This video is about Chris Hedges: American Fascists – The Christian Right and the War on America.
When attention is paid to the gay-hating racist pastor of Westboro Baptist Church in the USA, Fred Phelps, sometimes it is said that Phelps is supposedly a loner, supposedly not representative for the religious Right in the USA.
While, au contraire, it seems that the “Reverend” Fred Phelps is really the tip of the US religious Right iceberg.
From Pam’s House Blend blog in the USA:
Arizona pastor’s sermons call for execution of gays, Barney Frank and the President
by: Pam Spaulding
Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 10:23:19 AM EDT
Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona is a bible-quoting hellfire and damnation sort of guy. He calls for the execution of gays in numerous sermons …
“The same God who instituted the death penalty for murders is the same god who instituted the death penalty for rapists and for homosexuals, sodomites and queers” …
Among other sin-filled people Anderson calls to be executed is the POTUS, for his stand on reproductive freedom.
“God Hates Barack Obama, I hate Barack Obama. I hate Him. God wants me to Hate Barack Obama.” “Someone who commits murder should get the death penalty.”
Do you think he would be investigated by the Secret Service during Bush’s terms in office? Did he think Bush deserved the death penalty for executing all those Iraqi citizens in his unnecessary military action? Just asking.
A bit of Googling reveals that the “Reverend” Anderson is a bigwig in the extreme Right so-called “tea parties”, and attacks African American civil rights leaders.
Gun-toting Arizona protester belongs to hate-mongering pastor [Anderson]’s flock: here.
Pastor of Gun-Toting Town Hall Protester Prayed for Obama’s Death: here.
Islamophobia among Florida fundamentalist Christians: here.
Christian Fundamentalists Show Islamophobia and Intolerance for Religious Freedom in Opposition to Muslim Day of Prayer: here.
CNN gives ‘Tea Party Express’ free publicity, free room to lie about their anti-Obama origins: here.
Foo Fighters show up in costume, counter-protest Westboro Baptist Church with a pro-gay song: here.
Nine-Year-Old Josef Miles Stages Counter-Protest Against Westboro Baptist Church Protesters: here.
Girl, 5, Collects Hundreds Of Dollars For Peace Selling Lemonade Outside Westboro Baptist Church: here.
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Good post! A lot of people I’ve spoken with have still never heard of this church and it’s activities.
Besides the obvious negativity that this group spreads, the saddest thing is the kids that are involved in this church. They may never get to actually choose their own spiritual path. They’ve been totally brainwashed by this twisted 2 dimensional version of Christianity.
I wrote something up about the church as well and threw up a couple videos of them and a picture of a toddler holding a sign that says “you will eat you babies”
Ridiculous…….
http://doodiepants.com/2009/05/31/westborobaptistchurch/
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Hi Doodie, thanks for your comment and link. There are many similarities between the “Reverend” Fred Phelps and the “independent Baptist” “Reverend” Steven Anderson. See also here. Not to mention the wider Rightist “Christian reconstructionist” scene …
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Posted by: “Richard Frager” science@zzz.com falseflagusa
Mon Nov 2, 2009 2:40 am (PST)
Your electronic vote in the 2010 election has just been bought –The
ES&S purchase of Diebold’s voting machine operation is merely the tip
of a toxic iceberg… By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman / The Rag
Blog / September 24, 2009
Unless U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder intervenes, your electronic
vote in 2010 will probably be owned by the Republican-connected ES&S
Corporation. With 80% ownership of America’s electronic voting
machines, ES&S could have the power to shape America’s future with a
few proprietary keystrokes. ES&S has just purchased the voting machine
division of the Ohio-based Diebold, whose role in fixing the 2004
presidential election for George W. Bush is infamous. Critics of the
merger hope Holder will rescind the purchase on anti-trust grounds.
But only a transparent system totally based on hand-counted paper
ballots, with universal automatic voter registration, can get us even
remotely close to a reliable vote count in the future. For even if
Holder does void this purchase, ES&S and Diebold in tandem will still
control four of every five votes cast on touchscreen machines. As the
U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to open the floodgates on corporate
campaign spending, the only difference could be that those who would
buy our elections will have to write two checks instead of one.
And in fact, it’s even worse than that. ES&S, Diebold and a tiny
handful of sibling Republican voting equipment and computing companies
control not only the touchscreen machines, but also the electronic
tabulators that count millions of scantron ballots, AND the electronic
polling books that decide who gets to vote and who doesn’t.
