Note to Pat : Thou Shalt Not Kill. Geddit?

Phew! What a week that was! The Karaoke evening at the Anaesthetist & Parrot (which I said Maureen and I were going to last week) was an absolute fiasco. It all started going tits-up after one of the inmates, Pat Robertson, escaped from the Weasel’s Unit over in the American Annexe.

He’d been bought to the Weasel’s Unit by Carl and Viktor from Security for his own safety, after he had barricaded himself in the control room of our hospital Radio Station, “ASYLUM 700 FM”, and proceeded to scream over the PA that “if anyone wanted to murder Mr. Chavez,” (one of our Visitor’s Café Volunteers) “that’s just fine by me and God, because Jesus wants us to kill all the little brown people who say “No”… and send $50 NOW before Satan kills ya!”.

The Cannon of Christianity: Pat Robertson Calls for the Assassination of Hugo Chavez

Christian televangelist Pat Robertson set off an international firestorm this week when he called for the assassination of Venezuela's democratically elected president Hugo Chavez. Robertson made the comment on his TV program "The 700 Club."

PAT ROBERTSON:
“He has destroyed the Venezuelan economy, and he’s going to make that a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent. You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war, and I don't think any
oil shipments will stop, but this man is a terrific danger, and the United States -- this is in our sphere of influence. We can't let this happen. We have the Monroe Doctrine. We have other doctrines that we have announced, and without question, this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us very badly. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.”

…watch video clip here

…read complete article here

Obviously, we couldn’t allow this kind of thing to happen! The other American Inmates started rioting, screaming “Yo, Death! USA!”, and as usual, they rushed into the toilet block and set fire to all the condom machines, and within minutes most of the furniture was thrown out of the windows. Inmate Bush went totally bat-shit, and was jumping up and down and on his “Barbie’s First Bicycle”, screaming “Georgie wanna kill the Commie Muslim Venezuelan Cuban Homosexual Bastard”. Inmate Cheney started drooling, fingering his pocket calculator, and was caught masturbating over his current Bank Statement, and Inmate “Creepy” Rumsfeld set fire to all the paperwork in the Nurse’s Station, claiming afterward that he knew nothing about anything at all… honest.

What a mess!

The magnificent Nurse Kravitz held the baying mob at bay for a good half hour, armed only with a rolled-up copy of “Democracy Now” until Dr. Strangelove eventually turned up with Carl and some of the burly Kitchen Porters, who shouldered the Radio Station door down and dragged the kicking, screaming Robertson into the corridor.

Just as Carl was fumbling about trying to get the Tranquilizer Gun out of the holster, Robertson sunk his teeth into Carl’s overly-pronounced gonads, and, in the ensuing pandemonium the gun went off, shooting Dr. Strangelove, as Robertson wriggled free and gleefully legged it out of the fire exit!

Unfortunately for us his escape route included the Anaesthetist & Parrot, and, as Maureen was onstage and just about to launch into the first chorus of “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off”, Robertson, hotly pursued by an enraged, howling Carl and four Kitchen Porters, burst in through the front door, leapt onto the stage, grabbed the mike from Maureen’s startled grasp, and started to shriek wildly that “the city of Orlando will face divine retribution, in the form of terrorist attacks, hurricanes, earthquakes… or even possibly a Meteor, because a Gay Group has been allowed to fly Rainbow Flags off light poles during an event at Disney World” whereupon Chaos reigned until the big boys from Isolation arrived with their Tasers.

The rest, as we know, is history.

As you know, I’m usually the very soul of discretion, and I would never normally discuss an Inmate’s personal history, but I’ve got to say that this Pat Robertson is a particularly nasty and dangerous individual. I think it’s in the Public Interest that our visitors be armed with the facts before making a judgement on this devious self-appointed Prophet of the God of Pain, who has the President’s permanent Ear, so here are some extracts from his Patients Records:

Pat Robertson - Stormtrooper of the New World Order

Born the patrician son of a Democratic senator, Marion Gordon Robertson wasn't always interested in religion. As an undergraduate at Washington & Lee University, he had quite a reputation for indulging in drinking, gambling and chasing women - a reputation which continued while he studied law at Yale.

He failed several times to pass the bar exam after graduating, and was forced to pursue various business interests in New York City. His involvement with religious fundamentalism while running his own electronics company in New York was brought about by his intensely religious mother who got him into contact with charismatic Christians speaking in tongues and advocating faith healing.

His wife Adelia, a nurse, thought that he was sick and recognized schizoid tendencies in his behavior. This was especially true when he decided to leave her to go on a month-long religious retreat even though they were desperately poor and she was seven months pregnant.

As far as he was concerned, God would provide. Fortunately for her, she too eventually had a charismatic conversion experience. It's a shame, though, that she didn't pursue her original diagnosis and seek treatment for him. I think that this treatment of his wife is instructive of how Robertson thinks women should be treated.

He became increasingly certain that God wanted him to buy a television station to spread the gospel. He got himself ordained as a minister of the Southern Baptist Church, and set about the business of making himself famous and very, very rich at other’s expense.

As is the fashion in Faith-Based Extortion Rackets, a broadcasting empire was crucial to these plans for theocratic sedition (and the millions and millions of dollars that disingenuous Snake Oil Salesmen like Robertson knew he could con out of the gullible public). The as-yet-unsullied by the craziness of Theocracy, Robertson brought his family to Portsmouth Virginia in November 1959, with only $70 in his pocket, and a year later bought a $500,000 bankrupt UHF station in Portsmouth for a mere $37,000. In 1960 he went on the air with an evangelistic religious format.

Robertson's decision to ask for 700 supporters to contribute $10 a month led to the 1963 birth of the 700 Club, his religious talk show. In the early 1980s, Pat Robertson embraced a new doctrine within the Christian right known as Christian reconstructionism or dominionism, which calls for the creation of a Christian America.

The fanatical fervour pumping out of CBN was ramped up many notches, and the money started pouring in. The brainwashed audiences loved the wall-to-wall clarion calls for violence and retribution against anyone considered to be an enemy of the Christian cults – Liberals, Intellectuals, Immigrants, Gays, Atheists, Feminists etc. etc.

In 1986 Roberts resigned his ordination and ran against Vice President George Bush in the Presidential Nominations campaign and failed, due to press hostilities around unrelated scandals embroiling two Christian Broadcasting stations.

Not to be deterred from his craven lust for political power, he fell in behind George Bush Snr. , the Republican Party (and later Bush Jnr.) to offer his unrivaled services (and mailing list) as King-Maker, and was responsible for overseeing many relentless leafleting campaigns to illegally influence voters by way of millions and millions of “Voters Guides” distributed to Evangelical Christian Churches, which purported to give an impartial list of all candidate’s campaigning platforms, but which were slyly worded to heavily promote Republican candidates.

NOTE: Very shortly after he announced that he would be seeking the presidency in 1988, the Wall Street Journal reported that he had been lying for many years about the date of his wedding in order to hide the fact that his wife was very pregnant
during the ceremony. And he was still lying about it to the press as late as 1987. It might not have mattered much had he been honest about it earlier, but the fact that he was deliberately courting the votes of a moralistic and self-righteous crowd prevented honesty in such matters. It's his own fault, really - snake handlers get bitten from time to time, and have no one to blame but their selves.

