Springfield Fraud Victims Speak Out

"He lied right to our faces about what it was about... and if I new what it was about there is no way I would have signed it." - fraud victim Emily Nichols

Springfield's Channell 22 News aired its I-Team investigation into petition fraud on Monday, January 10.  Mineau says there will need to be tens of thousands of fraud allegations before he will admit there is a problem and now is raising his own allegations that there may have been professional "plants" who intentionally signed the petition so they could challenge later.

Aaron Toleos, Director

Comments

[Callie Wise]

Oh, there we go! There's the spin!

[mark and nigel]

Callie, the Mineau Minion spin is always predictable. They are ALWAYS the victims. They keep their rights and you lose yours.
Doesn't that make THEM the victims?

LET THE JUSTICES DO JUSTICE !!!!!
MARSHALL - THE FORCES OF JUSTICE !!!!!!

[mark and nigel]

Justice Sunday III v. Harry Potter
By Chip Berlet Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 02:25:42 PM EST

On Sunday, January 8, 2006, I had a choice between Justice Sunday III and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." Perhaps this was a choice faced by other parents seeking to find something educational for their children to experience.

My son is grown up now, but I thought about the lessons to be learned from both events.

Let me tell you what I learned when my wife and I attended the Harry Potter film.

• Certain actions are evil, but evil is not based on heredity or nationality.
• Sometimes we are called on to do things that we do not want to do (and even makes us unpopular), but that we should shoulder these responsibilities with good grace.
• Real heroes sometimes set aside their personal quest to help others in danger.
• We should welcome people from different cultures and nations into our midst.
• Friendship includes taking risks to support our friends and standing up for them in a crisis.

We also saw that young teenage boys are clueless about young teenage girls, but as parents, we already knew that was true.

Salient quotes:

Professor McGonagall: Is that a student?
Professor Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody: Technically, it's a ferret.

Hermione: Everything's going to change now isn't it?
Harry: Yes. Cites

I Think these are important moral lessons for young adults to learn.

Some on the Christian Right have denounced the Harry Potter series--books and films--as anti-Christian and perhaps even Satanic due to the flagrant use of magic.

From news reports and a transcript of the Justice Sunday III event posted by the sponsoring Family Research Council, we can see the alternative lessons presented by some of the Christian Right.

• The moral struggle is not between ideas that support goodness and ideas that spawn evil, but between "secular supremacists" and Godly Christians.
• God is against gay men and lesbians signifying their commitment of love through marriage.
• God is against abortion.
• God wants us to put judge Samuel Alito on the Supreme court.

We also learn that liberals and non-Christians threaten America and that we should pray that "not secularism or unbelief or a hostile supreme court [should] prevail against" God's word.

Salient quotes:

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania): [liberal judges are] ''destroying traditional morality, creating a new moral code and prohibiting any dissent.'' Cite

Rev. Herbert Hoover Lusk II: "Don't fool with the church because the church has buried many a critic, and all the critics that we have not buried, we're making funeral arrangements for them!" Cite

As a parent, ask yourself to which event would you take your child for moral guidance?

As a citizen, ask yourself which set of principles seem best for moral guidance in running our country?

As a visitor, ask yourself which lessons would build a country that would welcome you as an immigrant or guest?

If you are a non-Christian or secularist or gay or support reproductive rights or are liberal or progressive, the choice should be even clearer.

[Callie Wise]

Rev. Herbert Hoover Lusk II: "Don't fool with the church because the church has buried many a critic, and all the critics that we have not buried, we're making funeral arrangements for them!"

Oh, I just feel the christian love dripping from the words of this man! He's simply gifted by the word of God and touched by grace, I tell you!

Bwahahahahaha!

I'll let my kid read Harry Potter before I will THEIR version of the bible if I want them to get a lesson in love, morality, humanity, and decency.

[mark and nigel]

Home News TV Bosses Call on Security After Death Threats Over ‘Daniel’ News Story
TV Bosses Call on Security After Death Threats Over ‘Daniel’
By WENN|Monday, January 09, 2006
HOLLYWOOD - Bosses at an Indiana TV station posted security outside their studios on Friday night after receiving death threats for airing controversial new religious drama Book of Daniel.
Executives at Warner Brothers affiliate WB42 picked up the show about a drug addicted Episcopalian minister—played by Aidan Quinn—and aired the debut on Friday night after rival network WTWO dumped the show.

Furious viewers, who had not seen the show, then bombarded the station with complaints about the content of the new drama, which features visions of Jesus Christ, drug dealing, alcoholism and gay storylines.

WB42 station manager Gary Robbins says, "We've had hate mail, we've had hate phone calls... but there's no profanity in this show, there's no indecency, there's no nudity."

Meanwhile, the cast of the show are baffled by the outrage their show is causing.

Quinn states, "It's not nearly as controversial as it's being made out to be."

Article Copyright World Entertainment News Network All Rights Reserved.

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[mark and nigel]

Loving v. Virginia

In all the debate about gay marriage, a common refrain heard from opponents is that the definition of marriage has been the same for centuries if not millennia.

Not so. The fact is, the current rules about who can be married have been in place (in some states) for less than 40 years.

In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Loving v. Virginia that state laws prohibiting marriage between the races were unconstitutional.

At the time, 16 states still had such laws on their books. Among whites, especially in the south, these laws were supported by majority opinion.

In joining the decision, Justice Stewart wrote:

It is simply not possible for a state law to be valid under our Constitution which makes the criminality of an act depend upon the race of the actor.

If you change "race" to "gender", doesn't the same principle apply?

I have heard commentators claim that a lack of gay marriage is not discrimination against gays, since each of them is allowed to marry, so long as it is someone of the opposite sex.

If you believe this, please explain how your view relates to the Loving decision.

[mark and nigel]

Yes, we have posted several articles today, but if you read just ONE, read this ONE. (grin)

Blacks should not fear gay marriage ruling

Inside Bay Area

A COUPLE wants to solidify their union with marriage. They are forced to go to another state to marry because their state outlaws them marrying. They return to their home state and their marriage is not recognized.

It could be the story of one of the same-sex couples who came to San Francisco last year to be married, or legal Canadian same-sex marriages not recognized in the US.

It is also the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Loving v. Virginia, that led to the abolishment of anti-miscegenation laws in the states. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the laws in 1967. 1967.

Some readers may be too young to remember that interracial marriage was illegal in many states. In fact in 1967, Virginia was one of 16 states with laws against miscegenation.

"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix," a Virginia judge wrote in the Loving case.

Virginia not only refused to recognize the Lovings' marriage, it prosecuted them. They pleaded guilty and were sentenced to one year in prison. The sentence was suspended if they moved out of the state and agreed not to return together for 25 years. They moved to Washington, D.C., where they had been married and filed a lawsuit against the state of Virginia.

A review of the Loving case is more than a history lesson. Last week, when San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard A. Kramer ruled the ban against same-sex marriages unconstitutional, he compared some of the arguments made by the opponents of same-sex marriage to those used by opponents of interracial marriage.

Indeed, they both evoke God's will and the "natural order" as justification for outlawing the marriages. As evidenced by the Virginia judge's opinion, just 46 years ago, it was not uncommon to think there was something unnatural about mixing the races.

While only the most extreme racist would make that argument today, many feel there is something unnatural about same-sex marriages. The number of people opposing the marriages has started to decline except among certain communities, notably Evangelical Christians and African Americans.

In the Loving decision, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren wrote, "The Equal Protection Clause requires the consideration of whether the classifications drawn by any statute constitute an arbitrary and invidious discrimination. ... There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the Equal Protection Clause."

Last week, Kramer hit a similar note when he said, "no rational purpose exists for limiting marriage in this state to opposite-sex partners."

As the Loving decision found anti-miscegenation laws violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection and due process, Kramer's opinion ruled the ban of same-sex marriage violates the state constitution's equal protection clause.

Opponents insist the tradition of marriage between a man and a woman must be preserved. On that point, Kramer wrote, "The state's protracted denial of equal protection cannot be justified simply because such constitutional violation has become traditional." Indeed, for hundreds of years it was the tradition that marriage could not be between a black person and a white person.

Kramer made a direct allusion to the civil rights movement by saying the domestic partnership laws for same-sex couples smack of "a concept long rejected by the courts: separate but equal."

Some African Americans, even those who may not oppose same-sex marriages, bristle when proponents call it a civil rights issue. Kramer's opinion indicates the comparison is not frivolous. The basic protections that guaranteed the civil rights of black people are central to the case made by supporters of same-sex marriages.

It's a sad irony that so many African Americans are using the same arguments against same-sex marriages that were used against interracial marriages and racial equality.

[Christopher Robert]

If ssm is outlawed through the constitution, the next logical step would be to start a campaign against homosexuality. The arguments for it would be that we do not recognize two same sex individual's rights to marry legally, we should not recognize the right of these two individuals to be together outside of marriage. There would be a legal standing on the issue, along with religiously based viewed that it is wrong. We would find homosexuals having to hide themselves away again to escape persecution.

