I fella sent me this via email this morning, probably because he cites our
web site at the end of it
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Dear Pat Robertson:
Honesty is the first chapter of the Book of Wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, 3rd American President)
This is from http://www.patrobertson.com/speeches/JeffersonianIdeals.asp ,
wherein Mister Robertson attempts to live up to his intentions, entitled,
"Restore America to its Jeffersonian Ideals. Mister Robertson has never
bothered to display himself as an honest man, but has often shown himself
adept use of very creative 'facts' presented to audiences who will never
bother to question his veracity or his sources, when they do exist. Some
quotes attributed to Tom Jefferson were never expressed, are not part of
the contents to which he attributes them, or were written in language with
inherent meanings different from Robertson's revisionist restatements.
I will take the liberty to intermix my own comments within his
words below. My own work will be inset like this paragraph, and will be in
this color serif type. Mister Robertson's text is black, sans serif (like
this example), and left at full width.
He begins with a synopsis:
Synopsis: The Jefferson Memorial pledge on the "altar of God (of) eternal
enmity against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" challenges
Americans today. Governments can cause tyranny, a welfare state can cause
tyranny, and political correctness creates tyranny. Pat calls for freedom
for believers to pursue their faith, freedom from undue government
regulation and a restoration of Jeffersonian defense of God-given
liberties.
Actually, religions (and other self-centered interests) cause tyranny
and use government as a tool. Large corporations introduce tyranny into
government and many people have shown good reason to believe they are what
Mister Robertson refers to as "God". Believers do already own the freedom
to pursue their faith, as many Christians fully realize, for so long as
religion and government are kept separate. The earliest settlers of our
country fought hard to avoid being victims of religious intolerance. Today,
Mister Robertson attempts to manipulate their words to further the
reinstatement of tyranny into the minds of their heirs in spite of warnings
they gave against allowing this to occur.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, March 3, 2000 -- This evening, I think back to one
of the most profound experiences of my life when for the first time I
entered the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, looked up at the statue of
that incredibly handsome and powerful man, and then I read his words
chiseled in the marble frieze surrounding the ceiling: "I have sworn on the
altar of God eternal enmity against every form of tyranny over the mind of
man."
These words stirred something visceral within me, and I repeat them: "I
have sworn upon the altar of God eternal enmity against every form of
tyranny over the mind of man."
Has anybody bothered to check this "quote"? I have found it attributed
to him, but without its context. It would have been good of this man to
have included a picture of the inscription for us all to read, and to have
supported his claim of it being a Jefferson quote by providing source
information. Lack of that leaves it very suspect to those of us who doubt
Mister Robertson's honesty and intentions. The quote may easily have
originated in the construction of the memorial and, knowing Jefferson to
have been a Deist, it most likely was not from him.
Jefferson played unique role
Ladies and Gentlemen, unless you understand these words, you do not
understand this great genius who played such a key role in shaping the
United States of America.
Listen to what else Jefferson said. In the Virginia Statute of Religious
Freedom he wrote, "Almighty God has created the mind free." In a letter to
George Washington, he wrote, "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. "In
the Declaration of Independence, he wrote, "We hold these truths to be
self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Mister Robertson has fabricated the information regarding the letter
and the statute from misinformation which can be found in Christian
literature but not in anything Jefferson wrote. The 'Creator' referred to
in the Declaration of Independence is the Deist God, who supposedly created
the universe and then left it to fend for itself (according to Deism). The
term is found in the Declaration because that document took aim at British
tyranny, which included the Church of England and the imposition of that
against the colonists.
Ladies and Gentlemen, tonight I stand before you as a Jeffersonian
Conservative, and as such, I share his hatred of any form of tyranny over
the minds of men, be it Communism, be it Fascism, be it Socialism, be it
the over-bearing liberal welfare state, or be it the stultifying political
correctness that has reached out to stifle freedom of expression on
countless college and university campuses across America.
Mister Robertson reaches far and wide, and away beyond government to
include tyranny being perpetrated upon us. And yet, in his obfuscation
against political correctness, he overlooks all the ways he benefits from
that: "It is not nice to say nasty things about people like Mister
Robertson, even while they feel free to say nasty things about you."
Actually, Tom Jefferson often expressed his feelings against the threat of
tyranny that came then, and still comes from the Christian leaders. If
Mister Robertson actually felt the way he declares himself to, he would be
preaching instead against the way his regime attempts to control scientific
information in practice, and in the educational system that should be
attempting to prepare American youth to become the good and knowledgeable
leaders of the future.