His reaction to all of this was quite illuminating. He told reporters in Philadelphia that: "It is outrageous to pry into a man's past and try to do damage to a man's wife and children under the guise of journalism."

The obvious question raised by this is: why didn’t he come to the defense of President Clinton when he was savaged by the media for reports of sexual impropriety? Unless, of course, Pat Robertson is little more than a liar, a cheat and a hypocrite.

Robertson founded the Christian Coalition in October of 1989 in order to "give Christians a voice in their government again." As a Modest Man of God himself, Robertson has at various times in the past called for the Righteous execution of Gay’s, Lesbian’s, Liberals, Athiests, Finger-painters, Chihuahas, and Anyone who doesn’t agree with him. (The man’s a SAINT, I tell you! A LIVING SAINT!)

In 1990 the Coalition accepted a $64,000 donation from the Republican Senatorial Committee and used it to intervene in a North Carolina Senate race between Republican Jesse Helms and Democrat Harvey Gantt. At a closed-door meeting of Coalition activists in November of 1991, Ralph Reed (who runs the day-to-day of the Coalition) bragged that after Helms called Robertson for help, the Coalition blanketed the state with 750,000 "voter guides" and helped Helms win. Remarks Reed, "I had access to the internal tracking, and I knew Helms was down by 8 points. So Pat called me up and said, 'We've got to kick into action.' Bottom line is...five days later we put three quarters of a million voters' guides in churches across the state of North Carolina, and Jesse Helms was re-elected by 100,000 votes out of 2.2 million cast."

In 1989 Reed announced that "What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time and one state at a time. I honestly believe that in my lifetime, we will see a country once again governed by Christians…and Christian values.

These illegal campaigns were financed by the Republican Party through the back door, though not enough conclusive evidence was ever produced in court to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the wording of the material was unfair.

Note for British readers: US Christian organizations like Christian Coalition etc. have
special tax exempt status, on the strict understanding that they do not involve
themselves in blatantly commercial, for-profit activities (such as accepting
massive donations from the Republicans, and generating acres and acres of
propaganda on the client’s behalf). Thanks to the Bush gang’s crooked patronage,
this rule has been flaunted to an incredible degree.

By 1986 the Christian Broadcasting Network’s gift income was over $139 million a year. At present Roberts’ CBN is now a vast multi-million dollar operation, with facilities in three U.S. cities, the Ukraine, Philippines, India and Israel. Radical Christians now control six national US television networks, each reaching tens of millions of homes and virtually all of the nation's 2,000 religious radio stations.

Christian radio now outnumbers every other format, except country music and news talk.

(The latest venture, Sky Angels, is putting up direct broadcast satellite networks and broadcasts 36 channels of Christian radio and TV, and nothing else… except relentless fund-raising, and calls for their viewers to pledge a percentage of their wages to the CBN. The Christian Broadcasting Network needs around $100 million a year to operate at it’s current level.) Obviously all of this has made Pat Robertson obscenely rich – his personal wealth is estimated to be in the region of $1 billion. It’s stashed away offshore, naturally.

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Drunk in charge of a Superpower

Every so often one of those fairly improbable coincidences happens, which makes you chuckle and puts a smile on your face.

I was having a bit of a skive over in the Dependency Clinic Visitor's Reception with my mate Maureen, and, as Laverne (the hard-nosed little madam of a Receptionist) was out to lunch, we thought we'd have a little peek inside the "Suggestions" Box. The box was padlocked, but I could see something inside, and could just about reach through the letter-box and. I fished out two yellowing pieces of paper.

Rather spookily there were two photocopies of exactly the same article from Counter Punch, sent in by two different visitors: Holly & Joe, and Joseph Lucas. WoooOOoooh! A little frisson of statistical excitement shot up my suspenders as I read on...

Addiction, Brain Damage and the President:

"Dry Drunk" Syndrome and George W. Bush

Alan Bisbort argues that Bush possesses the characteristics of the "dry drunk" in terms of: his incoherence while speaking away from the script; his irritability with anyone (for example, Germany's Schröder) who dares disagree with him; and his dangerous obsessing about only one thing (Iraq) to the exclusion of all other things.

In short, George W. Bush seems to possess the traits characteristic of addictive persons who still have the thought patterns that accompany substance abuse. If we consult the latest scientific findings, we will discover that scientists can now observe changes that occur in the brain as a result of heavy alcohol and other drug abuse.

Some of these changes may be permanent. Except in extreme cases, however, these cognitive impairments would not be obvious to most observers. To reach any conclusions we need of course to know Bush's personal history relevant to drinking/drug use.

To this end I consulted several biographies. Yes, there was much drunkenness, years of binge drinking starting in college, at least one conviction for DUI in 1976 in Maine, and one arrest before that for a drunken episode involving theft of a Christmas wreath.

According to J.D. Hatfield's book, Fortunate Son, Bush later explained: "Alcohol began to compete with my energies....I'd lose focus." Although he once said he couldn't remember a day he hadn't had a drink, he added that he didn't believe he was "clinically alcoholic." Even his father, who had known for years that his son had a serious drinking problem, publicly proclaimed: "He was never an alcoholic. It's just he knows he can't hold his liquor."

Maureen gave a “Haruumph” and peered at me over her horn-rims. “Never an alcoholic? What planet are these people ON? Talk about abject denial! Tsk! Tsk!” She read on:

…Bush drank heavily for over 20 years until he made the decision to abstain at age 40. About this time he became a "born again Christian," going as usual from one extreme to the other. During an Oprah interview, Bush acknowledged that his wife had told him he needed to think about what he was doing. When asked in another interview about his reported drug use, he answered honestly, "I'm not going to talk about what I did 20 to 30 years ago."

That there might be a tendency toward addiction in Bush's family is indicated in the recent arrests or criticism of his daughters for underage drinking and his niece for cocaine possession. Bush, of course, deserves credit for his realization that he can't drink moderately, and his decision today to abstain. The fact that he doesn't drink moderately, may be suggestive of an inability to handle alcohol.

In any case, Bush has clearly gotten his life in order and is in good physical condition, careful to exercise and rest when he needs to do so. The fact that some residual effects from his earlier substance abuse, however slight, might cloud the U.S. President's thinking and judgment is frightening, however, in the context of the current global crisis.

...complete article here

Whipping out her Catholic Herald Commemorative Hip-Flask and knocking back a large slug of home-made Potcheen, Maureen shot me one of her 'knowing' looks. "Well... there you go, sweetie," she said "It's not just us, then."

I noticed the date on the two faded photocopies - 2002. "Bloody hell," I exclaimed "How often does Laverne empty this box? She's supposed to pass Visitor's observations onto Senior Management as soon as it arrives... this kind of stuff's too important to ignore. How can Dr. Strangelove diagnose properly if he’s only got half the facts?"