Beyond the problems that would come to the homosexual community, we as a society would begin down a slippery slope. To argue for something because of a religion and not its societal impact we starting sliding down to a society which will only accept one religious view. All laws will begin to be determined by the teachings of that religion. Eventually we will have laws like these:
* DEUTERONOMY 22:13-21
If it is discovered that a bride is not a virgin, the Bible demands that she be executed by stoning immediately.
* DEUTERONOMY 22:22
If a married person has sex with someone else's husband or wife, the Bible commands that both adulterers be stoned to death.
* MARK 10:1-12
Divorce is strictly forbidden in both Testaments, as is remarriage of anyone who has been divorced.
* LEVITICUS 18:19
The Bible forbids a married couple from having sexual intercourse during a woman's period. If they disobey, both shall be executed.
* MARK 12:18-27
If a man dies childless, his widow is ordered by biblical law to have intercourse with each of his brothers in turn until she bears her deceased husband a male heir.
* DEUTERONOMY 25:11-12
If a man gets into a fight with another man and his wife seeks to rescue her husband by grabbing the enemy's genitals, her hand shall be cut off and no pity shall be shown her.

In addition, we will begin to accept such practices as polygamy (seen by King Solomon who was viewed positively) and slavery. Women would be viewed as property.

To give here is to enter down a slippery slope to which everyone but some men are seen as unpeople. That is what scares me truly.

[Joe S]

Kris Mineau is the BIGGEST LIAR and BIGOT in this charade...Have you been watching how he is getting off with all the attention? He is addicted...what will he do after the petition gets thrown out and the matter goes away?

I hope you are enjoying getting drunk on the "fame" Kris...this must be something for someone who before this was a misunderstood and insignificant nobody...well don't fool yourself...you still are...

I am sure you are reading this website and will be speaking to you directly of my displeasure....

LET THE JUSTICES DO JUSTICE....and then sweep the bugs like Kris under the rug where they belong....CRUNCH!

[Christopher Robert]

Some Quotes:

Coretta Scott King:

“I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice . . . But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King, Jr., said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’ . . . I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s dream to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.”

“Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing, and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.”
“We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be,” she said, quoting from her husband. “I’ve always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy.”

“We have a lot of work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say ‘common struggle,’ because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry & discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.”

“Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.”

Rev. Dr. James Lawson (A distinguished United Methodist pastor who worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to train the young people who staged the lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides):

“Gays and lesbians have a more difficult time than we did. We had our families and our churches on our side. All too often, they have neither.”

Rev. Dr. Lewis Smedes (Biblical scholar, teacher, and author for over fifty years):

“I believe the Church’s treatment of homosexuality has become the greatest heresy in the history of the Church. It’s living heresy, because it’s treating God’s
children as if they weren’t God’s children.”

[Bill J.]

As the person who posted about WWLP initially (Names,Names,Names), couldn't we post at least one compliment to them for doing some homework on this situation. This blog is turning into a situation where all that is done is to post in response to the bigots. Geesh, when are we going to see some posts about positive action?

[Christopher Robert]

Bill-
This blog has been quite silent. I am so used to typing responses that I know not what to do when there are no attacks by people speaking negatively about gay marriage. Many people do post positive statements though.

[mark and nigel]

Bill J - Your commentary has merit. We are this evening spending positive time sharing with each other.

Positive words usually incite positive action. This is what you say that you seek.
Information and awareness are core opportunities to know and understand who these 2% zealots really are.

This is a long posting. I hesitated initially (grin), but know that only slogans are 25 words or less. I am the author of LET THE JUSTICES DO JUSTICE and MARSHALL-THE FORCES OF JUSTICE.

This bit of activism - including new teeshirts inscribed with those quotes - came from hearing their LET THE PEOPLE VOTE mantra.

So here goes. Go get yourself a coke or whatever, sit back and read about what motivates the zealotry of these individuals who come here on a daily basis.

Dominionism and racists and Justice Sunday III -Dogemperor 10 Jan 06

Partly because of a recent post on Salon Magazine regarding Justice Sunday III and other replies I've made on this subject, I've decided it's time to do a dedicated post on a subject that--if we could promote this to the world at large--has the potential to blow the dominionist movement apart.

That subject is the longstanding connections between dominionism, especially the "premillenial dispensationalist" and Christian Reconstructionist flavours of dominionism--and hardcore racist groups like the Klan, Neo-Nazi groups, and Christian Identity.

And yes, this even includes one of the speakers at Justice Sunday III who has done speeches for Christian Identity churches and "Christian Militia" groups tied to them.

The thing that gave me the idea to do this article was an interesting note on how David Barton--one of the speakers at Justice Sunday III--has connections to racist groups.

Part 1: Roots of dominionism...and early links to racism

Most people do not realise how long, and how deep, the connections between dominionism and racism go.

Interestingly, premillenial dispensationalist flavours of dominionism and Christian Identity (a perversion of Christianity that teaches that white people are the actual Israelis and that black people, actual Jews, etc. are "mud people") actually can be documented to have come from the same root.

The following article, which details about Aimee Semple McPherson (one of the world's first "televangelists", an early Assemblies of God preacher who later split and founded the International Foursquare church), notes how early the links go:

Daniel Mark Epstein writes in "Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson," of her background with Jeffreys.

"She called her religion the Foursquare Gospel, after a vision she had in Oakland in 1922. Aimee was preaching on the prophet Ezekiel's vision of Man, Lion, Ox and Eagle, when suddenly she began to shake with emotion.

She saw in the mysterious symbols 'a complete Gospel for body, for soul, for spirit and eternity.' ... Those four cornerstones -- Regeneration, Baptism in the Spirit, Divine Healing, and the Second Coming -- upheld an evangelistic association called the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance, which George Jeffreys founded in Ireland in 1915.

He and his brother Stephen were England's greatest evangelists after Wesley and Whitefield, and Aimee had worked with Jeffreys. The Elim Foursquare Gospel influenced the American Assemblies of God, which embraced the same four principles before Aimee had her vision in Oakland in 1922." 66

(Footnotes: 66. "Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson," Daniel Mark Epstein; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Pub., 1993, pp. 264-65.)
Later in the article, it notes:

This Mercaba symbol of the ox, man, lion and eagle are the same symbols used for British Israel, George Jeffrey's Elim Movement, and Aimee Semple Mcpherson's Foursquare.

"...British-Israelism is a religious doctrine first elaborated in 19th century England as a justification for British colonialism. It claimed that the English Anglo-Saxons were one of the so-called "ten lost tribes of Israel," and that the British monarch was the direct descendant of "the throne of King David."

In short, the British were "God's Chosen People." The British-Israel movement spread to Canada and the US at the turn of the century.... The Canadian British-Israel Association (CBIA), through its Internet website, sells a wide variety of white racist and anti-Jewish religious propaganda.

At least 40 of its books are by Howard Rand and Destiny Publishers. Rand was the major figure in establishing British-Israelism in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s..."

British Israelism spawned the Christian Identity movement, which was incorporated in Los Angeles in 1948. Spawned from it are the Posse Comitatus, Aryan Nations, The Christian Patriot branch, The Committee of the States, the Unorganized Militia and other white supremacy swill.

"...Wesley Swift's Church of Jesus Christ Christian was initially a racist sect which became Christian Identity. The central belief in Identity doctrine is the existence of two races on earth: a godly white race descended from Adam and a satanic race fathered by Satan.

Swift, a Klan leader and preacher at Amy Semple McPherson's Foursquare Church in Los Angles, was never able to make much of a success out of his doctrine, but it attracted several people who became central to what was later named "Christian Identity": San Jacinto Capt, William Potter Gale and Richard Girnt Butler."

"Capt was a California Klan leader and a believer in British Israelism, a doctrine which holds that the Israelites of the Bible are not the Jews, but rather Aryan/Anglo-Saxons.

Gale was a stock-broker and former Army officer who briefly served on Gen. MacArthur's staff in the Philippines. Gale in turn recruited Butler to Swift's church during the 1950's. In 1970, Swift died, triggering a dispute between Gale and Butler.

Ultimately, Butler assumed control and moved the church to Idaho, where he renamed it Aryan Nations - Church of Jesus Christ Christian." 69.

Along with Charles Parham, William Branham, reportedly also KKK, taught the "two seed" theory.

* "Now remember, Satan's son was Cain..."
* "Now remember that Eve got pregnant by Satan, and in the same day..." 70.

The "two seed" theory can be found in a number of variations, however it, "...is the central tenet of Identity doctrine and the basic justification for Christian Patriots' racism and anti-Semitism. The essence of the "two seed" theory is that there are two races on earth: one godly and one satanic."

"According to the racist and anti-Semitic "two seed" theory, the white "Adamic" peoples descended from the union of Adam and Eve. But there was also another race beginning with Cain whose father was not Adam, but Satan -- who mated with Eve in the guise of a serpent.

The descendants of Cain became known as the Jews. The Adamic peoples became the Aryans or Anglo-Saxons. The Pre-Adamic (non-white) races were not human at all, but descendants of the "beasts of the fields" described in Genesis, without souls and no more than cattle in the eyes of their Aryan betters.

All three races could interbreed, but the non-Adamic blood acted like a poison to exterminate the Aryan race. In the eyes of white supremacists, race-mixing became a Satanic plot to exterminate God's chosen people, the white race."

"By the "two seed" theory, Jesus was not a Jew, but an Aryan. The Adamic (Aryan) people were the lost tribes of Israel, fled to northern Europe and later became the Christian nations.

