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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 04:03 AM
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EXPOSÉ: THE “CHRISTIAN” MAFIA...
It's important to know your enemy. This fantastic piece of journalism explains just how the real vast right wing conspiracy works and whom profits from it.

Where Those Who Now Run the U.S. Government Came From and Where They Are Taking Us
By Wayne Madsen

Part I

After several months of in-depth research and, at first, seemingly unrelated conversations with former high-level intelligence officials, lawyers, politicians, religious figures, other investigative journalists, and researchers, I can now report on a criminal conspiracy so vast and monstrous it defies imagination. Using “Christian” groups as tax-exempt and cleverly camouflaged covers, wealthy right-wing businessmen and “clergy” have now assumed firm control over the biggest prize of all – the government of the United States of America. First, some housekeeping is in order. My use of the term “Christian” is merely to clearly identify the criminal conspirators who have chosen to misuse their self-avowed devotion to Jesus Christ to advance a very un-Christian agenda. The term “Christian Mafia” is what several Washington politicians have termed the major conspirators and it is not intended to debase Christians or infer that they are criminals . I will also use the term Nazi – not for shock value – but to properly tag the political affiliations of the early founders of the so-called “Christian” power cult called the Fellowship. The most important element of this story is that a destructive religious movement has now achieved almost total control over the machinery of government of the United States – its executive, its legislature, several state governments, and soon, the federal judiciary, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

The United States has experienced religious and cult hucksters throughout its history, from Cotton Mather and his Salem witch burners to Billy Sunday, Father Charles Coughlin, Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Marshall Applewhite, and others. But none have ever achieved the kind of power now possessed by a powerful and secretive group of conservative politicians and wealthy businessmen in the United States and abroad who are known among their adherents and friends as The Fellowship or The Family. The Fellowship and its predecessor organizations have used Jesus in the same way that McDonald’s uses golden arches and Coca Cola uses its stylized script lettering. Jesus is a logo and a slogan for the Fellowship. Jesus is used to justify the Fellowship’s access to the highest levels of government and business in the same way Santa Claus entices children into department stores and malls during the Christmas shopping season.

When the Founders of our nation constitutionally separated Church and State, the idea of the Fellowship taking over the government would have been their worst nightmare. The Fellowship has been around under various names since 1935. Its stealth existence has been perpetuated by its organization into small cells, a pyramid organization of “correspondents,” “associates,” “friends,” “members,” and “core members,” tax-exempt status for its foundations, and its protection by the highest echelons of the our own government and those abroad.

the whole truth, and nothin' but...

http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 04:05 AM
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1. KICK!
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Extend a Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 04:33 AM
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2. Hillary was right...there is a vast right-wing conspiracy...
from an article titled Conquering by Stealth and Deception

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheSwiftAdvanceOfaPlannedCoup.htm

To get a sense of how revolutionary the political fight for power in the U.S. is, we need to look at a few quotes from what has been dubbed, “Paul Weyrich’s Teaching Manual,” the Free Congress Foundation’s strategic plan on how to gain control of the government of the U.S. Written by Eric Heubeck, and titled, “The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement,” the document is no longer available at the Free Congress Foundation’s website for obvious reasons. But excerpts are published at the Yurica Report. The excerpts explain why the Dominionists are winning; the tactics they endorse are sheer Machiavellian:

I have paraphrased the four immoral principles of the Dominionist movement as the following:

1) Falsehoods are not only acceptable, they are a necessity. The corollary is: The masses will accept any lie if it is spoken with vigor, energy and dedication.

2) It is necessary to be cast under the cloak of “goodness” whereas all opponents and their ideas must be cast as “evil.”

3) Complete destruction of every opponent must be accomplished through unrelenting personal attacks.

4) The creation of the appearance of overwhelming power and brutality is necessary in order to destroy the will of opponents to launch opposition of any kind.

According to Jeffry Sharlet, Hitler’s Mein Kampf and William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich are studied as textbooks in a particular leadership training group he wrote about in Harper’s magazine.

