GORDON DUFF: TERRORISM AND THE FLEECING OF THE FAITHFUL
March 14, 2010 posted by Gordon Duff · 51 Comments
THE ABOMINATION OF “FAITH BASED ” WARFARE
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
The “war on terror” has been like no other. America has kidnapped and tortured dozens, hundreds, even thousands of innocent civilians, bombed poor villages off the map and turned on its own citizens. We hold mock trials, hire mercenaries and have covered up so many crimes, from rape to murder to massive corruption and even treason that we have become unrecognizable as the country we were even in 2000. America moved from “faith based initiatives” as a way of expanding public charities to “faith based” foreign policy which has become the greatest tragedy in our history since the Civil War.
How did the “faithful,” our rural and southern Evangelical Christian community, long known to Americans as the most generous and kind of her people allow themselves to be led into the abyss of sin? The answer is tied to belief, trust and vulnerability in an age where the science of psychology has created a massive industry using the tools of mass communication to vilify, deceive and debauch. How can a community whose history is steeped in financing missions around the world, China, Africa, South America, building hospitals, schools, orphanages, training generations, building trade unions and developing democratic principles become an instrument of fear and hate?
It didn’t happen by accident, there was a plan, well conceived, well executed and driven by only one thing, something very close to the heart of Christ himself, money. Christ knew about money and man’s love of it. He spoke of that love often as Christians and Muslims both know very well, as Christ the savior and son of God to Christians is also one of the most important prophets of Islam. What were the weaknesses in the Evangelical Christian community that allowed Christian Zionists, a fringe group with the “moral flexibility” to allow a culture of greed, sexual perversion and unrighteousness to lead the “flock” into what will prove inevitably to be a generation not unlike Benjamites, who embraced sin.
A LOOK AT OUR PAST
America has always had divisions. The first settlers resented those who came after. The North exerted financial control over the South leading to war, a war few knew had little to do with the issue of slavery but more economic exploitation to the point of colonialism. There was strife between urban and rural populations and regular upheavals caused by periodic economic collapses driven by manipulations of hard currency vs paper. Later, control of the nation’s new rail system subjected rural America, that and predatory banking practices, to an economic assault that brought on generations of poverty.
During the latter part of the 19th and early 20th century, the face of the nation changed drastically with massive immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe. Jews and Catholics flooded into the United States, with them came political traditions inconsistent with American values. Jews were often Socialists, vocal and radical proponents of economic equality thru the destruction of the “Robber Baron” system that had taken financial control of America.
Catholics were thought to be allied with a Church in Rome that taught that living in a democracy was a sin and that only nations with Kings were answerable to Rome. Our history books have erased this and so much else. That same fear was a major issue as late as 1960, when John F. Kennedy ran for president. It was spoken of continually and was a critical apect of the campaign.
CHARLATANISM
Two films, long forgotten, frame the concept of the “country hick” charlatan, the sociopathic manipulator, using charisma, charm and wile to enrich himself, even when it means disaster for those around him. Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry and Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd are the films. We have forgotten their lessons. Every time I see or hear John Hagee, I think of Elmer Gantry. Rural America is famous for its fear of outsiders, its trust, often blind trust of “its own,” a trust so often used with malevolence. Hagee is an artist at this as have been so many behind him. Hagee is different, though, he, unlike his predecessors like Gerald L. K. Smith who warned of Zionism and Israel as the downfall of America, has embraced Zionism and, in the process, grown rich and fat at their coffers.
Since the late 1870s, fear of Zionism, seen as a plot by Jews who controlled, and still do to a large extent, the world’s banking system, to destroy Christianity was a primary component of Evangelical Christianity. Backed, in the 20th century by Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Prescott Bush, George Herbert Walker, Thomas Edison, Charles Lindbergh and hundreds of other prominent Americans who openly advocated policies warning of the dangers of Zionism, spread even thru the Catholic community thru the broadcasts of Father Charles Coghlin, the “Rush Limbaugh” of his time, Evangelical Christianity held much different views than today.
As late as 1940, 80% of Evangelical Christians and over 50% of Americans, when polled, thought Hitler’s policies toward the Jews were justified. However, a powerful German propaganda machine presented a much different view of the extent of persecution than we learned of later. Most Americans, fearful of ” Zionism,” a concept held in wide disrepute as the antithesis of Christianity, supported Germany’s exclusionistic policies as consistent with their faith.
However, during this same period of strong feeling and political activism, much during the economic disaster of the Great Depression, faith healers, revivalists and “snake oil” preachers roamed the land, bilking trusting locals out of their savings, sexually abusing unsuspecting believers and creating a “softened” moral climate that opened the door for later transgressors like Jimmie Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson, Oral Roberts, Tom Delay, John Hagee and John Ashcroft.