There are many corollaries to the "two seed" theory which provide justification for racists to claim God's favor..."71

Obviously these teachings are totally against the Word of God. From the Pamphlet, Signs of the Supernatural, a quote from a 1961 Voice, the magazine of the Full Gospel Business Men International, which said, "...'In Bible Days, there were men of God who were Prophets and Seers.

But in all the Sacred records, none of these had a greater ministry than that of William Branham."

(Footnotes: 69. Christian Patriots At War with the State; Paul de Armond;
http://nwcitizen.com/publicgood/reports/belief/Christian Identity

p.19; The Spoken Word by William Marrion Branham; The Power of Transformation, October 31, 1965, Prescott, Arizon. Vol. 17 No. 1

op.cit. de Armand)

There are a few bits of note here--William Branham was one of the first practitioners in the AoG and other pentecostal groups of what would later be termed "dominion theology"--the word-faith aka "name it and claim it" movement originates from him, as do aspects of "latter rain" theology. Charles Fox Parham, also mentioned in the article, is the actual founder of pentecostal sects including the Assemblies of God and at least one other source notes Parnham's influence in their early theology.

The AoG itself has had a long historical record of involvement with dominionism--the term "dominion theology" actually arises from theology in the word-faith movement that claims that illness occurs because "Satan presently has dominion" and that pentecostals (being the only truly "saved" individuals) must "take dominion" of all things to secure God's blessing over them and participate in "spiritual warfare".

The other group of note is the group that can be truthfully stated to have been the first dominionist group in the US in action, if not in name--the Full Gospel Businessmens' Fellowship International. FGBMFI was started by an AoG preacher and effectively operates as a "business outreach" of the Assemblies, and can legitimately be seen as a front group of that denomination; they are also responsible for promotion of dominionism throughout the AoG (and even to other non-pentecostal groups--the FGBMFI is a major promoter of "sheep stealing" and infiltration of mainstream Christian churches) and is also the source of spread of most of the spiritually abusive practices within the Assemblies of God, including the theological basis for dominionism in that denomination:

(from a preliminary list of groups that may be front-groups of, or effectively run by, the Assemblies of God)

Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International (a front group of the AoG targeting businessmen and other professionals; has been associated with coercive Yoido Full Gospel Church in Korea (which is the church that originated the "Third Wave" aka "Brownsville" stuff and other coercive tactics in the AoG); per multiple reports is associated with spiritual abuse as well as dominionist planning and may be particularly responsible for dominionist infiltration of the military; per this article and this article group has falsely advertised itself as interfaith group but rejects non-dominionists)

There is even some evidence that the FGBMFI may have been the original source promoting dominionism in the Southern Baptist Convention.

Going a bit further from the Assemblies of God in particular (the fact that the denomination is hip-deep within the dominionist movement, and may be its actual originator, is quite well documented especially on sites like Yurica Report and Deception In The Church) and looking at the whole "British Israelism" thing in general--the two main descendents of that theology are pentecostals (who believe that they along with the Jewish people are the "chosen people" and--in "dominion theology" popular in pentecostal circles--must create a theocracy to "secure God's blessing") and Christian Identity (which rejects outright the idea of Jews being, well, Jewish).

If it were just a matter of dominionism being a "sister movement" to a racist ideology, or even Christian Identity being merely a racist split from pentecostalism, that'd be one thing.

The problem is, the links are rather deeper than that (as noted, dominionism was essentially founded by racists) and the links continue to the present day.

?Part 2: Dominionism and its links to racists today

I've written on this in multiple replies, but so as to tie it all together nicely I'll document these links by dominionist leader.

/Tony Perkins and Family Research Council

Tony Perkins has rather a history of being friendly to racialist causes. In fact, Perkins himself can be considered to be at the heart of Justice Sunday's known links to racist groups (which will be detailed, I promise); Max Blumenthal documented this in his article regarding the first Justice Sunday:

Four years ago, Perkins addressed the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), America's premier white supremacist organization, the successor to the White Citizens Councils, which battled integration in the South.

In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list. At the time, Perkins was the campaign manager for a right-wing Republican candidate for the US Senate in Louisiana. The Federal Election Commission fined the campaign Perkins ran $3,000 for attempting to hide the money paid to Duke.

Southern Poverty Law Center has written extensively regarding the Council of Conservative Citizens; one of their exposes of the CCC has noted their ideology:

Baum's comment ý which he denied in an interview with the Intelligence Report ý was much more than the slip of an irate tongue. Despite the fact that his group has flirted with such politicians as Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, Mississippi Gov. Fordice and Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.), the CCC has racism at its core.
Indeed, the Council of Conservative Citizens is the reincarnation of the racist White Citizens Councils of the 1950s and 1960s.

Formed by Baum in 1985, the CCC claims 15,000 dues-paying members. Like its predecessor White Citizens Councils, the CCC's greatest strength is in the South, primarily Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, where it claims 34 state legislators and 5,000 other members. The CCC has members in 22 states and its influence now reaches California and the East Coast from Florida to New York.

Its main publication, Citizens Informer, circulates to 20,000 subscribers. While its local chapters have taken up a variety of issues, the CCC in general has focused on national issues like support for the Confederate battle flag and opposition to affirmative action, school busing and non-white immigration.

But its chief interest remains race.

"Western civilization with all its might and glory would never have achieved its greatness without the directing hand of God and the creative genius of the white race," influential CCC columnist Robert "Tut" Patterson wrote in the Informer last fall.

"Any effort to destroy the race by a mixture of black blood is an effort to destroy Western civilization itself... ."

"Let us pray that our citizens will awaken and vote themselves out of this dilemma," Patterson wrote last spring. "There is still time. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 should be repealed!"

Perkins isn't the only dominionist known to have gone stumping for the CCC (the Constitution Party and Roy Moore have as well, as I will note), but Perkins isn't just friendly with the "uptown Klan" but the regular, nasty KKK as well.

Most of you are probably familiar with David Duke. Duke formerly led the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan--one of the Klan groups most consistently linked with domestic terrorism as well as links with neo-Nazi, "patriot militia" and Christian Identity groups. Duke has also attempted now and again to run for office on an explicitly racist platform.

Yes, that's right--the FRC is buying mailing lists from the Klan itself and one of the nastiest Klan groups in the US at that.

Roy Moore

Roy Moore has also been in bed with more than a few racists. One of the groups he has done speeches for, the "Alabama Tea Party", was organised by a group that has set up a racist "Minutemen" type militia group and also included speakers from the Council of Conservative Citizens (one of whom actually tends to also speak in favour of Holocaust revisionism--the false claim that Jews and other persons either were not killed en masse by the Nazis or that the level of genocide was exaggerated).

Moore's legal adviser, Tom Parker, has links to multiple racist groups:

But Tom Parker has some other friends, too. It's just that he doesn't spend much time bragging publicly about this batch of colleagues and supporters.

In July, Parker made his way to the Selma home of Pat and Butch Godwin, who were holding a birthday party to honor Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a wealthy slave trader who became the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. (Forrest also presided over the massacre of some 250 black prisoners of war at Ft. Pillow, Tenn.)

The Godwins run Friends of Forrest Inc., which owns a Forrest statue the Godwins spent two years unsuccessfully trying to place on public property.

Standing on his friends' Confederate battle flag-bedecked front porch, Parker rallied the crowd. Later, one listener lauded him as "a man not afraid of the flag."

The Godwins are tried and true neo-Confederates. Pat Godwin's latest crusade is to block any acknowledgement on the Capitol grounds of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march ý a goal of the Alabama Historical Commission.

In a July E-mail, Godwin railed at "the trash that came here in 1965," complaining that those who honor the civil rights movement "are aiding and abetting the ultimate goal of the ONE WORLD ORDER ý to BROWN AmeriKa and annihilate Anglo-Celtic-European culture!"

Pat Godwin and her close friend Ellen Williams recently put together a packet of documents that they say proves that the march was the "Mother of All Orgies" and the marchers were motivated by "money, sex and alcohol."

A month earlier, in June, Parker showed up at the Elba, Ala., funeral of Alberta Stewart Martin, believed to have been the last living widow of a Confederate veteran.

He made himself a quick favorite by giving away hundreds of miniature Confederate battle flags to the 300 people, many in period dress, who gathered for this major neo-Confederate event.

And, in a photo widely circulated in the neo-Confederate world, he is seen with what were apparently two friends of his: Mike Whorton, Alabama state leader of the League of the South hate group, and Leonard Wilson, a longtime segregationist who is on the national board of the Council of Conservative Citizens (see also Communing with the Council), a hate group that has described black people as "a retrograde species of humanity."

Parker, who was Moore's spokesman and legal adviser but lost that job when Moore was fired, did not return repeated telephone calls requesting comment. Pat and Butch Godwin also declined to return messages left at their home, which is known fondly in neo-Confederate circles as "Fort Dixie."

Moore himself has spoken with people in the "tax protester" movement, including "Christian Militia" groups and churches connected with the "Patriot Pastor" movement:

The appearance was hyped all week by the presence of Moore's exiled monument on a flatbed truck in the parking lot. But it was the Rev. W.N. Otwell, speaking before Moore despite recent heart surgery, who really stole the show.
Otwell, an ardent segregationist and militia supporter who heads God Said Ministries in Mount Enterprise, Texas, began his opening-night remarks by berating the women in the audience, one of them dressed as Betsy Ross, for not living a true Christian life.