We must be free to question
I believe that men and women should have the freedom to explore truth, to
question pedagogical orthodoxy, to speak out on any side of an issue, and
above all, to be free from the current crop of liberal thought police who
permit only those forms of speech which agree with their view of reality.
Of course, since my days at Yale Law School in the 1950's, all the way to
the Presidential election of 2000, I have learned a sobering truth. Those
who call themselves "liberal" are not liberal at all. They want government
control of business, government control of labor, government control of
education, higher government taxes on the people, government control of
families, and most of all, they want, in their own hands, control of the
flow of thoughts and ideas that are disseminated to the people.
There is nothing "liberal" about them. They are elitist -- convinced that
they and their associates are the sole possessors of enlightenment and
truth needed to lead all others.
Wow! Does he overlook that it is those who share his viewpoint that
want those things? Why do the RRRR people want to place their idols and
graven images all over any bare and empty places in our governmental
edifices? Answer: "Because we need to be kept reminded of our country's
roots in the Bible." That our country was not rooted in the Bible is beside
the point, but lies will be told to avoid the truth: That our country was
founded in avoidance of the Bible and those who pound on it to emphasize
their theological pronouncements.
For my own thoughts on "liberal", look here.
Jefferson on 20th century liberals?
How would Thomas Jefferson have regarded these 21st Century "liberals"?
“Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law,”
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
bullet These self-proclaimed liberals, who, in the matter of human life,
permit full and favorable discussion of a woman's right to choose abortion,
but castigate and deny expression to those who wish to plead for the rights
of the unborn?
Who denies Mister Robertson his freedom of speech? How can he
justify right to freedom and life for the unborn, and still support the
right to murder and imprison them later as adults? If, according to his
stated beliefs, the innocent infants automatically go to Heaven and the
adults end up in Hell (as will those who murder either one), to whom is he
doing a favor by forcing them to be born into the lives of squalor, misery,
and crime that he sees as being the choice they will freely make for
themselves in spite of all odds and circumstances prevailing against them?
bullet Who, in the matter of human sexuality, insist that taxpayers
support promiscuity, pay for illegitimacy, advertise condom use and
distribution, but file lawsuits to deny the teaching of abstinence and
traditional marriage for young people?
Would it not seem correct to suppose that a God who created Nature
and saw it to be good would want things to remain as natural as possible? I
suppose, though, that is not the reason Mister Robertson is against the use
of condoms by young people. He also overlooks that more than half of the
taxpayers are, themselves, promiscuous, as has been discovered about a
goodly number of his fellow preachers.
If "traditional marriage" is what Mister Robertson insists upon,
then I, who have remained blissfully wed to my original mate for almost
half a century, am about three marriages too late for my first divorce.
bullet These liberals, who in the matter of politics accept all segments
of society to participate in the political process except the 100 million
members of society who are Evangelical Christians and pro-family Roman
Catholics.
If Mister Robertson meant to say 'expect' instead of 'accept',
maybe his sentence can be interpreted. His numbers are away off, and he had
to include Catholics to bring them up to a meaningful amount. Even at that,
the bottom line will be closer to sixty million than to his hundred; and at
that, a large portion of those belong to congregations that despise his
fanatical brand of religion.
What he really ought to present here is examples and references to
his sources so we can all be sure he has not just made all of this up. I
have heard of no one at all attempting to keep Catholics or anyone else
from legitimate engagement in the political processes of our country.
And if you think that assessment is overstated, please consider the fact
that on Monday of this week, there was a misguided attempt to humiliate
certain Virginians of religious faith in order to deny them and the
candidate they supported the access to those privileges of citizenship
which all Americans should enjoy as a matter of course.
Okay. Finally, an actual example for all these claims. Is it a real
example, or one that he made up? The default position is the latter, for so
long as references are not provided. Hyperlinks are very easy to include on
a web page, and I feel sure that anybody wearing Mister Robertson's
questionable shoes would want others to see to what he has referred IF it
really exists.
Believers disenfranchised?
I am not talking here about the free discussion of ideas on their merit. I
am not talking about heated debate in the vital marketplace of a free
people. I am talking about the mind-set of those who say simply that the
deeply held beliefs of people of faith are not worthy of discussion, and
therefore those who hold them should be stigmatized, ridiculed, and
suppressed.
