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"Constitution Restoration Act of 2004" is no joke;
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Subject: [apfn-1] Danger - Bush/Dominionists Trying To Convert US Into Theocracy
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:20:04 -0600
From: The Webfairy

Friday, Mar. 12, 2004. Page 116

Pin Heads - By Chris Floyd

One of the sticking points in crafting the just-signed "interim
constitution" of the Pentagon cash cow formerly known as Iraq
was the question of acknowledging Islam as the fundamental
source of law. After much wrangling, a fudge was worked out
that cites the Koran as a fundamental source of legal
authority, with the proviso that no law can be passed that
conflicts with Islam.

We in the enlightened West smile at such theocratic quibbling,
of course: Imagine, national leaders insisting that a modern
state be governed solely by divine authority! Governments
guaranteeing the right of religious extremists to impose their
views on society! What next -- debates about how many angels
can dance on the head of a pin? Oh, those poor, ignorant
barbarians in Babylon!

Well, wipe that smile off your face. For even now, the ignorant
barbarians in Washington are pushing a law through Congress
that would "acknowledge God as the sovereign source of law,
liberty [and] government" in the United States. What's more, it
would forbid all legal challenges to government officials who
use the power of the state to enforce their own view of "God's
sovereign authority." Any judge who dared even hear such a
challenge could be removed from office.

The "Constitution Restoration Act of 2004" is no joke; it was
introduced last month by some of the Bush Regime's most
powerful Congressional sycophants. If enacted, it will
effectively transform the American republic into a theocracy,
where the arbitrary dictates of a "higher power" -- as
interpreted by a judge, policeman, bureaucrat or president --
can override the rule of law.

The Act -- drafted by a minion of television evangelist Pat
Robertson -- is the fruit of decades of work by a group of
extremists known broadly as "Dominionists." Their openly
expressed aim is to establish "biblical rule" over every aspect
of society -- placing "the state, the school, the arts and
sciences, law, economics, and every other sphere under Christ
the King." Or as Attorney General John Ashcroft -- the nation's
chief law enforcement officer -- has often proclaimed: "America
has no king but Jesus!"

According to Dominionist literature, "biblical rule" means
execution -- preferably by stoning -- of homosexuals and other
"revelers in licentiousness"; massive tax cuts for the rich
(because "wealth is a mark of God's favor"); the elimination of
government programs to alleviate poverty and sickness (because
these depend on "confiscation of wealth"); and enslavement for
debtors. No legal challenges to "God's order" will be allowed.
And because this order is divinely ordained, the "elect" can
use any means necessary to establish it, including deception,
subversion, even violence. As Robertson himself adjures the
faithful: "Zealous men force their way in."

Again, this is no tiny band of cranks meeting in some basement
in Alabama, as recent reports by investigators Karen Yurica and
David Neiwert make clear. The Dominionists are bankrolled and
directed by deep-pocketed, well-connected business moguls and
political operatives who have engineered a takeover of the
Republican Party and are now at the heart of the U.S.
government. They've made common cause with the "American
Empire" faction -- Cheney, Rumsfeld, the neo-conservatives --
who seek "full-spectrum dominance" over the globe. The
Dominionists provide money and domestic political muscle for
the Dominators' imperial ambitions; in return, the Dominators
provide a practical vehicle -- overwhelming military might and
state power -- for making the Dominionists' dreams a reality.

The Dominionist movement was founded by the late R.J.
Rushdoony, a busy beaver who also co-founded the Council for
National Policy. The CNP is the politburo of the American
conservative movement, filled with top-rank political and
business leaders who set the national agenda for the vast echo
chamber of right-wing foundations, publishers, media networks
and universities that have schooled a whole generation in
obscurantist bile -- just as the extremist Wahabbi religious
schools funded by Saudi billionaires have poisoned the Islamic
world with hatred and ignorance.

One of the chief moneybags behind the rise of Dominionism was
tycoon Harold Ahmanson, Rushdoony's protege and fellow CNP
member. In addition to establishing theocracy in America,
Ahmanson has another abiding interest: computerized voting
machines. As reported here last year, Ahmanson, a fervent Bush
backer, was instrumental in establishing two of the Republican-
controlled companies now rushing to install their highly
hackable machines -- with untraceable, unrecountable electronic
ballots -- across the country in time for the November
election.

The Dominionists also have strong backing on the Supreme Court,
Yurica notes. Justice Antonin Scalia, author of the
unconstitutional ruling that gave Bush the presidency, declared
in the theological journal First Things that the state derives
its moral authority from God, not the "consent of the
governed," as that old licentious reveler Thomas Jefferson held
in the Declaration of Independence. No, government "is the
'minister of God' with powers to 'revenge,' to 'execute
wrath,' including even wrath by the sword," Scalia wrote. He
railed against the "tendency of democracy to obscure the divine
authority behind government."

Meanwhile, the tools of dominion keep expanding. Just days
after the Congressional Bushists launched their theocratic
missile, General Ralph Eberhart, head of America's first
domestic military command, said the Regime must now bring the
experience learned on foreign battlefields to the "Homeland"
itself, including the integration of police, military and
intelligence forces, "wide-area surveillance of the United
States" and "urban warfare tactics," GovExec.com reports.

Put this juggernaut at the service of democracy-hating
extremists with no legal restraints on their enforcement of
"God's sovereign authority" -- plus a proven track record of
subverting the law to gain political power -- and what would
you have? A mullah state? A military theocracy?

Or should we just call it "a second term"?


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