An Epidemic of Xenophobia

Before we get started I"d just like to say that this is the second time I've entered Blogger and not been asked for my name and password. I'm wondering whether I've been hacked. I don't recall doing any check marks, but I guess I'll have to check this out further.

As you know Wisconsin and Hawaii vote next week. It would appear that Obama will win both states. Nobody is denying Obama will take Hawaii but in Wisconsin there is talk of all these poor catholic union workers (who used to be middle-class Catholic union workers before Reagan) and they may opt for Hillary. To counterballance this, there is the younger University students who are allowed to register to vote the same day and they may rush to Obama. Yesterday as you know I was with the family on an extended outing and I happened to ask my right-wing Sister in law whom she would support if she were one of these Super-deligates. She said she would pick Hillary as the standard bearer rather than Obama because Obama is a Moslem and the Republicans will make a lot of all this Islamic influence Obama is subjected to and won't be able to resist. This goes back to her xenophobia of Arab culture in any form in this country. Our Iraq War policy is crippled by this xenophobia because people fear what ended happening in Viet Nam where the poor refugees fled in a panic being pursued by the advancing hordes of North Vietnamese Comunists and clinging to the skids of the hilocopters taking off. In my oppinion this won't happen in Iraq and probably because of the surge and a re-assessment we have done of the Iraqi people realizing they don't like Al Qaida any better than we do. Keep in mind that the majority of Iraq is Shiite, as is the government. My sister in law is so xenophobic she obviously forgot this fact and if her concern is Al Qaida, they have other fish to fry now and it's no longer in their interest to mess around with Iraq. I don't want an epidemic of either racism or religious bigotry breaking out when Obama becomes the Democratic standard bearer. We truely do need to come to a new dawn and a new day in America. Hillary can talk about empty words. No religion is more replete with empty words than Christianity. They talk of Heaven and Jesus being the Resurrection and the Life, but nobody has risen from the dead and nobody has gone to heaven and come back to talk about it. Hillary has spoken her own "words" involving the destruction the American family as we know it with things like gay marriage and the ability of children to sue their parents. Hillary has a really radical past if you "Vet" her. There is a train of offenses a mile long in Hillary Clinton's past - - if you just review Rush Limbaugh's old programs from fifteen years ago. This is back when Rush Limbaugh was in his hay day and he still did all of those cute skits and song parodies he's since given up.

I’d now like to discuss a topic I’m not sure I wanted to bring up. Certain news events “push my buttons” as they say. As you know and I already mentioned, Johnny Wendell discussed that ex college student who offed a bunch of people and then turned the gun on himself. He went off his medication. Well, Johnny suggested in a rather emotive, biased “John Kovelt” manner, that such people as the killer ought to have mandentory reverse drug testing. He says “Anyone who goes to see a psychiatrist and gets prescribed a drug ought to prohibited from not having a required amount of that drug in his blood stream. I thought “Maybe that makes sense”. Then Stewart from the Federation chimed in and said “It’s a violation of a person’s civil rights. Scientologists don’t believed people should be drugged and being drugged is not the normal state of cells in the human brain”. Besides this there are two other reasons not to have drug testing. The most compelling is that it will keep people from getting needed medical help for real problems. Not to mention it breaks the normal trust between a doctor and patient. Of course that didn’t stop the Asshole from El Paso from ratting me out to my parents and saying things Dad never recanted like, “He says you threatened him with violence”, which is beyond false. Apparently he and parents had a little chat about what therapists I should be seeing and what drugs I should be taking. Of course back in the “Arimid” period (referring to a series of DOS files covering the years 1966 through early 1968, I state how hostile my family living environment was. In fact really the sort of harassment and other stuff I was subjected to could only be equated in a prison setting, in which the guards are completely corrupt and turning to them for help would be suicide. Dad once admitted that perhaps a reason why my “medication” didn’t work, in fact “things” got worse, is because things “really WERE getting worse”. The point is that it seems crazy to me upon reflection to institute some government piss in a jar policy for psychos because that “definition” could be changed at any time, and it could be that some day (and perhaps soon) controversial or non cultural behavior or “revolutionary” activity could be seen as mal adjustment, and something for which you should be drugged. And there is no telling who has or hasn’t tested and certified the drug that the government wants to use on you. Scientologists are always saying that rationalism is achieved through rational, analytic thought and not through chemistry. I was reading the book “Mine Race” from the box I just retrieved, and happened on a page that said “events are not pre-determined and only certain events such as chemical reactions can be said to be pre determined. But brain cells in our brains (obviously) are just chemical reaction going on. Of course Ron Hubbard teaches that individual calls have a “Will” such as the will to survive. Of course “Survive” is a bad word among Christians. For instance a poor woman saying “I did what I had to do to survive on the streets”. Survive is a synonym for Sin. For Christianity to wish to survive is a sin as per the scripture, “He who seeks to preserve his life shall lose it”. But for scientology- and perhaps other religions, the soul is seen as a sacred entity that is separate and apart from the rest of creation or events that happen. This is the non deterministic view. If you are a determinist like me you believe, and the Federation teaches, that the Life we appear to have is an illusion and that nobody has ever proved the existence of the soul. If we in truth have no souls, then perhaps we are just chemical cell reactions waiting to be manipulated through drugs. If you are of the John Locke, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson school, then you believe in a hierarchy of authority beginning with God- - and then going to the constitution, and then laws- - and then individual human beings. In such a world right and wrong are “self evident”, as Scientology would agree with. I’ve always thought right and wrong were self evident. But under Christianity with its “total depravity” doctrine, right and wrong are NOT self evident. The only self evident attribute of God to these people is whether you are “In the blessings of the Lord”. Faith is imputed to you if you have these Blessings, and if you lack them you lack Faith. Jesus made an interesting statement. He said if you have the faith as a grain of mustard you can say to the mountains “throw yourselves into the sea” and it will be done. My response is, “If you can do THAT with a LITTLE faith, then obviously I possess none. (Think about it) Under Calvinistic Christianity, which has more in common with Hillary Clinton’s beliefs than you think, the human being has no Soul with rights that are “sacred and undeniable”. If you have no rights, then if other people treat you like crap, “legally” you have no recourse. And that’s my problem with this whole drug testing thing. Jesus on the radio is always talking about “Us and Them”. Other people such as John Kovelt and Tammy Bruce are in this “Us and Them” mentality. There is altogether too much of this in the world. Tammy Bruce once said she doesn’t want a subway to the San Fernando Valley from LA to be built because negroes from the slums will only board the trains and come out in mass to the affluent neighborhoods of the valley. Just how often does some psycho flip out and kill a bunch of people. Maybe there are three or four in a decade. Should we suspend our constitution all to catch three or four psychos? The math just doesn’t work out. What is to stop them passing other laws like mandentory genetic engineering of kids and if your kid is a “bad seed” then you can be sued if you didn’t go through the proper engeneering channels when he was conceived and you didn’t purge all the bad genes from the fetus? Johnny Wendell spoke of people who lose their insurance and can’t get the drug any more, and he said “Well if we had single payer health coverage, this wouldn’t be a problem. You can’t win an argument by appealing to something that does not yet exist. Christians do this every day, of course when they threaten people with divine judgement and of going either to Heaven or Hell.