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GovernmetNews.ORG has recently obtained footage of President Bush's "victory salute," presumably from his Texas gubanatorial days. This disturbing footage, which appears to have been circulated web-wide for some time now, shows the characteristic presidential poise that high-level "Christian" leaders routinely ignored (and continue to ignore) as they propelled Bush to victory in two presidential elections to in turn reap the grand reward of becoming invited to the White House. Click Here for VIDEO

Apparently the "victory salute" can also come in the form of white phosphorus munitions used as chemical weapons against Iraqi civilians, particularly in Fallujah.¹ And the Italian station Ria produced a documentary on just that. The half-hour documentary alleged that US forces were using white phosphorus as a weapon against civilians.

White phosphorus is considered a border-line chemical munition, in that it can be used for illumination, not as a casualty producing weapon. The significance of the Italian documentary is that it triggered a firestorm of debate as to whether or not the United States military employs white phosphorus as a casualty producing weapon, therefore using chemical weapons against a country which it has ostensibly invaded to liberate from chemical weapons.

The documentary unleashed a firestorm of debate as to whether or not this atrocity occurred, and if so at what scale. The Italian documentary suffered at critical points from partially supported propaganda or vaguely supported facts. Nevertheless, the documentary was not without its substance, and it forced the issue universally. In response, bloggers and news professionals began categorizing past reports.

Did the United States military employ white phosphorus munitions, not merely for "illumination" but as a casualty producing chemical weapon? If so, has the United States military employed these chemical weapons against Iraqi civilians?

The official government answer was that white phosphorus munitions were merely used for illumination. The official government answer quickly proved to be an outright lie.

A BBC article entitled "Iraq Probes US Phosphorus Weapons" explained the subsequent redaction as "a public relations disaster for the US."²

On November 19, 2005, Darrin Mortenson of the North County Times recalled how he had previously served as an imbedded reporter with Marines in Fallujah in April. The Rai documentary forced many to review his experience, which bloggers had already ressurected by the time he wrote this:

"We didn't think much of it at the time -- of the white phosphorus, that is. It was just another weapon, another way to kill, and both sides were being creative.

That was until last week when the Italians broadcast their documentary subtitled "Hidden Massacre." Internet bloggers unearthed our 2004 reports from Fallujah, cutting and pasting isolated passages to suit their ends.

Other reports quickly surfaced, mostly from military sources, that showed that U.S. forces had in fact used white phosphorus in the assault in November against insurgents -- and not just for illumination.

Even as the revelations created a storm of controversy in Europe and the Middle East, mainstream America media barely paid it notice."³

Even more vindicating for aims of the Rai documentary was a November 17, 2005 statement by BBC correspondent, Paul Wood. The BBC had held out on the role of white phosphorus in Fallujah, according to this article, because it lacked evidence. Wood ends the article:

"As a footnote, my colleague Adam Mynott was embedded with the US military during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. A missile hit a house which was apparently full of civilians.

Thirteen members of one family were killed. Adam met two of the men from the house in a US military hospital, both horribly burned. One had the skin peeling off his face, the other had 80 per cent burns and subsequently died.

Adam reported this at the time as the use of white phosphorus as an incendiary."⁴

If this is the case, it means that the United States military invaded Iraq in part with chemical weapons. It also gives further credence that this was a precedent that continued all the way through to Fallujah and after. Add with this the government's redaction to admit that the United States military has indeed been employing white phosphorus outside its legitmate use as an "illumination" munition. Put this together, and it is easy to see that some things have gone terribly wrong, not the least of which is criminalizing a dictator for non-existent chemical weapons, then attacking using chemical weapons to get rid of the non-existent ones.

Although no unclassified source has succeeded in determining the exact number of Iraqi civilians attacked with white phosphorus, we now know with utmost certainty that this has occured. Of great note through this drama is that the controversy has shot through Europe, Iraq, and the United States leadership. But chemical weapons have not become an issue for the "Christians" who re-elected George Bush after he failed to substantiate his broad claims of chemical weapons in Iraq. Is it mere irony that under the false leadership of George Bush, Iraqis have suffered chemical weapons attacks when he was ostensibly saving them from that very terror?