Well, thank you for feeling that way, Mister Robertson. I feel sure I
will not be the only atheist who might regard you with a percentage or two
of higher respect for standing up for us that way. I believe in myself, and
I believe in my own ability to reason from scientific evidence and
verifiable factual matter, and find my way to the factual truths that bear
upon my existence and the existence of all humanity, and I appreciate your
support from the bottom of my heart.
I must, however, gain some kind of understanding of your support also
being for discussion and heated debate of meritless ideas. Is it because a
lot of people don't seem to understand how enforcing meritless concepts
wastes a lot of time and money that could better serve humanity by
replacing them with programs developed from ideas which do show merit? Are
you trying to foster discussions about them so people will gain more
exposure to the truth?
As I stand before you tonight, I am pleased to report that the people of
Virginia still cherish the ideals of Jefferson, and on Tuesday repudiated a
call for divisiveness and intolerance.
Ah, yes, the Virginia people again. I am left to wonder what it's all
about.
But what of the vast nation we call America? Does this nation still cherish
the Jeffersonian ideal of freedom? You be the judge.
In Texas, the former Democratic Attorney General said and I quote, " The
state owns your children and it owns you too."
Ah, yes, the same link he gave for the people of Virginia. Default
position remains unchanged. All I can find about Jefferson and Virginia
points to this: In reply to an address to him by a committee of the Danbury
Baptist Association (8 id. 113), took occasion to say: 'Believing with you
that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God; that
he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; that the
legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not
opinions,-I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole
American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law
respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.
Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of
the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the
progress of those sentiments which tend to restore man to all his natural
rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social
duties.'
When our Republic was founded, there were only three federal crimes under
the Constitution. From then to now, Washington has created over 3,000
federal crimes. New federal regulations restricting our freedom in some way
total 60,000 pages a year. Under The Health Care Proposals advocated in
1993 by the President and Senatorial Candidate Hillary Clinton, ordinary
citizens and their physicians could have become a new criminal
class-threatened with heavy fines and prison sentences merely for seeking
life-saving medical care outside of a government mandated health alliance.
Ah, yes, the same link he gave for the people of Virginia. Default
position remains unchanged.
Taxes and regulations on the rise
In the name of improving our lives, political liberals controlling the
federal government have raised the taxes on the average American family to
a level that exceeds the tribute paid by serfs in Medieval Europe. These
same liberals have given us the IRS, the SEC, the EPA, the NLRB, the FEC,
the FCC, the EEOC, the ICC, and the ATF, plus an alphabet soup of federal
departments and agencies which along with the Justice Department have the
power to intimidate, harass, bankrupt, fine, or imprison virtually every
citizen of this nation. Why do we now have 3,000 federal crimes? Why were
there at least 70 criminal sanctions in a plan designed to give us better
health care? The answer is simple. Political liberals want utopian
governmental solutions for all of society's problems. And if the ordinary
people don't buy their far-out schemes, let the government declare that
ordinary people are criminals.
Ah, yes, the same link he gave for the people of Virginia. Default
position remains unchanged. Actually, under the theocratic government
Mister Robertson supports (remember Orwell's 1984?), things would be a lot
worse. There might only be one crime, though, which would be to disagree
with Mister Robertson.
About taxation: Much of the alphabet soup attributed to so-called
'liberals' has originated in Mister Robertson's own camp. Many of the
so-called 'crimes' are from violation of laws originated and conceived by
those who share his own agenda. And, as for taxes: How does it benefit the
average American Family when rich folks' taxes are reduced while poor folks
pay taxes through the purchase of double-priced fuel to support a warfare
agenda that has been well and often demonstrated itself to have been
contrived to support an obscene barrage of lies?
"Tax Relief" is a lie unsupported by the facts, and should be renamed
"Investment Avoidance" in consideration of those fine folks who run
corporations that take their American-produced wealth away from the
American people and leave us holding the bag for infrastructure expenses
while they invest the capital our system helped them earn into systems that
will—and heartily do—compete against us. That is outright theft of wealth
gained from those who already made their investments into America by those
who now cheat against reinvesting to support the origins of their own
riches. Taxes are the dues we owe for membership into the most fantastic
social organization in the world, and America's common folk must soon
awaken to realize who it is that shirks their dues and so allows the club
to fall apart in decay.
Listen to the words of Jefferson, "To compel a man to furnish contributions
of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors,
is sinful and tyrannical."
I don't know if Jefferson actually said that, because the man did not
give the source of this quote; and so, even though the default position
must remain the same, I will acknowledge it sounds like it agrees with
Jefferson's position in general. Let's look at it in the context of
Jefferson's actual circumstances and accomplishments, and make sure we keep
on track with a correct understanding of it.
