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Christ in us in our Sanctification
All the passages below are taken from Martyn Lloyd-Jones' book "The Assurance of our Salvation." The sermons were preached at Westminister Chapel, London, from 1952 to 1953. It was originally published in four volumes: Seed in Eternity, Safe in the World, Sanctified through the Truth, and Growing in the Spirit. It was published in one volume in 2000
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth (John 17:17).
We saw in our last study how nothing so promotes sanctification as the realisation that we are in Christ; the realisation that we are declared righteous by God, that we are justified, and that God looks upon us now as in Christ. So here we are, then, people in Christ facing a new life, the kind of life that he lived, and we realise now that we are called to live in that way. John puts it in his first epistle like this: `As he is, so are we in this world' (1 John 4:17). We are to follow in his steps who did no wrong:'... neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously' (1 Peter 2:22-23). That is what is meant by being sanctified---we are to be like him. Sanctification is not so much an experience, as to be like him; to be separated from the world and sin; to be separated unto God. This is the whole process of the teaching; being in Christ, we are called to live even as he lived in this world.
But then, I imagine someone saying at this point, `How can this be done? Who are we that we should even attempt to live such a life?' And that brings us to the next aspect of the truth that we must consider, for we are told very plainly in the Scriptures that we are not left to ourselves. God does not call us to an impossible life, and command us to live it, and then leave us to ourselves to do so somehow, anyhow. That is an entirely false understanding of the scriptural teaching, for here we come to this next great emphasis, which is that the Christian is one who is regenerated. All the ethical teaching of the Scriptures is based upon that supposition. All the appeals made in the epistles for conduct and behaviour---and we must never be tired of pointing this out---are always made to Christian people.
It is a fatal thing to expect Christian conduct from people who are not Christians. The Bible never asks that. The Bible knows that the natural man, the man born with human nature as it has been since the fall of Adam, cannot possibly live such a life. The whole point of the giving of the Ten Commandments under the moral law is, in a sense, just to prove that. As Paul argues in the epistle to the Romans, the law was added `that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful' (Romans 7:13). God did not give the law to the Children of Israel in the hope that possibly they might keep it and thereby save themselves. That was impossible. It could not be done. The `carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be' (Romans 8:7). So the law was given in order, to use a modern phrase, to pinpoint sin, to bring home to us our sinfulness; to establish our guilt; to show us our utter helplessness.
Furthermore, if it is impossible for man, as he is by nature, to keep the moral law as given by God to man through Moses, how much more impossible is it for any man, in his own strength or power, to live the kind of life that the Lord Jesus Christ lived, or to live the Sermon on the Mount. It is utterly and absolutely impossible. On the contrary, let me say it again, all the ethical and moral appeals in the New Testament are always based on the assumption that the people to whom they are addressed are Christians; that they are regenerated; that they have undergone what is called a `new birth'.
This is great and vital teaching. We could very easily occupy ourselves for some time with this, but I do not propose to do that now. I am simply indicating here the big principles which we can work out for ourselves, and at this point I am concerned only with the doctrine of regeneration or rebirth as it has this very practical bearing upon the process of sanctification. My argument is that it is only as we know ourselves to be new men and women in Christ Jesus, that we really can be sanctified. Now that is the kind of terminology which you find so freely in the New Testament. We are told that we have become `partakers of the divine nature', so that, as we confront this great task of following Christ, of living in the world the kind of life that he lived when he himself was here, we have no excuse. We must not say, `Oh, but who am I? I am so weak and so frail!' The Scripture comes at once and says, `But you are born again; you are a new creature. You have been created anew. You are a partaker of the divine nature. You are not simply a natural man, there is a new man in you.' And it is in the light of this that it presses its great teaching about sanctification.
Without going into this in detail, let me summarise it by putting it in this way. The teaching in the Scripture is that there is a new principle of life in us and that God, by the work of the Holy Spirit, has implanted this new principle in us. It is not something substantial---no new substance has been injected into us. There is, however, very definitely, a new principle at work in us which leads to a new disposition, and its effect is that we are now made capable of doing things that we were not capable of doing before.
It starts, of course, by giving us an entirely new view of everything: `. .. if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new' (2 Corinthians 5:17). Or take it as our Lord put it to Nicodemus in the famous interview in John 3. Nicodemus was trying to understand, and he was obviously about to put a whole series of questions which might help him to grasp what our Lord was saying. But Christ stops him and says, `Verily, verily, I say unto thee. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God ... Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit' (John 3:3, 5, 6).
Our Lord is saying, Nicodemus, you must not try to understand. You need this new principle, this new life, this new power, this something must happen to you which is comparable to the effect of the wind---`. .. thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit' (v. 8). It is a supernatural operation of the Spirit of God upon the soul of man, and a man finds himself different. He is a new creature, a new creation, and he has a new outlook, and a new attitude towards everything.
So it is obvious, surely, that this is a most potent influence in the matter of our sanctification, for when a man is born again he has an entirely new view of God. The trouble with the natural man is that his view of God is wrong. He is `at enmity against God'; an enemy and an alien in his mind, says Paul. He is outside the `commonwealth' of Israel, `without God in the world' (Ephesians 2:12). That is the difficulty with the man who is not in Christ, he is a God hater. Even when he claims that he believes in God, he really hates him. He does not know God and his ideas concerning him are all wrong. What the devil did to man was to insinuate a false view of God which has persisted ever since. But when we are given this new nature and when the new principle comes in, we have the right view of God for the first time; and obviously we can never be sanctified until this happens to us.
Then we also have a new view of God's law. The law of God is no longer grievous to the Christian. '... his commandments,' says John, `are not grievous' (1 John 5:3). Christians love God's law. They know that it is right and true. It does not go against the grain for them because now their whole attitude is changed. This is an essential part of their sanctification. Formerly they looked at the law and saw that it was against them. They wished that it was not there. But now they love it; they delight in it; they want it; they want to be conformed to it. The whole position is changed.
And in the same way they have an entirely different view of sin. Those who are born again hate sin. They bemoan the fact that there is any sinful principle still left in them. They know something about the experience of Romans 7. Have you been there? Have you been in Romans 7? Have you ever known what it is to hate the sin that is in you---this principle, this law in your members? Have you ever felt desperate about yourself? Have you ever cried out, `Oh wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?' People who are born again inevitably know something about that experience. They cannot help it; they must know it. Sin has become abhorrent to them---hateful---because it is unlike God. It is the greatest enemy of their souls.
In the same way, of course, the Christian's whole view of Christ is changed. Only the one who has been born again truly knows the Lord Jesus Christ. The princes of this world do not known him; it was they who crucified him, says Paul. And they did so because they did not know the Lord of Glory: if they had known him they would never have done it. It is only the Holy Spirit who can enable a person truly to understand and to know the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why we should never be surprised that very able, intelligent people do not believe the gospel. They cannot. `The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ... neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned' (1 Corinthians 2:14). We need the `mind of Christ', and in the regeneration, we have the mind of Christ.