The reason things happen like this is not because Americans have lost their minds. The reason is that an effective number of Americans do not care, unless they are being bombed themselves. Meanwhile, many of these same hypocrites go to church and drop money in the offering for "foreign missions." Missionaries come to church with these neat little slide projector shows of people who live in huts somewhere without television. Everybody pretends Hudson Taylor just showed up, but then they go home, just like the weekend before election day, when they re-approved the chaotic neo-conservative policies that created George Bush.

The worst are the "Christian" leaders who have willingly turned a blind eye to the use of white phosphorus weapons, among just about everything else that is ungodly about this administration, including the recalcitrant Dick Cheney who said the "F" word on the Senate floor. Turning a blind eye to the chemical weapons attacks on Iraqi civilians may turn out to be one of the false "Christian" leadership's greatest hypocricies, and that is really saying something.

As for Iraq, they can be bombed and killed and it does not matter to America's false "Christian" leadership. It was like this all through the 1990s, when anywhere between 200,000 and a million Iraqis died as a direct result of US-led UN sanctions. Few evangelicals cared when Secretary Albright admitted she knew about this, and that most were children, and then she infamously said, "...but we think it was worth it." If these people do not care about all foreign mission fields, they abdicate as evangelicals. Of course they stick around and say "Jesus," and that is hypocrisy.

With regard to this present issue of chemical weapons against Iraqi citizens in Fallujah, I leave you with the words of neo-conservative nut, Joseph Farrah, founder, editor, and CEO of WorldNetDaily and who is also a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. The article is dated April 6, 2004 and is entitled "Pound Fallujah." According to the Ria documentary, the Bush administration waited on purpose until the presidential election results were in to pound Fallujah.

Writes Farrah:"There were many pictures taken of happy Iraqis kicking the burned remains of those four American civilian contractors. I hope the military is keeping files. I hope the military is going to hold each of those individuals responsible for the massacre. I hope the military ensures that all of those people are dead or in custody at the conclusion of the Fallujah campaign.

It's time to take off the velvet gloves.

It's time to stop being Mr. Nice Guy.

It's time to cease worrying about collateral damage."emphasis added

We are not making this up. Here is the link for the entire commentary. What religion this man claims, who knows? But would it surprise you if as a child he once sang the "Be A Missionary" clapping song in Sunday School? But then who needs to send a missionary when the harvest is just "collateral damage"? After all, it is just someone else's pain. We have not known the loss of children. Who is like us?

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***VIEW RIA DOCUMENTARY VIDEO

1. White phosphorus is not technically considered by the government to be a chemical weapon, particularly since until the end of last year the government said that it was only used as an "illumination" munition, not a weapon. But when white phosphorus munitions are expanded to a weapons role, white phosphorus does the same thing as other chemical weapons. Many other countries consider white phosphorus to be so horrible a chemical weapon that it is banned. You decide. See Link:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4442156.stm

2. "BBC defence correspondent Paul Wood says having to retract that denial is a public relations disaster for the US.

A Pentagon spokesman, Lt Col Barry Venable, confirmed to the BBC the US had used white phosphorus "as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants" - though not against civilians, he said." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4442156.stm

3. http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/11/21/special_reports/perspective/18_50_0711_19_05.txt

4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_4440000/newsid_4441700/4441798.stm

February 24, 2006

Who Wrote the Book of Revelation and In What Year?

The question can best be answered by stating that John penned the book of Revelation, while our Lord Jesus is the Author. The correct title of the book comes at the very beginning, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." John was shown what to write. He received Revelation while imprisoned on the Isle of Patmos.

The strongest evidence for dating any ancient historical document is internal. The second evidence is written tradition, a way of refering to non-scripture. We know that unlike other apostles, John did not die a martyrs death.

The first history of the church, outside of the first century book of Acts (by Luke who also wrote Luke), was that of Eusebius in the 4th century. Eusebius relates the story of John being carried to church in his old age, telling fellow Christians to love one another, for in that all was fulfilled.

Dates given for the writing vary, but scholars set a late date of being during the Roman Emperor Domitian's reign. This is said to be about AD 95-96. This is highly significant as it would be the very last "theopneustos" (God breathed) scripture written.

