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'Unchecked Extremism' Behind Attacks on Churches in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia (Compass Direct News) – The country that is home to the world's largest Muslim population celebrated its 65th Independence Day today amid a widespread sense of distrust in the government's ability to check attacks on churches by Islamist groups.
Muslims and Islamic organizations, Buddhists and Hindus joined hundreds of Christians for an ecumenical worship service near National Monument Square in Jakarta to protest "government inaction" over attacks on Christians and "forced closure of churches," reported The Jakarta Globe. They had planned to hold the service outside the State Palace, but the government prohibited it due to preparations for Independence Day celebrations, the daily reported.
"Why did it take President [Susilo Bambang] Yudhoyono so many days to speak against the attacks?" the Rev. Dr. SAE Nababan, president of the World Council of Churches from Asia, told Compass. "Such carelessness can be dangerous for our democracy. Officials must not forget that they are accountable to the people."
Nababan was referring to President Yudhoyono's call for religious harmony a day before the month-long Islamic festival of fasting, Ramadan, began here last Wednesday (Aug. 11). According to the Globe, it was the president's "first public comment" addressing "a recent rash of violence against religious minorities."
The president's statement came after a fifth attack on the Batak Christian Protestant Filadelfia Church (HKBP Filadelfia) in Bekasi city, a suburb of Jakarta, on Aug. 8.
More than 300 members of the extremist Islamic People's Forum (FUI) and Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) broke through a police barricade and injured at least a dozen people during the Sunday worship in a field. The church has faced attacks since November 2000, when it was constructing the church building. (See www.compassdirect.org, "Hundreds Injure Church Members in Bekasi, Indonesia," Aug. 9)
Rising Christian Persecution
Endy Bayuni, former editor of The Jakarta Post, told Compass that churches were being attacked every week but that media were avoiding coverage because it is an "emotional and controversial issue."
"You also risk being accused of taking sides when you report on religious conflicts," he said, adding that Christians and the Ahmadiyya, a Muslim sect regarded as heretical because it does not believe that Muhammad was the last prophet, bear the brunt of Islamism in Indonesia.
A report by the Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy stated that violations of religious freedom of Christians had grown from previous years. It recorded at least 28 violations - mostly by Islamist groups – between January and July – up from 18 in 2009 and 17 in 2008.
The violations included forced closure of churches, revocation and delays in issuing building permits, and attacks such as torching and damaging churches. Political motives, economic interests involving illegal extortion, and ideological clashes of "intolerant groups" refusing the presence of those of a different religion impeded justice in most cases, noted the report.
Powerful Minority
Most Muslims in Indonesia are moderate and tolerant, said Nababan, former bishop of the HKBP Filadelfia church, but he added that the extremist minority poses a "great threat" to the nation.
"Extremism always starts in small numbers," he said, alluding to alleged government inaction.
Dr. Musda Mulia, a Muslim research professor at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, told Compass all Indonesians have a right to freedom of faith.
"It seems the government doesn't want to deal with the radicals," she said. "Persecution of Christians and other minorities has been my concern for many years, but the government is very weak."
Extremism in Indonesia, now a republic with a presidential system, dates back to the country's struggle for independence, when Islamists called for an Islamic state. The Dutch transferred sovereignty to Indonesia in 1949 after an armed struggle.
Not heeding the Islamists' call, the country's leaders chose "Pancasila" as the official philosophical foundation comprising five principles: belief in the one and only God; just and civilized humanity; the unity of Indonesia; democracy guided by the inner wisdom in the unanimity arising out of deliberations among representatives; and social justice for all.
In line with Pancasila, "Unity in Diversity" (Bhinneka Tunggal Ika) became the official national motto of Indonesia. The Indonesian Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but the government only recognizes six religions: Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Confucianism.
Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,508 islands – about 6,000 of which are inhabited – has around 300 distinct native ethnicities and 742 languages and dialects. Over 86 percent of the over 138 million Indonesians are Muslim. Christians are around 8 percent, Hindus 3 percent and Buddhist 1.8 percent.
Islamist militant groups remain active and growing and are still fighting pluralism. According to the Globe, police recently unearthed a terror plot against President Yudhoyono, "part of a larger trend as militant groups widened their targets from Westerners to include state officials" considered to be "symbols of secularism." One of their aims was to "accelerate the transformation of the country's democratic system into one controlled by Islamic law."
In 2002, over 200 people (including 164 foreigners) were killed in a terror attack by Islamist militants in Kuta town on the island of Bali. Indonesia has also fought violent Islamist insurgents, such as in Aceh Province, which now has a special status and implements sharia (Islamic law).
Mulia of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, who is the first woman to obtain a doctorate degree in Islamic political thought, identified the FPI and the Forum Betawi Rempung (Betawi Brotherhood Forum or FBR) as two of the Islamist groups chiefly responsible for Christian persecution.
The FPI, a national-level organization infamous for vigilante violence and allegedly part of the al Qaeda network, was established on Aug. 17, 1998. The FBR, a similar group based in Jakarta, was formed to fight for the interests of the ethnic Betawi Muslims on July 29, 2001.
Both groups exist legally in the country.
In June, several Indonesian parliamentarians asked the government to ban the FPI, which "has threatened 'war' against Christians in Jakarta and urged mosques to set up militia forces," reported the Globe on July 26. The government, however, thinks that banning such groups will only lead to re-formation of the same organizations under new names.
The deputy chairman of Setara, Bonar Tigor Naipospos, was quoted in the Post's July 29 edition as saying that local administrations, especially in cities in West Java Province, see these groups "as assets for local elections."
"They [local governments] bow to pressure from mass organizations that insist the churches' presence and activities have caused unrest," he reportedly said.
As for the national government, added Nababan of the World Council of Churches of Asia, "it is preoccupied with its free market economy and apparently has no time to uphold the Constitution."
Church Building Permits
The sealing of churches and the refusal to grant building permits top the list of major violations of Christians' religious rights in Indonesia, according to Setara. The Aug. 8 attack on the HKBP Filadelfia church was also rooted in denial of permit for constructing its church building.
Setara's deputy chairman told the Post that churches in Jakarta mainly faced trouble in renovating and expanding their buildings, which require building permits.
"They have to start over again by obtaining 60 signatures from residents living around the church, and sometimes residents refuse to provide signatures," he said. The Setara report recommended that President Yudhoyono review a 2006 joint ministerial decree that requires signatures from congregations and residents living nearby, as well as approval from the local administration, to build a house of worship.
According to Setara, at least three churches in east and south Jakarta were experiencing difficulties in obtaining permits for church building at press time.
Nababan complained that some local governments would not give permits for churches for years without stating any reason.
"If this current government can become courageous enough to prosecute those who break the law and allow religious freedom, including the freedom to construct churches where we live, there is hope for Indonesia," added Nababan.
A Christian source who requested anonymity said he agreed that there was hope for minorities in Indonesia.
"Violent attacks awaken the silent majority, which then speaks up and holds the government accountable," he said.


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Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet five representatives from the independent, non-governmental organization Otpor. "Otpor," in Serbian, means "resistance," and the organization was founded in the mid-1990s by students from Belgrade University and elsewhere in Serbia, who had enough of Slobodan Milosevic's choke-hold on the neck of Serbian society. Their efforts have forged a strong bond between idealism and realism. Otpor members engaged in passive resistance, never advocating violence nor returning the blows they received from the police and other thugs under Milosevic's control. Instead, they had a stronger determination and persistence. Fear would not keep them from putting up their posters, from wearing their black-and-white emblem of a clenched fist. Moreover, they kept their eye on the goal of a democratic and tolerant Serbia at peace with its neighbors and with itself. The organization appointed no specific leader, in a strategy to thwart any attempt to compromise the individual–they had learned the lesson from observing the many opposition politicians in Serbia who had been compromised. During the past two years, more than 1,500 Otpor activists, of about 50,000 based in over 10 Serbian cities, were arrested and interrogated by security forces under Milosevic's control. One of the five who visited my office had himself been arrested on 17 occasions.
