynamism of our capitalist system which keeps producing
new and improved products for the fussy American consumer. Competition gives good
management and good products the edge needed for survival.

Indeed, advertising is such an important part of our economy that today it can drive one
crazy by the sheer number of ads we see on television, or hear on the radio, or are
accosted by on the Internet. But magazines are still with us, and with a vengeance. Just
look at the magazine rack at Barnes & Noble, and like Vogue and Glamour, they are
glossy, with more pictures than text. In the old magazines, illustrations were used to
supplement the text. Today, pictures are what you look at page after page with great ads
selling luxury products to a materialistic public.

Of course, there are a few magazines that are still literate, such as The New Yorker, The
Atlantic, Commentary, Vanity Fair, and our own The New American. But most of the
new magazines, like People and US, are geared to the illiterate tastes of the young and are
simply picture books with lots of ads trying to sell their young readers on how to be sexy
and popular.

Great magazines like Life, Colliers, and the old Saturday Evening Post are gone. But the
women’s magazines like the Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan,
and Redbook have survived by adapting themselves to women’s new interests. People
still read Time and Newsweek, but their readership is declining.. Most magazines now
cater to every nuanced interest of the public, such as cooking (Italian, Southern, Chinese,
Vegetarian, Dietetic), decorating, running, skiing, body building, football, golf, travel,
finance, antiques, cars, computers, parenting, etc. The great renaissance mind no longer
exists in America. You must fit into a niche. Otherwise you won’t be recognized.
It is only by reading these old magazines that you can begin to understand how our
civilization has changed in a short hundred years. But human nature has not changed.
There are still people who want to “kill the Jews.” You can find some of them on
YouTube. So, as the French say, plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose, the more
things change, the more they remain the same.

(The above article came from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives:  http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm

The Blumenfeld Archives

How has the Sun’s energy changed over the last 45 years?

Published October 29, 2024 | By campconstitution

This article is from our friend and Camp Constitution instructor Professor Willie Soon:
For centuries, it has been known that the Sun goes through subtle and not-so-subtle changes over time. For instance, when Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope at the Sun, he discovered that the Sun is imperfect and often blotched by dark areas known as sunspots. We now know that sunspots are very large features – often many times larger than the Earth. However, it was only in 1978, when the first satellite missions to continuously monitor the Sun were launched, that it became possible to directly measure the changes in the Sun’s energy, without the Earth’s atmosphere getting in the way.
Sun-monitoring instruments on satellites describe the energy reaching the Earth from the Sun in terms of the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI). These satellite measurements show that the average TSI reaching the Earth is around 1360-1365 Watts per meter squared (W/m2). They also show the TSI rises and falls slightly over the course of a sunspot cycle (roughly 8-13 years). However, most of the satellite missions only last for around 1 to 2 sunspot cycles. Therefore, in order to study the changes in TSI for longer than 10-15 years, scientists need to composite, or “stitch together”, the TSI measurements from multiple satellite missions.
For more than 20 years, there has been ongoing scientific controversy between rival scientific teams on how to best composite the TSI missions into a continuous record for the entire satellite era, i.e., from 1978 to the present.
For example, the Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitoring (ACRIM) team in charge of the NASA ACRIM satellite project took the approach of using the data as provided by the satellite mission science teams. In contrast, the Physical Meteorological Observatory in Davos (PMOD) team applied various data adjustments to each of the satellite missions before constructing their composite.
The ACRIM composite suggested that as well as the changes in TSI over the course of a sunspot cycle, there are also long-term changes in TSI between sunspot cycles. It suggested the possibility that these long-term changes in TSI could be contributing to global warming.
However, the PMOD composite suggested that TSI does not change much between sunspot cycles. It ruled out the possibility of TSI changes being a major factor in global warming.
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s latest reports explicitly favored composites like PMOD’s over ACRIM’s.
A major study, led by the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (www.CERES-Science.com), has just been published that revisits this long-standing scientific controversy and provides important new insights that could change our understanding of the long-term changes in TSI over timescales longer than 10-15 years.
This new peer-reviewed paper was published in the prestigious journal, The Astrophysical Journal, founded in 1895, it remains one of the top journals in astronomy and astrophysics.
The scientists in the team reanalyzed all the available satellite data from the first Nimbus 7 mission to the currently active missions on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft and Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor 1 (TSIS-1) on the International Space Station (ISS). They updated several of the older composites, as well as developing a wide range of new composites. In total, they found 21 different composites for the satellite era – including the 4 existing composites currently used by the scientific community.
Using common statistical techniques, these 21 composites were sorted into 6 main composite groups – labelled “A” to “F”, as seen in the chart below:
One group (“A”) matches very well to the PMOD composite and to the various solar activity datasets used in the IPCC’s most recent report. This group implies that there has been little or no contribution of the Sun to any of the global warming during the satellite era, i.e., since 1978.
Two groups (“B” and “C”) agree with the original ACRIM composite that had implied that solar activity might have contributed to global warming in the 1980s and 1990s, but that solar activity had since declined.
However, two other groups (“D” and “E”) suggest a new history of TSI variability in the satellite era. They agree with ACRIM that solar activity might have contributed to global warming in the 1980s and 1990s and that solar activity slightly decreased since the early 2000s. But, unlike ACRIM, they suggest that solar activity is still higher than in the 1980s and therefore might still be contributing to global warming.
The sixth group (“F”) – that is the only group that does not include any of the satellite data associated with the original PMOD team – suggests that solar activity has continued to increase throughout all four of the solar minima during the satellite era so far. It also confirms that the current ongoing solar maximum is already higher than the last cycle. If this composite group is correct, it would completely change our current understanding of how solar activity has changed over the last 45 years.
The team behind this new paper were shocked at how many completely different plausible composites could be generated from the available satellite data as provided by the satellite mission science teams.
The lead author of the study, Dr. Ronan Connolly, said, “As we explain in the paper, Group A – the one closest to that used by IPCC and many of the current climate modelling groups – is probably the most unreliable of the six. This is because of the heavy data adjustments and subjective data truncations that were applied to the original satellite mission team’s data.”
However, they have not yet established conclusively which of the six composite groups are most accurate. For this reason, the team have provided all these new, updated and existing composites to the scientific community so that other researchers can work on resolving these new challenges.
The new dataset is freely available through the Supporting Data at the journal website, as well as at the CERES-Science website and the Zenodo dataset repository website.
Citation details for the study:

  • Ronan Connolly, Willie Soon, Michael Connolly, Rodolfo Gustavo Cionco, Ana G. Elias, Gregory W. Henry, Nicola Scafetta, and Víctor M. Velasco Herrera (2024). “Multiple new or updated satellite Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) composites (1978-2023)”. The Astrophysical Journal, 975 (1), 102. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad7794

SPOOKED! Witches complain they cannot cast harmful spells on Trump

Published October 23, 2024 | By campconstitution

(Reposted with permission from World Net Daily)

‘He seems to have some kind of protection around him’

By Bob Unruh

There’s no doubt that a morality foreign to America’s Judeo-Christian foundation and longtime adherence is afoot on its shores today.

The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration has made transgenderism, including the bodily mutilation of minors, and abortion, the lucrative industry of killing the unborn, among its top priorities.

Further, the administration routinely has orchestrated attacks on followers of the faith, sending grandmothers to prison because of their actions in pursuit of protecting the unborn, and trying to force Christian ministries to fund abortion.

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So it’s not a surprise that President Donald Trump, who has promised to reverse many of the Biden-Harris agenda points, would be considered by some to be the choice closer to God’s desires for America than the Democrat nominee, Harris.

But now some speculation by witches, who have made their presence known on social media sites, is spurring that conversation.

They, in fact, are complaining about “some kind of protection” around Trump, making it so they cannot cast spells on him.

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Trump himself has acknowledged that circumstance, especially concerning his escape from an assassin’s bullet weeks ago. The bullet nicked his ear, causing it to bleed. But he explains that had he not turned his head at that very instant to look at a poster on stage at his rally, he likely would have died.

 

Online, “WitchesVsPatriarchy” complained, “Some other witches have mentioned that doing spells directly against tRump (sic) are not as effective as we might hope as he seems to have some kind of protection around him.”

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So the recommendation is to do spells “to help Kamala & the Democrats.”

A report at Modernity News said, “A post on the far-left website appeared in a subreddit called ‘WitchesVsPatriarchy’ and features one of the witches bemoaning the fact that their spells aren’t working on the Donald.”