It is also significant, because the REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST serves as the expounder and capstone of the prophetic writings. It could be said that the most vital book to understanding Revelation is the book of Daniel, because this book is the only one which not only gives the events, but also the times (this is noted by Josephus in his description of Daniel).

Since the author, our Lord Jesus, is eternal (Rev. 21:6), it could be said that His Revelation not only was written, but that it is and always has been written, and the book carries a great curse for whoever adds to it -- REVELATION ADDS ALL THE PLAGUES OF THE BOOK!!! To those who take away -- IT SAYS GOD SHALL TAKE AWAY HIS PART OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, AND OUT OF THE HOLY CITY, AND FROM THE THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK.

Years ago, an old mentor of mine showed me a greek version of Revelation he had. It showed the variants (places where somehow different manuscripts disagree). Nevertheless, certain variants do not cast doubt upon the reliability of transmission.

My study of Revelation has revealed that a concordance, careful study, and reverence for Almighty God reveal the same exact themes found in varying scriptures, both old and new, (also helpful are the book of Enoch and also Yashir "Jasher"). Someone who is truly up to such a task shall find that only the Omniscient Creator could tie such a sweeping exposition of scripture into a dispersed narrative of the end of the age and the renewal of all things under Messiah.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Author. John wrote the book.

I hope this helps.

Take care,
Mark

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September 30, 2005

Jack Clayton Liberty of Conscience Seminar to be Held Today in Flint, Michigan

Jack Clayton was a patriot of the historical position of Liberty of Conscience. His life’s work was to keep churches and pastors informed of, and educated to the dangers of government interference in our worship. Ever quick with an historical reference or quote, Jack would often defend our historical attitude toward Caesar with Virginia Church Planter David Thomas’s quote: “Tax all things; water air and light, if need there be; yea tax the night; But let our brave heroic minds move freely as celestial winds. Let folly and vice feel your rod, but leave our conscience up to God.”

Our seminar speakers will address the principles that guided Jack to be a champion for our religious liberty. -- Michigan Association of Christian Schools event flyer

Conservative hero, Jack Clayton, speaks to the Washington press corp
after walking out of the nomination hearings of Bush appointee,
Paul Celluci, certified pervert, as Ambassador to Canada.
"I cannot stand to be in the room with Paul Celluci,"
Clayton exclaimed repeatedly as he walked out
and before meeting with the press.
Photo: Public Advocate
April, 2001

John Stormer and Daniel L. Dreisbach, both good friends and associates of the late Jack Clayton, are scheduled to speak. Many other close friends are scheduled to either speak or attend. Jack Clayton was active on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, championing the cause of true liberty. He was always swift to testify of the only source of true liberty, often citing the scripture, "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." (2 Cor. 3)

In 1991, Jack Clayton testified before Congress against using taxpayer funds for blasphemy. President George Bush, sensing political invulnerablity after conquering the plains of Shinar, snubbed God-fearing conservative Republicans by allowing his personal friend, John Frohnmayer, to remain head of the National Endowment for the Arts after the NEA used federal tax dollars to pay for a crucifix submerged in a phoney artist's urine. When Jack Clayton directly confronted President Bush's operatives, they told him that he had nowhere to go but the Republican Party and there was nothing he could do to stop them. Jack Clayton continued in this direct manner of confrontation, testifying before Congress for the name of our Lord Jesus and against taxpayer-funded blasphemy.

"That's one thing people have never understood," he once exclaimed, "I am up here for my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!"

John Stormer, event speaker and friend of the late Jack Clayton, in his Understanding the Times newsletter questioned now president, George W. Bush, on the blasphemous exhibit shortly before his first presidential nomination. President George W. Bush laughed at Stormer and later told him that he did not know how to answer the question. To America's soon to be president, submerging a crucifix in urine with tax-payer dollars was just a non-issue, and maybe a little funny.

In observance of the Jack Clayton Liberty of Conscience Seminar, GovernmentNews.ORG has posted in PDF format an original copy of Jack Clayton's testimony before Congress.

TESTIMONY OF JACK CLAYTON OF THE CHRISTIAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION BEFORE THE HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE INTERIOR APRIL 18, 1991 (PDF)

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September 11, 2005
THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11
Michael Moore asks if self-professing Christians who are partisans for George Bush truly believe in Jesus. Fair question.

"Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn't he say that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us? Hurricane Katrina came in and blew off the facade that we were a nation with liberty and justice for all. The wind howled and the water rose and what was revealed was that the poor in America shall be left to suffer and die while the President of the United States fiddles and tells them to eat cake.

That's not a joke. The day the hurricane hit and the levees broke, Mr. Bush, John McCain and their rich pals were stuffing themselves with cake. A full day after the levees broke (the same levees whose repair funding he had cut), Mr. Bush was playing a guitar some country singer gave him. All this while New Orleans sank under water.

It would take ANOTHER day before the President would do a flyover in his jumbo jet, peeking out the widow at the misery 2500 feet below him as he flew back to his second home in DC. It would then be TWO MORE DAYS before a trickle of federal aid and troops would arrive. This was no seven minutes in a sitting trance while children read "My Pet Goat" to him. This was FOUR DAYS of doing nothing other than saying "Brownie (FEMA director Michael Brown), you're doing a heck of a job!"." -- Michael Moore, READ

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September 10, 2005

"As this catastrophe has developed we have seen armed troops preventing the poor from fleeing a sunken city. We have seen people treated as criminals when their only crime has been to be poor in a nation ruled by the rich. We have seen American citizens treated like insurgents and refugees within their own nation. We have watched while the military has seized control of a major US city, implemented martial law, and suspended the Bill of Rights for those who were trapped within. Looters have been shot on sight, people have been indiscriminately arrested and searched, and the media has been cut out of the loop as if this were all taking place in Baghdad instead of the United States ." -- Sean Mayfield, READ

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September 5, 2005
The tattered American flag as it flew over New Orleans.
An upside down flag is the international symbol for distress.


"The Lord Jesus Christ is going to come on time. If we just wait."

-- Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, Sunday, September 4, 2005 Reuters

GovernmentNews.ORG flys the upside down and tattered flag as a distress signal. We are sending this international distress signal from American citizens to the nations of the world. We are distressed.

The powerful storm, Hurricane Katrina, not only washed away the once great city of New Orleans; Katrina also washed away the facade of benevolence maintained by a government which has now utterly proven its hatred for its own citizens. The inhumane neglect following Katrina, going on an entire week, is a worse human tragedy than the storm itself. Our government officials have long since abandoned the federal form of government. The homes of our nation's founders, Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, among others, serve merely as vestiges of a lost republic. Our fondness of such sites is diminished, for they speak of forgotten and unenforced Constitutional protections, leaving us to "wait" for our Lord Jesus to come save us. Federalism is abandoned, the poor are forgotten, and after Hurricane Katrina we dare not trust our government to protect our general welfare, much less in time of crisis. To trust our government is to risk our lives. The situation for responsible citizens in America is no longer tenable.

There is no longer hope of restoring the lost protections guaranteed by a forgotten Constitution. Most efforts to assert our Constitutional protections are vain, thwarted by rich and powerful tyrants. When the government failed this week to fulfill its obligation to save its citizens, it then turned to criminalize those same citizens, who in desperation, merely sought to save themselves. Our own Secretary of State, as quoted above, abandoning hope for the present (and her duty), has spoken of hope for escape through the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Though Secretary Rice is more empowered than most all of us, her offer of hope is for the Lord's return -- "If we just wait." But we know that our Lord Jesus' return is not to occur except after a final empire nation cultivates the tragedies of the Apocalypse. In the mean time, the time alloted for wickedness to fulfill itself, we are to be the inn-keeper who takes care of the wounded, until the return of that Good Samaritin. What Secretary Rice has advised us to do is the exact opposite of what our Lord Jesus has told us to do.

The current perspective of this site comes from Americans who have lost their rightful authority in American civic life, and who are now powerless in the face of government menace. We believe that we must flee from this final empire nation and preach to the entire world of that same event of which the Secretary of State spoke yesterday, the Day of the Lord. The Day of the Lord is when our Lord Jesus returns to destroy the final empire and establish His peaceful kingdom.