Prior to the September 2000 elections, Otpor worked closely with the democratic political opposition, independent trade unions, NGOs and other youth groups to mobilize voters. Otpor's activists played a crucial role in the street demonstrations that began immediately following the elections and led to Milosevic's downfall. The impressive delegation of five Otpor activists visiting Washington included Slobodan Homen, Nenad Konstantinovic, Jovan Ratkovic, Jelena Urosevic and Robertino Knjur, all in their mid- to late-20s and very good English speakers. It is amazing to realize that they all grew up in the cruel, hateful and impoverished world Slobodan Milosevic had created for them in the 1990s. In the meeting, they provided one piece of very good news. One Otpor activist, Boris Karajcic, had testified in 1998 before the Helsinki Commission which I co-chair and was beaten up on the streets of Belgrade a few weeks later. Today, Boris is a member of the Serbian parliament. He is an active part of Serbia's future. Otpor itself will also be part of Serbia's future. While Milosevic is out of power, there is much to be done to recover from the nightmare he created.
First, they are investigating and compiling complaints about the police officers who brutalized them and other citizens of Serbia who opposed the regime, and they will seek to ensure that officers who seemed to take a particular delight in beating people for exercising their rights are held accountable. They want to see Milosevic himself arrested, both for his crimes in Serbia and the war crimes for which he faces an international indictment. The Otpor group also advocates the founding of a school of public administration, which does not exist in Serbia and is desperately needed as the government bureaucracies are swollen with Milosevic cronies who have no idea how to implement public policy. Along similar lines, they hope to begin an anti-corruption campaign. Finally, they pointed out that, with the fall of Milosevic, the united opposition now in power has no credible, democratic political opposition to it. Until Serbian politics develop further, they intend to serve some of that role, being a watchdog of the new leaders.
In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, the Otpor group with which I met has a track record of accomplishment, ideas for the future, and a good sense of how to bring those ideas into reality. While they have had the heart and the courage, they also have had the assistance of the United States through the National Endowment of Democracy and other organizations which promote democratic development abroad. I hope my colleagues will continue to support this kind of assistance, for Serbia and other countries where it is needed, which serves not only the interests of the United States but the cause of humanity.

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President Barack Obama's hardest sell in his renewed push to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may be members of his own party — moderate Senate Democrats facing tough re-election bids next year in the strongly Republican South.
Obama has stepped up the pressure to shutter the naval facility, driven in part by his revised counterterrorism strategy and the 4-month-old stain of the government force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners on hunger strikes to prevent them from starving to death. Civil liberties groups and liberals have slammed Obama for failing to fulfill his 2008 campaign promise to close the installation and find another home for the 166 terror suspects being held there indefinitely.
Republicans and some Democrats in Congress have repeatedly resisted the president's attempts to close the facility, arguing that the prisoners are too dangerous to be moved to U.S. soil, that Guantanamo is a perfectly adequate prison and that the administration has failed to offer a viable alternative.
White House counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco lobbied House members in advance of several votes last month to no avail. The House delivered strong votes to keep Guantanamo open and to prevent Obama from transferring detainees to Yemen. Separately, the president's recent appointment of a special envoy on Guantanamo, Cliff Sloan, has met with a collective shrug on Capitol Hill.
In the coming weeks, the Senate will again vote on the future of Guantanamo. All signs point to a bipartisan statement to keep the facility open despite a recent vow to end detention at the installation by two national security leaders — Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and John McCain, R-Ariz.
"When you go out, you talk to average Americans about it, they want to keep them there, they want to keep the terrorists there, they don't necessarily want to hold them here," said Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., a fierce proponent of keeping Guantanamo open.
Ayotte, who plans to push legislation on a sweeping defense policy bill later this summer, is likely to attract support from Republicans as well as several Democrats looking ahead to tight Senate races next year in Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina. Votes on the detention center will give these Democrats a high-profile chance to split with a president who is extremely unpopular in parts of the South.
Consider Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, one of the most vulnerable incumbents in next year's congressional elections.
Last November, he was one of nine Democrats to vote for prohibiting the use of any money to transfer terror suspects from Guantanamo, backing an amendment by Ayotte. The Senate easily passed the measure, 54-41, as part of the defense policy bill.
Last month, a potential Republican challenger to Pryor, Arkansas Rep. Tom Cotton, was one of a handful of speakers during House debate on Guantanamo. Obama is pushing to transfer approved detainees — there are 86 — to their home countries and lift a ban on transfers to Yemen. Fifty-six of the 86 are from Yemen.
Cotton, an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran, pleaded with his colleagues to "ensure that terrorists at Guantanamo Bay do not escape back onto the battlefronts of the war on terror."
Asked recently whether he favors keeping Guantanamo opened or closed, Pryor said simply, "Open."
Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, another Democrat who voted last year to keep the facility open, indicated she's unlikely to change her position.
"Honestly, I have mixed feelings about it," she said in a recent interview. "First of all, it's hard to imagine that people should be detained indefinitely without formal charges being brought. On the other hand, you know, some of the people there are potential serious threats to national security."
Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina, who faces re-election next year, also voted with Pryor and Landrieu to keep Guantanamo open. Her office had no comment on how she might vote later this summer.
Supporters of closing the installation were encouraged when the Senate Armed Services Committee produced its version of the defense policy bill last month. Pushed by Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., the committee gave the president flexibility in dealing with the installation and its prisoners.
The bill would allow the transfer of terror suspects to the United States for detention and trial if the defense secretary decides that it's in the interest of national security and any public safety issues have been addressed. The bill also makes it easier for the president to transfer prisoners to foreign countries.
Currently, 104 of the 166 prisoners are on a hunger strike in a protest of their indefinite detention, with up to 44 strapped down each day and force-fed liquid nutrients through a nasal tube. The bill would authorize the temporary transfer of prisoners to a Defense Department medical facility in the United States to prevent the death of or significant harm to the health of a prisoner.
But the committee took no votes on the provisions, deciding to defer the inevitable debate until the full Senate considers the bill. Ayotte said she will be ready, and she expects to have significant support in the Senate to keep Guantanamo operating.
"While the president has said he wants to close Guantanamo, I don't think there's been a sufficient change of circumstance nor any plan laid out by the administration that could give members who voted against transfer last year any different assurances or any real new information other than an additional call to close Guantanamo again," Ayotte said.
McCain and Feinstein traveled to Guantanamo last month with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. They returned from the trip saying it was in the national interest to end detention at the facility and vowing to take the necessary steps to make it happen.
Yet even McCain concedes that the failure of the Obama administration to spell out an alternative hampers any push to close the facility.
"Really, honestly, they've never given us a plan," said McCain, who cited the cost of some $1.6 million per inmate as one argument for shutting the detention center.
Ayotte said she's a fiscal conservative, "but I believe that this facility is important for the safety of the nation and also to have a secure place to interrogate terrorists or terror suspects."