 

The report suggests Trump already “lives in their deranged heads rent free” because they want no more attention given to him, while giving him more attention.

WND reported Trump publicly thanked God for allowing him to escape that assassin’s bullet, at the recent Al Smith Charity Dinner in Manhattan.

He said, “You don’t hear about the American Dream anymore. We’re going to make it possible for them to have that dream again. This is a very religious evening to me. It really is. It represents so much. My sister was someone who loved the (Catholic) Church and gave to the Church. The cardinal knew that.

“Having recently, myself, survived two assassination attempts—yes, I survived. I have a chart that went down to the right. Fortunately, I looked at it. It’s my all-time favorite piece of paper. It went down, and I looked to the right, and I said, ‘Was that luck? Was that God?’ I think it was God that did that. I really do.”

Further, columnist Wayne Allyn Root bluntly said Trump has been chosen by God.

“He’s not perfect. He’s not a god. He’s a human, although I believe super-human. But Trump is clearly chosen by God for this role, at this time and place – to save America and make America great again,” he explained in a commentary.

“Like the heroes of the Bible, Trump is a courageous warrior, with a killer instinct, perhaps you might call him a Barbarian, chosen by God to FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! And to protect our country, our values, and our childrens’ future.”

Root is author of multiple books and has a television show, “The ROOT Reaction” on Real America’s Voice TV, as well as a weekend program.

His comments, he explains, are being repeated from 2016. But they are never more true than now, he said.

On social media, Trump said, “There’s something going on. I mean, perhaps it’s God wanting me to be president, to save this country. Nobody knows.”

 

 

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The Weekly Sam The Great American Math Disaster By Samuel Blumenfeld

Published October 19, 2024 | By campconstitution

 

One of the reasons why Americans are so confused about the large numbers being tossed
around by our leaders in Washington these days, is because of how poorly they’ve been
taught mathematics in the public schools they attended. Numbers in the millions,
billions, and trillions are almost impossible to visualize as anything more than just strings
of numbers. Most Americans can barely deal with thousands, let alone trillions.
The basic problem is that American children are no longer being taught arithmetic. They
are taught math, which includes more than our simple counting system. Arithmetic deals
with quantity. Math deals with relationships and uses complex symbols. When you
submerge arithmetic in mathematics, without making sure that the children have mastered
their counting skills, you get math failure. And this is nothing new. Back in 1991
Newsweek magazine reported (6/17/91):

How bad are eighth graders’ math skills? So bad that half are scoring just above
the proficiency level expected of fifth-grade students. Even the best students did
miserably; at the top-scoring schools, the average was well below grade level.
Hardly any students have the background to go beyond simple computation, most
of those kids can add but they have serious trouble thinking through simple
problems….

What’s really frightening about these results is that the alarm has been ringing
since the 1983 publication of “A Nation at Risk,” the federally sponsored study
that highlighted vast problems in the public schools. Yet despite years of talk
about reform–and genuine efforts of change in a few places–American students
are still not making the grade and remain behind their counterparts in other
industrialized nations.

All of those kids who did miserably in math in 1983 and 1991 are today’s voting adults in
their thirties and forties. And let us not forget the disaster called the “New Math” which
swept through America’s elementary schools like a hurricane during the 1960s and ’70s,
creating today’s math illiterates among Boomers in their fifties and sixties.
The educators blame the problem on traditional arithmetic, which hasn’t been taught in
years, but is a perfect scapegoat. They complain that too much time is wasted practicing
adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. The solution? More calculators and
computers.

The real problem is that our educators really don’t know the difference between
arithmetic and mathematics, and if you don’t know the difference, you will not know how
to teach either. Our arithmetic system is an ingenious method of counting, keeping track of quantity. It
uses 10 symbols and place value for all of its notations and operations. As such it is one
of the greatest achievements of the human intellect, an invention that permits human
beings to perform any counting feat with mere pencil and paper.
But the key to its proficient use is memorization of the basic arithmetic facts. If you
don’t memorize the facts, then you are stuck with unit counting and you might as well
learn to use an abacus. Memorization requires rote drill, which is forbidden in today’s
schools, even though it is the easiest way for a child to learn anything. When educators
think that children can learn to compute without memorizing the arithmetic facts, they are
deluding themselves and cheating the children.

