Saturday, January 28, 2006, 6:27 AM PST

     This earthshaking development wherein the Palestinian people have just given the terrorist organization Hamas a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, has caught many people by surprise, and at first glance, this does not appear to be a positive development.

     But the case can be made that this principle, which I used as the title of this blogger entry, which says, that Democracy is the Path to Peace, is a principle that has universal application, that there are no exceptions to this rule, not even in this case, and that it is truly in play in this development. In other words, the election of Hamas into power in the Palestinian Authority, is actually a step towards peace.

     To understand why this is so, please consider what are the two (2) greatest obstacles to peace which were in place prior to these elections.

     First, Yasser Arafat was the primary obstacle to peace. He has left the scene of course, perhaps some of you got to wave good-bye at the Court of the Sacred Fire on Sirius, but he has left his legacy embedded in the Fatah Party, part of which was a legacy of corruption. In this election, the Palestinian people threw the memory of Arafat, and his Fatah Party, and their corruption, out of power, removing the first obstacle to peace. This fact validates our principle, that Democracy is the Path to Peace, in as much as a free election has removed an obstacle to peace.

     Secondly, I believe it a fair to say that Hamas itself was the second greatest obstacle to peace. They are behind the suicide bombings in Israel. They call for the destruction of Israel. They are not in favor of any kind of a two-state solution. Up to this point, Israel's response to Hamas has been to use helicopters and fighter aircraft to shoot missiles at the Hamas leadership. Well, now they certainly will have a larger target. Just kidding. Truly, whenever Arafat's Fatah Party made any step in the direction of the peace process, Hamas was right there to upset the apple cart with another suicide bombing. Arafat and his Fatah Party could not control Hamas. And so, Hamas was a very big problem.

     But now, Hamas is in power in the Palestinian Authority. They did not take power by force of arms. They took power by the ballot box. They were elected by the people. They have democratic bonafides, which they have never had before. And they must now get into the drivers street, and operate the machinery of state. All of sudden, they have been made respectable by the vote of the people. All of sudden they are on center stage. And all of sudden, and this is the key, real leverage can come to bear upon them. Real leverage can come to bear upon Hamas, pressuring them to moderate their policies and behavior. And thus, the fact that the Palestinian people elected Hamas into power, has set the stage for the transformation, or shall we say, the transmutation of what heretofore had been the second greatest obstacle to peace.

     You hear the levers moving already. America, which gives a large part of the money that keeps the Palestinian Authority alive, will not spend a dime in support of terrorism. Not a dime. The American people will not stand for it. And the Europeans will follow our lead in this regard I believe. And then there is the issue of Israel's 2002 agreement to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Palestinian related tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority. That agreement is certainly in jeopardy. And so, just when Hamas is getting into the drivers seat, they face the prospect of state bankruptcy, no resources to do anything with, unless they moderate their positions. This is like a child looking forward to visiting the candy store for weeks and weeks, and when they finally get to go there, the store shelves are empty. Without resources, the government cannot provide services. They cannot pay salaries even. They can't buy the gas to put into their government cars. They can't pay the electric bills. They won't be able to buy office supplies for their parliament. They cannot do anything to improve the social infrastructure.

     And the issue of finances is such an enormously important issue for the western powers, because there must a certainty that aid money cannot, and will not go to the financing of terrorist activities.

     And so, they will be under great pressure to say the right things to keep the money flowing. And this pressure is very great, because the magnitude of their desire for ruling power is very great. And this is not just a matter of words. They will be under pressure to stop the suicide bombings, if they want to keep the money flowing. And actually, in this regard, what we face is the real prospect that Hamas sponsored suicide bombings will end. Before the election, this was not even on the radar screen. After this surprising election, this is now a possibility, and it is a possibility because of the pressure that is now upon them, a pressure that will have a significant impact, because they want to take the reigns of power, they want to govern the Palestinian people, and they will want to do this with the continued financial support of the United States and Europe, and so forth.

     I am not saying that Hamas will fall into line in a twinkling of an eye. No, they are a stubborn lot. But, this equation of leverage which they now face, is potentially powerful enough to break that stubbornness.

     What will they choose to do? This is the all important question I know. But at this point, in terms of my thesis, it does not matter, i.e. today. What matters, is that this election, this expression of democracy, has forced this choice upon Hamas, which proves that Democracy is the Path to Peace. Without democracy, this choice would have never been forced on them. Because of Democracy, the choice is now forced upon them.

     Now, if Hamas chooses wisely, and moderates its stand, recognizes the right of Israel to exist, and stops the suicide bombings, then the financial support from the United States and various European nations will continue to flow, and Hamas will have an opportunity to do some good for the Palestinian people. And if they are actually able to accomplish constructive things, they will win the next elections, and that will have a further moderating influence upon them.