Being saved doesn't make you a Christian, he told them in a voice as powerful and angry as his battered body could muster. Women were to take care of the home, raise children, and be completely subservient to their husbands, Otwell lectured.

"My wife doesn't need a head," he shouted. "I'm the head!"

His audience was with him. "Good preaching!" a man yelled as Otwell outlined a holy dress code he claims is based on Scripture. The Bible, which predates pants by several years, says a "woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man" (Deuteronomy 22:5).

The "Patriot Church" movement (which I will touch on here) isn't the only group Moore is friendly with--more than once, Moore has been noted as being courted by the Constitution Party--which has so many links to racist and militia groups that it gets its own category.
Constitution Party (formerly dba US Taxpayer's Party)

The Constitution Party--under both its present identity and its past name as the US Taxpayer's Party--has long been a darling of "Christian Militia" groups, Klan groups, Christian Identity practitioners, and similar racist rogues.

The Constitution Party's history is touched upon here in relation to the possibility of Roy Moore being a gubernatorial or even presidential candidate for the Constitution Party:

What none of these accounts mention is that the Constitution Party is in fact the home party of the Patriot movement and its attendant "constitutionalists" -- people whose far-right interpretations of the Constitution lead them to form militias and "common law courts."
Founded in 1992 as the U.S. Taxpayers Party, its leading light for years has been Howard Phillips, the former Republican strategist who peeled away from the party in the early '90s. Phillips was its presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 elections. The Constitution Party is explicitly antitax, antigovernment, anti-abortion, and seeks to abolish the IRS, close down the Department of Education and terminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood, AIDS education, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Under its USTP moniker, the party openly supported the formation of citizen militias -- in fact, a manual on forming militias was available through the party -- and a number of Patriot militiamen spoke before party functions and openly affiliated themselves with it.

(One of the USTP's most notorious moments came in 1995, when a militia promoter named Matthew Trewhella appeared at its national convention. Trewhella, a notorious anti-choice activist, said: "This Christmas I want you to do the most loving thing and I want you to buy each of your children an SKS rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition." Trewhella also signed a declaration saying that murdering abortion providers is "justifiable homicide.")

The Montana Human Rights Network carried the following report on Phillips' presidential campaign appearance in Montana:

Howard Phillips, the party's presidential candidate, spoke numerous times throughout the convention. His campaign received very little mainstream media attention, but was closely covered by right-wing periodicals like The Spotlight and Media Bypass. At the Montana convention, Phillips spent most of his time discussing all the federal agencies and programs he would eliminate if elected. These included: the income tax, Federal Reserve, FEMA, EPA, ATF, and the Department of Education. He also claimed that both Democrats and Republicans had adopted the Socialist Party's platform of 30 years ago. He continually stressed Republicans were more dangerous than Democrats, because "They fly a false flag."

Just how linked is the Constitution Party with militia groups? They've happily sold antisemitic militia tracts and militia manuals at their state conventions:

While the GOP struggles to keep itself together under the big tent theory, the upstart USTP has managed to erect a small,
but spacious tent of its own. The USTP is home even to the armed, the racist, and the anti-Semitic:
* Rev. Matthew Trewhella --USTP National Committee, Wisconsin. A signer of Paul Hill's Defensive Action statement, Trewhella leads the anti-abortion group Missionaries to the Pre-Born. At the USTP Wisconsin state convention, he called for the formation of armed militias, such as the one he leads through his church. Newsweek reports that one member of the Missionaries who lived in Trewhella's basement for five months in 1990) kept a journal which included apparent plans for a guerrilla campaign of clinic
bombings and assassinations of doctors. What's more, a 100 page guerrilla army manual was sold by the USTP of Wisconsin at their May convention. Among the manual's justifications for armed resistance to the federal government is legalized abortion.

William K. Shearer -- Member, USTP National Committee, California. Was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Populist Party, in 1984 when the group was dominated by Neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan leaders.

Dr. Curtis Caine -- USTP National Committee, Mississippi. He embarrassed the Southern Baptist Convention's Christian Life Commission in 1989, when he defended apartheid in South Africa and called Martin Luther King a fraud. Caine also heads the Jackson chapter of the John Birch Society.

Convention in May 1994, Dale led sessions on The Problem with Our Debt Money System and Alternatives to the Debt Money System. Dale was in the early 1980's a confidant of Posse Comitatus leader Gordon Kahl, according to the Bismarck Tribune. The Posse was an anti-tax, anti-government organization that swept the Farm Belt in the 1970's and 1980's. Gordon Kahl, killed two federal marshals in a shoot-out in Medina, North Dakota. Dale told federal marshals that he would hide Kahl, if he appeared, and threatened to fight foreclosure on his ranch by shooting as "many of the sons of bitches as he could". At one USTP event, Dale sold The Revelator, a publication that rails against "Anti-Christ Banksters" (sic) whose basic strategy is to instigate war and finance both sides, especially if it involves Christians killing
Christians.
* Jeffrey Baker -- Chair, USTP of Florida, declared at the Wisconsin USTP convention, Abortionists should be put to death. "They are murderers." Baker was identified as a speaker on a recent
conference program, as representing, 10th Amendment Militia, Church Status.

(Paul Hill's "Defensive Action Statement" was a note stating that the murder of doctors, nurses, and other clinic staff at women's centers performing abortions was "justified homicide"; Paul Hill was eventually executed in Florida after being found guilty of the stalking and murder of a doctor who performed abortions.)
(Also, as a side note, "Anti-Christ Bankers" is a common code word in racist communities to denote Jews. Posse Comitatus is considered a racist organisation by most experts, including the ADL and SPLC.)

At least one other article on the militia movement confirms the stories of militia manuals being sold at Constitution Party events:

Christian fundamentalists, especially those drawn to the antiabortion movement, also have played key roles in the growth of the militias. In the forefront have been Matthew Trewhella, leader of the Milwaukee-based Missionaries to the Preborn, who helped organize militia gatherings through his church and preached their formation;15 and Jeffrey Baker, a Florida antiabortionist who has called for the death penalty for abortionists.16
Both appeared as speakers at a U.S. Taxpayers Party convention in 1994 at which they promoted the concept of militias, and a "Free Militia" manual was sold entailing how to form one's own militia cell. The manual cites as a source for its constitutional theories, Separation of Church and State: Historical Fact and Current Fiction by Robert Cord, who argues that the First Amendment never was intended to bar the church from government.17 Baker's conspiracy opus, Cheque Mate: The Game of Princes, is a popular fixture at patriot gathering book tables, along with his video, Government Gone Mad.18 Baker and Trewhella are closely linked with Christian Reconstructionists, a fundamentalist movement to transform America into a Christian theocracy.19

(Footnotes: 15 See Betsy Thatcher, "Trewhella urges, 'Be a good shot,'" Milwaukee Sentinel, August 18, 1994, pp. 5A-8A, and Mike Mulvey, "Trewhella tied to 2 who held arms training," Milwaukee Sentinel, August 19, 1994, pp. 1A-10A.
16 See Janny Scott, "Radical antiabortion alliance described," The New York Times, August 18, 1994.
17 Book published by Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Cord is also cited in a Summit Ministries article, "The role of the Bible and Christianity in America," which argues that the founding fathers "expected our nation to be (on the whole) Christian, and that our government to reflect that bias." Summit Ministries, based in Manitou Springs, Colorado, operates the world-wide web site, Christian Answers Network on which David Barton's Wallbuilders (an anti-church-state separation page) appears. Like Gritz, Summit Ministries preachers decry secular humanism as the religion now in place in our schools and government.
18 Both are also sold through the Militia of Montana and the Christian Patriot Association's catalogues.
19 See Tom Burghardt, "God, Guns, and Terror: Missionaries to the Preborn," Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights.)
In fact, the Constitution Party (under its prior name, the US Taxpayer's Party) ended up listed as a hate group by Southern Poverty Law Center and was subjected to "dead-agenting"--character assassination--by a state head of the party. (American Vision is similarly targeting the SPLC for character assassination after its listing by SPLC as a hate group.)

The Constitution Party was originally formed from a group called the American Independent Party which itself had considerable ties to racist groups.

Michael Peroutka, the last presidential candidate run by the Constitution Party, is himself a racist. He is a member of the League of the South, per this article:

The blond-haired, blue-eyed, 53-year-old became a Constitution Party favorite by launching the Institute for the Constitution, which peddles 12-week seminars teaching a Biblical version of the U.S. government. His membership in the League of the South has helped bring neo-Confederates into the Constitution Party.

For those who aren't aware of the League of the South, the group is a racist "neo-Confederate" group that is also explicitly dominionist:

After as many as 30,000 revelers descended on Biloxi, Miss., for last April's "Black Spring Break 2000," many locals, offended by incidents of public nudity and angered by two cases in which white women were partially stripped by drunken men, called for more police, better traffic control and improved planning. Others criticized police for losing control and for not making more arrests.
But J. Michael Hill went further.