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Dec 14, 2009
Bryan de la Beckwith
It would take 31-years to bring white supremacist Bryan de la Beckwith to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers.
by Randy Radic
His name was Byron de la Beckwith, but his friends called him "Delay." A descendant of Southern aristocracy, Byron de la Beckwith was born in Colusa, California in 1920. Delay was only 5 when his father died. The official cause of death was listed as "pneumonia and alcoholism." After the funeral, Delay's mother took him back home to Greenwood, Mississippi.
Delay's mother was a Yerger, which meant she was a blue blood, descended from one of the South's elite families. Susan Southworth Yerger was her given name. And in the glory days of the Confederacy, the Yergers moved only in the best social circles. Jefferson Davis's wife was counted among the closest friends of the Yerger family.
Unfortunately, Delay's mother suffered from what were politely called mental ailments. She was hospitalized frequently. And in the end, when Delay was 12 years old, she died of lung cancer at age 47.
Delay moved in with his uncle, William Yerger, who occupied the family's estate, which had seen better days and had had quite a few less good days since then. And so had Uncle William, who was a little off-center. He spent most of his time fishing for catfish. According to Time magazine, more often than not, the catfish ended up in a dresser drawer, which was where Uncle William liked to put them. The stench must have been abominable.
In 1942, Delay joined the U.S. Marine Corps and saw action as a machine gunner. When he was discharged in 1946, he was heavily decorated, including the Purple Heart. He got married to Mary Louise Williams, who was a Navy WAVE. They moved to Rhode Island for a while, then back to Mississippi, where Delay sold tobacco.
The marriage had its ups and downs – divorce, reconciliation and remarriage, then separation. Which meant Delay's life resembled the family estate – it had seen better days. Reed Massengill, who was the nephew of Delay's wife, later wrote a book called Portrait of a Racist.
In it, Delay was described as a brutal and violent husband.
Somewhere in there, Delay joined the Ku Klux Klan. No one really knew why, but Delay was a die-hard white supremacist. Delay hated blacks, Jews and Roman Catholics. As Time magazine later reported, "He tried to inject racism into everything." Delay composed and distributed racist pamphlets. He also took part in anti-integration rallies, where he did things like obstructing non-whites from using public toilet facilities.
At that time – from 1954 until the mid-1960s – the Klan was engaged in open warfare against the Civil Rights movement. The KKK not only bombed churches and homes, but also wreaked a series of ghastly murders. One of those murdered was Medgar Evers. As Leonard Zeskind wrote in Blood and Politics, "That same year [1963] a Klan sniper assassinated Mississippi state NAACP leader Medgar Evers on the doorstep of his home."
Delay was that Klan sniper.
Medgar Evers
It happened like this: In the evening hours of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers attended a meeting of civil rights workers at a church in Jackson, Mississippi. At the same time, his wife and children were at home, watching as President John F. Kennedy gave a televised speech on civil rights.
When the meeting was over, Medgar Evers drove to his house. He parked the car in his driveway. As Evers got out of his car, Delay was waiting across the way, hidden in a clump of honeysuckle vines. In his hands, Delay held an Enfield 1917 rifle, .303 caliber, as cited in court records. Delay took aim and fired. The bullet smashed into Evers's back, tore through his chest and exited, leaving a gaping wound. Evers dropped like a sack of potatoes.
Subsequent police reports outlined the following scenario: Mortally wounded, yet still alive, Evers dragged himself toward his house. He never made it. His ebbing strength failed him and he stopped just short of the steps to the door, which was where his wife found him a short while later. Rushed to the hospital, Evers died approximately one hour after being shot.
Medgar Evers was a determined man, as his final crawl toward his house indicated. For Evers wanted to be somebody and to make a difference. Inducted into the Army in 1943, Evers saw action in France. Discharged in 1945, Evers went home to Decatur, Mississippi. In a way, Evers's life mirrored that of Byron de la Beckwith. Both were passionate. Both served their country in WWII. It's after their discharges that their stories diverged.
While Delay was selling tobacco, Evers attended Alcorn College, where he majored in business administration. After graduating, Evers got married and moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, where he went to work for Magnolia Life Insurance Company. The company was owned by T.R.M. Howard, who was the president of a civil rights group called Regional Council of Negro Leadership. Evers joined the group and worked as an activist.
Evers made application to the University of Mississippi Law School. Because of his skin color, Evers was rejected. The University of Mississippi's enrollment policy did not admit black people as students. Evers filed a lawsuit against the school. At almost the same time, he was appointed first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi. In this capacity, Evers participated in a boycott of white merchants and helped to desegregate the University of Mississippi.
As a result of his activities, Evers became well known as a black leader in the civil rights movement. His growing prominence made him a target for the white supremacists of the KKK. On May 28, 1963, someone tossed a Molotov cocktail into his carport. And on June 7, 1963, someone tried to run him down with a car. Both incidents were duly reported to the local police. No suspects were identified.
Five days later, on June 12, Byron de la Beckwith – aka Delay – assassinated Medgar Evers. Eleven days later, Delay was arrested. Witnesses had reported seeing Delay near Evers's house on the evening of the murder. And Delay's car – a white Plymouth Valiant – had been observed driving in the neighborhood. Police had found the murder weapon secreted in the honeysuckle vines and traced it to Delay. The Enfield's telescopic sight had Delay's fingerprints on it.
What most people didn't know was that the rifle was found after the police received an anonymous phone call. The "tipster" told police where the rifle could be found. Many surmised that Delay himself was the tipster. He wanted to be arrested and go on trail because he was confident he would never be convicted. All this information and speculation came out after Delay's 1994 trial, and was based on court records.
After his arrest, the police questioned Delay. He told them the rifle had been stolen and he had forgotten to report it. Three police officers sympathetic to the KKK asserted they had seen Delay in Greenwood, which was 95 miles away, at the time of the murder. In other words, Delay now had an alibi.
Nevertheless, a grand jury decided there was enough circumstantial evidence against Delay to indict him for murder. Delay lawyered up. He was tried for murder at two separate trials in 1964. Both times the jury selection process resulted in all-male, all white juries. And the judge at both trials was Russell Moore, who was a personal friend of Delay.
At the second trial, the former governor of Mississippi – Ross Barnett – interrupted a witness's testimony. The witness was Myrlie Evers, the wife of Medgar Evers. Governor Barnett walked into the courtroom, looked around, and then walked over to Delay and shook his hand.
The implication of the governor's act was clear to everyone: White people in the state of Mississippi were rooting for Delay.
In both trials, the all-white juries refused to convict a white man for the murder of a black man. Delay's alibi – that police officers had seen him at a gas station back home in Greenwood right after the ambush of Evers – gave the juries the excuse they needed. Sufficient doubt, which resulted in deadlock. Because there was no verdict in either trial, both trials ended in mistrials.
After the second mistrial, Delay felt doubly confident, even arrogant. He officially joined the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which was the most violent cadre of the Klan. Delay became good friends with Sam Bowers, who was the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights. Delay, along with his Klansmen, agitated against the Jews and lobbied to have flouride removed from drinking water. Delay believed flouridated water was a Jewish plot to weaken the white race. He also held that The Holocaust was a giant hoax and urged carpet-bombing Israel.
He began bragging at KKK rallies about how he had killed Medgar Evers. A fellow Klansman, whose name was Delmar Dennis, was one of those who overheard Delay crowing over the deed.
Thirty years later, Delmar Dennis would remember Delay's gloating words. And when he did, the jury would not be all male and all white. There would be no sympathetic judge sitting on the bench.