     If Hamas chooses foolishly, refuses to moderate its stand, refuses to recognize the right of Israel to exist, continues with the suicide bombings, then financial resources will be cut off. The plight of the Palestinian people will only get far worse than it is today, and this will cut deeply into the base of support for Hamas, and they will be thrown out of power in the next election, perhaps invoking enough ill-will, that a party with a distinct anti-terror platform might be elected the next time around. In this scenario, Hamas will be discredited. They will be seen as the group who were given a chance to lead the people in a direction that would produce better lives for all, and that they totally failed. (The principle related to first impressions is relevant here. If they will have any future in the Palestinian political sphere, they must make a good first impression.)

     Even if this worst-case scenario outplays itself, the principle still holds true, that Democracy is the Path to Peace, because it will have contributed to the further discrediting of the group which currently offers the second greatest obstacle to peace.

     If this all-important democratic process is allowed to continue in the Palestinian areas, that force-for-change will play a role like unto a glacier upon the political landscape, producing in time, that beautiful valley which we will call paradise and prosperity.

     May you pass every test. And don't forget to visit the pearl while you are here.

Thursday, January 26, 2006, 2:14 PM PST

     May you pass every test. And don't forget to visit the pearl while you are here.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006, 6:52 AM PST

     The Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. Senate held its final meeting on the Alito nomination yesterday, Tuesday, January 25, 2006. The nomination was voted out of committee to the floor of the U.S. Senate by a straight party line vote. All Democrats voted against this nomination. And why did they vote against him? Only one reason. There is a realistic expectation that Justice Alito will not treat Roe v. Wade as the Holy Grail. That is the only reason they voted against him.

     And so, here we have a good opportunity to compare and contrast the vibration of souls who still retain an opportunity for redemption, i.e. those who voted to support the Alito nomination, and those souls which are very close to the judgment of the second death, those who voted to bar the nomination from going to the Senate floor for further debate and an up or down vote.

     There are good reasons to conclude that those who hold such positons of power, and use that power to further a culture of death, and on a massive scale, and I would say that 44 million souls murdered in the womb since 1973 qualifies as death on a massive scalse, are the very ones who are the closest to the judgment of the second death.

     To be in a position to have an actual impact on whether millions of unborn children will either live or die, and to cast a vote for the continuation of this ongoing holocaust, represents the very apex of rebellion against God. This is different from an average citizen who gets caught up in the agenda of a particular political party. The seagull soaked in a black layer of oil, while it is accountabile for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, has a much different level of responsbility than those who are responsible for the oil spill in the first place.

     For these Senators, their vote in this precise and well defined instance, would have an actual impact on whether millions will live or die, and they know it. When you are in that position, that fact is presented clearly to the conscience, and the soul must make a choice to be merciful to those millions, or to turn their back upon them. And because of the enormous power that these individuals wield in respect to the issue of life and death, all the resources of heaven are spent upon them, to make sure that if there is anything at all that might change their minds, that point of truth will come to them, and in great bucket fulls. All the arguments on behalf of life have come before these eight individuals, these eight Senators. There are no further arguments to be made. The entire force of Light that heaven can release upon a mind for its illumination in this area, has been released to them, yet they do not recognize the dominion of the Light. Therefore, these are rebels to the very core of their being. To the very core. The full radiance of heaven, they have turned their backs on.

A Shaft of Light Descends From Heaven

     In fact, the last statement made before the vote was taken, was a message straight from the heart of the Master Jesus Christ, spoken through the pure heart of Senator Coburn. Right before their eyes, a bright shaft of light penetrated down through the clouds, illuminating the entire landscape for a brief moment, bringing the entire committee room to a standstill. The entire warp and woof of heavenly truth was contained in that radiant shaft of light. Yet, did any of these fallen angels blink and eye? No. Click the play button above to see and hear this timeless statement, one minute, thirty seconds. And it is no coincidence either that Senator Coburn refers to the "dead" honesty of Senator Feinstein. The fact that Senator Feinstein was highlighted in the mind of Senator Coburn, as this shaft of light penetrated to the earth, tells me that here is an individual who had an opportunity to take a step back from the abyss of the final judgment, that this was the time and place for her to take become very sober, and to finally make the right decision, yet she would not. Listen to her say "No" in the next video clip.

     It was St. Stephen, who said, once upon a time, to those who hurled many deadly stones in his direction, mostly out of a frenzy of hatred and anger, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." In other words, forgive them, because, they know not what they do. Here is a situation where this does not apply. There is no frenzy of anger or hatred here. There are no emotional storms blocking the vision of these Senators. These Senators know full well that they are voting to make sure that the child in the womb will be killed by the millions into an indefinite future. They know they have an opportunity to stand against this tide of death with each vote they cast in these matters. Yet, they refuse to stem the tide. They refuse, stubbornly, to be a party to a future that will respect the life which only God can give to us.