FROM AMERICANISM TO ZIONISM AND THE “ROAD TO SIN”
The marriage of convenience called “neo-conservatism” that melded Zionism to Christian Evangelists and Catholic abortion foes out of a cynical desire for political power would never have been possible without the twisted theology of the “Apocalypse/Rapture cults” and the growth of their heresy. Building off obscure scriptural references and wildly misconstrued interpretations, mythical religious cults sprung up, heavily backed by supporters of Israel and America’s media giants, now almost all under control of pro-Zionist elements.
With the initial stated goal as the protection of Israel, the program quickly became more than obvious. America’s Evangelical Christian community had fallen into a trap and were now supporting war against the world’s Islamic community, openly supported suspension of Constitutional guarantees, backed pre-emptive aggressive war, torture and eventually found themselves supporting a corrupt administration widely discredited for lying to the public and sacrificing hundreds of thousands, even millions of lives for personal gain.
Duped by a combination of a radical and extremist government in Israel seemingly adhering to policies warned of over a century ago, a policy designed to bring about the downfall of the Christian West and short sighted political groups in the US bent on creating a neo-feudal oligarchy and defacto totalitarian state, Christian Evangelists have been faced with seemingly endless series of betrayals, failures and deceptions.
BELIEF, IMMODERATION AND IRRATIONALITY
Today we find ourselves embroiled in a decade long war in Afghanistan and a “victory” in Iraq quickly slipping between our fingers. Without the willingness on the part of American Christians to both follow a path suggested as one meant to bring on global holocaust, a path based on heretical doctrine, and a desire for a return to a militaristic and expansionistic religious politic as that enacted by the Greco-Roman hierarchical church of the Middle Ages, the “flavor” of today’s “crusader” wars would be different.
Though an examination of the global economic and political ramifications of our current wars leads inexorably to the conclusion they are wars for profit, colonial expansion and control of resources, wars meant to destabilize the world economy and centralize power beyond unseen malevolent forces, we still send our children to fight under a rationale we know in our hearts to be false, killing for corruption, debasement of human values and domination by extremist forces and oligarchies.
THE MARRIAGE LEADING TO THE GATES OF HELL
When politics, Zionism and the defense and oil interests in the US combined with the unschooled religious community disaster was the only potential result. With information management from a controlled press at levels never before seen in any modern nation joined with extremist religious doctrine tied to a mythic heresy of rapture and the apocalypse, the door was left open for forces of nearly demonic evil to exploit the flaws in man’s character exposed in this “marriage” of pure evil with fear and weakness.
Was it all planned, the economic collapse, the loss of faith, the feeling of exploitation and distrust? Was the end goal always the humiliation of America’s Christian Evangelist community and the weakening of Americas moral base? If so, was this done only for profit or some darker agenda?
two in a row. great work. i like it when you get into your inner most feelings and beliefs. keep it up.
You mention John Hagee, according to Hagee, you me, Jeff Gates and others are in real trouble: To those who dare to challenge the oppressive Zionist state, Hagee announces, ‘The man or nation that lifts a voice or hand against Israel invites the wrath of God’. Such people will, Hagee insists, be ‘cursed’ by God.
http://www.rense.com/general69/terin.htm
Hmmm. I’m just trying to help out God’s children known as the Palestinians. Oh my.
Scary information from the article:
Christian Zionism is a call for global war. The belief that Christianity is the sole truth, that all other faiths are ‘Satanic’ or ‘false’, that the Jews must all gather in Palestine to fulfill so-called Biblical prophecies, and that a grand global war will soon erupt leading to the massacre of hundreds of millions and heralding the ‘second coming’ of Jesus, who will establish his Christian kingdom extending till the four corners of the world, clearly indicate the hate-driven, global expansionist project of Christian Zionism.
Quoting various verses of the Bible, Hagee describes what he sees as the unfolding of events of cosmic proportions, ushering in a global war the like of which has never been witnessed hitherto and heralding the ‘second coming of Jesus’. In this global war, he says, Muslims, whom he regards as followers of a ‘false’ religion, would ally with the Russians to fight against Israel. This would lead to a global nuclear war, with hundreds of millions being killed. At this point, the ‘Anti-Christ’ will appear, attack Jerusalem and will take over the reigns of the world, falsely claiming to usher in peace. But, this grand deception will not last long, and, instead, will only lead to even more devastating wars. At this time, Hagee says, Christians must defend, by every means possible, the Jews and Israel, and wage war against the armies of those opposed to God’s ‘Chosen Race’, the Jews. Only then can they be saved, he insists.