Maureen by now had the bit firmly between what remained of her own teeth - she'd produced a pair of plastic "Happy Garden" chopsticks from her capacious handbag, and was merrily probing the slot of the Suggestions Box again. After a brief tussle and much swearing, she gave a little "whoop" of victory. "Got you, you little beggar. Come to nursey..."

Gingerly teasing to document out of the slot, Maureen smoothed it out and started reading out loud:

Bush’s cognitive functioning worries observers

...It is thus hard to avoid the conclusion that Bush's cognitive functioning is not, for some reason, what it once was. I am not qualified to say why this is so. It would not be surprising if he was under enormous stress, particularly after the 9/11 atrocities in 2001, and I gather this could explain much, if not everything.

But I have heard wild speculation in Washington that he is suffering from a neurological disorder, or that the years of alcoholism might finally be taking their toll on his brain...

...It does not help that Bush now lives in a positively Nixonian cocoon. He does not read newspapers; he sees television only to watch football; he makes election speeches exclusively at ticket-only events, and his courtiers consciously avoid giving him bad news. When he met John Kerry for their first bout on the debating platform, it was almost a new experience for the President to hear the voice of dissent.

A senior Republican, experienced and wise in the ways of Washington, told me last Friday that he does not necessarily accept that Bush is unstable, but what is clear, he added, is that he is now manifestly unfit to be President. This, too, is a view that is widely felt, but seldom articulated and then only in private, within the Republican as well as Democratic establishments in Washington. Either way, the choice voters make on
Tuesday fortnight should be obvious: whether he is unstable or merely unfit to be President -- and I would argue that they amount to much the same -- he should speedily be turned out of office.

... complete article here

"Bejeesus," she exclaimed "this one's from last year, during the Presidential campaign. I can't believe that this kind of commentary has been floating around, unheeded and unreported by the mainstream media and their Masters..."

She paused mid-sentence as the penny dropped, and she realised it was a rhetorical one.

"Hmmm… I guess that's why he was the perfect choice for their miserable, corrupt agendas; the fascist Cultists, the New World Orderists, the Robber Barons and the Plain, Honest-to-Goodness Psychopaths who have stolen the American Republic.

"If you're conspiring to impose a fascist regime, destroy Democracy in your own Homeland in order to exert totalitarian control over the general population, whilst plundering the nation's coffers via Haliburton and Bechtel, you'd really need a psychotic, messianic nut-job Figurehead, without a single atom of human compassion or sense of guilt, now wouldn't you?"

By this point my Nurse’s Radar was pinging away like the last screen of Space Invaders. How many analyses and commentaries by respected mental health professionals have been out in the Public Domain, yet been completely suppressed by the Media?

This was crazy. I needed to sneak into Patient's Records and have a look at his Psychological Profile so I could properly understand just how dangerous George Bush really is. Laverne was going to be back in ten minutes, so I'd better hurry. A brief flurry of the old nail-file saw me into Patient Records. To my amazement the Bush's have their own filing cabinet. I opened the "Restricted - Junior" drawer, and pulled a file:

Noted psychologist observes Bush's behaviour

There's plenty to be worried about

by Oliver James, The Guardian [London, UK]

Sept. 2, 2003

As the alcoholic George Bush approached his 40th birthday in 1986, he had achieved nothing he could call his own. He was all too aware that none of his educational and professional accomplishments would have occurred without his father. He felt so low that he did not care if he lived or died.

Taking a friend out for a flight in a Cessna aeroplane, it only became apparent he had not flown one before when they nearly crashed on take-off. Narrowly avoiding stalling a few times, they crash-landed and the friend breathed a sigh of relief -- only for Bush to rev. up the engine and take off again.

Not long afterwards, staring at his vomit-spattered face in the mirror, this dangerously self-destructive man fell to his knees and implored God to help him and became a teetotalling, fundamentalist Christian.

"Good grief," I thought " so THAT was the horror-story - the cathartic life event that finally sent the alcoholic, tormented, knuckle-dragging George Bush Jnr. over the edge of Humanity and into the raging vacuum of Insanity. This was important-to-know stuff. I had to know more...

...He was aggressively anti-intellectual and hostile to east-coast preppy types like his father, sometimes cruelly so. On one occasion he walked up to a matronly woman at a smart cocktail party and asked, "So, what's sex like after 50, anyway?"

A direct and loutish challenge to his father's posh sensibility came aged 25, after he had drunkenly crashed a car. "I hear you're looking for me," he sneered at his father, "do you want to go mano a mano, right here?"

As he grew older, the fury towards his father was increasingly directed against himself in depressive drinking. But it was not all his father's fault. There was also his insensitive and domineering mother.

“Mmm,” I mused “I wonder if I can guess what comes next…”

Barbara Bush is described by her closest intimates as prone to "withering stares" and "sharply crystalline" retorts. She is also extremely tough. When he was seven, Bush's younger sister, Robin, died of leukaemia and several independent witnesses say he was very upset by this loss. Barbara claims its effect was exaggerated but nobody could accuse her of overreacting: the day after the funeral, she and her husband were on the golf course.

She was the main authority-figure in the home. Jeb describes it as having been, "A kind of matriarchy... when we were growing up, dad wasn't at home. Mom was the one to hand out the goodies and the discipline." A childhood friend recalls that,"She was the one who instilled fear", while Bush put it like this: "Every mother has her own style. Mine was a little like an army drill sergeant's... my mother's always been a very outspoken person who vents very well -- she'll just let rip if she's got something on her mind."

According to his uncle, the "letting rip" often included slaps and hits. Countless studies show that boys with such mothers are at much higher risk of becoming wild, alcoholic or antisocial...

I’d say that’s about as perfect an environment as you could get to turn any child into a sociopathic, bullying drunk… emotionally cold, physically abusive, fanatically domineering parents. Nice. And in Texas, too… a place not noted for it’s collective compassion. This is where the anger and loathing for anyone further down the food-chain comes from.

How did this personal epiphany manifested itself in George Bush, a failed man already filled with loathing and contempt for other people’s happiness? How does he express his desire to hurt and control the whole World, so he can maybe one day feel good about himself?

... His moralism is all-encompassing and as passionate as can be. He plans to replace state welfare provision with faith-based charitable organisations that would impose Christian family values.

The commonest targets of authoritarians have been Jews, blacks and homosexuals. Bush is anti-abortion and his fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible would mean that gay practices are evil. But perhaps the group he reserves his strongest contempt for are those who have adopted the values of the 60s. He says he loathes "people who felt guilty about their lot in life because others were suffering".

I think we’re getting the broader picture now…

He has always rejected any kind of introspection. Everyone who knows him well says how hard he is to get to know, that he lives behind what one friend calls a "facile, personable" facade.

Frum comments that, "He is relentlessly disciplined and very slow to trust. Even when his mouth seems to be smiling at you, you can feel his eyes watching you." His deepest beliefs amount to superstition. "Life takes its own turns," he says, "writes its own story and along the way we start to realise that we are not the author." God's will, not his own, explains his life.

