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No Dominion: The Lonely, Dangerous Fight Against Christian Supremacists Inside the Armed Forces
Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation
By Matthew Harwood, t r u t h o u t | Report
In his fight against British imperialism, Mahatma Gandhi described the life cycle of successful civil disobedience: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mikey Weinstein, the 55-year-old founder of the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), likes to quote it, knowing full well he’s crossed the line into a bloody-knuckle brawl. Over the past year, Weinstein and his organization have recorded a tremendous string of victories in the fight against Christian supremacists inside the armed forces.
In January, the MRFF broke the story on the Pentagon’s Jesus Rifles, where rifle scopes used in Afghanistan and Iraq were embossed with New Testament verses. In April, he got the military to rescind its invitation to the Reverend Franklin Graham to speak at May’s National Prayer Day because of Islamophobic remarks. Most shockingly, MRFF received its second nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in late October. These high-profile victories have earned him the enmity of the hardcore Christian Right and the mentally unstable. And the crazies are getting crazier. Weinstein and his family are bombarded with hate mail, from the grammatically incorrect and easy to dismiss – “I hope all your kids turn out gay as hell, take it in the ass, and get aids and die!!!!” – to the kind of threats that immediately make you leap out of your chair and double-check that the doors and windows are locked. (MRFF has referred multiple death threats on Mikey, his family, and MRFF employees to the FBI.)
Unlike Gandhi, Mikey’s no pacifist. Aggression rises up in his voice like a white shark’s fin breaks the waves. In a recent conversation, Mikey bragged how a punk wouldn’t shut up in a movie. When a confrontation ensued and the man took a wild swing, Mikey put him down. None of this is surprising. Weinstein boxed during his Air Force days, his face marked by a strong jawline sitting below a bald head on top of a stocky body – a cross between Rocky Marciano and Butter Bean. Simply put: Mikey Weinstein can be a brute and a zealot. He knows this and admits it freely. But he believes it’s the only position a reasonable person can take when confronted with a faction dedicated to mutating the U.S. military into “a weaponized Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
But for all of his rhetorical excesses and bravado, Weinstein’s fight is simple and correct. The United States military cannot favor one religious sect over another, staying true to the Constitution’s establishment clause that service members pledge to defend. More pragmatically, the military cannot favor one religious sect over another because it’s destructive of good order and discipline, creating divisions between service members when they must rely on the guy next to them to survive in a firefight. Yet inside the U.S. military a small, determined, and fanatical clique wants to abuse its power and prosetlyze to service members below them in the chain of command. Through this captive market, they can inject their peculiar ideology into the most powerful institution on earth. As Weinstein likes to say, this isn’t just a civil rights issue, it’s a national security threat of the gravest magnitude. The description sounds hyberbolic, but according to Weinstein there’s a pervasive Christian supremacist milieu inside the U.S. military that’s a danger not only to constitutional order, but to the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. What’s ironic about Mikey’s fight is that he never thought about becoming “a civil rights activist.” He discovered his calling by rising up like a grizzly bear for his son.
Top row, left to right – Casey Weinstein (Mikey’s son), Bonnie Weinstein (married to Mikey), Mikey Weinstein, Curtis Weinstein (Mikey’s son)
Bottom row, left to right – Amanda Weinstein (married to Casey), Jerry Weinstein (Mikey’s father), Alice Weinstein (Mikey’s mother), Amber Weinstein (Mikey’s daughter). (Photo: Steve Most)
The Academy
The Weinstein family is an Air Force family. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1953, Mikey’s father switched to the Air Force to pursue new opportunities in a new service. Mikey followed in his footsteps, as did his two sons, Casey and Curtis. Casey, the oldest, even met his wife Amanda at the Air Force Academy while they were cadets there. Mikey’s daughter Amber dates an Academy graduate – 2nd Lt. Mack Delgado, a Christian with a cross tattooed on his chest, a detail Mikey points out every time his name’s brought up. It’s a family whose life orbits around the Academy, although that gravitational pull has slipped.
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As recounted in his 2006 book, With God on Our Side, Weinstein’s confrontation with Christian supremacism began during his youngest son Curtis’s freshman year at the Academy in Colorado Springs. Sitting at the base of Pike’s Peak, Colorado Springs has been called the Christian Mecca. More than any city in America, evangelical Christianity saturates its streets. For instance, James Dobson’s Focus on the Family sits just across the interstate from the Air Force Academy’s airfield. Before he was outed for allegedly doing meth and banging a male prostitute, the Rev. Ted Haggard ran the 14,000-strong New Life Church in Colorado Springs. That extreme conservative religiosity has long permeated the Academy. Unsurprisingly, it doesn’t like or respect diversity of any kind, as two generations of Weinstein’s would discover.
Entering the Cadet Area at the Academy as a “doolie” in 2003, Curtis was asked from both naive and intolerant Christian cadets why the Jews killed their savior. During an intramural game, an upperclassmen asked him, “How it felt to kill Jesus.” The religious discrimination got so unrelenting that Curtis complained to his father in June 2004. “The next person that calls me a fucking Jew or accuses me of killing Jesus, I’m going beat the fucking shit out of them,” Mikey recounted to CNN in 2005. His older son, who graduated in 2004, confirmed the evangelical sea all Academy cadets swam in during their tenure there. “Dad, this is just the way it is,” Casey said. “Senior cadets would sit down and say, ‘How do you feel about the fact that your family is going to burn in hell?’”
Bad memories flooded back from Mikey’s own time at the Academy, which he never told anyone about except for his wife, Bonnie. During his freshman year at the Academy, Mikey first faced anti-Semitic notes taped to his door that quickly escalated into two violent ambushes. The first time Mikey says he was attacked from behind inside an Academy academic building and thrown down the stairs, waking up in a pool of his own blood. The second time came while he was in the john. His attacker kicked in the stall and tore him up. “I was a victim, and having to admit that, even now, fucking pisses me off and makes me feel ashamed,” he told the co-author of With God on Our Side, David Seay. Mikey was reduced to an Auschwitz Jew rather than the Warsaw Ghetto Jew he idolizes.
“I remember as an 18-year-old the overwhelming sense of helplessness of being abused, of utter degradation and humiliation,” Mikey says. And the anti-Semitism then directed at Curtis gave him another chance to redeem himself and be that Warsaw Ghetto Jew. And he did. A former Judge Advocate General (JAG), a Reagan White House lawyer during the Iran-Contra scandal, and a former general counsel to billionaire and former presidential candidate Ross Perot, Mikey couldn’t be dismissed as a Che Guevara T-shirt- wearing armchair revolutionary. And as a lawyer, he made it hard to ignore him. In October 2005, he sued the Air Force Academy, seeking a ban on religious proselytizing or evangelizing by superior officers after finding evidence of systematic evangelical coercion festering inside the Academy’s walls. While the lawsuit was later dismissed in October 2006, the precedent was set. The initial lawsuit that Mikey leveled at the Air Force Academy morphed into MRFF as the winter of 2005 slid into 2006. Mikey left his lucrative job as an executive of business development at Perot Systems to continue agitating religious reform inside the military.
“Who will guard the guards,” he asks. “We will, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation will.” In the process, he has systematically exposed himself and his family to terroristic threats, virulent anti-Semitism, and financial ruin.
Neo-Crusaders
Quickly, Mikey realized that the infection wasn’t isolated; the virulence was military-wide. He likens it to nuclear contamination. “If you had a geiger counter, there wouldn’t be a place you couldn’t find it,” he says.
