Sending Our Heros to Jail

Mexico is withholding key witnesses that could exonerate Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett of second-degree murder charges and paying for others to testify against him, asserts a union leader.

Brandon Judd, vice president of U.S. Border Patrol Union Local 2544, told WND the Mexican consulate is taking care of all the expenses of three Mexican witnesses to the shooting so they can remain in the U.S. to testify against Corbett.

Corbett has been indicted on second-degree murder charges in Cochise County Superior Court in Bisbee, Ariz., in connection with the shooting Jan. 12 of Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera, a 22-year old illegal immigrant from Mexico who allegedly was threatening to throw a rock at the officer.

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

I am sick and tired of stories like this one. The facts of the matter are that this illegal alien was a guide for smuggling illegal aliens and was throwing rocks at the Border Agent that was effecting the arrest! Agent Corbett was alone attempting to arrest the group with backup over 30 min. away. The illegal alien was encouraging the others to help him take out the agent. Agent Corbett did what he had to do to protect himself.

We continue to send our country's heroes to jail for doing their jobs. If this continues we will no longer have anyone to the things that need to be done to protect us in this country. Every time we turn around our government is coddling a criminal and sending another hero to jail. It is time for this to stop.

Make Up Your Mind!!

A national assembly of Evangelical Lutherans urged its bishops Saturday to refrain from defrocking gay and lesbian ministers who violate a celibacy rule, but rejected measures that would have permitted ordaining gays churchwide.

Still, advocates for full inclusion of gays were encouraged, calling the resolution a powerful statement in support of clergy with same-gender partners. The conservative group Lutheran CORE, however, said bishops will now feel more secure in ignoring denomination policy.

-FoxNews

So what is it going to be? I am sick and tired of the constant fighting and endless studies. Why have policy if you are allowed to ignore it? Make a decision and let the chips fall where they may. Perhaps the reason that this church is shrinking so fast is that they do not stand for anything. Instead of looking to what they can give to the world, they look only at what they will do with themselves.

For those worried that they church will die, maybe it should.

Thoughts on the Law

“Every day God forgives us much, else He would not permit us to live.”
-Solomon

This statement is extremely insightful into the nature of both humanity and law. We live in a society of law, some social, some criminal and some divine. Often there is overlap in the different kinds of law, and sometimes there is disagreement between the different types of law. The question that must be asked is; why do we have the laws in the first place.

Before jumping into a complex explanation of law and how and why we have each one, starting with the Code of Hammurabi, let’s cut right to the simple answer. We have laws because someone was doing something wrong.

Many people have an initial reaction to this that goes something like, “Huh? What are you talking about you fool? Law is so we don’t do things wrong.” Let’s start with a simple example from the Ten Commandments that is used in civil law as well. Do not commit murder. Did we need to be told that we should not do this? Really? I some how doubt that. Therefore, law is NOT primarily to tell us what we should not be doing. What it is doing is describing what we are doing wrong already and informing us of the consequences of those actions. What can be hoped for, at best, is to bring societal order to the existing chaos.

In civil society we have a system of payment and punishment for those who violate the law. Depending on the level of the violation, you may pay a fine or do community service in order to pay back society for the chaos that you created. If the violation is more serious, you may be punished for your violation, even to the point of being removed from society completely.

Civil forgiveness is easy to accomplish for minor violations and some do not even go on your record as having broken the law. For instance, a ticket for parking to far from the curb will be completely forgotten once it has been paid. Divine forgiveness is another matter all together. What is expected of us in regards to divine law? There has been so much religious law over the history of religion that it is impossible to even make a summery of it in less than 100 volumes. It is also clear that the Ten Commandments are not enough to even begin to address all the wrong doing that exists in the world, religious or civil.

The facts of the matter are simple. One fact is that, as a creation, we are supposed to function in a certain way, namely the way in which we were created to be. Another fact is that this has not been how we have functioned. The whole matter has grown so complex that it is impossible to even begin to create in society a world where everyone behaves as they were created to do. The consequences of past actions of others transcend their time to come and visit us now in the present. The attacks on the world trade center of 9/11/2001 are a perfect example of how true it is that past action visits us to the present.