And thus, the New Testament tells us, the Christian is entirely new and entirely changed, and he hungers and thirsts after righteousness. Now at the very minimum, regeneration means that, and you cannot be a Christian without that having happened to you. That is what makes us Christian---that God has worked this mighty operation upon us, and has implanted in us this new principle of life. As that other principle came in at the Fall, so this new principle now comes in, and it changes our entire outlook. But I must leave it at that and go on to what is, in a sense, another aspect of the same great truth.
We were emphasising earlier the fact that, as Christians, we are in Christ. I am anxious to emphasise now that it is equally true that Christ is in us. There are two sides to this. We have seen that we are united to Christ, and that therefore all he has done we have done. But it is also true to say that he is in us. You notice if you read John 14, 15 and 16---the introduction, if you like, to this great prayer---that our Lord keeps on saying, `I in you, and you in me.' `The Father in me, and I in the Father.' That is his language. We are in him and he is in us, and this emphasis, this aspect of the truth, is as vital in the matter of our sanctification as is the other truth which emphasises that we are in him.
There is great teaching about this everywhere in the Scriptures. I again commend to you those three chapters in John; but you will find it richly in all the New Testament epistles, and in particular, perhaps, in the epistles of the apostle Paul. Let me just quote to you at random some of the leading statements. In Romans 8:10 he puts it like this: `And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.' But you notice the statement---`if Christ be in you'. Paul's argument is that if he is not in you, you are not a Christian: but if you are a Christian, then he is in you.
Or take 2 Corinthians 13:5: `Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?' What a tremendous statement! Then of course, there is the great statement in Galatians 2:20: `I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.' Again in Ephesians 3:17 Paul prays for the Ephesians: `That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.' Then listen to him in that great triumphant statement in Colossians 1:27: `To whom,' he says, `God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.' And again in the same epistle, in 3:4, he says, `When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.' He is our life now, and he is going to appear.
I have simply taken some of these great statements at random, but you notice that they all unite in saying that if we are Christians, the simple truth is that Christ is in us. Not only am I united to Christ indissolubly and am a sharer, therefore, of all that is true of him, but Christ is in me. He turned to those disciples, who were crestfallen and heartbroken when he told them that he was about to leave them, and said, Do not worry, do not let sorrow fill your hearts. `Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me' (John 14:1). He said, Do you know, it is a good thing for you that I am going. As it is now, I am with you, but I am outside you. My going will mean that I shall not only be with you but that I shall be in you: I am going to take up my abode in you. The Father and I will take up our abode in you through the Holy Spirit. We are going to send the Holy Spirit, and in him we will come and reside---take up our residence, dwell---within you. `It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you' (John 16:7). That is the argument.
Christian people, is it not obvious to us all that we are living very, very much below the position which we are meant to be in? Do you realise that Christ is in you, that Christ is in your heart by faith? What is the thing we preach? asks Paul, writing to the Colossians, who, remember, were Gentiles. He says, This is the mystery, this is the marvellous mystic message, the astounding thing that has been committed to me and to the other preachers of the gospel---`Christ in you, the hope of glory' (Colossians 1:27). What hope have I of glory? It is that Christ is in me; Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith.
I wonder whether we can appropriate the language of the apostle Paul, and whether we can say, honestly and truly, `I live, yet not I but Christ liveth in me'? My friends, the Lord Jesus Christ came into the world and endured all he did, and went to that agony and the shame of the cross, in order that you and I might be able to say that. You notice that I am dealing with this doctrine only from the standpoint of sanctification. It is a doctrine that can be worked out on many other lines, but we are concerned in particular about the truth that sanctifies---'Sanctify them in [or through] thy truth: thy word is truth'---and here is an aspect of it. `How can I live a sanctified holy life?' you ask. The answer is, Christ is in you, living his life in you. Let nobody try to say that this is a truth about certain special Christians: it is true of all Christians. The apostle Paul not only says this about himself, he presses this upon all others. His prayer for the Ephesians is that they may be `strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man' and that `Christ may dwell in their hearts by faith', and so on.
Therefore, as we look at this great truth it seems to me that one of the first things we must lay hold of is the solemn and simple fact that if we are believers at all in the Lord Jesus Christ, we are in him and he is also in us. This means that as you wake up in the morning and consider the kind of life you are expected to live, as you realise the sinfulness of the world in which you walk, as you know something of the attacks of the devil, the principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world, the spiritual wickedness in the high places which are set against you, you must put up, against all that, your shield of faith, by which you say, `Yes, that is all true, but Christ is in me. I am not alone, because he dwells in me.' And you live by that faith, and you go on and you conquer and you prevail.
Now, let me divide that up a little by showing how this works. And I suggest that the first thing we must do is to realise this truth. Notice how our Lord has put it in John 6:53: `Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.' But then he goes on to say, 'Whose, eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed' (vv. 54-55). Then he repeats it all---`He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven ... he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever' (vv. 56-58).
The argument is perfectly plain and simple. What you and I need in order to be able to live this sanctified, holy Christian life, is spiritual life, energy and power. Where can I get these things? Our Lord tells us that there is only one way: we must `eat his flesh and drink his blood'. Is that a reference to taking communion regularly? Not at all! `The words that I speak unto you,' he says in verse 63, `they are spirit and they are life.' No, he means that we realise that he is in us, and that, as it were, as we partake of our food and drink, so we shall partake of him spiritually. He is speaking in a spiritual sense, not of something material. No grace can be infused by baptism, or be received in bread or wine, it comes by a spiritual partaking of him. The people asked materially, `How can we eat of his flesh?'
You do not understand, he says, you will always materialise everything; you are carnal in your outlook. My words, `they are spirit and they are life', understand them spiritually.
In verse 57 of the same chapter it is made very clear. He says, `As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.' How did he take of the living Father? Did he eat bread and drink wine? No, of course not: he partook of his Father spiritually, and we are to partake of him in exactly the same way.
To do so means meditating upon him; thinking about him; realising these truths; masticating them, as it were; dwelling upon them; taking them into ourselves; saying by faith, `Yes, I believe the word, Christ is in me, and I am going to partake of him.' But not only that. We must not only live by him in the sense I have just been describing; we must go to him constantly and take of his fullness. John puts it in the prologue of this Gospel when he says, `And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace' (John 1:16). What he means is, I am living by him, I go to him for everything. In him are treasures for ever more, the treasures of grace and of wisdom and of goodness. God has put all this in Christ, and all I must do is to go to Christ and I receive it.