For decades, he discovered, evangelical para-church organizations had cropped up with the sole purpose of evangelizing service members. One group, Campus Crusade for Christ’s Military Ministry, described the service members that come under its sway as “government-paid missionaries for Christ.” At Fort Jackson in South Carolina, Military Ministry snapped pictures of soldiers posing with their rifles and their Bibles, an image eerily similar to jihadist propaganda videos. The same soldiers participated in Bible studies where one outline asked “Can a Christian Soldier Kill?” “NO to murder, YES to killing,” the outline declared, because the soldier was god’s “angel of wrath,” punishing evil.
Other examples MRFF uncovered were no less disturbing. Inside the Military Police building at Fort Riley, a printout slapped on an office door carried conservative columnist Ann Coulter’s sunken face and this quote: “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.” A more subtle evangelical hubris also appeared inside the Pentagon. In 2007, MRFF’s discovery of nine Pentagon officials appearing in a promotional video for Campus Crusade’s Christian Embassy caused the Department of Defense’s inspector general to rebuke seven military officers. For one officer, United States Air Force Maj. Gen Peter J. Sutton, that appearance proved embarrassing when he was assigned to Turkey as chief of defense cooperation. According to Sutton’s own testimony to the inspector general, his Turkish driver approached him with an article from the Turkish newspaper Sabah, which carried a picture of his appearance in the video and described him as a member of “a radical fundamentalist sect.”
But the Christian supremacist rot inside the military wasn’t confined to home or overseas posts. It had spread to the worst possible battlefields: Afghanistan and Iraq. Tipped off by service members, MRFF has discovered chaplains handing out Bibles in Arabic, Dari, and Pashtun in theatre. In another instance, a lieutenant colonel and 15 to 20 armed troops cordoned off a city block in Iraq and told a missionary he knew from home that he would protect him and his missionaries while they evangelized Iraqis. These are all serious violations of military regulations. United States Central Command’s General Order 1A, issued in December 2000, couldn’t have been clearer for service members fighting overseas: “Proseltyzing of any religion, faith or practice” was prohibited.
According to MRFF’s senior researcher, Chris Rodda, the organization has adopted a crude categorization scheme for incoming complaints such as these: “holy crap,” “holy shit,” “holy fuck,” and “holy fucking shit.” One “holy fucking shit” tip MRFF received described an incident in Samarra in 2004, when a National Guard unit painted an Arabic phrase on their armored pickup truck. It read: Jesus Killed Mohammad. Examples like these continue to accumulate with untold damage to U.S. military operations, Mikey says, despite the emphasis on winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan and Iraq, the focus of Gen. David Petraeus’ counterinsurgency manual. In these environments, fanatical Christian soldiers become self-tripped IEDs. When news broke out in May 2008 that a soldier shot up a Koran at a Baghdad shooting range, a violent riot broke out among 1,000 Afghanis in which three people died.
Mikey talks about Christian supremacists like they’re vampires, demons determined to drain secularism and pluralism out of the military. That realization turned what was once a personal fight against anti-Semitism into a more lofty principle. “Wherever I see unconstitutional religious predators in the U.S. military, of any stripe, I don’t care if I live or die. Someone’s gonna get a beating and we’re going to do it,” he says. “The two ways to administer the beating is to go into the media or into court,” he explains, a strategy distilled from his fight at the Academy. Lance Benzel, a journalist for Colorado Spring’s The Gazette, recently summarized Mikey’s civil rights agitation aptly: “Condemn in the strongest language possible. Publicly embarrass. Sue if necessary. Each new step raises the pressure on his publicity-averse targets.” What the U.S. military has realized over the years is that the mosquito they swatted at didn’t only have bite, it had malaria.
Some Christians, out of ignorance or sincere apocalyptic belief, believe Mikey is the anti-Christ. (He’s actually a reluctant agnostic.) Google “Mikey Weinstein” and you’ll see descriptions like “Jesus-basher,” “AntiChrist,” and “anti-Christian Jewish supremacist.” One “Concerned American” on the website “Powered by Christ” argued Weinstein’s “doing all he can to create an anti-Jewish backlash and help bring about the predicted endtime Holocaust of Jews that’ll be worse than Hitler’s.”
There’s one problem with this assumption. Ninety-six percent of MRFF’s 18,300 military clients are Christians – many Roman Catholics and mainline Protestant – that have been treated by their more spirit-filled comrades and commanders as not Christian enough. “This is not a Christian-Jewish issue,” Mikey argues, “it’s a constitutional right and wrong issue, and Christian fundamentalism does not recognize the supremacy of the Constitution over its sectarian theocratic dictates.”
Elizabeth Sholes, the public policy director of the California Council of Churches/IMPACT, which represents 1.5 million progressive Protestant members, denied Weinstein and MRFF are anti-Christian. She says he simply fights for religious freedom.
Sholes is a good person to describe Mikey’s enemies, as she sits on the left side of the great schism in American Protestantism. While Sholes supports an evangelical’s right to witness to whomever they please, she, like Mikey, believes they cannot do so when they are representatives of the government. “Our Constitution was established to give everyone the right to conscience, the right to free expression of religion” she says, “but not to commandeer the institutions of government to make that happen.” Yet Sholes says aggressive evangelicals within the military get it upside down, believing the government violates their religious freedom when government regulations forbid its public servants to proseltyze the saving grace of their savior.
Sholes, a believer in the Protestant social gospel tradition, argues Mikey’s enemies represent the very worst of Christianity – the apocalyptic rapturites confident of their own salvation and most everyone else’s belly flop into the lake of fire. These types of Christians go by many names, she says: fundamentalists, dominionists, the Christian Right, Christian nationalists. I asked Sholes if Christian supremacists is an accurate description. She says yes. But Shole’s assessment goes even further, comparing Christian supremacists to Nazis. Asked if they represent Christian fascism, she doesn’t hesitate: “Yes.”
“We hate a small subset of Christianity that goes by this term, dominionist fundamentalist Christianity,” Mikey says.
Hate on the Homefront
Case in point: On May 25, the 5th floor of the Dallas County Courthouse was cleared so Mikey’s lawyer, Randy Mathis, could take the deposition of Rev. Jim Ammerman while six deputy sheriffs stood guard, rotating in and out of the jury room. In his 30 years of practicing law, Mathis never saw this type of security for a deposition unless the person being deposed was already a prisoner of the state. Spokeswoman Kim Leach for the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department confirmed extra security was provided, but could not provide details except to say the judge had requested it because of a “security issue.” One possible reason for the extra security is that Ammerman is batshit crazy, a man who holds so many wild and dangerous beliefs he can be seen as the grandfather of the craziest fringes of the Tea Party movement. To be clear, Ammerman, who will turn 85 in late July, is not the threat. It’s those who listen to his conspiratorial screeds, according to Mikey and Bonnie.
A former Navy pilot, Green Beret, and Army chaplain who rose to the rank of full colonel, Ammerman is an early purveyor of the One World Government ideology that believes foreign troops are knowingly stationed in U.S. national parks, and that former President Bill Clinton and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are members of the Illuminati – a secret society determined to install a one-world government. As he stated in his deposition, he also believes there are 125 FEMA-built concentration camps inside the United States with more in construction right now.