The opinions about which Jefferson would have expressed such
condemnation are those of the Christian religion, which Jefferson stated
himself to be very much against on repeated occasions. That same religion,
in its most fanatical form, is right now attempting to accomplish that
which Jefferson warned us against, and let me quote, "The hocus-pocus
phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads,
had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of
martyrs"-- Thomas Jefferson (Works, Vol. iv., p. 360)-- a quote that refers
to the Trinity of Christianity; and:
"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by
the supreme being as his father in the womb of a Virgin Mary, will be
classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of
Jupiter.... But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought
in these United States will do away [with] all this artificial
scaffolding."--(Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 11 April 1823--;
and, in 1801:
"I have examined all the known superstitions of the word, and I do
not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming
feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of
innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity,
have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned." --Thomas Jefferson, third
President of the USA, letter to William Short.--
And, finally, now that its context is plain: "In the fevered state
of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of
these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are
determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which
they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is
not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal." Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826, 3rd American President)
Let's restore Jeffersonian ideals
Ladies and Gentlemen, I submit to you tonight that the time has come in
America for those who cherish the ideals of Thomas Jefferson to rise up and
assert our God-given liberties and reject a continuation of the tyrannical
rule of the Radical Left and their liberal allies.
Never forget: While pointing the finger of accusation at innocent
people, the remaining fingers point back at yourself. Jefferson plainly
stated our liberties to be derived from human consent, not god-granted from
a scheme he expressed constant doubts about. Look here: "Our principles
[are] founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason." -- Thomas
Jefferson, to James Sullivan, 1797. ME 9:379 -- That may not be enough to
convince the most obtuse readers. Here is:
"On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral
principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have
been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for
abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely
beyond the comprehension of the human mind." -- Thomas Jefferson, to Carey,
1816 --
Hear again, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal enmity against
every form of tyranny over the minds of man." Then consider the liberal
assault on our children and their teachers: In Salinas, California seven
years go, Lindsay Freeman, a five-year old was asked by her kindergarten
teacher to sing her favorite song in front of the class. Lindsay reports
that when she started signing "Jesus Loves Me This I Know...," the teacher
stopped her, saying "I'm sorry Lindsay, you can't sing that song here."
Then she sent Lindsay to her chair, and told her to put her head down.
Lindsay says she felt hurt and angry that she was being "punished" for
singing her favorite song!
Ah, Mister Robertson, where is your source material?
bullet In San Antonio, Texas, a 52-year old Grandmother was handcuffed,
arrested, and stripped searched three times for the crime of passing out
pro-life literature on a public sidewalk and street outside of a high
school.
This has an appearance of heavy exaggeration, but it is about
Texas. We have no idea if the story is true, nor about its context. It
being Texas, it elicits pictures of firing a shotgun into the air, and old
lady getting into a violent argument after picking a fight with a police
officer, and all kinds of crazy probabilities. The default position,
without verification is: "It didn't happen."
bullet Micah Lynn Harbison, a second-grader in Bakersfield, California,
was told by her teacher to bring a picture of her "hero" to school. When
Micah Lynn brought a picture of Jesus riding a white horse, the teacher
pulled her aside and told her that she could not have Jesus as her hero.
Later, when her father asked the teacher why, the teacher said that the
assignment asked for a "living" hero and then proceeded to tell him that
her photo violated the "separation of church and state."
Separation of church and state is a Jeffersonian principle and is
what your document here purports to be upholding. Beyond that, your own
favorite reference book asserts that the Jesus character died and ascended
into Heaven. Beyond that, the default position, without verification, still
is: "It didn't happen."
bullet When Jason Bishop of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, took out his pocket
Bible to read during free reading time at school, he was told by his
teacher that his activity was "illegal" and that he should put his Bible
away. Only a threatened lawsuit restored to Jason his constitutional
rights.
In this example, if it actually did occur, the teacher was in the
wrong. Only activities initiated by authority figures are in violation of
the Jeffersonian principle of separation of church and state, and it has to
be plainly just as wrong for a student's non-disruptive activity, even if
it involves religion, to be thwarted. It makes no difference whether it is
a Bible, a Quran, a Book of Mormon, or Bertrand Russell's "Why I am Not a
Christian," the teacher would have been in the wrong if the student was, in
general, behaving.