Why is it important for children to memorize the arithmetic facts? Because
memorization will give them mastery of the system. And once the arithmetic facts are
memorized through drill and practice with pencil and paper, they will later be able to use
calculators and computers with accuracy, spotting errors when they make them, always
able to do the calculations on paper if necessary.
Why did eighth graders do so poorly even in wealthy suburban schools? Because of bad
teaching. Obviously, when even the richest and brightest fail, one cannot blame it on
rote memorization when we are told that memorization is what makes the Japanese
student so much better than the American. If teachers do not even know how to teach
simple arithmetic effectively, how can we assume that they know how to teach algebra,
geometry, trigonometry, or calculus effectively?

Besides, very few of us will need to use algebra, geometry, trigonometry or calculus, but
all of us will need to use arithmetic–in doing tax returns, figuring out mortgages,
balancing our checking accounts, using credit cards, making change, planning our
retirement. So if everyone must use arithmetic in order to survive economically, why
don’t the educators emphasize the need to develop good arithmetic skills?
Back in 1983, John Saxon, the celebrated author of superb mathematics textbooks used
by home-schoolers and private schools, wrote:

“For the last twenty years, these [mathematics] experts have worked unwittingly to bring
matters to a point where only the brilliant can learn mathematics. They have tried to
teach advanced concepts and a general overview before the student has learned the
basics….In an important sense, these authors are experts neither in mathematics nor in
education. They do not know which mathematics topics must be mastered at which level
and have no understanding of the capabilities of the average student. Their books are
visible proof that they do not know how children learn and assimilate abstractions.”
(National Review, 8/19/83)

Until rote learning is restored in our primary schools in the teaching of arithmetic, we can
expect math failure to plague American public education for the foreseeable future.

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Why and How to Better be the Government by New Hampshire State Rep. Rev. Paul Terry

Published October 18, 2024 | By campconstitution

(The following is a transcript of a presentation given by Rev. Terry at Camp Constitution’s 3rd annual weekend family retreat. There is a link to a video of the presentation below.)

Opening Observations and Points

  1. Government, when operating at its best, provides for the ordering of a society or group of people such that the best interests of the society or group, and determined by a majority of such, are honored and advanced for the common good.
  2. Government was instituted by God in response to the historical situation in which Moses and the Israelite people found themselves aRer achieving freedom from enslavement (see Numbers 11 and the provision of 70 elders and officers to assist Moses inleading/governing the people).
  3. Eventually, the people of Israel became discontented with this arrangement and
    demanded a king so that they might be like other nations (see 1 Samuel 8).
  4. Israel as a divided monarchy (northern first, then southern) ended with foreign
    conquests in 722 BC (see 2 Kings 17:6) and 586 BC (see 2 Kings 24-25 and 2 Chronicles Failure and catastrophe due to persistent gross disobedience.
  5. The Apostle Paul reiterates in his Letter to the churches in Rome (NT “Romans”) that government is God’s provision for the nations of the world: “there is no authority except that which God has established. The authority that exist have been established by God” Romans 13:1b-2, NIV).
  • Who is/are the government?

The instructions Paul laid out in Romans 13 had in view the Mediterranean world area that comprised the Roman Empire. The government was the emperor and the ruling class, enforced by military power. Ever since the success of our American War of Independence (1776 and following), the people of the United States are the government. We refer to elected and appointed officeholders as the government, but in fact and for the first time in history we the people are both the governed and the government that governs. As President Abraham Lincoln famously declared in his Gettysburg address (November 19, 1863) during the War between the States:

“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

  • The Christan’s Responsibilities

Even as we are to…
“Pray then like this:

“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.”

– Matthew 16:9-10 (ESV)

Q – How will the Father’s “will be done on earth as it is in heaven?”

A – Ideally, by the hands and hearts of those who are committed to seeking the Father’s will. And yet, estimates from reliable sources, such as www.myfaithvotes.org:

“For years, Christians have bought into the lie that faith is a private matter. As a result, more than 25 million Christians who are registered to vote do not vote in Presidential Elections and as many as 65 million Christians do not vote in local elections.”

Disturbingly, 25 to 65 million professing Christians are not actively involved by being “government by the people” in furthering our LORD’s prayerful petition that we are to pray and live, “your will be done on earth.”