After years of global war and terrible destruction, Hagee writes, Jesus will be sent by God to deliver the world. Mounted on a white horse, he will arrive at the battlefield at Armageddon. Defeating the ‘Anti-Christ’ and his army, he will establish his global kingdom with his capital in Jerusalem, there to ‘rule and reign forever’.
The “rapture” Prophets for PROFIT are ANTI-Christ DEATH CULTISTS. God/Jesus put you in this LIFE to learn “soul lessons”, to increase your consciousness to the point of Redemption. Hagee and his Ilk REJECT the LIFE God gave you, and dangle a “shortcut” in front of people, just as SATAN dangled Temptation in front of Jesus. Do not follow the ANTI-Christ lies of FALSE prophets. Their “shortcut” of cheating God’s lessons does NOT lead to Heaven, any more than cheating on school work teaches you the subject. Hagee, Robertson, the whole group, do NOT believe in anything except the MONEY they collect for leading their Flocks astray.
“Judeo-Christian” is an OXYMORON. WAR-God vs PEACE-God. The Old Testament followers worship a WAR GOD and spend their lives hating, reliving every imagined slight, and dreaming of VENGENCE ….. “NEVER FORGIVE and NEVER FORGET” …. they still go on about Egypt and Babylon after MILLENIA. New Testament followers (are supposed to) worship a loving, forgiving God, and to CLOSE the Old Testament, as it has been FULLFILLED by the Crucifixion of Jesus. If you are following the OLD Testament you ARE NOT and CANNOT be a CHRISTian.
The Christian Zionist movement is an important issue to me. I’m against mass murder. The very popular Hagee is pushing for war against Iran for biblical reasons. He is calling for mass murder so biblical prophecy will come to fruition. This is deranged.
There are tens of millions of Christian Zionists in the USA and many are excited about Armageddon since it will supposedly bring Jesus back to earth and they will be saved from the carnage and go to Heaven due to the Rapture. Their support of Armageddon is actually a support for mass murder on a grand scale for their own selfish purposes. Yes indeed, the moral decay of America.
From an article:
launched Christians United for Israel (CUFI), a lobbying organization intended, he says, to be a Christian version of the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee. With CUFI, which Hagee has said will cause a “political earthquake,” the televangelist aims to put the political organizing muscle of the conservative evangelical movement behind his grand plan for a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ.
He argues that a strike against Iran will cause Arab nations to unite under Russia’s leadership, as outlined in chapters 38 and 39 of the Book of Ezekiel, leading to an “inferno [that] will explode across the Middle East, plunging the world toward Armageddon.”
Hagee wrote that his organization is exactly in the position of Esther. Israel is in a time of crisis. A 21st-century Hitler (the president of Iran) has put in place a plan to exterminate the Jews with nuclear warfare. If we remain completely silent at this time, God’s punishment will come to us also.
A nuclear confrontation between America and Iran, which he says is foretold in the Book of Jeremiah, will not lead to the end of the world, but rather to God’s renewal of the Garden of Eden
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=11541
Hi Gordon,
Sounds like you managed to get some rich mountain air in your body on that last trip. Could it be time to gather together the first volume of the ‘The Duffster Letters – A Sit-down Conversation with America’? This is good journalism becoming good literature and, without kissing your doubtless hairy butt – now stained with camel shit, now deserves a wider readership. There are folk in the world who do believe that America is a good-hearted soul but it is in serious danger at present. Fortunately it is big enough and brave enough to do something about it, if it can only come to understand, and recognise the evil of, what is happening.
Publish and be properly damned! Very few are telling it like it is.
Nice Robbie. In agreement.
me too. a wealth of info and materiel lies in there.
hi g,
In general well written, BUT, I’ve been around this world a little longer than you, and my clear, insightful memories are clearly different than yours in some areas. to wit:
g=> “Catholics were thought to be allied with a Church in Rome that taught that living in a democracy was a sin and that only nations with Kings were answerable to Rome.”
t=> From my upbringing and Jesuit training your whole concept about Catholics believing that living in a democracy was a sin, etc. etc., is a bunch of bull crap to everyone but the diverse group of Protestant groups who hated J.F.K. Those Constitution ignoring bigots thought a Catholic was not fit to be President. Whether you like him or hate him, Mitt Romney will (has) run into the same bandsaw driven by (you’re correct here) the Jewish dominated American Media.
g=> “The marriage of convenience called “neo-conservatism” that melded Zionism to Christian Evangelists and Catholic abortion foes out of a cynical desire for political power would never have been possible without the twisted theology of the “Apocalypse/Rapture cults” and the growth of their heresy.”