To the founder and president of the League of the South (LOS), the 6-year-old organization that has emerged at the forefront of the neo-Confederate movement, the incidents in Biloxi -- along with similar attacks on white women in New York City's Central Park by black and Hispanic men -- represented a call to arms.

The assaults, he suggested, were not merely the handiwork of individuals. All minorities, in Hill's view, were responsible.

"It is time for us, as Southern whites, to look to our own well being and defense against these thugs," the one-time college professor wrote on AlaReb, an invitation-only, neo-Confederate discussion group on the Internet.

"Moreover, it is time we demand that respectable members of the 'minority community' control their debased 'brothers and sisters.' If they refuse, then we can only believe that they secretly condone such behavior. Let us not flinch when our enemies call us 'racists'; rather, just reply with, 'So, what's your point?'"

Hill, of course, has never suggested that whites control the actions of their "debased brothers and sisters," whites who kill, maim and harass blacks and other minorities. He has offered no lectures about the white mobs that attacked blacks during the civil rights era -- on the contrary, he has spoken of the era as a halcyon time in Southern history.

He has never spoken out about the criminals who have randomly murdered black people over the last few years in the name of building a whiter America. And he was silent when a white mob in York, Neb., attacked the home of a white woman dating a black man in 1998.

Instead, Hill has concentrated his fire on the minorities he is certain are destroying America.

Hill is no aberration in the LOS, a group that has grown to include 9,000 people organized into 96 chapters in 20 states. Despite the group's claims that it will brook no racists, the League is rife with white supremacists and racist ideology.

One key LOS figure and old Hill colleague, a man who is the former head of the LOS chapter in Tuscaloosa (Ala.) County where the League got its start, was even blunter than his leader in his own AlaReb posting about black-on-white crime.

"You see the day is coming when we will NEED a new type of Klan," G. David Cooksey wrote after the Central Park incidents in June. "Yes I said Klan!! If push comes to shove I'm for it! ... Time has come to stop this crap now!

"Or would you all like to see your daughters raped???"

Academics Set the Tone
The League of the South, first known as the Southern League, was founded in 1994 by Hill and a group of 40 other people. At first, the LOS appeared to be concerned primarily with questions of Southern culture, threatening to push for secession, at least rhetorically, as a final resort if what were seen as the rights and dignity of the South were not respected.

It keyed in on the notion that Southerners alone among U.S. population groups were commonly denigrated by the "politically correct" dominant culture, seen as emanating from the Yankee North.

And it pushed the idea of the South as fundamentally Christian, calling, in effect, for imposition of a theocracy -- a government in which prayers and other religious observances would be common, and mandatory, in public life.

Lest anyone doubt their racism:

But hints of its future radicalism -- the raw anger LOS now openly directs at blacks and other minorities -- were evident early on. In 1995, Hill joined a crowd of angry whites, including some professional white supremacists, at the funeral of Michael Westerman, a white murdered by a black youth, ostensibly for flying the Confederate pennant on his pickup truck.
Hill, according to the book Confederates in the Attic, declared it was "open season" on anyone who dared to question "the illicit rights bestowed on a compliant and deadly underclass that now fulfills a role similar to that of Hitler's brown-shirted street thugs of the 1930s."

He was referring to black people.

Since then, the tone of the League has grown consistently more hard line. Its ideologues now openly reject the notion of egalitarianism, opting instead for the idea that society is composed of a God-given hierarchy of groups that should not necessarily have the same rights and privileges as one another. Hill now publicly decries racial intermarriage under any circumstances.

He says people other than white Christians would be allowed to live in his South, but only if they bow to "the cultural dominance of the Anglo-Celtic people and their institutions." Where the goal of secession was once largely rhetorical, it is now a seriously stated aim.

And, in a June posting on AlaReb, Hill called slavery a "God-ordained" institution.

This radicalization is also reflected in an e-mail signed by Hill last April, right after the events in Biloxi. 'WE MUST NOT WAIT AND REACT TO THE ENEMY," Hill wrote. "Let us be bold and take the fight to him. He (the NAACP, Chamber of Commerce, and most elected officials) is well funded and determined to wipe out any vestige of Confederate heritage and culture. ...

"We must not compromise with evil."

The League of the South is also a primary force in hijacking mainstream churches in the south in attempts to convert entire denominations to Christian Reconstructionism, Southern Baptist Hijacking style:

Key members of a white supremacist organization, the League of the South (LOS), are moving to take control of conservative churches around the South, prompting a possible split in a major Presbyterian denomination.
The central player in this little-noticed drama is the Rev. Steven J. Wilkins, pastor of the Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church in Monroe, La., and a founder and current board member of the neo-Confederate LOS. Wilkins is an advocate of Christian Reconstruction, a theology that seeks to impose draconian Old Testament law on civil society.

The League's goal, Wilkins has said, is to save America from "paganism" and restore it as "the last bastion of Christendom" ý a Christendom that, in Wilkins' view, sees slavery as "perfectly legitimate."

Last summer, Wilkins almost caused a rupture within the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), a conservative Southern denomination founded in 1973 that has more than 300,000 North American members.

Persuading 10 churches to join him, Wilkins called a meeting of the PCA'S Louisiana Presbytery to consider the possible departure from the PCA of those with "theonomic" views ý the idea that the Bible, not man-made civil law, should form the legal basis of society.

Although the debate was temporarily tabled, PCA officials say that a schism may be imminent.

The Constitution Party also runs quite a number of blatant racists:

Those planks only begin to tell the story. In its brief history, the Constitution Party has flirted egregiously with some of the most extreme elements of the antigovernment militia movement and of Christian Reconstruction, a radical theology that calls for imposing Old Testament laws ý stoning to death adulterers and homosexuals, to name just two.
Among the party's current roster of local candidates is a Salt Lake City man, Jack Gray, who has no qualms about presenting himself as a member of David Duke's white supremacist hate group, the European American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO).

The party's official "key race" for 2003 is a gubernatorial bid by Mississippi's most virulent Confederate flag defender, John Thomas Cripps, a long-time member of the white-supremacist hate group, League of the South.
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Judging from the rhetoric in Clackamas, engaging with real voters might be a thorny task indeed. Until their spiritual leader took center stage, the Constitution Party stalwarts reserved their loudest amen chorus for a balls-to-the-wall speech by Jim Ludwick, chair of Oregonians for Immigration Reform.

Ludwick roused the congregation with an enthusiastic endorsement of the Reconquista conspiracy theory ý the notion, espoused by anti-immigration extremists, that Mexico, in league with Mexican Americans, is "invading" the United States, bent on "reconquering" the Southwest territory it lost in the mid-19th century.

"President Vicente Fox has made it a priority to gain control of parts of the United States," Ludwick asserted. His tone grew even harder toward the end of his address, when Ludwick launched into a litany of cautionary tales about illegal immigrants who have committed heinous crimes, including accused serial sniper Lee Malvo and the infamous "railroad killer," Angel Reyes Resendez.

While many voters would surely be turned off by such blatant bigotry, others might get queasy listening to Kevin Starrett, white-bearded head of the Oregon Firearms Federation. Starrett won enthusiastic applause by grimly denouncing the nation's most powerful pro-gun organization.

"The NRA won't stand up for gun owners," Starrett declared. He then announced that the Constitution Party had joined a more extreme gun-owners' coalition, Keep and Bear Arms, which recently started a campaign to end the federal ban on many assault weapons.

And then there's Lon Mabon, whose name has been bandied about in party circles as a potential presidential candidate in 2004. A diminutive 56-year-old with a wiry mustache and a soft, tentative speaking voice that belies his ferocious convictions, Mabon made a name for himself in the 1980s and '90s with his Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA), which championed a series of state ballot initiatives to curtail gay rights and abortion rights.

With the successive failure of each initiative, Mabon's stock fell among conservative Oregonians, and his Constitution Party run for U.S. Senate last year garnered only 2% of the vote.

It didn't help that Mabon had spent 42 days in jail earlier in 2002, cited for contempt of court after refusing to show up for a debtor's hearing. His Citizens Alliance had been ordered to pay $31,500 after a jury hearing a civil lawsuit against his group found that an employee used excessive force in kicking a gay-rights advocate out of a meeting.

When Mabon failed to show up for the hearing to determine whether he could pay, claiming that the presiding judge had no jurisdiction because he hadn't taken a proper oath of office, the state's largest newspaper, The Oregonian, editorialized that Mabon had "crossed over into the official crackpot zone."

But his Constitution Party kindred in Clackamas listened approvingly to Mabon's rambling speech about Biblical governance ý probably because they largely agree with his political philosophy, which leans heavily toward the theocratic.

"I hear the voice of God saying that the [government] must surrender to the requirements of His Holiness," Mabon has written. "This means that the Governor, U.S. Senators, Representatives and all elected officials should be allowed into office only after they have proved to the Citizens ... that they are indeed obedient to the Will and Holiness of God."

Dominionist "anti-abortion" groups

Perhaps some of the strongest links between dominionism and the racist right have been in the antiabortion movement. This has been both via support by racists (Klan groups have often taken an antiabortion line) and--more darkly--support by dominionist anti-abortion groups of militia organisations.