Conclusion: As with ancient Israel, the United States—a nation founded upon acknowledgement of the sovereignty of God and a belief in the necessity to live according to the Will of God and revealed in the Word of God, by departing from and rejecting its goldy heritage stands in desperate need of repentance and return to God. The responsibility of the decline of the nation can be laid in large part due to the failure of the Church in America (that is, Christians individually and their churches). As I wrote recently, “If America falls it will be the because of
the Church in America.”

Q – Is it too late for America to be saved?

A – If Nineveh, the city of the pagan and wicked Assyrians, could be spared from imminent judgment upon hearing and heeding the call to repentance as preached by the prophet Jonah, this one of several biblical precedents suggests it is not too late for America if: The Church awakens to its call to be “salt and light” (Matthew 5);, and in the words of the prophet Isaiah, accepts our calling to be [God’s] light to the nation(s) – Isaiah 49:6 with reference to Jesus, but then to the Church in Acts 13:47!

“For so the Lord has commanded us, saying,
‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’” – Acts 13:47 (ESV)

Because God’s people, the Church, are appointed to be a “royal priesthood” (1 Peter 2:9cf. Exodus 19:6, “kingdom of priests”); and because the priestly function involves both proclamation (God > people) and interceding (people > God); then the Church, and we as members thereof, should be declaring God’s will in word and deed and praying for the nation of which we are earthly citizens. Indeed, 2 Chronicles 7:14 is our charge (i.e., call to duty and action):

“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pes.lence among my people, 14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:13-14, ESV).

Q – Will God through prayer alone forgive and save America?

A – Prayer alone does not change the world. God works by the power of answering prayer and faith put into action. Remember, “So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead” (see James 2:14-26, and especially verse 17 [ESV], cited above).

Q – Who built the Ark? __________________
Q – Who confronted Egypt’s Pharaoh? _______________
Q – Who slew Goliath and turned the against the Philistines? _____________
Q – Who confronted the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel? _____________
Q – Who went before the king of Persia in an effort to save her people from genocide?
________________
Q – Who contended for the Gospel of Jesus Christ before the Emperor of Rome?
__________________

Conclusion – God’s will is done through the prayers and faithful actions of people who put their prayers AND faith to work in God’s service.

Q – What should I do to be faithful?

  • By all means, begin by PRAYING.
  • ACTIONS:
    ___ Pray yourself. Consider writing a prayer that you then pray each day. It can
    be a prayer to which you can add concerns as circumstances change.
    • ___ Pray with others and with focus and specificity. Start a prayer group that
    meets weekly to pray in accordance with 1 Timothy 2:1-4 (ESV):
  • “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and
    thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions,
    that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.
    3 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all
    people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
    AND:
  • For specific ways in which your local, state, and national government
    officeholders will conduct themselves honorably in the sight of God and enact
    and carry out programs and policies that further the dictates and principles of
    God’s Word
  • ___ Ask your pastor to pray, and/or have an elder pray during corporate
    (congregational) worship for the country, for officeholders, for God to raise up
    godly people to serve in local, state, and national offices. Ask him and them to
    pray specifically for issues confronJng us and for which we need God’s wisdom,
    guidance and courage.
  • Key point: The prayer prayed by your pastor/elder/deacon will serve both as an example for how members should pray and for what they should pray! Far too many American churches have discarded or severely abbreviated prayer during corporate (Sunday) worship. Is it any wonder that the American Church is anemic in its priestly duty before God!
  • Get INVOLVED
  • ___ ACTION: Begin attending school board meetings, select board/town or city council
    Listen and learn. This will assist you with ACTION Item 1, too! Introduce yourself to board/council members.
    ___ ACTION: Encourage your pastor and church governing board to host an elected
  • officials appreciation breakfast, lunch or dinner. Have places set for them that will give you the maximum opportunity to become acquainted. Do NOT seat all of them at the “head table!” Be friendly and kind. Do not quiz them on issues. This is not the time or place for that! Have your pastor or an elder invite them to stand, introduce themselves (clap, smile) and then lead in a prayer of thanks and blessing. Conclude by having
    someone near each official ask how the church might be able to help with some concern or cause that is important to him or her and the community. Forward responses to pastor and governing board for ACTIONS. Follow up: “What are you doing? Is there anything I can do to help?”
  • ___ ACTION: Prayerfully consider running for an office. Especially if you are not well known, start modestly, perhaps running for your town’s Budget Committee BEFORE you run for the Selectboard or City Council. Guess what? It is not unlikely that at least some who when they first began to serve know as much as you do about the job. Listen and learn, but do NOT sell yourself short.
  • ___ ACTION: Visit the State Capitol. Let your State Representative know you are coming. (In the New Hampshire House, guests are announced by name at the beginning of each session!)
  • ___ ACTION: Ask your Representative or Senator to be your guest for a meal, either at a restaurant, or in your home. Offer prayer over the meal and ask God to bless your Representative. This may lead to a personal friendship! • Key point: You are more likely to meet with success with respect to an issue that you support if you have established a friendly, personal acquaintance or friendship with the officeholder.
  • ___ ACTION: By all means write Letters to the Editor of your local newspaper. Don’t be afraid! When you write, be sure to not only make your belief/positions, but also let people who agree with you know what they can do.
  • ___ ACTION: Consider getting involved on your community Facebook (e.g.) page. Be tactful and friendly. Do not argue with others. Arguing on social media is like walking into quicksand. You won’t get anywhere, except sink!
  • ___ ACTION: Begin attending your town/city/county political party committee meetings. This way you will increase your awareness of issue for which to do what? First, pray. And second, network with others to do some good!
  • ___ ACTION: Get out of your comfort zone or “bubble.” The longer people are Christians, the greater the tendency they have to associate with Christians only. You can be “so heavenly minded you will end up being of no earthly good.” If the salt remains in the saltshaker (Matthew 5:13), what good is it for others? Your community? Your state and the nation?