t-> Again, I think your PTSD has run amuck. Most everyday American “Christian Evangelists” “Catholics” “Jews” “Hindus” “Muslims” “Taoists” etc., just want to be left alone to believe what they want i.e., to pursue Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness for them and their families, without hurting others around them. (Damn, that sounds like I quoted from the Constitution. Isn’t that a surprise!). Further, most don’t want to be called “neo-conservatives, evangelists, zionists or whatever the latest term neo-liberalists can coin.
g=> “”Christian evangelists” eventually found themselves supporting a corrupt administration widely discredited for lying to the public and sacrificing hundreds of thousands, even millions of lives for personal gain.”
t=> I assume you are beating up on the Bush / Cheney (and now Obama) administrations because they were doing their best to follow the Constitution. Read the documents and you’ll understand. Easier yet, read my responses to Wattree’s latest post. If YOU were walking in an Administration’s shoes, how would you defend the Constitution — which would be your DUTY. Further, your hundreds, thousands, millions *why not make it billions and trillions?) which you insinuate have been murdered by wanton disregard for human life is a total ultra-liberalist fabrication to try and make news and pretend you are important. I’m not insinuating Administrations or Congresses are perfect — after all they are imperfect humans — but try walking in their shoes. Read the Constitution and then mentally try to walk in their shoes, just once. And don’t try Marxism dogma on me. Marx was just another imperfect human being whose thought process was co-opted by Stalin and Mao, ACTUALLY costing tens of millions of innocent human lives.
g=> “Today we find ourselves embroiled in a decade long war in Afghanistan and a “victory” in Iraq quickly slipping between our fingers.”
t=> We have been in Germany for 70 years. Japan for 70 years. S. Korea for 60 years. And you’re whining about a decade in Afghanistan and Iraq? Those countries will be stable (wow, Iraq had two free elections in a row, among its 26 million residents). Life in America would be better if we didn’t have to be there, but don’t blame it all on “big oil” “big business” or whatever your latest fantasy is to draw support.
Now, I might concur that it is time to let Israel stand on their own two feet. Nobody can harm them. They are the third or fourth largest nuclear power in the world. I like the folks there, but we need to get Israelis out of our financial pockets. If they are attacked by any non-fictitious enemy, then we can choose to support them.
g=> “we still send our children to fight under a rationale we know in our hearts to be false, killing for corruption, debasement of human values and domination by extremist forces and oligarchies.”
t=> Let’s see. Freeing 26-27 million Iraqis from a despot Hussein and his sons is really false. I don’t think so. Corruption so we can get their oil? I don’t think so, the new Iraqi government has had complete control of their oil revenues (I wish they would reimburse us for our costs of freeing them — but I doubt it will ever happen. Oh yes, your debasement of human values. Iraqis have more human value than they’ve had in 40 years of Hussein rule. Afghanistan is on the same path, one tribe at a time (thank you Khalil Nouri). Pakistan is finally standing up to becoming once again a respected and trusted member of the world community.
t=> there is a glaring worldwide problem with oligarchies and extremist forces in their employ. That includes outfits like Blacksludge, etc. which should be outlawed by Congress. They are just another form of piracy.
g=> When politics, Zionism and the defense and oil interests in the US combined with the unschooled religious community disaster was the only potential result. With information management from a controlled press at levels never before seen in any modern nation joined with extremist religious doctrine tied to a mythic heresy of rapture and the apocalypse, the door was left open for forces of nearly demonic evil to exploit the flaws in man’s character exposed in this “marriage” of pure evil with fear and weakness.
t=> The religious community in America is more schooled than you think. You might not like everything the puppet masters have to say about their education, but they are not the dumb hicks you’d like to believe. The “dumb hicks” are many of the perhaps well-meaning, elitist libralist professors who have taken over this nation’s university systems, spreading down into highschools and grade schools. These elitist professors REFUSE to allow any contrary opinions in their domains. They believe their job is to indoctrinate and any dissent is penalized with poor grades. Their strategy is weed dissension out of the American world. As a most glaring example, that appears to be what has happened to BHO. The Creator willing, he will mature. I hope so, but I have doubts.
Excuse me for rambling, Duff. I’m getting back to Alexander the fur baron. It’s a pretty cool story except for all the deaf and dumb folks. Life was tough in those centuries.
Tom Texas Vet — 1st Cav
Tom,
Your Jesuit education is historically incorrect. Perhaps you should research the 1860s when the Church issued the edict in question. Comparing passport to passport, you would have to be a billionaire to match my air travel…that or an idiot.