What’s striking about all this is that Ammerman’s organization is currently one of the U.S. military’s largest ecclesiastical endorsing agencies for chaplains. As President and Director of the Chaplaincy of the Full Gospel Churches, he currently endorses 270 Pentecostal chaplains across all branches of the military. Ammerman’s tinfoil-hat beliefs, however, have brought scrutiny before – from the Pentagon, itself. In September 1997, Lt. Gen. Normand G. Lezy of the USAF ordered an investigation of Ammerman and his endorsing organization for using military chaplains “as agents to collect and convey military intelligence information for Mr. Ammerman’s political purposes.” The two other reasons Lezy gave for opening an investigation were no less inflammatory: Rev. Ammerman’s encouragement of groups with “supremacist viewpoints” and his repeated suggestions that a military coup of the United States was imminent.
Mikey and his wife Bonnie are currently suing Rev. Ammerman because of the actions of Gordon Kingenschmitt, a former Navy chaplain and self-styled “traveling evangelist” he endorses. Klingenschmitt became a hero of the Christian Right in 2006 when he was court-martialed by the Navy for insubordination after he attended a Religious Right protest outside the White House in uniform. When the evangelical Episcopal Church pulled his chaplain endorsement after his reprimand, Ammerman’s Chaplaincy of the Full Gospel Churches picked him up.
An avowed enemy of MRFF, which applauded the Navy’s decision, Klingenschmitt began channeling the Old Testament’s King David in his fight against godless secularism. Last year, Klingenschmitt issued multiple imprecatory prayers, basically a curse, calling for Weinstein and his family’s destruction. During his first curse, Klingenschmitt quoted the Bible’s most violent imprecatory prayer:
Almighty God, today we pray imprecatory prayers from Psalm 109 against the enemies of religious liberty, including Barry Lynn and Mikey Weinstein, who issued press releases this week attacking me personally. God, do not remain silent, for wicked men surround us and tell lies about us. We bless them, but they curse us. Therefore find them guilty, not me. Let their days be few, and replace them with Godly people. Plunder their fields, and seize their assets. Cut off their descendants, and remember their sins, in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
In a revealing exchange during the deposition, Klingenschmitt told Mathis that he and Mikey were both anti-Christians for suing him. Then, without prompting, Klingenschmitt added, “And it’s a little bit anti-Semitic because King David was Jewish, and King David prayed that Psalm to God as a member of the Jewish faith.”
His absurd Biblical exegesis aside, Randy Mathis says Klingenschmitt’s prayers are coded directives to other Christian supremacists to harm Mikey, Bonnie, and their children, done on behalf of Ammerman. “They’re trolling for assassins,” he says. If a conspiracy exists and that was indeed its intent, there’s evidence it worked. Kingenschmitt’s curses have ratcheted up the hate directed at Mikey and MRFF to extreme levels. “Since these fatwahs were issued, the threats and hate mail have increased exponentially,” the lawsuit filed last September states. “Plaintiffs justifiably live in fear of imminent violence against their person and their family.”
Things have deteriorated more rapidly since the New Year. In January, MRFF discovered that the Pentagon had a $660 million multi-year contract with Michigan-based Trijicon, which supplies rifle scopes to the U.S. military that had New Testament citations inscribed on them. One scope read “2COR4:6,” a reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 which states: “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” The Pentagon, along with countries like Canada, Great Britain, Israel, New Zealand, and Australia, have all since either raised concerns about the scopes or demanded Trijicon wipe the scopes of their New Testament citations purchased by their respective militaries. Then the news broke that MRFF successfully had Rev. Franklin Graham’s speaking invitation at the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer event revoked. The son of legendary presidential sycophant Rev. Billy Graham, the younger cleric didn’t have his father’s discretion in public and had assailed Islam repeatedly, once calling it “A very evil and wicked religion” after 9-11.
“We moved to another level,” Bonnie says of getting Graham booted from the event.
Then on April 15 at 11:18 p.m., an e-mail popped into Mikey’s box. It’s subject read: “Bad Leo Frank,” and displayed a picture of a young bookish man, hair parted to the side, with glasses framing a skinny face. A minute later, another e-mail appeared in Mikey’s MRFF account. It read: “Good Leo Frank” and showed the lynched corpse of the same man dangling like strange fruit from a tree. Considered a textbook case of Southern prejudice and cruelty, Leo Frank was a Jewish pencil factory manager in Atlanta, Georgia who was murdered by vigilantes for the murder of a 13-year-old girl many believe he didn’t commit.
A little more than 12 hours later, the final e-mail dropped into Mikey’s inbox. The subject read “Re: Good Leo Frank.” The e-mailer knew a version of Leo Frank’s murder too. “He was guilty as sin, just like you,” it read. “Tried, convicted, sentenced, appealed, denied. When jew money bought him a Clinton style pardon, white justice stepped in. Are you ready?”
Since Mikey’s very public fight began half a decade ago, the family has had to take increasingly extreme security precautions, as people left dead animals on their lawn, shot projectiles into their home, and drew crucifixes and swastikas on the side of their house. The family has two attack-trained German Shepherds, referred to as “the girls,” that patrol their property with a third one on the way. The house is equipped with floodlights, surveillance cameras, and when things get really bad, Curtis tells me, a team of security professionals camp out and watches over the property. But that e-mail, among other threats, made him embrace the Bill of Rights even more: he and Bonnie got concealed firearms permits.
Bonnie, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, now carries a gun in her purse. She and Mikey now regularly go shooting to keep their skills sharp. “I have to have my gun as my friend,” Bonnie said. “It reminds me on a daily basis, if not hourly basis, that there are really crazy people out there and at any moment they can shoot.” To remain comfortable with the weapon, Bonnie aims the unloaded gun at the TV and pulls the trigger.
The hatred takes a toll on her. “When I talk about this my chest tightens up; I get full of stress,” she says. She is very, very afraid, she tells me.
Extended Family
Zachari Klawonn is an unfortunate young soldier. Not only is he a Moroccan-born U.S. Army Specialist and a Muslim-American, the twenty-year-old is stationed at Fort Hood, where Maj. Malik Nadal Hassan went jihadi postal on his comrades, butchering 12 soldiers and a civilian in November.
“I am just an American soldier who happens to be Muslim,” he says. Not everyone at Fort Hood sees it that way, and his faith has not endeared him to some soldiers. In February, someone on base wanted him to know it – badly, at 2:00 a.m. on a Monday morning. That night, someone repeatedly kicked the door to his barracks room, making him leap from bed. When he opened the door, he found an empty hallway and a note, folded twice and wedged into the doorframe. It read: “FUCK YOU RAGHEAD BURN IN HELL.” It was an incident reminiscent to what happened to Mikey during his Academy days. The nighttime visit, shoveled on top of a pervasive base culture that associated Islam with terrorism and repeatedly used the ethnic slur haji, made Klawonn decide to stand up for himself. It also didn’t hurt that Klawonn’s own comrades would hurl the most offensive slur imaginable after the Fort Hood Massacre; they called him “Zachari Hasan.”
“Enough was enough,” Klawonn says, and he filed a complaint with his unit’s equal opportunity officer to force the Army “to take a good hard look at that moral compass and start using it.”
But that arrow didn’t move. Instead, Klawonn was forced off-base because Fort Hood could not assure his security. Too compound his problems, Fort Hood also did not pay out his housing stipend, and Klawonn had to survive on loans and pawning belongings. “I was running out of hope quite frankly,” he said. “I lost hope in the system.” With nowhere to turn, Klawonn did research online and found Mikey and MRFF. Within 24 hours, MRFF reached out to Klawonn’s chain of command. “I felt the urgency in the matter just completely take a 180,” he said. He was told immediately that his living expenses would be reimbursed. In another act of kindness, MRFF extended him a loan to carry him until Fort Hood reimbursed him. Within the next pay cycle, Klawonn was collecting his Army paycheck again. “It’s clear and it’s evident, MRFF definitely has some big push,” Klawonn.