“Here we go again.” I groaned “Back at the bloody Apocalypse! Always with the bloody Apocalypse! No matter which way you turn when inspecting the dis-ease of George Bush Jnr, you are constantly banging into these insane Religious Terrorists. When are people going to WAKE UP and DO SOMETHING about these Fanatics who are telling George Bush what they expect him to do for them and their Theocratic ambitions?”

Most fundamentalist Christians have authoritarian personalities. Two core beliefs separate fundamentalists from mere evangelists ("happy-clappy" Christians) or the mainstream Presbyterians among whom Bush first learned religion every Sunday with his parents: fundamentalists take the Bible absolutely literally as the word of God and believe that human history will come to an end in the near future, preceded by a terrible, apocaplytic battle on Earth between the forces of good and evil, which only the righteous shall survive.

According to Frum when Bush talks of an "axis of evil" he is identifying his enemies as literally satanic, possessed by the devil. Whether he specifically sees the battle with Iraq and other "evil" nations as being part of the end-time, the apocalypse preceding the day of judgment, is not known. Nor is it known whether Tony Blair shares these particular religious ideas.

By the way - we’ll be getting onto Inmate Blair, aka “The Vicar” soon, I promise.

However, it is certain that however much Bush may sometimes seem like a buffoon, he is also powered by massive, suppressed anger towards anyone who challenges the extreme, fanatical beliefs shared by him and a significant slice of his citizens -- in surveys, half of them also agree with the statement "the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word".

Bush's deep hatred, as well as love, for both his parents explains how he became a reckless rebel with a death wish. He hated his father for putting his whole life in the shade and for emotionally blackmailing him. He hated his mother for physically and mentally badgering him to fulfil her wishes. But the hatred also explains his radical transformation into an authoritarian fundamentalist.

By totally identifying with an extreme version of their strict, religion-fuelled beliefs, he jailed his rebellious self. From now on, his unconscious hatred for them was channelled into a fanatical moral crusade to rid the world of evil. As Frum put it: "Id-control is the basis of Bush's presidency but Bush is a man of fierce anger." That anger now rules the world.

...full article here

I stopped reading. Tears were welling up in my eyes… I’d been so busy reading, crouched down behind the filing cabinets, that I didn’t realize I had hooked the top of my knickers on a cupboard door-handle, and was slowly giving myself a strangulated Wedgie. I heard Maureen hissing to me from the other side of the door. “Laverne’s coming back, come on, hurry up!”

I put everything back where it belonged and slid out through the door, just in time. Maureen and I were lost in our thoughts, as we walked back to the Janet Adegoke Ward. What did I think?

Now I knew: This was how the man was made: this apparently idle, drunken, hate-filled Trogolodyte Playboy Prince, the runt of the litter, the self-loathing, anti-intellectual heir-apparent of the New World Order's first Royal Family.

These cruel Anti-Kennedy's... the disastrously emotionally constipated Bush family, from whom George Bush Junior was running from when his twisted id tried to kill himself one day in a plane crash - and in the process (and by a quirk of chaos), got as close to seeing his own rectum from the inside-out... and the light at the end of the tunnel... as any man ever did, and lived to never-ever-ever-tell what it did to his already deranged mind.

I think George Bush Junior was, literally, the much-scorned Atheist in the Foxhole, the allegorical ‘Coward’ who stared his own empty Death right in the eye, suddenly grovelled to God and ‘magically’ got a second chance.

Almost dying changes you, it really does. I've been pretty close myself (especially when the Safeway Security Guard catches you red-handed, stuffing tins of Chicken Roll down your tights!). For most people it's a life-affirming experience, a chance to try again and learn from the Past, to try and become happier because it puts things into a healthier perspective. They typically become much nicer, kinder people.

But for those people who were never All That in the first place, it results in a catastophic delusional experience waaay beyond their already-dim imaginings. Junior didn't suddenly snap out of what ailed him like most people would; he went slightly mad instead.

This is a problem for all of us. Something just HAS to be done.

Maureen and I are going out to the 'Anaesthetist & Ferret' tonight for a mad Karaoke party, so don't expect to hear from me for a couple of days, unless I make bail!

I'll leave you with a famous quotation:

"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."

Adolph Hitler

Who gave him a helmet, fer chrissakes?!

I daresay you've been wondering why Nurse Riches has been absent since Wednesday. I'm afraid I had to provide cover over at the Camp Casey Excercise Compound and Velodrome, where Nurse Cravitz accidentally left a side door unlocked, allowing Inmate Bush to escape into the Bike shed.

Well! What a to do, dears! Despite trying to lure him back inside with pretzels and comics, the little bastard would have none of it, and took off like a rat up a drainpipe. I think he could smell the rat poison in the pretzels.

We spent the whole week chasing him all over the grounds in the Land-Rover, with Carl from Security hanging out of the side window, trying to get off a decent shot with the Tranquiliser Gun.



All to no avail, I'm afraid. George was eventually brought down by a couple of burly Kitchen porters who caught him rooting around the waste bins, muttering something profane about Cindy Sheehan, and gibbering on about needing clean jim-jams in case he's invited for a sleep-over at the next Donor's Campaign Fund-Raiser.

Anyhow, I've got to wash all the dust out of my tights before my next shift starts, but I'll be back later...

I'm reaching for the straight-jacket as I speak...

(Courtesy: Wizard of Whimsy)

Every so often, Inmates, someone actually comes up with a bit of GOOD news. After the initial suprise of the unexpected, Good News quickly gives you the kind of gratifying thrill that only the Hope of Natural Justice can give...

There was I, in the Nurse's Lounge (having spent the entire shift chasing Larry Northern 'round and 'round and 'round the High Security Excercise Yard, attempting (and failing) to give him his hourly Anti-Shithead injections), my ravaged feet soaking in a hot bowl of Epsom Salts, when I noticed a fresh memo pinned to the notice-board.

It was from Professor Pizzo, from the News For Real Research Hut over in the American Annexe, who's tirelessly dedicated the last few years to trying to find a cure for Presidential Bird-Brained Flu. He's had some VERY encouraging confirmation of his data, and it's so good I'm reproducing it in full:

Is Bush Out of Control?

Buy beleaguered, overworked White House aides enough drinks and they tell a sordid tale of an administration under siege, beset by bitter staff infighting and led by a man whose mood swings suggest paranoia bordering on schizophrenia.

They describe a President whose public persona masks an angry, obscenity-spouting man who berates staff, unleashes tirades against those who disagree with him and ends meetings in the Oval Office with “get out of here!”

In fact, George W. Bush’s mood swings have become so drastic that White House emails often contain “weather reports” to warn of the President’s demeanor. “Calm seas” means Bush is calm while “tornado alert” is a warning that he is pissed at the world.

Decreasing job approval ratings and increased criticism within his own party drives the President’s paranoia even higher. Bush, in a meeting with senior advisors, called Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist a “god-damned traitor” for opposing him on stem-cell research.

“There’s real concern in the West Wing that the President is losing it,” a high-level aide told me recently.

A year ago, this web site discovered the White House physician prescribed anti-depressants for Bush. The news came after revelations that the President’s wide mood swings led some administration staffers to doubt his sanity.

Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush propaganda, the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a “paranoid meglomaniac” and “untreated alcoholic” whose “lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad” showcase Bush’s instabilities.

“I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed,” Dr. Frank said. “He fits the profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated.”

Dr. Frank’s conclusions have been praised by other prominent psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein, Professor at UCLA Medical Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Medical School.

As a recovering alcoholic (sober 11 years, two months, nine days), I know all too well the symptoms that Dr. Frank describes and, after watching Bush for the past several years, I have to, unfortunately, agree with him.

Conversations over the last few weeks with longtime friends who work in the Bush White House confirm even more what Dr. Frank says and others have suggested.

The President of the United States is out of control. How long can the ship of state continue to sail with a madman at the helm?

© Copyright 2005 by Capitol Hill Blue

...original article here

I don't know about YOU, but the fact that enough strssed-out mutterings have now leaked out of the woodwork of Capitol Hill to result in this kind of reporting might be the first omen that the lid is about to blow right off the White House pressure cooker, especially now it seems that Blunderer-In-Chief's relationship with the Pentagon is turning sour, just as he's about to go Nuclear Poo-Poo in Iran...

It just goes to prove that no matter how hermetically sealed your Rocket-Proof triple-glazed Oval Office windows are, and no matter how ruthlessly efficient your Pitbull-Powered, Truth-Erasing air conditioning is, the stench of a truly evil Fart will always make its way out of the building.

Bush Ignored the Truth About Iraq

Slowly but surely the hardhead who occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is realizing what his military experts and others told him all along – he cannot and will not win the war in Iraq.

The Washington Post reported over the weekend that Bush senior advisors say the President is accepting the harsh reality that the U.S. will probably leave Iraq in worse shape than it was before we invaded the country in 2003.

Sadly, the experts in the Pentagon told Bush from the beginning that he could not achieve his goals in Iraq and, had he listened, nearly 2,000 American men and women might still be alive (not to mention the many thousands more wounded and maimed), along with more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians.

“Senior Pentagon officials are quietly urging President George W. Bush to slow down his headlong rush to war with Iraq, complaining the administration’s course of action represents too much of a shift of America’s longstanding “no first strike” policy and that the move could well result in conflicts with other Arab nations,” this web site reported on January 22, 2003.

“We have a dangerous role reversal here,” one Pentagon source told Capitol Hill Blue. “The civilians are urging war and the uniformed officers are urging caution.”

...rest of article here

There's hope for us yet, Inmates! Must dash, though... It's time to give Inmate Blair his colonscopy.

He doesn't need it, I just feel like giving him one!

Is that a Bunker-Buster in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

OK, Inmates. Weekend’s over. Back into Therapy with you!

The twists and turns of the Iranian nuclear “crisis” seem to read more interestingly with a bit of timely analysis:

We’ve heard a lot over the last week of the efforts of several countries, namely the US, UK, France, Germany and China to negotiate a freeze on Iran’s nuclear fuel enrichment program through the United Nations. The Chimp-In-Chief, as we all know, is showboating to all and sundry that he has “information” that Iran is conducting secret tests to enrich Uranium beyond the level needed for electricity production from nuclear facilities. He asserts that, just like Saddam Hussein, the Iranians are secretly developing nuclear weapons.

Hands up who’s stupid or corrupt enough to fall for THAT crap a second time? Stand up, Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac!

The Iranians flatly deny this accusation. They say that they only want to be able to generate electricity, as do many other countries:

Nuclear Power in the World Today

Seventeen countries depend on nuclear power for at least a quarter of their electricity. France and Lithuania get around three quarters of their power from nuclear energy, while Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovenia and Ukraine get one third or more. Japan, Germany and Finland get more than a quarter of their power from nuclear energy, while the USA gets one fifth.

…more information here

The Iranians say, quite rightly, that if nuclear power is so efficient, and almost everyone else who can afford it can have it, and since Iran is a co-signatory to the Non- Proliferation Treaty (unlike India and Pakistan), why shouldn’t THEY be allowed to have it?

International nuclear safeguards

Over more than 30 years the IAEA's safeguards system under the NPT has been a conspicuous international success. It has involved cooperation in developing nuclear energy for electricity generation, while ensuring that civil uranium, plutonium and associated plant did not allow weapons proliferation to occur as a result of this.

It is important to realise that international nuclear safeguards are focused on the control of fissile materials only. They have nothing to do with engineering or organisational safety aspects of reactors, waste disposal, or transport. These are covered by other international arrangements and conventions. It is also important to understand that nuclear safeguards are a prime means of reassurance whereby non-nuclear weapons states demonstrate to others that they are fulfilling their peaceful commitments. They prevent nuclear proliferation in the same way that auditing procedures build confidence in proper conduct and prevent embezzlement. . Their specific objective is to verify whether nuclear material remains within the civil nuclear fuel cycle and is being used solely for peaceful purposes or not.

…more detail here

Britain and France, I should remind you, are the only two European countries with nuclear weapons, and are in a position to join Bush in strutting, crowing and making the Ultimate Threat. Germany doesn’t have nuclear weapons, and is saying loud and clear that invading Iran would be a disaster, and the UN Security Council should be kept out of this debacle for the sake of us all. Germany wants to negotiate guarantees from Iran. We just want to demand with menaces.

India and Pakistan, who have both refused to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and who have both developed, tested and threatened each other with nuclear weapons, faced sanctions so mild and short-lived it was laughable. The US is now back in business trading nuclear fuel with India. Pakistan, as we now know, has been selling nuclear technology and fissile material through the back-door to anyone with a suitcase full of money for years, and has undoubtedly hastened the almost inevitable arrival of a screaming lunatic with a low-yield device making it past the security cordons and into history.

America, which signed the NPT, and is supposed to be drastically reducing its stockpile of nuclear warheads to reflect reductions made by Russia, is in fact INCREASING weapons production in the form of “Bunker Busters”, intended to penetrate underground facilities. These will be the first nuclear weapons to be deployed when they invade Iran on this flimsiest of excuses.

High Tide of the Neocons

The neocon plan as I understand it is to stand by while the EU-Iran talks collapse; hold France, Germany and Britain to an earlier promise to support UN sanctions against Iran in the wake of that collapse; push Mohamed El Baradei and the IAEA to find Iran in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (even though it's not); attempt, knowing the effort will fail, to acquire a Security Council resolution condemning Iran; have John Bolton as new U.S. ambassador to the UN declare the organization irresponsible if not useless; and then tell the American people the U.S. has tried to deal with Iran's nuclear weapons threat (and its support for international terrorism, and the prospect of nukes falling into the hands of Islamic Jihad or Hizbollah) through the international body, but failed due to China's obstructionism based on Chinese selfish demand for Iranian oil.

Soon thereafter (before a massive movement against an attack on Iran can form) they would like to conduct a horrific tactical-nuke operation against Iranian nuclear facilities as well as government offices. Scott Ritter suggests that they plan an actual invasion from Azerbaijan. They apparently plan to use Mujahadeen Khalq forces much as they used Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan. Europe might stay out this time, although Israel may have an important role, and France having generally reconciled with the U.S. and having worked with the U.S. to reconfigure Syria and Lebanon (and Haiti) may be assigned a major role in her former colonies in the Levant.