Delay was now famous in Mississippi. His fame went to his head and in 1967 Delay sought to capitalize on his notoriety. He believed his celebrity would translate into votes for a white candidate. So he sought the Democratic Party's nomination for lieutenant governor. A month before the primaries Delay agreed to an interview with the Review. Among his "chief qualifications" Delay said was that he "was conscious of a diabolical international conspiracy against states' rights and racial integrity."
He didn't get the nomination. According to the New York Times, Delay "got more than 34,000 votes, finishing fifth in a field of six."
By 1970, it became apparent that the murder of Medgar Evers had not hindered the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi. In fact, Evers' death probably accelerated integration. According to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 26.4 percent of black students in Mississippi public schools attended integrated schools. When Evers died in 1963, there were only 28,000 African Americans registered to vote in Mississippi. By 1971, there were 250,000 and by 1982 over 500,000.
African Americans were being elected to public office in Mississippi. In 1973, the state had 145 black elected officials. And black applicants were accepted as students in the state's public and private institutions of higher learning.
Delay had not stopped integration. And based on what he did next, it was fairly certain Delay did not understand what was going on, that the world was changing.
In 1973, believing he was untouchable, Delay plotted to murder the New Orleans director of the Anti-Defamation League, A. I. Botnick, who had – according to Delay's tangled way of thinking – made contemptuous remarks about Southerners and their attitude toward non-whites.
Delay couldn't keep his big mouth shut about what he was planning to do. Delay had always had loose lips. He had boasted about killing Medgar Evers at KKK rallies. And way back in 1956, when making application to the pro-segregation Sovereignty Commission for a job as an operative, Delay had listed his qualifications: "Expert with a pistol, good with a rifle and fair with a shotgun – RABID ON THE SUBJECT OF SEGREGATION!"
So just like Chatty Cathy, he said too much at the wrong time to the wrong people about his plot to murder A. I. Botnick. When they heard what Delay was up to they couldn't wait to do their own imitation of Chatty Cathy, rapping with the FBI about what they knew. Which was exactly what they did.
The FBI believed the informants and moved quickly. They immediately put Delay under surveillance. And after watching him for a few days, they decided it was time to shut him down. And they did.
Delay was driving his car across the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway Bridge, when – as if by magic – a police car slid in behind his vehicle. Delay didn't think anything of it until he noticed lights flashing in his rearview mirror. Out of options, Delay pulled over and stopped. New Orleans police officers approached Delay's car with drawn weapons. Searching Delay's car, police found three loaded weapons, a map of New Orleans and written directions to the home of the director of the Anti-Defamation League. In the trunk of the car, they discovered a bundle of dynamite with a timer and a detonator.
Delay was arrested and booked. Once more, Delay lawyered up. At his arraignment he was charged with conspiracy to commit murder. It was a federal charge. When the trial took place in federal court, the jury acquitted Delay of conspiracy to commit murder. It is interesting to note that the jury was composed of 10 white men and two white women. After the trial, jurors told newspaper reporters that the evidence against Delay was remote and inconclusive. And once again it looked like Delay had gotten off.
But not so fast this time. The State of Louisiana charged Delay with transporting explosives without a permit. Which meant Delay underwent another trial in a state court. This time Delay lost. The verdict was guilty and he was sentenced to three years in a Louisiana State Prison. Delay described the five people on the jury as "five nigger bitches."
They shipped Delay off to Angola Prison, where he served his time in solitary confinement from May 1977 to January 1980. He was placed in solitary confinement for a couple of reasons. First, many of the black inmates would have enjoyed avenging Medgar Evers. Second, Delay's constant racial slurs would have gotten him killed in no time. For he called blacks "apes" and "beasts of the fields." While there, Delay became ill and spent a few days in the prison infirmary, where a nurse's aide, who just happened to be black, tried to provide Delay with treatment. Delay refused to allow the aide to touch him. According to The New York Times, Delay told the aide "If I could get rid of an uppity" Medgar Evers, it would be no problem at all to get rid of "a no-account" aide.
The Phineas Priesthood
After his release from prison, Delay went home to Greenwood, Mississippi, where he got a job selling fertilizer. Delay continued to attend KKK rallies and also became active in the church of Christian Identity, which held frequent gatherings throughout the South. It was at one of these gatherings that Delay met Richard Kelly Hoskins. Hoskins was the author of Vigilantes of Christendom: The Story of the Phineas Priesthood.
In his book, Hoskins introduced the concept of the Phineas Priesthood, which was that "lone warriors" or vigilantes would appear in history every so often. These warrior-priests were sent by God to punish "race traitors." This punishment was necessary to protect the honor of God and His chosen people, who were, of course, white.
As Hoskins made very clear in his book, the Phineas Priesthood was an exclusive clergy. The only way in was by annihilating the enemies of God. God's enemies were defined as blacks, race-mixers, Jews, homosexuals, and abortionists. Any white supremacist who destroyed these enemies was automatically ordained into the Phineas Priesthood.
The book went on to provide historical examples of such lone-warriors: John Wilkes Booth, the Waffen SS, the Ku Klux Klan and The Order, which was also known as The Silent Brotherhood. According to Hoskins, the common dominant trait of these men was a passion to excel – to protect the Honor of God. And in doing so, they had espoused the doctrine of the Phineas Priesthood. A doctrine understood by a chosen few.
Obviously, Delay had read Hoskins' book, because he now claimed – after the fact – that in murdering Medgar Evers, he had been functioning as a Phineas Priest. In other words, Medgar Evers death was God's Will. And when Delay – acting as a Phineas Priest – killed Evers, he was removing one of God's enemies. Anyway, that's what Delay wanted people to think. In reality, it was nothing more than a lame and abject attempt to justify murder.
Delay and Hoskins were kindred souls and began corresponding with each other.
Hoskins published a regular newsletter called "The Hoskins Report." Supposedly, the newsletter provided financial and investment advice. In reality, it trumpeted racist propaganda. In a 1991 issue of the newsletter, Hoskins printed a letter he had received from Delay, who was still famous in white supremacist circles. At the end of the letter, Delay had written "Phineas for president!"
The letter would come back to haunt Delay.
Mississippi had changed since 1963. Things were different. African-Americans no longer sat in the back of the bus or drank from separate drinking fountains. Segregation was a relic of the past. There were no more all-white juries that looked the other way. A new generation of prosecutors with new attitudes began reviewing old cases in which there had been a miscarriage of justice. One of those cases was the murder of Medgar Evers.
The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi, published a series of articles detailing how the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission – which no longer existed – had helped in screening potential jurors in the 1964 trials of Byron de la Beckwith. Back in 1964, the Sovereignty Commission was rabidly pro-segregation and believed in the Great White Way, which meant no white man should ever be put on trial for the murder of a black man.
The articles caused a scandal. Most of Southern society was outraged. And public opinion demanded justice. The case was reopened and an investigation was begun. Some whites didn't want to open that can of worms again. They didn't want to air once again Mississippi's dirty laundry to the national media. Delay told a reporter, "Country-club Mississippi is tired of this crap the Jews, niggers, and Orientals are stirring up."
Delay was arrested and – for a third time – charged with the murder of Medgar Evers. His bail was set at $100,000. A "stranger" gave him $12,000 so he could get out of jail. It later came out that the stranger was a Jewish lawyer named Harry Rosenthal. As Maryanne Vollers wrote in Ghosts of Mississippi, Rosenthal "said he couldn't stand to see Beckwith's rights violated." Even though he hated Jews, Delay took the money.
Rosenthal – and a lot of other legal experts – believed Delay's right to a speedy trial was being violated. And, that since Delay's indictment had been open and on the books from 1964 to 1969, he could have been retried during that period, while his previous lawyers were alive and well, memories were fresh, and witnesses were at hand. But the state had failed to do so.