Possibly the most infamous example of this is Eric Rudolph, the "Olympics Bomber", who also was ultimately convicted of bombing an abortion clinic and gay nightclub. Rudolph was a member of a group calling itself the "Army of God" which distributed manuals on how to conduct terrorist attacks on women's clinics, and which was promoted by "Christian militia" groups.

One of the most definitively linked of groups to the militia movement is Matthew Trewhella's "Missionaries to the Preborn"--which itself can be legitimately considered a "Christian Militia" type group:

In 1994, PPFA released a video of Missionaries to the Preborn leader Rev. Matthew Trewhella calling for the formation of armed militias. Trewhella had made a speech at the Wisconsin convention of the U.S. Taxpayers Party, urging that "churches can form militia days and teach their men to fight." Trewhella's own church held classes for its members on "the use of firearms." He recommended buying "each of your children an SKS rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition." Trewhella was also a signatory to Paul Hill's Defensive Action petition, in which the "use of lethal force" is "justified" to save the "unborn." (Hill has been sentenced to death for the murders of a doctor and clinic escort in Florida.) The anti-abortion views of militia-and-gun supporters are beginning to overlap with the religious right-wing's ideology and rhetoric. The line between these groups is blurring, revealing both groups' deep anti-government thinking and little tolerance for separation of church and state. Abortion is just one issue in this convergence.

Disturbingly, another group linked to both militia groups and other "crossover" organisations like the Constitution Party is none other than Operation Rescue and Randall Terry in particular:

But what few have remarked upon is Terry's long history of association with the most violent elements of right-wing extremism, and his early role in fomenting the formation of "citizen militias" and the "Patriot" movement. Terry's extremism is very broad-ranging, and includes some of the most dangerous and nakedly anti-democratic elements in American society.
In fact, my first awareness of the existence of a "militia movement" came in 1994, when I watched a video tape of Terry and his frequent cohort, Matthew Trewhella, exhorting a gathering of Howard Phillips' U.S. Taxpayers Party (now known as the Constitution Party). Terry called for the "justifiable" killing of abortion doctors, while Trewhella painted militias as one of the solutions for dealing with abortion.

An earlier report from 1995 describes some of his activities in this regard:

Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, is working with the radical right U.S. Taxpayers Party (USTP) launching a new "leadership institute" to train "militant" and "unmerciful" activists. Terry has recently assumed a leadership position at the USTP, writing newsletters and speaking at events. He says he plans to run as a USTP candidate in the state of New York in 1996. "I'm anxious to run," he said "I am chomping at the bit to actually be in office."

Terry said a new "leadership institute" will be held near his hometown of Binghamton, New York in October and will offer "three days of intense training on vision, courage, biblical ethics, raising up a cadre of people who are militant, who are fierce, who are unmerciful to the deeds of darkness, unmerciful to the ideologies of hell." At the same conference Matthew Trewhella, leader of Missionaries to the Pre-born urged delegates to form armed militias and to establish a "militia day" in their churches. Conference organizers sold copies of a manual on how to create an armed underground army. Jeffrey Baker, USTP National Committee member touted that "Abortionists should be put to death" during his convention speech. The audience erupted in applause.

The U.S. Taxpayers party is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. In 1992 the USTP presidential candidate, Howard Phillips, ran a series of controversial campaign commercials which featured the photograph, name, and home address of medical directors at a Planned Parenthood in Iowa while the narrator stated "Howard Phillips urges you to contact these baby killers and urge them to mend their ways. A vote for Howard Phillips is a vote to prosecute the baby killers for premeditated murder."

The previous article also notes further links:

One militia leader has been fined over $500,000 for his participation in abortion blockades with Oregon-based Advocates for Life. This same man also conducted target practice with Shelley Shannon four days before her attempted murder of Dr. George Tiller in Wichita. Larry Pratt, former Pat Buchanan aide and executive director of Gun Owners of America, a favorite speaker at white supremacist gatherings, raised $150,000 to pay Operation Rescue's bills. Many pro-gun, anti-government zealots have connections to Operation Rescue, and OR activists have demonstrated at the Waco compound.

(Yes, you read that right. They were literally protesting in support of David Koresh.)
Other articles have noted how militia groups are also explicitly partnering with the antiabortion movement, including Bo Gritz (yes, the Michigan Militia Bo Gritz, the same Michigan Militia that Oklahoma City bomber Randy Weaver was linked with) partnering with "Christian Militia" groups.

Aside from being the one dominionist faction that has most frequently crossed the line to frank domestic terrorism, the anti-abortion faction of the dominionist movement not only has avowed racists but those racists freely borrow tactics from racist groups:

John Burt, a former Klansman, borrows tactics like his "wanted" posters from the KKK, and says that "fundamentalist Christians and those people[the KKK] are pretty close." (The Progressive, 10/94) Paul Hill told USA Today (3/7/94), "I could envision a covert organization developing --something like a pro-life IRA."

(Paul Hill went on to murder a doctor who provided abortions and was ultimately executed by the state of Florida.)
Trewhella has even promoted the idea of forming "Christian Militias" at Constitution Party rallies:

In 1994, Planned Parenthood released a video showing Trewhella speaking ata Wisconsin state USTP convention. "What should we do?" Trewhella asked. "We should do what thousands of people across the nation aredoing. We should be forming militias." According to Planned Parenthood, the USTP sold a Free Militia manual on how to form an underground army. Defending the "right to life" against "legalized abortion" is the first of the manual's stated reasons why one should take up arms.

In fact, these groups have even directly threatened the lives of government officials:

In December 1994, NBC refused to air a segment of the program TV Nation in which Roy McMillan of the Mississippi-based Christian Action Group said that assassinating Supreme Court justices would be justifiable homicide,and that the president was in "probable harms way." TV Nation producer Michael Moore believes that the airing of the segment could have led to arrests that might have prevented the Brookline clinic killings. "It's a federal offense to say the president should be killed," Moore told USA Today (1/16/95). Eventually the interview aired on the BBC in Britain, but not in the U.S.

Going back to Eric Rudolph and the Army of God mess, Southern Poverty Law Center again does an excellent job in detailing the links between dominionist antiabortion groups and militias and other racist groups:

Eric Robert Rudolph, the government says, bombed an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., earlier this year, killing a police officer and partially blinding a nurse. Agents also want to question him about the bombings of an Atlanta area clinic and a lesbian bar, attacks which injured seven bystanders. And many suspect Rudolph of involvement in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing which killed one person and injured 100 others.
To many, these targets seem unrelated. But they are not.

More and more, anti-abortion extremists, white supremacist groups and the conspiracy-minded "Patriot" movement have come to share the same enemies list. Many in these previously separate movements agree that everything smacking of "one-worldism" -- the Olympics, the United Nations and any other global agency -- is part of a massive plot to subject Americans to tyranny.

Activists in all three movements describe homosexuals as "sodomites," people who deserve capital punishment. And in the latest development, many of those involved in these groups are bitterly attacking abortion.

"Eric Rudolph is symbolic of this new merger," says Dallas Blanchard, chairman of the University of West Florida's sociology department in Pensacola. "Militia types have shown more and more interest in the abortion issue, while anti-abortionists are becoming more and more militant and allying themselves with the militia movement."

Since the early 1990s, Patriot and white supremacist groups have used mainstream issues like gun control and land and environmental regulation to draw people into their organizations. Now, they are taking up the banner of fighting abortion.

America's Invisible Empire, a Klan group, describes abortion as "America's greatest crime." White Aryan Resistance, another white supremacist group, calls for "future Aryan justice" for abortionists -- except in the case of non-white abortions. Leaders of the U.S. Taxpayers Party, a Patriot-linked group, have called for the death penalty for abortion doctors and even their patients.

Neal Horsley, who has called on militias to seize nuclear weapons, posts on his Web site the names of and other details about more than 300 people he considers pro-abortion, demanding "Nuremberg" trials.

The Michigan Militia has long been bitterly opposed to abortion, and other Patriot groups now take similar stands.
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Most recently, a Tennessee abortion activist repeatedly arrested in clinic invasions has begun converting a former Washington state lodge into a retreat for others who share his militant brand of religion. Allison Hall Grayson, who now calls himself a "Steward of the Church of Christ," is a friend of Paul Hill, convicted of killing an abortion doctor and his escort, The (Spokane, Wash.) Spokesman-Review reported.

Grayson doesn't believe in license plates, driver's licenses, Social Security or public schools, the newspaper said. He supports armed militias. The registered agent for his corporation is tied to "common-law courts" and militia activities.

His wife, Catherine, is a cartoonist for Life Advocate, an anti-abortion magazine that supports "justifiable homicide" and shares a post office box with the American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA). Many ACLA directors have been outspoken in their support for the murderers of doctors.

Grayson's project, officials and observers say, is the latest evidence of the melding of the militant anti-abortion and antigovernment movements. But similar cases, some of them documented by Planned Parenthood, have cropped up around the nation recently.

· August Kreis and James Wickstrom, longtime leaders of the violently racist and anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus, recently put up an article on their Web site hailing Rudolph as "a true warrior of YHVH [God]."

Wickstrom, a Michigan militia enthusiast who organized paramilitary training for the Posse during the 1980s, has served prison time for impersonating public officials and counterfeiting. Kreis, Wickstrom's Posse deputy, headed The Messiah's Militia in Pennsylvania.