The neocons must anticipate resurgent resistance activity in Afghanistan (due both to the activities of one-time CIA favorite Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as well as to Taliban "remnants"), as well as intensified fighting in Iraq, where the Shiites and Sunnis alike will see the Iran attack as a U.S. war on Islam, on behalf of Israel. The American Empire in Southwest Asia will as it expands remain in a semi-chaotic state, with weak client regimes struggling alongside overstretched U.S. forces to contain insurgencies. But that is okay with the neocons, who delight in chaos and see glorious victory and progress in the disarray of Afghanistan and Iraq. They apparently think that their imperial goals can be achieved even in the context of ongoing low-intensity warfare, and that they can meet those goals (of controlling the flow of oil and gas and establishing permanent military bases throughout the region) without a Vietnam-like disaster, or a level of dissent in the U.S. that could actually lead to the fall of the Bush administration.

…more here

Iran sits atop some of the largest oil fields in the world, yet they have a conflict of needs; the oil provides virtually the entire Gross Domestic Product for Iran, but the oil’s not going to last forever (we may fast be approaching the ‘Hubbert Peak, AKA Peak Oil’, after which it’s downhill all the way…), and the least beneficial way of using the oil is to pump it out and use it themselves for generating electricity in inefficient oil-fired power stations. Iran is entitled to long-term energy security, whether George Bush hates their guts or not. It’s simply none of his business.

So… why is France suddenly jumping on the bandwagon? It seems that the Americans have offered the French a little sweetner in exchange for support at the UN – a hinted-at major role in her former colonies in the Levant – Syria, Lebanon and Damascus.

A little history in two links:

THE U. S. NOTE TO THE FRENCH PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT ON THE LEVANT STATES May 31, 1945

PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL'S SPEECH IN COMMONS ON SYRIA AND LEBANON June 5, 1945

French and British 20^th century colonialisation and dominance of much of the Middle East is one of the issues which inflames Middle Eastern passions. When we were there we treated them worse than animals. Then, as now, an arab life is not even worth counting. We Brits have an inglorious past of murder and torture in other people’s countries, and if we want to ever truly understand why there is so much anger and hatred towards us, we forget that fact at our politically-correct peril. The French were every bit as brutal, make no mistake about it.

What of Blair’s position? As you probably know we’ve had a few differences with the French of late over the way the EU works. Britain currently holds the EU Presidency, and it is in Blair’s mind to trump the French card and sidle up to the Chimp-In-Chief again and romp off on another Imperialistic jaunt, thinking that maybe THIS time George will keep his word and let us get our noses in the Criminal Trough of Plunder. The problem with being Bush’s Bitch is that the primary qualification seems to be matchless stupidity.

Much as many of us loathe the idea of returning to nuclear power with all its massive problems, it’s a sad fact that at present nuclear power seems like our best medium-term hope for energy security. Renewable Energy technologies are still in their infancy, having been crippled over and over again over the past couple of decades by all those companies and governments who have colluded to make sure that Sustainable Energy Research consistently fails to get proper grant support, tax-breaks etc. Oil is King, the King has no clothes on, but he’ll destroy the Earth to make sure YOU don’t have any clothes either.

We all get the crystal clear picture, too, that the Republic of Iran isn’t a very user-friendly place to be if you’re not a friend. Several violent, extremist Jihadist organizations are based there, and it’s an almost definite that the Iranian government is financing them left, right and centre. The Iranian Military is highly-trained, pretty damn modern, massive and very, very focused. Attacking Iran wouldn’t bear any comparison to invading Iraq (recently described as “Mexico with oil”).

We know, also, what lies in the religious hearts of the Iranian Clerics, and it’s not a pleasant picture.

However: the cultural issue should be kept separate from the long-term needs of millions of Iranians. How can we ever claim to hold the moral high ground if we treat other nations with such astonishing duplicity, arrogance and murderous disdain? If we can’t accept that this is a time when we need to prove OUR intelligence and integrity by allowing the IAEA to continue its inspections, and offer the hand of trust (let alone technical assistance) to Iran, then the future looks very, very bleak.

Which is just the way George Bush seems to want it…

Iran : Atomic Bombs don't kill People, Stupid... PEOPLE kill People!

(Courtesy: Wizard of Whimsy)

I was under the impression that the crux of the argument used by George Bush to justify not changing U.S. gun ownership laws to introduce Gun Registration and the limiting of the size and power of gun that people can reasonably own, following national outrage after several High School Shootings, was that “GUNS don’t kill People – PEOPLE kill People” and that “Constitutionally every American Citizen has the Sacred Right… Nay! The Sacred DUTY… to bear arms”, to defend themselves.

Note: Actually, George, if you want to be correct about this, I think you’ll find it’s ammunition that kills people…

US Bill of Rights, Article [II.]

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

…And I was also under the impression that the entire basis of American Criminal Justice was “Innocent until proven guilty”. I’m not imagining these facts, am I? No. I didn’t think so.

But the consistency of these arguments seems to go a bit Tits-Up when you look at Bush's George’s imminent Pre-emptive (possibly Nuclear) strike against the Sovereign Nation of Iran… because “We’re suspicious of their Desires”.

Bush is now insisting of Iran (with its determined desire to develop civil Nuclear Power for the sake of Iran’s long-term domestic energy planning, because they know full well the oil is about to start running out, especially since the Chinese arrived) that as far as HE’s concerned, the ONLY motive the Iranians could ever POSSIBLY have for wanting a nuclear ANYTHING can ONLY be to make MILLIONS of Atom Bombs, and promptly strap said Atom Bombs into the end of Iranian-developed ICBM missiles (based on legitimately-acquired medium-range Russian missile technology) and bomb the holy crap out of Israel… because HE says they’re part of The Axis of Evil, and that’s what these Evil-Doers do, Right?

Then, implies Bush, once they’ve wiped out Israel with their as-yet-not-developed Shehab-3 long-range SCUD-type missiles (Range 1,300km / 807 miles), they’re DEFINITELY going to Atom-Bomb YOU, and YOU, and YOU in your beds in Wisconsin, and Texas, and in England-land, by sticking Atomic Bombs into the as-yet-undeveloped Shehab-5 space rocket (Range 2,000 Km… that’s 1,242 miles to you, Bub) which they’re jointly developing with the assistance of North Korea, China and Russia.

Mmmm MMM! I don’t think so, Boyfriend!