     And yet, this being the case, look at how they can still exude a mask of humanness and compassion and sympathy, and attract support from the general population because of it. They are educated. They are sophisticated. All of them are the best communicators. When they speak, there are many who kneel down in front of them with a sense of awe. Yet, every one of them is headed for the second death.

	Senate Judiciary Committee Members Vote Yea, or Nay, on the Alito Nomination

     Ponder this truth as you watch and listen to this video clip.

     Senator Specter, by the way, is not a friend of the pro-life cause. He has stated openly, in this very committee hearing, that Roe v. Wade is embedded in the fabric of our culture, and ought not to be changed. And he is crossing his fingers that Judge Alito will see it that way when he's confronted with the question of whether to uphold it, or overturn it. That is the view of a fallen angel, i.e. an individual whose heart is intractably diverted away from the priorities of God. It is the view that will bring all abortion related karma down upon this nation, destroying it utterly. It is the view that will bring total destruction upon all the hopes and dreams that God our Father has for the victory of this nation, hopes and dreams all Ascended Masters share.

     Why is Senator Specter chairman of this all-important committee? He shouldn't be. But he is, because he has the seniority. He is the one that hung around long enough to be next-in-line for the chairmanship. The pro-life community had a fit when it was announced that he would take over the chairmanship from Senator Hatch, who had to step down because the Republicans term limit their committee chairs. Specter was allowed into that position only after he gave the necessary assurances that he would not actively oppose President Bush's nominations.

     In this situation therefore, he is voting in favor of this nomination only because he will lose the chairmanship of that committee if he voted to oppose this nomination, or any of President Bush's nominees. It is simply a question of power. To retain power, he must toe this particular line.

     But nevertheless, notice how the hearts of pro-life people will nevertheless extend to him the elixir of their appreciation and respect. This is how the fallen angels survive among the Children of God. When it is said that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, part of that means that we must be on guard, never to extend appreciation to a fallen angel, no matter what they have done that appears to support an agenda of virtue or truth. It is always a masquerade for them. And the fact that all of them have likeable human personalities, should never persuade us to let down our guard, because for a fallen angel, a likeable human personality is an obvious occupational necessity, the more polished and erudite the better.

     Of course it is unlawful to extend any amount of disdain in his direction, anything less than perfect love. And so, as it has been said many times before, and I would note again, that life is full if inexplicable challenges.

     May you pass every test. And don't forget to visit the pearl while you are here.

Friday, January 20, 2006, 11:11 PM PST

     If Confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, will Judge Alito Vote to Overturn Roe v. Wade? That is the question upon which the destiny of America will ultimately turn. I believe the answer to that question is Yes. While it is true that over the course of three days of hearings, Judge Alito talked all around the perimeter of the abortion issue, doing so quite deftly, without expressing his own views on the abortion issue itself, and without actually addressing the question of whether Roe is good law, or bad law, I believe there is one exchange between Senator Coburn of Oklahoma, a heartland state, and Judge Alito, which answers that all important question.

     Senator Coburn's statement framed the issue in such a way, that one could accurately describe it as sheer genius. Judge Alito is on the record from his opening statement, and many times throughout the hearing, explicitly stating his firmly held conviction, that the role of the judiciary, and the role of a judge, is to interpret the law, not in the making of public policy, which is a function reserved for the legislative branch of government. Senator Coburn's question was framed in such way, that in answering it, Judge Alito had to observe, and quite accurately so, that in relationship to the issue in question, the state legislatures were fulfilling their role as the creators of public policy, while juxtaposed to this, the U.S. Supreme Court was also playing a role in the creation of public policy, but creating the opposite public policy. While he did not express a value judgment as to the value of the public policies, this places him on the record clearly pointing to the fact the U.S. Supreme Court was involved in the making of public policy.

     Taking into account, then, his firmly held conviction in regards to the distinct roles which the legislative and judicial branches must play in our form of government, one has to conclude, that to remain intellectually honest, Judge Alito would have to decide that the Court's decision in Roe v. Wade was a usurpation of the legislative role, and therefore, was by definition unconstitutional, i.e representing power exercised outside of our established constitutional order, and would have to be overturned, and thus, abandoned as a precedent.

     Click the play button and listen to the clip, which is about three minutes in length, and then read the transcript of the exchange below, and see if you don't agree.

COBURN: Let me ask you another question. And I want you to be careful how you answer this, because I think at some time this probably will come before you, and I'm not trying to get you to pin down.

If I'm driving a car today and I hit a pregnant woman who has a 36-, 37-week fetus, and the woman survives and the fetus dies, I can be held accountable for the death of that fetus. And by law we value that as a life -- unborn but a life.

If I say -- I'm the pregnant woman -- I want to terminate that fetus at 37 weeks, there's nothing in this country today that keeps me from doing that, even though on one side of the law we say it's a life.

