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Why stop at abortion, Dr Charles?


Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Dear Editor,
Nary a week goes by without some Bible enthusiast chastising us heathens on our wicked ways.

Dr Clarence Charles implores the Jamaican authorities to enforce the biblical mandate on abortion in his letter of the same title. The success of the Cayman islands, he tells us, is directly due to the willingness of the people to adhere to God's laws on abortion.

In my intense search of the good book, I was unable to find this mandate. However, I did find other mandates that may yield immeasurable prosperity to the people of Cayman and Jamaica. I exhort the people of Jamaica and Guyana to follow the mandate of Leviticus 24:14, which dictates that blasphemers be stoned to death. We could climb to great heights of morality if, as instructed in Leviticus 20:10, we stoned to death all adulterers. If we follow just these two mandates, I guarantee that Jamaica would be the most prosperous country in the world.

So, Dr Charles, why stop at the so-called mandate on abortion? Let us not pick and choose from the Biblical buffet. Let us stuff ourselves with all the Biblical mandates.

R Oscar Lofters
Lofters1aol.com
Kingston 8


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Ted Rudow III,MA
8/25/2009

A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled that a Native American from Canada is not entitled to a religious exemption from prosecution for selling bald eagle feathers into the United States. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a two-year prison sentence for Leonard Antoine, a member of the Cowichan Band of the Salish Indian Tribe in British Columbia, Canada.
Federal program in the United States allows for limited possession of bald eagle parts by Native Americans. Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski wrote, "The government has a compelling interest in eagle protection that justifies limiting supply to eagles that pass through the repository, even though religious demand exceeds supply as a result.
What is more valuable human rights or animal rights? An unborn eagle or an unborn child? If you chose the unborn child, sorry you are wrong--at least accounting to the law of the land. U.S Code Title 16 section 668, the eagle takes precedence. A person who kills, damgages,tranports a bald eagle, its egg, or nest is subject to a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment for up one year or both(first offense) .
Whereas, not only is there no penalty for aborting an unborn child? Although the U.S. puts on a pretence and a hypocritical veneer of begin Christian, I frankly believe that the U.S. is more guilty than because she's had more Light, more Gospel, more genuine Christianity in the past,and therefore is more responsible! America is worse because she pretends to be religious and she pretends to believe in God & she pretends to be Christian when she's not!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Chilling

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/26/18619724.php


Chilling
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Wednesday Aug 26th, 2009
In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year
federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous
deficits since America’s founding.
And it says by the next decade’s end
the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy.
You'll recall that President Obama announced that he had found
budget savings of $17 billion. The American empire is clearly
overstretched and over-indebted. When an empire is new and fresh and
growing, people believe in saving, hard work, and frugality. When an
empire is old and decaying, they think the government should spend
"whatever it takes" to take care of them. This attitude helps destroy
the empire—thus making room for the next one.Americans have found a
president willing to go along with history.
Instead of scaling down, he is scaling up. Instead of reducing
America's indebtedness, he is increasing it. Instead of going for
safety, he's going for broke. America goes on living in a fairy tale, a
land of make-believe in which prosperity never ceases. But it will one
of these days.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Talk is cheap

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/20/18617490.php


Talk is cheap
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Aug 20th, 2009
Fourteen-year-old Juma Ismail lives 50 kilometers from the Mediterranean but had never seen the sea. The Palestinian youth had never set eyes on an Israeli civilian or an airport.
Juma’s horizons expanded this summer, when he left Jalazoun refugee camp in the Occupied West Bank with “Birthright Replugged” on a trip taking Palestinian refugee children to Israel to visit the villages of their ancestors.
The entire world represented at the UN and the leaders of Europe had all agreed on this also. World public opinion had also recognised that this was the only solution: That the Palestinians and their rights should be recognised as an independent Palestinian state on the Israeli occupied West Bank of the Jordan.
But they say,"That is Israel. We will never give up Jerusalem. But everything is negotiable. We want to talk, we want to negotiate."
Israel has been saying this for the last 61 years because she knows as long as she keeps talking and keeps everybody else only talking, nothing will be done about it!

