January 10, 2011 journal, The attack will result in many new laws restricting American people. This writer seems to speak for me to a certain degree at least in my transition. "The shootings in Arizona should be producing a crisis of conscience on the political Right in this nation. However, I am not sure we are going to see that result. Extreme language, violent rhetoric and demonizing opponents have been very successful tactics in the quest for political and economic power for the Right Wing of American politics. They have institutionalized these tactics in many ways like the creation of Fox News, a huge array of Right Wing talk shows and print publications along with billionaire funded think tanks and various front groups including most of the Tea Party movement. These tactics have taken over the entire operations of what was once the conservative movement. To-day, the most extreme voices have largely drowned out the moderate conservatives that once dominated the conservative movement and the Republican Party. As recently as ten years ago, I could still consider myself fairly mainstream member of this moderate con-servative tradition because I supported certain policy positions although I was a main-stream Democrat. Back then, the inmates were not yet completely running the asylum. I believe in gun rights with reasonable regulations to ensure safety and that keep guns out of hands of criminals and insane people. I believe in a strong military that would be used for defense but would never attack first or commit war crimes. I strongly support protecting the Bill of Rights and civil liberties and wanted our government restrained from the horrors of dictatorships which imprisoned people without trials and tortured citizens. I supported a free market system with strong protections against the abuses of monopolies exploiting consumers and workers. I worried able technology transfers to foreign nations because they would undermine our long-term military capacity and our governments financial stability while creating national security threats from other nations with growing military-industrial abilities and expanded international ambitions. I wanted to preserve our strong middle class because it strengthened our American democracy and helped create a domestic peace because everyone had a stake in our society that included real opportunities for economic advancement. These were all widely accepted conservative values before George W. Bush. The Far Right had them in their sites but had not successfully tried to exterminate them from the conservative mainstream. I never thought our limited welfare programs were a threat to our free enterprise system and regarded those "conservatives" who thought that way as extremists. As a working class man from a union family, I thought those "conservatives" who hated unions were both extremists and willing tools of international corporations. Over the past ten years, these extremist positions have so taken over the conservative movement that I can no longer call myself or them "conservative." The reasonable conservatism of the 1960-1980's has largely died. ((Why not call it the Zionist money monopoly because that is what it is and it is most deadly for America)) I call their successors "rightists", "Right Wing", "corporate clowns" or "neo-fascists." I do not like using labels to define my diverse policy positions but most others would consider me to be either a "realist" (because I believe in fact based policy where results matter), "a traditionalist (because my ideological views are largely based on the Founding Fathers, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR and Christianity) or a "progressive" (because I believe in our American tradition of growing social progress, democracy and equality). Unfortunately, as the Far Right captured the conservative movement with corporate financial help, the tactics the extremists used to con the ignorant, fearful, angry and greedy among our citizenry into supporting political and economic policies that really only favored the powerful elite became typical standard operating procedures of the Right. The Right in American politics does not have any specific policies will improve the lives of most Americans. In fact, they stand in harsh opposition to any policies that would help the majority of Americans. They preach that our government is our enemy when the very core of the American idea of government is that we are the government. We need a strong government run by us to hold international corporate power in check and to protect our standard of living from these international predators. The Right wants a weak national government when it comes to restraining corporate power but a strong one under corporate control when it comes to citizens' demands for better wages, more jobs, decent healthcare, quality and affordable education and real economic mobility. They do not want a government that pursues energy, military or trade policies that protect our national interests instead of the interests of international corporations. The Right has nothing to offer voters, in order to achieve political power, except fear and smears. It is little wonder that voter suppression is such a key element is their campaign tactics. The economic elite and corporate forces will dump tons of money into the bank accounts of people like Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh because they use the kind of extremist language, violent rhetoric and demonizing tactics that serve to promote the "corporatist" economic and political agenda. These same "corporatist" forces are funding the Republican Party. They are buying up the media and rigging the rules of the economy against the vast majority of Americans. Things will likely get worse before the American middle class, working class and poor revolt at the ballot box. We must shame the Right and punish them with our votes to stop the abuses and violence before it gets totally out of control. There should never be another tragedy like the one in Arizona!" Written by Stephen Crockett. Nine Years Later: The Political Prisoners of Guantanamo-I agree with this! Andy Worthington, Truthout: "Political prisoners? Surely, that can't be right, can it? Surely, it is only (communist) dictatorships in far-flung corners of the world who hold political prisoners, and not the United States of America? Sadly, no. As the 'War on Terror' prison established by President Bush begins its tenth year of operations, and as it begins to be forgotten that President Obama swept into office issuing an executive order promising to close the prison within a year, but failed spectacularly to do so, the bleak truth is that, for a majority of the 173 men held at Guantanamo, their chances of being released, or of receiving anything resembling justice, have receded to such an extent in the last two years that most face indefinite detention without charge or trial and may still be in Guantanamo a year from now, 2 years from now, or 5, 10 or 20 years from now." It is a rulership of the brutal Red Star of David that we serve making all our war policy. Yes, this is the Antichrist in its truest form from the Revelation fallen Mystery Babylon. Already they're contemplating special laws to protect elected officials, bar demonstrators. I thought so-Shawn Fremstad, The Center for Economic and Policy Research: "On December 6, the President said 'there is no reason that ordinary Americans should see their taxes go up next year.' Apparently, the Administration staff who negotiated the deal found a reason. According to the estimates of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, some 51 million taxpayers overall who will see part of the tax cuts they received in 2010 go away in 2011. The vast majority of them - 40 million tax units-are low-wage workers with incomes below $35,000. Low-income workers are the only income group that will lose income this year compared to 2010 under the deal. Other groups, including most middle-income families and nearly all high-income ones will receive a bigger tax cut in 2011 than in 2010." This president has turned out to be more for the rich Republicans. "Deep inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the $600 billion man is fast at work. In a spare, government-issue office in Lower Manhattan, behind a bank of cubicles and a scruffy copy machine, Josh Frost and a band of market specialists are making the Fed's ultimate Wall Street trade. They are buying hundreds of billions of dollars of United States Treasury securities on the open market in a controversial attempt to keep interest rates low and, in the process, revive the economy. To critics, it is a Hail Mary play - an admission that the economy's persistent weakness has all but exhausted the central bank's powers and tested the limits of its policy making. Around the world, some warn the unusual strategy will weaken the dollar and lead to crippling inflation". Snowbound Atlanta are putting people up in a prison as a free accommodation. The mayor said he could not buy another-snowplow that cost $250,000, just let the snow melt he said and I agree with him. It is the church that has changed more than the people. In the art world I have met a lot of spiritual people and I know that Europe has died out in Christianity. Most churches today are for profit teaching false doctrine to support their good life. Santa Claus is acceptible doctrine equal with Christ just like the Catholic Church holds Mary equal. It is not any surprise to me people have forsaken the church after the church has forsaken the people. You build a fire in the church spiritually and the people will be back. With 40 conflict in doctrines being taught, one must be filled with the Holy Spirit to know right from wrong. In first reading of your article you seen to say that the church is still the seat of God but it is not, it is more of the seat of the Devil and Antichrist compromising to every evil and commercializing. The further west i go the more spiritual people are but in secularism. The South Carolina Gov. inauguration today sang the song 0 let my dreams come alive. The Tucson shooter was a dreamer not connected to the left or right because people his age are not listening to radio or television therefore the influence of Wall Street does not apply. Divorced from the modern Church does not mean one is separated from God. Why don't intellectuals like yourself study and report on the massacre of the Christian people in Russia beginning with Lenin's revolution in 1917 killing a hundred million Christians. All we hear about is the Holocaust which excludes half the people Hitler killed. Actually Hitler had a model to go by from what happened in Russia under the Zionists converts to Judaism of the seventh century, they were Babylonians but settled in southern Russia and were originally from the tribe of Esau. Hitler got tired of the money changers no doubt and targeted them but killed everybody that got in his way even if it were the so-called gentiles or non-Jewish. The same people that took Russia into Communism and secretly killed up to 100 million Russian Christians are the false