How did we get there to where it's not life or it is a life? Tell me. Can somebody logically explain that to the American people that how, if I kill it, it was a life, but if I choose to take it voluntarily, it's not a life?

Can anybody logically explain how we got there and what the consequences going down the road are going to be for us as a nation when we have laws that send two different signals about the same individual?

ALITO: Well, let me try to just explain my understanding of where the law rests on those two questions.

The first is a question of tort law or maybe it's a question of -- well, it's a question of tort law -- and decisions are made by state legislatures or maybe, in some instances, it comes about through the development of common law through the state courts regarding the scope of state tort law.

And a tort can be created that applies in the situation of the auto accident you mentioned, or a legislature may choose to structure the tort law differently.

But that's been a decision that's been left for the state legislatures to decide, and they have taken a variety of approaches in doing that, I believe.

The second, of course, is the issue of Roe and the cases that follow after it. And those are based on an interpretation of the Fifth Amendment and the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, and they are not the result of legislative decisions made at the state level or at the federal level.

COBURN: Can you rationalize any way of a logical explanation of how that could be, though? I mean, if you had somebody that wasn't from this world, and they came in and they said, "Oh yes, if you kill it, it was alive -- if you accidentally kill it, it was alive; if you choose to kill it, it wasn't." I'm having trouble getting my mind around that concept that there's any logic there. I just wondered if you were.

ALITO: Well, the answer is that the tort situation has been left for its development under state law. And states have taken a variety of approaches expressing the values that the legislature believes should be embodied in tort law. And in the abortion context, of course, states have laws regulating abortion and they are free to enact whatever statutes they want on the subject as long as they comply with the Constitution.

ALITO: But we have decisions of the Supreme Court that establish constitutional requirements in the area. I think that's the explanation. The decisions are made by different bodies.

     Be that as it may, and alas, if this is not more true that we would like it to be, even if soon-to-be Justice Alito is given an opportunity to vote on the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade, his vote will represent one of only four certain votes to overturn: Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Scalia, Justice Thomas, and Justice Alito. That is only four votes. There remains five votes to uphold Roe v. Wade: Justice Stevens, Justice Kennedy, Justice Breyer, Justice Souter, Justice Ginsburg. To threaten Roe in a substantial manner, President Bush needs one more Court Appointment between now and 2008. Let us fervently pray therefore, that Justice John Paul Stevens (appointed by President Ford in 1975) having served on the Court for more than 30 years now, and who will turn 86 years of age this April, will see the wisdom of retirement before President Bush leaves office.

     For myself, and I know that many incoming souls would agree with me, the Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade cannot takes it's rightful place too soon, alongside the likes of Dred Scott v. Sandford and Plessy v. Ferguson, at the top of the judicial trash heap.

     May you pass every test. And don't forget to visit the pearl while you are here.

Sunday, January 15, 2006, 11:24 PM PST

     This Saturday evening, I went to our local supermarket, which goes by the name of Albertson's, to buy some more apples (and other stuff). I was wearing my errand outfit, which includes a white sweatshirt, which has a Violet Flame Button pinned to it. It stands out really sharp against the white background. But I will tell you the truth. Ninety-Nine point Nine percent (99.9%) of the time no one says anything about it. Sometimes you see people looking at it. But that is rare. Most of the time its like it's not even there. And so it's like I forget it's there myself.

     Getting into this particular checkout aisle, I put my stuff on the conveyor belt, and there is really no waiting here, as the last customer has been processed, and the conveyor belt starts moving, and the bagger says, paper or plastic? in between the cashiers running commentary on the shiny dog-tag that hangs down on a chain amidst her chest area. I assume she is talking to the bagger. This is a very young person, the cashier, the bagger too, neither of them could have been over 17 years old.

     But I am not really listening to what she is saying, just catching a word here, and word there, and this is the reason I know she is not talking to me, because I have my MP3 player going, with those earbuds headphones in my ears, and I am listening to the voice of Kate Crossan. (I never listen to the music that the store provides). If anybody was interested, and they asked me, I could have told them what she was saying. Well, I can't tell you now, because I don't remember exactly, not right now. But I could have told you then.

     And now, I am waiting for her to tell me the total. I didn't have a lot of stuff, and she scanned it all pretty fast, at the same time she was talking. And now the cashier is quiet, and she is looking at me, and asks me if I have a preferred saver's card, and I said, I'm sorry, I forget to give that to you, being distracted and all by your story about the dog tag. Well, I did listen, as noted, to bits and pieces of it. And I handed her my key ring, which has that little card on it, and I asked her is that a real dog tag? I wasn't so sure become it was so shiny. Perhaps she polished it. My own dog tags were only shiny on the day of issue. I said, does that belong to a real soldier? And I an noting that the preserved savers card didn't make much of a difference in the total. And she said it belonged to a person who used to be in the Navy. O, I said, I was wondering whether it belonged to a person who serving in Iraq. And she said, he was part of the March 2003 invasion. And I said, I am glad he came back alive. And she nodded, quite soberly, and as I was putting the change into my wallet, I had given her $40.00, in the form of two twenties, and stuffing the receipt in there too, thinking I was finished, the bagger said, right at that point, looking at my Violet Flame Button, what is the Violet Flame?