• Here’s a handy pull-out-and-keep Distance Converter

From	To	Kilometers	Miles
Tehran	Jerusalem	1,557	967
Tehran	Paris	2,616	4,211 (Doh!)
Tehran	London	2,734	4,400
Tehran	Washington DC	10,178	6,324
P’Yongyang	Jerusalem	7,884	4,899
P’Yongyang	Paris	8,761	5,444 (Doh!)
P’Yongyang	London	8,655	5,378
P’Yongyang	Washington DC	11,047	6,864

Bearing these distances in mind, here’s some more relevant information you need to have:

Iran’s Missile Capability 2005

	Range (Km)	Range (Mi)	Can hit	Status
Shehab 3	1,300	807	Israel (at a push)	Developed
Shehab 4	3,600	2,237	Israel, Germany	In Development
Shehab 5	5,000	3,107	London	In Development, 2010

North Korea’s missile capability, 2005

	Range (Km)	Range (Mi)	Can hit	Status
Scud B	300	200	S. Korea	Developed
Scud C	550	350	S.Korea	Developed
Nodong	1,300	800	S.Korea	Developed
Taepo-Dong 1	2,000	1,200	Japan	Tested
Taepo-Dang 2	6,000	3,700	Alaska/Hawaii	In Development
Taepo-Dong 2 (3-stage version)	12,000	7,500	Continental US	Possibly by 2010

Israel’s missile capability,

	Range (Km)	Range (Mi)	Can hit	Status
Jericho 2	1,300	800	Iran, Sth.Russia	Since 1989
Jericho 3 / Shavit	4,500	2,800	Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Riyadh, Tehran, Tripoli	Being tested

Just two more statistics you need to be aware of:

• Estimated number of Israeli Nuclear Warheads : 300

• Estimated number of U.S. Nuclear Warheads : 3,000+

Q : And how long will it would take Iran to develop and manufacture just one single Atom Bomb, if left completely alone?

A : Ten years at the earliest, according to the expertly compiled estimate of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), whose teams of absolutely professional IAEA Inspectors have been regularly inspecting Iran’s Nuclear development for years, accompanied by CIA, Mossad, MI5 spies posing as “Assistants”. That’s Ten Years, NOT Forty-five Minutes.

George Bush is about to move on to the next part of the Grand Plan, and he’s using exactly the same tactics he used to deceive the UN, the US and Tony Blair that Saddam Hussein was armed and extremely dangerous and was an immediate danger to EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD… and we know how true THAT wasn’t, don’t we?

He’s going to go to the UN, the IAEA, the EU and anywhere else he can think of, and he’s going to tell more lies, whilst pleading that “I’ve give Iran every opportunity to disarm their WMD, we don’t have time to wait for Sanctions, and now I’m going to attack for the sake of Truth, Justice and the American Way… I’ve been a reasonable man… “

He'll back up his lies with alledged heaps of "evidence" created by seditious Iranian dissidents in the same vein as Mahamed Chalabi, the Iraqi dissident who lied and lied and lied about Iraq's WMD arsenal, their 45-minute Nuclear strike capability, and Saddams loving relationship with Al Q'aeda. It was ALL a LIE, as will be everything that comes out of the mouth of the NEXT favoured dissident.

George Bush Jnr. is really, really limbering up to attack Iran and risk massive retaliation from the entire Middle East, and their Allies – Russia, China, North Korea, on the basis of “We’re suspicious of their desires”. Remember - George doesn't do Brinkmanship for long. He's got an itch, and it's driving him Krazeeee.

Slaughtering tens and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children wasn’t enough blood for The First Prince of the Theocratic States of America. No. He needs to slaughter at least as many again, and then he’ll move on to the next Node of the "Axis of Evil", because that’s what God has told him to do. He doesn't care if ten million people die at his self-righteous hand. He thinks he's going to be whisked straight up to Heaven to sit with God before the shit REALLY hits the fan. Really.

This utterly unnecessary escalation of aggression is intended be the beginning of The Rapture – the Final Battle between Good (Theonomy, George Bush and the Krazy Gang) and Evil (Islam, Satan, the Pope)

You know what? The most depraved aspect of all this insanity is that pathetically, the Crypto-Islamic Krazy Gang want exactly the same Final Battle. It's all been foretold, y'see. World War 3 - which may begin over the next few weeks - will actually be God's Desire, apparently. What a Shitty Concept.

There Is No Tomorrow

Remember James Watt, President Ronald Reagan's first secretary of the interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever-engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how James Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, "after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back."

Beltway elites snickered. The press corps didn't know what he was talking about. But James Watt was serious. So were his compatriots out across the country. They are the people who believe the Bible is literally true - one-third of the American electorate, if a recent Gallup poll is accurate. In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the Rapture Index.

That's right - the Rapture Index. Google it and you will find that the best-selling books in America today are the 12 volumes of the "Left Behind" series written by the Christian fundamentalist and religious-right warrior Timothy LaHaye. These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the 19th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative that has captivated the imagination of millions of Americans.

Its outline is rather simple, if bizarre (the British writer George Monbiot recently did a brilliant dissection of it and I am indebted to him for adding to my own understanding): Once Israel has occupied the rest of its "biblical lands," legions of the antichrist will attack it, triggering a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon.

As the Jews who have not been converted are burned, the messiah will return for the rapture. True believers will be lifted out of their clothes and transported to Heaven, where, seated next to the right hand of God, they will watch their political and religious opponents suffer plagues of boils, sores, locusts and frogs during the several years of tribulation that follow.

I'm not making this up.

... rest of article HERE

Tribulation and Rapture - the Theology.

Just prior to Jesus’ return to set up an earthly kingdom, argue most amillennialists and all premillennialists, there will be a time of persecution, called the Great Tribulation. It is here that the great debate over the Jews begins. Amillennialists believe that Christians will be persecuted by their enemies. A handful of premillennialists, referred to as "historic premillennialists," also identify Christians as the targets. This version of premillennialism has been insignificant institutionally since the 1870’s. The dominant premillennial view says that Jews will suffer the Great Tribulation. Born-again Christians will have flown the coop – literally. This is the doctrine of the pre-tribulation Rapture.

According to pre-tribulation premillennialists, who are known as dispensationalists, Jesus will come secretly in the clouds and raise deceased Christians – and only Christians – from the dead. Immediately thereafter, every true Christian will be transported bodily into the sky, and from there to heaven: the Rapture event. The passage cited to defend this view is found in Paul’s first letter to the church at Thessolonica: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up [harpazo] together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" (I Thes. 4:16-17). Throughout most of church history, this passage was associated with the final judgment, but beginning sometime around 1830 in England, it was linked to the premillennial, pretribulational Rapture – a word that is not found in the Greek text or in any English translation of the New Testament. Its Latin root word is in Jerome’s Vulgate, a translation of the Greek "harpazo" – seize, catch, or pluck.

...rest of article here

Can you believe this insanity? WAKE UP!

So what's Timothy LaHaye got in store for YOU?