In their article, the men complain about the "several hundred JOG agents (jewish occupational government forces)" searching for Rudolph.

· The Rev. Matthew Trewhella, who founded the militant Missionaries to the Preborn, was one of the first anti-abortion leaders to publicly call for militias.

At a 1994 Wisconsin convention of the U.S. Taxpayers Party (USTP) -- which mixes anti-abortion and antigovernment Patriot militants -- he called on churches to form armed militias. After telling congregants to do "the most loving thing" by buying their children "an SKS rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition," he said he was teaching his own 16-month-old the location of his "trigger finger."

The Wisconsin USTP ticket has included Ernest Brusubardis III, a "captain" of the Wisconsin Militia arrested in several Wisconsin clinic blockades.

· Willie Ray Lampley, head of the Oklahoma Constitutional Militia, is serving 11 years in federal prison for plotting to blow up abortion clinics, gay bars, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Anti-Defamation League offices and other targets. His wife and another man were also convicted in the ammonium nitrate bomb conspiracy.

· The Rev. W.N. Otwell, who reportedly has called America a "white man's country" and protested "race-mixing," has led his camouflage-clad followers in protests at an abortion clinic.

In 1996, Otwell traveled from his Texas compound to support the white supremacist Montana Freemen in their 81-day armed standoff with federal agents. He also protested in behalf of Republic of Texas criminals during their 1997 standoff.

· Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, helped Operation Rescue at a time when it was facing a $50,000 fine. Pratt's Committee to Protect the Family Foundation raised nearly $150,000 to pay Operation Rescue's bills, without that organization ever holding the money. Pratt only halted his fundraising when a judge ruled that the foundation could be held liable for Operation Rescue's fines.

Pratt has spoken at white supremacist gatherings and has long advocated formation of armed militias.

· Texas anti-abortion leader Jack DeVault, while on work release for illegally blocking clinic entrances, reported on the Branch Davidian trial for the American Patriot Fax Network and "Radio Free America," a program that has featured many extremists. He also reportedly proposed forming citizens' posses to run out "meddling federal agents."

· Joe Holland, one-time national director of the North American Volunteer Militia, has said government support for "murder clinics" and the "advancement of homosexuals" made him a rebel.

Holland, who died in prison this spring, once threatened to send law enforcement officers "home in body bags." He was serving time for criminal syndicalism and jury tampering in Montana when he suffered a heart attack in March.

· Tim Dreste, a leader of the militant American Coalition of Life Activists, also has been a captain and chaplain of a militia group, the 1st Missouri Volunteers. Dreste led several 1988 invasions of abortion clinics in New York and Atlanta. After the 1993 murder of Dr. David Gunn, he carried a sign: "Dr. ... Are you feeling under the Gunn?"

· Dale Pultz, a member of the Missionaries to the Preborn who has been convicted of illegally blocking clinics, used Patriot "common-law" techniques to slap a $700,000 lien on a judge who jailed him. This type of common-law "paper terrorism" is a Patriot tactic that is derived from the anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus group active in the 1980s.

(The entire article is excellent and does a very damning job of linking, among other things, Christian Reconstructionist groups and racist groups like the Klan.)
In some cases, as I've noted, racist groups themselves have been joining the dominionist antiabortion movement:

Ku Klux Klansmen have been demonstrating at clinics in Florida in full Klan robes. They said they were protesting both
against abortion and the presence of federal marshals assigned to guard the clinics. Operation Rescue leadership asked members not to picket as long as the Klan are at the clinics. Klan spokesman J.D. Alder told Reuters "I am selectively opposed to abortion. I don't care if blacks and Jews have abortions."
(source: San Jose Mercury News)

During the same month, however,

Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, is working with the radical right U.S. Taxpayers Party (USTP) launching a new "leadership institute" to train "militant" and "unmerciful" activists. Terry has recently assumed a leadership position at the USTP, writing newsletters and speaking at events. He says he plans to run as a USTP candidate in the state of New York in 1996. "I'm anxious to run," he said "I am chomping at the bit to actually be in office."
Terry said a new "leadership institute" will be held near his hometown of Binghamton, New York in October and will offer "three days of intense training on vision, courage, biblical
ethics, raising up a cadre of people who are militant, who are fierce, who are unmerciful to the deeds of darkness, unmerciful to the ideologies of hell." At the same conference Matthew Trewhella, leader of Missionaries to the "Pre-born" urged delegates to form armed militias and to establish a "militia day" in their churches. Conference organizers sold copies of a
manual on how to create an armed underground army. Jeffrey Baker, USTP National Committee member touted that "Abortionists should be put to death" during his convention speech. the
audience erupted in applause.

"Patriot Churches" and the CLASS Curriculum

One example of a church that holds folks like Gary North and other militia stars up to be admired is the Church of Christian Liberty in Prospect Heights, Illinois.

The Church of Christian Liberty actually runs a number of nationwide groups that are of interest to those fighting dominionism. Firstly, they operate--through an unaccredited school, Christian Liberty Academy--a dominionist correspondence-school curriculum called CLASS that is likely to be one of the first pages pulled up on a search on homeschooling. The church also operates a publishing company, "Christian Liberty Press" (which I'll touch on in a sec) and is also the headquarters of at least one dominionist group, Concerned Christian Americans, which is a majorlobbying group in Illinois.

Both Christian Liberty Academy and its homeschool curriculum CLASS are blatantly dominionist; see its list of "Responsibilities to the USA" for examples for Christian Liberty Academy, and the worldview page for CLASS. CLASS' page on "Biblical Worldview Curriculum" (at this link) explicitly promotes dominion theology, even including the term "dominion"; the "Government" section even explicitly teaches children the "right" politicians to vote for.

Per Christian Liberty Academy's own admission neither it nor CLASS are accredited by any review board (see its profile page) which would possibly prevent any of its graduates or persons educated using its programs from being eligible to enter many state universities other than by obtaining a GED.

The church also is affiliated with an unaccredited college, Whitefield College, which offers college correspondence courses to persons who have completed CLASS curricula. Much like other schools specifically targeting persons from dominionist correspondence schools like A Beka and Bob Jones University's courses, the school is explicitly dominionist and in fact blatantly states its goal is to train people in dominionist "spiritual warfare" (per its Educational Objectives page) and is essentially a dominionist madrassa to educate "god warriors" to take over legitimate secular government institutions (per its page on "Christian Worldview" curricula).

Of special interest to this article, though, are Christian Liberty Academy's extensive links to militia organisations.

Christian Liberty Press publishes and sells several blatantly dominionist books, including works by Gary North (as shown on its "economics and government" section of its bookstore)--nearly all the books on government on the site are written by Gary

[Christopher Robert]

I have spoken with many people in my life who faced great tragedies. They have lived their lives to never forget. They have acted to educate others on what actually happened. Their fears are that in the future, the past will be forgotten or rewritten to be a more positive account.

We live in another pivotal time. Like nearly any time we will pass the stories of our lives down to those who will listen. But then it becomes once removed. As time passes it fades. This is how great tragedies are forgotten. As the story is passed, no matter how valid, how important it is there becomes less and less direct experience. People revise and then spread the revision as truth. When no one is life who has experienced it first-hand, there is no one to protest. We stand at a time, a pivotal time. We are all faced with the question of what to do. It extends beyond ssm. It extends beyond so many other issues claimed by the 2%. It is an issue of our society. To lay waste to fundamental rights is to chance forgetting these rights. Imagine a loaf a bread. Remove a small piece here and a small piece there, each piece too small to sustain or change the loaf much. But over time, as pieces are continually removed, one is eventually left with nothing.

To not fight for what is fundamentally right (in this case SSM) is to risk stumbling blindly down a slippery slope. To say well, its not my fight, its not my concern, is to be blind. To give in is to be foolish. It may start with trying to limit a group that exists productively in the society that you are not a member of, but can soon progress to what does affect you. To disallow something based on the religious views of a group, even if it is the majority is to elevate that group above all others. This gives them added power and allows them to act to shape the society into their idealized view. They would commit heresy, using "God's word" (quotations used here not to say the bible is not God's word, but that their interpretation of it is one of fallible man) to elevate one small party over all others.

I support ssm. I view it as something logical to allow and something morally important to allow. But my fears for the direction of this nation have been one that has been growing for years. I started a short story about a gay man in a "utopian" theocratic society. It sits on my desktop unfinished. It scares me because some of the events that led to this society are the exact events occur now in the government and in many aspects of this American culture.

So I ask you all, how long will it take you to forget what life was like before a strict and conservative view of a religion controled your life so completely and at a governmental level?

[Paul Jamieson]

Hey Aaron,

What is with Nark being allowed to publish novels on this blog

God, my fingers get so tired of scrolling by it.

-----------------------NEW SLOGAN ALERT-------------------

LET SAM ALITO DO JUSTICE!

[Paul Jamieson]

Christopher,

The conservative movement in the USA has been growing steadily for 15 years now.

The entire country in fact is more conservative now than ever before. Remember, quite a few Democrats voted for Bush in 04

This country has turned back to conservative principles for a few reasons, mainly because people are tired of losing their traditions. Political correctness and liberalism have fallen out of vogue because most folks see how outrageous it can be when common sense does not prevail.

9/11 also hastened the need for more conservative politics as has the gay marriage movement.