Eric Heubeck, the author of Mr. Weyrich’s manual, does not mince words. Here is a sample of the most immoral political program ever adopted by a political movement in this country. Notice that the manual begins with the adoption of the fundamental fact of Machiavellianism:

“This essay is based on the belief that the truth of an idea is not the primary reason for its acceptance. Far more important is the energy and dedication of the idea’s promoters—in other words, the individuals composing a social or political movement…

“We must, as Mr. Weyrich has suggested, develop a network of parallel cultural institutions existing side-by-side with the dominant leftist cultural institutions. The building and promotion of these institutions will require the development of a movement that will not merely reform the existing post-war conservative movement, but will in fact be forced to supersede it—if it is to succeed at all—because it will pursue a very different strategy and be premised on a very different view of its role in society….

“There will be three main stages in the unfolding of this movement. The first stage will be devoted to the development of a highly motivated elite able to coordinate future activities. The second stage will be devoted to the development of institutions designed to make an impact on the wider elite and a relatively small minority of the masses. The third stage will involve changing the overall character of American popular culture….

“Our movement will be entirely destructive, and entirely constructive. We will not try to reform the existing institutions. We only intend to weaken them, and eventually destroy them. We will endeavor to knock our opponents off-balance and unsettle them at every opportunity. All of our constructive energies will be dedicated to the creation of our own institutions….

“We will maintain a constant barrage of criticism against the Left. We will attack the very legitimacy of the Left. We will not give them a moment’s rest. We will endeavor to prove that the Left does not deserve to hold sway over the heart and mind of a single American. We will offer constant reminders that there is an alternative, there is a better way. When people have had enough of the sickness and decay of today’s American culture, they will be embraced by and welcomed into the New Traditionalist movement. The rejection of the existing society by the people will thus be accomplished by pushing them and pulling them simultaneously.

“We will use guerrilla tactics to undermine the legitimacy of the dominant regime…

“We must create a countervailing force that is just as adept as the Left at intimidating people and institutions that are used as tools of left-wing activism but are not ideologically committed, such as Hollywood celebrities, multinational corporations, and university administrators. We must be feared, so that they will think twice before opening their mouths…

“We will be results-oriented rather than good intentions-oriented. Making a good-faith effort and being ideologically sound will be less important than advancing the goals of the movement…

“We need more people with fire in the belly, and we need a message that attracts those kinds of people….We must reframe this struggle as a moral struggle, as a transcendent struggle, as a struggle between good and evil. And we must be prepared to explain why this is so. We must provide the evidence needed to prove this using images and simple terms….”

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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 04:38 AM
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3. Trouble is, Hillary might be a part of it...
She's buddy buddy with some of the Fellowhip's female members...

Or she's just holdng her enemies close...

Read the whole article.

How Bi-partisanly intertwined these political elites are is truly scary.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 07:11 AM
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5. and bingo again
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:14 AM
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6. Let's do another round...
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:53 AM
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7. I don't think that Ms. Clinton gives a damn about America.
She is strictly out for number one, herself.
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Extend a Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:34 PM
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9. I sincerely hope that it is a case of "know thy enemy"
I read another good article by Jeffery Sharlet that was first published in 2003 in Harpers Magazine, describing some time he spent with the Fellowhip organization discussed in the Christian Mafia article.
http://www.harpers.org/JesusPlusNothing.html

I have not yet been conviced that the democratic "elites" are involved in this conspiracy. I feel that the connections made regarding Hillary's relationships with this organization are tenuous at best. She has, IMO been a champion of liberal causes.

Yet, sometimes, this coziness does kind of make one wonder if their might not be some kind of widespread elite "illuminati" type of consiracy.

Having said all that, I am disappointed that the reply posts were focused on my subject line rather than the content of the essays posted.

I think both the "Christain Mafia" article and the "Conquering by Stealth and Deception" article contain information that is important...and warrent more discussion than they have generated.

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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 07:09 AM
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4. bingo
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