Your assigned report, Tom, as you have “errored” and thus sinned is to find the root of my term “sin of Americanism.”
This will be both fun and a challenge.
g
Let me ask, Tom. What typos are there in this article? Please list three and I’ll respond to your post.
Thanks, Fran
If you find them, you fix em’
g
This is between Tom and I Gordon….
I’m being a smarty pants… let me have my fun.
Great Article!
that’s… fix ‘em
Don’t forget to read my response to Gordon below, first. Then look at the found typos. Then tell us how you think you can fix them. I won’t be surprised if you ignore this, but I’d recommend you get really informed.
Cheers, Fran
Note: This is directed to Tom Dillman
I could not resist Tom!
Have a Great Sunday.
Fran
=> Let’s see. Freeing 26-27 million Iraqis from a despot Hussein and his sons is really false. I don’t think so. Corruption so we can get their oil? I don’t think so, the new Iraqi government has had complete control of their oil revenues (I wish they would reimburse us for our costs of freeing them — but I doubt it will ever happen. Oh yes, your debasement of human values. Iraqis have more human value than they’ve had in 40 years of Hussein rule. Afghanistan is on the same path, one tribe at a time (thank you Khalil Nouri). Pakistan is finally standing up to becoming once again a respected and trusted member of the world community.
Tom, there are some problems with a number of your assumptions, some very basic. Your use of the term “elitist professor” when, in actuality, YOU are an elitist is BAD!!!!!
g
The Bush-Cheney Junta was doing it’s best to ‘follow the Constitution?” Even though you got five deferments, welcome to VT, Mr. Cheney!
The Bush-Cheney Junta not only helped create hundreds of lies, they also kept telling them to the American public to get us scared and behind their plans to invade Iraq, which had been on the Neocon-Zionist agenda for years.
We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They’re illegal. They’re against the United Nations resolutions, and we’ve so far discovered two. And we’ll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them. -George W. Bush, May 29, 2003
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq with the war on terror.
September 7, 2006 interview with Katie Couric
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
“Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere.”
Joke at the Radio and Television News Correspondents Association , March 25, 2004
Here’s a video of President George W. Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner on March 24, 2004. Bush demonstrates his comedic skills when he attempts to find “weapons of mass destruction.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9EbssUgHj4
Doug Thompson, publisher of Capitol Hill Blue, says he’s talked to three people present last month when Republican Congressional leaders met with President Bush in the Oval Office to talk about renewing the Patriot Act. That act, passed by legislators who hadn’t read it, in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 (when most people were shell-shocked and lawmakers in particular disinclined to use their brains), has of course been criticized as containing unconstitutional elements. All three GOP politicians quote their president as saying: “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp12142005.html
Yes, I imagine people around the nation were laughing when Bush made a mockery of our dead troops by pretending to look for WMD’s at a WH press correspondents dinner.
As for Iraq having two free elections, what a joke. We’re propping up stooges who are willing to do our bidding, as long as we help keep them in power and shovel money into their pockets.
If our troops would leave Iraq, those stooges would either be running for the border or dangling from the nearest utility pole.
This is excellent reporting Gordon. Thank you.
(I only found one typo really… but don’t tell Tom.)
Gordon… I am so sick and tired of when people know of my beliefs… and then they automatically think that I am on their band wagon…
The band wagon that seems so many people have jumped on.
I watched in amazement in 1994 when at churches… there were little pamphlets in church of ‘who to vote for’….
Later, when I was at the poll voting in 1994… I saw so many people take these same pieces of paper into the polls with them and then voted according to the pieces of paper.
The hook?
Abortion.
What has changed in abortion since?
Nothing that these people hoped for.
It was a hook.
What has happened to so many of these people who have been ‘hooked’?
So many people I know… now believe that being militaristic and unquestioning of authority is being patriotic…
I don’t remember reading about these characteristics in the Scriptures in the Bible
to be the ones that I learned of to strive for.
I though they were:
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
Galatians 5:22-23
And yes, I miss the mark by a long shot… a very long shot.
It makes my heart so sad to see my faith being hi-jacked and then the attempt to hi-jack my country.
Semper Fi 0300 E5
0311
RVN 69/70
and some of us are thankful………….
When Israel bought a personal jet and gave it to Jerry Falwell back in 1978, evangelist and pentecostal type preachers around the county sat up, paid attention and started making plans to get some of that gravy.
Over 30 years later, you can turn on damn near any televangelist show and hear them thumping the bible for Israel.
Between praying for the ‘Rapture,’( a word that doesn’t appear in the KJV) and getting their flocks to worship Israel, we’ve got around 70 million evangelistic and pentecostal types that want, hope and pray for a nuclear war in the ME so their beloved Jeeeeesuss can descend on a mushroom cloud and take ‘em all back to heaven… or somewhere.