[kevcor]

Here is an article from today's Worcester Telegram. This fraud scandal just keeps growing. A few more weeks and this entire petition drive is going to have about the same credibility as the flat earth society.

Anti-gay marriage petition questions grow

Opponents want probe of signature gatherer who testified

By Kathleen A. Shaw TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
kshaw@telegram.com

Mass Equality, a group that favors same-sex marriage, said yesterday that more than 1,000 people whose names are on a petition opposing such unions never intended to sign the petition.

Meanwhile, VoteOnMarriage, which wants to end same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, called for an investigation of Angela McElroy, the Florida college student who testified before the state Legislature on how paid signature gatherers allegedly tricked people into signing the petitions.

Marc Solomon, director of Mass Equality, said he expects the number of fraudulent names to increase as people come forward to say they never intended to sign the petition but they found their names on the list anyway. The organization has complaints from “well over 1,000 people” whose names appeared on the petition they never intended to sign.

The names of those who signed are available on Mass Equality’s Web site, massequality.org, and Web site KnowThyNeighbor.org. Tom Lang, co-director of KnowThyNeighbor, said the names came directly from a computer disk from the office of Secretary of State William F. Galvin.

Kris Mineau, spokesman for VoteOnMarriage and president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, said the groups do not object to efforts by Mass Equality and KnowThyNeighbor to uncover alleged fraud, but they “do object to the manner in which they are carrying out their anti-vote campaign.” He said he has gotten reports from people that they received calls they considered to be harassing.

VoteOnMarriage believes that the online complaint process being used by the pro-gay-marriage groups “invites fraud, in that it fails to authenticate the identity of the citizens filing complaints.”

While people are saying their names were on the list but they never intended to sign, Bishop Robert J. McManus and Monsignor Thomas Sullivan said they signed the petition but their names never appeared on the lists posted on the two Web sites.

Raymond L. Delisle, spokesman for the Worcester Diocese, said the bishop had to find out what voting precinct he was in, so he mailed his petition. Monsignor Sullivan remembered signing and handing his over to a parish coordinator at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Worcester.

“Both were on separate forms, but turned in in different ways,” he said. The signings happened about the time signatures were being collected in churches in the diocese, Mr. Delisle said.

Suzanne Reynolds of Leominster said in an interview yesterday that she was shocked to find her name on the petition that she

never intended to sign.

“The government should not get involved in this issue at all. It’s up to gay people to decide,” she said. Ms. Reynolds said she believes the real issue for government right now is to end war and establish peace. Ms. Reynolds said she opposes not only the war in Iraq “but all wars.”

Ms. Reynolds said she has no objection to supermarkets selling beer and wine, and said that may be how the problem started.

She recalled going to the Registry of Motor Vehicles office on Erdman Way, Leominster, in October to renew her driver’s license. A man standing outside the registry asked if she would sign a petition to allow beer and wine sales in grocery stores.

She signed and then was asked to sign twice. She said the man gave a reason for the double signature but she could not remember what he said.

“I don’t think I’ll ever sign a petition again,” she said.

The man never told her the second signature went on a petition against same-sex marriage.

“I should have asked to see his card but he was standing outside the registry so I assume he had permission,” she said.

Ms. McElroy has said the double-signature practice was one method used by some paid signature gatherers. VoteOnMarriage, which wants to end same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, called for investigation and possible prosecution of Ms. McElroy.

VoteOnMarriage said it sought to comply with the law during the gathering process and was found in compliance by the attorney general’s office.

“However, the only case of fraud of which VoteOnMarriage.org is aware — the admission before a legislative committee and to the media by paid circulator Angela McElroy that she misrepresented the marriage petition in potentially 269 cases — has yet to be investigated by authorities,” VoteOnMarriage said in a statement.

The organization said it is calling on “the proper authorities to prosecute this and any other circulator who intentionally misrepresented the petitions,” and has sent letters outlining the organization’s concerns to Mr. Galvin and Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly.

Ms. McElroy said she worked in Massachusetts only two weeks before quitting and returning to Florida, but VoteOnMarriage said the woman was fired by her employer.

“VoteOnMariage.org pledges to cooperate fully in any investigation and welcomes the opportunity to bring to justice anyone who has violated the law,” the organization said.

“Talk about going after a whistleblower,” said Mr. Solomon of Mass Equality. He said authorities need to start investigating the companies that VoteOnMarriage hired to come into the state to collect signatures.

At a Statehouse hearing on the issue of fraudulent signature-gathering, VoteOnMarriage declined to say how much money it paid the out-of-state companies, but during the legislative hearing, it was learned that the signature gatherers used by these companies were paid an average of $1 per signature.

[Paul Jamieson]

Kev,

I guess you convieniently forgot to mention the opinion piece in today's Eagle Trib:

Web site's real mission: Intimidation

By Taylor Armerding
Staff writer

There should be a full and vigorous debate on gay marriage in Massachusetts, in the wake of a petition drive seeking a vote to limit it to between a man and a woman.

But the tactic of Thomas Lang and Alexander Westerhoff, a married gay couple from Manchester, has little chance of advancing a constructive debate. It is much more likely to polarize the two sides than encourage them to listen to one another.

Lang and Westerhoff launched a Web site, Knowthyneighbor.org, that has posted the names and home addresses of all 140,000 people who signed petitions to put a question on the ballot to ask if the state constitution should be amended to ban gay marriage.

They have a legal right to do so. Those names are public information. But their stated reasons for doing it are disingenuous at best and crassly hypocritical at worst. Lang says the main motivation for posting the names is simply to prompt respectful debate among relatives, friends and neighbors. He also says it is intended to expose fraud. He says hundreds of those who signed the petition now say they were duped into doing so.

But the allegations of fraud cut both ways. While opponents of gay marriage were gathering signatures, there were dozens of reports of people saying they wanted to sign the petition and then deliberately making stray marks on the paper, which would then invalidate the entire page of signatures.
There are indeed those who claim to have been duped into signing the petition. But there are also those who say they signed it willingly, but since their names were posted they have been harassed and pressured to say that they were duped.

And that exposes the real intent of the Web site — intimidation. Those who post the names of physicians who perform abortions could make the same argument as Lang — that they are simply trying to start a respectful dialogue regarding the issue. But nobody believes them, because everybody knows the real intent is to promote intimidation or harassment against those doctors. The same is true of Lang and Westerhoff's Web site.

There will be plenty of opportunities in the coming months for advocates and opponents of gay marriage to make their case in public. There are constant opportunities for friends, neighbors and relatives to initiate discussions with one another about issues that are important to them. A Web site that starts the debate with a game of "gotcha" is much more likely to close minds than open them

[Joe S]

"Pathetic Paul" is back at the spin....

Paul aren't you tired of being a "talking head"...with all of your crap about how the nation is becoming "more conservative"...PLEASE....people are RUNNING so fast from the neo cons you can see the SKID MARKS...they were drawn into what they thought would give them "security" and what they got was "control"....if anything.. your movement has been exposed and will die in flames....

Get a life!

[kevcor]

Paul,

i will give you credit for at least labeling the eagle-trib piece what it was - an opinion piece. Just one person's opinion, and by the way, i never even heard of him.

The article i posted this morning from the Telegram was a NEWS article about REAL people who lied to.

Face it buddy.......after so many defeats in the past two years, you guys were so despearate for some sort of spin that makes your side look like your still breathing, that you pulled out all of the stops on this petition drive.

Intimidating priests, hiring professional out of state signature gathering firms, lying, deceiving, manipulating, and coercing people to sign.

Yeah, you got your signatures. But in the process, you destroyed any remaining credibility you guys may have had. Less than 2% of residents signed, and many, many of those 2% were victims of fraud.

The covers are being ripped off this donkey everyday!

So Paul - my little closet case - you are going down in flames girlfriend.

And i'll be there with my gasoline pail just to help you.

[Callie Wise]

So Paul - my little closet case - you are going down in flames girlfriend.

And boy, is her flamin' all the way down!!!

[Joe S]

And Kevor...I'll be there with the lighter!....Paul...BURN BABY BURN!

BHAHAHAHAHHAHA

[Christopher Robert]

And Paul, there is also a backlash against the conservative movement. We as a country are beginning to fall behind in scientific research. I see commercials on TV most days that are covertly asking for money in order to fight for stem cell research. Common sense will prevail as people in the world community begin to see the US as the "special" brother of the world.

This is a nation dividing.

[Paul Jamieson]

So Kev,

What is the "news" piece if it it just the "opinion" of the TV news staff.

Give me a break.

You can run but you can't hide -

Like the opinion states - most moderate folks are against the tactics of KTN

Oh by the way - how many signatures were ruined by the SSM side with the stray marks?

Paid for by KTN or MassEquality

You bunch of hypocrites

LET THE PEOPLE VOTE

[Paul Jamieson]

Christopher Robin, you'd better go back to the tree house and tell Pooh and Tigger not to believe everything they see on TeeVee. Especially in commercials.

I'm sure Rabbit, that old codger leftover from the 60's feeds you and the rest of the animals on Pooh's corner a steady diet of ABC, MTV, CBS, CNN and the NY Times.

No wonder you think there's a conservative backlash!

As Joe S would say

BHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

LET THE PEOPLE VOTE!