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HELP!

Saw a tv-coverage of the Patrick-Henry College in the US, just one day after the brusque cancelling of the 'Habeas Corpus' act, indeed 'history' in American legislation...

Combining those two, the 'Light of the Earth' has decided to turn on to a fascist approach to the rest of the world, i.e.: basic human rights are no longer guaranteed to US-detainees, and solely the word of the Lord-President is sufficient to burry human rights as a whole...

From now on, the right to be 'innocent until proven guilty' is past tense in the US and torturing seems a legitimate pratice on behalf of onely one man: 'God's Double On Earth': G.W. Bush... banners and stripes included, Geneva-Convention excluded!

Ergo: US R.I.P...as a far as we knew it: the 'Land of the Free' unfortunately can be considered as from now as a potential follow-up for Nazi-Germany in the late '30's... The refusal of recognition of the Hague-tribune is hereby ultimately confirmed, and it is no more no less the end of the American Constititution... as well as its ally-status with the rest of the 'civilized world'

Could very well be that the famous 'Wir haben es nicht gewusst' after WWII has already found its equal in the beginning of the third millennium: 'We didn't realize...' When torturing is admitted purely under the legitimacy of the flag, then the world is in great pain, if only because of the number of flags in the world...

Just for that reason, it is an outrage that the political staff of God ruling this country seeks to morally 'ground' itself on 'christian premisses'; but the message of Jesus proclaiming a message of love throughout the Gospel has got nothing to do with these new crusaders... Instead, we get blatant blasphemy, not to say: pure stupidity accepted in total uncriticism towards the 'essentials', both in christian as well as in human(itarian) perspective!

Remembering the days in 2000 when the world was confronted with the elections of George - Texas Ranger - Bush as well as Ariel - Sabra & Shatilla - Sharon at almost the same time, my first thoughts back then prooved very right: "Oh no, this means misery for the next ten years!"... and indeed, that's what it was and still is!! Both started claiming being 'the light of the earth', and at the same time, darkness never appeared so dark and most of all: on a global scale...

Hence the wake-up call: in spite of any Patrick-Henry adept ('Christianity is one of the oldest religions' - what a joke!), the truth is not in dogmatics but in veracity! Otherwise said: it is not in 'truth-seeking' bible reading, but more in 'truth-searching' biblical interpretation! We have Marc, Matthew, Luke & John to interpret 'the real thing' in a fourfold way, Al-Qaeda keeps on claiming that Gabriel kept Muhammed's hand in righting the Qo'ran... any further interpretation excluded!

Of course: "The earth is to the Lord, and hence any taxes to the state are to be excluded", is an interpretion as well... only: it obviously stinks because of the smell of greedy self-interest, a case Jesus himself would have made with reference to the Scriptures, starting probably with the 'Golden Calf Episode'...

Until recently, the 'other side of the ocean' seemed very nearby... By now, this very same ocean shows a tremendous gap... although I'm not inclined to proclame that Europe is free of all the forementioned crap, on the contrary! But at least the perversity of a religious-based founding of torturing is presently inconceivable in 'the old countries', although artificially and unnecessary invoked feelings of fear could ultimately produce the very same effect in here!

Conclusion: torturing in the name of freedom is the last thing we need: if we are to 'convince' other nations that democratic principles in combination with historically-gained freedom-rights are really worthwile, then we ought to RESPECT these values ourselves in order to preserve their AND our very own credibility... This is what the biblical story with 'the stave(?) and the splinter' is all about!

This truly sad story will ultimately have the Gospel itself as its main victim! In spite and maybe even because of all zelious 'new' evangelisation-attempts by Patrick-Henry followers!