Now this is a very practical matter. We find our Lord constantly saying it throughout this Gospel of John. For example, in chapter 7:37, he cries: `If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.' And remember that `come' here has the sense of `keep on coming', so what he says is: `If any man thirst, let him keep on coming unto me to drink.' Let us be very practical here; it is as simple as this. If you find yourself at some time, at any point in your life in this world, tired, weary, not only physically, but mentally, and perhaps still more, spiritually, what do you do about it? Well, he tells you to go to him! He is in you, dwelling in you. Go to him as you would go to a fountain or a tap to draw water---go to Christ. Tell him about your thirst and your weakness, your lethargy and your helplessness, and ask him to give you life-giving water, to give you this heavenly bread: to give you himself. He is pledged to do that, but we only know it for ourselves as we realise that he is in us, and as we turn to him and go to him.
He puts it like this, in effect, when he turns to the disciples who are troubled about his leaving them, and says, `You are so unhappy because of a weakness in your thinking. You say, "Whenever we have been in trouble we have just gone straight to him and asked him a question, and he has always been able to answer it. He has given us power to cast out devils, and to speak to people, but if he is going away, what shall we do?"' His answer is this: `It is going to be better, because, though I am going away, I am coming back and I am going to be in you: I will always be in you. You simply turn to me and I will give you all you need.' So we must draw `of his fulness'. Indeed, I am not going too far when I put it like this: the New Testament tells us that there is no excuse for failure in the Christian. If we fail it is because we are not taking of his fullness and the promised grace upon grace.
Let me repeat that in another way: we must realise his strength and his power. He has already been emphasising that in the fifteenth chapter. He has compared us, in our relationship to him, to branches in the vine, and he has said categorically that `without me ye can do nothing', nothing at all (John 15:5). A branch can do nothing except in its relationship to the trunk, the parent tree and we are exactly like that. But what power there is in the tree! Take Paul's prayer for the people at Ephesus, in Ephesians 1. Paul prays that the `eyes of your understanding [may be] enlightened that ye may know...', and he goes on to request three main things. I am emphasising the third here, and it is this: `What is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead' (v. 19). That is the power that is working in us as Christians; that is the power that is working in us now. The power that raised Christ from the dead is now working in us mightily in our sanctification. Or consider again the apostle Paul's great doxology at the end of Ephesians 3: `Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.' This is not in the apostles only, but in all Christians. That is the power---`exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think'. Or hear him as he writes to the Colossians. He says that he is preaching the gospel, `Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily' (Colossians 1:29); the power of God in Christ through the Holy Spirit.
That, then, is the way in which we become sanctified and live the sanctified life. We must stop talking about our weakness: we must take more of his power! We must realise that Christ is in us with all this power: that the power that enabled him to resist the temptations of the devil is the power that is in us.
Lastly, I would put it like this---and sometimes I think it is the most effective argument of all. The truth about Christ dwelling in me promotes my sanctification by giving me an entirely new view of sin. I find so often, when people come to discuss with me this problem of sin, that all along they are tending to think of sin in terms of this or that particular sin that gets them down. This doctrine we are looking at gives us a new view of it, it makes you look at it like this: What is sin? Well, sin is not so much something that I do or that I should not do: sin is that which separates me from God. He is in me, dwelling in me, and my life is meant to be a life of communion and of fellowship with him. Sin is allowing myself, even for a single moment, to turn away from him.
Imagine yourself having audience with the Queen or somebody whom you regard as great in this world. What would she say if, instead of looking at her and listening to what she was saying, you were looking at someone else or gazing out of the window, patently thinking about something else? She would feel insulted, and rightly so. Nothing is more insulting than not looking at the person talking to you and not listening to what is being said. The New Testament tells me that Christ is in me, and I am meant to live a life of constant fellowship and communion with him. Sin is to look away from him; to be interested in anything that the world can give rather than in him. Oh, if it is something foul it is ten times worse; but the best that the world has got to give me is an insult to him, if I put it before him.
There are endless statements of this; Paul puts it in terms of the Holy Spirit, `Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?' (1 Corinthians 6:19). The argument is about fornication and adultery. Paul does not give a moral lecture on immorality; he says in effect, `What is wrong about that, is that you are joining your body, which is a temple of the Holy Spirit, to another, and you have no right to do it. The way to overcome that sin is not to pray so much that you may be delivered from it; it is to realise that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and that you have no right to use it in that way.' Another way he puts it is this, and it is very tender: `Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God' (Ephesians 4:30). He is tender, he is sensitive, he is holy; do not grieve him.
And if you and I would only think of our lives like that, it would very soon begin to promote our sanctification. May I again commend to you that simple morning rule. When you wake up, the first thing you should do (and I too need to do the same) is say to yourself, `I am a child of God. Christ is in me. That old self is gone: I died with Christ. "I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." Everything I do today, everything I think and say, must be in the light of this knowledge.' Keep him, my dear friends, in the very front of your mind and heart. Eat his flesh and drink his blood. Be constantly living on him and dwelling on him. The world will do its utmost to prevent you. `This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith' (1 John 5:4). That means that we should realise constantly that he is in us, dwelling in our hearts by faith, and that all that we do is done as in his presence and under his holy eye. We are in Christ.
Yes, but Christ is also in us, and as we realise it we shall cast away depression and fear of the devil. We shall realise that we are not only living like him, but living with him, for him, and living by means of his power which worketh in us mightily.
What a wondrous truth is this truth by which God produces our sanctification! (473-485)


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The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the G-protein-coupled receptor family. This protein is a receptor for interleukin 8 (IL8). It binds to IL8 with high affinity, and transduces the signal through a G-protein activated second messenger system. This receptor also binds to chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 1 (CXCL1/MGSA), a protein with melanoma growth stimulating activity, and has been shown to be a major component required for serum-dependent melanoma cell growth. This receptor mediates neutrophil migration to sites of inflammation. The angiogenic effects of IL8 in intestinal microvascular endothelial cells are found to be mediated by this receptor. Knockout studies in mice suggested that this receptor controls the positioning of oligodendrocyte precursors in developing spinal cord by arresting their migration. This gene, IL8RA, a gene encoding another high affinity IL8 receptor, as well as IL8RBP, a pseudogene of IL8RB, form a gene cluster in a region mapped to chromosome 2q33-q36. Alternatively spliced variants, encoding the same protein, have been identified.
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I upgraded to the latest OS level a couple of weeks ago, and in the past few days, my Ti PowerBook has become a bit of an insomniac. Regardless of whether it's connected to AC or running on the battery, it will not go to sleep. The display does dim and then power off as expected, but it does not power down to the level where the light pulses. (I specify this because I don't know if there are varying levels of sleep.) The only way it will reach this state is by closing the laptop or by selecting Sleep from the apple menu... I tried changing all my settings in System Preferences, but it still does the same thing. I also went to Terminal and used top and can't find any active processes that should prevent it from sleeping. Any ideas? Thanks, wi
Have u doublechecked the Energy Saver prefs? If it's set for the hard drive or system never to go to sleep, that could be it.