“He’s the Jackie Robinson of the U.S. military,” Weinstein says.
Klawonn’s story isn’t an aberration. MRFF receives multitudes of thank you’s from veterans and service members serving across the globe. One thank you came from a U.S. Navy veteran, a self described “religious Jew,” who described extreme religious coercion during hospital stays at the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center in 2007. “During two hospitalizations, despite my written and verbal instructions to the contrary, the hospital staff was not content to just refuse to contact my rabbi,” wrote Akiva David Miller, now the director veterans affairs for MRFF, “they sent a proselytizing Protestant chaplain in to see me – while I was bedridden and wired to a heart monitor – to tell me that Jesus was the Messiah of the Jews too, and that my only hope was salvation through Jesus Christ.” Miller and his rabbi protested and the medical center retaliated by discontinuing Miller’s care. When they cut of his pain medication, Miller asked his doctor why. He response: “You’re a religious Jew. Why don’t you try prayer or meditation?” Miller contacted MRFF. Mikey flew out to Des Moines and held a press conference that launched a full investigation that confirmed Miller’s discrimination. And with the help of his old boss Ross Perot, Mikey got Miller care at the Dallas V.A. Medical Center.
While Mikey considers his approximately 18,300 clients new members of his family, his fight has naturally eviscerated other family relationships. Bonnie Weinstein tells of many friends and family who have left their sides when Mikey began trying to reconstruct the wall between church and state in the military, but she didn’t provide details.
She didn’t have to. On June 25, Colorado Spring’s Gazette printed letters to the editor on Benzel’s piece on Mikey. The comments took an even more absurd turn than usual, considering the type of e-mails and comments Weinstein and MRFF generate. Paul Baranek, the father of Mikey’s daughter-in-law Amanda, wrote a letter to the editor calling Mikey an anti-Christian bigot and chastised the paper for giving him more press. “This man’s motives are anything but noble, and the more publicity you give him, the more you encourage his crusade against Christianity,” Baranek wrote. Mikey responded in typical Mikey fashion: “I want to fucking strangle him,” he told me. But a more constructive and devastating response came from Baranek’s own daughter, Mikey’s daughter-in-law Amanda, published in the Gazette:
I was raised with the idea instilled in me that only a person with unstable and unsound beliefs tries to silence those with beliefs different from his or her own. Ironically, it is Paul R. Baranek who instilled this belief in me, the same man now wishing to silence Mikey Weinstein. Technically speaking, Paul Baranek is my father, but it is more accurate to describe Mikey Weinstein as my father. It is not by blood but by heart and choice that makes Mikey my father. He is the one who believes in me. He is the one who protects me. He is the one who defends me. He is the one who stands and speaks for me when no one will listen. He is the one who knows me. And he, Mikey Weinstein, is the one that I call father, that I call Dad.
But she wasn’t finished, echoing a sentiment seen in countless e-mails to MRFF: “But Mikey is much more than just MY father. Every military member seeking help from MRFF, whether they are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Atheist, or Christian (and most of them, like me, are Christian) is treated the same way he treats his own children,” she wrote. “Mikey is the only person willing to protect our military members and stand up for them when no one else will listen, ensuring they have the same constitutional right of religious freedom guaranteed by our country’s forefathers, the same rights that he himself fought to protect during his service in the Air Force.”
The letter, with all its awkward airing of family hatreds, proved one thing: Mikey Weinstein can be an incredible asshole sometimes, but to those that know him, he’s an indefatigable protector of the weak when they have nowhere else to turn.
“The care with which he handles each and every person who has decided to appeal to him for help…is what matters to us,” says Sholes. “His personal style is just not the issue.”
“My family is my life,” he declares repeatedly to me over multiple conversations.
No Dominion
The fight has changed Mikey. He has a darker view of American history now, acknowledging the genocidal underbelly of the American Christian conception of “manifest destiny.” He also feels like he’s beset by enemies from every conceivable angle – fearful an imbalanced Christian fanatic could step out of the darkness and end it all, as well as resentful he can’t rely on even liberal Democrats for support. In May, the Pacific Pasilades Club awarded Mikey its Anne Froehlich Political Courage Award but then quickly yanked it back, the club’s president justifying it by saying they weren’t aware Mikey defended the Reagan administration during Iran-Contra. (The Air Force assigned him the task.) In disgust, former Ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame, the CIA agent outed by the Bush administration during the run-up to the Iraqi War, gave back the same award they won years before. The club flip-flopped again and returned the award with apologies. Mikey will receive it in Los Angeles this fall.
Sholes compares the last five years of Mikey’s life to the famous Vietnam battle of Khe Sanh: “He’s been under fire relentlessly and he’s just exhausted emotionally.” Bonnie says their struggle, and she believes it’s their struggle, has taken a lot from them, especially their wealth. “Our security is completely gone,” she said. At times there’s an air of fatigue in her voice, that the stress of all this has ground her and her husband down. Yet she says service members would have no one to turn to if MRFF closed shop.
And the e-mails seeking counsel and help just keep coming. In May, 43 members of the U.S. Army – 29 of which were Catholic and mainline Protestant – reached out to Mikey complaining about the emblem at of Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson. The emblem shows a cross with a stake at the end accompanied by the Latin phrase “Pro Deo et humanitate,” meaning “For God and humanity.” The official Army Heraldry Manual says the symbol dates back to the Crusades when Christian pilgrims would stake a cross in the ground to mark their camp, and he wants it retired. Mikey says it shouldn’t be ignored that the Fort Carson cross looks eerily like the cross emblazoned on the Web site of the Hutaree militia, the apocalyptic militia the FBI raided in March. He compares the casual Christian supremacy at Fort Carson to the casual racism of the “Sambo’s” restaurant chain that died out after the Civil Rights movement took hold in America. And just a few weeks ago, Mikey received complaints about a new commander at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia. During the change of command ceremony, the new head of the 94th Airlift Wing, USAF Col. Timothy E. Tarchick, declared, “My personal priorities are first, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, second, my family, and third, everything else.” Imagine Tarchick said this, argues Mikey: “My personal priorities are first, Allah and Savior Mohammed, second, my family, and third, everything else.”
According to Mikey, these recent incidents mean the fight will continue on. Sometimes he says he feels like he’s “screaming into the abyss each morning.” In essence, he’s a civil rights Sisyphus. He shoulders the boulder up the hill, only to watch it come crashing down again.
“I worry about him,” Amber says, knowing full well her father won’t stop “unless someone shot him dead.”
Looking back on the 20th century, one of the morbid realizations of any civil rights activist is that their wick doesn’t last long. There’s no reason to think the 21st century will be any different. That doesn’t deter Weinstein. Neither does poverty. He says he’ll sell everything to continue his fight. He is a man on fire, but he’s hoping his wick will burn out naturally.
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THANK GOD WE WILL BE FREE OF THE BRITISH CROWN.
AMEN, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY
Big fat fucking narcissistic overinflated egos of egoist jews. We had enough of your victimized image you big fat fucking abusers, facist fags, pedophiles…you are the most vindicfull npeople on the planet, the most racist, the most obese and you go portraying yourself as victims. What a bunch of pigs, what fucking fagget criminal leadership…go to hell…
Mr. Picard,
Have you considered joining the Neo-NAZIs?
Your kind of people.
No I do not think he will join A.I.P.A.C. /ADL/SPLC/JDL
Freedom is religion is the most important part of the first amendment, but it does not guarantee that we will only be exposed to religious views that we agree with.