Let’s do a quick review: ES&S, Diebold and other companies tied to
election hardware and software are owned and operated by a handful of
very wealthy conservatives, or right-to-life ideologues, with long-
standing direct ties to the Republican Party;
As votes will be increasingly cast on optiscans, touchscreens or
computer voting machines in the United States in 2010, the scant few
so-called paper trail mechanisms that are in place will offer little
security against electronic vote theft; The source code on all U.S.
touchscreen machines now used for the casting and counting of ballots
is proprietary, meaning the companies that own and operate the
machines — including ES&S — are not required to share with the
public the details of how those machines actually work;
Although there are official mechanisms for monitoring and recounts,
none carry any real weight in the face of the public’s inability to
gain control or even access to this electronic source code, whose
proprietary standing has been upheld by the courts;
With the newly merged ES&S/Diebold now apparently controlling 80% of
the national vote through hardware and software, this GOP-connected
corporation will have the power to alter virtually every election in
the U.S. with a few keystrokes. Unless there is a massive, successful
grassroots campaign between now and 2012, the same will hold true for
the next US presidential election;
Aside from its control of touchscreen machines, the merged Diebold/
ES&S also controls a significant percent of the electronic optiscan
tabulators to count cards on which voters use pencils to fill in
circles, indicating their vote. Accounts of fraud, rigging, theft and
abuse of these optiscan systems are well-documented and innumerable.
Any corporation that prints these ballots and runs the machines
designated to count them can control yet another major piece of the US
vote count;
The merged ES&S/Diebold now also controls the electronic voter
registration systems in many counties and states. With that control
comes the ability to remove registered voters without significant
public accountability. In the 2004 election, nearly 25% of all the
registered voters in the Democratic-rich city of Cleveland were
purged, including 10,000 voters erased “accidentally” by a Diebold
electronic pollbook system. So in addition to controlling the vote
counts on touchscreen and optiscan voting machines, the merged Diebold/
ES&S and sympathetic hardware and software companies that service
computerized voting equipment will control who actually gets to cast a
vote in the first place.
Lest we forget: in 2000, long before this ES&S/Diebold purchase was
proposed, Choicepoint, a GOP-controlled data management firm, hired by
Florida’s Republican Secretary of State Katherine Harris, removed up
to 150,000 Florida citizens from voter rolls on the pretense that they
were ex-felons. The vast majority of them were not.
Computer software “disappeared” 16,000 votes from Al Gore’s column at
a critical moment on election night, allowing George W. Bush’s first
cousin John Ellis, a Fox News analyst, to proclaim him the winner. The
election was officially decided by less than 700 votes and a 5-4
Supreme Court vote preventing a full recount. An independent audit
later showed Gore was the rightful winner.
In 2004, more than 300,000 Ohio citizens were removed from voter rolls
by GOP-controlled county election boards (more than one million have
been removed since). Various dirty tricks prevented still tens of
thousands more Ohioans from voting. The vote count was marred by a
wide range of official manipulations coordinated by then-Ohio
Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell.
Diebold was a major player in the 2004 Ohio elections, but was joined
by numerous other computer voting firms and their technicians in
“recounting the vote” which confirmed the Bush “victory,” despite exit
poll results and other evidence to the contrary. In defiance of a
federal court order, 56 of 88 Ohio counties destroyed some or all of
their ballots or election records. No one has been prosecuted. In
short, the ES&S purchase of Diebold’s voting machine operation is
merely the tip of a toxic iceberg. Voiding the merger will do nothing
to solve the REAL problem, which is an electronic-based system of
voter registration and ballot counting that is potentially controlled
by private corporations and contractors whose agenda is to make large
profits and protect the system that guarantees them.
Although elections based on universal automatic registration and hand-
counted paper ballots are not foolproof, they constitute a start.
Stealing an election by stuffing paper ballot boxes at the “retail”
level is far more difficult than stealing votes at the “wholesale”
level with an electronic flip of a switch.
As it’s done in numerous other countries throughout the world, the
only realistic means by which the U.S. can establish a democratic
system of ballot casting and counting is to do it the old-fashioned
way. With human-scale checks and balances we might even be secure in
the knowledge that our elections and vote counts will truly reflect
the will of the people. What a concept!
[Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman have co-authored four books on
election protection, available at freepress.org at, where this article
also appears, and where Bob’s Fitrakis Files are also available.
Harvey Wasserman’s History of the U.S. is at harveywasserman.com.]
http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/diebold-and-electronic-vote-rig-is-up.html
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