     Nothing could have been more unexpected.

     What is the Violet Flame, I parroted back to her, trying to find that little note card in my mind that had the words I was supposed to say, awe yes, here it is, It is the power by which you are returned to your divine estate, in your case, as a Daughter of God, and having my wallet open, I could reach right into it and pull out the Violet Flame Business Card, and the words came out of my mouth, and I gave her the card in one smooth motion. The angels could not have planned it better.

     May you pass every test. And don't forget to visit the pearl while you are here.

Monday, January 9, 2006, 5:34 PM PST

     (I am still working on this post. When I started it, I thought I would say what I had to say, and that would be it. I had responded to a reader's comment, sent off that response to him, and I thought it was worth sharing with you, and it was my intention to simply transpose it here, but it turned out, after reading it through a few times, that the subject area required a bit more depth than what I had given him in that email response. Certainly, I made a good initial point. But I discovered that the point I made invoked a very important question, one that needed an answer. I am working on answering that question, and have been every day. And it just gets longer and longer. What can I say? I like to make diagrams? Oh No, I shouldn't have said that. This is the first time I have thought about this in years, that I have this manuscript on this subject that was written back in the 1990's that has a whole slew of really neat diagrams. Is it time to resurrect those? I suppose I should at least open the file drawer and look at them. After all, there was no such thing as a Flash movie back then. Those diagrams could be scanned and displayed in a Flash format without too much trouble. But back to the present, in terms of blogger entries, usually, when this happens, when I need to post a shorter entry, like the one above, and I have an earlier entry in progress that cannot be posted, because it is not yet finished, I will delete the reference to it entirely. But now, for the sake of historical accuracy, I am going to allow the initial blogger entry to stand, this entry, made at this date and time, and I will come back and fill in the text when it is finished. At this point, I am going to delete this huge block of text, just below, and paste it back in when it is finished.)

     May you pass every test. And don't forget to visit the pearl while you are here.

Saturday, January 7, 2006, 5:55 PM PST

     The moon is like a guardian angel, without which, life on earth could not exist.

     All guardian angels are assigned by God our Father. And I think you can understand what is the meaning of all the craters on the moon. These represent the many rocks which the Children of God have thrown at their Father, in the person of this guardian angel, over billions of years. St. Stephen was not the first person the people tried to stone to death. Look at the body of the moon. Whipped into a frenzy of insanity by the fallen angels, the people have tried to stone God to death time and time again.

     Every time God has said to them, here, let me change you back into an angel of light, their pride is offended, in the modern vernacular, they go ballistic, and their hearts become like a vomiting volcano, throwing all kinds of matter at this villain, who suggests to them that they are not exactly perfect in their present state. I mean how dare you.

     And so God our Father, while remaining present, has made himself invisible, no longer a direct target for these angry boulders, leaving only the moon as a punching bag.

     Full moons? You want an explanation for that? When the moon gets the brightest, the Light of God is the most offensive, and those who love darkness get all riled up. Yes, those that come out of the holes in the ground when the sun goes down, those who cherish the night, claiming it as their own exclusive domain, don't want the dead of night taken over. It's that simple. Of course they can't do anything about it, and they are the more angry because of it. But for the rest of us, by which I mean everyone but the troglodytes, the full moon is time for the expression of our greatest appreciation for God. Here we have the light defeating the darkness. The darkness has no power to turn it back. And in regards to this great truth, we rejoice the more.

     Remember this the next time you are in the midst of the light of the full moon. There you have the victory of light over darkness. It is all around you. There is no power in the night that can turn it back.

     And so, as it has been said, let us dance upon the mountains of the moon. A dance born of a new civilization, a more mature realization, dances of healing, of rapprochement, of reconciliation.

     Beautiful ... that was the word she used. The moon is beautiful. Perfectly round, without an iron core. Look past the marred surface, past the historical record of anger expressed in her direction, and to her steadfast vigil for the maintenance and upliftment of life on this planet.

     May you pass every test. And don't forget to visit the pearl while you are here.

Friday, January 6, 2006, 2:06 PM PST

     Expecting the black populations to stand against the juggernaut of racial hatred, built up over the course of at least two centuries worth of slavery, without the assistance of the free populations of America, we clearly understand now, to have been totally unrealistic. If the Colfax Massacre of 1873 taught us anything, it taught us that. A people largely programmed to be subservient, cannot field enough exceptions to this, i.e. the numbers of people who can express the quality of individual initiative are not numerous enough, to have any hope of overcoming the oppressor. Certainly, they were there, and they served honorably under arms even in the Civil War on the side of the Union. But this quality of character, because of the very nature of the culture they were forced to live in, which suppressed this virtue violently, were not available in the numbers required to win a victory over the prevailing attitude of racial hatred that was still everywhere in the South during the reconstruction period and beyond (1865-1964).