What it says is that “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion; or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”, yet prohibiting free exercise is exactly what the author of this article is advocating. Part of the right of free exercise is evangelizing or prosletyzing. You may not like what the leaders of Campus Crusade for Christ or other groups have to say, but they have the right to say it. According to what I understand, there is no military policy which requires that cadets at academies or any other member of the military must join a particular or any religious group and just because a prayer with the name of Jesus in it is presented at a ceremony, does not mean that those in attendance are being indoctrinated. The person who is presenting has the right to express their religious views as well regardless of the venue.
Make no mistake, our founding fathers used their political offices to present their religious views. John Jay (who was the primary author of the first amendment) along with several other founders said that while there could not be any official religious test for federal office, the people themselves should choose Christians for their leaders.
Don’t get me wrong. If a military commander is discriminating against their subordinates, because they don’t adopt his beliefs than that commander should be disciplined and possibly removed from his position entirely. However, to say that he can not share his beliefs with his subordinates would be to deny his right to free exercise.
Perhaps I missed this, but where are all the quotes from influential “Christian Supremacists” saying that they want to throw out the Constitution, overthrow democracy and establish a Christian theocracy?
Right on you are clued in,
Mikey Weinstein is a member of Truthout’s board of advisers
Does he have any cousins named ABE FOXMAN ??
THE ADL/SPLC BORG MARCHES ON FOREVER !!!!!!!!!!
SMELLS LIKE TALMUDIC TEEN SPIRIT !!
Mikey Weinstein IS A ” CHANGE AGENT ” !!
Most of Mikey’s clients are Christians, just the WRONG sort of Christians if the Christian Supremacists are to be believed.
If liberty and freedom of religion are that frightening to you, you can always move to Iran.
This is very disturbing to me. I live in the midst of a fundemenatlist Christian family (except for my father who said it’s nobody’s business to live your life). I can’t even talk to my relatives without being prayed for, interrogated and bullied to be a born again Christian. I have always been told I should be saved but I didn’t want to lie to God. I didn’t want to be like the people around me. They were intolerant of any religion but theirs. You can’t even walk into the subway without someone trying to preach to you. It’s become disgusting. I try to hold my temper because of my respect for God – not them. They even badgered my sister when she became a Methodist. My deepest fear is that when I’m dying, they’ll come into my hospital room and beat me down. I don’t believe God needs anyone to fight for him. I don’t believe that your doctrine should be my doctrine. And I don’t trust anyone who tells me they’re a Christian. You can tell the real ones they stand out like a beacon without saying a word. I don’t remember Jesus forcing anyone to sit down for a sermon. Maybe it’s because he was Jewish. Thank God the MRFF is out there fighting for religious freedom. My freedom and everyone else’s to worship the way they see fit. America was founded on the priniciple of religious freedom. When did that become lost in Christian rhetoric.
Coffeecrimson , nicely dressed up “MEGAPHONE” ,smells teen megaphone spirit
NO doubt Mikey Weinstein supports LIEBERMAN IN HIS EFFORT TO
SHUTDOWN THE INTERNET TO KEEP US ALL
” SAFE “.
HAVE WE NOT HAD ENOUGH OF ESQUIRE ROYALTY & KHAZAR SATANIC FASCISTS RUNNING OUR GOVERNMENT AND DESTROYING OUR LIVES ??
KHAZAR BROWN SHIRTS ADVANCING THEIR AGENDA IN ALL DIRECTIONS
THE KHAZAR SS WORMING INTO EVERYTHING
Nice how “Mikey” dresses up this filler with some antcedotes
to dress it up and try and disquise his purpose.
( Simply put: Mikey Weinstein can be a brute and a zealot. He knows this and admits it freely. )
Does he have any cousins named ABE FOXMAN ??
THE ADL/SPLC BORG MARCHES ON FOREVER !!!!!!!!!!
Is this not perhaps a response to the
obvious Talmudic/Zionist (A.I.P.A.C.) takeover of our
U.S. Congress,Executive Branch , The State Dept. ,etc ??
THE ADL/SPLC/ THE ATTACK ON THE BOY SCOUTS ,etc
I suppose for some of the “Special Fascist Tribe” encountering a response to their
own over the top behavior/deception/dis-respect would be uncomfortable.
Why do I suspect the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is
for the advancement of “Talmudic/Zionists” and the deluded “Christian-Zionists”
The”Christian-Zionists”are the obedient pets for “Khazar Fascist Master Racists “.
(Mikey Weinstein is a member of Truthout’s board of advisers)
Just wondering , Does “Mikey” have any pals or Chicago-Bath House buddies
who are members of ADL? / SPLC? /JDL?.
Does “Mikey” have any relatives who work with/for C.P.S.,
C.P.S. nationwide is the Child Persecution Services so
Homosexuals/Lesbians can grab other peoples children to meet their quotas !!!!!
( Simply put: Mikey Weinstein can be a brute and a zealot. He knows this and admits it freely. )
JUST LIKE Benjamin Netanyahu !!
THE MOSSAD ” VICTORY THROUGH DECEPTION ”
ENFORCE THE ORIGINAL 13TH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION AND WE CAN
FLUSH ALL THE “ESQUIRES” FROM GOVERNMENT OVERNIGHT !!
( Simply put: Mikey Weinstein can be a brute and a zealot. He knows this and admits it freely. )
Poor Baby, It is so difficult when you face anything besides
children armed with rocks and all you have are automatic weapons with tanks and
Attack Choppers ,!! , provided by gullible/deceived Americans.
Are Satan’s Minions getting to feel a little insecure ??
Military Religious Freedom Foundation IS A BORG CLONE
OF ADL/SPLC/JDL AND (A.I.P.A.C. OF LUNATICS)
……from their own words and deeds you will know them……..
HEY FOLKS THERE ARE PLENTY OF AUTHENTIC TRANSLATIONS OF THE “TALMUD” ON THE INTERNET , READ AND CHECK OUT THERE VIEWS ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND
THE ” GOYIM”. THE TALMUD ALSO HAS A TRUE SET OF ” DOUBLE STANDARDS”.
TALMUDIC/ZIONISTS ARE BABYLONIANS
A religious freedom advocate with ties to Colorado Springs said Tuesday the Army has declined his request to remove a cross and religious motto from the emblem of Fort Carson’s Evans Army Community Hospital.
Mikey Weinstein, the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said the religious theme violates the Constitution and that his foundation will sue to have the emblem changed.
“Our message to the Army is: See you in court,” he said.
The foundation lodged its complaint in late April, saying it represented Fort Carson soldiers who wished to remain anonymous.
Weinstein said the spiked cross and motto — a Latin phrase translating to “For God and Humanity” — send the damaging message that the Army is engaged in a holy war against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/religious-100306-fort-carson.html#ixzz0tVq9b66j
Mikey’s mission, objective and goals are simple: Freedom for everyone to worship as they like in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Right out of the U.S. Constitution.
I think plenty of us know & understand his “agenda”.
Finally Hundreds of Thousands a week are starting to catch on.
NO BABYLON/TALMUDISM FOR AMERICA.
WE ARE DONE BUILDING PYRAMIDS FOR THIS ILK.
Ah Rick, Satan’s minions?
Mickey Weinstein is an American Vet, not an Israeli. He is fighting to preserve probably the most important principle of our Constitution, religious freedom. Why does that bother you?
“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.” – Jimmy Madison
Why do you hate America, Rick?