Monday, August 17, 2009

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"Mideast peace is unlikely in coming years - Israeli FM"
August 11, 2009

When the immigrating Jews were a very tiny group of guests in the Arab country of Palestine under the British, the Arabs, always noted for their hospitality, were usually kind and helpful and did much to encourage some of their settlements. But as their number grew and the Balfour Declaration was issued, pledging the world's Jews a homeland in Palestine, the Arabs began to see what was taking place.
The Jews were no longer considering themselves guests of the Palestinians Arabs but invaders of Palestine and conquerors of the Arabs, so fighting frequently broke out between them, in spite of all the British did to try to stop it.
Finally, during World War II, Britain issued the famous White Paper restricting Jewish immigration into Palestine for the duration of the war as Britain already had enough problems on her hands contending with Hitler without fighting with the Jews and Arabs, too, both of whom by this time were trying to throw off British rule and seize Palestine for themselves.
Britain finally had to pull out as she eventually did on May 15, 1948 under a UN arrangement to divide the land between the Jews and the Arabs. But it never worked. The Jews of Palestine immediately declared themselves the independent state of Israel and began launching a full-scale war against its Arab inhabitants, which still continues!
Although outnumbered ten to one, the Jews were plentifully armed with the most modern weapons and masterminded by the most brilliant minds of Europe and America. Western news media, propaganda sources and politicians fostered and favored this view, and even Christian religionists were persuaded that this was the long-awaited Biblically-predicted regathering and return of the Jews and ordained by God!
The Palestine-Israeli war is an American war being fought with American weapons for the American territory of an American colony - Israel!

Ted Rudow III,MA
Menlo Park, United States
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Impose?

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/13/18615671.php


Impose?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Aug 13th,
Israel’s foreign minister warned on Monday against attempting to impose a Middle East deal, saying the most peace talks can achieve for the coming year is improving security and the Palestinian economy. “The Palestinians’ radical and uncompromising positions on Jerusalem, the right of return and the settlement blocs create an unbridgeable gap between us and them,” Avigdor Lieberman told a delegation of US Democratic lawmakers




When the immigrating Jews were a very time group of guests in the Arab Country of Palestine under the British, the Arabs, always noted for their hospitality, were usually kind and helpful to them and did much to encourage some of their settlements. But as their number grew and the Balfour Declaration was made, pledging the world's Jews a homeland in Palestine, the Arabs began to see what was taking place!
The Jews were no longer considering themselves guests of the Palestinians Arabs but invaders of Palestine and conquerors of the Arabs, so fighting frequently broke out between them in spite of all the British could do to stop it. The Jews of Palestine immediately declared themselves the independent state of Israel and began launching a full-scale war with its Arab inhabitants, which still goes on! Western news media, propaganda sources and politicians fostered and favoured this view, and even Christian religionists were persuaded that this was the long-awaited Biblically-predicted regathering and return of the Jews and ordained by God! The Palestine-Israeli war is an American War with fighting with American weapons for the American territory of an American colony--Israel!

Ted Rudow III,MA

Monday, August 10, 2009

How countries turn fascist

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/10/18615127.php


How countries turn fascist
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday Aug 10th, 2009
Historian Robert Paxton, who is probably the world's pre-eminent scholar on the subject of how countries turn fascist.The word has been bandied about by so many people so wrongly for so long that, as Paxton points out, "Everybody is somebody else's fascist."



"Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy stands accused of producing division and decline."
The U.S. is supporting of Communist Government,(ie-China), as well as lots of Fascist, Anti-Communist governments. The only requirement now seems to be not as to whether you are but are you pro-U.S.? As long as you're pro-U.S. you can be Fascist or Communist or who knows what, as long as you're at least pretending to be!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Sunday, August 09, 2009

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Iraq is in a slightly better state, but it's a mess as well, and remains in much worse shape than when Saddam Hussein was in charge. I mean, even Saddam had trouble running Iraq and keeping the peace, and he was brutal with anyone who caused trouble - and even with those who didn't.
But with him and his government gone, all the different factions can do as they want and they often try to do it to others before others try to do it to them!
The only thing going for Iraq at the moment is that, after decades of war and suffering war with Iran, then with the US during the first Gulf War, then after a decade of sanctions, then with the present war with
the US and occupation, the Iraqis are mostly too tired to go on fighting, and anxious to get on with their lives again. That doesn't mean the country is at peace, but at least the desire is there.

Ted Rudow III, MA
California, United States

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Sunday, August 02, 2009

Official propaganda

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/02/18613699.php


Official propaganda
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Aug 2nd

Official propaganda
Is telling the world that the Israeli public is united in opposition to President Obama.

That is totally false.
The majority of Israelis is waiting impatiently for Obama to “impose”on Netanyahua peace solution.
Mr. President,
You have our support!

Ad published in Haaretz, July 31, 2009

Ted Rudow III,MA