     (I am going to tie these observations into the subject of the War in Iraq.)

     These observations are validated by the historical fact, that the institutions of racial hatred only began to be dismantled in the Southern States after the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1955, overturned its 1896 approval of the "separate but equal" doctrine, setting the federal government free, at that point, to begin exercising the power of justice, originally envisioned in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, on behalf of citizens of African descent.

     Remember, at the time these Amendments were adopted, 1865, 1868, and 1870 respectively, it was the judgment of the American people, that citizens of color had no chance of realizing the benefits of their freedom won during the Civil War, without the strong arm of the federal government interceding on their behalf. Of course, decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, from the early 1870's through 1896 denuded these amendments of any power or significance in that respect. In other words, the hands of the federal government were tied by the U.S. Supreme Court for about 85 years. Those hands were not untied (by the U.S. Supreme Court) until 1955.

     After that, but only in response to a grass roots movement, initiated by Rosa Parks, and led by Dr. Martin Luther King, did the federal government, operating under the authority of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, use the lever of federal power in a comprehensive way to dismantle the machinery of racial hatred in most of its particulars.

     There is a very easy to understand common sense reason for all of this in terms of the need for an outside power to intercede on the behalf of those in chains.

     As children grow up, they go through an initial phase of development wherein the child has no filter to differentiate between what is wise, and what is foolish, in regards to their parents words and behavior. Or specifically in regards to our subject area, as to what is courageous, as compared to that which is cowardly. We need to remember that during this phase Father Knows Best. He is the primary authority in the household. What he says, his values, and to some extent the Mother, lays the psychological foundation for the child. There is no escaping this. The child has no way to discern what is smart, or what is not smart, in this respect. Everything is taken in as if it were pure gold. They soak it all in, and build the foundation of their minds and desires, with the blocks and the bricks and rebar provided by their parents. In the atmosphere of racial hatred that obtained in the Southern States, where the colored adult population was intimidated and terrorized into a condition of submission and subservience, this is what was used to build the psychological foundation of the minds of the children. They would observe the behavior of their parents, and their words, and it all counseled the wisdom of keeping your head down, not making waves, no confrontations, if you wanted to survive.

     When the child grows into adulthood, he will have these chains upon his mind. Even though his heart, which has a connection to the divine, counsels and inspires action on behalf of freedom, the chains on the mind, in most cases, will not allow movement in that direction. A spurt of effort here, and a spurt of effort there, is possible. But not any long term effort. A deep foundation of (erroneous) reasoning will knock down the idea of freedom in most cases, elevating the factor of survival alone into the position of highest priority. We do not judge or criticize people for being in that condition. Their minds were programmed by their parents, who in turn were terrorized into submission.

     And these chains cannot be overcome by human will power. This is important to understand. And history indicates the truth of this. Slavery itself was only overcome by the efforts of the Union, which had to spend enormous treasure, and an enormous amount of blood to defeat the institutional power of slavery at that time. The slaves themselves had no possibility of ever achieving this. And as the Southern States continued their oppression of the colored population over the next 80 years, again, there was simply no possibility that a requisite number of people with the courage and initiative could be found to stand up and defeat that oppression. Again, the minds of the children were programmed to subservience by their parents.

     The only way these chains can be overcome, is by the intercession of God, and that is what you see in the genesis of the rebirth of the civil rights movement in the south. It was led by a minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, in whom the light of God shone, dissolving the chains upon his own mind, allowing him to express the courage of his heart, to stand up, and demand justice for his people. And the light that shone through him, dissolving the chains in the minds of many, and they followed him in that new found state of freedom, not overturning the machinery of oppression by themselves, because they were too few, they could never prevail alone against the structures of oppression that had been built up like a stockade all around them. But by their efforts, they encouraged the whole nation to come to their aid, and it was because of that assistance, that the U.S. Congress finally took up its role under the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, that the machinery of oppression was finally dismantled.

     We see that this same category of folly is being confused with good sense, in the situation in Iraq today. People expect the newly freed people of Iraq to be able to stand up against the juggernaut of Saddam Hussein's totalitarianism, on their own, without the help of America. Yet they don't take into account that under Saddam's rule, all those who had the natural alacrity to stand up for freedom, were killed by him. In other words, these people are no longer alive. They do not exist in the population. They don't take into account that the population which remains alive, was programmed to be subservient through terror and fear. In other words, their minds were programmed with the real-world truth, which Saddam Hussein created after the image of his hero Joseph Stalin, that to stand up for freedom is stupid, and dangerous. They don't take into account that there are not enough people in the population that are capable, at the moment, of expressing that level of courageous initiative that would allow them to defeat the forces of tyranny and oppression which is still in their midst, and who are determined to take control again. It's not that these people do not exist at all. It is, that they don't exist in sufficient numbers at the moment. It will take time to raise up a new generation of Iraqi's, who will grow up in an atmosphere of freedom, who will learn to express their love for freedom, without being hampered by the fear and terror mechanisms associated with a totalitarian state. Chains of doubt and fear still hobble the great majority. These are chains on the mind, which cannot simply be shaken off.