ADLJ seeks to restore these ideals
Decades ago, I resolved to say no to tyranny, but my resolve did not take
the form I desired until nine years ago when I founded the American Center
for Law and Justice to go into the courts of America to fight the ACLU and
their allies of the Radical Left.
Since then, we have fought the tyranny of America's "thought police" in
virtually every major jurisdiction, and I am pleased to report that from
the Supreme Court of the United States on down, we have never lost one
case! In 1998, the Center received over 102,000 complaints primarily from
students or their parents outlining attempts by public schools to deny them
their constitutional freedoms.
We give a tyrannical school or school system 24 hours to correct abuses, or
we bring action against them in Federal Court. At present, we have over
1,000 active cases, and could bring 85 federal lawsuits against school
districts demanding that they accord fundamental free speech rights to
children with religious faith. Next month, our chief counsel will argue in
the U.S. Supreme Court for the simple freedom of a high school football
team in Texas to say a student-initiated voluntary prayer before a game.
If student-initiated activities are what you are defending in every
case, then bully for you. I remember public schools in my own youth: We
were marched to "Religious Education" classes at a church chosen by our
parents, and exposed to the Christian mythology first hand under the guise
of authority from the state. Those were not student-initiated activities,
and none of the churches involved were of my parents' beliefs. What I
learned from the resultant disputes with my teachers, and with my parents,
was that I had to find out for myself what must be true. As a result,
enforced lessons in Christianity taught me to be an atheist.
Mr. Jefferson spoke of "enmity against tyranny over the mind." These school
officials haven't seen enmity against tyranny until they face-off in a
federal court against our Chief Counsel, Jay Sekulow, and try to justify
their actions.
But this brief discourse would be incomplete if I failed to emphasize one
facet of the writings of Jefferson which the Radical Left has studiously
ignored.
Freedom comes from God
Every statement that Jefferson made about freedom carried with it his clear
understanding that the right to freedom for every man and woman does not
come from government; it does not come from social position; it does not
come from wealth; it does not come from intellectual attainment. No
…Freedom comes from the direct creative act of a sovereign God.
Jefferson actually said rights were granted by consent of the governed.
If you will read your Bible, you will someday observe that the 'laws'
presented in there are not about rights and prevention of governmental
tyranny, but are the exact opposite as statements of rules, requirements,
and obligations wherein no rights or freedoms are allowed.
Jefferson said, in fact, that this truth in his day was "self-evident." To
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, Patrick
Henry, in fact, to all of the Founders of this great nation, religious
faith was the indispensable support of all of the liberties of a free
people. As John Adams put it when the Constitution was drafted, " This
constitution will serve only a moral and a religious people. It is totally
inadequate for any other."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of
Happiness..." We are familiar with this phrase from our Declaration of
Independence, but have we considered its logical implications and
outworking? Probably not, because we are too inclined to simply take what's
been handed to us.
First, please realize this message to the King of England had no
intentions of being anything more than a statement of our intentions to
secede from our role as a British colony. The King's position also made
him head of the Church of England, a fact that provided reason enough for
including a renouncement of enforced superstition within this same
document. Second, Jefferson's Deism gave him a picture of a God that was
somewhat of a cross between Christianity's God, and that of Pantheism
(wherein Nature and God are one and the same). Were I to renounce atheism,
the Pantheist view I would adopt would allow for the same expression as the
Deist view Jefferson openly upheld, without the misrepresentation proffered
by the Christians against whom Jefferson openly set himself. That he
referred to natural rights (that is, rights inherent to Nature) in the
quote at the beginning section of this document also supports that.
In a letter to George Washington, Jefferson wrote, " Can the liberties of a
nation, be preserved when we have removed a conviction that these liberties
are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country," he continued, "when
I reflect that God is just, and His justice cannot sleep forever." Indeed,
I tremble for my country when I realize that the Radical Left has for
decades systematically excised from our nation's consciousness virtually
every vestige of the historic faith of the Founders of this nation.
Even atheists openly sympathize with the expression that Nature's rules
and laws must be obeyed, and that Nature gives or withholds all according
to the conditions extant. That anyone could interpret and uphold
Jefferson's words more readily with this Pantheist view than with the
Christian is only a matter of comparing that which is obvious against that
which has to be assumed.
But still, that does not deal with your misrepresentation of
Jefferson's words as shown away from their contextual setting. Jefferson
did champion the separation of religion and government (or, in his words,
church and state) He championed the removal of the conviction and, in
stating so, worried that the RRRR of the day were going to rise up and
terrorize the populace with their fanatical promulgations.
