July 26, 2003 journal, more state than church, medical mess, Waxahachie art opens today.

Before you give up those aching joints, you should see and hear the Dateline program that was on last night about failed hip replacements when they saw off the natural joints and replace them with a titanium metal artificial joint. The manufacture is accused of not cleaning the industrial lubricant off the devices which cost $1.15 to clean and they bill

$9,000 each for the joints. I wonder if it is rapeseed oil the same as they make canola oil out of. In one case reported, a doctor inserted a screwdriver when he did not have the proper medical bone replacement rod. All these things cost untold suffering and yet they want to limit the liability that the victims can collect. These people are winning millions but nothing can repay for their suffering. An art show opens today in Waxahachie Texas showing 6 pieces of my Revelation art scenes and one of the Washington Monument full of secrets. I continue to work daily on the 12 foot. painting for the state museum. I must paint one more to complete a series for the University of Memphis.(of American Freedom) I will continue to quote from the introduction of a book entitled 'American freedom and Catholic power' which sets the stage for consideration and debate of the issues concerning Catholicism. I may not agree with the author on every issue but this is a good foundation. "Part of the reluctance to speak is from fear, fear of Catholic reprisals. As we shall see in this book, the Catholic hierarchy in this country has great power as a pressure group, and no editor, politician, publisher, merchant or motion picture producer can express defiance openly-or publicize documented fact-without risking his future. But fear will not entirely explain the current silence on the Catholic issue. Some of the reluctance of Americans to speak is due to a misunderstanding of the nature of tolerance. Tolerant should mean complete charity toward men of all races and creeds, complete open mindedness toward all ideas, and complete willingness to allow a peaceful expression of conflicting views. This is what most Americans think they mean when they say that they believe in tolerance. When they come to apply tolerance to the world religion, however, they often forget this affirmation implications and fall back on the negative cliche, "you should never criticize another man's religion". Now, that innocent sounding doctrine, born of the noblest sentiments, is full of danger to the democratic way of life. It ignores the duty of every citizen to stand for the truth in every field of thought. It fails to take account of the fact that a large part of what men call religion is also politics, social hygiene and economics. Silence about "another man's religion" may mean acquiescence in second rate medicine, inferior education and anti-democratic government. I believe that every American-Catholic and non Catholics-has a duty to speak on the Catholic question, because the issues involved go to the heart of our culture and our citizenship. Plain speaking on this question involves many areas of bitterness, misunderstanding and even fanaticism, but the risk of silence is even greater. Any critic of the policies of the Catholic hierarchy must steal himself to being called "anti Catholic", because it is part of the hierarchy strategy of defense to place that brand upon all opponents; and a critic must also reconcile himself to being called an enemy of the Catholic people, because the hierarchy constantly identifies its clerical ambitions with the supposed wishes of its people. It is important, therefore, to distinguish between the American Catholic people and their Roman controlled priest. The Catholic people of United States fight and die for the same concept of freedom as do other true Americans; they believe in the same fundamental ideas of democracy. If they control their own church, the Catholic problem would soon disappear because, in the atmosphere.