In essence, the issue was whether Delay could be tried again or not. The matter was placed before the Mississippi Supreme Court. Most of the legal experts and most of the media felt the case against Delay would be dismissed. Delay would get off scot-free again.
Delay's luck finally ran out.
The Mississippi Supreme Court decided not to decide whether Delay could be tried again or not until after he was tried. The decision was a stroke of genius. For if Delay was acquitted, there was nothing to decide. If he was convicted, he could appeal. If Delay appealed, the court would merely say a murder case that has been dismissed could be retried in good faith, because there was no statute of limitations on murder.
Delay spent a lot of time shopping for a lawyer. In the end, he decided on Buddy Coxwell and Jim Kitchens as his defense team. The prosecutors were Bobby Delaughter and Ed Peters.
The prosecution introduced new evidence, which was that Delay had boasted of killing Medgar Evers to many people over the course of the last three decades. Klansman Delmar Dennis took the stand and told the jury how Delay had bragged about killing Evers thirty years before. They also introduced Delay's admission to the nurse's aide in prison, that he had killed Evers. And they linked Delay to the letter published in "The Hoskins Report."
Déjà vu. The letter was back.
The background page of the Anti-Defamation League's website states that "Hoskins's writings drew public attention in October 1991, when prosecutors in Mississippi linked white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith to the Phineas Priesthood."
In other words, for the first time, the general public became aware of the existence of a cluster of violent religious bigots, who killed "for God's sake."
The murder weapon – the 1917 Enfield – was still available as evidence. For Delay – at the conclusion of the second trial in 1964 – had simply picked it up and walked away with it. He had given the rifle to Russell Moore, who was a friend and the presiding judge at the 1964 mistrials, as a "souvenir." Everyone who knew Moore knew he had the rifle. It was in the closet of his house. One of the prosecutors, Bobby Delaughter, just went over to Moore's house and got it.
As the trial unfolded, Delay sat in the courtroom wearing a Confederate flag on his lapel. He still didn't believe he would ever be convicted. However, this time there was no all-male, all white jury. This time the jury was composed of 8 African-Americans and 4 white people. And because of the pre-trial publicity, the jurors were not from Jackson, Mississippi. They were from Panola County and arrived on a specially chartered bus.
In his book – The Ghosts of Medgar Evers, author Willie Morris described the atmosphere of the trial as full of hate. Delay's supporters sat in the courtroom, glaring. They were "Klansmen, hate-mail publishers, and homegrown Mississippi neo-Nazis." Delay's second and current wife was there too. Thelma de la Beckwith. She wore a blond wig and "told reporters it was Lee Harvey Oswald who really shot Evers."
On February 5, 1994, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. When the verdict was announced, Delay looked as if dazed and confused. This was more than he had ever bargained for.
The sentence was life in prison without the possibility of parole. Byron de la Beckwith was 74 years old. Normally, they would have shipped him off to Mississippi State Penitentiary, which was Mississippi's only maximum security prison. Once upon a time it had been called Parchman Farm. But because of who he was and what he had done, Delay would have been dead in no time at all. So they didn't send him there. Instead, he would be held in the Hinds County Jail for the rest of his life.
Delay filed an appeal. The basis of the appeal was that he had been denied his right to a speedy trial. The contention was that undergoing a third trial for the same murder – thirty-one years later – could in no way be interpreted as speedy. The appeal was overturned, as there was no statute of limitations for the crime of murder.
Seven years later, on January 21, 2001, Delay died. At the time of his death, he was in the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. He was being treated for heart disease and high blood pressure.
The only legacy Delay left behind was the exaltation of hate.
Medgar Evers left behind a different kind of legacy – one of compassion, tolerance and service.
After the second mistrial, Myrlie Evers – the widow of Medgar Evers – moved her family to Claremont, California, which was just south of Los Angeles. She enrolled in Claremont College. In 1967, she published her memoir For Us, The Living. The title came from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Then in 1968, Myrlie Evers graduated with a BA in sociology.
Myrlie Evers with her children at Medgar Evers' grave, Arlington National cemetery, 1964.
She became the Democratic candidate for a congressional seat from southern California in 1970. Losing heavily in the Republican districts, she still managed to gain 38 percent of the vote. It was not enough to win. She took a job in public relations and later became vice president for advertising and publicity at Atlantic Richfield.
In 1987, Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley appointed her to the position of commissioner on the Los Angeles Board of Public Works, where she helped supervise 6000 employees and administered half a billion dollars. She served as a commissioner for five years.
She married Walter Williams, who was a union organizer and civil rights activist. Eventually, the couple moved to Oregon. Several months after Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted and sentenced to life in prison, Myrlie was elected chair of the board of the NAACP.
Medgar Evers' children grew up in southern California and went on to lead triumphant lives. Darrell became a successful artist. Reena married, had children and worked for an airline. Van became a noted photographer.


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I have certain preconceptions, must admit it. That feeling of "haven't seen it but don't like it already" – I've tried going against that, but it didn't work out... and I think it is worse now that I'm older - I'm more intolerant.
I read something the other day about Clint Eastwood's new movie (hey, Mark, more imdb links for you!) :). Angelina Jolie is on it, so I won't even bother - no time to waste. If the Oscar buzz involving her drives me nuts already, watching all that "talent" in action will do me no good.
But I'm not a bad person. I also have "haven't seen it but like it already" moments. Or, in this case, "haven't eaten but love it already". :)
And what a great recipe this is! I slightly changed the filling and was really pleased with the result. Running late and starving, I pulled the crepes out of the oven the minute the filling puffed and firmed – that's why mine don't have a gorgeously golden crust like the ones Leila made. It's OK: I'll solve that next time, when I make the crepes filled with hearts of palm soufflé. ;)
Savory crepes filled with broccolini cheese soufflé
125g all purpose flour
1 egg
1 egg yolk
300ml milk
generous pinch of salt
oil for brushing the pan
225g broccolini florets
salt and freshly ground black pepper
45g unsalted butter
45g all purpose flour
300ml milk
½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
120g cheddar, grated – I used yellow mozzarella from here, made with cow's milk (it looks like Monterey Jack cheese)
fresh oregano leaves, to taste
4 tablespoons parmesan, finely grated
4 eggs, whites and yolks separated
Start by making the crepes: sift the flour in a large bowl and make a hole in the center. Add the egg, egg yolk, salt and a few tablespoons of the milk. Whisk well. Gradually add the remaining milk, whisking between additions, until you have added all the milk and the batter is smooth (it will be a rather thin batter).
Heat a 22cm non-stick frying pan over medium heat and brush it lightly with oil. Pour 3 ½ tablespoons of batter into the pan, swirling to cover the bottom completely. Cook for 1-2 minutes, until golden; flip the crepe and cook for further 1-2 minutes. Slide crepe onto a plate. Repeat process with remaining batter, coating the pan again if necessary – you'll get 8 crepes.
Now, the filling: cook the broccolini florets in a pan of salted, boiling water for 1 minute. Drain, cover with cold water and drain again*.
Melt the butter in a small saucepan over low heat, then add the flour, stirring constantly; cook for 1 minute.
Remove the pan from the heat and gradually add the milk, whisking constantly to avoid lumps. Put the pan back over heat, add the mustard, mozzarella, parmesan, salt and pepper, whisking until the cheeses melt. Remove from heat again and set aside to cool completely.
Pre-heat the oven to 200ºC/400ºF; lightly brush a non-stick large baking sheet with oil.