So, saying "God is just", a Deistic expression in support of Yin
and Yang, or a Pantheist's expression of concern for the balances inherent
to the proper workings of Nature, does not make Mister Jefferson into
anything other than the Deist he claimed to be.
A moral lobotomy
In the words of former United States Attorney General Bill Barr, the
liberals have performed a "moral lobotomy" on the public schools of
America.
The consequences are predictable. We are engulfed in a tidal wave of broken
families, illegitimacy, drug abuse, alcoholism, murder, rape, school
shootings, and spiraling health care costs -- all of which are rapidly
eroding the freedoms we have so long taken for granted. But tonight, there
is hope. What the political left has taken away, we can recapture. You are
the heirs of Thomas Jefferson. You study at the University he founded. You
honor his memory.
Let me challenge you tonight to let his words move you to action. Fight for
freedom. Fight against tyranny. With God's help, work to bring about a
rebirth of the Jeffersonian ideal in this nation.
I cannot argue against this, except to doubt who is at fault. Broken
families result directly from poverty and ignorance, two conditions
Christianity openly idealizes. The Bible itself almost opens with a
statement against the acquisition of knowledge and that gets perpetuated
throughout both testaments. The original Christian church, the Catholics,
burned books to prevent the spread of knowledge by demonizing it as heresy,
and those who sought to spread it anyways were destroyed as heretics. In
our own country, to this day, science has to fight an ongoing battle to
keep its own evolving knowledge from falling victim to the evils of
paranoid fanaticism.
How strange it must seem to any outsiders how those who fight
against the promotion of awareness and knowledge about science's
discoveries, use the tools that result from that as weapons in their fight
to demonize science and scientists, and to cast doubt on scientific
warnings about the effects of some of our profitable activities will have
on our environment, and endanger the welfare of future generations.
So, I feel glad that you so completely support people like me in
our ongoing fight for freedom that we never really had, freedom against the
effects of evil greed from the dues-evading cheaters who use all kinds of
charades to avoid paying their fair share of our reinvestment in America;
freedom against the misnamed "Putrid Sky Act" which undid years of
sky-clearing regulations to allow unhampered pollution by super-wealthy
corporations that saves them money to build their new plants elsewhere that
no controls exist; the "No Tree Left Behind Act" that is so named because
clear-cut forests get converted from healthy trees to useless brush piles
the become fire hazards; the "Let's Use Up Our Own Oil While They Still
Have Plenty Left Act", pushed by people on both sides of the fence who
don't like having to choke up as much as half the price Europeans pay for
fuel to chug their guzzling SUBs down city streets one person at a time; or
"Wipe Out Education Now" which so strictures our schools not only with
reduced funds opposite to that promised, but removes funds from public
education to channel it to agenda-based private education, while demonizing
public schools for not doing so well while choking to death in the midst of
right-wing efforts to raise smoke screens of blame. Otherwise known as the
"Poor Kids Left Behind Act", it punishes students who go to poorly
performing schools by making sure those schools do even worse.
The phrase 'Compassionate Conservative' elicits a laughable image
(really!) of someone who crushes your head with a single blow from a silver
mallet to render you unconscious before he steals all your belongings, in
order to not offend you while he's doing it. Conservatives are people who
hate change, and come out from their caves only long enough to gripe about
the world and vote against any signs of progress. Compassionate
Conservatives are willing to share their caves with you.
Guess who supports the 'Poison Water Bill', as a part of the RRRR
agenda to get rid of so-called 'Liberals', most of whom live in areas
susceptible to pollution of all kinds. The 'Let's Expose Social Security to
Corporate Greed Bill' is a hot item on the RRRR agenda now, as are all the
items related to 'Let's Keep Love Out of Families' programs, the 'Let's
Weaken America So We Can Take It Before The Muslims Get it' programs that
seek to lay the blame on everything wrong onto everybody but the real
culprits. And last, but not least, the recently passed 'Let's Drive
Americans Out of Their Homes and Onto the Streets Act' that recently
passed. We will soon have our freedoms, of the kind supported by the likes
of Mister Robertson, in which we can wander all over the place in search of
food and shelter.
I'm sure we can figure out how to blame it onto the so-called
'Liberals' while everything falls into place.
See you at the gas pumps. What do you say after you've sneezed and
blown snot all over everybody?
Thank you and God bless you.
Right… Enjoy the pollution, Bob.
What is Mister Robinson's hidden agenda, as shared with others of his kind?
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