Having spent our last desperate efforts to save the federal form of American government, and failed, our concern was that a powerful central government would tyrannize us, perhaps through torment. There may be torment for some, but at present the tyranny of the new American government is a tyranny of marginalization and degredation. We had expected more of this. But never, in any scenario did any of us imagine such a degredation as the American government enforced on its citizens in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi during this last week, if such a bloody monster can be rightly called American.

Prior to 9/11, we the people knew we would be attacked again by terrorists and that our government was doing nothing to stop the inevitable. Entire books were written on this matter. But nobody imagined two planes destroying the World Trade Center. Likewise, while our government currently engages in the systematic degredation of its citizens and the final dissolution of cherished and sacred Constitutional protections, we never imagined that this same government would be so bold as to utterly neglect thousands of drowning Americans in full view of the entire world -- all the while rejecting international help. We had a sense that such vicious Orwellianism remained distant.

We believe that it is our duty to leave this once great republic and emmigrate to other countries, spreading the truth that our Lord Jesus will soon come and reign permanently. This is the gospel of the kingdom. Our Lord Jesus said of this gospel:

"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." (Matthew 24:14)

We also believe that there is great danger for us the longer we remain to face this growing tyranny of degredation. Tyranny not only destroys and degrades, it seeks to convert you to its purpose. Already, the number of American probation and parolees has skyrocketed. When there are no crimes, new ones are now being invented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which according to reports is defying the doctrine of entrapment and Fourteenth Amendment rules for racial equality in prosecutions, then sending agents to high-paid corporate positions -- before the prosecution is even finished. This is occuring right now in the so-called "Tennessee Waltz Scandal," where inducements were made where a crime would not have otherwise been committed; then to violate civil rights, the FBI is engaging in selective prosecution, issuing a "no comment" on whether other prosecutions are forthcoming. There are ten-thousand volumes of tyranny occuring in America right now. This last week has only proven the scope of this tyranny to the whole world beyond any debate.

This tyranny is too dangerous to continue living under, even for the well-intentioned. To illuminate this point, we have reprinted by permission an article on Kurt Gerstein, a well-intentioned SS officer who decided to stay in Nazi Germany. The situation was too corrupt to withstand, and at the end of the war, it destroyed him. We do not want to suffer the fate of Kurt Gerstein. We know that the situation is becoming more corrupt and that we will soon reach the point where we can no longer choose between good and bad -- but bad and worse, becoming part of the problem.

As law-abiding citizens of the United States of America, it is our Constitutional and enumerated right to engage in acts of self-government. We the people hereby request international assistance in matters of emigration, particularly assistance from states bordering America. Our perspective may not be found in mainstream politics or press. But those venues do not reflect the reality that many of us, some of whom have served in the US military and hold degrees in higher education, are convinced that our situation here is untenable and that we are under obligation to flee. This last week's shock and awe convinces us all the more that there can be little delay, if any. If you live outside America, and you are disposed to help in any way, please e-mail us at emigration@governmentnews.org. We are accepting international assitance from both private citizens and government officials, before it is too late and we drown in this tyranny.

Make no mistake, we still believe in the American people. The problem is that the government is falling upon us treacherously. Andrew Johnson, a Tennesseean and successor to Abraham Lincoln, was buried with the Constitution as a pillow and wrapped in the American flag. His tombstone reads, "His faith never waivered in the American people." Neither has ours. And while our government has fallen into tyranny, we hope that your faith will not waiver in the American people either.



Respectfully,

Mark Clayton,
Editor, GovernmentNews.ORG
and all American citizens inclined
to be signatory

Print this letter and sign it for delivery to the appropriate persons, as facilitates emigration for the spreading the gospel of the kingdom and the purpose of escaping tyranny.


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Sunday, September 04, 2005

Harry Connick Jr., a famous musician, sends more aid than the government.

"Television reporters were doing live reports from downtown New Orleans streets. Harry Connick Jr. brought in some aid Thursday, and his efforts were the focus of a "Today" show story Friday morning.

Yet, the people trained to protect our nation, the people whose job it is to quickly bring in aid were absent. Those who should have been deploying troops were singing a sad song about how our city was impossible to reach.

We’re angry, Mr. President, and we’ll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That’s to the government’s shame."

From The Times-Picayune