    “So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:10, ESV)

  • Do not give up!
    • Do not give in!
    • Do not go passive!
    • More often than not, failures precede successes
    • In the end, the question will not be how many successes you had, but were you
    consistently faithful?

“ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.” – 2 Timothy 4:7-8 (ESV)

Recommended reading:
Letter to the American Church, Eric Metaxas (Salem Books, 2022) Religion less Christianity: God’s Answer to Evil, by Eric Metaxas (Regnery Faith, 2024)
Out of the Saltshaker and into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life, by Rebecca Manley
Pippert (IVP Signature Collection, 2021) / Note: First published in 1999, over 800,000 copies
sold!
Stay Salt: The World Has Changed…Our Message Has Not, by Rebecca Manley Pippert (The
Good Book Company, 2020) / Note: The Gospel Coalition Book Award – 2020
Faithful Politics: Ten Approaches to Citizenship and Why it Matters, by Miranda Zapor Cruz (IVP
Academic, 2024)
Revised: 10.17.2024

 

“ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE” ISN’T JUST ABOUT COMPUTERS Says Author, Dr. Felecia Nace

Published October 17, 2024 | By campconstitution

Dr. Felecia Nace, former New Jersey Department of Education Program Development Specialist, ex-teacher, and education consultant, has co-authored a controversial new book with noted Psychiatrist, Dr. John Liebert, MD, of Scottsdale Arizona. Some may recall Dr. Nace who was associated with a contentious Boston Speech at Boston’s first Straight Pride Parade in 2019.

Her speech stirred heated debate  at a New Jersey college. At the time of the controversy, she served in the position as Board Trustee at Raritan Valley Community College (NJ). During her 2019 speech, she voiced strong disapproval about states that mandated the teaching of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA) history in K through 12 public schools.

Now, in a new co-authored book, Dr. Nace, shares in-depth views about LGBTQIA history lessons that have found their way into public-schools. Currently, six states mandate the LGBT+ curriculum:  New Jersey, Oregon, Illinois, California, Colorado and Nevada.  Nace describes in detail why she believes American children will not benefit from such lessons, but would instead greatly benefit from focusing on serious academic areas like science and mathematics. In the book, long-time psychiatrist and Dr. Nace’s co-author, Dr. John Liebert, weighs in on the subject with a chapter on transgenderism.