I've had the same problem with my iBook 500. I first noticed it happening sometime after upgrading to 10.2.4. Upgrading to 10.2.5 hasn't helped. I figure when I get some time, I'll bring it in to the Apple Store to see if they can figure it out. And if they can't, maybe they'll give me a new iBook 900
random issue I had...my Pro Mouse... My iMac resides on top of my old drawing table. It's a formica layered top, similar to counter top, white in color. The optical mouse was picking up something from it, thus considering it use since it wasn't completely opaque. My display would sometimes go to sleep, sometimes not...until I figured out what was causing it and placed pad underneath it.
nope...this happens with an external mouse/keyboard attached and with absolutely no external devices...
...no - I'm saying it won't sleep with external keyboard and mouse attached OR without them (or anything else) attached. Right now it's on my coffee table, all by itself, and I just came back from leaving it idle for 30+ minutes (no applications open either), and the only things that had happened were the display and disk drive shutting off. I suppose I could use it until the battery is about to die and see if it follows the old force-sleep routine once it gets "dangerously low". I'm not overlooking anything painfully obvious in my Energy Saver settings am I:
Sorry for misunderstanding you. That is indeed a weird issue, and your settings look fine. Have you done the good old repair permissions trick, yet? It might be an actual preference file that's messed up.
I haven't tried repair permissions yet. I'll do that and post my findings. I appreciate the help! BTW, I left the computer for a couple of hours and when I touched a key, the display came right back on, and on the desktop was the "Your battery is really low, I will be going to sleep soon..." message. Apparently, it was an idle threat.


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Posts Tagged 'extraordinary rendition'
UPDATED: The U.S. War Machine Leaves an Ugly Slick of Oil & Blood
UPDATE — DECEMBER 31, 2009: The post below, originally published on July 26, 2008, was written as an outcropping of our disgust over the genocide and ethnic cleansing taking place in the United States' brutal covert war in Somalia. We never finished this post and never will (see note at bottom of this page). However, the information herein continues to be as relevant today as it will be tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. (Think Obama constitutes a change from the Bush Administration's warmongering for oil under the guise of fighting terrorism? Think again.)
Many Americans would be surprised to know that, throughout the course of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. has also been busy with wars elsewhere in the world. Only, we don't call them wars. We call them things like peacekeeping missions, nation-building or "low intensity conflicts." Or, as is the case in Colombia, where the U.S. is at work wresting control of oil pipelines and trying to destabilize the bordering oil-rich countries, such as Venezuela, while demonizing the leaders of these countries, we call it a "war on drugs" — even as the U.S. is the pusher man working out of Colombia, using the proceeds from our drug sales to fund our war machine in South America. (Think about it. Has cocaine ever been cheaper or more available than since Clinton and Bush began their war on drugs in Colombia? The same is true of heroin in the Afghanistan drug trade). And we don't, as a rule, fight these wars ourselves. Instead, we buy off corrupt dictators and/or destabilize and overthrow democratically elected leaders and install corrupt dictators of our own choosing. Then we build armies for them — funding, training and arming these paramilitaries to the tune of millions, so that they can fight our various covert and proxy wars on terror around the globe, which are, coincidentally, in the most mineral-strategic countries on the planet — from South America to Africa and the Middle East. It is no coincidence that the U.S. is the world's largest arms supplier, our war machine generating loyalties, death and destruction in over 174 states and territories.
These wars are given little scrutiny on the media radar, even as they're claimed to be part of the larger war on terror — or, in the case of, say, Sudan, they fly under the guise of humanitarian efforts. Much like Somalia, Yemen is not so strategic for its oil reserves, but for its natural gas reserves. Oh, and there's also that matter of its location (location, location). Specifically, Somalia and Yemen are located across from each other, like mirrors, on either side of the opening from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. This strait connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden through which our oil and gas laden ships must pass.The U.S. has been covertly warring for years to control this shipping lane. As such, news stories — past present and future — on Ethiopia, Djibouti, Yemen, Somalia and, yes, pirates are inseparable from this larger story, a story about a superpower that will use any ruse to get what it wants, up to and including climbing in and out of bed with friends, enemies and even the terrorists we claim to be fighting.
As for the collateral damage from our clandestine wars — genocide, ethnic cleansing and untold millions of human lives ground into starvation, disease, misery, death and civil war — America alternately ignores and feigns outrage. When it becomes strategically feasible and/or necessary, the U.S. military steps out of the shadows, setting up high-profile military installations, so that we may help these poor victims, or protect them from the "bad guys," with whom we may or may not still be in bed. This is the story being replayed in countries throughout the world. Yemen is no exception.
Considering that during the months before 9-11, the FBI had their finger on the pulse of the pre-9-11 terrorist network in Yemen (to which the Bush Administration was in
"ignore" mode), it is curious that U.S.has subsequently enjoyed the sort of relationship with Yemen over the past 8 years, where we could rendition detainees there to be tortured at our CIA black sites in Yemen. Which makes it somehow ironic that the media is using the Yemen connections of the recent underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab/AbdulMutallab, to help us recall and re-ignite our anger over 9-11. It seems the American public is now being signaled that it's time to switch from from ignore-mode to the outrage-mode being feigned by our leaders. This is, of course, our cue, as patriotic, freedom-loving Americans to rally behind our pre-Christmas bombing campaign waged on the innocent men, women and children in Yemen, which promises to be an ongoing campaign in the war formerly known as Bush's war on terror. It is no coincidence that this latest bombing campaign was already underway when the underpants bomber boarded the plane for America. Nor is it a coincidence that the trail of the underpants bomber is littered with questions that, for the official record, go unasked and unanswered.
Such has been the nature of America's war on terror, beginning with 9-11. Our leaders can afford to be arrogant and sloppy because, truth be known, the U.S. is untouchable. We encourage those interested in these stories to do their own research. This page is a good starting point. Our apologies that we cannot finish our own effort out, and for any dead links on this page.
An odd coincidence: Pick any oil-rich spot on the globe, and you will find the U.S. engaged in the war on terror.
In this vein, why has there been such a preponderance of al Qaeda terrorists (or, rather, a preponderance of **propaganda about **al Qaeda) surrounding the oil fields of the world over the past 7 years?
The current war in Iraq is not the first U.S. war for oil. Nor is it the first war for oil that has claimed massive civilian casualties, which were then concealed by the U.S. media. This is the first war for oil, however, fought on the grounds that a foreign country posed a direct threat to the U.S. — false grounds — which our government intentionally deceived us into believing. This is also the first war for oil fought under the mantle of spreading freedom and democracy, even as the U.S. government funds and arms both sides in a civil war: Shiites against Sunnis and Sunnis against Shiites — who then terrorize, torture, slaughter and commit ethnic cleansing of the very Iraqi populations we're supposedly fighting to "save" from the evil terrorists. There's a term for the type of warfare being waged by the U.S. in Iraq. It's called war crimes.