Agape,
Infidel
I do not hate America , I have a profound difference with those who seek complete total social,spiritual anarchy with the
support of total Babylonian degenerate society and the support and
demand the compulsion of all of of society to fully endure/embrace all
500 plus categories of sexual deviants.
Freedom of Association is the Freedom to not associate.
The Freedm to have one’s own children force indoctrinated/propagandaized
by those constantly demanding tolerance and equality whose actual
intentions are the opposite of tolerance & equality.
I am not the only one to have notived the Hebrewization of Christianity and 30 plus years of Wars against actual SEMITES.
This Nation was founded as a REPUBLIC not as a MOBDEMOCRACY.
A MOBDEMOCRACY is where everyone must endure whatever the 51% of
bribed/blackmailed “representatives” ?? put in a bill with
thousands of pages of fine print none of them have read or care about.
THE RELIGION OF “EVOLUTION” IS FORCED UPON US WHILE STUDENTS ACROSS THIS
LAND HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED.PUNISHED,REPRIMANDED FOR HAVING A BIBLE
WITH THEM. ” THE ONES SCREAMING “FIGHT HATE”
ARE THE ONES WORKING EARNESTLY TO DESTROY THE AMERICAN NATION AND TO DESTROY
WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND CHRISTIANITY ALL IN THE NAME OF
” DIVERSITY”. THE KHAZARS occupying Israel are from Eastern Europe and
this was a Geo-political project setup by THE BANK OF ENGLAND/ ROTHCHILDS.
Christians in this Nation have been brainwashed into believing that
supporting the BACK-STABBING TALMUDIC-ZIONIST Government of Israel
is ” THE FULFILLMENT OF THE BIBLE”. This level of incremental brainwashing as well
as the re-writing of History wholesale is painful and ridiculous to
live through. IS IT NOT TIME FOR SOME CHRISTIAN CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS TO FORM that
are not in slavish devotions to NON-SEMITIC JEWS.
WHY DOES A.I.P.A.C. RUN OUR GOVERNMENT AND DESTROY OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR CHILDREN??.
WHY THE TOXIC BIO-CHEMICAL INJECTIONS ??
WHY IS THE NEURO-TOXIN SODIUM FLUORIDE DUMPED IN OUR TAP WATER.
WHY THE MULTI-GENERATIONAL WHITE GUILT INDUSTRY ONGOING IN OUR MASS MEDIA
TO DESTROY THE ESTEEM,SELF-CONFIDENCE AND IDENTITY OF WHITE CHILDREN ??
IT IS CALL ” WE ARE UNDER ATTACK ”
WHY THE MASSIVE WAVES OF MASS IMMIGRATION/INVASION SINCE 1965
WHILE POINTEDLY CAPPING/SEVERELY LIMITING WESTERN/NORTHERN EUROPEAN
IMMIGRATI0N ?? , TO CREATE A TOWER OF BABEL ,
NOTICE HOW ON TALMUD MASS MEDIA IT IS OPEN SEASON ON CHRISTIANS/CHRISTIANITY ??
BUT WHICH “GROUP” WHICH “TRIBE” IS ANY CRITICISM VEHEMENTLY ATTACKED WITH CRIES OF NAZIS , FASCIST , INTOLERANCE?.
IN FACT THE TALMUDIC/BABYLONIAN MASS MEDIA ARE THE NAZIS,THE FASCISTS, THE INTOLERANT ONES. ?????
THIS PERVERSION OF ” EQUALITY” HAS BEEN RENDERED/TRANSLATED TO
NOTHING MUST STOP OR HENDER BABYLONIAN/TALMUDICISM OF THIS COUNTRY ??
TOLERANCE AND ACCEPTANCE FOR EVERYTHING/EVERYONE EXCEPT WHITE CHRISTIANS??
JOHN McCAin & JOHN KERRY also wave the “veteran” flag.
Those who know the truth about JOHN McCAin & JOHN KERRY
do not appreciate there constant efforts to identify
with what they are not in their hearts a part of
or ever cared about.
I know some of the people mentioned in the article. Mikey Weinstein is not one of them, but I believe I know him too. I believe I know him because I have met many like him. I have seen and experienced his type of manipulative strong arm tactics many times. I served as an active Duty Army Chaplain for many years.
It is true that some of the folks mentioned in the article are indeed eccentric and that they sometimes act “batshit crazy.” However I believe it is also true that Mr. Weinstein and his ilk are on a “batshit crazy” mission of their own.
That mission, as I see it, is none other than the eradication of the Free Exercise of Religion. Mr. Weinstein views the world through the lens of hurt and anger. He is outraged that some in the Christian community have acted like obnoxious fools in their zeal to evangelize. I really do empathize with Mr. Weinstein’s hurts — I have met many obnoxious Christians — but my empathy stops there.
Mr. Weinstein is just as much of a “batshit crazy” crusader as those who he is crusading against. He and those like him, such as the ACLU, the People for the American Way and other far left groups are guilty of the exact same intolerance they are supposedly fighting.
These people are NOT friendly to our country or our Constitution. They want their own version of religious freedom, which in their mind means the eradication of public religious expression, and ESPECIALLY Christian public religious expression.
HAVE YOU ALL NOT NOTICE HATEMONGERS LIKE JESSE JACKSON & AL SHARPTON ALWAYS GIVEN PLENTY OF BIG CORPORATE MASS MEDIA EXPOSURE ??
HOW MANY TIMES HAVE THEY MADE A MUCH OVER EXPOSED WALL OF
NOISE AND FURY OVER SO CALLED ” RACIAL CRIMES” THAT NEVER OCCURRED??
THE MASS MEDIA EFFORT FOR DECADES NOW HAS SOUGHT OUT AND CREATED
ANY OPPORTUNITY TO BRAINWASH BLACKS & WHITES ABOUT HOW MUCH “HATE”
THERE IS AND HOW WE MUST HAVE AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
TO RUN EVERY SQUARE INCH OF OUR LIVES.
THE ESQUIRE & KHAZAR TRIBES HAVE CONQUERED THIS COUNTRY.
INFINITE AMOUNT OF POWER & FUNDS FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THEIR MINIONS.
SO WE HAVE THE SAME FAMILIES RUNNING OUR GOVERNMENT & MASS MEDIA.
TRUE SUCCESS IS TO CONVINCE ALL THE SLAVES OR AT LEAST 90% OF
THE SLAVES BELIEVE WE ARE ” FREE”
J.F.K. WAS OUR LAST PRESIDENT.
FEMA CAMPS AND LOTE OF “MANDATORY” “VACCINES” AND IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT
TO SOON TO BE ” ALMOST MONTHLY” VACCINES THEN YOU WILL BE LABELED A
” TERRORIST”. DO YOU NOT SEE OR BEGINNING TO SEE THE ENDLESS AMOUNT OF LIES & DECEPTION ???
SOON FEDERAL GOOBERMUNT WILL BRING IN MILLIONS OF FOREIGN TROOPS
FROM 50 PLUS DIFFERENT NATIONS TO “HELP OUT”
AND KEEP US “SAFE” !!
AT WHAT POINT DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE “END GAME” IS IN THE FINAL INNING??
HOW COME MANDATORY FORCED COMPULSORY BUSING WAS
NEVER DONE IN ISRAEL??
TO BREAK DOWN NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITIES AND OF
COURSE THE KIDS SPENDING AN EXTRA 15- 20 HOURS A WEEK ON THE BUS
CERTAINLY PLEASED THE “CHANGE AGENTS”.
