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- Democracy Taking A Stand In All Of Us
No.2 - America's Little Monster
No.3 - Roustabouting, Hell-of-a-mess or Heavenly will?
No.4 - Empire Theology
No.5 - Temporarily Not Available
No.6 - What is really going on here: War, Apartheid or Peace in
the Middle East?
No.7 - Saddam Hussein Murdered No.8
- Religion and the Destruction of Civilization No.9
- From the U.S. with Hate No.10
- The Unholy Trinity - The Crucifixion Continues No.11
- Killer Cops in the American Police State No.12
- ANNOUNCING: I will NOT be running for president <<
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Baltimore,
Maryland
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Wednesday,
August 23, 2006
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Roustabouting
Hell-of-a-mess or Heavenly
will?
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During
my first career as a Law Enforcement
Officer, I'd witness police treat detainees
violently. Suspects were handcuffed
to hot radiators or hit with weapons
that left no marks. Our chief was known
as "rubber hose Harry." The idea was
to push the prisoner into fighting back
affording the officers the right to
beat the detainees to shreds. The practice
was called "ROUSTABOUTING."
Historically
people holding power came to realized
that Isaac Newton's laws of motion apply
to human behavior as well as the physical
world:
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If left alone an object won't move,
- If
touched or pushed by an outside force
the object will react, and
- "For
every action there is an Opposite and
Equal Reaction."
Rubber hose Harry, knew nothing of Newton,
but he and other rulers of society realized
if they led their followers to throw
a rock over the fence, that those "others"
will throw one back, then we are allowed
to throw two rocks back. The number
of rocks escalates until somebody kicks
down the fence, invades the "others"
land, burning their homes, destroying
infrastructure, raping their women and
killing their young. Sound familiar?
From
the beginning "rock throwers" invoked
the blessing of their Creator and Spiritual
Guides: God, Allah, Jesus, Krishna,
Jehovah, or whoever, to sanctify their
aggression and rally their people to
kill other people.
Today's
U.S. government, aided by churches,
plays this morose game
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resulting
in the wholesale butchering of humans
beings. Both join in a worldwide effort
to manipulate other nations into hellish
barbarism just to satisfy our lust
for oil and cheap bananas.
The
fire of war is fanned by false prophets
like John Hagee and Pat Robertson
and thousands of local churches who
mindlessly push Israel to oblivion,
not for Israel's sake, but to manipulate
God into returning Jesus to earth
after the great battle. Congregations
orchestrate near erotic worship before
images of Jesus and George Bush sending
thousands of their young to slaughter
and be slaughtered while ignorant,
uneducated preachers yell "glory to
God." We even send them to poor little
Haiti with their lethal mission.
There
is but one God manifesting to all
people in different ways. This one
creator God made this world and all
who live upon it. God NEVER wills
the destruction of that creation by
the created.
Americans
avoid noticing the "roustabouting"
of weaker peoples by WE the powerful.
We ignore the resulting war and carnage,
because of our greed and desire for
cheap goods. We sit in our churches
with the flag next to the cross assuring
ourselves that our all powerful God
will bless our all powerful nation
as we beat up the world.
Remember
old "rubber hose?" In 1988 the state
took over that local police department.
Harry and two of his brothers went
to prison and the rest of the officers
were fired. God is Justice - American
believers of every religion must demand
it OF ourselves.
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Dr.
Britt Minshall is the author of Ring
of Angels, a book that covers
the political and social climate in Haiti
and Senior Pastor of the Cathedral Church
of Saint Matthew, a United Church of Christ.
He is also a former INTERPOL officer.
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