Add the egg yolks to the cooled cheese mixture and mix well. In another bowl, beat the egg whites until firm peaks form. Carefully fold in the egg whites into the cheese mixture, then add the broccolini florets and oregano leaves.
Divide the filling in the center of the open crepes and fold them to encase the soufflé. Place the crepes in the prepared sheet, sprinkle with the extra parmesan (I forgot!) and bake for 15 minutes or until the soufflé is puffed and golden and the crepes are crisp.
Serve with a simple salad.
* I steamed the broccolini florets until al dente
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Designed for Entry 3 – Level 2 Functional Skills English. Students loved this lesson. Can be designed around other areas but covers: Writing persuasively. Fact and opinion. Research write a factual article Create a poster using appropriate language.
This is a literacy resource based around a recent news story. There are a range of tasks relating to an anti-litter app called 'littergram' and legal challenges made to the use of its name, with the potential to extend tasks into other aspects of littering and how the litter problem might be resolved. A final extension task asks students to take their own photographs of local examples of litter as supporting evidence for a writing activity.
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The Terteling Co., which is based in Boise and owns 13 Western States Caterpillar dealerships, is seeking to acquire Agri-Service, Inc., a Twin Falls, Idaho,-based Massey Ferguson dealership. The deal could take effect on Nov. 1.
The Boise-based company that owns Western States Equipment Caterpillar dealerships intends to acquire Agri-Service, Inc., North America's largest Massey Ferguson dealership.
The Terteling Co.'s proposed acquisition will take effect Nov. 1, pending approval by the majority of participants in Agri-Service's employee stock ownership plan.
Agri-Service Chief Operating Officer Clint Schnoor said employees were given through Oct. 25 to vote on the acquisition.
"Our responses from meetings have been favorable. We would expect it would be approved," Schnoor said three days prior to the vote.
Agri-Service has 10 locations throughout Idaho, Oregon and Utah. Western States, which operates 13 Caterpillar dealerships with branches throughout Idaho, eastern Oregon, Washington, Montana and western Wyoming, would relinquish the agricultural aspect of its business to Agri-Service in communities served by both companies.
Among the new Agri-Service offerings would be AGCO's Challenger brand of tractors, Ag-Chem equipment and associated products, parts and services. Western States intends to focus more on heavy construction equipment but would retain Challenger and Ag-Chem products at its Pasco, Wash.; Pendleton, Ore.; and Lewiston, Idaho, locations.
"Our primary concern for both companies is making sure our customers are taken care of and transitioned appropriately," Schnoor said.
Schnoor said Agri-Service would keep its full workforce of 175 and remain a stand-alone business. Agri-Service founder and CEO Cleve Buttars would assist with the transition and then assume an advisory role with the company. Schnoor is slated to become the new Agri-Service president.
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The next dish in my Thanksgiving dinner was not the prettiest dish but it may just have been the tastiest one! This potato gratin was inspired by a recipe that appeared in Food & Drink last year that I had just been itching to try it. Potatoes in pretty much any form have to be one of my favourite comfort foods and when you bake them until tender in a creamy cheese sauce like this you really cannot go wrong. Even though a plain old potato gratin is irresistibly addictive this recipe takes things way beyond by adding tons of pure umami and flavour with pancetta and dried porcini mushrooms. Pancetta is an Italian form of bacon and it adds a nice saltiness and an amazing crispy texture that is hidden throughout the gratin. Dried porchini mushrooms are just packed with flavour which we extract by soaking them in hot water and then using both by sprinkling the mushrooms in the gratin and adding the water they were soaked in to the creamy sauce. Of course the final component of the grain is the cheese and for this one I used a gruyere that is sprinkled both in between layers of potatoes and on top. This tasty potato gratin certainly did disappear quickly!
Pancetta and Porcini Potato Gratin
Thinly sliced potatoes baked in a creamy cheese sauce flavoured with porcini mushrooms and pancetta.
- 1 ounce dried porcini mushrooms
- 1/2 cup boiling water
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 6 ounces pancetta, diced
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 teaspoon thyme, chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 cup cream
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 pinch nutmeg
- 2 pounds potatoes, sliced 1/8 inch thin (on a mandolin)
- 2 cups gruyere, grated
- Soak the dried porcini mushrooms in the water for 20 minutes.
- Remove the mushrooms from the water, reserving the water, squeeze the excess water from them and coarsely chop them.
- Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat.
- Add the pancetta and saute until it starts to turn golden brown, about 4-6 minutes.
- Add the onion and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
- Add the mushrooms, garlic, thyme, salt and pepper and saute for a minute and remove from heat.
- Bring the cream, milk, reserved mushroom water and nutmeg to a simmer and remove from heat.
- Pour a bit of the cream over the bottom of an 8x8x2 inch baking pan and layer 1/2 of the sliced potatoes on top followed by half of the pancetta and mushroom mixture and cheese, followed by the remaining potatoes, the cream and the remaining pancetta and mushroom mixture and cheese and cover in foil.
- Bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven until fork tender, about 45-60 minutes. Note: At the end of this step you can let the gratin sit at room temperature for up two 2 hours before continuing.
- Remove the foil and continue to cook until golden brown on top, about 15 minutes.
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- Sam, a grad student in New Zealand, debated Ray for $100. Considering all the sneaky tricks regarding format, and Sam's status as a novice speaker, I would have asked for a lot more. But according to people I've heard from, Sam made a surprisingly good showing, and Ray turned out to be incredibly bad at it. You can judge for yourself by reading Sam's post, and there are even audio files attached.
- Everything Else Atheist mocks a recent blog post by Ray for his very, very bad understanding of sex and relationships.
- Guy P. Harrison, author of 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God, made us an interesting offer. He wanted to see a good takedown of Ray Comfort's new book, You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics. But he didn't want to read it himself, so he sent it to us instead. I've read it, and now Matt's reading it. At some point in the near future, the plan is to either appear together on Atheist Experience or do a Very Special Episode of Non-Prophets that will give this, ah, very enlightening book the attention it deserves.
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I vote for Non-Prophets because the format allows extended discussions (free will, anyone?).
Maybe you could announce a couple of weeks ahead of time, to give others the opportunity to read it before listening? On the other hand, I'm not going to shell out any money for a Ray Comfort book.Listening to Comfort's debate.
He is embarrassing himself. He honestly thinks evolution says that dogs evolved into dogs without eyes. Dumb ass.
I can answer all of his questions such as which came first, heart or blood (Blood since plasma is a modification of the external environment. and in simple organisms was just proliferation to allow circulation of the external to other cells.) Ugh dumb dumb.I'm almost through listening to the debate now, and Comfort was completely outclassed by Sam. "Angry Atheist" wonders above how Comfort would fare against a "real" debater, but Sam did better than any experienced debater I've ever heard. Most famous folks want to make their own points and don't address the arguments of the other side, and don't ever even take time to read what their opponent will say ahead of time.
Sam was to the point, knew the points Comfort would make, and didn't come across as a butthole.
It was especially good how he pointed out that these misunderstandings of evolution (eyes, blood, sex) had already been explained to Comfort multiple times, so it was dishonest to keep asking the questions as if they didn't have answers.
Comfort's mainstay of a debate point is that "creation" must have a creator, but Sam did a good job pointing out that this "creation" was just a simple burst of a large amount of energy, not anything complex. And much simpler than a God existing without its own creator.
The best part was that Comfort was backed into the corner of simply preaching to the audience for most of his talk - you better be on the right path or you won't be right with Christ, that kind of thing. When he went there, it's like he was throwing in the towel."Angry Atheist said...