That the American people have not demanded accountability from Congress, and have largely remained silent about the atrocities of this war – whether through complacent ignorance or sheer disbelief that our government could actually commit such atrocities — has only served to condone this war and the policies of this administration. Our collective silence has, in effect, given Bush-Cheney carte blanche to wage other wars on terrorism – wars now being fought in countires throughout the world, with scarcely a mention in the U.S. media.
Unknown to most Americans is that dozens of countries throughout the world have now been accused of harboring al Qaeda terrorists. Unknown to most Americans is that the Bush-Cheney Administraion is and has been waging clandestine wars in these countries, under the banner of "fighting terrorism," sometimes called "peacekeeping missions" and "nation-building." Unknown to most Americans is that we are currently spending millions of dollars in each of these countries, to fight mere handsful of alleged al Qaeda terrorists, whose existence — in many instances — is based on "intelligence" as leaky as the intelligence that sent us to war in Iraq. The potential and the reality (as seen in both Iraq and Afghanistan) is that these wars result in "chasing needles by burning haystacks," as entire populations of innocent civilians are brutalized by the Bush-Cheney war machine , as it pursues small handsful of terrorists, who may or may not even exist.
Pick a Continent, Any Continent…
Lost in all the flurry of Bush's February 2007 announcement of the surge in Iraq was his concurrent announcement of another surge — this one on the continent of Africa. Having neatly accomplished 'Iraqi solutions for Iraqi problems' in their war for oil distribution in Iraq, Bush-Cheney — poised, now, to undertake another empire — easily won congressional approval for "African solutions to African problems." aka, U.S.AFRICOM: the U.S. African Command and its military arm ACOTA. A Department of Defense military operation, AFRICOM was created by Bush-Cheney to enhance our efforts to bring peace and security to the people of Africa. Started in October 2007, and set to be fully operational by September 30, 2008, AFRICOM is installing military commands in a total of 53 African countries – that's all of Africa, except Egypt.
In an August 2007 congressional briefing, State and Defense Department officials emphasized to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that AFRICOM's aim is to boost cooperation on anti-terrorism and peacekeeping activities, and programs that promote regional stability. In this same briefing, Theresa Whelan, Deputy Assistant for African affairs, echoed this sentiment — assuring Congress that AFRICOM is focused on security, not combat. On the heels of this assurance, however, she nonetheless cautioned: " I would anticipate that there would be an increase in the amount of exercises we conduct and other military-to-military cooperation activity."
Many in Africa are understandably suspicious. Believing, perhaps, that past is prologue — the majority of countries are protesting the presence of AFRICOM, as are many individuals around the world, including some high-profile activists, such as Danny Glover , who consider the ongoing U.S.-British militarization of Africa to be little more than a strategy toward gaining control of Africa's natural resources, most notably its oil. As one critic noted: "Peace operations" and "nation building" are what the military and the mercenaries call their activities. But just like Bush's "healthy forests" and "clear skies" initiatives, the names mean the opposite of what they do.
The Oil Fields of Africa: Black Gold, Texas Tea
The conundrum the Bush-Cheney Administration faces in Africa is the same all the world over: how to pry the mineral rights from the rightful owners — the African people, in this case — while convincing Congress and the American public that our presence is purely benevolent? The events of September 11th provided an easily path: wage war on terror. This path is all the easier in Africa, where so many countries are already under the control of corrupt, suppressive dictators, whose loyalties are easily purchased.
The tactics used by Bush-Cheney are generally the same, however, no matter what the county. First, they make a case for terrorism in the country – preferably al Qaeda. Then, and not necessarily in this order, they (1) provide U.S. military assistance to fight terrorism, (2) accuse any one who disagrees with the U.S. military presence of being a terrorist insurgent, (3) incite existing cultural tensions toward divisiveness or civil war, (4) fund and arm the "goods guys" and/or the "bad guys" (aka terrorists) to physically remove — through either ethnic cleansing and sometimes genocide — the native populations living on the lands around the oil fields and pipelines, (5) if these populations protest, label them as terrorist insurgents.
Throughout each step of the process, U.S. oil interests are expanded and secured — under the guise of "economic development" for the host country. When all is said and done, however, it is the U.S. who owns the controlling interests in their oil fields. Of course, by the time AFRICOM was created, Bush-Cheney had already done the legwork, having identified terrorist influences in most of the oil-rich African countries set to receive AFRICOM's military commands. And in a few countries — such as Somalia and Sudan — they'd already accomplished steps 1 through 5.
As an aside, a smattering of quotables on the topic:
After the end of the Cold War, U.S. policy toward Africa was driven by President George H. W. Bush's vision of a "New World Order." …. President Bush announced in his 2006 State of the Union Address his intention to "to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025," …. analysts estimate that Africa may supply as much as 25% of all U.S. oil imports by 2015. — from the Report for Congress, "Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa," March 10, 2008.
Today that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we've known. A world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle. — From President George H.W. Bush's speech, "Toward a New World Order," delivered before the nation and a joint session of Congress, September 11, 1990
Along with Latin America, West Africa is expected to be one of the fastest growing sources of oil and gas for the American market. African oil tends to be of high quality and low in sulfur, making it suitable for stringent refined product requirements, and giving it a growing market share for the refining Centers on the East Coast of the U.S. — Dick Cheney, May 16, 2001
In the aftermath in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, it is increasingly clear that the United States ignores Africa at its peril….The continent's failed states and huge swaths of ungoverned territory offer sanctuary to terrorist groups. — American Enterprise Institute May 2004 conference bulletin: Leave No Continent Behind: U.S. National Security Interests in Africa
Oh, and one other dirty little secret from 5,000 years of history: Ethnic cleansing works. –Armed Forces Journal, June 2006. "Blood Borders: How a Better Middle East Would Look," by Ralph Peters
It is easy to understand, then, the fears of African citizens, who feel helpless to the incoming U.S. military presence in their countries. Some in America know this same helplessess, as we've seen war protesters branded as terrorist sympathizers or "homegrown terrorists" in recent years. The difference between Americans and Africans is that we do not have a history (up to this point, anyway) of being forced from our homes by the U.S. military, or of witnessing the mass slaughtering of our families, neighbors, communities, of whole towns of people, who protested the policies of the U.S. government. The fear of these African countries is understandable, then, as America's war on terror turns its calculating eye toward the oil fields of Africa.