WHY IS 85% OF ALL ADULT MALES FROM 18 -75 ALL THEY
CARE ABOUT IS BIG MEDIA SPORTS??
PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR TEEVEE !!!!
THE STANDARD OF LIVING HAS BEEN GOING DOWN HILL FOR 30 YEARS.
NOW THAT WE HAVE A SUPER FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WITH SUPER
POLICE AND SUPER “FAMILY INTERVENTION” POWERS,
LIKE CPS SO NON-HETEROSEXUALS CAN GRAB/ABDUCT OTHER PEOPLES
CHILDREN . THE CHILGREN FRQUENTLY JUST DISAPPEAR ,
MANY OTHERS ARE RAPED.BEATEN MURDERED ,OTHERS ARE SOLD OVERSEAS.
IN 2008 FLORIDA STATE GOV. ADMITTED OFFICIALLY THAT OVER 2000
CHILDREN IN C.P.S. “CARE” HAD DISAPPEARED.
THAT IS ONE STATE IN ONE YEAR .
WE ARE BROKE AND BANKRUPT AND THE “EXECUTUVE”CBRANCH WILL NOT DEFEND THE
BORDER STATES FROM FULL ASSAULT. HOWEVER WE ARE BUSY PATROLLING
THE BORDERS IN THE MID-EAST &CENTRAL ASIA.
OUR MANUFACTURING OUTSOURCED OR NEGLECTED.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS UNDER FEDERAL RULE HAS BEEN A DISASTER FOR MILLIONS.
THE PSYCHOPATHIC MASS DRUGGING OF MILLIONS OF CHILDREN
FOR BIG JUICY PROFITS.
THE PEOPLE OR CREATURES RUNNING OUR GOVERNMENT HATE US,LOATHE US
AND ARE ENJOYING OUR DESTRUCTION.
AMERICAN PATRIOTS ARE ABSENT FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
WE ARE BEING DESTROYED , DO YOU NOT SEE IT ???
For those who are/consider themselves “blacks” or “black Americans”
or “African Americans ” , ( no effort or desire to offend here)
Are african-americans better off now than they were 30 years ago??
Our children,families,culture,societies, our Futures are all
being degraded and destroyed.
Why not look into exactly which politicians pushed hard for
10,15,20, years of prison for possession of small quantities of crack, just one example.
How about all the funds for public Housing which about 50% or more were
just skimmed off ??
WE HAVE A ONE PARTY STATE
REPUBLICANS EQUAL DEMOCRATS
DEMOCRATS EQUAL REPUBLICANS.
WE WILL ALL GET MANDATORY,COMPULSORY,UN-ESCAPABLE “DEATH CARE”.
in order “to keep us safe”
ALL OF OUR FUTURES DESTROYED, SO I GUESS NOW WE HAVE EQUALITY.
The plan which BIG CORPORATE MASS MEDIA IS ALL PART OF,
is to keep all the normal non-psychopathic peoples of various
“backgrounds” or ” identities” , etc all suspicious of other
innocent people while the truly EVIL who rose to power
through treachery,DECEPTION,and dis-honor keep steering us to
the dead end which is so very close.
TALMUDISM / KHAZARS ARE COMMUNIST AND
FIRM SUPPORTERS OF N.W.O.
THE PHRASE “GLOBAL GOVERANCE ” HAS BEEN INTRODUCED LATELY
PERHAPS BECAUSE FOR SOME IT SOUNDS LESS THREATENING.
MAKE NO MISTAKE “GLOBAL GOVERANCE ” IS ” GLOBAL GOVERNMENT “.
(BP) HAS BIG TIES WITH GOLDMAN SACHS.
BANK OF ENGLAND /ROCKEFELLERS/ROTHCHILDS & CLAN/ BRITISH CROWN /
(BP) ,MONSANTO. GOLDMAN SACHS ALL FRIENDS,INLAWS,FAMILY,RELATIVES
OF NEW BABYLON/TALMUDIC WORLD ORDER.
LOTS OF TYRANNY,HORROR,& ANNIHILATION .
” A BOOT STOMPING ON A FACE FOREVER “
HEY RICK!
STOP YELLING!
TAKE THE “CAPS LOCK” OFF!!
It’s easier on the eyes to read if you type all your craziness in lower case!
To take it back to the religious aspect of the story: God might be an alien, but you will never know the truth in your lifetime. Maybe after you die. Then we all might know. You and many others may THINK you know…but just because you believe it doesn’t make it real…only real to you. Faith is personal and let’s keep it that way.
Notice how I capitalized “THINK” to put inflection on the word. This is something you might want to learn how to do correctly if you are going to go on long crazy rants.
Go smoke one and relax.
As for Mikey Weinstein. He’s a great American and we should all be proud of him for his service and accomplishments. Way to go Mikey!!
Mikey Weinstein is a fascist Khazar.
Perhaps Mikey Weinstein should be monitored or
evaluated as a potential domestic “threat”.
Not that Mikey Weinstein himself is a possible threat.
However , there is a , “concern”, that those who follow him or some of
his listeners or those that are influenced by him could
possibly be ” inspired” or ” decide” to perform some “anti-social act.
Perhaps a false flag attack like the Israeli/MOSSAD Government pulled off
on 911. His psychopathic need to dismantle and remove any trace of the religions of other people ( Christians for one ) seems to suggest
” RADICAL FUNDAMENTALISTIC TALMUDISM/ZIONISM ” something I am sure
the Dept. of Homeland Security might consider a “breeding ground”
for ” Domestic Terrorism” or “Domestic Extremism”.
Perhaps lots of Federal funds and personnel should be deployed to
infiltrate any social/political organizations he is involved with.
Then over a period of months or years a database of audio/video could be collected.
Then the thousands of hours of audio/video monitoring “could be arranged”
as “manufactured evidence” so he could have his own home and that of his friends/associates broken into/invaded by dozens of swat teams in full body armour
and trash his home and terrify his family and then have the informants provide all their “spoken” “written ” testimony so as get him fixed up.
plus also using federal funds and personnel some ” dangerous items could be planted in his
house or in his car ” , then they could plaster it across BIG CORPORATE BEAST
MEDIA for a couple of weeks.
I AM SURE MIKEY WANTS EVERYONE TREATED EQUALLY
EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT THE F.B.I. WITH ADL/SPLC/JDL
setting up ordinary normal people ongoing for
decades because I guess they ENJOY IT.
Thank you, Mikey Weinstein, for your courage in the face of delusional bigots. Keep fighting the good fight.
And Rick Dimbath, you’re proving Mikey right with every delusional post, you f*ckwit.
STELLA , your “MEGAPHONE” is showing
THE INFORMATION WARS CONTINUE !!
ADL EQUALS ANTI- SEMANTIC !!
adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
2. of or pertaining to semantics.
ADL expresses/promotes their hate & bigotry by labeling their intended
victims as “hateful/intolerant/bigoted.
The goal of ADL is to rule America by DECEPTION.
God said, “Beware of those who call themselves Jews and are not, for they lie.”
“The Judeo-Christian ethic we hear so much about in America is a big joke – the result of an intense Zionist propaganda campaign.
The Chosen People ?
Compiled by Rick Savage
One American Jew woke up to the lie after living in the Israeli occupational state in Palestine. He put it this way:
“The American people have been led to believe that Jews are “God’s chosen people.” This myth was started by a small group of Jews. A few Jewish leaders took excerpts from the Bible and interpreted them to mean that God designated them as “chosen people.” …
“Leading the cry, ‘We are God’s Chosen People,’ are the Zionist/Marxist (Ashkenazi) Jews who for political purposes chose Judaism and who don’t have a drop of biblical Jewish blood in them….