Am downloading Sam's sound files and will listen to them tonight.
If they are as he described, and he does a good job of debating Comfort then it makes you wonder how Ray would cope against a real debater."
Sam is a real debater. He may be new at it but he did an awesome job and was well prepared and knowledgeable on all fronts. It was nice to hear a fresh voice in the debates.I listened to the debate and I was impressed. Sam was competent and made sure the debate wasn't hijacked by a theist.
I have experience of public speaking and so have an advantage when it comes to debate. Sam may have been a bit nervous and got lost a couple of times, but he came through because he knew his stuff and had done the research. I have the utmost respect for him.
The thing that pissed me off was the fact that a university seemed to struggle so much to find someone to debate a theist!Look What I Found at The Local Christian Bookstore
Ray quotes several commenters from his blog (me included ... I think) and he doesn't credit anyone. I bet Matt D. is quoted in there several as well. It'd be nice if he'd put a gratuitous "--RM" or something. All his quotes are just quotemines anyways.Sam got 100 NZ Dollars. so about 50 US Dollars.
I have some photos from Sam so I might try putting this whole thing up on YouTube.
I also recommend Zizturs Ray a Day series (and not just because I have contributed) where Ziztur and Flimsyman each day for the last couple of months have taken another page or two from the book and pointed out the idiocy.
If you start at the bottom you can read quite a lot of the book.As a resident of Christchurch, his recent return to his hometown inspired me to research Ray Comforts lesser known publications, from the 70's and early 80's.
Some of his earlier work I have in my possession is truly hilarious and at times troubling.
Read from the pen of Ray, about….
1.) Killer on the Loose
2.) Ray Comfort finds 'A Cure for Cancer'
3.) One-way trips to 'The Pit of Hell'
4.) What to do 'When Bugged by a Jehovah Witness's'
I'll be doing a review on another one of his literary masterpieces over the long-weekend we are about to have here in New Zealand.
Enjoy, and as I say – there's heaps more to come (reading the stuff brings on an instant migraine, so bear with me troops)
Note; I've also done an article on Rays earlier days in Christchurch here:
Lack of attribution for anything he says is a major theme that I picked up in Ray's book as well, along with his blog and all of his other works. He has a stated policy of deleting every comment with links to atheist material. He continues this tradition in the book by refusing to provide so much as a name for any quotes. In the back of the book, he reprints somebody else's very long blog post IN FULL without attribution.
His justification is "I don't promote atheist sites." Bullshit. It's not about promotion, it's a lack of basic integrity. I link to stuff I disagree with all the time. But Ray seems to be afraid that his followers will escape from the echo chamber if they accidentally follow a bad link.Comfort should be called on plagiarism.
The Christians who questioned Sam I noted came out as "winners" since they didn't let him answer and were assholes spewing the "NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!!!!"
While the people questioning Ray made the 'mistake' of letting him answer for which he went on tangents where you couldn't quickly respond to the first flawed point he makes.
Really Ray makes a point that Christianity is good because that works don't matter only faith. Yet he wonders why Atheists can be moral with no higher purpose or what not. How can Christians be moral? Their works and actions DON'T matter to them. They can be as big as assholes as possible and they still get their heaven gift from Santa Christ. Since Jesus forgives and accepts them no matter what, there is NO inherent incentive in their religion to better themselves morally. It's a defeatist attitude. If someone says that he can't help beating his wife because he's an alchoholic and then KEEPS DRINKING that is not a good person. People like Ray say they can't help but sin and then what a surprise, we get people like Kent Hovin who I guess just couldn't help it.I really wish there were some way in which non-Christians of every variety, including atheists, could come together and throw down a sort of gauntlet - tell Christians that there are certain non-negotiable items that they need to repudiate or be relegated to the margins of society. Ray is one; Calvinism is another. But it will never happen.
It really pisses me off to no end that liberal to moderate Christians will admit privately that Ray is a moron, but they aren't shouting about it publicly as atheist bloggers are.
This has bothered me for some time. Jim Wallis of Sojourners is a very good man, and I have no problem with his Christian faith, but he wants to bring the fundies to the table. Just once, I'd like to hear him say, publicly, "Pat Robertson is a psychotic asshole and is not a Christian". I've been told this would be counter-productive, but I don't believe that's the reason he and others like him don't do it. They don't do it because Pat is their "brother in Christ" - something we can never be. This is why I don't entirely trust them. They haven't declared themselves to my satisfaction, and I'm of the opinion that if cornered, ultimately they will side with the fundies. They may not like it - but I think they'll do it.If I'd have to take a guess I'd say it's because of the very strict theocratic class structure Tibet had under Lama rule. The Dali Lama was an absolute monarchy before invasion and there was what would be called a slave class. So as much as I do sympathize and support Tibet being given more rights and less abuse by China it wasn't the perfect utopia a lot of people imagine it as. And I am a fan of Buddhist philosophy and of the Dali Lama when he speaks, so that was a hard reality for me to face when I looked into the research, but it goes to show that if you care about the truth you do have to investigate your opponents claims and be willing to adjust your world view and accept reality. "If you see the Buddha, kill him" Buddhism teaches it's crucial to eventually be able to let go of religious and hero worshiping attachments...and once you do it is easier to accept said people on realities terms and not be soul crushingly disappointed in them when they fail to be paragons of virtue.
ReplyDeleteIt's true; Tibet was no paradise. It was governed by factions of monks and aristocrats. The amount of power wielded by the Dalai Lamas over the past several centuries didn't remain constant, but it was never absolute. And this DL was little more than a boy when China invaded, and he already wanted very much for Tibet to change.
I have a history with Buddhism and the Tibetan community, and I get touchy when people believe the Chinese PR. The Dalai Lama goes all over the world promoting universal compassion, a just and equitable society and environmental responsibility. He pushes himself to the extent of endangering his health. Comparing the DL to a Nazi is not merely inaccurate, it's disrespectful.I like how the very title includes the word "angry" as a modifier of "skeptics". It's a double-dose of logical fallacy, being both a straw man, since he's clearly implying that any skeptics that don't agree with him are angry; and ad hominem, since he's also implying that they are wrong for being angry.
It's the kind of circular logic that you can only get from a Creationist.
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In the aftermath of the Nov. 26 NATO attack on two border posts that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, the question being asked is whether the assault was a "fog of war" incident or a calculated hit aimed at torpedoing peace talks in Afghanistan? Given that the incident has plunged relations between Washington and Islamabad to a new low at a critical juncture in the 10-year war, the answer is vitally important
According to NATO, U.S. and Afghan troops came under fire from the Pakistani side of the border and retaliated in self-defense. American officials have suggested that the Taliban engineered the incident in order to poison U.S.-Pakistani relations. But there are some facts suggesting that the encounter may have been more than a "friendly fire" encounter brought on by a clever foe, an ill-defined border, and the normal chaos of the battlefield.
Afghan Taliban commander Mullah Samiullah Rahmani denies they were even in the area-and the insurgent group is never shy about taking credit for military engagements (of course, if deception was involved that is what the Taliban would say). However, this particular region is one that the Pakistani army has occupied for several years and is considered fairly "cleansed" of insurgents.
The incident was not the case of a drone attack or bombing gone awry, a common enough event. For all the talk of "precision weapons" and "surgical strikes," drones have inflicted hundreds of civilian deaths and 500 lb bombs have very little in common with operating rooms. Instead, the NATO instruments were Apache attack helicopters and, according to Associated Press, an A-130 gunship. In short, the assault was led by live pilots presumingly indentifying targets to their superiors.