One of Nace’s chapters in the book is titled: “Artificial Intelligence.” Often, people use the term artificial intelligence when referring to computers or robotics. In the book, Nace talks about “artificial intelligence” as the brainwashing/indoctrination of children that happens when they are taught topics they don’t need for academic success. She calls this the dumbing down of curriculum. The book examines the following:

  • Who gets the ‘A’ in American classrooms? …Is it the child who simply “trusts the science” or the child who questions findings and conducts their own research?
  • Do today’s Public-School lessons teach children to be independent thinkers, entrepreneurs, and independent of government –or do today’s schools teach children to be more reliant on government agenda-driven education and ultimately less self-directed?
  • In public schools, are children being taught information that simply feed political agendas and is intended to lead them to vote for one political party?

Dr. Liebert is a Forensic Psychiatrist who was requested by the Atlanta Police Department to work on the Atlanta Child Murders case in the early 1980s. Liebert & Nace’s new book is titled: The Atlanta Child Murders: Their Message Today About Education, Politics, and Race Relations.  Liebert recounts his experience profiling the gruesome Atlanta Child Murders case 40 years ago.

He unpacks details about the young victims, and convicted killer Wayne Williams who is believed to have killed most of the children. Dr. Nace adds to the book by comparing poverty in America then and now with a focus on declining quality of academic expectations in public schools, which she believes makes children vulnerable to predators.

The book, originally published by Rowman and Littlefield, can be purchased here:  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-atlanta-child-murders-john-liebert/1142079594.

 

Database reveals worst hospitals for inflicting transgender injuries on children Assessment based on activism, prescriptions for puberty blockers and ‘procedures’ on kids by Bob Unruh

Published October 12, 2024 | By campconstitution

 

The following was reposted with permission from World Net Daily.  A link to the original article:  https://www.wnd.com/2024/10/database-reveals-worst-hospitals-for-inflicting-transgender-injuries-on-children/?utm_source=wnd-news-alerts.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=here-are-the-worst-hospitals-for-inflicting-transgender-injuries-on-children&_bhlid=846719a01adce3b30172e05080a329ccf0709223

A new database has revealed the “Dirty Dozen,” the 12 “worst-offending” hospitals in America for inflicting transgender agenda injuries on children.

And Mat Staver, the chief of Liberty Counsel, which has battled the leftist, and unscientific, ideology that males can be turned into females and vice versa, said, “Mutilating children for profit is criminal. It is biologically impossible to change one’s gender.

“The insanity of gender ideology and greed has made a mockery of the medical profession’s duty to ‘do no harm.’ There are only two genders, and the medical profession needs to return to sound science to treat mental health issues with proven psychiatric therapies to heal rather than harm.”

Under the science, being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level, and it cannot change.

Not surprising, many of the offending hospitals are located in far-left states, where the social agenda has taken over.

So it would be expected that Children’s Hospital Colorado, in the leftist Rocky Mountain state, and Children’s Minnesota, in that state now run by leftist Gov. Tim Walz, and Seattle Children’s, in the leftist Pacific region state, are included.

The full list of those hospitals:

  • The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
  • Children’s Minnesota
  • Seattle Children’s
  • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
  • Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Rady Children’s Hospital
  • Children’s National Medical Center
  • UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
  • Children’s Hospital Colorado
  • UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
  • Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

The listing is from a database compiled by Stop the Harm.

The Liberty Counsel report on those issue explained, “The group determined these 12 hospitals were the worst offenders based on a variety of factors, such as their community and legislative activism in favor of gender interventions, the number of prescriptions for puberty blockers and hormones written for minors, the severity of the procedures performed on children, and the cumulative amount of insurance claims billed for these interventions.

 

“According to the database, the top billing hospitals were Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York billing more than $8.2 million and Boston Children’s Hospital billing more than $6.5 million. The database also contains a detailed breakdown of each state and hospital where gender-related interventions were performed on children in the time period analyzed. The top states in both number of children mutilated and in total revenue for hospitals were California, New York, Oregon, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Washington. Specifically for California, with three hospitals on the ‘dirty dozen'” list, the state recorded 1,359 mutilating surgeries and 725 minors prescribed puberty blockers and hormones – all at a cost of $28,877,427.”

The report cited the nearly 14,000 “gender-confused children” “mutilated” by an industry that inflicts “harmful and irreversible genital surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormones” between 2019 and 2023.

The facilities were paid some $120 million for that, the report said.

Stop the Harm is a coalition of thousands of doctors, nurses, medical students and more “focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice.”

