Iran : Atomic Bombs don't kill People, Stupid... PEOPLE kill People!
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.
US Bill of Rights, Article [II.]
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a
…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
From | To | Kilometers | Miles |
1,557 | 967 | ||
2,616 | 4,211 (Doh!) | ||
2,734 | 4,400 | ||
10,178 | 6,324 | ||
P’Yongyang | 7,884 | 4,899 | |
P’Yongyang | 8,761 | 5,444 (Doh!) | |
P’Yongyang | 8,655 | 5,378 | |
P’Yongyang | 11,047 | 6,864 |
Bearing these distances in mind, here’s some more relevant information you need to have:
Range (Km) | Range (Mi) | Can hit | Status | |
Shehab 3 | 1,300 | 807 | Developed | |
Shehab 4 | 3,600 | 2,237 | In Development | |
Shehab 5 | 5,000 | 3,107 | In Development, 2010 |
North Korea’s missile capability, 2005
Range (Km) | Range (Mi) | Can hit | Status | |
Scud B | 300 | 200 | Developed | |
Scud C | 550 | 350 | S.Korea | Developed |
Nodong | 1,300 | 800 | S.Korea | Developed |
Taepo-Dong 1 | 2,000 | 1,200 | Tested | |
Taepo-Dang 2 | 6,000 | 3,700 | Alaska/Hawaii | In Development |
Taepo-Dong 2 (3-stage version) | 12,000 | 7,500 | Continental | Possibly by |
Range (Km) | Range (Mi) | Can hit | Status | |
1,300 | 800 | Sth.Russia | Since 1989 | |
4,500 | 2,800 | Being tested |
Just two more statistics you need to be aware of:
- Estimated number of Israeli Nuclear Warheads : 300
Q : And how long will it would take
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.
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
That's right - the Rapture Index. Google it and you will find that the best-selling books in
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
...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."...
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.
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