Those targets were two border forts, architecture that has never been associated with the Taliban. It is true the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is porous and not always clearly defined, but the Afghan insurgents don't build concrete posts. A "fort" is duck soup for a drone or a fighter-bomber, which is why the Taliban favor caves and hidden bunkers.
Naturally enough, both sides disagree on what happened. The Americans say they took fire from the Pakistani border, engaged in a three-hour running fight, and called in the choppers at the end of the battle.
But, according to the Pakistanis, there was no fire from their side of the border, and helicopters started the battle, which went on for a little less than two hours. Pakistan also says there were two Apache attacks. The first struck outpost Volcano, and when the fort's nearby companion, outpost Boulder, fired on the helicopters, it also came under assault. Pakistan claims that its military contacted NATO to warn them they were attacking Pakistani troops, but the firing continued. The helicopters finally withdrew, only to reappear and renew the attack when the Pakistanis tried to reinforce the besieged forts.
Might it have been a matter of bad intelligence?
According to the Pakistanis, Islamabad has been careful to identify its posts to NATO in order to avoid incidents exactly like this. Pakistan Gen. Ashfaq Nadeem said, "it is not possible" that the "NATO forces did not know of the location of the Pakistani posts." Pakistan Gen. Ashram Nader called the attack a "deliberate act of aggression."
Could it have been "deliberate"? Mistakes happen in war, but the timing of this engagement is deeply suspicious.
It comes at a delicate moment, when some 50 countries were preparing to gather in Bonn, Germany for talks aimed at a settling the Afghan War. Central to that meeting is Pakistan, the only country in the region with extensive contacts among the various insurgent groups. If the U.S. plans to really withdraw troops by 2014, it will need close cooperation with Pakistan.
"This could be a watershed in Pakistan's relations with the U.S.," Islamabad's high commissioner to Britain, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, told the Guardian (UK). "It could wreck the time table for the American troop withdrawal."
Pakistan has now withdrawn from the Bonn talks, and relations between Washington and Islamabad are as bad as they have ever been. The Pakistanis have shut down two major land routes into Afghanistan, routes over which some 50 percent of supplies for the war move. Islamabad has also demanded that the CIA close down its drone base at Shamsi in Pakistan's Balochistan Province.
Who would benefit from all this fallout?
It is no secret that many in the U.S. military are unhappy about the prospect of negotiations with the Taliban, in particular the organization's most lethal ally, the Haqqani Group. There is an unspoken but generally acknowledged split between the Defense Department and the State Department, with the former wanting to pound the insurgents before sitting down to talk, while the latter is not sure that tactic will work. Could someone on the uniformed side of the division have decided to derail, or at least damage, the Bonn meeting?
It is also no secret that not everyone in Afghanistan wants peace, particularly if it involves a settlement with the Taliban. The Northern Alliance, made up of mostly Tajiks and Uzbeks, want nothing to do with the Pashtun-based Taliban that is mainly grouped in the south and east, and in the tribal regions of Pakistan. The Afghan Army is mostly Tajik, who not only make up the bulk of the soldiers, but 70 percent of the command staff. President Hamid Karzi is a Pashtun, but he is largely window dressing in the Northern Alliance-dominated Kabul government.
There are broader regional issues at stake as well.
It was no surprise that China immediately came to Pakistan's defense, with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechu expressing "deep shock and strong concern" over the incident. China is not happy about the NATO deployment in Afghanistan and less so about the possibility of permanent U.S. bases in that country. At a Nov. 2 meeting in Istanbul, China, along with Pakistan, Iran and Russia, opposed a long-term American deployment in the area.
Iran is worried about the threat of U.S. military power on its border, Islamabad is concerned that prolonging the war will further destabilize Pakistan, and Beijing and Moscow are suspicious that the Americans have their sights set on Central Asia gas and oil resources. Both Russia and China rely on Central Asia hydrocarbons, the former for export to Europe, and the latter to run its burgeoning industries.
China is also anxious about the Obama administration's recent strategic shift toward Asia. The U.S. has openly intervened in disputes between China and its Southeast Asian neighbors in the South China Sea, and recently signed an agreement to deploy 2,500 Marines in Australia. Washington has also tightened its ties with Indonesia and warmed up to Myanmar. To China, all this looks like a campaign to surround Beijing with U.S. allies and to keep its finger on the Chinese energy jugular vein. Some 80 percent of China's oil moves through the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.
A key ingredient in any formula to offset Beijing's growing power and influence in Asia is the role of India. New Delhi has traditionally been neutral in foreign policy, but, starting with the Bush administration, it has grown increasingly close to Washington. China and India have a prickly relationship dating back to the 1962 border war between the two countries and China's support for India's traditional enemy, Pakistan. China claims on part of India's border area have not improved matters.
India would also like a Taliban-free government in Kabul, and anything that discomforts Islamabad is just fine with New Delhi. There are elements in the American military and diplomatic community that would like to see Washington dump its alliance with Pakistan and pull India into a closer relationship. A fair number of Indians feel the same way.
So far, the White House has refused to apologize, instead leaking a story that showing any softness vis-à-vis Pakistan during a U.S. election year is impossible.
In the end, the border fight may turn out to be an accident, although we are unlikely to know that for certain. Military investigations are not known for accuracy, and much of what happened will remain classified.
But with all these crosscurrents coming together in the night skies over Pakistan, maybe somebody saw an opportunity and took it. In a sense, it is irrelevant whether the attack was deliberate or dumb: the consequences are going to be with us for a long time, and the ripples are likely to spread from a rocky hillside in Pakistan to the far edges of the Indian Ocean and beyond.
This article originally appeared in Dispatches from the Edge.
Photo: Pakistan army soldiers attend funeral ceremony of NATO attack victims in Peshawar, Pakistan, Nov 27. Pakistan accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of firing on two army checkpoints in the country's northwest and killing 24 soldiers. Islamabad retaliated by closing the border crossings used by the international coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan. (Mohammad Sajjad/AP)


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I asked her to pick up four of the little wreaths for me since I knew I could definitely use them on the backs of chairs or on kitchen cabinet doors at Christmas time…not to mention the fun things I could do with them all year long as well! And…they were under $4.00 each!
You know I love this frenchy document paper! And the outlet store was selling it in single rolls for about $5.00 each. Woo hoo! My mind is reeling with ideas!
And just look at the French script document ribbon…gorgeous! It's a little more expensive…at $15 for a 10 yard roll…but I love it!
That makes a total of about $34 for all of that wonderful vintage-y frenchy goodness! Score! I am so lucky to have a friend who knows me so well! And I am also lucky to have a wise CEO like our Miss Ozzie who helped me come up with some fun ways to use my new favorites!
She suggested I try making some simple book covers from the document paper and I love her idea! I am also thinking about making sleeves to add a vintage touch to some of my pillar candles.
But my favorite idea is this one that combines the document ribbon with the boxwood wreath…all dressed up in a used-to-be-gold frame from Goodwill. First I gave the frame a coat of Annie Sloan Old White chalk paint with a dry brush. Next, I painted the cardboard inner liner with chalkboard paint…
…and attached the wreath with some of the frenchy ribbon. Then all I had to do was add a Bonjour and I have a new vignette to greet my guests as they enter my home! I love it! And I still have oodles of ribbon and paper plus three more wreath to play with! I am going to have so much fun!
And...if you hop on over to their web site, I think you will find the paper and ribbon on sale there, too...and they didn't pay me to say that! Just a little hint in case you are interested...
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