...What is LaHaye's worldview? In a recent non-fiction book titled Mind Siege (coauthored with David Noebel), LaHaye outlines his model society a Religious Right utopia where there is no separation of church and state. Abortion is outlawed and homosexuality is lumped in with pedophilia and prostitution as "perverse sexual practices" that are "universally viewed as immoral and would be shunned." Censorship is rampant as the "Christian and pro-moral community" use the federal government to promulgate "decency" codes.
In LaHaye's perfect world, voucher subsidies for private religious education are freely available. Public schools are turned into centers for fundamentalist indoctrination with daily prayer, promotion of the Ten Commandments and creationism firmly ensconced. The Department of Education has been abolished, and teenagers are given no sex education at school. Instead, children are taught revisionist history about how the United States was founded to be a "Christian nation."
Women, in LaHaye's dream, would "stay at home to raise their babies," eschew feminism and submit to their husbands who would assume their God-given role as "the spiritual head of the family."
For years LaHaye labored through various Religious Right groups to persuade Americans to adopt his views and win support from politicians. Having made only limited progress, he now uses fiction to achieve what he could not get through politics....

...A year later, LaHaye was co-founder and first president of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a secretive umbrella group of far right leaders who meet regularly to plot strategy designed to advance a theocratic agenda. CNP activists have included Falwell, Pat Robertson, long-time right-wing strategist Paul Weyrich, the American Family Association's Donald Wildmon, Focus on the Family's James C. Dobson and former attorney general Edwin Meese. (Even R.J. Rushdoony, the now-deceased dean of the radical Christian Reconstructionist movement, was a member.)...

...LaHaye's books are based on a reading of the Book of Revelation popular among many fundamentalists. Revelation is a symbol-laden book that is fertile ground for those interested in the apocalypse. Under LaHaye's "premillenialist" interpretation, which is common in some fundamentalist circles, the end of the world begins with the "Rapture," when all "Bible believing" Christians are whisked off to Heaven, leaving only their clothes and jewelry behind. Non-believers are forced to stay on Earth and endure the "Tribulation," a period marked by war, confusion and death, as well as the rise of the Antichrist.In the "Left Behind" series, the Antichrist comes to power and, aided by duplicitous United Nations officials, instills an oppressive reign under a totalitarian one-world government. A motley collection of ordinary people who failed to make the cut for the Rapture commit themselves anew to faith and organize a "Tribulation Force" to overthrow the godless regime. ..

...Conspiracy-theory thinking and contempt for religions that differ from fundamentalist Christianity run through LaHaye's non-fiction works. His 1983 book The Battle for the Public Schools contains a drawing of a tree whose trunk is labeled "Secular Humanism." Some of its roots are labeled "Hinduism," "Buddhism," "Taoism" and "Confucianism." Branches and leaves coming off of the tree are labeled "Crime," "Divorce," "Abortion," "Homosexuality," "Rape," "V.D.," "Public Schools" and "Liberal Politicians."
Humanist leaders in the United States are alternately amused and horrified by LaHaye's smear campaign against them. "Tim LaHaye blames secular humanists for everything from communism to bad breath," Edward M. Buckner, executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism in Amherst, N.Y., told Church & State. "LaHaye's paranoid ravings and conspiracy theories about humanists running the world would be amusing but for one thing: He is stirring up hatred against an entire class of people based on their belief system and worldview. That's not funny."
Humanists aren't LaHaye's only target. As might be expected from a Bob Jones University graduate, he also has a long history of vitriolic attacks on Catholicism. In his 1973 book Revelation Illustrated and Made Plain, LaHaye writes that the Catholic Church "is more dangerous than no religion because she substitutes religion for truth.... Rome is also dangerous because some of her doctrines are pseudo-Christian." Elsewhere in the book LaHaye compares Catholic services to pagan rituals...

...Aside from conspiracy theories, LaHaye's non-fiction works show unmitigated hostility toward the separation of church and state. In The Battle for the Mind, LaHaye writes that the First Amendment was intended only to prevent the establishment of a national church. He insists that the country was founded on "biblical principles and a clear recognition of God" and asserts that "atheistic, amoral humanists have moved in...they control our nation's destiny and are seeking to separate her from God. This is particularly true of our judges, a high percentage of whom make humanistic decisions."
In Mind Siege, LaHaye calls church-state separation "the big lie" and insists, "With a false interpretation of separation, the humanists have rendered our government almost as secular as Communist China and the former Soviet Union. In fact, in many ways there is more religious freedom in present-day Russia than there is in the United States."...

And last, but not least...

Christian Reconstructionists/Dominionists: Deemed "scary," even by Jerry Falwell's followers, Dominionists literally want to impose Biblical law and reconstruct America as "the Kingdom of God on earth." In short, they seek to toss out the U.S. Constitution, override the authority of the Supreme Court and turn the U.S. into a theocracy. Embracing a "Biblical world view" as the only worldview, Reconstructionists would squelch democracy and all its trappings, while making homosexuality and other "sins" punishable by death. Rev. Timothy LaHaye, who played a role in putting Bush in the White House, was one of the movement’s framers.

...Council for National Policy: Co-founded by Rev. Timothy LaHaye, the Council for National Policy has included John Ashcroft, Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell among its lengthy list of influential members. According to Rolling Stone, the impeachment effort against President Bill Clinton "was reportedly conceived at a June 1997 meeting of the CNP in Montreal." And as ABC reported, the group came under heavy scrutiny in 1999 following G.W. 's "king-making speech" wherein it was rumored that candidate Bush (depending on which report you believe), promised to take a "tough stance against gays and lesbians."...

...Of course, there are plenty more extremist groups out there, with plenty of clout. And in addition to sharing an incestuous relationship (Famed Reconstructionist Dr. George Grant, for example, is affiliated with Coral Ridge Ministries, which is run by former National Council for Policy member D. James Kennedy, who sat on the board of directors of Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority, which was also organized by Tim LaHaye), they seem to be driven by a single-minded determinism. "There are forty million people who claim to have been converted. If every one of those would simply win one other person to Christ, we could control this country," televangelist Kennedy once said....

OK, I'm done for now. These are the secret Big Ideas justifying Bush's Middle Eastern Policy. These are the King-Makers who put Bush where he is, and he now believes completely that he is The Chosen One to initiate the Rapture. Every time you see The Prince delivering his dogma on News items as the next War approaches, listen very carefully to the language he uses...

I know it's hard to reconcile all of the above with what you've been allowed to hear on TV over the past two days about Iran removing those IAEA seals, but you must understand that the Man is Trippin' on Raw Power, and he now thinks he's on a mission from God.

When Bush attacks Iran the Syrians, the Libyans, the Lebanese, the Jordanians, the Afghans, the Iraqis and maybe the Egyptians and Pakistanis will coalesce and mount a massive counter-strike on every American Military Asset they can hit, and will try and take out the Israeli Threat, if Israel hasn't already started launching Jericho 3s left, right and centre.

If Bush uses 'Battlefield' Nuclear Weapons, in the form of the shiny, new, untested-on-the-battlefied so called Bunker Busters, all Hell will break loose. The North Koreans will respond, as will the Chinese and the Russians. They will have no choice. Bush is doing a big shit right on their doorstep. The lethal Baboon is showing his big red arse, and his lips are pulled right back over his fangs.

Bush is also doing this to prove that he's just crazy enough to destroy the entire region, and he doesn't give a rat's arse WHOSE doorstep he does it on. He's about to send a very clear message to the World, and we'd better be ready to deal with it.

Yes, that's real. Tomorrow... a pause for breath.