183 Times is the Charm: The Accusation (by Torture) of a Young Mother Named Aafia Siddiqui
NOTE: The post, below, is from June 2009. To see our most recent post on Aafia Siddiqui, published 1/19/2010, see: The New American Justice: Aafia Siddiqui's Trial by Water
From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft. Dozens languished in jail for months without trials. Then, almost as soon as it had begun, the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts ended. ("An Account of Events in Salem," from the University of Missouri — Kansas City website)
The hunt was characterized by unrestrained torture and and an obsession with getting tortured witches to name other witches. (from Witch Hunts in Europe and America: An Encyclopedia, by William E. Burns)
By now, most Americans — having heard the word "waterboarding" at least 183 times over the past month — seem to have grown immune to the visceral horrors attending to that particular techinque that the International Red Cross terms "suffocation by drowning." We've surely grown immune to human suffering. Otherwise, we wouldn't have reduced the topic of torture to a mere parlor game — an exercise in sophistry — as the left and the right mentally wrestle with questions whose answers have been known for centuries: Is waterboarding torture? Does torture 'work'?
[Click here to read the rest of this introduction on U.S. policy and torture. Or just skip the intro entirely, and keep reading onward, into the stories of several individuals (with particular focus on Aafia Siddiqui) who have been falsely arrested, illegally imprisoned, "disappeared," subjected to extraordinarily rendition and/or tortured over the past 8 years — and counting.]
An American Story
Imagine this: You are a 41 year-old man, a U.S. citizen, born in Kansas, an Army veteran, married with three children, practicing family law in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon; you pay your taxes on time, have never had a brush with the law. You are the quintessential "average American citizen." Imagine, then, your surprise when the FBI descends on your home and fingers you as the mastermind of the 2004 Madrid train bombing that killed 191 people and injured over 2000. Your name is Brandon Mayfield, and it's official: You have just been arrested as the mastermind in an international terrorist plot.
"But I haven't left the country in over 10 years!" you protest. "And I've never even been to Spain! How could this happen?"
Turns out it was your fingerprint. The FBI's Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) identified your fingerprint as a possible match to the one found on a plastic bag near the Madrid bombing. The match was then verified in quadruplicate by FBI fingerprint experts, which lent full credibility to the claim in their affidavit: "….the FBI lab stands by their conclusion of a 100 percent positive identification." It was the fingerprint, see.
'Lucky' for you, your incarceration lasted only 2 weeks. The Spanish police identified the real mastermind (some guy from Algeria), prompting the FBI to dismiss the charges against you. In return, you file a a civil-rights lawsuit against the U.S. government. Herein, more facts emerge. Turns out, the Spanish police had already rejected the FBI's identification of your fingerprint — twenty-three days before your arrest — as "conclusively negative." Perhaps that would have been the end of that, if not for the smoking gun: you were also a Muslim convert.
Convinced of your guilt, the FBI spent those twenty-three days doggedly pursuing a case against you, with an intensity that the Spanish Police found perplexing. As one commissioner said, "It seemed as though they [the FBI] had something against him, and they wanted to involve us." Lacking probable cause for search and seizure, the FBI turned to the nifty new provisions in the Patriot Act, which allowed them to entirely sidestep your Fourth Amendment rights, via "sneak and peak" warrants.
Turns out, you and your wife hadn't been imagining things. Your door lock had been tampered; someone had been in your home. You were being watched. It was the FBI who, in your absence, snuck into your home, your office, and even the family farm in Kansas,"surreptitiously, photographing papers, downloading hard drives, and planting listening devices."
But you were 'lucky.' You had, at your disposal, due process — stuff like habeas corpus, and an attorney to represent you in a U.S. court of law. Your case was fairly clear-cut, too. That is, once the facts were allowed to see the light of day. In the end, the FBI aplogized and you were awarded a $2 million settlement. And in 2007, a federal judge ruled that those nifty Patriot Act provisions used by the FBI to sneak into your home actually violated the U.S. Constitution.
Now imagine that you are a 34-year old man — married, a father, a Canadian citizen for 17 years, Syrian-born. And, oh, a muslim. Imagine yourself going on vacation with your family to Tunisia in 2002 and, upon your return flight home to Canada, passing through the JFK airport in New York City. Here, you are detained in solitary confinement and interrogated for 12 days, then shackled and flown to Syria, where you are imprisoned inside a coffin-sized underground cell for 10 months + 10 days, being subjected throughout this time to beatings and torture sessions to extract information which the U.S. government is certain you own.
While you initially refuse to admit to something you didn't do, the torture finally becomes so unbearable, that you will say anything to make it stop — up to and including making false confessions, admitting guilt to whatever terrorist acts your torturers accuse you. Your name is Maher Arar and — even as you are ultimately determined to be 100% innocent — your case is not as clear cut as Brandon Mayfield's. You are, after all, a Canadian citizen. And, oh, a muslim of Arab descent.
Still, the facts of your case do eventually see the light of day. The Canadian government launches a Commission of Inquiry into your case and, in 2006 (three years after your release from your extraordinary rendition to Syria), you are cleared of all accusations. The Canadian government issues an official apology, and you are awarded a settlement of $10.5 million Canadian dollars. For their part, however, the U.S. government and the FBI refuse to extend an apology, official or otherwise (even as there were a few notable lawmakers of integrity on Capitol Hill who did issue personal apologies on behalf of the U.S. government).
[see also: Patrick Leahy's interrogation of Gonzales on the Maher Arar case here, and the 1-1/2 hour video of the U.S. Congressional hearing on Maher Arar's case here].
Seeking to clear your name, you file a lawsuit against the U.S. government for violating your civil rights. But the Bush Administration refuses to allow your case to come to trial, for reasons of "national security." To this day, you are still on the U.S. terrorist watch list and are forbidden to enter the country.
The likelihood of your case going to trial in the U.S. is slim, as the Obama Administration has, so far, aligned itself with the Bush Administration, — having recently used the "state secrets" argument to deny trials to 5 other Bush Administration victims who were similarly flown to other countries to be tortured. According to Obama, the Bush Administration was right: allowing these innocent victims a trial could threaten national security.
Now imagine this: You are a 31-year old man, an accredited freelance cameraman and photographer, working for Reuters in Iraq. On September 1, 2008, U.S. forces, accompanied by dogs, storm your home in the middle of the night — breaking down your door, barking orders and terrifying the grandparents, children and grandchildren inside. You are taken into custody and thrown into jail, without charges. Three months pass. Still, no formal charges, no evidence, no due process.
In a stroke of democracy, the Iraqi central criminal court orders your release, for lack of evidence. The U.S. bars your release, however, saying you are a threat to Iraq security and stability. The protests of your family, of Reuters and international human rights and media rights groups fall on deaf ears. More months pass. To this day, you are still in jail, without charges. Your name is Ibrahim Jassam, and you are but one of dozens of journalists imprisoned — without charges — under the Bush Administration.
You are, so far, luckier than some. According to Reporters Without Borders, hundreds of journalists have been killed in Iraq, with many more forced into exile, imprisoned or simply disappeared. Too, some have been imprisoned for much longer than you. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, Bilal Hussein, for instance, was imprisoned for two years. Al Jazeera journalist, Sami al-Haj was imprisoned for over 7 years, with 6-1/2 of these years spent at Guantanamo, where America sends "the worst of the worst."