Israel pretending to be the favorite people of God and their "church" agents of Antichrist like John Hagee and Jack van Empe are rallying their cause. The real Holocaust has been kept secret. I suggest you look into the red pagan Star of David to see what it really means and where it came from. The tiny nation of Israel is but the front door for Zionism's control of America in Congress, owners of the Federal Reserve which is Wall Street. The Illuminati is in control of everything that moves in America. They own the media and every major public corporation. They control education, medical, agricultural and you will soon see the pattern progressing of another Russian style massacre. God forbid that we should ever live under the 1991 Education Day USA, 7 Noahide Laws, passed by U.S. Congress, signed into law by the president. Look it up. The Zionist impostures also control Law Enforcement. Thanks for the article. The Supreme Court with 6 Catholics and 3 Jewish justices is proof we are not in control. There is not one Protestant justice left on the Supreme Court. Yesu Christ criticized the church 1900 years ago and he would not even recognize it today. The Masonic Baptist teaching their eternal security and the Pentecostals being silent on secret orders. Until the church starts to preach the gospel it is not worth its salt. I do agree with John 14-6 but above that you quote gotquestions.org saying we receive the Holy Spirit when we are born again which is the Baptist line and most Protestant churches for that matter now even the Pentecostals have regressed. That is not the way I experienced it. The church is the world's largest social club but its not true for everybody because there are many genuine Christians in the church and on the street as well-thanks. When Yesu Christ returns to renew this earth church membership roles will all be trashed. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's attempt to tamp down one controversy may well have started another. In a statement -- and video (see above) released via Facebook this morning, Palin expressed sorrow for the victims of the Tucson shootings and defends herself against those in the media (and on the liberal left) whom she says have sought to somehow implicate her in the tragedy. Said Palin: "Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible." The use of the phrase "blood libel " -- a term that has its origins in anti-Semitic accusations about J-e-ws using the blood of Christian children in their religious rituals-is a loaded one and immediately became the central focus of a statement that spanned 1,141 words. Questions about whether Palin knew what she was getting into by using the term seem to miss the mark when it comes to the approach that she has adopted in her public pronouncements since bursting on the national political scene as Republican Sen. John McCain's vice presidential running mate in 2008. Palin is as much provocateur as politician at this moment. From "death panels " to "how's that hopey, changey thing working for you?" to "blood libel", Palin more often adopts the language of talk radio than of party politics. Put simply: These sorts of statements are more likely to wind up on a bumper sticker or T-shirt than in the Republican party platform. (As Politico's Jonathan Martin wrote in a terrific look at Palin and Tucson earlier this week, she has "played a role that is part talk show personality and part political figure" since the 2008 election.) The term "blood libel" has been kicking around the conservative end of the blogosphere for the last few days, and Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds used it in a Wall Street Journal op-ed earlier this week. Palin, more so than any national figure for the GOP, channels and amplifies the sentiments coming out of the conservative blogosphere and talk radio community. It's why she appeals so strongly to an element of the party's base that feels that more establishment politicians are afraid to tell it like it is. It is also why she is detested by Democrats and distrusted by large numbers of independents who view her willingness to provoke as fundamentally irresponsible. The recent history of pronounce-ments from Palin -- "blood libel" included -- suggest she leans more toward provocation than party leadership. That's never been a winning strategy in the context of a president-ial campaign, but there's never been a figure who straddled the divide between talk radio host/television personality and politician like Palin, or a time in modern political history when the anti-establishment fervor ran so deeply among Republican primary voters." By Chris Cillizza. (They are always watering it down but blood libel I believe is still a factor. I'm convinced they still practice these ancient blood rituals marking it up to public crime.) Bradley Manning and GI Resistance to US War Crimes Angola 3 News interviews Dahr Jamail on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the media's coverage of WikiLeaks, the actions of Bradley Manning and the military's response to soldier resistance. Jamail says, "The US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq could not have more clearly violated international law. Even the former secretary general of the United Nations (UN), Kofi Annan, said in September 2004 that the Iraq war was illegal and breached the UN Charter. An illegal war is thus the mother of all war crimes, for from that stems all the rest.... What Manning did by leaking this critical information has been to uphold his oath as a soldier in the most patriotic way."