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Church-Goers and Torture By Britt E. Towery

"Though the British tortured enemy captives during the American Revolution, Gen. George Washington would not do it, thereby distinguishing this country by its humanity."
—Arthur Schlesinger, American historian http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/washington/01schlesinger.html
"Torture brings Americans down to the level of the people who torture. It is not only immoral, but illegal."
Source:
Church-goers and torture Britt E. Towery, Jr., Free-lance writer, retired Baptist pastor and missionary. (BlogSpot: Along the Way Columns, 05/07/2009) http://britt-towery.blogspot.com/2009/05/church-goers-and-torture.html
Article Reference:
"Matthew quotes Jesus as saying ‘Turn the other cheek. Do not repay evil for evil. Go the second mile. Love your enemies. ...May God have mercy on our souls for not being clear that we are following the Lord of Love, the Creator of the Universe, and not expedient political policy."
Source:
54% of Weekly Church Attenders Believe Torture is OK (WordPress: Chuck Warnock - Confessions of a Small-Church Pastor, 04/30/2009) http://chuckwarnockblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/54-of-weekly-church-attenders-believe-torture-is-ok
"What is this thing called 'Christianity' in this country, Lord Jesus? Does it have anything to do with you? It seems a strangely Americanized thing, a disastrously domesticated faith toward which people can nod their heads in loyalty as long as it doesn’t conflict with their full participation in whatever this country feels like it wants to do."
—David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University http://www2.mercer.edu/Theology/About/David+P.+Gushee.htm
Source:
Opinion: A Christian's lament over the Pew torture poll By David Gushee (Associated Baptist Press, 05/05/2009) http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4052&Itemid
Articles:
Moral Relativism: A Little Torture is Just Fine? By Jeff Schweitzer (HuffingtonPost, April 28, 2009) [ Dr. Schweitzer served at the White House during the Clinton Administration as Assistant Director for International Affairs in the Office of Science and Technology Policy ] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/moral-relativism-a-little_b_191568.html
Faith Leaders Call Torture Immoral Clerics Call For Campaign To Take Opposition To Congressmen By Frances Grady Taylor (CommonDreams, Hartford Courant, 09/20/2006) http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0920-03.htm
The Abolition of Torture By Andrew Sullivan (The New Republic Journal, 12/19/2005) http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a4e8a176-9c0c-4f26-ae58-8ef750a566b0
Research:
ACAT-USA / Action by Christians Against Torture (USA) http://acatusa.org
Evangelicals for Human Rights (EHR) http://www.evangelicalsforhumanrights.org
National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) http://www.nrcat.org
The Religious Dimensions of the Torture Debate (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, 04/29/2009 - Updated 05/07/2009) http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=156
Washington's Crossing By David Hackett Fischer Oxford University Press US, 2006 [ Read: Google Books Preview - Chapter: The Fall of New York - Hard Choices - pg 276 - George Washington's Instructions on the treatment of Hessians captives at Trenton ] http://books.google.com/books?id=STcoJP7esp4C .
Afghanistan Civilian Casualties in Military Operations
"Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission is deeply concerns on the increasing civilian causalities and believes that no reason can justify killing of civilian in military operations."
—Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, Aug 2008
"... when raids go wrong they end up killing Afghan civilians..."
Source:
Afghans threaten troops over civilian deaths Villagers angered over loss of life, predict spike in violence if raids continue (MSNBC, AP, Jan. 31, 2009) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28950166/
"More than 80% of Afghan civilian deaths today caused by the US/NATO are due to close air support attacks. "
—Prof. Marc W. Herold
Source:
Marc Herold, Ph.D. University Of New Hampshire: Documents - Afghanistan - Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan - The Afghan Victim Memorial Project http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold
“Any civilian casualty is one civilian casualty too many ... And every effort that can be made must be made to ensure the safety and welfare of the civilian population where military operations are conducted.”
Source:
Read:
"...pro-government forces are killing more Afghan civilians than are their Taliban foes...."
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"The issue of civilian dogged the U.S. led coalition forces from the beginning of its intervention..."