And Israel is tapping into those fears, playing the long lost Tribe that has returned to their homeland to perfection, gathering immense support for their murderous acquistion of stolen Palestinian land.
There was no Jewish Exodus, hence, there can be no ‘return,’ but don’t let history stand in the way of a good psyop campaign.
Even worse, we’ve got most of DC corrupted by the Lobby. Elected officials will be tossing their oath of office overboard next week at the annual AIPAC treason fest.
Numerous DC stooges will be at the AIPAC conference, singing the praises of Apartheid Israel and doing their best to shield that rogue nation from accountability.
http://www.aipac.org/about_AIPAC/Learn_About_AIPAC/5587.asp
Let us recognize the real enemies and they are: The New World Order architects, their agents the bankster gangsters, their front organizations [AIPAC, ADL, Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU, Hillel, The Jewish Federation and other Jewish organizations, American media including the Fox news channel and conservative radio hosts that advocate ongoing war against various nations, neocon liars that support Zionist Israel and Zionist Israel [The criminal state waging terrorim while blaming Muslims].
To this add the Christian Right that consists of deceitful, ego-centric, greedy, timid pastors and the so called Christian leaders [John Hagee, Pat Robertson, Mike Huckabee, James Dodson] who pander to Zionist Israel and Zionist Jews through their support for wars that kill people Israel does not like including little kids in Gaza, Palestine, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq etc and decetful charities like Amnesty International, UNICEF and the so called Environmental charities that help to establish the New World government by propagating their agenda globally while deceiving people in the world.
Way to go Gordon!!! Americans are finally waking up and understanding that Israel is ruining the global image/credibility of this Nation while draining our coffers all in the name of the Holocaust!! Yes the Holocaust was terrible. However. it does not give anyone or Nation the right to be Un-Godly and arrogant as is Israel. Just look at the recent attitude towards V.P. Biden upon his last visit. All of Gods Creatures are equal and being a Jew does not give you a pass to disrespect/disregard the Rules of Gods Law towards Humanity!
Arguing about typos and dogma. Jesus-H-Christ! I am a recovering Southern Baptist and listened to this bickering all my life back in Dixie. Free-thinking is the truth, and the truth has set me free!
The typo thing was an inside thing… didn’t mean to throw off the discussion.
as has it set me free. please enjoy
a little frivolity lightens things up. for a mo.
any one checking grammer?
great work G!
Mr. Duff: As a Jewish American, AND a US Army 70% disabled combat veteran. I continue to find your ranting anti sementic to the extreme. sadly I read very little of your columns, because I find the vile filth that you spew out with regularity appalling.
I second that it is an obsession with Mr. Duff. He is all over the map on his subject matter, but everything somehow comes back around to blaming the Jews, for all our shortcomings and problems.
My obsession is with Zionists, not Jews. Learn the difference. Zionists are at war with the United States, they sell our secrets, they manage our news, buy and sell our government. Think Zionist when you spit on the graves of the USS Liberty dead or remember the dancing Israeli’s at 9/11.
g
“Anti-Semitism – Zionist Myth vs Truth and Reality”
There are two definitions of anti-Semitism in its Jewish context. One was born in real history and represents a truth. The other is part and parcel of Zionist mythology and was invented for the purpose of blackmailing non-Jewish Europeans and North Americans into refraining from criticizing Israel or, to be more precise, staying silent when its leaders resort to state terrorism and demonstrate in many ways their absolute contempt for international law.
A tale of two anti-Semitisms
Anti-Semitism properly and honestly defined is prejudice against and loathing and even hatred of Jews, all Jews everywhere, just because they are Jews.
Anti-Semitism as defined by Zionism, the colonial, ethnic cleansing enterprise of some Jews, has come to mean almost all criticism of Israel’s policies and actions, in particular its oppression of the Palestinians, and, also, criticism on the basis of revelations from the documented truth of history which expose Zionism’s propaganda for the nonsense it is. Put another way, anti-Semitism as defined by supporters of Israel right or wrong is anything written or said by anybody that challenges and contradicts Zionism’s version of events. In effect Zionists say, “If you disagree with us, you’re anti-Semitic”.
Anti-Zionist poster
As a blackmail card to silence criticism of Israel and prevent informed and honest debate about who must do what and why for justice and peace in the Middle East, Zionism’s false charge of anti-Semitism has worked wonderfully well to date. …
Unable to refute the substance of documented and objective messages of challenge and criticism, Zionism’s policy always was, and still is, to shoot the messengers with false charges of anti-Semitism.