     It is really, the Iraqi children of today, that will form the backbone of a democratic state that can stand on its own without the need for American support. And that is about 20 years away.

     This may come sooner, or it may come later. One cannot discount the role that God will play in leveling the playing field. But in the short term. America itself is the hand of God, which is leveling the playing field, as the Iraqis form themselves up, and prepare themselves to carry the fight.

     And the sign of Iraqi maturity in this respect will not be in dispute.

     When American forces withdraw, the Saddamists, in conjunction with the foreign terrorists, will muster their forces to take an Iraqi city, to bring it under their control, and thus have a safe haven to conduct further operations against the New State. And so, this is the question. Will the Iraqi military be both willing, and capable, of dislodging them? If they are both willing and and capable, and they dislodge the terrorists, then we need to ask this question. Are the Iraqi security forces capable of holding the city in the long term? If the answer to either of these questions is no, then you can be sure that America has left too soon.

     And allow me the liberty, if you will, to make the point, that this act of leaving too soon cannot be simply shrugged off. We can't say, O well, that's the way it goes. No, if we leave to soon, we will hand the terrorists the victory they are looking for. This is a certainty. Yes, one of the few things you can bet your life on. The consequences of such a defeat of the Iraqi security forces looms large. Such a defeat would provide a lever to force a political capitulation on the part of the new Iraqi leadership which surrenders some power to the insurgency, and thus leads to an ultimate reversal of the democratic process, and the re-enslavement of the people under an iron boot of oppression. And of course, behind the scenes you have the manufacturing facilities being built for weapons of mass destruction that will be used against the West in general, and the United States in particular.

     And lets be realistic. The terrorists are not going to make this easy for the new Iraqi security forces. In the absence of American backup power, the terrorists will move on three cities at once, to divide and dilute the Iraqi security forces. So, the question is not whether they can dislodge the terrorists from one city, but from at least three. And remember, the populations have chains on their minds. There will not be a movement of the people themselves to stand up in support of their own security forces. The fear mechanisms will keep them in their houses with the doors shut.

     Union troops left the South too soon. And the African American population there were left to rot in a freshly painted prison house of oppression and intimidation and terror for roughly the next 80 years. Let us learn from our own history. Let us learn, that to stay the course, means to make a persistent effort over the long term to defeat the forces of oppression, to stand strong as long as that takes, and thus to save millions from unimaginable levels of suffering.

     May you pass every test. And don't forget to visit the pearl while you are here.

Friday, January 6, 2006, 1:46 AM PST

     All of us have had the opportunity to live several hundred lifetimes. Not just a few, but several hundred. We have all had the opportunity to play many roles, and to shoulder various responsibilities during those lifetimes. At any given time, there are many roles to play, and the civilization advances when everyone is playing their role. All males have served in battlefield conditions before. And we have all had the opportunity to be wounded or killed in that respect. In other words, we have all had the opportunity to give our all for the safety of our families, communities, nations and the world, at one point or another. The souls that find there way into the military in a given life have those marching orders, as it were, as part of their divine plan. It is their turn to serve, they desire to do their part, and life circumstances are configured to make sure they find their way to the front lines.

     Have some of us been drawn into foolish wars in the past? Unfortunately, this is the history of the human race, fallen from grace, over the millennia, long forgotten. But the thread of freedom is golden, and it can be seen winding its way from the dawn of time, to the present hour, and those who have fought for the integrity of it, have not given their lives in vain.

     Now, the opponents of the current war for the liberation of Iraq argue that those who have not served on the battlefield have no right to speak up in favor of this war. They argue that those who do not have family members in the current war do not have the right to speak up in favor of this war. They argue that those who have not lost family members in battle, do not have the right to speak up in favor of this war. All of that is false. All of us, every one, in one or more past lives have played that role, and born that pain for the good of the whole, either on the battlefield itself, or as members of a family who have lost loved ones, or as members of a family called on to care for wounded brothers and sisters. And when circumstances require that a new generation step forward to do their part, everyone has the right to speak up in support of their mission, and speak to the value of that mission, and do everything possible to uphold their honor and their valor, just as we desired when we served, just as we will all desire when we are called on to serve again in a subsequent life.