Source:
Watch:
Video: Afghanistan: War Without End (Posted on Pro-Life With Christ) [ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] [ Part 3 ]
Listen:
AIHRC Press Releases:
AIHRC press release on civilian causalities in military operations in Aziz-Abad village of Shendan District of Hirat province (Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, Press Release, Aug. 23 2008) http://www.aihrc.org.af/pre_eng_civil_klng.htm
AIHRC expresses its deep regrets and concerns in regard to the painfulincidents and casualties of innocent civilian occurred on Saturday in province of Nangarhar and Monday in province Kapisa (Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, Press Release, Mar. 07, 2007) http://www.aihrc.org.af/pre_eng_7_mar_07.htm
AIHRC expresses serious concern on re-occurrence of civilian casualties, especially of children and women during Coalition military operation against terrorist positions in Kandahar Province (Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, Press Release, May 24 2006) http://www.aihrc.org.af/pre_air_bomb_may24_2006.htm
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Instructions How Not To Volunteer For The Draft Or National Service
This gives detailed instructions how Not to volunteer for the draft or 'national service.'
Tricking you is another way the Government gets around that pesky 13th Amendment, so that there's no forced slavery, involuntary servitude nor any Constitutional problems.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RUN TO CANADA OR DODGE THE DRAFT IN ANY WAY.
ALL YOU NEED DO IS JUST REFUSE TO VOLUNTEER:
1. Young Mr. 'A' receives a "draft notice" and is told to report on a certain date to a certain place where he receives his physical and mental tests... then he is classified with a number indicating whether he is 1A (first called)... all the way down to 4F (unfit for duty).
2. Mr. 'A' is told that he is to report to an "induction center" at a certain location for the purpose of entering the military on a date specified.
3. By so-called 'law' he must appear there...or a warrant for his arrest will be issued.
4. Assuming he reports as directed he will have another brief physical, tests, hear 'welcome' speeches flattering his patriotism or other things to distract him from the near-invisible trap they have laid for him, which starts with, "...everyone line up behind/in front of/on the yellow line...," (painted on the floor).
5. A recruiting officer will then tell all those "joining the army" (or whatever) to take one step forward. REFUSE TO DO THIS !!!!! (those dumb enough to have done this have JUST "VOLUNTEERED!") This is done so that no one can legally claim they were forced into involuntary servitude in violation of their Constitutional Rights.
"RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND SWEAR......blah, blah, blah...." (almost everyone does!... thinking it must be REQUIRED!):
"I, (sucker's name) do solemnly swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America and will defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic and will obey the orders of the President and the officers appointed over me, so help me God." REFUSE TO DO THIS !!!!!
6. Those who stepped forward and/or swore an oath cannot now claim they were drafted against their wills and seek protection under the 13th Amendment. They stepped forward voluntarily and took the Oath "voluntarily"!
7. Assume Mr. 'B' was smarter than Mr. 'A' and HE DID NOT STEP FORWARD AND THEREFORE DID NOT TAKE THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. (the recruiter will probably say something like this: "What's the matter with you! Don't you know what' step forward' means?!!"
Mr. B responds, "Sure I do, but I AM NOT VOLUNTEERING TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY NOR IN ANY OTHER SERVICE TO THE GOVERNMENT. If you want me, you must take me against my will by force!"
8. All of those who "volunteered" will now be excused from the room... and Mr. 'B' will be cajoled with persuasive arguments... at first... then, when nothing works to change his mind he will be called names and insulted, possibly even assaulted by one or more military people present there as witnesses.
9. IF Mr. 'B' does not weaken, stands his ground, eventually the tormentors will give up and have him arrested on some charge. However, there is NO lawful way that they can MAKE him go into the military, because of the Constitutional prohibition against involuntary servitude in the 13th Amendment, which is why NO ONE IS TRULY EVER "DRAFTED" AND MUST BE "TRICKED " INTO VOLUNTEERING!
D. R. Graham Ret. Sci. Instr. & Ret. Mil. Officer
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Repeat
7. Assume Mr. 'B' was smarter than Mr. 'A' and HE DID NOT STEP FORWARD AND THEREFORE DID NOT TAKE THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. (the recruiter will probably say something like this: "What's the matter with you! Don't you know what 'Step forward' means?!!"