Zionism – myth and reality
by Alan Hart15 March 2010
http://www.redress.cc/zionism/ahart20100315
As a Jewish American, Marine and 100% combat disabled veteran I am horribly ashamed of the behavior of Zionist Jews in the murder and rape in Gaza and the betrayal of the United States, a country I have fought for.
Get over it and move on with life.
g
Duff,
Why am I not surprised that you are one of few Jewish Americans who understands that Zionism is the REAL enemy of the Jews?
Rex
Anyone whose loyalty is to a foreign power and not the United States isn’t an American at all. There are millions of Americans who are of the Jewish religion and many Zionists, Christian and Jewish who betray America with every breath.
g
The IDF is preparing to tear down a mosque in the Occupied West Bank. Why?
They’ve been sending tanks into southern Lebanon. Why?
Israel has been shooting up Palestinians, stealing more land, sending troops into Lebanon and now this. All of which never get reported on CNN or FUX or the NYT.
When they finally fight back, then CNN and FUX reports on it as the Palestinians or Lebanese being the aggressors. Israel’s got a BIG drinking water shortage and they want an excuse to invade Lebanon, AGAIN and steal that country’s River Litani, which is located in southern Lebanon.
By the way, Israeli gunboats entered Lebanese water and fired at Lebanese fishing boats yesterday. Not a single word in the Western or Saudi press.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2010/03/not-in-us-press.html
Oh, BTW, is it anti-Semitic to report on those bunker busters we’re shipping to Deigo Garcia?
Wonder what the plan is for those little darlings?
Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.
The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. According to a cargo manifest from the US navy, this included 387 “Blu” bombs used for blasting hardened or underground structures.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/final-destination-iran-1.1013151
So go ahead and scream ‘anti-Semitic,’ but please explain why Israel is getting away with murder and why Israel’s favorite bitch, the USA, is preparing to bomb the hell out of Iran?
just don’t quit reading. you may actually learn something.
“Was it all planned, the economic collapse, the loss of faith, the feeling of exploitation and distrust? Was the end goal always the humiliation of America’s Christian Evangelist community and the weakening of Americas moral base? If so, was this done only for profit or some darker agenda?”
Yes, Yes, and Yes.
To say Obama tries to follow the Constitution??? Have you heard of his health-care plan? That’s called socialism, not constitutionalism! That’s just one example.
Also, our Evangelical Christians are not our enemy—Islam is. I am not an evangelical, but I have lived in Muslim countries and studied the Koran—it preaches hate, death to infidels, it’s okay to lie to justify the ends, and the subjugation of the world to sharia law. This is what its “holy book” teaches.
The one-world order is using it to help destabilize the world. Please attack the real enemy, not straw men.
Becie,
If you were saying the same thing about Jews, you might be in prison.
As for your ideas on health care, obama and socialism, they indicate that you are extremely gullible. I am familiar with most religious works. There are things in the Koran that are..unusual.
I keep thinking about Abraham having sex with a maid servant…then Lot and his daughters…where do we stop?
Do you want me to explain how the gospels were mistranslated to invent most of Christianity? Why do you think the Dead Sea Scrolls never seem to get translated?
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As far as being a Christian nation, we have a lot to be ashamed of. Systemic and deliberate use of torture is just one part of the Bush /Cheney legacy that we are leaving for future generations to bear.
“Interrogators pumped detainees full of so much water that the CIA turned to a special saline solution to minimize the risk of death, the documents show. The agency used a gurney “specially designed” to tilt backwards at a perfect angle to maximize the water entering the prisoner’s nose and mouth, intensifying the sense of choking – and to be lifted upright quickly in the event that a prisoner stopped breathing.”
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/03/09/waterboarding_for_dummies/index.html
Go to http://www.ouramericanvalues.org and ask Gary Bauer who runs the site why it is
promoting an Israeli agenda? I called him out on it and he labeled me an anti-
Semite. I never said that Israel should not exist. I did ask why he was putting
the interests of a foreign country before his own. I also suggested that if he
felt that strongly he should emigrate and enlist in the IDF.
Why are Jews so sensitive to criticism and what is their problem? Do they consider themselves perfect while 90 to 99% of them are corrupt, deceitful criminals who have destroyed America, UK, Russia and many other countries. I am disappointed that Gordon Duff is Jewish. I hope at least Jeff Gates is not. I have seen the corruption of Jews at all levels of life including in our colleges and universities and simply sick and tired of them.