     Many of our brothers and sisters, whose inner vision has been seriously occluded, criticize the patriots in the U.S. Congress who must make these hard decisions to send our young people to war, for the security of our nation. They look at them, and say, well you do not have any sons and daughters in this war. Who are you to send the sons and daughters of other people to war? This is a framework of total falsehood. All of these men have served in previous lifetimes. All of these men and women have lost loved ones to the battle for freedom in previous lifetimes. In this life, they are playing a new role, they are playing the role of democratically elected representatives on whose shoulders rest this responsibility to make these hard decisions. In sending our sons and daughters to fight for the victory of freedom in Iraq, they have made the right decision, not just for the Iraqi people, but for our own nation. If we were not committed to this battle for the freedom of the Afghan and Iraqi people, America would have already suffered an unimaginable destructive blow upon our own soil. Tens of thousands would lie dead today, if that decision had not been made. Tens of thousands would lie dead today, if these soldiers had not volunteered to serve. Tens of thousands would lie dead today, if these soldiers were not willing to bear the brunt of this battle. The value of that decision, and the value of the ongoing effort to stand for liberty, has warded off a blow of unimaginable proportions. The value of their service is awesome.

     And the disaster associated with retreat, at this point, would be tenfold.

     In all past lives, when we personally bore the brunt of the battle ourselves, this is what we wanted. When it was all over, all we wanted was the freedom to think this simple thought. If we lost a leg, an arm, an eye, or we lost a son, a friend, a husband, we wanted to be able to look at our loss, inventory the pain, and to be able to say, truthfully, that we did indeed, pay part of the enormous price, not the whole price, but part of the price, along with the contribution of many others, for the freedom of a nation, and for the freedom of the many generations of people, into the far flung future, who will live in peace in that nation. Yes, inventory the happiness, over the course of all years to come, produced by the sacrifice today, and there is no question about it. Everyone will say, that the sacrifice was justified.

     In our situation today, for every solider recovering from grievous wounds at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and in other hospitals throughout the nation, truly this is what we owe them. When twenty years have passed, and they consider the loss of the leg, or the eye, or of the arm, they truly deserve, they truly deserve, they truly deserve, to be able to say to themselves, that I gave this arm as a partial payment for the treasure of liberty that the Iraqi people are enjoying today. They need to be able to say, that I see the treasure. Yes, I see that treasure, as a golden river, flowing into other nations in the region. It is fully manifest. I see the radiant aura of happiness and peace replacing the dark sooty smoke of terror and fear and pain. I see it, and I feel good for them. I feel good for them. I feel good that I was able to help them have that treasure within their land, even throughout the entire middle east. I feel good that I paid part of that price. Yes, it was worth it.

     Every person who served in America's War for Independence, under the command of General George Washington, could say that then, and can say it now. Every person who served on the side of the Union in the Civil War, under the leadership of President Abraham Lincoln, could say that then, and can say that now. Every American who served in World War II, under the command of General Eisenhower, could say that then, and can say it now. Every American who served in the Korean War under the command of General MacArthur, could say that then, and can say it now. We should determine, right now, that when its all over, that every American who serves in this war, will be able to say that. I feel good that I was able to help the people of Iraq have that treasure of freedom within their own land, even throughout the entire middle east. I feel good that I paid part of the enormous price which was required to make that happen. Yes, it was worth it.

     A soldier with honor consummated is like unto a granite monument, in the presence of which, the spirits of all people are lifted up in reverence.

     The only way this can come true, for all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice thus far, is if the American people stand fast, and in total and unwavering support for the total victory of freedom in both Afghanistan and Iraq, resolving, within their hearts, to pay whatever price circumstances will yet require. Let us become like steel in this respect, even in the face of these additional sacrifices. Let the vision of victory illuminate this land with hope, and even with the warm satisfaction associated with the brightness of honor itself. And let it never go out.

     And therefore, I adjure you, and I say to you, please, do not succumb to the spirit of defeatism which pours out of the mouths of the leadership of the Democrat Party like so much raw sewage, that when swallowed by the country, would rob from these brave soldiers their very honor, their peace, their conviction of a sacrifice nobly given.

     May you pass every test. And don't forget to visit the pearl while you are here.

Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 9:17 PM PST

     Sort of a poem, but more of a promise, a golden promise which you can take to the bank, rendered in a more realistic manner.

Monday, January 2, 2006, 3:25 PM PST

     Sort of a poem, but more of a promise, a golden promise which you can take to the bank.

     May you pass every test. And don't forget to visit the pearl while you are here.

Sunday, June 5, 2005, 9:29 PM PDT

     I Am the pearl of God realization that you wear on your finger. A man should be able to say that to his twin flame. Though I suppose, that years ago, this would not have been true, in as much as a pearl takes time to develop, incrementally, as it has been said before. In this work of art, the diamonds, 12 in number, signify the purity of the Will of God manifest on each of the twelve lines of the Cosmic Clock; even as indestructible determination. How else can all the layers of the pearl represent purity and luminosity? It is the only way.