What is required of a created creature is perfect adherence to how it was designed. This is the same as when we make a mechanical creation in our world of dominion. When our car no longer works as it was made to work, and can not be fixed, it is done away with. Humanity has long since departed from how it was supposed to perform as a creation. Solomon recognized this all to well as leader. He saw it daily in those who came before him for his judgment and I suspect that, like all of us, he knew his own faults very well. “Every day God forgives us much, else He would not permit us to live.” The option is simple, we must either be forgiven, or much like our malfunctioning car, we must be done away with. God forgives us much indeed.

What does this teach us? Some may take this as a lesson that we are then allowed to do whatever we please because if we are forgiven, then it doesn’t matter what we do. The truth is that we are already doing whatever we please. Permission is hardly necessary. A good lawyer may be necessary in order to make sure that we get away with doing what we please, but permission is not at all necessary. This is most certainly true when it comes to our spiritual life. There are not even any civil penalties for having general bad character.

But that would be the wrong lesson to take from forgiveness. Because, while we may be forgiven our transgressions and God will go on with or without our adherence to the law, it matters a lot to those who we effect with our violating the law. It matters to someone who cannot afford food if we are charging them more than what is a fair price. It matters when their life is destroyed by the action of some uncaring individual. It always matters to someone.

This is the flaw that is in every law, given that we live in a world where the object of law is damage control and an attempt to bring order to chaos: One day the law will come into conflict with what is right. Moral law would have us not lie, however, if someone says, “Where is Harry, I am going to kill him,” Harry would be very much better off if you would lie. One can think of thousands of scenarios where the letter of the law would stop you from upholding the sprit of what the law was supposed to protect.

Perhaps this is why God chooses forgiveness. The spirit of the law is to choose life, and when that fails, the law is a law of death just as much as those who break the law and bring death. The failure of the law is truly the failure of the people who need the law.

God chooses life for His creation, by choosing forgiveness. It is a choice that we have to with our civil law. Perhaps sometimes, the law is wrong and we must choose life and forgiveness, because if we do not, it means the destruction of another.

Song of the Forgotten

I wrote this for a friend of mine that was having some troubles a few years ago. I thought I would share, since it is less on the kreepy side than the poems I usually write.

Song of the Forgotten

its not true that no one understands or could understand and care
its just hard to find someone who understands how complicated you are
hurts so bad you don’t know what to do
and your night is just starting as others days are through

can you be alone with yourself just one more time
can you sit with yourself and still be just fine
you wade through the hours between night and day
cuz the sleep you don’t want won’t come anyway

talk to a stranger and call them your friend
could they really even care about you in the end
you don’t really believe it you don’t dare try
you try not to be sad and try not to cry

but night after night its coming again
what I would give to sit with one real friend

Fantasy, Reality Harry Potter and Total Death

I am attaching to the bottom of this my friend Ian's blog. What I hear form him, is not dis- smiler to what I have heard so many people say. It started at the end of book 4 of Harry Potter and the reality sunk in that even in a fantasy world, evil is out to destroy everything. The innocent fun is gone. The illusion is shattered by the knowledge that evil is out to destroy, even in a virtual fantasy world.

Voldemort, Latin for "total death" comes and there is no neutral ground. No one can hide and everyone could die.

How did the cute children's story end up like this? The same way that it happened to the Lord of the Rings. History of the times we live in soak into the very fiber of our being and whether we admit it or not, we are effected by evil of our time.

A fantasy story about a battle reflects the battle of our lives. What side will be be on? Do we choose life? Or total death? Sitting on your ass and letting evil happen won't save you. You will be consumed as well. It is a lesson that few learn.

The battle rages, choose your side.

-Icebear



Musings on the Newsings by Ian Punnett

"ArtyGirl," you are my new hero.

Here's part of what she blogged about recently on LOL:

"I was a little slow at starting, but I finally did. The new Harry Potter book, that is. I need to start earlier in the evening...I could not put it down and finally fell asleep in the wee hours with the giant tome as my pillow. I cannot wait to read again tonight."

Gosh, I wish I could recover any literary or cinematic interest in Harry Potter. Reading her blog reminded me of a time when my little boys and I would share in the wonders of Hogwarts and the whole Wizarding world. I acted out all the parts. I used a United Magical Kingdom of accents and mannerisms. I was known to put on hats, for crying out loud! Even to this day when my kids ask me a question I can't answer I reply, "'Dunno,' said Ron."