Liberty Counsel revealed, “According to recent, peer-reviewed research published by the Heritage Foundation, U.S. states with easy access to puberty blockers and hormones for children actually have increased suicide rates. Additional data shows up to 88 percent of girls and up to 98 percent of boys with gender confusion ‘will desist’ from gender confusion with age, especially with counseling.”

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The Weekly Sam: Hysteria on the Left by Sam Blumenfeld

Published October 11, 2024 | By campconstitution

The more things change, the more they stay the same.  The following is a letter to the editor that Sam Blumenfeld sent to the “Boston Globe.”  I attended this event with Sam.  A number of us wrote letters in the wake of the “Globe’s” the op=ed piece.  Not one was published. (Editor)

To: Margery Pritchard, Op Ed Editor, The Boston Globe,

 

          Hysteria on the Left

 

Chip Berlet’s op-ed piece, “Armed and dangerous,” which appeared in the Globe on January 6, is not only incredibly inept journalism but reminiscent of the kind of unfounded “guilt by association” charges attributed to the late Senator Joseph McCarthy. Nothing that the deranged John Salvi has done, said, or written indicates that he was influenced by any of the well-known organizations mentioned by Berlet, such as The John Birch Society, Concerned Women for America, or the National Right to Life Committee. In fact, Salvi ‘s rambling letter, published in the Globe on January 6, reveals a deplorable ignorance of the aims and precepts of these well-established organizations. I defy Mr. Berlet to find one word in the publications of these organizations that in any way encourages or condones the actions of those who would kill the providers of abortion. Salvi has only added to the tragedy of abortion, not alleviated it

As for the meeting held at Burlington High School last November, I was invited to speak on the subject of education, which I did. I was not told in advance that one of the exhibitors would be Den’s Gun Shop. But considering the fact that the right to own and bear arms, protected by the Second Amendment, has been under unrelenting attack by the liberals, I could understand the rationale of having a gun shop exhibit at the meeting. But to suggest by the craftiest of innuendos that people browsing at the gun shop table while pro-life leader Dr. Mildred Jefferson was speaking in another room indicates that she or the browsers or the exhibitor caused or condoned what John Salvi did is just about the sleaziest and most reprehensible piece of writing I have yet read by the promoters of hysteria on the left.

People on both the left and the right have had to deal with those deranged individuals who feel compelled to perpetrate acts of terror and horror. One does not blame liberal black leadership for the actions of the black man who shot up the passengers in the Long Island commuter train. We all understand that there is no way to control solo individuals bent on committing mayhem. But the concern of those of us on the right is the government’s potential for committing mayhem. Even Chip Berlet admitted to me that he deplored the way the U.S. government handled the Waco atrocity. And it is that atrocity, not abortion, that has galvanized gun owners into such defensive responses as the militia movement. But perhaps the worst of Berlet’s accusations is where he says that “There is a growing right-wing social movement that uses theological arguments to encourage direct confrontation of its targets and tolerates discussion of armed resistance.” I have been involved in the so-called right-wing movement since 1965 and not once have I heard of such theological arguments. In fact, I’ve heard just the opposite. Dr. R. J. Rushdoony, leader of the Christian Reconstruction movement, has strongly denounced demonstrations at abortion clinics let alone the murder of abortion providers. He believes, as most Christians do, that only the moral regeneration of the American people will put an end to legalized abortion. For Berlet to needlessly alarm the readers of the Globe into believing that conservative organizations have entered a new, sinister phase of armed confrontation with the left is not only to grossly misinform this newspaper’s readers but to libel those of us on the right who have spent the last 25 years writing, lecturing, and educating Americans about the vital issues our society faces. I also question the judgment of the editor who decided to use such an obviously provocative illustration and title for a smear article that strongly suggests that we on the right are moving toward Salvi-type terrorism .

I know that the Globe is a staunchly liberal newspaper, but I never thought it would stoop to such unadulterated, Nazi-like propaganda. Back in 1938, a young Jew assassinated the German ambassador in Paris. The Nazi propaganda machine blamed the Jews of Germany for the act of one deranged youth. The result was Kristallnacht during which Jewish synagogues and stores were burned and destroyed throughout Germany. The irony is that Chip Berlet, who thinks he’s defending liberalism, is unaware of how much like Goebbels he has become. Tragically, those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.

Samuel L. Blumenfeld January 6, 1995

 

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