“The Judeo-Christian ethic we hear so much about in America is a big joke – the result of an intense Zionist propaganda campaign.
“I’ll toss in one last thought about the “God’s chosen people” myth: God said, “Beware of those who call themselves Jews and are not, for they lie.” Could it be the Ashkenazi Jews are the people to whom God was referring?” – Jack Bernstein, The Life of an American Jew in Racist Marxist Israel (California: The Noontide Press, 1984)
In their own writings these self-styled “Jews” tell us it is incorrect to call a contemporary “Jew” an “Israelite” or a “Hebrew.” Under the heading “A Brief History of the Terms for Jew,” in the 1980 Jewish Almanac, is the following:
“Strictly speaking it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a “Jew” or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew.” 1980 Jewish Almanac, P.3
In “The Pharisees–The Sociological Background of Their Faith,” Rabbi Louis Finkelstein describes these self-styled “Jews” and their origins:
“Pharisaism became Talmudism, Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism, and Medieval Rabbinism became Modern Rabbinism. But throughout these changes in name…the spirit of the ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments used in the Palestinian academies…” “…rabbinic Judaism, the first-born child of Pharisaism, remains a unit until this day.” (p.XXI of Forward to 1st Edition, “The Pharisees,” Vol. 1, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1938 & Vol. 2, p. 622
Jesus had quite a verbal scathing for the Pharisees in Matthew 23. He exposed them for the sort of people they were:
“Hypocrites,” “sons of hell,” “blind guides,” “fools,” “full of robbery and self-indulgence,” “whitewashed tombs…full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness,” “full of hypocrisy and lawlessness,” “partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets,” and “serpents and brood of vipers.”
Not quite an endorsement by the One and Only Sovereign God, Jesus the Christ, is it? And some fools have the gall, or should we say “Chutzpah,” to call Jesus a “Jew!” What blasphemy!
Professor of Medieval Jewish History, Abraham N. Poliak of Tel Aviv University, has stated:
“The large majority of world Jewry is descended from the Jews of Khazaria.” (The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler (New York: Random House, 1976) p.226)
The people living in Palestine in the 20th century have no racial nor historic connection with Palestine and are, in reality, descendants from a Turko-Mongolian tribal people who created a kingdom called Khazaria which existed until the 12th century. These Khazarian “Jews” could just as easily have practiced Christianity, but for whatever reason they chose Judaism (Talmudic Pharisaism) and there is nothing that can be done about it.
Obviously, if these people have no racial, or historic connection with Palestine they have no claim to the promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel or the land known as “Israel” (Palestine) today.
If this is true then there should be more evidence to support this position, and there is. The American People’s Encyclopedia for 1964 at 15-292 records the following reference to Khazars:
“In the year 740 the Khazars were officially converted to Judaism. A century later they were cursed by the in-coming Slavic- speaking people and were scattered over central Europe where they were known as Jews. It is from this grouping that most German and Polish Jews are descended, and they likewise make up a considerable part of that population now found in America. The term Aschenazim is now applied to this….division.”
Alfred Lilienthal writes, in What Price Israel (Henry Regenery Co., 1953):
“Perhaps the most significant mass conversion to the Judaic Faith occurred in Europe, in the 8th century A.D., and that story of the Khazars (Turko-Finnish people) is quite pertinent to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.” Again, “That the Khazars are the lineal ancestors of Eastern European Jewry is a historical fact. Jewish historians and religious textbooks acknowledge the fact, though the propagandists of Jewish nationalism belittle it as pro-Arab propaganda.”
Arthur Koestler’s book ‘The Thirteenth Tribe’ (New York: Random House, Inc., 1976) blew the lid off this suppressed fact. Koestler notes,
“In the 1960′s, the number of the Sephardim was estimated at 500,000. The Ashkenazim, at the same period, numbered about eleven million. Thus in common parlance, Jew is synonymous with Ashkenazi Jew.”
He further states,
“For the sake of piquantry it should be mentioned that the Ashkenaz of the Bible refers to a people living somewhere in the vicinity of Mount Ararat and Armenia. The name occurs in Genesis 10:3 and 1 Chronicles 1:6 as one of the sons of Gomer, who was a son of Japheth. Ashkenaz is also a brother of Togarmah (and a nephew of Magog) whom the Khazars, according to King Joseph, claimed as their ancestor.”
Koestler further quotes an early source indicating that the Khazars had some connection with Gog of the land of Magog.
“At some date earlier than 864, the Westphalian monk, Christian Druthmar of Acquitania, wrote a Latin treatise ‘Esposito in Evangelium Mattei,’ in which he reported that ‘there exist people under the sky in regions where no Christian can be found, whose name is Gog and Magog, and who are Huns; among them is one, called the Gazari (Khazars) who are circumcised and observe Judaism in its entirety.’”
For those interested in Bible prophecy, the implications of this last sentence are staggering. Read Genesis 10:2-3 to see from whom Ashkenaz descended; notice who his relatives are. Then read Ezekiel 38 & 39. Jewish author Alfred Lilienthal further stated:
“These Ashkenazim Jews…have little or no trace of Semitic blood.” – p. 222, “What Price Israel.”
This is now understandable from what Koestler revealed. The Jews fully understand their Khazarian heritage as the third edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia for 1925 records:
“Chazars: a people of Turkish origin whose life and history are interwoven with the very beginnings of the history of the Jews of Russia.” The Jewish Encyclopedia, Third Edition, 1925
WTF is megaphone? You’re a lunatic and your silly, illogical deity doesn’t exist. Get a fringin’ clue.
Oh, Info Wars (Alex Jones). Ahahahahhha! You’re conspiratard.
YOUR “MEGAPHONE” IS SHOWING .
Conspiracy Documented Facts,
we are long past theories ,
we can rely on documented facts.
Just throwing out the word “Conspiracy ”
no longer has that “dis_info ” effect.
Thanks for mentioning Infowars.com
try http://republicbroadcasting.org/
hey people google or search “megaphone”
Megaphone is an internet dis_info application ( from ADL)
No more rule by DECEPTION
This discussion string is a very common example as to the kind of misunderstanding as to about what America is in respect to religion. I do not believe by reading it I learned anything untypical. Americans are not very well informed as to about what the religion commandments in the Constitution actually say and command.
It was with that assessment in mind that I published The Religion Commandments in the Constitution: A Primer. That is, the Founding Fathers and the First Congress got the principle regarding religion and government stated and framed correctly from the beginning of America’s existence as a nation: “no religious test” and “no law” even respecting an establishment of “religion” by law or Congress or government at any level. I recommend everyone read it. For a review, check out the following video promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb7SbUWw9dM .
Well , “just thank goodness we have ADL ”
to inform us/instruct us what to believe/know about History
and the Constitution.
QUOTING DIRECTLY FROM MIKEY WEINSTEIN:
“Wherever I see unconstitutional religious predators in the U.S. military, of any stripe, I don’t care if I live or die. Someone’s gonna get a beating and we’re going to do it,” he says. “The two ways to administer the beating is to go into the media or into court,” he explains, a strategy distilled from his fight at the Academy.
ASK YOURSELF ONE QUESTION: Are these the words of a rational man? Are there really “religious predators” in the US Military?
I suppose some Christian buffoons occasionally overstep their professional boundaries, but to suggest that there are numerous religious predators just waiting to pounce on innocent military members is a reach.