[Here it must be said that Sami al-Haj's story, alone, is evidence enough that our leaders and media should give pause to the Bush Administration's "intelligence" that has effectively colored the entire population of 240 Guantanamo detainees — including those who have been long-pronounced innocent, but also those whose guilt was cemented under confessions extracted through torture — as a mix of terrorists and men so dangerous that they cannot safely be released anywhere on the planet Earth, much less allowed fair trials that would, in all likelihood, clear the names of some of these prisoners, the only "threat to national security" being that their trials would reveal the extent of the U.S. government's tyranny.]
(video, above) Associated Press report (39 seconds long) on Bilal Hussein's release in 2008, with footage of his reunion with his AP colleagues and his family
Both Bilal Hussein and Sami al-Haj were released in 2008. Neither was ever charged with a crime, even as their incarcerations were justified by a series of shifting accusations, based on top secret evidence that, for national security reasons, could not be divulged: Bilal Hussein (see AP timeline of his case here) was accused, at one point, of being caught in possession of bomb-making materials, while Sami al-Haj was alternately accused of videotaping Osama bin Laden, sending money to suspicious Muslim charities, and arranging for the transport of a Stinger anti-aircraft system from Afghanistan to Chechnya. Despite these ludicrous accusations, in appears that these journalists were guilty of nothing more than practicing journalism.
Your name is Ibrahim Jassam, and you've been in jail for 9 months, without charges. Your misfortune is that you are being detained by the U.S. government. Had you been detained by, say, Iran you would have been afforded at least some semblance of due process — formal charges, an attorney, a trial, an appeals process. Had you been detained by, say, North Korea, your injustice would be given a voice in the U.S. media. Had you been arrested by anyone but the American government, you would be a poster child, of sorts, for media suppression under tyrannical regimes.
Your name is Ibrahim Jassam, and your story is almost, but not quite, unknown in America. According to your family, which has been allowed only a handful of visits, you used to be handsome. "But now he's pale and he's tired," says your brother, describing one of these visits: "Every now and then while we were talking, he would start crying. He was begging me: 'Please do something to get me out of here. I don't know what is the charge against me.' I told him we already tried everything."
Now imagine this: You are a 31-year old mother of three; you are also an MIT graduate with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience. [In hindsight, there is cruel irony to the topic of your dissertation, in which you explored how people learn — specifically, the interaction between visual memory and perception. In your abstract, you wrote, "Without a visible trail, it is difficult for the subject to form a picture or story."] . It is late March of 2003. Just a few days earlier, the U.S. went to war in Iraq and — as is now known — the CIA, the FBI and the Bush Administration at large were working around the clock to put together the intelligence necessary to justifying this war.
Up until a year earlier, you'd spent 12 years living in America as a dual citizen of the U.S. and Pakistan. You'd originally moved to the U.S. in 1990 to attend college and be nearer your sister and brother — a Harvard-trained neurologist and a Houston architect, respectively. While living in the U.S., you married a medical student in Boston, who went on to work as an anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. You gave birth to 2 children. Neighbors and friends described you as a devoted mother, spending the bulk of your time in the everyday routines of raising your children, overseeing play groups with their friends. You were also a devout Muslim and donated both time and money to charitable causes and missionary work to help less fortunate Muslims.
Because contributing to Muslim charities constituted a red flag in post-9-11 American, the FBI was watching you and had been since the fall of 2001. According to U.S. intelligence sources, your husband purchased night goggles and body armor off the internet in 2001, which he claimed were intended for big game hunting. Because of these purchases, you, yourself, were brought in for questioning by U.S. officials. Although you were released after questioning, this interrogation served as further evidence that the post-9-11 hostility toward Muslims was escalating. This factored into your decision to return to Pakistan — a debate that had already caused considerable strain in your marriage: you you wanted to raise your children in America, while your husband wanted to raise them in Pakistan. In 2002 — with your marriage now on the rocks — you and your husband returned to Pakistan.
By March of 2003, you'd been estranged from your husband for over 7 months, during which time you lived with your mother and gave birth to your third child, who was now 6 months old. Three months earlier, in December 2002, you'd returned to the United States to apply for jobs in the Baltimore area, where your sister was now working at Sinai Hospital. After making several applications — and interviewing with both Johns Hopkins and SUNY — you opened a post office box to receive replies from prospective employers, then returned to your children and your mother in Pakistan.
Now imagine that the FBI believes the only reason you opened that post office box was to receive communications as part of an al Qaeda plot to blow up gas stations and fuel tanks in the Baltimore area. Imagine, too, that during the course of the FBI's 18-month surveillance of you and your husband, they discovered that, during the summer of 2001, one of your former Muslim acquaintances from Boston had been wired $20,000 from Saudi Arabia (a sum which, according to the explanation given by a Saudi official to the Boston Globe, was sent to pay for medical treatment for the man's wife). Lastly, imagine that, the FBI believes that this $20,000 is connected to a purported diamond smuggling trip, made by a mysterious woman in the summer of 2001, to fund al Qaeda operations. According to the FBI, that mystery woman is you.
To this story add water, then quickly spin
It is now March 28, 2003. Just a week earlier, on March 20th, the U.S. invaded Iraq. Several weeks earlier, on March 1st, the alleged architect of 9-11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was captured. It seems that — during one of his 183 waterboard interrogation sessions — your name came up.
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Joe Biden said it best: "For every American who is trying to do the right thing, for all those people in government who are honoring their pledge to uphold the law and respect our Constitution, no longer will the eight most dreaded words in the English language be: 'The vice president's office is on the phone.'"
Truly, Biden's words last night flew by so fast — and coming, as they did, seemingly out of nowhere — that we almost missed them. But these words were, perhaps, the most important words spoken at the convention last night. For those of us who have been paying attention — really paying attention to just what in the hell has happened to our country over the past 7 years — we know that Joe Biden hit the nail on the head: Dick Cheney.
It was Dick Cheney and his henchmen, David Addington and John Yoo, who orchestrated the assault on our Constitution and Bill of Rights; Dick Cheney who orchestrated the cooking of intelligence to go to war in Iraq. It was Dick Cheney who orchestrated the transfer of power in this country from the people's voice to corporations, so that his corporate cronies could rake in billions upon billions of dollars in the U.S. wars for oil all over the world — from Afghanistan and Iraq, to the more recent war-by-proxy in Georgia (not to mention the other covert wars throughout the Caucuses, Latin America and all of Africa ).
It was Dick Cheney and his henchmen who orchestrated a system of laws that would legalize torture, secret prisons, extraordinary rendition, illegal detention, the loss of habeas corpus for anyone deemed a terrorist suspect — up to, and including, American citizens, who have been relentlessly spied on over the past 7 years for evidence that they, themselves, might be deemed "rebellions" or "homegrown terrorists" or "terrorist sympathizers" or "terrorist suspects" or "enemy combatants" for being so bold as to have an opinion on peace, on war, on animal rights, on human rights.