But then, somewhere around book five, the nightly Hogwarts Express just sat idling at Platform 9 and 3/4. I don't remember whether it was my boys or me that lost interest first but I do recall the last few nights I was reading Harry before bedtime it seemed that faster than I could say "Surprise, it's Voldemort again," little Itchy and Scratchy were off to sleep.

It's possible that the ever increasing Tolstoy-like length of these novels were tempering my enthusiasm. Maybe I didn't read the stories as theatrically after page 500. Perhaps after page 600 my "Dumbledore" voice was drifting annoyingly close to Gilbert Gottfried. It's entirely possible that after the 1000th time that J.K. Rowling used the verb "strode" that I was holding the word out longer and longer until it had more "o's" than a porno movie.

Either way, the boys stopped asking and I stopped volunteering for "Harry time."

And it wasn't just the books either. I'm not sure that either of us have seen the last two movies. Maybe the boys did at a sleepover or something. Chances are, they saw some of a more recent Harry Potter video just before they conked out for the night.

None of which makes me feel good about me. I miss the days when I wondered what my "Potronus" would be. I wish I could be like "ArtyGirl" again and sit up and read the new Harry Potter book under my covers with a flashlight. I could use a little more fantasy in my life.

As it is, J.K. Rowling has become for me like Norman Mailer or Salman Rushdie. I know the work is popular for a reason, I know why other people like it; I know it's good. I'm impressed, I really am.

Maybe someday I'll draw the scar back on my forehead and read "Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows," but probably just after I finish reading Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses."

JFK Assassination

On the April 28th, 2007 edition of Coast to Coast AM hosted by Ian Punnett, an audio tape sent to St. John Hunt contained his father's January 2004 recounting of the persons who were involved in the Kennedy Assassination. In the tape, Hunt named Cord Meyer, Frank Sturgis, David Sánchez Morales, David Atlee Phillips as participants in the assassination with Vice-President Lyndon Johnson apparently approving the assassination for political gain.

(A clip of this tape can be heard at the end of this blog post.)

The following is a transcript of Hunt's confession on the audio tape clip:

I heard from Frank that LBJ had designated Cord Meyer, Jr. to undertake a larger organization while keeping it totally secret. Cord Meyer himself was a rather favorite member of the Eastern aristocracy. He was a graduate of Yale University and had joined the Marine Corps during the war and lost an eye in the Pacific fighting.

I think that LBJ settled on Meyer as an opportunist, (like himself) and a man who had very little left to him in life ever since JFK had taken Cord's wife as one of his mistresses. I would suggest that Cord Meyer welcomed the approach from LBJ, who was after all only the Vice President at that time and of course could not number Cord Meyer among JFK's admirers—quite the contrary.

As for Dave Phillips, I knew him pretty well at one time. He worked for me during the Guatemala project. He had made himself useful to the agency in Santiago, Chile where he was an American businessman. In any case, his actions, whatever they were, came to the attention of the Santiago station chief and when his resume became known to people in the Western hemisphere division he was brought in to work on Guatemalan operations.

Sturgis and Morales and people of that ilk stayed in apartment houses during preparations for the big event. Their addresses were very subject to change, so that where a fellow like Morales had been one day, you'd not necessarily associated [sic] with that address the following day. In short, it was a very mobile experience.

Let me point out at this point, that if I had wanted to fictionalize what went on in Miami and elsewhere during the run up for the big event, I would have done so. But I don't want any unreality to tinge this particular story, or the information, I should say. I was a benchwarmer on it and I had a reputation for honesty.

I think it's essential to refocus on what this information that I've been providing you—and you alone, by the way—consists of. What is important in the story is that we've backtracked the chain of command up through Cord Meyer and laying [sic] the doings at the doorstep of LBJ. He, in my opinion, had an almost maniacal urge to become President. He regarded JFK, as he was in fact, an obstacle to achieving that. He could have waited for JFK to finish out his term and then undoubtedly a second term. So that would have put LBJ at the head of a long list of people who were waiting for some change in the executive branch.