I have personally been the target of their corrupt activities and I have seen how they have conspired to destroy America, white people, western civilization and Christianity and those who oppose their corruption and fraud. I am aware of criminal activities of Jewish politicians and some Jewish police chiefs. Why are US police officers and the FBI being sent to Israel for training and why is this necessary? Find out what Sandy Berger and Madelin Albright are doing today? What is Henry Kissinger [86 years old] still doing? What was he recently doing in South Korea? Can these Jewish criminals stop destroying America even in their old age? Take a look at various police departments headed by Jewish police chiefs. If you want to protect humanity from these criminals 90 to 99% of them have to be sent away to a remote island far and far away so they can perpetrate crime on one another. This is the only way you can free humanity from these awful criminals. Remaining 1 to 10% of them [the good ones we can all love].
I know of about 5 really nice Jewish people and God bless them. The greatest thing that came out of the Jewish race is the birth of Jesus Christ but I sometimes wonder whether Jesus Christ was really Jewish.
“”The “war on terror” has been like no other. America has kidnapped and tortured dozens, hundreds, even thousands of innocent civilians, bombed poor villages off the map and turned on its own citizens. We hold mock trials, hire mercenaries and have covered up so many crimes, from rape to murder to massive corruption and even treason that we have become unrecognizable as the country we were even in 2000.”"
Do you have any proof of these exotic claims?
Jeremiah,
I have proof beyond measure. I have been briefed at every level in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.
I am a UN humanitarian official tasked with cleaning the messes up.
In fact, not only am I drowning in proof, you are too and so is every American who cares to replace the dreamworld of Zionist press with facts.
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you are bursting at the seams trying to let this out. i only ask that you break it up into chunks we can ingest.
(saw this just now on the internet. Jill)
PRETRIB RAPTURE POLITICS
Many are still unaware of the eccentric, 180-year-old British theory underlying the politics of American evangelicals and Christian Zionists.
Journalist and historian Dave MacPherson has spent more than 40 years focusing on the origin and spread of what is known as the apocalyptic “pretribulation rapture” – the inspiration behind Hal Lindsey’s bestsellers of the 1970s and Tim LaHaye’s today.
Although promoters of this endtime evacuation from earth constantly repeat their slogan that “it’s imminent and always has been” (which critics view more as a sales pitch than a scriptural statement), it was unknown in all official theology and organized religion before 1830.
And MacPherson’s research also reveals how hostile the pretrib rapture view has been to other faiths:
It is anti-Islam. TV preacher John Hagee has been advocating “a pre-emptive military strike against Iran.” (Google “Roots of Warlike Christian Zionism.”)
It is anti-Jewish. MacPherson’s book “The Rapture Plot” (see Armageddon Books etc.) exposes hypocritical anti-Jewishness in even the theory’s foundation.
It is anti-Catholic. Lindsey and C. I. Scofield are two of many leaders who claim that the final Antichrist will be a Roman Catholic. (Google “Pretrib Hypocrisy.”)
It is anti-Protestant. For this reason no major Protestant denomination has ever adopted this escapist view.
It even has some anti-evangelical aspects. The first publication promoting this novel endtime view spoke degradingly of “the name by which the mixed multitude of modern Moabites love to be distinguished, – the Evangelical World.” (MacPherson’s “Plot,” p. 85)
Despite the above, MacPherson proves that the “glue” that holds constantly in-fighting evangelicals together long enough to be victorious voting blocs in elections is the same “fly away” view. He notes that Jerry Falwell, when giving political speeches just before an election, would unfailingly state: “We believe in the pretribulational rapture!”
In addition to “The Rapture Plot,” MacPherson’s many internet articles include “Famous Rapture Watchers,” “Pretrib Rapture Diehards,” “Edward Irving is Unnerving,” “America’s Pretrib Rapture Traffickers,” “Thomas Ice (Bloopers),” “Pretrib Rapture Secrecy” and “Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty” (massive plagiarism, phony doctorates, changing of early “rapture” documents in order to falsely credit John Darby with this view, etc.!).
Because of his devastating discoveries, MacPherson is now No. 1 on the “hate” list of pretrib rapture leaders!
There’s no question that the leading promoters of this bizarre 19th century end-of-the-world doctrine are solidly pro-Israel and necessarily anti-Palestinian. In light of recently uncovered facts about this fringe-British-invented belief which has always been riddled with dishonesty, many are wondering why it should ever have any influence on Middle East affairs.
This Johnny-come-lately view raises millions of dollars for political agendas. Only when scholars of all faiths begin to look deeply at it and widely air its “dirty linen” will it cease to be a power. It is the one theological view no one needs!
With apologies to Winston Churchill – never has so much deception been foisted on so many by so few!
[Also Google "David Letterman's Hate, Etc."]