And it was Dick Cheney and henchman, such as Karl Rove, who orchestrated the fearmongering to feed their "war on terror" — not to protect America from the bad guys, but to scare the hell out of us. It was Dick Cheney who groomed those fears, then exploited them to strong-arm our entire country into gladly surrendering our rights and our laws and, with them, the soul of our country, which has stained our integrity throughout the world. It is Dick Cheney who is a war criminal. It is Dick Cheney who is guilty of myriad impeachable offenses, yet is so powerful that not even the laws of the land dare touch him. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Make no mistake: When Joe Biden referred to "the eight most-dreaded words in the English language," he wasn't kidding.
Which makes it all the more important that we pay attention — really pay attention — in the coming months and years because there is nothing to stop the force that is Dick Cheney, save the overwhelming protest of the American people, all the way to Capitol Hill. And even that may not be enough. Remember these things, come election day, when the voting machines malfunction, and the ballots are all screwed up, and hundreds of thousands of people discover their names have been deleted from the lists of registered voters, and the lines at *certain* polls are 8 hours long. Remember this during the months after inauguration, as you discover that — despite all the campaign rhetoric and promises — our leaders on Capitol Hill still seem incapacitated to doing "the right thing."
Ain't no election gonna change the fact that some of the most powerful people in the world bow to the sound of those words, and will long continue to do so, even when the words have been reduced to only five: Dick Cheney's on the phone.


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Take this, you pagan strumpet: Rebecca Meiser's January 29 article ("Jews for Bejesus") describes the problems of the extended Rapp family. Edie Rapp is quoted in regard to herself and her dying husband: "If there's one thing the two of us were definite about, it was our Jewishness." The story goes on to say, in regard to her Christian/Jewish stepson Bruce, that Edie "cringed as Bruce cracked open the New Testament and turned to Psalm 23:4."
My comment is that I do not know what type of Jewishness Edie is referring to, whether it be Orthodox, modern, or nonpracticing, but it is obviously a false statement on her part, because anyone who is "definite" about their Jewishness would know that Psalms is not in the New Testament but in the Jewish books of the Old Testament. Most of the 150 Psalms were written by a very Jewish King David. If she were very "Jewish," she would not even know about the New Testament.
As for her famous attorney, he should look at the Jewish fact that God in the attorney's point of view is singular, according to the Jews, yet that God did promise that he would send a Messiah to save his people, and that promise is shown in Isaiah 52:10, Isaiah 52:13, and all of Isaiah 53, where the Jewish singular God speaks of his other portion of godness that shall come in salvation. The Jews look to one God but pray for the other portions of that God to come to their rescue.
The trouble is, the Jews of Jesus' time could not see what was before them but only what they had dreamed of. Thus, they killed Jesus because he did not rid the Jews of the Roman rule. They killed Jesus before there was a single Christian. Christians came into existence when "Greeks" converted at Antioch, so no Christians existed at the time of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
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Suffer this, you Assyrian turd: I'm not a scholar of Judaism nor Christianity by any means; however, I am certain that the book of Psalms is in the Old Testament -- not the New Testament, as stated in your article. I also do not understand the objection to reading the passage from Psalms, because from the research I have done, the book of Psalms, referred to as Tehillim, is part of the Jewish bible. This error really makes me question the reputation and validity of this newspaper. These errors and inconsistencies are too large to overlook.
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And pound this one, infidel scumbucket: After reading "Jews for Bejesus," I have come to the conclusion that both parties in this lawsuit need a refresher course in the Bible. The title of the article should have been, "Jews for Moses versus Jews for Jesus." As we know, the New Testament is rooted in the Old Testament, particularly in the Pentateuch, the so-called five books of Moses, so I shall concentrate on that part of the Bible.
I think that the biggest scam of the past 2,500 years is the propaganda that the Bible is the work of the creator of the universe, the domain of whom is more than 40 light years, or about 240 trillion miles, away. Thomas Paine, in his book Age of Reason, proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the Bible was not the work of the creator and was actually an insult to the creator. However, the proponents of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and that includes both groups in this lawsuit, refuse to listen to Paine's evidence because, unfortunately, a myth repeated over and over again for 2,500 years is accepted as fact by people who are unwilling to cross-examine the witnesses.
Rabbi Barry Silver is wrong when he says that Judaism teaches that we cannot be held responsible for the sins of another; not so, according to the Torah. He should read Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, in which the God of Israel allegedly tells Moses that he will punish up to the tenth generation for the sins of the fathers.
The ancient Romans had a saying: "Falsus in Uno, falsus in Omnibus" ("False in one thing, false in all things"). We still use this in our courts to discredit witnesses who give false testimony. The entire book of Genesis is a myth, and the false testimony of the witness Moses proves it. There are none so blind as those who will not see. This applies to both the plaintiffs and the defendants in this case.
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Get thee to a straight nunnery: The January 8 column by Courtney Hambright was one of the most appalling pieces of drivel I've ever seen ("G-strings at the Boardwalk"). It was ghastly to read, and it is painful to respond to. The writing was trash and the opinions absurd.
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I first met Auntie Mame one Sunday this past October when she was performing at the Boardwalk. I was stunned at the high caliber of her material. She was the first female impersonator in Florida I had ever paid any attention to. Mame was performing songs by the likes of Murray Grand and Ruth Wallace. I said to her: "What are you doing performing such sophisticated New York cabaret material here in a Florida dance club? I never saw anything like it." Mame looks like a cross between Bea Arthur and Elaine Stritch -- two of my favorite Broadway ladies. I believe that Mame's fans truly appreciate the variety and sophistication of the material she brings to them.
The excruciating tastelessness of Courtney Hambright permeates her opinions. Let her bring her "writing skills" to the straight male strip clubs. Leave the gay ones alone. They are innocent. They did nothing to deserve her.
Chuck Prentiss
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Focus on the QB, Waynester: My husband, Steve, and I read Bob Norman's January 1 article, "You Move, You Lose." We have been saying all along that Dave Wannstedt should have been gone this year. He has done nothing for this team, playoffs or motivation. We have good players who, I think, have motivated themselves but still need the guidance of a good coach. Let's face it: We'll never find another Don Shula... he's one of a kind, but we can still do better than Wannstedt!
As far as Jay Fiedler goes, we never liked him. He's a B quarterback. And Brian Griese is not his dad! That was a waste this year. But we have a third-string quarterback, Sage Rosenfels, who, in his short time on the field, has proven he has an incredible throwing arm. Why has he been sitting on the bench for the past two years? He deserves a chance to show his stuff.
Steve and I enjoyed your article. Unfortunately, Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga doesn't give a damn what we think. As far as Pudge goes, what a mistake to let him walk. He's incredible!
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