Mr. B responds, "Sure I do, but I AM NOT VOLUNTEERING TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY OR IN THE GOVERNMENT IN ANY WAY. If you want me, you must take me against my will by force!"
8. All of those who "volunteered" will now be excused from the room. Mr. 'B' will then be cajoled with persuasive arguments... at first... then, when nothing works to change his mind he will be insulted, threatened with a long prison term, called names and maybe even beaten by the 'true patriots' in military uniforms gathered around him like vultures. But you must stand fast and not give in. A few hours' hassle is better to endure than death in the dirt of a filthy tin-pot dictatorship that refuses financial exploitation by the Western Cartel.
After you can get a word in edgewise, ask the morons, "Am I free to go?"
If the recruiter says "Yes," then leave immediately at high speed. If the recruiter says, "No," then ask, "By what authority do you, a military officer, order me, a civilian?" If the recruiter says anything else, repeat the question until you get a Yes or a No.
If the recruiter says, "I order you by the authority of the United States Government," then ask, "Which clause of the Constitution gives you, a military officer, to order me, a civilian?"
Ask AGAIN: "Am I free to go?" If the recruiter says, "Yes," then obviously leave.
If the recruiter says, "No," then say, "Am I under arrest? Am I your prisoner? Am I kidnapped? If I'm not free, then what exactly am I?" Keep asking these same questions again and again until you get an answer. Badger them; after all, they just badgered you.
Another thing to say is, "I want an attorney." Tell them that since they won't let you go, they are violating your Constitutional Rights and you insist on an attorney to charge them individually with kidnapping and false imprisonment. Tell them that you are going to sue them personally, taking their homes, cars, other personal property and most of all their future paychecks to pay off the millions of dollars awarded by a jury that hates the government (80% of citizens). Tell them that will be necessary because the federal government will disown them, as usual, saying they exceeded their duties and exceeded their authority, thus the government is (once again) not liable. This ALWAYS works because everyone knows it's true.
After asking, "Am I free to go?" several times without him/them answering you, say, "Well I must be free to go, because I asked you three times and you don't say that I'm not free to go." Then slowly turn around and leave. If he/they keep trying to interact with you, keep walking away. If they touch you, call the police and have him/them arrested for battery minimum, perhaps also kidnapping and false imprisonment. It might even make a class-action suit if you can get enough active duty members to swear they were tricked into serving the Western Cartel/USA/NWO. Chances are good that juries who already hate the government would delight in nailing them for millions of bucks.
Here's an excerpt from a book:
The Army induction officer instructed the draftees to "take one step forward" as their names were called, and said that step would signify their induction into the Army. When reluctant Willie's name was called, he answered present, but did not step forward. After the ceremony, he went home instead of to camp.
When the MP's came for him, he went to court for a Writ of Habeas Corpus to retain his freedom.
"The officer himself," Willie argued, "said the step forward is what would make me a soldier. As I didn't take the step, I'm still a civilian and the Army has no claim on me."
Counsel for the Army replied, "The Army isn't being run by childish games. Willie and a hundred others appeared to be inducted, and he was inducted before the whole group as any fool there could plainly see."
Willie retained his civilian status. The court ruled that the draft law required some definite ceremony to transform a civilian into a soldier. As the Army decided to have one step forward constitute the ceremony, and Willie didn't take the step, he wasn't a soldier. (U. S. Court of Appeals, 1954)
Source: http://www.franklyspeakingradio.com
P.S. If your relatives or friends think all the above is wrong or unpatriotic, ask them if they, too, would join the "U.S. military," then accept a blue beret, U.N armpatches, and report to a foreign commander and follow foreigners' orders to help in the trafficking of 12 year-old sex slaves. This is what the U.N. 'peace-keeping forces' are infamous for.
Have them Google "Michael New," and THEN tell you how wrong you are in avoiding the draft into the New World Order.
Remember, you are never a patriot in bowing down to tyranny in any form, but you are always a patriot when insisting that the U.S. Constitution prevail.
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